Indonesia expected to produce 200 movies by 2014

China Daily, 2009-09-07 16:43

JAKARTA: The vibrant Indonesian movie industry is highly expected to improve production up to 200 movies by the year of 2014 following significant movie production increase in the industry in the past few years, Indonesian Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said here on Monday.

"At least 87 movies were produced last year. This year, the movie production would reach 95. Hopefully, the movie production in the country would reach 200 by 2014," Jero was quoted as saying by the Detik.com during his hearing with legislators in the parliament.

The minister said that Indonesia has saw significant film making business growth with extraordinary growing number of filmmaker firms in the last few years.

"My ministry learned that there were only 704 filmmaker firms in 2007. In 2008 they have increased up to 1,072 firms. As of July this year, national firm makers have reached 1,163," he said on the sidelines of the hearing that discussed film making draft law in the parliament.

He guaranteed that after being enacted into law, the filmmaking law will not restrain national filmmaker from creating movies.

After paralyzed for more than a decade, Indonesian movie industry started to improve. Many of Indonesian movies are now played along with western and Hong Kong-made movies in lavish cinemas in the capital city of Jakarta.

Queues of people who wanted to watch Indonesian movies in front of tickets booths were commonly seen in many theaters here in the last few years, a view that can hardly found three or five years ago.

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