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-         Indonesia's Animation Industry Eyes to Scoop 1% World Market Share

            PT Kinema Systrans Multimedia Infinite Studios Technology Director Daniel Harjanto said currently Indonesia animation market is still 0.9%. This amount could potentially increase. Moreover, the current contribution from film, television, and radio to national creative industry is still very small.

            He said fashion particularly apparel products still (dominate , dominating  dominated, dominates) the creative (industries, industried, industry) growth nationwide. "The target is to increase up to 1% to US$2.42 billion. The difference in our industry is that we need human resources (HR) idea instead of raw materials. Our employees are 95% local, the rest are from Ireland, Canada, Singapore, and India," he said Thursday (07/05/2012). PT Kinema Systrans Multimedia Assistant Head of Studio and Head of VFX Studios Infinite Leo Hartadi added in early 2005, the company only has less than five employees. Currently, it has (reached, reaching, reaches) around 200 employees. "Our employees have increased. The studio has been also (relocated, relocating, relocate, relocates)," he said.

-          Hollywood Studios Outsource Animation to Indonesia

            Hollywood studios are (outsourcing, outsourced, outsourcete, outsources) some of their (animating, animate, animated, animates) work to Indonesia in a nod to the (improving, improved, improves, improvete) quality of the country’s artists, but more still needs to be done before locally (produced, producing, produces) animations can rival American releases, officials say. Triharso, the Industry Ministry’s director for the electronics and IT industries, said on Thursday that Indonesian animators were fast being acknowledged as competent internationally. “Several local studios have received orders for work from the United States, Japan and Europe,” he said on the sidelines of the 2012 Creative Industry Festival (Increfest) in Bandung.

            He did not name any of the major studios that outsourced their work here or any of the movies on which Indonesian studios had (contributed, contribute, contributing, contributes) .“In terms of the competency of our human resources, Indonesian animators are ahead of their Malaysian counterparts,” Triharso said. He added that this could be seen in the large number of Indonesian artists working at Malaysian studios, conceding that government support for the industry there was better than in Indonesia.