A Soundtrack of Resistance - Episode 7: Bali Berani Berhenti (Bali Dares to Stop)

Episode 7: Bali Berani Berhenti (Bali Dares to Stop)

02/06/22 • 60 min

In this episode of the podcast, we're looking at Nyepi through the Navicula song, Saat Semua Semakin Cepat Bali Berani Berhenti, or as everything gets faster and faster Bali dares to stop.

Released in 2016 it's the band's love letter to Nyepi - Bali’s day of silence during which the entire island shuts down for 24 hours. A gentle acoustic folk ballad the song is an ode to the Island's bravery to continue celebrating its traditions in the face of globalization and to slip into stillness amidst so much noise.

But Nyepi isn't the only example of Bali’s bravery to go against the status quo. In 2019, the province became the first in Indonesia to pass a regulation, banning the use of certain types of single use items, including plastic bags, styrofoam, and plastic straws, in restaurants, cafes, shops, and markets. This was a significant step in tackling Indonesia's widely acknowledged plastic waste crisis.

In this episode we are joined by two experts on Balinese culture - historian, Dr Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan and community activist and event organizer Odeck Ariawan. We’ll also meet environmental activist and lawyer Tiza Mafira to learn about the extent of Indonesia's plastic waste crisis.

We also have two bonus episodes, featuring the full conversations with Tiza Mafira and Dr Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan available at soundtrackofresistance.net

Writing and Production: Ewa Wojkowska & Julia Winterflood

Production and sound design: Gede Robi

Co-production: Vanessa Harsamto, Sergina Loncle, Andre Dananjaya

Mixing and Mastering: Cipta Gunawan, Tude Arta Sedana

All Music: Navicula

Podcast Artwork: Krishna Adipurba

Web design: Jay Sims, Vanessa Harsamto, Fleava, Major Tom

Photography: Penny Lane

Show notes, source and bonus material:

https://naviculamusic.com/en/podcast/baliberaniberhenti/

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Hosted by: Ewa Wojkowska
Writing and Production: Ewa Wojkowska, Julia Winterflood, Lakota Moira
Production and sound design: Gede Robi
Co-production: Sergina Loncle, Andre Dananjaya
Mixing and Mastering: Cipta Gunawan, Tude Arta Sedana
All Music: Navicula
Podcast Artwork: Krishna Adipurba
Web design: Jay Sims, Vanessa Harsamto, Fleava, Major Tom
Photography: Penny Lane
Show Notes: https://naviculamusic.com/podcast/

In this episode of the podcast, we're looking at Nyepi through the Navicula song, Saat Semua Semakin Cepat Bali Berani Berhenti, or as everything gets faster and faster Bali dares to stop.

We also have two bonus episodes, featuring the full conversations with Tiza Mafira and Dr Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan available at soundtrackofresistance.net

Writing and Production: Ewa Wojkowska & Julia Winterflood

Production and sound design: Gede Robi

Co-production: Vanessa Harsamto, Sergina Loncle, Andre Dananjaya

Mixing and Mastering: Cipta Gunawan, Tude Arta Sedana

All Music: Navicula

Podcast Artwork: Krishna Adipurba

Web design: Jay Sims, Vanessa Harsamto, Fleava, Major Tom

Photography: Penny Lane

Show notes, source and bonus material:

https://naviculamusic.com/en/podcast/baliberaniberhenti/

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Episode 6: Mafia Hukum / The Legal Mafia

In this episode we are getting into a topic that every Indonesian across the country thinks about, corruption. We're going to do our best to give you a picture of why it's such a big issue in Indonesia and introduce you to some of the people and organizations who are tackling corruption at different levels in very diverse and creative ways.

We're looking at all of this through the Navicula song that has become the anthem of Indonesia's anti-corruption movement, Mafia Hukum, or the legal mafia, a song that is arguably one of the band's biggest hits.

This episode features: Dandhy Laksono, Documentary Filmmaker; Saut Situmorang, Deputy Commissioner of KPK (2015-1019), Sely Martini, Indonesia Corruption Watch; Edward Andrews, Musician; Gede Robi, Vocalist & Guitarist of Navicula.

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Episode 8: Orangutan

With their pensive expressions, boundless curiosity, and frequent bursts of playfulness, it’s not hard to see just how closely biologically related we are to orangutans. But despite them being so closely related to us and their name literally meaning 'person of the forest' - we have threatened them with extinction.
In this episode we’re looking at an issue that has come to represent Indonesia’s darkest environmental reality: deforestation and habitat loss in Sumatra and Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, through Navicula’s song Orangutan.
Writing and Production: Ewa Wojkowska , Julia Winterflood, Vanessa Harsamto

Production and sound design: Gede Robi

Co-production: Sergina Loncle, Andre Dananjaya

Mixing and Mastering: Cipta Gunawan, Tude Arta Sedana

All Music: Navicula

Podcast Artwork: Krishna Adipurba

Web design: Jay Sims, Vanessa Harsamto, Fleava, Major Tom

Photography: Penny Lane

Show notes, source and bonus material:

https://naviculamusic.com/en/podcast/orangutan/

A Soundtrack of Resistance - Episode 7: Bali Berani Berhenti (Bali Dares to Stop)

Transcript

Tiza: I think Nyepi should be a global ideology or an entire economic ideology, where we need to have good, long, hard, think about how to stop doing some of the things that we're doing that is over straining the planet.

Odeck: Whoever designing NYEPI in Bali. Is probably a genius that allowing us to do this....none other culture in the world can be able to stop anything like that. I think, basically it's overing solution to the world that sometime we nee