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The word "Conservation" has been very frequently heard
occasionally, especially if it relate to Balinese culture,
which believed to be an extraordinary valuable asset for
Indonesia. At present, the government has carried out the
so-called conservation. The project consists of establishing
the long list database of Bali culture, together with their
current status of existence. Various institutions tend to
work in this model of conservation, where one-way participation
came down to the community and not the other way around.
The community often kept silence.
It is undeniable that these data are useful; unfortunately
it is not enough to be called conservation. Bali Galang
Foundation is going to take part of it from the other point
of view. The "Participative conservation" is referred to
the most difficult part of the culture called the community.
Due to the fact that the community is often dynamic and
mobile, they are beyond the reach of catalogues and data
banks. The status changed all the time. In Bali, community
is the most important part of culture. They are continuously
changed, because the culture itself is alive.
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- Empowering Balinese community to conserve their own
cultural potentials.
- Encourage community active-participation while making
all efforts to purify and put them on the higher esteem
of appreciations.
- Rediscover the lost cultural heritage.
- Broadcast the findings, back to the community and through
out the world.
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- Target: Conservation of the Balinese cultural heritage
by empowering community self responsibility, stimulating
the community awareness by showing them all the benefits
sourced from it.
- Goals: Returning the moral of Balinese way of life back
to the positive contents their existing cultural heritage.
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- There have been moral degradation in many aspects of
the Balinese living culture.
- People became more emotional and temperamental.
- Doing things beyond the awareness of their culture,
religion, and their famous community consciousness backgrounds
(Tri Hita Karana)
- The basic measurements of life norms tend to lean toward
the material world.
- The diminishing of the sense of togetherness, mutual
understanding and cooperative work (Gotong Royong tradition).
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- Being imposed to the external situation, the gap between
generation, caste of society, political group and individual,
have been widening. The practice of emphasizing such differences
for the sake of self esteems rapidly growing.
- Balinese culture being compete with individualisms that
demand efficiency, profitability and global competition
which are highly published through external publications.
- Culture no longer be a moral shelter, some have deem
it as sellable commodity, some as heavy uselessness payload
to bear.
- The charisma of cultural and spiritual leaders have
been competed against the charisma of politician and businessman
who are promising instant success and achievements.
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- Not every aspects have been badly polluted by the degradations.
Small part of the community highly aware of the situation.
Individual participation did not work as expected. Collective
cooperation is the only way out.
- The ever improving technology grants efficient tools
awaiting to be used for the best benefit of cultural preservations.
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- No, if no no one aware of it
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- Many elements of culture had been extinct.
- Poorly maintained regeneration of culture.
- Culture have been mistreated for the sake of
business oriented activities.
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- No, if even the Balinese is unsure if there is
any benefit conserving them. This caused by improper
understanding and narrow minded judgments.
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- Yes, as long as the community agreed and committed
to a vision, that the beauty of their culture is
something worth to fight for, and if the strong
will of conservation came from their own choice
of mind.
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- Yes, if the conservations lead to the right direction
and not being misinterpreted as the act of lips
service in the eyes of tourism and outside party.
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- Helping the community to rediscover spiritual refreshing
and enlightenment from the act of conserving their ancient
cultural heritages like babad, lontar, geguritan, sesajen,
dances, wayang, drama, etc.
- Together with the community to bring up culture to the
high esteems, place it to the proper grade before being
trade as commodity.
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- Stage I:
- Babad Bali web-site.
- Digital Lontar library “Cupumanik Astagina”
- Stage II:
- Bali cultural enthronement projects
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- A cultural publication in the web, which invites curiosity
and easy to follow guides to:
- Impure the image of Babad epics to its proper position
which is neutral and factual.
- Create interactive Babad and family tree on the
web, collecting from the entire community, finding
relationships, and joining them into a enormous relative
ties of the big family of Balinese.
- Include all related aspects such as Pura (temples),
Purana (the history of temples), Awig-awig (community
rules & order), Pewarigaan (Balinese calendar system),
Sesajen (offerings), Mantra (prayers), Geguritan (Song
of adorations), Pesantian (discussion forum), etc.
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- A digital Lontar library package which:
- Enable hassle-free public access to the collections
of Lontar in the form of digital image recorded in
CDs.
- Digital duplication, image-sharpening.
- Manual transliteration and translation.
- To gain access to sacred lontars kept in the palaces
and temples or public-owned lontars, and with the
permission of the owner, publishing the contents to
the community for the sake of cultural study and information.
- Avoid physical contact with the original recorded
lontars for the most optimum preservations.
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- Encourage active participation from entire community
by stimulating their awareness towards the supreme quality
of Balinese culture.
- To open the access to the endangered culture elements
through national and worldwide publications.
See details
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- Up to present, Babad Bali website had been put in to
operation since April 2000. The funding sourced from the
donation of the founder and participants of Yayasan Bali
Galang foundation.
- For the next stages, with the proven masterpiece in
the web, the foundation welcomes all donation from parties
aware towards the culture conservation of Bali.
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- The financial reports will be published transparently
in the web and updated quarterly, accessible worldwide.
- The progress will be significantly shown by the growing
traffic of the web activity, while the off-web-site activities
will also be reported and updated up to the minute.
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- Contact us at:
Address: Jalan Patih Nambi 6, Denpasar 80116, Bali,
Indonesia.
Phone : + 62 (361) 424291
Fax :
+ 62 (361) 416655
Bank account: BCA - KCP Maluku - Account No. 0490
289 666
E-mail: 
Donny
Harimurti
(Founder)
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