Ada satu hal (diantara banyak hal lainnya) yang paling sering dilontarkan oleh wisatawan-wisatawan ini. Saat melihat pohon beringin dilingkari kain hitam putih (bahasa Bali: kamen/kamben poleng), begitu juga patung-patung dari kayu maupun batu dan pilar pun di pakaikan kain (bahasa Bali : kamen/kamben). Kenapa harus begitu? Pilar dan patung dari batu kok juga di pakaikan pakaian. Memang aneh!!!

Begitulah orang Bali…. Sejak dulu memang begitu… kalo orang Bali di tanya kebanyakan bilang “nak mule keto” artinya “memang begitu”. Tapi ternyata di dalam sana terdapat filsafat yang sangat tinggi yang memang sulit untuk dimengerti. Orang Bali dari dulu sering memberikan jawaban “nak mule keto” (memang begitu) adalah ada maknanya bahwa tidak semua hal bisa dijelaskan dengan kata-kata. Perlu kita juga ketahui bahwa Orang-orang jaman dulu memang memahami sesuatu dengan hati yang sangat mendalam sehingga sulit di lukiskan dengan kata-kata. Banyak hal yang memang tidak dapat dijelaskan dengan kata-kata….bahkan kalau dijelaskan dengan kata-kata akan memberikan makna yang membingungkan atau pengertian yang lain dari yang dimaksud… Dengan kata lain kita harus mencari jawabannya sendiri dengan hati kita. Namun sayangnya kita (orang-orang jaman sekarang) sangat jarang yang mampu menemukannya. Dan celakanya orang-orang jaman sekarang mengatakan kalimat “nak mule keto” bukan karena memahami hal yang “tidak terkatakan” itu, tapi semata-mata memang karena tidak tahu menahu tentang hal itu……:)

Kembali ke bahasan kenapa pilar, pohon beringin, patung, dll itu dipakaikan kain atau pakaian, semata-mata memang karena perinsip orang Bali sejak dulu, leluhur orang Bali, menurunkan tradisi yang mulia ini yaitu “memanusiakan alam lingkungan”. Semua hal di manusiakan, termasuk binatang, tumbuhan, dan benda mati disekelilingnya di manusiakan, atau disayangi seperti manusia, atau diperlakukan seperti manusia atau “diperlakukan seperti memperlakukan dirinya sendiri”.

Sungguh suatu budaya yang luar biasa. Mencintai segala sesuatu didunia ini seperti mencintai dirinya sendiri. Itulah yang menjadi harapan nenek moyang/ leluhur/ pendahulu orang-orang Bali (tentunya bukan hanya leluhur orang-orang Bali saja yang menginginkan seperti itu). Inilah sebuah ajaran BUDI PEKERTI yang akan menyelamatkan kita dari kemarahan alam dan dunia ini. Karena kita mencintai alam lingkungan seperti diri sendiri maka alam juga akan mencintai manusia. Itulah kenapa ketentraman hidup di pulau Bali ini menggaung keseluruh dunia. Dunia mengakui keindahan Bali bukan karena gedung yang menjulang tinggi, bukan karena wanita-wanita seksi, bukan karena tempat untuk berjudi, tetapi karena adanya rasa cinta terhadap alam lingkungannya, budaya memanusiakan alam lingkunganlah yang membuat Bali menjadi terkenal dan diakui dunia. Bila anda datang ke bali rasakanlah bahwa “ada rasa saling mencintai antara manusia dengan alam lingkungan” disini. Tidak salah kalau dikatakan bahwa kebudayaan yang memanusiakan alam lingkungan inilah yang masuk ke dalam konsep “Tatwam Asi” dan “Tri Hita Karana”,  kini melahirkan budaya dan adat istiadat Bali yang luar biasa, yang menjadi penarik hati wisatawan datang ke Bali. Saat anda ke Bali, maka anda akan merasakan adanya kekuatan yang menarik anda untuk datang lagi ke Bali. Mungkin itu rasa cinta yang menarik anda.

Namun saat ini orang-orang di Bali mulai melupakan prinsip ini. Prinsip memanusiakan alam lingkungan sudah mulai ditinggalkan. Rumah-rumah dan bangunan bertumpuk-tumpuk tanpa halaman, pohon-pohon besar ditebang untuk dijadikan hotel, anjing-anjing dibunuh, manusia berburu kera, manusia bunuh manusia, tempat ibadah tak berkebun, budaya asing tak bersahabat, dan pulau Bali pun menjadi panas.

Manusia sudah tidak melihat alam lingkungan sekitarnya sebagai dirinya lagi.

Mari kita bangun konsep ini mulai dari dalam hati kita sendiri…. Karena saat ibu pertiwi marah semuanya akan terlambat untuk memperbaikinya.

‘haryoga’

Sanur beach is one of Bali’s beautiful beach located in East Denpasar. Besides its marvelous view, flat sea bottom makes possible for tourists to swim with families in this sea, or just sit and read books on cool aired coast. if you stay in a hotel or villa around sanur beach and want to have some meals or buy some daily needs, there are wide choices of restaurant, shop, internet café, et cetera. This is the closest one we’ll introduce to you.

Opposite Inna Grand Bali Beach Hotel gate, north of Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel, you can find various places such as restaurants, bars, internet café, money changers and mini market. Ones of them are “Arca” internet café and “Made Two” restaurant.

“arca” internet café is fully equipped space and air conditioned , also provides some kind of beverages just in case you fell thirsty while surfing on the internet. The computers completed with CD ROM, USB port, printer, DVD and VCD writer, language options such as Japanese, Korean and Chinese besides English, just expect the guest to feel comfortable accessing the internet here.

“Mikro” mini market just close to the internet café, provides foods and beverages and daily needs, also provides laundry services. There is a money changer between the internet café and mini market.

“Made Two” restaurant and bar serves various foods menu, freshly cooked when ordered. You can enjoy the foods and beverages at the same time enjoying the music and the TV shows, or romantic night atmosphere.

We do apologize if the service doesn’t satisfy you.

enjoy your holiday in Bali especially in Sanur Beach. Thanks for your visit. Let’s protect Bali cause we all love Bali.

More infomation about Bali you can get from this site: bali map, sanur map

Bali is an Indonesian island located at 8°25’25”S 115°14’55”E the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country’s 33 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island.

With a population recorded as 3,151,000 in 2005, the island is home to the vast majority of Indonesia’s small Hindu minority. 93.18% of Bali’s population adheres to Balinese Hinduism, while most of the remainder follow Islam. It is also the largest tourist destination in the country and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including dance, sculpture, painting, leather, metalworking and music.

Bali was inhabited by Austronesian peoples by about 2,000 BCE who migrated originally from Taiwan through Maritime Southeast Asia. Culturally and linguistically, the Balinese are thus closely related to the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines, and Oceania. Stone tools dating from this time have been found near the village of Cekik in the island’s west.

Balinese culture was strongly influenced by Indian and Chinese, and particularly Hindu culture, in a process beginning around the 1st century AD. The name Balidwipa has been discovered from various inscriptions, including the Blanjong charter issued by Sri Kesari Warmadewa in 913 AD and mentioning Walidwipa. It was during this time that the complex irrigation system subak was developed to grow rice. Some religious and cultural traditions still in existence today can be traced back to this period. The Hindu Majapahit Empire (1293–1520 AD) on eastern Java founded a Balinese colony in 1343. When the empire declined, there was an exodus of intellectuals, artists, priests and musicians from Java to Bali in the 15th century.

The first European contact with Bali is thought to have been made by Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman who arrived in 1597, though a Portuguese ship had foundered off the Bukit Peninsula as early as 1585. Dutch colonial control was expanded across the Indonesian archipelago in the nineteenth century. Their political and economic control over Bali began in the 1840s on the island’s north coast by playing various distrustful Balinese realms against each other. In the late 1890s, struggles between Balinese kingdoms in the island’s south were exploited by the Dutch to increase their control. The Dutch mounted large naval and ground assaults at the Sanur region in 1906 and were met by the thousands of members of the royal family and their followers who marched to certain death against superior Dutch force in a suicidal puputan defensive assault rather than face the humiliation of surrender. Despite Dutch demands for surrender, an estimated 4,000 Balinese marched to their death against the invaders. In 1908, a similar massacre occurred in the face of a Dutch assault in Klungkung. Afterwards the Dutch governors were able to exercise little influence over the island, and local control over religion and culture generally remained intact.

Dutch rule over Bali had come later and was never as well established as in other parts of Indonesia such as Java and Maluku. Imperial Japan occupied Bali during World War II during which time a Balinese military officer, Gusti Ngurah Rai, formed a Balinese ‘freedom army’. In the 1930s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and artists Miguel Covarrubias and Walter Spies, and musicologist Colin McPhee created a western image of Bali as “an enchanted land of aesthetes at peace with themselves and nature”, and western tourism first developed on the island. Following Japan’s Pacific surrender in August 1945, the Dutch promptly returned to Indonesia, including Bali, immediately to reinstate their pre-war colonial administration. This was resisted by the Balinese rebels now using Japanese weapons. On 20 November 1946, the Battle of Marga was fought in Tabanan in central Bali. Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai, 29 years old, finally rallied his forces in east Bali at Marga Rana, where they made a suicide attack on the heavily armed Dutch. The Balinese battalion was entirely wiped out, breaking the last thread of Balinese military resistance. In 1946 the Dutch constituted Bali as one of the 13 administrative districts of the newly-proclaimed Republic of East Indonesia, a rival state to the Republic of Indonesia which was proclaimed and headed by Sukarno and Hatta. Bali was included in the “Republic of the United States of Indonesia” when the Netherlands recognised Indonesian independence on 29 December 1949.

The 1963 eruption of Mount Agung killed thousands, created economic havoc and forced many displaced Balinese to be transmigrated to other parts of Indonesia. Mirroring the widening of social divisions across Indonesia in the 1950s and early 1960s, Bali saw conflict between supporters of the traditional caste system, and those rejecting these traditional values. Politically, this was represented by opposing supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the Indonesian Nationalist Party (PNI), with tensions and ill-feeling further increased by the PKI’s land reform programs. An attempted coup in Jakarta was put down by forces led by General Suharto. The army became the dominant power as it instigated a violent anti-communist purge, in which the army blamed the PKI for the coup. Most estimates suggest that at least 500,000 people were killed across Indonesia, with an estimated 80,000 killed in Bali, equivalent to 5 per cent of the island’s population. With no Islamic forces involved as in Java and Sumatra, upper-caste PNI landlords led the extermination of PKI members.

As a result of the 1965/66 upheavals, Suharto was able to manoeuvre Sukarno out of the presidency, and his “New Order” government reestablished relations with western countries. The Bali as a tourist paradise which was instigated during the pre World War II colonial time was revised in a modern form, and the resulting large growth in tourism has led to Balinese standards of living rise dramatically and significant foreign exchange earned for the country.A bombing in 2002 by militant Islamists in the tourist area of Kuta killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. This attack, and another in 2005, severely affected tourism, bringing much economic hardship to the island.