Dangdut is one of many music genres in whole world, originally found in Indonesia. Many people in Indonesia, especially lower class people, love dangdut. For example, merchants in market or bus driver. Sometimes, dangdut music is commonly performed at night bazaars or politic campaigns and attract people’s attention. Also, dangdut songs are usually used in aerobic activities. People believe if they dance attractively followed by dangdut songs, it will make them healthier.
Why people believe that? Because some of dangdut music offer a dynamic tempo within its music. This phenomenon causes many production houses to distribute this kind of music into CDs, because it could make people watch and enjoy it more easily. On the other hand, people forget that there are many mature values contained in the CDs which could be consumed by children when they watch it in public places. So, the distributing of dangdut CDs should be controlled because the CDs have some mature values that can be adopted by children. Children are creatures which can copy anything what they see as well and also quicker than adult. It make them could adapt to something new and everything that they see at the first time. Imagine if them see and copy the way of dressing like dangdut singer costumes in CDs cover. We had know that nowadays dangdut loved by the people especially for man because of it erotic dance and erotic costume. In our way to explain how erotic they costume was, we can see in many aspects. We can indentify from the pants, most dangdut singer like to use hotpants or short.
Perhaps that simple casual costume or that could increase their comfort to dance attractively. They don’t think if their dance purposes to entertain many people and especially children. The producer also select beautiful young dancer to support their sexy costume. If that related to masculinity theory that masculine man think that woman are sexual object it could be important to pay attention. Imagine that male children who start grow up which could not control their sexual sense then they see a sexy dangdut singer portrait in cover of CDs, it could stimulate them to think negatively. It also affect to female children who still try to find their personality and attention from the male. When they know that dangdut singer get attention from they use sexy costume like hotpants or tanktop at time they perform on some show, they adopt it. So that’s why, nowadays many girl wear hotpants in their early age and wear it almost a day long of their activities beside they also provoked by western culture.
Beside dangdut is bad in costume, some dangdut lyric also bad. As we know that dangdut purposes is to entertain many people, how if the lyric make them especially children learn about sarcasm word in their daily conversation because dangdut song could listen in many public place like market, example for lyric like “Jancoook telek jaran” which means “Fuck horse ass”. That word could make big curiosity and question in children mind, especially about jancok and horse ass mean. Sarcasm is the way to speak harshly, sometimes it bring mature words even rude words. Of course it doesn’t match with children values which learn to enjoy their life and try to learn good values which accept by their norms and their social community. At short period perhaps they would speak to their family or friends, but in long period maybe they can say it without disappointed to many people. In normal social norm in Indonesia, children who speak politely assume as polite person. On the other hand children who speak harshly assume as impolite children then they would isolate from social interaction.
So, although dangdut is very popular among adults, its distributing still needs some management or arrangement because it is not appropriate for children or teens. It is natural for Dangdut songs to contain adult values like erotic dances, sexy costume or even harsh lyric because mostly Dangdut songs are targeted for adults, not for teens or even children. The possible bad effects brought by Dangdut songs if consumed by children is really dangerous for the children themselves. Other than making them to behave more badly, it could ruin their future. In the end, our country will suffer if the next generation is ruined by things such as dangdut or maybe west culture effect. Therefore, we should keeps our eye on this matter and do the right thing for our own future.
