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Maluku pop is contemporary popular music rooted in the culture and diaspora of the Maluku (Moluccan) Islands of eastern Indonesia. It blends Indonesian and Ambonese Malay lyricism with mainstream pop, R&B, reggae/island grooves, and Dutch urban-pop sensibilities developed in the Moluccan diaspora in the Netherlands. Typical features include warm vocal harmonies, wistful melodies about home, love, and longing (rindu), and rhythmic touches inspired by local percussion such as tifa and totobuang patterns. In the 2000s–2020s, Maluku pop also absorbed Afrobeats, dancehall, and tropical-house textures, producing a sleek, danceable sound that travels fluently between Indonesia and Dutch scenes.