 The battle was shown briefly in the 2013 film "Sang Kiai", which depicted the death of Brigadier Mallaby at the hands of an Indonesian militia from Laskar Hizbullah and the first day of the battle itself.In 2013, the Battle of Surabaya was commemorated in a 2D animated film called the "Battle of Surabaya", which was scheduled to be released in August 2015.The film is produced by Mohammad Suryanto and focuses on a teenage courier named Musa.