{ "id": "epjrraygw0", "slug": "ratu-ratu-queens-the-series", "title": "Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv", "label": "Scripted television and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series", "label": "Drama and prestige series (individual series)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.family-and-relationship-drama", "label": "Family and relationship drama", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.family-and-relationship-drama" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.family-and-relationship-drama.family-and-domestic-drama", "label": "Family and domestic drama", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.family-and-relationship-drama.family-and-domestic-drama" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.family-and-relationship-drama.family-and-domestic-drama.family-sagas-and-household-dramas", "label": "Family sagas and household dramas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.family-and-relationship-drama.family-and-domestic-drama.family-sagas-and-household-dramas" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Asia (other) · 2021 and later: Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "path": [ { "id": "geo.asia", "label": "Asia (other)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021", "label": "Asia (other) · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series is a 2025 six-episode Netflix Indonesian drama, a prequel to the 2021 film Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens, following Party, Ance, Chinta, and Biyah as Indonesian immigrants in Queens, New York, in 2013.", "snippet": "Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series is a 2025 six-episode Netflix Indonesian drama, a prequel to the 2021 film Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens, following Party, Ance, Chinta, and Biyah as Indonesian immigrants in Queens, New York, in 2013.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.family-and-relationship-drama.family-and-domestic-drama.family-sagas-and-household-dramas", "markdown": "# Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series\n\n**Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series** is a 2025 Indonesian drama series released on Netflix, following four Indonesian immigrant women who leave their homes and build new lives together in Queens, New York[1](https://qr.netflix.com/title/81655101). It is a prequel to the 2021 Netflix film *Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens*, showing how the four women at the center of that film first met and became a chosen family[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/trailer-of-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series). The series premiered globally on September 12, 2025, with six episodes[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/trailer-of-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series) • [1](https://qr.netflix.com/title/81655101).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | Indonesian drama series, 6 episodes, rated TV-MA on Netflix[1](https://qr.netflix.com/title/81655101) |\n| Premiere | September 12, 2025, globally on Netflix[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/trailer-of-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series) |\n| Relation to film | Prequel to *Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens* (2021), set about ten years before the film's events[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/trailer-of-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series) • [3](https://magdalene.co/story/review-serial-ratu-ratu-queens/) |\n| Main cast | Nirina Zubir (Party), Tika Panggabean (Ance), Happy Salma (Chinta), Asri Welas (Biyah)[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35671099/fullcredits/) |\n| Key crew | Director Lucky Kuswandi; writer Andri Cung; producer and showrunner Muhammad Zaidy; production company Palari Films[5](https://palarifilms.com/film/detail/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series) • [2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/trailer-of-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series) |\n| Setting | Queens, New York, in 2013, among the Indonesian diaspora[3](https://magdalene.co/story/review-serial-ratu-ratu-queens/) |\n| Audience score | 7.2/10 on IMDb from 224 user ratings[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35671099/ratings/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and characters\n\nThe series follows Party, Ance, Chinta, and Biyah, four Indonesian women with different personalities who have each independently moved to New York. In the first episode, they unexpectedly meet one another just as their lives start falling apart, and over the season they form a tenuous household in a shared apartment[1](https://qr.netflix.com/title/81655101).\n\nEach woman carries a distinct set of pressures. Party (Nirina Zubir) works without legal status while trying to hold on to her apartment and earn a promotion; Ance (Tika Panggabean), raising her child alone, deals with that only daughter growing into adolescence; Chinta (Happy Salma) is abruptly confronted with her husband's demand for a divorce; and Biyah (Asri Welas) will take on any job to get by, even performing in costume as a hot dog or as the [Statue of Liberty](https://www.edgepedia.org/statue-of-liberty)[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/trailer-of-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series). Later episodes follow Party through debt and immigration trouble, a health scare for Ance's friend circle to solve, and a betrayal that tests the group's bond before the finale, \"Finding Home\"[1](https://qr.netflix.com/title/81655101).\n\nThe four lead roles are played by the same actresses who played the characters in the 2021 film: Nirina Zubir as Party, Tika Panggabean as Ance, Happy Salma as Chinta, and Asri Welas as Biyah[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35671099/fullcredits/). The supporting cast includes Yoshi Sudarso as Bisma and Luna Allegra Kurtz as Eva, Ance's daughter[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35671099/fullcredits/) • [5](https://palarifilms.com/film/detail/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series).\n\n## Production history\n\n**The series came first.** Producer Muhammad Zaidy said at a September 2025 press conference that the idea of a series about four Indonesian diaspora women in the United States arose in 2015, before the film existed; the story of the four women was designed from the start for a serial format[7](https://www.idntimes.com/hype/entertainment/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series-sudah-direncanakan-sebelum-filmnya-00-hwff8-52nqz6/amp). Zaidy, who had lived in Queens alongside Indonesian immigrant women, drew the characters from real people he knew there, adapted for the screen[7](https://www.idntimes.com/hype/entertainment/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series-sudah-direncanakan-sebelum-filmnya-00-hwff8-52nqz6/amp) • [8](https://www.tvonenews.com/berita/nasional/370487-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series-tayang-perdana-di-netflix-ceritakan-kehidupan-diaspora-di-new-york?page=all).\n\nThe project reached screens first as a feature. *Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens*, directed by Lucky Kuswandi and written by Gina S. Noer, was released globally on Netflix on June 17, 2021, telling the story of a 19-year-old Jakartan, Ali, who travels to New York in search of his long-lost mother and finds a substitute family in the four women[9](https://about.netflix.com/id/news/discover-the-true-meaning-of-family-with-ali-and-ratu-ratu-queens). The film's warm portrayal of the four women drew calls for a spin-off centered on them[10](https://www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/ali-and-ratu-ratu-queens-review-iqbaal-ramadhan-2971608).\n\nThe prequel series was produced by Palari Films with Zaidy as showrunner, Kuswandi as director, and Andri Cung as screenwriter; Meiske Taurisia is also credited as producer[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/trailer-of-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series) • [5](https://palarifilms.com/film/detail/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series). Gina S. Noer and Muhammad Zaidy are credited on IMDb as creators of the characters[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35671099/fullcredits/). Nirina Zubir said in September 2024 that shooting had wrapped, and that in the series she plays the character roughly fifteen years younger than in the film's timeline[11](https://hypeabis.id/read/41056/nirina-zubir-sebut-syuting-prekuel-ali-ratu-ratu-queens-rampung-bakal-tayang-2025).\n\n## Themes and reception\n\nThe series is set in 2013, a decade before the film's events, and reconstructs early-2010s New York through period styling in clothing, accessories, and apartment interiors[3](https://magdalene.co/story/review-serial-ratu-ratu-queens/) • [12](https://www.idntimes.com/hype/entertainment/review-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series-bikin-ketawa-sambil-nangis-00-hwff8-nz5vmj). Reviewers highlighted its balance of comedy and drama: the Indonesian review site IDN Times described it as capturing the reality of migrant life honestly, including the difficulty of maintaining a facade of wellbeing in front of family back home[12](https://www.idntimes.com/hype/entertainment/review-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series-bikin-ketawa-sambil-nangis-00-hwff8-nz5vmj). Magdalene framed its central theme as chosen family and collective care, with four women battered by circumstance finding and healing each other in a city usually celebrated as a symbol of dreams[3](https://magdalene.co/story/review-serial-ratu-ratu-queens/). Common Sense Media judged that performances that initially feel cartoonish deepen as the women bond, and noted that the series can be enjoyed without having seen the film[13](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/ratu-ratu-queens).\n\nAn academic study using Teun A. van Dijk's critical discourse analysis framework read the series as a critique of the romanticization of life abroad. It identified three dominant discourses: a deconstruction of the [American Dream](https://www.edgepedia.org/american-dream), contrasting the image of America as a land of opportunity with economic hardship, undocumented status, and identity crisis; diaspora vulnerability, shaped by legal uncertainty, loss of primary support, and moral pressure from family in Indonesia; and the social context of real Indonesian diaspora communities in the United States[14](https://journal.unpas.ac.id/index.php/pendas/article/view/53783).\n\nOn IMDb, the series holds a 7.2/10 rating weighted from 224 user votes, with Indonesia and the United States the countries contributing the most ratings[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35671099/ratings/). Netflix lists the series with a TV-MA maturity rating[1](https://qr.netflix.com/title/81655101), while Common Sense Media lists it as TV-14 and recommends it for ages 13 and up[13](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/ratu-ratu-queens).\n\n## References\n\n1. [Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series, Netflix title page](https://qr.netflix.com/title/81655101)\n2. [Netflix Unveils Heartwarming Trailer for 'Ratu Ratu Queens': The Series, About Netflix (13 August 2025)](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/trailer-of-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series)\n3. [Syifa Maulida, 'Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series' dan Collective Care yang Menyelamatkan Mereka, Magdalene (1 October 2025)](https://magdalene.co/story/review-serial-ratu-ratu-queens/)\n4. [Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series (2025) Full Cast & Crew, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35671099/fullcredits/)\n5. [Ratu-Ratu Queens: The Series, Palari Films](https://palarifilms.com/film/detail/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series)\n6. [Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series (2025) Ratings, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35671099/ratings/)\n7. [Ide Serial Ratu Ratu Queens Sudah Ada Lebih Dulu dari Versi Filmnya, IDN Times (13 September 2025)](https://www.idntimes.com/hype/entertainment/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series-sudah-direncanakan-sebelum-filmnya-00-hwff8-52nqz6/amp)\n8. [Ratu Ratu Queens The Series Tayang Perdana di Netflix, tvOneNews](https://www.tvonenews.com/berita/nasional/370487-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series-tayang-perdana-di-netflix-ceritakan-kehidupan-diaspora-di-new-york?page=all)\n9. [Temukan Arti Keluarga Sesungguhnya Bersama Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens, About Netflix (5 May 2021)](https://about.netflix.com/id/news/discover-the-true-meaning-of-family-with-ali-and-ratu-ratu-queens)\n10. [Hidzir Junaini, 'Ali and Ratu Ratu Queens' review, NME (17 June 2021)](https://www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/ali-and-ratu-ratu-queens-review-iqbaal-ramadhan-2971608)\n11. [Nirina Zubir Sebut Syuting Prekuel Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens Rampung, Hypeabis.id (3 September 2024)](https://hypeabis.id/read/41056/nirina-zubir-sebut-syuting-prekuel-ali-ratu-ratu-queens-rampung-bakal-tayang-2025)\n12. [Review Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series, IDN Times (14 September 2025)](https://www.idntimes.com/hype/entertainment/review-ratu-ratu-queens-the-series-bikin-ketawa-sambil-nangis-00-hwff8-nz5vmj)\n13. [Ratu Ratu Queens: Parents' Guide, Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/ratu-ratu-queens)\n14. [Najwa Naira and Syafrida N. Febriyanti, Wacana Diaspora Perempuan Indonesia dalam Serial Ratu-Ratu Queens (2025), Pendas: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Dasar](https://journal.unpas.ac.id/index.php/pendas/article/view/53783)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Drama and prestige series (individual series) › Family and relationship drama › Family and domestic drama › Family sagas and household dramas*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/ratu-ratu-queens-the-series.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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