Prisia Nasution Makes A Film Set In Glodok Riots In 1998, Painting Lukas

Prisia Nasution dan Iedil Dzuhrie (Virgilery/VOI)

JAKARTA - In the second year of the Jakarta World Cinema Week press conference, the film Prisia Nasution entitled Melukis Luka is included in the list of films that will be shown at this prestigious event. It is planned that this event will be held from 11 to 18 November.

On one occasion, Prisia Nasution tried to tell about the difficulties she experienced while working on this film that she directed herself. Going directly to the Glodok area, Prisia felt a different atmosphere especially when she discussed the riots that occurred in 1998.

"It's difficult, maybe in the year 98 I was too small to feel the wound. Maybe those who are a little bigger can feel it, but yes, it's playing in one location where there were bad incidents, the energy will also feel like that," said Prisia Nasution in the Sudirman area, Central Jakarta, Thursday, October 19.

"Well, it's like that in Glodok. Even though everything was finally cheerful, the residents tried to forget the past by 'It's okay, it's the past, it's okay," continued Prisia.

However, although the original Glodok did not talk much about the incident 25 years ago, Prisia admitted that only by looking at the condition of abandoned buildings, she could feel the incident there.

"At that time they were okay, no one said that, but we felt like that, when we saw an old building that had been abandoned, what happened there, many houses were like that," continued Prisia.

Seeing this, this 39-year-old woman said that she had to take a special approach to native Glodok residents to get a factual story. This short circuit Prisia does it by positioning herself like a local resident in Glodok.

"So the approach is just asking one by one, later there will be one story that will tell what happened in the past. But actually it's a wound that they have closed," said the player in the film Teman Kondangan.

"That's why I didn't recall, but I just talked. So, I often play there, snack, shop, eat, so it's a local resident, blusukan, take a walk to Glodok himself. But in the end this story is fiction, it's just the taste that I adapt from ancient events," he explained.