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Monday, August 7th, 2006

Jaya Suprana takes Brisbane crowd on musical tour
Cynthia Webb, Contributor, Brisbane

Last Saturday night I was lucky to be in an audience who were escorted on a musical journey around Indonesia, right here in Brisbane. The music was played by the one and only Jaya Suprana and his group, Kwartet Punakawan, from Jakarta.

As is well known in Indonesia, Jaya is a classically trained pianist who got together with this particular group only a year ago. The band recently completed a tour in Indonesia that included prisons on their schedule.
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