Written by Ivony Lestari  (016201200029)


Who doesn't know Bali? beside it has so many hidden paradises it also has many kind of interesting and unique cultures itself that can attract people all over the world. One of their cultures distract my attention is Omed-omedan. The means of attraction in Indonesian, was followed by young men and women who are not married, aged between 17-30 years, the attraction followed kissing scene between a young man and woman. This tradition is quite unique and makes we are curious, this procession is celebrated just a day after Nyepi ceremony or on Geni Ngembak day, the 1st of the new year Çaka Balinese calendar. This unique tradition is celebrated in Sesetan village, South Denpasar in order to ask the safety of a whole village.




what i concern to this culture is Indonesia as one of the eastern countries which in accordance with eastern customs that still holds ethics which means there were several of pro and contra to this culture. the ones who against this culture because they perceive it doesn't appropriate with eastern ethics, but meanwhile for whom they support because they think it's our own absolute culture which have been already there for a long long time ago and must be preserved. Once a time, this event has ever stopped but there was a fighting between 2 pigs in the temple but believe it or not strangely both just dissapeared in the middle of fight. and the people consider it as a bad sign. Therefore, Omed-omedan was re-held. It all depend on how we do perceive and how we define culture as our customs itself. Why dont we just preserve the culture as long as it is good and doesn't harm for other people instead of we should be proud because this event can attract tourist and our culture can be more known abroad.