Madisen Pavone Mrs. Nice GCU114 Research Paper 5 September 2017 BALI, INDONESIA Bali’s history, as a whole, has been populated with such a vast and wide-ranged group of people; around 250 ethnic groups now. To make things more difficult, their recorded history is tremendously scant. When researching the settlement of this country, various answers were given. It is believed that Bali was “the final frontier in the mainland” (Planet, L). As a result, making it a magnet for human immigration because of its beauty and amount of land available. It was an attraction during the pre-ice age era! Furthermore, because there was an abundant amount of people coming into the country at once. Researchers found copious amounts of diverse-shaped skulls and The Balinese people were not too worried about importing goods or cash crops the Majapahit Empire brought them. Bali, Indonesia has an extremely unique landscape. Due to the volcanoes, it makes the land rich in soil development and enrichment. This made it easier for them to plant crops and grow the goods they needed. Not only the soil rich, Indonesia’s consistent monsoon climate on top of its almost perfectly even distribution of rainfall allows the same crops (such as rice, maize, cassava, sweet potatoes, groundnuts, and soy beans) to grow throughout the entire country. This makes it easier on them. They do not have to travel to get a certain crop! They were resourceful because they could travel easily and plant foods they needed to It can determine whether the climate would be dry or humid. Depending on the climate, it will determine what crops you can and cannot grow or what animals will be living in that area. If you looked at the map on question 8, you will the effect humidity vs dry weather and what happens depending on rainfall. For example, about half of Indonesia’s population lives in rural areas. A main rural settlement pattern is the volcanoes. They are a leading role in soil development and augmentation. As a result, creating a strong association between agricultural development, density of population, and location of volcanoes. However, where there’s an even greater concentration of active volcanoes in south-east located by Java, the soil is full of volcanic ash and debris. The same pattern occurs in northern Sumatra, the soil is high-quality and great for farming or growing crops. However, if you go down south Madura, all the volcanic eruptions flow into the soil making it harder for the people to grow goods. Another key point that was brought up in the previous assignment was human wealth and success depend on interaction with the environment. Indonesia is well known for their rich soil and natural gases, oil, and coal. The bulk of Indonesia’s electrical power is generated from fossil fuels. They saved more money and could spend it on importing goods they needed. In addition, they could mine and
One of the most interesting indigenous groups in the world is the Batek of Malaysia, this is a group of people that live in the oldest rain forest of peninsular Malaysia. Orang ASli means “Original people” in the native Malay Language, and they truly are the original people of the land. Being a nomadic group of hunters and gatherers, means that they are at the mercy of the land and the elements for survival. Batek beliefs note that, the rainforest was created by “superhuman” beings for the Batek to use and will destroy the world and everything on it if the Batek were ever to leave the rainforest ( K.M. Endcott 1979a; Lye 2004). The Batek believe that the “superhuman” beings created the forest for the Batek to harvest, build houses in, and provide also to decorations for their ceremonial rituals.
In the developing wold, both population and economy depend on the environment. Nowadays, climate changes and other environmental problems have a huge impact in the developing world.
Generational conflicts, political strife, environmental regulations, stakeholders in big oil, and many more hurdles affect the push to fully sustainable economies around the world and even here in America. In a world where coal, oil, and natural gas are limited, countries are gobbling it all up as fast as they can before other poorer countries come on the grid. Even though America and other countries gobble up these resources the life of the people is still a struggle to meet basic needs. Sustainability is an intermingling of resource use and protection of the “quality of life”, it is met by using resources sparingly and by recycling or reducing the use of other non-renewable resources to provide for our immediate need, but also to conserve and protect the needs of the next generation and to improve the quality of all the lives to come.
A telling example of the complex interactions between a culture and its surroundings is the relative fates of two Pacific islands: Easter Island and Tikopia. Although it would be impossible to pin-point a simple cause-an...
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The Polynesian peoples have a lifestyle quite different than that of any other culture, as living on an island requires a level of flexible adaptability in order to cope with such a different, sometimes difficult environment. We see the way diverse cultures build their lives around their circumstances and how they respect them in their cultural myths and stories. The Polynesian legends emphasize the physical environment that they live in. They are quite different than any other region in the world, but the beauty and individuality of the Polynesian culture is prominent as seen in their mythology.
Samoa is constituted of a group of islands located in the southern Pacific Ocean only a few miles away from the American island of Hawaii and New Zealand. In total, Samoa covers about 2,934 Square kilometres of land (Palenapa, 1993). The majority of Samoans live in these islands. Millions of others, however, live in other countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America among others. Although no culture can be said to be superior to the rest, the Samoan culture is one of the most prestigious ones in the world. This research provides an in-depth analysis of the Samoan culture. The analysis covers a wide array of cultural aspects, including foods, language, religion, social systems, etc. The primary aim of this
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The island of Bali is a city among the islands of Indonesia, located east of Java and west of Lombak in the Indian Ocean. As stated in “The Anthropological Romance of Bali 1597-1972,” Bali is “in the very center of the Indonesian archipelago” (Boon 1). This island is part of the largest nation in size and population in Southeast Asia.
According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, sustainable development is defined as development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. If we follow this definition, it becomes easy to see that the vast majority of the “developed” world has not, and is not developing sustainably. The idea of sustainable development requires us to consider how our action of developing will affect other countries, and future generations. Many people believe in “the butterfly effect”, where the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in one part of t...
Located deep within the vast open waters of the South Pacific Ocean is a nation that is seemingly hidden to the rest of the world. The country of Vanuatu is a world within itself full of cultural diversities, geographical wonders and natural beauty that cannot compare to anywhere else in the world. The natives who inhabit the cluster of islands that make up the country of Vanuatu are proud of their heritage and have strong beliefs in their ways of life. With countless influences from other cultures, they have become their own breed of sorts. Their richness and cultural diversity is one of its main attraction to visitors, who can witness rituals and traditional ceremonies that are an integral part of modern life. Due to the natural boundaries, large open stretches of water, and the jungle and mountainous terrain, tourism is very low, leaving Vanuatu as one of the most untouched native areas remaining on Earth today. By taking a deeper look inside at what all it has to offer, Vanuatu is a county of the South Pacific rich in culture and local traditions that many may soon realize that they need to discover.
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Papua New Guinea is located on the island of New Guinea in the south Pacific ocean. That island is the second largest island on earth after after Greenland. Papua New Guinea’s territory contains the entire eastern side of the island and shares it with West Papua which controls the western part of the island. New Guinea also controls hundreds of other islands around the island of New Guinea. Other then Australia to the South, Indonesia, and Singapore to the West, there are many smaller neighboring islands in the are surrounding area.
Here, we could see that the condition of the world which face a big and global problem at that time that might lead to a huge destraction in the future which created many demands from the International societies to start thinking about the problem by conducting several conventions and ends with Kyoto Protocol could be assumed as an input that came from the environment. By the demands and the supports to the Kyoto Protocol which at that time arose, Indonesia ends with ratified this Kyoto