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I remember the time when I confessed that I was falling love with JKT48 in Jakarta to my wife. It was probably in Nov. 2011, almost established. My wife responded to me “Why not AKB, Akihabara but JKT, Jakarta?”. Please don’t misunderstand that my wife does not like Jakarta and also Indonesia. For her eyes and mind, Ubud in Bali represents all Indonesia. We all visited that small village several time. I had to explain the detail defference between AKB and JKT to my wife. Such as JKT48 was energetic, ernest and pure than AKB, etc …My wife could not understand what I said to her. Even though about AKB, she hates it so much. She felt disgusted many AKB songs sung by her clients and colleagues at Karaoke room. She thought “they were so childish”. But finally she agrred my love with JKT. She said “Jakarta is OK, but if Akihabara not OK. Coz. it is capital city of Indonesia that we love”.
She also said “Recently you have so many topics about Indonesia on our table”. Yes, exactly she is right. After I started to love JKT48, I was changed to gather information reffering to Indonesia from newspaper(my house subsclibing an economical newspaper “Nikkei”), magazines and sure TV as many as possible.
I am running my own marketing and trading office. As you can see, several clients have been highly interested in the business in Indonesia (but I think, it’s too late). the rising country in ASEAN region. But there is totally different point. Loving JKT48 or don’t know its existance or not interested. About my wife, in those days, she can easilly introduce me to her friends as “My husband is JKT48 WOTA”. Thanks my wife. Ha Ha Ha:)

FYI, I am a Japanese, married, 3 kids (all girls), working and living in Tokyo.

Another feat achieved by JKT48. This time they won the Best Newcomer Award in Dahsyatnya Awards 2013. They able to surpass Cakra Khan, Davinci, Gamma1 and Latinka. For this feat, this AKB48 overseas sister group felt their own happiness although they admit that they felt a little bit pessimistic at first.

“We are all really happy, but honestly, we felt a little bit pessimistic at first. But then suddenly our name was called, very happy. This is our third award. We will try to be better in the future,” said Melody when we met them at Hall D JIEXPO Kemayoran, Jakarta, Monday (1/21) night.