It is no secret that millions of their passionate fans are ready to celebrate the special anniversary of the punk rock band Superman Is Dead. This year, Bobby Kool, Eka Rock, and Jerinx who is better known as S.I.D will celebrate their twentieth anniversary as a rock band hailing from Kuta, Bali. But certainly, it will not be possible if we are just talking about party or their music, because somehow this band has transformed their entertainment role into political or civil rights activist to many cases in Indonesia or Bali in particular, from social norms, economic, environmental change, to defending their hometown. Various entertaining stories as well as their achievement as a punk rock group under the name of Superman Is Dead is certainly will be very interesting to read. But somehow in reality there is zero form of documentation about their career that are quite good and professionally organized, especially with the subject of Superman Is Dead’s career for the last twenty-years. Realizing that a biography or any type of documentation is an important aspect in the career of a band, few days ago a friend and former manager of the the Balinese punk rock band known as Rudolf Dethu took the initiative to create a biography book for their journey in the local music industry dubbed as “Rasis! Pengkhianat! Miskin Moral!” or simply translated to “Racist! Traitor! Poor Morals!”.
A variety of interesting stories are presented in this biography, but there will be three important points to be the main topics of this biography, which is racist, traitors, and their poor morals. These three points are summarized well, especially to describe the career of Superman Is Dead for the last twenty-years. Of which originated as a local band from Kuta, Bali into a punk rock band that is known throughout the country. This perhaps due to their controversial decision to join with a major record label in the mid-2000s era. Meanwhile, their poor moral issues also became the main subject for this book because they are often seen holding a bottle of beer or alcohol in a variety of events that they joined in. In addition to the main content, the unique narrative style of this biography is also something need to be mention. It is special and available with a mini-series type of writing. According to the writer, Rudolf Dethu, the book is unlike any biographies that are generally thick. He realized that most of the younger generation are now less familiar with thickness readings that are considered tiresome. Therefore he divided the story into several mini-series that might be appropriate or can accommodate the needs and abilities or its readers, the mighty fans of Superman Is Dead. Even so, this biography book of “Rasis! Pengkhianat! Miskin Moral!” is very interesting to observe. For more information about the biography book by Superman Is Dead, feel free to watch the full trailer below.