ONLY – Two of the king’s daughters can finally breathe the open air, after being confined for three days and two nights indoors. The Sunanate Palace of Surakarta.
Many of the facts were obtained when the younger brothers of Raja Hangabehi or Putri Paku Buwono (PB) XII GKR Wandansari alias Koesmoertiyah (Gusti Moeng) and Putri Raja PB XIII GKR Timoer Rumbai Kusuma Dewayani and two dancers were trapped in the Palace.
One of the Keraton dancers who often performs the Bedoyo ketawang dance, Ika Prasetyaningsih, admits that the experience of being locked up from within that she experienced with the King’s two daughters cannot be forgotten.
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Ika was also locked up, because he was one of Gusti Moeng’s assistants to train the Keraton dancers. And it happened that at that moment Ika wanted to go inside to see Keraton’s dancewear collection.
Other than the lack of food when he was locked up, Ika said, the atmosphere at that time in the palace was terrible.
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Where, at nightfall, all electricity in the Palace is cut off. So that they have to live in complete darkness while confined in the palace.
“If it is said that it is tense, it is quite tense. Because yesterday the power went out, there was no water, there was no food, that’s right,” Ika said, recounting her experience when she was locked in the palace. Saturday (12/2/2021).
According to Ika, to survive inside, they, including the king’s two daughters, had to try to find food. Aside from having to try to find their own food, they are still struggling with how to process the food they get.
“We have to find the ingredients for the food as well as the processing of the food, which is relatively difficult,” he explained.
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Not to mention when they want to sleep, they sleep only on a mat without a pillow. So not everyone was able to sleep well.
“Sleep in the pavilion, use a mat. What are you doing, the name does not sleep well enough. Especially when it rained a lot, so cold,” he said.
However, the saddest thing is when you are trapped inside when you see the state of the Keraton which is already very worrying. Especially looking at the dancers’ clothes that were already in bad shape.
Dancewear is stored in 13 cabinets in one room at the Keputren Keraton Kasunanan.
“The condition (of the dance clothes) is very worrying. It is not well maintained and many are damaged,” Ika said through tears.
In fact, when he first entered the ranks of the Keraton dancers, his condition was still good and very well maintained.
“When I joined in 2017, the condition (clothes) was still good and well maintained. It is very different from what I see now,” explained Ika.
As previously reported, two of the king’s daughters, including the younger brothers of Raja Hangabehi or Putri Paku Buwono (PB) XII GKR Wandansari alias Koesmoertiyah (Gusti Moeng) and Putri Raja PB XIII GKR Timoer Rumbai Kusuma Dewayani, were locked up in the palace. .
In addition to the two daughters of the king, two dancers of the Bedaya dance, namely Ika Prasetyaningsih and Bulan Semayani Milawarna, as well as a sentana dalem, KRMH Saptono Djati have also been locked up since Thursday, February 11, 2021.
