History Of Bali

Bali is known as Pulau Dewata (island God/island Paradise) is one of the best tourist attractions in Indonesia even the world. Kuta, Sanur, Nusa Dua, Bedugul, Bali, Sukawati, Lovina, and others is the famous tourist spots in Bali.
Bali is an island in Indonesia, as well as being a province of Indonesia. Bali is located between the islands of Java and Lombok. The provincial capital is Denpasar, located in the southern part of the island. The majority of the population of Bali is an adherent of Hinduism. In the world, Bali is famous as a tourist destination with its uniqueness and cultural art, especially for tourists Japan and Australia.

History Of Bali
The first inhabitants of the island of Bali is expected to come at 3000-2500 BCE who migrated from Asia. Relic stone tools from this period found in the village of Cekik in the western part of the island. Prehistoric then ends with the arrival of the Hindus of India in 100 BC.
The culture of Bali and then got a strong cultural influence of India, the process is getting faster after the 1st century AD. The name Balidwipa (Bali) began to found in the inscriptions, including the Blanjong Inscriptions issued by Sri Kesari Warmadewa in 913 M and mention the word Walidwipa. This period is estimated at about subak irrigation system for rice cultivation began to be developed.
Some religious traditions and culture also began to develop at that time. The Majapahit Kingdom (1293 – 1500 AD) are Hindu and centred on Java Island, was once a vassal Kingdom in Bali around the year 1343 a.c. then almost the entire archipelago Hindu, but over the arrival of Islam, Islamic kingdoms in nusantara which led to the collapse of Majapahit. Many of the nobility, clergy, artists, and other Hindu communities when it departed from Java to Bali.


Europeans first discovered the Bali was Cornelis de Houtman from Netherlands in 1597, although a Portuguese ship washed ashore near Cape previously, Jimbaran Hill, in 1585. Netherlands via the VOC began to carry out the penjajahannya in the land of Bali, but resistance continued until the end of his reign so that their position in Bali is not sekokoh their position in Java or Moluccas. Starting from the northern part of Bali, since the 1840s has been the permanent presence of the Netherlands, which was originally done by various sheep pitted Bali authorities not mutually trust each other.
Netherlands did heavy attacks by sea and land area of Sanur, Denpasar and followed by the area. The Bali of the defeated in numbers and weaponry do not want to experience shame since surrendered, thus precipitating the war to the death or puputan, involving all the people, both men and women including the King.

Estimated as many as 4,000 people were killed in that event, although the Netherlands has ordered them to surrender. Next, the Governor of the Netherlands who reigned only few give influence on this island, so local control of religion and culture generally unchanged.

Japan occupied Bali during World War II, and then a military officer named I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bali forces form the ' freedom fighter '. Following the surrender of Japan in the Pacific in August 1945, Netherlands soon return to Indonesia (including Bali) to re-establish its colonial Government as a State before the war. This was opposed by resistance forces, who were using the Bali weapons Japan.
On 20 November 1940, battle of Puputan Margarana soon followed which took place in the village of Marga, Tabanan, Bali. Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai, who was 29 years old, led his troops from the eastern region of Bali to conduct raids to death in the Netherlands armed forces. All members of the battalion killed everything Bali, and making it as the last Balinese military resistance.

In 1946 the Netherlands made Bali as one of the 13 districts of East Indonesia State part of the newly proclaimed, i.e. as one of the country's rival for the Republic of Indonesia which was proclaimed and headed by Sukarno and Hatta.

Bali was also incorporated into the Republic of Indonesia States when the Netherlands acknowledged the independence of Indonesia on December 29, 1949. In 1950, officially leaving Bali with perserikatannya Netherlands and legally became a province of the Republic of Indonesia.
The eruption of Mount Agung in 1963, had a chance to shake the people's economy and caused many inhabitants of Bali bertransmigrasi to various other regions in Indonesia.
In 1965, along with a failed coup by the national Government on 30 September against Jakarta, Bali and many other areas there were against members and sympathizers of the Communist Party of Indonesia. In Bali, it is estimated more than 100,000