A Magnitude-7.7 Quake Hit Flores. Bali's Laundromat Is Throwing a Benefit.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the north coast of Flores on August 15, its epicentre roughly 68 kilometres northwest of Ende in East Nusa Tenggara. According to Al Jazeera, the quake killed at least 53 people, seriously injured 36 more, and damaged over 1,300 homes, with more than 300 aftershocks recorded in the days after. East Nusa Tenggara's governor declared a 14-day state of emergency the same day, and more than 59,600 people were eventually displaced across the region. A month on, whole streets in the hardest-hit regencies still look like the wreckage above.

Flores sits roughly 700 kilometres east of Bali, distant enough that most of the island's clubgoers will never have set foot there, and close enough that the disaster has been impossible to ignore on Indonesian timelines for a month straight. On September 19, Bali collective Laundromat is doing something about the gap between the two islands: throwing a donation-only night at Amplitude Skatepark in Kerobokan, with every rupiah collected at the door going to Flores relief.

Dates, Venue, Tickets

The night runs September 19 at Amplitude Skatepark in Kerobokan, Bali. Entry is donation-based starting at IDR50,000, with organizers stating 100% of proceeds go to earthquake relief. Donations tied to the event are being accepted through September 25, with Yayasan Galang Bulan named as the foundation managing distribution on the ground in Flores.

What the Money Is For

A Facebook video from regional broadcaster AnewZ, filmed in the hard-hit Sikka regency, shows families still sheltering on higher ground after fleeing a tsunami warning triggered by the quake, some saying they had yet to receive aid days after it hit. That footage, not a festival poster, is closer to what's actually motivating the lineup: Laundromat is opening and closing the set list itself, bookending a bill that runs through Ruang Bavr, Fhunked, Gozal, Yuan, Blxkboyz, Pluto Santos and Kai Boy Digital. Four crews, Ruang Bavr, Fhunked, Obscura and Ganti, helped put the night together, and the format is deliberately loose, hip hop, electronic sets and live performances sharing one bill, a mix that would look unfocused on a normal club night and looks exactly right on a benefit one.

Bali's own scene has spent 2026 absorbing outside attention it didn't always ask for; a night that redirects that attention toward a neighbouring island's recovery is a smaller, more specific gesture than most of what gets billed as community spirit on a flyer.

A Skatepark, Not a Club

The choice of room matters. Amplitude describes itself as "the beating heart of Bali's skateboarding scene," and it is not a venue that turns up on any club circuit list; running the benefit there instead of at one of Bali's paid rooms keeps overhead low and the whole door take intact for Flores. It also fits a pattern Loopliner has tracked all year of Southeast Asian scenes staging real nights in rooms that were never built for them, because the people throwing them care more about a full room than a liquor licence.

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None of the eight acts on the bill are festival headliners, and that is the point being made without anyone saying it out loud: a scene doesn't need a marquee name to move real money toward a real emergency, just a room, a sound system and a reason everyone in it already understands.

Where the Money Actually Goes

Donation-based doors are common enough at charity nights that the phrase has started to lose meaning, usually because nobody says where the money ends up once the lights come up. This one is specific about it: everything collected between now and September 25 goes to Yayasan Galang Bulan, the foundation Laundromat and its partner crews named as the recipient, not to any of the eight acts, not to Amplitude, and not to a promoter's general fund. For a scene used to charity flyers that quietly double as marketing, naming the foundation and the cutoff date is a small detail that does a lot of the trust-building work.

Cover photo: courtesy of Laundromat.