Made Wijaya (22 March 1953 – 28 August 2016) was an Australian landscape gardener who was based in Bali.
[1] In 1973 Made Wijaya (born Michael White) sailed to Bali on a break from Architectural studies, the ketch having difficulty landing in the high seas, Made impatiently jumped overboard to swim ashore.
[3][4] An NSW tennis champion he initially coached tennis and English to the wealthy Balinese, then he started writing a column in The Sunday Bali Post, Stranger in Paradise: Diary of an Expatriate, which extolled great insights into the island's culture with his own brand of caustic wit.
[5] His first major project was revamping the Bali Hyatt Hotel in Sanur, then the Oberoi in Seminyak a new resort designed by Australian Architect Peter Muller.
He saw the garden as theatre and created dramatic vistas with bright tropical shrubs and creepers flowing from one well-chosen specimen of classical sculpture to another.