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November 6, 2007

LAYAR tancap: The term for roving cinemas that usually show films in villages on a screen in the open. Many also call themselves misbar, an abbreviation meaning “as soon as it rains the show’s over.” The films shown, well, they are usually old-time comedies about a group of coffee shop buffoons or Rhoma Irama films—the king of Indonesia’s popular dangdut music.

It is these unique layar tancap films that are now shifting their screens t

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