Saturday, October 13, 2007

Transition Periods in Bali

     Bali with the community and the culture that were unique was ascertained not one migration territory that just grew. It was daily that the Balinese community with the culture that always put forward the colour of the local culture showed that the Balinese trip passed the long history channel. Various archeology findings in various Balinese territories proved the trip is long the Balinese Island coincide with the territory and the other country.

     As with the other territory in the Indonesian Archipelago, beginning periods of social life were in Bali grouped as the time pre the history. In the period pre this history was not found notes that depicted the social life order. That became the reference was the findings of various equipment that were utilised as means of supporting continuation of the life of Balinese humankind at that point.

     From various period findings pre the history, the time pre the Balinese history - as with most other territories - covered three rounds of the cultural stage. The first layer was the life period that focussed on the hunting culture. For natural, went hunting was the method of maintaining continuation of the very clear life and was easy to be carried out. With the simple equipment from the stone material, that his legacy was found in the suburb in Bali north and the Shelf territory, Balinese humankind could it was estimated survive. The legacy of similar better equipment, by using the bones material, was found also in the Selonding cave in the Bulit area, Badung Selatan. This showed that the hunting period passed the quite long period was accompanied with the increase in the pattern thought that was increasingly good.

     Still had a basis in the findings of objects ancient time, was drawn that Bali began to leave the hunting period and entered in the farming period. Although entering the living order that more modeler in the period planted, the Balinese human group in the period it was confirmed lived in a manner moved. Various similar legacies were found as the free findings in various Balinese territories west, Bali north, and Bali south. The system lived with the settlement was believed in as the transition of Balinese humankind of the living order from the time pre the history to the history time. The legacy ancient time took the form of the bronze kettledrum and various things from the metal material in the Pejeng Gianyar area, proved that that time was formed by the community's order that more structurals.

     Simultaneously with the time transition pre the history to the history time, the Hindu influence from India that entered Indonesia it was estimated gave strong urging in the jump of the culture in Bali. This transition period, that was usual was acknowledged as the period Balinese Old between the age 8 and the age 13, with very clear experienced the change again resulting from the Majapahit influence that intended to unite the Indonesian Archipelago through the Palapa Gajah Mada Oath in the beginning of the age 13. The government's order and the structure of the community experienced the adjustment followed the pattern of the Majapahit government. The collision of the local culture Balinese Old and the culture Hindu Java from Majapahit in the form of the inhabitants's Balinese refusal caused various opposition in various areas in Bali. Slowly and definitely, with adjustment efforts and the second mix the side, Bali succeeded in finding the pattern of the culture that in accordance with the pattern thought the community and the Balinese nature situation.

     This adjustment model apparently that afterwards formed the community and the Balinese culture that is inherited currently became unique and typical, absorbed the Hindu element and Javanese Majapahit but thick with the local colour.

     The pattern of the development of the Balinese culture in following periods, the colonisation time and the independence time, naturally followed the channel that was same that is accepting the outside influence that merged in the colour of the local culture.

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