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Indonesian pop star bitten by king cobra while performing, dies on stage


Indonesian pop star Irma Bule, who routinely danced with snakes and used them as part of her performance, was fatally bitten by a king cobra after stepping on it while singing her second song.

The 29-year-old was performing at a village in Karawang, West Java, on Sunday night when the incident occurred, according to the Mirror, Coconuts Jakarta and other media outlets.

The king cobra, known as Rianti, bit the singer on the thigh, injecting venom into her bloodstream. But the singer refused an antidote from the snake handler and continued to sing, seemingly unaffected according to witnesses.

“The effects were felt 45 minutes after the bite,” witness Ferlando Octavion Auzura told Merdeka, according to Coconuts Jakarta. “She vomited, had seizures, and her body seized.”

Bule was taken to a nearby hospital where she was confirmed to have died.

Those who perform the musical genre of dangdut, which Bule did, often use gimmicks or props in their acts to stand out from the rest. Bule’s gimmick was using snakes such as pythons and boa constrictors. She would dance with them and carry them around through the crowd.

This time, the show’s organizers provided a king cobra for her to hold, Bule’s mother, Encum, told the Indonesian news site Si Momot, according to the Daily Mail.

“My daughter might not have known that the snake that was given to her for the show was a dangerous cobra,” Encum said. “She was told she could wear it, even though its mouth was not closed with duct tape.”

In previous shows, even the nonvenomous pythons and boa constrictors had their mouths taped for safety concerns.

Lydia Apririasari, from the Tulala Snake Research Center, told Rappler that dancing with snakes is very common in Indonesia, especially in villages.

Encum said that Bule had been using snakes as part of her singing act for the past three years. “They were her trademark,” she said.

Bule was married with three young children


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"But the singer refused an antidote from the snake handler and continued to sing, seemingly unaffected according to witnesses."

 

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They are usually paid a pittance. According to Irma’s fellow singer, Yeyen, girls get paid around $20 per performance (tips from the audience are extra). But, if they perform on stage with a snake, they get $25. “If there are snake dancers, there will be more audience,” Yeyen told local media. “Therefore … we have snake dancers.”

In an interview with news website Detik.com, Irma’s mother Encum said her daughter, whose real name is Irmawati but whom her family called Eneng, started performing with snakes three years ago — but she usually sang with nonvenomous pythons that belonged to a snake handler and with the snakes’ mouths duct-taped shut. “Eneng perhaps didn’t know it was a poisonous snake,” Encum said about the animal used last Sunday. “She was just told to perform with the snake and its mouth wasn’t shut with a duct tape.”

The Real Story Behind the Indonesian Singer and the Cobra

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Here’s the Real Story Behind the Indonesian Singer Irma Bule, Who Died From a Cobra Bite

Across rural Indonesia, young female singers, driven by poverty, compete for larger audiences with dangerous — even deadly — props
The bizarre death of a singer in Indonesia became international headlines in recent days. Irma Bule lost her life on Sunday after being bitten by a venomous king cobra she brought on stage as a prop at a village in West Java. The news sparked a wave of sensationalist headlines: “Shocking! Singer Irma Bule dies after being bit by venomous cobra on stage! (Watch video)” read one. “Tragic singer bitten by cobra on stage keeps singing for 45 MINUTES before collapsing and dying” read another.

However, few stories looked beyond the lurid confluence of pop music, poison and a young woman’s death to understand why Irma was on stage with such a dangerous animal in the first place.

Irma, 26, was not a nationally famous singer. A mother of three, she was known in the Karawang area of West Java province for her goyang ular, Indonesian for “snake dance moves.” She started singing dangdut since she graduated from junior high school.

Dangdut is a popular music genre in Indonesia, and often used to attract crowds, especially during election campaigns. Many new singers are young women who come from small towns or poor backgrounds, or both. Like Irma, they tour rural and urban backwaters to earn a living, usually to help support their families, while dreaming of a breakthrough in Indonesia’s pop music scene.

They are usually paid a pittance. According to Irma’s fellow singer, Yeyen, girls get paid around $20 per performance (tips from the audience are extra). But, if they perform on stage with a snake, they get $25. “If there are snake dancers, there will be more audience,” Yeyen told local media. “Therefore … we have snake dancers.”

The young singers have to find a way to entice bigger audiences in the highly competitive market. They are usually dressed in skimpy costumes. They invent provocative dance moves. Dangdut superstar Inul Daratista, whose suggestive, gyrating dance movements have irked religious conservatives, began her career touring small towns and villages in East Java province before videos of her style of dancing propelled her to fame and caught the eyes of television executives.

In an interview with news website Detik.com, Irma’s mother Encum said her daughter, whose real name is Irmawati but whom her family called Eneng, started performing with snakes three years ago — but she usually sang with nonvenomous pythons that belonged to a snake handler and with the snakes’ mouths duct-taped shut. “Eneng perhaps didn’t know it was a poisonous snake,” Encum said about the animal used last Sunday. “She was just told to perform with the snake and its mouth wasn’t shut with a duct tape.”

There was also a speculation that Irma brought snakes to prevent unwanted touching from audience members when she was on stage, saysIndonesian journalist Made Supriatma, who has researched dangdutmusic, in a Facebook post.

But beyond the bizarre, sensational story, there is something sad and sobering about Irma’s tale. “Irma is a portrait of an Indonesian woman who happens to be at the lower level of society,” Supriatma writes. “She fights hard. She exploits what she can exploit to go on living.” She certainly doesn’t deserve to die amid a storm of lurid, tabloid headlines.