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Bali Homeland on February 16th, 2011

Nyepi Day procession always preceded by Pengerupukan, which is exactly one day before Nyepi. Pengerupukan always waited by the public especially by young children because in the pengerupukan night ogoh-ogoh will be paraded around the village and around the city accompanied by gambelan beleganjur, kentogan and the young couple who go parading with a torch. [...]

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Bali Homeland on February 15th, 2011

By the celebration of Nyepi holiday which falls on March 5, the Balinese began to prepare the sculpture that called ogoh-ogoh which will parade the day before the celebration of Nyepi. This situation brings its own fortune to the craftsmen ogoh-ogoh because they flooded orders from Bali and outside Bali. One of the ogoh-ogoh maker [...]

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Permana Jayanta on March 25th, 2009

Tomorrow will be 26th March (I use +7 GMT). So what it is about tomorrow? Well, tomorrow is Nyepi day. ‘Nyepi’ is come from word ‘sepi’. It’s Indonesian language for silent. Nyepi is the new year for Hindu in Bali. One day before nyepi is called pengrupukan, this day we usually create ogoh-ogoh. It’s like [...]

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