Bali is one of the provinces of Indonesia, and the majority of bali population is non-Muslims. Where There is a rocky formation it is one of the important landmarks in Bali named "Tanah Lot".
Bali History
Bali inhabited by Alastronisn tribes who migrated from Taiwan via the Navy to Southeast Asia for nearly 2000 years BC.
Culturally and linguistically, the population of Bali is the nearest to the tribes: the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines and parts of Oceania. The traditional rock instruments which found near the village in the east of the island evidence of cultural convergence between those tribes.
Balinese culture influenced by chinese and indian cultures, and specifically of Hindu culture at the beginning of the first century AD.
In the year 991 AD was born in Bali orteja, and he is one of the kings who ruled East Java while the rule of his younger brother his deputy on the island of Bali and make up his tomb and the tombs of his wives group of rock tombs in Tambak Cering surrounded by Lee carved in the rock were used to establish the monks appointed religious service of private property graves and in 1343 landed the family property worn by the Kingdom of Javanese Majapahit.
The first European contact with the island was by the Dutch explorer Kornelaz de Haotman in 1597 AD. After that comes the Dutch colonialism, which included the rest of the Indonesian archipelago islands in the nineteenth century.
Religion of Balines People
Unlike the vast majority of Islamic religion in Indonesia, approximately 93.18% of the population of Bali owe local Hindu religion and formed from a combination of some of the local Hindu beliefs and in South Asia. Other religions, including Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. This statistic does not include immigrants from some Indonesian islands.
When Islam defeated the Hindu in Java in the sixteenth century, the island of Bali has become a shelter for many of the Hindus. Hinduism in Bali combination of Indian Buddhism and Hinduism and some spiritual traditions of the indigenous population.