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JAKARTA – The latest song taking Indonesia’s internet by storm was not written by a recording artist, nor is it about a celebrity. It is an AI-generated earworm about Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia, a politician associated more with fuel subsidies and cooking gas than viral hits. Since mid-May, Mas Bahlil Ganteng – Indonesian for “Handsome Brother Bahlil” – has spread rapidly across TikTok, Instagram and WhatsApp groups, spawning dance videos, cartoon animations and countless remixes. One of them, by Instagram user @fikriferdians, has been viewed more than 30 million times since it was uploaded on May 23. Users have produced…
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