Streamlined Guides: Updates To Indonesia Market

One of Asia’s most vibrant content markets, Indonesia continued to see strong theatrical recovery in 2025 and early 2026, mostly driven by local features, along with a streaming sector that is growing in terms of both paid subscriptions and viewing hours.

But it’s also a market that suffers from multiple infrastructure issues that could hamper further growth – something the local industry is painfully aware of and actively trying to fix. At the same time, Indonesian cinema continues to have a high profile on the international film festival circuit with Wregas Bhanuteja’s Levitating recently premiering at Sundance Film Festival and Edwin’s Sleep No More and Joko Anwar's Ghost In The Cell in Berlin.

This edition of the Streamlined Guides provides updates to the three reports on Indonesia we published in late 2024 (see links below) – looking at box office and streaming in 2025 and early 2026, along with updates on companies, projects and film festivals, at a crucial time for the Indonesian industry as it gears up for the key Lebaran (Eid al-Fitr) box office period with six films scheduled for release. As always, this guide has been researched independently of any financial support from advertisers and/or film agencies. 

LINKS TO 2024 STREAMLINED GUIDES TO INDONESIA:

Streamlined Guides: Indonesia - Overview, Studios & Producers

Indonesian films have already broken the all-time annual admissions record at the local box office this year, within just nine months, with horror comedy Agak Laen topping the box office and other local titles taking the next five places in the top ten.

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Streamlined Guides: Indonesia – Government, Locations & VFX

Part Two of the Streamlined Guide to Indonesia offers a deep dive into government support for the local creative industries, production services for inbound features and high-end series and the local post-production and VFX sector.

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Streamlined Guides: Indonesia – Distributors, Exhibitors, Festivals & Streamers

Indonesia’s box office may not have yet returned to pre-pandemic levels of admissions, but it’s a market that is growing, thanks to cautious cinema construction and a boom in the popularity of local films, and has plenty of room for further expansion.

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UPDATES ON BOX OFFICE 2025:

Indonesia’s overall cinema admissions reached 127.32 million in 2025, according to Cinepoint figures, still behind the 152 million in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, but a shade ahead of the 126 million admissions clocked up in 2024. Local films accounted for a 64% market share with 81.57 million admissions compared to a 65% share from 82.04 million admissions the previous year.
 
Imported films performed slightly better last year, thanks to strong box office results for Disney’s Avatar: Fire And Ash and Warner Bros’ The Conjuring: Last Rites, both popular franchises in Indonesia, which both pulled in more than 3 million admissions and ranked third and fifth respectively in the year-end chart (see 2025 Top Ten at the end of this report). In total, foreign films pulled in 45.75 million admissions in 2025 for a 36% market share, compared to 43.96 million and a 35% share in 2024.
 
But while Hollywood made some gains in 2025, Indonesia’s post-pandemic rebound is undoubtedly driven by local productions. The market is on course to produce 200 films annually by 2028, compared to 152 in 2024, according to a report by local analytics firm Cinepoint, while admissions for local productions are forecast to reach 100 million this year.
 
Streaming is also growing (see updates on streaming below) but does not appear to be impacting theatrical, which is protected by a four-month exclusive window, nearly three times longer than the 45-day window in the US. With average ticket prices of around US$3, cinema-going remains an affordable leisure activity for the rising middle class audience in Indonesia’s major cities.
 
As in Vietnam, another box office powerhouse in Southeast Asia, local films account for most of the entries in Indonesia’s year-end top ten with new releases constantly breaking all-time records. In 2025, animated kids' film Jumbo, produced by Visinema Group, became Indonesia’s highest-grossing local film of all time over the Lebaran (Eid al-Fitr) key box office period, with more than 10 million admissions, only to have its record broken by Imajinari’s Agak Laen: Mystery Of The Nursing Home at the end of the year.

The sequel to Imajinari’s 2024 hit Agak Laen racked up 10 million admissions in 2025, placing it second overall behind Jumbo during the calendar year, but has since reached 10.98 million admissions, making it Indonesia’s highest-grossing film of all time. Again featuring the comedy troupe that the two films are named after (Agak Laen means “a little bit different”), the second film follows four failing detectives who go undercover in a nursing home to track down a murderer.

Aside from comedy and kids films (the latter being a relatively new genre for Indonesia), horror continues to be the main driver of box office, accounting for around half the titles in the 2025 top ten, headed by MD Entertainment's Sugar Mill (Pabrik Gula), although there are signs of audience fatigue following a glut of titles, some of which have under-performed.
 
Visinema and Imajinari are among a crop of relatively young companies shaking up the market by experimenting with different genres – also notable last year were dystopian action thriller The Siege At Thorn High, from Joko Anwar’s Come And See Pictures, and Cerita Films’ sci-fi romance Sore: A Wife From The Future, written and directed by Yandy Laurens. Increasingly these companies are working together to co-finance films, raise production standards and share risk, giving them more space to experiment.