RUU ANTI PORNOGRAFI

ini hanya pandangan saya aja dengan tuh RUU kontroversial.. saya menolak RUU tsb dengan alasan bhinika tunggal ika ajalah, ya indonesia adalah negara timur, negara primitif, dan bermacam2 kbudayaan yang ada, itu aja alasan saya kenapa saya menolaknya, selebihnya tidak ada.
hehehhe.... tapi menurut saya itu undang-undang emang tidak cocok dan berbau bisnis di kemudian hari. bisnis dengan alasan moral.
kita ambil saja contoh, MINUMAN KERAS alias minuman beralkohol yang memabukkan, setau saya minuman tersebut dilarang diminum ama agama dan juga negara.dan minuman tersebut DILARANG DIPERDAGANGKAN.ya pada akirnya, namanyabisnis tetep aja ada celahnya, minuman boleh diproduksi dengan cara melengkapi ijin, di tanggerang ada pabrik VODKA, WHISKY, dll.iya mereka bisa memproduksi karena ada ijin, selain itu para penjual juga begitu, sekarang mau mencari minuman beralkohol dari kadar rendah sampai kadar 50% juga gampang didapatkan.siapapun dapat membelinya ditoko2, di cafe, di bar ditempat2 yang mempunyai ijin...lantas gimana dengan para penjual arak, penjual tuak, pembuat arak. mereka dikejar-kejar penegak hukum dengan lasan tidak memiliki ijin..
Yaa pada akirnya pandangan saya seperti itu, ketika RUU antipornografi juga akan seperti peredaran miras, PORNoGRAFI dilarang pemerintah, tapi yang mempunyai ijin akan bebas berpornografi. semisal ketika RUU tsb disahkan nantinya pasti akan ada celah untuk peredaran majalah pornografi dengan dalih pendidikan, art, dsb. tapi majalah tsb resmi berbadan hukum. selain itu juga prostitusi pasti makin marak, juga tayangan TV.(TV kabel). ya pada akirnya semua hal yang berbau pornografi tetap bisa didapatkan tentunya dengan uang, alias membelinya... ya keuntungan pemerintah dari RUU pornografi adalah uang dari perijinan itu. lha sialnya negarakita, uang pajak dan retribusi sampai perijinan 30-60% bisa dikorupsi. ya udah lebih baik kita dukung aja itu undang2, sapa tau nanti kita dapat kursi basah tuk ngurusi pornografi. yang kasian kan yang demo-demo mendukung pornografi, sekarang mereka bersusah payah mendukung pengesahan RUU tsb dengan alasan moral. tapi mereka tidak tau kalau nanti RUU tsb akan menjadi lahan bisnis. kalau sudah begitu siapa yang akan kita tuntut.
SOLUSI
ya kalau sekarang banayak dibahas TV penyebab beredarnya pornografi atau berita pornografi, ya dibuatkan undang sensor yang benar. apa juga fungsi KPI, komisi penyiaran indonesia.
ya menurut saya berpornografi pada tempatnya itu sah-sah aja, dibali orang pakai bikini hanya dipantai, dikolam renang, orang pakai CD dan BH aja tidak mungkin naik sepeda motor. kan asik kalo seperti itu.
oiya saya kalau kebangli, kekampungnya rana, saya biasa mandi ama cewe yang hanya memakai CD adja di sungai dan di pancoran. lha masarakat setempat tidak menganggap tabu hal seperti itu, kenapa juga saya harus melarang, mending kan saya menikmatinyakan.
ribetdah.... mending saya berbinika tunggal ika ajalah,, toh semua itu juga kebudayaan. budaya kita juga banyak yang masih buka-bukaan budaya barat juga.. repot deh. apalagi kalau agama turut campur.
angkat tangan dah.....

ya pada akirnya semua emang ada baik dan ada buruknya dan pada akirnya sekali emang harus dikembalikan pada diri kita masing2 ajalah....
capeeeeek.

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genderang perang sudah dimulai

salamlikum

peradapan manusia sudah mencapai tahapan serba digital dan penjajahan bentuk baru telah di mulai,, maka kita harus mempersiapkan diri.....
kita ambil contoh saja kasus filem FITNA dan bangsa indonesia, pemerintah telah memboikot situs yutube, metacafe, dan juga rapid share... sebuah tindakan yang sangat

berani, terlepas dari efek baik dan buruknya (Bangsa kita bangsa yang beraneka ragam, ok saya memaklumi tindakan pemerintah... setelah saya melihat filem FITNA).
tapi mendatang seandainya google dan yahoo memboikot bangsa indonesia..... sudah siapkah kita?
siap atau tidak siap kita harus mempersiapkanya...
seandainya benar yahoo dan google akan memboikot bangsa kita efek yang paling nyata adalah ekses EMAIL Gmail dan yahoo kita tidak akan bisa dibuka dengan IP addres indonesia.... padahal email kita berisi ACCOUNT paypal, ebay, moneybooker, klik BCA, friendster, blogger dan sebagainya..... lantas apa yang akan terjadi bila hal itu terjadi...
sudah saatnya kita tidak lagi memakai jasa layanan yangkelak akan memonopoli dunia ini....
sebagai alternativ saya tawarkan,, mulai sekarang pakailah PLASA.COM atau email yang providernya dari bangsa indonesia tercinta.....
berpikir saja suatu saat google dan yahoo tak dapat di akses dinegeri indonesia tercinta ini

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Entertainment

Entertainment

Upon reaching Bali, get your hands on a copy of Bali Echo and the English-language daily, Jakarta Post, which will give you an overall picture of current exhibitions, music, dances and films within Bali. Information can be also obtained through your hotel and notices outside establishments.

Wayang Kulit

The ancient art of shadow play or Wayang Kulit is a unique combination of ritual, lesson and entertainment. Lacy shadow images are projected on a taunt linen screen, backed by an oil lamp or a light bulb. The Dalang or shadow artist manipulates the figures, which are carved out of leather, to bring the shadows to life. He will narrate the story accompanied by a gamelan orchestra and occasional chanting or singing. The Dalang juggles many roles - actor, teacher, historian, and often, a priest.

These performances are part of temple celebrations or religious events to bless the occasion by inviting ancestral spirits to visit the temple. If it is of a religious nature, the wayang performance will take place during the day. Instead of the screen, only a piece of string is used to separate the Dalang from the audience. The stories played are commonly based on the Mahabarata and Ramayana. Some of these shadow puppets have mobile joints, which make the play even more entertaining.

Generous offerings are presented before, during, and after a performance, which usually take three to four hours. Plays normally begin some time between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.

Gamelan

An orchestra for nearly every event and occasion, the gamelan has special purposes, being the music of Indonesia. These orchestras are generally percussion oriented, but many feature flutes, strings, or vocalists in a prominent light. Different islands or regions within these islands have their own unique gamelan instruments and traditions.

Gamelan is performed when ushering idols to the sea, thus creating a hypnotic rhythm and pattern with the procession of gongs, drums and cymbals. High pitched bronze gamelan enhances the king's slumber, meter-long bamboo flutes accompany a classical dance in the temple, the twang of the bark of a palm aims at courting a young maiden, and reeds provide a whimsical atmosphere for the frog dance. The gamelan indeed has its distinguished purposes.

Customarily, gamelan uses bronze, iron, bamboo or wood bars, bronze and iron gongs, gong chimes, cymbals, bells and two-headed drums. Ceremonial compositions are meditative and serene whereas dance and theater music percolates and flutters.

Visual Stimulation

If you are itching to watch a movie while in Bali, fear not. You will be able to find bioskop in larger towns but the best ones are in Denpasar, Kuta, and Mataram. Lurid posters are highly visible to advertise the latest offering; they are usually mounted on trucks that cruise through town while rave reviews and snatches from the soundtrack blare from a loudspeaker.

Of course, there's always television. There are several public and private television stations broadcasting a variety of foreign movies, mostly with Indonesian subtitles, plus bizarre Indonesian quiz shows, soap operas from all over the world (with Indonesian subtitles), and sports, mainly basketball from the United States and football from Europe.

However, in such a tropical paradise, the day would be wasted if you intend to spend it watching television. There are so many traditional dances and festivals to enjoy and attend, not to mention the historical sites to visit. And if that's not your cup of tea, there is always shopping; yes, shopping! Souvenirs and gifts gesture all around you, so put on your walking shoes and roam to your heart's content!

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kuningan day

kuningan day
Also occurring once in every 210 days in the Balinese cycle of days, Kuningan is the end of the most important of the regular religious ceremonies for the 10-day Galungan period. During this period the deified ancestors of the family descend to their former homes. They must be suitably entertained and welcomed, and prayers and offerings must be made for them. Those families who have uncremated deceased ones buried in the village cemetery must make offerings at the graves.

Kuningan takes its name from the fact that special offerings of yellow rice (nasi kuning) are made by colouring ordinary white rice with tumeric (kunyit). It is a time for family groups, prayers, and offerings, as their ancestors return to heaven.

This Galungan period is also a symbolic representation of a battle between good and evil, and the most important function of Kuningan is to celebrate the victory of good over evil so that the balance and harmony of the world can be maintained.

Unlike the more public processions of village temple ceremonies and cremations, most Kuningan celebrations take place in the privacy of the home, in the shrines of the family temple and house compound.

The day after Kuningan is a time for a holiday, visiting, and having fun.

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kuningan day

kuningan day
Also occurring once in every 210 days in the Balinese cycle of days, Kuningan is the end of the most important of the regular religious ceremonies for the 10-day Galungan period. During this period the deified ancestors of the family descend to their former homes. They must be suitably entertained and welcomed, and prayers and offerings must be made for them. Those families who have uncremated deceased ones buried in the village cemetery must make offerings at the graves.

Kuningan takes its name from the fact that special offerings of yellow rice (nasi kuning) are made by colouring ordinary white rice with tumeric (kunyit). It is a time for family groups, prayers, and offerings, as their ancestors return to heaven.

This Galungan period is also a symbolic representation of a battle between good and evil, and the most important function of Kuningan is to celebrate the victory of good over evil so that the balance and harmony of the world can be maintained.

Unlike the more public processions of village temple ceremonies and cremations, most Kuningan celebrations take place in the privacy of the home, in the shrines of the family temple and house compound.

The day after Kuningan is a time for a holiday, visiting, and having fun.

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galungan day

galungan day
Occurring once in every 210 days in the Balinese cycle of days, Galungan marks the beginning of the most important recurring religious ceremony that is celebrated by all Balinese at the same time. During the Galungan period the deified ancestors of the family descend to their former homes. They must be suitably entertained and welcomed, and prayers and offerings must be made for them. Those families who have ancestors that have not yet been cremated, but are still buried in the village cemetery, must make offerings at the graves.

Although Galungan falls on a Wednesday, most Balinese will begin their Galungan 'holiday' the day before, where the family is seen to be busily preparing offerings and cooking for the next day. While the women of the household have been busy for days before creating beautifully woven 'banten' (offerings made from young coconut fronds), the men of our village usually wake up well before dawn to join with their neighbours to slaughter a pig unlucky enough to be chosen to help celebrate this occasion. Then the finely diced pork is mashed to a pulp with a grinding stone, and moulded onto sate sticks that have been already prepared by whittling small sticks of bamboo. Chickens may also be chosen from the collection of free-range chickens that roam around the house compound. Delicate combinations of various vegetables, herbs and spices are also prepared by the men to make up a selection of 'lawar' dishes. While much of this cooking is for use in the offerings to be made at the family temple, by mid-morning, once all the cooking is done, it is time for the first of a series of satisfying feasts from what has been prepared. While the women continue to be kept busy with the preparations of the many offerings to be made at the family temple on the day of Galungan, the men also have another job to do this day, once the cooking is finished. A long bamboo pole, or 'penjor', is made to decorate the entrance to the family compound. By late Tuesday afternoon all over Bali the visitor can see these decorative poles creating a very festive atmosphere in the street.

On Wednesday, the day of Galungan, one will find that most Balinese will try to return to their own ancestral home at some stage during the day, even if they work in another part of the island. This is a very special day for families, where offerings are made to God and to the family ancestors who have come back to rest at this time in their family temple. As well as the family temple, visits are made to the village temple with offerings as well, and to the homes of other families who may have helped the family in some way over the past six months.

The day after Galungan is a time for a holiday, visiting friends, maybe taking the opportunity to head for the mountains for a picnic. Everyone is still seen to be in their 'Sunday best' as they take to the streets to enjoy the festive spirit that Galungan brings to Bali.

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Bali Arts Festival

Bali Arts Festival

The Bali Arts Festival is a full month of daily performances, handicraft exhibitions and other related cultural and commercial activities during which literally the whole of Bali comes to the city to present its offerings of dance, music and beauty. On display are trances from remote mountain slopes, forgotten or recently revived village dances, food and offering contests, classical palace dances, stars of Balinese stage, odd musical performances, "kreasi baru" (new creations) from the dance schools of Denpasar, as well as contemporary choreography and dance companies from other islands and from abroad.
It is a month long revelry that perhaps no other place in the world can put up on such a low budget as the Balinese. Not only is their traditional culture alive and well, but they have a tremendous pride in it.
It begins in the villages, where the seka or cultural groups are selected and organized at the regency level, vie with each other to perform the Arts Festival and thus display in front of a large audience the uniqueness of their village of birth and resting place of their ancestors.
The Bali Arts Festival is the Denpasar cultural event of the year, perhaps it would no be too far fetched to suggest that it is the cultural event of Indonesia. The festival is thus a unique opportunity to see local village culture both "live" and at first hand. Tourists are warmly welcomed.
The History of the Bali Arts Festival

The History of the Bali Arts Festival

When tourism took off after 1965, the Balinese insisted that it followed cultural guidelines: if tourism was to be accepted, it was to be a cultural tourism, or "pariwisata budaya".
As the Balinese put it: "Tourism should be for Bali instead of Bali for tourism." In time, this idea become national policy, as part of a larger revping of regional cultures for national purposes. The policy owes much to the former Director General of Culture (1968-1978) and Governor of Bali (1978-1988), Ida Bagus Mantra, an Indian-educed Balinese. It led, on the one side, to the creation of enclave resorts such as Nusa Dua to limit the direct impact of tourism, and on the other, to a long haul cultural policy aimed at nurturing and preserving the traditional agrarian culture while adapting it to the demands of modernity, and in particular of "cultural tourism".
At the village level, local music groups, dances and other cultural events were inventoried, then supported by a series of contests at the district and regency level. The ensuing competition energized the cultural life of villages, whose "young blood" was already being drained to the city by the process of economic change and urbanization.
Schools of dance and art were created, in particular the Kokar conservatory and the STSI School of Dance and Music. Beside research, these schools replaced the traditional master/disciple relationship by modern methods of teaching; standardized the dance movements, produced new types of Balinese dances for tourism and modern village entertainment. Most important, it enabled former students to return to the villages as teachers, where they diffused, beside the creed of cultural resilience and renewal, new dances and standardized versions of old ones.
Many of the performances are held at the amphitheater which can hold up to 6,000 spectators, in a temple-like stage.
Each year, the Bali Arts Festival, beside the fed classical dances of the island, such as the legong, gambuh, kecak, barong, baris, mask dances and the like, is based on the theme around which new "dance choreography" is produced and old village dances and activities revived. Over the years, the whole range of classical Balinese stories - Ramayana, Mahabharata, Sutasoma, Panji - have thus been turned into "colossal" Sendratari Ballets.
The main challenge to the Arts Festival is obviously economic in nature. As village life is increasingly feeling the strains of monetary considerations, dancers, musicians and others cannot be expected to continue participating simply for the sake and the pleasure of it. As costs soar, new sources of financing have to be found. The obvious answer is the private sector and in particular the tourism industry. The greater task then is to convince the hotels, travel agencies and tourist guides to be more participatory in the Arts Festival rather than to their own sponsored events.
Considering the pride the Balinese have in their culture, and the adaptability and dynism they have always demonstrated, this little hurdle can be overcome. Trust the Balinese. They will eventually succeed to transform their tradition into a modern, Balinese culture of their own.

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