Reviving history: The official poster for Reinha Boki Raja, a documentary adapted from Toeti Heraty's lyrical prose about the 16th-century Queen of Ternate. The documentary was recently screened at the National Gallery in Jakarta as part of the IWA4: On the Map exhibition program.

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