Fishing Platform
6.9
After his mothers death, 12-year-old Jaya (Iqbal S. Manurung) is sent to his father, Johar (Didi Petet), who works as a supervisor on a jermal (a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea). Johar is shocked, never knowing he has a son, and rejects the boy as his kin. Fully aware he cant bring Jaya back to land due to a dark past, Johar is forced to accept the boy as a worker on the site. Faced with constant rejection from his father and relentless bullying by the other boys who work on the jermal, Jaya decides to take fate into his own hands. He gives up hope on being accepted and learns the skills and attitude needed to survive on the jermal. Jaya increasingly becomes like the other boys: a tough, rough survivor; while Johar is forced to gradually face and accept his past. Eventually, both Johar and Jaya learn that they are bound by their past, united by the space in which they move, and connected by the inescapable truth.
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Cast
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Didi Petet
Johar
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Iqbal S. Manurung
Jaya
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Satrio Budiono
Jeroen Beker
Rayya Makarim
Iqbal S Manurung
Jaya
Ravi L Bharwani
Yayu Unru
Bandi
Known for
Headshot
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
Orlow Seunke
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Wim Brouwer
Ravi L. Bharwani
Chairil Anwar Dalimunthe
Gion
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Ravi Bharwani Director · Rayya Makarim Director Utawa Tresno Director
United States release October 12, 2009 · Produced in Indonesia · Original title Jermal
Production
ECCO Films Indonesia
Production
Indonesia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Jermal
Original language
Indonesian
Spoken on screen
Indonesian
Release dates
South Korea · October 7, 2008
Pusan International Film Festival
Indonesia · March 15, 2009
Theatrical
United States · October 12, 2009
Mill Valley Film Festival
Canada
August 1, 2009 · Montréal Film Festival
Sweden
February 14, 2013 · TV premiere
Thailand
September 26, 2009 · Bangkok International Film Festival
United Kingdom
June 1, 2009 · Edinburgh International Film Festival
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