Relatively underdeveloped (compared with Badung and Denpasar to the east), Tabanan Regency has an area of 839.33 km2 and had a population of 386,850 in 2000, rising to 420,913 in 2010,[2] then 461,630 at the 2020 census;[3] the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 469,340.

These terraces use the traditional Balinese irrigation known as subak, Bali's community-based water control management system.

Jatiluwih rice terraces are one of the five areas that make up UNESCO's world's cultural heritage site listed for the subak.

At the time, the initiative failed to attract a significant amount of tourist visits; and the revenues it generated had frequently been a source of conflict.

[7] To preserve the largest area of 53,000 hectares of agriculture fields on the island, the Tabanan Regency Administration does not allow the development of star-rated city hotels anymore.

Among the gifts that they brought were many ceramic plates, original Delftware (Delft Blue) from Holland, which ended up embedded as adornments into building walls and temple shrines; they can still be seen there to this day.

Its middle courtyard (jabah tengan) has not changed for 400 years; nor has the layout of the whole compound, built according to the principles of kosala-kosali,[a] respecting the rules about the cardinal directions in relation to the human anatomy.