Bali Echo Visitor's Guide

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February/March, 1998
No. 033/VI/98

Galleries Galore
The boom in
contemporary Balinese
art

A Matter of Taste
Why bourgeois Balinese
are collecting art

From Toraja to the
Togians
Sulawesi's most seductive
parts

Treading Lightly in
Lombok
Tips to being a green
tourist

Regular

Weekender
The Saltmakers of Amed

Home Grown
Legian's Legend,
Made Kasim

Health and Beauty
The Ubud-based
Bali Utama Spice

Books
The search for the Great
Bali Novel continues

Cuisine
Bumbu Bali cooking
school

Fiction
Marni's Ride by
K. Landras Syaelendra

Jungle Drums

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Welcome to Bali Echo Visitor's Guide Magazine

Every year, the Indonesian President announces an annual theme for the government's tourism campaign. This year, 1998, President Suharto has named The Year of Arts and Culture. It happens to be fitting then, that we dedicate the main feature in this edition of Bali Echo to a story on some of the independent initiatives to further contemporary art in Bali

from editor

In tradition-bound Bali, modern art and galleries committed to exhibiting it are blooming. Putu Wirata looks at some of the artistic transitions that have led up to this contemporary trend.

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Melody Kemp takes a weekend away, and gets talking to the salt makers of Bali's East.

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When the crew of Endless Summer II - the surf classic that features in-action footage and interviews with top surfers in countries the world over - came to shoot the Indonesian section of the film, it was this same surf legend they chose to profile. When the likes of Tom Carrol, Gerry Lopez and Peter McCabe come to Bali, as they often do, they get off the plane and head straight for the surf legend's door. Who is he?

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Practising Alchemy in Ubud

"We're just a couple of dreamers really," says Dayu Suci.

"Our dreams just happen to coincide," adds Melanie Templar, smiling at her business partner. These two women are the power and ideas behind Utama Spice, a small emerging business that creates some of the most sensational smells in Bali.

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Bali Living
Serene, still and profoundly calming, your biorhythms ease out with a smooth slide into sheer peace even as you enter the grounds of Komaneka Resort just behind Komaneka Gallery.

Bali Update
Bali Echo expands into cyberspace

Bali Echo Next Issue
The March April edition of Bali Echo commemorates International Women's Day and Kartini Day with a cover feature on the women who run Bali's corporate sector.

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