'A very special moment' for Indonesian independence day in Ballarat

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Updated August 26 2019 - 10:21am, first published 10:00am
A TUNE FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY: Musicians play an inaugural tune on a restored gamelan on Saturday. Photo: Brendan McCarthy.
A TUNE FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY: Musicians play an inaugural tune on a restored gamelan on Saturday. Photo: Brendan McCarthy.

The haunting, deep timbre of a gamelan accompanied Indonesian independence day celebrations in Ballarat on Saturday.

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Jolyon Attwooll

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Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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