Strong Potential, Pramono Wants Jakarta So Southeast Asian Film Center

The governor of DKI Jakarta, Pramono Anung, pushed Jakarta into a film production center in Southeast Asia with a step of reinforcement starting the ease of permission, tax incentives, to expand international film industry cooperation.

This attempt is part of the Provincial Government's efforts, DKI Jakarta, to increase the power of the national film industry, and to strengthen the creative economic contributions.

It revealed Pramono when he opened the Jakarta Film Summit 2026 themed Jakarta Shaping the Future of Film on Tuesday (20 / 10). Forum that brings together more than 1,000 professional movies from within and abroad this is expected to open investment opportunities, expand industrial networks, and encourage film production together.

"Jakarta has great potential to develop as a film production center in Southeast Asia and a cinema city, because of its complete infrastructure, diversity of filming locations, as well as the concentration of the national film industry," pramono.

That potential is supported by about 80 percent of the production houses and film makers in Jakarta, as well as the existence of over 100 different characters, from historic areas to modern business centers.

Pramono is an optimist, and that potential is the capital to increase the competition for the international film industry.

"This potential we want to optimize. Jakarta has actually become the film center in Indonesia. However, we don't want only the cage master. We want Indonesian films to be able to compete in international, at least in the ACEAN level," he said.

Performing Jakarta DKI Prov through the formation of Jakarta Film Commission (JFC), as well as providing filtering service in Jakarta which allows industrial users to get the location information, permission management, to coordinate film and audiovisual production needs.

Later on, the DKI Prov also provides a 50 percent tax tax relief and PBJT service for the national movie show played in Jakarta cinema. The policy was arranged by Governor 531 in 2026, and perfected by Governor 591 in 2026.

Pramono called, this incentive was directed to support the national film producers to have more space in developing production and strengthening the competition for film industry.

"We hope this relief will be an incentive for the production house to re-film. The tax acceptance that the Jakarta DKI Prov obtained will also be used to support the development of the film ecosystem," clearly the Governor.

He added, the development of the film industry has the potential economic benefits for various supporting sectors, such as tourism, culinary, hospitality, transportation, and micro-business, small, medium.

According to him, the current creative economic sector is contributing to Rp410.56 trillion or 11.16 percent to the Domestic Regional Bruto.

The governor is also hoping that the reinforcement of the film ecosystem in Jakarta can open up more access to the sineas and talents of various areas to reach the investors and partners of the international industry.

"We also want the benefit of this film industry growth not only felt Jakarta. Because Indonesia has many stories, cultures, great locations and talents in many areas," Pramono's mouth.

Meanwhile, Deputy Governor DKI Jakarta, Rano Karno, explains that Jakarta Film Summit was designed as a forum for the future discussion of the film industry. This event completes Jakarta Film Week that focuses on festivals and screening movies.

Rano announced that the number of Indonesian movies in 2025 reached nearly 122 million people, with about 85 million of them being the national film audience. Meanwhile, until October 2026, the number of Indonesian film viewers recorded nearly 70 million people.

According to him, the development needs to be supported by mapping more accurate economic contributions. The prov DKI Jakarta is called planning to strengthen cooperation with the Statistic Center (BPS) in measuring the economic impact of creative industry, including film.

"Creative economy has 21 subsectors. We'd like to work with the Statistic Center (BPS) to measure the economic impact of this sector more structured, including the production industry contributions," Rano-grade.

It states that the development of the Filming in Jakarta service will continue to be reinforced through collaboration with international partners and various parts of Indonesia.

This move is expected to make the production easier, and open up an opportunity for cultural wealth, location and Nusantara talent to perform in the work of filming that reaches global markets.

Through the 2026 Summit Film Jakarta, the DKI was pushed into a cinema city that was able to attract investments, open jobs, strengthen the creative economy, and bring Indonesian film to the world stage.