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29/11/2016

Ngaben or the Balinese cremation ceremony
A mass cremation ceremony was held in the village of Banjar on November the eighteenth. This mass cremation ceremony provided for sixty participants (Sawa) and used sixteen places (WadahSawa).
For Hindus on the island of Bali, Ngaben is the ceremony to pay the last respects to the ancestors or relatives who have died. In general, this cremation acceleratesthe return of PancaMahabutha (the five basic elements) that exist in the human body, to nature. These five are solid elements, liquid elements, elements of air, fire or heat elements, and elements of the room.
Hindus in Bali have beliefs and traditions that are very interesting. There are several ceremonies commemorating the different stages in life from birth until death. The first is the ceremony three months after the baby is born, the second ceremony is Metatah performed when a person matures, the third isPewiwahan ceremony at the time of marriage or a person’ssettling down, and finally thereis the cremation ceremony.
The Cremation ceremony is usually held by the immediate family, for example, if the parents have died the children will organize the ceremony. In addition, the cremation ceremony in Bali is strongly influenced by two elements -selecting a good day and obtaining adequate funding. They can be very costly indeed.
One way to minimize costs during the cremation ceremony is to participate in a mass cremation. It is a cremation ceremony attended by many people to minimize the costs for the preparation of the facilities but it does not minimize the importance or meaning of the ceremony itself.

19/08/2016

LOWONGAN KERJA
CV. PANORAMA LAUTAN BALI (LOVINA VILLA PROPERTY) membutuhkan tenaga DESIGN GRAFIS
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Lamaran langsung bawa ke Jl. Raya Singaraja Seririt , Lovina Villa Property depan Masjid Kaliasem...
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Terima Kasih

01/07/2016

Cultural Heritage in the Old Villages of Buleleng
An interview with Jero Nyoman Surata from Lokapaksa
Our Lovina Pages cultural reporter is always looking for special temples and places with local traditions and ceremonies. Small villages can be the home to rare relics and old traditions associated with sacred places. Some of these ceremonies are only known locally.
Old Balinese villages that were formed centuries ago(desaBali tua) play a vital role in protecting cultural heritage. Also known as Baliaga villages (desa Bali aga)because the population is made up of indigenous Balinese citizens rather than the migrants who settled in Bali in later times.
Bali aga villages in Buleleng are; Sidatapa ,Cempaga , Tigawasa , and Pedawa and they are all home to century old traditions and beliefs that predate the introduction of Hinduism into Bali when there was an influx of Javanese migrants.
On June the eighth our reporter joined into a ceremonyin the old village o Lokapaksa, Banjar dinas Pamesan on an auspicious day called Buda Wage on the Balinese calendar.This ceremony focusses on the relic stones of Lokapaksa or the Pengamesan stones, as the local people refer to them.
TLP meets with one of the griya (house holy man) named Ida Pandita dukuh patni and a priest named Jro Nyoman Surata. They are the men who know of the origin of the stone relics in the village.
TLP:How many relics are there in this area?
JeroNyomanSurata: There are as many as twelve pieces of stone which resemblecontainers collected in this area. The area is now considered sacred and was later surrounded by walls. The local citizens call these stone relics Pengamesan Stones.
TLP: Why is that?
JeroNyomanSurata: The stones seem to have been here forever. Exactly how long we cannot say. Many of our ancestors worked as weavers.In the process of weaving cloths there is also the coloring of the textiles or threads also called the pengamesan process around here. For the Pengamesan (dyeing yarnprocess) people used these stones as containers to hold the liquid dyes. Hence the name Pengamesan stones.
TLP:Has scientific research been done on these stones?
JeroNyomanSurata: We do not have information aboutthis. Researchers have visited, but we never learned of the outcome of their studies. What we believe is that these stones are sacred,saklral and we will continue to preserve them.
TLP: And as well as keeping them you are also holding ceremonies?
Ida PanditaDukuh Patni: Every six months we hold a ceremony here, at the venue. Usually on Buda Wage, which is a specific day on the Balinese calendar. Today Buda Wage is on the eighth of June”.
TLP: Why are the ceremonies important for relics?
Ida PanditaDukuh Patni:We believe the stones are sacred and that is why the temple was built here. So we will always have ceremonies here. The place is also open to the public but they need to dress modestly and ask for permission to enter.
Lokapaksa, Banjar dinasPamesan is west of Seririt, following the road to Gilimanuk.

01/07/2016

Souvenirs from Tigawasa
An interview with Gede Widarma and Putu Parmita Wati
Buleleng is Bali’s largest regency. It covers 1,370 square kilometers of the most northern part of the island. For tourists, North Bali was first put on the map because of its unspoiled natural beauty, fantastic places to hike and dive, and the famous schools of dolphins which can be seen at sunrise. However, North Bali also offers significant places of cultural interest and a rich artistic history as well. Travelling around Buleleng we discover small villages where people have developed specific skills in craftworks.
The original inhabitants of Bali are said to have come long before the Hindu-Javanese immigration wave, and are called The Bali Aga, or Bali Mula. They live in villages in the north-east, the north-west and the central regions of the island mainly in isolated mountains areas. Such a village in North Bali is the village of Tigawasa. It lies high in the green foothills of the mountain range separating the North from the South. It over look scoastal lands and the Bali Sea. Most villagers derive incomefrom farming using old fashioned farming techniques and traditional forms of hand-craft passed from generation to generation.One such hand-craft is the weaving bamboo and rattan.A traditional woven product originating from TigaWasa are the baskets, or kebe nwhich are usually used for offerings. In the year 2000 Gede Widarma together with his wife Putu Parmita Wati started a basket weaving business and their business grew from a home-based production to a much larger scale production today.
TLP:What gave you the idea of starting weaving keben?
Gede: We were lucky we could rely on easy access to the required natural resources and the local skills needed to make them. And over time we developedour own specialties. Besides selling through local markets, we also began selling our products directly to tourists.These bamboo baskets which are used for carrying offerings during ceremonies seem to have become popular with tourists, and will be used back home as storage baskets, or just simply as decorations.
TLP: Tell us more about the keben we see here?
Gede: We make baskets in many sizes from five cm. The biggest size we ever make is a square basket of forty centimeters and these are special because the bamboo pieces we use are usually not longer than thirty centimeters.
TLP:Can you explain to us that in more detail?
Gede:Bamboo is the essential ingredient to make these baskets. The best and strongest part of the leaf is used - usually this is the upper, shiny part. The strips are normally thinner than for an ordinary basket, this makes them strong. They are never more than about thirty centimeters. The sides usually slope in, so that a lid can be put on top. Sometimes the top of the lid has a decoration in the center. Hence the handy strong construction that makes it possible to pile them up, that makes them so popular for storing items like food for example. But originally the baskets were just used for carrying offerings to the temple and are regarded as alus, or, refined.
TLP: “So bamboo is an important source of material in this production. And how are products sold, you take them to the market?”
Gede: ” Bamboo grows in all the gardens and mostly community land, it’s there for all of us to use. Most people in our village work with bamboo. Besides the bamboo baskets our village produces bedeg orgedeg (woven bamboo walls), and ngiu / nyiru, these are baskets for winnowing rice”.
Besides the woven baskets, Gede Widarma and is wife also make bags, trays, and purses. Products can be made to order with motives and names or texts woven into the products which makes them unique.
Buk Putu said, he was proud of in 2015 ago because its products are exhibited in the Bali Arts Festival in 2015 to represent the district Buleleng. And they sell their products to existing artshops in the areas of Badung and Gianyar. She also explains that orders will take a minimum of a week to make ready. But if tourists are just interested in the the traditional Tigawasa art of basket weaving they are more than welcome to come and visit their home. Their home is located in banjar dinas Warna Sari,desaTiga Wasa Buleleng.

01/07/2016

The Hills of Pucak Batu Kursi
An area worth visiting in North Bali is the area around the village of Pemuteran. From Seririt you take the coastal road going west. There many placesof interest on the road, like the Atlas Pearl Farm just before Pemuteran, where a guided tour will explain the secrets of their oyster-breeding program and demonstrate an example of pearl seeding and harvesting.
In Pemuteran you can visit the successful ‘turtle project’, set up by Chris Brown almost twenty five years ago with the objective to save the sea turtles from extinction. This is a good place to have a coffee and a sandwich as well.
At the end of the road going west, almost where the boat for Java departs, you’ll find the lush Menjangan National Park. It is great for snorkeling, scuba diving and hiking but if you decide to include these activities in this trip you will need more than one day and you can stay over in Pemuteran.
Pay a visit to the impressive temple in Taluk Terima, built on the killing site of the unfortunate Prince Jayaprana; killed because a king had fallen in love with his wife. It is a bit of a steep climb to the temple but the views over the ocean are stunningly beautiful.
A lesser known but definitelyworthwhile climb you can make from Pemuteran is the climb to Pucak Batu Kursi. These hills have often been used for military training because of the circumstances then. But with no military trainings now, the surrounding hills are quiet and serene.There is a nice hike up to the small temple on top of the hill, but you will need good shoes. The views from the hills are absolutely stunning. And if you really want to go for the best views you should make a hike just before the sun rises.

30/04/2016

Ornamental Fish Breeding
An interview with Made Partiana from Les

An interview with BliEka, fisherman and environmentalist.
The coastal village of Les lies about 31 kilometers east of Singaraja. The majority of the population makes a living from selling fish. The fishermen of the village of Les are known for their environmentally friendly way of fishing and they are very happy to take visitors on an underwater tour to show the beautiful reefs, rich of fish and what action they are taking to maintain ecological balance Besides catching fish for consumption the core business of the village has been around catching ornamental fish. Today the reefs look healthy and there is plenty of fish but the situation around the coast of Les was not always what it is today and it took a lot of talking and action to create the mind change that was necessary to change things around.
Some years back one of the Lovina Pages reporters travelled to Les after learning the village was developing changes in the, before destructive, way they were catching the ornamental fish, hoping that by publishing about it other villages might follow this example. He met with the people behind the initiative of fishing with ………..nets instead of using potassium to sedate fish. This way of fishing for ornamental fish has been accustomed in the whole north Bali area but the fast downfall of the ecosystems started in 1980’s when demand for ornamental fish started to grow extensively. Within ten years the ecological balance was so disturbed that coral reefs had been detoriated and the there was no ornamental fish around anymore. Local fishermen expanded their search for ornamental fish to open sea and sailed to Lombok, Bima, Flores, Sumba and Alor and even went as far as South Sulawesi. A trip could take weeks.”
But the times were changing and there was more and more implementation on laws regarding fishing without disturbing the ecological balance and fishermen were arrested and spent time in jail for offends made. Those jail terms were no joke and could be up to 8 months detention. In the village of Les the change came when in the year 2000 some undercover maritime officials came to the village and spent weeks keeping an eye on the fishermen. They played a role of being buyers, coming back every day with questions. Although the fishing community had learned over the years not to give away any information on the fact that they were using chemicals in order to be able to catch our ornamental fish, the officials still got the information they needed in order to confront the village with the fact it was working on the destruction of it’s own ecological damage and they proposed help in changing things..
They started working with a so called ‘LSM’ (Lembagaswadayamasyarakat), which is an underwater environmentalist who keeps an eye on malpractices and who advises people in finding solutions to catch ornamental fish without using chemicals, so to fish without damaging the marine eco systems. Using potassium was no longer practiced and on the 29th of September 2002 the fishermen of Les formed an organization which was named the ‘Mina Bhakti Soansari fishermen association’ an organization working on learning how to catch fish using environmental friendly fishing nets also we actively repairmen of the the damaged coral reefs with coral transplantations. Beaches were cleaned and reefs were cleaned up by regular ‘beach-reef clean ups’”. In 2012, the former fishermen's organization ‘Bhakti Soansari Mina’ was terminated and mad place for a new organization named ‘ Bhakti Segara Lestari’ which has a growing number of members, all people from our local fishermen community.
The village has have expanded its way of making a living from their natural resources. After restoring and keeping the balance it is now finding ways to make a living in a more diverse way from what the ocean is offering, not fishing only but also like acting as underwater tour guides.
A new development in the area of Les is the founding of a foundation called ‘LINI’, Aquaculture and Training center, a center just built off the coast of the village. The purpose of the center is to provide more guidance for the fishermen in the village itself but also the wider area around the village. This has quickly leaded to new development within the ornamental fishing industry. New initiatives are no longer focused on catching the fish in the wild but into setting up breeding programs to ‘produce’ fish. The fish is not only used to sell on the market but also to be put back into the ocean to help the fish population grow again. Our reporter travelled to the Les once ore to talk to the people behind this new initiative. They are from mixed cultural background, local and also from abroad. Made Partiana, the local initiative taker explained how he, together with Alex and Derect, two experts in fish breeding from Australia came to develop this idea.
Made Partiana explains; We have been working on this program c since mid-2015.We are still very much in the process of researching the possibilities but what we aim foris cultivation a wide range of fish types in the future. Today we focus on breeding‘Banggai’ a fish native to South Sulawesi. Breeding Banggai has proved a success. From fish we also will breed shrimps and so called ‘ornamental reef species’. It is a painstaking process to come to successful marine life breeding. The water in the tanks must be sterile and have a balanced water value at all times. Balanced water values are around; pH 83 and the ammonia content should reach 1,021-1,022. The filtration process also has the contents of coral-eating bacteria and that is why the sterile water is important.
The Banggaibreeding has proved to be successful. We produce eggs within twenty eight to thirty days and baby fish as many as twenty to forty per batch. The eggs will be resting insidethe male fish's mouth until the eggs hatch. We feed the fish Artenia for the best result. Our foundation was inaugurated on April seven of this year by the department of Marine and Fisheries Buleleng. Our goal is managing our marine products better so we can all benefit from it, for still a long time to come!

30/04/2016

Travelling the Buleleng countryside
Buleleng is Bali’s largest regency. For tourists North Bali was first put on the map because of its unspoiled natural beauty, fantastic places to hike and scuba diving and the famous schools of dolphins which can be seen at sunrise. However, North Bali offers great places of cultural interest and a rich artistic history as well. Travelling around Buleleng we stumble across small villages where people have developed specific skills in craftworks, beautiful old and new places of worship for different religions and monuments. Some villages have been on the tourist map for long already, may it be for a specific dance or music form, a famous temple, a quit stop on a hiking trail, or a starting point for a dive trip but in other villages we sometimes feel time has stood still and not many outsiders passed through. People’s interests for places also changes and with the phenomenon of eco travelling and biological food products we see an increased popularity for unspoiled villages where most of the population lives of farming.
One such village worth mentioning is; AsahBadung village located in the subdistrict of Busungbiu in Buleleng. The village can be reached from Singaraja after a two hour long journey going to Pupuan. Or, take the road also going to Pupuan, but then from the Denpasar side.
What makes the village attractive is the beautiful setting with the mountians as it’s background and the very rich cultivation of different fruit. Fruit and cloves, coffee and cacao, it all grows in this lush and fertile soil and the best months to experience the richness of it is In April and May when most fruit such as Langsat fruit (Lansiumparasiticum) and snake fruit (salak) are harvested. People work hard to harvest the entire ready to pick fruit and it is a real hustle and bustle of people and trucks, buyers and sellers, all coming and going.
The air is cool and the in the close vicinity of the village lye some beautiful hidden waterfalls. The people are more than happy to share their stories with people who show an interest in their lifestyle. It’s a little piece of Bali from a long time ago.

30/04/2016

Bengkala Village

Nearly all villages on the island of Bali have culture and arts that are in some way unique.An outstanding example is the village of Bengkala in North Bali. The characteristic that makes it really different is the high proportion of deaf-mute people – the highest proportion of any village in Indonesia, and one of the highest incidences in the world. This has influenced the culture of the village where by thedeaf mutes citizens are not discriminated againstnor excluded because of their physical limitations, but instead, they are highly appreciated and provide motivation to the rest of the village. Most of the citizens of Bengkalahave mastered the sign language used by thedeaf-mutes and in this way the culture of the village has become inclusive.
The headman of the village, Made Arpana said that he would like to see the tourism potential of Bengkala developed. He can see that visitors would appreciate the special skills of the deaf-mute people like dance, and would like to see how the whole village has learnt the sign language and become inclusive. The deaf-mute people are referred to as kolok, and they are enthusiastic to develop their artistic skills.
In 2007 the people of Bengkala opened a special-needs school which aimed to be inclusive. This provided for deaf-mute people of Bengkala but also was available to other people in North Bali who had special needs. In this way a wider group of people can get a good education.
As well as schools, the kolok community (citizens who aredeaf-mutes) will get assistance in the form of construction of the habitable housing, training for traditional weaving,and construction of sheds for chickens, cows and pigs.Then some land normally planted with saffron, will be replanted with other productive plants so it will provide additional revenue benefits for the kolok.
Artisitic talents of the kolok will be developed. This includes Janger (a Bali female dance) which has been recognized by UNESCO as a significant cultural heritage for Bali. So Janger Kolok can now be offered as a cultural feature in luxury hotels.

01/04/2016

The Singaraja Montessori School (SMS) offers learning in a world class environment using the Montessori Method which is a hands on method enabling children to become active learners.
The school provides high quality education that empowers students to become confident learners and responsible members of society.
SMS is a Bi-lingual school with Indonesian as its primary language of instruction and English as its secondary language.
SMS follows the National Plus curriculum.
Children are born curious, creative and are motivated to observe and learn things, with reinforcement being the only effective way to motivate students to become well educated.
Montessori children learn from one another as much as from adults, and collaborate rather than compete for honors and grades. It is this very philosophy that inspired us at SMS to open a Montessori school to provide children with an environment that is safe, interesting and conducive to learning.
Children learn best by doing, so while manipulating materials children are learning and not only playing as perceived by most adults.
SMS aims to make learning fun for children while allowing them to explore without limitations. The main goal of the Singaraja Montessori School is to provide a stimulating, child oriented environment that children can explore and touch, and learn in without fear.
An understanding parent or teacher is a large part of this child's world. The end result is to encourage life-long learning, the joy of learning, and happiness about one's path and purpose in life.
Besides learning in the class room using the Montessori materials, extracurricular activities are: Traditional and Modern Dance, Music, Speech and Drama classes.
Sports and swimming lessons are given on Fridays.
The Head-teacher at Singaraja Montessori School is Poonam Nanwani.
Poonam is a highly trained and officially certified Montessori teacher who graduated from the Indian Montessori Centre, Bangalore, India. She continued her training with The North American Montessori Centre in Canada.
Poonam went on to work at several international schools including the Forest International School, Mareil Marly, France where she worked as a Pre-Primary teacher and IPC Coordinator.
She also worked at The Netherlands International School in Jakarta, the Gandhi Memorial International School Jakarta and the Gandhi Montessori School in Jakarta. At the Singaraja Montessori School classroom Poonam is assisted by Widia Helena a graduate from the Pendidikan Ganesha University in Singaraja.
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