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Purification ceremony held at Sari Club, Kuta

The grieves and sincere condolence is still covering Bali. But the Balinese Hindu people never stop their effort to show that Bali will awake up soon and many tourists will also fled from their country to visit Bali.

As Balinese Hindu’s belief, every calamity happened in Bali must be purified spiritually and the rites must be held in a place where it's happened.

It can be visualized at the remains of Sari Club on Jl Legian Kuta, the purification ceremony was conducted after the bombs explosion in order to purify the earth. The purification ceremony is called Pemerayasita Durmanggala.

The ceremony was held on October 18, 2002 taking the place at the ruins of Sari Club on Jl Legian, Kuta. Many people from different religions wearing Balinese traditional dress coming there to witness that ceremony while praying together based on their own faith. Many foreigners wore the Balinese dress also came there for joining the ceremony.

The ceremony was started at 16.30 hours local time, when the holy water (tirta) taken from three temples of Peti Tenget temple, Uluwatu Temple and Dalem Peed Temple in Nusa Penida Island were sprinkled to the earth at Sari Club areas. The holy water that was taken by any ceremony was believed comprising a magical power to purify the earth from any invisible dirtiness because of blood pouring by hundreds of human being that were killed when the bombs explosion.

The ceremony that was conducted by the priest from the general temple in Kuta was attended by IB Wijaya kusuma, the head of Badung’s Religion affair. He also conveyed the prayers for all the soul that are still bound in that place to be released spiritually. The vice regent of Badung was also presented.

The vice regent of Badung, Drs. I Made Sumer said that this ceremony is a primarily spiritual purification ceremony prior to the more elaborate purification ceremony called Pemarisudha Karipu Baya that is scheduled to be conducted by November 15, 2002.

On the other hand, the head of Kuta territorial (locally called as Bendesa adat), I Made Wendra thanked to all people from different ethnics as well as from different religions who had been participated in the purification ceremony.

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