Whether it is a heartbroken teen watching a sinetron reboot on Netflix, a mother watching a cooking video on YouTube, or a father laughing at a Dangdut remix on TikTok, Indonesia has proven that you do not need English language or Western budgets to capture the attention of a billion screens.
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The backbone of traditional has always been the sinetron (soap opera). For years, these melodramatic, binge-worthy series dominated free-to-air TV. However, the landscape changed drastically with the arrival of global Over-The-Top (OTT) platforms like Netflix, Viu, and WeTV.
