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How Morgan Oey Becomes Teacher Amidst Racism

Monday, February 2, 2026

Morgan Oey succeeds in delivering an emotionally credible truth through a carefully controlled escalation.

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HISTORY, perhaps, is a siege that never truly ends. In Pengepungan di Bukit Duri (The Siege at Thorn High), Morgan Oey portrays Edwin, a survivor of a fictional racial riot rooted in the collective memory of the May 1998 tragedy.

Years later, Edwin returns to a city that felt unfamiliar. He is driven by a quiet search for a nephew born of darkness, from rape committed when law and reason were consumed by fire. His sister had succumbed to il

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Sugar Nadia
Director of the Madani Film Festival and Chair of the Film Committee, Jakarta Arts Council

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