Gigantic high voltage tower in Bali

Plans to build gigantic high-voltage towers to suspend power lines running between West Bali and East Java is meeting with opposition from the people of the Village of Sumberklampok at the West Bali National Park. Opposition to the tower is linked to close proximity to the Segara Rupek Temple, considered by many to rank among Bali’s most sacred temples. As such, Balinese Hindus insist that the pylons to support the power line must stand no closer than, depending on one’s interpretation of the rules, two or five kilometers. The High-Voltage Tower to be built on Bali’s West Coast will be among the world’s tallest, standing 376-meters high. By comparison, the Eiffel Tower in Paris is 325-meters high. The power lines supported by the tower will carry 500 kilo-volts on power from the Watudodol Power Plant at Banyuwangi, East Java to Bali. The West Bali landing point for the power-line project known as “Bali Crossing” will be at the Bali National Park in an area close to the sacred Segara Rupek Templeand Payogan Temple. Work is already underway near the site with the constriction of a jetty eight-kilometers from the Segara Rupek Temple that will be used to transport material to be used that cannot be transported by road. Meanwhile, access roads to the building site are being widened. A village chief from Sumberkelampok said that he has received many complaints from local residents protesting plans to erect the high-power pylon in the village. When he personally checked the proposed location for the pylon, he said position is only 500 meters from the temple.

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