On Balinese new year eve, known as pangrupukan (this year falls on 6/3/2008), thousands of ogoh ogoh (giant puppet of evil spirits, scary monsters, giants of Ramayana epic and other malevolent beings), will on the street all over the island. The ogoh ogoh is usually made by the youth organization in every hamlet in Bali. However, sometimes the members of a youth organization do not have much time to construct an ogoh-ogoh, or simply do not know how to make one so in order to be able to participate in ogoh ogoh parade they order an ogoh ogoh from ogoh ogoh workshop.

One of few ogoh ogoh workshops in Bali is located in Sesetan village, Denpasar. I Wayan Candra established this workshop, which is well known as Gases Bali, in 1990. Before establishing this ogoh ogoh workshop I Wayan Chandra have already run a workshop, which construct cremation tower, cow sarcophagi, and concrete statue. He come from undagi (traditional engineer) family, which its main duty is to construct cremation tower, cow sarcophagi, traditional house or other structures.

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Pangrupukan, Balinese New Year eve is always full with celebration and festivity, and ogoh-ogoh, the monstrous doll of Bhuta kala, evil spirit or the personification of negative force, is an indispensable part of this festival.

The ogoh-ogoh is truly monstrous in size and appearance. The inspiration for creating this monster is usually drawn from the Ramayana epic, the tale of Calonarang, and other Balinese folktales. The ogoh-ogoh must be in a form of Asuri Sampad or scary monster, giant, witch and other kinds of monster.

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For Balinese, security is a vital aspect of life especially the security of religious ceremony, to ensure the security of their religious ceremony, a traditional security force called pecalang. The word “pecalang” is derived from the word “celang” that means “vigilant”. They are easily recognized by their cloths, their trademark uniform is, black and white checkered waistcloths, carrying keris daggers with black or checkered headdress.

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