The Brass Band Jenderal (BBJ) is based at the Salvation Army's Medan II corps, which is in a complex of buildings that includes the William Booth Home for boys. Adelaide Congress Hall members got a big welcome when they arrived a few days before our big concert in July 2012.

After a concert in Medan on July 14, 2012, ACH and BBJ travelled to Parapat on the shore of Lake Toba where we held another joint concert. 

These pictures were taken at BBJ's 25th anniversary concert at the main ballroom of the Emerald Garden Hotel, Medan, on July 14, 2012.

This collection of photographs is about BBJ's tour of Nias in early July 2011. Nias is a mountainous island off the west coast of Sumatra. The people there are predominantly Christian and some BBJ members have relatives there. The theme of our visit was Tantangan Menguatkan Iman (A Challenge to Strengthen Faith). The idea was to encourage fellow Salvationists and other Christians by once again bringing our music to remote areas of Indonesia that foreign Christian musicians rarely visit.

This section documents BBJ's efforts to help the newly formed Salvation Army band in Bali, which consists of members of the Salvation Army boys home on the island. BBJ band trainer Imanta Karosekali went to Bali in October 2010 in response to a request from Bali Boys Home supporters in Adelaide, Australia, for a band trainer who could speak Indonesian.This band performed for the first time publicly at the Salvation Army Denpasar II corps (church) on November 21. All instruments were provided by the Adelaide-based Mission Bali Advisory Action Group led by Norman Blakey.

The 2004 concert marked an important milestone in BBJ's revival after the difficult years that followed the Asian Financial Crisis in 1998. Unfortunately, not many photographs of the concert have survived. The small collection here mostly document events the took place around the same time when my father and my 9-year-old son Peter visited the Boys Home.

The photographs in this section were professionally done at a studio in Medan.

These pictures document the Kuala Lumpur Salvation Army band's tour of Medan in April 1987 and my subsequent visit there to establish a brass band at the Salvation Army's William Booth Boys Home in May 1987.

Except for the group photograph (which was taken in late May 1987) these photographs date from late 1987 or early 1988, when the band had been functioning for several months.