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It is Bali and Indonesia's most internationally oriented and touristic district, home to the world famous Kuta Beach [1] and the fishing village Jimbaran. It covers 17.52 km 2 and was home to 86,657 people as of the 2010 census, [ 2 ] after phenomenal growth in the previous decade as workers moved in to support the tourist industry.
Kuta is a tourist area, administratively an urban village (kelurahan), and the capital of Kuta District, Badung Regency, southern Bali, Indonesia. Kuta is a part of the Denpasar metropolitan area, 12 km (7.5 mi) south of downtown Denpasar.
Bali (English: / ˈ b ɑː l i /; Balinese: ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast.
There are also properties managed by Aman Resorts, Club Med, Holiday Inn, Hyatt, Kempinski, and Santika Indonesia Hotels & Resorts. [12] Eight of the ten largest hotels in Bali are located in Nusa Dua. The 636-key Grand Hyatt Bali was Bali's largest hotel when it first opened in 1991. [13]
The first coin-like products found in Indonesia date from the 9th century Buddhist Sailendran dynasty and were produced in Indonesia until the 12th century: gold and silver massa (emas is the modern Indonesian word for "gold"), tahil and kupang, often described with the letter ma for massa or the image of sandalwood flower.
The currency strengthened to Rp8,500 later in 2001 but ended 2001 at Rp10,505. March 2002 had the currency break below Rp10,000, from which point the currency maintained a rate in the Rp8,000s and Rp9,000s until August 2005, and in the latter half of that year, the trading range extended towards Rp11,000, but ending the year just below Rp10,000.
The hotel became the third Aman hotel to open in Bali, after Amandari in Ubud and Amanusa in the Nusa Dua Peninsula. [7] The hotel was built as the result of a cooperation between Zecha and Indonesian businessman Franky Tjahyadikarta, owner of the lands occupied by Amankila and the Zecha's nearby project, The Serai Manggis (later Alila Manggis ).
Seminyak is a mixed tourist residential area [citation needed] on the west coast of Bali in Indonesia, just north of Kuta and Legian. [1] Originally a separate township, this is now another suburb of Kuta. This area is very popular with resident expatriates; land and accommodation prices are amongst the highest in Bali.