Pokémon in Indonesia: Difference between revisions

Many pirated copies of [[hack games]], as well as official games, are also sold in Indonesia, especially the infamous game [[ChaosBlack]] and [[Quartz]], which at first were mistaken by people as official. Pirated copies of official games come in a variety of ways, such as the lack of license or the color difference of game cartridges.

The first episode of the [[Pokémon anime]] was aired on March 3, 2001 every Saturday and Sunday at 19.00 - 19.30 (GMT +7) by '''{{wp|SCTV (Indonesia)|Surya Citra Televisi Indonesia}}''' (better known as '''SCTV'''), a commercial TV station owned by Bimantara Citra. According to SCTV, however, the first 26 episodes were temporarily to be aired.<ref>[http://east.sakura.ne.jp/aniba/aninews/id.htm Anihabara - Anime News in Indonesia]</ref> After several months, the broadcast was moved to every Sunday at 10.00 - 10.30 on July 8, 2001.

The anime series did not continuously air until December 26, 2004, when '''{{wp|Indosiar|Indosiar Visual Mandiri}}''', took over and began their first broadcast from [[Pokémon: The Johto Journeys|the beginning of the Johto saga]] on Sundays from 7.30 AM - 8.00 AM (GMT +7). Unfortunately, the inconsistency began when the dub were using the mixture between the English and Japanese names for Pokémon, include main characters, and other things in some episodes cases. These were the most controversial for the Indonesian fans. Despite this, many fans still support this positive effort for retaining the main character's Japanese names.

After [[Pokémon: Master Quest|the last season]] of the {{series|original}} was finished, Indosiar continuously aired the first episode of the {{series|Advanced Generation}} from April 27, 2008. The special series [[Pokémon Chronicles]], as well as the [[Pikachu shorts]] were aired around July 2008 between the season. ''[[The Legend of Thunder!]]'', another part of the special anime series, was also aired on November 16 and 23, 2008.  

On February 7, 2010, Indosiar skipped half of the Advanced Generation (until the end of the [[Pokémon: Battle Frontier|Battle Frontier saga]]) and started airing the [[DP001|first episode]] of the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}. This issue was a response to fans who gave request to Indosiar to broadcast the recent saga immediately, due to the fact that the time difference of episodes compared with Japan was very far—about 5 years.<ref>[http://pokemonstars.com/2011/01/27/pokemon-di-indonesia/ Pokémon Stars - Pokémon in Indonesia]</ref>  

Pokemon anime had been stopped from July 25, 2010 until November 21, 2010, in which were brought to reschedule to 8.00 - 8.30 after the retirement. Fortunately, some dub errors were fixed by using proper English name for Pokémon species.

Recently, Indosiar broadcast the Diamond & Pearl season called ''Pokémon DP Part II'', possibly the reason of the skipping episode lately from ''[[DP053|Chimchar's Tears!]]'' to ''[[DP136|Mt. Coronet Ruins! Team Galactic Conspiracy!!]]'' on June 12, 2011.<ref>[http://pokemonstars.com/2011/06/20/pokemon-diamond-pearl-di-indosiar-meloncat-ke-eps-136/ Pokémon Stars - Diamond & Pearl series Episode 136]</ref> This season will consist of 52 episodes, which were brought to the episode removal from [[DP138]] to [[DP141]]. Thus, ''[[DP142|The Worst Togepy Ever!]]'' was aired after ''[[DP137|Maril, Pochama, Elekid!!]]'' on June 26, 2011.

In Indonesia, no [[Pokémon movie]]s have premiered in any theaters. Instead, several Pokémon movies were aired on TV. As the SCTV era, only [[M01|the first Pokémon movie]] was aired. As Indosiar took over, they aired several movies from ''[[M02|Revelation of Lugia]]'' and ''[[M03|Lord of the {{tt|Unknown|Unown}} Tower]]'' on consecutive days, June 16 and 17, 2008. Then, ''[[M04|Celebi: A Timeless Encounter]]'' and ''[[M05|The Guardians of Altomare]]'' were also broadcast on November 30 - December 7 and December 14 - 21, respectively. Finally, the two most recent movies in Indonesia, ''[[M06|Wishing Star of the Seven Nights: Jirachi]]'' was aired on December 28, 2008 and January 4, 2009, while ''[[M07|Sky-Splitting Visitor: Deoxys]]'' premiered on January 11, 18, and 25, 2009.

Several Pokémon episodes and movies were also sold in {{wp|DVD}}s and {{wp|CD}}s in some regions and major towns of Indonesia, although most of them are not exactly official or are being pirates. Most of them are dubbed in {{wp|English}} or {{wp|Mandarin}} and subtitled in Indonesian.

The first releases came with two different Tazos, namely ''Tazos Spin'' and ''Tazos Smash''. Tazos Spin has several small incisions around the outside, while Tazos Smash is the flowershaped Tazos with several crackable gaps. Not only featured {{cat|Generation I Pokémon|151 Pokémon species}}, but five human character are also included.

The holografical Tazos called ''Tazos 3D'' also included, usually are featured Pokémon with [[evolution|evolutionary stages]]. After the Johto saga were broadcasted, there were another releases called ''Pentazo'', pentagonal Tazos that identical with Tazos Spin. These Tazos featured the newly {{cat|Generation II Pokémon}}.

*[http://berita.liputan6.com/read/8725/SCTV.Menayangkan.Serial.Pokemon SCTV broadcast Pokémon series]

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