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In Bali, almost everyday you can a find a ceremony or two are held, in an auspicious or lucky day thousands of ceremonies are held all over the islands. These ceremonies cannot just be prepared in a day or two, many workforces and work hours are devoted for the preparation of these ceremonies. These massive workforces and work hours are usually managed based on gender system.
When someone take a closer look on Balinese offering, he/she will readily conclude that most parts of the offering are woven palm leaves. Jejaitan, or woven coconut leaves is not just an indispensable part but also the major part of a Balinese offering.
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Most of jejaitan is made of coconut leaves. The young coconut leaves, busung, is used as material for jejaitan that is used immediately in a ceremony. The mature coconut leaves, slepan is used to make jejaitan that is stored for a quite long time waiting to be used in the approaching ceremony. some jejaitan that is stored for a really long time is usually made of dried palm leaves. There is also jejaitan that is made form sugar palm leaves, thorny pandanus leaves and endong leaves.
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