Story of Bali, Indonesia

Allocation of water is up to the subak. Villages hold elaborate ceremonies in honor of the rice goddess for protecting the rice planting, making crops flourish, and ensuring that rice storage houses in individual homes are full. The last-mentioned custom has decreased since the introduction of the new strains of rice which are not suitable for long-term storage, as was the old traditional rice. Irrigation systems encompass multiple communities and are an expression of long-standing intercommunity collaborative action.

The population of Bali in 1989 was 2,644,127, with about equal numbers of males and females. 'Ibis represents less than 2 per cent of the total population of Indonesia, but Bali is the destination of more than 50 per cent of the tourists visiting Indonesia. Bali has experienced considerable population growth since the 1930s when its population was only one million. More recently growth has slowed down in the period 1971-80, the average growth per year being 1.6199 per cent

One might well wonder how an island that has so little land and where population density is one of the highest in the world could assimilate so many new inhabitants and provide housing space to a population that more than doubled in 40 years. Amazingly, Bali does not appear crowded to, the resident of the visit or because of its endless vistas of rice fields, with a water-buffalo here and there, and in des of road through sparsely populated areas, even around the populous capital city of Denpasar. Bayung Gede in 1991 looks as it did in Bateson's photographs 50 years ago, and its population has only increased from about 500 to 750. Suryani, remembers, as a child 45 years ago, hearing her father tell of encountering tigers in the forest near their home in north Bali. Today, not a single tiger is left in Bali and much of previously forested land has been cleared for farming

Most of the main roads in Bali are two-lane and dogged by trucks, minibuses, cars, motor cycles, bicycles and food carts during the day and especially during festival times, which are, frequent. After dark, these traffic jams disappear and Streets are strikingly quiet.

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