Screening Hours On Christmas And New Year Holidays Are Limited Anies, Cinema Entrepreneurs Give Up

JAKARTA - The Association of Indonesian Cinema Entrepreneurs (GPBSI) revealed the impact of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in DKI Jakarta which caused significant losses. Moreover, there are new regulations that are no less making entrepreneurs even more depressed.

As is known, the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan imposed a new regulation on the deadline for film screenings in theaters at 19.00 WIB during the Christmas and New Year 2021 holidays.

GPBSI Chairman Djonny Syafruddin said his party could only surrender in responding to the policy. In fact, at this moment entrepreneurs can reap a bigger turnover than normal days.

"We are on average almost 30-40 percent of the average normal day, including Eid al-Fitr. In the months there are only warnings. But, we obey (the rules) because we have to be united in this situation," he told VOI, Thursday, December 18.

Djonny added, with the enactment of the new regulation on film viewing limits, it will definitely reduce turnover. Moreover, the cinema has not yet recovered. During the implementation of the PSBB, the number of visitors was only 15 percent at most.

Moreover, said Djonny, there were also no films shown. Western films have also been postponed until March 2021. However, the screening of Wonder Woman has made the number of visits increased. But not significant.

"Wow, if we count a lot. I am not ethical to mention numbers, because in the face of a pandemic, the losses have been totaled for how many months, not billions anymore, but trillions," he said.

Djonny revealed that the losses were experienced by assuming that each cinema recorded revenue of Rp1 billion per month, but due to the pandemic and the existence of PSBB, that income had plummeted.

"So if the average revenue for each cinema is for example only Rp1 billion, times 400 cinemas, just imagine. That is per month. Trillions are the main thing (the loss)," he explained.

During the three months since it started its operation, said Djonny, the cinema he owned only recorded an income of Rp 200 thousand to Rp 800 thousand per day. In fact, before the pandemic, income per day could reach Rp. 5 million to Rp. 20 million.