He knows practically everyone in Ubud and has a deep knowledge of Balinese history and culture.
He wears a thick, curly mustache, and his face is long and straight, like a Balinese mask.
Casablanca falls into this pattern, as did last year's strikes on a Balinese night-club and a Kenyan hotel.
But what has not changed is the special quality of the Balinese culture.
The villa interiors are leavened with non-Balinese pieces and are more about providing comfort than making a design statement.
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Art lovers who miss the exhibitions will have to resort to an accompanying catalog, Pre-War Balinese Modernists 1928-1942, and CD-ROM.
We amended our approach by focusing on quality through teamwork, consistent with the cooperative efforts in Balinese extended families and villages.
Balinese dance also fails to qualify as a pristine, untouched native art.
For Balinese, it was a warm welcome for opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Matahari Cottages has six flamboyantly themed rooms, including the 'Batavia Dacha' and the 'Indian Pasha', stuffed with Balinese furniture and colourful soft furnishings.
Several other, lesser-known Tretchikoff pieces, including "Balinese Dancer" and "Lady with Crayfish" are also set to go under the hammer in the sale.
Try Indus or Casa Luna, both located on Jalan Raya, and enjoy exemplary service, the freshest of ingredients and delicious Balinese cuisine.
The Balinese, trained to handle hordes of tourists, also displayed skills crucial in today's tumultuous and sometimes threatening street politics - effective crowd control and security.
The courtyard has pebbles and stones surrounded by grass, with an understated cascading fountain made from Balinese volcanic rock that collects rainwater and seeps into the stone.
Perhaps the most famous Balinese dance is the Kecak, where dozens of Balinese sing the rhythmic vocal of the "monkey chant" while waving their upper body and arms.
In Bali, there is a belief that gods and goddesses exist in the elements of nature, so for Balinese, the spirit world and the human world are constantly interacting.
They cannot become completely Asian in outlook, but they can marry the best of both worlds, so that whether it is Japanese, Balinese or Singaporean, the service is truly world class.
The five-star Palais Namaskar Marrakech opens 6 April, a confection of Andalusian architecture set in 12 acres of Balinese-style water gardens with 41 rooms, suites, villas and even two mini-palaces.
Haks and his partner Guus Maris spent some 12 years gathering and annotating a collection which demonstrates that the work of these early Balinese artists transcends what is often termed primitive art.
Dogs are said to have an instinctive ability to detect the demonic spirits that are so significant to Balinese beliefs, their barks being welcomed at night as they chase negative forces away.
He smiles as we encounter what he terms 'a Balinese tractor': another farmer, this time attempting to guide two small chestnut-brown cows and a plough through freshly harvested land, knee-deep in mud and water.
More than 90% of the population practices Balinese Hinduism (the rest of Indonesia is Muslim) and everywhere you look, women are making offerings of rice and brightly coloured flowers, blessing the things they interact with.
It has a whitewashed al fresco restaurant that specializes in Mediterranean fare, a night-lit swimming pool surrounded with beanbags, 23 air-conditioned beachfront bungalows with Balinese-style outdoor bathrooms and a two-bedroom villa with plunge pool set on a hill.
Dewi Sri is the Balinese Hindu goddess of fertility and prosperity, and it is to her that the rice farmers so carefully present offerings in the simple bamboo shrines at the edge of each field, just as we had witnessed earlier.
Influences of Buddhism and Confucianism can be found - again relics of waves of migration traceable to lands as distant as northern India and China - and the animistic beliefs of the indigenous Balinese remain a guiding influence for much of daily life.
He has travelled to Europe to buy and bring home Balinese paintings and weavings collected during the time of Dutch colonial influence over Indonesia - in the 19th and early 20th century - and has set up schools for local children to learn traditional forms of dance, music and painting.
After dining or drinking by the pool, a visit to Bulgari's spa might be in order, not only for its Balinese therapies and hot-stone treatments, but to experience the building itself, a centuries-old house of richly carved teak that has been transplanted from its original home in Java and reassembled here.
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