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Bali is known as the one of the exotic island in the world. Its people, culture, heritages and beaches are just glimpses of Bali’s advantage as the sought after holiday destination. Bali is the only place or island in the world which has a famous holiday, named Nyepi Day. Nyepi Day also known as the Day of Silence, New Year of Balinese Hindu. That is commemorated every Isakawarsa (Saka new year) according to Bali’s calendar. In the 2012, it will be on 23 March 2012.

On the Nyepi Day, every Balinese Hindu must make an offering, perform fasting, and refrain from their passions, from 6 am until 6 am the next morning. There are also main prohibitions such as no lighting, no fire, no working, no entertainment or pleasure, no traveling, and for some, no talking or eating at all, no aircraft landing and departing, no activities on the road or everywhere, no shops open, and everybody must stay at home. Only the Pecalang (traditional security) will be seen on the street, because they are patrol on the road and make sure everything going

as it should be.

Although Nyepi Day is a Hindu holiday, but in this island all the Balinese residents includes people with other religions, government and tourists from overseas or domestic, must follow the restriction on that day, except perform fasting like Balinese Hindu.

The night before the Nyepi Day, Balinese Hindu performs the Ogoh-Ogoh parade. Ogoh-ogoh is the demonic statue in Balinese Hindu Wayang legend made of bamboo, Styrofoam and other materials in diverse characters as the symbol of vicious, destructive and bad elements. Ogoh-Ogoh will be

paraded around the villages, streets, and public areas and subsequently Ogoh-Ogoh will be burned. The process of burning of the Ogoh-Ogoh also called Ngrupuk ceremony.

Interested ? Lets preserve our culture together and be a part of Nyepi Day 2012 !

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Death is the climax periods of human’s life. The death will terminate the human’s life in the visible world. People often were not ready when they wondering if they have to facing the death, but with eagerness and good manners when they lived in the world, they will be able to deal with it.

Hinduism in Bali has a unique ritual in an ancient way in the cremation process. It is called Ngaben. Ngaben ceremony is must performed by the Balinese Hindu, in order to purify the spirit and to burn all the earthly things of the departed, so they can go to the afterlife in peace and sincerity.

Ngaben ceremony has a series of elaborate ritual process. Balinese Hindu believes that the human body is composed of the five natural elements of the body formers called Panca Maha bhuta. Ngaben ceremony then performed to return the natural elements of the human body to the Panca Maha bhuta itself.

Ngaben ceremonyperformed with a sequence of preparation process after decides the good day and dates. This ceremony began by searching the holy water a few days earlier. The family also must prepare a ‘Bade’, or a cow made ​​from wood, bamboo and colored paper and the colored must be adjusted on the family social status, then they put the dead body into the coffin inside the Bade. At the Ngaben ceremony, Tirta or holly water must be sprinkled twice to the dead body, the first sprinkle is called Toya Panembak, intended to ensure that the body is lifeless. The second

sprinkle is called Toya Pangentas, intended to keep his spirit away from the fire that will burn the dead body.

Balinese Hindu believes the departed’s soul will go to a better place and they have to let it go with willingness. That is why they were all not looks sad or crying at all at the Ngaben ceremony.

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Indonesia. World knows about the beauty of the incomparable cultures and uniqueness of this country; various tribes that always together in harmony with different of beliefs and traditions. Famous by its wonderful panoramic along the archipelago, a reason why it called “An Equatorial Emerald”, and many more.

It is not always about the cultures and surroundings, but other than that Indonesia has something else, something special. Something that could always bond the nation. It is Music.

What is so different about Indonesian traditional musical instruments? Indonesian traditional music is diverse.  Almost every region or province in Indonesia has different and inimitable traditional musical instruments.

From western of Java we have a musical instrument called the Angklung. Remarkably,on July 9^th, 2011, Indonesia has been promoted the traditional musical instrument Angklung in the first Indonesian Festival are held by the Indonesian Embassy in Washington DC, which successfully listed in the Guinness Book of Record as the largest Angklung ensemble with largest number of participants, as well as 5.102 multination participants. Initiated by Saung Angklung Udjo, an Angklung conservationist organization from Bandung, west java province, and this event reaps so many positive responses and invites admiration from many parties. A musical instrument made of bamboo, create the beautiful sounds that has made to give hope, share so much love to the world.

There is also a musical instrument called Sasando, originating from the island of Rote,

East Nusa Tenggara. This stringed instrument is also made ​​of bamboo and has a resonance box made of woven palm leaves shaped a fan-like.

Then Bali also has a musical instrument called the Rindik. Rindik is a traditional musical instrument made ​​of bamboo, and includes the type of percussion instrument. This instrument is usually used in wedding ceremonies or traditional performance called ‘Joged Bumbung’, also played in hotels and restaurants in Bali to entertain the tourists.

And about the famous Gamelan, the music ensemble showing harmony between gongs, drums, xylophone, and metallophone.  Term of gamelan means unity that sounded and accomplish simultaneously. Gamelan mostly found in ​​Java, Bali, Madura and Lombok, with the different melody composition and size of the music instruments. For example the Balinese gamelan, is dissimilar than the Javanese gamelan. But all of them created the touching and mind-blowing sounds which will induce a rhapsodically feeling.

Regarding the history of gamelan, initially marked by the emergence of Hinduism and Buddhist

in Indonesia, which dominate at the beginning of the history recording of that period and then grown until this century.

Above are only the small series of Indonesian’s traditional musical instruments, because there are dozens of types of music and traditional musical instruments in Indonesia, which spread across the provinces in the archipelago, a country with plentiful cultures and diversity.

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Today  at Grand Mirage and Indonesian’s celebrate Kartini Day. Kartini or Raden Ajeng Ayu Kartini, was born on 1^st April 1879 is one

of Indonesia’s national heroine, a woman who has been regarded as the pioneer of woman’s emancipation movement in Indonesia. She is considered an icon for the movement of women’s right in Indonesia.

To many Indonesian’s, Kartini Day means showing up at schools or office in traditional attire, especially kebaya dress for the ladies. Kebaya is a traditional Javanese dress where Kartini is always depicted wearing them.

Kartini was born to a royal family in Jepara, Central Java, went to a Dutch school, but was forced to end formal education at 12 and “secluded at home”, a practice among Javanese nobility at that time to prepare young girls for marriage. In spite of this fact, Kartini kept studying at home and corresponding with some intellectual people in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia at that time), and in the Netherlands, in which she wrote about her wishes

and expectations for Indonesian women in the future.

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