Come and experience Hands-On Bamboo Bamboo Building and Construction… From basic to advanced carpentry and joinery, design principles and model-making, techniques and know-how for treatment/preservation of bamboo, furniture-making, traditional and modern structural bamboo building, interiors and art – alongside Balinese bamboo builders, master-craftsmen, local families and culture…
Our internship program offers a unique opportunity to explore affordable bamboo building methods through hands-on experience with bamboo building and construction. During this immersive program you will see and experience the more authentic side of Bali.
Bamboo Creative Bali offers 3 week (17 day) and 3 month (50 day) internship/ short-course programs with the opportunity to add a VIP program for more specialized training or design development, and opportunities to build your skills by volunteering on our Outreach programs after your training.
Our programs usually take place in Belega, a local village located 30-40 minutes southeast of Ubud alongside Balinese craftsmen and bamboo builders.
Upcoming Programs 2026:
April 13 – May 02: (3 weeks) Belega, Bali
May 11 – July 25: (3 months) Belega, Bali
- 1st block: May 11 – June 12 (5 weeks)
- 2 week break (Galungan Ceremony); June 15 – 26
- 2nd block: June 29 – July 31 (5 weeks)
August 10 – September 27: (7 weeks) KENYA
October 12 – 31 (3 weeks) Belega, Bali
November 9 – 28 (3 weeks) Davao, Philippines
Register your interest or schedule a chat with us to discuss your aims/goals.
A hands-on experience developing confidence around the basic concepts and techniques of working practically with bamboo. Through this program you will gain experience with bamboo joinery and carpentry and experience the design process for a group project or individual creative project with the guidance of expert bamboo carpenters and master-craftsmen from Belega – Bali’s world-famous village of bamboo builders.
Join us in Bali to become an unbeatable bamboo builder!
Our Internship Programs run from April until August… The basic program is a 3 week training – you can attend for 1-3 months. You can add a VIP program to develop a design or learn/practice specific skills. Intermediate and Advanced skills are taught through our bamboo carpentry and building programs.
3 Week Program Structure:
Week 1
Day 1: Tool Knowledge;Bamboo Varieties and Treatment; Furniture Carpentry; Bamboo Prep; Vertical Soak Diffusion Hyperboloid
Day 2: VSD Continued; Basic Bamboo Joinery and Carpentry
Day 3: Design Inspo Talk and Local Building & Factory tour; Make sticks for modeling;
Day 4: Model-making for the build – Design process (individual design)
Day 5: Group Design, Calculate materials & costing; Foundations detail and placement; Load Testing
Day 6: Design Tour (Saturday) Day OFF (Sunday)
Week 2
Day 7: Make Mal Template from Model; Start Basic Frame construction
Day 8: Continue Framing, Lift frames onto the foundation; Square the building;
Day 9: Install Side beams and Central beam (langit langit) & Sub-floor
Day 10: Continue Sub-floor; Make/Install Floor; Start Making Arches
Day 11: Continue arches & flooring; Make Lidi Beam
Day 14 OFF (Sunday)
Week 3
Day 12: Make laminated beam for triangulation (half day)
Day 13: Install Arches, Install Lidi; Make laminated beam/install
Day 14: Install rafters (usuk) and make kolong (end-tie); Make woven wall/door panel
Day 15-16: Install Roofing / Make Stairs
Day 17: Finishing; Presentation
3 Month Bamboo Builders Program Schedule 2026
5 Weeks (11 May – 12 June)
- WEEK 1 – Introduction to bamboo, nature of the material, tools introduction, cleaning, splitting & weaving bamboo, joinery techniques with bamboo: Fish mouth join, T-join, small furniture, curving techniques (rab-rab); making bamboo nails, using string and bamboo nail to secure joins, creative bamboo & weaving; Hyperboloid VSD Treatment Set-up & schedule; Design Tour
- WEEK 2 – Bamboo Model-Making for Bamboo Building, Design Requirements/ Specs, Visualizing Construction process; Design Costing; Foundations
- WEEK 3 – Class Build Project: Frame/truss design, Install Pillars and support, Central Beam, temporary and permanent supports, ukuran/spacing-measurement, penjapit (pinching beams), use of metal bolts/ bamboo nails , Pillar and supports, Spacing, Making Ring Beam.
- WEEK 4 – Making Lidi Beam; Making Laminated Arches- Making Mal & Arches, Temporary Structure Joinery, Site Preparation Workflow & Layout, Tool Safety, Machinery options,
- WEEK 5 – Setting Ring Beam height and scaffold, Roof and Stair Supports, Making Lamination ring – Split/Whole, Splitting Bamboo, Install Flooring Beams, Make Bamboo Flooring, Bending Bamboo (rab-rab).
– 2 week Break for Gallungan
5 Weeks (29 June – 31 July)
- WEEK 6 – Install Arches and Lidi, String reinforcement
- WEEK 7 – Install rafters & end-ties
- WEEK 8 – Build Stairs and handrail
- WEEK 9 – Windows and Walling
- WEEK 10 – Earthen Floor and Ecobrick Walls-Light Clay Straw
Program Descriptions and Pricing
Our Internship programs run 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) 8.30am to 4.30pm (with a 60 min lunch break) at Belega (35min south-east from Ubud). Accommodation – local options available (not included in program price).
Three-week Internship Program: $1070 / Rp.17,600,000 – Includes basic training and mentorship in bamboo design & construction, on-site build and construction experience program. Includes basic training and mentorship in bamboo design & construction, on-site build and construction experience program.
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3 Month Internship
Nine week Program $4,688 /Rp.75,500,000 – Includes 50 Days internship training in bamboo and construction, lunch meal, tools and materials, safety equipment.
We offer a sliding-scale contribution approach to make this learning accessible to the everyone, and offer payment plans to make this learning accessible.Please communicate whatever way you feel you can pay/contribute and also offer your skills and time . Whether you’d like to contribute more physically in construction and/or professional skills/advice or are interested to assist in developing aspects of our inclusive programs. We are committed to finding ways to collaborate which are mutually beneficial for everyone. You can also pre-pay your program fully or partially to assist us in preparations, ready for your arrival and participation…
Register your Interest for Upcoming Programs and we’ll be in touch !
The Internships Level of Bamboo Creative Bali contributes to local Regenerative projects and enables local communities access to explore renewable and affordable building methods while reinventing and revitalising the “common image” of bamboo among local people. Our aim is to create examples of bamboo designs that are affordable and attractive for people in “developing”/post-colonised countries who make up over 70% of the world’s population whose impact and choices in lifestyle/s in the next 20-30 years is going to have the greatest impact potentially on climate change and/or its mitigation… .
To create systemic change we are developing local programs which enable access to affordable technologies to make life “in the village” more comfortable and sustainable. Through knowledge-sharing and inputs of funding for practical projects/ demonstrations of Regenerative methods for building, we are cultivating ethical production models alongside waste-management systems and incentives for lifestyle changes to reduce landfill and also attract finance for infrastructure projects.
Presently an average person in a developing country uses 20% of the fossil fuels of people living in “developed countries” – but as people migrate to cities and become more ‘modernised’, cultural and traditional skills are lost, and energy and waste footprints increase dramatically. This trend towards non-sustainable urbanisation can be curbed if people are able to make sustainable incomes and develop regenerative practices at the village level – meaning they don’t need to leave/migrate away in the first place. Our aim is to create a network of bamboo home-stays that blend traditional building techniques with modern comforts. By joining our Internship programs, you are contributing to eco-friendly design and construction that will support long-term development – and you get special rewards to stay in the communities we build with.
Linking with our Outreach projects creates the foundations to seed/enable the development of local programs where you may come and contribute collectively through our upcoming special workshops and collaborations…
VIP Program
VIP Program 1 week: USD$535 / Rp.8,000,000
Includes: One on one or small group training and mentorship for Bamboo Joinery and Carpentry Individual project – 6 days
Available: (August – September); (November)
VIP Program 2 week: USD$1070 / Rp.16,000,000
Includes one-on-one basic training and mentorship for small-scale building and crafts with individual project/s – 6 days per week). You’ll have plenty of time with our craftsmen to find a way with bamboo that works for you…
Available: By prior arrangement during off-season (January-March) or alongside regular courses.
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