Indonesia's film Industry is experiencing a revival, fueled by stories of local ghosts and scary folklore. Directors like Anggy Umbara have tapped into a market for a domestic brand of horror.
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00:00Indonesian cinema is seeing a resurgence and its stories like this one taken from
00:09local folklore that are topping the box office in Indonesia horror fills seats
00:14making up 70% of all movie admissions last year with over 50 million tickets
00:19sold the stories are so familiar with us because we heard about this kind of
00:26stories since we were a child yeah children that's why it's very very close
00:34to our culture to our memory the film resurgence started from 2010 with new
00:39independent filmmakers turning to high quality horror films focusing on local
00:44stories some of these directors are now going commercial paving the way for more
00:49projects Indonesia produced 258 films last year and 60% were horror
00:55that's petong the spirit of a dead person wrapped in burial cloth doomed to
01:15wander the earth and well known and feared in Indonesian folklore with such strong local
01:23support Indonesia's film industry contributed 8.2 billion US dollars to
01:28the economy in 2022 and it's not yet peaked analysts projects 6% growth by
01:332027 as Indonesian films reach more international audiences our movies are
01:39already wanted in the Southeast Asia in Asia and some of them are traveling to the
01:46western world and yeah we hope that our audience getting bigger and bigger by going local
01:55Indonesia's film industry is aiming for the world meaning you might just see ghosts
02:00like pechong in a cinema near you Chris Ma and Lauren Patimore for Taiwan Plus
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