Bali

Well, for you who want spend your time in Bali on New Year, you can consider “Melepas Matahari 2008″ event to be attended. More 1,500 artists will attend the event in Denpasar, took Puputan Badung stadium as the center of event. Many arts activities will be held on Dec 31, from dawn until the next year [...]

Golf tournament, Indonesia Open 2009, will be held in Bali. This is the first time the tournament takes Bali as location, since the tournament has another goal, to introduce Bali for the participant who never visit Bali before. Indonesia Open will took New Kuta Golf Resort, a golf resort location in southwest Peninsula Bali, on Feb [...]

Yesterday, a biggest ngaben ceremony was held in Ubud. As we know, ngaben is a Balinese tradition to ’send’ people to nirvana. In this moment, there are 3 persons that will be burned, they are family from Puri Agung Ubud. They are Tjokorda Gde Agung Suyasa which died on 28 Maret 2008, Tjokorda Gede Raka, [...]

On Saturday, Hindunese in Bali celebrated Tumpek Landep, a special day in Hindu to sanctify sharp utilities (and weapons) such as keris, blade, and other relic weapons. The ritual using banten utility, young coconut leafes, flowers, and fruits combination. During that day, some assets that will be sanctified, such as machine, motor cycle, and other tools [...]

One Balinese traditional dancing, “Somya Rupa”, was performed on Bali Art Festival. President watched this show on the first night of the festival event. There are Minister of Culture and Tourism and Bali Governor accompany President watching the performance. The meaning of Somya Rupa is Holly Face. This dance was worked on Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) [...]

Here, some pics from Bali Art Festival. The pics were taken from here and here.

Today, Bali Art Festival is opening! The ceremony was attended by Indonesia President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, by hit kul-kul, a Balinese traditional instrument. This festival is the 30 times since it was held. This year it was held on Denpasar, in Renon region for exact place, with theme “Citta Wretti Nirodha” (control yourself to reach [...]

One of Balinese traditional dancing is Drama Gong which is combining almost all dancing moves. Drama Gong will be performed on Pesta Kesenian Bali/PKB (Bali Art Festival) on June 14. Drama Gong was becoming a superstar on PKB event since 1967 until 1990. For last 10 years, Drama Gong ‘dissappear’ from every art festival in Bali. [...]

For the first time, Balinese Flower Princess contest was held this year. This contest was held on Sector Bar, Sanur. There is about 75 children with age about 3-12 years old take participation and becoming a winner with total grand prize is about Rp 40 million (US$ 4,000). Through this contest, talented children can be chosen [...]

Banyu Pinaruh is one of ritual on Bali. We can find and see this ritual when Balinese finished celebrate Saraswati day, one of Hindunese holiday. On Banyu Pinaruh, Balinese will take a bath on beach, after they did the ritual in pura. This activity has meaning, they want to sanctify their body and soul. Some beaches are [...]