Tonny Trimarsanto was walking down a road, pondering who could be a subject in the film Serambi. Suddenly he heard someone singing an Acehnese song and followed the sound. That was how he met Jailani, who also happened to be a saudati dancer. The talkative youth, who laughed a lot despite the loss of his family and his dance troupe, eventually became one of the characters in Serambi.

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