TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Indonesian film figure passes away at 78
JAKARTA: Director and scriptwriter Misbach Yusa Biran, known for pioneering the Indonesian film archive, died on Wednesday morning at the age of 78
Change Size
J
AKARTA: Director and scriptwriter Misbach Yusa Biran, known for pioneering the Indonesian film archive, died on Wednesday morning at the age of 78.
Kompas.com reported the filmmaker passed away after undergoing intensive treatment at Eka Hospital in Tangerang
He is survived by his wife, veteran actress Nani Widjaya, with whom he had six children.
According to a relative, Misbach will be buried in a family graveyard in Bogor, next to his late daughter Sukma Ayu, an actress who died at 24.
Apart from being active in film, Misbach was also known as a scriptwriter, a short story writer and a columnist.
