The Dutch colonial era heritage building with high wall it still stands sturdy at the heart of Yogyakarta City. The building was named Gevangenis En Huis Van Bewaring which means prison and house prisoners. After five times the change of name, finally currently named the Board of Trust (Lapas) Class IIA Wirogunan, Yogyakarta.
A pair of about 3,8 hectares is now inhabited by 518 nursing people with various backgrounds of crimes. In his coach, Lapas Wirogunan made policies by implementing cultural and humanistic approaches. Starting from the form of the building to the supporting facilities of all prescribed according to the rules and needs in efforts to provide maximum public services.
In his punishment, the fosters also got a variety of personality and independence activities that are expected to become a new life eternal after they are free. One of the activities of companionship of independence and is quite famous the result is the manufacture of meatballs with the brand “Mbah Wiro 378”.
The pear and the binaan saw the atmosphere of the lapas of one of the Lapas Class II gates of Wirogunan, Yogyakarta
The display on the outer wall of the Lapas Class II A Wirogunan, Yogyakarta
Bakpia is one of Yogyakarta’s signature foods is usually known in packaging with trademarks containing numbers. Therefore the Wirogunan Lapas includes the number taken from one of the Article of the KUHP, 378. This article relates to fraud crime and is selected because the figure is also already quite known among society.
The sidelines of independence made the meatballs have started since the end of 2021, which began from one of the fosters with the expertise of making meatballs. The potential was developed by the lapas party then made a program for the creation of a bakpia for other fosters.
In the implementation of Lapas Wirogunan, a society such as bakpia workers or practitioners to UMKM players to provide guidance that was originally followed by five members of the selection results. As a time run, it is currently recorded 43 people who have entered into the companionship of the creation of the meatball.
The people of the binaan bakpia in Lapas Work workshop Class II A Wirogunan
Sipir observes the binaan when making the meatball.
Located in the room named Lapas Class IIA Wirogunan work workshop, the binaans worked as a professional power in a bakpia company. They share each task, there is a dough, entering the stuffing of green beans into the skin of the bakpia, baking, to packaging.
Now Bakpia Wiro 378 has a production capacity of about 50 boxes per day at Rp20 thousand per box and is commonly ordered by hotels in Yogyakarta as well as to employees in the Kemenkumham environment. The average Omzet can reach about Rp30 million per month later used to buy raw materials and its advantages for premiums or pays for the residents of the accompanying program.
According to Edi Susanto (57) one of the fosters who follow the training of the independence felt got a helpful new skill that can be applied to the livelihood when free later. According to him paying the results of the creation of a meatball who received by the nursing citizens in the form of savings in one of the banks belonging to the government who will be given at a free time.
Sipir provides the companionship of the creation of the Mbah Wiro 378 tray.
The written statement on the board and the tray in the manufacturing process.
At the exhibition of the Kemenkumham products in the Immigration Festival (Imifest) 2023 at Grha Saba Pramana Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) recently, Lapas Wirogunan one of the only displays the description of the Mbah Wiro 378 tubpia. In addition to being a promotional medium to sell the results of the work of the fosters, the exhibition is also to encourage them to continue to work.
Head of Lapas Class II A Wirogunan Soleh Joko Sutopo explains the skills later became one of the scalable lives for fosters, so when they came out of prisons can become humans as he would and changed the negative stigma of society against them.
Photo & Text : Andreas Fitri Atmoko
Sipir gives the direction to the fosters when the process of making the meatballs.
The color of binaan works together and share tasks in making meatballs
Author : Nyoman Budhiana
Edi Susanto’s nurturing color showed Wiro 378 manpia who are ready to market
The nursing nursing nursing bakpia Mbah Wiro 378
Sipir brought the Mbah Wiro 378 man-building
Head Lapas Class II A Wirogunan Soleh Joko Sutopo (left) talked with binamen.
