Rachmad Imron, World-Class "Kuntilanak"

KOMPAS/TATANG MULYANA SINAGA

Rachmad Imron

Because of its abundance, local content is often considered too ordinary. Rachmad Imron, 40, reversed this assumption. By adopting local legends, such as pocong and kuntilanak, he created games that went global.

A number of black posters that read DreadOut were scattered in a three-story building that is the Digital Happiness studio in Coblong, Bandung city, West Java, Thursday (9/5/2019). In one room measuring about 4 by 4 square meters, Imron sat staring at the monitor. It was in that small room that he developed his big ideas.