(19 Aug 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakarta, Indonesia – 11 July 2025
1. Man and woman jumping over rubber bands
2. A man jumping over a rubber band
3. Participants applauding
4. Various shots participants playing knucklebones
5. Playing community founder, Akihiko Akira talking over the megaphone
6. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Akihiko Akira, Playing community founder:
“From my own experience, it is nostalgic. Clearly, nostalgia is really helpful for us, besides releasing our inner child, nostalgia also releases our stress. So it’s a short escape for us.”
7. Various shots participants playing “suit monopoli”
8. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Biya Angelina, Playing Community participant
“The good side is that I automatically get sweating. And then also I feel like my social life is built here. I get to know new people, people with different backgrounds. I understand people better, too.”
9. Marbles on the floor
10. Various shot participants playing “Gundu” (flicking marbles game)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakarta, Indonesia – 19 July 2025
11. Exterior of building where the singing community gathers
12. Close up sign written in Indonesian saying “"Finding friends, finding voice, Jakarta singing together”
13. Singing coach and singing community co-founder, Meda Kawu on pedestal leading class in vocalization exercises
14. Participants practicing humming vocalization exercises
15. Kawu coaching participants to do vocalization exercises with ‘do, re, mi’ notes
16. Various of class practicing voice exercises
17. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Titas Winola, singing community participant
“I am a bathroom singer. I feel so comfortable here as it is a no judgement zone. So I am not afraid if I get a false voice everybody is accepted (as who they are) and we have a lot of friends, it’s amazing”
18. Close of music notation sheet written in Indonesian saying “Jakarta singing together, 19 July 2025. YOU’LL BE IN MY HEART By Phil Collins”
19. Woman reading music notation sheet
20. Pan left participants practicing vocalization exercises with do re mi notes
21. Participants on balcony practicing vocalization exercises with notes
22. Kawu leading class in humming exercise
23. Participants humming
24. SOUNDBITE (English / Indonesian) Meda Kawu, Singing coach and co-founder of singing community.
“When they are in the bathroom they can sing, they just sing bravely. We want to create Nyanyi Bareng Jakarta to be like a bathroom for you, guys, for you guys to express yourself”
25. Various people practicing vocalization exercises
26. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Muhamad Sulhan, Sociology lecturer, Gadjah Mada University
“We are not actually seeing them as different people, but rather as people who are longing for an avatar of themselves that is manifested in a shared passion,”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakarta, Indonesia – 11 July 2025
27. Various shots of participants playing traditional game by moving back and forward and chasing each other
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakarta, Indonesia -19 July 2025
28. Various shots of participants doing vocalization exercises
30. Various of singing community clapping hands and cheering
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
People in Jakarta are letting off steam by playing their childhood games and joining community music groups.
It’s a way of letting go of the stresses from work and enjoying social activities which create camaraderie with wider group of people.
STORYLINE:
It’s like a high jump, but not as you’d know it.
Rather it’s a chance to wind down and have fun playing games.
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