Southern Riot: Indonesian Migrant Workers Use Punk Music to Claim Improvements in Taiwan

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This article follows an earlier one on the metal band Jubah Hitam, made up of Indonesian migrant workers, and on the migration regime in Taiwan that subjects Indonesian and other Southeast Asian workers to harsh labor exploitation and racist discrimination. In Indonesia, the metal, punk, and dangdut music scenes are huge and serve as expressions of proletarian creativity and desires. So...

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