Scriptwriter Services

Here is what we have to work with. We connect shoots with scriptwriters across Indonesia, drawing on writing talent centred on Jakarta, the heart of the domestic film and television industry, and Bali. Our team matches the writer to the project: original feature screenplays, episodic series writing, commercial and branded scripts, or the adaptation and localisation of a global concept for an Indonesian audience.

Here is the layout. We brief the scriptwriter on treatment, drafts, structure and revision rounds, and we are clear with clients about language: writers can work in Indonesian, the national language understood across the archipelago, in English, or in both, and many handle culturally accurate dialogue in regional languages such as Javanese or Balinese where a story demands it. We manage scheduling and fees in Indonesian rupiah. Make sure the writer communicates fluently in English with global producers and development executives. Indonesia gives a scriptwriter a rich and commercially active environment.

Here is how the work shapes up. The domestic industry is large and fast-growing, one of Asia's biggest by cinema admissions, and heavy investment from Netflix and other streamers has sharply increased demand for original local writing. The country's cinema spans genres with global reach, from the action of Gareth Evans's 'The Raid' to the horror of Joko Anwar and the festival drama of Mouly Surya's 'Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts', giving writers strong reference points across tones.

Here is how it adds up. The deeper storytelling heritage runs through wayang shadow puppetry and the oral and mythic traditions of over 1,300 ethnic groups, and a scriptwriter working here can draw authentically on that material. With more than 700 languages spoken across the archipelago, writers also bring genuine cultural literacy to dialogue, character and setting that an outside writer would struggle to match.