Lontar digitalization on lontar study center, Udayana University, Denpasar

Abstract

The research aimed at knowing the reason of lontar digitalization. It was also to describe how lontar digitalization conducted and to explore how lontar digitalization implications towards Hinduism, Balinese culture, technology, economics, and law. The present study has a positive contribution to them. The findings of the current study tended a shift on digital lontar was celebrated according to conditions and utilization. Unlike the digital lontar were used in temples during Hindu holy days. Balinese cultural tradition of nyurat aksara will be reduced and there would be replaced by a digital machine namely, the indications and traditions would be lost related to literary traditions starting from the process of producing lontar leaves and powering of lontar. The tradition was replaced by digital technology. It will practically reduce the people who bring lontar replaced by gadgets, cell phones to read and businesses serve sales, for example, keropak, temutik, pengrupak in terms of the economy will be low.