Dwi Setiawan
Petra Christian University

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Asam Garam: A Short Film Screenplay Adapted from Dee Lestari’s Short Story About the Journey Through Grief Deby Christi; Dwi Setiawan
Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026)
Publisher : Institute of Research and Community Outreach - Petra Christian University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.9744/katakita.14.1.153-159

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This creative work, a short film screenplay adapted from Dee Lestari’s short story Asam Garam, explores the experience of loss and its impact on an individual’s life, the journey through grief, and the process of overcoming grief toward acceptance. These elements are elaborated through a short film screenplay grounded in Kübler-Ross’s (2014) theory of loss and stages of grief, as well as the dual process model of coping with bereavement proposed by Stroebe and Schut (1999). The screenplay is also developed using the adaptation principles outlined by Hutcheon (2006) and Desmond and Hawkes (2006). The narrative centers on Gaspar, a skeptical journalist mourning the death of his father, who is assigned to interview the owner of a popular shop in Papua that sells a mysterious black salt said to make anyone cry without reason. His encounter with the shop owner gradually enables him to accept his loss. This story demonstrates that multiple losses can lead to a series of subsequent losses that shape an individual’s psychological wounds, that the grieving process varies across individuals and is inherently non-linear, and that crying can serve as an initial step toward healing.
Deadline: A Novella Exploring the Causes, Inhibitors, and Recovery of Suicidal Ideation Felicia Aurelia; Dwi Setiawan
Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching Vol. 14 No. 3 (2026)
Publisher : Institute of Research and Community Outreach - Petra Christian University

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The topic of suicide has been prominent through human history and the numbers of people committing suicide has gone up over the years. Suicide is driven by what is called a suicidal ideation in which can be caused by diverse and complex reasons. With this in mind, we want to bring up suicidal ideation as a topic for our creative work in the form of a novella. To ground this topic more for this creative thesis, we are using the Three Step Theory of Suicide (2015) by E. David Klonsky and Alexis M. May to explain the cause and inhibitor of suicidal ideation, along with Re-Vitalizing Worthiness in Overcoming Suicidality Theory (2011) by Evelyn Gordon, John R. Cutcliff, and Chris Stevenson to explain the recovery of suicidal ideation. This creative work in the genre of psychological thriller will explore the main character's cause of suicidal ideation which is from her pain from being a childhood breadwinner and her guilt as an assassin. She inhibited her attempt out of the connection that she had with her family. In the end, she chose to overcome that ideation by surviving a crisis, getting to the point of no return, and accepting help from her family to earn her life.