Domination of Hollywood and foreign films in movie theaters were other reasons for Indonesian film slowly losing its place and popularity. The industry was struggling to gain public interest to go watch films in the movie theaters, and films produced mostly show very limited choices between teenage dramas or horror and adult genres. Around this era, young stars like Onky Alexander, Meriam Bellina, Lydia Kandou, Nike Ardilla, Paramitha Rusady and Desy Ratnasari dominated the silver screen with films like Catatan si Boy (Boy's Diary) and Blok M. Indonesian cinema reached its first big step to dominate majorities of movie theaters in big cities in the 1980s, and started to compete around international film festivals before its downfall in the 1990s with the economic clash and political movements. 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”. The first movie theatre in Jakarta was the Alhamra theatre, which was opened in 1931. During 1926, there were movie theatres named as Oriental and 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. Cinema of Indonesia is film or that is produced domestically, in Indonesia.
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