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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 ...
Portal. : Indonesia. 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 ...
The Bali Strait Bridge ( Indonesian: Jembatan Selat Bali, JSB, is a proposed road and railway megaproject between the two Indonesian islands of Java and Bali across the Bali Strait . The suggestion for a bridge was reportedly first put forward in 1960 by Professor Sedyatmo from Institut Teknologi Bandung as a part of broader plans, known as Tri ...
North Mamuju Regency (2003–2018) Renamed to Pasangkayu Regency. Pontianak Regency (−2014) Renamed to Mempawah Regency. Riau Islands Regency (−2006) Split into 3 in 1999 and one each in 2001 and 2003, later changed name to Bintan Regency. North Maluku Regency (−2003) Split into 4 regencies and cities.
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 ...
Bali ( / ˈbɑːli /; Balinese: ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast. The provincial capital, Denpasar, [9] is the ...
Ngaben cremation Cremation parade in Bedulu, Bali, Indonesia. A quick Ngaben is preferred, but usually too expensive. [1] [7] In Balinese culture, people go through an interim state where they bury the dead for a while usually near Pura Prajapati , pool funds and cremate many recently dead on the same day in an elaborate community-based Ngaben ...
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 ...