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Pangku: A Bitter Portrait of the Marginalized

Monday, February 2, 2026

Pangku captures the bitter realities of life on the fringes of Indramayu society through the prolonged use of static camerawork.

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A TRUCK pulls to a stop at midnight in front of a roadside stall. A heavily pregnant young woman drops off from the vehicle. Disoriented, with nowhere to go, she asks the stall owner to take her in.

Several months later, she gives birth to a baby boy, whose father remains unknown. She raises her son in the very coffee stall that doubles as her home, working as a coffee seller who is expected to seat male customers on her lap. Those who frequent

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Nurman Hakim
Film lecturer at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts (IKJ)

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