Ridwan

Ridwan is a Jakarta DJ and producer and a founder of Dekadenz, the underground crew and club night he started with Jonathan Kusuma and Aditya Permana. Over more than ten years it has become one of the constants of the city's alternative nightlife — a platform for darker, exploratory electronic music and the long-form sets that suit it.

The music around Dekadenz is deliberately open-ended. Drawing from alternative club histories and psychedelic electronic traditions, its programming lets sets move slowly and freely across tempos and textures without settling into fixed formulas — a curatorial language that links Jakarta's local context with international artists working beyond straightforward club conventions. The crew's label arm, Dekadenz Records, was conceived as documentation rather than promotion; its Themes For Divided Tribes compilation series highlights Indonesian artists exploring industrial pressure, fractured rhythms and outsider approaches to rhythm and structure.