Controversial Pendet Dance

Pendet dance, however this dance originaly from Bali, Indonesia. Have you ever heard other language that posses the word Pendet? It's totaly Balinese. but recently, this term become controversy. And this is when it all begins.


An ad promoting the network's Enigmatic Malaysia, a special series meant to highlight the cultural heritages of Malaysia featured Balinese Pendet dancers. This prompted an outrage from the dancers in Bali, who posted messages demanding that Malaysia apologize over the misinformation, which then sparked a series of street protests. Further demands were made from the local governments, cultural historians as well as the tourism ministry in Indonesia for Malaysia to clarify the situation. The Malaysian government reportedly offered their apologies, which was rejected by the Indonesian tourism minister. However, the Malaysian government denies claims that it was responsible for the ad, and later disclosed that Discovery TV had sent an apology letter to the two countries, clarifying that the network was responsible for the ad.

what i can take as conclusion are, how come such controversial ad be released to public. Do the tv channel gain the permission to view the ad to public? Or, futhermore, Do Malaysia, i mean the government has a censor department that review all the ad and tv programme before they are released? if there are any, why do they don't put attention on this? it's a controversial and sensitive issue. This such issue can ruin the diplomatic relation between this two Country. Moreover, this sort of problem is not the first time. do we learn from our mistakes? both of us. Please, is there peace live on earth? we should think about what we're about to do. Relize every risk of what we do.

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Traditional Dance

Indonesia is a country of many islands. that's why, the culture vary from island to island. the culture form could be art, fashion, language, habit, dance, etc. The way of living in one isand is quite different from others. for example the sumatra people will have very diffferent culture from Kalimantan or Sulawesi. Today focus is on traditional dance.

In sumatra, You must ever saw the famous dances, Saman dance from Aceh. the dance perform by numbers of people who sit in rows. I guarantee you also must have heard of Tor Tor, the north sumatra traditional dance. Or, Piring and Lilin dance from Padang. Even The Dayak and Papua have their own dances that are different from other province dances. Talking about dances, You must know Bali. This land of God is quite famous for the dances.

Traditional Balinese dances are the oldest form of performing arts in Bali. Traditional dances can be divided into two types, sacred dance called Wali and entertainment dance called Bebalihan. Wali (sacred dance) is usually performed in some ritual ceremonies only because it has strong magical powers and only can be performed by specific dancers. Bebalihan are usually performed in social events. In addition to entertain, Bebalihan also has other purposes such as: welcoming guests, celebration of harvests, or gathering crowds. Bebalihan has more variations than Wali.

Indonesia is a vast and beautiful country. With different culture. I want to tell you that, nowadays all you know is Bali. Indonesia has more beautiful site. Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Ambon, Papua are the island that worthy to be seen. Try one and I guarantee you'll be back for second visit. because once is never enough.

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