Residents of a village in Bali are planning to conduct a purification ceremony to cleanse their temple after catching an Estonian couple engaged in a sex act inside, a village official said.
"We are still looking for an auspicious day to hold the cleansing ceremony," Wayan Candra, head of customs and tradition at Saraseda village, told the Jakarta Globe.
The couple were caught having sex after bathing in the temple’s sacred water fountain.
Angry villagers took the Estonians to the local police station, but after questioning they were released.
The couple apologised and said that they were unaware that it was forbidden to have sex within the temple compound.
In a meeting between the tourists and village elders, attended by the district police chief, it was agreed that the two would pay a fine of Rp 20 million (US$2,060), to go toward the cost of the purification ceremony.
