Story of Bali, Indonesia

Over, the desa temple-cluster implemented a kind of local organization which has been called uniquely Balinese.
Bali is the only island in the archipelago where there has developed somewhat the idea of the incorporation of the municipality [or parish I (rechtspersoonlijkheid der gemeente) van stein callenfels 1947.
Finally, legends appended to the territory under the influence of the deities of a particular desa temple-cluster often provide clues to local social dynamics.

Ideally, a desa membership is the congregation of' this triumvirate of temples. But there are sociological complications in this religious architecture of local organization. The congregation that supports a three-temple-cluster can contain people other than the residents of the geographical area under its influence. Thus, it is misleading to view the desa as a confederation of hamlets (banjar). One desa territory
might contain residential groups which are affiliated to another territory's three-temple-cluster. Or allegiances might even be divided between three-temple-clusters. Tabanan, for example, is among other things the name of a desa with a kayangan tiga. But there are members of banjars who acknowledge the Brahmanic forces of their lives in Tabanan's origin temple and the Sivaic forces in the death temple of a
neighboring desa. One unusual banlar even has its own origin temple and uses Tabanan's death temple. Thus, to see the kayangan tiga even as a negatively defined 'legal community' (Geertz 1959), with distinctive purity/pollution rules and ritual detailing, although true in a broad sense, overlooks such cross-desa affiliations according to which persons attend three-temple-cluster ceremonies not as banjar
members but as individual family heads with religious ties to that locality.