Accounts of the cremation reached as far as the Chicago papers. Here is part of the account from Australian newspaper THE AGE:
The largest royal cremation in Bali for 100 years may also be the last. Rob Taylor reports from Ubud.
It is a dangerous business holding a funeral for a Balinese royal. As thousands gathered at the weekend for one of the largest royal cremations in 100 years, the risk of serious injury loomed on every gold-leaf corner.
Or at every level of the ornate 25-metre-high funeral tower used to move the body along the streets of Ubud and for which power and phone lines had to be cut.
At the stroke of midday, amid a clamour of gamelan music and incense smoke, close family mounted a bamboo ramp flanked by effigies of monkey warriors to place the body in the funeral tower as thousands packed onto balconies, trucks or any other vantage point to watch.
As the body of Tjokorda Istri Niyang Muter - the last member of her royal generation - was being lifted onto the tottering ramp, the royal family's high priest developed a sudden fear of heights and almost had to be prised off.
The bamboo tower, divided into three levels representing heaven, earth and the underworld, was hoisted aloft by 150 attendants and spear-carrying guards dressed as fierce monkey warriors from Hindu mythology.
It was a spectacle unlikely to be seen again soon and some say never.
Tjokorda Istri Niyang Muter, who died in May aged 96, was the last child of Bali's last ruling king, Tjokorda Gede Sukawati, and was the twin sister of another revered former ruler, Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati.
All are now dead and today's royal family members do not have the same hold over Balinese society that their predecessors had.