Kimo Stamboel's Story Brings Local Zombi 'Abadi Nan Jaya' To Global Viewers

Kimo Stamboel (Netflix)

JAKARTA - Director Kimo Stamboel shared his latest experience working on the film Abadi Nan Jaya. This film is his latest collaboration with Netflix by carrying a story with local stories.

"Indeed, from the start, I wanted to bring this film to be thick with Indonesia if the scenario in Indonesia was talking about the people and all kinds of things and the attributes. The story is very thick, such as circumcision and the cause of the herbal medicine," said Kimo Stamboel at a press conference in South Jakarta on Wednesday, October 22.

"Special, because this is a horror sub-genre that I wanted to make from the start. We made Netflix with proper. Experience as making it fun, it's rarely a lot that can pull that off. Alhamdulillah Netflix gives us space and time for that," he said.

Because of the local film, Kimo told me that what he made in this film was a fire with a local identity that would be relevant to the community. This is expected to be an attention for global audiences to the film.

"I really want things that are rarely picked up and this is a global platform, so from this, what locality is introduced and filming in rural areas and there are dangduts. There are others who are actually circumcision. We also bring circumcisions like that and small things that I want to bring firecrackers, there are police that are very local, "continued Kimo Stamboel.

Abadi Nan Jaya tells the story of a Dimin (Donny Damara) who gets pressure from his children (Marthino Lio, Mikha Tambayong) to sell his herbal factory. Dimin, who has just mixed the herbal medicine, refuses the idea until he feels a change in his body and threatens the people around him.

The Eternal Nan Jaya film will be released on Netflix starting October 23, 2025.