"This year's JiFFest is attended by producers from 25 countries and regions including China's Hong Kong, India and the United States," the JiFFest Director Lalu Roisamri told Xinhua yesterday.

According to Lalu, Indonesian movie goers have been favoring the films from Hong Kong, the United States and India. JiFFest expected that the public will gradually switch to films produced by the South East Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand.

Lalu said that Indonesian government canceled the Asia Pacific Film Festival (APFF), but JiFFest is different from APFF. "There is no relationship though both of JiFFest and APFF are related to Indonesian film industry," he said.

JiFFest was established in 1999, and the 10th festival presented 138 films from 25 participating countries and regions. JiFFest was supported by the Indonesian Tourism and Culture Ministry, the Jakarta Provincial Government, the Ford Foundation and around 70 government institutions and private companies.