A COMPOSITION by Tony Prabowo, Music for Soprano and Keyboard, fills the air as the screen opens up slowly. The lights focus center stage. Dancer Restu Iman Sari emerges in a red dress. Moving to the center of the stage, Restu—symbolizing Motherland—pulls a piece of red cloth extending some 50 meters in length with both hands.

A child dressed all in white follows behind her—symbolizing the nation. And then a bald man in tig