Catus Patha or Sadpatha ? : Dutch Colonial Hegemony in Ngudi Hyang Widhi in Post Colonial Bali

Catus Pata or Prapatan Agung in Balinese rituals means Sadpatha has a function as an astral area. During baliseering, the Dutch built a monument with bells pointing to the cardinal points. By following the paradigm of the Frankfurt and Bermingham schools, the research procedure uses socio-cultural research steps : data collection, verified, analyzed, and concluded from a cultural studies perspective. The analysis uses the concepts of genealogy of knowledge, domination, and hegemony. Capitalism is carried out by creating space, structure and culture. Bali remains a living museum, so that it is very attractive to be used as a smokeless industry which is very profitable for colonial and western capitalism. Postcolonial Baliseering has deep implications for the structure and culture of society, authorities and tourism actors who are lost in the material world in collaboration with global capitalism, and the continued strengthening of the commodification of Bali, even leading to desacralization and secularism in Bali.