Ubud is a town on the Indonesian island of Bali in Ubud District,located amongst rice paddies and steep ravines in the central foothills of the Gianyar regency. Promoted as an arts and culture centre,it has developed a large tourism industry. It forms a northern part of the Greater Denpasar metropolitan area.
Gianyar Regency is a regency (kabupaten) in the Indonesian province and island of Bali,Indonesia. It has an area of 368.0 km2 and had a population of 469,777 at the 2010 Census,and 515,344 at the 2020 Census,making it the second most densely populated district in Bali;the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 523,973 - comprising 262,708 males and 261,264 females. Its regency seat is the town of Gianyar. The civil registry survey of April 2011 listed 480,447 people,of which 469,929 were classified as Hindu.
A Balinese name is part of a system of identification used by the Balinese people and in the western parts of the neighboring island of Lombok,Indonesia. A Balinese name will have three parts:a title,a birth order name and a personal name. Balinese people do not use a family name.
The State of East Indonesia was a post–World War II state formed in the eastern half of Dutch East Indies. Established in December 1946,it became part of the United States of Indonesia (USI) in 1949 at the end of the Indonesian National Revolution,and was dissolved in 1950 with the end of the USI. It comprised all the islands to the east of Borneo and of Java.
Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung,alternatively spelled too as Ida Anak Agung Gde Agung,was an Indonesian ethnic-Balinese politician,historian,and National Hero,who was the Raja of Gianyar,Bali,and served as the prime minister of the State of East Indonesia from 1947 to 1949,and the Foreign Affairs Minister of Indonesia from 1955 until 1956.
Balinese art is art of Hindu-Javanese origin that grew from the work of artisans of the Majapahit Kingdom,with their expansion to Bali in the late 14th century. From the sixteenth until the twentieth centuries,the village of Kamasan,Klungkung,was the centre of classical Balinese art. During the first part of the twentieth century,new varieties of Balinese art developed. Since the late twentieth century,Ubud and its neighboring villages established a reputation as the center of Balinese art.
Nyoman Rudana is a former member of the Regional Representatives Council of Indonesia. He is also the founder and owner of Museum Rudana,Rudana Fine Art Gallery and Genta Fine Art Gallery,and founder of artist support organizations in Ubud,Bali.
Hotel Tjampuhan &Spa,better known as the Tjampuhan Hotel is a historic hotel in Ubud,on the island of Bali,Indonesia. The Tjampuhan is the second-oldest hotel in Bali,trailing only the Natour Bali Hotel that opened in 1927. It is run and owned by the Tjampuhan Group under Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati and his family.
Johan Rudolf Bonnet was a Dutch artist who lived much of his life in the town of Ubud on Bali,Indonesia. He was born into a Dutch Huguenot-descended family who had been bakers for many generations. He attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
Tjokorda Raka Sukawati was an Indonesian engineer who invented Sosrobahu. He was born and died in Ubud,Bali,and in 2019 was conferred honorary T. Washington Fellow in science posthumously.
Antonio Maria Blanco was a painter of born in Manila.Antonio Maria Blanco was born in the Ermita district of Manila,Philippines. He initially lived and worked in Florida and California in the United States. Don Antonio Maria Blanco died on December 10,1999 in Denpasar,Bali.
Tjokorda Ngurah Wim Sukawati,was the eldest son of President of the State of East Indonesia and former `King´of Ubud Tjokorda Gde Raka Soekawati and his wife Gusti Agung Niang Putu. His title Tjokorda Gde indicates that Sukawati belonged to the highest ksatria.
The Ubud Palace,officially Puri Saren Agung,is a historical building complex situated in Ubud,Gianyar Regency of Bali,Indonesia.
The Denpasar Conference was held from 7–24 December 1946 at the Hotel Bali,Denpasar and resulted in the establishment of the State of East Indonesia,part of the United States of Indonesia.
The Cabinet of the State of East Indonesia served as the central government apparatus of the State of East Indonesia,headed by a prime minister who were appointed by the head of state. During the three-year lifetime of the state between 24 December 1946 and 27 December 1949,there were eight cabinets in total,headed by six different prime ministers.
Tadjuddin Noor was an Indonesian politician and nationalist. He was a deputy speaker of the Provisional People's Representative Council between 1950 and 1956,and chaired the legislature of the State of East Indonesia (NIT).
The Provisional Senate of East Indonesia was the upper house of the parliament of State of East Indonesia,a component of the United States of Indonesia. The Senate existed from May 1949 to August 1950,when the State of East Indonesia was dissolved into the unitary Republic of Indonesia.
The Paruman Agung was the regional parliament of Bali from 1938 until 1950.
Tjokorda Gde Budi Suryawan was an Indonesian civil servant and politician who served as the Regent of Gianyar from 1993 until 2003 and a member of the Bali Regional People's Representative Council from 2009 until 2014.
