Official Confident of Hollywood Ending in Foreign Film Boycott1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIndonesia’s despair over the lack of Hollywood blockbusters on the big screen may be over soon, according to a tourism official.
Ukus Kuswara, the director general for culture, arts and film at the Ministry of Tourism, said the government and the Motion Picture Association had negotiated a “win-win solution.”
“Let’s just say it’s not about the tax figure, but the mechanism for its imposition. There’s a difference in perception but that’s been sorted out now,” he told AFP without elaborating.
The dispute centers on Indonesia’s new system of calculating and charging royalties on imported films, which the MPA said had “a detrimental impact on the cost of bringing a film into Indonesia.”
