How Indonesia’s New Film Agency Chief Plans to Turn Local Box Office Dominance Into Global Presence
By Naman Ramachandran
Published on May 15, 2026.
Fauzan Zidni, the newly elected chair of the Indonesian Film Agency (BPI), is aiming to transform local box office dominance into a global presence. ZidNI believes that Indonesia cannot rely on individual producers' persistence and credits the gap between local dominance and persistent international invisibility. He also highlighted the absence of financing frameworks, legal infrastructure, and distribution architecture. BPI is seeking bilateral co-production treaties with France and Korea and is backing a matching-fund mechanism by the Indonesian Ministry of Culture for projects that secure international financing to receive matched government support. The agency also aims to establish a clearer legal and financing architecture for international coproduction, a stronger institutional role for national film sector, and a regulatory environment that treats the sector as a creative rather than licensing issue.
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