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About Bali
About Bali
BALI island is a truly International destination, a tropical island in the Indonesian archipelago
Bali is one of an Indonesian thousand islands located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island.
With a population recorded as 3,551,000 in 2009, the island is home to the vast majority of Indonesia's small Hindu minority. About 93.2% of Bali's population adheres to Balinese Hinduism, while most of the remainder follow Islam. It is also the largest tourist destination in the country and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including dance, sculpture, painting, leather, metalworking and music. The origins of the Balinese came from three periods: The first waves of immigrants came from Java and Kalimantan in the prehistoric times of the proto-Malay stock; the second wave of Balinese came slowly over the years from Java during the Hindu period; the third and final period came from Java, between the 15th and 16th centuries, at the time of the conversion of Islam in Java, aristocrats fled to Bali from the Javanese Majapahit Empire to escape Islamic conversion, reshaping the Balinese culture into a syncretic form of classical Javanese culture with many Balinese elements.
BALINESE CULTURE
Bali's Culture strips the cliche from the word unique. The version of Hinduism practiced with great fervour is found no place else in the world and has inspired fervent artistic expressions that charms visitors.
The population in Bali is almost all Indonesian; 95% are of Balinese Hindu descent and could be described as ethnic Balinese. The remaining residents are mostly from other parts of the country, particularly java.
balinese have traditional caste divisions that resemble the Indian Hindu system, although there are no 'untouchables'. Nor is there separation of labour based on caste, except for the Brahmana priesthood. Over 90% of the population belong to the common Sudra caste, which now includes many wealthy Balinese. The main significance of caste is in religious roles and rituals, and its influence on Balinese language.
The traditional Balinese society is intensely communal; the organisation of villages, the cultivation of farmlands and even the creative arts are mommunal efforts. A person belongs to their family, clan, caste and to the village as a whole. The roles of the sexes are fairly well delineated, with certain tasks handled by women and others reserved for men. For instance, the running of the household is very much the woman's task, while caring for animals is mostly a male preserve.
Balinese society is held together by collective responsibility. If a woman enters a temple while menstruating, for instance, it is a kind of irreverence, an insult to the gods, and their displeasure falls not just on the transgressor but on the whole community. This collective on the individual to conform to adat - the traditional values and customs that form the cor of society.about bali - bali tour
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Denpasar City tour
US$ 40/car (Max 5 pax)
Tour Includes:
- A/C vehicle
- Professional English speaking driver
- Parking fees
- Sarongs for entering temples
- Cold mineral water
Visit:
Bajra Sandhi: Is monument of Balinese People Struggle . This Monument is recognized by the name of Bajra Sandhi because it's form is looking like Bajra or Genta or bell used by all Hindu Priest in reading off Weda holy sentence (mantra) at religious ceremony. This monument is built in the year 1987.
Museum Bali: Is a museum of art and history, There are four main buildings inside the museum, Tabanan displaying theatrical masks and musical instruments, Karangasemsculptures and paintings, Buleleng textiles, and Timur with archeological finds.
Batik Factory: Batik is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique.
Batuan Temple: Batuan Temple is a local Balinese Hindu temple looked after by the local resident of Batuan countryside. The temple is designed very beautiful with full of Balinese ornaments and the roof temple building is made from the fiber of chromatic black palm tree.
City Tour
Monday, June 30, 2014
Ngaben (Cremation Ceremony of Bali)
Ngaben (Cremation ceremony) is one ritual performed by Hindus in Bali are classified as Pitra Yadnya (a ceremony that was dedicated to Ancestor). Cremation is etymologically derived from the word "api" (fire) that gets the prefix "nga", and suffix "an", so to become "ngapian", which is encoded into "ngapen" which gradually shift into a word "ngaben". Ngaben or Cremation ceremony always involves a fire, there are two kinds of fire, in the form of a concrete fire (actual fire) and abstract fire (fire coming from Mantra Puja (holy chanting) by the priest who led the ceremony). Another version says that Ngaben comes from the word "beya" that means stock, so that also means the cremation ceremony gives stock to the ancestors to journey to Sunia Loka (Heaven).
Friday, June 20, 2014
Blue Lagoon Beach
Blue Lagoon beach, Padang Bay, Bali. White sand beach with clean water and beautiful reef and coral. One of best place for snorkling and diving.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Barong Landung
Barong Landung is a holy big dolls characterize Balinese man (black doll) and Chinese woman (white doll). It proves an interracial marriage and good relationship between Bali and China long time ago.
Cultural acculturation also can be witnessed till these days. Many ancient Chinese sites can be found in Bali.
These Barong Landungs now become sacred temple's paraphernalia at some holy places in Bali as a symbol of respecting the Chinese culture's influences in Bali.
Monday, June 16, 2014
PKB (Pesta Kesenian Bali) or Bali Arts Festival
Bali Arts Festival - Pesta Kesenian Bali (PKB) is an annual event of the Bali Governmentprogram, which is used as a place of activities and creativity of the artists in the effort of supporting the government programs in terms of excavation, preservation and development of great values of Balinese art and culture.
Gong Kebyar festival or parade of Balinese Gambelan music is one event in the agenda of the Bali Arts Festival which is very prestigious. In this festival, we can see or witness the artwork as a result of the creativity of the artists and the expertise of the musicians in playing gambelanGong Kebyar.
Bali Arts Festival is held in an attempt offering copyrighted works of best public arts. Eventhough nowdays Balinese people choosing between art and handicrafts, profane and secular, public order and the pure creativity of Bali, all they do them based on the spirit of "dedication" to God, Humanity and Nature (Tri Hita Karana). The difference will not reduce the nature of art.
The offerings of art and creative works are sincere liberation arts implies that in Hinduism is often referred to as yadnya. Yadnya presented through art and creative works as an offering to make the best of his creation, then the artist wherever possible someone will not present his or her work the most ugly or sober, let alone offering it in the form of artistic and creative works are born from the upstream cultivation of love and spiritual civilization art society.
Bali Arts Festival is a medium and a means to explore and preserve the cultural arts and to improve welfare. Excavation and preservation of art and culture include philosophy, noble values and universal, basic concepts, both cultural heritage objects or objects of historical value is not high, science and art as a representation of civilization and the development of the arts through creation, innovation, cultural adaptation expectations in order to stay alive and sustained in the context of steady change time and times and the ever-changing environment.
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