Bali News / Bali Travel and Holiday Updates

Lecture of Indonesia Art Institute (ISI) Denpasar and its 22 students going to Moscow Russia will performing Nusantara Dances. One month of preparation will be resulted in series of performance for Saman dance from Sumatra, Mandau dance from Kalimantan, Pakarena dance from Sulawesi, Padang Ulan from Jawa and some expressive Balinese culture art. The Balinese art will be performed by art team from this Bali lead by a choreographer named Ida Ayu Wimba Ruspawati, SST.,M.Sn and gamelan concert which will be arranged by I Ketut Garwa, S.Sn., M.Sn. The welcome dance called Selat Negara prepared as the opening of the show followed by Oleg Tamulilingan dance which is created in 1950’s. Read more about Nusantara Performance in Russia here.

It is important and it has already the time for Bali to have its own international port considering the high profit gained from Bali handicraft export commodities. Bali non-oil and gas export realization is in accordance with the note from Bali Industrial and Trading Affair Agency worth US$ 227 million during January-May 2010. Still, Bali has to face global competition in this trading with Vietnam, Thailand and many others. Thus, make Bali need to compete in goods’ pricing though it meet the same old obstacle of international port freight. For all a long, overseas handicraft freight goes through Bali-Surabaya-Singapore and finally to its destination country. Expensive freight price from Bali to Surabaya in the end influence the commodities price in its destination country. Read more about Bali Depend on Tanjung Perak here.

“Bali Seafarers’ Center” that purely established in 2003 from the donation of 21 sailors, is located at Danau Tamblingan Street No. 27 in Sanur Beach area is now in its final phase of renovation in becoming the service center for world sailors. Read the rest of this entry …

Twelve solo singers and twelve Bali’s bands under The Association of Celebrity, Music Arranger and Bali’s Song Writer (Pramusti Bali) held a concert in Art Center tomorrow. The concert purposed for celebrating the Indonesia’ independence day also the building exhibition by Bali’ Government. Meanwhile the form of the Pramusti Bali’ concert will be presented many singers colossally in the form of band or solo. The bands which will be performed are Made Bawa Lolot Band, XXX, Bintang, Badudawati feat Nanoe Biroe and more. Read more about Famous Bali Bands and Singer performance at Art Center here.

After a win against all of their competitors in Bali Subak Competition, Subak Poh Asem from Mayong Village, Seririt District of Buleleng Regency proceeds to the national farmer association of water user in Surakarta, Middle Java, from August 27 to 23, 2010. Subak Compeition and Subak Abian of Bali Provincial level is part of annual activity that could bring benefits for all people. Through this competition, the people would know straightly the application of Tri Hita Karana concept (maintaining balance relationship with God, nature and among humans) at that village together with the potential they have. Read more about Subak Buleleng and National Competition here.

Bali Provincial Government this year would allocating the fund reached IDR 22 Billion in order to develop security system in Bali. one of them is the development of CCTV installation, in which the government of Bali province targeting to install this kind of device up to 2013. Read the rest of this entry …

On 15th August 2010 in the celebration of the Independence Day of India Republic, the community of India citizen and Balinese in Bali proclaimed a friendship institution called Balinese Indian Friendship Association (BIFA) in Ball Room Bali Dynasti Hotel, Kuta. This international event attended by not less than 500 invitations. Half of them are belongs to India’s ethnic who lived in Bali. The Chairman of the committee, Mrs. Neeta Maholtra was explained if this association had found to strength the relationship between Balinese and India citizen. Read more about Balinese Indian Friendship Association here.

Bali Theatre investment at safari park complex at Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra Km. 19.8 of Gianyar Regency is big enough, it reached tens of millions Rupiah, still this theater could not calculated straightly in business point of view just like any other business. Bali Theatre has capacity for 1.200 seats competed with air-conditioned and the performance held in this stage is delivered by the famous creative director, Peter J. Wilson, famous Balinese wayang puppeteer, I Made Sidia, performance technical team as well as Sales & Marketing Director for Bali Theater, John Sumampau. Read more about Bali Theatre here.

Online tax computerization for hotel and restaurant in Badung has long voiced and precisely this system is not yet ready to be applied in this regency. Head of Badung Local Income Agency, I. G. N. Agung Alit Agung firmly stated that online taxing system predicted could not apply yet in 2011. Read the rest of this entry …

There are 12 handicap people from Senang Hati Foundation who succeeded flagged merah-putih – Indonesian for national flag color of red and white – underwater on the Independent Day celebration of 65th Indonesian Republic on August 17th, Tuesday. Flagging merah-putih they were accompanied by tens divers as their companions. They succeeded flagged merah-putih at a depth around 7 meter in Tulamben Sea of Karangasem. This action proved their spirit and physical fighting spirit for presenting a gift for their beloved country altouhg with physic obstacles. Read more about underwater flagged of merah-putih here.