About Bali
One of the most popular tourist
destinations in the world, Bali for few years awarded as the world best island
by The International Travel Magazine. There, however, are still many people who
do not know in depth about the uniqueness of Balinese culture. Life in Bali is
always related to Tri Hita Karana or a tripartite concept that include the
spiritual relationship between human and God, and their environment. The rapid
growth of development in tourism has had a big impact and influences to Bali
tradition and lifestyle. Interestingly, Balinese culture is still as what it
was, growing along with the of globalization. It is the Balinese civilization
what makes the island different from other destination.
Among 17,500 islands across the
Indonesian archipelago, Bali is one of the 33 provinces of the Republic of
Indonesia, the largest archipelagic country in the world, made up of 2,000,000
km2 of land with a chain of islands stretching over 500,000 km from Sumatra to
Papua, and covers territorial waters of more than 5,000,000 km2. Situated
between Java and Lombok, the island of Bali is located 8 to 9 degrees south of
the equator with the Java Sea to the north, the Indian Ocean to the south.
Bali’s covers an area of 5,636 km2 or 0.29% of Indonesia, measuring just 90km
long the north-south axis and less than about 140km from west to east.
Divided into three areas of
water, the North Bali Sea is about 3,168km2, the East about 3.350km2, and the
West about 2,982km2. Bali Sea covers an area of 9,500km2. The North Bali sea
runs along the coastline of Buleleng, the East Bali Sea runs along the coastline
of Karangasem, Klungkung and Gianyar, and the West Bali Sea include the
coastline of Badung Tabanan and Jembrana.
