 Njai Dasima was directed by Bachtiar Effendi for Tan 's Film , a production company owned by the Tan brothers . With this he became the first native Indonesian film director in the Indies . It starred Momo and Oesman . The story was adapted from G. Francis ' 1896 novel Tjerita Njai Dasima , which Tan 's had already adapted in 1929 with the same name for their first release . The story was already well known in Batavia ( now Jakarta ) , in part because it was a popular part of stage performers ' repertoires . To ensure the quality of the story , Effendi worked with a scenario and , later , shooting script – two items which had , until then , never been used for a domestic production . 
