The Beginning and the End of Semakbelukar
FOR a moment there, David Hersya stared at the Malay kettledrum he had bought five years before. He bent down to finger the instrument's torn skin , damaged on the day the group disbanded. David had bought the instrument, around 35 centimeters in diameter and which resembled a washbasin with a hollowed bottom, from a craftsman in North Sumatra.
David crouched down and raised the kettledrum onto his lap. "I never expected to see this kettledrum ever again," said this lead musician of Semakbelukar when Tempo met him in Palembang last month.
