Story of Bali, Indonesia

Malkangin after its patrons lost their power. But riot all special residential areas are simple archaisms of the courtly cosmography. Tabanan includes another hamlet with an area known popularly as Dalem, because it borders the death temple and town graveyard. Its residents have a reputation for black magical po 1 tency., it is a likely area for witchcraft. According to some informants, it is appropriate for cornmunism as well, which explains why the PKI was centered here. But even before 1965, a person was thought of as being front Dalein rather than being from the banjar adat that includes it.

One final example should illustrate the full elaboration of this factor of legendary locality in Balinese social organization. There is a place called Pangkong Prabu. Its residents meet in the adat council-house of a Tabanan banjar, although their houseyards lie two kilometers away, separated by Tabanan's new special governmental banjar and a cemetery for national heroes. In matters of both customary law and governmental administration, the twenty-four family heads in Pangkong Prabu face west to Tabanan. However, their marriage network and their social relations based on an enhanced commoner rank of Pasek (to be discussed later) face eastwards toward nearby Sangolan, a single adat-hamlet that nevertheless supports its own desa temple-cluster which is part of a different government unit