Trunyan

Trunyan or Terunyan is a Balinese village (banjar) located on the eastern shore of Lake Batur, a caldera lake in Kintamani Regency, central Bali, Indonesia. The village is one of the most notable home of the Bali Aga people, the other being the village of Tenganan and the village of Sambiran. Trunyan is notable for its peculiar treatment of the dead bodies, in which dead bodies are placed on ground, simply covered with cloth and bamboo canopies, and left to decompose. The influence of a nearby tree is said to remove the putrid smell of the corpses.

Trunyan is one of the culturally isolated Bali Aga village in Bali. Trunyan village is located on the isolated eastern shore of the crescent-shaped Lake Batur, at the foot of Mount Abang, a peak on the eastern rim of the large caldera. The easiest access to the village is by boat.

The people of Trunyan are generally considered to be the Bali Aga people, the mountain Balinese. Unlike the lowland Balinese, Bali Aga people practiced ancient ritual which predates the arrival of the Hindu-Buddhism. The Bali Aga of Trunyan is noted for being very peculiar that many of the custom of the Trunyanese is not even found in any of the Bali Aga people of Bali. According to copper plate inscriptions found in one of the shrines of the main temple of Trunyan, the temple dates back to at least the 10th century AD (833 saka). The village is believed to be much older than the temple.

Trunyan society consists of two main "castes", the banjar jero and the banjar jaba. The caste is based on the descent of the ruler from the period of the Gelgel dynasty. The banjar jero are descendant of the Trunyanese who went out of the village to be appointed by the kings of Gelgel to rule; whereas the banjar jaba are descendants of people who were ruled by the banjar jero. This caste system is an example of when outside influence actually affect the life of the Trunyanese people. Another example of outside influence among the Trunyanese is the requirement for young men to travel through lowland Bali for a period of time to live as beggars. This practice is similar with the monks of Thailand, and is derived from a strong Buddhist tradition of the 10th-century.

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