almost every shrine celebrates a yearly anniversary. This cycle is based on the 210-day Balinese Pawukon calendar year. It had been nominated as a World Heritage Site as early as 1995, but was pulled out on 2015. Visitors In 2013, foreign visitors accounted for 84,368 persons (77.2 percent of all visitors), while domestic visitors accounted for 24,853 persons (22.8 percent). Controversy CNN reported that illegal donations were extorted by local youths from surrounding villages and from visiting tourists. Gallery See also Indonesian architecture Balinese Hinduism Notes Further reading I Nyoman Darma Putra and Michael Hitchcock (2005) Pura Besakih: A world heritage site contested in Indonesia and the Malay World, Volume 33, Issue 96 July 2005, pages 225 - 238 Stuart-Fox, David J.(2002) Pura Besakih: temple, religion and society in Bali KITLV, Original from the University of Michigan (Digitized 5 September 2008 into Google Books) , . 470 pages External links Balinese temples Hindu temples in Indonesia 14th-century Hindu temples Cultural Properties of Indonesia in Bali Karangasem Regency