The first step was to get letters of permission from the Department of Education and the local regent’s office (Bupati Badung). This in itself took a few days to complete. With letters in hand, Nyoman Suma Artha and staff approached the four (three state, l private) high schools in the greater Kuta area:

SMA 2 in Ungasan, Nusa Dua (December 20)
SMA 1 in Kuta (January 15)
SMA Suverta in Kuta (January 17)
SMA 3 in Dalung (January 25)

The first showing in Ungasan was a lesson for all of us. The screening took place in a lab which was too small and could not be blackened. We didn’t have a projector yet so had to rent one. We hadn’t thought about a sound system, assuming the projector’s would be sufficient, which for home use is but not in a large group. The school let us use theirs but it broke down in the beginning of the screening. The brochures were not ready yet (this was during Lebaran and many of the printers were off for two weeks).

For the subsequent screenings, a questionaire was made to assess if people were suffering from PTSD. This questionaire was distributed at the screenings and collected on the spot. Dr. Made Nyandra debriefed the wayang show and fielded questions. It appeared that more than 50 percent of the girls were suffering from PTSD or some form of depression.

Each screening was made to approximately 300 students.

Banjars: Due to insufficient funding, we have not begun going into the banjars in Kuta yet. We had grossly underestimated certain costings. However, we did one performance in Kuta on December 12, 2002 for the Peace and Unity Concert there to a crowd of 6,000. It was quite a coup for Sidia, as the Kuta-ites are not that interested in traditional performances, especially Wayang and they stayed through the rain and gave him an incredible response.

Nadya Lurie, an expatriate clothing designer who lives in Bali sponsored two subsequent live performances. The first one was in Banjar Kutuh, Ubud on December 22 (approximately 200 people attended) and the second was in Banjar Dalem Kusumasari in the village of Kepaon on January 22, 2003. Five of the bomb victims who were killed were from Kepaon. There were only about 100 people at Kepaon due to a heavy rainstorm that night but the heads of the village begged us to come back in February to another banjar down the road (We did go back in May with the children’s version). From the questionaires we received back in Kepaon, it appears that nearly 100% of the people there are suffering from PTSD or some form of depression.

The children's version was done live in three venues:

Banjar Lemukih, Buleleng
Br. Dukuh, Kepaon village, Badung
STSI campus, Denpasar

The DVD version was shown in 30 SDs (fifth and sixth grades), SMPs and SMAs throughout the island. The venues were chosen based on the home locality of the bomb victims.