Indonesian Idol

*Indonesian Idol*
Indonesian Idol
Created by	Simon Fuller
Starring	Amelia Natasha; Irgi Ahmad Fahrezi; (2004~2005); Daniel Mananta; Indra Lesmana; Titi DJ; Meuthia Kasim; (2004 & 2005); Indy Barends; (2006); Dimas Djayadiningrat; (2004 ~ 2006); Anang Hermansyah; Jamy Aditya; Tika Pangabean; (Guest Judge)
Country of origin	Indonesia
Production
Executive producers	Aurora Maris;
Running time	Varies
Original release
Network	RCTI
Release	2004 –; Present's Renewed Through 2008

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Indonesian Idol is an Indonesian television show. It is shown on RCTI. It is part of the Idol series, originated as the UK show Pop Idol, a singing talent contest to determine the best "undiscovered" young singer in the country. In recent years it has become one of the most highly publicized music competitions in Indonesia. After Indonesian Idol 's appearance, many new reality shows have been airing.

Indonesian Idol is produced by FremantleMedia Asia. The same company that produced Singapore Idol, Malaysian Idol, and Philippine Idol. Indonesian Idol won a 2005 & 2006 Panasonic Awards for The Best Music Variety Show and defeated AFI, and Kontes Dangdut TPI, which were in the same nomination

Background

Indonesian Idol won a 2005 and 2006 Panasonic Awards for the Best Music Variety Show. It also defeated its rival, Akademi Fantasi Indosiar or we may usually say AFI. Indonesian Idol also was given an award by the Singapore Tourism Board when the Top 11 of Indonesian Idol Season 1 were at Singapore for the opening act of American Idol World Tour.

Overview

Early Auditions

The show is hosted by Amelia Natasha aka.Ata and Irgi Ahmad Fahrezi aka.Irgi. Later, Irgi was replaced by Daniel Mananta due to his high fame in MTV. In the show, hopeful contestants are screened by preliminary panels to be selected for singing talent or humorous potential and human interest. Those who pass the prelims are potentially aired on the show. There were 32,000 people that auditioned the first season of Indonesian Idol. 37,000 people in the second season. 48,000 people in the third season. and 90,000 people in the fourth season. Contestants must be Indonesian citizens and, for the first season, had to be 18 to 24 years old. For the Second and Third season, the contestants had to be 16 to 28. As a result there were many teenagers and High School Students that made it to the Final 12 such as Monita and Vira from second season and also Tesa, Brinet, Christy, Gea,and Dirly from third season. Though Karen from first season were voted to be the finalist before the rule used.

Auditioning contestants must bring with them to auditions a valid proof of age (and citizenship) such as a birth certificate and a driver's license or a birth certificate and a passport, along with the registration form from the official website or from magazines and newspaper. Those who are ineligible are: those who have current talent representation or a recording contract(but may have had one at some point in the past); have made it to a top 11 on Season 1, top 12 on Season 2 and 3. Contestants that made it to the top 30 on Season 1, top 24 on Season 2, and top 28 on Season 3 may participate at the next seasons. As a result many contestants from the Season 1 participated on Season 2 and 3. For example, Yara from the second Season's top 24 made it to the top 28 at the third Season.

Place audition cities have included; Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Medan, Makasar, and Surabaya. On Season 3, small auditions took place at Manado and Ambon. The contestants from Manado and Ambon that made to the second round of audition were brought to Surabaya for the second round of audition. There were 2 Rounds of Auditions. The auditions usually take place in large convention hall where thousands of people wait in line for audition. The first round judges were the Sony BMG people. If the contestants are illegible, they would go to the next round of audition and face the Main Judges. The main Judges are Indra Lesmana (Indonesia's Jazz Star), Titi DJ (Indonesia's Pop Diva), Meuthia Kasim (1st and 2nd season, Indonesia's famous Radio Announcer), Indy Barends (3rd Season, Indonesia's Best Television Host), and Dimas Djayadiningrat (Indonesia's Music Video Director). Contestants are required to sing a cappella. Poor singers often face intense and humbling criticism from the judges. Typically the judges express disgust or dismay or suppressed laughter. Those who impress the majority of the judges, move on to the Elimination Round which take place in Jakarta. Usually only 150 to 170 contestants who got through to the elimination round in Jakarta.

On to Jakarta

There are 3 Elimination Rounds. In the first elimination round, 170 contestants from around Indonesia were separated in 17 groups of 10 contestants. In the 2nd elimination round, male and female contestants were paired and sang duet. In the last elimination round the remaining contestants sang his/her choice of song alone, in front of the judges. Finally, twenty eight contestants were then chosen for the workshop stage. At previous Seasons, thirty contestants were chosen to the Workshop Stage on the first Season, and twenty four contestants on the second Season. On the first season, 30 contestants were separated in groups of 10.And every week, 3 contestants from each group were chosen to the Top 10 or we may say The Spectacular Show. Television audiences could vote their favorites by SMS and Premium Calls. After 9 contestants were chosen, there were wild card round.10 contestants who were unlucky at the workshop were brought back at the Wild Card round. Only 1 contestant from the Wild Card round that will join the 9 contestants at the Spectacular Show and picked by the judges. However, the judges picked Karen Theresia Pooroe. However, the judges picked another contestant which was Lucky Octavian.At the second season, there were no Wild Card round. 24 contestants were separates in groups of 8. Every week, 4 contestants were picked to move on to the Top 12. At the third season, The workshop stage comprised of three rounds each for male and female contestants. There were 28 contestants that made it to the Workshop stage on the third season. In the first week, eight contestants (four males and four females) were sent home. Six contestants (three males and three females) were sent home in the second week, and the final workshop eliminated four more contestants (two males and two females). Before the spectacular round, pre-gala and wild card show was held. Four of the eliminated contestants were chosen by the judges and two of them, one male and one female, were given a place in the Spectacular Show based on voting result.

Spectacular Show

In the Spectacular Show, which lasts eleven weeks, each finalist performs a song live in prime time from a weekly theme (two songs in Top 5 and Top 4. And 3 Songs in Top 3 and Grand Final) at Balai Sarbini Concert Hall in Jakarta in front of a live studio audience. Unlike American Idol, Indonesian Idol's Result Show is 1 Hour after the Spectacular Show. For the Grand Final, the Result Show is 7 days after the Grand Final. In the Result Show, 3 Finalists that have the fewest vote will be in the bottom three. And each week, the finalist with the fewest vote will be sent home. The bottom three vote-getters are separated from the remaining contestants. Over the course of the episode, two are revealed as being "safe" for the week, and the loser is sent home after performing one final song to end the episode. This process is repeated each week until the one remaining contestant is declared the winner. Indonesian Idol 's famous sentence for the result is Indonesia Memilih! (Indonesia has chosen!) along with a 1 minute pause and at last, the result. For the Grand Finasl the stage is moved to the Plenary Hall of Jakarta Convention Center/Istora Senayan Jakarta for the finale showdown, where the two remaining Finalists perform for an audience of at least 7000. Every season, the two remaining finalists in the Grand Final would sing a new single for the Winner's Record. The song will be owned by the winner. On the first season, the Winner Song was Karena Cinta (Because of Love).And on the Second Season, the Winner Song was Semua Untuk Cinta (All For Love). The winner's single for the 3rd Season is Kemenangan Hati (Winning of Heart).

Season Synopsis

Season 1

Indonesian Idol

Indonesian Idol Finalists (with dates of elimination)
Season 1 (2004)

Joy	Winner
Delon	September 4
Nania	August 21
Helena	August 14
Michael	August 7
Lucky	July 31
Bona	July 24
Karen	July 17
Winda	July 10
Suci	July 17
Adika	July 17
Season 2 (2005)
Mike	Winner
Judika	August 13
Firman	July 29
Monita	July 23
Harry	July 16
Maya	July 9
Glenn	July 2
Yudi	June 24
Vira	June 18
Wisnu	June 11
Ronald	June 4
Danar	May 28
Season 3 (2006)
Ihsan	Winner
Dirly	August 19
Gea	August 4
Nobo	July 28
Maria	July 21
Ilham	July 14
Christy	July 7
Sisi	June 30
Brinet	June 23
Tesa	June 16
Lee	June 9
Depe	June 2
Season 4 (2007)
Rini	Winner
Wilson	July 28
Gaby	July 13
Sarah	July 6
Fandy	June 29
Dimas	June 22
Julian	June 15
Priska	June 8
Steve	June 1
Marsya	May 25
Gana	May 18
Risma	May 11

The show started in 2004 and auditions were held at five cities: Medan, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Surabaya and Jakarta. There were 32.000 people that auditioned Season 1. The show grew into a phenomenon ending with a finale viewed by an estimated 4 million viewers in September 2004. There were several funny audition losers that were selected for the Coba Lagi Awards (Try Again Awards) and came to the Wild Card as the guest star. Season 1 finalists was planned only 10, but in the Wildcard round the judges picked another contestants which is Lucky Octavian. Indonesian Idol released its first compilation album,{{Infobox Album | Indonesian Idol: Indonesian All Time Hits. The album made a huge success and had a Gold Platinum status. In the album, the Top 11 sang their first hit, Ekspresi.Guy Sebastian that was in Indonesia for his album promo tour, came as a guest star at the Top 7 Spectacular Show. The two finalists that battled at the Grand Finale were Joy Destiny Tobing and Delon Thamrin. With a stable live audience of 1,000 and grand final audience of 7,000 the Grand Finale was held at Istora Senayan, Jakarta and was attended by then soon to be |Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The winner was Joy Destiny Tobing from Jakarta. She signed with BMG Indonesia the label in partnership with Indonesian Idol's 19 Management. Immediately post-finale, Joy released her first album, Terima Kasih (Thank You)and her new single, most notably the coronation song Karena Cinta. After the complication of her album, along with the other 10 finalists, had a tour around Indonesia. The cities that participated on the tour were Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, and Medan.Indonesian Idol's Top 11, had been given an opportunity as an opening act at American Idol tour in Singapore. A few weeks after the tour, Joy's contract with the show's producer, FremantleMedia was terminated after problems regarding terms of her contract. As a result, runner-up Delon Thamrin was more heavily promoted by Fremantle afterwards. In this season, Addry Danuatmadja was announced as the Demam Indonesian Idol (Indonesian Idols Fever) hosts.

After leaving Indonesian Idol, Joy made her first international album called Rise. Rumors said that Joy had been planning for resigning from Indonesian Idol since the audition for her fame. Delon was starring at his first film, Vina Bilang Cinta with Indonesia's famous actress Rachel Maryam.The film made a big success at Indonesia's Film Industry. Later, Delon starred many commercial such as Panin Bank along with Season 2 winner Mike, and Monita. After Joy, Helena resigned from Indonesian Idol and made her first solo album called Keajaiban Cinta. The album made a huge success at the market, and had a Gold Platinum status.Winda also has been starring at a local sitcom called OB Office Boy. Nania who were at the 3th position, featured in Indra Lesmana's album and sang Sedalam Cintamu (As Deep as Your Love) with Indra Lesmana. Nania is planning to release an album. Her album will be release fall 2006 after her mysterious marriage. Nania, who was engaged to an Indonesian Band Vocalist, which also first season semi-finalist, Samuel suddenly broke up and married with an infamous man. Delon's first album was released on October 2004. With the hits single Bahagiaku. His album also made a huge success. However he also featured Indonesian Famous Singer, Andre Hehanusa in his single Aku Masih Cinta ( I still Love You ). Delon's Christmas album, also his second album was releases on December 2005. Delon also was nominated as the Best New Singer in Anugrah Planet Muzik 2005. He also won a 2005 SCTVAward as The Best New Artist. Michael Jakarimilena (5th) starred a movie about a papuan boy, he starred as one of the villagers in the movie. He was chosen to star it because of his papuan background. The movie was released in Indonesia in fall 2006. Adika Priatama has been working for RCTI as an anchor. In the second season of Indonesian Idol, Suci Wulandari hosted a show on RCTI along with Junot Ali called Indonesian Idol Extra.

Here the list of the semi-finalists on the first season. The 19 semi-finalists were:

From 1st Group Workshop

Aldi
Raymon A.
Imayuri

"Vision of Love" (Mariah Carey)

From 2nd Group Workshop

Nasir Arafah
Fidri
Restu

"Sahabat Setia" (Andien)

Mutia Safitri

"Unbreak My Heart" (Toni Braxton)

Denny Zethi

From 3rd Group Workshop

Hendra Samuel Simorangkir
Rotua Dewi Guna Nababan
Rusliwardy Yasmin
Della Setia Kusumawati B.
Dimas Rakhmansyah

From The Wild Card Workshop

Hendra Reymon was originally eliminated on the 2nd group workshop, but picked back for being the wildcard's contestant

"Aku Cinta Kau dan Dia" (Ahmad Dhani)

Haryadi Indra Mantong was originally eliminated on the 1st group workshop, but picked back for being the wildcard's contestant

"Aku Ingin" (Indra Lesmana)

Chusnul Anisa
Rudyni Febri Inggraini
Imelda
Tiara Degrasia

And here the list of the top 11:

in reverse order of elimination

Joy Destiny Tiurma Tobing(THE WINNER)
Stanislaus Alexander Liauw Dalon Thamrin
Nania Kurniawati Yusuf
Helena Andrian
Michael Herman Jakarimilena
Lucky Octavian
Bona Sardo Hasoloan Hutahaean
Karen Theresia Pooroe
Winda Viska Ria
Suci Wulandari
Adika Priatama

Bottom three statistics

Date	Bottom Three
July 03	Adika Priatama	Suci Wulandari	Karen Theresia Pooroe
July 10	Winda Viska Ria	Karen Theresia Pooroe (2)	Joy Destiny Tobing
July 17	Karen Theresia Pooroe (3)	Lucky Octavian	Helena Andrian
July 24	Bona Sardo	Michael Jakarimilena	Helena Andrian (2)
July 31	Lucky Octavian (2)	Helena Andrian (3)	Michael Jakarimilena (2)
Date	bottom two
August 07	Michael Jakarimilena (3)	Delon Thamrin
August 14	Helena Andrian (4)	Delon Thamrin (2)
August 21	Nania Kurniawati Yusuf
September 04	Delon Thamrin (3)	Joy Destiny Tobing

Season 2

The second season started on 25 March 2005. Auditions were held earlier from 15 February-17 March at five cities: Makassar, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Surabaya and Jakarta. The audition for Medan was replaced to Makassar due to the Tsunami that destroyed Aceh and some part of North SumatraThere were 38,000 people around Indonesia that auditioned the second season of Indonesian Idol. It's increased from the first season's 32,000 people that auditioned. In Season 2, the Workshop round is different with Season 1's.Because there were no Wildcard round. The amount of Females and Males in the second season weren't the same. The Males are more than the Females. There were 8 Males, and 3 Females that made it to the Top 12.Because in Season 2 the age limit grew from 18 to 16, many teenagers made it to the Top 12 such as Monita.Indonesian Idol Season 2 Compilation was released 3 weeks after the Spectacular Show had begun. The title of the album was Seri Cinta or Love Songs. The album single hits was Cintaku, sang by the Season 2's Top 12.The two finalists that battled in the Grand Final round were Mike and Judika.The Grand Final was held at the Pleanary Hall of Jakarta Convention Center. The winner for season 2 is Mike. In the Result Show, there were many Guest Star especially Christian Bautista a famous male singer from Philippine. Ruth Sahanaya, Indonesia's Pop Diva made a surprise appearance for Mike and Judika when they sang her song, Tak Kuduga. Season 1's finalists came to the Result Show and sang with season 2's finalists.Mike won a car from RCTI and FremantleMedia and signed with SonyBMG for his album.

The vote percentage difference between Judika and Mike was only 0.6%. Before the Final Result Show, Judika led the vote. But, finally Mike led the vote and won. Mike signed with BMG Indonesia the label in partnership with Indonesian Idol's 19 Management. Immediately post-finale, he released his self-titled album with his new single, Semua Untuk Cinta (All For Love). Mike's album made a huge success at the market. Many great Indonesian musician made some songs for Mike first album, including, Cinta Tak Bertuan created by Indonesia's Most Favorite Male Singer, Glenn Fredly. Runner up Judika is making his first solo album. His album will be released on August 2006. The top 12 had a tour to Surabaya. The tour was planned to Medan, Bandung, Yogyakarta], and Makassar, but the Fremantle stopped the tour without any reasonable reason. Wisnu is working for RCTI as an anchor.

The format changed slightly in Season 2; instead of three groups of 10, the semi-finalists were grouped into three groups of 8. No wildcard's workshop on this season.

The 12 semi-finalists (decreased from 19 in Season 1) were:

From the 1st Group Workshop

Star Queen Victorious
- Audition City: Bandung

"Arti Hadirmu" (Audy)

Hendra "Pungky" Purnanto
- Audition City: Jakarta

"Mendendam" (Marcell)

Tiara Soemawilaga
- Audition City: Jakarta
Gamila Mustika singing (Vina Panduwinata)'s song.
- Audition City: Jakarta

From the 2nd Group Workshop

Kiki

"Kiss Me" (Sixpence None the Richer)

Andri

"This Love" (Maroon 5)

Nikita

"How Do I Live" (Shania Twain)

Amelia

"Bilang Saja" (Agnes Monica)

From the 3rd Group Workshop

Jamil Ichsan

"Cintaku" (Chrisye)

Retno "Eno" Mayang Sari

"Mengertilah Kasih" (Ruth Sahanaya)

Alfattah

"Melompat Lebih Tinggi" (Sheila on 7)

Shinta "Tata" Dewi

"Keabadian" (Titi DJ)

And here the list of the top 12 finalist:

in reverse order of elimination

Mike Prabawa Mohede
- Audition City: Jakarta
Judika Nalon Abadi Sihotang
Firman Siagian
- Audition City: Bandung
Monita Angelica Maharani Tahalea
Haryadi Indra Mantong
Silvia Damayanti
- Audition City: Jakarta
Glenn Johanes Waas
Yudhistira Priyanto Manupassa
Elvira Ivana Puspitasari
Wisnu Yoga Prabowo
- Audition City: Bandung
Ronald Silitonga
Karolus Danar Kurniawan

Bottom three statistics

Date	Bottom Three
May 28	Danar Kurniawan	Vira Puspitasari	Yudi Manupassa
June 04	Ronald Silitonga	Glen Johanes Waas	Maya
June 11	Wisnu Yoga Prabowo	Yudi Manupassa (2)	Harry Indra Mantong
June 18	Vira Puspiasari (2)	Maya (2)	Glen Johanes Waas (2)
June 24	Yudi Manupassa (3)	Harry Indra Mantong (2)	Glen Johanes Waas (3)
July 02	Glen Johanes Waas (4)	Maya (3)	Monita Tahalea
July 09	Maya (4)	Firman Siagian	Harry Indra Mantong (3)
July 16	Harry Indra Mantong (4)	Monita Tahalea (2)	Mike Mohede
Date	bottom two
July 23	Monita Tahalea (3)	Mike Mohede (2)
July 30	Firman Siagian (2)
July 13	Judika Sihotang	Mike Mohede

Season 3

The third season of Indonesian Idol was launched on April 21, 2006. The auditions were held Indonesia's major cities such as Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Medan. This season, Indonesian Idols conducted small auditions in minor cities such as Manado and Ambon. The contestants who went through the initial round in both Manado and Ambon were eventually brought into an elimination round in Surabaya. After an additional elimination round, the final group of contestants were finally brought into Jakarta to determine the final twelve contestants that made it onto the Indonesian Idols Spectacular Show.

As with previous Indonesian Idol seasons, the spectacular show has been holding in Balai Sarbini (Sarbini Building) located in South of Jakarta. The Third Season's finalists were considered better than the previous seasons. However, there were still many unexpected eliminations going on at the Spectacular Show. Depe, who was a huge favorite to be at the Grand Final, was unfortunately landed on the bottom three along with Gea and Nobo after the first Spectacular Show. He was eventually the first Idol to be eliminated by fans votes. Indra Lesmana said that Depe was too soon to be eliminated. After this elimination, Gea and Nobo were always saved until they were eventually voted out. The other unexpected elimination was Sisi, who was a huge favorite amongst judges to be the Season 3 winner, got eliminated on the fifth Spectacular Show.

After Sisi and Depe, other finalists were eventually eliminated such as Lee, Brinet, Tesa, Maria, Christy, Nobo and Ilham. The Final Three consisted of Gea, Dirly, and Ihsan. There were unconfirmed rumors arise that the Top 3 singers made it to the top because of their looks and that their voices were not as good as the other finalists who were eliminated. The third season's theme this year is a compilation album called, Tribute to Tonny Koeswoyo. Tonny, one of the founding members of Koes Plus a legendary Indonesian Rock Band, died in 1987. Before his timely death, he and his brothers produced more than a few catch tunes that people still remembered until today. The 12 Finalists sang Nusantara (Nusantara is the other name for Indonesia) as well as Koes Plus other famous hit songs such as Diana and Kembali ke Jakarta (Return to Jakarta).

Gea the Top 3 finalist was fan favorite to be the winner of the season three because of her energetic and "cutesy" performance. However, her fans votes were not enough to safe her from elimination from the Top 3. That left Dirly and Ihsan to battle at the Grand Finale for the Indonesian Idol Season 3 title. As with the previous Indonesian Idols seasons, the Grand Finale was held at the Istora Senayan (Senayan Athletic Complex) in Central Jakarta. The live audience who attended the Grand Finale was estimated approximately about 7.000 persons. The winner's single for the 3rd Season is Kemenangan Hati. It was written by Indonesia's top composer, Yovie Widyanto, who also served as guest judge at the Indonesian Idols season two auditions. When the dust was settled, Ihsan was announced by Ata the host as the winner for Indonesia Idols Season 3. Ihsan then performed an encore performance to close the season.

Since the show ended, Dirly and Gea have been seen debuted their acting career in a TV drama called Idola (Idol) which has been airing on RCTI every Mondays on 8pm.

Ihsan also debuted his acting career in an Islamic religious series called Maha Kasih which is also aired by RCTI.

Because of the highly unbalanced finals in Season 2 where male contestants took a clear supermajority (9 to 3) of the Final 12, rules were changed to prevent a similar incident from happening again.

This season also implemented new rules for the final portion of the contest. Instead of competing in semifinal heats in which the top vote-getters are promoted to the final round, 24 semifinalists were named -- 12 men and 12 women, who competed separately, with 4 of each gender being voted off each week until 12 finalists were left.

The semi-finalists who were eliminated:

Female Semifinalist

Dian Kristanti She is from Lampung. She was picked up to be the wildcard's contestant after being eliminated on May 13
Alice Maussa She is from Ambon. Eliminated 5/20/05
Tiara "Tia" Degrasia She is from Surabaya. Eliminated 5/13/05
Diana Puspitasari She is from Bandung. Eliminated 5/13/05
Tiara "Yara" Soemawilaga She is from Jakarta. Eliminated 5/6/05
Lasma Flora Herawaty Sihombing She is from Medan. Eliminated 5/6/05
Ismawaty "Izma" Kusumawardhani She is from Jakarta. Eliminated 5/6/05
Angela Desisca She is from Jakarta. She was the first to be voted off. Eliminated 5/6/05

Male Semifinalist

Kaleb Yadija He is from Bandung. He was picked up to be the wildcard's contestant after being eliminated on May 12
Umar "Omar" Rahman He is from Banyuwangi. Eliminated 5/19/05
Robin Tahalele He is from Surabaya. Eliminated 5/12/05
Glenovian Armando Michael He is from Jakarta. Eliminated 5/12/05
Rivi Arisandi He is from Lhokseumawe. Eliminated 5/5/05
Ari "Aris" Sanjaya He is from Jakarta. Eliminated 5/5/05
Richard Knight He is from Bandung. Eliminated 5/5/05
Walter Hermanowski He is from Jakarta. Eliminated 5/5/05

Top 12 Finalists

in reverse order of elimination

Muhammad Ihsan Tarore
Dearly Dave Sompie
Ghea Dahliana Oktarin
Sanobo Koni Sasamu
Maria Priscilla
Ilham Irawan Basso
Christy Claudia Podung
Cecilia Dwi Hapsari
Brinets Sudjana
Martesa Sumendra
Leelarat Justus Kulalean
Elisabeth Dwi Purna

Bottom three statistics

Date	Bottom Three
June 02	Elisabeth Depe	Nobo Sasamu	Gea Dahliana
June 09	Lee Kulalean	Dirly Sompie	Sisi Dwi Hapsari
June 16	Tesa Sumendra	Sisi Dwi Hapsari (2)	Christi Podung
June 23	Brinet Sudjana	Sisi Dwi Hapsari (3)	Ihsan Tarore
June 30	Sisi Dwi Hapsari (4)	Dirly Sompie (2)	Christi Podung (2)
July 07	Christi Podung (3)	Ihsan Tarore (2)	Ilham Irawan Basso
July 14	Ilham Irawan Basso (2)	Dirly Sompie (3)	Maria Priscilla
Date	bottom two
July 21	Maria Priscilla (2)	Ihsan Tarore (3)
July 28	Nobu Sasamu (2)	Ihsan Tarore (4)
August 04	Gea Dahliana (2)
August 19	Dirly Sompie (4)	Ihsan Tarore

Season 4

On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, Fremantle Media Asia officially launched the fourth edition of award winning Indonesian Idols. The show was initially announced at the 2006 Panasonic Awards when the Indonesian Idols judges were on hand to received the award for the Best Music and Variety Show. The 4th season commercial also has been airing in RCTI prior to the official launch date. In the official Indonesian Idols website, it was stated that starting from Season 4, future Idols participants can register online and print the audition form rather than using the current registration process which might take up to a whole day to complete. The organizers have added more pre-audition cities compared to last season which received additional host towns such as Banjarmasin, Makassar, Manado, Palembang, Manokwari, Denpasar & Semarang. So far, more than 120,000 people have taken advantage of the new registration process and registered online.Ata and Daniel are back as fourth season's colorful hosts. On the workshop round plus the first two spectacular ahow, Daniel hosted the show alone due to Ata's pregnancy. Ata started joining Daniel back hosting the show on the third spectacular show. Nirina Zubir and Indra Bekti was also announced as the Idol Banget (Extreme Idols) hosts.

However, changes were made to the judging team this season. While Titi DJ and Indra Lesmana are back as the judges, due to scheduling difficulties of their career, Indy Barends and Dimas Djayadiningrat have resigned from judging fourth season Indonesian Idols. Their colorful judging and commentary will be missed. They both are going to be replaced by Anang and Jamie Aditya. Anang, who is the husband of Indonesia's most famous Pop Diva, Krisdayanti, is also known as an established musician as well as a music producer. He was very well known for writing, singing and co-producing Multi-Platinum albums alongside his wife in the duo "Anang dan Krisdayanti". Jamie Aditya, was a Video Jockey during MTV Asia early years. Jamie, a talented musician in his own right, is rumored to launch an LP in 2007 which he hopes to be as successful as Indonesian singer Anggun

The fourth season premiered on 30 March, 2007.

The fourth season's theme this year is a compilation album called, "Masterpiece". This album was released on the top 6 night (Friday, 22nd June 2007). It's published that all top 12 contestants sing the song "Bendera" (originally sung by Cokelat) and they already made the video clip. The short clip of it was shown on the top 7 Result Show. On the top 6 Result Show, all top 6 contestants sang the song "Bendera" from their album and the background on the main screen was the video clip of the song.

On the top 6 Result Show, it was announced the bottom two rather than the usual bottom three. Dimas finally got voted off after 5 times consecutively was placed in the bottom three or bottom two. Dimas is the only contestant of all spectacular show contestants from all 4 seasons who had the most record to be in the bottom three of two (5 times) consecutively before getting voted off.

On the top 5 Result Show, 4 alumna of Indonesian Idol (Delon (runner-up of season 1), Lucky (6th place on season 1), Mike (winner of season 2), and Judika (runner-up of season 2)) performed as guests. They were all named 'Idol Divo' which is likely adopted from Il Divo who were found by Simon Cowell one judges of American Idol and Pop Idol. Fandy was voted off at this point leaving the formation of 1 male and 3 females on the top 4. This is exactly the same formation as in season 1.

Withover 10,000 viewers at Istora Senayan during the Grand Final, it has doubled the projection of the producer. Claimed as the largest, glorious and the best Grand Final for an Idol show, it beats American Idol in terms of stage size and design, lighting as well as sound system. For the first time in history, Rini, one of the Grand Finalist (later become the winner), have the chance to sing with Indonesia's music divas, Titi Dj and Krisdayanti.

Here the list of top 24 that will perform on the Workshop Stage, started 16 April, 2007 on 10pm:

Male Semifinalist

Adi Damayanto Permadi Jakarta, born on May 9th, 1978. ~VOTED OFF APRIL 17th 2007~
Riodika "Rhey" Sukmawan Surabaya, born on May 4th, 1980. ~VOTED OFF APRIL 17th 2007~
Benny Irawan S. Uno Jakarta, born on October 7th, 1983. ~VOTED OFF APRIL 17th 2007~
Dimas Mochammad Bandung, born on September 10th, 1986. ~VOTED OFF APRIL 21st 2007~
Eddy Rudolf "Eddo" Charles Marien Manokwari, born on September 21st, 1981. ~VOTED OFF APRIL 21st, 2007~
Franky Anthony Bandung, born on July 31st, 1979. ~VOTED OFF 27th APRIL 2007~
Hany Franky Pattikawa Ambon, born on March 23rd, 1989. ~VOTED OFF 27th APRIL 2007~

Female Semifinalist

Ayu Dyah Perwitasari Jakarta, born on July 1st,1990. A model, tv series actress.~VOTED OFF APRIL,19th 2007~
Vazza Dite Mulya Jakarta, born on September 30th,1988. ~VOTED OFF APRIL 19th, 2007~
Deviana "Devi" Oktarina Bandung, born on October 18th, 1985.~VOTED OFF APRIL 19th,2007~
Asty Pujisari Bandung, born on July 1st, 1990. ~VOTED OFF 24th April 2007~
Liandini "Andin" Pangastuti Banjarmasin, born on April 15th, 1988. ~VOTED OFF 24th APRIL 2007~
Nur Yasmin Sungkar Jakarta, born on October 6th, 1989. ~VOTED OFF 27th APRIL 2007~
Priska Paramita Makassar, born on May 22nd, 1989. Tourism ambassadress 2005. ~VOTED OFF 27th APRIL 2007~

Here the list of top 12 that will perform on the spectacular show,started 11 may, 2007 on 8pm at RCTI

Top 12 Finalists

Rini Wulandari Medan, born on April 28th, 1990. Winner
Wilson Simon Maiseka Ambon, born on Agustus 24th, 1989. ~VOTED OFF, 28th JULY 2007~
Gabriela "Gaby" Christy Bandung, born on December 29th, 1989. ~VOTED OFF, 13th JULY 2007~
Siti Sabariah "Sarah" Hadju Jakarta, born on May 25th, 1980. ~VOTED OFF, 6th JULY 2007~
Fandy Santoso Surabaya, born on April 26th, 1985. ~VOTED OFF, 29th JUNE 2007~
Dimas Mochammad Bandung, born on September 10th, 1986.~VOTED OFF, 22nd JUNE 2007~
Julian Anthony Syahputra Bandung, born on July 20th, 1988.~VOTED OFF, 15th JUNE 2007~
Priska Paramita Makassar, born on May 22nd, 1989. Tourism ambassadress 2005.~VOTED OFF, 8th JUNE 2007~
Stevano "Steve" Andrie Wowiling Manado, born on September 10th, 1989. ~VOTED OFF, 1st JUNE 2007~
Nabila Marsya Nada Jakarta, born on March 14th, 1991. ~VOTED OFF, 25th MAY 2007~
Gede Arya Gana Eka Denpasar, born on May 25th, 1985. ~VOTED OFF, 18th MAY 2007~
Rismawati Bandung, born on September 1st, 1982. A model, happened to work for Darwis Triadi. ~VOTED OFF, 11th MAY 2007~

WILDCARD FINALIST

Dimas Mochammad Bandung, born on September 10th, 1986.
Benny Irawan S. Uno Jakarta, born on October 7th, 1983.~ELIMINATED ON WIDCARD 5 MAY 2007~
Priska Paramita Makassar, born on May 22nd, 1989. Tourism ambassadress 2005.
Liandini "Andin" Pangastuti Banjarmasin, born on April 15th, 1988.~ELIMINATED ON WIDCARD 5 MAY 2007~

BOTTOM THREE/TWO CHART

Date	Bottom Three
May 11	Rismawati	Gede Arya Gana Eka	Stevano Andrie Wowiling
May 18	Gede Arya Gana Eka (2)	Gabriela Christy	Priska Paramita
May 25	Nabila Marsya Nada	Dimas Mochammad	Siti Sabariah Hadju
June 1	Stevano Andrie Wowiling (2)	Dimas Mochammad (2)	Julian Anthony Syahputra
June 8	Priska Paramita (2)	Dimas Mochammad (3)	Siti Sabariah Hadju (2)
June 15	Julian Anthony Syahputra (2)	Dimas Mochammad (4)	Siti Sabariah Hadju (3)
Date	bottom two
June 22	Dimas Mochammad (5)	Siti Sabariah Hadju (4)
June 29	Fandy Santoso	Rini Wulandari
July 6 ¹	Siti Sabariah Hadju (5)	Wilson Simon Maiseka
July 13	Gabriela Christy (2)
July 28 ²	Wilson Simon Maiseka (2)	Rini Wulandari

¹ It's revealed that Rini got the highest number of votes of the night. It also means that Gaby got the second highest number of vote.
² Rini got 51.2% of all votes which were cast in while Wilson only got 48.8%

Panel Judges

Indra Lesmana (season 1~4), Titi DJ (season 1~4), Meuthia Kasim (season 1~2), Dimas Djayadiningrat (season 1~3), Indy Barens (season 3), Anang Hermansyah (season 4), Jamie Aditya (season 4)

Guest Judge

Krisdayanti (season 1), Yovie Widyanto (season 2), Ahmad Dhani (season 2), Tika Panggabean (season 4)

Controversy

Joy (The winner of the first season) ceased all ties with Fremantle Media and the Indonesian Idol franchise within weeks of her win due to contractual disagreements between Joy and the show's management Indomugi Pratama. This included a six-year contract with Sony BMG and several appearance commitments including singing at local malls. Joy found this offensive to the Idol title. All traces of her Idol journey were removed from the official site.

Before Joy, Helena (the third runner-up from the first season) resigned from Indonesian Idol, just several days before the final, and made her first solo album called Keajaiban Cinta. The album made a huge success at the market, and had a Gold Platinum status.

Trivia

On season 1, there were 11 contestants on the spectacular stage, rather than the usual 10 for the first season. Because of that, the first spectaculer show eliminated 2 contestants (who were Andika and Suci)

Because of having Appendicitis on the top 7 of season 1, Nania got a free-pass of not getting voted-off that week, leaving the top 7 week with only 6 contestants competing on the stage. At that time, Bona was voted-off. If she didn't get over the week after, she would get voted off automatically. Fortunately, one week later, on the top 6 show, Nania was back singing "Bilang Saja" by Agnes Monica. She said she didn't want to get voted-off because she got sick, if she really had to get voted-off, she preferred it was people's decision.

It was announced on season 1's grandfinal that the total votes which came in during the grandfinal was over 4 million.

On season 2, there were 9 male contestants and 3 female contestants. Because of the 'uncommon' composition, season 2 was the only season which had all-male top 3.

Unlike the system on American Idol which there is no Wild-Card on the 6 boys - 6 girls top 12 system, on Indonesian Idol there are 2 seats for 2 wild-card finalists (1 boy and 1 girl). Therefore the workshop round left with 5 boys and 5 girls. Then the judges picked another 4 eliminated contestants to get a second chance to be in the top 12. After the nation-wide vote, these 4 were narrowed to only 2 who then were lucky to be in the top 12. This system was used on season 3 and season 4.

On season 3's spectacular shows, each contestant who stood on the left of the bottom three or two got eliminated.

After Depe (Season 3) got voted off and while she was singing for the last time, she fell off the stage.

Dimas (season 4) holds the record of most being placed in bottom three or two before getting voted off (5 times). He is followed by Helena (season 1), Glen (season 2), Maya (season 2), Harry (season 2), Sisi (season 3), Dirly (season 3) and Ihsan (season 3) each was placed 4 times.

Season 4 also has the most contestants who never being placed in the bottom three before on its top 5 with 3 contestants (Fandy, Rini, and Wilson). It's followed by season 1 with 2 contestants (Nania and Delon).

Two contestants were voted-off after singing Delon's songs (runner-up of season 1) who were Julian (on top 7) who sang "Dunia Tanpa Lagu" and Fandy (on top 5) who sang "Merindumu".

On the top 5 Result Show, 4 alumna of Indonesian Idol (Delon (runner-up of season 1), Lucky (6th place on season 1), Mike (winner of season 2), and Judika (runner-up of season 2)) performed as guests. They were all named 'Idol Divo' which is likely adopted from Il Divo who were found by Simon Cowell one judges of American Idol and Pop Idol

On the grand-finale of every season, them who sang the winning song in a more upbeat version than their rivals, would win the show. Joy, Mike, Ihsan and Rini sang the winning song in a more upbeat version than Delon, Judika, Dirly, and Wilson. In addition, they also sang the winning song before their rivals.

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