Dangdut is one of the popular Indonesian traditional music genres that have Hindustani (Indian), Malay, and Arabic elements. Dangdut is characterized by the blast of tabla (Indian percussion instruments) and drums. Dangdut is also heavily influenced from classical Indian music songs and Bollywood.
His history, dangdut influenced Indian music through Bollywood film by Ellya Khadam with the song 'Indian Doll', and last born as Dangdut in 1968 with the main character Rhoma Irama. In the evolution to contemporary forms, it now enters the influence of Indian musical elements (mainly from the use of tabla) and Arabic (in crooked and harmonized). Changes in Indonesian political currents in the late 1960s opened the influx of strong western music with the introduction of the use of electric guitar as well as its marketing form. Since the 1970s dangdut may be said to have matured in its contemporary form. As a popular music, dangdut is very open to the influence of other musical forms, ranging from keroncong, styles, degung, gambus, rock, pop, even house music