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  • Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin  + (Professor Dr. Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin waProfessor Dr. Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin was born in Switzerland, namely in Riehen near Basel. There she spent her childhood and youth. Her father was a tradesman running an international import-export company and furthermore took part in the local politics. Hauser-Schäublin had an early encounter with the topic of gender when being confronted with the female role in society and the difficulties for women to study. In order to take different directions she moved to Zurich when being a young woman, did several internships and took language classes. She also lived in London for half a year. After her return she started an apprenticeship at the local newspaper in Basel to become a journalist. </br></br>In this period Hauser-Schäublin also undertook her first journey to India, an experience which had a huge impact on her. When returning to Basel she not only worked as a journalist and finished her high school graduation but in 1969 also began her studies. After a brief phase taking courses on Religious studies Hauser-Schäublin focussed on studying Anthropology and Sociology. Alfred Bühler and Meinhard Schuster were among her teachers. In 1971 Hauser-Schäublin studied in Munich for a semester and after her return also took up an assistant position at the Ethnographic Museum in Basel, combining her growing anthropological knowledge with her skills as a journalist. A year later she joined a research project founded by Meinhard Schuster, regionally focussing on the Sepik region in New Guinea. Hauser-Schäublin took part in the expeditions and collected data on gender aspects, a work that 1975 culminated in her graduation thesis.</br></br>After graduation Hauser-Schäublin fully took up her work at the Ethnographic Museum in Basel, organizing a various number of exhibitions while trying out new conceptions as well as working in the public relations. She moreover did further research projects, e.g. on house-building in Papa New Guinea. In 1985 she completed her habilitation thesis. She gave academic lectures at the University in Basel and also worked on the Ethnographic Collection in Fribourg.</br></br>After being a visiting professor at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology in Cologne, Hauser-Schäublin in 1991/92 became a full professor at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology in Göttingen, being the successor of Prof. Dr. em. Erhard Schlesier. There she not only gave various courses (e.g. on Gender and Religion) but also started to restructure the basic uni lectures. Furthermore the Institute joined the Department of Social Sciences. Her own scientific focus shifted from an early interest in Material Culture towards a closer look on theories and discourses. At the same time Hauser-Schäublin emphasized the importance of field research and did several of them herself, e.g. in Bali, Indonesia and Cambodia.elf, e.g. in Bali, Indonesia and Cambodia.)
  • Wayan Windia  + (Professor Wayan Windia is Head of the SubaProfessor Wayan Windia is Head of the Subak Research Centre at Universitas Udayana in Bali, Indonesia. He obtained his PhD in 2002 at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which his dissertation concerning subak system in Bali. He involved on preparations, in order to get UNESCO acknowledgement, for subak system in Bali, on 2012. His articles has been published widely in journals and books, such as : Subak Irrigation System Transformation Based on Tri Hita Karana Concept; Subak : The World Cultural Heritage; Subak : Study from Social Perspective; and Subak as Agrotourism. </br> </br>Over the last five years, he has been actively working on developing subak into agro-tourism sites, and introducing economical activities at subak organization. The goal of those activities is how to help increasing the revenue of farmers as subak members. Now he actively supervise the site of subak that has been recognized by UNESCO as world cultural heritage. And also introducing the values of subak to the students in Bali, and for other guests and foreigners who coming to Bali, especially to Udayana University. </br> </br>He is working also as an expert group coordinator at Gianyar Regency on Heritage City, as a member of expert group at Denpasar City on Subak Sustainability, and also as an expert team member at Bali Province, since this year (2018). He has been involved in some national NGO in order to sustain of Bali culture.l NGO in order to sustain of Bali culture.)
  • Putu Desy Apriliani  + (Putu Desy Apriliani is one of the young anPutu Desy Apriliani is one of the young and promising faculty members in the Faculty of Economics and Business Udayana University, Bali - Indonesia. She has been a part of the "Orange Academia," a call for the faculty's students, alumni, and faculty members, since 2006. Her research interests encompass rural economic development, various democratic and community-based associations, and their intersection with gender and race. She primarily teaches undergraduate classes while also becomes a facilitator for various trainings within and beyond the university.</br></br>Putu Desy Apriliani was a Fulbright Scholarship awardee from 2014-2019 to pursue a doctoral study in the U.S. She holds a Ph.D in Planning, Government, and Globalization from the School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia. While pursuing her doctoral degree, Putu was also actively involved in the Indonesian Students Association in the United States (PERMIAS) and led the organization to conduct several fund raising events and cultural exhibitions. She contributed her talents in various efforts in order to introduce Balinese culture together with other Indonesian/Balinese community organizations in the U.S.</br></br>In her spare time, Putu loves spending time with her husband and her 2-year-old daughter, cooking, and gardening.year-old daughter, cooking, and gardening.)
  • Putu Dyatmikawati  + (Putu Dyatmikawati is one of the few leadinPutu Dyatmikawati is one of the few leading researchers in the field of law who focuses her research on the issue of customary law and its influence on the lives of women in society. The topics that are often studied are the marriage system in the gelahang and the dynamics of the gender roles of Balinese women. Dyatmikawati is also active as a lecturer at Dwijendra University and has served as Chancellor of Dwijendra University.ved as Chancellor of Dwijendra University.)
  • Putu Eka Guna Yasa  + (Putu Eka Guna Yasa was born on January 6, Putu Eka Guna Yasa was born on January 6, 1990 in Banjar Selat Tengah, Susut, Bangli. Completed his undergraduate education at the Balinese Literature Study Program, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Udayana University in 2012 and a master's degree in the Linguistics Masters Program with Pure Linguistic Concentration, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Udayana University in 2017. He also attended the International Intensive Course in Old Javanese organized by the National Library in 2018 and 2019. Since 2013 he has worked as a staff at the Center for Lontar Studies at Udayana University. Actively writes articles in various media such as Bali Post, Post Bali, and Tribun Bali both in Balinese and Indonesian. A number of his articles were published in Prabhajnyana Book: The Study of Lontar Literature such as (1) The Meeting of Natural Beauty and the Beauty of Language in Kidung Dampati Lelangon; (2) Water Image in Ancient Javanese and Balinese Literary Library Temples; (3) Kidung Bhuwana Wisana: Aesthetic Heritage by Ida Padanda Ngurah; and (4) Sarira Devotees and Explorers. Gedong Kirtya published books about the world of Balinese literacy, including the Brata Term Dictionary in the Bali Lontar Library and the Synonym Dictionary in the Dasa Nama Lontar. Putu Eka Guna Yasa received an award as a Literacy Activist Youth from the Bali Language Center in 2018. Since that year, he has been appointed as a lecturer at the Balinese Literature Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Unud. Since 2020 as executive director at the BASAbali Wiki foundation. director at the BASAbali Wiki foundation.)
  • Putu Nomy Yasintha  + (Putu Nomy Yasintha was born in Denpasar, 3Putu Nomy Yasintha was born in Denpasar, 30 April 1987. She received her bachelor's degree in Public Administration at the University of Indonesia. She took her Master in Public Administration at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK. In 2015, She join the teaching team at Udayana University, Bali. She teaches several courses related to Public Policy, Tourism Development, Comparative Public Administration, and Accountability in the Public Sector. She manages youtube channel for the compilation of Public Administration's student at Udayana University. The channel is here AP Student Project Udayana. She actively involve in guiding student who is doing the research competition, debate competition, and also actively helps student activities.nd also actively helps student activities.)
  • Putu Oka Sukanta  + (Putu Oka Sukanta was born in Singaraja, BaPutu Oka Sukanta was born in Singaraja, Bali, 29 July 1939. He is a writer, writer, journalist and health and humanitarian activist. He started writing when he was in middle school. He was a high school teacher in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. Because he was involved in the Lekra organization, he was detained by the New Order government in 1966 - 1976 in Jakarta and Tangerang without ever being tried.</br></br>His published books include I Belog (Balinese Children's Stories, 1980), Selat Bali (a collection of poems, 1982), Salam or Greetings (a collection of Bilingual Poetry, 1986), Luh Galuh (A Collection of Short Stories, 1987), Tas or Die Tasche (Collection of Short Stories, 1987), Luh Galuh (Collection of Short Stories, 1988), Sweat Pearls (Collection of Short Stories, 1991), Matahari, Berlin Wall (Collection of Poems, 1992), Water Jokes, Air Berjoke (novel, 1999) , Knitting Harkat (novel, 1999), Glittering Mozaik (Novel, 2000), Above the Day Under the Night (Novel, 2004), Missing Hurts (Collection of Short Stories, 2004), Longing for Hurts (Collection of Short Stories, 2005), Pearl Sweat (Short Story Collection, 2006), Lobakan (Stories About the 1965/1966 Tragedy in Bali, 2009), Istana Jiwa (Novel, 2012). Some of his works have also been translated into English, German, French.</br></br>His works are also published in several international anthologies: Indonesian Contemporary Poetry (Indonesia 1963), This Prison Where I Live (London 1966), Voice of Cosciences (USA 1955), Bali Behind the Scene (Australia 1997), Silences Voices (Hawaii 2000 ), Menagerie IV (Indonesia 1998), Another Kind of Heaven (Boston 2008).</br></br>Apart from that, he made a documentary on the theme "Social Impact of the Human Tragedy of 1965/66". He also wrote health books and became an activist for the HIV/AIDS Prevention Program.</br></br>He lives in Jakarta, opening an acupuncture practice. Together with his wife he manages "Taman Sringanis", a cultural movement in the health sector. He was invited several times to countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and America as a writer and humanitarian activist.ica as a writer and humanitarian activist.)
  • Putu Sedana  + (Putu Sedana was born in Pengastulan, DecemPutu Sedana was born in Pengastulan, December 17, 1932. He completed his education at the Wirabhakti School of Social and Political Sciences, Denpasar. Has been a teaching staff at Panji Sakti University Singaraja. He wrote various kinds of poetry, prose, drama, and radio plays in Balinese or Indonesian. In addition, he also composed Balinese songs and Indonesian songs. His works have been published in newspapers and also broadcast on TVRI's central program, RRI (Yogyakarta, Semarang, Surabaya, Denpasar and Singaraja). His work that has been published and distributed is "Bali Suar Tanah Dumilah" in the form of a collection of Balinese poetry.</br></br>From his work, he received various awards and prizes, such as:</br>1. In 1945, he won second place at the second level in Buleleng, when a drawing contest for the children of the People's School (now elementary school) entitled "War".</br>2. In 1964, he won the third place in the Buleleng level II area, when the Singa Ambara Raja Statue Design competition was held.</br>3. In 1969, he won first place in the Bali level I area, a modern Balinese poetry writing competition organized by the Singaraja Branch I National Language Institute with the title "Mati Nguda".</br>4. In 1980, he won first place in the first level of Bali, a modern Balinese prose writing competition organized by the Singaraja Branch I National Language Institute, with the title "Mirah".</br>5. In 1980, he won first place in the first level of Bali, a competition to write a poem on the natural beauty of Batur Uang was organized by the Governor of Bali, with the title "Peace is Founded".</br>6. In 1984, he won first place at the first level of Bali, a songwriting competition for the Bali Sandya Gita Festival during the 1984 Bali Arts Festival which was held by the governor of Bali, with the title "Teja Guling".</br>7. In 1985 won first place in creating Balinese folk songs at the Bali Arts Festival with the title "Gumin Titiangé Bali".</br>8. In 1985 he received an award from the Governor of the First Level Region of Bali for creating a song with the title "Pulaki".</br>9. In 1990 won first place in a songwriting competition at the Bali Arts Festival with the title "Hyang Laksmi"</br>10. In 1997, he received the Wija Kusuma Art Award from the Department of Theater Arts from the Buleleng Regional Government.rts from the Buleleng Regional Government.)
  • Putu Sucita Yanthy  + (Putu Sucita Yanthy is a lecturer at the FaPutu Sucita Yanthy is a lecturer at the Faculty of Tourism. She completed her Doctorate Program in 2016 at Udayana University. Her dissertation is titled Kontribusi Perempuan Dalam Mengangkat Kuliner Lokal Untuk Mendukung Pariwisata Bali (Women’s Contribution in Promoting Local Food to Support Tourism in Bali). She actively conducts research and joins activities at Udayana University. Her research interests include women in tourism, gastronomy and culinary fields. She had an opportunity to take part in Mobility for Teaching Staff program at the University of Glasgow, Scotland in 2018. Since 2019-present she doing research postdoctoral program entitled Tourism Education and Women in Bali at University of Angers, France.n in Bali at University of Angers, France.)
  • I Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena  + (Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an artist-Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an artist-scholar currently holding positions as faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research interrogates discursive conceptions of “noise” in Bali and the United States as they intersect with Cosmology, Indigeneity, and Performance. He focuses on how people in places with long colonial histories reclaim Indigenous identity through popular idioms. As a music practitioner and composer, Hiranmayena continues to perform in improvisation/noise ensembles and creates contemporary works for Gamelan and Heavy Metal. He is co-founder of Balinese experimental project, ghOstMiSt and artistic director of Denver, Colorado’s non-profit organization, Gamelan Tunas Mekar.-profit organization, Gamelan Tunas Mekar.)
  • Richard Horstman  + (Richard Horstman, (b 1964 in Melbourne, AuRichard Horstman, (b 1964 in Melbourne, Australia) has more than 25 years of experience in</br>Indonesia, first visiting Bali in 1986. He spent extended periods in Sumatra and began living in</br>Bali in 2004. He has worked in the Bali and Indonesian art worlds since 2008 as an writer,</br>journalist, a co-creator with artists and an art tour presenter to national and international guests</br>from 2014. He has participated intercultural exchange events in Thailand, the Philippines and</br>Indonesia, while regularly attending events in Singapore, Jakarta and Yogyakarta.</br></br>Richard consults professionally and non-professionally to Indonesian and foreign artists,</br>collectives, galleries and art spaces. Richard is passionate about reporting on developments in</br>the Bali art infrastructure and innovations in the Bali art world. He previously made and</br>exhibited sculptures and installations and is currently painting in his spare time.</br></br>During 2022 Richard experienced growth in his writing genres penning his second social cultural</br>observation piece on Bali, entitled Duality and the Exploitation of the Spirit published in</br>NOW!Bali Magazine in the January/February 2023. He began writing book reviews published in</br>the Jakarta Post and NOW!Bali with his fourth review Masks of Bali: Between Heaven & Hell</br>published in the Post in February.</br></br>An article for the Australian quarterly hardcopy magazine ArtLink, a special edition on</br>Indonesian art was published in April 2023 and a review of the Bali art scene, post-pandemic</br>with international tourism open for Singapore magazine Plural Art Mag. He is currently writing</br>articles for NOWBali Magazine. Unfortunately since July 2023 the Jakarta Post is no longer</br>publishing its Features section, meaning no more specialized reporting on Indonesian art and</br>culture which is a massive blow for the country and the global audience.</br></br>In November 2022 Richard began initial steps for his next book, WINDS OF CHANGE: Women</br>in Balinese Art, the first study into the pioneering women in Balinese art, due to be published</br>later in 2023. This is the follow-up to his first book published late 2019 Ubud Diary: Celebrating</br>the Ubud School of Painting - the Diversity of the Visual Language launched at the opening of</br>Ubud Diary a new gallery in Lodtunduh, Ubud where he worked as a consultant from June 2019</br>until March 2020 when the pandemic impacted on the Bali and global economy.</br></br>In the past Richard has been a contributor to the Jakarta Globe newspaper, Ubud Now & Then</br>online magazine, the Yak Magazine, Art Republik, NOW! Singapore, NOW!Jakarta,</br>Art&Market, Singapore, the art columnist for UbudLife Magazine, Arti, Art Malaysia, Art One</br>Nation, Indo Expat & Ubud Community News magazines. He have been a regular contributor to</br>the Jakarta Post for over ten years and am the art columnist for NOW!Bali Magazine.</br>As an art activist Richard has a strong social platform and is passionate sharing ideas and</br>brainstorming with artists, gallerists, art spaces and collectives about professional structuring,</br>communications, vision, branding, building community and the ongoing development of the Bali</br>art infrastructure. Richard is currently working on a series of geometric paintings for his</br>upcoming Universal Eye Mandala Art website.</br></br>Richard’s articles are published:</br></br>www.lifeasartasia.art</br>www.lifeasartasia.weebly.com</br>Facebook Page: Bali Art Reviews</br>Instagram: @lifeasartasia</br></br>Previous art roles:</br>Member of the Board of Directors of the Bali Art Society 2013-2014</br>Art Presenter Artpreciation (2016-2018)</br>Advisor</br>Cata Odata Art House 2014 – 2018 Penestanan, Ubud Bali</br>Ubud Diary Jul 2019 – MARCH 2020, Ubud, BaliLodtunduh, Ubud, Bali</br></br>o Ubud Diary is a new art gallery in Ubud with the mission to raise the profile of the</br>historical Ubud School of Painting. It is planning its grand opening late in</br>November 2019 with a group exhibition of works by senior artists of the Ubud</br>School, including the launch of the book 'Ubud Diary: Celebrating the Ubud School</br>of Painting - the diversity of the visual language" written by me and translated into</br>Bahasa Indonesian by Richard Nixon Tambalo. Ubud Diary's annual exhibition</br>program will include three solo exhibitions by senior artists, along with one annual</br>event in Jakarta. The renown Ubud School of Painting which was 'founded' in the</br>late 1920s - early 1930s in Ubud is destined to die out, through its program of</br>exhibitions, book and catalogues, and other annual events Ubud Diary's vision is</br>to reignite the genre and encourage regeneration that can lead to its future</br>sustainability.e regeneration that can lead to its future sustainability.)
  • Rucina Ballinger  + (Rucina is one of Bali’s cultural icons. SRucina is one of Bali’s cultural icons. She has lived in Bali since 1974 when she did intensive study of dance and its relationship to religion. Her book, co authored with I Wayan Dibia, BALINESE DANCE, DRAMA AND MUSIC: AN INTRODUCTION TO BALINESE PERFORMING ARTS is used in classrooms around the world and by travellers coming to Bali who want to know more about the performing arts in context. She pioneered World Learning’s (ex Experiment in International Living) Bali Academic Semester Abroad program in 1985 and then switched to the other end of the spectrum and ran Elderhostel cultural programs for ten years with her late husband, Anak Agung Gede Putra Rangki.</br></br>She and Agung were the klian adat or traditional heads of their hamlet in Abianbase, Kapal for 2013; as far as we know she is the only foreigner to have held this position.</br></br>After the initial Bali bombings in 2002, the non profit sector became her world and she was the director of YKIP for over a decade, assisting survivors of the bomb with scholarships and livelihood programs. She then worked for the Annika Linden Foundation, helping to create the Annika Linden Centre in Denpasar, Bali, dedicated to one of the bomb victims in the spirit of helping those who are economically disadvantaged. Currently, she runs the CSR program of the Amicorp Group via the Amicorp Community Foundation in the village of Les, North Bali, where a Vocational Training Center is set to be built.</br></br>In 2003, she and three other foreign women of a certain age and size (all married to local men) formed Grup Gedebong Goyang, a comedy group that does song paradies and skits about current affairs in Bali. Their Balinese version of SAKITNYA TOH DISINI has over a million hits!</br></br>Currently she divides her time between Les village and Ubud, where she resides with her entire family (sons Gung Anom and Gung Prabu; daughter in laws Jero Bahari/Edenie and Gung Tia and grandson Gung Arun and granddaughter Gung Prabha) and three dogs.granddaughter Gung Prabha) and three dogs.)
  • Luh Gede Saraswati Putri  + (Saras Dewi, whose full name is Luh Gede SaSaras Dewi, whose full name is Luh Gede Saraswati Putri, was born in Denpasar, Bali, September 16, 1983. Since she was a teenager, Saras has loved singing and writing poetry. In 2002, she released an album titled "Chrysan" with the single "Lembayung Bali". This album was nominated for the Anugerah Musik Indonesia (AMI) Award in the categories of Best Ballad and Best Single. In 2014, Saras and other Balinese artists sang together for the Bali Reject Reclamation movement.</br></br>Saras has also published a number of books. His first book of poetry, entitled “Jiwa Putih” was published in 2004. The second is a non-fiction book on Human Rights published in 2006 by UI Press in collaboration with the European Union, while the third book entitled “Love Not Chocolate” was published in 2010, the fourth book was published in 2015 entitled “Ekophenomenology”, and the fifth book is an anthology of poetry entitled “Kekasih Teluk” (2017). His writings in the form of essays/articles with social, cultural, ecological, political themes were published in various mass media, including Media Indonesia, Jawa Pos, Bali Post.</br></br>Saras is an environmental activist who is very concerned about the Movement to Reject the Reclamation of Benoa Bay. She is also involved in the feminist movement and the defense of women's rights. Saras successfully completed her doctoral program at the University of Indonesia at the age of 29 in July 2013. Apart from continuing to write and being an activist, Saras teaches philosophy and is the Head of the Philosophy Study Program at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of Indonesia.ultural Sciences, University of Indonesia.)
  • Idanna Pucci  + (Since leaving her ancestral home in FlorenSince leaving her ancestral home in Florence, Italy, Idanna pursued her interest in diverse cultures through far-flung travels. First she worked in New York for her uncle, Emilio Pucci, when his designs ushered vibrant colors into fashion.</br>She later settled in Indonesia and began her studies of Balinese culture with particular emphasis on myth and the oral tradition. She became especially intrigued by the traditional court of justice in the ancient royal capital of Bali. Its ceiling paintings narrate a sacred epic hauntingly similar to Dante’s Divine Comedy. The quest gave birth to her first book, The Epic of Life: A Balinese Journey of the Soul (Van der Mark Editions, NY), a classic on Balinese culture.</br></br>Various writing assignments for the Hong-Kong based Asia Magazine enabled her to travel throughout the Indonesian Archipelago, South East Asia, Japan and across the Soviet Union on the last steam engine of the Trans-Siberian railway.</br></br>She returned to New York to pursue her degree in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. During this time, she obtained a grant from the Margaret Mead Institute of Intercultural Studies for a project entitled The Prince and the Pauper: Two Balinese Portraits.</br></br>Her focus then turned to the life of her American great-grandmother, Cora Slocomb, who shocked New York’s Gilded Age by launching the first nation-wide campaign against the death penalty in 1895 to save a young Italian immigrant from execution–the first woman sentenced to the electric chair. Her research gave birth to The Trials of Maria Barbella (Vintage, NY, 1996).</br></br>After she obtained the International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance in Geneva, she served in the UN Mission to East Timor as an electoral officer during the referendum for independence in 1999. Later, she collaborated with the Burma Project (Open Society Foundations) on a special mission to Myanmar.</br></br>In film, Idanna produced the Italian segment of the TV series Amazing Games (ABC/Kane Productions) for which she received the Ultimo Novecento award from the City of Pisa. She also co-produced Leonardo’s Legacy, a Discovery Channel special. She then produced and directed Eugenia of Patagonia, a documentary-feature on the pioneering life in Chile of her maternal aunt who served for thirty years as mayor of a vast municipality at the end of world, battling for the people and the environment</br></br>Her following work, Brazza in Congo: A Life and Legacy (Umbrage Editions, NY) is an illustrated biography of another ancestor, the explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, after whom the capital of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville, is named, and who is still remembered for his pioneering struggle on behalf of the rights of the people. On the same theme, she curated exhibitions at The National Arts Club in New York and La Casa Italiana of NYU.</br></br>Idanna conceived and narrated the documentary Black Africa White Marble, which recounts her battle against the ruler of Congo-Brazzaville. It won the Grand Prix at the Festival of Annecy 2012 (France), the Audience Award at the Cambridge Film Festival 2013 (UK), and Best Documentary at the Berlin Independent Film Festival 2014.</br></br>She was also responsible for the donation to the National Museum of Cameroon in Yaoundé and permanent installation of a sixty-foot masterpiece of contemporary art by the Poto Poto School of Painting in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. In 2015, she produced The Transformative Power of Art, an exhibition at the United Nations in New York.</br></br>With her husband, Terence Ward, she then produced Talk Radio Tehran, a documentary by Mahtab Mansour that follows high-spirited Iranian women as they fulfill their aspirations in spite of the gender-apartheid system that dominates daily life in Teheran.</br></br>In a collection of true stories between East and West, The World Odyssey of a Balinese Prince (Tuttle, 2020), she narrates the extraordinary life of a cultural visionary and medical doctor whose daring adventures transcend borders.</br></br>The Lady of Sing Sing: an American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and their Epic Battle for Justice in New York’s Gilded Age (Simon & Schuster, Tiller Press, 2020) is a new expanded edition of her earlier work, The Trials of Maria Barbella.</br></br>Idanna serves as an ambassador of Religions for Peace, the world’s largest interfaith organization. She speaks fluent Italian, English and French, and reasonable Bahasa Indonesia. She resides with her husband between Florence and New York.ith her husband between Florence and New York.)
  • Soemantri Widagdo  + (Soemantri has been an avid researcher in BSoemantri has been an avid researcher in Balinese visual art tradition since 1994. He gained his knowledge of the Balinese aesthetic through a six-year apprenticeship with the celebrated Balinese Master Ida Bagus Made (1915-1999). He is the co-author of several Balinese art books. He was the international liaison and chief foreign curator at the Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud (1995-2015).</br></br>Soemantri is the founder of the TiTian Bali Foundation (2016); a non-profit organization whose mission is to discover, nurture and develop Balinese artists. Presently, Soemantri serves as the founding chairman on the advisory board of TiTian. chairman on the advisory board of TiTian.)
  • Sri Jayantini (I Gusti Agung Sri Rwa Jayantini)  + (Sri Jayantini, whose full name is I Gusti Sri Jayantini, whose full name is I Gusti Agung Sri Rwa Jayantini. Born in Denpasar, January 15, 1977. He graduated from English Literature, Faculty of Letters, Udayana University. Her poetic journey started from junior high school by participating in the Sanggar Cipta Budaya in 1989. At that time, Jayantini had already published her poetry in the Bali Post. Now she is a lecturer in the English Literature Study Program at the Faculty of Foreign Languages (FBA) Mahasaraswati University (Unmas) Denpasar. Creative since junior high school, Jayantini combines the potential of writing in a career as an educator. In the midst of teaching obligations and often being a part-time translator, she is still quite active in the field of literature. “Flower Travel” is one of her poetry and prose books published in 2015, in addition to participating in anthologies with other poets. A number of academic works in the field of translation have also been published, including “The Art of Translating” (2016), “Practice Makes Perfect” (2015), “Scientific Translation; Techniques and Phenomena” (2018). Jayantini still provides time to enjoy the sensation of poetry as a break from producing academic works. as a break from producing academic works.)
  • Memargi Sareng-sareng, Prajaya Gunungan Leluu Nuju Bali Resik Riwekas  + (Stepping Together, Conquering the MountainStepping Together, Conquering the Mountains of Waste towards a Sustainable Clean Bali</br></br>Om Swastyastu</br></br>Thank you for the opportunity that has been given to me so that I can contribute to voicing aspirations at the Wikithon Oration.</br>Dear the jury and the BASAbali Wiki team, as well as all the happy readers</br></br>As we know, soon we will be faced with the 2024 elections. Elections are an important moment in our democracy. This is not only about choosing leaders, but also us giving them the mandate to overcome various problems facing society. Answering the topic raised in this oration is "What is the most urgent problem to be addressed by Bali's prospective leaders?".</br></br>First of all, we cannot ignore environmental problems, especially since Bali is known as Paradise Island because of its natural beauty. There is one thing that in my opinion really needs serious attention from potential Balinese leaders, namely the waste problem which will soon be over. Bali faces big challenges in waste management because the system is inefficient so it is unable to handle large volumes of waste. This situation was further exacerbated by fires that occurred at the Sarbagita Suwung Regional Landfill in Denpasar City, the Mandung Landfill in Tabanan Regency, and the Temesi Landfill in Gianyar Regency during the dry season, causing environmental damage and negative impacts on daily air quality. This problem is not only a local issue, but also an urgent reminder for us to take action because it impacts many aspects of people's lives. Therefore, the government's presence plays an important role in handling this case.</br></br>I am sure that so far the government has always tried its best, but Bali's leaders must then improve and re-examine the preparation of a strategy for handling potential waste that can be investigated from the roots to the end. It is important to note that the success of a waste management program is very dependent on existing infrastructure and technology. If waste management plants, landfills, or recycling facilities are inadequate, then the program may not produce the expected results. The success of the waste management program is also closely related to the level of community participation. If there is not enough awareness or support from the public in waste scanning, recycling, or waste reduction, the program may experience difficulties. Apart from that, policies that are inappropriate or unable to overcome the waste problem can become an obstacle. Sometimes, unsupportive policies or weak implementation can hinder program effectiveness. </br></br>Prospective Balinese leaders must have a clear vision about how to protect and preserve Bali's environment for future generations. Prospective leaders, Bali must have a concrete action plan that involves economic, social and environmental aspects. A thorough evaluation of the waste management program needs to be carried out to identify core problems and adjust the strategies implemented. Close collaboration with various parties is the key to creating holistic solutions. Senuma's active involvement, parties, including the government, private sector and the community, will ensure environmental sustainability in Bali for future generations. No less important, awareness of the importance of recycling and reducing waste needs to be instilled more deeply,</br></br>Thank you to Mrs/Mr. Candidate Leader, Bali for your attention and cooperation to make Bali clean from mountains of rubbish. Let us all work together to be agents of change for a clean Bali.</br></br>Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, Omclean Bali. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, Om)
  • Sugi Lanus  + (Sugi Lanus was born in Singaraja, Bali. HeSugi Lanus was born in Singaraja, Bali. He is the curator of the Lontar Museum, Karangasem, Bali. Since studying at the Department of Balinese Literature, Udayana University has been actively working part-time as a research assistant from Princeton University, UCLA, Murdoch University, Leiden University, Osaka University, etc. He has participated in dozens of international workshops and trainings, and attended post-graduate education in several disciplines: Cultural Studies, Tourism Studies, and Theology. He was selected as a participant in the ASEAN-Japan youth exchange (1997) through sponsorship from the Prime Minister of Japan.</br></br>He has experience as a consultant for various international institutions, such as: GTZ, AusAID, UNICEF, WHO, British Council. In the field of journalism, he worked as a correspondent for Tempo Magazine (1998-2000), fixer for ABC TV, BBC, Arte TV, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine. He is also active as a consultant and provides workshops for DPRD and local governments throughout Indonesia (2005-2012) and an independent political consultant for several national politicians (2012 - present).</br></br>In 2006 he founded the Hanacaraka Society to research Balinese and Lombok lontar. 'Puja Tri Sandhyā: Indian Mantras Recomposed and Standardized in Bali', is one of the results of his research on various lontar mantras published in the Journal of Hindu Studies, 2014, Vol. 7(2), Oxford Center for Hindu Studies, Oxford University Press. Actively invited to speak in various cultural meetings, including: Cultural Congress V (2003), Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (2004-2017), International Conference on Tagore, Hanoi, Vietnam (2011), Frankfurt Book Fair (2015), etc., and various Hindu clerical discussions. Previously served as Commissioner of a national company (2004-2006), and Corporate Relations Executive of an international company based in London (2014-2016).</br></br>He has written hundreds of articles in various online and print media, such as tatakala.co, Bali Post, etc. Currently conducting research on reliefs related to lontar manuscripts at Borobudur, and the Herbalian Project, a project for mapping herbs in Balinese and Old Javanese lontar.herbs in Balinese and Old Javanese lontar.)
  • Wayan Sujana Suklu  + (Sujana Suklu is known as a progressive thiSujana Suklu is known as a progressive thinker of contemporary art in Bali. With a pioneering vision that reflects a universal philosophy. Sujana Suklus’ contributions are vast in scope, encompassing multi-disciplinary fields within fine arts, academic and community platforms. Suklus’ academic research explores ways to bring art methodologies into communities cultivating and preserving local wisdom whilst expanding existing skill sets. The beauty of this research is that it has been applied and is actively growing in communities today.</br></br>He was born in Lepang, Klungkung, Bali, February 6, 1967. His works have been shown in a number of joint exhibitions at home and abroad, including: Beijing International Art Biennale. Bangladesh XI Biennale. His solo exhibitions include: "Panji, Between Body and Shadow" at the IMF International Art Event, Nusa Dua Bali (2018), "Intermingle Art Project, Light Pattern at Bentara Budaya Bali (2017), "Wings and Time" at Komaneka Fine Art Gallery (2016). The awards he has won are "The Winner of the Indofood Art Awards Competition on Abstract Category" (2003), "The Best 10 Indonesia Competition of the Philip Morris Art Awards (2003). Suklu has also been one of the curators of the exhibition “Bali Megarupa” (2019). of the exhibition “Bali Megarupa” (2019).)
  • Sylvine Pickel-Chevalier  + (Sylvine Pickel-Chevalier is a lecturer andSylvine Pickel-Chevalier is a lecturer and research director in geography (HDR) at the UFR ESTHUA Tourism and Culture at the University of Angers, ESO CNRS 6590 lab. She is specialized in socio-economic, cultural and environmental aspects of tourism, questioning the notion of sustainable development, in France and Indonesia. Also specializing in sports tourism and more particularly the equine sector. President of the scientific committee of the French Equestrian Culture Mission. About forty international publications.n. About forty international publications.)
  • Program KIP ring Kabupaten Bangli kari Salah Sasaran.  + (The Smart Indonesia Card (KIP) is also calThe Smart Indonesia Card (KIP) is also called the Smart Indonesia Program (PIP). This is the Jokowi government's first program which is part of the Healthy Indonesia Card (KIS) and the Prosperous Family Card (KKS). The Smart Indonesia program aims to increase access for school-age children from poor families to school. KIP is a card intended for poor and vulnerable families who want to send their children (aged 7-18 years) to school for free. KIP recipients are given regular cash funds from the government which are stored in the KIP card function to attend school for free, both those who have registered and those who have not yet registered in schools or madrasas so that the dropout rate can drop drastically.</br></br>So, the target of KIP is for students who excel and are less fortunate. But in fact its implementation is not in line with expectations, many cases occur regarding KIP being mistargeted. One of them occurred in Bangli Regency. A real example is in my own village, namely Banua Village. Those who are entitled to get KIP (Smart Indonesia Card) are children or students whose families are on the line or in the Poor Family Card (KK) group so that at first glance the KIP program is right on target, but if you look more deeply In fact, the KIP or PIP program still finds errors in its implementation. There are many students in my village whose families are not in the poor family, but in fact these students are underprivileged students. And because of the implementation of the poor KK, students who are not included in the poor KK, who are in fact less well off, cannot make KIP. Even though these students are students who excel and really need the KIP. An example of a student who experiences KIP inaccuracies is myself. I'm not in the poor KK line so I can't get the KIP, even though in fact I really need the card myself. Not to mention that the KIP cannot be made because I am not a poor family member, but in reality my family and I are not someone who can afford it. So, that was the inaccuracy of KIP in Bangli Regency, so what about the wrong target? I have also experienced this wrong KIP target. At that time, I was in junior high school, one of my friends from Trunyan Village had a KIP and received a scholarship even though he himself was someone who was capable and quite rich, had a nice house and had no economic difficulties. This is what makes me feel that KIP in Bangli is still not on target and its implementation tends to be inappropriate and even unfair. Then what solution should the government take? In my opinion, what the government must do to overcome the problem of inaccuracy and wrong targeting of the KIP is, first to do research on the students who receive the KIP, whether they are really underprivileged students? We can see this from the condition of their homes, their parents' jobs, their parents' income every month and so on, well if someone fulfills the things that make them get KIP as I explained above and they are a smart and outstanding student then in my opinion they are worthy of getting KIP. In short, the Bangli Regency Government must be more careful in recruiting students who are worthy of receiving the KIP.dents who are worthy of receiving the KIP.)
  • Harga sembako naik, tidak ada tanda-tanda akan turun lagi!  + (This year, the prices of basic necessitiesThis year, the prices of basic necessities are rising, and there are no signs of them returning to normal or decreasing from their usual prices. Is it due to many crop failures in the current season causing the prices to skyrocket? Or is it because fertilizer prices are rising?</br></br>If indeed there are crop failures and rising fertilizer prices, I would like the local government to take immediate action to address the increasing prices of basic necessities. This could include subsidizing fertilizers and encouraging farmers and the community to utilize small plots for farming using hydroponic methods.</br></br>The implementation of a hydroponic farming program by the local government would assist the entire community in Karangasem and beyond, possibly throughout Indonesia, in addressing the ongoing rise in basic necessities prices.</br></br>Hydroponic farming does not require significant costs or extensive land; it only requires consistency in creating the necessary tools. The tools needed don't have to be new; recycled items like unused but still functional pipes and buckets or old paint cans can be utilized.</br></br>Therefore, I hope the implementation of a program like this can address the rising prices of basic necessities. This program could also contribute to reducing poverty rates in Karangasem and its surrounding areas.s in Karangasem and its surrounding areas.)
  • Wayan Sumahardika  + (Wayan Sumahardika was born in Denpasar, MaWayan Sumahardika was born in Denpasar, May 11, 1992. He obtained a Masters degree at Undiksha Language Education Study Program, Singaraja. He became a director, scriptwriter and founder of Teater Kalangan. His manuscript won first place in the Indonesian Monologue Script Contest at the UIN Jakarta Festival, first place in the Traditional Drama Script Writing Competition for the Bali Provincial Culture Service 2018, and 1st Place in the Modern Drama Script Writing Competition for the Bali Provincial Culture Office 2017. Some of his performances were staged at the event. Indonesia V Theater pulpit, Bali Emerging Writers Festival, Bali Arts Festival, Bali Mandara Nawanatya, 100 Putu Wijaya Monologue Festival, Canasta Theater Parade, North Bali Young Theater Parade, Jembrana Hamlet Festival and Bali Language Month Festival in Bali Province. Writings in the form of poetry, short stories, essays, and theater reviews have been published in a number of media such as Indopos, Media Indonesia, Bali Post, Bali Tribune, Tribune Bali, Tatakala.co, Bale Bengong and have been compiled in several anthologies.have been compiled in several anthologies.)
  • Pemberantasan Korupsi Demi Kelancaran Program Nangun Sat Kerthi Loka Bali  + (Who doesn't know that Bali is one of the rWho doesn't know that Bali is one of the regions with the largest tourism revenue in Indonesia. Even in 2023 Bali began planning a development called Nangun Sat Kerthi Loka Bali which means as 6 main developments for the welfare and happiness of human life. Nangun sat kerthi loka bali itself has goals related to advancing Bali tourism, where there are 6 main sources, namely, atma kerthi, segara kerthi, danu kerthi, wana kerthi, jana kerthi, jagat kerthi which means for the welfare of human life in each part.</br>But development in Bali will not be able to run well if there are still many unscrupulous people who utilize development funds for personal gain or can be referred to as corruption. Examples such as the case of corruption of Paibon Wargi Temple development funds in Klungkung Regency and the case of corruption of SPI funds at the Udayana Campus. This is one of the factors inhibiting development in Bali. Even those who are supposed to investigate corruption cases turn a blind eye and are mute to all these incidents.</br>Therefore, it is hoped that the Bali Provincial Government can take these problems seriously. So that the Nangun Sat Kerthi Loka Bali program runs well without any cases of corruption in the development.ny cases of corruption in the development.)
  • Thomas Wright  + (Wright is a Ph.D candidate in AnthropologyWright is a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology from The University of Queensland, Australia. He held a bachelor of journalism majoring in Anthropology and International Relations from the same university. His research interests include Bali, Indonesia, ethnography, political ecology, water, tourism, pollution and knowledge., water, tourism, pollution and knowledge.)
  • Paul Michael Taylor  + (Curator, Research anthropologist and Program Director at Smithsonian Institution.)
  • Hildred Geertz  + ("Hildred was born in Queens, New York on F"Hildred was born in Queens, New York on February 12, 1927 and reared there and in Teaneck, New Jersey. A graduate of Antioch College, she received her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1956. Her first book, The Javanese Family (Free Press of Glencoe, Inc.), was published in 1961. After her initial fieldwork in Java, she taught at The University of Chicago from 1960 to 1970 before coming to Princeton University in 1970. At Princeton, Hildred taught courses on the history of anthropological theory, the anthropological study of life stories, the anthropology of art, and the ethnographer’s craft.</br></br>In 1972, Hildred became the first chairperson of the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University, and thus the first woman chair of a department at Princeton, a position in which she served for many years. She was named Professor Emeritus in 1998.</br></br>Hildred did extensive fieldwork in Morocco, and in Java and Bali, Indonesia and returned to Indonesia repeatedly during her career to conduct the research which helped fuel her extensive list of publications. She completed more than two years of fieldwork research in the village of Batuan on the island of Bali. Working in the same village that was studied in the 1930s by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, she focused on the interconnections between different Balinese art forms and how and why such forms have changed through time. She investigated the effects of economic development and tourism on Balinese artistic endeavor.</br></br>The first book from the research in Batuan, Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, was published in January 1995 (University of Hawaii Press). In 2004,The Life of a Balinese Temple: Artistry, Imagination, and History in a Peasant Village was also published by the University of Hawaii Press. Among her other works, Professor Geertz is co-author with her former husband Clifford Geertz of Kinship in Bali (University of Chicago Press, 1975), and co-author with Clifford Geertz and Lawrence Rosen of Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society (Cambridge University Press, 1979). Most recently, in 2017, at the age of 90, her book, Storytelling in Bali, was published by the Dutch publishing house Brill."shed by the Dutch publishing house Brill.")
  • Made Janur Yasa  + ("In the year and a half the pandemic has p"In the year and a half the pandemic has persisted, Bali’s almost decimated tourist economy has had had far-reaching financial and social effects on the resident population. It is, however, during times of difficulty when good souls shine bright. The silver lining of the pandemic has been witnessing the wholehearted efforts of individuals and organisations who have stepped up to support and help the, often newly, vulnerable communities, even when faced with their own difficulties.</br></br>From food donations to education programs, the list of goodwill initiatives on the island has been heartwarming to say the least; in reality many would have suffered gravely without such community efforts.</br></br>One creative initiative changed the dynamic. Made Janur Yasa is a restaurateur, a partner in the unique vegan restaurant Moksa in Ubud. In May 2020, as Bali was in the depths of the pandemic lull, Janur began a program called Plastic for Rice, a barter system that encouraged locals to trade in collected plastic for rice. In an interview with NOW! Bali when the program started, he says that he remembered how villagers used to barter in the early days, rice for sea salt, farm to sea. He said that this gave people spirit, making sure that people don’t get used to receiving without working.</br></br>Through this plastic for rice system, Janur provided a double solution: cleaning littered plastic in the environment; as well as providing much-needed sustenance to those in need, especially in rural areas.</br></br>The program started in Banjar Jangkahan and Banjar Penulisan, Batuaji Village, Tabanan, the regency where Janur comes from. It was set up as prototype, a system to be replicated in other villages… and it was.</br></br>Three months later, Plastic for Rice became Plastic Exchange. In that time, as reported in August 2020, the movement had spread to 44 banjars and 1,345 households.</br></br>But beyond that it had evolved beyond a simple ‘system’, and became a movement. It was adopted by other charitable organisations as a solution to provide food fairly in rural communities; it became a vehicle for environmental education, to teach the effects of plastic but also the value of waste. It has allowed people to feel empowered, useful, independent. It has seen new leaders being born.</br></br>Today, Plastic Exchange is found in over 200 villages across Bali, has collected 50.000+ kg of plastic and distributed 55.000+ kg of rice."astic and distributed 55.000+ kg of rice.")
  • Robert Lemelson  + ("Robert Lemelson is a cultural anthropolog"Robert Lemelson is a cultural anthropologist, ethnographie filmmaker and philanthropist. Lemelson received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California Los Angeles. Lemelson’s area of specialty is transcultural psychiatry; Southeast Asian Studies, particularly Indonesia; and psychological and medical anthropology. Lemelson currently is a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience UCLA, an adjunct professor of Anthropology at UCLA, and a visiting professor at USC. His scholarly work has appeared in numerous journals and books. Lemelson founded Elemental Productions in 2007, a documentary film company. He has directed and produced over a dozen ethnographic films related to culture, psychology and personal experience. He is also the founder and president of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, which supports research and training in the social and neurosciences."training in the social and neurosciences.")
  • Fitri Amalia Rhamadani  + (.Rhamadani completed her undergraduate studies in the Travel Industry study program, Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University. Currently, Rhamadani works as a marketer at a tourism services company in line with her previous experience.)
  • Roelof Goris  + (1898 – 1965 Curriculum vitae 1898 born in1898 – 1965</br></br>Curriculum vitae</br>1898 born in Krommenie (North-Holland) on June 9</br>1917 final examinations gymnasium (A and B)</br>1917-1918 military service</br>1918-1926 studied Indonesian languages (linguistic officer), Leiden University; Arabic (Snouck Hurgronje), Sanskrit, Javanese and Old Javanese (Vogel and Hazeu), Hindu-Javanese history (Krom), and general linguistics (C. C. Uhlenbeck); amongst his older fellow students were W. F. Stutterheim and P. V. van Stein Callenfels</br>1926 PhD under the supervision of N.J. Krom, Leiden University</br>1926 officer for the study of Indonesian languages at the Archaeological Service, charged with the checking of transliterations of Old Javanese inscriptions</br>1928-1939 adjunct archaeologist of the Archaeological Service in Bali</br>1939-1941 librarian to Mangkunegoro VII, Surakarta (Central Java)</br>1941-1945 service in the Royal Netherlands-Indies Army; civilian internee</br>1946 on leave in the Netherlands</br>1947-1958 linguistic officer of the Netherlands-Indies and later Indonesian Government, head of the Singaradja division of the Institute for Linguistic and Cultural Research of the University of Indonesia</br>1958 retirement</br>1959 librarian of the Faculty of Letters of Udayana University, Denpasar (South Bali)</br>1962 research-professor, teaching Balinese epigraphy and early history</br>1965 died in Denpasar on October 4</br>Special activities and positions</br>Scientific adviser of the Kirtya (Foundation) Liefrinck-van der Tuuk (set up in 1928), 1932-</br>Co-worker at the Bali Museum</br>Teacher at a secondary school and a training-college for teachers (S.M.A. and S.G.A.)</br>Teacher of German, 1951S.M.A. and S.G.A.) Teacher of German, 1951)
  • Titus Rosier  + (A hospitality expert with more than seventA hospitality expert with more than seventeen years of experience in the industry, Titus Rosier joined the vibrant award-winning W Bali – Seminyak resort in June 2021, leading its talented team as General Manager. Beginning his professional career in the Middle East, Titus has gained extensive experience working across various countries and properties for Marriott International. Departing from his last venture in the Middle East, Titus was ready for a new challenge and decided to move to Indonesia based on the love he has for this amazing country, choosing the magical island of Bali as his new home. A Dutch native, Titus has a passion for sustainability which he implements through developing significant initiatives and exceptional programs including the launch of zero-waste cocktails. This beverage program uses leftover fruit skin to create invigorating concoctions. Besides battling food waste, the team at W Bali is also actively focusing on reducing plastic usage to remove all single-use plastic from the property in 2023. </br>Additionally, W Bali has partnered with several Bali-based NGOs, such as S.O.S Kitchen, to donate fresh and edible leftovers from the buffet breakfast to be distributed to people in need including children's orphanages and impoverished areas in Bali. W Bali has also partnered with Sungai Watch and together with the Marriott Business Council Indonesia, they are working on a waste solution in Bali. The ambitious goal is to remove 100,000 kilos of waste per year from the Bali's rivers. of waste per year from the Bali's rivers.)
  • Symon  + (A stylistic heir to Walter Spies, Le MayeuA stylistic heir to Walter Spies, Le Mayeur and his mentor, the Indonesian-Dutch painter Arie Smit, Symon was among the last in the lineage of foreign artists who have helped raise Bali’s international profile as an exotic destination for art and design. Renowned for his vivid pop style with new iconic motifs, he was born on April 13, 1947, as Ronald Thomas Bierl in Detroit, Michigan, the United States, and made Bali his home in 1978. He was installed in the Puri Kaler of Ubud Palace by the Ubud royal family, who had for decades been patrons of foreign artists. Symon later took over Arie Smit’s cottage in nearby Campuhan, where his studio grew into local landmark. In 2014, he moved full-time to his other destination studio at Alas Sari in North Bali, Art Zoo, which he had founded in 1998.</br></br>Symon, who passed away on April 15, 2020 of natural causes from sepsis, was incredibly prolific and successful, creating many thousands of artworks in several countries.</br></br>His work was widely collected by tastemakers like former minister Joop Ave, especially during the 1990s and 2000s trend for Asian neotraditional style. Many collectors built submersive Symon environments, as at Qunci Villas in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. A book series on Southeast Asian interiors had to swap some paintings in many of its featured homes because too many of their architects and owners had put Symons on their walls.</br></br>Symon’s art is cherished for its vivid color, strong outlines and exuberant energy. His figurative paintings and sculpture project a friendly, fantastical appeal, combining the rawness of real-life models and scenes within compositions from mythology and lesser-known Bali history. His sense of line, hue and witty slogans draw from his origins as a cartoonist in the 1960s American counter-culture.</br>Raised in a house at the corner of Detroit’s Normal Road and Common Street, he was far from normal or common and yearned to escape convention. He was an exciting personality to be around, popping with fresh ideas. An outrageous showman, he would tell wild anecdotes and burst into rhyming raps. As a precocious teen under the pseudonym John Ka, he wrote to Beat Generation poets like Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs and William Carlos Williams, who sent him new poems to illustrate. He soon became an artist in underground zines like Fifth Estate and got to know New York legends like Frank Zappa and Andy Warhol.</br>Until making Bali his permanent home, he kept trying new locations. As a youth, he twice ran away to Rome, where he studied under the sculptor Emilio Greco and got the attention of film director Federico Fellini, who dubbed him “the magician of the air”. On the overland route from Amsterdam to India, a road accident in Turkey broke his hip. While recovering he renamed himself Simon White. He finally made it to India and then went north to Nepal.</br></br>Over eight years in Kathmandu, Simon helped preserve the traditional art of Tibetan woodblock printing. With three partners he opened Himalayan antique shops in London, Amsterdam and New York. Like many “Easties”, he became expert in Asian traditional knowledge, which later infused his artworks. In the mid-1970s, Simon spent periods in the New York art scene, Colombia and Wales, England. In each new location, his studios echoed Warhol’s Factory in being a networking hub and a venue for arty “happenings”. He formed several creative teams, from the Psychic League in Rome and Fantabulous Group in Nepal to the Levitation League in Legian, Bali. In his Ubud garden, he staged theatrical productions at the amphitheater designed by the futuristic architect R. Buckminster Fuller. In each location, he trained up teams of local artisans. In Nepal he hired Tibetan refugees to carve new and replacement woodblocks to the old ones he printed from. He brought screen printing to Bali in the 1980s and then to Cambodia in Minefield Studios at Siem Reap in the early 1990s. His most famous breakthrough was JakPak, a range of convertible clothing co-created with Annie Anderson and Kiyoshi Okuda, in which pop-hued jackets and hats could turn into bags through hidden pockets. JakPak became Bali’s first clothing export and an international phenomenon collected by the likes of Mick Jagger.</br></br>Symon kept ahead of the curve, since his aim in life was constant reinvention under a motto “towards a functional reality”. Many of his creations were practical as well as fun, from JakPak to his Toyniture — quirky furnishings like his Lady Chairs and giant dining table. He conjured outlandish architecture, like his key-hole windowed pagoda at Art Zoo, which he filled with sculptures and oddities. The maximalist effect of all these “studio atmospherics” beguiled visitors and in turn became props for his paintings. The Art Zoo remains visually stunning. Symon’s heir and Art Zoo’s Balinese manager aim to reopen it as a destination where locals and tourists can continue to appreciate Symon’s distinctive art of Bali.ppreciate Symon’s distinctive art of Bali.)
  • Adrian Vickers  + (Adrian Vickers is an Australian author, hiAdrian Vickers is an Australian author, historian and professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. He has studied and documented Gambuh dance traditions, Panji (prince) stories, and other Indonesian art and cultural subjects as well as historiography and colonialism. He has a BA and PhD from the University of Sydney, is the Professor of Southeast Asian Studies (Personal Chair) and Director of the Asian Studies Program. Vickers' most recent book, The Pearl Frontier, co-written with Julia Martínez, won the University of Southern Queensland History Book Award at the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards.rd at the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards.)
  • James Danandjaja  + (April 13, 1934 - October 21, 2013. James April 13, 1934 - October 21, 2013.</br></br>James Danandjaja obtained a bachelor's degree in Anthropology in 1963 from the Faculty of Letters, University of Indonesia. He also obtained a doctorate in Psychological Anthropology from the University of Indonesia in 1977. For the writing of his scientific work he conducted research for approximately a year in the Trunyan area of Bali, and produced the book Culture of the Trunyan Village Farmers in Bali, which was published in 1980. James Danandjaja who whose real name is James Tan, with the nickname Jimmy, was appointed Professor of the University of Indonesia in 1983.</br></br>He was the first Indonesian folklorist, starting to pursue the science since he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969. His mentor at that time was Alan Dundes, a prominent folklorist from the United States. With a paper entitled An Annotated Bibliography of Javanese Folklore, which was later made into a book, he obtained a master's degree in folklore from the university in 1971.</br></br>Upon his return to Indonesia, in 1972, he taught the science at the Department of Anthropology, FISIP, University of Indonesia. According to him, folklore which is part of culture in the form of folk language, traditional expressions, puzzles, legends, fairy tales, jokes, folk songs, fine arts, etc., is closely related to the culture of a society. For this reason, he assigned his students to collect various folklores in the country. These writing materials were later made into a book with the title Indonesian Folklore (1984). In addition, he also wrote several other books related to folklore, such as Guidance on How to Collect Folklore for Archiving (1972), and Some Problems with Folklore (1980).), and Some Problems with Folklore (1980).)
  • Arif Bagus Prasetyo  + (Arif Bagus Prasetyo was born on September Arif Bagus Prasetyo was born on September 30, 1971, has lived in Denpasar since 1997. He is known as a poet, literary critic, fine arts curator, and book translator. Alumnus of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA. Received a number of awards in the field of writing, including: the Jakarta Arts Council Literary Criticism Prize, the Jakarta Arts Council Fine Arts Criticism Prize, and the Bali Provincial Government Widya Pataka Award. His books: Witness Words: 18 Literary Essays (soon to be published), Memento: Poems (2015), Memento: Poetry Books (2009), Epiphenomenon: Study of Selected Literature (2005), Stephan Spicher: Eternal Line on Paper (2005), Beyond the Forms : A Face of Modern Indonesian Painting (2001), Mangu Putra: Nature, Culture, Tension (2000), and Mahasukka: Book of Poetry (2000).00), and Mahasukka: Book of Poetry (2000).)
  • Strategi Membangkitkan Perekonomian Di Bali  + (As for the aspirations that I want to pourAs for the aspirations that I want to pour out to revive the economy in Bali, the points are as follows:</br></br>There is control of the epidemic itself. The main thing that must be done is to reduce cases of transmission of the Covid-19 virus in Bali through the acceleration of the Covid-19 vaccination program. We can make this the main fortress in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak in Bali. </br></br>Then the next step is to tighten the procedures (3M) on the island of the gods by involving all elements of society and foreign tourists who will vacation in Bali to participate together in complying with the program. This is done to restore the world's trust in the island of Bali through the discipline of health care, and the addition of health facilities so that they are adequate and suitable for use, such as the construction of self-quarantine rooms, providing Thermal Detectors or rapid tests and ensuring the safety and comfort of tourism, because good Health Tourism actually can increase the interest of tourists to vacation in Bali. Not only in terms of progress: the island of Bali must also optimize all existing fields to participate in supporting the economy, so that this strategy does not only come from the tourism sector but through optimizing all existing sectors, such as the Agriculture Plantation Sector, the Village-Based Digital Empowerment Sector. Customs, Endek and Songket SME Centers, Creative Economy SMEs and others. Through the cooperation of all economic actors, we can slowly revive the economy in Bali. </br></br>The next step is through the development of the Essential Business Travel Corridor (TCA), the collaboration carried out with several countries for the purposes of Essential Business, Diplomatic and Service which has been initiated by the government. </br></br>Of all the points above, one point that is no less important is to build a positive image to foreign countries towards tourism in Bali, so that tourists are more interested in vacationing in Bali. This can be done by improving the hospitality sector (through HR training), improve facilities, make tourist attractions more attractive, cheaper rates and others to improve the tourism sector in Bali to make it more attractive to tourists. As we know, the island of Bali is a tourist island that has a variety of interesting tourist attractions, along with culinary and and cultural traditions adding positive points to the tourism sector in Bali.tive points to the tourism sector in Bali.)
  • Helen Creese  + (Associate Professor Helen Creese's researcAssociate Professor Helen Creese's research interests include Balinese textual and literary traditions, Balinese history and historiography and gender. Her research spans historical and contemporary periods. It draws extensively on indigenous textual traditions written in Indonesian, Balinese, Old Javanese as well as colonial sources in Dutch and French. Her publications include translations of both classical and modern texts.</br></br>She is the author of Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois (2016); Women of the Kakawin World: Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali (2004); Guide and Index to the Hooykaas-Ketut Sangka Balinese Manuscript Collection in the Australian National University Library (2004); and Parthayana: The Journeying of Partha. An Eighteenth-Century Balinese Kakawin (1998). She has co-edited 'The Stigmatisation of Widows and Divorcees (janda) in Indonesian Society,' Special Issue of Indonesia and the Malay World (with Lyn Parker, 2016); From Langka Eastwards: The Ramayana in the Literature and Visual Arts of Indonesia (with Andrea Acri and Arlo Griffiths, 2011); 'Gender, Text, Performance and Agency in Asian Cultural Contexts,' Special Issue of Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (with Rosie Roberts, 2008); Seabad Puputan Bali: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali (with Henk Schulte Nordholt and Darma Putra 2006); and 'Old Javanese Texts and Culture,' Special Issue of Bijdragen tot de Taal , Land- en Volkenkunde (with Willem Van der Molen, 2001).</br></br>Her current research projects include an investigation into textual traditions, identity and cultural production in contemporary Bali, a literary history of Bali, and a number of projects on precolonial Balinese history.</br></br>She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia in 2007. She serves on an number of editorial advisory boards including the Southeast Asian Publications Series of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Asian Studies Review, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific and Indonesia and the Malay World.Pacific and Indonesia and the Malay World.)
  • Kirangnyane Efektivitas Program Bus Trans Metro Dewata antuk Ngentasin Pikobet Macet ring Bali  + (Based on an article from the Denpasar CityBased on an article from the Denpasar City Government website, the Trans Metro Dewata Bus is a mass transportation which is one of the Bali Provincial Government's efforts to improve public services in the land transportation sector in urban areas, especially Denpasar City and covers several areas outside Denpasar City. The aim of the Bali Provincial Government in creating this program is none other than to reduce traffic jams and individual vehicle pollution. Trans Metro Dewata buses have now spread to various areas in Bali Province. However, its implementation over time is not in accordance with what the government hoped or planned. Most Trans Metro Dewata buses are currently empty without carrying passengers. Most people are reluctant to use public transportation because the stopping points are limited and far away, so it requires more effort to reach them. This also causes the majority of residents to prefer to use online motorcycle taxi applications rather than public transportation. The lack of public awareness of the existence of public transportation also causes a lack of passengers. Payment methods that can only be cashless can be a problem, especially for people who don't have or haven't made electronic money. According to interviews with 15 sources that the author conducted regarding the effectiveness of the Trans Metro Dewata Bus program, 9 out of 15 sources were of the opinion that the implementation of the Trans Metro Dewata Bus program was still not effective, which according to the experience of the sources was caused by several bus drivers who were a little impatient when driving their buses. so that when a motorbike passes in front of the Trans Metro Dewata Bus, the bus driver will honk at the motorbike rider. Then there were also sources who said that the terminal was far away, and there were also those who regretted the fact that the existing Trans Metro Dewata buses were currently empty and did not carry passengers due to a lack of public awareness regarding the use of this public transportation. On the other hand, 6 out of 15 interviewees believed that this program was effective because it could reduce traffic jams, pollution and save petrol costs. However, in reality there are still more sources who say that this program is not effective than those who say that this program is effective. Therefore, the government must pay more attention to this matter, because if it is not handled further it will have an impact on the Trans Metro Dewata Bus program which has been implemented by the government. Several sources also expressed their hope that this problem would be resolved and better in the future, that the government should be able to increase the effectiveness of this program with better solutions so that people would be interested and have the desire to use the Trans Metro Dewata Bus. desire to use the Trans Metro Dewata Bus.)
  • Ida Bagus Made Djatasoera  + (Batuaninteractive.com: "Djatasoera's fatheBatuaninteractive.com:</br>"Djatasoera's father died when he was twelve, leaving him no land. He did not go to school and worked as a migrant laborer on coffee plantations, as well as dancing the gambuh and playing in the tourist orchestra. He studiedpainting with Ngendon, Togog, and Djata for a number of years. Djatasoera was Mead and Bateson's favorite artist. Bateson published one of his pictures in an</br>article on "Style, Grace, and Information on Primitive Art," under the name of Djatisoera. Mead and Bateson filmed him at work and</br>collected nearly all the pictures he made during their research period. Nineteen of his pictures are in the collection.</br>After World War II, Djatasoera went into nationalist guerrilla combat against the Dutch government with Ngendon. He was captured, beaten severely, and died in prison in 1948."ten severely, and died in prison in 1948.")
  • Belinda Lewis  + (Belinda holds a PhD and Honours degree in Belinda holds a PhD and Honours degree in Health Promotion from Deakin University and a Bachelor of Science and Postgraduate Diploma in Education from Melbourne University, Australia. She has worked as a researcher, practitioner and health promotion consultant with a wide range of government, NGO, professional and community organisations. These include community health services, local governments, health advocacy groups, environmental protection activists, Royal Women's Hospital, VICFIT, Heart Foundation, Diabetes Australia, Cancer Council and the Victorian Government Department of Human Services. She is a member of the Australian Health Promotion Association and the Public Health Association of Australia. Belinda has also worked in a range of international settings on key global health issues. She collaborates with researchers in Indonesia (Bali, Java, West Timor), Sri Lanka, Turkey and Canada to research: health promotion and health communication; communication for social change; cultural politics of health; community recovery after crisis, disasters & conflict; community capacity building; disability, diversity and discrimination; maternal and child health; sexual and reproductive health; HIV/AIDS; drugs, prisons and rehabilitation; abolition of the death penalty; peace-building and violence prevention.</br></br>Her work is published widely in Australia and internationally. She is an active participant in media interviews, features, public speaking and community workshops covering aspects of her research. Belinda has authored 3 books. The most recent, in 2015, is co-authored with Jeff Lewis (Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, RMIT University)f Media and Cultural Studies, RMIT University))
  • I Dewa Putu Berata  + (Born and raised in the village of PengosekBorn and raised in the village of Pengosekan, son of a great drummer, Berata was immersed in Balinese performing arts from birth. His creative talents, teaching capabilities and leadership qualities make him a noted figure in the Balinese music world. He is renowned for his compositional skills in both traditional and innovative styles and a rare ability to communicate a diverse knowledge of Balinese arts to both Balinese and international artists. He is the founder and director of Çudamani, and has lead Çudamani, on tours to venues including a nine-city tour with Arts Midwest 2012-13, Jazz at Lincoln Center (NY), the World Festival of Sacred Music-(LA), the Cultural Olympiad (Greece), EXPO (Japan) and the Tong Tong Festival (Holland) among others. As a result of Berata’s vision and commitment, Çudamani, has become an important artistic center in Bali, endeavoring to study and preserve rare classic forms of Balinese arts and also provide a space that nurtures the creative energies of young artists in Bali. Frequently he serves a the Music Director for the USA Bay Area based Gamelan Sekar Jaya. He is a graduate of STSI, Denpasar (Bali’s National Academy of the Arts).sar (Bali’s National Academy of the Arts).)
  • Ni Wayan Idayati  + (Born in Denpasar, April 14, 1990, Ni WayanBorn in Denpasar, April 14, 1990, Ni Wayan Idayati writes poetry, essays and journalistic news. Her poetry has been published in the People's Mind, Bali Post, Lombok Post, Bali Sruti Journal, Le Banian Journal (Published in France). Her essays were published in Tempo, the Bali Tribune, Esensi & Nuansa Magazine (published by the Language Agency) and the Bali Tribune. Together with the Denpasar Sahaja Community, they are active in arts, culture, and literary discussions, as well as fostering creative communities and now they are part of the program at Bentara Budaya Bali (the cultural space of Kompas Gramedia).</br></br>In 2018, her poems passed the curation number for poetry anthologies and poet gatherings, including: Poet Gathering “From the Land of Poci 8: Negeri Bahari” in Tegal, Central Java; the anthology “Smile of the Valley of Ijen” and the National Literature Camp in Banyuwangi; Southeast Asian Poets Meeting 2018 in Padang Panjang; National Poets Meeting in Pematangsiantar; a poetry anthology with “Women Seeing the World” by the Sangkar Buku Community in Mojokerto and a poetry anthology with “Perempuan Bahari” (soon to be published).</br></br>She was invited to the VI Nusantara Poets Meeting (PPN) in Jambi (2012) and the 2015 Bali Emerging Writers Festival (BEWF), an annual literary festival that is part of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) program. Entered in 175 Poets Selected Poetry Anthology From Negei Poci 6: Land of the Sea (2015), 39 Poets Chosen Poetry Writing Contest “Under the Black Umbrella” Indonesian Art Project Mourning (2015), 50 Poetry Chosen Poetry Competition for Andalas Coffee Community National (2013), the Top 5 of the Best Poetry Contest in the Archipelago (SCKS), and the Top 6 of the Best Poetry RBSCKS (2012) which were held at the Udayana Faculty of Letters (2012).</br></br>Her poems are also collected in the Book of Joint Poetry Anthology “Dendang Denpasar, Nyiur Sanur” (2012), Poetry Anthology of the VI Nusantara Poets Meeting “Sauk Seloko” (2012), Joint Poetry Anthology of Andalas Coffee Community Poetry Competition (2013), Poetry Anthology From the Land of Poci 6: The Land of the Sea (2015), The Anthology Book “From Fear to Be Strong” The Indonesian Art of Mourning Community Berkabung (2015), The Anthology of Poetry Books “Klungkung” (2016), The 2016 Indonesian Poetry Day Anthology Book 'Matahari Cinta Samudera Kata' , Anthology of Spiritual and Social Poems "Cavalry Night", published by Abdurrahman Wahid Center UI (2017).blished by Abdurrahman Wahid Center UI (2017).)
  • A.A. Ngurah Anom Kumbara  + (Born in Klungkung 14 February 1957, he comBorn in Klungkung 14 February 1957, he completed his Bachelor of Anthropology in 1982 at Udayana University, completed his Masters degree at Indonesia University in 1990, and doctoral degree at Gadjah Mada University in 2008. Becoming a lecturer at Faculty of Cultural Knowledge Udayana University since 1983 until now. He was on charge as the head of the anthropology department in 1997-2000, as the head of Hindu Indonesia University's S3 program of Religion and Culture in 2008-2011, as a secretary of the field of service in Institute for Research and Community Service Udayana University in 2011-2015, as the head of doctoral program (S3) Cultural Studies, Faculty of Cultural Knowledge, Udayana University from 2018 until 2022. He actively participates in seminars and writes accredited national and international journals, and has written several books.l journals, and has written several books.)
  • I Ketut Budiana  + (Born into a family of master artisans in tBorn into a family of master artisans in the village of Padang Tegal, Ubud in 1950 Budiana is highly skilled as a sculptor and architect, and specializes in making scared temple images, ceremonial masks and sarcophagus for ritual cremations. A former art teacher, he studied art at SSRI, the Indonesian School of Art in Denpasar and briefly with renowned Dutch painter and architect Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978).</br></br>Budiana began painting in the early 70’s and exhibiting from 1974 and has shown his work in many foreign countries while he has won a string of local and international awards. He has been active as a curator at Ubud’s Museum Puri Lukisan from 1986 – 1990 while serving in 1990 as a curator at ARMA museum, and has contributed numerous articles and essays to various publications. Budiana has regularly exhibited at Bentara Budaya Bali while also exhibiting at Bentara Budaya Jakarta and Yogyakarta. at Bentara Budaya Jakarta and Yogyakarta.)
  • I Dewa Ketut Alit  + (Born to a family of artists in Pengosekan Born to a family of artists in Pengosekan village in Bali, Dewa Ketut Alit was immersed in Balinese gamelan from early childhood. His father Dewa Nyoman Sura and his oldest brother Dewa Putu Berata were the most influential teachers in his life. He began performing at age 11, and by age 13 was playing ugal (the leading instrument) in his village’s adult group, Tunas Mekar Pengosekan. 1988-1995 he played in the internationally acclaimed Gamelan Semara Ratih of Ubud village, touring internationally.</br></br>In 1997, a year before graduating from Academy of Indonesian Performing Arts in Denpasar (STSI Denpasar), Dewa Alit and his brothers founded Çudamani which immediately acknowledged as one of the best gamelan groups and went on their own international tours. </br></br>Seeking a wider path for expressing his approach to new music in gamalen, Dewa Alit founded his own gamelan group in 2007, Gamelan Salukat, performing on a new set of instruments of Alit’s own tuning and design.</br></br>As a composer, Dewa Alit is generally acknowledged as the leading figure of his generation in Bali. His “Geregel” (2000) was influential both in Bali and abroad, and was the subject of a 50 page analysis in the “Perspectives on New Music”. One of his compositions written for a Boston-base gamelan group Galak Tika, “Semara Wisaya” was performed at New York Carnegie in 2004 and another composition “Pelog Slendro” appeared at Bang on a Can Marathon in June 2006.</br></br>The list of his compositions for non-gamelan ensembles includes music for MIT's Gamelan Electrika, Talujon Percussion (USA) and Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt, Germany). </br></br>As a collaborator, Dewa Alit has worked with musicians and dancers from around the world. These include a contemporary theater production Theatre Annees Folles (director: Alicia Arata Kitamura, Tokyo), a butoh dancer Ko Murobushi, contemporary dancers Min Tanaka and Kaiji Moriyama, and Noh master Reijiro Tsumura. Moriyama, and Noh master Reijiro Tsumura.)
  • Brett Hough  + (Brett Hough lectures in the Anthropology PBrett Hough lectures in the Anthropology Program (School of Political & Social Inquiry) and the Indonesian Studies Program (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics) at Monash University. He has been involved in Indonesian Studies since 1980 and undertaking research in Bali since 1989. His doctoral study was on the institutionalisation and bureaucratisation of Balinese performing arts. He is currently working on a project investigating conflict and conflict resolution in contemporary Bali. and conflict resolution in contemporary Bali.)
  • Catur Yudha Hariani  + (Catur Yudha Hariani was born on September Catur Yudha Hariani was born on September 14 in Trawas, Mojokerto, East Java. After graduating from High School (SMA) in 1990, she became an environmental activist and joined the Seloliman Center for Environmental Education (PPLH) in Trawas. In 1997, PPLH Bali established a branch in Sanur where Catur worked on a casual basis. Then in 2002, she was appointed Director. Catur handles a number of environment-related programs. Among these are waste management, education and community facilitation for dealing with the self-management of waste, and waste management workshops for students. Catur is very much devoted to her life as an environmental activist. She is also known as one of the activists in the movement rejecting the reclamation of Benoa Bay.nt rejecting the reclamation of Benoa Bay.)
  • I Made Gunarta  + (Co-Founder of The Yoga Barn, Director of CCo-Founder of The Yoga Barn, Director of Community Relations & Co-Founder of The BaliSpirit Festival</br></br>Pak Dek, has been a fundamental component of The Yoga Barn’s vision to connect with the Community. Dek is an accomplished architect and is the vision behind the aesthetic Balinese style of The Yoga Barn, which is all created with reclaimed wood and hand-crafted elements.</br></br>Dek comes from a long lineage of socially minded Balinese; his great-grandfather, the Head of The Sacred Monkey Forest restoration project in the early ‘70’s, and his mother, a school principal for over 30 years, are just two of his role models.</br></br>In 2010 Dek took revitalization of the Monkey Forest into his own hands and launched a reforestation project planting hundreds of trees and creating a safer and leafier home for the indigenous and sacred macaque monkeys. Along with his wife, Meg, Dek is also the co-founder of Yayasan Kryasta Guna, a not-for-profit environmental, arts and cultural organization with a mission to inspire local youths in Ubud to invest in their environment and community while learning about their Balinese traditions.</br></br>In 2016 Dek started an organic farming initiative 45mins north of Ubud and spends much of his time working on the land.d spends much of his time working on the land.)
  • I Gusti Dibal Ranuh  + (Creative director and activist Dibal RanuhCreative director and activist Dibal Ranuh is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work consistently and powerfully champions the voice of Nusantara. In its purest form his art reflects a creative idealism that heralds the transformative power of the arts.</br></br>Gusti Dibal Ranuh from Singaraja Bali, graduated from Trisakti Jakarta graphic design. Founder of the Matahati Kitapoleng Foundation in the field of creative space for contemporary art creation who is concerned with developing talents with disabilities in the arts, especially those who are deaf and disabled. As Artistic Director and Film Director, Dibal creates performance artworks and films that refer to the cultural roots of the archipelago’s traditions. In 2018, Dibal launched the book The Journey of Dang Hyang Nirartha at the Borobudur Writers & Cultural Festival.</br></br>In 2020, Dibal Ranuh was awarded Best Cinematography in Indonesia’s D(E) Motion Festival film competition. And through the film Lukat, Dibal won first place at the EURASIA Project International in Italy. In 2021, the film Wong Gamang; The Journey of Dewi Melanting, directed by Dibal, won many awards, including Best Fiction Film Director, Best Artistic Film, and Best Editing. In 2022, BWCF, the Ministry of Education and Culture and UNESCO entrusted the Mahendraparvata dance film’s directorship in collaboration with Cambodia and Indonesia’s cultures.</br></br>A Conversation with Dibal Ranuh</br></br>Dibal Ranuh’s poetic creative direction in films and stage performances began from a love of travel and photography. Studying visual design, it is the love of travel and exploration together with his camera that paved the path of visual framing and a natural inclination towards visual storytelling. The artist’s love of our rich tribal heritage fuels the artistic textures that enrich his visual style.</br></br>Passion for the Heritage of Nusantara</br></br>“I like to travel to the forests. I liked to go to tribes like the Badui, Dayak, and Toraja and lived for months within these communities. You can say it is there I discovered a new life. I found something very unique among the tribes. From there, I returned to university. As a designer, I got a lot of ideas from my time in tribal communities. My interest in our tribal diversity began from then. Indonesia is so dynamic, many tribes can inspire us in our process of creativity.”</br></br>For full Biography go to https://sawidji.com/about-sawidji/artists-sawidji-gallery/dibal-ranuh/t-sawidji/artists-sawidji-gallery/dibal-ranuh/)
  • Paul Michael Taylor  +