Besides pindekan, on Tanah Lot International Kites Festival in year 2006 ago, there were scarecrow festival too or balinese farmers called “petakut”. Petakut (a kind of puppet used as scarecrow) competed in International Bali Kite Festival in Tanah Lot, recently. The Petakut scarecrow functions to frighten the birds in order to protect the paddies that belong to the farmer in the rice field. Petakut, is a scare prop, to make the birds eating rice be scared to go down to the rice.

When the rice begins to ripen as the grains start forming on the heads, scarecrows, “petakut”, are erected. Bamboo poles are stuck into the ground all over the rice fields, and long strings are fastened to them. Then plastic bags, bits of old clothing, anything that flaps in the wind, is fastened to the strings so that, from a distance, the field look like masses of vibrating trash. Sometimes the strings are all run to a little elevated enclosure in the rice field in which a small child sits.

Older men and women walk through the field shouting. Many of them use a bird-scaring device called a “kekepuakan”, which is a meter-long section of bamboo cut almost all the way through longitudinally. When held by the uncut end and waved, the two halves clap together, producing a loud, hollow noise. Windmills whir, often activating ingenious noisemakers of bamboo that bang and clatter as the blades revolve.

Usually small offerings containing lime, called “penampeh, are placed at the corners of the fields to keep out animals and insects. Modern farmers spray on insecticides and rodenticides. The brown rice hopper, “wereng”, is an especially dangerous pest and can ruin a crop almost overnight.