Batubulan, Bali

Batubulan is a village in Central Bali, to the northwest of Denpasar. Its name means "moon stone". It is a crafts village with a thriving cottage industry concentrating on the making of "instant antique" furniture and traditional stone carving.

As you pass through the village, you can see the road lined with shops selling Balinese "antique" furniture and carvings of mythological figures.

The village temple of Batubulan, Pura Puseh, make good use of Bali's gray stone, paras, which is quarried from the river gorges. The soft texture of paras lends itself well to stone carving as well as for use in building construction.

Stone carving in Batubulan (18 June, 2004)


Batubulan has a number of Barong dance troupes. You can view a performance of the Barong at Pura Puseh every alternate week. In the intervening weeks the troupe will be performing at the village's community pavilion, or bale banjar.

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