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    "data": {
        "id": 1684713,
        "msgid": "government-states-film-is-part-of-the-nations-civilisational-journey-1776441054",
        "date": "2026-04-17 22:10:37",
        "title": "Government states film is part of the nation's civilisational journey",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "The Indonesian Ministry of Culture has emphasised that film plays a vital role in the nation's cultural civilisation, serving as a strategic medium that encompasses art, technology, and education to foster national identity and pride. During a discussion on revising the Film Law, Director General Ahmad Mahendra urged filmmakers to incorporate cultural values and national consciousness in their works, viewing film as a powerful tool for nation-building. Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Indonesian Film Board, Fauzan Zidhi, advocated for strengthening film festivals as incubators to nurture emerging filmmakers, enhance collaborations, and expand international networks for national cinema.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Culture has reaffirmed that film\nis an important part of Indonesian cultural civilisation and has\nundergone a transformative journey that includes a strategic role. \u201cFilm\nis part of it because it turns out to have a very strategic position\nstarting from culture, there is art, technology, and so on. Film is an\naccumulation of all those fields,\u201d said the Director General of\nDevelopment, Utilisation, and Cultivation of Culture at the Ministry of\nCulture, Ahmad Mahendra, during a discussion on revising the Film Law\nmonitored online in Jakarta on Friday. Mahendra views that film should\ncontain cultural values up to education, considering that film is a\nmedium capable of carrying those elements. In addition, he called on\nfilmmakers to present stories that can foster pride among Indonesian\nviewers. \u201cSo identity, national consciousness, and so on, of course, the\npurpose of the filmmakers must reach (the audience),\u201d he said. Film, he\ncontinued, becomes a broad medium capable of shaping the nation. He\nhopes that the cultural mission can be presented through film by\nfilmmakers as a collective effort to advance culture. \u201cFrom the film\nsector, we hope that even the cultural mission is largely entrusted\nthrough film,\u201d he said. On the same occasion, the General Chairman of\nthe Indonesian Film Board, Fauzan Zidhi, hopes that film festivals in\nIndonesia can become facilitators for filmmakers. \u201cThe hope in the next\nfour years is that these festivals are actually, in my view, a crucible;\nactually, if abroad, for example, one festival in Asia and then the\nfirst Indonesian film enters there. So there is a festival in Indonesia\nthat nurtures our prospective filmmakers, our future replacements, given\nspace to grow, given space to collaborate,\u201d said Fauzan. The presence of\nfilm festivals capable of screening films through an inter-country\nfestival cycle, according to him, can solidify the nation\u2019s works and\nopen wider networks for national filmmakers.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/government-states-film-is-part-of-the-nations-civilisational-journey-1776441054",
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