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Leader of Pura Segara Pidada, Balinese sea side temple, at Banyasri village of Singaraja, has place a protests against Bali villas built in the area. The villa was suspected to be built without proper permit and violate temple holiness zone.

Spokesperson of the temple board, Ngurah Aswibawan said that thy will have no objection if the villa owned by Dutch expatriate, follows regulations both set by the government and traditional community. Unfortunately as the construction went on, the villa did not have building permit (IMB). Presence of the villa has never been coordinated with the temple as well. “The worst thing is the fact that they attempted to manipulate statements of our family in their effort to get building permit,” he said.

Aswibawan said that back on January 29th 2009, a meeting between temple leaders and project manager of the villa was conducted in facilitation of the head of Banyusari village. The meeting concluded project suspension until the building permit obtained. “But the construction remains going on, and the village head has never elaborate a minutes of the meeting,” he explained.

Another meeting was scheduled at the office of the village head on Thursday (February 12th). However, temple leaders chose to neglect the invitation. “Why should we attend the meeting whilst result of the previous meeting was neglected,” he asked.

Village head of Banyusari, Yudistira, said that the meeting scheduled on Thursday has forcibly been cancelled as the leaders of Pidada temple did not come. Their presence was highly expected to obtain mutually agreeable solution to the issue. Considering the latest situation, the village head cocluded that there was nothing he could do and forward the issue to the higher level, the district head of Buleleng.