The Badung Regency Government, Bali, is arranging the cliffs of Uluwatu Temple. However, the project involves dredging the cliffs in the Uluwatu Temple area. Social media is abuzz with the update, which reaps the pros and cons.
Updates Uluwatu Seawall from the latest video show that machines and heavy equipment have dredged most of the cliff and covered the beach at the bottom.
Heavy equipment dredged the cliff in the Uluwatu Temple area, and materials were also seen falling into the sea. The cliff dredging project has become a public concern and has even generated pros and cons on social media.
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This project is considered unusual because, although it is for handling cliffs under Uluwatu Temple, the area next to the Uluwatu cliff is also dredged.
As reported by Radar Bali, The Head of Badung PUPR Office, IB Surya Suamba, emphasized that the handling of the cracked cliff of Uluwatu Temple began in several stages, starting with the construction of an access road to the beach or inspection road.
According to him, building an access road to the beach under the cliff of Uluwatu Temple is necessary as a technical and religious facility.
The construction of the inspection road is needed for material mobilization for the Uluwatu cliff handling project.
The method of making a road that dredges the cliff is used because other options are difficult, such as transporting large stones and tetrapods using ships.
“Therefore, we ask for forgiveness and support from all parties. Here, the goal is really only to save the temple,” said the Head of the Water Resources Division of the PUPR Badung Office, Anak Agung Rama Putra, on October 14, 2024, as reported by Kumparan.
Uluwatu seawall plan design
The construction of the access road has gone through academic studies from Unud (Udayana University) and other experts, and has obtained permission from pengempon pura and traditional villages as landowners.
Some of the design stages include installing geotextile and installing geotextile, a material used to improve soil structure. The next step is lowering and arranging bolder or larger boulders, followed by the installation of a silt protector in the sea, which reduces seawater pollution.
Next is the creation of a protective physical structure or revetment along the coastal cliff so that waves do not directly hit the cliff and cause abrasion.
Targeted for completion by the end of 2024
The first phase of the Uluwatu cliff crack repair is targeted to be completed by December 2024. The Badung Regency Government has prepared a budget of IDR 78.6 billion for repairing the cliff rift.
Work on this project began with the carrying out of the mulang pakelem ceremony. The Mulang Pakelem ceremony is an important part of Balinese Hindu religious practice carried out to maintain spiritual balance and obtain blessings and protection from the Almighty.
Mulang Pekelem can be done in the ocean or in a mountain crater. It is expected to maintain the harmony of the universe.
