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'''Bali is Bali Forever Sustainable in the Framework'''

Bali is an idyll; a strange oriental idyll, wonderful in line and color. We must not compare it to any other idyll. Bali itself, Bali is Bali and nothing else.

Change signifies one of the authentic characteristics of a community and its culture. In passing through such a change, there is always pulling-extending among several groups, either in the community itself or external parties seeing the community and culture as an object. This matter is very obviously seen in case of Bali, a community appraised to have a considerably unique culture. Since over a hundred years ago, the Western researches artists and circle of Dutch bureaucracy has been extremely apprehensive that one day Bali would change and be no more Bali. Due to this uniqueness, Bali was intended to be conserved in order to become Bali as implied in the policy of Dutch administration that was known as Balizering. It had happened long before the policy of Balizering, as mentioned in the writing of Frederick who came to Bali in 1848. In the meaning of this conservation, there was one having more extreme opinion in order that Bali would not change at all,, did not get disturbed and persisted to become the past community and culture.

Let the Balinese live their own beautiful native life as undisturbed as possible ! Their agriculture, their village life, their own form of worship, their religious art and their own literature – all bear witness to an autonomous native civilization or rare versality and richness….

Such romanticism drew opposition from many circles as change is a certainty within every community and culture and the change itself indeed posed a basic right of the community. Balinese community definitely did not want to be bound by conservation that would freeze its culture as it would even disable the culture itself through a decaying process. This view was more open to change ; it even considered such a change a must and paradigm in practice was dynamic conservation which included the content of reconstruction, rehabilitation adaptation reinterpretation, revitalization, reproduction and utilization other than conservation-preservation in the narrower sense.

Everlasting Bali in the waves of Change Both theatrical and empirical studies have indeed indicated the existence of sustainable changes along the passage of Balinese societal and cultural history. Such change often transpire fundamentally and revolutionarily and are known as the wave of change. Change brought by Rsi Markandeya, Mpu Kuturan, Mpu Nirartha, and western integration into the territory of the Republic of Indonesia, torism development or tertiary revolution are some of the waves of the change. These waves of change regularly bed the question, will Bali soon lose its ‘balinesity’ or is Bali been no more Bali? This question was proposed by Frederick in 1859 and then continued by Dutch experts in 1970’s. Gregor Krause in 1912 re-posed a similar question and was then resounded by many later writers, such as Miguel Covarrubias in 1937, Gregory Bateson 1941, Margareth Mead 1942, Walter Spies and de Zoete 1942, Sceto 1971, Willard Hanna 1974, Michae Picard 1995 and many more. But up to now, no one dares conclude that Bali is no more Bali. The great anthropologist, Clifford Geertz (1996) even firmly stated that Bali remains Bali and will be Bali forever. The opinion of Geertz obtained solid foundation from empirical observation and theoretical studies developed by Noronha (1978), McKean (1974) and Fancilion (1980) and later studies. They came to the conclusion, despite several changes, Bali remains Bali. Bali is Bali Forever. http://www.allbalitour.com