Three Turkish citizens was arrested and put into custody of East Denpasar police office for alleged criminal conduct. Gokhan Bozkurt (21 years old), Celale Tein Akdas (23 years old), and Farhan Armed (28 years old) have proven to conduct their criminal action at a cellphone counter on Jalan WR Supratman, Denpasar. Temporary stayed at Saraswati Bungalows on Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur, they hypnotized waitress of Oke Shop, Dewi Sri Astuti, and stole cash amounting to 400 thousands Rupiah. The incident taking place at 4PM on Sunday, August 17th, was reported by the shop owner to the police. Continue reading »

Bali can be considered identical to tourism. Unfortunately, not all Balinese can make their living out of tourism. Tourism is only available to those living in Kuta, Nusa Dua, and probably a few small villages of Gianyar. Those living in rural villages of Karangasem, Buleleng, Tabanan, and Jembrana are reachable by the spread of tourism fortune. Bali is in economical paradox. Tourism as the leading sector has led a transition from secondary product based on agriculture into tertiary product based on services. Continue reading »

Degrading environment and decreasing of physical size of Bali potentially lead to severe disaster for the next generation. The next generation will possibly have to fight each other to get a space for living due to current weakness of commitment to maintain sustainability of the island. Crisis of commitment among governmental officials of different regencies in Bali has has jeopardize efforts to maintain Bali environment by their bureaucratic arrogance. Continue reading »

Aerial shot taken over Bali show that the island is getting smaller because of abrasion. Additionally the picture also show significant shift in space usage. Land allocation was severely abused. There was no clear differentiation between areas for environmental conservation to reserve water and areas where residential and industrial development were allowed. Weak commitment in enforcing land allocation has allowed physical constructions took place everywhere. Continue reading »

The assembly on Australian proposal to extradite Pauk Callahan, an Australian suspected for a number paedophilic cases back in his country took place in the court of justice of Denpsar yesteday (August 13th). During the session led by Judge IBP Madeg, Paul declared that he voluntarily surrender himself and pleaded to be temporarily detained in Kerobokan jail.

Paul show opposite attitude compared to the time when police arrested him. At that time Paul who married Balinese woman appealed to refuse extradition back to his country. Among other argument he brought was the fact that he has no intention to leave Bali where he has lived for the last five years. In the assembly Paul expressed submission to proposal for his extradition placed by Australian government through attorneys Suhadi and Ketut Terima Darsana. Continue reading »

Bank customers need to take a better care of themselves to anticipate unexpected incident especially when they are withdrawing large amount of cash, as criminality is increasing lately. Within the last two weeks there have been two robberies reported in Denpasar. After the previous one which took place in a newspaper stall on Jalan Hayam Wuruk, yesterday Father Mattheus Dile Keraf (45 y.o.) originated from Solor, Flores was robbed. Continue reading »

Anggun has nothing else to do than regret and submissively accept 4.5 years imprisonment verdict pronounced by the judges at the court of justice in Denpasar for her conduct in employing children in her prostitution business. Judge Emy Herawati convicted her guilty for braking article no. 88 of Indonesian supreme law UU RI No. 23/2002 as the accumulated primary charge, and article no. 505 of Indonesian criminal law as accumulated secondary charge. Continue reading »

Head of government treasury office of Badung regency I Gst. Agung Ngurah Alit Agung explained that companies running tourism-related businesses such as hotels, restaurants, and entertainment facilities are still using bomb tragedy back in 2002 as an excuse to escape their obligation in paying tax. Continue reading »

Bali branch of PT Gapura Angkasa recoded achievement of without delays in serving Continental Airlines. Station Manager of the airliner Dara Mustika admitted that the achievement was a result of cooperation in perfect synergy among several involved parties including Continental Airlines as the client as well as handling team and management of PT Gapura Angkasa as the service provider. Continue reading »

Being the capital city of Bali and center for all economic and social activities, Denpasar has high population density. Many came from surrounding areas, even from other province in seek for various reason, from business and employment to education, resulting in many vile neighborhood. Survey conducted by the city Mayor office recoded presence of at least 70 vile neighborhoods in Denpasar, evenly distributed on all four of the city’s districts, in varied size. Continue reading »