There was only one movie theater chain back then, but some stand-alone theater are still available here and there. One of the turning point of Indonesian Film came in 2000, when a children singer, Sherina Munaf appeared as the title character in a musical/adventure feature film for family, Petualangan Sherina ( Sherina’s Adventure). Mind you, back then our TV have decent soap operas, there’s a huge quality gap to the ones being broadcasted nowadays. So growing up in the 90s i did not remember ever seeing a lot of Indonesian Film in movie theatre, instead i saw reruns of Suzanna horror films, slapstick comedy a la three stooges by Warkop (aka Dono Kasino Indro), or day time soap opera on TV. The last Indonesian film that gain international recognition was 1988’s Tjoet Nja Dhien which was actually the first Indonesian film screened at 1989 Cannes Film Festival and won the best International Film award. Indonesian film was steadily declining back in the 90s.
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