MANGUPURA, BALI, September 12, 2024 (Nusa Bali, Google translated from Indonesian): The Badung Regency Culture Office (Disbud) preserves arts, traditions and develops Balinese culture through the Utsawa Dharma Gita (UDG) activity at the Badung Regency level in 2024. This year’s Utsawa Dharma Gita carries the theme Adi Ripta Jaladi Mahalango which contains the meaning of the importance of exploring and understanding sacred literature (Adi Ripta) as a path to the highest wisdom. “This activity competes in 38 fields, which are attended by 444 participants from all over Badung, as an effort to preserve the art of Dharma Gita as a noble Balinese cultural heritage,” said Head of Badung Culture Office, Gede Eka Sudarwitha.
Sudawitha said, “We hope that the implementation of Utsawa Dharma Gita can also continue to be improved and become an effort to preserve and develop Hindu religious literature, and noble Balinese cultural literature.” Sudarwitha explained that through this activity, they also strive to preserve the richness of Balinese literature and Hinduism, so that it can be more popular and can be implemented in various coaching carried out by five elements. “These elements include the government, institutional elements, PHDI, the Traditional Village Council, then from the participants themselves, community elements and other components,” he said.
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