Modern Balinese - A regional literature of Indonesia

Abstract

The other centre of modern development was Bullng, which traded with the Islamic ports of the north coast of Java. [...]in 1697, Bullng intervened in Blambangan, the easternmost state of Java, and Balinese influence or interference continued there till the Dutch conquest of 1772. Some of the poems also introduc cantos in the metres discussed in para. 2.2.5. Since in some of the works there is evidence of literary influence from Lombok, it should be noted that Sasak and Lombok Javanese poems are nearly all written in several cantos, employing the six Javanese metres dangdang gula, durma, mas kumambang, pangkur, semerendana and sinom, as in the Tutur Monyeh and the Sasak version of the Rengganis. [...]there was the wide and intensive collecting by the Kirtya in the years immediately before the Second World War, which provided much new material for study by Balinese and European scholars. Besides animal tales, there are stories of village wisdom, humour and cunning, with stock characters as in other Indonesian literatures, but with a background of Balinese life and sentiment.