The Coast Kute

The Kuta coast was a tourist attraction that was located on the south of Denpasar, the Balinese capital, Indonesia. Kuta was located in the Naughty regency. This area was a very most famous destination of foreign tourists. In Kuta personally often was gotten shops, the restaurant and the place permandian as well as put himself in the sun to dry. The Kuta coast often also was acknowledged as Sunset Beach or the sun coast sank as the opponent from the Sanur coast.

The uniqueness from this coast that is from the area of the coast that was surrounded by hills, his sand that was coloured very white and very quiet the visitor, at first in the work day.The coast Kuta Lombok apparently often was not yet exploited by the local regional government to be made the aim of the supreme tour apart from Senggigi that his name has been secular.

The culture and the Balinese

Traditional Balinese music had the similarity with traditional music in many other areas in Indonesia, for example in the use of the gamelan and various musical instruments tabuh other.
Nevertheless, was gotten by the special characteristics in the technique played and his composition, for example in the form of kecak, that is a form of song that it seems imitated the monkey voice. Likewise heterogenous the gamelan that was played then had the uniqueness, for example the Jegog Gamelan, Gamelan Gong Gede, Gamelan Gambang, Gamelan Selunding, and the Semar Pegulingan Gamelan. Angklung music was played for the cremation ceremony, as well as Bebonangan music was played in various other ceremonies.

Gotten by the modern form from traditional Balinese music, for example the Gong Kebyar Gamelan that was dance music that was developed in the Dutch colonisation period, as well as Joged Bumbung that began to be popular in Bali since the era in the 1950 's.Generally Balinese music was the combination of various metal percussion instruments (metalofon), the gong, and wood percussion (the xylophone).Because of social relations, politics and the culture, traditional Balinese music or the game of the Balinese style gamelan gave the influence or affected mutual areas of the culture around it, for example to traditional music the Banyuwangi community as well as traditional music the Lombok community.

The Dance

Art the Balinese dance could be generally categorised to three groups; that is the guardian or sacred art of the performance dance, bebali or art of the performance dance for the ceremony but also for the visitor, and balih-balihan or dance art for the visitor's entertainment.

The expert in dance art Balinese I Made Bandem at the beginning of the 1980 's had classed this Balinese dance; in part that be classed as in the guardian for example Berutuk, Sang Hyang Dedari, Rejang and the Gede Line, bebali including being Gambuh, Topeng Pajegan, and the Wong Puppet, whereas balih-balihan including being Legong, Parwa, Arja, Prembon and Joged, as well as various other modern dance choreography.

One of the dances that was very popular for the tourists was the Kecak Dance. Around the 1930 's, Wayan Limbak co-operated with the German painter of Walter Spies created this dance be based on the tradition Sanghyang and parts the Ramayana story. Wayan Limbak popularised this dance when travelling around the world with the party of his Balinese dancer.

Balinese Ethnic

The Balinese ethnic group was the ethnic group that lived in the Balinese island, used Balinese and followed the Balinese culture. Most Balinese ethnic groups were religious Hindu, approximately 90%. Whereas the rest of them were religious Buddha, Islam and Christian.

There were approximately 5 million Balinese. Most they lived in the Balinese island, but they were also spread all over Indonesia.

The spreading of Balinese has outside Bali happened since ancient the time. For example, during 1673, when the inhabitants of the Batavia city numbering 27,086 souls have been met by 981 Balinese. As for the other composition of nations in the period was as along with: 2,740 Dutch and Indo, 5,362 people Mardijker, 2,747 people Tionghoa, 1,339 Javanese and Moor (India), and 611 people withered. These free inhabitants were increased with 13,278 people of the slave (49 percent) from various ethnic groups and the nation (was like this Lekkerkerker).Most Balinese were in Batavia brought in as the diamond slave.

One of the tracks of the influence of the Balinese nation in Betawi culture was art of puppets. The giant's doll came from art of Barong Landung Bali. Suffix-in in the Betawi language, for example in words: mainin, nambahin, panjatin, dll., that afterwards also was adopted as the suffix that was popular in the language mixed Indonesia also came the beginning from the suffix -in that was usual in Balinese grammar.

The geographical location of the Balinese

Geography

The Balinese island that was a Island part Sundanese smalll had the extent along 153 kilometre in a wide manner 112 kilometre. Was located to the ruler lintang south 8°, the position this caused Bali have a climate the tropics as with Indonesian regions that were other.

Mount Agung be as high as 3,148 metre was the point that was highest in Bali. This volcano exploded the last time to Mac 1963. Mount Batur was again a mountain in this island. Around 30.000 years beforehand, Mount Batur erupted and resulted in the horrifying disaster. Berbeza with the northern part, the Balinese southern part was the plain that was passed through rivers

The Balinese capital was the Denpasar city, whenever the Ubud city was the centre of art. The sightseeing destination that was main in Bali including Kuta, Sanur, Seminyak, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua.