Cooperatives are Key Stakeholders in advancing SDGs through Culture and the Creative Sector

One of those invited to this event was Amrul Hakim from Indonesia, co-founder of the Indonesian Film Cooperative and Journalist at Sejahtera Media Cooperative (SAMA). He gained his education in the field of engineering and applied science and ventured into media, film making and journalism soon after.
He co-founded the journalism cooperative in 2017 and the film cooperative in 2018 in
order to pursue his passion as well as to do that in cooperation with other like minded skilled professionals. Amrul Hakim is the director who won the Golden Lens International Documentary Film Festival which was held by the Dutch Cultural Institute – Erasmus Huis in 2012. In 2018 and 2019, he was a drafter (concept) as well as a jury in the Cooperative Film Competition at the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of
the Republic of Indonesia. In late 2019 and early 2020, before the covid pandemic was announced by the Indonesian government, he traveled to 10 provinces in Indonesia to share knowledge about the concept of Film Cooperatives that can be practiced by the film community in order to survive in their economic life. In 2021, he was asked to be the drafter (concept) and judge of the Nusantara Film Appreciation organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. In 2022, he directed a documentary film entitled Kelana Teh with the concept of a Multi-Party Cooperative together with the Edukarya Negeri Lestari Cooperative. And in the same year, he became the co-founder of the New Indonesia Expeditionary Cooperative, producing documentary films around Indonesia for 1 year starting on July 1, 2022.