TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry has facilitated the formation of the Indonesian Motion Picture Association (IMPAS) as a new place for those in the Indonesian film industry aimed at facilitating all types of collaborations among filmmakers.

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said the formation of IMPAS is one of the ways leading toward the formation of BPI (Indonesian Film Council).

There are nine film associations joined together in IMPAS including the Indonesian Film Directors Club (IFDC), House of Indonesian Actors (RAI), Indonesia Motion Picture and Audio Association (IMPAct), Indonesian Writers for the Big Screen (PILAR), Indonesian Cinema Producers Association (APSI), Indonesian Cinematographers (SI), Indonesian Film Editors (INAFEd), Indonesian Production Designer (IPD), and the Indonesian Casting Association (ACI).

Actor Lukman Sardi, head of the RAI, hopes that the unification of these nine film associations will help solve various issues in the nation’s film industry.

"The members of these associations are workers who are active in Indonesian film, so they know what problems are being faced and the potential (of the film industry)," he said.

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