JAKARTA -- In 1906, Cokorda Made Agung, the king of Badung, in southern Bali, led several hundred men and women from the palace in Denpasar to face the guns of Dutch-commanded colonial troops. Knowing that defeat was inevitable, they donned white clothes, decked themselves out in their finest jewelry, and took up kris daggers and spears for the final act. The king descended from a palanquin bearing him and signaled to a priest, who plunged a kris into the king's breast.
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