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Checking Out

Indonesia’s Film Heritage

Sinematek houses thousands of copies of old
Indonesian movies, to preserve and protect
them from destruction.

t was silent when JaKita came to Sinematek as movie posters inside the building. There is
Indonesia on early March. Only several staffs also a studio—a cinema room with capacity of
Iseen in front of their computers—there was 30 person maximum—to watch 35mm films.
no sight of a visitor. “It is always this quiet
everyday,” said Ros, the secretary at Sinematek Head of Sinematek Indonesia Akhlis Suryapati
Indonesia. said the studio usually used for visitors in large
numbers or group and are interested to watch
Sinematek is the first celluloid films archive films on screen. However, during the COVID-19
center in Southeast Asia and the only one in pandemic, they temporarily close the service.
Indonesia. The museum, divided into three
different stories of H. Usmar Ismail Film Center When he gave JaKita a tour on the fourth floor
(in basement, fourth and fifth floor), is a house to of the museum, Akhlis said most of the visitors
precious treasures of Indonesian film industry.
The museum stores collections of national
films, hence the movie-related ornaments such

A staff were
renewing a
16mm film.

Credit:
Safran H.

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