Siti Akbari is a 1940 film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) directed by Joshua and Othniel Wong and produced by Tan Khoen Yauw.
[3] The black-and-white talkie featured vocals by the actresses Annie Landouw and Titing, with the keroncong group Lief Java providing background music.
[1] Several further cast members, including the stars Mochtar, Roekiah, and her husband Kartolo, had migrated to Tan's after the success of Albert Balink's Terang Boelan (1937); the earlier film's formula of scenery, music, and action, which Tan's had already utilised in 1938's Fatima, was present in Siti Akbari as well.
[6] However, the influence Lim's work exerted on the film is unknown: it may have simply lent the title, or it may have been adapted in its entirety.
[8] The film proved to be the last starring Roekiah and Mochtar as lovers; he left Tan's soon after over a wage dispute,[9] being replaced by the tailor Rd Djoemala for Roekihati in 1940.