Gamolan Promoter from Unila
Hasyimkan managed to revive the popularity of gamolanan xylophone instrument made from bambooin Lampung. He forged new teachers, made corrections to the history of gamolan and created the instruments.

As the Nusantara Bamboo Festival in Pringsewu, West Lampung regency, became imminent last month, Hasyimkan came up against an emergency: 200 players of gamolan, a traditional musical instrument, from Lampung University (Unila) could not perform in the finale performance. These were students from Unila's department of dance and elementary school teacher training, where Hasyimkan is a lecturer. "In our plan, there would be 400 people performing in the gamolan festival," he said. "It turned out that 700 elementary school pupils also wanted to participate. Therefore I had to cancel out some of my own students." The event, said Hasyimkan, 43, proved that "people have become more enthusiastic about the gamolan."

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