The Mystery of the Forbidden Forest
Raka is a child who lives in a big city. When school holidays arrive, Raka's parents invite Raka to go on an outing to an island. Of course Raka is happy and he immediately agrees to the invitation. Raka asks permission to invite his two friends, Ali and Ahmad, to go with him.
They leave together. When they arrive at the island, they stay in a villa rented by Raka's parents. The next day they go on an outing there. Raka and his two friends walk around the island. They arrive at a fairly dense forest. They play around in the forest. Without realizing it, they slowly go deeper. They don't know that the local people call it a forbidden forest. There are many cases of people going missing after entering the forest.
A few days later, news was heard that 3 children had gone missing on the island and were not found even though the search team had searched. Raka's parents had returned home sadly because they had lost Raka.
Several years after the incident, suddenly two unknown people came out of nowhere. When questioned by the police, it turned out that the two people were Ali and Ahmad who had been reported missing for several years. Ali and Ahmad were interrogated and asked about their whereabouts for the past few years.
They were confused and asked, “Why were we reported missing? We only played in the forest for a few hours. There were many people playing there. We played with them.” They both replied. The police were even more confused because it was a dense natural forest. There were no residents in the forest at all.
Not long after they chatted, the police asked about Raka’s whereabouts. “Hey, aren’t there three of you? Why are there only two of you now? Where are your friends?” Ali and Ahmad answered, “Initially, Raka invited us to play and enter the forest. We had fun there. However, when we wanted to go home, Raka still wanted to play there with our new friends. So in the end we separated. The two of us went home first while Raka was still there.”
The police finally asked Ali and Ahmad to show them where they were playing. Ali and Ahmad, along with several police officers, walked back along the path they had previously taken. But strangely, they did not find what they had previously described even though they were sure that the path they had taken was correct. The search ended in vain.
Finally, they gave up. Raka was not found. According to a local villager, they had entered another world whose entrance was in the forbidden forest. People who enter there can only get out if they have a strong desire to return. If the person is happy there and does not want to go home, they will never be found because the world is different.