Bali is also called the Island of Paradise. An island where everyone can get everything they want on this island. But there is a very astonishing fact about this island hidden behind the noise of those nightclubs and the walls of every resort. On a mountain in the Karangasem area, many people still live in half-finished bamboo houses. Even as simple as getting water, they would need to walk for hours just to get it.
Paradise on Hold Documentary gives a voice to extreme poverty & inequality in Bali that has been muffled by the thick bamboo forests for too long. These are heartfelt stories from people lost in time that shatter our very definition of an island of paradise. In the second Documentary Series, East Bali Poverty Project has been the priority of Our Bali Your Bali & fundraising through the cookbook sales – written by Dean Keddell as the situation in Desa Ban is dire. All proceeds go to charities!
The second episode of Buro Creative Studio’s documentary video, Our Bali Your Bali, went to the other side of Bali and tried to make the voices of those living in poor areas heard. Voices about poverty and injustice have been muffled by bamboo trees that grow in the east of Bali. Complete with various stories from many mouths that do not have a chance to speak from an area that breaks all recent definitions about Bali, an island of paradise.
Our Bali Your Bali’s second episode will introduce the East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP), Terra Water, and East Bali Bamboo Bikes. In 2016, EBPP launched East Bali Bamboo Bikes as a social enterprise to create a sustainable bamboo business by leveraging local natural and human resources to provide support to isolated and underprivileged communities in Desa Ban in East Bali.
The video will be released through a screening event, “Paradise on Hold”, at Jackson Lily’s and to the public on the Our Bali Your Bali Youtube channel on July 23, 2022. This event will bring together five foundations supported by Our Bali Your Bali and hold a talk show seminar on sustainability, the process of making the second episode of the documentary, and how people can help support Bali in the long term.
“Over the years, Bali has made its current economy so dependent on the tourism industry that it has failed to share its benefits with all villages and communities. Instead of sharing this wealth, it has been hidden from the rest and neglected the poor,” said Diego Coppen, Executive Producer of Our Bali Your Bali. There is still so much to change, restructure, and redefine to make tourism incomes more sustainable, but better yet, Bali has become a sustainable island on its own for all communities.
