Traditions of Bali
14 traditions tied to Bali.
🇮🇩 Bali, Indonesia and 3 morePencak silat
Indonesia's many schools of full-body fighting, with strikes, locks, throws and bladesGame
🇮🇩 Bali, Indonesia and 5 moreIkat
A resist-dyeing craft from Southeast Asia, where yarns are tied and dyed before weavingCraft
🇮🇩 Jakarta, Indonesia and 2 moreMudik
Indonesians head home to family before Lebaran, in the year's biggest journeyHome
🇮🇩 Bali, IndonesiaPenjorᬧᬾᬜ᭄ᬚᭀᬃ
A curved bamboo pole decorated with leaves and offerings, raised in Bali to mark Galungan and invite prosperity.Spiritual
🇮🇩 Bali, Indonesia and 1 moreLegonglégong
A refined Balinese dance of intricate finger movements and expressive gestures, kept in Indonesia.Performance
🇮🇩 Bali, IndonesiaMelasti
A Balinese Hindu purification ritual held at the sea before Nyepi to cleanse sacred objects and people.Spiritual
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreGhost Festival中元節 / 中元节 (Zhōngyuán jié)
A full-moon night in the seventh lunar month for feeding ghosts and guiding souls homeSpiritual
🇮🇩 Bali, IndonesiaNyepiᬜᬾᬧᬶ
A Balinese Hindu day of silence, fasting and stillness marking the Saka new yearSpiritual · Fasting and breaking the fast
🇮🇳 Varanasi, India and 2 moreKartika Purnimaकार्त्तिकपूर्णिमा (Kārttikapūrṇimā)
A full moon festival of lights and holy baths celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains across South Asia.Festival
🇮🇩 Bali, IndonesiaNgaben
A Balinese Hindu cremation rite held to free the soul of the deadRite of passage
🇮🇩 Bali, IndonesiaTumpengꦠꦸꦩ꧀ꦥꦼꦁ (Javanese); ᬢᬸᬫ᭄ᬧᭂᬂ (Balinese)
A tall cone of rice ringed with side dishes, central to Javanese ceremonies and partiesTable custom · Feasts and festival meals
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreBindi
A dot worn between the eyebrows, red for marriage and devotion, worn daily by many womenDress
🇮🇳 India and 2 morePujaपूजा (pūjā)
Hindu worship: light, flowers and food offered to a deity or a guestSpiritual
🇮🇩 Bali, IndonesiaNational costume of IndonesiaPakaian Nasional Indonesia
The formal attire worn by Indonesians to represent the nation's diverse cultural heritage.Dress
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pencak silat: Agus Triyanto, CC0, source
- Ghost Festival: Chong Fat, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nyepi: Matt Croxson, Public domain, source
- Kartika Purnima: Pictowrit, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ikat: Midori, CC BY 3.0, source
- Mudik: Arie Basuki, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- National costume of Indonesia: President of Indonesia, Public domain, source
- Penjor: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Legong: P. (Paul) Spies (Fotograaf/photographer)., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Melasti: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ngaben: by kibitan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Tumpeng: brother-harahap, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bindi: Vinay Sahay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Puja: Sakkhar21, CC BY-SA 4.0, source