Balinese people (western Indonesia)

[oditous]

Very similar to javanese people in looks also keepers of classical hindu-javanese culture

The origins of the Balinese came from three periods: The first waves of immigrants came from Java and Kalimantan in the prehistoric times of the proto-Malay stock; the second wave of Balinese came slowly over the years from Java during the Hindu period; the third and final period came from Java, between the 15th and 16th centuries, at the time of the conversion of Islam in Java, aristocrats fled to Bali from the Javanese Majapahit Empire to escape Islamic conversion, reshaping the Balinese culture into a syncretic form of classical Javanese culture with many Balinese elements. The Balinese people generally got a large proportion of their ancestry from there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_people

Surprisingly high contribution of indian Y-dna

Balinese Y-chromosome perspective on the peopling of Indonesia: genetic contributions from pre-neolithic hunter-gatherers, Austronesian farmers, and Indian traders (2005)

The island of Bali lies near the center of the southern chain of islands in the Indonesian archipelago, which served as a stepping-stone for early migrations of hunter-gatherers to Melanesia and Australia and for more recent migrations of Austronesian farmers from mainland Southeast Asia to the Pacific. Bali is the only Indonesian island with a population that currently practices the Hindu religion and preserves various other Indian cultural, linguistic, and artistic traditions (Lansing 1983). Here, we examine genetic variation on the Y chromosomes of 551 Balinese men to investigate the relative contributions of Austronesian farmers and pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherers to the contemporary Balinese paternal gene pool and to test the hypothesis of recent paternal gene flow from the Indian subcontinent. Seventy-one Y-chromosome binary polymorphisms (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) and 10 Y-chromosome-linked short tandem repeats (STRs) were genotyped on a sample of 1,989 Y chromosomes from 20 populations representing Indonesia (including Bali), southern China, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Near East, and Oceania. SNP genotyping revealed 22 Balinese lineages, 3 of which (O-M95, O-M119, and O-M122) account for nearly 83.7% of Balinese Y chromosomes. Phylogeographic analyses suggest that all three major Y-chromosome haplogroups migrated to Bali with the arrival of Austronesian speakers; however, STR diversity patterns associated with these haplogroups are complex and may be explained by multiple waves of Austronesian expansion to Indonesia by different routes. Approximately 2.2% of contemporary Balinese Y chromosomes (i.e., K-M9*, K-M230, and M lineages) may represent the pre-Neolithic component of the Indonesian paternal gene pool. In contrast, eight other haplogroups (e.g., within H, J, L, and R), making up approximately 12% of the Balinese paternal gene pool, appear to have migrated to Bali from India. These results indicate that the Austronesian expansion had a profound effect on the composition of the Balinese paternal gene pool and that cultural transmission from India to Bali was accompanied by substantial levels of gene flow.

[ilham_indonesia]

LOL they're obviously most unique Hindus in the world
could some Indian members here answer me, what will they be perceived in India?

[oditous]

[Akim]

beautiful pics!

[ilham_indonesia]

I admire them because they often look clean

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Made Mangku Pastika, current governor of Bali



Ines Putri Tjiptadi Chandra, Miss Indonesia 2012

[miaozu]

The majority of the Balinese population is Hindu, behind India Bali has the highest concentration of Hindu followers. In the past centuries the Balinese have mixed Hindu and Buddhistic elements from India with existing indigenous religious customs. That’s why the Balinese variant of Hinduism puts more emphasis on the earth and animism.

[miaozu]

Oh, I just made a thread about Balinese without realizing that there was one already. lol

[oditous]

Oh, I just made a thread about Balinese without realizing that there was one already. lol

no worriez, you can always ask a mod to merge the threads, but maybe best to check first (by doing a search within the human variation section = magnifying glass in the blue bar) when you create a new thread

[miaozu]

I would love to go to Bali. It's a beautiful country.

[frenchmontana]

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