To the Maintenance of Balinese Culture

This paper discusses cultural maintenance and the role of Balinese taboos. Today, the influence of outside societies cannot be avoided because of tourism development in Bali. From the topic concerned, the subjects of the study are taken from professional tourist guides and their family—wives and children. Ideally, Balinese people must be familiar with their own culture and outside societies must be hoped too. However, most of them didn’t know clearly what the culture is. Culture must be maintained by people in general because culture is embodied in religion. The problems are: first, what are the conditions that should be understood by the community to maintain the culture? Second, what are the necessary things that should be known by the community to avoid the Balinese taboos? To solve these problems, the research employed with the cognitive approach. By the cognitive approach data are taken from the informant’s knowledge. Thus, the research revealed new values toward the understanding of Balinese culture because the information came from the insiders’ view.