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Sidemen.
lt writing about Sidemen because I am tempted to keep the secret to myself. The fear is that attention and ìsuccessî might send it in the same direction that Ubud has gone; in the direction of Dunkin Donuts and shopping malls, three-storey hotels, pollution and traffic jams. So I write this reluctantly, and feel compelled to attach this gentle reminder: If you go to Sidemen, tread lightly, and remember that a wise quantum physicist once stated definitively that ìseeing is changing. Observing is participating, and there is no such thing as an innocent bystander.(Kadek Susilawati)
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The Ubud
Area from the Bronze Age to the Information Age For millennia, Ubud and the areas immediately surrounding it have been ìcentre stage for the fascinating drama of Balinese history. During the Bronze Age (from 300BC), the Ubud area was already a wellspring of culture. This is evidenced by numerous archaeological finds in the area, including megalithic ruins and stepped pyramids, some of which are now the foundations of active Hindu temples. Remarkable Bronze Age artifacts around Ubud include the enormous bronze gong known as ìThe Moon of Pejeng. (Kadek Susilawati) Click details

History and Culture Of Bali.
The Balinese has already owned their belief and culture when Hinduism was brought into Indonesia about 2000 year ago. Around 400 AD, the Hindu Kingdoms in Central and East Java had their great influence over Bali, but when a new religion, Islam came in, the Hindu Kingdom in Java became less and less powerful, at that time a large number of priests, noblemen. Artists and their followers refused the new religion and escaped to Bali. They blended their belief and traditions with those of the local people, a blend of which is inherited by the present Balinese people, the rich culture which is instead of the scenic beauty of the island, has attracted noir and more visitors from time to time. Click to details

History of Balinese Dances
After the Majapahit warriors subdued Ball in the 14 century, Javanese mini principalities and courts soon appeared everywhere, creating that unique blend of cour and peasant culture, which is Bali highly sophisticated, dynamic and lively. The accompanying narrative for dance and drama is to a large extent based on court stories from pre-Majapahit Java. Even the Indian epics, another favourite of the stage, especially the wayang, use Javanese, cornplete with long quotes from the ancient Javanese Kakawin poetry. So Javanese culture, which disappeared from Java following Click Details

The capture of Bali Island.
Bali Island is an island west from Java. In World War II he played important role in conquest of Java Island. From Bali's airfields was important Allied Naval Base Soerabaja in range of Japanese bombers. Click Details

Java's Sailendra Dynasty.
At a point in time when Sri Vijaya had been the established leader in the Southeast Asian region for about 100 years, the Sailendra Dynasty of Java emerged.

HISTORY OF THE TRADITIONAL BALINESE.
The early history of the Traditional Balinese is the same as the history of the Traditional Siamese. The Siamese is considered by many to be a 'natural' breed - that is to say, one that developed without the intervention of man. Click Detail

Sri Vijaya.
The birth of the Malay empire, Sri Vijaya, as a great power in SE Asia began in the economic and political vacuum left by the fall of Funan. The Khmers, who had taken over the territory of Funan, did not take on Funan's former role as middle man in the China-India trade. Sri Vijaya took up the mantle as commercial intermediary between Asia's two great powers.

Balinese Painting and Technology: History
To understand the influence of technology and outside perspective on painting in Ubud a brief review is helpful. An excellent source for the history of Balinese painting can be found at Ubud's Neka Museum, whose collection is grouped according to chronology and artistic style. The descriptions below are adapted from Suteja Neka's book, The Development of Painting in Bali. Neka is a collector of Balinese art and founder of the museum.

HIGHLIGHTS ON INDONESIA
Indonesia did not exist yet during the Paleocene period (70 million years BC), the Eocene period (30 million years BC), the Oligocene period (25 million years BC) and the Miocene period (12 million years BC). It is believed that Indonesia must have existed during the Pleistocene period (4 million years BC) when it was linked with the present Asian Mainland.

A History of Gamelan (Balinese Music)
Gamelan music is the sum of diverse foreign influences. Pitch relationships from China, bronze instruments from southeast Asia, drums and modal practice from India, bowed strings from the middle east, and even military styles from Europe contributed to the traditional music we hear in Java and Bali today. Click details

The Treasures of Lombok
From the Seventeenth Century on, Lombok was under control of a few Balinese Monarchs. Trade for Bali was mainly through Lombok, because Bali was hard to reach for the very large ships. In the Nineteenth Century there was lively sea traffic with ....

Bali in the Middle Classic Period
In the late 10th century an East Javanese princess named Gunapriya married Udayana, a Balinese ruler of the Warmmadewa dynasty. After this marriage, Javanese cultural influence over Bali became very powerful. The Old Javanese language began to ...

Bali in the Late Classic Period
Geologists Bali's economy at the end of the Classic period had apparently not changed greatly since the beginning of the historic era. Agriculture was still the most important sector. In politics, religion, and coinage, .....

The Kingdoms of Bali
Bali, with its Hindus religion and rich cultural and ceremonial life, occupies a unique position in the Indonesian world. Although Bali's past is closely linked with that of pre-Islamic Java, the Balinese did not embrace Islam as it swept through the Indonesian Archipelago in the 15th century. Instead, ....

Puputan: End of the Kingdoms of Bali
For a Balinese ruler faced with defeat, surrender was never an option. Traditionally, the only honourable course of action was to end his life and set aside his temporal power in a fight to the death, a ritual of self sacrifice known as puputan. Literally ......