TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Pramono—not his real name—ended up watching Pesta Babi: Kolonialisme di Zaman Kita (Pig Feast: Colonialism in Our Time) in secret inside his boarding-house room after hearing reports that group screenings in several regions had been banned by soldiers and university officials. The student at a university in Surakarta, Central Java, asked that his identity be concealed because he feared reprisals for organizing a screening.
Pramono said he created a new Instagram account on Monday, May 11, 2026, to circulate an announcement for a screening of Pig Feast. He deliberately did not publish a contact number or the venue. The poster only listed the screening time. Interested viewers could contact him through the platform’s messaging feature.
The reason Pramono held the screening covertly was to avoid attracting soldiers and neighborhood officials to his boarding house. In the end, only 10 people attended—all fellow residents of the house. “We were afraid of being raided,” he said on Friday, May 15.
Pig Feast was the product of a collaboration among several civil society organizations and was directed by Dandhy Dwi Laksono and Cypri Jehan Paju Dale. Dandhy is a journalist known for documentaries such as Sexy Killers (2019), The Endgame (2021), and Dirty Vote (2024). Cypri, meanwhile, is an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. The film chronicles logging, militarism, and Indigenous Papuan resistance to the government’s food estate project in Papua.
