Environmental behaviour in Petulu, Bali: What traditional planning can contribute to Indonesian development

The study exposed the resiliency of Petulu's traditional human ecological constructs (homegarden agriculture and village wildlife management) in the face of considerable economic change. The values and beliefs embodied in the village's traditional behavioural code (adat) were shown to remain firm and vital in contemporary life.;An alternative development framework revolving around the twin notions of adat empowerment and the re-orientation of bureaucracies was suggested. It was argued that by empowering and integrating traditional cultures and institutions with re-oriented government planning bureaucracies, Indonesia could embrace a form of development that moved beyond a strictly material-centered perspective and was people-centred.;Petulu's traditional community planning institution (desa adat) was found to embody the important planning principles of participation, equity and empowerment. In contrast, formal Indonesian government planning was shown to be reliant on economically-prejudiced conceptions of development which fundamentally view much tradition and local knowledge as irrational or inefficient.