On February 11, 2008, the royal family of Buleleng will hold the centennial celebration of Anak Agung Pandji Tisna, the first Balinese writer and also the beloved prince of Buleleng Kingdom. In 1930s, Anak Agung Pandji Tisna was the only Balinese writer that categorized with other Indonesian prodigious writers as Pujangga Baru (New Writer). His novels are Ni Rawit Ceti Penjual Orang (Ni Rawit Ceti, The Men Seller (1935), Ni Sukreni Gadis Bali (Ni Sukreni the Balinese Girl (1936), I Swasta Setahun di Bedahulu (I Swasta, A Year in Bedahulu) (1937), I Made Widiadi, Kembali Kepada Tuhan (I Made Widiadi, Back to God) (1957), and other high quality writings.

The series of art performances and seminar to commemorate the centennial celebration of Anak Agung Pandji Tisna will be hold in the Buleleng Palace ( Puri Agung Singaraja / The Great Palace of Singaraja) from February 10 – 11, 2008 (Sunday and Monday).

The series of events that will be held have a strong relation with Anak Agung Pandji Tisna activities in his lifetime especially in the field of literature, tourism, and education.

In the field of literature, there will be short story writing competition and other literary competition. In the field of tourism, there will be yacht competition, gangsing competition and other traditional game competitions. In the field of education there will be poetry, coloring, and other educational competition.

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Home grown and Home made

* It’s a great place to buy healthy foods & products while you meet your friends!
* It’s great energy and supports small local businesses!
* Saturday mornings, 9:30 - 2, Pengosekan - Ubud, at Pizza Bagus

Each Saturday morning in Pengosekan, just outside central Ubud, 11 small Bali businesses set up their organic produce, healthy foods and products, and greet a wide variety of buyers - locals, expats, pembantus, and tourists.

Originally envisioned to provide local, independent, small organic growers with a way to sell direct to buyers – and therefore keep them growing organically - the market is now is 11 small Bali businesses including small farm grown organic produce and rice, homemade food products, education about caring for our environment & reducing waste, other healthy foods and products - the variety is too big to imagine.

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A.A Gde Agung National Hero

Source Bali Post January 22, 2008

Governor Bali, Dewa Beratha, never recommends title national hero to Late Dr. A.A. Gde Agung. There is something wrong in recommendation prosses that comes from outside Bali. Furthermore, there should be also a verification of recommendation before the title officially granted.

Seen on picture Dewa Beratha is in the middle together with Legiun Veteran Bali and PPM Bali displaying a banner mentioned “Reject Dr. Anak Agung Gde Agung (Former King of Gianyar & Prime Minister East state of Indonesia) as National Hero”.

They urge Governor to set up a recommendation to President in order to revoke that title.

Reference: Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung

A permanent exhibition room in Agung Rai Museum of Art (ARMA) is immortalized as Anak Agung Made Djelantik Room to honour Anak Agung Made Djelantik’s dedication for art and culture of Bali especially Balinese painting. This permanent exhibition room houses the watercolor paintings of Anak Agung Made Djelantik, the founder of Bali Walter Spies Foundation and the Honorary President of German Walter Spies Society. A strong bond between Walter Spies and Anak Agung Made Djelantik is showed by the position of this new room that is next to Walter Spies Room.

Left to Right: Bulan Trisna Djelantik (the doughter), Anak Agung Rai (owner of ARMA), Horst Jordt (President Walter Spies Society Germany), and the picture of Anak Agung Made Djelantik

The watercolor paintings of Anak Agung Made Djelantik which are exhibited here depict the fateful events in Anak Agung Made Djelantik life, from early in the childhood up to retirement years. The theme of the paintings range from the black magic to culture shock, from temple to boat race, in short the themes of the paintings cover all aspects of Anak Agung Made Djelantik life.

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“Yayasan Walter Spies Bali” and “Walter Spies Society Germany”

cordially invites you to attend the opening of the

“A. A. Made Djelantik Room”

at ARMA MUSEUM Ubud

on 9th January 2008, 17.00 pm.

This Permanent Exhibition of water color paintings to Celebrates the Life of a Balinese Prince, a Humanitarian, Doctor and an Artist.

You can find moneychangers in all tourism are all over Bali, but moneychangers in major tourism area will give you the best rate due to the intense competition, the one in far reaches tourism area such as Gilimanuk does not offer a good rate. Moneychangers generally do not charge a fee for their services, so you can change money as often as you want without it costing you. The moneychangers rates are vary, but they offer quicker service and usually give a better exchange rate than banks. They also do not open as early as banks but stay open much longer than banks. Bank seldom post exchange rates, but moneychangers always do.

Though the rate of the moneychangers are vary it is best for you to use the service of authorized moneychangers to prevent you from being robbed at un-authorized moneychangers and support Indonesian Central Bank to fight against money laundering. The authorized moneychangers posted this logo:

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