"Businesses Not Affected Cinema Film Import Duties"

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Withdrawal of Hollywood movies do not have a major impact on the cinema business in Indonesia. Domestic film remains a dominant player in the country cinema display. "Local films sold more than foreign films," says film analyst Eric Sasono to Tempo, on Sunday (20 / 3).
Local films have shown their dominance in recent years. Some works such as When Love and Rainbow Warriors attract people. Not surprisingly, nearly 60 percent of customers watching the national cinema
National film has the potential to continue the glory after a post-withdrawal of this Hollywood film. Unfortunately, this potential is hampered by technical factors and quality. He fears that local filmmakers could not offset the production of foreign films that many produce quality films. "What is the national film can offset this continuity?"
In terms of quality, he suggests still a few national film quality. The theme of the film tend to be monotonous and boring national. Only a few national films that are considered qualified. "This could be understood because the infrastructure in Hollywood movies is far more advanced than in Indonesia," he said.
Instead of raising taxes on foreign movies, Eric suggested the government give incentives to the national film industry before raising import duties for import of film royalties 10-fold. Currently, 10 percent of the cost of national films is in the form of taxes in the form of tax materials, equipment rental tax, and income tax.
In addition, he also asked the government to improve infrastructure such as building national film mastering lab. During this Indonesian film maker must make the process of mastering abroad.
Last Friday, the Motion Pictures Association of America (representative of the Hollywood film producer in Indonesia) and the Association of Indonesian Import Film Company (film producer representatives Mandarin and India) to stop the circulation of their films in Indonesia.
"It was a reaction to the provisions of the Directorate General of Customs-Excise duty on the relevant distribution rights to the film," said a spokeswoman for 21 Cineplex is also chairman of All-Indonesia Association of Cinema, Noorca M. Massardi, last Friday. He considers "duty on the right of distribution" are not uncommon in the movie business around the world.
Import duties, he said, only applies to goods imported, not the distribution rights. And so far, as of goods, each film imported coffee into Indonesia has been subject to import duties plus value added tax and income tax amounted to 23.75 percent of the value of the goods. The owner also paid the film tax (15 percent) and entertainment tax to the local government (10-15 percent). 

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