Loneliness in the time of COVID-19 brings new challenges to young Indonesian song-writer Marbee.

Many young performers not only face economic difficulties at this time but they also have to confront the creative challenges that isolation brings.

Marbee’s photo shoot for her university assignment, Melbourne, March 2020. Source: Supplied - Marya Anindyaswari Budianta.

Marbee may feel lonely but will she succumb to loneliness?  While isolation affects the comfort of this young Indonesian singer and song-writer, Marbee or Marya Budianta, she keeps soldiers on to confront the challenges of composing her music in the time of COVID-19.

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