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Interest in this women's band, Nasida Ria, is growing in Indonesia.

The group, which formed 47 years ago, used to read the Qur'an.

Nowadays, the band combines Arabic with a traditional type of Indonesian music - dangdut.

Until recently, dangdut and local music were thought of as unfashionable by young people.

But Nasida Ria's songs discuss important topics, like Islam and human rights.

For example, they might make fun of men with bad attitudes towards women.

Shindu Alpito's a music expert.

The amusing words as well as the music itself are attracting younger audiences, who like to call Nasida Ria 'Indie Mothers'.

27 year old Nazla Zain is the 'baby' of the band.

That might be a reason why the youths like Nasida Ria."

Lead singer Rien Djamain, now in her 60s, hopes that their music will help and improve young people's hearts.

With more than 500,000 followers on YouTube and 38,000 listeners on Spotify per month, the band certainly have the opportunity to do so.

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