Jatiluwih Rice Terraces

This guide to the Jatiluwih Rice Terraces follows subak, the cooperative water-sharing system that has governed these hillside paddies for over a thousand years, letting farmers move water gate by gate down the mountain by rule rather than by force. You'll hear about the goddess Dewi Danu, believed to be the source of the water, and the philosophy of Tri Hita Karana that guided how the system was built. It also covers the 2012 recognition that finally put an international name to what these farmers already practiced.