Tuesday, July 24th 2012Sonia JKT48: Cool with the ‘JKT48 is a Girlband’ OpinionGirl bands and boy bands are indeed booming in Indonesia nowadays, yet JKT48 dared to be different with the image of an idol group. However, because the term ‘idol group’ is still unfamiliar, JKT48 is often mistaken as a girl band, yet one of its members, Sonia Natalia, is all cool with it.“Idol group is still new in Indonesia. At first people are perceiving us as a girl band while gaping at our amount of members,“ explained Sonia in an interview with Hai (22/7). This younger sister of JKT48’s Stella Cornelia also added, “I’m okay if JKT48 is called a girl band, because they haven’t known yet.”Wawa -her nickname- also clarified that the concept of an idol group is different with girl band. “Idol group and girl band aren’t the same in concept. An idol group like us really starts from zero and grows up together with fans. We have a theater, and every theater performance is always ended with a handshake session, we also have events with fans too.” she completed.