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The Balinese population of 4 million, or 2.3% of Indonesia's population, is scattered over islands beyond Bali also. But most of the Balinese (3.6 million) can be found in the island of Bali, where they made up 95% of the island's population. (Most of the remainder consists of the descendants of Muslim Javanese men and Balinese women.) Another 350,000 of them can be found in the island of Lombok, where they make up a large fraction of the island's population. Large numbers can be found in the Municipality of Banyuwangi in Java, and smaller numbers can be found in Medan (3,000), Irian Jaya (5,000), Kalimantan, other parts of Java and Sumatra. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Topography Map showing Bali within Indonesia Sunset at Jimbaran Beach, Bali Young Balinese Dancers Bali rice terraces Balis Sanur Beach Statue of Dewi Sri — Ubud, Bali Bali is an Indonesian island. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... Javanese language is the spoken language of the people in the central and eastern part of the island of Java, in Indonesia. ... Satellite photograph of Lombok, showing its volcano. ... Location The Regency of Banyuwangi is located at the easternmost end of the island of Java, and it is a very strategic area for one who wants to go to Bali. ... Map of Java Java (Indonesian: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ... Medan is the capital city of the Sumatera Utara (North Sumatra) province of Indonesia. ... Map showing Papua province in Indonesia Papua is a province of Indonesia comprising part of the western half of the island of New Guinea and nearby islands. ... Map of Kalimantan Kalimantan is the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. ... Sumatra (also spelled Sumatara and Sumatera) is the sixth largest island of the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest part of Indonesia. ...

Origins

The origins of the Balinese came from three periods: The first waves of immigrants came from Java and Kalimantan in the prehistoric times of the proto-Malay stock; the second wave of Balinese came slowly over the years from Java during the Hindu period; the third and final period came from Java, between the 15th and 16th centuries, at the time of the conversion of Islam in Java, the aristocrats fled to Bali from Java to escape Islamic conversion, reshaping the Balinese culture into a syncretic form of classical Javanese culture with many Balinese elements. The Balinese people generally got a large proportion of their ancestry from there. Map of Kalimantan Kalimantan is the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. ... This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ... Islam  listen? (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest religion. ... Topography Map showing Bali within Indonesia Sunset at Jimbaran Beach, Bali Young Balinese Dancers Bali rice terraces Balis Sanur Beach Statue of Dewi Sri — Ubud, Bali Bali is an Indonesian island. ... Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. ...

Religion

The vast majority of the Balinese follow one religion - Hinduism that is mixed with pre-Hindu mythologies and Animism, and Buddhism. A minority of creole Balinese in Bali that are descended from Javanese Muslim fathers and Balinese mothers follow Islam - more commonly in a nominal way. Another even smaller group of Balinese - which total up to about 30,000 of them- are actually Sasak refugees - either follow Christianity or more commonly, a blend of Christian beliefs that is blended with Hinduism. This group of people, however are considered socially inferior and were regarded as outcasts. Many of them might be either the wives of Caucasian husbands or children of Dutch or British men and Balinese women. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Balinese mythology is the traditional mythology of the people of the Indonesian island of Bali, before the majority adoption of Hinduism. ... Animism is the belief that personalized supernatural beings (or souls) inhabit all objects and govern their existence. ... Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... Islam  listen? (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest religion. ... The Sasak live mainly on the island of Lombok, numbering around 2. ... Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament writings of his early followers. ... The term Christian means belonging to Christ and is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός Khristós which means anointed one, which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word Moshiach (Hebrew: משיח, also written Messiah), (and in Arabic it is pronounced Maseeh مسيح). Christian is primarily an adjective, describing an object associated... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Caucasian is originally a geographical term, meaning relative or pertaining to the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe and West Asia. ...

An even smaller group of Balinese, who were largely considered as aborigines, perhaps with a thin veneer of Hindu influence, follow the traditional Balinese Animism in remote villages. This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ... Animism is the belief that personalized supernatural beings (or souls) inhabit all objects and govern their existence. ...

Festivals

History

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President Sukarno's mother was Balinese. Sukarno Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970) was the first President of Indonesia. ...