ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the contribution and impact of Christian institutions, chiefly the Centre for Liturgical Music in Yogyakarta, on the creation, form/style, and distribution of localized, tradition-based congregational repertoire in Indonesia. While focusing on the localized repertoire, the author is concerned with the institutional involvement in a localization/indigenization process broadly known and referred to as inculturation. In examining the role of institutions in inculturation, this chapter explores the extent to which the inculturated repertory appeals to regional Christian communities or to the Indonesian public as a whole; what kinds of repertoire are gaining popularity with which groups; and whether the motives are behind the creation of this new congregational repertoire are chiefly ethnic/regional, national, or individual/personal.
