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Last night, Kunto Aji is voted as the best performer during spectacular show Indonesian Idol in Balai Sarbini. Aji, his friendly name, brought a well-known Matta’s song “Ketahuan” in a swinging and jazzy way.

After all, he got the voice, he got the unique look and he got the guts to be a professional singer in Indonesia. Indra Lesmana, one of the judges who is also a jazz singer and composer, said that Aji could be the newest decent Indonesia jazz singer nowadays.

Anyway, enjoy the video of last night performance (23/5/08) by Kunto Aji.

A Sinetron named Munajah Cinta used Rossa’s Takkan Berpaling DariMu as the soundtrack. This song has been requested by many people thus we make this song as song of the week. Rossa made double succes through this song and her previous song of Ayat-Ayat Cinta. Enjoy and sing with the lyrics!

Rossa - Takkan Berpaling Dari-Mu (Ost Munajah Cinta)

Kala malam bersihkan wajahnya dari bintang-bintang
Dan mulai turun setetes air langit dari tubuhnya
Tanpa sadar nikmatnya alam karena kuasa Mu
Yang tak kan habis sampai di akhir waktu perjalanan ini

Trima kasih ku padamu Tuhanku
Tak mungkin dapat terlukis oleh kata-kata
Hanya Dirimu yang tahu besar rasa cintaku pada Mu
Oh Tuhan anugerah Mu tak pernah berhenti
selalu datang kepadaku Tuhan semesta alam
dan satu janjiku tak kan berpaling dari Mu

Takan Berpaling Dari-Mu (Ost. Munajah Cinta) - Rossa

Download MP3 Rossa Takkan Berpaling darimu OST Munajah Cinta (Versi original sangat bagus, full version - CD quality)

They were husband and wife. But they are now divorced. Now, these 2 people have also 2 different destiny and fate. Saipul Jamil, who is well-known as a male dangdut singer, register himself to become vice-major or Serang from Unity Develompent Party (PPP). On the other, his ex-wife Dewi Persik, also a well-known dangdut singer with a little striptease skill, is now banned in different places.

Dewi Persik is now banned in South Sumatra, Depok and West Java. My question is, if Saipul Jamil later on become the vice-major of Serang, will he ban Dewi Persik his ex-wife performing his goyang-gergaji (saw dance) in his jurisdiction?

Inul Daratista and Trio Macan are also banned performing in these places.

This week, we put Andra and the Backbone - Main Hati as #1 in IndonesiaTopics.Com.. It’s a great song and undoubtedly tops the ladder of the severals Indonesia Music Charts. Enjoy!

Seribu wanita yang pernah singgah
Hanya datang dan pergi dan tak ada hati

Kau pun datang ada yang berbeda
Mengapa begini apa yang terjadi

Tak pernah sebelumnya
Tak pernah ku duga

Reff:

Ku akui ku main hati (ku main hati 2x)
Ku tak bisa tuk memungkiri
Ku main hati

Bersamamu ku rasakan
Yang tak pernah kurasakan sebelumnya
Pencarianku berakhir
Karna ku tlah temukan dirimu

Back to Reff: (2x)

Ku main hati … Ku main hati
Ku main hati … Ku main hati

Source: Liriklaguindonesia.asia

Most Indonesia Music Charts put Maliq & D’Essentials’s song “DIA” as #1. Dia is also an OST of a movie titled Claudia & Jasmine. Therefore, for this week, we decided to put the soulful funk jazz band as #1 in Indonesia Topics. Congratulations Maliq! Here is the video & lyrics.

Temukan apa arti dibalik cerita
Hati ini terasa berbunga-bunga
Membuat seakan aku melayang
Terbuai asmara

Adakah satu arti dibalik tatapan
Tersipu malu akan sebuah senyuman
Membuat suasana menjadi nyata
Begitu indahnya

Reff:
Dia seperti apa yang selalu ku nantikan aku inginkan
Dia melihatku apa adanya seakan kusempurna

Tanpa buah kata kau curi hatiku
Dia tunjukkan dengan tulus cintanya
Terasa berbeda saat bersamanya
Aku jatuh cinta

Back to Reff:2x

Dia bukakan pintu hatiku yang lama tak bisa kupercayakan cinta
Hingga dia disini memberi cintaku harapan

Back to Reff:

dia seperti apa yang ku nantikan aku inginkan
dia melhatku apa adanya seakan kusempurna

Give me your love 2x
Now so come on and love me2x
Give me your love 2x
Now so come on and love me 2x

Nothing in this world could come baby love to me
I would tell the world when you give your love to me

Give me your love 2x
Now so come on and love me2x
Give me your love 2x
Now so come on and love me 2x

You”re beautiful, you”re beautiful
You”re beautiful, it”s true
I saw your face in a crowded place
And I don”t know what to do
“Cause I”ll never be with you

This lyrics will hit Jakarta (Indonesia) soon on 21st May 2008. James Blunt, one of the world’s prominent male pop singers will have a concert at the Tenis Indoor Senayan.

Blunt have produced 2 albums, “All the Lost Souls” and “Bed to Beldam. Some of the most popular songs of his are “1973″, “High”, “Wisemen”, “You’re Beautiful” dan “Goodbye My Lover”.

Interester of coming? Check the ticket box to book your seats today!

This event is organized by Java Musikindo

ISPs in Indonesia are obeying the instructions of Minister of Communication & Information Muhammad Nuh. Not just YouTube, MySpace and Multiply, some of the most accessed websites in Indonesia are also banned.

Minister Nuh’s official letter were not explicitly contained about banning those website. But apparently, the major ISPs are doing beyond the instructions.

Some of the news are here. This is a reaction of Indonesia’s government over the Movie, Fitna, made by Dutch politician’s Geert Wilders.

APJII or Indonesian Internet Service Provider Association eventually blocked Youtube access through Indonesia Internet Exchange. Thus, majority of Indonesians who use this line will be unable to open Youtube. This has been an official command from Indonesia’s Minister of Information & Communication Muhammad Nuh.

However, APJII cannot guarantee that the access over Youtube is fully blocked from entire Indonesia. APJII head Sylvia Sumarlin says,”Because there are also several other lines, ISPs are usually have redundancy”.

This action is a response towards official letter from the Minister of Information and Communication to block Youtube over the distribution of Fitna the movie which can harm the unity and tolerance between believers in Indonesia.

On April 2nd, Indonesia government have asked Youtube to remove several Fitna videos for 2 days. However, there are still no response.

Sumarlin states that APJII will also coordinate with Mastel, Imoca, Awari and others regarding mechanism on blocking some other harmful sites. “We don’t want to be discriminative to Youtube, we will also consider others,” says Sumarlin.

Indonesia said Tuesday it would block access to YouTube unless the video-sharing Web site removes an anti-Muslim film by a Dutch lawmaker within 48 hours.

Communications and Information Minister Mohammad Nuh said the government sent a letter to the site informing it of its demand on Tuesday.

“The deadline is two days. If (the film) is not removed by that time, we will block YouTube under cooperation with the Internet service providers,” Nuh told reporters in the capital, Jakarta.

Anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders posted the 15-minute film on LiveLeak.com on Friday. It has since been available on other blogs and file-sharing sites, including YouTube.

Last year, Thailand blocked YouTube for four months because of clips it deemed offensive to the king. The ban was lifted after YouTube’s owner, Google Inc., agreed to not allow videos that break Thai laws or offend the Thai people.

In February, YouTube was inaccessible globally for several hours after the government of Pakistan blocked it, citing what it said were clips in which Wilders made denigrating remarks about Islam.

Wilders’ film intersperses scenes of recent terror attacks with versus from the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and speeches from Islamic extremists calling for attacks on non-Muslims. It has been condemned as racist and misleading by governments around the world.

Earlier Tuesday, about 50 people rallied outside the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta calling for Wilders to be put to death.

“Islam is a holy religion,” Shodiq Ramadan told about 50 protesters who shouted in agreement. “Those who have insulted it deserve to be sentenced to death.”

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation, but its government is secular and hard-line interpretations of the faith generally do not attract much support.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who relies on the support of several Islamic parties in parliament, has condemned the film and urged protesters in Indonesia - a former Dutch colony - to stay calm. (courtesy: The Jakarta Post)

Hanung Bramantyo’s movie “Ayat-Ayat Cinta” or The Verses of Love undeniably is the most favourite movie in Indonesia. At least 3 million people have watched the movie which based on a novel by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy. The novel itself sold more than 400,000 copies across the nation.

The story tells about a young-handsome Al-Azhar University’s student Fahri bin Abdullah Shiddiq (act by Fedy Nuril), who attracts beautiful young women surrounding him. Fahri, in this movie is being potrayed as a “perfect” muslim guy. He supports modern ideas such as gender equality which sometimes become a hot topic in the Islamic world. Fahri ended up following an unpopular move of polygamy by marrying 2 women due to the conditions. The women who plays in the movie are:

- Nurul (played by Melanie Putria), also an Indonesian in Egypt, the daughter of an important East Java kyai or Islamic scolar.

- Noura (Zaskia Adya Mecca), an ungrateful Egyptian girl (Fahri saves her life but she betrays him later. The reason is because she also love Fahri but Fahri didn’t give any response).

- Maria (Carissa Putri) a Coptic Christian living next door to Fahri, who inexplicably converts to Islam at the end of the film.

- Aisha (Rianti Cartwright), from a wealthy German-Arab family.

The movie also attracts Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the vice president Jusuf Kalla. They both watched this movie in the cinema at different times. Together with them, some ministers of the cabinet and parliament politicians.

This overwhelming response to the movie give more spirit to the Indonesia’s movie industry. One of the evidence is another production house is ready to make another movie based on Habiburrahman El-Shirazy’s second novel “Ketika Cinta Bertasbih”.

The question is, when will this “Islamic-movie-based-on-novel” hype will end? And what will it bring to the nation’s movie industry in the future?

Here are some trailers of the movie:

Ayat Ayat Cinta

Ayat Ayat Cinta trailer