Mayor General Rachmad Budiyanto said there were two implicit meaning on this big day. It was added by animal sacrifice butchering. The two meaning were ritual piety and social piety. Mr. Rachmad said ritual piety was God command implementation while social piety was humanity dimension implementation. Kapolda Hadiatmoko and other officer also held prayer activities in different place. This event theme was “Through sacrifice spirit increase solidarity in successing Kamtibmas.” They had collected at least 7 cow and 34 goat.

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According to Yudha Triguna, this human resources program will be set in 2011-2013. It could be extended for 190 lecturer and Hindu researcher in Indonesia. Since a long time, bachelor degree of Hindu students sent to India for short education about Weda. “Now the lesson area widened into Europe, especially Holland,” said Yudha Triguna

KITLV team is welcoming whether researcher or bachelor degree students who wanted to research about religion and Hindu tradition in Indonesia. KITLV built on 1857 which had finest book collection and study material about Indonesia. Researchers will give access to read book, examining documents, archive, and old photos from early 20th centuries. Recently the sending program created by General Director of Dikti National Education Ministry. “We want to follow Dikti pattern in sending researcher abroad. Fine program have to follow,” said Prof. Yudha Triguna.

Eventhough they are cooperated with KITLV, lecturer and researcher could do their research in all of Holland libraries where they provide material about Hindu development, custom, and others. According to Prof. Yudha Triguna, this sending program had noble purposes. First, it aimed to increase bachelor students acknowledgement. Second, it was to motivate them in doing research for modern Hindu history development. “Hindu modern in 20th centuries was write by Holland bachelor students in their colonial period,” he said.

He said many Hindu bachelors were smart and critical. “If they had given chance to dig and research outside India, their acknowledgement would be boasted,” he said. Early next year, the selection process of lecturer and researcher will begin. Potential participant should make research proposal which sources gained from Holland and Leiden University. Their proposal will be selected for effectiveness and efficiency. “Those who passed this test would be given Holland language lesson and research methodology so participants would be ready to dig information and knowledge,” he said. When they came back, they hoped could write book or published their journal.

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Gde Agung in his speech said if Badung Hospital new status needs solidarity, communication, and transparency from their staff. BLUD status will give flexible space for its coordinator in developing its sources. It is also implicated towards better medical service. According to him, BLUD is Region Devices Work Unity (SKPD) or work unit of SKPD which formed to serve people both goods and service.

Meanwhile, Hospital Badung Director Agus Bintang Suryadhi said their fixing in medical service to the people will be increase. It is not only in their management but also in their service. He said if hospital human resource preparation as core of medical service will be increase. In the other side, hospital environment organized to support this vision and mission of Badung Hospital for people convenient. “Other innovations had to maximize including medical specialist practice in evening,” he said.

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This speech was open Forum of Public Relation Institution Officer Coordination in Bedugul Hotel, Baturiti, Tabanan yesterday. He said if transparent public information era had given space for people to deliver their critical thought in watching country’s development and government performance. According to him, people critical characteristic should be aware by Public Relation officer because it was a challenge in doing information service and public relation duty. Public Relation institution should always motivated by critical thought so the institution encouraged to increase their performance in providing complete information, accurate, and up to date.

In the other side, mass media development was walking so fast. Any kind of information serves to the people with its positive and negative influence. This development should be a challenge in serves information in the different format, but effective in delivering government performance. Governor told if government now applied paradigm of good governance and clean government in implementing principle of “Thrift in structure, rich in function.” This principle means functional officer is a spearhead of main duty and organization function including Public Relation institution. “Government performance imaging in people eyes depending on Public Relation institution performance,” said Governor.

Forum of Public Relation Institution Officer Coordination in Bali government followed by 53 Public Relation officer. This activity held until November 12 aimed to equate vision and mission of Bali Province Public Relation functionary, increasing human resource of public relation institution, and discussing problem of their duty. The Method of speech are discussion and field practice. Whole of participants followed speech from sources, discussion, field review, then wrote rilis to report data and field information. Sources are Public Relation Karo and Protocol, the Head of Publication and Documentation of Public Relation and Protocol, Bali Post editor and TVRI Bali editor, and Widya Iswara Badiklat Bali Province.

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But there are a few cooking lesson which also feed the soul. Participants are not only learning how to make a dish, but become immersed in an experience. They are brought to the fields where the food comes from and to the home where the cook lives so they can experience the culture from where the dish comes from. This is what you will get when you attend a cooking class organized by Paon Bali Cooking in Ubud, Bali.

Run by a couple of husband and wife Wayan Subawa and Puspa Wati, Paon Bali Cooking is numerously acclaimed in various travel forums. “Not to miss experience”, “Must do in Bali”, “The best way to learn Balinese cooking” are only a few phrase taken from TripAdvisor.com. Check out travel websites you like, and most probably you will find Paon Bali Cooking at the top board of things to do in Ubud.

In fact, TripAdvisor connected me from the Philippines and all other participants of my groups -  four from Australia, two from Canada, four from the United States – with Paon Bali Cooking. “We found this one with fantastic recommendations on TripAdvisor”, said Paul Michaelson, an American retiree who was accompanied by his wife, Janet.

It is quite interesting to learn how technology help traditional flourish by creating shared experience among diverse culture from the story of Wayan and Puspa. When she started last year, Puspa only had one student in her first class. An American friend of hers asked her of she could teach an American visitor about Balinese cuisine.

It was a start of one of the most acclaimed traditional cooking school in Bali. The website paon-bali.com then attracted even more culinary adventurers from various countries. America, Netherland, France, Singapore are just to name some of the origins of those enrolled for her half-day program.

“My father is the best cook in our village. People would invite him to cook of someone held significant ceremony. I learned to cook from him when I was five years old”, said Puspa. “We only cook authentic Balinese foods like lawar, urab, and pepes ikan”, she added. Cooking is her life. Before deciding to concentrate all of her time to her cooking school she commands a team of cooks in Balinese and Indonesian cuisine at a hotel in Ubud for 15 years.

Puspa and his husband take the cooking class beyond just a source of family income. “It is something we love to do. We are happy to meet people every day. We are proud to teach them our culture”, Wayan said. “And we are pleased to introduce them to our family”, he added.

Conducted in English, the course are centered in Balinese family culture. This feeling is taken by participants at the first time they meet somewhere at Ubud market. They are told that they would be in a different family for a day where everyone rodes together, walks together, cook together, and then enjoy the meal they cooked together on a table, just like a family.

During their shopping session at Ubud market Puspa would explain the ingredients and spices used in traditional Balinese cooking. After shopping participants are driven up to rice field and and family house at Lalapan village, about 15 minutes drive away from central Ubud. Wayan would explain how the crop is grown, how the paddies processed into rice grain, and its role in Balinese life during their visit to the rice field.

Then we all walked up to their home to cook. All dishes are prepared with organic ingredients grown in the family garden. All cooking preparation was done at the outdoor kitchen in combination of traditional method like grinding spices by stone and heating in Balinese wooden-fired stove.

Puspa and Wayan would answer every questions regardless if they are not related to the cooking. “The most essential thing in Balinese cooking is the sauce. If you are good in making the sauce then your food will be excellent”, Puspa said when asked about the secret of Balinese cooking.

Badung lifeguard unit (Balawista) said they have not been contacted by the movie crew to be helping with takes that will be done on the sea. “We haven’t received any special schedule for our guards who are usually assigned on the beach,” Balawista’s Secretary, Ketut Epel said to VIVAnews on Wednesday, October 21.

However, Epel said he has prepared his team whenever they are needed in the shooting. Everyday Padang-Padang Beach is watched by seven lifeguards and one Balawista station head who is on duty from 7am to 7pm. While the shooting takes place, all visitors and traders are not allowed to step into the beach.

Padang-Padang does have exotic views with its beautiful upholding high cliffs. The beach is usually not too crowded which allows the visitors to relax and enjoy the scenery. Some of the cliffs are also used for rock climbing trainings.

Written by Finalia Kodrati
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Two established photojournalists, Eddy Purnomo, of the country’s leading photo agency Jiwa Photo, and Lukman Siswo Bintoro, whose works have graced various international publications, were recruited as the workshop’s leaders. The workshop was divided into an outdoor session and a classroom session.

Lukman selected “Bali Sekarang” (Present-day Bali) as the major theme of the workshop. Each participant was expected to select subjects to narrate a visual story reflecting that theme. “Bali has always been associated with arts and beauty,” Lukman said. “It is no wonder that the visual portrayals of the island are dominated by beautiful scenes of people praying in majestic temples or Balinese girls in glittering costumes performing exotic dances.”

The theme, he added, will force the participants to look deeper and search wider for the different, yet equally valid, sides of the island. “This topic will stimulate them to capture and produce a unique story,” Lukman said.

The participants were told to take at least seven days to complete their visual narratives before entering the classroom session. One thing most them found was that seven days was not sufficient. “In typical Indonesian photojournalist fashion, they waited until the last moment before starting to think about what topic they would choose,” Lukman said, in apparent disbelief. Naturally, therefore, three days before the classroom session, all seven participants were in disarray.

“It was a truly depressing period,” said one of the participants I Made Nagi. “I am Balinese and have spent most of my professional life photographing every imaginable aspect of this island and its people. So when I was told to find something new, my brain simply went static.” Nagi, who works for the European Photo Agency (EPA), an agency with brightest young Bali photographers.

The Jakarta Post’s contributing photographer Zul Trio Anggono dwelled in that depressing place much longer than his colleagues. It was not until two days before the start of the classroom session that Zul reportedly took a drastic step to invoke his photographic muse. “Zul said that he would take a power nap and immediately he fell asleep right there on the floor of the AJI’s office,” said AJI member Ni Komang Erviani.

After a two-hour sleep, Zul regained consciousness, grabbed his camera bag and sped away on his battered motorbike. Apparently, the muse had visited him in his dream.

In the classroom session, the participants submitted their work for selection and review. It was a lively process as each photographer was required to defend the chosen topic and point of view. Assisted by the mentors and with input from the other participants, each photographer selected their best shots and used them to construct a visual narrative.

“It is a new experience for them,” Lukman said. “Their daily routine usually comprises taking several shots of a newsworthy event and selecting the best frame to be printed in their newspapers.” What made this different for them, he pointed out, what that they no longer had words written by a journalist to tell the story. “In this workshop, they were forced to construct a story solely using images,” he said. The results of the workshop were an array of visual stories both captivating and surprising.

Zul, of the power nap method, presented an exploration of the onslaught of tourism development. Although this is a regular theme in local news outlets, Zul’s works gave a visual testament to the theme. The pictures of plots of rice fields besieged by the towering Greco-Roman villas and wooden placards, advertising new Bali villas and land for sale, that dominate the island’s roads speak louder than written words about the island’s dying agricultural sector.

Another participant, Christo, brought the island’s punk subculture to the surface. In an island famed for its magnificent cultural heritage, this subculture, and any other subcultures influenced and inspired by the modern West, is often overlooked by the mainstream media. Christo’s works prove that the punk subculture not only exists in Bali but is gradually gaining ground among Balinese youths.

Miftah, a photographer for the local publication Radar Bali, explored the daily life of a mixed marriage couple, legendary surfer Piping and his Swiss-born wife Isabelle. Yet under the sharp eyes of Lukman, nothing was perfect. “Their works are still haunted by several basic flaws,” he said. “The participants agreed to revisit their topics to create more powerful images.”

The results of the workshop and the ongoing improvement process will be displayed in a photo exhibition in December.

Written by I Wayan Juniartha
Published by The Jakarta Post