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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 ...

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 ...

The Law Ministry’s East Java regional office has raised a plan to grant intellectual property rights for the horeg sound system for its creative content and industrial design. The plan was first ...