The Jak

In recent weeks, we’ve featured several remarkable photos of Indonesian football supporters: as ursus actos noted in the comments, the passion displayed is both remarkable and surprising.

Also in the comments were links from Yusuf, a filmmaker who features Indonesian football culture. The following clips from youtube offer inticing teasers of his work.

The Jak:

The Conductors (stick with it):

3 Responses to "The Jak"

andibachtiar yusuf says:

October 24, 2007 at 1:20 pm

The Jak, the Jakarta’s football supporters documentary has been banned from Bandung today (24 October 2007). Bandung is the biggest rival for the Jakartans, hardcore enemy, so they came to the cinema and threat them with knives etc just to make sure that the cinema network won’t show the film in Bandung
ursus arctos says:

October 24, 2007 at 3:57 pm

Yusuf, make sure that your agent knows that story and gets some clippings. It will without question make the film more saleable outside of Indonesia.

I continue to be extremely interested in all of this, in large part because the Jak supporters seem to be in the process of creating a fairly unique amalgam of styles of support found elsewhere, without having appropriated any of them wholesale. Scarves from England, tifos and capi from Italy, elements of Japanese/Korean mass cheers, but all the instrumentation seems identifiably Indonesian, as do their tunes.
Jakarta Casual says:

December 12, 2007 at 2:25 am

you can find out more about persija and indonesian football at http://jakartacasual.blogspot.com

for pictures of the fans in and out of the stadiums check out http://asianfootballpix.blogspot.com

having seen both of Yusuf’s movies I can recomennd them. the fan scenes are quality and capture the atmosphere inside stadiums here

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