My Biggest Condolences :(

.....One of the news in 2011 i heard that made me 'errrrrr seriously' *shocked* ?!?! It's all about the new regulation about foreign movies in Indonesia. Indonesian Government, Custom Duty Sector, declared the tax for the foreign movies that will be shown in Indonesia. The tax is about 23,75% from the value of the movie. What make it worse is not how much the tax but the oddity of the tax. You will never find about it at all countries around the world. So, all foreign movie maker companies dismissed the movie transmission to Indonesia. Pathetic right :(

     Not only the foreign-movies-lovers like me who is dissapointed of the regulation,but also the cinema's employers. Their highest income is not from the local movies but from foreign movies. Indonesian people rather choose foreign movies than local movies. It's not because of their poor nationality but because of the quality of local film. Local movie maker companies produce 100-150 movies a year but only 3-4 movies that win the viewer. So, it's not weird that Indonesian rather choose foreign movies than local movies. The cinema's employers is afraid of losing their highest income because of it. The cinema employees have the same problem too. They're afraid of losing their job if the cinema's collapse. And it will increase the number of unemployment in Indonesia.

     I hope the Indonesian Custom Duty Sector will consider it. So,the cinema's employers and employees are not loss and we,as a citizen,can use our right to get information (especially from the foreign movies).