Gamelan outside Indonesia are two gamelan sets in Wellington, one Javanese and the other Balinese. Interest in gamelan music in New Zealand was reflected in the selection by the Indonesian Embassy in New Zealand of a young New Zealand student, Rupert Snook, as a recipient of the 2012 Darmasiswa Scholarship. The scholarship will allow Snook to study gamelan at the "Institut Seni Indonesia" (Indonesian Arts Institute) in Bali. Since July 2013 there is a complete gamelan gong kebyar set in the Museu de la Música de Barcelona. From an opening workshop given by professor Andrew Channing, the ensemble has had a stable formation
Gamelan outside Indonesia instruction by a community arts organization, which gave its first performance in May 1978. The organization incorporated in 1980 as Friends of the Gamelan and continues to perform with two central Javanese gamelan sets that it has acquired. Many schools, universities and other institutions in North America own sets of gamelan instruments. These gamelans are typically played by mixed-gender groups of students, a practice that is rare in Indonesia for religious reasons. Among the earliest such groups were Wesleyan University and UCLA. Established institutional gamelan ensembles in the U.S. include Gamelan Nyai Saraswati at University of North Carolina at Chapel