![]() The first movie theatre in Jakarta was the Alhamra Theatre, which opened in 1931. During 1926, there were two movie theatres, the Oriental and the Elita, in Bandung. ![]() However, the first domestically produced film in the Dutch East Indies was in 1926: Loetoeng Kasaroeng, a silent film, which was an adaptation of the Sundanese legend of the same name. The first domestically produced documentaries in Indonesia were produced in 1911. Many documentaries about the nature and life of Indonesia were sponsored by the Dutch East Indies government and were usually made by the Dutch or at least Western European studios. Most of these films were silent documentaries and feature films from France and the United States. ![]() Until the 1920s, most cinema in Indonesia was produced by foreign studios, mostly from Europe, and the United States, whose films would then be imported to the country. ![]() The Indonesian Film Agency or BPI defines Indonesian film as "movies that are made with Indonesian resources, and wholly or partly Intellectual Property is owned by Indonesian citizens or legal entities in Indonesia". Cinema of Indonesia is film that is produced domestically in Indonesia.
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