Yonri Revolt

The Mambesak Group was active in Jayapura from 1978 to 1984. After the murder of Arnold Ap in 1984, the group, whose members were dominated by students from various regions in Papua, disbanded. Gradually, the ideas of Mambesak began to fade. With a cinema varite narrative style, this film tries to articulate the traces of the ideas of Arnold Ap and the Mambesak Group as mediators between their generation and the traces of their ancestors and Papuan culture.

After his adoptive father returned to the Netherlands, the film director opened his diary and discovered personal stories that he didn’t know existed. Stories about love, armed conflict, and colonialism are told through the eyes of a man named Soebertono Mote a.k.a Father Bert Hagendoorn.

In their five-year ongoing strike, the workers are still surviving and struggling to make ends meet. Deni Purba sells used clothes after being released from prison. Steven Yawan who still continues to speak loudly in the capital. Musyawir with his expertise in coffee tells the story of the brutal actions at the beginning of the strike.

The Mambesak Group was active in Jayapura from 1978 to 1984. After the murder of Arnold Ap in 1984, the group, whose members were dominated by students from various regions in Papua, disbanded. Gradually, the ideas of Mambesak began to fade. With a cinema varite narrative style, this film tries to articulate the traces of the ideas of Arnold Ap and the Mambesak Group as mediators between their generation and the traces of their ancestors and Papuan culture.

After his adoptive father returned to the Netherlands, the film director opened his diary and discovered personal stories that he didn’t know existed. Stories about love, armed conflict, and colonialism are told through the eyes of a man named Soebertono Mote a.k.a Father Bert Hagendoorn.

After his adoptive father returned to the Netherlands, the film director opened his diary and discovered personal stories that he didn’t know existed. Stories about love, armed conflict, and colonialism are told through the eyes of a man named Soebertono Mote a.k.a Father Bert Hagendoorn.

In their five-year ongoing strike, the workers are still surviving and struggling to make ends meet. Deni Purba sells used clothes after being released from prison. Steven Yawan who still continues to speak loudly in the capital. Musyawir with his expertise in coffee tells the story of the brutal actions at the beginning of the strike.