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	A Singer's Gyrating Rattles Indonesia
		Inul Daratista has taken dangdut, a unique cross-cultural blend of music once denigrated as the sound of the lower classes, to center stage.
		Inul has forced Indonesians to confront the increasingly sharp struggle in their society between conservative, closed and fundamentalist forces and those that are open, liberal and progressive in their quest to advance democratic principles and practices.
		Inul's defenders see the criticism of her as an attempt to revert to the repression of former President Suharto and his methods of banning, fllisting, arresting and confining those who dared defy his regime's rules.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0514-01.htm (803 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		Inul Daratista (the name translates as 'she of the breasts') oozes pulchritude as does her brand of dangdut, the onomatopoeically throbbing, folk-pop blend, understandably deemed ‘haram' (forbidden) by Indonesia's conservative clergy.
		Inul resents the fact that she is being cited as the inspiration for the anti-pornography bill.
		Inul, a middling pop singer who switched to dangdut in the early 1990s, owes her meteoric rise to stardom to a video cassette disc (VCD) made of her stage performances by an amateur videographer that sold by the thousand on the streets.
	ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=33152 (945 words)

	Inul tidak Kapok "Ngebor" Bandung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		JULUKAN goyang ngebor masih patut disandang artis dangdut asal Pasuruan Jawa Timur, Inul Daratista.
		Ribuan penonton yang memadati Lapangan Tegallega Bandung mengikuti goyangan ngebor Inul seakan tengah mengikuti tarian ritual dengan kedua tangan ke atas diputar-putar.
		Tapi kenyataannya, saat bintangnya mulai memudar Inul mau juga datang ke Kota Bandung.
	www.pikiran-rakyat.com /cetak/0304/06/0106.htm (477 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: Inul's Rules -- Mar. 24, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Inul (her real name is Ainul Rokhimah; Inul Daratista means "the girl with the breasts") was born poor in the East Java village of Kejapanan, Gempol.
		Authorities in devout Yogyakarta banned Inul from performing, fearing that she would "degrade the morality of the highly civilized and educated residents" of the city.
		As Inul bends her knees and swings her butt—in what, after careful and repeated observations, I'd estimate to be a 120° arc—she resembles a glittering piston.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030324-433338,00.html (1450 words)

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		He does not make a direct statement about what Inul Daratista does, but it is clear in what he says that he thinks she should not be on television.
		Inul has made it very clear that she has no plans to hang up her Spandex outfits and call it quits.
		Inul Daratista, whose stage name translates as "the girl with the breasts," is pushing many limits in a country trying to find balance between its influential Muslim roots and its development of democratic rights.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Jun2003/scripts/37e4cebb.html (804 words)

	Inul Daratista Si Ratu Goyang Ngebor, Selebriti Indoensia \| Tokoh Indonesia - Indonesian Famous - Tokoh Nasional
		Padahal Inul sendiri tidak punya satu keping pun VCD bajakan itu.
		Setiap hari rata-rata ada 50 penelepon yang meminta Inul untuk tampil.
		Kalau antara panggung yang satu dengan yang lain berdekatan, sehari bisa tampil lima kali.
	www.tokohindonesia.com /selebriti/artis/inul-daratista/index.shtml (1336 words)

	RSI English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Inul Daratista doesn't have the voice of a superstar.
		Devout Muslims use the argument that Inul should not be on television because men want to rape women after watching an Inul performance, or that Inul is disgracing the years of hard work it took to bring dangdut to a higher plane.
		They want to have fun and Inul Daratista, her stage name that translates into "the girl with the breasts," is pushing many limits in a country trying to find balance between its influential Muslim roots and its development of democratic rights.
	archive.rsi.com.sg /en/programmes/comment/2003/07/03_07_01.htm (717 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Indonesia's controversial star
		Inul is what her legions of fans scream, it's what the chat show hosts gossip about; even those who denounce her call her just Inul.
		Inul may be a fine singer, but the controversy is all about the way she wiggles her hips.
		Dangdut experts say Inul's performances are actually far closer to 'real' dangdut, as performed in rural East and Central Java, than the more refined, sanitised, version Indonesians are used to seeing on their TVs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2992615.stm (754 words)

	Popular Indonesian Singer Inul Daratista Answers Her Critics
		Earlier this year, MUI declared that Inul's dancing and costume were outlawed by its July 2002 fatwa against pornography, claiming they are concerned that Inul's performances are encouraging Indonesians to take part in lustful acts.
		Inul has made it very clear that she has no plans to hang up her Spandex outfits and call it quits.
		Inul Daratista, whose stage name translates as "the girl with the breasts," is pushing many limits in a country trying to find balance between its influential Muslim roots and its development of democratic rights.
	smokyhell.com.ne.kr /englishstudy/voa-reading/v03062019popular.htm (791 words)

	Radio Australia - Asia Pacific - Programs - INDONESIA: Pornography or performance? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		24 year old Inul Daratista was a rock singer in the small village of Gempol in East Java, when a besotted amateur cameraman sent copies he'd made of her performances to friends overseas.
		To be very honest I'm a great fan of Inul, I think Inul is so original and authentic, not trying to be clever or trying to be more erotic than she needs to, a lot of other performances are much more vulgar in terms of eroticism.
		Inul is definitely from the lower class and as Inul herself describes there's a lot of pornographic CDs around and people have not done anything about it they just leave it alone.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/asiapac/programs/s836743.htm (1122 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Comment on Shari’ah Pakistani style: no music, dancing and images of women but mosques everywhere
		Waggling her hips in Indonesia’s "dangdut" style, Inul Daratista is hitting the big time and courting controversy as she goes.
		He has said that Inul’s dance is not part of an Islamic way of life and has forbidden her to sing his songs.
		It is this very poverty that has led to such intense sympathy from the general public for Inul Daratista – the child of the slums who is gyrating her way to a fortune.
	www.jihadwatch.org /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=4978 (2998 words)

	:: indonesia house ::
		Inul is the hottest singing sensation in Indonesia, but her erotic “drilling” style of dancing has drawn strong criticism from some conservative Muslims.
		Inul (her real name is Ainul Rokhimah; Inul Daratista means "the girl with the breasts") was born poor in the East Java village of Kejapanan, Gempol.
		As Inul bends her knees and swings her butt—in what, after careful and repeated observations, I'd estimate to be a 120° arc—she resembles a glittering piston.
	www.indonesia-house.org /Arts/070403Inul_malay_ban.htm (1539 words)

	C4 News - World - Indonesia - Dancing in the face of hardliners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Inul has taken a traditional music called Dangdut and revved it up a notch or two.
		And while Inul was shaking her hips, Abdul Salem - the austere head of the local Islamic Institute, and member of the fatwa commission - was shaking his head.
		While she’s not about to run into the arms of Indonesia’s political parties, Inul is pretty savvy, and has quickly grasped the bigger significance of her fight.
	www.channel4.com /news/2003/06/week_4/30_indo.html (697 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > Indonesia’s hip-shaking diva is a good omen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Inul controversy may sound like a purely cultural one, but it also may say much about the direction Indonesia’s economy, and some reasonably good things at that.
		Inul is getting more airtime on TV than just about any Indonesian, including Megawati.
		Inul’s story interests civil rights groups because there are those in Indonesia who would like to turn its secular government into an Islamic one.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2003/may/20/opinion/20030520opi5.html (1651 words)

	globalinfo.org - May 7, INDONESIA (#43632)
		Inul Daratista (the name translates as "she of the breasts") performs her own brand of dance to a throbbing folk-pop music called "dangdut," and deemed 'haram' (forbidden) by Indonesia's conservative clergy.
		Inul says she resents the fact that she is being cited as the inspiration for the anti-pornography bill.
		To be fair to Inul, pornographic material on the streets of Indonesia is regularly ignored by secular authorities and the clergy.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=43632 (889 words)

	A pop star's hips shake a nation - theage.com.au
		Inul, born in rural east Java 24 years ago, is a well-brought-up, lower-class Muslim girl who had stars in her eyes from an early age.
		One of the first to spring to Inul's defence was the former president and respected Muslim leader, Abdurrahman Wahid.
		His point was simply that Inul has a right to do what she does under the principle of free expression.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/09/1052280435264.html (490 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Inul draws comparisons with a trend-setting, hip-swinging singer of another continent and era who also overcame humble roots to achieve fame so great he was identified by first name alone: Elvis.
		It's fair to ask whether the controversy swirling around Inul and her twirling hips indicates Indonesia is growing up or dumbing down.
		Across the front page from Inul, news that Singapore's government investment company and Deutsche Bank (see Indonesian selloff: Singapore scores again, May 8) bought the Indonesian government's stake in Bank Danamon is a reminder that such foreign inspiration is a long way off.
	www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/alert4351.html (1126 words)

	IslamOnline - Art & Entertainment Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Inul has openly challenged the morality and the increasing Islamic conservatism that is slowly sweeping the largely liberal Indonesian society.
		Inul became an instant success with men in Jakarta this past January when she first “exposed” her dancing techniques at a performance in one of the most populous areas of the huge metropolitan city.
		Inul, however, is determined to defy the societal norms and is planning to go ahead with a video CD of the ngebor and of other sensual songs in the near future.
	www.islamonline.net /English/artculture/2003/02/article12.shtml (641 words)

	Inul Daratista (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The cavernous stadium, poorer-than-expected turnout, and the weight of not crossing that fine line of indecency on her shoulders meant that Inul struggled to engage with the crowd and pulled the plug on much of her hyped gyrations, leaving audiences with unfilled appetites and a bitter aftertaste.
		Inul turned teacher as she first gave impromptu pointers on the art of hip-swaying, then placed his hands on her pelvis, summoning him to follow her hypnotic rhythm.
		While Inul isn't gawd-awful, her obvious limitations were painfully exposed during her covers of tracks like Four Non Blondes’ 'What's Up', where her vibrato quivered noticeably from the strain.
	www.think.com.my /print.cfm?rev_id=34 (714 words)

	CENTRE & PERIPHERY\| KUNCI Cultural Studies Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Began with reciting the Koranic verse: “Bismillahirohmanirrohim” (in the name of Allah the merciful and the compassionate), Inul sang and kept on shaking, while at times talking to the audience, or inviting two little boys—to whom the dangdut was dedicated—who were sitting on a chair behind the guitarist, to dance along.
		This time, Inul sang in front of guests who were enjoying the served dishes, neighbors and audiences who came from nearby villages.
		For the Indonesian board of moslem leaders, Inul is not just merely corny, but her style of dancing is considered perversely erotic, and that makes it haram (religiously forbidden).
	kunci.or.id /misc/nj_karbon_e.htm (1748 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Inul Daratista: Getting to the bottom of the pornography bill
		Inul was born Ainul Rokminah in the East Java industrial town of Gempol, 60 kilometers south of Surabaya.
		She changed her name to Inul Daratista (bubbly) hit the road for the "Big Durian" (Jakarta) and, shoving Javanese reticence aside, soon scored a TV spot.
		But Inul wasn't only shaking her booty; she was also snatching back Indonesian village culture and restoring it to the little people.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=47105 (1199 words)

	Artis Indonesia \| Indonesian Actress \| Galeri foto Artis - Inul Daratista (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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	www.cariartis.com /thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-50 (162 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news - Indonesian Dancer, clerics go toe-to-toe
		Inul was an unknown from the industrial East Java town of Gempol who hit the capital Jakarta's big time in 2003 with her ngebor style.
		Her group says there are already plenty of laws on the statutes to protect society and that the anti-pornography law is unnecessary for a democratic society.
		One of Inul's karaoke lounges has already been attacked by a mob from the Islamic Defenders' Front - another band of thugs in Muslim garb - and she has been publicly condemned by various other hardliners.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/HF21Ae01.html (1178 words)

	INUL DARATISTA - Indonesian Dangdut Singer
		Inul Daratista (born 3 January 1979) is a dangdut (dangdut: dangdut is a genre of indonesian popular music which is partly derived from arab,...
		Her dance moves, which she calls Goyang Inul or Ngebor, quickly became the source of controversy due to her suggestive gyrating hip motions.
		Inul was also criticised by other dangdut singers, most vocally Rhoma Irama (Rhoma Irama: rhoma irama is an indonesian dangdut singer....
	www.baliparamitha.com /inul.htm (220 words)

	Dance Web :: Eradicating Inul Daratista (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Inul Daratista, pushing dangdut style to new levels, has developed a popular following and with it, the attention of fundamental elements.
		He has said that Inul�s dance is not part of an Islamic way of life and has forbidden her to sing his songs.
		It is this very poverty that has led to such intense sympathy from the general public for Inul Daratista � the child of the slums who is gyrating her way to a fortune.
	www.rojisan.com /dance/2003/10/02/eradicating_inul_daratista (795 words)

	Inul Daratista - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inul Daratista (born 3 January 1979) is a dangdut singer and performance artist from Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.
		She became nationally famous in 2003, and is known for her suggestive style of dancing that has caused major controversy in Indonesia.
		This page was last modified 12:14, 3 February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inul_Daratista (193 words)

	Freemuse: Indonesia: Inul Daratista has overcome censorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dangdut has long been ripe with sexual innuendos and suggestiveness, but “Inul’s physical portrayal of the words and their meaning was something never attempted by those who came before her” (Jakarta Eye, “Dangdut Comes of Age-Sex and the Village”).
		But by June of 2003, Inul answered her critics by saying, “For me, what is sexy is relative…It depends on who views it.
		A conservative opposition Islamic Party (PAS) asked the government to revoke Inul’s concert permit on the grounds that her performances are sexually explicit.
	www.freemuse.org /sw11740.asp (1254 words)

	The Jakarta Post February 22, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Inul was paid Rp 3,500 (US 40 cent) per show when she turned to dangdut.
		Controversy is likely to continue to surround Inul because the MUI has categorized her dancing as haram, although Amidhan said his organization would not issue an edict on Inul.
		Based on our observation, Inul's dancing could be categorized as pornography, but it is up to the people to form their own opinion about the controversy," said Amidhan.
	www.infid.be /inul.html (608 words)

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