1. salmam Said,

   i think why scifi genre has not grow in
   indonesia its because the majority of indonesian investor would rather invest in a horror films with shallow story and famous stars. sci fi movies need deep story plot and more budget for special effects and nobody wants to invest with high risk…

2. aldi_aditya Said,

   Saya mahasiswa pascasarjana yang sedang menulis tesis mengenai karya fiksi ilmiah di indonesia, terutama karya Djokolelono. Saya punya beberapa pendapat mengenai tiga hal yang anda ajukan:

   1. Fiksi-sains tidak populer di Indonesia karena kritik sastra di indonesia sendiri belum memandang bahwa SF adalah satu genre yang “penting”. Wacana karya “utama” dalam sastra Indonesia sendiri didominasi oleh sastra-sastra berbau politik, gender, dan adat, sehingga karya-karya SF masih tersubordinasikan dan dipinggirkan sebagai bacaan populer.

   2. Fiksi ilmiah sendiri tidaklah sulit ditemukan di Indonesia, karena proses persinggungan masyarakat dengan karya SF telah dimulai sejak tahun 1890-an, dengan diterjemahkannya karya-karya Verne. SF hidup dalam bentuk novel grafis, patut ditulis nama karya Kapten Komet dalam periode 1950-an.

   3, Asumsi bahwa banyak penggemar SF akan mengakses bahan ilegal tidaklah beralasan karena kegiatan mengakses bahan ilegal tidak hanya dilakukan penggemar SF saja, namun lebih kepada perilaku masyarakat luas.

   Saya akan senang hati berdiskusi lebih lanjut lewat e-mail.

   [translated comment:
   I'm a postgraduate student who is writing a thesis regardig Indonesian science fiction, especially the works of Djokolelono. I myself have a few opinions regarding those three things you mentioned:

   1. Science fiction isn't popular in Indonesia because the literary critics in Indonesia haven't view SF as a 'important' genre. The mainstreem works of Indonesian literature are dominated by the themes such as political, gender, and cultural, thus SF works are of subordinated and marginalised as popular works.

   2. The SF genre itself isn't hard to find in Indonesia, because the intersection between the people and SF works have begun since the 1890s with the translated works of Vurne's writings. SF have appeared in the forms of novels and comics, for example the works Kapten Komet in the 1950s.

   3. The assumption that SF fans will access illegal works is hard to sustain because the accessing illegal materials aren't just done by SF fans, but also by the larger community.

   I would love to discuss this further through email.]

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