By day, Yacko Oktaviana teaches business to students in Jakarta, the capital. In the evening, it’s just Yacko who arrives and she educates through rap. Committed against patriarchal culture, sexual harassment and for gender equality, this 44-year-old artist, tattooed, unveiled, single mother, divorced is one of the few female MCs in Indonesia. Portrait.
Rare female MC from Indonesia – and the only one to have released 3 albums, Yacko has occupied the underground scene of Jakarta, the dynamic and sprawling capital of the archipelago, located on the island of Java, for more than 20 years. A longevity that has sculpted a calibrated flow for its rap, tinged with dubstep and drum & bass and whose lyrics have one and the same ambition: to give more power to women.
Committed against patriarchal culture, sexual harassment and for gender equality, this 44-year-old artist, tattooed, unveiled, single mother, divorced, is shaking up conventions in a country, the first Muslim country in the world, where women are often relegated to the background.
In Marseille, a few hours before his concert at Babel Music Xp next to Tuan Tigabelas, young shoot of Indonesian hip hop, it is therefore the emblem of a whole generation that I met. A real hip hop girl, with a youthful look with her long brown hair wearing a hat, a fan of rap as much as of graffiti and sneakers, a woman of convictions well in her baggy!
Journalist: Hortense Volle
Directed by: Benjamin Sarralié
French translation and voice by Yacko: Melo Linhart
3D mixing in Dolby ATMOS for immersive listening with headphones: Jérémie Besset
FMM production unit manager – RFI Labo: Xavier Gibert
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Titles broadcast:
Singles: Women King (2023); High (2021) feat. Random and Tuan Tigabelas; Tell Your Story (2020); hands off (2020); Thang (2016); So What (2005).
Excerpts from the album The Experiment (Sparkle-2014): Filthy Rich ft. Lawrence Philip; heartbreaker ft. Male & Raben RVMIT; Sound of Revolution ft. HERUWA; Drop The Beat Down ; Ink&Paint ft. Random.
Excerpts from the album MenDua (RizkyRekordz -2008): Livetro; Bronies; Mendua; Here I Come; Satu Cinta; Supergurl feat. Taya, Sarah & Sachan.