An eco-village is an intentional, traditional or urban
community that is consciously designed through locally owned participatory
processes in all four dimensions of sustainability (social, culture, ecology
and economy) to regenerate social and natural environments.
Eco-healing village is a sustainable human settlement which
is in harmony with all aspects of life, as the place where all living organisms
can restore themselves using panca maha
butha (the five elements) of the local biosphere, namely: teja (light/fire), bayu (air), apah (water),
pratiwi (earth), and akasa (space).
A Bali eco-healing village is an eco-healing village in Bali
that is developed and maintained by a sustainable local community, that can
reviving the wisdom of the ancestral culture, the Balinese core-culture,
starting from restoring the natural water resources. In the process of
restoring, the role of vegetation is the most important. In the process of
restoring, the water need to get treatment both by nurture and nature.
Bali is also known as Coconut Island. The lifeway of Bali
is also called the religion of water. Water is always here and there and always
needed in every process of local food producing and in every religious/cultural ceremonies.
Coconut is one of the most sacred plants in Balinese belief. Coconut trees and
all their parts are used in traditional life in Bali since the time of the
ancestors lived, for food, as well as for house building, furniture and household tools. The
parts of coconut trees are also useful for the growth of other plants. Coconut
water, coconut seed (tombong), coconut husk powder, and coconut trunk sawdust can be used as
rooting hormone and planting media. The more diverse plants that can live
together, the more availability of water on the earth's water bodies (lakes, rivers, and streams) and underground. So it cause the
quality of the environment in a village better. And, the better the quality of the
environment of a village, the better the health of its people there.
Sources:
Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim’s lectures
Visitings Rumah Intaran at North Bali
On-going research project’s field findings and explorations
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