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Bali Introduction: Geography Bali is a small volcanic island with about 5000 square kilometers, just south of the equator. Central Bali is the main island of volcanic peaks, whose country was still dominated all the way down to the sea on the north and east coasts, the southern Bali peninsula is largely flat. There are four volcanoes in Bali’s highest mountain at 3124m Agung. Agung erupted violently in 1963, and although many people have died in the eruption, because it is a blessing for the Balinese in the provision of some of the richest soils in Indonesia. The next four highest mountains are no longer alive, but the smaller Mount Batur (1717m) is one of the most active volcanoes in the region, periodic blowing clouds of ash into the air. Bali has such a small island, little room for rivers to create any significant size. Instead, it is riddled with small coves located in the canals of the irrigation system that supplies the complex Balinese rice fields. Nevertheless, some large currents to flow, namely the Sungai Pakrisan (KRIS River “), the Sungai Petanu (” Cursed River “) and longest river in Bali’s Ayung. Bali Introduction: History There are many years has been divided into eight kingdoms Hindu Bali. These small kingdoms were powerful, but prone to fight against each other, weakening their resistance against foreign invasion. From the sixth century, the Javanese kings conquered parts of Bali, far more often than Prince Balinese Javanese puppets with strings sounds the sovereignty rule. Nevertheless, Keep up the rebound between the different kingdoms of Bali and Java. As also in Java, Java Script started, sculptures and temples appear on the island. Towards the end of the century, tenth, relations between the islands of the conjugal union with rigid rulers and a Balinese Javanese princess. The Javanese Majapahit Empire conquered Bali in the thirteenth century by overcoming the semi-demon king Bali at the time, “Dalem Bedulu ‘and the attempt of” vulgar “Balinese princes and eliminate the” barbaric “practices. Ironically The Majapahit ruler of a Balinese, the highest position of the “King of Bali”, a position that little respect for the majority of the Balinese people who refuse to continue to recognize the sovereignty won Javanese. revealed the presence of Majapahit in Bali as a short and turbulent, and in the following centuries, much of the Hindu Balinese culture and unique traditions that we were created in Bali today. It was perhaps a result of a community are determined to protect their individuality and not be defeated by the Javanese culture imported. Contact with the West began when a Dutch fleet in 1597 in Bali, tripped and felt they had found a “paradise”. Many members of the crew refused to us, but stories about a magical place, quickly reached back to their homeland. With the Dutch royalty sought to establish the relationship that Dutch ships with gifts for the Balinese kings were sent. But from a business perspective, Bali had little to offer the opportunity to develop international relations, was initially limited. Originally, his slave exports of primary products, but as the slave world has been cut, has transformed the Kings Balinese to other products like oil of coconut, then place in Bali in a position to enter market trade. Dutch interests in the latest Indonesian islands in the seventeenth century merchant ships gave way to warships. The Dutch have much of ancient Javanese kingdoms by the principles of “divide and conquer and overcome the same approach was taken in Bali. How do the Balinese resistance continued, the Dutch have become more aggressive. Stories of their barbaric tactics are not well managed in their house and protest, she had the tact to complete their invasion. Surprisingly, when the Dutch secured control, they have protected the island against external influences, and urged them to maintain much of their culture and tradition. Recognizing that, as we are today, had their reasons, and not only positive, they must be controlled as the Balinese in their peaceful religion, but take care not to change religion, a fundamental diversity. 2nd World War led to a new era of the Japanese army took over the Dutch. The Japanese presence in Bali was short-lived, and they went away without leaving any traces, when they lost the war. The Dutch tried to return to the Indonesian islands, but condemns the desperate attempts have been returned to power in the colony in the world. With the rest of the Dutch East Indies archipelago, Bali has been given to a newly independent Indonesian government that emerged in 1949. Bali has finally lost his freedom, and fell on the fate of the economic and political dependence on neighboring Java. Bali Introduction: The population Bali bursts, with an estimated population of over three million people. Because of the controversial transmigration program developed Balinese communities in the outlying regions of Indonesia such as Sumatra and Sulawesi, is already stretched natural resources to alleviate Islands. to be continued. . . . .