"…When it’s time to add a new building—say, when a younger brother gets married and needs a kitchen, the work is invariably done by gotong royong (mutual help). …40 or 50 relatives show up over a period of days till the thing is done. For example, a 2.8 meter x 3.5 meter kitchen constructed for Legut and his new wife took 5 days to complete. In the spirit of gotong royong, there’s no money involved, just two meals a day for everyone who helps. Pitching in to help others pervades many activities in the village."
http://www.finehomebuilding.com/item/15050/multigenerational-living-in-paradise
5 comments:
Sure sounds easier than a 30 year mortgage!
Hey, that's a gambrel roof on that thing. Bali is pretty far from the land of dairy barns. I wonder which came first, the gambrel barn or the bali house? Or did they come about independently thousands of miles apart?
Is that not the way it should be every where ? this is a common practice in other countrys and relatives chip in money when a couple gets married so they can buy a house. That would shak things up a bit around here !
So the Dutch did colonize Bali around 1600. Did the Dutch give the idea to the Balinese or vice versa?
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