TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Crowdfunding campaign to raise money for Ari Malibu's cancer treatment
Change Size
Folk musician Ari Malibu is now receiving treatment for stage-3 throat cancer. The guitarist made his music comeback in 2015 with the duo Ari-Reda. (The Jakarta Post/YouTube/Galeri Indonesia Kaya)
T
wo journalists have created a crowdsourcing campaign to raise money for the medical bills of guitarist Ari Malibu of folk duo Ari-Reda, who is currently being treated for throat cancer.
Started by veteran music journalists Adib Hidayat and Denny MR, the campaign aims to collect Rp 100 million (US$7,142) in the next month. As of Sunday, only three people have contributed to the effort, donating a total of Rp 901,428.
"Ari Malibu is suffering from stage-3 throat cancer and tuberculosis. He was admitted to a hospital in Bandung [West Java] but was then brought home to Jakarta," Adib said in a statement on the crowdfunding page kitabisa.com.
Ari was a key player in the country’s pop scene in the 1980s. He founded the folk group Pahama in the mid-1970s, and some 20 years later, the band Last Few Minutes (LFM) with Ridho Hafiedz (now a member of Slank), before disbanding it after one album.
Ari-Reda was his 2015 comeback with singer Reda Gaudiamo, breathing nostalgia into the pop scene with their folk rendition of Joko Damono’s poetry.
