{"id":467185,"date":"2026-05-04T01:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467185\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:15:24","slug":"indonesias-aim-to-lure-more-k-pop-concerts-spurs-chorus-of-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467185\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia\u2019s aim to lure more K-pop concerts spurs chorus of doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto<\/a> recently visited Seoul for a state visit, one of the most memorable moments was a photo that he took with a 19-year-old Indonesian K-pop<\/a> idol.<\/p>\n

Nyoman Ayu Carmenita, better known as Carmen of the girl group Hearts2Hearts, symbolises Indonesia\u2019s ascendancy in the K-pop universe: no longer just a vast market for the genre\u2019s stars, with the country increasingly playing a part in the industry\u2019s global growth.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Sugiono said on April 22 that Prabowo had asked South Korean President Lee Jae Myung<\/a> to help bring more K-pop concerts to Indonesia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president plans to increase the number of [K-pop] concerts for K-pop fans,\u201d Sugiono told reporters, adding the president always aimed to \u201cdeliver something that can be felt directly by the Indonesian people\u201d from his visits to other countries.<\/p>\n

While the news has been met with excitement by many Indonesian K-pop fans, others are sceptical that the country is ready to become a major concert destination.<\/p>\n

The issue came to the fore in 2023 when Taylor Swift<\/a> announced six concerts in Singapore<\/a> in 2024, with Japan being the only other Asian destination for the American pop superstar that year. Coldplay also performed six shows in Singapore<\/a> in 2024, compared with just one each in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto recently visited Seoul for a state visit, one of the most memorable moments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[10315,123865,18,117,205112,113078,19,7088,17,104265,5403,337,29879,1999,2428,973],"class_list":{"0":"post-467185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-coldplay","9":"tag-day6","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gelora-bung-karno-stadium","13":"tag-hearts2hearts","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-indonesia","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jakarta","18":"tag-k-pop","19":"tag-music","20":"tag-prabowo-subianto","21":"tag-singapore","22":"tag-south-korea","23":"tag-taylor-swift"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116513664550331320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}