Jakarta's Film Festival (the Lack of)

The lack of a decent Film Festival in Jakarta is staggering. Jakarta International Film Festival, which has been my most-see events for the last few years has hit another low this year. The festival has been known to struggle to even exist. With no apparent/immediate support from the government, I've had an impression that whomever held the Festival, is doing so not because of a promising return-of-investment but simply because they love films and would love to share some of that love through the festival.

This year however, when everybody's talking about the global crisis, the festival has hit another low. According to some forums I skimmed through, this year's festival which scheduled to begin on December 9th, would last only for five days. Five days for a film festival? Not nearly enough.

Anyway, another film festival is scheduled for this week. INAFF 2008. I might going to check them out if I had an ample over-supply of time which is a rather long way to say, "Not interested"