Composer: Muhammad Arief
year: 1940s
Inspiration: Gendjer / Genjer (Limnocharis flava)
criticism: to the Japanese Government
when Japan colonized Indonesia,
people experience forced labor, poor & starving,
The people eat Genjer as a daily menu.
Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)
in the 1960s this song was used by the PKI to attract the sympathy of the people,
because the composer of this song is a member of the People's Art Institute (LEKRA) organization founded by the PKI,
during the reign of President Soeharto this song was strictly prohibited.
even now it's very rare for someone to play this song in public,
because it could be accused of raising PKI again.
my opinion:
this is just a song, actually I made this around 2013s,
I just had time to upload it.
