---
name: "Ibrahim Sinik"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ibrahim-sinik"
fi1m_id: "ibrahim-sinik"
imdb_id: "nm5262822"
tmdb_id: 1349439
wikidata_id: "Q73204594"
roles: []
born: "7 August 1937"
died: "16 March 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:51:17.586436+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ibrahim Sinik

## Identity

Ibrahim Sinik

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ibrahim-sinik
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ibrahim-sinik
- **IMDb ID:** nm5262822
- **TMDB ID:** 1349439
- **Wikidata ID:** Q73204594
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73204594, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5262822/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1349439

Actor. Born 7 August 1937 in Medan. Died 16 March 2015.

## Details

- **Born:** 7 August 1937, Medan
- **Died:** 16 March 2015
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73204594, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5262822/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1349439

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Act of Killing*](https://film.one/film/the-act-of-killing.md) (88)

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## Biography

Ibrahim Sinik was an Indonesian journalist and newspaper publisher. He founded and edited several publications in Medan, North Sumatra, including *Medan Pos*, which he established in 1990 after earlier titles such as *Sinar Revolusi* and *Sinar Pembangunan*.

Sinik appeared as himself, credited as Self - Newspaper Publisher, in the 2012 documentary *The Act of Killing*, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. He died on 16 March 2015 in Medan, aged 77.

*Sources: imdb.com, id.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Act of Killing* (2012), Fi1m 88, as Self - Newspaper Publisher — [page](https://film.one/film/the-act-of-killing.md)

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