Rise Ahead of Regime Downfall: Historical Review of Indonesian Animation from 1966 to 1998

Arik Kurnianto, Ahmad Faisal Choiril Anam Fathoni

2018

Abstract

This study aims to explain the development of Indonesian animation during the New Order era (1966-1998). The regime that has been in power for 32 years, with all its political and economic policies has had a major impact on the development of Indonesian animation. Using the historical approach, this research tries to explore historical facts related to Indonesian animation through literature review and in-depth interviews with animation figures in the New Order era. The results show that Indonesian animation in the New Order era is dominated by animation for advertising, some animations for TV series, and no feature-length animations at all. The slow development of Indonesian animation in the New Order era is closely related to the political and economic policies of the regime, especially the policy relating to television which became the main medium for animation at the time. The Indonesian animation finally found its momentum of resurgence through the first major national event of comics and animation, titled “National Comic and Animation Weeks of 98” (PKAN 1998) in February 1998 in Jakarta. Two months before the New Order regime collapsed through the movement of Reformation in May 1998. The event was organized on the initiative of animators, studios, comic and animation communities, art and design colleges, and gained support from the New Order government through the Ministry of Education and Culture at the time. PKAN 98 is what can be claimed as the beginning of Indonesian animation resurrection formally. An irony, Indonesian animation precisely rise up at the end of the downfall of the New Order.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kurnianto A. and Anam Fathoni A. (2018). Rise Ahead of Regime Downfall: Historical Review of Indonesian Animation from 1966 to 1998. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 338-343. DOI: 10.5220/0010007600002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Arik Kurnianto and Ahmad Faisal Choiril Anam Fathoni},
title={Rise Ahead of Regime Downfall: Historical Review of Indonesian Animation from 1966 to 1998},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={338-343},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010007600002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Rise Ahead of Regime Downfall: Historical Review of Indonesian Animation from 1966 to 1998
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Kurnianto A.
AU - Anam Fathoni A.
PY - 2018
SP - 338
EP - 343
DO - 10.5220/0010007600002917