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PAGE 8 A signing board using Balinese alphabet showing in this photo. Tourism sector, especially hotels industry, is expected to pioneer the use of Balinese language and script as one of the added value of Bali tourism.
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MANGUPURA - Tourism sector, especially hotels industry, is expected to pioneer the use of Balinese language and script as one of the added value of Bali tourism. The tourism industry in Thailand, for example, has done it. Even, Switzerland has used four languages to draw the intrigue of tourists. “It will be remarkably lovely if a variety of information in hotels use Balinese script, Balinese language and English. Other countries have done so because aside from being unique and giving added value, this measure can encourage the pride of its people,” said the humanist I Gede Ardika. The former Minister of Culture and Tourism said that he was concerned about the younger generation who were unable to speak the local language familiarly. Stakeholders and the public were expected to maintain, preserve, use and develop the local language as well as other cultural heritages so they would not be undergoing extinction. “The wealth of art and culture has widely inspired the creative economic
activities that had supported the Bali tourism,” he said. Meanwhile, the Regent of Gianyar Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati in the seminar was also sad to see the shift in the concept of cultural tourism that must actually be sustainable, community-based, and on a small scale. “Now, the industry has grown bigger. More and more of our people getting involved in local industry have collapsed. To that end, I hoped the creative economy will be able to give a change,” he said. Cok Ace argued that existence of tourism was to vitalize the culture. As long as the culture could not give welfare benefits, the community would leave their culture.
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PALEMBANG - Vice President Boediono officially closed the 26th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) here on Tuesday evening saying the true winner of the games was the peoples of Southeast Asia. He said the 12 day-long event had shown to the world that true friendship had been built among the participating countries. “The flame that has been alight for 12 days will be extinguished but the fire in our hearts will never go out and that will remind us of our friendship as Southeast Asian community,” he said at Jakabaring Sports Complex. Boediono at the closing ceremony themed “Victory in Harmony” was accompanied by his wife, Mrs Herawati, South Sumatra governor Alex Noerdin, sports minister Andi Mallarangeng and the general chairperson of the Indonesia National Sports Committee (KONI), Rita Subowo.