Pecalang

Pecalang (pronounced as "pechalang") are a type of local "traditional" security officers of an administrative village in Bali, Indonesia.

They work in coordination with other state security and law enforcement agencies, which are the Satpol PP and the police.

Pecalangs are local security bodies and report only to the village head, a Kepala Desa (akin to a Punong Barangay in the Philippines).

Pecalangs are not modern phenomena created for tourism; rather, Bali had hansip and pecalang security bodies for hundreds of years before the advent of modern tourism.

These forces traditionally reported to one of the royal families of the historic Bali Kingdoms, also considered as their eyes and ears.