{"id":7684,"date":"2009-05-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/03\/ancient-hindu-customs-survive-on-indonesia-s-bali-island\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:00:00","slug":"ancient-hindu-customs-survive-on-indonesia-s-bali-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/03\/ancient-hindu-customs-survive-on-indonesia-s-bali-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Hindu Customs Survive on Indonesia&#8217;s Bali Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20090426-ancient-rites-survive-indonesias-bali-island\">www.france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">TRUNYAN, INDONESIA, April 26, 2009: The small population of Trunyan island  claims to be descendants of the original Balinese, or Bali Aga. They follow a form of Hinduism that pre-dates the influence of the powerful Majapahit empire that ruled neighboring Java for 200 years from the late 13th century.<\/p>\n<p>Although Bali has developed rapidly as a tourist destination, the isolated village of Trunyan maintains an unusual tradition: Their dead are not cremated or buried, but instead are respectfully laid out under a sacred banyan tree.<\/p>\n<p>Until an asphalt road reached the village in 2006, it was accessible only by boat. Traditions forgotten or modified in other parts of Bali are still honored here. &#8220;All our traditions and ritual practices are inherited from our ancestors,&#8221; said I Ketut Jaksa, a deputy to the village chief. <\/p>\n<p>An ancient fig tree in the center of Trunyan&#8217;s cemetery is considered the sacred incarnation of a Hindu goddess who descended from the sky and married a Javanese prince. <\/p>\n<p>The new road has brought the inevitable tourists. While their business is welcome, the community remains committed to preserving the ancient rites and rituals. &#8220;Any violation, no matter how small it is, will cause a fatal impact for all of us here in the village,&#8221; Jaksa said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.france24.com TRUNYAN, INDONESIA, April 26, 2009: The small population of Trunyan island claims to be descendants of the original Balinese,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}