About
I’m just a movie lover and a guy who has his fair share of experience (mostly bad) with the customs and excise officials.
This page was made to post all the news about the Indonesian Movie Crisis, caused by the new interpretation of the former customs and tax rule on the distribution rights of imported movies in Indonesia. Most of the news are in Indonesian, so I translated them manually for the whole world to know.
These guys in the Directorate General of Customs and Excise made up a greedy rule that threatens to destroy the Indonesian movie industry. Not just for imported films, but for the national movie industry too. My parents went through the 1960′s hell where American movies was boycotted, and only sucky Indonesian movies remain. Well I don’t want history to repeat itself, I’m doing what I can to prevent that. My only hope is the news that I’ve translated could notify the international world about this crisis.
This whole tragedy and crisis is personal, not just for me, but for the thousands of 21 Cineplex and Blitzmegaplex’s employees, and their families too. So hear ye, hear ye, I got a story to tell….
Hi,
I’m writing an article about the Indonesian film tax etc. for the French based website (inaglobal.fr). Could you please tell me what the current situation is? Are there currently any Hollywood films at the cinemas? If yes, could I verify this information on cinema websites or something like that?
Also, would you be willing to tell me a bit about yourself? What do you do? When did you set up this website? To be able to include you as a source, if you agree, I’d also need your full name.
Thank you very much in advance for your help. I look forward to hearing from you.
Dovile
Hi,
Thank you for your interest in this case, I’ve replied your post via email. Hope it can be helpful to you.
Best Regards,
Marvel
So true. Honesty and eevrythnig recognized.
I heard it has been solved.
any news on that?
Nope, not yet. One distributor has already paid his debt, starting out by paying Rp. 9 billion. That’s the distributor who managed to get Source Code, Scream 4 etc (Amero Mitra). The other 2 distributors, PT Camila Internusa Film & PT Satrya Perkasa Esthetika Film, the ones who hold the right to distribute MPA films hasn’t. So, still no hope of getting Sony pictures, WB, Disney etc film here. The latest news can be read here: http://indonesianmoviecrisis.org/2011/05/30/official-confident-of-hollywood-ending-in-foreign-film-boycott/
Your story was really informative, tnahks!