On Your Lap

On Your Lap (2025)

Pangku

Nothing can be as powerful as a mother's love.

Sartika, a pregnant young woman, moves away from her city hoping to provide a better future for her child. She meets Maya, a coffee shop owner in Pantura. Maya takes care of Sartika and helps with her deliveries. After Sartika gives birth, Maya manipulates her into working for her as the "Kopi Pangku" waitress, a job that requires her to serve coffee on a man's lap, until one day she meets a fish distributor truck driver named Hadi and falls in love. Will she find happiness?

Date of release
2025-11-06
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Drama
Director
Reza Rahadian

Casting

Interesting facts

On Your Lap is a 2025 Indonesian drama film directed by Reza Rahadian in his feature directorial debut from a screenplay he wrote with Felix K. Nesi. The film stars Claresta Taufan as Sartika, a young mother who works as a lap coffee waitress.

Production

The idea for On Your Lap was conceived by Reza Rahadian after he saw the kopi pangku shops while filming around the Pantura area in 2020. Principal photography began in November 2024.

The project participated during the 2024 JAFF Market during the 19th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. It also participated at the 2025 Hong Kong—Asia Film Financing Forum where it was selected as one of the projects to be presented at the Marché du Film. It was selected to participate for Far East in Progress of Focus Asia during the Far East Film Festival. The project won a post-production grant at the 2025 Red Sea Fund.

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