Social Culture of Bali Province

Bali Province has its own unique characteristics and different. In his also, Bali Province is also famous for its customs and traditions. Besides, there are 276 historic sites that are still well maintained. The numbers of dance groups in Bali reached 3738, and 7944 art music group.

Social life of the Balinese culture is based on the philosophy of "Tri Hita Karna", which means: Three Causes of Welfare which needs to be balanced and harmonized, the relationship between man and God [Parahyangan], Man's relationship with man [Pawongan], and man's relationship with the environment [Paleman].

Behavior of community life guided by the philosophy "Karma Phala", namely the belief that there is causation between the acts with the of his actions.Much of community life were colored by various religious ceremony / custom, so that their spiritual life cannot be separated from the various rituals.Therefore each time in a few places in Bali, seen ritual offerings.

One of the other local knowledge is the existence of the Institute Subak as an institution that regulates the irrigation system of Bali's traditional socio-religious nature.This institution consists of Subak who manage wetland agriculture [rice] and Subak Abian that manage dryland farming [moor].

Region Profiles :

Tourism in Bali is the most developed and developing sector, which still likely to develop more modern again. This area has a variety of tourism, both natural tourism, historical tourism, and cultural tourism. Nature tourism, for example includes 47 tourism, such as the Panorama at Kintamani, beach Kuta, Legian, Sanur, Nusa Panida, Karang Asem, Lake Batur, Lake Bedugul, West Bali National Park, and Menjangan Island Marine Park.

There were 83 objects of cultural tourism, among others: art in Ubud, Tanah Lot sacred sites, Barong ceremony in Jimbaran and various places of art and many galleries are now popping up in several places on the island of Bali.Objects of cultural tourism is growing rapidly, especially many works of art produced by painters and sculptors from Bali. Prices of paintings and sculptures made in Bali, can reach tens to hundreds of millions of Rupiah.