Bhisama is a religious decree, a local Indonesian/Balinese term referring to a kind of informal regulation regarding to Hindu related issues which is issued by the Hindu Dharma Council (PHDI/Parisadha Hindu Dharma Indonesia). The members of council is mostly consisting of Hindu highest priest and also important people in Indonesia Hindu society.

One of the Bhisama regulation is about the rules of Surrounding Holy Site Temple of 5 kilometer radius. Generally speaking, the regulation prohibit any parties to build anything other than temple related building (such as villas, hotels, restaurants etc) in radius of 5 kilometers of a temple. This rule is only applied for certain temples belong to Kahyangan Jagat temple, literally meaning the big big temple of which the worshipers come from not only from the village where the temple is located, but from all over Bali/Indonesia. These temples are Pura Besakih, Pura Ulun Danu Batur, Pura Uluwatu etc.

It is clearly understood the reasons why the council issuing this regulation and that is to protect the holiness of the temple especially from the growing of the tourism industry in Bali. It is unacceptable, let say, there is a hotel/resort/pub, right next door for those temples. Unfortunately, there seems to be an ‘underground movement’ in Bali recently in order to shutting down the Bhisama. This will lead into a conspiracy to destroy Bali . This movement which can be a seminar, an open discussion, a march etc, is mainly aimed at reducing the 5 kilometer rules into less distance let say 2 kilometers or 3 kilometers and even 1 kilometers. If this happens, there is no doubt that Bali will be destroyed as the investors are free to build anything really close to the holy site temple. Bali will be known not as the island of thousand temple anymore, but the island of thousands villa.

Who are the master mind of this movement?

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