The term is known campursari early 1970s, when the station RRI Surabaya introduce a new event, the songs are accompanied by musical instruments blend tone pentatonic scale (traditional Indonesian) and the tone of the diatonic scale (West).
But in fact, a blend of traditional Indonesian music with Western music is not something new. Long before there campursari, many world-class musicians who've done it, among others Claude Achille Debussy...
