Sandiaga Uno Offers To Injure 35,000 Participants Of The Bali World Water Forum

Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Uno. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno offered local Balinese wisdom, namely melukat or melukat di sekitar 35,000 pesertahan World Water Forum (WWF) ke-10 pada 18-25 Mei 2024 di Nusa Dua, Kabupaten Badung, Bali.

"This has been a lot of requests," said Sandiaga Uno on the sidelines of the 10th WWF preparation meeting at the Bali International Convention Center (BICC) Nusa Dua, Badung, Bali, quoted from Antara, Saturday, April 20.

He explained that the request for a ritual of melukat starting the 10th WWF using the polluted water facility was increasing after the viral US singer Usher made a wound while traveling in Bali in early March 2024.

"Moreover yesterday, Usher was popularized and several other international celebrities," he said.

The injury agenda, he said, was included in one of the supporting activities on the first day or around May 18, 2024, the implementation of the forum which was held every three years.

Melukat became a tradition in Bali which means purification and physical cleansing, which hopes to clean up negative or dirty things both physically and spiritually.

In addition to religious activities for Hindus, currently melukat is an attraction for spiritual tourism that is of interest to tourists.

The existence of local wisdom that honors the water or injures the WWF event in Bali is one of its own uniqueness that carries local wisdom typical of Bali which is different from similar events in other countries.

Previously, Indonesia was chosen to host the 10th WWF through the World Water Council (WWC) General Assembly on March 19, 2022 in Dakar, Senegal, Indonesia.

The big theme of WWF in Bali is Water for Shared Prosperity or water for shared welfare which is scheduled to be attended by around 193 countries in the world.

The World Water Forum is an international meeting involving a number of stakeholders in the water resources sector, ranging from the government, parliament, political leaders, multilateral institutions, politicians, academics, civil society, business actors, and so on.

The 10th WWF carries six main sub-themes, namely water security and well-being, water for humans and nature, reduction and management of disaster risk, governance, cooperation, and hydro-democracy, sustainable water financing, and knowledge and innovation.