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Griya Sakti Temple riya Sakti Bukit Bangli Temple is one of the dang khayangan temples (a tribute temple to ancient saint) located on Jalan Nusantara, Brahmana hamlet, Cempaga village, Bangli County. The temple perched on Bangli hilltop is estimated to have been established in the seventeenth century BC. History of this temple is inseparable from the story on the pilgrimage of Ida Pedanda Sakti Bawu Rauh. A high priest at Griya Bukit Bangli, Ida Pedanda Putu Oka, explained the

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existence of the temple venerated by approximately 300 residents of Brahmana hamlet was inseparable from the pilgrimage of Ida Pedanda Sakti Bawu Rauh, also known as Dang Hyang Nirartha.

It was told that Ida Pedanda Sakti Bawu Rauh had five children namely Ida Ler, Ida Lor, Ida Wetan, Ida Kulon and together with his eldest daughter Ida Ayu Swabhawa traveled to Bali from Java. In short, when he arrived at Pulaki, Buleleng, Ida Ayu Swabhawa was left from the entourage of his father. There, Ida Ayu Swabhawa or better known as Ida Ayu Melanting got reunion with God or moksha and she was subsequently venerated by local people by establishing a threetiered meru shrine.

Meanwhile, it was also told about Ida Pedanda Ketut Buruan also known as Ida Pedanda Sakti Manuaba denoting the son of Ida Ler being managed to build a dam at Tegallalang, Ubud, Gianyar. It could irrigate the local farmland so as to make the Tegallalang region prosperous. His residence is now known as the Griya Sakti Manuaba Temple. Ida Pedanda Manuaba had five children.

One of them was Ida Pedanda Bajangan. One day, he asked for the venue for yoga or meditation to his father. When Ida Pedanda Bajangan was tested to perform yoga by his father, his father suddenly saw flames towering up to Mount Kaloka. Since then, Ida Pedanda Bajangan was directed by his father to travel eastward to Mount Kaloka, said Ida Pedanda Putu Oka who is still active in the management of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bangli Chapter.

His pilgrimage was not profiled, but when Ida Pedanda Bajangan arrived on Mount Kaloka, he then saw a three-tiered meru shrine in the west of the mountain. He was then convinced if it was a veneration shrine of Batara Sakti Melanting being equal to the existence of shrine in the Pulaki Temple, Buleleng. Existence of the Melanting Temple has become

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one of the shrines in the Griya Sakti Bukit Bangli that was originally used as representation shrine of Ida Batara Melanting by Bangli society at that time.

Furthermore, by Ida Batara Melanting, Ida Pedanda Bajangan was given a blessing and advised to occupy the temple area. Griya Sakti Manuaba was eventually destroyed by the repeated attacks of Gusti Ngurah Watu Lepang. Small children of Ida Pedanda Manuaba were then evacuated to his relative namely Ida Pedanda Bajangan at Bukit Bangli. Not long after, Ida Pedanda Manuaba died and his descendants then made ​​a tribute shrine in the form of representation shrine. Since it is very closely related to Griya Sakti Manuaba Temple at Tegallalang in Gianyar, the temple perched on the Bangli hilltop was then named the Griya Sakti Bukit Bangli Temple. Its piodalan or temple anniversary falls on Wraspati (Thursday) Paing Kulantir. Since it is one of the dang khayangan temples, the anniversary of the temple situated in the east of road is always thronged by many pilgrimages, especially the descendants of Ida Batara Bawu Rauh from throughout Bali. B N (BTN/kmb)

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Merchant of ritual paraphernalia for “penjor” of “Galungan” and “Kuningan” feast day.

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SereS Springs Resort & Spa Traditional Touches throughout the Panoramic Grounds ropical serenity and holistic charm of Ubud – the cultural heart of Bali where SereS Springs Resort & Spa, located, exactly in the village

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of Singakerta, just south of Ubud, with a full frontage along the River Wos and providing impeccable and panoramic views of rice pady fields to the east. This destination

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resort with a natural spring water pond on property is ensconced in a soothing, tranquil and serene setting in an easterly-facing orientation.

“Blissfully nestled amidst verdant valleys, rivers, waterfalls, and ensconced by Bali’s iconic terraced rice padi fields, SereS Springs Resort & Spa is a sumptuous and sedate five-star getaway that is culturally-inspired by Bali’s ritual-rich traditions to deliver an authentic and unique experience beyond compare”. Said Nyoman Prabawa the General Manager, on its Grand Opening Ceremony, Saturday (07/10) “Complete with warm hospitality, artisanal artwork and traditional touches throughout the panoramic grounds, SereS Springs Resort & Spa celebrates the rich culture of its island home whilst treating discerning travellers to lavishly-appointed residences, sophisticated amenities, elegant indulgences and a collection of gourmet restaurants that overlook the majestic and holy Mount Agung”. He added.

Sunrise before dawn will be a sight to behold and most suitable for meditation and re-invigoration.

The Resort will comprise 44 superior rooms, 16 suites with ofuro tubs in the balcony and 20 villas each with individual dipping pool.

Amenities will include 2 large swimming pools with spacious deck 46 chaises–lounge chairs. A grand ballroom with pre-function foyer for up to 350 guests, a junior ballroom for 150 guests, 2 function rooms, business centre, fitness centre, kids club and video lounge.

All-day dining is available at the Mulberry Place, featuring diverse cuisine for about 45 people seating capacity and Bell’Aria Italian restaurant with wood fire bricks Pizza Oven. Also Café DarSini Lounge & Bar concept with live music and DJ for about 60 people seating capacity.

The SereS Spa Sanctuary complex with 6 treatment studios, natural water springs pool anda Bale Yoga and the special design of multifunctional wedding pa-

Matekap, a Farming Activity Made into Tourist Attraction

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villion for multi religion wedding ceremony, will overlook the padi fields and River Wos. While the property owner Mr. Michael Chiu said that “The design and planning phase for three hotel projects in Bali, Indonesia. These hotels are contemporary, not gimmicky nor whimsical, and will offer full amenities, personal comfort and service to business and leisure travelers who will recognize and optimize to build a legacy in the traditions and caring attitudes of warm Asian hospitality”.

“SereS Hotels & Resorts will fulfill a promise in the delivery of comfortable and contemporary accommodations with unmitigated conveniences for the business and leisure travelers”. He promised. B N (BTN/014)

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Foreign tourists are enjoying matekap (plowing) attraction at Baru village, Marga - Tabanan.

or the people of the Island of Gods, matekap (plowing) by cattle may be an ordinary activity. However, it becomes a tremendous attraction for foreign tourists. They are not only satisfied with capturing through photos, but they also scramble to try it. They are willing to get in touch with mud when trying with local farmers.

Well, this is the atmosphere of plowing with foreign tourists at Baru village, Marga, Tabanan. In the green paddy field area, tourists can join in the plowing activities to experience the activities of farmers in Bali. When doing it, they are guided by a farmer, so that the cow can pull in accor-

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dance with the track. “I do not let them plow alone,” said Ni Putu Supasti, a women farmer offering the plowing attraction.

Tourists wishing to get involved in the plowing activities are firstly invited to sit relaxingly in a simple field hut. Subsequently, they are served with a stamina enhancer drink made of roasted young coconut mixed with egg. They are then given an explanation of the purpose, tools and methods of plowing. After that, tourists are given bamboo steamer-like hat.

At first, the cows are directed to the edge of paddy field, so that tourists can ride on the wooden plow. After sitting, Ni Putu Supasti then tells her cows to walk.

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The cows walk around the fields.

Ni Putu Supasti who follows just keeps talking (sort of sign language) to her cows so as to keep going on the track. In mid-track, the cows stop based on the order of Ni Putu Supasti. Tourists are given the opportunity to capture the moment with their camera.

With her husband I Made Suparta (Mr. Risa), she has a specialty to turn tourists into a farmer of her own way. After plowing, tourists are invited to start transplanting paddy traditionally. They are introduced how to the process making paddy grain into rice. Similarly, they are invited to catch fish in small pond, climbing coconut trees and picking fruits in paddy field.

Ultimately, tourists are taken to visit organic ornamental plants and Rumah Desa, a community activity of ancient Bali, such as ngelawar (preparing Balinese cuisine) and others. According to Supasti, in a day there are always tourists taking the plowing activity. Yet their amount is uncertain depending on the tourism condition. “There are always tourists wishing to plow every day. They are mostly European tourists as well as those from other countries.

Of course, they come with tour guide,” said this mother of two sons. B N (BTN/015) BTN/bud

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Tanah Lot Attraction Hands out Souvenir

anah Lot attraction is now handing out souvenir to tourists visiting the object posing the blend of natural and cultural tourism. The souvenir in the form of Balinese snack is distributed free of charge as a service. “We try this new promotional program by giving typical souvenir of Bali to visitors,” said Operations Manager, Ketut Toya Adnyana.

Toya Adnyana added that the souvenir handing out program started in early October 2017. Domestic and foreign tourists respond it very positively.

Moreover, they propose to increase the quantity. “It is a typical Balinese souvenir product produced by the Micro, Small and

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Medium Enterprise (MSME) of Tabanan district. Other than as promotional medium, this is also meant to supports the MSMEs of Tabanan,” he added.

Collaboration of the promotion of Tanah Lot and the MSMEs, explained Toya Adnyana, poses the continuation of Tanah Lot Kreatifood event held some time ago. Thus, the festival is not only an event, but can run sustainably and give a positive impact to MSMEs in Tabanan.

“Happy Hours program as a regular promotional agenda every month still runs in addition to the souvenir handing out,” he said.

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management will receive any responses from visitors for future evaluation.

Whatever they are, they will be received to be processed and evaluated in the future. “We do not want to underestimate though being free. However, we still want to provide good quality service and excellent products for tourists,” he said.

According to Toya Adnyana, the management always strives to provide the best service for visitors. The management realizes to run business in tourism services, so that it should improve services. “As one of the tourism icons of Tabanan district,

Tanah Lot attraction strives optimally in terms of service provision for tourists. Other than continuing to make infrastructure arrangement, promotion strategy remains to be enhanced to attract tourists to Tanah Lot,” he hoped.

A visitor from Malang, Yusuf, said that at first he was surprised to be given souvenir at the ticket gate. “I was surprised to be offered a snack. I think it should be purchased, but it’s free. Honestly, I am happy and know that Tanah Lot has varied snack products.

Hopefully, it can be further increased, he ... he ...,” he said happily.

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Jaja Iku-Iku, a Sweet and Sticky Cake elight your senses in Balinese traditional cakes.

Local community has a variety of sticky and sweet jaja (cake). Various types of cake are made specifically to be part of ritual, offered to the ancestors, while some others are made deliberately for consumption. However, all the cakes are usually used for offering other than for snacks and on the way round.

One of the cakes serving as a part of ritual, but usually presented as the offering, is the iku-iku cake. This round and oval-shaped cake with a flat bottom like a turtle has a sweet taste and sticky.

Sweet taste is prostrated not due to artificial sweetener, but it is from pure sugar. For the base, it uses banana leaf to avoid chemicals.

Jaja iku-iku is often used as a snack by farmers served in their mutual assistance. For example, it is served when transplanting paddy seedlings in mutual assistance in the fields. In such a mass activity, it is usually accompanied with the provision of small

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lunch party. Jaja iku-iku is served as dessert after having the main course.

At that time, various cakes are usually accompanied with coffee or tea.

Allegedly the cake is the result of acculturation of Balinese-Chinese culinary tradition because every Chinese feast day, Chinese-descendant people pass this cake to their neighbors. Jaja iku-iku has round and flat shape, like a turtle is made based on or in accordance with the mold. On the top it has a variety of shapes and images. There are floral, turtle and other motif. It corresponds to the image of the mold. Commonly, it has 2 - 3 different images.

The ingredient of this cake is glutinous rice flour. As alternative ingredient, people commonly use cassava or sweet potato. Other ingredients include white sugar, palm (brown) sugar, grated coconut, salt and others.

The finely grounded flour is brewed with water (filled with hot water) and then squeezed to be smooth and supple. Optionally, it can be added with salt to taste, so as to produce a better taste. If wishing to have color, simply use natural green color of leaf in order to look more interesting.

At the same time, please prepare the sauce (to fill inside the cake), grated coconut mixed with white sugar or brown sugar and then roasted until it is evenly distributed. The sauce is then wrapped in flour to form like a small ball. Afterward, prepare the mold previously filled with clean flour, so the mold will be easily taken out. Put the flour into the mold and then pressed, so it can be shaped according to the mold.

Then, take out and put on leaves and then steam. Having cooked, cool them down. Now, the cake is ready to be served.

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rizzles did not dampen the intention of participants of the cultural parade and folk party entitled ‘Tabanan Fiesta in Pupuan Subdistrict’ last Saturday (Oct. 14). A number of residents also looked enthusiastic to see a number of festive attractions.

Performance of the ‘Picking Coffee Dance’ dedicated to a series of the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town received extraordinary appreciation from citizens.

In addition, it was also graced with the presentation of Mandolin art by Gita Bhaskara Etnik and Joged Bumbung jazzing up the show at that time.

Deputy Regent of Tabanan, I Komang Gede Sanjaya, representing the Regent of Tabanan gave a high appreciation to the implementation of folk performance in each subdistrict held in Tabanan district.

Giving more space to the arts is aimed at preserving and developing customs and culture according to the characteristics of the local community. “I hope this activity will contribute positively to the cultural preservation, especially in Pupuan Subdistrict,” he said.

Deputy Regent hoped that cultural parade and the people’s festivities can be implemented on an ongoing basis as an effort to strengthen and preserve local culture as the identity of the Tabanan community. In accordance with the theme of the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town this year, Buana Kerti that implies the fertility of the universe is a means of realizing the welfare of the people.

Head of Pupuan subdistrict, Putu Hendra Manik Maswa, reported that other than cultural event, there are also various other events such as SME, culinary, penjor competition, pejati offering, gebogan

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ali Culinary Festive is one of the annual events held by Archipelago International to challenge the skill of chefs, bartenders, and servers from 18 hotels under portfolio of Archipelago International in Bali and Lombok. The categories of its festive are Cooking Competition, Mocktail Creation, and Food Truck Competition.

Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center dispatched Putu Subawa – Cook Helper and Oppie Octaviana – Waitress to be challenged on Food Truck Competition. All the participants were freed to choose the theme, and the theme chosen by Aston Denpasar in the competition was Bollywood Food – Indian Dishes such as; Chicken Yogurt with Prata Bread and Lamb Patties Sandwich. The presentations were admitted by the judges and eventually became the third winner.

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Mocktail Creation, where organizer requires the participants to perform the best mocktail. I Gusti Agung Ayu Uchilia Pradnyasari is a Bartender at Jempiring Restaurant who assigned by Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center in the competition. She created Rainbow Illusion by mixing the main ingredients such as pok choy, manggo, and honey. The judges were impressed with her creativity, therefore it came out as the first winner.

“Competing is one of the methods to prove the quality of work, and proud to say that we made it in the 6th of Bali Culinary Festive at Aston Kuta Hotel & Residence as one of our sister hotel on last October 21, 2017.

Again, we won two of three categories just like last year. Hopefully we can manage it in the next 7th Competition.” Said Sony Bambang Suryo – General Manager of Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center.

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Galungan Day :

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alungan and Kuningan are feast days of the Hindus. Galungan falling every six months (210 days) or every Buda Kliwon Dungulan, Wednesday (Nov. 1), while Kuningan falls every Saniscara Kliwon Kuning-an, Saturday (Nov. 11). In the Sundarigama palm-manuscript is mentioned that celebration of Galungan and Kuningan symbolizes the victory of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth), the victory of Jayatiga against Kalatiga.

Dr. I Ketut Sumadi, said the celebration of Galungan has started from the previous week namely with Sugihan Jawa ritual (Oct. 26) and Sugihan Bali (Oct. 27).

While on Sunday (Oct. 29) is called penyekeban meaning the preparation of ritual paraphernalia. Raw materials are ripening so that they can be used to fill the ritual paraphernalia of Galungan.

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down to tempt human life, so here is really the victory against the temptation of life in the local wisdom of Bali is better known as Sad Ripu (six enemies). Sad Ripu is the six enemies in human beings affecting humans into self-forgetfulness. It consists of kama (lust, desire), lobha (greed), krodha (anger), moha (confusion), mada (drunk) and matsarya (envy, jealousy).

According to Dr. Sumadi, the coming down of temptations of life is a power, so that people need to be vigilant to see one’s self living with the environment. This is in accordance with the concept of microcosm (human body) and macrocosm (universe) that must be kept in balance.

While on Monday is the Penyajahan Galungan as the time to prepare everything in more details related to ritual paraphernalia. On that account, it becomes a part of celebrating the victory of dharma against adharma.

On Penyajaan Galungan, human temptation level will be higher, so hopefully there is no temptation in preparing the ritual paraphernalia. The next day, on Tuesday (Oct. 31) is Penampahan Galungan where devotees start to purify themselves, so it is symbolized with slaughtering animal (pig or chicken). “In the context of philosophy, it is the time to do self-contemplation namely making self-awareness to be higher by stripping ourselves what we have ever done, the six things making us forgetful,” he explained.

At that time, humans dispose of the lust of animalistic temptation into a divine nature, making non-good into good. Therefore, on the penampahan, other than making Balinese food like lawar delicacy, people also prepare ritual paraphernalia in the afternoon.

One of the banten or oblations made is prayascita, as a symbol of self-purification carried out around 18:00-19:00. The ceremony is followed by all family members, so that everything can already feel free from temptation.

In the afternoon of the penampahan day, devotees install penjor, meaning that humans can be aware of temptation at that time, so they start doing the seconds of independence. Installing penjor is the symbol of human independence from worldly temptations to achieve prosperity of life. It is an expression of gratitude for the prosperity bestowed by God. “As for banten, devotees prepare yellow-white food oblation symbolizing sanctity,” added Dr. Sumadi.

He said that banten prayascita

Regent of Tabanan Nominated as Recipient of Leadership Award 2017 egent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, is nominated as one of the recipients of Leadership Award 2017 from the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. It is considering that leadership of Regent Eka gets a concern of central government, as one of the leaders obtaining a popular idol and has a good future prospect and can compete in national and international level.

It is inseparable from the performance and leadership accentuating people with her pro-people programs. “I am very proud, grateful and happy as we are visited by the assessment team from Jakarta. These extraordinary figures assess us and judge me in particular, in terms of policies that we have implemented so far,” said Regent Eka when receiving the Leadership Award Assessment Team 2017, Ministry of Home Affairs, at Tegeh hamlet, Angseri, Baturiti, Wednesday (Oct. 18).

Before the Assessment Team Leader of Leadership Award 2017, Kris Budihardjo, Regent Eka said that along his administration she never leaves the teachings of Bung Karno starting from the principles to behavior. She is deeply influenced by the ideas of Bung Karno. “I am quite adhered to the principles and become a fan of Bung Karno. Finally, I am claimed to be too Bung Karno-minded. It means that every speech and single action is always based on the thoughts he has brought forth. To me, he is an amazing leader of the nation,” she said.

The vision and mission of the Tabanan government is applying the Tri Sakti teaching of Bung Karno.

It consists of prosperous (sejahtera), safe (aman) and excellent (berprestasi) abbreviated into SERASI in Bahasa Indonesia. “My breath is in harmony with the ideology of Bung Karno with his Tri Sakti.

We apply them in our vision and mission, namely the prosperous, safe and excellent into SERASI (harmony). Harmony creates equitable justice and all people can enjoy happiness, success and all ultimately get excellent achievement. Our object is agriculture, so that we attempt to pay more attention to farmers,” she said.

Kris Budihardjo said the Leadership Award 2017 is as an effort to find out a leader figure in the region deserving to be an example. In appropriate with the data acquired through the assessment, the Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, is entitled to be a nominee of the Leadership Award 2017 from the Ministry of Home Affairs, so that she must be interviewed. “A total of 524 regional leaders throughout Indonesia consisting of regents, mayors and governors, five governors, 14 mayors and 24 regents are entitled to be nominees, they include Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti,” he said.

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symbolizes the expression of gratitude for the grace of God in the form of self-awareness, so that devotees can do a good job. It also results in happiness not only for oneself, but also for others. Penjor is symbolizing mountain where the deities abide.

“At that time, God grants prosperity to his devotees,” he added.

In the philosophy of Mount Agung, there are three dragons giving prosperity to their people.

They are Basuki giving fertility, Ananta Boga providing endless feeding and Taksaka keeping the air circulation, so that human can survive as energized by the elements of fire, water and wind as the 3 elements causing human to live. On the penampahan, human can live quietly.

On Galungan, humans carry out rituals in accordance with their respective abilities. Aside from saying prayers at home, they also say prayers at clan temple, village trinity temple and universal temple.

“Devotees also say prayers in other places such as sanctified water source, paddy field, and grave by putting food oblation along with side dish, water, coffee and cigarette,” he said.

The offerings are addressed to dead parents who are still buried (before ritually cremated), so that people can feel relieved. At night, they can practice yoga and worship God in all its manifestations whether as generator, operator and destroyer. Destroyer is important in order that something useless could be restored to its origin, can be recycled to be useful. On Thurs-

day (Nov. 2) or Umanis Galungan devotees offer banten penganyar or small banten to plead for guidance of God that Galungan ritual has been already executed properly.

“On Umanis Galungan human beings are given better enlightenment, so that getting sweeter filled with mutual forgiving activities or mutually visit relatives and friends to strengthen social ties,” he explained.

On Sunday (Nov. 5) is the Pemacekan Agung, meaning that human beings should not be careless again after receiving enlightenment of God. On Monday (Nov. 6) is Somoribek Day, meaning that human beings really become strong until the next activity, according to the task and obligation. On Friday (Nov. 10) is the Penampahan Kuningan having the same process to boost awareness. Human beings may no longer get tempted by Kalatiga. They must strengthen the soul to overcome temptations of life.

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Starbucks Opens New Outlet at Ngurah Rai Airport past several years that coffee has become a part of lifestyle, especially enjoying coffee in outlets or some kinds of café and tavern.

The cafés carrying the concept of coffee shop continues to emerge with the growth rate of above 10 percent. This is the opportunity for us that need exploring,” said Yogi.

The brand name of Starbucks Coffee has been already very global. At least, there are more than 23,000 locations in 74 countries around the world, while in Indonesia alone has reached 300

eeing coffee consumption remains a trend among the urban communities, the management of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) presents a Starbucks outlet at domestic departure terminal of Ngurah Rai Airport. The booth was officially opened by Co-General Manager of Commercial, Rahadian D. Yogisworo, on Wednesday (Sep. 19) witnessed by Director of Star-

bucks Indonesia, Anthony Cottan.

This is the second Starbucks outlet at Ngurah Rai Airport. Previously, in 2014, the retail company specifically serving coffee drink opened its first outlet at the domestic arrival terminal. With the theme of Starbucks Experience, visitors will feel different comfort from the superior products and the services provided.

“We see the trend within the

Ayurveda Day Filled with Ayurveda Seminar

raditional medicine lovers are invited to recognize the ways and benefits of Ayurveda, a traditional Hindu system and medicine and lifestyle developed in ancient India. Although in a short time, the participants consisting of local people and tourists were satisfied and happy to be involved in the activity. This is the atmosphere of seminar and demonstration by Indian ayurvedic practitioners in the office of the Indian Consul, Tuesday (Oct. 17).

The seminar in a series of the celebration of Ayurveda Day was held by Consulate General of India in Bali and Balinese-Indian Friendship Association (BIFA).

The seminar was opened by Consul General of India in Bali, R.O. Sunil Babu. Meanwhile, the speakers presented were Indian Ayurveda practitioners, Dr. Abhisek Joshi and Dr. Aparna.

“Ayurveda is very important for life. This seminar is not only held once, but becomes the first seminar to be followed by other similar seminars,” said R.O. Sunil Babu.

Dr. Abhisek Joshi emphasized on healthy living through Ayurveda. He also explained in details about the healthy biological clock according to Ayurveda.

He suggested the time to get up early in the morning, the types of herbs beneficial to the body, meditation as well as the activity at night before going to bed. He also talked about awareness of consuming healthy according to Ayurveda and shared some Ayurvedic beauty tips.

Dr. Aparna said that Dhanwantari is the god of Ayurveda.

According to Puranic source, Lord Dhanwantari emerges from Ksir Sagar (Milk Ocean) bringing along with amrit (sacred drink of immortality) and knowledge of Ayurveda on that day. Afterward, the day is celebrated as Ayurveda Day. “Ayurveda means ‘life’ and Vedas means ‘science’ or ‘knowledge.’ Thus, Ayurveda has the meaning of knowledge for healthy life. “Ayurveda Amritanam is a poem of Veda that means Ayurveda is nothing but for longevity,” he added.

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outlets. In addition to having high quality foods and beverage products, Starbucks also offers internationally recognized service quality standards.

Besides, Starbucks Indonesia also sees the good business opportunity at Ngurah Rai Airport.

Growing number of passengers every year becomes strong consideration for Starbucks Indonesia to open its second outlet at the Ngurah Rai Airport.

“Up to August, we have served more than 14 million passengers.

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are 60,000 passengers daily that arrive and depart. With passenger profiles mostly consisting of tourists, they tend to spend money in Bali, so this becomes its own strength,” explained Yogi.

He added that in addition to business opportunities, the existence of Starbucks franchise outlets is also expected to improve services to passengers. “Our task is to provide facilities and services in accordance with the needs and desires of passengers that are increasingly diverse from time to time,” he concluded.

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Green School Invites Staff and Employees to be Friendly his is not a comedy show or clown art.

However, the people present were very happy and could not even stem their laughter as being so funny. Speakers presenting the materials were very straightforward and in accordance with the present situation. They made all the participants feel at home until the event ended. It is the atmosphere of communication training for all staff and employees at Green School on Tuesday (Oct. 10).

This one-day training was attended by approximately 175 Green School Bali employees, and the speaker was a senior RRI broadcaster, Paul Suardi.

Participants did not only gain the understanding and fundamentals of communication, but also the ethics, moral and self-esteem. Similarly, they were provided with principles of inter-personal communication, so that communication becomes more effective. The materials included the factors to grow selfconfidence, overcome fear and trust themselves.

President of Kul Kul Foundation, Tirka Widanti, said the training is deliberately designed nicely, so that it becomes more interesting.

It also made the participants happy so that all learning materials could be understood. “This communication training aims to simplify the work, so that it can be done well. It is also meant to anticipate conflict and misinterpretation due to lack of communication,” she said.

According to Tirka Widanti, Green School employees are mostly Balinese, denoting residents from around the school. Balinese have a habit of reluctance to speak.

On that account, they are necessary to get education and training, so where the habit of reluctance to speak is needed and not needed.

“Well, when having socialized in the international community, both in the field of tourism, educa-

tion and others, the reluctance to speak is no longer appropriate,” she added.

Communicating effectively, explained Tirka Widanti, is very much needed. It is not reluctance to speak, but must always learn and learn to be friendly. Effective communication can also be expressed through body language, gesture and face. “This training deliberately utilizes school holidays, so it can last longer and not interfere with learning activities. You invite employees to attend training with the term of Professional Development. Next holidays, we will provide the other training on personality. It is quite important,” she concluded.

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Ngaturang Bakti Penganyar Held at Tuluk Biyu Temple, Batur

he government of Bangli carried out the bakti penganyar in a series of Pujawali Ngusaba of the full moon of the Balinese fourth month in Caka Year 1939 (2017 AD) at Kahyangan Jagat Tuluk Biyu Batur Temple in Kintamani. The spiritual activity as a form of devotion to the Creator was led by Regent I Made Gianyar accompanied by a number of agency heads and staff in the environment of the Bangli government, on Wednesday (Oct. 11).

The bakti penganyar was officiated over by Ida Pedanda Putra Sanur from Griya Kelempung Tembuku, Bangli. Ritual procession begun with purificatory rite and ngayab bakti penganyar followed by praying together accompanied by Baris Gede and Baris Jojor ritual dance. “This sincere

sacrifice is meant to plead deities to abide in Tuluk Biyu Temple of Batur to provide salvation and prosperity for all the people,” said Division Head of People’s Welfare, Jro Penyarikan Widata.

Regent I Made Gianyar said that as the Hindus we have an obliga-

tion to maintain and preserve the existence of the temple. Therefore, ngaturang bakti penganyar is an obligation to the local government in Bali, especially as one of the efforts to preserve and maintain the existence of the universal temple of Tuluk Biyu at Batur.

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Legian Beach Offers an Option for Exotic Sightseeing

Bali is Expected to Be More Maximize in Russia Market he Indonesian government through the Indonesian Embassy in Russia will hold the third Indonesian Festival (FI) on August 3-5, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. in an area of ​​18 hectares, three times wider than the previous year.

After meeting with the Bali’s businessmen and Bank Indonesia Representative Office Bali, Indonesian Ambassador to Russia M. Wahid Supriyadi explained, the first year of FI in 2016 themed “Visit Wonderful Indonesia, Bali and Beyond”. ‘’ Stay Bali because 90 percent of Russians come to Bali “. he said.

The exhibition, held in a 6-hectare park last year, resulted in a 33.2 percent increase in trade. In terms of tourism, the percentage of tourists visiting Russia the highest of 57 percent to Indonesia, 90 percent confirmed to Bali. But the number of visits is still considered small.

While the target visit to the FI exhibition is 120,000. The location of the exhibition in Krasnaya Presnya adjacent to one of the largest malls

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parkling light of fireworks with various shapes and colors sprinkled and embellished the sky of Nusa Dua Peninsula on Sunday (Oct. 15). The splendor was accompanied by applause and the sound of energetic music that were able to arouse the vivacity of visitors. It is the atmosphere of Pesona Mandiri Nusa Dua Fiesta (NDF) 2017 held for five days from Wednesday (Oct. 11).

Prior to ignition of the fireworks was held the Mandiri Carnival by performing a repertoire as a commemorative procession of Bank Mandiri’s 21stth anniversary. Coming onto the stage at that time were Special Staff of the State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Minister, Devi Suradji, Director of Corporate Strategy and Finance of Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), Jatmiko K. Santosa, and Director of Wholesale Banking of Bank Mandiri, Royke Tumilaar.

Devi Suradji said the synergy between SOEs should continue to be improved and hoped the cooperation of ITDC with Bank Mandiri can continue. “Hopefully, next year’s fiesta is better and more lively and leads ITDC and Bank Mandiri to be even bigger,” he hoped.

In the meantime, the Director of Finance of PT Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) of Nusa Dua, Jatmiko K. Santoso, said in Nusa Dua that implementation of the NDF included various activities, such as the art performances, music, games, exhibition and culinary

to competitions. “Hopefully, the NDF activities held annually could give the opportunity to the artists, SMEs and related institutions to showcase their best works,” he said.

NDF activities having entered the 19th implementation this year, explained Jatmiko Santoso, has undergone a very dynamic transformation in packaging music performances, cultural performances, exhibitions and culinary art. Therefore, NDF as a creative event initiated by ITDC Nusa Dua is always anticipated by residents and tourists. “They really enjoy the holidays on the Island of the Gods,” he added.

This year’s festival does involve many communities in order to provide a variety of activities for visitors, not just musical performances on stage. It has a

total of 83 tenants that are able to bring in a total of 31,545 visitors. “Enchantment of the Mandiri NDF next year will present more creative culture as well as contemporary arts that are increasingly popular among younger generation,” he said.

The NDF closing ceremony coincided with the celebration of the 21st anniversary of Bank Mandiri as the main sponsor of this event. Bank Mandiri also issued identity cards of the state-owned employees especially for the ITDC received with enthusiastic response by employees. The NDF 2017 is for the first time to enact non-cash transactions in all areas of the festival. With the use of the electronic money (e-money), citizens will get convenience when making transactions and they do not need to carry a lot of banknotes.

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adung Tourism Office utilizes online media to promote tourist destinations in the region.

Moreover, Badung district makes cooperation with Google to promote tourist attractions in the region via Google Map. Head of the Badung Tourism Office, I Made Badra, justified to have established partnership with Google Representative in Indonesia. It will create a special application of tourism to facilitate foreign tourists so as to know the tourist locations in Badung. “With the cooperation, tourists can know about tourist locations in Badung through their smartphone,” said Made Badra, on Sunday (Oct. 15).

According to Badra, the government of Badung has held a

meeting with Google Representative in Indonesia to follow up the program. “Our staff with Google Indonesia has come down to the field to make surveys to a number of attractions for equipment installation,” he explained.

Badra added the pilot project for the application installation include Sangeh, Mumbul Park, Uluwatu Temple, Pandawa Beach, Yadnya Museum at Mengwi village, Agrobagus, Pangsan object and Nungnung waterfall in Petang subdistrict. “We will provide guidance to seven tourism object managements used as pilot project in relation to the operation of this application,” he said.

He hoped the management can understand the techniques and operations of this application be-

fore being installed in each tourist attraction. “This application also provides information on the location of foreign exchange and police stations,” he said.

Badra said the Google map application would make it easier for tourists to access the information of interesting tourist location in Badung when passing through the local road. On that account, this application is believed to bring in a positive impact for tourists because they get additional tourist information in more details related to tourist attractions. “In addition to tourist destinations, the application will also contain culinary tours in Badung district. So, with one application, tourists can find out more about the tourist destinations in Badung,” he said.

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M. Wahid Supriyadi that made him optimistic target visit is reached. ‘’ I want Bali to contribute more bigger participation, ‘’ he said.

The interest of Balinese businessmen to follow the FI is very high, therefore, to accommodate the aspirations of entrepreneurs, FI 2018 will be arranged

by Chamber of Commerce and Industry( Kadin) Bali Chairman of Kadin Bali AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra said, excess Bali’s businessmen are invited to exhibit to anywhere want. Although the goods are sold cheaper, no problem. Therefore, with the exhibition of FI in Russia was greeted very enthusiastically by Bali,s businessmen.

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hose who frequently make a visit to Bali will be familiar with the Jalan Legian. Apparently, other than becoming a hub of shopping and nightlife, Legian also has a very beautiful and clean beach.

This beach is in line with Kuta

Beach. If you wish to enjoy sunset view without having to throng with a number of other tourists, you are unnecessary to go to Kuta. Legian also offers a very good option.

At first, the Legian area was an agrarian village. Although the village is located on the beach, the majority of population was working as farmers.

Only a small portion of the population works as fishermen.

“The fate” of Legian Beach then changed when Kuta Beach drew increasingly more visitors so that Legian also got some.

Both villages are also clean and provide various facilities for travelers.

Legian Beach is precisely located in the north of the famous Kuta Beach. So no wonder, the atmosphere is almost similar to Kuta Beach although visitors are certainly not as many as on Kuta Beach but that’s where

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In 2004,working with the Government in aid of elephant conservation Bali Elephant Camp was established to help care for and promote the plight of Sumatran elephants. At the beginning, Bali Elephant Camp has 9 Sumatran elephants,

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who along with their ‘mahouts’ (careers) have become ambassadors for their brothers and sisters in Sumatra.” Said Mrs. IGAA. Inda Trimafo Yudha.

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the advantage lies because the atmosphere is not too crowded.

Thus, visitors really wishing to relax can find the right atmosphere in Legian and Seminyak.

When making a visit to Legian, visitors can do some activities like in Kuta, such as swimming, surfing, playing ball on the beach, sun bathing on white sand, and enjoy the sunset view. Visitors cannot only enjoy the beauty of Legian Beach but also taste favorite dishes that can be selected as in Kuta. This beach deserves to be a very exotic destination of sightseeing.

Most famous restaurants and cafes are now in this coastal area. Some of them frequently host festive and exciting parties along the road to Legian Beach where restaurants offer tasty and low-cost dishes with traditional to international menus.

Hence, the street is dubbed as eating street.

In general, both domestic and foreign tourists will come to this beach in the afternoon, considering the area is very famous as a place to sunbathe and enjoy the beauty of sunset

view. If guests wish to relax around the beach, there are some cafés providing chairs and delicious food along the Legian Beach from the morning until 22:00.

ence is Bali’s leading Balinese Owned Adventure Company I Gusti Agung Alit Yudha. An exciting and dynamic family business, was established in 1995 to provide locally owned and operated soft adventures with the highest international standards of safety, training and conservation.

“Bali Elephant Camp itself has been established since 2004 beginning with nine Sumatran elephants, and now there are fifteen elephants with adult and some are still small, the oldest elephant is 24 years old female named Meri while the youngest aged is Saras 10 months aged.”

Mrs. Inda added.

“In order to ensure that the elephants here remain healthy, we always provide two doctors who care for them, as well as a consultant who has international qualifications and standards.

Meanwhile, from the needs of food for them we also provide

grass plantation with an area of about ​​20 hectares, by riding elephants will help us and other elephants in Sumatra by providing funds for food and land to make sure their natural habitat well protected.” Inda hopefully.

Bali Elephant Camp is a great place to ride elephant in Bali Paradise This place located at the side of Ayung River, close to the Sangeh monkey forest, Carangsari historic village, this place is situated between the rice paddies, jungle and the Ayung River and is one of the most natural places in Bali.

In Bali Elephant Camp the tourists will be invited to enjoy a lot of natural beauty that will be encountered on the way to natural rice paddies, quaint Balinese villages, temples and local markets. Bali elephant presents the surprise elephant attraction with full of fun.

After enjoying a scenic drive, be welcomed to Bali elephant

trek (Bali Elephant Camp) with a refreshing welcome drink at the ‘Trunk’n’Mahout’ valleyview café. Watch the elephants enjoy their morning or afternoon bath and then meet our Head Mahout to learn about the daily life of a Sumatran elephant as the elephants get saddled-up for the ‘Adventures trek.

If want to become friends with a great Sumatran elephant, then try shorter Adventurer Trek, to get experience the beautiful landscape of the camp as well as venturing out trek along the edge of the valley, the views are incredible, may also get to see monkeys and tropical birds in their natural habitat. Then look down at the raging Ayung River and discover how much fun riding an elephant can be, elephant will also show their pool as he wades through the water to cool off from the hot sun.

Badung Government Tourism Office Address : Pusat Pemerintah Pemkab Badung Mangupraja Mandala Sempidi Ph. (0361) 9009271. W. www.badungkab.go.id

Gerbangdessigot Held at Penglumbaran Village, Bangli s a commitment to Bangli development from villages, Deputy Regent of Bangli, Sang Nyoman Sedana Arta, accompanied by a number of relevant agency heads

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held the village development movement through mutual assistance (Gerbangdessigot) at Penglumbaran village, Susut, on Friday (Oct. 20).

In the event, Deputy Regent Sedana Arta also handed over the Gerbangdesigot fund worth IDR 1 billion received symbolically by headman of Penglumbaran, I Wayan Artawan. In addition, in this activity was also held various proactive activities such as free health services, demographic services, family planning services, house refurbishment assistance, food aid and elderly coaching.

Sedana Arta on that occasion stated that Gerbangdessigot program is one of the flagship programs of the Bangli district. In 2017, the

government of Bangli allocated funds amounting to IDR 6 billion for Gerbangdesigot program for six villages. “All this time, there is an impression that people’s proposal must always be repeated. It is always submitted but never realized. But this program will be able to answer the needs of community through the proposals it has submitted,” he explained.

Meanwhile, headman of Penglumbaran, Wayan Artawan, expressed his gratitude to the government of Bangli because all this time it has disbursed many programs that are indeed needed by the community. “We greatly appreciate to the programs launched by the government of Bangli chiefly the great village allocation

fund (ADD), Gita Santi development movement, hot mix asphalt entering village and Gerbangdesigot.

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Sangeh Monkey forest one of Tourist Destination in Badung Regency that promoted via Google Maps.

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All these programs are very real and beneficial for the community,” he concluded.

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(Kabul) is quite unique. Each artist presents ten works of art, so there are totally 20 works filled with messages in figurative style. Their size is diverse with acrylic media on canvas.

Both artists present their works in the exhibition room with two different visual tendencies. Nevertheless, they can be attributed to the same theme, namely the highlight of nature. “Grounded’ is a frame highlighting the tendency of both artists in presenting the themes around nature,” said Curator Made Susanta Dwitanaya.

The works of I Wayan Suastama and I Ketut Suasana seem to have a tendency for the choice of work to present an expression about nature in a symbolic approach. Visual exploration of Wayan Suastama often presents female figures that have symbolic value about nature.

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Blanco Renaissance Museum Receives ISTA Award received a green or bronze award for cultural preservation category.

The other awarded destinations or managements from Bali attaining similar award are the Penglipuran village and ITDC. It is only the Blanco Museum belongs to individual category. The existence of Blanco Museum in Ubud has already been known to the public of the world due to the quality of painting collection as well as its concern with Balinese culture. B N

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More interestingly, in some works the rhythmic lines symbolize rain, a daily phenomenon often encountered in tropical countries such as Indonesia. However, on the next layer, rain can be further interpreted not just as natural phenomenon. “I am trying to bring out a deeper meaning aside from the matter of rain as the way of nature to balance the natural

cycle,” he said.

Meanwhile, I Ketut Suasana presents the works of painting by showing off vivid exploration of dominant lines. The lines are rhythmic and configured to construct various shapes, such as trees, bees and others. Hence, bees and trees are two objects frequently appearing in the works of Kabul.

These two objects contain a certain symbolic entity, especially the bees denoting the objects explored by this young artist. Bees are symbol of duality that always exists in the universe because their body contains substances that can produce honey as well as poison. B N (BTN/015)

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Another achievement is attained by Blanco Renaissance Museum. In the event of the Wonderful Indonesian Tourism Award 2017, this museum won the Indonesia Sustainable Tourism Award (ISTA) from the Ministry of Tourism. This award is given to sustainable tourism stakeholders.

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ccording to Mario Blanco, the assessment process was conducted to 96 existing destinations. Of this amount, it was then obtained 24 nominees and finally 17 destination operators were designated as the winners. The assessed components include cultural, economic, social and environmental aspects.

“It is necessary to have this kind of award so that we will be more encouraged and feel to have been given the attention by the government. It is our tasks to be more creative in looking forward so that we are always updating and moving, while the government as the umbrella remains to monitor and provide inputs,” said Mario.

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Munduk Temu Village Offers ‘Kopi Leak’-How It Tastes?

Gde Palgunadi palgunadigde@yahoo.com very Galungan and Kuningan feast, the Hindus in Bali install a penjor in front of their house compound. It is made of whole bamboo trunk. The bamboo pole is equipped with ritual paraphernalia in such a way with young coconut leaf ornaments. In addition, it is also added with assorted crops including tubers and fruits such as banana, coconut, cake and ornamental leaves.

Ultimately, there is a banten or oblation dedicated to the ruler of Nature.

Galungan is commemorated every 210 days or six months of Balinese pawukon calendar.

Based on the pawukon, this feast day falls on Buda Kliwon Dungulan. This great day is celebrated as the moment of victory of the truth against evil. At this moment, the Hindus are worshiping Ida Sanghyang Widhi, God Almighty, with all its mani-

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festations as well as the ancestors believed to have merged with the Creator. They are freed from the cycle of reincarnation.

At that time, the Hindus worship at village trinity temples existing in each customary village, family temple, clan temple and so forth. The point is to express sincere gratitude for the God’s grace and ask for all sorts of strength and fortitude in order to always be grateful as well as courageous and brave in facing all kinds of challenges and obstacles of life.

All forms of praise are given in a form of penjor. It is also a symbol of mountain that brings prosperity and makes the soil fertile so that all plants can grow well and bear fruits for the sake of human life. Humans also grow along with nature, think, say and do virtues in order to always ‘result in’ good rewards or karma. Good karma is believed to be enjoyed during this mundane life or in the next life.

So, every tourist that comes on the Galungan feast day will see a scene like this. There is a row of very beautiful pieces of penjor. It is beautiful in the context of ethics as well as aesthetics but also very full of ritual meaning. Visitors can see scenery of various penjor in front of house compound, offices, building and so forth.

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abanan district urges every village to have a village-owned enterprise (BUMDes). The existence of BUMDes is believed to be able to encourage the potential of local products for the welfare of community. One of the villages having owned the BUMDes is Munduk Temu in Pupuan Tabanan.

This village has Robusta coffee commodity. Moreover, it has now been managed to sell its own flagship coffee brand, the Kopi Leak (literally means ‘mystical coffee’).

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Sedana of Munduk Temu currently has excellent product namely Kopi Leak. The challenge in developing this product is to standardize the taste. It happens because in the processing the BUMDes involves five farmer groups to roast different coffee.

Although the BUMDes has not yet showed the profits, Wintara said the existence of the enterprise has been already able to help increase the welfare of farmers. The assistance of IDR 200 million from district government is used by the BUMDes to buy Robusta coffee from farmers above the market price of IDR 28,000 for green bean or raw cof-

fee. Price of the green bean in the market is lower, namely at IDR 26,000.

BUMDes is not limited to buying coffee of farmers at market price, but also empowers farmer groups to roast coffee according to the standard of Kopi Leak. For this, BUMDes gives a wage worth IDR 5,000 per kilogram. “Thus, the benefits of BUMDes can be enjoyed by farmers although the BUMDes seems to have not obtained any advantages. The program is focused on the farmers first, while the management is still paying devotional work or ngayah,” said Wintara.

Wintara said that farmers are encouraged to improve the quality of their coffee beans harvest to meet the standard quality of Kopi Leak with the harvest quality expected to be red picked. When roasting, the procedure must comply with the standard of Kopi Leak. Regardless, it frees farmers to make their taste creations beyond the taste of Kopi Leak. “It’s okay to create their brand,” said Wiantara. With such a freedom, when purchasing coffee at Munduk Temu people will not just find one brand namely the Kopi Leak, but a variety of brands.

After promoted, the taste of Kopi Leak, said Wintara, began to be known and people are getting interested. In addition to sales through the BUMD Tabanan, currently the Kopi Leak has started to enter souvenir market like on Pandawa Beach and Waka Bali.

The equipment required to process Kopi Leak is a modern coffee roaster machine. BUMDes already has owned a semi-modern tool. So, it is quite difficult to produce coffee with the same taste.

“We still need the existence of a modern machine because the temperature can be set automatically,” he said. In addition to roasting tool, it also needs to be equipped with packaging tools. B N (BTN/kmb)

Tirta Suganing at Tangkup Hamlet, Believed to Cure a Number of Diseases

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ollowing the opening of road access connecting Tangkup to Timbul hamlet, Pupuan, Tegallalang by the 100th Indonesian Army rural development program (TMMD); it has strategic value in raising the local potential. One of them is the spring named Tirta Suganing at Tangkup hamlet. Local people believe if the water can help cure

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a number of diseases, especially the symptoms of mumps.

“Local residents and outsiders believe if this shower has the efficacy of curing symptoms of thyroid disease. It is applied by doing purificatory rite (melukat) at Tirta Suganing shower,” said Made Musir, a resident who has been maintaining the existence of Tirta Suganing shower.

He told that previously the Tirta Suganing was a cave. However, about five years ago a banyan tree grew from inside the cave. Currently, the roots of banyan tree have covered the entrance into the cave. “No one dares to clean up because assuming the growth of the tree is the will of God,” said the man from Tangkup hamlet.

He added that residents frequently do purificatory rite at Tirta Suganing on Kajeng Kliwon. Everyone who comes to do purificatory rite is forbidden to boast that the shower is small.

“Formerly an incident happened, water of the shower immediately enlarged and became muddy,” he said.

Besides, if a black snake appears from within the cave, the activity should not be continued at that location. According to Musir, it indicates if the activity is not allowed by the guardian of the Tirta Suganing. B N (BTN/kmb)

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Quest San Hotel Denpasar Offers Five Meeting Rooms uest San Hotel Denpasar is famous for its accommodation offering the most complete meeting facilities. Moreover, the hotel located at Jalan Mahendradatta No.93 Denpasar offers a meeting room pursuant to the needs. “We have five meeting rooms with various capacities,” said Human Resource Department (HRD), Agung Pradnya Darsika, when being visited by the Denpasar Green Hotel team on Monday (Oct. 16).

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is also different as taken from the Pandavas, namely Yudhishthira with a capacity of 80 people, Bima (100 people), Arjuna (300 people), Nakula and Sahadewa respectively has the capacity of 60 people and 25 people.

The meeting room, said Agung Darsika, is a permanent space, in addition to having 179 guest rooms.

“Quest San Hotel Denpasar is indeed an option to hold meetings for business people, multi-level marketing, motor club and government agency such as for a regular meeting, education or training,” he said.

Other than located downtown, Quest San Hotel Denpasar also lies in the fast road and can be easily accessed from Kuta Beach and Ngurah Rai Airport. In addition to domestic tourists, this hotel also targets Chinese market.

They averagely stay for 2-3 days.

“We are grateful because Chinese tourists can cover the occupancy after the announcement of Mount Agung with the warning status,” said Agung Darsika while adding that hotel room occupancy reaches 80 percent. BTN (BTN/015)

elated to Green Hotel, Grand Inna Bali Beach is the most vivacious to implement the program launched by the Denpasar municipality.

Moreover, this accommodation established in 1963 formerly named Hotel Bali Beach has entered the spirit of green hotel into all fields.

“We are serious with the green hotel program because we know the benefits,” said General Manager I Gusti Ayu Ariani amid the visit of the Denpasar Green Hotel team on Monday (Oct. 16).

After following the dissemination in 2016, Grand Inna Bali Beach immediately responded to

the existing criteria. One of them is by forming a Green Team that will be responsible for the implementation of the program at the hotel. “We involve top management as the board of the Green Team. This team is then trying to realize the green hotel program,” he explained.

In addition to being historic, explained I Gusti Ayu Ariani, Grand Inna Bali Beach is also a green hotel. It happens because it has prepared a green open field with a variety of local and quite rare plants. Some of them are mundu, sweet leaf, champak, frangipani and many other rare plants. “In

implementing the green hotel, we do not only focus on waste, garbage and environment, but also preserve local plants,” she added.

They are useful plants. In addition to preserving culture, they also serve as a way to protect the environment and surrounding community. This is preservation of local genius in Bali. “In addition to being green, we are also very serious about handling the existing waste, so that the hotel is really safe and healthy,” she concluded. BTN (BTN/015)

PIP of Badung District Held to Purwakarta and Bandung adung district held a fourday Information Development Week (PIP) on October 10-13. The current PIP is targeting the district government of Purwakarta and Bandung municipality. The entourage of PIP Badung was first received by Deputy Regent of Purwakarta, Dadan Koswara in the meeting room of Purwakarta regent.

The entourage was led directly by the Regent of Badung, I Nyoman Giri Prasta. It was also attended

by Regional Secretary of Badung Wayan Adi Arnawa, Assistant I IBA Yoga Segara, Head of Tourism Office Made Badra, Head of Bappeda Made Wira Dharmajaya, Division Head of Finance AA Gede Rahmadi, Division Head of Maintenance Wayan Puja, and Head of Public Relations Putu Ngurah and a number of print and electronic journalists.

Dadan Koswara explained that Purwakarta is the second smallest district after Pangandaran having the population of 930,000 people and an area of ​​7 01 square km.

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the making of parks, galleries and museums. Purwakarta has a 4.5-ha Lake Buleud with Sri Baduga fountain park posing the largest one in Southeast Asia.

This Fountain Park has a capacity of 17,000 people. Since 2 years ago, it has given a huge economic domino effect. Small and medium sized business sector increasingly develops. Although visitors are not charged any entrance ticket, the domino effect of the economy is remarkable in improving the welfare of the community, especially in the culinary sector and SME handicrafts. “This park is directed to become a tourism industry, namely as a venue of holding marriage agreement. Currently, Purwakarta is dominantly visited by domestic tourists, while foreign ones are still rare,” said Deputy Regent Dadan Koswara.

Regent of Badung Nyoman Giri Prasta said that he has run some programs. One of them is in the field of health having been able to guarantee the citizens starting from their birth, life to death. Childbirth, birth certificate and medical treatment are covered up to IDR 1 billion, patient attendant is borne up to IDR 5 million and the death

Regent of Badung (right) with Vice Major of Bandung.

at IDR10 million. In the education sector, there are free uniforms and elementary school students of grade V and VI are given laptop. Smart students will get scholarship to study overseas and when graduated they are expected to go home and develop Badung.

After interactive dialogue, the entourage of PIP Badung visited a number of parks and museums, and watched the attractions of Sri Baduga Fountain. This fountain is really beautiful and lured the Regent Giri Prasta to make similar one in Badung. “In 2018, at least Badung must have an alternative object in the form of fountain,” he hoped.

On the second day, the entourage was received by Regent of Purwakarta, Dedy Mulyadi, in the meeting room at his office on Wednesday (Oct. 11). It was a direct visit to the park, museum and diorama of Purwakarta town. “All facilities, parks and the fountains can be accessed without admission ticket to build happiness. Other than the rich, most people can also enjoy the existing facilities,” he said.

Regent Giri Prasta claimed to get a lot of things after visiting Purwakarta as comparative study related to nature, people and culture. This will be applied in Badung. “Inspired by this visit, the object or tourist attraction and fountain will be made into alternative tourism object,” he said.

PIP Badung then resumed the visit to the city of Bandung and was received by Deputy Mayor of Bandung, H. Oded M Danial, Thursday (Oct. 12). This visit intends to learn more about management of park, waste and sanitation in the region. “The city of Bandung does the distribution of development through the Regional Empow-

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Regent of Badung (right) with Regent of Purwakarta. erment Development Innovation Program (PIPPK),” said Deputy Mayor H. Oded M Danial.

PIPPK program is intended for equitable development and has proved the results. Community leaders originating from all walks of life can move together when given a budget. Each community group (RW) gets a park each year.

The park can be taken advantage for various activities, including holding a reception usually used by poor citizens.

Bandung city has about 20 parks, including the Elderly Park and Single Park. “Although the city has been a city park, the park in the community group will continue to be attempted as one of the ways to reduce congestion so that people

are not concentrated downtown,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the regent of Badung appreciated to waste management in Bandung starting from processing, reducing to sorting.

“Most importantly, we take good lesson from the waste management in Bandung. It has the upstream in temporary disposal and the downstream in the landfill. We need to use this as a model,” he said.

Regent hoped that Bandung government can establish a sister city program with Badung district.

“This should be copied, applied and well collaborated. When this is implemented in Badung district, I am confident it will be much better,” he said. BTN (BTN/014)

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Exploring Beauty of Denpasar City by Riding Ornamental Gig ourist that will have sightseeing around the area of​​ Denpasar Heritage City have been prepared traditional transportation in the form of ornamental gig for free. By that way, they will be able to enjoy the gig traditional transport starting from the Tourist Information Center (TIC) office and return to finish in the same office. “They will be invited to explore the route of the Denpasar Heritage City Tour including the Inna Bali Hotel, Jero Kuta area, Jalan Gajah Mada and Puputan Square.

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Thursday to Sunday in October until December 2017. This is an effort to increase tourist visits to Bali and Denpasar in particular.

“Denpasar Heritage City Tour is officially opened by Deputy Mayor of Denpasar, IGN Jaya Negara, marked by the handover of a whip to coachman at the TIC Office on Friday (Oct. 13).

On that occasion, he invited domestic and foreign and tourists visiting Denpasar to look around the beauty owned by the Denpasar Heritage City Tour. This event was also attended by Deputy Mayor, IGN Jaya Negara, Regional Secretary of Denpasar AAN Rai Iswara, Head of

Denpasar Achieves Predicate as Highest Healthy City

enpasar municipality got another Healthy City coaching from Healthy City Verification Team, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia. The team was received by Regional Secretary of Denpasar, AAN Rai Iswara, accompanied by the Head of Denpasar Health Agency, Ni Luh Putu Sri Armini. The meeting took place in the meeting room of North Denpasar subdistrict head on Thursday (Oct. 19).

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mayor of Denpasar said that as the capital of Bali province Denpasar population growth to date reaches 897,300 people. Population growth reaches 2.00 percent and the population density amounts to 7,726 people / square km. As the highest number in the Bali province, it certainly results in various physical, social, economic and cultural environmental impacts that can trigger some problems such as health problems.

Through the implementation of Healthy City, the health development is implemented by Denpasar city by

considering the dynamics of population, disease epidemiology, ecological and environmental changes.

The advancement of science and technology as well as the current globalization and democratization with the spirit of partnership, crosssector cooperation encourages the active role of society. This is the fourth Verification of Healthy City because in 2015 Denpasar municipality has been awarded Swasti Sabha for Wistara category as the highest national predicate.

Based on this verification, the Denpasar municipality will make improvement related to the Denpasar as Healthy City. “Mayor of Denpasar is very keen and concentrated on public health issues. The mayor also instructed the regional agency that health is a basic field that should be implemented as well as possible aside from education, social sector and infrastructure,” said Rai Iswara.

the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Denpasar and Head of RRI. Visitors would be able to enjoy the gig transportation every Thursday to Sunday in October to December 2017.

Deputy Mayor said the ornamental gig is launched to increase tourist visits to the object of the Denpasar Heritage City Tour considering that more than 50 percent of the income of the Denpasar residents are sourcing from tourism.

“Revenues of Denpasar are mostly derived from hotel and restaurant

Verification team leader of central government, Eko Yuni Hasto, said the verification is meant to create a safe, clean and healthy city through various community empowerment facilitated by the district / city government on an ongoing basis. Healthy City in the city of Denpasar has been very good.

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taxes. On that account, one of the breakthroughs to increase tourist visits is by utilizing this ornamental gig,” he said.

By using this ornamental gig, Jaya Negara hoped it will be able to improve and inform about the traditional transportation of Denpasar considering in the current era of globalization gigs are less popular among the community as a means of traditional transportation. “Through this program, coachmen are able to revive like in the old times. On that account, I really appreciate to this activity,” he said.

Acting Head of the Denpasar Tourism Office, AA Bagus Sudharsana, said the Tourism Office has facilitated this ornamental gig, so that local and foreign tourists can enjoy this transportation to go around the area of​​ Denpasar Heritage City. With this program, the gig will be able to re-survive in the city of Denpasar.

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urtle conservation activities by Sari Segara fishermen group, Penimbangan Beach, increasingly developed lately. On Friday (Oct. 20), local fishermen with saving turtle activists, representatives of relevant agencies and apparatus of Baktiseraga village, Buleleng district, held the ground breaking ceremony of turtle statue.

The statue will be built at the three-way intersection to the turtle breeding area in the east of Segara Penimbangan Temple.

A saving turtle activist, Dedy Yastika, said that turtle conservation activities and coral garden on the Penimbangan Beach has increasingly developed lately. In line with the condition, together with fishermen, village apparatus, and the support of private parties, he will build a turtle statue at the entrance to the turtle conservation area and the garden of coral reef on Penimbangan Beach.

Construction of the turtle statue is important to show off to the public that Penimbangan Beach is not only a tourist attraction, but also a conservation area for turtles and coral garden. It is supported by the existence of turtle populations and condition of the coral reef getting to be well maintained.

With the identity through the embodiment of the statue, Dedy is optimistic that foreign and local tourists are increasingly interested to visit Penimbangan Beach. “We make this statue after the success of turtle conservation. We are now continuing to promote this conservation and this statue serves as the icon of Penimbangan Beach destination. Besides, we also invite all the parties to remain concerned about marine conservation against rare marine animals such as the turtle,” he explained. BTN

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side from nature and culture, Bali also offers a spiritual tourism because it has several historic places sanctified by the Hindu community. One of them is the Mengening Temple at Saraseda village, Tampaksiring, Gianyar. This attraction offers a cool and beautiful atmosphere.

Those that can read the signs of nature will feel something different resulting in tranquility.

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and Tirtha Telaga Waja. Meanwhile, in the area of Pancaka tirtha garden sits the Tirtha Parisuda, Tirtha Pengelukatan, Tirtha Pengulapan, Tirtha Keris and Tirtha Kamaning.

Visitors are not allowed to bathe in the springs to prevent the water from receding and disappearing.

In the middle courtyard there are some buildings such as gamelan pavilion, wooden split drum (kulkul) tower, Bale Pegambahan and Bale Pegat. Then, the innermost courtyard consists of some shrines including three-tiered meru shrine as the abode of Ida Bathara Prasada Agung, the chamber is the abode of deities of Gunung Kawi, Limas shrine for deity of Tirta Empul, Pemaruman, Bale Saka Ulu as the abode of Lord Shiva, Paselang pavilion, Bale Pecanangan and Bale Penganteb.

In the chronicle of Mengening Temple of Tampaksiring is not clearly stated when the temple was established. According to local people, Mengening Temple was predicted to be established during the reign of King Masula-Masuli at Pejeng. He has his own story so that he got to Pejeng. MasulaMasuli was previously named I Sula and I Suli. They are male and female couple born from troktokan of ivory coconut at Besakih region.

I Sula and I Suli were then invited

by I Sangkul Putih.

I Sula and I Suli made all the gods come down to watch both children. Moreover, Goddess Bhyahpara and Goddess Danu finally asked Lord Jagatnatha so that Dukuh Sangkul Putih wanted to bring I Sula and I Suli to Pejeng.

ambut Siwi is an agricultural village located in Yehembang Kangin, Mendoyo, approximately Bull-racing Center 15 km east of the town of Negara. The area around the village has large expanses of rice fields and plantations with many kinds of local fruits. Just South of the fruit tree plantations, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the sunset from the beach there.

The beauty of the natural landscape is complimented by the art and culture practiced by members of the local community including; painting, sculpture, and traditional dance and music.

Rambut Siwi is the name of a Hindu Temple built in this village in the 15th centuries, and which was an important location in the spiritual journey of Danghyang Nirartha, a famous Hindu Priest from Java. This Dang Kahyangan Temple stands on a cliff overlooking the beach, about 100 meters to the south of the main road that runs between Denpasar and Gilimanuk. Besides the beauty of the temple’s wonderful Balinese traditional architecture, the temple also serves as a spiritual tourism attraction due to its location, uniqueness, and the holistic vibration of the shrines and many holy places around the temple.

Rambut Siwi village is home to an amazing temple, a panoramic view of the Indonesian Ocean to the south, mountain views to the north, rice fields all around, and the village itself has a very pleasant spiritual vibration. The area also has tourist facilities such as a large parking area set within a beautiful landscape, a hotel, restaurant, and art shop. BTN

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Gumbrih Tourism Water Park he Gumbrih Tourism Water Park is located at Gumbrih Village, Pekutatan Subdistrict, Jembrana County. It is an interesting tourist attraction because it combines the beauty of Pangyangan River having a quiet stream with the green coconut and nypa palm along the river. Visitors can climb down the river with motorized boat driven by a professional boatman. The distance to be covered is less than 2 kilometers, with a stopping point on the bridge denoting as the border of Gumbrih and Pangyangan.

In addition to enjoying the green trees, visitors can also see a variety of wildlife such as egrets and lizards.

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Mengening Temple, a Spiritual Destination in Gianyar Inside the temple, there is a spring used as a place to invoke holy water as a means of ceremony for Balinese Hindus. Besides, there is a pool that can be used for selfcleaning. It is divided into two, namely a special bathing pool for men and women.

Before entering the bathing pool, visitors are advised to use cloth and then step down some stairs to get to the pool. Local people are accustomed to using the pool for bathing, self-cleaning. Moreover, on certain holidays, many Balinese Hindus come to the temple to do self-purificatory rite to get rid of spiritual impurities.

Local people visit the temple almost every afternoon to bathe with friends or family. “We bathe here almost every day. The atmosphere is cool and the water is fresh, so that the body and mind feel fresh as well. We love the atmosphere in this peaceful and quiet temple. When bathing, we usually offer some offerings to invoke salvation,” said a local resident.

Mengening Temple implements the tri mandala or three horizontal spatial dimension concept, namely the nista mandala (outermost), madya mandala (middle) and uttama mandala (innermost courtyard).

In the outermost courtyard of the Mengening Temple sits a garden with pancaka tirtha. This garden is used as a place of self-purification by local deities. In some places, there is also a source of holy water commonly taken by the community for ritual purposes.

According to the temple attendant, the spring of holy water includes the Tirtha Keben, Tirtha Sudamala, Tirtha Melela, Tirtha Soka, Tirtha Megelung, Tirtha Tunggang

Rambut Siwi Temple

Turtle Statue Made into Mascot of Penimbangan Beach

Denpasar Government Tourism Office : Address; Jl. Surapati No. 7 Denpasar, Ph. (0361) 234569, 223602, 231422 Fax. (0361) 223602 http://pariwisata.denpasarkota.go.id

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Buleleng Government Office: Pahlawan Street 1st Singaraja, Bali - Indonesia Ph. (0362) 21146, Email: humasbuleleng@yahoo.com, Website : www.bulelengkab.go.id

Jembrana Government Office: Surapati Street No. 1 Jembrana Telp. (0365) 41210 Fax: (0365) 41010 Email: jembranatourism@yahoo.com, Website : jembranakab.go.id

Two Airports under Angkasa Pura I Receive Awards T Angkasa Pura I (Persero) received world prestigious award for the category of the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards 2017 from the Airport Council International (ACI). The award was given to two airports, namely I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Bali and Sultan Hassanuddin Airport in Makassar. The awards were handed over at the 27th International Council of Africa / World: Annual General Assembly Conference & Exhibition on October 17-18, 2017 in Mauritius, Africa.

The prestigious achievement of both airports under PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) was previously announced in March 2017 by the Airport Council International (ACI).

Ngurah Rai Airport Bali won the title as “The 3rd World Best Airport 2016” for the airport category with 15-25 million passengers per year, while the Sultan Hassanuddin Airport Makassar won the title as “The Most Improved Airport in Asia-Pacific 2016.”

The award was submitted by Director Gen-

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When arrived at Pejeng, Sinuhun named them Masula-Masuli. This name is given in connection with the twin birth.

During the reign of King MasulaMasuli, the Mengening Temple was only made some improvements. He appointed an architect who really knew about the concept of temples and buildings with the Hindu concept as advised by Bhagawan

Wiswa Karma. King MasulaMasuli appointed Empu Kuturan to make improvement to several buildings at Mengening Temple.

In addition, in the reign of King Masula-Masuli it is reaffirmed the name of deity abiding in the shrine of Prasada Agung namely Ida Batara Hyang Maha Suci Nirmala. BTN (BTN/015)

Gianyar Government Tourism Office Address : Jl. Ngurah Rai No. 9 Gianyar Ph. (0361) 943401 Fax. (0361) 943554 website: www.diparda.gianyarkab.go.id, www.gianyartourism.com, email: admingianyar@gianyarkab.go.id, info@gianyartourism.com

eral of ACI, Angela Gittens, to the President Director of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero), Danang S. Baskoro, accompanied by General Manager of Sultan Hassanuddin Airport Makassar, Cecep Marga Sonjaya, and the management representative of Ngurah Rai Airport Bali, I Made Sutiwa.

Danang S. Baskoro said that ASQ is the only global benchmarking program that measures the level of passenger satisfaction at airports conducted by ACI, a leading international airport organization based in Montreal, Canada. “This recognition is a testament to our continued hard work, and our focus is always on improving services to airport users as well as the realization of our vision,” he said.

He added that his management will always strive to provide quality customer service, so as to create a good customer experience.

“Creating a culture of continuous service as a competitive advantage can optimize performance for non-aeronautical revenue increase,” he said. BTN (BTN/015)

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Boy ‘N’ Cow Comes with Soft and Delicious Steak xperience something truly E special to pamper your

appetite. Once upon a time, try to enjoy the menus offered by Boy ‘N’ Cow, the first Meat Boutique in Bali focusing on steak foods. It is very strategically located at the end of Jalan Sunset Road, North Kuta. It is open every day from 18:00 until 01:00 in the morning.

Once tried, surely you will get addicted because Boy ‘N’ Cow is not only a regular steak house, but also serves a quality steak. Meat used is dry aged meat as the name implies has passed through dryaged process for 28 days. Thus, it makes the meat texture softer. It can also result in distinctive flavor of the meat itself.

In addition to offering quality food having been really well maintained, the interior of the building looks unique, has industrial theme and furnished with beautiful furniture. The atmosphere is like in the 1940s, really classic and comfortable.

“All of them make the Boy ‘N’ Cow show off its own exclusive impression,” Ashley Ahmet, Operations Head.

The restaurant has two floors, where the first floor is used for restaurant while the second floor is the cocktail lounge serving drinks prepared by professional bartenders. As for the signature dish, the Boy ‘N’ Cow offers steak tartare and tuna tostada as appetizer. Similarly, there is truffle and parmesan steak chips as the main course.

As the main course, the chef recommended to try the 900 gram porterhouse steak with bearnaise sauce. It is big portion and can be shared with 2 to 3 people. As for the dessert, cream brulee with coffee cream is one of the most popular menus among visitors.

All the menus are inseparable from the masterpiece of the head chef, Danny Chaney. Armed with a wealth of experience as a head chef in several restaurants overseas, it is no wonder the dishes served by Boy ‘N’ Cow are very classy and equal to dishes served by restaurants in five-star hotels. “In November, the Boy ‘N’ Cow will hold a promo discount of 50% for all visitors,” said Ashley Ahmet. B N

anagement of Villa Kayu

is very creative. It is M Raja not only good at providing

services for its guests, but also able to design a spectacular event.

Just look at their action at the sixth anniversary of Villa Kayu Raja on Saturday (Oct. 14) at the local villa. The event does not only belong to the staff and employees, but also to their families.

The event began with the release of balloons into the air in the parking area in front of the lobby.

After that, it is filled with vari-

ous competitions by involving children participants, including rubber-connecting contest, fashion show and shake dance. Peak of the event then took place in the restaurant marked with the rice cone cutting by General Manager, Gede Nik Sukarta.

Afterwards, it was resumed with blowing candles and cutting of cake by staff and employees celebrating their birthday falling between September and October.

This various art performances from, by and for employees took

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Batik National Day Celebrated at Furama Villas & Spa

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ntire management of Furama Villas & Spa put on their best batik clothes on Monday (Oct. 2). Understandably, they

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joined the celebration of the National Batik Day. “We want to participate in this National Batik Day celebration. This shows the

love and pride to the garments becoming our national identity,” said General Manager Wayan Sumandia.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the National Batik Day as a world heritage in 2009. Therefore, batik is a valuable national identity of Indonesia and a legacy that must be kept and introduced widely.

“All Indonesians should be proud to wear this beautiful and meaningful fabric,” he said.

Indeed, the management of Furama Villas & Spa seemed enthusiastic about taking part in the celebration. All members of the management put on their best batik clothes. Looking good also serves as a part of services extended to tourists. B N (BTN/015)

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Sovereign Bali provided scholarships to students with outstanding achievement through the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. This year’s scholarships are

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place with familiarity. “I am very proud of the creativity made by the staff and employees of Villa Kayu Raja from designing ideas and implementing them. This becomes a part of togetherness as the application of the Tri Hita Karana teaching,” said Nik Sukarta.

The spiritual man also invited all staff and employees to be proud of being a part of Villa Kayu Raja, and proud to be a tourism worker.

A total of 83 percent of the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Badung district is derived from hotel and restaurant tax (PHR) in which there is the role of tourism workers. “As a worker in the field of services, without services we mean nothing, so let’s attempt to provide sincere services. Many things we have not done,” he said.

On the occasion, the committee gave prizes to the winners of the contest, such as gebogan contest, the making of kwangen and canang sari, king wow game, hoopla hoop game as well as game of spoon, ball relay and video contest. Then, it was interspersed with door prize drawing and delivery of The Best Employee of The Year awarded to I Wayan Agung Primayana. Exclamation of ‘Bravo Villa Kayu Raja’ was echoed before the event of hospitality. B N

awarded to students from two different schools, namely the SDN 1 Tuban and SDN 4 Tuban elementary schools. “We indeed do this CSR activity every six months.

Well, this scholarship handover is started at 08:00 where the staff

has been divided into each location,” said General Manager, Ramia Adnyana.

This time, H Sovereign Bali teamed up with Puri Bunda Maternity Hospital with the theme “Clean Appearance for Better Health.” The event was started by Puri Bunda Maternity Hospital demonstrating how to wash hands properly and brush teeth well. It was done in a unique way, so that invited laughter.

After that, H Sovereign Bali awarded scholarships to students with outstanding achievement at the SDN 1 Tuban and SDN 4 Tuban elementary school along with the distribution of souvenirs. “We hope the CSR this time can raise the spirit of children in maintaining cleanliness. This can start from us first for the creation of better health later,” said Ramia Adnyana. B N (BTN/015)

Did you know ?

Caru

aru in Old Javanese language means sacrifice (animal), while the stem ‘car’ in Sanskrit means ‘balance or harmony.’ When combined, the Caru can be interpreted as sacrificial animal used to invoke balance and harmony. In terms of the level of necessity, the caru can be divided into three, namely the Nista level denoting sacrificial ritual for small purposes, within the scope of the family and without incidents of particular importance like a death in the family et cetera.

Madya level is sacrificial ceremony conducted within the kinship / hamlet territory. However, it is also obliged to be performed in special case.

This caru should be organized when developing a family temple or merajan. Utama level is the ceremony conducted thoroughly by all the Hindus in Indonesia. It usually uses three-colored chicken as a complementary ingredient to the Panca Sata sacrificial ritual. B N

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Boy ‘N’ Cow Comes with Soft and Delicious Steak xperience something truly E special to pamper your

appetite. Once upon a time, try to enjoy the menus offered by Boy ‘N’ Cow, the first Meat Boutique in Bali focusing on steak foods. It is very strategically located at the end of Jalan Sunset Road, North Kuta. It is open every day from 18:00 until 01:00 in the morning.

Once tried, surely you will get addicted because Boy ‘N’ Cow is not only a regular steak house, but also serves a quality steak. Meat used is dry aged meat as the name implies has passed through dryaged process for 28 days. Thus, it makes the meat texture softer. It can also result in distinctive flavor of the meat itself.

In addition to offering quality food having been really well maintained, the interior of the building looks unique, has industrial theme and furnished with beautiful furniture. The atmosphere is like in the 1940s, really classic and comfortable.

“All of them make the Boy ‘N’ Cow show off its own exclusive impression,” Ashley Ahmet, Operations Head.

The restaurant has two floors, where the first floor is used for restaurant while the second floor is the cocktail lounge serving drinks prepared by professional bartenders. As for the signature dish, the Boy ‘N’ Cow offers steak tartare and tuna tostada as appetizer. Similarly, there is truffle and parmesan steak chips as the main course.

As the main course, the chef recommended to try the 900 gram porterhouse steak with bearnaise sauce. It is big portion and can be shared with 2 to 3 people. As for the dessert, cream brulee with coffee cream is one of the most popular menus among visitors.

All the menus are inseparable from the masterpiece of the head chef, Danny Chaney. Armed with a wealth of experience as a head chef in several restaurants overseas, it is no wonder the dishes served by Boy ‘N’ Cow are very classy and equal to dishes served by restaurants in five-star hotels. “In November, the Boy ‘N’ Cow will hold a promo discount of 50% for all visitors,” said Ashley Ahmet. B N

anagement of Villa Kayu

is very creative. It is M Raja not only good at providing

services for its guests, but also able to design a spectacular event.

Just look at their action at the sixth anniversary of Villa Kayu Raja on Saturday (Oct. 14) at the local villa. The event does not only belong to the staff and employees, but also to their families.

The event began with the release of balloons into the air in the parking area in front of the lobby.

After that, it is filled with vari-

ous competitions by involving children participants, including rubber-connecting contest, fashion show and shake dance. Peak of the event then took place in the restaurant marked with the rice cone cutting by General Manager, Gede Nik Sukarta.

Afterwards, it was resumed with blowing candles and cutting of cake by staff and employees celebrating their birthday falling between September and October.

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Batik National Day Celebrated at Furama Villas & Spa

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ntire management of Furama Villas & Spa put on their best batik clothes on Monday (Oct. 2). Understandably, they

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joined the celebration of the National Batik Day. “We want to participate in this National Batik Day celebration. This shows the

love and pride to the garments becoming our national identity,” said General Manager Wayan Sumandia.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the National Batik Day as a world heritage in 2009. Therefore, batik is a valuable national identity of Indonesia and a legacy that must be kept and introduced widely.

“All Indonesians should be proud to wear this beautiful and meaningful fabric,” he said.

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place with familiarity. “I am very proud of the creativity made by the staff and employees of Villa Kayu Raja from designing ideas and implementing them. This becomes a part of togetherness as the application of the Tri Hita Karana teaching,” said Nik Sukarta.

The spiritual man also invited all staff and employees to be proud of being a part of Villa Kayu Raja, and proud to be a tourism worker.

A total of 83 percent of the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Badung district is derived from hotel and restaurant tax (PHR) in which there is the role of tourism workers. “As a worker in the field of services, without services we mean nothing, so let’s attempt to provide sincere services. Many things we have not done,” he said.

On the occasion, the committee gave prizes to the winners of the contest, such as gebogan contest, the making of kwangen and canang sari, king wow game, hoopla hoop game as well as game of spoon, ball relay and video contest. Then, it was interspersed with door prize drawing and delivery of The Best Employee of The Year awarded to I Wayan Agung Primayana. Exclamation of ‘Bravo Villa Kayu Raja’ was echoed before the event of hospitality. B N

awarded to students from two different schools, namely the SDN 1 Tuban and SDN 4 Tuban elementary schools. “We indeed do this CSR activity every six months.

Well, this scholarship handover is started at 08:00 where the staff

has been divided into each location,” said General Manager, Ramia Adnyana.

This time, H Sovereign Bali teamed up with Puri Bunda Maternity Hospital with the theme “Clean Appearance for Better Health.” The event was started by Puri Bunda Maternity Hospital demonstrating how to wash hands properly and brush teeth well. It was done in a unique way, so that invited laughter.

After that, H Sovereign Bali awarded scholarships to students with outstanding achievement at the SDN 1 Tuban and SDN 4 Tuban elementary school along with the distribution of souvenirs. “We hope the CSR this time can raise the spirit of children in maintaining cleanliness. This can start from us first for the creation of better health later,” said Ramia Adnyana. B N (BTN/015)

Did you know ?

Caru

aru in Old Javanese language means sacrifice (animal), while the stem ‘car’ in Sanskrit means ‘balance or harmony.’ When combined, the Caru can be interpreted as sacrificial animal used to invoke balance and harmony. In terms of the level of necessity, the caru can be divided into three, namely the Nista level denoting sacrificial ritual for small purposes, within the scope of the family and without incidents of particular importance like a death in the family et cetera.

Madya level is sacrificial ceremony conducted within the kinship / hamlet territory. However, it is also obliged to be performed in special case.

This caru should be organized when developing a family temple or merajan. Utama level is the ceremony conducted thoroughly by all the Hindus in Indonesia. It usually uses three-colored chicken as a complementary ingredient to the Panca Sata sacrificial ritual. B N

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Exploring Beauty of Denpasar City by Riding Ornamental Gig ourist that will have sightseeing around the area of​​ Denpasar Heritage City have been prepared traditional transportation in the form of ornamental gig for free. By that way, they will be able to enjoy the gig traditional transport starting from the Tourist Information Center (TIC) office and return to finish in the same office. “They will be invited to explore the route of the Denpasar Heritage City Tour including the Inna Bali Hotel, Jero Kuta area, Jalan Gajah Mada and Puputan Square.

The transportation of ornamental gig is facilitated by the Denpasar Tourism Office offered every

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DENPASAR In the City

Thursday to Sunday in October until December 2017. This is an effort to increase tourist visits to Bali and Denpasar in particular.

“Denpasar Heritage City Tour is officially opened by Deputy Mayor of Denpasar, IGN Jaya Negara, marked by the handover of a whip to coachman at the TIC Office on Friday (Oct. 13).

On that occasion, he invited domestic and foreign and tourists visiting Denpasar to look around the beauty owned by the Denpasar Heritage City Tour. This event was also attended by Deputy Mayor, IGN Jaya Negara, Regional Secretary of Denpasar AAN Rai Iswara, Head of

Denpasar Achieves Predicate as Highest Healthy City

enpasar municipality got another Healthy City coaching from Healthy City Verification Team, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia. The team was received by Regional Secretary of Denpasar, AAN Rai Iswara, accompanied by the Head of Denpasar Health Agency, Ni Luh Putu Sri Armini. The meeting took place in the meeting room of North Denpasar subdistrict head on Thursday (Oct. 19).

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mayor of Denpasar said that as the capital of Bali province Denpasar population growth to date reaches 897,300 people. Population growth reaches 2.00 percent and the population density amounts to 7,726 people / square km. As the highest number in the Bali province, it certainly results in various physical, social, economic and cultural environmental impacts that can trigger some problems such as health problems.

Through the implementation of Healthy City, the health development is implemented by Denpasar city by

considering the dynamics of population, disease epidemiology, ecological and environmental changes.

The advancement of science and technology as well as the current globalization and democratization with the spirit of partnership, crosssector cooperation encourages the active role of society. This is the fourth Verification of Healthy City because in 2015 Denpasar municipality has been awarded Swasti Sabha for Wistara category as the highest national predicate.

Based on this verification, the Denpasar municipality will make improvement related to the Denpasar as Healthy City. “Mayor of Denpasar is very keen and concentrated on public health issues. The mayor also instructed the regional agency that health is a basic field that should be implemented as well as possible aside from education, social sector and infrastructure,” said Rai Iswara.

the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Denpasar and Head of RRI. Visitors would be able to enjoy the gig transportation every Thursday to Sunday in October to December 2017.

Deputy Mayor said the ornamental gig is launched to increase tourist visits to the object of the Denpasar Heritage City Tour considering that more than 50 percent of the income of the Denpasar residents are sourcing from tourism.

“Revenues of Denpasar are mostly derived from hotel and restaurant

Verification team leader of central government, Eko Yuni Hasto, said the verification is meant to create a safe, clean and healthy city through various community empowerment facilitated by the district / city government on an ongoing basis. Healthy City in the city of Denpasar has been very good.

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taxes. On that account, one of the breakthroughs to increase tourist visits is by utilizing this ornamental gig,” he said.

By using this ornamental gig, Jaya Negara hoped it will be able to improve and inform about the traditional transportation of Denpasar considering in the current era of globalization gigs are less popular among the community as a means of traditional transportation. “Through this program, coachmen are able to revive like in the old times. On that account, I really appreciate to this activity,” he said.

Acting Head of the Denpasar Tourism Office, AA Bagus Sudharsana, said the Tourism Office has facilitated this ornamental gig, so that local and foreign tourists can enjoy this transportation to go around the area of​​ Denpasar Heritage City. With this program, the gig will be able to re-survive in the city of Denpasar.

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urtle conservation activities by Sari Segara fishermen group, Penimbangan Beach, increasingly developed lately. On Friday (Oct. 20), local fishermen with saving turtle activists, representatives of relevant agencies and apparatus of Baktiseraga village, Buleleng district, held the ground breaking ceremony of turtle statue.

The statue will be built at the three-way intersection to the turtle breeding area in the east of Segara Penimbangan Temple.

A saving turtle activist, Dedy Yastika, said that turtle conservation activities and coral garden on the Penimbangan Beach has increasingly developed lately. In line with the condition, together with fishermen, village apparatus, and the support of private parties, he will build a turtle statue at the entrance to the turtle conservation area and the garden of coral reef on Penimbangan Beach.

Construction of the turtle statue is important to show off to the public that Penimbangan Beach is not only a tourist attraction, but also a conservation area for turtles and coral garden. It is supported by the existence of turtle populations and condition of the coral reef getting to be well maintained.

With the identity through the embodiment of the statue, Dedy is optimistic that foreign and local tourists are increasingly interested to visit Penimbangan Beach. “We make this statue after the success of turtle conservation. We are now continuing to promote this conservation and this statue serves as the icon of Penimbangan Beach destination. Besides, we also invite all the parties to remain concerned about marine conservation against rare marine animals such as the turtle,” he explained. BTN

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side from nature and culture, Bali also offers a spiritual tourism because it has several historic places sanctified by the Hindu community. One of them is the Mengening Temple at Saraseda village, Tampaksiring, Gianyar. This attraction offers a cool and beautiful atmosphere.

Those that can read the signs of nature will feel something different resulting in tranquility.

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and Tirtha Telaga Waja. Meanwhile, in the area of Pancaka tirtha garden sits the Tirtha Parisuda, Tirtha Pengelukatan, Tirtha Pengulapan, Tirtha Keris and Tirtha Kamaning.

Visitors are not allowed to bathe in the springs to prevent the water from receding and disappearing.

In the middle courtyard there are some buildings such as gamelan pavilion, wooden split drum (kulkul) tower, Bale Pegambahan and Bale Pegat. Then, the innermost courtyard consists of some shrines including three-tiered meru shrine as the abode of Ida Bathara Prasada Agung, the chamber is the abode of deities of Gunung Kawi, Limas shrine for deity of Tirta Empul, Pemaruman, Bale Saka Ulu as the abode of Lord Shiva, Paselang pavilion, Bale Pecanangan and Bale Penganteb.

In the chronicle of Mengening Temple of Tampaksiring is not clearly stated when the temple was established. According to local people, Mengening Temple was predicted to be established during the reign of King Masula-Masuli at Pejeng. He has his own story so that he got to Pejeng. MasulaMasuli was previously named I Sula and I Suli. They are male and female couple born from troktokan of ivory coconut at Besakih region.

I Sula and I Suli were then invited

by I Sangkul Putih.

I Sula and I Suli made all the gods come down to watch both children. Moreover, Goddess Bhyahpara and Goddess Danu finally asked Lord Jagatnatha so that Dukuh Sangkul Putih wanted to bring I Sula and I Suli to Pejeng.

ambut Siwi is an agricultural village located in Yehembang Kangin, Mendoyo, approximately Bull-racing Center 15 km east of the town of Negara. The area around the village has large expanses of rice fields and plantations with many kinds of local fruits. Just South of the fruit tree plantations, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the sunset from the beach there.

The beauty of the natural landscape is complimented by the art and culture practiced by members of the local community including; painting, sculpture, and traditional dance and music.

Rambut Siwi is the name of a Hindu Temple built in this village in the 15th centuries, and which was an important location in the spiritual journey of Danghyang Nirartha, a famous Hindu Priest from Java. This Dang Kahyangan Temple stands on a cliff overlooking the beach, about 100 meters to the south of the main road that runs between Denpasar and Gilimanuk. Besides the beauty of the temple’s wonderful Balinese traditional architecture, the temple also serves as a spiritual tourism attraction due to its location, uniqueness, and the holistic vibration of the shrines and many holy places around the temple.

Rambut Siwi village is home to an amazing temple, a panoramic view of the Indonesian Ocean to the south, mountain views to the north, rice fields all around, and the village itself has a very pleasant spiritual vibration. The area also has tourist facilities such as a large parking area set within a beautiful landscape, a hotel, restaurant, and art shop. BTN

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Gumbrih Tourism Water Park he Gumbrih Tourism Water Park is located at Gumbrih Village, Pekutatan Subdistrict, Jembrana County. It is an interesting tourist attraction because it combines the beauty of Pangyangan River having a quiet stream with the green coconut and nypa palm along the river. Visitors can climb down the river with motorized boat driven by a professional boatman. The distance to be covered is less than 2 kilometers, with a stopping point on the bridge denoting as the border of Gumbrih and Pangyangan.

In addition to enjoying the green trees, visitors can also see a variety of wildlife such as egrets and lizards.

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Mengening Temple, a Spiritual Destination in Gianyar Inside the temple, there is a spring used as a place to invoke holy water as a means of ceremony for Balinese Hindus. Besides, there is a pool that can be used for selfcleaning. It is divided into two, namely a special bathing pool for men and women.

Before entering the bathing pool, visitors are advised to use cloth and then step down some stairs to get to the pool. Local people are accustomed to using the pool for bathing, self-cleaning. Moreover, on certain holidays, many Balinese Hindus come to the temple to do self-purificatory rite to get rid of spiritual impurities.

Local people visit the temple almost every afternoon to bathe with friends or family. “We bathe here almost every day. The atmosphere is cool and the water is fresh, so that the body and mind feel fresh as well. We love the atmosphere in this peaceful and quiet temple. When bathing, we usually offer some offerings to invoke salvation,” said a local resident.

Mengening Temple implements the tri mandala or three horizontal spatial dimension concept, namely the nista mandala (outermost), madya mandala (middle) and uttama mandala (innermost courtyard).

In the outermost courtyard of the Mengening Temple sits a garden with pancaka tirtha. This garden is used as a place of self-purification by local deities. In some places, there is also a source of holy water commonly taken by the community for ritual purposes.

According to the temple attendant, the spring of holy water includes the Tirtha Keben, Tirtha Sudamala, Tirtha Melela, Tirtha Soka, Tirtha Megelung, Tirtha Tunggang

Rambut Siwi Temple

Turtle Statue Made into Mascot of Penimbangan Beach

Denpasar Government Tourism Office : Address; Jl. Surapati No. 7 Denpasar, Ph. (0361) 234569, 223602, 231422 Fax. (0361) 223602 http://pariwisata.denpasarkota.go.id

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Buleleng Government Office: Pahlawan Street 1st Singaraja, Bali - Indonesia Ph. (0362) 21146, Email: humasbuleleng@yahoo.com, Website : www.bulelengkab.go.id

Jembrana Government Office: Surapati Street No. 1 Jembrana Telp. (0365) 41210 Fax: (0365) 41010 Email: jembranatourism@yahoo.com, Website : jembranakab.go.id

Two Airports under Angkasa Pura I Receive Awards T Angkasa Pura I (Persero) received world prestigious award for the category of the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards 2017 from the Airport Council International (ACI). The award was given to two airports, namely I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Bali and Sultan Hassanuddin Airport in Makassar. The awards were handed over at the 27th International Council of Africa / World: Annual General Assembly Conference & Exhibition on October 17-18, 2017 in Mauritius, Africa.

The prestigious achievement of both airports under PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) was previously announced in March 2017 by the Airport Council International (ACI).

Ngurah Rai Airport Bali won the title as “The 3rd World Best Airport 2016” for the airport category with 15-25 million passengers per year, while the Sultan Hassanuddin Airport Makassar won the title as “The Most Improved Airport in Asia-Pacific 2016.”

The award was submitted by Director Gen-

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When arrived at Pejeng, Sinuhun named them Masula-Masuli. This name is given in connection with the twin birth.

During the reign of King MasulaMasuli, the Mengening Temple was only made some improvements. He appointed an architect who really knew about the concept of temples and buildings with the Hindu concept as advised by Bhagawan

Wiswa Karma. King MasulaMasuli appointed Empu Kuturan to make improvement to several buildings at Mengening Temple.

In addition, in the reign of King Masula-Masuli it is reaffirmed the name of deity abiding in the shrine of Prasada Agung namely Ida Batara Hyang Maha Suci Nirmala. BTN (BTN/015)

Gianyar Government Tourism Office Address : Jl. Ngurah Rai No. 9 Gianyar Ph. (0361) 943401 Fax. (0361) 943554 website: www.diparda.gianyarkab.go.id, www.gianyartourism.com, email: admingianyar@gianyarkab.go.id, info@gianyartourism.com

eral of ACI, Angela Gittens, to the President Director of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero), Danang S. Baskoro, accompanied by General Manager of Sultan Hassanuddin Airport Makassar, Cecep Marga Sonjaya, and the management representative of Ngurah Rai Airport Bali, I Made Sutiwa.

Danang S. Baskoro said that ASQ is the only global benchmarking program that measures the level of passenger satisfaction at airports conducted by ACI, a leading international airport organization based in Montreal, Canada. “This recognition is a testament to our continued hard work, and our focus is always on improving services to airport users as well as the realization of our vision,” he said.

He added that his management will always strive to provide quality customer service, so as to create a good customer experience.

“Creating a culture of continuous service as a competitive advantage can optimize performance for non-aeronautical revenue increase,” he said. BTN (BTN/015)

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Quest San Hotel Denpasar Offers Five Meeting Rooms uest San Hotel Denpasar is famous for its accommodation offering the most complete meeting facilities. Moreover, the hotel located at Jalan Mahendradatta No.93 Denpasar offers a meeting room pursuant to the needs. “We have five meeting rooms with various capacities,” said Human Resource Department (HRD), Agung Pradnya Darsika, when being visited by the Denpasar Green Hotel team on Monday (Oct. 16).

Each meeting room has the same facilities, but different sizes and capacities. Their name

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is also different as taken from the Pandavas, namely Yudhishthira with a capacity of 80 people, Bima (100 people), Arjuna (300 people), Nakula and Sahadewa respectively has the capacity of 60 people and 25 people.

The meeting room, said Agung Darsika, is a permanent space, in addition to having 179 guest rooms.

“Quest San Hotel Denpasar is indeed an option to hold meetings for business people, multi-level marketing, motor club and government agency such as for a regular meeting, education or training,” he said.

Other than located downtown, Quest San Hotel Denpasar also lies in the fast road and can be easily accessed from Kuta Beach and Ngurah Rai Airport. In addition to domestic tourists, this hotel also targets Chinese market.

They averagely stay for 2-3 days.

“We are grateful because Chinese tourists can cover the occupancy after the announcement of Mount Agung with the warning status,” said Agung Darsika while adding that hotel room occupancy reaches 80 percent. BTN (BTN/015)

elated to Green Hotel, Grand Inna Bali Beach is the most vivacious to implement the program launched by the Denpasar municipality.

Moreover, this accommodation established in 1963 formerly named Hotel Bali Beach has entered the spirit of green hotel into all fields.

“We are serious with the green hotel program because we know the benefits,” said General Manager I Gusti Ayu Ariani amid the visit of the Denpasar Green Hotel team on Monday (Oct. 16).

After following the dissemination in 2016, Grand Inna Bali Beach immediately responded to

the existing criteria. One of them is by forming a Green Team that will be responsible for the implementation of the program at the hotel. “We involve top management as the board of the Green Team. This team is then trying to realize the green hotel program,” he explained.

In addition to being historic, explained I Gusti Ayu Ariani, Grand Inna Bali Beach is also a green hotel. It happens because it has prepared a green open field with a variety of local and quite rare plants. Some of them are mundu, sweet leaf, champak, frangipani and many other rare plants. “In

implementing the green hotel, we do not only focus on waste, garbage and environment, but also preserve local plants,” she added.

They are useful plants. In addition to preserving culture, they also serve as a way to protect the environment and surrounding community. This is preservation of local genius in Bali. “In addition to being green, we are also very serious about handling the existing waste, so that the hotel is really safe and healthy,” she concluded. BTN (BTN/015)

PIP of Badung District Held to Purwakarta and Bandung adung district held a fourday Information Development Week (PIP) on October 10-13. The current PIP is targeting the district government of Purwakarta and Bandung municipality. The entourage of PIP Badung was first received by Deputy Regent of Purwakarta, Dadan Koswara in the meeting room of Purwakarta regent.

The entourage was led directly by the Regent of Badung, I Nyoman Giri Prasta. It was also attended

by Regional Secretary of Badung Wayan Adi Arnawa, Assistant I IBA Yoga Segara, Head of Tourism Office Made Badra, Head of Bappeda Made Wira Dharmajaya, Division Head of Finance AA Gede Rahmadi, Division Head of Maintenance Wayan Puja, and Head of Public Relations Putu Ngurah and a number of print and electronic journalists.

Dadan Koswara explained that Purwakarta is the second smallest district after Pangandaran having the population of 930,000 people and an area of ​​7 01 square km.

Since it has no mining products, the development is directed to tourism sector. The foundation of tourism has been applied with

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the making of parks, galleries and museums. Purwakarta has a 4.5-ha Lake Buleud with Sri Baduga fountain park posing the largest one in Southeast Asia.

This Fountain Park has a capacity of 17,000 people. Since 2 years ago, it has given a huge economic domino effect. Small and medium sized business sector increasingly develops. Although visitors are not charged any entrance ticket, the domino effect of the economy is remarkable in improving the welfare of the community, especially in the culinary sector and SME handicrafts. “This park is directed to become a tourism industry, namely as a venue of holding marriage agreement. Currently, Purwakarta is dominantly visited by domestic tourists, while foreign ones are still rare,” said Deputy Regent Dadan Koswara.

Regent of Badung Nyoman Giri Prasta said that he has run some programs. One of them is in the field of health having been able to guarantee the citizens starting from their birth, life to death. Childbirth, birth certificate and medical treatment are covered up to IDR 1 billion, patient attendant is borne up to IDR 5 million and the death

Regent of Badung (right) with Vice Major of Bandung.

at IDR10 million. In the education sector, there are free uniforms and elementary school students of grade V and VI are given laptop. Smart students will get scholarship to study overseas and when graduated they are expected to go home and develop Badung.

After interactive dialogue, the entourage of PIP Badung visited a number of parks and museums, and watched the attractions of Sri Baduga Fountain. This fountain is really beautiful and lured the Regent Giri Prasta to make similar one in Badung. “In 2018, at least Badung must have an alternative object in the form of fountain,” he hoped.

On the second day, the entourage was received by Regent of Purwakarta, Dedy Mulyadi, in the meeting room at his office on Wednesday (Oct. 11). It was a direct visit to the park, museum and diorama of Purwakarta town. “All facilities, parks and the fountains can be accessed without admission ticket to build happiness. Other than the rich, most people can also enjoy the existing facilities,” he said.

Regent Giri Prasta claimed to get a lot of things after visiting Purwakarta as comparative study related to nature, people and culture. This will be applied in Badung. “Inspired by this visit, the object or tourist attraction and fountain will be made into alternative tourism object,” he said.

PIP Badung then resumed the visit to the city of Bandung and was received by Deputy Mayor of Bandung, H. Oded M Danial, Thursday (Oct. 12). This visit intends to learn more about management of park, waste and sanitation in the region. “The city of Bandung does the distribution of development through the Regional Empow-

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Regent of Badung (right) with Regent of Purwakarta. erment Development Innovation Program (PIPPK),” said Deputy Mayor H. Oded M Danial.

PIPPK program is intended for equitable development and has proved the results. Community leaders originating from all walks of life can move together when given a budget. Each community group (RW) gets a park each year.

The park can be taken advantage for various activities, including holding a reception usually used by poor citizens.

Bandung city has about 20 parks, including the Elderly Park and Single Park. “Although the city has been a city park, the park in the community group will continue to be attempted as one of the ways to reduce congestion so that people

are not concentrated downtown,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the regent of Badung appreciated to waste management in Bandung starting from processing, reducing to sorting.

“Most importantly, we take good lesson from the waste management in Bandung. It has the upstream in temporary disposal and the downstream in the landfill. We need to use this as a model,” he said.

Regent hoped that Bandung government can establish a sister city program with Badung district.

“This should be copied, applied and well collaborated. When this is implemented in Badung district, I am confident it will be much better,” he said. BTN (BTN/014)

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Munduk Temu Village Offers ‘Kopi Leak’-How It Tastes?

Gde Palgunadi palgunadigde@yahoo.com very Galungan and Kuningan feast, the Hindus in Bali install a penjor in front of their house compound. It is made of whole bamboo trunk. The bamboo pole is equipped with ritual paraphernalia in such a way with young coconut leaf ornaments. In addition, it is also added with assorted crops including tubers and fruits such as banana, coconut, cake and ornamental leaves.

Ultimately, there is a banten or oblation dedicated to the ruler of Nature.

Galungan is commemorated every 210 days or six months of Balinese pawukon calendar.

Based on the pawukon, this feast day falls on Buda Kliwon Dungulan. This great day is celebrated as the moment of victory of the truth against evil. At this moment, the Hindus are worshiping Ida Sanghyang Widhi, God Almighty, with all its mani-

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festations as well as the ancestors believed to have merged with the Creator. They are freed from the cycle of reincarnation.

At that time, the Hindus worship at village trinity temples existing in each customary village, family temple, clan temple and so forth. The point is to express sincere gratitude for the God’s grace and ask for all sorts of strength and fortitude in order to always be grateful as well as courageous and brave in facing all kinds of challenges and obstacles of life.

All forms of praise are given in a form of penjor. It is also a symbol of mountain that brings prosperity and makes the soil fertile so that all plants can grow well and bear fruits for the sake of human life. Humans also grow along with nature, think, say and do virtues in order to always ‘result in’ good rewards or karma. Good karma is believed to be enjoyed during this mundane life or in the next life.

So, every tourist that comes on the Galungan feast day will see a scene like this. There is a row of very beautiful pieces of penjor. It is beautiful in the context of ethics as well as aesthetics but also very full of ritual meaning. Visitors can see scenery of various penjor in front of house compound, offices, building and so forth.

With a variety of designs and sizes, they come with one goal namely expressing gratitude to the Creator and ask for salvation that all beings on earth could get ultimate bliss. B N

abanan district urges every village to have a village-owned enterprise (BUMDes). The existence of BUMDes is believed to be able to encourage the potential of local products for the welfare of community. One of the villages having owned the BUMDes is Munduk Temu in Pupuan Tabanan.

This village has Robusta coffee commodity. Moreover, it has now been managed to sell its own flagship coffee brand, the Kopi Leak (literally means ‘mystical coffee’).

Headman of Munduk Temu, Nyoman Wintara, said on Sunday (Oct. 15) that BUMDEs Sri

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Sedana of Munduk Temu currently has excellent product namely Kopi Leak. The challenge in developing this product is to standardize the taste. It happens because in the processing the BUMDes involves five farmer groups to roast different coffee.

Although the BUMDes has not yet showed the profits, Wintara said the existence of the enterprise has been already able to help increase the welfare of farmers. The assistance of IDR 200 million from district government is used by the BUMDes to buy Robusta coffee from farmers above the market price of IDR 28,000 for green bean or raw cof-

fee. Price of the green bean in the market is lower, namely at IDR 26,000.

BUMDes is not limited to buying coffee of farmers at market price, but also empowers farmer groups to roast coffee according to the standard of Kopi Leak. For this, BUMDes gives a wage worth IDR 5,000 per kilogram. “Thus, the benefits of BUMDes can be enjoyed by farmers although the BUMDes seems to have not obtained any advantages. The program is focused on the farmers first, while the management is still paying devotional work or ngayah,” said Wintara.

Wintara said that farmers are encouraged to improve the quality of their coffee beans harvest to meet the standard quality of Kopi Leak with the harvest quality expected to be red picked. When roasting, the procedure must comply with the standard of Kopi Leak. Regardless, it frees farmers to make their taste creations beyond the taste of Kopi Leak. “It’s okay to create their brand,” said Wiantara. With such a freedom, when purchasing coffee at Munduk Temu people will not just find one brand namely the Kopi Leak, but a variety of brands.

After promoted, the taste of Kopi Leak, said Wintara, began to be known and people are getting interested. In addition to sales through the BUMD Tabanan, currently the Kopi Leak has started to enter souvenir market like on Pandawa Beach and Waka Bali.

The equipment required to process Kopi Leak is a modern coffee roaster machine. BUMDes already has owned a semi-modern tool. So, it is quite difficult to produce coffee with the same taste.

“We still need the existence of a modern machine because the temperature can be set automatically,” he said. In addition to roasting tool, it also needs to be equipped with packaging tools. B N (BTN/kmb)

Tirta Suganing at Tangkup Hamlet, Believed to Cure a Number of Diseases

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ollowing the opening of road access connecting Tangkup to Timbul hamlet, Pupuan, Tegallalang by the 100th Indonesian Army rural development program (TMMD); it has strategic value in raising the local potential. One of them is the spring named Tirta Suganing at Tangkup hamlet. Local people believe if the water can help cure

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a number of diseases, especially the symptoms of mumps.

“Local residents and outsiders believe if this shower has the efficacy of curing symptoms of thyroid disease. It is applied by doing purificatory rite (melukat) at Tirta Suganing shower,” said Made Musir, a resident who has been maintaining the existence of Tirta Suganing shower.

He told that previously the Tirta Suganing was a cave. However, about five years ago a banyan tree grew from inside the cave. Currently, the roots of banyan tree have covered the entrance into the cave. “No one dares to clean up because assuming the growth of the tree is the will of God,” said the man from Tangkup hamlet.

He added that residents frequently do purificatory rite at Tirta Suganing on Kajeng Kliwon. Everyone who comes to do purificatory rite is forbidden to boast that the shower is small.

“Formerly an incident happened, water of the shower immediately enlarged and became muddy,” he said.

Besides, if a black snake appears from within the cave, the activity should not be continued at that location. According to Musir, it indicates if the activity is not allowed by the guardian of the Tirta Suganing. B N (BTN/kmb)

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(Kabul) is quite unique. Each artist presents ten works of art, so there are totally 20 works filled with messages in figurative style. Their size is diverse with acrylic media on canvas.

Both artists present their works in the exhibition room with two different visual tendencies. Nevertheless, they can be attributed to the same theme, namely the highlight of nature. “Grounded’ is a frame highlighting the tendency of both artists in presenting the themes around nature,” said Curator Made Susanta Dwitanaya.

The works of I Wayan Suastama and I Ketut Suasana seem to have a tendency for the choice of work to present an expression about nature in a symbolic approach. Visual exploration of Wayan Suastama often presents female figures that have symbolic value about nature.

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Blanco Renaissance Museum Receives ISTA Award received a green or bronze award for cultural preservation category.

The other awarded destinations or managements from Bali attaining similar award are the Penglipuran village and ITDC. It is only the Blanco Museum belongs to individual category. The existence of Blanco Museum in Ubud has already been known to the public of the world due to the quality of painting collection as well as its concern with Balinese culture. B N

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inese cosmology such as female as the motherland, pradhana (creative-feministic energy) as partner of the purusha (masculine counterpart) in the creation cycles. His visual exploration also often presents rhythmic lines as in the background of his paintings depict female figures.

More interestingly, in some works the rhythmic lines symbolize rain, a daily phenomenon often encountered in tropical countries such as Indonesia. However, on the next layer, rain can be further interpreted not just as natural phenomenon. “I am trying to bring out a deeper meaning aside from the matter of rain as the way of nature to balance the natural

cycle,” he said.

Meanwhile, I Ketut Suasana presents the works of painting by showing off vivid exploration of dominant lines. The lines are rhythmic and configured to construct various shapes, such as trees, bees and others. Hence, bees and trees are two objects frequently appearing in the works of Kabul.

These two objects contain a certain symbolic entity, especially the bees denoting the objects explored by this young artist. Bees are symbol of duality that always exists in the universe because their body contains substances that can produce honey as well as poison. B N (BTN/015)

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Another achievement is attained by Blanco Renaissance Museum. In the event of the Wonderful Indonesian Tourism Award 2017, this museum won the Indonesia Sustainable Tourism Award (ISTA) from the Ministry of Tourism. This award is given to sustainable tourism stakeholders.

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ccording to Mario Blanco, the assessment process was conducted to 96 existing destinations. Of this amount, it was then obtained 24 nominees and finally 17 destination operators were designated as the winners. The assessed components include cultural, economic, social and environmental aspects.

“It is necessary to have this kind of award so that we will be more encouraged and feel to have been given the attention by the government. It is our tasks to be more creative in looking forward so that we are always updating and moving, while the government as the umbrella remains to monitor and provide inputs,” said Mario.

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Legian Beach Offers an Option for Exotic Sightseeing

Bali is Expected to Be More Maximize in Russia Market he Indonesian government through the Indonesian Embassy in Russia will hold the third Indonesian Festival (FI) on August 3-5, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. in an area of ​​18 hectares, three times wider than the previous year.

After meeting with the Bali’s businessmen and Bank Indonesia Representative Office Bali, Indonesian Ambassador to Russia M. Wahid Supriyadi explained, the first year of FI in 2016 themed “Visit Wonderful Indonesia, Bali and Beyond”. ‘’ Stay Bali because 90 percent of Russians come to Bali “. he said.

The exhibition, held in a 6-hectare park last year, resulted in a 33.2 percent increase in trade. In terms of tourism, the percentage of tourists visiting Russia the highest of 57 percent to Indonesia, 90 percent confirmed to Bali. But the number of visits is still considered small.

While the target visit to the FI exhibition is 120,000. The location of the exhibition in Krasnaya Presnya adjacent to one of the largest malls

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parkling light of fireworks with various shapes and colors sprinkled and embellished the sky of Nusa Dua Peninsula on Sunday (Oct. 15). The splendor was accompanied by applause and the sound of energetic music that were able to arouse the vivacity of visitors. It is the atmosphere of Pesona Mandiri Nusa Dua Fiesta (NDF) 2017 held for five days from Wednesday (Oct. 11).

Prior to ignition of the fireworks was held the Mandiri Carnival by performing a repertoire as a commemorative procession of Bank Mandiri’s 21stth anniversary. Coming onto the stage at that time were Special Staff of the State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Minister, Devi Suradji, Director of Corporate Strategy and Finance of Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), Jatmiko K. Santosa, and Director of Wholesale Banking of Bank Mandiri, Royke Tumilaar.

Devi Suradji said the synergy between SOEs should continue to be improved and hoped the cooperation of ITDC with Bank Mandiri can continue. “Hopefully, next year’s fiesta is better and more lively and leads ITDC and Bank Mandiri to be even bigger,” he hoped.

In the meantime, the Director of Finance of PT Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) of Nusa Dua, Jatmiko K. Santoso, said in Nusa Dua that implementation of the NDF included various activities, such as the art performances, music, games, exhibition and culinary

to competitions. “Hopefully, the NDF activities held annually could give the opportunity to the artists, SMEs and related institutions to showcase their best works,” he said.

NDF activities having entered the 19th implementation this year, explained Jatmiko Santoso, has undergone a very dynamic transformation in packaging music performances, cultural performances, exhibitions and culinary art. Therefore, NDF as a creative event initiated by ITDC Nusa Dua is always anticipated by residents and tourists. “They really enjoy the holidays on the Island of the Gods,” he added.

This year’s festival does involve many communities in order to provide a variety of activities for visitors, not just musical performances on stage. It has a

total of 83 tenants that are able to bring in a total of 31,545 visitors. “Enchantment of the Mandiri NDF next year will present more creative culture as well as contemporary arts that are increasingly popular among younger generation,” he said.

The NDF closing ceremony coincided with the celebration of the 21st anniversary of Bank Mandiri as the main sponsor of this event. Bank Mandiri also issued identity cards of the state-owned employees especially for the ITDC received with enthusiastic response by employees. The NDF 2017 is for the first time to enact non-cash transactions in all areas of the festival. With the use of the electronic money (e-money), citizens will get convenience when making transactions and they do not need to carry a lot of banknotes.

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adung Tourism Office utilizes online media to promote tourist destinations in the region.

Moreover, Badung district makes cooperation with Google to promote tourist attractions in the region via Google Map. Head of the Badung Tourism Office, I Made Badra, justified to have established partnership with Google Representative in Indonesia. It will create a special application of tourism to facilitate foreign tourists so as to know the tourist locations in Badung. “With the cooperation, tourists can know about tourist locations in Badung through their smartphone,” said Made Badra, on Sunday (Oct. 15).

According to Badra, the government of Badung has held a

meeting with Google Representative in Indonesia to follow up the program. “Our staff with Google Indonesia has come down to the field to make surveys to a number of attractions for equipment installation,” he explained.

Badra added the pilot project for the application installation include Sangeh, Mumbul Park, Uluwatu Temple, Pandawa Beach, Yadnya Museum at Mengwi village, Agrobagus, Pangsan object and Nungnung waterfall in Petang subdistrict. “We will provide guidance to seven tourism object managements used as pilot project in relation to the operation of this application,” he said.

He hoped the management can understand the techniques and operations of this application be-

fore being installed in each tourist attraction. “This application also provides information on the location of foreign exchange and police stations,” he said.

Badra said the Google map application would make it easier for tourists to access the information of interesting tourist location in Badung when passing through the local road. On that account, this application is believed to bring in a positive impact for tourists because they get additional tourist information in more details related to tourist attractions. “In addition to tourist destinations, the application will also contain culinary tours in Badung district. So, with one application, tourists can find out more about the tourist destinations in Badung,” he said.

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M. Wahid Supriyadi that made him optimistic target visit is reached. ‘’ I want Bali to contribute more bigger participation, ‘’ he said.

The interest of Balinese businessmen to follow the FI is very high, therefore, to accommodate the aspirations of entrepreneurs, FI 2018 will be arranged

by Chamber of Commerce and Industry( Kadin) Bali Chairman of Kadin Bali AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra said, excess Bali’s businessmen are invited to exhibit to anywhere want. Although the goods are sold cheaper, no problem. Therefore, with the exhibition of FI in Russia was greeted very enthusiastically by Bali,s businessmen.

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hose who frequently make a visit to Bali will be familiar with the Jalan Legian. Apparently, other than becoming a hub of shopping and nightlife, Legian also has a very beautiful and clean beach.

This beach is in line with Kuta

Beach. If you wish to enjoy sunset view without having to throng with a number of other tourists, you are unnecessary to go to Kuta. Legian also offers a very good option.

At first, the Legian area was an agrarian village. Although the village is located on the beach, the majority of population was working as farmers.

Only a small portion of the population works as fishermen.

“The fate” of Legian Beach then changed when Kuta Beach drew increasingly more visitors so that Legian also got some.

Both villages are also clean and provide various facilities for travelers.

Legian Beach is precisely located in the north of the famous Kuta Beach. So no wonder, the atmosphere is almost similar to Kuta Beach although visitors are certainly not as many as on Kuta Beach but that’s where

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In 2004,working with the Government in aid of elephant conservation Bali Elephant Camp was established to help care for and promote the plight of Sumatran elephants. At the beginning, Bali Elephant Camp has 9 Sumatran elephants,

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who along with their ‘mahouts’ (careers) have become ambassadors for their brothers and sisters in Sumatra.” Said Mrs. IGAA. Inda Trimafo Yudha.

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the advantage lies because the atmosphere is not too crowded.

Thus, visitors really wishing to relax can find the right atmosphere in Legian and Seminyak.

When making a visit to Legian, visitors can do some activities like in Kuta, such as swimming, surfing, playing ball on the beach, sun bathing on white sand, and enjoy the sunset view. Visitors cannot only enjoy the beauty of Legian Beach but also taste favorite dishes that can be selected as in Kuta. This beach deserves to be a very exotic destination of sightseeing.

Most famous restaurants and cafes are now in this coastal area. Some of them frequently host festive and exciting parties along the road to Legian Beach where restaurants offer tasty and low-cost dishes with traditional to international menus.

Hence, the street is dubbed as eating street.

In general, both domestic and foreign tourists will come to this beach in the afternoon, considering the area is very famous as a place to sunbathe and enjoy the beauty of sunset

view. If guests wish to relax around the beach, there are some cafés providing chairs and delicious food along the Legian Beach from the morning until 22:00.

ence is Bali’s leading Balinese Owned Adventure Company I Gusti Agung Alit Yudha. An exciting and dynamic family business, was established in 1995 to provide locally owned and operated soft adventures with the highest international standards of safety, training and conservation.

“Bali Elephant Camp itself has been established since 2004 beginning with nine Sumatran elephants, and now there are fifteen elephants with adult and some are still small, the oldest elephant is 24 years old female named Meri while the youngest aged is Saras 10 months aged.”

Mrs. Inda added.

“In order to ensure that the elephants here remain healthy, we always provide two doctors who care for them, as well as a consultant who has international qualifications and standards.

Meanwhile, from the needs of food for them we also provide

grass plantation with an area of about ​​20 hectares, by riding elephants will help us and other elephants in Sumatra by providing funds for food and land to make sure their natural habitat well protected.” Inda hopefully.

Bali Elephant Camp is a great place to ride elephant in Bali Paradise This place located at the side of Ayung River, close to the Sangeh monkey forest, Carangsari historic village, this place is situated between the rice paddies, jungle and the Ayung River and is one of the most natural places in Bali.

In Bali Elephant Camp the tourists will be invited to enjoy a lot of natural beauty that will be encountered on the way to natural rice paddies, quaint Balinese villages, temples and local markets. Bali elephant presents the surprise elephant attraction with full of fun.

After enjoying a scenic drive, be welcomed to Bali elephant

trek (Bali Elephant Camp) with a refreshing welcome drink at the ‘Trunk’n’Mahout’ valleyview café. Watch the elephants enjoy their morning or afternoon bath and then meet our Head Mahout to learn about the daily life of a Sumatran elephant as the elephants get saddled-up for the ‘Adventures trek.

If want to become friends with a great Sumatran elephant, then try shorter Adventurer Trek, to get experience the beautiful landscape of the camp as well as venturing out trek along the edge of the valley, the views are incredible, may also get to see monkeys and tropical birds in their natural habitat. Then look down at the raging Ayung River and discover how much fun riding an elephant can be, elephant will also show their pool as he wades through the water to cool off from the hot sun.

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Gerbangdessigot Held at Penglumbaran Village, Bangli s a commitment to Bangli development from villages, Deputy Regent of Bangli, Sang Nyoman Sedana Arta, accompanied by a number of relevant agency heads

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held the village development movement through mutual assistance (Gerbangdessigot) at Penglumbaran village, Susut, on Friday (Oct. 20).

In the event, Deputy Regent Sedana Arta also handed over the Gerbangdesigot fund worth IDR 1 billion received symbolically by headman of Penglumbaran, I Wayan Artawan. In addition, in this activity was also held various proactive activities such as free health services, demographic services, family planning services, house refurbishment assistance, food aid and elderly coaching.

Sedana Arta on that occasion stated that Gerbangdessigot program is one of the flagship programs of the Bangli district. In 2017, the

government of Bangli allocated funds amounting to IDR 6 billion for Gerbangdesigot program for six villages. “All this time, there is an impression that people’s proposal must always be repeated. It is always submitted but never realized. But this program will be able to answer the needs of community through the proposals it has submitted,” he explained.

Meanwhile, headman of Penglumbaran, Wayan Artawan, expressed his gratitude to the government of Bangli because all this time it has disbursed many programs that are indeed needed by the community. “We greatly appreciate to the programs launched by the government of Bangli chiefly the great village allocation

fund (ADD), Gita Santi development movement, hot mix asphalt entering village and Gerbangdesigot.

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All these programs are very real and beneficial for the community,” he concluded.

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Defeat Kalatiga, Strengthen Awareness

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alungan and Kuningan are feast days of the Hindus. Galungan falling every six months (210 days) or every Buda Kliwon Dungulan, Wednesday (Nov. 1), while Kuningan falls every Saniscara Kliwon Kuning-an, Saturday (Nov. 11). In the Sundarigama palm-manuscript is mentioned that celebration of Galungan and Kuningan symbolizes the victory of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth), the victory of Jayatiga against Kalatiga.

Dr. I Ketut Sumadi, said the celebration of Galungan has started from the previous week namely with Sugihan Jawa ritual (Oct. 26) and Sugihan Bali (Oct. 27).

While on Sunday (Oct. 29) is called penyekeban meaning the preparation of ritual paraphernalia. Raw materials are ripening so that they can be used to fill the ritual paraphernalia of Galungan.

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down to tempt human life, so here is really the victory against the temptation of life in the local wisdom of Bali is better known as Sad Ripu (six enemies). Sad Ripu is the six enemies in human beings affecting humans into self-forgetfulness. It consists of kama (lust, desire), lobha (greed), krodha (anger), moha (confusion), mada (drunk) and matsarya (envy, jealousy).

According to Dr. Sumadi, the coming down of temptations of life is a power, so that people need to be vigilant to see one’s self living with the environment. This is in accordance with the concept of microcosm (human body) and macrocosm (universe) that must be kept in balance.

While on Monday is the Penyajahan Galungan as the time to prepare everything in more details related to ritual paraphernalia. On that account, it becomes a part of celebrating the victory of dharma against adharma.

On Penyajaan Galungan, human temptation level will be higher, so hopefully there is no temptation in preparing the ritual paraphernalia. The next day, on Tuesday (Oct. 31) is Penampahan Galungan where devotees start to purify themselves, so it is symbolized with slaughtering animal (pig or chicken). “In the context of philosophy, it is the time to do self-contemplation namely making self-awareness to be higher by stripping ourselves what we have ever done, the six things making us forgetful,” he explained.

At that time, humans dispose of the lust of animalistic temptation into a divine nature, making non-good into good. Therefore, on the penampahan, other than making Balinese food like lawar delicacy, people also prepare ritual paraphernalia in the afternoon.

One of the banten or oblations made is prayascita, as a symbol of self-purification carried out around 18:00-19:00. The ceremony is followed by all family members, so that everything can already feel free from temptation.

In the afternoon of the penampahan day, devotees install penjor, meaning that humans can be aware of temptation at that time, so they start doing the seconds of independence. Installing penjor is the symbol of human independence from worldly temptations to achieve prosperity of life. It is an expression of gratitude for the prosperity bestowed by God. “As for banten, devotees prepare yellow-white food oblation symbolizing sanctity,” added Dr. Sumadi.

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Regent of Tabanan Nominated as Recipient of Leadership Award 2017 egent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, is nominated as one of the recipients of Leadership Award 2017 from the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. It is considering that leadership of Regent Eka gets a concern of central government, as one of the leaders obtaining a popular idol and has a good future prospect and can compete in national and international level.

It is inseparable from the performance and leadership accentuating people with her pro-people programs. “I am very proud, grateful and happy as we are visited by the assessment team from Jakarta. These extraordinary figures assess us and judge me in particular, in terms of policies that we have implemented so far,” said Regent Eka when receiving the Leadership Award Assessment Team 2017, Ministry of Home Affairs, at Tegeh hamlet, Angseri, Baturiti, Wednesday (Oct. 18).

Before the Assessment Team Leader of Leadership Award 2017, Kris Budihardjo, Regent Eka said that along his administration she never leaves the teachings of Bung Karno starting from the principles to behavior. She is deeply influenced by the ideas of Bung Karno. “I am quite adhered to the principles and become a fan of Bung Karno. Finally, I am claimed to be too Bung Karno-minded. It means that every speech and single action is always based on the thoughts he has brought forth. To me, he is an amazing leader of the nation,” she said.

The vision and mission of the Tabanan government is applying the Tri Sakti teaching of Bung Karno.

It consists of prosperous (sejahtera), safe (aman) and excellent (berprestasi) abbreviated into SERASI in Bahasa Indonesia. “My breath is in harmony with the ideology of Bung Karno with his Tri Sakti.

We apply them in our vision and mission, namely the prosperous, safe and excellent into SERASI (harmony). Harmony creates equitable justice and all people can enjoy happiness, success and all ultimately get excellent achievement. Our object is agriculture, so that we attempt to pay more attention to farmers,” she said.

Kris Budihardjo said the Leadership Award 2017 is as an effort to find out a leader figure in the region deserving to be an example. In appropriate with the data acquired through the assessment, the Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, is entitled to be a nominee of the Leadership Award 2017 from the Ministry of Home Affairs, so that she must be interviewed. “A total of 524 regional leaders throughout Indonesia consisting of regents, mayors and governors, five governors, 14 mayors and 24 regents are entitled to be nominees, they include Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti,” he said.

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symbolizes the expression of gratitude for the grace of God in the form of self-awareness, so that devotees can do a good job. It also results in happiness not only for oneself, but also for others. Penjor is symbolizing mountain where the deities abide.

“At that time, God grants prosperity to his devotees,” he added.

In the philosophy of Mount Agung, there are three dragons giving prosperity to their people.

They are Basuki giving fertility, Ananta Boga providing endless feeding and Taksaka keeping the air circulation, so that human can survive as energized by the elements of fire, water and wind as the 3 elements causing human to live. On the penampahan, human can live quietly.

On Galungan, humans carry out rituals in accordance with their respective abilities. Aside from saying prayers at home, they also say prayers at clan temple, village trinity temple and universal temple.

“Devotees also say prayers in other places such as sanctified water source, paddy field, and grave by putting food oblation along with side dish, water, coffee and cigarette,” he said.

The offerings are addressed to dead parents who are still buried (before ritually cremated), so that people can feel relieved. At night, they can practice yoga and worship God in all its manifestations whether as generator, operator and destroyer. Destroyer is important in order that something useless could be restored to its origin, can be recycled to be useful. On Thurs-

day (Nov. 2) or Umanis Galungan devotees offer banten penganyar or small banten to plead for guidance of God that Galungan ritual has been already executed properly.

“On Umanis Galungan human beings are given better enlightenment, so that getting sweeter filled with mutual forgiving activities or mutually visit relatives and friends to strengthen social ties,” he explained.

On Sunday (Nov. 5) is the Pemacekan Agung, meaning that human beings should not be careless again after receiving enlightenment of God. On Monday (Nov. 6) is Somoribek Day, meaning that human beings really become strong until the next activity, according to the task and obligation. On Friday (Nov. 10) is the Penampahan Kuningan having the same process to boost awareness. Human beings may no longer get tempted by Kalatiga. They must strengthen the soul to overcome temptations of life.

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Starbucks Opens New Outlet at Ngurah Rai Airport past several years that coffee has become a part of lifestyle, especially enjoying coffee in outlets or some kinds of café and tavern.

The cafés carrying the concept of coffee shop continues to emerge with the growth rate of above 10 percent. This is the opportunity for us that need exploring,” said Yogi.

The brand name of Starbucks Coffee has been already very global. At least, there are more than 23,000 locations in 74 countries around the world, while in Indonesia alone has reached 300

eeing coffee consumption remains a trend among the urban communities, the management of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) presents a Starbucks outlet at domestic departure terminal of Ngurah Rai Airport. The booth was officially opened by Co-General Manager of Commercial, Rahadian D. Yogisworo, on Wednesday (Sep. 19) witnessed by Director of Star-

bucks Indonesia, Anthony Cottan.

This is the second Starbucks outlet at Ngurah Rai Airport. Previously, in 2014, the retail company specifically serving coffee drink opened its first outlet at the domestic arrival terminal. With the theme of Starbucks Experience, visitors will feel different comfort from the superior products and the services provided.

“We see the trend within the

Ayurveda Day Filled with Ayurveda Seminar

raditional medicine lovers are invited to recognize the ways and benefits of Ayurveda, a traditional Hindu system and medicine and lifestyle developed in ancient India. Although in a short time, the participants consisting of local people and tourists were satisfied and happy to be involved in the activity. This is the atmosphere of seminar and demonstration by Indian ayurvedic practitioners in the office of the Indian Consul, Tuesday (Oct. 17).

The seminar in a series of the celebration of Ayurveda Day was held by Consulate General of India in Bali and Balinese-Indian Friendship Association (BIFA).

The seminar was opened by Consul General of India in Bali, R.O. Sunil Babu. Meanwhile, the speakers presented were Indian Ayurveda practitioners, Dr. Abhisek Joshi and Dr. Aparna.

“Ayurveda is very important for life. This seminar is not only held once, but becomes the first seminar to be followed by other similar seminars,” said R.O. Sunil Babu.

Dr. Abhisek Joshi emphasized on healthy living through Ayurveda. He also explained in details about the healthy biological clock according to Ayurveda.

He suggested the time to get up early in the morning, the types of herbs beneficial to the body, meditation as well as the activity at night before going to bed. He also talked about awareness of consuming healthy according to Ayurveda and shared some Ayurvedic beauty tips.

Dr. Aparna said that Dhanwantari is the god of Ayurveda.

According to Puranic source, Lord Dhanwantari emerges from Ksir Sagar (Milk Ocean) bringing along with amrit (sacred drink of immortality) and knowledge of Ayurveda on that day. Afterward, the day is celebrated as Ayurveda Day. “Ayurveda means ‘life’ and Vedas means ‘science’ or ‘knowledge.’ Thus, Ayurveda has the meaning of knowledge for healthy life. “Ayurveda Amritanam is a poem of Veda that means Ayurveda is nothing but for longevity,” he added.

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outlets. In addition to having high quality foods and beverage products, Starbucks also offers internationally recognized service quality standards.

Besides, Starbucks Indonesia also sees the good business opportunity at Ngurah Rai Airport.

Growing number of passengers every year becomes strong consideration for Starbucks Indonesia to open its second outlet at the Ngurah Rai Airport.

“Up to August, we have served more than 14 million passengers.

This means that on average there

are 60,000 passengers daily that arrive and depart. With passenger profiles mostly consisting of tourists, they tend to spend money in Bali, so this becomes its own strength,” explained Yogi.

He added that in addition to business opportunities, the existence of Starbucks franchise outlets is also expected to improve services to passengers. “Our task is to provide facilities and services in accordance with the needs and desires of passengers that are increasingly diverse from time to time,” he concluded.

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Green School Invites Staff and Employees to be Friendly his is not a comedy show or clown art.

However, the people present were very happy and could not even stem their laughter as being so funny. Speakers presenting the materials were very straightforward and in accordance with the present situation. They made all the participants feel at home until the event ended. It is the atmosphere of communication training for all staff and employees at Green School on Tuesday (Oct. 10).

This one-day training was attended by approximately 175 Green School Bali employees, and the speaker was a senior RRI broadcaster, Paul Suardi.

Participants did not only gain the understanding and fundamentals of communication, but also the ethics, moral and self-esteem. Similarly, they were provided with principles of inter-personal communication, so that communication becomes more effective. The materials included the factors to grow selfconfidence, overcome fear and trust themselves.

President of Kul Kul Foundation, Tirka Widanti, said the training is deliberately designed nicely, so that it becomes more interesting.

It also made the participants happy so that all learning materials could be understood. “This communication training aims to simplify the work, so that it can be done well. It is also meant to anticipate conflict and misinterpretation due to lack of communication,” she said.

According to Tirka Widanti, Green School employees are mostly Balinese, denoting residents from around the school. Balinese have a habit of reluctance to speak.

On that account, they are necessary to get education and training, so where the habit of reluctance to speak is needed and not needed.

“Well, when having socialized in the international community, both in the field of tourism, educa-

tion and others, the reluctance to speak is no longer appropriate,” she added.

Communicating effectively, explained Tirka Widanti, is very much needed. It is not reluctance to speak, but must always learn and learn to be friendly. Effective communication can also be expressed through body language, gesture and face. “This training deliberately utilizes school holidays, so it can last longer and not interfere with learning activities. You invite employees to attend training with the term of Professional Development. Next holidays, we will provide the other training on personality. It is quite important,” she concluded.

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Ngaturang Bakti Penganyar Held at Tuluk Biyu Temple, Batur

he government of Bangli carried out the bakti penganyar in a series of Pujawali Ngusaba of the full moon of the Balinese fourth month in Caka Year 1939 (2017 AD) at Kahyangan Jagat Tuluk Biyu Batur Temple in Kintamani. The spiritual activity as a form of devotion to the Creator was led by Regent I Made Gianyar accompanied by a number of agency heads and staff in the environment of the Bangli government, on Wednesday (Oct. 11).

The bakti penganyar was officiated over by Ida Pedanda Putra Sanur from Griya Kelempung Tembuku, Bangli. Ritual procession begun with purificatory rite and ngayab bakti penganyar followed by praying together accompanied by Baris Gede and Baris Jojor ritual dance. “This sincere

sacrifice is meant to plead deities to abide in Tuluk Biyu Temple of Batur to provide salvation and prosperity for all the people,” said Division Head of People’s Welfare, Jro Penyarikan Widata.

Regent I Made Gianyar said that as the Hindus we have an obliga-

tion to maintain and preserve the existence of the temple. Therefore, ngaturang bakti penganyar is an obligation to the local government in Bali, especially as one of the efforts to preserve and maintain the existence of the universal temple of Tuluk Biyu at Batur.

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Tanah Lot Attraction Hands out Souvenir

anah Lot attraction is now handing out souvenir to tourists visiting the object posing the blend of natural and cultural tourism. The souvenir in the form of Balinese snack is distributed free of charge as a service. “We try this new promotional program by giving typical souvenir of Bali to visitors,” said Operations Manager, Ketut Toya Adnyana.

Toya Adnyana added that the souvenir handing out program started in early October 2017. Domestic and foreign tourists respond it very positively.

Moreover, they propose to increase the quantity. “It is a typical Balinese souvenir product produced by the Micro, Small and

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Medium Enterprise (MSME) of Tabanan district. Other than as promotional medium, this is also meant to supports the MSMEs of Tabanan,” he added.

Collaboration of the promotion of Tanah Lot and the MSMEs, explained Toya Adnyana, poses the continuation of Tanah Lot Kreatifood event held some time ago. Thus, the festival is not only an event, but can run sustainably and give a positive impact to MSMEs in Tabanan.

“Happy Hours program as a regular promotional agenda every month still runs in addition to the souvenir handing out,” he said.

Related to this program or others, the

management will receive any responses from visitors for future evaluation.

Whatever they are, they will be received to be processed and evaluated in the future. “We do not want to underestimate though being free. However, we still want to provide good quality service and excellent products for tourists,” he said.

According to Toya Adnyana, the management always strives to provide the best service for visitors. The management realizes to run business in tourism services, so that it should improve services. “As one of the tourism icons of Tabanan district,

Tanah Lot attraction strives optimally in terms of service provision for tourists. Other than continuing to make infrastructure arrangement, promotion strategy remains to be enhanced to attract tourists to Tanah Lot,” he hoped.

A visitor from Malang, Yusuf, said that at first he was surprised to be given souvenir at the ticket gate. “I was surprised to be offered a snack. I think it should be purchased, but it’s free. Honestly, I am happy and know that Tanah Lot has varied snack products.

Hopefully, it can be further increased, he ... he ...,” he said happily.

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‘Picking Coffee Dance’ Made into Mascot of Pupuan Subdistrict

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Jaja Iku-Iku, a Sweet and Sticky Cake elight your senses in Balinese traditional cakes.

Local community has a variety of sticky and sweet jaja (cake). Various types of cake are made specifically to be part of ritual, offered to the ancestors, while some others are made deliberately for consumption. However, all the cakes are usually used for offering other than for snacks and on the way round.

One of the cakes serving as a part of ritual, but usually presented as the offering, is the iku-iku cake. This round and oval-shaped cake with a flat bottom like a turtle has a sweet taste and sticky.

Sweet taste is prostrated not due to artificial sweetener, but it is from pure sugar. For the base, it uses banana leaf to avoid chemicals.

Jaja iku-iku is often used as a snack by farmers served in their mutual assistance. For example, it is served when transplanting paddy seedlings in mutual assistance in the fields. In such a mass activity, it is usually accompanied with the provision of small

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lunch party. Jaja iku-iku is served as dessert after having the main course.

At that time, various cakes are usually accompanied with coffee or tea.

Allegedly the cake is the result of acculturation of Balinese-Chinese culinary tradition because every Chinese feast day, Chinese-descendant people pass this cake to their neighbors. Jaja iku-iku has round and flat shape, like a turtle is made based on or in accordance with the mold. On the top it has a variety of shapes and images. There are floral, turtle and other motif. It corresponds to the image of the mold. Commonly, it has 2 - 3 different images.

The ingredient of this cake is glutinous rice flour. As alternative ingredient, people commonly use cassava or sweet potato. Other ingredients include white sugar, palm (brown) sugar, grated coconut, salt and others.

The finely grounded flour is brewed with water (filled with hot water) and then squeezed to be smooth and supple. Optionally, it can be added with salt to taste, so as to produce a better taste. If wishing to have color, simply use natural green color of leaf in order to look more interesting.

At the same time, please prepare the sauce (to fill inside the cake), grated coconut mixed with white sugar or brown sugar and then roasted until it is evenly distributed. The sauce is then wrapped in flour to form like a small ball. Afterward, prepare the mold previously filled with clean flour, so the mold will be easily taken out. Put the flour into the mold and then pressed, so it can be shaped according to the mold.

Then, take out and put on leaves and then steam. Having cooked, cool them down. Now, the cake is ready to be served.

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rizzles did not dampen the intention of participants of the cultural parade and folk party entitled ‘Tabanan Fiesta in Pupuan Subdistrict’ last Saturday (Oct. 14). A number of residents also looked enthusiastic to see a number of festive attractions.

Performance of the ‘Picking Coffee Dance’ dedicated to a series of the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town received extraordinary appreciation from citizens.

In addition, it was also graced with the presentation of Mandolin art by Gita Bhaskara Etnik and Joged Bumbung jazzing up the show at that time.

Deputy Regent of Tabanan, I Komang Gede Sanjaya, representing the Regent of Tabanan gave a high appreciation to the implementation of folk performance in each subdistrict held in Tabanan district.

Giving more space to the arts is aimed at preserving and developing customs and culture according to the characteristics of the local community. “I hope this activity will contribute positively to the cultural preservation, especially in Pupuan Subdistrict,” he said.

Deputy Regent hoped that cultural parade and the people’s festivities can be implemented on an ongoing basis as an effort to strengthen and preserve local culture as the identity of the Tabanan community. In accordance with the theme of the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town this year, Buana Kerti that implies the fertility of the universe is a means of realizing the welfare of the people.

Head of Pupuan subdistrict, Putu Hendra Manik Maswa, reported that other than cultural event, there are also various other events such as SME, culinary, penjor competition, pejati offering, gebogan

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ali Culinary Festive is one of the annual events held by Archipelago International to challenge the skill of chefs, bartenders, and servers from 18 hotels under portfolio of Archipelago International in Bali and Lombok. The categories of its festive are Cooking Competition, Mocktail Creation, and Food Truck Competition.

Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center dispatched Putu Subawa – Cook Helper and Oppie Octaviana – Waitress to be challenged on Food Truck Competition. All the participants were freed to choose the theme, and the theme chosen by Aston Denpasar in the competition was Bollywood Food – Indian Dishes such as; Chicken Yogurt with Prata Bread and Lamb Patties Sandwich. The presentations were admitted by the judges and eventually became the third winner.

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Mocktail Creation, where organizer requires the participants to perform the best mocktail. I Gusti Agung Ayu Uchilia Pradnyasari is a Bartender at Jempiring Restaurant who assigned by Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center in the competition. She created Rainbow Illusion by mixing the main ingredients such as pok choy, manggo, and honey. The judges were impressed with her creativity, therefore it came out as the first winner.

“Competing is one of the methods to prove the quality of work, and proud to say that we made it in the 6th of Bali Culinary Festive at Aston Kuta Hotel & Residence as one of our sister hotel on last October 21, 2017.

Again, we won two of three categories just like last year. Hopefully we can manage it in the next 7th Competition.” Said Sony Bambang Suryo – General Manager of Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center.

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resort with a natural spring water pond on property is ensconced in a soothing, tranquil and serene setting in an easterly-facing orientation.

“Blissfully nestled amidst verdant valleys, rivers, waterfalls, and ensconced by Bali’s iconic terraced rice padi fields, SereS Springs Resort & Spa is a sumptuous and sedate five-star getaway that is culturally-inspired by Bali’s ritual-rich traditions to deliver an authentic and unique experience beyond compare”. Said Nyoman Prabawa the General Manager, on its Grand Opening Ceremony, Saturday (07/10) “Complete with warm hospitality, artisanal artwork and traditional touches throughout the panoramic grounds, SereS Springs Resort & Spa celebrates the rich culture of its island home whilst treating discerning travellers to lavishly-appointed residences, sophisticated amenities, elegant indulgences and a collection of gourmet restaurants that overlook the majestic and holy Mount Agung”. He added.

Sunrise before dawn will be a sight to behold and most suitable for meditation and re-invigoration.

The Resort will comprise 44 superior rooms, 16 suites with ofuro tubs in the balcony and 20 villas each with individual dipping pool.

Amenities will include 2 large swimming pools with spacious deck 46 chaises–lounge chairs. A grand ballroom with pre-function foyer for up to 350 guests, a junior ballroom for 150 guests, 2 function rooms, business centre, fitness centre, kids club and video lounge.

All-day dining is available at the Mulberry Place, featuring diverse cuisine for about 45 people seating capacity and Bell’Aria Italian restaurant with wood fire bricks Pizza Oven. Also Café DarSini Lounge & Bar concept with live music and DJ for about 60 people seating capacity.

The SereS Spa Sanctuary complex with 6 treatment studios, natural water springs pool anda Bale Yoga and the special design of multifunctional wedding pa-

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villion for multi religion wedding ceremony, will overlook the padi fields and River Wos. While the property owner Mr. Michael Chiu said that “The design and planning phase for three hotel projects in Bali, Indonesia. These hotels are contemporary, not gimmicky nor whimsical, and will offer full amenities, personal comfort and service to business and leisure travelers who will recognize and optimize to build a legacy in the traditions and caring attitudes of warm Asian hospitality”.

“SereS Hotels & Resorts will fulfill a promise in the delivery of comfortable and contemporary accommodations with unmitigated conveniences for the business and leisure travelers”. He promised. B N (BTN/014)

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Foreign tourists are enjoying matekap (plowing) attraction at Baru village, Marga - Tabanan.

or the people of the Island of Gods, matekap (plowing) by cattle may be an ordinary activity. However, it becomes a tremendous attraction for foreign tourists. They are not only satisfied with capturing through photos, but they also scramble to try it. They are willing to get in touch with mud when trying with local farmers.

Well, this is the atmosphere of plowing with foreign tourists at Baru village, Marga, Tabanan. In the green paddy field area, tourists can join in the plowing activities to experience the activities of farmers in Bali. When doing it, they are guided by a farmer, so that the cow can pull in accor-

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dance with the track. “I do not let them plow alone,” said Ni Putu Supasti, a women farmer offering the plowing attraction.

Tourists wishing to get involved in the plowing activities are firstly invited to sit relaxingly in a simple field hut. Subsequently, they are served with a stamina enhancer drink made of roasted young coconut mixed with egg. They are then given an explanation of the purpose, tools and methods of plowing. After that, tourists are given bamboo steamer-like hat.

At first, the cows are directed to the edge of paddy field, so that tourists can ride on the wooden plow. After sitting, Ni Putu Supasti then tells her cows to walk.

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The cows walk around the fields.

Ni Putu Supasti who follows just keeps talking (sort of sign language) to her cows so as to keep going on the track. In mid-track, the cows stop based on the order of Ni Putu Supasti. Tourists are given the opportunity to capture the moment with their camera.

With her husband I Made Suparta (Mr. Risa), she has a specialty to turn tourists into a farmer of her own way. After plowing, tourists are invited to start transplanting paddy traditionally. They are introduced how to the process making paddy grain into rice. Similarly, they are invited to catch fish in small pond, climbing coconut trees and picking fruits in paddy field.

Ultimately, tourists are taken to visit organic ornamental plants and Rumah Desa, a community activity of ancient Bali, such as ngelawar (preparing Balinese cuisine) and others. According to Supasti, in a day there are always tourists taking the plowing activity. Yet their amount is uncertain depending on the tourism condition. “There are always tourists wishing to plow every day. They are mostly European tourists as well as those from other countries.

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Griya Sakti Temple riya Sakti Bukit Bangli Temple is one of the dang khayangan temples (a tribute temple to ancient saint) located on Jalan Nusantara, Brahmana hamlet, Cempaga village, Bangli County. The temple perched on Bangli hilltop is estimated to have been established in the seventeenth century BC. History of this temple is inseparable from the story on the pilgrimage of Ida Pedanda Sakti Bawu Rauh. A high priest at Griya Bukit Bangli, Ida Pedanda Putu Oka, explained the

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existence of the temple venerated by approximately 300 residents of Brahmana hamlet was inseparable from the pilgrimage of Ida Pedanda Sakti Bawu Rauh, also known as Dang Hyang Nirartha.

It was told that Ida Pedanda Sakti Bawu Rauh had five children namely Ida Ler, Ida Lor, Ida Wetan, Ida Kulon and together with his eldest daughter Ida Ayu Swabhawa traveled to Bali from Java. In short, when he arrived at Pulaki, Buleleng, Ida Ayu Swabhawa was left from the entourage of his father. There, Ida Ayu Swabhawa or better known as Ida Ayu Melanting got reunion with God or moksha and she was subsequently venerated by local people by establishing a threetiered meru shrine.

Meanwhile, it was also told about Ida Pedanda Ketut Buruan also known as Ida Pedanda Sakti Manuaba denoting the son of Ida Ler being managed to build a dam at Tegallalang, Ubud, Gianyar. It could irrigate the local farmland so as to make the Tegallalang region prosperous. His residence is now known as the Griya Sakti Manuaba Temple. Ida Pedanda Manuaba had five children.

One of them was Ida Pedanda Bajangan. One day, he asked for the venue for yoga or meditation to his father. When Ida Pedanda Bajangan was tested to perform yoga by his father, his father suddenly saw flames towering up to Mount Kaloka. Since then, Ida Pedanda Bajangan was directed by his father to travel eastward to Mount Kaloka, said Ida Pedanda Putu Oka who is still active in the management of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bangli Chapter.

His pilgrimage was not profiled, but when Ida Pedanda Bajangan arrived on Mount Kaloka, he then saw a three-tiered meru shrine in the west of the mountain. He was then convinced if it was a veneration shrine of Batara Sakti Melanting being equal to the existence of shrine in the Pulaki Temple, Buleleng. Existence of the Melanting Temple has become

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one of the shrines in the Griya Sakti Bukit Bangli that was originally used as representation shrine of Ida Batara Melanting by Bangli society at that time.

Furthermore, by Ida Batara Melanting, Ida Pedanda Bajangan was given a blessing and advised to occupy the temple area. Griya Sakti Manuaba was eventually destroyed by the repeated attacks of Gusti Ngurah Watu Lepang. Small children of Ida Pedanda Manuaba were then evacuated to his relative namely Ida Pedanda Bajangan at Bukit Bangli. Not long after, Ida Pedanda Manuaba died and his descendants then made ​​a tribute shrine in the form of representation shrine. Since it is very closely related to Griya Sakti Manuaba Temple at Tegallalang in Gianyar, the temple perched on the Bangli hilltop was then named the Griya Sakti Bukit Bangli Temple. Its piodalan or temple anniversary falls on Wraspati (Thursday) Paing Kulantir. Since it is one of the dang khayangan temples, the anniversary of the temple situated in the east of road is always thronged by many pilgrimages, especially the descendants of Ida Batara Bawu Rauh from throughout Bali. B N (BTN/kmb)

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Merchant of ritual paraphernalia for “penjor” of “Galungan” and “Kuningan” feast day.

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