Last month, an Indonesian singer was killed on stage by a king cobra she used in her act, making headlines around the world. The BBC's Rebecca Henschke travelled to her home village in West Java to find the truth behind the increasingly salacious world of dangdut music and the pressure on its performers to stand out from the crowd.
On a bamboo bench outside her home in Karawaci, Encum recalls seeing her daughter, Irma Bule, perform.
"It was embarrassing, seeing her up there dancing on stage like that," she says.
She knew her daughter was a dangdut singer, but she didn't know her act that day in Karawang involved snakes.
Disturbing video seen around the world last month shows Irma accidentally stepping on the king cobra as she dances.
It clamps onto her leg. Stage hands pull the snake off her but she continues to perform for another 45 minutes.
She was only taken off stage after she started vomiting. By the time Encum arrived at the hospital, her daughter was dead.
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