“BATAM” is an ethnographic film produced by Johan Lindquist. It features the stories of two women living on the Indonesian island of Batam. Wati, one of the main participants in the interview is a young worker. Another prominent participant, Dewi, who came from Java and worked in an electronics factory, currently works as a prostitute. The film mainly shows how “multinational capitalism and migration interact in the dark zones of globalization”. In my analysis, I will primarily deal with the criticism of the film in terms of both the quality and ethical aspects of the film as an ethnographic film. An ethnographic study aims to explore and analyze a particular group of people's social practices and establishes a detailed description of how that particular social group operates, based on observation and, usually, participation in that particular group. The study is usually aided by interviews and data collection through the use of photographic records. Ethnographic film is a method or way of documenting and collecting ethnographic data in fieldwork. It is also a means, adopted by the ethnographer, to transmit or transmit ethnographic findings or knowledge with the aim of presenting an interpretation of a certain social phenomenon or cultural understandings. (Yoshimizu, 2014). During the interview with Wati and Dewi, there are no interactions between the participants and the researcher. The researcher does not ask questions or provide answers to the participants' opinions. In this process, the researcher does not attempt to direct or limit the topic. Instead, the researcher allows participants to freely share their opinions and stories in a natural way, following their own intentions...... middle of paper ......or audience watching the film. In this regard, the research results are not authentic and convincing. The discussion made by those who are willing to reveal the “reality” is made with a purpose. They are taking advantage of this powerful medium to reveal society's potential problems and concerns and express their own perspectives and understandings of their own culture and life. Therefore, there may be biased or sweeping comments that affect the validity of the research. The point is that the researchers themselves fully understand the purpose of their study. However, some participants, such as those interviewed randomly on the street, did not fully understand the purpose of their study. Therefore, their answers may not fully fulfill the purpose of the research, and this may also mislead the research, producing useless results.