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Yudis Nugraha, instructor of Indonesian at Columbia University, talks about growing up speaking both Indonesian and Balinese. He discusses the relationship between language, tourism, culture and religion in Bali, focusing in on the unique religion of Balinese Hinduism. Approximately 90% of people living in Bali identify as belonging to this religion, whose origins trace back to traders and priests from India coming to the Indonesian archipelago 2000 years ago.
Yudis Nugraha, instructor of Indonesian at Columbia University, talks about growing up speaking both Indonesian and Balinese. He discusses the relationship between language, tourism, culture and religion in Bali, focusing in on the unique religion of Balinese Hinduism. Approximately 90% of people living in Bali identify as belonging to this religion, whose origins trace back to traders and priests from India coming to the Indonesian archipelago 2000 years ago.