Netflix spotlight falls on Southeast Asian films

Hit Indonesian picture spurs streaming giant's commitment to local content

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Action-packed Vietnamese revenge thriller "Furies" (2023) is set in the criminal underbelly of 1990s Ho Chi Minh City, where three female vigilantes team up to smash a crime syndicate to smithereens. (Courtesy of Netflix)

MARCO FERRARESE, Contributing writer

JAKARTA -- Against all expectations, one of the most globally watched non-English-language films released by U.S.-based streaming giant Netflix is an Indonesian action movie, which had amassed more than 16 million hours of viewing at the end of 2022.

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