Tempo's Artists of 2015
A Firing Squad and a Charcoal Grinder

One by one on that last evening in October 2015, the amateur performers introduced themselves. Within a very short time, the audience at the Yogya Cultural Center began to feel thoroughly amused by what they were watching.

The show was entitled 100% Yogyakarta. It did not feature any professional actors. All those up on the stage were ordinary people from around the city, including a parking attendant, a grave digger, a street tough, a housewife, a transvestite, a neighborhood association head, a teacher, and the head of a hardline Islamic organization.

January 12, 2016