Star rated hotels not presenting art performances

Denpasar - In order to develop and preserve Bali’s arts and cultures, the sides of star-rated hotels and restaurants should present Bali’s arts and cultures, especially dances in their hotels or restaurants. The performances of Bali’s arts to foreign visitors presented all this time at star-rated hotels are gradually expected to be directed to villages.

The chair of Bali’s PHRI (Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association), Tjokorda Ardana Sukawati proposed that idea in conjunction to the improper rewards received by artists.
“We all know and are sad with the rewards received by Bali’s artists. How it is hurting to see the art groups going to the hotels that book them by open trucks,” said Cok Ace, familiarly called Cok Ace.

An artist group performing gets an unsatisfying taking from a hotel or restaurant’s management, ranging from Rp 1 million to Rp 2 million for a performance.
In fact, a group consists of tens of members. It means a person gets merely some Rp 20,000 to Rp 30,000.

Therefore, Cok Ace, who is also a lecturer at Udayana University, had an idea for art performances to be conducted in villages where the artists reside. Hence, the domestic or foreign guests wanting to see the art performances should come to the artists’ villages.
By this way, the multiplying economic effects for the villages’ peoples will also be great. People can sell handicrafts, foods, and beverages to those guests.

“Rural people economies will be vigorous and the takings of the artists will be bigger and their dignities are going to be better appreciated,” he commented.
He said further that the matter had been said to Bali’s Governor Dewa Made Beratha, who welcomed and supported positively the idea to be enhanced.
“He even mentioned that he was also sad with the condition. The appreciations to Bali’s artists are not respecting humanity. This creates a concern that Bali’s next generation will be reluctant to have professions as artists,” Cok Ace said. *pry/ant

THUMB UP DESERVING- Appreciations to Bali’s artists remain low. Making guests visiting villages, where Bali’s art groups have home-bases, to see their performances is a thumb-up deserving idea.

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