泰勒·斯威夫特和Lady Gaga各自将新加坡选为其最近世界巡演中唯一的东南亚站。另一位美国歌手奥利维亚·罗德里戈则选择了泰国和菲律宾，但同样跳过了印尼。
Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga each chose Singapore as their only Southeast Asian stop on recent world tours. Fellow American singer Olivia Rodrigo played Thailand and the Philippines, but likewise skipped Indonesia.
然而，下周末，雅加达终于将迎来它一直渴望的大型国际头条演出——以Ye的形式。
Next weekend, however, Jakarta is finally getting the big international headline act it has been craving – in the form of Ye.
这位曾名为肯伊·韦斯特的有争议的美国说唱歌手将于下周六在印尼首都雅加达演出，这将是他目前巡演中唯一的东南亚站。
The controversial American rapper, formerly known as Kanye West, is set to play Indonesia’s capital next Saturday, marking the only Southeast Asian appearance on his current tour.
主办方Raw Vision Collective预计将有15,000名国际游客前来观演。根据市场与传播负责人Karen Tjahja的说法，票务在上线后的前24小时内，来自73个国家的外国买家占购票总量的52.8%。
The promoter, Raw Vision Collective, expects 15,000 international visitors to attend. In the first 24 hours of ticket sales going live, foreign buyers from 73 countries made up 52.8 per cent of purchases, according to marketing and communications lead Karen Tjahja.
“在印尼演唱会历史上，首次预计国际观众人数将超过总观众人数的5%至9%。”Tjahja对《本周亚洲》表示。
“For the first time in Indonesia’s concert history, international attendees are expected to exceed more than 5 to 9 per cent of concertgoers,” Tjahja told This Week in Asia. But the choice of Ye, who has faced travel restrictions and had concerts cancelled over his controversial remarks, has prompted questions about whether he is the right act to put Indonesia back on the international music map.
但Ye的选择引发了质疑——这位因争议言论而面临旅行限制和演出取消的艺人，是否是让印尼重返国际音乐舞台的合适人选？
Raw Vision Collective says it invited Ye “less as competition” with neighbouring countries and “more as an opportunity to strengthen Southeast Asia’s live-entertainment ecosystem”.
Raw Vision Collective表示，邀请Ye“更多是为了加强东南亚现场娱乐生态系统”，而非“与邻国竞争”。
It points to a large domestic audience, a vibrant creative scene and Jakarta’s Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, which can hold about 77,000 concertgoers.
他们指出，印尼拥有庞大的国内观众群、活跃的创意场景以及雅加达的格罗拉·邦卡诺体育场——该场馆可容纳约77,000名观众。
Officials have thrown their weight behind the performance.
官员们也表达了对该演出的支持。在Raw Vision Collective上个月举办的新闻发布会上，印尼旅游部长Widiyanti Putri Wardhana指出，大型海外演出举办方有望在住宿、交通、餐饮等多个经济领域带来收益。
At a press conference held by Raw Vision Collective last month, Indonesia’s Tourism Minister Widiyanti Putri Wardhana noted the potential for concerts by major overseas acts to generate benefits across various economic sectors, from accommodation and transport to food. Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung also pledged the city’s full support for the concert, calling it an opportunity to showcase Indonesia’s capital to the world.
雅加达州长普拉莫诺·阿努承诺，该市将全力支持这场音乐会，并称这是向世界展示印尼首都的机会。
“We believe Jakarta can build on its own strengths,” Tjahja said, adding that successful productions elsewhere in the region had helped “establish Southeast Asia as a stronger destination for global tours”.
“我们相信雅加达可以依靠自身优势发展，”塔吉亚说，并补充称，该地区其他地区成功举办的演出有助于“将东南亚确立为全球巡演更有吸引力的目的地”。
“We hope that with the success of this concert, this will just be the beginning of Indonesia positively being back on the global stage.”
“我们希望这场音乐会的成功只是印度尼西亚重新回到全球舞台、并持续发挥积极作用的开始。”新加坡就是一个例子。塔吉亚表示，这个城邦“展示了大型音乐会如何吸引地区游客并推动旅游发展”。
Singapore serves as an example. The city state “has shown how major concerts can attract regional visitors and drive tourism”, Tjahja said.
然而，新加坡的成功往往是以牺牲其邻国为代价的。2024年，斯威夫特在该城邦连续演出六晚，而在该地区其他地方没有任何演出。一年后，Lady Gaga也在那里独家演出了四晚。
Yet Singapore’s success has often come at the expense of its neighbours. Swift played six nights in the city state and nowhere else in the region in 2024. A year later, Lady Gaga also played four exclusive nights.
熟悉当地音乐场景的音乐家表示，文书工作是印尼面临的问题之一。
Musicians who know the scene well say paperwork is part of Indonesia’s problem.
赫里·苏特雷斯纳，也被称为其艺名“Morgue Vanguard”，并且是印尼嘻哈乐队“谋杀案”（Homicide）的创始人，他对《本周亚洲》表示，印尼确实能够吸引外国人才，但相比新加坡或澳大利亚，推广起来更具挑战性，部分原因在于其众所周知的官僚体系繁琐低效。
Herry Sutresna, also known by his stage name Morgue Vanguard and the founder of Indonesian hip-hop group Homicide, told This Week in Asia that Indonesia could attract foreign talent but was a harder sell than Singapore or Australia, partly because of its famously unwieldy bureaucracy.
“说服艺术家本身其实不是主要问题，而是当地组织演出时涉及的许可、费用以及所有其他繁文缛节的困难，”他说。
“It’s not really about convincing the artists themselves, but rather the difficulty of organising concerts locally regarding permits, costs and all the other red tape involved,” he said.
尽管如此，过去仍有许多外国表演者曾在印尼演出。曾在2002年至2013年期间担任印尼独立乐队“最后独处”（Alone at Last）吉他手的希克马万“因德拉”·赛富拉赫列举了深紫乐队、米克·贾格尔、分离乐队（Sepultura）、金属乐队（Metallica）和绿日乐队（Green Day），以及多日现场音乐活动，如爪哇爵士音乐节和哈默索尼克音乐节。
Still, plenty of foreign performers have played Indonesia in the past. Hikmawan “Indra” Saefullah, who played guitar in the Indonesian indie band Alone at Last from 2002 to 2013, listed Deep Purple, Mick Jagger, Sepultura, Metallica and Green Day, as well as multi-day live music events such as the Java Jazz Festival and Hammersonic.
Lady Gaga原定于2012年在雅加达演出，当时已售出全部52,000张门票，但包括伊斯兰捍卫者阵线在内的几个组织反对该歌手的舞蹈动作和服装，称她是“魔鬼崇拜者”。
Lady Gaga was meant to play Jakarta in 2012, with all 52,000 tickets already sold for a concert when several organisations, including the Islamic Defenders Front, objected to the singer’s dance moves and outfits, calling her “a devil worshipper”.
警方随后拒绝发放活动许可证，称无法保证安全，该演出最终被取消。
Police subsequently refused to issue an event permit, saying they could not guarantee safety, and the show was ultimately scrapped.
苏特雷斯纳表示，此类大规模抗议活动相对较少见，他指出，印尼大多数活动中断的原因是常规的物流和官僚问题。赛夫拉表示，由于过去的争议，叶被视为“特殊案例”。
Sutresna said such mass protest campaigns were relatively rare, however, pointing instead to routine logistical and bureaucratic issues as the cause of most event disruptions in Indonesia. Ye is “a special case” because of his past controversies, according to Saefullah.
近年来，这位说唱歌手因发表反犹言论而广受谴责，导致他失去了主要赞助和演出机会。
The rapper has been widely condemned in recent years for making antisemitic remarks that cost him major sponsorships and performance opportunities.
去年，他发布了一首题为《Heil Hitler》的歌曲，多家流媒体平台因此将其下架，此前他在接受采访时曾公开表达对纳粹独裁者的钦佩，公开否认大屠杀的存在，并宣称自己认同为纳粹。
Last year, he released a song titled “Heil Hitler”, which several streaming platforms banned, after previously expressing admiration for the Nazi dictator in interviews, publicly denying the existence of the Holocaust and saying he identified as a Nazi himself.
今年，叶在波兰、法国、瑞士和印度的演唱会计划被取消，场馆方分别以安全和法律问题为由。他原定今年夏天在英国担任某音乐节的压轴演出，但因被禁止入境，整场活动最终被取消。
Planned Ye concerts in Poland, France, Switzerland and India have been cancelled this year, with venues variously citing security and legal concerns. He was also slated to headline a festival in Britain this summer before the entire event was aborted after he was barred from entering the country.
今年1月，他在《华尔街日报》上刊登了一整页广告，明确向黑人和犹太人道歉，坦言此前未被诊断出的脑损伤，并详细介绍了他治疗双相情感障碍的情况。
In January, he took out a full-page in The Wall Street Journal, explicitly apologising to black and Jewish people, opening up about a previously undiagnosed brain injury and detailing his treatment for bipolar disorder.
赛夫拉表示，叶在印尼拥有庞大的粉丝群体，说唱音乐长期以来在印尼一直很受欢迎——“激发了本地音乐场景中嘻哈亚文化的成长”——但他仍认为叶在雅加达的演出安排带有投机色彩。
Saefullah said Ye had a strong fan base in Indonesia, where rap had long been popular in “inspiring the growth of the hip-hop subculture within the local music scene” – but he still saw opportunism in Ye’s Jakarta booking.
“关于他仅在雅加达演出，我认为这是纯粹出于商业考量的决定，”他说。“Raw Vision Collective 抓住了叶及其团队所面临的处境，其他地方的巡演日期被取消。”Tjahja 表示，主办方理解“围绕叶过去公开言论的担忧”，但“处于无法评论艺术家个人观点或意识形态的位置”。本周亚洲已向叶的管理团队寻求置评。
“Regarding him performing only in Jakarta, I see it as a purely business-driven decision,” he said. “Raw Vision Collective capitalised on the situation Ye and his team were facing, with tour dates being cancelled elsewhere.”Tjahja said the promoter understood “the concerns surrounding Ye’s past public statements” but was “not in a position to comment on an artist’s personal views or ideology”. This Week in Asia has asked Ye’s management for comment.
雅尼大学国际关系讲师约汉斯·苏莱曼表示，考虑到印度尼西亚与以色列关系紧张且两国没有正式外交关系，叶过去的言论在印尼不太可能成为主要问题。
Yohanes Sulaiman, a lecturer in international relations at Jenderal Achmad Yani University, said Ye’s past remarks were unlikely to be much of an issue in Indonesia, given its tense relationship with Israel, with which it has no formal diplomatic ties.
他补充说，多年来，一些印度尼西亚公众人物曾发表反犹太主义言论却未受到任何后果。
A number of Indonesian public figures had made antisemitic remarks over the years without consequence, he added.
“在印度尼西亚，他很可能会拥有许多支持者，”苏特雷斯纳说。“除非他突然转向另一方向，比如支持[以色列总理本雅明]内塔尼亚胡……那将是另一回事。”
“In Indonesia, he will probably have a lot of cheerleaders,” Sutresna said. “Unless he suddenly swings in another direction, like supporting [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu … That would be a different story.”