{ "id": "eppp7njamm", "slug": "tjoet-nja-dhien", "title": "Tjoet Nja' Dhien", "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.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical", "label": "War and historical films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical.historical-dramas-and-epics", "label": "Historical dramas and epics", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical.historical-dramas-and-epics" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical.historical-dramas-and-epics.alpha-m-to-z", "label": "Titles M to Z", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical.historical-dramas-and-epics.alpha-m-to-z" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical.historical-dramas-and-epics.alpha-m-to-z.alpha-sc-to-z", "label": "Titles Sc to Z", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical.historical-dramas-and-epics.alpha-m-to-z.alpha-sc-to-z" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical", "label": "Asia (other) · 1946 to 2000: War and historical films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical", "path": [ { "id": "geo.asia", "label": "Asia (other)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1946", "label": "Asia (other) · 1946 to 2000", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1946" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1946.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1946.culture" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical", "label": "War and historical films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Tjoet Nja' Dhien (Cut Nyak Dhien) is a 1988 Indonesian epic war drama by Eros Djarot starring Christine Hakim, about the Acehnese guerrilla leader who fought Dutch colonial rule after Teuku Umar's 1899 death; it won nine Citra Awards and was the first Indonesian film at Cannes.", "snippet": "Tjoet Nja' Dhien (Cut Nyak Dhien) is a 1988 Indonesian epic war drama by Eros Djarot starring Christine Hakim, about the Acehnese guerrilla leader who fought Dutch colonial rule after Teuku Umar's 1899 death; it won nine Citra Awards and was the first Indonesian film at Cannes.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.war-historical.historical-dramas-and-epics.alpha-m-to-z.alpha-sc-to-z", "markdown": "# Tjoet Nja' Dhien\n\n**Tjoet Nja' Dhien** is a 1988 Indonesian epic anti-colonial war drama directed by Eros Djarot, centered on the Acehnese guerrilla leader [Cut Nyak Dhien](https://www.edgepedia.org/cut-nyak-dhien) (also spelled Tjoet Nja' Dhien) and her resistance to Dutch colonial rule in the [Sultanate of Aceh](https://www.edgepedia.org/sultanate-of-aceh), northern Sumatra.[1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) Starring Christine Hakim in the title role, it won nine Citra Awards at the 1988 Indonesian Film Festival, became the first Indonesian film screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and was Indonesia's submission to the [62nd Academy Awards](https://www.edgepedia.org/62nd-academy-awards) for Best Foreign Language Film.[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) • [3](https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/19536/tjoet-nya-dhien)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director, writer | Eros Djarot, his directing debut; he had previously worked as a songwriter and composer of film scores, including *Badai Pasti Berlalu*[1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) |\n| Cast | Christine Hakim as Tjoet Nja' Dhien; Slamet Rahardjo Djarot as Teuku Umar; Piet (Pitrajaya) Burnama, Rudy Wowor, Hendra Yanuarti[4](https://www.indonesianfilmcenter.com/filminfo/detail/1921/tjoet-nja-dhien) |\n| Awards | 9 Citra Awards at the 1988 Indonesian Film Festival, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) • [4](https://www.indonesianfilmcenter.com/filminfo/detail/1921/tjoet-nja-dhien) |\n| Cannes 1989 | First Indonesian film shown at Cannes; one of only ten films nominated for the Caméra d'Or[3](https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/19536/tjoet-nya-dhien) |\n| Oscar submission | Indonesia's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards; not nominated[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) |\n| Production | Began in 1985, released in 1988 after roughly three years of shooting hampered by funding shortfalls; cost Rp 1.5 billion[5](https://www.medcom.id/hiburan/musik/xkE32xeN-christine-hakim-kenang-proses-produksi-film-tjoet-nja-dhien) • [6](https://hot.detik.com/movie/d-5690067/film-tjoet-nja-dhien-kisah-perjuangan-perempuan-di-barat-indonesia/amp) |\n| Restoration | Fully restored in 2017 by Eye Filmmuseum and the Indonesian Film Centre Foundation with director and producer involvement; re-released in Indonesian cinemas in May 2021[1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) • [7](https://kemenkopmk.go.id/menko-pmk-ajak-keluarga-nobar-film-tjoet-nja-dhien-yang-direstorasi-di-bioskop) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nAceh, the northern tip of Sumatra, during the colonial war that began on March 26, 1873, when General van Swieten's troops burned the Kutaraja mosque[18](https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/archive/2024/tjoet-nja-dhien/?IDLYT=15535). By the time the film opens, that war has decayed into a guerrilla struggle fought in villages, forests, and mountain ridges the Dutch never fully control.\n\nThe first act follows [Teuku Umar](https://www.edgepedia.org/teuku-umar) (Slamet Rahardjo), the Acehnese commander who has spent three years apparently collaborating with the Dutch. It was a ruse: he joined them to learn their tactics and to obtain their weapons[19](http://repository.isi-ska.ac.id/7755/1/lap_akhir_SRI%20WASTIWI%20SETIAWATI%20-%20UP.pdf). Now he returns to the struggle, and the film is honest about the cost of the trick. Acehnese who lived through those three years cannot always tell a feint from a betrayal, and suspicion follows him back to his own side. At his side is his wife, Tjoet Nja' Dhien (Christine Hakim), a noblewoman who shares command and shares the danger, along with their daughter Tjoet Gambang[20](https://filmindonesia.or.id/film/lf-t013-86-320118).\n\n**Umar's death at Meulaboh is the hinge of the film, and it arrives near the midpoint rather than at the end.** On February 11, 1899, Umar leads an attack on the Dutch at Meulaboh and is shot dead[21](https://www.historia.id/article/tjoet-nja-dhien-petarung-konsisten-p4qa5). The film stages it without ceremony: the strategist who spent years playing a double game dies in the open, in the middle of the war he was trying to win. The story has been about a couple leading a resistance; from here on it is about one woman refusing to let the war die with her husband. Tjoet Nja' Dhien takes over as war commander[20](https://filmindonesia.or.id/film/lf-t013-86-320118), and the back half of the film belongs entirely to Hakim.\n\nThe middle stretch moves in the cycles of a real guerrilla war: retreat into the forests, regroup, skirmish, council of war. Djarot treats the resistance as a matter of logistics and terrain rather than spectacle, giving the food supplies, the ammunition counts, the loyalty of villages, and the informants on both sides the same weight as the battles. Dutch columns push deeper into the highlands; the fighters move through jungle and mist, always relocating, always hunted[22](https://www.liputan6.com/showbiz/read/4636904/melihat-kisah-pejuang-wanita-asal-aceh-yang-ditakuti-belanda-di-film-tjoet-nja-dhien).\n\nThe war is lost from within before it is lost in the field. Tjoet Nja' discovers that her own servant, Nja' Fatma, has been betraying her. Fatma confesses that she was forced into it, that she did it to free her husband and child, and another servant, Nja' Bantu, kills her for it[21](https://www.historia.id/article/tjoet-nja-dhien-petarung-konsisten-p4qa5). Dhien must judge a woman whose treason has a human face, and the film does not soften the judgment or the grief.\n\nBy 1906 the commander is pushed into the interior at Beutong Le Sageu, and her body is failing alongside her army: rheumatism, failing eyesight, dwindling troops and weapons[21](https://www.historia.id/article/tjoet-nja-dhien-petarung-konsisten-p4qa5). She goes blind. Her companion Pang Laot, unable to bear watching her suffer with no food left and the struggle becoming impossible, secretly meets with the Marechaussee officer Captain Veltman and gives up her hiding place[21](https://www.historia.id/article/tjoet-nja-dhien-petarung-konsisten-p4qa5).\n\n**The capture, staged in a downpour, is the sequence the film is remembered by.** Dutch troops led by [Lieutenant](https://www.edgepedia.org/lieutenant) van Vuuren ambush the camp on the strength of Pang Laot's information[21](https://www.historia.id/article/tjoet-nja-dhien-petarung-konsisten-p4qa5). Djarot shoots it in heavy rain, the blind Dhien taken in the mud among her dwindling fighters, and the staging matches the Dutch military's own documentary records of the event[22](https://www.liputan6.com/showbiz/read/4636904/melihat-kisah-pejuang-wanita-asal-aceh-yang-ditakuti-belanda-di-film-tjoet-nja-dhien). Near this final act comes the image that has defined the film for Indonesian audiences: the close-up in which Cut Nyak Dhien turns her face to the camera, all of her rage and endurance poured into a single expression. Actor Slamet Rahardjo, who played Umar, trained Hakim for the role by making her sit motionless on damp humus for long stretches, forbidden to move if she was cold, stiff, in pain, or needed the toilet; the anger accumulated in that training is what erupts in the close-up. \"She had become Aceh itself: she was the wind, the water, the fire, and the earth of Aceh,\" Rahardjo said of the moment[23](https://indonesia.sae.edu/id/33-tahun-tjoet-nja-dhien/).\n\nThere is no heroic last stand. The captured commander, still unbowed, is exiled by the Dutch to [West Java](https://www.edgepedia.org/west-java), removed from the mountains she fought in and from the war she defined. The film ends on that removal: the Dutch never truly defeated the Acehnese in battle so much as they outlasted and betrayed them, and exile is the price of unbroken defiance.\n\n### Characters\n\n**Tjoet Nja' Dhien** (Christine Hakim) is the center of the film, a noblewoman who inherits a war and commands it for years. Hakim, roughly twenty years younger than her character at the narrative's start[18](https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/archive/2024/tjoet-nja-dhien/?IDLYT=15535), plays her as commanding and abrasive rather than as a marble monument of nationalist virtue: capable of cold judgment of her own men, visibly diminished by loss, never softened by it. Her authority comes from stillness and bearing rather than speeches.\n\n**Teuku Umar** (Slamet Rahardjo) is her husband and the resistance commander whose three years of feigned collaboration buy weapons and knowledge at the price of his own people's trust. His death converts the film's first half into its second.\n\n**Pang Laot** is the companion whose betrayal, motivated by pity for a blind, rheumatic leader running out of food[19](http://repository.isi-ska.ac.id/7755/1/lap_akhir_SRI%20WASTIWI%20SETIAWATI%20-%20UP.pdf), ends the war. **Nja' Fatma** is the servant forced to inform on Dhien to free her husband and child, and **Nja' Bantu** the servant who executes her for it. **Tjoet Gambang** is Umar and Dhien's daughter. Piet Burnama, Rudy Wowor, and Rita Zahara round out the cast on both sides of the war.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nThe ending divides some viewers: a blind, aging commander captured in the rain and shipped into exile looks deflating next to the usual heroic last stand. The film's defenders read it as its thesis rather than a failure of nerve, since colonial conquest here wins by attrition and treachery, not by defeating Dhien in the field. Pang Laot's betrayal is itself debated, because the film frames it as an act of mercy toward a suffering woman, which makes the war's end feel like a kindness and is all the more devastating for it.\n\n### Sequels, prequels, and universe\n\nNone. The film stands alone, though the historical Tjoet Nja' Dhien was proclaimed a national hero by President Sukarno in 1964, and the film is the cinema's principal monument to her[18](https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/archive/2024/tjoet-nja-dhien/?IDLYT=15535).\n\n## Historical subject\n\nThe film dramatizes the [Aceh War](https://www.edgepedia.org/aceh-war) against Dutch colonial rule. Aceh's independence ended in 1871, when the Dutch placed the sultanate in northern Sumatra under colonial rule; Acehnese resistance led two years later to a bloody war.[1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) In 1880 Teuku Umar, one of the main guerrilla leaders, married Tjoet Nja' Dhien, who had herself joined the resistance movement.[1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) The Film Fest Gent synopsis places the action in 1896, when Umar, who had pretended to defect to the enemy, seized arms and money from the Dutch and returned to the jungle to command his troops.[8](https://www.filmfestival.be/en/film/tjoet-nja-dhien)\n\nUmar was killed in battle in February 1899 (the Semaine de la Critique program gives the date as February 10, 1899).[3](https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/19536/tjoet-nya-dhien) • [9](https://www.semainedelacritique.com/en/edition/1989/movie/tjoet-nja-dhien) After his death, Dhien took over command of the guerrilla struggle. The Melbourne International Film Festival notes state that for eight years after her husband's death she led a band of Acehnese guerrillas in the mountains at the tip of [North Sumatra](https://www.edgepedia.org/north-sumatra), evading and harassing Dutch forces sent to capture her despite shifting loyalties among Acehnese chiefs; Eye Filmmuseum describes her as holding the leadership position for ten years.[3](https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/19536/tjoet-nya-dhien) • [1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) In the film, after battles and betrayals her health fails and she goes blind, but she continues the struggle.[4](https://www.indonesianfilmcenter.com/filminfo/detail/1921/tjoet-nja-dhien) Her actions became legendary, and in 1964 she was declared a national heroine of Indonesia.[1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334)\n\n## Production\n\n**A long, underfunded shoot.** Production began in 1985 and the film was released three years later, with the schedule stretched by funding problems.[5](https://www.medcom.id/hiburan/musik/xkE32xeN-christine-hakim-kenang-proses-produksi-film-tjoet-nja-dhien) The budget of Rp 1.5 billion was described as extraordinary for the period, when a typical colossal production spent around Rp 500 million.[6](https://hot.detik.com/movie/d-5690067/film-tjoet-nja-dhien-kisah-perjuangan-perempuan-di-barat-indonesia/amp) Christine Hakim and Slamet Rahardjo said the cast went unpaid and instead helped raise production funds; actor Slamet Rahardjo described the film as made with reckless capital.[10](https://amp.kompas.com/hype/read/2021/05/21/101800866/fakta-film-tjoet-nja-dhien-christine-hakim-bertahan-selama-3-tahun-hingga)\n\nHakim, who had no formal acting training, found written history about Dhien so limited that she consulted a professor at Universitas Gadjah Mada and then treated the scarcity of sources as freedom to interpret the role.[5](https://www.medcom.id/hiburan/musik/xkE32xeN-christine-hakim-kenang-proses-produksi-film-tjoet-nja-dhien) The film was technically groundbreaking for Indonesian cinema: it was the first Indonesian film to use Dolby stereo, and cinematographer George Kamarullah gave the picture a more European look, with the lighting drawing particular praise.[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) Many of the visuals were based on Dutch photographs from the Aceh war.[3](https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/19536/tjoet-nya-dhien)\n\n## Release and reception\n\nThe film won nine Citra Awards at the 1988 Indonesian Film Festival, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Story, Best Actress for Hakim, Best Cinematography, Best Music for Idris Sardi, and Best Art Direction.[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) • [4](https://www.indonesianfilmcenter.com/filminfo/detail/1921/tjoet-nja-dhien) According to Perfin data it was the fifth best-attended film in Jakarta in 1988, with 214,458 admissions.[4](https://www.indonesianfilmcenter.com/filminfo/detail/1921/tjoet-nja-dhien)\n\n**Cannes and the Oscars.** The film was the first Indonesian movie chosen for screening at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was one of only ten films nominated for the Caméra d'Or.[3](https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/19536/tjoet-nya-dhien) Sources differ on the section: Restoration Asia and the Indonesian Film Censorship Institute magazine place it in Un Certain Regard, while the Melbourne festival notes and the Semaine de la Critique's own archive place it in the International Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique).[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) • [11](https://lsf.go.id/storage/app/media/magazine/2025/LSF%20Edisi%2022%20Volume%201%20tahun%202025%20Cetak.pdf) • [3](https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/19536/tjoet-nya-dhien) • [9](https://www.semainedelacritique.com/en/edition/1989/movie/tjoet-nja-dhien) Restoration Asia also records that it was awarded Best International Film at Cannes in 1989, a claim repeated by the news agency ANTARA.[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) • [12](https://www.antaranews.com/berita/373355/indonesia-promosikan-50-film-di-festival-film-cannes) The version screened at Cannes was edited for festival distribution and differed from the cut shown in Indonesia.[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) Indonesia submitted the film for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 62nd Academy Awards, but it did not become a nominee.[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/)\n\nIn 2006 the Indonesian film critic Ade Irwansyah called the film the \"peak achievement of [Indonesia's] film industry up till now.\"[1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) The French film consultant Pierre Rissient, a longtime figure in Cannes film history, later named it among the Indonesian films he considered good.[13](https://riaudaily.com/news/detail/9208/2014/05/23/kritikus-film-prancis-angkat-bicara-soal-film-indonesia) An academic study of New Order Islamic films notes that the film romanticizes the Acehnese holy struggle while portraying the war as part of the broader Indonesian national struggle, and that its festival success has been attributed to this framing of an Acehnese narrative of [Islamic nationalism](https://www.edgepedia.org/islamic-nationalism) within Indonesian, rather than specifically Acehnese, history.[14](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/gdc/gdcebookspublic/20/20/42/61/33/2020426133/2020426133.pdf) • [15](https://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/1625/1/137.pdf)\n\n## Restoration\n\nEye Filmmuseum in the Netherlands holds the original film elements and, with the IdFilmCentre Foundation and lab partner Haghe Film, completed a full restoration in 2017 in close collaboration with Eros Djarot and producer Alwin Abdullah; the [National Film and Sound Archive of Australia](https://www.edgepedia.org/national-film-and-sound-archive-of-australia) was an archive partner.[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) • [1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) The restored version returned to Indonesian cinemas in May 2021 for National Awakening Day, with a screening at XXI Plaza Senayan, Jakarta attended by the coordinating minister for human development and culture, Muhadjir Effendy.[7](https://kemenkopmk.go.id/menko-pmk-ajak-keluarga-nobar-film-tjoet-nja-dhien-yang-direstorasi-di-bioskop) The restoration also screened at the Madani International Film Festival and the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival in 2023.[16](https://embed.letterboxd.com/film/tjoet-nja-dhien/)\n\n## Versions and runtime\n\nReported runtimes differ by source: Restoration Asia lists 108 minutes, Eye Filmmuseum 110 minutes, the Asian Film Archive 109 minutes, and the Indonesian Film Center 133 minutes, while Film Fest Gent lists 150 minutes.[2](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/) • [1](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334) • [17](https://asianfilmarchive.org/event-calendar/tjoet-nja-dhien-1988/) • [4](https://www.indonesianfilmcenter.com/filminfo/detail/1921/tjoet-nja-dhien) • [8](https://www.filmfestival.be/en/film/tjoet-nja-dhien) The dialogue is in Indonesian, Acehnese, and Dutch.[17](https://asianfilmarchive.org/event-calendar/tjoet-nja-dhien-1988/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Tjoet Nja' Dhien, Eye Filmmuseum](https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/tjoet-nja-dhien/644334)\n2. [Tjoet Nja' Dhien, Restored Asian Films, Restoration Asia](https://restorationasia.org/films/tjoet-nja-dhien/)\n3. [Tjoet Nya' Dhien, MIFF Film Archive (1989 program notes)](https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/19536/tjoet-nya-dhien)\n4. [Tjoet Nja Dhien, Indonesian Film Center](https://www.indonesianfilmcenter.com/filminfo/detail/1921/tjoet-nja-dhien)\n5. [Christine Hakim Kenang Proses Produksi film Tjoet Nja' Dhien, Medcom.id](https://www.medcom.id/hiburan/musik/xkE32xeN-christine-hakim-kenang-proses-produksi-film-tjoet-nja-dhien)\n6. [Film Tjoet Nja' Dhien, Kisah Perjuangan Perempuan di Barat Indonesia, detikHot](https://hot.detik.com/movie/d-5690067/film-tjoet-nja-dhien-kisah-perjuangan-perempuan-di-barat-indonesia/amp)\n7. [Menko PMK Ajak Keluarga Nobar Film \"Tjoet Nja' Dhien\" yang Direstorasi di Bioskop, Kemenko PMK](https://kemenkopmk.go.id/menko-pmk-ajak-keluarga-nobar-film-tjoet-nja-dhien-yang-direstorasi-di-bioskop)\n8. [Tjoet Nja' Dhien, Film Fest Gent](https://www.filmfestival.be/en/film/tjoet-nja-dhien)\n9. [Tjoet nja' dhien, La Semaine de la Critique, Festival de Cannes](https://www.semainedelacritique.com/en/edition/1989/movie/tjoet-nja-dhien)\n10. [Fakta Film Tjoet Nja' Dhien, Christine Hakim Bertahan Selama 3 Tahun hingga Pemain Tidak Dibayar, Kompas.com](https://amp.kompas.com/hype/read/2021/05/21/101800866/fakta-film-tjoet-nja-dhien-christine-hakim-bertahan-selama-3-tahun-hingga)\n11. [Catatan Anggota, LSF Magazine Edisi 22 Volume 1 (2025)](https://lsf.go.id/storage/app/media/magazine/2025/LSF%20Edisi%2022%20Volume%201%20tahun%202025%20Cetak.pdf)\n12. [Indonesia promosikan 50 film di festival film Cannes, ANTARA News](https://www.antaranews.com/berita/373355/indonesia-promosikan-50-film-di-festival-film-cannes)\n13. [Kritikus Film Prancis Angkat Bicara Soal Film Indonesia, Riau Daily](https://riaudaily.com/news/detail/9208/2014/05/23/kritikus-film-prancis-angkat-bicara-soal-film-indonesia)\n14. [New Order Islamic scholarship on Tjoet Nja' Dhien, Library of Congress e-book](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/gdc/gdcebookspublic/20/20/42/61/33/2020426133/2020426133.pdf)\n15. [A. Izharuddin, Gender, Islam, and the Nation in New Order Islamic Films](https://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/1625/1/137.pdf)\n16. [Tjoet Nja' Dhien (1988), Letterboxd](https://embed.letterboxd.com/film/tjoet-nja-dhien/)\n17. [Tjoet Nja' Dhien (1988), Asian Film Archive](https://asianfilmarchive.org/event-calendar/tjoet-nja-dhien-1988/)\n18. [https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/archive/2024/tjoet-nja-dhien/?IDLYT=15535](https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/archive/2024/tjoet-nja-dhien/?IDLYT=15535)\n19. [http://repository.isi-ska.ac.id/7755/1/lap_akhir_SRI%20WASTIWI%20SETIAWATI%20-%20UP.pdf](http://repository.isi-ska.ac.id/7755/1/lap_akhir_SRI%20WASTIWI%20SETIAWATI%20-%20UP.pdf)\n20. [https://filmindonesia.or.id/film/lf-t013-86-320118](https://filmindonesia.or.id/film/lf-t013-86-320118)\n21. [https://www.historia.id/article/tjoet-nja-dhien-petarung-konsisten-p4qa5](https://www.historia.id/article/tjoet-nja-dhien-petarung-konsisten-p4qa5)\n22. [https://www.liputan6.com/showbiz/read/4636904/melihat-kisah-pejuang-wanita-asal-aceh-yang-ditakuti-belanda-di-film-tjoet-nja-dhien](https://www.liputan6.com/showbiz/read/4636904/melihat-kisah-pejuang-wanita-asal-aceh-yang-ditakuti-belanda-di-film-tjoet-nja-dhien)\n23. [https://indonesia.sae.edu/id/33-tahun-tjoet-nja-dhien/](https://indonesia.sae.edu/id/33-tahun-tjoet-nja-dhien/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › War and historical films (individual works) › Historical dramas and epics › Titles M to Z › Titles Sc to Z*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 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/tjoet-nja-dhien", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/tjoet-nja-dhien.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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Edgepedia Community License 1.0.", "speakable": "Tjoet Nja' Dhien is a 1988 Indonesian epic war drama by Eros Djarot starring Christine Hakim, about the Acehnese guerrilla leader who fought Dutch colonial rule after Teuku Umar's 1899 death; it won nine Citra Awards and was the first Indonesian film at Cannes." }