About Asoka

Who we are?

ASOKA is creative agency based in Ambon, Maluku and Jakarta, Indonesia. We are focused on creative design and communication strategies for brands and product to bring their message to audience for all platforms. In audiovisual production, we do features, documentaries, promotional and corporate video. We believe that good things are created by people who love what they do. 

What We Do

We bring your ideas and our work together to create and deliver innovative video and qualitative media content for all platforms.
Every company wants to communicate to their clients. Our broad experience in communication gives us the optimum ability to transcribe each creative idea, in a versatile manner, to a visual concept.

 

VIDEO PRODUCTION

Nothing tells a better and more comprehensive story than video. We build video into everything we do.

Services Include:

  • Documentary
  • Feature
  • Company Promotional Video
  • Tourism Profile
  • Aerial photo-video
  • Behind the scene
  • Research Video

DESIGN & BRAND DEVELOPMENT

Your Brand is the foundation of your marketing. Everything we create, from your website to your advertising, is a transmission of your brand. We enhance how you are perceived. We have a rock solid process for renaming, rebranding and building your brand. We are branding. We work with you to define your brand’s story, positioning and identity. We define strategies to organise your products & services, and we design living identities fit for the moving world.

Services Include:

  • Branding, Brand Design, and Rebranding
  • Logo Design
  • Website/Digital Design
  • Promotional Design
  • Social Media Management

 

 

 

Our Team

Ratih Prebatasari
Ratih Prebatasari | Director

Ratih is one of the filmmaker fellows in Faculty of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University in 2010. She has joined several audiovisual projects which were screened in European cinemas and TV stations worldwide.  Her passion in documentary has brought her to interview thousand people with various backgrounds. In the beginning of 2009, she joined the Recording the Future project, a 100-years recording of daily life in collaboration between The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), in eight places in Indonesia. She is now currently working on a documentary about a talented youngster hip hop group in Ambon called Manumata and tracks the life journey of a family who became the victim of ethnic-political conflict involving Islam and Christianity in Maluku in early 1999.

Sekar Sari
Sekar Sari | Creative Director & Researcher

Sekar Sari received Master of Art degree in Choreomundus, International Master on Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage, an Erasmus Mundus Program. She obtained her BA degree from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia majoring International Relations. She likes working and researching in arts, culture and tourism. She won Best Performance award in The Singapore International Film Festival 2014 as a lead actress in a feature movie entitled 'SITI' directed by Eddie Cahyono. In addition to her activities on stage and screen as a dancer, presenter and actress, she is actively involved in a number of various arts and cultural events as well as research projects. She also has been joining a project called Recording the Future, an audiovisual archive project of everyday life in Indonesia initiated by The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with The Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

Franciscus Magastowo
Franciscus Magastowo | Director & Editor

Fransiscus Magastowo is a documentary filmmaker that often works for community empowerment projects with various universities and institutes, both in Indonesia and abroad. He received his BA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA where he studied documentary under award-winning woman filmmaker, Rea Tajiri, and had the opportunity to work for other notable documentary directors such as Kirby Dick and Lou Pepe. His latest short documentary, Di Kaliurang, was nominated for the Best Short Documentary at Indonesia Film Festival 2016. He is now currently working on a 60-minute documentary on cancer, following a survivor that has been dealing with cancer for 36 years.

 

 

 

 

ABOUT INDONESIA

Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world, it is composed of 17,508 islands, some 6,000 of which are inhabited, fascinates by the variety of its landscapes and the melting pot of the cultures that compose it. Java to majestic volcanoes, Bali to soothing rice fields, Sulawesi to the strange rites of the Toraja, Kalimantan and its deep jungles, Maluku to the spices islands, Indonesia can boast of satisfying travelers in search of authenticity, with its rich variety of flora and fauna, Indonesia is second in the world after Brazil with the highest level of biodiversity in the world.

In 1859, The English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace wrote Charles Darwin that the Indonesian archipelago was inhabited by one distinct fauna in the east and one in the west. He refined his theory, drawing a boundary between the two regions. His delineation became known as the “Wallace Line”, dividing Sulawesi and Lombok to the east and Borneo and Bali to the west.