Family day

Family day

From Kompas

An Aug. 20 article in Kompas daily Almost uniform television
dynamics made me very angry. It cited Keluarga Cemara (Cemara
Family), a miniseries being screened by RCTI, as an example of a
nonuniform piece of drama. In my opinion, why is it only now that
the program is showered with praise because of an "awareness and
importance of the value of a family?"

It is an awareness of this perspective that makes the product
what it is. There must be strong reasons why only now do we
realize the power existing in a family as a form of success --
parallel to career success, for example. So sometimes I think to
create a story, why don't we establish a Family Day besides
Mother's Day, Father's Day or Affection Day?

This letter is also meant to straighten out the screening
dates of the serial. It was first screened not in 1997, but on
Oct. 6, 1996. It was also published for the first time in Bobo
magazine in May 1980, and only later was it published as a serial
story in HAI magazine.

ARSWENDO ATMOWILOTO

Story writer/producer

Jakarta