Ruma Maida


Ruma Maida released internationally as Maidas House is a 2009 Indonesian film written by Ayu Utami, directed by Teddy Soeriaatmadja and starring Atiqah Hasiholan, Yama Carlosid , Nino Fernandez, and Frans Tumbuan. It details a womans struggle to save a historic house from a developer it also shows the life of the houses original owner.

A young history student, Maida Atiqah Hasiholan, a Christian, runs a free school for street children in Jakarta. The school is in a house that once belonged to Ishak Pahing Nino Fernandez, a Christian Indo composer and pilot, and his Muslim wife Nani Kuddus Imelda Soraya Pahing wrote the song Pulau Tenggara The SouthEastern Island, which inspired President Sukarno to help form the NonAligned Movement, while living in the house. As Maida learns about Pahing, she decides to write her undergraduate thesis about his life.One day her class is interrupted by the young Muslim architect Sakera Yama Carlos, who has been told to evict Maidas school by his employer, the developer Dasaad Muchlisin Frans Tumbuan. As Maida and Sakera argue in the streets, rioting breaks out around them. Sakera protects the halfChinese Maida, then tells her that he will help her keep the house, although it is scheduled to be demolished within a week. ........

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