About Bali
History of Bali
The word Bali firstly appeared in the Inscription of Blanjong found in Sanur village. The epigraph shows the number of 913 centuries which was written by King Kesari Warmadewa. On that epigraph, Bali island is called Bali Dwipa. This word is derived from Sanskrit language that consists of words Bali and Dwipa. The word Bali has a lot of meanings such as return, offering, certainness, real and the other words that have similar meaning. Whereas Dwipa means island.
The name Bali might be given by Indian traders who had spread around South Eastern Asia including Bali in the first century. They encountered with the villagers who occupied this island with religious ceremonial activities using many kinds of offerings (banten) in conducting the ceremony.
Maybe based on that condition, this island was called Bali Dwipa. This became the trader’s habit when they found a new region that had not had the name yet. They would give a name in accordance with the situation of the environment
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Geographical Location and population
Bali province is one of the provinces in Indonesia which is located between Java and Lombok Island. Its physical limit is in the northern part is Bali sea, in the eastern part is the Lombok straits, in the southern part; the Indonesian ocean, and in the western part; the Bali straits.
Bali Island consists of Bali island, Nusa Penida Island, and Serangan Island. Administratively, Bali province consists of eight regencies and one city which is divided into 53 districts, 674 villages, and 3954 hamlets. Bali island has a very strategic location because it relates land transportation of Lombok and Java. Bali is also located between Asia continent and Australia continent. Geographically, in the middle of Bali Island, there are a lot of mountains laid front east to the west. Among those mountains, there are several mountains as the top such as: Agung mountain (3142 m), Batur mountain (1717 m), Abang mountain (2152m) and Batukaru mountain (2276 m). Mount Agung and Mount Batur are volcanic mountains. In the northern and southern parts of those mountains laid the land. Those mountains are quite far from the cebter city of Denpasar. Prananta Bali rent car as one of car rental providers will be grateful to assist the visitor who love to visit those places.
There are four lakes in Bali; Batur lake (1.675,5 Ha), Beratan lake (375,6 Ha), Buyan lake (336 Ha), and Tamblingan lake (110 Ha). The rivers that spurt from the lakes and forest mostly flow to the southern part of Bali such as; Unda river, Petanu river, Ayung river and etc. Bali region is belong to tropical area affected by the seasons that change every six months. Bali has two seasons, dry season (April- October) and rainy season (October- April). The temperature is varied between 24,0 degrees Celsius and 30,8 degrees Celsius. The humidity is 79% in average.
The population of Bali in 2001 as many as 3,156,392 people. In the previous census recorded the population in Bali as follow: Census in 1930 is 1,101,029 people, the census in 1961 is 1,782,529 people, the census in 1971 is 2,120,091 people, is 2,469,930 tahun1980 census and in 1990 is 2777. 356 people. In 2011, the population in Bali is approximately 4.000.000. Beside living in Bali, they are also scattered in various other provinces in Indonesia, where most of them are transmigrant.
The Balinese or Bali tribe is one of the tribes residing in the Indonesian archipelago. Bali tribes is one of ethnic group who are bound by the consciousness or the unity of cultures both Balinese culture and Indonesian culture. Sense of awareness for the unity of Balinese culture is reinforced by the presence of ethnic unity and Hindhu unity. Balinese language has a literary tradition both written and oral, and supported by its own script system.
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