What Indonesia - Bali is all about ?

'and most chic of all, the European drop-scene. Now the curtain plays, as we have seen, a very important part in the entrance of an Ardja dancer. How 'modeeran' if the voice proceed not out of a patch-work curtain, but from a romantic lake below a volcano in eruption, or from the gateway of a Balinese temple, while white birds wing their irresolute flight across the blue fields of the sky! So some really up-to-date Ardjas use the framework of the Djanger scene, and Toean We and Sampik coil endlessly with broken hearts against a background of real painted streets.
Sometimes Djanger, Stamboel, and Ardja may all be combined, without any feeling of incongruity on the part of the Balinese. The Djanger itself may be introduced at great length by a dark gentleman of solemn aspect in spectacles, felt hat, grey dittos, muffler and false moustache, who issues from a painted curtain and patrols the stage, singing Americo Malay songs, the personified negation of all expression

They seldom see overt crises, children running away, street children, or drug use, abuse, or selling. Some adolescents brought to the psychiatric clinic for evaluation reveal disagreement with parents and instances of disobeying them. Teachers may note poor concentration and underachievement in children. There are no data on adolescent rape, theft, indecent exposure, or violence; however, sporadic instances are reported in the newspapers.

The only information available about adoiescent suicide is from Suryani's survey of cases at Wangaya Hospital: in 1968-78 most suicides occurred in the 20- to 25-year-old group, in 1984, there was an increasing trend in the 15- to 20-year-old group. The Balinese Hindu religion is a strong deterrent to suicide because it considers suicide to be an offence against the gods, a reason for punishment, and a wrong way to die, a mis-death (salah pati). The Balinese believe that the soul of a suicide faces difficulty in going to heaven and requires a special ceremony by the family to correct the problem.

Present information indicates that adolescence in Bali is a period of life relatively free of overt turmoil, crisis, trouble, and delinquency., In 1927, Mead published her startling findings that the Samoans fitted this description (Mead, 1928; Freeman, 1983) but she failed to recognize it as a characteristic of the Balinese. The absence of adolescent problems in Bali is so striking that it is hard for the Western observer to miss. Mead must have noticed that Balinese adolescence is easy and trouble-free like the Samoans' but not sexually permissive. Mead may have ignored it because the theme of her book Coming of age in Samoa was an easy sexually permissive, problem-free adolescence, a case of 'negative instance'38 in anthropology. For Mead to have acknowledged such mentally healthy and positive traits in Balinese adolescents may have been incompatible with her and Bateson's theorizing about child-rearing patterns resulting in schizoid characteristics of the Balinese.

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