I'm not prepared to offer any opinion on point of origin on the basis of the photo, but I will remark that it is more than a little unusual to find pamor work of this nature in a Balinese blade, particularly an older Balinese blade.
Yes, the blade does have a polished surface, but so did Javanese blades in the distant past. If this keris came into Europe a long time ago it might well be Javanese.
The pamor work is very, very refined work, its the quality I expect to see in one of the better Madura blades of the current era.
Possibly this keris requires more than a cursory examination before we can attempt to fix point of origin.
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