Balinese Customary Consultation Service Unit

Abstract

Development on tourism sector in Bali Island carried great implication to Balinese costumes and culture. Many cases on Balinese costumes and culture were raised such as costume and culture values infraction, conflict between local community with investor, and others. The present community services were aimed to give consultation in order to solve of many problems related to Balinese customary. The conducted services were giving consultation and assistance to the communities which had problems. Issues raised on the consultation were discussed and publicized to Bali costumes community. The activities of community services were located at Graduate School of Udayana University building, Denpasar. Result showed that this unit has gained a positive response, which indicated by number of people using this services as well as number of books being sold. In ten months, 3000 books have been sold or approximately 300 books per month. Majority (almost 80%) were bought by government institutions, which then distributed it to the community; while the rest 20% were bought by the individual. Meanwhile, in term of services, this unit was able to served 126 clients for consultation. They were mostly local Balinese people (around 80%), 15% were non-Bali citizen, and about 5% were expatriates. And besides those activities, this unit was also provided consultation services in the making of awig-awig (Balines custom regulation) for 3 desa adat in 2011. To sum up, during 10 months of operation, this unit has turnover reached IDR. 217,237,500 or equivalent to IDR 21,723,750 per month, with the following details: 1) sale of books at IDR 124,237,500; 2) consultation services at IDR 63,000,000; and 3) awig-awig consultation services at IDR. 30.000.000,-. Net cash flows, then, reached IDR 46,578,400, and about IDR 4,019,600 of the net cash flows were allocated for institution’s development program