People in Yogyakarta carry out the Melasti ceremony, adhering to various health protocols due to Covid 19. Melasti is a Hindu Balinese purification ce

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People in Yogyakarta carry out the Melasti ceremony, adhering to various health protocols due to Covid 19. Melasti is a Hindu Balinese purification ceremony and ritual, which according to Balinese calendar is held several days prior to the Nyepi holy day. It is observed by Hindus in Indonesia. Melasti was meant as the ritual to cleanse the world from all the filth of sin and bad karma, through the symbolic act of acquiring the Tirta Amerta, "the water of life. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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