STUDI PEMANFAATAN TANAMAN PADA KEGIATAN RITUAL (UPAKARA) OLEH UMAT HINDU DI BALI

Ritual is one of basic element on bali's hindu society. most of the ritual elements are descendedfrom plants which are well known as ritual plants. the objective of the present studies are to study plants utilization in bali's hindu ritual activity. the research was conductred through field survey and literarure studies, on several villages in bali in which classified as bali age village, bali apanege village and new bali village. the findings showed that utilization ofplants in bali's hindu rituals as an actulization of tri hita karana concept, especialy in developing harmonization between human and their environment relationships. approximately two hundred kind of plants which commontly used on bali hindu rituals. the plants can be classified within several groups such as : kind of coconuts, bamboes, trees, leaves, flowers, bananas, fruits (pala gantung), yam group (pala bungkah), etc. nowday, many kind of the plants are entirely disappeared, it need a real action program on ritual plants preservation in orther to preserve the ritual plants.