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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Lifestyle
Marco Ferrarese

Indonesian video-on-demand films take world by storm

In Dear David, Jakarta-born actress Shenina Cinnamon plays a straight-A high school student whose life turns upside-down when her risqué fantasy blog is leaked [Courtesy of Netflix]

Jakarta, Indonesia – When Netflix announced the exclusive production of seven Indonesian films and series in September 2022, few expected overnight success. But by the end of the year, the Big Four by Timo Tjahjanto, the first film in the series, had become one of the video-on-demand giant’s most-watched films not in the English language.

Tjahjanto’s first action-comedy amassed more than 16 million viewing hours and tells the story of Dina, a strait-laced detective. Looking for cues on the unsolved murder of her late father, she ends up on a remote tropical island, fighting for her life with the same group of down-on-their-luck secret assassins her father had once trained.

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