These are two works created during the 'panoptic' residency program in Jakarta's Rutan Pondok Bambu. During my month-long residency, I created a simple map of Rumah Tahanan Pondok Bambu (Pondok Bambu Women Correctional Facility). I gathered data and information for mapping using two methods: casual conversation and short photography workshops. The end result is a survival handbook for inmates inside the correctional facility, as well as a self-published zine and a mini exhibition. Indeed, a correctional facility is like a country with people and a government, complete with rules. When an individual is forced to enter in this order, they must adapt and learn certain tricks in order to survive. It is difficult to live in a confined space with strict rules and without the right to own property, despite the fact that life in prison is not free either. Prison is a concentrate of time and space. 

Prisoners will learn about artistic approaches and development through photography, channeling their mind and energy through it, and receiving recognition as a result. For me, the benefit is information, which allows me to create a simple mapping. This pilot project demonstrates how photography can be used as a form of therapy for prisoners as well as an archive of what happens inside the correctional facility. The first book 'guides' inmates so that they can live without breaking the rules. Attempting to overcome network limitations with overbuilt networks. The same thing happened in the correctional facility as it does in a country that frequently changes the rules. It is about surveillance and surviving under power. I also created a self-published photozine and a mini-exhibition with the inmates during my residency.