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Inside the small, open-air stone temple in the centre of the Lotudunduh rice fields, a farmer wraps a sarong and sash around his mud-spattered work clothes. Subak, says I Made Chakra Widia, is a very ...

No superlatives are being spared when it comes to describing Bali: Island of the Gods, Paradise Island, Island of peace and even Island of Love. After landing at the overcrowded airport in Kuta, it ...

JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): In the heart of Bali, where yellow-green paddy terraces ripple across the landscape like waves, ancient subak rice fields bear witness to the island’s rich cultural ...

BALI, Indonesia, May 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo officially opened the 10th World Water Forum on Monday (5/20/2024) at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center (BNDCC). In his ...

The role of the rice-field system is deeply rooted in the culture of Balinese people, aside from its extra value for tourism. The Balinese crop system is related with religious, historical and ...

Bali Governor Wayan Koster announced a moratorium on farmland conversion to tourist and commercial use. Every year, about 1,000 hectares of rice paddies and green spaces are lost, with extensive ...

The people of Bali have relied on rice as their staple food for centuries - now the United Nations has added Balinese rice cultivation, known as Subak, to its World Heritage List. For a thousand years ...

Indonesian government and people in Bali celebrated on Monday the inscription of Balinese traditional irrigation system, called Subak, as one of the world's heritage endorsed by the United Nations ...

Bali's unique subak irrigation system has kept its iconic rice paddies lush for centuries. But tourism is threatening the water supply, and a new Trump development could be the worst offender yet in ...