Badai Pasti Berlalu (ˈbadai ˈpasti bərˈlalu; The Storm Will Surely Pass) is an Indonesian novel

Indonesian literature

Indonesian literature, is a term grouping various genres of South-East Asian literature.Indonesian Literature can refer to literature produced in the Indonesian archipelago. It is also used to refer more broadly to literature produced in areas with common language roots based on the Malay language...

 written by Marga T

Marga T

Marga Tjoa is an Indonesian popular romance and children's literature writer better known by the pen name Marga T. One of Indonesia's most prolific writers, she first became well-known in 1971 for her serial Karmila that was published as a book in 1973 and later made into a film...

 and published in 1974. It spawned award-winning film

Badai Pasti Berlalu (film)

Badai Pasti Berlalu is a 1977 Indonesian film based on the novel of the same name by Marga T. It was directed by Teguh Karya and starred Christine Hakim, Roy Marten and Slamet Rahardjo.-Plot:...

, music album

Badai Pasti Berlalu (album)

Badai Pasti Berlalu was remade in 1999 by Chrisye, with the songs rearranged by Erwin Gutawa. It cost 800 million Rupiah to produce and promote, which it made within three months....

, and a song

Badai Pasti Berlalu (song)

"Badai Pasti Berlalu" is an Indonesian song written by Eros Djarot and released in 1977 as part of the soundtrack of Badai Pasti Berlalu. It was originally sung by Berlian Hutauruk, but has also been covered by Chrisye and Ari Lasso...

 of the same name.

Plot

Siska, a young woman, was heartbroken after her fiancé broke off their engagement and married her friend. Unwilling to see his sister depressed, her brother Johnny introduced her to womanizing friend Leo. Leo manages to make Siska happy. However, unknown to Siska, Leo was only interested in her as part of a bet.

After overhearing Leo discussing the bet with his friends, Siska runs away from Leo and is found by night club pianist Helmi. Helmi blackmails Siska into marrying him, threatening to tell her mother that her father is having an affair with a younger woman. Eventually becoming unable to stand Helmi's actions, Siska returns to Leo.

Release and reception

Badai Pasti Berlalu was originally released in installments in Kompas

Kompas

Kompas is the most widely read newspaper in Indonesia. Published by Kompas-Gramedia Group Publishing since June 28, 1965, it has a reputation in Indonesia for high-quality writing and investigative journalism...

between 5 June and 2 September 1972. It was later rereleased as a novel by Gramedia Pustaka Utama in 1974. It sold well, selling 24,000 copies in a short period of time, a "fantastic amount" at the time, despite costing more than ten times the cost of a magazine.

In popular culture

Badai Pasti Berlalu was adapted into a film

Film adaptation

Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivative work.A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film, but film adaptation includes the use of non-fiction , autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays, and even...

 by Teguh Karya

Teguh Karya

Teguh Karya was an Indonesian film director. Starting his entertainment career in theatre, he made his directorial debut with the 1968 children's film Jenderal Kancil, with his first adult oriented film, Wajah Laki-Laki, released three years later...

 in 1977. The film was critically acclaimed, receiving four awards at the 1977 Indonesian Film Festival

Indonesian Film Festival

Festival Film Indonesia or known as FFI is an annual film festival organised by Indonesian Film Festival Committee...

 and later becoming the best-selling Indonesian film

Cinema of Indonesia

Though the cinema of Indonesia has a long history, the industry is currently struggling and developing.-Colonial era:The first film made in Indonesia was the 1926 silent film, Loetoeng Kasaroeng, by Dutch directors G. Kruger and L. Heuveldorp...

 of 1977. The film's soundtrack album

Badai Pasti Berlalu (album)

Badai Pasti Berlalu was remade in 1999 by Chrisye, with the songs rearranged by Erwin Gutawa. It cost 800 million Rupiah to produce and promote, which it made within three months....

 was critically acclaimed, being listed as the best Indonesian

Music of Indonesia

The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, the local musical creativity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia. Nearly thousands of Indonesian islands having its own cultural and artistic history and character. This...

 album

Music Album

Music album is the name of:* Music Album , a 1970s Canadian television series* Album, a collection of music tracks...

 of all time by Rolling Stone Indonesia. Rolling Stone Indonesia later listed the film's title song

Badai Pasti Berlalu (song)

"Badai Pasti Berlalu" is an Indonesian song written by Eros Djarot and released in 1977 as part of the soundtrack of Badai Pasti Berlalu. It was originally sung by Berlian Hutauruk, but has also been covered by Chrisye and Ari Lasso...

 as the third best Indonesian song of all time.

The film was remade by Teddy Soeriaatmadja in 2007.