Indonesian island of Bali is located in the West more than a small Sunda Islands, located between Java to the west and east lombok. It is one of 33 districts in the country with the province’s capital of Denpasar in the direction south of the island.
It has a population of 3151000 registered in in 2005, the island is home to the vast majority of Indonesia and the small Hindu minority. 93.18% of the population to adhere to the language Albalnez Hindu, while most of the remaining followers of Islam. It is also the largest tourist destination in the country and famous for the high degree of arts, including dance, sculpture, painting, leather, minerals and music.
History
Bali was inhabited by Austronesian peoples about 2000 BC, originally emigrated from Taiwan through the maritime Southeast Asia. [2], culturally and linguistically, is the language Albalnez therefore closely related to the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines and Oceania. [3] stone tools dating back to this time were found near the village of cekik in the West Island. [4]
Language Albalnez culture was strongly influenced by Indian, particularly the Hindu culture, in the process of beginning around the first century AD. Balidwipa name has been discovered that the various inscriptions, including the Charter of the Sri blanjong kesari warmadewa 913 in the ad stated walidwipa. It was during this time that subak complex irrigation system was developed to rice cultivation. Some religious and cultural traditions are still present today can be attributed to this period. Hindu Majapahit Empire (1293-1520 AD) to the east Java language Albalnez colony founded in 1343. When he refused Empire, there was the exodus of intellectuals, artists, musicians and priests from Java to Bali in the fifteenth century.
The first European contact with the Bali and is believed to have been made by the Dutch explorer of cornelis de houtman arrived in 1597, and had collapsed Portuguese ship off the Bukit peninsula as early as 1585.] Need to quote] Dutch colonial domination was extended Indonesian archipelago In the nineteenth century (see Dutch East Indies). Their political, economic and control of Bali in the 1840s started on the northern coast of the island by playing with mistrust and the language Albalnez worlds against each other. [5] in the late 1890s, the struggle between language Albalnez kingdoms in the south of the island was used by the increase in Dutch. The Dutch great attacks were launched terrestrial and marine and sanur in the region in 1906 and was received by thousands of members of the royal family and some of their followers marched to the death against the president in the Dutch defence force puputan suicide rather than face abuse and humiliation of surrender. [5] Despite the surrender to the demands of Dutch, an estimated 4000 languages Albalnez marched to the death against the invaders. In in 1908, signed a similar massacre in the face of any attack in klungkung Dutch. Then Dutch governor able to exercise only minimal impact on the island, local control, religion and culture generally remained intact.
Dutch rule had come over Bali at a later date was never set up as also in other parts of Indonesia such as Java and Maluku. Imperial Japan occupied Bali during World War II and during that time the language Albalnez A military officer, gusti ngurah opinion, a language Albalnez freedom army ‘. In the thirties of the last century, anthropologists Margaret Gregory bateson Promised, artists Walter Miguel covarrubias and spies, and musicologist Colin mcphee create the image of Bali West as a “charmed aesthetes of the land at peace with itself and nature,” and West for the first time on the tourism island. [6] After the surrender of Japan in the Pacific in August 1945, the Dutch immediately returned to Indonesia, including Bali, immediately return to their pre-war colonial administration. This was the language of resistance Albalnez rebels now using Japanese weapons. November 20, 1946, were fought in the battle marga tabanan in central Bali. Colonel gusti ngurah opinion first, 29 years old, finally rallied his forces in East Bali marga Rana, which made a suicide attack on the heavily armed Dutch. The language Albalnez battalion completely annihilated, and breaking another thread of language Albalnez military resistance. In Bali in 1946 a Dutch one of the 13 administrative region of the Republic announced recently in eastern Indonesia, a rival of the Republic of Indonesia, which announced headed by Sukarno and Hatta. Bali was included in the “Republic of Indonesia from the United States” when the Netherlands recognized the independence of Indonesia on December 29, 1949.
In 1963 explosion of Mount agung killed thousands and caused economic havoc and forced many displaced persons to be the language Albalnez transmigrated to other parts of Indonesia. Reflect the social divisions widening across Indonesia in the fifties and early sixties, and Bali and has seen conflict between supporters of the traditional caste system, and these resolutions, which refused to traditional values. Politically, that may be represented by opposition supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the Indonesian Nationalist Party (pni), with tensions and ill feeling increased PKI for land reform programmes. [5] coup attempt in Jakarta and has reduced the proportion of forces led by General Suharto. Army became the dominant power because it incited violence against the Communist purge, which has carried the Communist Party of the Indonesian army coup. Most estimates suggest that at least 500000 people were killed in all parts of Indonesia, with an estimated number of people killed in the Bali 80000, equivalent to 5 per cent of the population of the island. [7] with the Islamic forces do not participate in Java and Sumatra, and upper-caste landlords pni lead to exterminate members of the Indonesian Communist Party. [8]
Monument to the Bali bombings.
Monument to the Bali bombings.
As a result of the disturbances 1965/66, Suharto was able to maneuver from the Sukarno presidency, and the “New Order” government reestablished relations with Western countries. Bali as a tourist paradise, which was instigated during the pre-World War II revised from time Colonial in the form of an interview, which led to significant growth in tourism and language Albalnez This has led to rising standards of living are enormous and substantial foreign exchange earning in the country.] 5 ] Came in in 2002 by Islamist fighters in the tourist area of Kuta, killing 202 people, mostly foreigners. This attack, and another in 2005, affected tourism, making a lot of economic hardships on the island