When you visit Klungkung regency (State East of Denpasar) you have to visit its Museum – Museum Semarajaya — to know a little about the History of Klungkung. Museum Semarajaya is located in Semarapura City – the city of Klungkung — next to the tourist destination Kertha Gosa/Taman Gili (Old Court-Hall/Floating Hall). Whether you want it or not you have to enter Kertha Gosa first before going to the museum due to one entrance only is opened for these two areas. The ticket is very cheap, @Rp 5000,- for adults and @Rp 2000,- for children. Why it is cheap, because it will not be able to help the government to maintain those historic inheritances. But the good point is the local people will not feel difficult to pay for the entrance if they take their family members there. It means they will know and learn more about their ancestor history.

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That area is divided into three parts, the museum on the West, Taman Gili (Floating Hall) on the South, and Kertha Gosa (Old Court-Hall) on the North. There are wayang (consist of Hindu’s figures and stories) pictures at the ceiling of the Old Court-Hall which tell about the life after the death. There is also a big exit called Pamedalan Agung, it is said when a Dutch Soldier climbed and was at the top of Pamedalan Agung he saw a different place below not the ordinary one.

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Let’s continue to the museum. There are lots of weapons from the colonial period and some traditional tools such as Tenun Cacag tool (weave tool), utensils to make tuak (Balinese wine) until palm sugar in Dawan Village, and also the traditional tools to make salt in Pesinggahan Village, along Goa Lawah beach. Here, you can also find a short narration on the History of Klungkung:

Formerly, Gelgel Kingdom was the most popular kingdom in Bali. In 1650 there was a rebellion from I Gusti Agung Maruti, the prime minister of Gelgel on the period of Dalem Dimade (Dalem is a title of a king). In 1686 Ida I Dewa Agung Jambe, the son of Dalem Dimade, succeeded to occupy his kingdom back and on that day Gelgel was not as the place for the kingdom anymore. He built a new kingdom in the North of Gelgel, named Klungkung and the new palace was called Semarapura or Semarajaya. The title “Dalem” was changed into “Dewa Agung”.

The last king of Dalem Dimade descendant was Ida I Dewa Agung Gede Jambe (Ida I Dewa Agung Putra IV) – his name was similar with the founder of Klungkung. On his administration, 28 April 1908, the Dutch attacked Klungkung under the command of General M.B. Rost Van Tonningen.

The King, Bahudanda (the palace high official), and the people fought against the Dutch and Ida I Dewa Agung Jambe together with his son were killed in the battle. The battle was known as “Puputan Klungkung”. On that day Klungkung and Bali as a whole became the Dutch colony. In order to restore the situation and to gain the people sympathy the Dutch crowned Ida I Dewa Agung Gede Oka Geg as a regent (Zelfbesturder Landschap Van Klungkung) on July 1929 until Indonesia proclaimed its independence on 17 August 1945.

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