Komunitas Dokumenter is a working group actively moves in documentary film area. Komunitas Dokumenter created by young people with spirit of togetherness and mutual assistance for documentary film appreciation, production, archive, research and socialization. Founded in 2001 Komunitas Dokumenter has a main goal to develop infrastructures in documentary film, with the programs are: human resource development, centre of data and information, socialization and networking, education and training, and annual film festival.

After New Order regime came to an end in 1998, the documentary film has taken a role as medium expressing people thoughts and freedom of expression throughout the country. Because of the shortage of the documentary film foundation and the lack of the reverence and education principally the inadequacy of the appreciation media, the progress of documentary films in Indonesia is limited. Komunitas Dokumenter is committed to promote the documentary film usage as an important expression media and learning tool for the whole society which emphasize on media literacy and revitalizing Indonesian media culture tradition.

Archive program is an embryonic program of Komunitas Dokumenter. This program is devoted to the preservation of national documentary films submitted to the competition program of the Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival. Today it keeps at least 500 DVD and few books, is thus one of the few archives of digital Indonesian documentary cinema. The collection is growing consistently each year.

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Indonesia 2008, 9 min
Director: Steve Pillar Setiabudi, Camera: Ahmad Moetaba

The variety of food offered in Jakarta’s alleys doesn’t come on silent wheels. A strange sound composition based on a hard day’s work. It is dedicated to the people who bring the true sound to the capital.

Indonesia 2009, 9 min
Director/Writer/Producer/Photographer/Editor: Jason Iskandar

A documentary about two Moslem students who study in Catholic school. They offer their views on their country, Indonesia, and its majority religion: Islam.
*(Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country, home to 207 million Muslims - 36 million more than Pakistan)