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There is an increasing amount of '''gamelan outside Indonesia'''. There are even forms of [[gamelan]] that have originated outside [[Indonesia]], such as [[American gamelan]] and [[Gamelan Pahang]] in Malaysia.
'''''The Daily Politics''''' is a British [[television]] show launched by the [[BBC]] in [[2003]]. Presented by [[Andrew Neil]], the programme takes an in-depth and sometimes irreverent look at the daily goings on in [[Westminster]] and other areas across the UK, and includes interviews with leading politicians and political commentators.
[[Daisy McAndrew]] was Neil's co-presenter (as [[Daisy Sampson]]) until the summer of [[2005]] when she left to join [[ITV]]. [[Jenny Scott]] joined as her replacement when the show returned in September. [[Sally Magnusson]] joined briefly in 2005 as the sole presenter on Friday's episode. The regular reporters are [[Laura Kuenssberg]], [[Giles Dilnot]] and [[Jo Coburn]]. Other regular contributors to the show include the BBC's political editor [[Nick Robinson]], political correspondent [[James Landale]], and internet expert [[Alan Connor]]. [[Jon Sopel (presenter)|Jon Sopel]] and [[Eddie Mair]] have appeared as guest presenters in [[Andrew Neil]]'s absence.
== Australia ==
Most of the gamelans in [[Australia]] are associated with universities or schools. One of the most famous is the gamelan Digul, made in the Digul prison camp in 1927 and brought to Australia during World War II. <ref>[http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/exhibitions/past/1999/gamelan.html http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/exhibitions/past/1999/gamelan.html] and [http://www.urpress.com/80460887.HTM http://www.urpress.com/80460887.HTM]</ref>
there is also Gamelan Group in Poland and it's the only band like that in this part of Europe. The band plays music from central Java.
''The Daily Politics'' is broadcast on [[BBC Two]] at a running time of 30 minutes from noon every weekday, apart from Wednesday's episode which starts at 11.30 and runs for 90 minutes in order to show full coverage of [[Prime Minister's Questions]]. A novel feature of the programme's analysis of PMQs is the 'Perception Panel' in which selected viewers use their phones to continuously register their opinions throughout the session.
== The Netherlands ==
The first gamelans outside of Indonesia were in the [[Netherlands]], the country which had colonized the islands. Before [[World War II]], the Javanese dancer Jodjana had a small gamelan group in the Netherlands, which accompanied his performances. He had to train Dutch musicians. Early during the war, the resistance fighter Bernard IJzerdraat Sr. was killed by the Germans. His son [[Bernard IJzerdraat|Bernard]] then left home and in Amsterdam heard a group of stranded javanese sailors play a gamelan at the Colonial Museum (later: [[Museum of the Tropics]]). He took lessons with them and soon started his own group with friends from his school in [[Haarlem]]. This became [[Babar Layar]], the first serious gamelan group in the Netherlands. Babar Layar played in [[Yogyakarta]] style, after Bernard studied one full year in the [[kraton]]. They often accompanied Mas Pakun, a Yogyanese dancer who studied theology in Amsterdam. When [[Mantle Hood]] came to Amsterdam to write his dissertation on [[pathet]], Bernard trained him to play gamelan. (Mas Pakun died a few years later in a tragic traffic accident after his return to Indonesia.) Mantle Hood later taught [[ethnomusicology]] in the U.S., and is regarded as the founding father of gamelan in that country. Bernard married a Sundanese wife and emigrated to Indonesia in 1954, where he became known as Suryabrata, working for [[Radio Republik Indonesia|RRI Jakarta]] and [[Universitas Nasional]].
Most editions feature an e-mail competition where viewers must answer a question for the chance to win a coveted ''Daily Politics'' [[mug]]. This competition is currently suspended as per BBC policy in the wake of the [[Blue Peter]] phone-in scandal.
In 1971, the ethnomusicologist [[Ernst Heins]] invited [[K.R.M.T. Ronosuripto]] of the [[Mangkunagaran]] palace, Surakarta to Amsterdam. This gave a new impetus to the performance of gamelan and Javanese dance in the Netherlands. Together with Mr and Mrs Ronosuripto, the Amsterdam Gamelan group played many concerts and performances with Javanese dance and shadow puppetry ([[wayang kulit]]). [[Rien Baartmans]], who as a child had been taking lessons from Bernard IJzerdraat, studied wayang and [[kendhang]] with Pak Ripto, which very much stimulated his own group Ngesthi Raras in Haarlem.
See also: ''[[This Week (BBC, UK)|This Week]]''
In 1978 the new gamelan society Naga acquired a gamelan from [[Surakarta|Solo]]. This gamelan was used by several groups, performing traditional and modern music for gamelan. In the same year [[Elsje Plantema]] (a musician specializing in Javanese gamelan) and Rien Baartmans ([[dhalang]]) founded [[Raras Budaya]], with the aim of performing wayang kulit in [[Dutch language|Dutch]]. Between 1980 and 1992, Raras Budaya performed numerous wayang plays. When Naga was dissolved in 1995, their gamelan was given to Raras Budaya, and is still used by gamelan groups conducted by Elsje Plantema and [[Jurrien Sligter]] (a musician who is interested in modern compositions for gamelan).
Today, several Javanese and Balinese gamelan groups are active in the Netherlands. Javanese style groups exist in Amsterdam, Delft, The Hague, Renkum and Arnhem. Balinese groups can be found in Amsterdam and The Hague. A Sundanese group exists in Leiden (Leyde).
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/ Official web site]
== North America ==
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{{seealso|List of gamelan ensembles in the United States}}
Gamelan music was introduced to the Western hemisphere at the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] of 1893 in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]]. A Sundanese gamelan was imported as part of the Java Village exhibit and was acquired by the [[Field Museum of Natural History]] following the exposition. After the gamelan was restored in the late 1970s, it was used for instruction by a community arts organization, which gave its first performance in May of 1978. The organization incorporated in 1980 as [http://www.chicagogamelan.org/ Friends of the Gamelan] and continues to perform with two central Javanese gamelan sets that it has acquired.
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Many schools, universities and other institutions in North America own sets of gamelan instruments. These gamelans are typically played by mixed-gender groups of students, a practice that is rare in Indonesia for religious reasons. Among the earliest such groups were [[Wesleyan University]] [http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/gamelan/] and [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] [http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/courses/ensembles/java/index.htm]. Established institutional gamelan ensembles in the U.S. include Gamelan Nyai Saraswati at [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], Gamelan Burat Wangi and Gamelan Kyai Dorodasih at [[California Institute of the Arts]] [http://calarts.edu/schools/music/programs/indonesian.html], [http://www.galaktika.org/aboutgt.shtml Gamelan Galak Tika] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], [[Gamelan Lila Muni]] at [[Eastman School of Music]], Gamelan Semara Santi at [[Swarthmore College]], Gamelan Saraswati at [[University of Maryland, College Park]], Gamelan Kembang Atangi at [[Loyola Marymount University]], [[Gamelan Giri Kusuma]] at [[Pomona College]], and the Javanese Court Gamelan, “Son of the Good Earth,” at [[Creighton University]].
In Canada one of the oldest gamelan ensembles is Kyai Madu Sari (Venerable Essence of Honey), donated by the Indonesian Government after the 1986 Expo in Vancouver, which resides since then at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. A gamelan gadhon, Alligator Joy, was commissioned from Pak Tentrem of Solo, Central Indonesia and brought to Vancouver in 1990 and resides at the Western Front Artist Center. Both ensembes are regularly performed with by the Vancouver Community Gamelan [http://gamelanbc.org].
There are also professional gamelan ensembles. [[Gamelan Son of Lion]], a group that focuses on newly-composed music by both the composer-members of the group and invited composers from around the world.
Since 1979 a few gamelan ensembles have been organized as community arts organizations or clubs. The first Javanese community group was the [[Boston Village Gamelan]] [http://www3.shore.net/~samq/bvg/] in Massachusetts, and the first Balinese community group was [[Gamelan Sekar Jaya]] in California. Other community Balinese gamelan ensembles are [[Gamelan Mitra Kusuma]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Gamelan Tunas Mekar]] [http://www.tunasmekar.org/] in [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]. [[Gamelan Sari Raras]] is an active Javanese ensemble in [[Berkeley, California]]; the name was given to the group by [[Widiyanto]] (aka Midiyanto), and the instruments, brought to the U.S. from Java in 1971, are named Kyai Udan Mas, or Venerable Golden Rain. [http://www.gamelan-x.com ''Gamelan X''] (formerly [http://www.onepeople.com/ ''Onepeoplevoice'']) is based in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]].
==United Kingdom==
There are over fifty gamelans of various kinds in the [[United Kingdom]], many of them based at colleges or community centres. [[University of York]] was the first British university to purchase a gamelan, named Kyai Sekar Patak; it is still played by students there. The oldest community Gamelan group in the UK is the [[Oxford Gamelan Society]], which plays Kyai Madu Laras, donated to the [[University of Oxford]]'s [[Bate Collection]] of musical instruments by the Indonesian ministry of Forestry in [[1985]]. Other active groups exist at the [[University of Aberdeen]], the [[University of Durham]], [[Kingston University]] and [[City University]] London, amongst others. A program of classes usually runs at the [[South Bank Centre]], which also has a performing group of gamelan professionals, the [[South Bank Gamelan Players]]. In Cambridge, the [http://www.cambridgegamelan.org.uk Cambridge Gamelan Society] (Gamelan Duta Laras) plays both traditional music and new compositions, and gives yearly dance performances as well as running introductory workshops. The Glasgow based [http://www.nagamas.co.uk Gamelan Naga Mas] regularly gives performances and introductory workshops, teacher and special needs courses in Scotland. The [[London Symphony Orchestra]][http://www.lso.co.uk/lsodiscovery/forthelocalcommunity/index.asp?id=153] holds a Balinese gamelan at LSO St Luke's; this is used by schools, a community group, players of the orchestra and Balinese composers.
*[http://www.gamelan.org.uk/ U.K. Gamelan Information]
*[http://danny.oz.au/gamelan/ Gamelan in Australia and New Zealand]
*[http://www.gamelan.org/ American Gamelan Institute]
*[http://gamelan.free.fr/ Gamelan in France (with special section on 1889)]
*[http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/instsearch.pl?inst=gamelan%20orchestra Art of the States: gamelan orchestra] works for gamelan orchestra by American composers
===Groups===
*[http://www.nagamas.co.uk Gamelan Naga Mas, Scotland]
*[http://www.gamelan.it A Javanese gamelan in Italy]
*[http://www.girikedaton.com Giri Kedaton in Montreal, Quebec]
*[http://www.langensuka.asn.au/ Langen Suka in Sydney, Australia]
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