GENJER GENJER
Created on 20/09/2019Latest update on 21/11/2023
Artist: Muhammad Arief
Author: Njoto
Year: 1942
Folk song from East Java about the local equivalent of pork salad. Soon used by the Japanese invaders as propaganda to learn the Indonesians to live sober.
Covers:
- 1965:
- 1965:
Bing Slamet [as propaganda for the communists; when Soeharto seized power the songwriter was murdered; he had been a minister under Soekarno]
- 2016:
