From the Bushes to the Battle Fields

Even though I often sang at the Palace, I can sing anywhere. I was once a regular in a singing group for the military headquarters at Surakarta, Central Java, which today has become a shopping center. Occasionally our keroncong group would be taken to the battlefield to entertain the soldiers who were on a break, like the time I went to Bumiayu, where the troops were stationed, as they fought the DI/TII (Islamic state/Indonesian Islamic Army) movem

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