Budaga Village Klungkung

Pakraman Budaga Village, that's the name of a village which is located one kilometer west of the City Semarapura, Klungkung. A village with an area of about 35 hectares and a population of approximately 198 heads of households (families), or 733 souls. 367 male 366 female soul and spirit. Since the beginning of its existence, when divided into two Budaga banjar (Banjar Budaga Klod and Budaga Kaler), the people who are really involved pakraman agricultural sector as the main livelihood.

But over time, the farm had now abandoned its citizens. The main reason for the dissolution of agricultural diligent regeneration, but because the area of agricultural land in the traditional village area has decreased as Budaga for residential purposes, the area for the benefit of the traditional villages such as worship (temples), tombs and other places people try several, also because the orientation of the current generation Indigenous Village has also changed in response to Budaga era of development.

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World agriculture was not reliable anymore pakraman village located at an altitude of 117 meters above sea level it. In addition to the amount of his remaining diligent pen three families, also because not many agricultural products that can be relied on from there. The young generation whose parents used to pursue the agricultural sector, now not again. They prefer to pursue a new world that can be done at home. If working on someone, it was still in the environment Pakraman Budaga.

One area of work in recent years so engrossed Pakraman Budaga Village residents after switching from agriculture is a brass handicrafts. Various types of products can be made of brass. There gongseng, gerondong, cookie cutters and various pemengku (trophy).

Pemengku special, very fast because the circulation marketing presence coupled with the production of tourist trophy Kamasan village. Sales not only in Bali, but up to the outside Bali and even abroad. However, as the waning pemengku orders, manufacturing orders are also subsided pemengku in Budaga. Craft type too, although I still use the same material switches, brass. Type of craft is the latest bells (banyu).

That is to say, the village is the village Pakraman Budaga various craft bells. Genta and various types of equipment Ida Pedanda plants cult, such as Nawasanga and siwakrana, currently in great demand. In addition to ordering stakeholders throughout Indonesia, was also ordered by foreign customers for the benefit of accessories and souvenirs.

In addition to handicrafts goods for the needs of religious ceremonies, there are also other crafts to souvenirs of the ball is a dream job I Nengah pengerajin Patra one Budaga Village.

In addition, there are groups other craftsmen that brass Crafts Group Kembang Kuning. For one member of the group, production reached 10 bells each month. If dirupiahkan, the result reached Rp 6 million in raw material costs between Rp 3 million to Rp 4 million. However, attendance is strongly influenced production and the arrival of tourists. Including orders.

"If tourism sluggish conditions, automatically affect the production decline," said the administrator, Wayan Sudiarta.

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Tihingan Village

Tihingan Village in Banjarangkan sub district is the center of Gong gamelan production. Its production is start with crude work then expert work to synchronize the gong sound. This, the most important thing is the expertise to synchronize the gong sound. In Tihingan village there are 2 pande (expert) gong maker groups.

Location

This Village is location in Banjarangkan sub district and can be reached with 2 wheels or 4 wheels vehicles. About 3 km go to the west of Semarapura city. The road to Tihingan is well enough.

Description

The people of Tihing village are very famous in Bali as they are expert of making gamelan instrument like Gong, Other Gamelan instrument gende. Except Gong, The people in this village can make all kind of gamelan Bali like: Semara Pegulingan, Gender puppet, Kelentangan/Angklung and other, made of kerawang metal. Their expertise may descended by their ancient from hundred years ago. It can be approved by looking at Gamelan instrument having by many villages. Their village (Tihingan) is written on those gamelan. The gamelan has become famous in the world and many foreign tourists come to Tihingan and reserve Gong to be brought to their country.

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Kerta Gosa

As the former kingdom, if reasonable Klungkung has many a time this is a tourism object. One of them is the Taman Gili in Kerta Gosa, cultural heritage Semarapura Klungkung Palace. Kerta Gosa is a building (bale), which is part of the building complex Semarapura Palace and was built around 1686 by peletak basis of power and the first holder of the throne that is the kingdom of Klungkung Ida I Dewa Agung Jambe.

Gosa Kerta consists of two buildings (bale), namely akerta Gosa Bale and Bale Kambang. Bale Kambang called because the building is surrounded by a pond that is Gili Park. The uniqueness Kerta Gosa with Bale Kambang this is surface on the ceiling or roof bale is decorated with traditional painting style of Kamasan (a village in Klungkung) or style of puppet that is very popular in the community Bali. Initially, the paintings that decorate the ceiling are made of cloth and parba. New since 1930 is replaced and created at the top of the plasterboard direstorasi ago according to the original image is still intact and up to now. Cultural heritage as Kingdom Semarapura, Gosa and Kerta Bale Kambang enabled to judge the matter and the religious ceremony that is especially yadnya cut teeth (mepandes) like children king.

Function of the two buildings is closely related to the function of education through the paintings that were presented at the puppet ceiling buildings. The paintings are a series of stories that take on the key themes, namely Swargarokanaparwa and parwa Bima Swarga a guide punishment Karma Phala (result of the good-bad deeds performed during a human lifetime) and the re-incarnation into the world because of the deeds and sin - sin. Because no one said that if the psychological, theme paintings decorate the ceiling Kerta Gosa building load values education mental and spiritual. Painting is divided into a row of six terraced.

Bottom row illustrates the themes derived from Tantri Story. Suite second from the bottom illustrates the theme of the story Bimaswarga in Swargarakanaparwa. Catenarian next theme Bagawan Kasyapa story. Fourth row to take a theme that is characteristic Palalindon or meaning and the meaning of the occurrence of earthquakes in mythologist. Continuation of the story is taken from the theme Bimaswarga painted on the fifth row that is located almost on the cone-shaped roof building. In the last row or the sixth place by a description of the life of Nirwana. In addition to the building ceiling Kerta Gosa, puppet paintings also decorate the ceiling in the west that is Kerta Gosa Bale Kambang. On the palate this painting Bale Kambang puppet who comes to take the themes from the story of Kakawin Ramayana and Sutasoma.

The theme comes from guide kakawin this function that the building is the place Bale Kambang under one's belt religious ceremony that is Manusa Yadnya cut teeth children in Klungkung king. The attractiveness of Kerta Gosa paintings than in the traditional style of Kamasan at Kerta Gosa Bale and Bale Kambang, other important heritage that is still around and cannot be separated in terms of the value of history is noble pemedal (gate). Pemedal Court located in the west Kerta Gosa emits a very cultural heritage values Palace. Pemedal this Court on the value of art are traditional Balinese architecture. This is the gate that functions as a cantilever holder of the throne of power mechanisms (Dewa Agung) in Klungkung for over 200 years (1686-1908). In the event of war against the Dutch military expedition known as the Puputan Klungkung on 28 April 1908, the holder of the throne last Dewa Agung Jambe followers and autumn. (The recording of this monument is now enshrined in Puputan Klungkung which is located across the Kerta Gosa). After the defeat in the building core Palace Semarapura (viscera) and destroyed the settlement was made. Rubble highest remaining Kerta Gosa, Bale Kambang Taman Gili with its Portal Palace and the object appeared to be a very interesting both in the tourism and especially cultural historical studies. Kerta Gosa was also work as the center court during the Dutch colonial bureaucracy in Klungkung (1908-1942) and since nominated officials head into indigenous areas in the kingdom of Klungkung (Ida I Dewa Agung Negara Klungkung) in 1929. In fact, the court used equipment such as chairs and tables, wood carving and the paint is still there prade (gold paint). Objects to the evidence the court heritage institutions such as the traditional customs that apply in Klungkung in the colonial period (1908-1942) and the period of Japanese occupation (1043-1945). In the year 1930, had made the restoration of the painting there is a puppet in Kerta Gosa and Bale Kambang painted by the artists of Kamasan. Restoration last painting done in 1960.

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Kamasan Village

Kamasan is a community of artists painting traditional. So intimate and so long painting of the traditional artist then take the results of painting in the style of their own (style) that is distinctive traditional Kamasan paintings. Indeed, the growing talent in the art works of other art form of sculpture, namely gold and silver and the last bullet is the sculpture. Although the terms of the fabric material used to color the metal changes, but still something special appears in the theme of painting or carving that depicts figures puppet.

Puppet figures to be a theme painting or engraving on the epic story of Ramayana or Mahabharata, and the story kekawin Arjuna Wiwaha, Suthasoma. Therefore, the style of painting or carving or Kamasan puppet can be said is rather old age of the context of its history until now still seemed intact. According to impress the international collector, Kamasan style of painting is still considered to be very smooth and sophisticated, clean, not noisy with the details that are not very important and clear message out. Paintings or carvings, traditional puppets berintikan that bring power attraction for artists, or tourists who visited the village of Kamasan.

Location

Kamasan as the center of the painting and carving is the traditional name of a village in sub district and Klungkung Regency. Kamasan village is geographically including lowland coastal villages or beach Klotok User ± 3 km. The distance from Denpasar to this village is 43 km, can be reached by motor vehicle, and all the way to an object that is the major painting or carving crafts already paved.
Be conducted through three channels, namely: (1) west of the line center of the city district to the south along the 1.5 km turn left to line up directly Sangging, a house painter who celebrates the traditional puppet Nyoman Mandra. To the south a little longer to train Pande Mas, center carvings of gold, silver, (2) line north from the town of Klungkung regency slightly in the east to south through the winding-up on the winding road banjar elbow, also house a traditional painter named Mangku Mura, (3) south line of the midst of the city of Klungkung regency to the south along the 3 km through the villages and Tojan banjar Gelgel to Pande, the craft of carving traditional bullet.
Along the road that passed in the train-line, or villages, Tojan and Gelgel neighbors still be the hammer and craftsmen carved silver bullet or the sound texture of the cloth Cagcag songket. Can be called objects around is Kertha Gosa in Klungkung city, Temple and Batu Klotok temple Basic Gelgel in history that has the remnants Gelgel century kingdom of greatness-to-15 and to 16 in Bali.

Facilities

There is an exhibition space sales or painting or carving, place in the west banjar Sangging, about 50 meters. A painting studio practice was established by Nyoman Mandra in their own house. When guests visit Kamasan then are able to enjoy more direct workshops of the artists painted or carved at it home respectively. Roads that are entirely asphalt can be a motor vehicle (car, motorcycle) or traditional transportation is also available gig.

Hits

Kamasan painting as the central product or get a lot of carving traditional visits the Indonesian Archipelago and foreign tourists. Time they visit is during the day. Tourists who come to use the equipment Kamasan a motorcycle, car, taxi or gig.

Description

Kamasan or "Ka-gold-an" is a name that is quite old for the community of those who have jobs in the field that is sufficient Pande Mas in accordance with the name of one of the train in the village of Kamasan. Bukit archeologist found that the form of the throne-the throne of stone, menhir statue, a stone mortar, stone manger, a cylindrical monolith, stone dakon, lane-lane road that coated stones that have been found time in 1976 and 1977, which spread in the villages Kamasan, Gelgel and Tojan, gave instructions that the community is quite old age. That findings archeologist also gave instructions that the tradition was some coloring megalithic in Kamasan community life and its surroundings, namely the life of the community pre-Hindu roots of the neolitikum (+ 2000 years BC). Megalithic tradition has been absorbed by the undagi and Pande-to-an in the period then. The Pande increasingly recognized and enabled by the King (Ida Dalem) is based in the kingdom since Gelgel (1380-1651). Product metal sculpture on a gold or silver in the dish (trophy, tray, etc.) have been made equipment goods jewelry palace Sweca Linggaarsa Gelgel Temple. In addition to sculpture, painting also developed puppet for decoration on the cloth as a flag (have the opportunity, banner, lelontek), fabric decoration (ider-ider and parba) that complement a decor in holy places (temple) or in the building complex Kingdom. Since throne holder of the power that is Dalem II Waturenggong (1460-1550) the kingdom Gelgel culminates celebrity, it is a golden Kamasan village craftsman. Row-line is particularly Sangging and it can be said Pande Mas banjar Gilda, working groups, of which consists of houses and workshops where people live, work and to serve the King until the end of life is seen as their god. King of the duty to keep World (of the universe and its contents) is always in a state of balance and harmony. Because art is seen as an important element in maintaining the harmony of the sacred works of art then becomes the task of authorities to protect and maintain thing having to do with art. At the center of power moved to Klungkung Gelgel, Dewa Agung Jambe by year 1686, direct descendants of the Dynasty Kepakisan in Kresna Gelgel, the village of Kamasan is berintikan Sangging and Pande Mas banjar Gilda as a place of artists painting and carving, but still dipertahankan. Klungkung will changed now after the capital district of Bali Province and the descendants of the King and become of nobility RI officials and employees, and banjar Sangging Banjar Pande Mas not banjar Gilda from the King. However, the artists and craftsmen Sangging, Banjar Pande Mas-line and other square, Geria, Kacangdawa, Pande Peken Tabanan and still continue to produce paintings or carvings Kamasan style or style of product has been puppet. Expansion variety, not just limited to engraving gold and silver but also showing the sculpture of copper or brass and bullet. Art form of their product or painting carved object requested by many foreign tourists or archipelago. Similarly, in line with increased tourism, souvenir shops and art in Klungkung, or the art market and Denpasar Gianyar hotels and also the customers who keep the product from the arts in the Kamasan style puppet.

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