A towering wall of speakers on wheels, shaking everything in sight: In many Javanese villages, there’s no big celebration without one. Trucks known as sound horegs — from a Javanese word that means ...

Sound horeg, a term for very loud music systems often used in public performances. Doc. Shutterstock Cholil explained that the East Java branch of the MUI has already issued a fatwa, or religious ...

Minister of Creative Economy Teuku Riefky Harsya has delegated the regulations on 'sound horeg' activity to regional governments. According to him, this activity is a form of local wisdom. "It's a ...

The practice of blasting towering speakers stacked on trucks and boats in Indonesia to celebrate events ranging from weddings to national holidays is increasingly drawing a chorus of public ...

MALANG, East Java: As a convoy of about 30 trucks rolled into the tiny farming village of Jeru in East Java’s Malang regency last month, residents began streaming out of their homes with a mix of ...

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MALANG, Indonesia — People in an Indonesian village watched as a tower of loudspeakers mounted on a truck rumbled through their usually serene home, blasting a thumping bass loud enough to crack ...

As with most things in life today, it began around two years ago with a string of viral videos on social media. The videos, which first introduced people to the trend, showed a stack of loudspeakers ...

Still, demand is booming. Some sound horeg providers are booked months in advance.