SURABAYA – It seemed only yesterday I was enjoying the air out there together, joking and sharing the love It was only yesterday I felt the warmth of family affection. It seemed 
only yesterday I was sitting in my mother’s lap. Just yesterday I kissed her forehead. I felt helpless until I got here
Thus feelings Rustika Aryati Lila, 28 years, describes. 7 months terpidana convicted of fraud cases, while in tears, threw a piece of dialogue on the Layar Theatre stage show, “Rasanya Baru Kemarin” (It Just Yesterday), in the House of Detention (Rutan) Class I Surabaya, Lt. Gen. Sutoyo Road, Medaeng, Waru, Sidoarjo, Thursday afternoon (06/05/2010) then.
Suddenly, the majority of viewers, particularly women prisoners, which fills the space Medaeng Visits To The Detention Center, where the theater is going on, come late and then shed tears made.
Backstage, Lila admitted to cry real when playing that part. He admitted that he was not surprised when the audience made it go so touched. According to him, miss the family is a problem that is felt all the inmates Medaeng.
“This Medaeng. There is no morning, no lunch, no evening, no night, only the walls and bars I’ve seen, “said Peni Berlianingtyas, 33 years old, sentenced to four-year drug case, the opponent played Lila in that theater. That is, no difference between morning, afternoon, evening and night in Medaeng.
That makes all the difference to be perceived the same time is because there is absolutely no activity there. In the span of time that feel the same change that was made by the inmates often reminded his family at home. “We are called residents built. But here it seems we were told to build ourselves, “said the other woman inmates.
Peni is said, the only activity at the Correctional Institution Dangdutan Medaeng is a routine event held every Tuesday by showing that no other musicians is a citizen of the built / convict Medaeng itself. For musicians who are engaged to perform, show dangdutan routine is deemed very favorable. One of them because they got saweran (giving money as a form of pleasure) of his fellow inmates who felt comforted by his appearance.
Kuniasih, 40 years old, sentenced to four-year drug case, which acts as one of the singers dangdutan weekly show that, from the results of these saweran, even claimed to be sending money for five children who had left at home.
“While most other inmates instead of waiting for mercy membesuknya guests,” said Kuniasih. But for most other inmates, long a routine event dangdutan held each week was deemed too boring. And then replaced with theater.
The name itself is a theater group, called the screen, was chosen based on the terms
quite popular among the prisoners Medaeng.
The prisoners in this Medaeng often called the prisoners were sent to correctional institutions by the term dilayar (screen).
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