BALI NEWS
BALI JULY 2010 NEWS
07/30/10. Conventional village organizations, known locally as "desa pakraman", have recently decided to include the management of household waste in their community regulations (awig-awig). The mayor of Denpasar, IB Dharmawijaya Rai Mantra, proposed the idea to...
07/29/10. Bali’s top hotels pulled a sheet of manual Scouts in the motto "always ready" on the theme of health and safety. Participants learned medical emergencies, rabies and other diseases, tsunami preparedness, risk management, detection and monitoring, and communication...
07/28/10. The participants of the international meeting on biodiversity have learned from local Balinese that local traditions can play an important role in maintaining natural biodiversity. In the panel on "Living with Nature: Lessons from Bali", the participants learned that the local...
07/27/10. Five Balinese artists have been selected to participate in Beijing Biennale 2010, an art exhibition held every two years in Beijing in September. The artists selected are Made Supena, I Putu Made Edy Asmara Putra, Made Gunawan, Nyoman Sujana Kenyem and...
07/26/10. The increasing congestion in the southern island of Bali has forced the local government to build the first flyover of the island. The planned construction of the overpass is a model of engineering design and hopefully it will be ready in 2012. The administration of the regency...
07/23/10. A recent study shows that a large part of Balinese women have few opportunities to express their needs and aspirations within their own communities. Living in a patriarchal social system, women have no right to make important decisions in their families and communities...
07/22/10. Eight of the 16 villages of Nusa Penida are officially poverty stricken from the report of the regency of Klungkung. Four villages are also suffering from a severe shortage of water, a recurring problem on the island. The regency has worked on water issues, but the island has only...
07/21/10. Bali has an edge over other provinces in Indonesia and is ready to implement the recent realization of freedom of information law, although many organizations are not prepared to handle requests. Bali is ready to put the law into practice and public institutions must improve...
07/20/10. The airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I spent over one trillion Rupiah (US$ 110 million) in new investment to fund the expansion of international terminal at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali. The proposed expansion will be financed with equity capital of the company...
07/19/10. Any company that produces plastic waste in Bali must treat its waste professionals to ensure that the island can be delivered from plastic garbage to 2013. The claim is part of the government program "clean and green" Bali, developed by the United Nations Environment...
07/16/10. Badung’s regional tourism office (Disparda) has been called to take immediate steps to dozens of Condotels operating without a license. Many of them are recognized as properties where the owners have negotiated with local exceptions.
07/15/10. Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika may exercise its right during a critical period and select a second company to supply liquor in the province, in addition to PT. Indowine. The position of Bali as an international tourist destination means that the demand for alcoholic beverages...
07/14/10. The Bali provincial administration plans to impose a a cumulative tax system to discourage people from owning more than one car to reduce congestion and increase tax revenues. There are currently about 1.6 million vehicles in Bali, with an annual growth of 10%...
07/13/07. Provincial officials in Bali have signed an integrity pact in order to eradicate corruption and create a well-governed. The Governor Made Mangku Pastika said that the signing of the pact has shown a strong commitment of local authorities in creating clean governance.
07/12/10. A new desert area of 5 acres for waste treatment will begin to operate in the village of Kayu Bihi in the regency of Bangli by the end of this year. The site, which has the capacity to treat 500 cubic meters of solid waste per day, will receive garbage from three regencies...
07/09/10. Despite a decades-old trend of forest and rice paddy conversion because of the tourism industry, the overall area of the island into rice fields has increased over the last three years, an increase of 600 hectares. The increase reversed the trend since the last ten years have seen...
07/08/10. Pandanus battles are one of the most important ceremonies for the ethnic community of Tenganan, to honor the god Indra, the Hindu god of war. The inhabitants of Tenganan are known as Bali Aga, the natives of Bali, which are believed to have lived in Bali since well before...
07/07/2010. In a move to protect the environment of the island, the Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, urged supermarkets and shopping malls of the island to stop using plastic bags. Plastic bags should be replaced by paper bags, because it takes 1,000 years for plastic bags to decompose...
07/06/10. For the year of tiger, a number of leading environmentalists will come around the world to meet in Bali to prepare projects or they hope to ensure the survival of one of the best known species of the planet. The world population of tigers is a little higher than 3,000, according to...
07/05/10. The figures show that Bali remains a favorite destination during the holidays for children of national schools. Since the start of school holidays, buses carrying students from Java have flooded the island's most popular tourist destinations, including Kuta, Sanur, Tanah Lot...
BALI JUNE 2010 NEWS
06/30/10. Indonesia seeks to alleviate the problems surrounding electronic voting, hoping the implementation of the new system for all elections of 2014. The regency of Jembrana in Bali, which used electronic voting last year, has seen elections smoothly hamlet of 54 chiefs of the 31 villages...
06/29/10. With appropriate skills and abilities, workers in Bali say they are ready to face stiff competition in the global market. The association is hopeful that the island has abundant skilled manpower in the tourism-related businesses. The local government and businessmen will...
06/28/10. The Governor Made Mangku Pastika has urged religious leaders to support the government program for Bali "clean and green" to improve the environment of the island. The governor said the program is a real application of the Hindu concept of harmony, Tri Hita Karana...
06/25/10. Bali is seeking international recognition by UNESCO for its traditional dances that are part of the intangible cultural heritage. A team of five people from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has evaluated several traditional dances as a preliminary step towards global recognition.
06/24/10. Bali is hosting this week's the Reef Bali Pro 2010, a Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship event on the beach of Padama near Kuta between 21 and 26 June. Local and international surfers are expected to attend the event. There are also sessions of demonstrations...
06/23/10. Many people equate the Balinese village of Sudaji to rice of good quality, delicious durian, mango and other tropical fruits. The majority of its 8404 inhabitants are farmers working in rice fields and plantations. Three decades ago, the village has grown a very particular...
06/22/10. Poverty remains a serious and chronic problem for Bali, although the island is a popular destination for tourists worldwide. More than 181,000 people or 5.13% of 3.2 million residents of the island live in poverty. 92,000 people in towns and 89,000 people in remote rural areas live...
06/21/10. The Bali Tourism Office said that tourist arrivals have increased by 13% from January to May compared to the same period last year. The increase was attributed to the political crisis in Thailand and the fact that tourists have changed their plans because of this.
06/18/10. Rp 57.29 billion of the provincial budget will be allocated to a 12-year compulsory education program, the first of its kind in the country during the next academic year 2010-2011. The Head of Education and Sports Suasta I Wayan said that the province has committed to...
06/17/10. The administration of the regency of Badung says that she will reprimand the owners and developers to build villas without building permits and licenses. The administration will take strict action against violators of the regulation. Many owners and developers of villas are...
06/16/10. The Governor Made Mangku Pastika has officially announced that Bali will host the Miss World contest in 2014. The governor urged people to take part in maintaining the level of security for all international events will be held successfully in Bali.
06/15/10. Agung Sangkara Durga Kutra located in Gianyar, will soon organize a series of rituals: Memungkah Karya, Mupuk Pedagingan, Mapadudusan Sangkara Agung on June 26, 2010. These grandiose rituals are the first to be held for nearly a hundred years.
06/14/10. Hotels in Bali have to find environmentally-friendly energy sources that respect the environment before the local regulations requiring the use of green energy come into force next year. At least 10% of the total energy consumption of a hotel must meet the use of "green"...
06/11/10. Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika urged investors and tourists visiting Bali to help maintain the uniqueness of the resort island and not leave the Balinese culture corrupted by modernization. Despite the influence of modernization, young people are still loyal and come to the temple...
06/10/10. The regency of Badung, the place which hosts the main five-star resorts and also also tourist magnet Kuta, plans to promote its attractions in London, where she hopes to attract the attention of millions of foreign tourists visiting the city. The project was announced by...
06/09/10. The international hotel operator Accor plans to open 16 new hotels in Indonesia in 2012 to support its expansion plan in the country's growing hotel industry. One of the hotels would start operation in Bali by the end of this year, while 15 others were launched between 2011 and...
06/08/10. An international workshop on the conservation of orang-outang will be held on the resort island of Bali on 15 and 16 July. The workshop will be organized by the Forestry Ministry Directorate General of Natural Conservation and Forest Protection and the Indonesian orangs-outangs...
06/07/10. Bali is now connected to the rest of the world via its first optical-fibre link, following the completion of a submarine cable connecting it to Java. The online link is also provided on Lombok, Kalimantan and Sulawesi by fiber optics. This system is especially important for Bali...
06/04/10. Bali’s legislature is concerned about Bali travel agents from outside Bali that offer their services to unlicensed tour guides and selling artifacts unauthorized via internet. The review of travel services shows that there are many fundamental problems with tourism services in Bali...
06/03/10. The weakness of small businesses in the regency of Gianyar caused by the infringement of intellectual property rights do not brake for local artisans to be creative. After winning the "Best of the Best" design at the Exposition Inacraft 2010, craftsmen of fan painting of...
