Indonesia cinema industry set for change
Foreign firms are looking to profit from the opening of the fiercely protected movie market
Jakarta
INDONESIA'S opening of its fiercely protected cinema industry is whetting the appetite of overseas firms such as South Korea's CJ CGV Co Ltd, looking to profit from an increase in the supply of foreign movies to a vast, underdeveloped market.
The movie market is one of dozens of industries Indonesia liberalised last week in a "Big Bang" shake-up that one minister called the largest opening of South-east Asia's biggest economy to foreign investors in 10 years.
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