Sisters in Danger? Yup! They are an Indonesian band who with their song “16 Oranges” on International Women’s Day, March 8, won the most popular award of the UN Women Asia #UNITE song contest this year.

The video shows the six band members — three women and three men — performing the song on a hilltop. Dressed in a variety of traditional Indonesian clothes, they “encourage the 258 million citizens of Indonesia, of 1,340 ethnic groups, to stay united and take responsibility for gender-based violence.”

The shots of the band are interspersed with scenes of violence against women and children: a man who raises his fist to hit his wife; a child molester trying to lure two young kids; two schoolgirls bullying another schoolgirl; a father about to beat his small son.

In each scene, JP Millenix, the female drummer of Sisters in Danger intervenes, shaking her head to say “no!” and gives them an orange.

The lyrics of the song clearly convey their message, which they say is also “a tribute to the victims and survivors of gender violence everywhere in the world.”

Too much time for hurting/ Too little time for loving/ I give you 16 oranges/ The vitamin to end the violence/ But I wanna tell you, my friends/ The strongest vitamin is true love/ And justice from the mind/ So we can orange the world, Unite!/ We bury hate, Unite!/ Speak out & fight, Unite!/ Real men don’t rape, Unite!/ Real women know their rights/ So let me tell you, my friends/ We grow the seeds of equality/ 16 days, 16 centuries, and more/ A brighter future: violence no more.

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