Lagu "Rasa Sayange" Terbukti Milik Indonesia

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Menteri Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata (Menbudpar) Jero Wacik mengatakan pihaknya menemukan beberapa bukti yang menunjukkan lagu "Rasa Sayange" milik Indonesia yaitu pada rekaman milik Lokananta dalam bentuk piringan hitam.

"Ada lagu Rasa Sayange dalam piringan hitam yang direkam oleh Lokananta tersebut tahun 1958, kemudian dibagi pada 15 Agustus 1962 sebanyak 100 keping tertepatan saat pelaksanaan pesta olahraga Asian Games di Jakarta oleh Presiden Soekarno," kata Menbudpar dalam jumpa pers mengenai Lagu Rasa Sayange di kantor Depbudpar di Jakarta, Kamis.

Presiden Soekarno memberikan piringan hitam tersebut sebagai cenderamata kepada pimpinan kontingen tiap negara peserta Asian Games dimana lagu "Rasa Sayange" menjadi salah satu dari delapan lagu yang ada.

Piringan hitam yang merekam delapan lagu-lagu rakyat seperti Rasa Sayange, Caca Marica, Suwe Ora Jamu, Gelang Sipatu Gelang, dan Rayuan Pulau Kelapa, di antaranya Rasa Sayange dari Maluku tersebut masih terdokumentasi dengan baik di perusahaan rekaman milik negara, Lokananta Solo.

"Kalau ingin mempermasalahkan secara hukum mengenai kepemilikan, maka merekam merupakan salah satu bukti yang kuat," kata Jero Wacik yang dalam jumpa pers tersebut didampingi oleh musisi asal Maluku, Christ Pattikawa, Ketua PAPPRI (Persatuan Artis Penyanyi, Pencipta Lagu, dan Penata Musik Rekaman Indonesia) Dharma Oratmangun dan Sekretaris PAPPRI, James F Sundah serta Dirjen HAKI Depkumham Andy Noorsaman Sommeng.

Dia mengatakan pihaknya dibantu dengan dan musisi Indonesia lainnya sedang mencari bukti yang lain mengenai lagu Rasa Sayange melalui satu Yayasan dari Jepang, Minoru Endo Music Foundation (MEMF) yang pada 1997 mengkompilasi lagu pop dan lagu rakyat yang populer dari negara-negara di Asia.

Setelah mengkompilasi, Yayasan Minoru membukukan dua ribu lagu dalam buku "Evergreen Song 2.000" dan menyebarluaskan buku itu.

"Tapi karena ada pembatasan, maka tidak semua ditulis, hanya ada 19 lagu Indonesia yang ditulis partiturnya dan ada 50 lagu yang terdaftar di buku itu, dan lagu Rasa Sayange tidak terdapat dalam 50 lagu itu," kata Jero Wacik.

Dia mengatakan saat ini pihaknya tengah mencari informasi apakah dari 2000 lagu yang dikompilasi oleh Yayasan Minoru terdapat lagu Rasa Sayange.

Menbudpar mengatakan dirinya juga telah berbicara dengan Gubernur Maluku, Albert Ralahalu dan telah meminta kepada gubernur Maluku untuk mencari informasi dan bukti seputar lagu Rasa Sayange tersebut.

Dari Gubernur Maluku itu muncul informasi telah ditemukan pencipta lagu Rasa Sayange bernama Paulus Pea.

Sementara itu musisi Christ Patikawa mengatakan banyak informasi yang mengatakan lagu Rasa Sayange diperkenalkan di Malaysia dari misi-misi kebudayaan Indonesia kesana.

"Saya menduga lagu Rasa Sayange lebih dikenalkan pada masyarakat Malaysia oleh Syaiful Bachri, konduktor Orkestra Simpony Jakarta (RRI) yang hijrah ke Malaysia tahun 1960an dengan membawa seluruh partitur lagu-lagu milik Orkestra Symphony Jakarta, diantaranya terdapat lagu Rasa Sayange," kata Christ.(*)

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) —Authorities investigating the twin hotel bombings in Jakarta have found the remains of another person and think a notorious Malaysian-born militant fugitive may be behind the assault, police said Saturday.

The Friday bombings of the luxury J.W. Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels killed at least nine people — including at least two presumed suicide bombers — and wounded more than 50 others.

Indonesian police recovered a laptop that they believe belonged to one of the bombers, the country’s official news agency said Sunday.

The laptop, found in a room at the Ritz Carlton, contained information and codes that the attackers may have used to communicate with each other, the state-run Antara News Agency said.

Anti-terrorism officials are investigating the links between the attacks and Noordin M. Top, the suspected leader of a small Jemaah Islamiyah splinter group. The group has ties to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda terrorist network, but so far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Top is reportedly an officer, recruiter, bombmaker, and trainer for Jemaah Islamiyah, which was involved in a previous attack on the Marriott — in August 2003 — as well as attacks on a Bali nightclub in 2003 and the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in 2004, according to the FBI.

Tom Fuentes, a CNN contributor and a former FBI assistant director, said law enforcement sources in Jakarta believe the unexploded bomb found at the Marriott is similar to explosives uncovered in the raid in West Java, a lead that helped police make a link between Top and the attack.

Indonesia’s National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso has said the type of explosives found were similar to those found in a recent raid on a home in West Java that was linked to Top.

He said the unexploded bomb was discovered on the 18th floor, where several suspects believed to be linked to the bombings were staying.

“We cannot clearly determine at this time if these bombings are linked to Noordin Top’s network. We have only established similarities in the explosive cache that were found in the island of Java and the Bali bombings,” police said.

Indonesian authorities have detained witnesses and others for questioning, and have sent forensic evidence for testing, a spokesman for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.

The White House said that U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in a telephone call on Saturday with Yudhoyono.

Obama expressed “support for and solidarity with his government and the people of Indonesia” and offered U.S. government backing for the “ongoing Indonesian investigation.” He also lauded Yudhoyono for his re-election earlier this month.

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“The president noted that Indonesia’s successful election on July 8 reminds the world that Islam, democracy, and diversity can coexist and thrive,” the White House said.

Fuentes said the FBI, which has an office in Indonesia, has offered assistance to investigators and it is likely the Indonesians will accept help enhancing security camera videos at the hotels.

Closed-circuit television footage from the Marriott shows a man, wearing a baseball cap and pulling a wheeled suitcase, heading toward the Marriott hotel’s lobby-level restaurant seconds before the deadly blast.

Meanwhile, the remains of another person in the Jakarta hotel attacks, bringing the death toll to nine people, police said on Saturday.

After the bombings on Friday, police found at least two headless corpses thought to be suicide attackers and at least six slain attack victims.

Authorities on Saturday concluded another person died because they found a severed head that matches neither of the headless corpses. It is not known if that person was a hotel guest or one of the attackers.

Police also said one of the headless corpses is a female.

Four of the six attack victims were foreigners, according to the Health Ministry. The ministry identified two of the dead as Australian, one from New Zealand and one from Singapore. Another victim was Indonesian and the sixth remained unidentified.

Among the wounded were six U.S. nationals, according to the U.S. State Department.

Five of the victims and one of the presumed suicide bombers were killed at the Marriott, according to police spokesman Inspector General Nanan Soekarna. Minutes later, another suicide bomber struck the Ritz-Carlton, killing one person and another bomber.

The bombings at the two luxury hotels — which are connected by an underground tunnel — happened shortly before 8 a.m. (9 p.m. Thursday ET).

Both blasts struck the hotels’ restaurants and several prominent international business leaders were among the casualties. The hotels are frequented by international visitors and many foreign nationals.

It is unclear how they got around the security at the hotels, according to Alan Orlob, security chief for Marriott Hotels. Ritz-Carlton is a subsidiary of Marriott.