Jakarta eyes its own movie festival to showcase local blockbusters


JAKARTA: Jakarta Deputy Governor Rano Karno hopes the city will have its own film festival showcasing Indonesian blockbuster movies, an initiative hoped to strengthen the capital’s role in advancing the national film industry.

Even though the city has already had the Jakarta Film Week (JFW), which is organised annually by the city’s Tourism and Creative Economy Agency, the actor-cum-politician said that it has yet to feature commercially successful movies.

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