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Bali is an island in Indonesia, at the same time becoming one of the Indonesian provinces. Bali was located between the Javanese Island and the Lombok Island. The capital of his province was Denpasar, that was located at the south of this island. The inhabitants’s Balinese majority was the adherent of the Hindu religion. In the world, Bali was known as the aim of tourism with the uniqueness of various results art-culture him, especially for the Japanese tourists and Australia. Bali was also known as the Island of the gods.

The Balinese island was part of the Island Sundanese Kecil along 153 km and was as wide 112 km around 3,2 km from the Javanese Island. Bali it was estimated came to 3000-2500 SM that migrated from Asia. The legacy of stone equipment was from this period found in the village Choke that was located at the west of the island. The prehistoric time afterwards ended with the arrival of Hindu people from India to 100 SM. Balinese culture afterwards received the strong influence of Indian culture, that his process was increasingly fast after the 1st Masehi age. The Balidwipa name (the Balinese island) began to be found in various inscriptions, among them the Blanjong Inscription that was issued by Sri Kesari Warmadewa in 913 M. and named Walidwipa words. Estimated around this period the irrigation system subak for planting of rice began to be developed. Several religious traditions and the culture also began to be developing in the period. Europeans who the first time found Bali were Cornelis de Houtman from the Netherlands to 1597, although a Portugis ship had beforehand been casted ashore close to the Hill cape, Jimbaran, to 1585. The Netherlands through VOC then began to carry out his colonisation in the land Bali, but continue to receive the opposition so as up to the end of his authority their position in Bali not am as firm as their position in Java or the Moluccas. Begin with the north Balinese territory, since the 1840 ’s the Dutch presence became permanent, that initially is carried out by pitting various Balinese rulers against each other that each other do not trust to one another. The Netherlands carry out the big attack through sea and the land against the Sanur area, and are followed with the Denpasar area. The Balinese side that loses in the number and weapons not want to experience embarrassed because of surrendering, so as to cause the occurrence of the war to death or bellows, that involve all the good people the man and the woman including his king. Estimated as many as 4,000 people are killed in this incident, although the Netherlands ordered them to surrender. Further, the Dutch governors who govern just a few give his influence in this island, so as the local control towards the religion and the culture generally does not change. Japan occupied Bali while World War II, and at that time a military officer named I Gusti Ngurah Rai form Balinese troops\the independence fighter\. Following surrender him Japan in the Pacific in August 1945, the Netherlands immediately return to Indonesia (including Bali) to maintain again his colonial government am proper for the situation before the war. This is opposed by Balinese opposition troops that at that time use the Japanese weapon. On November 20 1940, break out The Margarana bellows battle that happens in the Clan village, the Tabanan Regency, Bali middle. Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai, that is 29 years old, leads his troops from the east Balinese territory to carry out the attack to death to Dutch troops that are fully-armed. All of the battalion’s Balinese member is killed all of them, and make him the Balinese military opposition that is last. During 1946 the Netherlands make Bali as one of the 13 territories part of the Indonesian Country East that just was proclaimed, that is as one of the rival’s countries for the Republic of Indonesia that is proclaimed and headed by Sukarno and Hatta. Bali afterwards also is put into the Republic of Indonesia the Union when the Netherlands acknowledge Indonesian independence on December 29 1949. In 1950, officially Bali leaves his union with the Netherlands and legally to a province from the Republic of Indonesia. The Mount Agung eruption that happens in 1963, can shake the economy of the people and causes many Balinese inhabitants to transmigrate to various other territories in Indonesia. In 1965, together with the failure of the coup by G30S against the national government in Jakarta, in Bali and many areas other happen penumpasan against the member and the sympathiser Communist Party Indonesia. In Bali, is estimated more than 100,000 people are killed or are lost. Nevertheless, incidents in the beginning period of this New Order up to at this time are not yet successful Revealed legally. The terrorist’s attack happened on October 12 2002, take the form of the Bali Bombing attack 2002 in the Kuta tourism region, causes as many as 202 people to be killed and 209 other people of the injury. The Bali Bombing attack 2005 also happens three years afterwards in Kuta and the Jimbaran coast. These incidents receive international coverage that is wide because most of his casualties are foreign tourists, and cause the Balinese tourism industry to face the difficult challenge several last years. The Balinese inhabitants approximately an amount 4 million souls, with the majority 92,3% follow the Hindu religion. The other religion is Islam, Protestan, Catholic, and Buddha. Apart from the sector of tourism, the Balinese inhabitants also live from agriculture and fisheries. Some also choose to become the artist. The language that is used in Bali is Indonesian, Bali, and England especially for that work in the sector of tourism. Balinese and Indonesian are the language that is widest of his use in Bali, and as the Indonesian inhabitants other, most Balinese communities are bilingual or even trilingual. Although being gotten by several dialects in Balinese, generally the Balinese community uses a form of social Balinese as the choice in communicating. Traditionally, the use of various Balinese dialects is determined am based on the system of the colour chess in the Hindu Dharma religion; although the implementation of this tradition tends to decrease. English is the third language (and the main foreign language) for many The Balinese community, that is affected by the requirement that is big from the tourism industry. The employees who work in the centres of tourists’s information in Bali, often also understand several foreign languages with quite adequate competence. Traditional Balinese music has the similarity with traditional music in many other areas in Indonesia, for example in the use of the gamelan and various musical instruments tabuh other. Nevertheless, is gotten by the special characteristics in the technique play and his composition, for example in the form of kecak, that is a form of song that it seems imitates the monkey voice. Likewise heterogenous the gamelan that is played then has the uniqueness, for example the Jegog Gamelan, the Big Gong Gamelan, the Gambang Gamelan, the Selunding Gamelan, and the Semar Pegulingan Gamelan. Adapula Angklung music is played for the cremation ceremony, as well as Bebonangan music is played in various other ceremonies. Gotten by the modern form from traditional Balinese music, for example the Kebyar Gong Gamelan that is dance music that is developed in the Dutch colonisation period, as well as Joged the Cylinder that begins to be popular in Bali since the era in the 1950 ’s. Generally Balinese music is the combination of various metal percussion instruments (metalofon), the gong, and wood percussion (the xylophone). Because of social relations, politics and the culture, traditional Balinese music or the game of the Balinese style gamelan gives the influence or affects mutual areas of the culture around it, for example to traditional music the Banyuwangi community as well as traditional music the community Lombok.