Badung Culture Office Recruits Traditional Arts Instructors to Teach Dance and Gamelan in Banjars
The Culture Office (Disbud) of Badung Regency is recruiting traditional arts instructors to support the Banjar Menari programme. This initiative is aimed at preserving gamelan and traditional dance arts in banjars.
“This is more about guaranteeing the quality of arts education in every banjar. The essence of this programme is to ensure that every banjar has a credible mentor,” said Acting Head of the Badung Regency Culture Office, Made Widiana, on Thursday (9/4/2026).
The Badung Regency Government (Pemkab) hopes that the programme will produce regeneration of traditional artists amid the rapid flow of modernisation and tourism development. The selected arts mentors will be assigned to train in basic techniques and the aesthetic values of traditional arts in banjars.
“We are focusing on two main pillars of Balinese performing arts, namely gamelan and dance, so that aesthetic quality standards in Badung are maintained from an early stage. This is clearly important because arts and culture are a unique attraction in tourism,” Widiana stated.
The Badung Culture Office is currently refining regulations to ensure the implementation of the Banjar Menari programme aligns with community needs, including discussing the mechanism for distributing instructors in the field. Widiana hopes that artistic activities in Gumi Keris will become routine rather than seasonal.
Based on official information, registration for arts instructors opens from 9-20 April 2026. Applicants must meet several requirements, one of which is possessing a Badung ID card and having at least a bachelor’s degree in arts or experience training arts in a certain area.
In addition to educational requirements, applicants must come from non-civil servant/TNI/Police backgrounds and be willing to be assigned throughout Badung. Registration documents such as the latest diploma, award certificates, and proof of prior training from a sekaa or sanggar must be attached to the application file.
Instructors will then conduct training according to the determined schedule, namely 10 times in one month. Each instructor must also meet the target of one training material in three months. They can be replaced if they do not meet the training targets based on the evaluation results from the Badung Culture Office.