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Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 ...
The Bali Strait is one of the bodies of water surrounding the island of Bali: Lombok Strait to the east, the Badung Strait to the southeast, the Bali Sea to the north, the Indian Ocean to the southwest, and the Bali Strait to the west. Geologically the two islands of Bali and Java were joined until the end of the last ice age when the sea rose ...
Besakih Temple ( Balinese: ᬧᬸᬭ ᬩᭂᬲᬓᬶᬄ) is a pura complex in the village of Besakih on the slopes of Mount Agung in eastern Bali, Indonesia. It is the most important, largest, and holiest temple of Balinese Hinduism, [1] and one of a series of Balinese temples. Perched nearly 1000 meters up the side of Gunung Agung, it is an ...
Keadaan dan Perkembangan Bahasa, Sastra, Etika, Tatakrama, dan Seni Pertunjukan Jawa, Bali, dan Sunda [The Status and Development of Javanese, Balinese, and Sundanese Language, Literature, Ethics, Manners, and Performance Arts] (in Indonesian). Yogyakarta: Project for the Research and Analysis of Works from Around the Archipelago.
Tabanan is one of the regencies ( kabupaten) in Bali, Indonesia. Relatively underdeveloped (compared with Badung and Denpasar to the east), Tabanan Regency has an area of 839.33 km 2 and had a population of 386,850 in 2000, rising to 420,913 in 2010, [2] then 461,630 at the 2020 census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 469,340. [1]
Balinese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as Northern Nusa Penida, Western Lombok, Eastern Java, [3] Southern Sumatra, and Sulawesi. [4] Most Balinese speakers also use Indonesian. The 2000 national census recorded 3.3 million people speakers of Balinese, however the Bali Cultural Agency estimated ...
A candi bentar marks the entrance into a Balinese temple Pura Lempuyang Luhur, Bali.. Candi bentar, or split gateway, is a classical Javanese and Balinese gateway entrance commonly found at the entrance of religious compounds, palaces, or cemeteries in Indonesia.
Bali has several important "sea temples" (Balinese: pura segara), which were founded in the 16th century by a Majapahit sage from Java, named Nirartha, to honour the gods of the sea. Each of the temples is traditionally said to be visible from the next, forming a 'chain' around the coast of Bali.