Siat Sampian - Balinese Traditions

Located at Pura Samuan Tiga, Bedulu Gianyar, every year routinely carried out the tradition / ceremony Siat Sampian which is a series of upakara works in the temple. This once-a-year tradition also attracts foreign tourists. The Sampian War is also immortalized by dozens of photographers both foreign and local.


Before this tradition began, performed the ceremony Nampiog, Ngober and Meguak-guakan. In this ceremony, hundreds of residents surround the temple area while gesturing their hands like crows (goak).

This procession is followed by the permas or mothers who have been sanctified. In addition to mothers, local masters also joined the temple area. After this procession finished with Ngombak ceremony. At this ceremony the women who numbered 46 people, as well as the sameton parekan men or also sanctified amounted to 309 people perform the ceremony Ngombak (do waves like movement).

The ceremony is done by holding hands with each other, then move like a wave. After the ceremony, the men and women immediately took sampian (a series of janur for offerings) and beat each other and throw or war with each other's sampian.

"Nampiog, Ngober, Meguak-guakan and Ngombak is a cleansing process before the Siat Sampian ceremony is done," said I Wayan Patra, a traditional figure at Pura Samuan Tiga in an opportunity.