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At Bumi Manusia Museum, Pramoedya Ananta Toer's legacy lives on
After the film’s production was completed, the house was inaugurated on Aug. 13 as the Bumi Manusia Museum by Hanung and Astuti, one of the daughters of Indonesia's most-venerated writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who wrote the novel Bumi Manusia.
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The house where director Hanung Bramantyo filmed 'Bumi Manusia' at Gamplong Nature Studio.
(JP/Bambang Muryanto)
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very weekend, the big two-story wooden house at Gamplong Nature Studio in Sleman regency, Yogyakarta, is crowded with local tourists.
Visitors can be seen taking selfies in the dining room, the living room and on the terrace, which are all filled with vintage-style furniture and accessories.
The house, which was built especially by director Hanung Bramantyo to film Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind), features a mix of tropical and Dutch East Indies styles. Following the screening of the film, which achieved more than 1 million ticket sales, the building now serves as a new tourist destination in Yogyakarta.
In the film, the house was the residence of Nyai Ontosoroh, the mentor and mother-in-law of Minke, the personification of RM Tirto Adhi Soerjo, one of the nation’s heroes who began the country's Awakening Movement in 1908.
After the film’s production was completed, the house was inaugurated on Aug. 13 as the Bumi Manusia Museum by Hanung and Astuti, one of the daughters of Indonesia's most-venerated writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who wrote the novel Bumi Manusia.
First published in 1980, Bumi Manusia is the first book of Pramoedya's Tetralogi Buru (Buru Quartet), which was written during his exile on Buru Island and has been translated into more than 20 languages.
"[The museum] is very nice; I'm excited to be able to see the location of a film I've watched," said Dea Risna, a visitor, on Oct. 4.
