Australia & New Zealand
Most of the gamelans in Australia are associated with universities or schools. One of the most famous is the gamelan Digul, made in the Digul prison camp in 1927 and brought to Australia during World War II. In cities such as Melbourne, local gamelan groups take the opportunity to play in public to encourage interest both in gamelan music and in Indonesian culture.
In New Zealand there are two gamelan sets in Wellington, one Javanese and the other Balinese. Interest in gamelan music in New Zealand was reflected in the selection by the Indonesian Embassy in New Zealand of a young New Zealand student, Robert Snook, as a recipient of the 2012 Darmasiswa Scholarship. The scholarship will allow Snook to study gamelan at the Institut Seni Indonesia (Indonesian Arts Institute) in Bali.
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