Revealing the Meaning Behind Mandala Of Agung Karangasem Palace, Bali Indonesia: Investigating Through Semiotics For Preservation Of Historic Value

Abstract

The Agung Karangasem Palace is one of the physical inheritances of a community culture. As a cultural artifact, the Agung Karangasem Palace can be read as a text representing the traditions of a community. There are messages contained in the Agung Karangasem Palace. In addition to the Balinese culture, there is a strong external cultural influence that influences the order of the Agung Karangasem Palace mandala. In order to find the message contained in the mandala of the Agung Karangasem Palace, it is necessary to decompose the components of the mandala. Semiotics is a method that can be used to read or reveal messages contained in an object based on existing codes or signs (decoding). The process of decomposition of the sign with this semiotic approach depends a lot on the social agreement that exists in a society where the object is located. The purpose of this document is to discover the message contained in the mandala of the Agung Karangasem Palace as an attempt at transposition to appreciate and preserve the values contained in the mandala of the Agung Karangasem Palace so that it can later be translated into a new mandala architecture in context current.