Sentences with phrase «democratic subaks»

The defiantly democratic subaks have avoided top - down management for 1,000 years, so if any cultural site can pull off locally driven tourism, it should be this one.

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They are a kind of democratic organization in which the farmers whose fields are fed by the same water source, meet regularly to coordinate plantings, to control the distribution of irrigation water and to plan the construction and maintenance of canals and dams, as well as to organize ritual offerings and subak temple festivals.
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