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"Crong crong" that's how the music sounds so it's called kroncong music. This music comes from Indonesia which was played by the Portuguese during the Dutch colonialism in Indonesia. "We play kroncong music and talk in international forums that kroncong comes from Indonesia, . Because we have been playing this music since 1661," said Arthur James Michiels (50), the 10th descendant of Lieutenant Mardijiker, Jonathan Michiels when met at his residence in Tugu Village last week. Arthur explained that his ancestors used to play this music in the middle of the swamps. in the forest.