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Sing wherever, whenever as Indonesian karaoke goes mobile

By Olivia Rondonuwu In Depok, Indonesia Agence France Presse | China Daily | Updated: 2016-05-14 07:46

An Indonesian rickshaw fitted with a karaoke machine blasts out loud music next to a row of food stalls, as revelers sing and dance enthusiastically nearby.

The musical pedicab is among a wave of new innovations helping Indonesians indulge their love of singing wherever they can, from specially equipped trains and buses to services that bring karaoke to your home.

Once considered a morally-questionable pastime that went hand in hand with drinking alcohol and prostitution in the Muslim-majority nation, karaoke has cleaned up its image in recent years and is now a firmly mainstream form of entertainment, as in much of Asia.

Sing wherever, whenever as Indonesian karaoke goes mobile

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