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Bali's economy is dominated by agriculture, rich in rice, corn, coconut and coffee. Agricultural production is mostly carried out in the form of collective cooperation. After the Bali bombings in 2002 and the Indonesian tsunami in 2006, Bali's white beaches were not as good as before, and local tourism was hit hard. It has now recovered rapidly.

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Balinese people are descendants of prehistoric humans who migrated from other Indonesian islands and have retained their own national and ethnic identities and social values best suited to their own survival and development.

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The earliest documented contact with the outside world that changed their lives was with merchant ships and travelers from India. They brought Indian Buddhism and knowledge. Due to its influence, Bali residents mostly believe in Hinduism, Indonesia is the only place to believe in Hinduism. But Hinduism here is not the same as Hinduism in India itself. It is a combination of Hindu teachings and Balinese customs, called Balinism. Balinese Buddhism continued to spread to the surrounding Java, while Islam in Java's Madjapahit kingdom influenced Balinese people. The two religious sects coexisted for a time, and thousands of Indian priests, nobles, soldiers, artists and artisans fled to Bali from the surrounding Java islands to escape the Muslim victors. The Indian religious forces in Bali continued to develop and grow and became the main religious sect on the island.

The island was later discovered by Westerners, and in 1585 a Portugal ship ran aground off the coast of Bukit, drowning most of its crew with only a few survivors. The survivors were well treated. Three Dutch voyagers later explored Bali. There was only one person on the way back, and the other two were attracted by the beauty of the island and stayed. Bali, however, was still a strange place to the West. In the 19th century the Dutch decided to conquer Bali. Balinese Hindus are basically pacifists. After losing the fight, they made a tragic choice: in 1906, faced with gunfire, Balinese committed mass suicide to resist Dutch rule. In the 19th century, the Dutch took control of all of Bali. But they kept Balinese cultural identity intact.

Since then, France and Britain have also taken an interest in Bali, but they have not established themselves there like the Netherlands. Civil war against the royal family ensued, and this period was one of the most chaotic in Bali's history.

Indonesia became independent in 1949. After the consolidation of Suharto's regime, Bali regained its vitality and became an important source of foreign exchange revenue for the Indonesian government. Nearly half of Indonesia's foreign exchange earnings from tourism come from Bali, amounting to as much as $2 billion a year. Especially after the Southeast Asian financial crisis, foreign investment basically stopped entering Indonesia, and Bali's economic status became more important. Bali is closely linked to Java, but most of the time it develops independently of Java. Even in the Western colonial period, it basically maintained a relatively detached position.