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Receiver of Emerald Trophy .

Since Tri Hita Karana Tourism Awards and Accreditations launched in 2000 there were only 3 from 128 hotels participant capable to gain for the emerald trophy. This highest achievement from Minister of Tourism and Culture is handed out to the hotel participant capable to gain the golden trophy for three times in row (3 years). Up next is Berata Ashrama’s writing, who is Bali Travel News General Manager and the Chairman of THK Awards & Accreditations about ‘Receiver for THK’s Emerald Trophy’.

Matahari Beach Resort & Spa
Matahari Beach Resort & Spa (Matahari Beach), was the only hotel in Bali that directly site for top position within Competition and Annual Accreditation of Tourism Environment within Tri Hita Karana Perspective (Tri Hita Karana Tourism Awards and Accreditations – THK Awards & Accreditations). Matahari Beach succeeds achieving for golden trophy on the maiden year of THK Awards & Accreditations in Bali, and competently kept it in row for three years – 2000, 2001, 2002. Thus, in 2002, Matahari Beach receives 2 trophies – gold and emerald – as well appreciated as the first receiver for emerald trophy in Bali.
Emerald trophy can only awarded if a hotel was remarked as the hat-trick (triple winner) golden trophy, and Matahari Beach is competently in certain. This hotel addressed in Pemuteran Village, Grokgak Sub District, Buleleng: POB 194-Pemuteran, Singaraja/Bali-Indonesia, phone: (00 62) 362 92312, fax: (00 62) 362 92313, E-mail: mbr-bali@indo.net.id, web: www.matahari-beach-resort.com.
Matahari Beach established in 1992 on a local personal-owned land width of 16 ha which been bought become company land as it noted according to official regulation and local custom. In dividing it area, Matahari Beach combined the modern and traditional Hindu architecture concept tri mandala and sanga mendala – tri (three), sanga (nine), mandala (space/division) – which spends 60% for occupying zone and 40% for non-occupying zone. Tri mandala means three spaces concept, whilst sanga mandala means the nine spaces concept.
These concepts of tri and sanga mandala are the descend concept of luan-teben (sacral-profane). Tri Mandala consists of (1) utama mandala (the most inner/sacral division), (2) madya mandala (center division), and (3) nista mandala (outer/the most profane division). Each division/mandala within tri mandala concept can be divided into three each, so it become nine divisions, which called sanga mandala, there are (1.1) utamaning utama mandala, (1.2) madyaning utama, (1.3) nistaning utama; (2.1) utaning madya mandala, (2.2) madyaning madya, (2.3) nistaning madya, (3.1) utaning nista mandala, (3.2) madyaning nista, (3.3) nistaning nista.
The most sacral area (utama mandala), commonly, in portion for sacred/holy space (shrine for Hindus member); center division (madya mandala) for occupying zone; and the most profane (nista mandala) is for open-green space/ place for animal and its kind. Sacred site/shrine or temple for Hindu community is one supporting media for transforming/gatra parhyangan (spiritual environment) which in cultural system can be analogized as the subsystem of value/concept/pattern of thinking.
What is mean by parhyangan of hotel, for example, is the element of atman/soul or the living zest of human who organized the hotel, costumer, supplier, and competitor, which come from God/Paramatman, and lay down on hotel’s shrine. So, parhyangan is not a shrine physical construction, but the atman which come from Paramatman and sited on the lay inside the shrine. Pawongan is the element of human who organized the hotel (owner, management, and employee), costumer, supplier, and competitor – not the hotel’s construction. The aspect of palemahan is the sarira element, which includes hotel’s entire area (land, building, plants, animals, media/any physical tools).
Within space division and arrangement of hotel’s territorial based on the concept of sanga mandala, it was signaled that 1/9 (one per nine) for sacred zone (SZ); 5/9 (five per nine) for occupied zone/construction zone (OZ); and the rest 3/9 (three per nine) for open-green space (OGS). This rule seemly runs in consistency at Matahari Beach which starts operated with soft opening predicate on 12 June 1995 and the grand opening held on 31 August 1995, as well as the anniversary of Matahari Beach Resort & Spa.