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Indra Porhas Siagian is a graphic designer and independent documentary filmmaker based in Jakarta. Her work focuses on storytelling through documentary filmmaking, visual design, and motion graphic elements. Her debut short documentary, Mamapolitan, earned First Prize at the Papua Film Festival II (Jayapura, 2018) and went on to receive international festival selections, including Indigenous International Film Festival 2019 (Malaysia) and Kaum Festival 2020 (Berlin). She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary, The Unburied.…Indra Porhas Siagian is a graphic designer and independent documentary filmmaker based in Jakarta. Her work focuses on storytelling through documentary filmmaking, visual design, and motion graphic elements. Her debut short documentary, Mamapolitan, earned First Prize at the Papua Film Festival II (Jayapura, 2018) and went on to receive international festival selections, including Indigenous International Film Festival 2019 (Malaysia) and Kaum Festival 2020 (Berlin). She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary, The Unburied.

Indra Porhas Siagian

Documentary Filmmaker, Video Editor, Cinematographer, +5

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Indra Porhas Siagian is a graphic designer and independent documentary filmmaker based in Jakarta. Her work focuses on storytelling through documentary filmmaking, visual design, and motion graphic elements. Her debut short documentary, Mamapolitan, earned First Prize at the Papua Film Festival II (Jayapura, 2018) and went on to receive international festival selections, including Indigenous International Film Festival 2019 (Malaysia) and Kaum Festival 2020 (Berlin). She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary, The Unburied.…Indra Porhas Siagian is a graphic designer and independent documentary filmmaker based in Jakarta. Her work focuses on storytelling through documentary filmmaking, visual design, and motion graphic elements. Her debut short documentary, Mamapolitan, earned First Prize at the Papua Film Festival II (Jayapura, 2018) and went on to receive international festival selections, including Indigenous International Film Festival 2019 (Malaysia) and Kaum Festival 2020 (Berlin). She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary, The Unburied.

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Indra Porhas Siagian is a graphic designer and independent documentary filmmaker based in Jakarta. Her work focuses on storytelling through documentary filmmaking, visual design, and motion graphic elements.

Her debut short documentary, Mamapolitan, earned First Prize at the Papua Film Festival II (Jayapura, 2018) and went on to receive international festival selections, including Indigenous International Film Festival 2019 (Malaysia) and Kaum Festival 2020 (Berlin). She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary, The Unburied.

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English

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Indonesian

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Director at The Unburied

January 1, 2026 - Present

Directing the feature-length documentary The Unburied, about survivors of the 1965–66 genocide across Indonesia's islands who are building memorial markers at mass grave sites to restore dignity and confront ongoing state denial.

Motion Design at SOGIE Asia (ASC) Southeast Asia SOGIE Caucus

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Video campaign contribution supporting the Southeast Asia Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Caucus in the Philippines, delivered through motion design work.

Motion Designer at The Southeast Asia SOGIE Caucus (Sogie Asia)

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2019

Created motion design assets for a video campaign supporting LGBTQ+ rights in Southeast Asia (Philippines).

Director at Mamapolitan

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016

Directed Mamapolitan, an 18-minute short documentary profiling Agustina Helena Kobogauw, a Papuan woman navigating life in Jakarta while maintaining her Wolani and Moni cultural identity.