Indonesia is big on the principle of musyawarah mufakat, which means coming to a decision via deliberation and mutual consensus.
Below is a quick cell phone photo of an intersection at the major four-lane thoroughfare near my house, a Jalan Protokoler as it is know, or Protocol Route for VIPs and even NVIPs (Not Very Important Persons). Here we see only a small part of the cars, vans, trucks and scooters who had gathered at the center of the intersection to deliberate and arrive at a mutual consensus as to who gets to go through first.
Like most things in Bali, a street intersection has two levels of meaning. One is the ordinary traffic sense, wherein all Balinese lose their senses and sharpen their F-1 instinct and timing. It’s everybody for themselves.
In the other sense of the unseen realms, intersections are places where nasty spirits like to hang out and cause problems; hence the many offerings you will see at crossroads But at these major ones, I think the spirits just sit back and enjoy watching. Why should they bedevil anyone when such chaos and selfishness is already on show?