DITP 2026
COMING SOON
(5-8 August 2026)
Djakarta International Theater Platform
Djakarta International Theatre Platform (DITP) is a platform for critical discourse and artistic experimentation of the performing arts. As a platform, DITP functions as more than a festival of stage performances. DITP aims to become a space of exchange – an infrastructure of diverse practices and artistic sensibilities.
Through programs that include performances, labs, workshops, symposiums, exhibitions, and more we seek to connect ideas across artistic disciplines and national borders. Ultimately, DITP encourages the artistic imagination to engage with socio-political complexities of international and regional disorder.
Bumantara
For the 2025-2027 period, DITP adopts the concept of ‘Bumantara’ as a critical compass for navigating connections and collaborations in the Southeast Asia region. Coined in 1975 by the Indonesian intellectual Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, Bumantara combines ‘bumi’ (land/earth) and ‘antara’ (in-between) to reimagine Southeast Asia as a fluid geopolitical entity. Bumantara envisions the region as a site of mediation, shaped by histories of navigation, trade, and cultural flows.
DITP sees Bumantara not as a concept of nationalism. DITP adopts Bumantara to reimagine the realities of infrastructure as a means for cooperation and co-existence. What does it mean to stage and be staged as “Southeast Asian”? How can the stage become an infrastructure to connect diverse artistic possibilities embedded in the term South, East, and Asia?
Artistic Director
Yustiansyah Lesmana
