My Jazz Travels in Indonesia

The Indonesian island of Bali has developed rapidly as a tourist destination over the past decade.
Musically, the young people have been Americanized, and jazz, pop, rock, reggae, and other rhythmically intense music has become mainstream, and live music venues are crowded. Every time I visit, I am improving musically at an alarming rate.
Perhaps it is because there are still so few performers that they cannot afford to dawdle like in Japan, and because of the tourists from all over the world, they cannot afford to practice while playing. It is wonderful.

However, things have changed a bit from three years ago. Nowadays, there are many Indonesian customers at live music clubs, which seem expensive to the locals. Of course, there were some foreigners as well. ......
And, Jazz, which 10 years ago I could not understand what language they were singing in (when I asked the singer about it, he said it was English), now they were singing in a totally beautiful American language (sorry, but it was better than Japanese jazz vocalists, not only in pronunciation).

Since this is the case from a musical standpoint, I think they are probably in a similar situation economically. Prices have gone up, "spas" and massages, etc.
The old ladies who used to sell braids (they make your hair like reggae) and manicures on the beach now have stores in the style of luxury resorts, which are popular among Asian tourists, and of course, they are expensive. （Of course it's expensive (about a discount from Japan).

The front desk clerk at the hotel told me that, after all, it was no exaggeration to say that luxury hotels were for Japanese people about five years ago, but now, "Mostly Koreans and Taiwanese," although there are a few Japanese if you look for them.
The same is true for golf. I played golf every day for five days and only met one Japanese golfer. I was surprised to see that the price of a round of golf, which was about US$30 a round 10 years ago, is now US$130 a round.
Everything was like, "Japanese tourists drove up the price, and then they were gone." And we have a bad reputation among tourists from other countries. After all, here too, most of the players are Korean. I was also spoken to in Korean by a local. And I was told in Japanese, "What are you, Japanese?

I hope you all don't do this so that you don't become one of the "frowned upon" Japanese in the world. Don't be ashamed of your trip. or "The sky is a blank on the journey. For the sake of future generations.
I was so annoyed and embarrassed. And I was also embarrassed. Please think about the common sense of the world. Anything goes, you will pay for it later.

Now, I have written something unnecessary. Here are some snapshots from Bali.
As I wrote earlier, I had a lot of fun at a Jazz live house. Please take a peek when you go to Bali.


For Snapshots of Indonesia