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Footnotes
- 1 2 3 4 Rolling Stone Indonesia 2009, 150 Lagu Indonesia.
- ↑ Ismail 2007, p. 43.
- 1 2 Ginting 2009, pp. 209–210.
- ↑ Moenaf 2009, p. 108.
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