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Lighthouses of Indonesia: Bali

Indonesia has been independent since 1945, after having been the Dutch East Indies for more than 350 years. It is a huge country, stretching along both sides of the Equator for more than 46 degrees of longitude (roughly 5100 km or 3200 miles). Comprised of some 17,000 islands (more than 6000 inhabited islands), it has hundreds of major aids to navigation.
The arc of the Sunda Islands begins in the west with the major islands of Sumatra and Java, and continues eastward through a chain of smaller islands known in English as the Lesser Sunda Islands and in Indonesian as the Nusa Tenggara ("Southeastern Islands"). From west to east, the major Lesser Sunda Islands are Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Timor.
Bali is a roughly triangular island with the apex of the triangle pointed south. At its northwestern corner, the island is barely separated from Java by the Bali Strait. On the east, the Lombok Strait separates Bali from Lombok. The Bukit Peninsula, at the southern apex of Bali, is connected to the rest of the island by a very narrow isthmus. Bali's best known tourist facilities are on the Bukit Peninsula.
The Indonesian word for a lighthouse is mercusuar or (in two words) mercu suar. The phrase menara suar, which includes the Arabic word menara, is sometimes used instead. Tanjung and ujung are words for capes, gili or pulau is an island, selat is a strait,karang is a reef, and teluk is a harbor.
Aids to navigation in Indonesia are operated and maintained by the Indonesian Directorate of Marine Navigation (Indomarinav).
ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from volumes F and K of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 112.

Reflected image of Benoa Harbor Light, April 2006
Creative Commons photo by Riza Nugraha

General Sources
KITLV Beeldbank: Historic photos from the collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

Denpasar City Lighthouse
Tanjung Serangan: Date unknown. Active; focal plane 12 m (39 ft); white flash every 5 s. 12 m (39 ft) square skeletal tower mounted on a square platform. No photo available, but Google has a satellite view. Located on a reef off Sanur Beach on the south side of Denpasar, about 5 km (3 mi) northeast of Benoa Harbor. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Admiralty K1290; NGA 25528.
Badung Regency (Bukit Peninsula) Lighthouses
Note: The Bukit Peninsula, at the southern tip of Bali, is the location of many of the island's upscale tourist facilities. The peninsula is connected to the rest of Bali by a narrow isthmus.
* Benoa Harbor: Date unknown. Active; focal plane 31 m (102 ft); white flash every 5 s. Approx. 27 m (89 ft) square skeletal tower with lantern and gallery. Made Yudistira has posted a good photo, but the tower is not seen in Google's satellite view. Benoa is a port and popular tourist destination at the northeast corner of the Bukit peninsula near the southern tip of Bali. Located near the tip of the narrow peninsula (Tanjung Benoa) on which the city is built. Site apparently open, tower closed. ARLHS IDO-110; Admiralty K1291; NGA 25524.
Bukit Badung: Date unknown. Active; focal plane 220 m (722 ft); three white flashes every 20 s. No description or photo available, but a Google satellite view of the station suggests this is a substantial tower. The area is popular for paragliding. Located atop a very steep bluff at the southern end of the Bukit Peninsula. Accessible by road. Site status unknown. ARLHS IDO-118; Admiralty K1291.4; NGA 25520.
Tanjung Mebulu: Date unknown. Active; focal plane 80 m (262 ft); white flash every 5 s. Skeletal tower with gallery, height unknown, painted white. A very distant view is available (click on the photo for a better view), and there's also a secondvery distant view (tower at the upper right corner). Both views are from the nearby Uluwatu Temple. Google has only a fuzzy satellite view of the cape. Located atop a cliff at the western end of the Bukit Peninsula. Site status unknown. Admiralty K1291.6; NGA 25522.
Jembrana Regency (Bali Strait) Lighthouse
Tanjung Pengambengan: Date unknown. Active; focal plane 43 m (141 ft); white flash every 5 s. 33 m (108 ft) square pyramidal iron skeletal tower with lantern and gallery, painted white. No photo available, but Google has a satellite view. Located on a promontory facing the Bali Strait at Pengambengan on the southwest coast of the island, about 5 km (3 mi) southwest of Negara. Site status unknown. ARLHS IDO-045; Admiralty K1282; NGA 23804.
Buleleng Regency (North Coast) Lighthouses
Gili Tepekong: Date unknown. Active; focal plane 65 m (213 ft); white flash every 6 s. Tower, height unknown, painted white. The lighthouse is barely visible in a distant view of the island, and Google has a satellite view. Located on a small island in the Lombok Strait about 2.5 km (1.5 mi) offshore in the entrance to Padang Bay. Accessible only by boat. Site status unknown. Admiralty K1286; NGA 25538.
Klungkung Regency (Southern Lombok Strait) Lighthouses
Tanjung Sari: Date unknown. Active; focal plane 38 m (125 ft); white flash every 5 s. Skeletal tower, height unknown, painted white. No photo available, but Google has a satellite view. Located on a promontory sheltering a small harbor on the southeast coast of Bali, near Padang. Site status unknown. Admiralty K1287; NGA 25532.
Nusa Lembongan (Tanjung Taal): Date unknown. Active; focal plane 27 m (89 ft); three white flashes every 15 s. 15 m (49 ft) skeletal tower, painted white. No photo available, and the tower is not seen in Google's fuzzy satellite view. Nusa Lembongan is a small island off the northwestern corner of Nusa Penida, an inhabited island at the southern entrance to the Lombok Strait. The island is popular with tourists, especially scuba divers. Located on heights near the northwestern corner of the island. Site status unknown. ARLHS IDO-173; Admiralty K1292; NGA 25546.
Nusa Penida: Date unknown. Active; focal plane 208 m (682 ft); three white flashes every 21.5 s. 20 m (66 ft) square skeletal tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern painted red. Bjorn Grotting has a photo, and Google has a satellite view. There is ferry transportation to the island, but we don't know if the lighthouse is accessible. Located on the southern tip of the island. Site status unknown. ARLHS IDO-174; Admiralty K1294; NGA 25548.