MAINTAINING BALINESE LANGUAGE THROUGH WRITING SHORT STORIES IN BALI ORTI

Abstract

Bali Orti, one of the local newspaper pages in Bali provides opportunity to maintain thedevelopment of modern Balinese language. It is published every Sunday dealing withvarious information about Balinese culture, news and short story. The short story writtenin that column conveys not only linguistic but also Balinese values as well. From the fiveshort stories reviewed, it turns out that (1) Ngempu, brings spiritual feeling of motherlyimpulse, (2) Magibung implies refined message about not only eating together, but also social equality (3) Pikobet with problem as human beings to enjoy the worldly temptations (4) Wicaksana with learning ways of life from our body parts and (5)Parasparos deals with compassion and solidarity. From the analysis, it was found thatusing indigenous language, like Balinese, manages to convey both Balinese linguisticsand superb value, way of life in Bali.