Denpasar
Village City with Regal History

Denpasar is a village city with an aristocratic past. Born from the ashes of the defeated Pemecutan court following the Puputan massacre of 1906. Denpasar become a sleepy administrative outpost during Dutch times.

Since independence, especially after it was made the capital of Bali in 1958, it has been transformed into a bustling city of some 350.000 souls that provides administrative, commercial and educational services not only to booming Bali, but too much of estern Indonesia as well. Denpasar is the most dynamic city east Surabaya, and arguably the richest in the country- the are more vehicles per capita here tha in Jakarta.

New City Old Villages
Originally a market town- its name literally means “east of the market”- Denpasar has far outgrown its former boundaries, once defined by the Pemecutan, Jero Kuta and Satriya palace and the brahmanical house of Tegal, Tampakgangsul and Gemeh. Spurred in all direction by population pressures and motorized transport, urban growth is little by little envolping the neighboring villages and oblitering surrounding ricefields, leaving in a new urban landscape in its wake housing estate in the midst of ricefields and ricefields in the middle of the city. Denpasar