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Workforce at Pakendungan Temple |
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 Yesterday, staff from operational management of Tanah Lot Object and all committee of tourism awareness group "Surya Chandra Tanah Lot", ngaturang ngayah (workforce) at Pakendungan Temple. Because, on next Saturday there is ceremonial event on that temple which exact with Kuningan Day. In the morning on 7 AM, all staff and commitee already start the workforce or ngayah. The word ‘ngayah’ is hard to define, it is derived from the word ‘ayah’ means ‘voluntary work,’ and the word ‘ngayah’ itself can be defined as ‘working voluntarily.’ Though the ‘ngayah’ activity is voluntarily based activity but constant failure to join this activity will result the wrath of God and community. The wrath of God is believed to be the source of misfortune but the worst and most feared misfortune for the Balinese comes from the wrath of community. The constant failure to join ‘ngayah’ activities during a long period of time is considered as a sign of inconformity and disloyalty to the society, for Balinese the golden rule is ‘if we share the good time we must also share the bad.’
In some cases, this kind of offend is end up with exclusion from the community. The temple anniversary and ceremony are events that must be held at any cost. For a simple anniversary a small family temple, minimum three-day preparation is needed and at least five able men and women are required to prepare the anniversary. When the time of the preparation comes, no excuse except death is accepted for an absent, a failure to join the ngayah activity is punished with a fine. Occasional absents are tolerated as long as the fines are paid, but constant absent is another story. The ngayah activity requires time and effort, and time is what most Balinese who work as employee do not have. |
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Traditional Boats at Tanah Lot Ocean |
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 Every day in the morning at Tanah Lot ocean there are so many boats or balinese called Jukung. The Balinese generally use jukung for fishing. These boats will venture out into the coastal waters in the evening and return with their catch before sunrise to sell at local seafood markets. However, the impact of tourism has meant that many of the island’s traditional fishermen can now supplement their limited incomes by taking paying passengers to surf and snorkel at offshore reefs and neighbouring islands. Most jukung are fairly small and this enables them to be hauled out of the water and parked on the sandy beachfront with relative ease. With an average length of approximately 5-metres and width of just 1½ -metres, a jukung can safely carry only two or three passengers. Larger models built using the same traditional design methods, utilize outboard motors and can carry divers and heavy scuba equipment to coral reef dive sites. Some entrepreneurial owners have even modified their jukung into glass bottom boats for visitors to view Bali’s amazing underwater marine life. Although jukung may appear simple enough to the international travellers’ eye, like most things in Bali there is an underlying symbolism associated with these craft and they are constructed following a strict set of religious guidelines. When a fisherman decides to build a new boat he must first carefully choose the tree that will be used for its timber. The Balinese prefer to use the wood from the indigenous Belalu or Camplung tree, which is light, strong and ideal for boat building. Such a tree can only be cut down on an auspicious date in accordance to the ancient Balinese calendar and a special day is also sought for construction to commence. All members of the local fishing community offer their carpentry skills to construct a new jukung and this social interaction is a vital element of the Balinese Hindu culture. |
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Galungan Ceremonial : Pemacekan Agung |
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 Pemacekan Agung takes place five days after Galungan Day, at the Monday of Kuningan, the 12th week of the Balinese Pawukon calendar. The Pemacekan Agung ceremony is performed to return the Kala-tiganing Galungan or Sang Kala Tiga, being Sang Bhuta Galungan, Sang Bhuta Dungulan and Sang Bhuta Amangkurat and their followers to their respective places in the invisible world of niskala. At the same time, at Beraban village Tanah Lot will held Pemelastian Ceremony on 5 PM today. Melasti is the annual washing of the temple implements after the biggest day of the year, Galungan, and before Kuningan day. Priests and banjars from every part of Beraban village have to wash their temple equipment in the sea that is Segara Kidul Tanah Lot Temple as part of a ritual cleansing.
The infinite symbols are brought to the sea to be re-sanctified with the sprinkling seawater that is called with the holy water or Tirta, afterward all of it are brought back to the temple accordingly. These events are very exciting and full of ornaments, decorations and balinese gamelan sound. A coastal have been fulfilled by society that are using its custom clothes with the majority color of white. Arrive at parking area, entourage directly forming pageant and going to Tanah Lot Temple accompanied by balinese gamelan. |
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Galungan Ceremonial : Umanis Galungan at Tanah Lot |
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 On Umanis Galungan day, Thursday, August 21th, 2008, many visitor enjoying their holiday at Tanah Lot Tourism Object. Most of them are domestic visitor from local Bali and some are foreigner. Most visitor that came to Tanah Lot, have been visiting Tanah Lot before. But some of them said, this is their first time visit Tanah Lot. Besides to seeing unique temple and beautiful sunset, they also want to shoping at Tanah Lot Art Market. Seen from amount of visitor, visit rank for this moment are increase compared with day before. Because of the holiday, most people usually spent their time with their family while their have vacation. Amount of visitor to Tanah Lot increase drastically from year before that is visitor from visitor. Because of the situation, parking area fullfilled with vehicle. Until parking staff then transferred parking to empty farm which exist close to Enjung Galuh area. Umanis Galungan takes place the day after Galungan Day, at the Thursday of Dungulan, the 11th week of the Pawukon calendar. The purpose of this day is to cleanse the bhuana alit (= the micro cosmos, the individual human being) in a physical and spiritual sense. After the ceremony, people perform the so called nyurud (= the taking back the offerings and sharing them with the family members) as a symbol of obtaining blessings from Bhatara Hyang Guru. |
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