Banyak orang Bali percaya bahwa COVID-19 tidak dapat dilawan dengan protokol kesehatan saja, dan membutuhkan persembahan ritual dan doa. Tetapi ritual kolektif menempatkan orang pada risiko yang lebih besar.
- Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Many Balinese believe COVID-19 cannot be fought with health measures alone, and requires ritual offerings and prayer. But collective ritual places people at more risk.
Ratusan ribu orang di Lombok kehilangan rumah menyusul gempa bumi. Sebagian besar penderitaan ini bisa dicegah jika rumah-rumah dibangun tahan gempa.
Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless following the Lombok earthquakes. Much of this suffering need not have happened if houses were constructed to better withstand shaking.
To the people of Bali, Mt Agung is not just a volcano. The “great mountain” holds spiritual power and reflects cultural and political unrest.
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