PURI LUMBUNG COTTAGES

A small – scale core rural tourism development which is an experimental community and environment based project Prepared by: Nyoman Bagiarta October 1992

Background

Vision :

In 1955 the capital of Bali ( Singaraja ) was moved from the North to the South (Denpasar ). At the same time there was a strong recommendation from CHECHI report (sponsored by the US Department of Commerce) to the Indonesian government, to establish tourism development ( The recommendation was to build at the southern part of Bali which has white sands ) for aiding the economic activities in Indonesia . Since then a number of issues have arisen which are gradually becoming worse

Among the issues are :

1. All economic activities and trade, administration activities public facilities, are concentrated in South Bali . The northern area's more agriculture is drier and more acid as well as a substantially, higher population in the villages. More-over there is a tendency that the price of all traditional commodities are always going down.
2. The consequences cause a serious inbalance due to:
1. brain/capital flight to the south
2. flows of migration and creating over-population in the large cities.
3. Youngsters leaving their village ( a lack of workers in the village )
3. The culmination of these condition create less accessible opportunities for education/training, less access to labor markets/employment and an unbalanced distribution of income and prosperity for the north.
4. Other issues, Tourism industry damages the local culture and environment
5. Indonesian lack of entrepreneurs for supporting economic development
6. School teaching staff must to give training in bussines skills.They must have business training centers to help students drive initiatives to becomes business minded

Mission

To establish a small scale model as a show case, which could to a certain degree respond to all these issues.

•  Who designed and what is their aspiration or whatever the last is their ethics philosophy?

•  Any change or development is creating disharmonies or creating advantages and disadvantages for the environment.

•  Traditionally Balinese have a concept about these issues called TRI HITA KARANA ( the Hindhu Concept of Mans requirement by the Gods is to co – exist with nature around them as well as with their fellow humans. All this in order to please the Gods and maintain universal relationships among them with nature and God ( Creator ). This sustainable development can only be maintained through proper planning and sound ethical considerations for balancing the needs of human beings with the capacity of the nature to supply those materials.