Sixteen-Year
Old in Bali
As
night falls on a village tample near denpasar, a crowd begins
to gath er. But the toueists ready to take shots become confused
when instead of balinese worshippers dressed in sarongs and tample
sashes, their cameras frame a group of balinese teens in mohwk
hairdos, worn jeans, nail studded braclets, and army boots.
As
the loudspeakers crackle to life, a figure steps to the microhhone.
Dressed in traditional balinese clothing, he welcomes the audieenxe
to the anniversary of the village yourh organisation, over the
excited shouts they're bot the traditional gamelan orchestras
or tamole dancing troups, but a line up of local bands ; djihad
small dictator, commercial suicide, recidivist, and the three
little pigs.

The first band lead vocalist, a skinny teenager with long, red
streaked hair, takes the stage, shouting out pree. dom! in local
english most balinese find it hard to pronounce the latter if.
then he launches into a song by british punk band the sex pistols.
As a horde of black clothed bous and a few black clothed girl
thrash and clash in the tamole couryard, one elderly villager
looks on in confusion. where' the art om ot? he asks. mybe those
choldren need to be bathed in holy water so they'll stop acting
like demons.