Location
Desa Mas is located in the administrative area of Kecamatan Sukawati, Kabupaten
Gianyar, around 8 km away from Denpasar, 23 km from Kuta and 38 km from Nusa
Dua area. Desa Celuk is bordering with Desa Batubulan which is known for
it's stone carving and stages of Barong dances. Many guests protested
the itinerary which mentioned Celuk as a village and consider this settlement
as a town with bustling business life.
Desa Celuk is bordering directly with Desa Sukawati,
where the head of Kecamatan administrative office is located, and Desa Singapadu
beside Batubulan. Desa Singapadu is strongly influenced by the main activities
of the people at Celuk and now become the only competitor of Celuk in the
production of gold and silver products.
The interest of Desa Celuk
The growing popularity
of Celuk as the stop of sightseeing itinerary giving favorable condition
for the birth of many exporters to various contries in the world. This international
trade of gold and silver products from Celuk even made the name of the previously
known village become well known world wide. During the periode from 1980
to 1990 was heard that almost every families in the village engaged in the
work of silver and gold leaving the rice field and cattle un-managed. The
birth of big art shops working with local tour operators and or importers
from various countries has been encouraged the families to follow the step
and tried to deal with foreighners without knowing the requirement of international
trade, only based on trust and good smile of new buyers. As a result many
producers felt into bangkruftcy due to the unpaid shipment or sales. The
art galleries that line up reaching Batubulan, along 2 kms to reach the
original village of Celuk in the east was the luckiest among them, because
they worked with local inbound tour operator, preparing the visitors with
various products of gold and silvers, sell based on retail and cash. So,
they enjoy better conditon of sales compared to those who tried to look
for short cut to sell directly to foreign importers.
The Flourishing Celuk Gold and Silver
Celuk is the inspirator of the growth of silver and gold product not only
in Bali but also in Yogyakarta, especially in Kota Gede. Since
Yogyakarta also developed production, most of travelers visited directly
the production in Yogyakarta, but they brought the product to Bali before
shipment to their countries to the reason that they will be easier in co-ordinating
the shipment and the administration, beside the frequency of flight from
Bali to abroad that time was far much bigger compared from Yogyakarta.
All production in Celuk and
Singapadu step by step taking rest, and shipment from Yogyakarta also slow
but firmly dropping into the zero level and totally stop after Bali bom
II in 2005. The learning of Islamic jihad is very well know how to kill
the economy of people in Yogyakarta and Bali, especially Kota Gede with
their silver and gold accessories and decorations.
Type of Gold and Siver Product
The most important product of gold and silver are women accessories such
as earings, bracelets, broces, noodles, pins, bottons, wall decors and sitting
decor for table, pandles, frames, vases, watches, and many others more then
a hundreds designs were ever recorded at one of the show room in Celuk.
The designs were purely developped by local artists both in Bali and in
Yogyakarta, only few of them brought from overseas, since the character
of silver and gold products from overseas were really hard to be produced
in Bali or Yogyakarta, due to the precision methode and consistency of elements.
The main interest of the local product just relaid on the uniqueness of
the products and the low prices tagged to their individual products.
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