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Author: Kadek Resdana
THE BALINESE NAMES
The Balinese Names

Bali known as an island with a strong bound of solidarity ,respects and a very tide of harmony living in their social lives. Rituals and religious believes have hardly been ever separated from their daily life and activities.one of the most crucial ceremony in the whole human Balinese life is a three(3) months ceremony for the baby.this ceremony is represented to the ancestors who reincarnate to the baby body,having a full Balinese name and allowing the baby to touch the ground (as a mother earth) for the first time since the baby born. Generally Balinese speaks Balinese Language (bahasa Bali) as a daily speaking language and Indonesian language ( Bahasa Indonesia) as national mother language in formal situations such as at school,government offices,Bank,post office etc.now days, many of Balinese speaks English for most and others language such as german,French ,Russian,chinesse and many more languages due to the demand on the tourism industry.
The Balinese names as Local ID.
As we talking about the Balinese names,The Balinese people has their own local Balinese names which describes sort of birth in their family such as putu,gede,kadek ,komang ,ketut and so on,before its followed by their full name or secondary names and of course,often you hear those specific names while you are in Bali.Formerly, those sort of birth names are used for the traditional Balinese family planning and supposed to have four(4) kids in the entire family.but nowdays,according the Indonesian Government family planning program “2 kids is enough” , the third and the fourth Balinese names soon will be reduced in usage or could be gone. normally in old passion Balinese names are not using or put the family name in their name,but some family starting to use a family name at the end of their Balinese names.it has changed a lots, it is because of how important to put their family name for their next generation or might because of modern influences from the western style name.and also could be really important to have a family name in their balinese name in order to organize a passport or other legal papers for those who want to stay,study or work in foreign country.
Here they are the 10th Balinese names :
1.the first born baby has 4( four) names,called:
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WAYAN,Taken from the origin word of “wayahan “ means the eldest or the most ripe if taken from the words of fruits and used for the girl and boy name.
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LUH,Taken from the origin word of “luwe” in Balinese it means female and used only for the women or girl name.
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GEDE,means “huge”,the biggest or the oldest and commonly used for the boy name.
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PUTU,taken from the word “cucu” means the grand child of the family.so it is more easy to call the first baby “ucu” or “cucu” from the grandparents. and costumized to putu.it used for a both gender name the girl and the boy.
2.the 2nd born baby has 3(three) names,called:
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MADE,Taken from the word “madia” or the middle in English translation .it means the kinds who are born in the middle or means the second born.those name are for a both gender ,boy and the girl’s name.
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NENGAH, which means in the middle or the origin word of and this name is also for the boy and girl’s name.
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KADEK, this name is the costumization from the name of Made.taken from the origin word “kade or adek” .it means the your brother or sister and this name is used for a both gender boy and girl.
3.the 3rd born baby has 2(two) names,called:
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NYOMAN,taken from the origin word of uman,means sisa or the rest.according the ancient Balinese life was suggested to have or better to have 3 kids and therefore would be expected much more matures or wise for the parent for leading or a better conduct to their family life.
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KOMANG, it is the costumization name from the name of nyoman ,cause the name of komang more used for a modern Balinese name for the 3rd born child. Due to the ancient herbal medicines were not effectively prevent the pregnancy and an abortion matter is something really taboo and forbidden among the Balinese society.some family were hardly to stop their pregnancy wife till they have more than 3 children.so then come the fourth.
4.the 4th born baby has the only name called:
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KETUT,taken from the word of kitut,means the bonus or also can be mean really the end of the rest.or it could be means as the belove child.the word of “kitut” in Balinese taken from the last or the lowest group of banana fruit.
So what happen if they have more than 4 children in the family? to named them has to reverse back again to the first name system and having the same circle and so on.it could be have 2 wayans or 2 kadeks in the same family.it sounds interesting,isn’t it? it is no wonder to have the same initial names in entire family in Bali.
The Balinese names also has an Article name which is refers to their gender.commonly used for the Sudra’s name but also some used for the Ksatrya names. the article ‘I’ in the Balinese name is refers to a male names, such as “I made…or I gusti…and so on. and the article “NI” is refers to a female names such as : Ni Luh…,Ni Komang…,and so on.All those names are applied in every castes level.it would be begun by their caste’s title and then followed by their sort of birth name in the family, such as:
- –Brahmana name : Ida Bagus Gede….,Ida ayu(Dayu) Putu…or and so on.
- –Ksatrya name: Anak Agung Gede…,I gusti putu…,Dewa ketut…and so on
- –Waisya name : Ngakan gede…,kompyang putu…, Sang Nyoman…, and so on.
- –Sudra name : has no title’s name and it is directly begun with their sort of birth name in their family as explained above.
Many of things has changed in this modern lives including the way of giving the children’s name. in the past,our parent were easily gave their children a name as they want or thought as long as not confused them when they call their children’s name.but now days ,mostly parent are really carefully choose or took the name for their children.sometimes, they have to ask the priest or wise people,or taken from the sanskrit name or what’s the popular now? some of baline children’s name is influenced by western name such as : kadek cindy….,or Putu robby adi….,komang vina…and so on.then combined with some others Balinese name.therefore,next time when you are in Bali and meet the Balinese for the first time, it would be no wonder at all if they introduce their balinese name to you then easily for you to recognize that they are Balinese people.
BABI GULING,WORTH IT TO TRY WHEN YOU ARE BALI?
BALI’S TRADITIONAL DISH AND ITS RELATION TO RITUALS
Bali known as an island with nearly 80% of the balinese people are majorities of hindusm adherents,called Hindu Dharma. where in their daily life can not be separate from their customs and rich of rituals ceremony. various offerings includes Babi guling is often offered during the ceremony.Babi guling is one of the most important stuff on hinduism ceremony suck as for wedding ceremony ,three months new born Baby ceremony,funeral and many more. Nowdays , babi guling is not just part of the ceremony’s offers only. but in reality its became a prestige culinary business caused by the increase of tourist visits every year, population, food needed and complexity of the local activities.it has given really wide chances to open a small babi guling food stand (locally called warung ) or even a restaurant which based on original local dish.
Babi guling ( suckling pig roasted) is originally called” be guling”.Be locally means the assence of Meat ( it can substitute from other animal instead pig) and guling means rolled over wood,coconut skin or charcoal fire( it is not baked in the oven for sure). So babi guling or be guling is a roasting process of the whole meat of pig or others which is always rolled over the fire for some certain of time(3-4 hours) until its get cook and the color is changed into brown and mostly the skin of the meat become crispy.and commonly we choose the young pig with the average weight between 30kg -40 kg .sometimes, for any reason of the ritual needs,we made also the huge babi guling with almost 100 kg pig, for e.g. a ceremony to pay a promise(sesangi or sesaudan) if something you wished for came true.
THE PROCESS TO MAKE BABI GULING
Anyway, to make Babi guling takes a lots of process.starting from preparing the sauces which made from the complete Balinese spices ingredients such as Galangal,aromatic ginger,ginger,domestic curcuma,garlic,onion,fresh chilli papers and many more. A good composition of those ingredients create a complete Balinese sauce called Base gede. This sauce is the basic of all Balinese food such Lawar, jejeruk,tum,jukut ares or jukut balung and etc , with some of addition required sauces.so when the sauce part is done ,then they’ve got to catch the pig from their cage or even from the wild ,hehe…
The whole process of making babi guling takes totally between 4-5 hours and normally has to work on team. started with slaughtering the pig (they collect its fresh blood for other balinese food called lawar ). Then cleaning the skin out with fire or hot water. This process takes a little bit longer while has to be all everything cleaned and shinny before we take out the innards contents from the pig belly. then we have to separate the clean pig part from its innards contents to get ready for roasting the pig. in Bali it has not a special slaughter house where a ready pig for babi guling available .While the whole pig is clean and ready to be roasted with the special roasting stick wood or Bamboo.in the pig’s belly we put the mix of young cassava leaves and some of the base gede which has made in the beginning.beside of that, the fire has to be sure ready before they begin to rolled over it.in this process will take another 3 hours even more.they have still to work on team where one person has to rolled the pig over the fire always and the other has to manage the fire for giving a nice and smooth heat for a better fire’s circumstance. the Babi guling will get well cook when it gets the color changed into deep shiny brow,of course not burned and the skin gets crispy but for some part it won’t get that crispy or crunchy. as they supposed to have the most delicious part is the crispy skin and a juicy tender meat with a perfect blending of cassava leaves and base gede itself cook in the pig belly during the roasting process. then, it has to be taken out from the fire when the Babi guling is done.so it is ready used for an offerings on ceremony at first or directly used for the party.
WORTH IT TO TRY ?
Eating Babi guling is not just about consuming a juicy tender meat at all.but it is a unique blending taste of the meat itself with a complex taste of Balinese sauce or base gede.it melt in the mouth which gave a real taste of the authentic Balinese food to be enjoyed.in Bali to have a portion of babi guling is always serve with a big mixture from steamed rice,a juicy meat of the babi guling itself ,the vegetable of cassava leave which is cook together along the process.it comes also with lawar, some grated coconut mixed with a fine chopped fork and base gede with the fried onion and garlic( originally this food also mixed with fresh blood for red lawar and white lawar without blood).usually for the tourist or non Balinese will serve only with white lawar. other things,it may comes with Balinese sausages,sate lilit ( a mixed of minced fork or other meats with soft grated of coconut and skewed on a bamboo stick and grilled),and some of fried innards or fork itself. The last normally serve in a bowl is fork bones soup(jukut balung) which also taste so much different with those all mixture. So the question is, worth it to try when you are in Bali ? ok, if you are a non muslim or meat lover, the answer is “ yes ,it is !”. it is worth to try cause it really safe food by processed in fine way and having rich mixture of taste of a complex ingredients of Balinese base gede. Also one thing you should ask before you try this food is” no spicy “. Cause commonly the Balinese food is spicy for most otherwise you will have burned lips afterward. it might be also as an alternative food references while you are having holiday in our beautiful and religious Bali island.
Eventually with all of our respects and appreciation to all of our visitors in Bali. hopefully this article could be worthwhile for your alternative Balinese authentic food instead of others Balinese delicate dishes. it might also raising up the economic and help the local Balinese people with supports and contribution by purchased their local products. Without trying or taste the local Balinese food ,you will never get to know the real Bali ever.
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