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Small offerings are big business

  • Ni Komang Erviani

    Contributor

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Denpasar   /   Thu, March 15 2012   /  10:28 am

For sale: A canangsari seller sets out her wares at the market in Badung.After the school bell rang, 16-year-old Kadek Adi rushed home. He changed his clothes and had a quick lunch before immersing himself in his usual afternoon activity — making canangsari, the simplest of Balinese Hinduism’s offerings of fresh flowers and leaves placed in a square of coconut leaves.

Adi and his older sister, Ni Putu Wina, run a canangsari business out of their grandmother’s home on Jl. Katrangan in East Denpasar.   

“It’s been almost a year since we started the business in 2011. It is profitable for us. At least, we no longer have to ask for money from our parents,” Adi said, adding that their parents live in Nusa Dua and manage a food stall.

On a normal day, Adi and Wina can produce 200 plastic bags, each filled with 25 canangsari. Adi and Wina sell the bags...