Deploying Indonesia, Indonesian Art History Witness

Deploying Indonesia, Indonesian Art History Witness

Solo - A documentary film by Jennifer Lindsay on display to the public this afternoon at the Grand Theatre ISI Surakarta. The film, titled Deploying Indonesia (artistic mission to foreign countries, 1952-1965) This is a documentary about the journey of our nation's children who are sent in different parts of the world with a mission to introduce Indonesian arts and culture.
In the documentary presents the stories of the artists who from 1952 until the year 1965 was sent as a delegate from Indonesia. 30 interviewees talked a lot about the Indonesian culture is a mission trip. Thirty-speakers who took part in several well-known that mission like Pringgohadiwijoyo or known by the name Sukardi Kris, Irawati Durban Ardjo, Rahayu Supanggah, Therese Suharti, Robi Menul Sularto.
This film begins with the exposure of Kris Sukardi who has followed the trip out of the country six times. Missions abroad art begins with a tour of Indonesia in Colombo (1952), then continued PRC (1954), and onwards towards East Pakistan / Bangladesh (1954), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the USSR, and Cairo (1957), Singapore (1959 ), Honolulu, Japan, Hongkong, Philippine, Singapore (1961), Soviet Union, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, (1961), Thailand (1962), Philippines (1953), Pakistan (1964), Cambodia, Japan (1964 ), New York, Holland, Paris (1964), Tanzania (1965), China, North Korea, Japan (1965). During 13 years of President Sukarno to send delegations abroad as an envoy of the Indonesian arts mission.
According to Jennifer Lindsay of the director, the film is intended as a form of garapannya tersebutt documentation on a mission of the Indonesian government in introducing the arts and culture abroad. "This is a witness to history not only of Indonesian history, but also world history. For that I am eager to document as well as introducing the younger generation that in that year, Indonesia has done something extraordinary to introduce its tourism ", he explained to Timlo.net.
In addition to Lindsay, who is also Irawati Durban Ardjo researchers in this film as well as witness the history that follows the mission said that it is very important to document this movie, because he believes will be very beneficial to the fore. "When I leave this mission follow terpikirikan never in my mind to make a documentation of this moment, but after seeing this movie so I just felt that the trip was worth the mission of art is documented as this is the witness of history", he explained Timlo.net encountered.
90-minute film is scheduled to be given to the National Archives and library culture as a documentation of the incredible journey taken by the Government of Indonesia in order to introduce its culture abroad.