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Mira Lesmana
Mira Lesmanawati or better known as Mira Lesmana (born in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 8, 1964) is an Indonesian film director, Film producer, producer, and songwriter of mixed Dutch people, Dutch, Javanese people, Javanese, and Madurese people, Madurese descent. She is the elder sister of Indonesian jazz musician, Indra Lesmana. Early life Lesmana was born in Jakarta to musician Jack Lesmana and his wife Nien. Her younger brother is jazz pianist Indra Lesmana. At the age of five, she entered kindergarten at Cikini School; her primary and middle school education were conducted at the same institution. As a child, Lesmana wanted to be either a scientist or detective, and was often at the top of her class. She later recalled that seeing George Lucas' ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' (1977) "blew [her] off [her] feet" and may have inspired her to go into film making. At the age of 16, Lesmana wrote her first song, which her brother Indra used to gain a scholarship to a music s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakarta
Jakarta (; , Betawi language, Betawi: ''Jakartè''), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (; ''DKI Jakarta'') and formerly known as Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia and an autonomous region at the provincial level. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's List of islands by population, most populous island, Jakarta is the List of cities in ASEAN by population, largest metropole in Southeast Asia and serves as the diplomatic capital of ASEAN. The Special Region has a status equivalent to that of a Provinces of Indonesia, province and is bordered by two other provinces: West Java to the south and east; and Banten to the west. Its coastline faces the Java Sea to the north, and it shares a maritime border with Lampung to the west. Jakarta metropolitan area, Jakarta's metropolitan area is List of ASEAN country subdivisions by GDP, ASEAN's second largest economy after Singapore. In 2023, the city's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Service Announcement
A public service announcement (PSA) is a message in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior. Oftentimes these messages feature unsettling imagery, ideas or behaviors that are designed to startle or even scare the viewer into understanding the consequences of undergoing a particular harmful action or inaction (such as pictures of drug users before and after their addiction or realistic skits of domestic violence situations) as well as the importance of avoiding such choices. In the UK, they are generally called a public information film (PIF); in Hong Kong, they are known as an announcement in the public interest (API). History The earliest public service announcements (in the form of moving pictures) were made before and during the Second World War years in both the UK and the US. In the UK, amateur actor Richard Massingham set up Public Relationship Films Ltd in 1938 as a specialist agency for producing short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erwin Gutawa
Erwin Gutawa Sumapraja (born 16 May 1962) is an Indonesian composer. In 1985, he started his professional music career by joining the jazz band Karimata, later becoming an independent composer in 1991. As a composer, he won the 1992 Midnight Sun Song Festival in Finland, together with Ruth Sahanaya. In 2001, he won the Anugerah Musik Indonesia award for best music arranger for his concert ''Rockestra''. Biography Erwin Gutawa was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 16 May 1962. As a child, he enjoyed playing basketball and association football. During this period he also played music on ''Bina Musika'' under the direction of Agus Rusli on Televisi Republik Indonesia. As a teen, he continued playing music with his friends. After graduating high school, Gutawa earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Indonesia. In the early 1980s Gutawa worked as sound arranger for the TVRI series ''Telerama''. However, his professional career began in the 1985 when he joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Hirata
Andrea Hirata Seman Said Harun or better known as Andrea Hirata is an Indonesian novelist who hails from Bangka Belitung islands. His first novel was ''Laskar Pelangi'' which spawned three sequels. Biography Hirata was born in Gantung, Belitung. During the course of his youth, His parents changed his name seven times. The family eventually named him Andrea, with Hirata being given by his mother. He grew up in a poor family who lived not far from a government-owned tin mine operated by PN Timah (now PT Timah Tbk.). Hirata started his higher education with a degree in economics from University of Indonesia. Although Andrea's major was economics, he is very fond of science—physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and literature. After receiving a scholarship from one of European Union's programs, he took a master's program in Europe, first at the University of Paris, then at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Andrea's thesis in the field of telecommunications economics received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laskar Pelangi
''Laskar Pelangi'' (English: ''The Rainbow Troops'') is a 2008 Indonesian drama film adapted from the novel of the same name by Andrea Hirata. The film follows a group of 10 students and their two inspirational teachers as they struggle with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village, located at Belitung. The film became a box office and critical success, becoming one of the highest grossing in Indonesian box office history receiving a number of local and international awards. Plot Belitung is known for its richness in tin, making it one of Indonesia's richest islands, though bureaucracy turning most of the natives poor and some unemployed; most men ends up working at the state-owned tin company PN Timah ( id). Children of poor households are stereotyped as having no future who will end up working there. In 1974, SD Muhammadiyah Gantong, taught by Muslimah Harfan, and Bakri, awaits ten students as required by law. The school is small and poor, resulting in not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 Hari Untuk Selamanya
''3 Days to Eternity'' () is a 2007 Indonesian adult comedy-drama film directed by Riri Riza. The story is about a young man and a woman who drive from Jakarta to Yogyakarta Yogyakarta is the capital city of the Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by Hamengkubuwono, a monarchy, Yogyakarta is regarded as an importan .... The film had a successful run at several international film festivals, winning best direction (Riri Riza) at the Brussels International Independent Film Festival 2008 and best Indonesian film at the Jakarta International Film Festival 2007. Synopsis What should have been a one day plane trip ended up becoming an unforgettable three days journey for the two cousins, as Ambar and her cousin Yusuf got drunk, miss a flight, and decide to drive to the family wedding they are in danger of missing. They encounter bizarre and unique people along the way, having d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soe Hok Gie
Soe Hok Gie (17 December 1942 – 16 December 1969) was a Chinese Indonesian activist who opposed the successive dictatorships of Presidents Sukarno and Suharto. Overview Soe was an ethnic Chinese Roman Catholic, the fourth of five children in his family. His father Soe Lie Piet was a literary writer and magazine editor, and his elder brother Arief Budiman was a sociologist and lecturer at Satya Wacana Christian University and a vocal critical voice in Indonesian politics. After spending his final years of senior high school at Kanisius, Soe attended the University of Indonesia (UI) from 1962 until 1969; upon finishing university he became a lecturer at his alma mater until his sudden death shortly before he was to turn 27. It was during his time as a student that Soe became an active dissident, protesting against President Sukarno and the PKI. Soe was a productive writer, with articles published in such newspapers as ''Kompas'', ''Harian Kami'', '' Sinar Harapan'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Lesmana And Riri Riza
Mira (), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red-giant star estimated to be 200–300 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. ο Ceti is a binary stellar system, consisting of a variable red giant (Mira A) along with a white dwarf companion (Mira B). Mira A is a pulsating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable star discovered, with the possible exception of Algol. It is the prototype of the Mira variables. Nomenclature ο Ceti ( Latinised to ''Omicron Ceti'') is the star's Bayer designation. It was named Mira (Latin for 'wonderful' or 'astonishing') by Johannes Hevelius in his ''Historiola Mirae Stellae'' (1662). In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN, which included Mira for this star. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jakarta Post
''The Jakarta Post'' is a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia. The paper is owned by PT Bina Media Tenggara and based in the nation's capital, Jakarta. ''The Jakarta Post'' started as a collaboration between four Indonesian media groups at the urging of Information Minister Ali Murtopo and politician Jusuf Wanandi. After the first issue was printed on 25 April 1983, it spent several years with minimal advertisements and increasing circulation. After a change in chief editors in 1991, it began to take a more vocal pro-democracy point of view. The paper was one of the few Indonesian English-language dailies to survive the 1997 Asian financial crisis and currently has a circulation of about 40,000. ''The Jakarta Post'' also features an online edition and a weekend magazine supplement called J+. The newspaper is targeted at foreigners and educated Indonesians, although the middle-class Indonesian readership has increased. Noted for being a training ground for local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?
''What's Up with Love?'' () is a 2002 Indonesian coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Rudy Soedjarwo, starring Dian Sastrowardoyo and Nicholas Saputra. It was the most-watched Indonesian movie of all time at the time of its release, peaking at 2.7 million sold tickets. The movie is considered as one of the best Indonesian movies of all time according to critics in a 2007 survey by ''Tabloid Bintang''. Plot Cinta (alternatively an Indonesian word for "Love") is a popular teenage girl living a comfortable lifestyle. She is gifted and accomplished, surrounded by a group of faithful friends consisting of the wise Alya, the tomboyish Karmen, the sassy Maura, and the ditzy Milly. She also has caring and supportive parents. The friends cry on each others' shoulders for Alya, who is the victim of domestic abuse by her father. Cinta recites the group's pledge to the ''buku curhat'', a diary/scrapbook shared by the girls, that a problem one of them is going through is to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Indonesia
The cinema of Indonesia refers to films produced domestically in Indonesia. The statutory corporation, statutory Indonesian Film Board, or BPI, defines Indonesian films as "movies that are made by or using Indonesian resources whose Intellectual property, Intellectual Property Right is owned either entirely or partly by Indonesian citizen or Indonesian legal entity". Cinema in Indonesia dates back to the early 1900s. Until the 1920s, most cinemas in Indonesia were created by foreign studios, mostly from Cinema of Europe, Europe and the Cinema of United States, United States, whose films would then be imported to the country. Most of these films were silent documentaries and feature films from Cinema of France, France and the United States. Many documentaries about the nature and life of Indonesia were sponsored by the Dutch East Indies government, and were usually made by Dutch or Western European studios. The first domestically produced documentaries in Indonesia were produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petualangan Sherina
''Petualangan Sherina'' () is a 2000 Indonesian family musical film directed by Riri Riza. The film stars Sherina Munaf, Derby Romero, Didi Petet, Mathias Muchus, Ratna Riantiarno, and Butet Kertaradjasa. The screenplay was written by Jujur Prananto, with music arranged by Elfa Secioria. Plot Sherina Darmawan is an energetic and intelligent girl living in Jakarta with her parents, until they have to leave when her father gets a job as an agronomist at a plantation in Lembang owned by Ardiwilaga. She quickly adapts and acquires some new friends, only to find herself as the target of the bully boys, including a boy named Sadam. Sherina cannot accept such treatment and gathers her classmates in a struggle against Sadam. When she accompanies his father to visit the plantation, she discovers that Sadam is Ardiwilaga's son. Sherina and Sadam challenge each other to climb the nearby hills and, upon arriving, Sadam attempts to leave Sherina behind. She tries to find her way back to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
