Bali News / Bali Travel and Holiday Updates

Two German citizens was found dead in their hotel room at Baturiti, a hillside resorts near Bedugul, Tabanan. The corpses of Paterlik Ana Marie (22 years old) and Berg Muller Matthias Reinhard (24 years old) arrived at Sanglah Hospital on Saturday (August 23rd) night at about 20.45 accompanied by police officers from Baturiti police station. Both corpses whose known as students went through autopsy immediately upon their arrival. Read the rest of this entry …

Rapidly growing up into metropolitan Denpasar became a large pool of a lot of mess. Chased by migrant looking for better life and seen as social economic barometer of the whole island, the city served as pool of facilities, residents, waste, and even crime. Another negative impact of the growth is need for housing, forcing green areas and rice field translated into residential area. Read the rest of this entry …

A number of stakeholders expressed their concern after seeing Bali aerial survey conducted by Bali Post daily, which shown that the island is continuously getting smaller, eaten up by severe abrasion. The real picture was responded as serious environmental threat, and failure to protect Bali coast against demolishing tidal wave will bring horrible devastation to the future generations. Read the rest of this entry …

After passing through exhaustive series of judgment stages, Kubu Village of Bangli Regency in East Bali received the glorious title of Adi Karya Bhakti Praja after winning the nationwide village competition. The title was presented by Indonesian Internal Affair Minister on Friday (August 15th) at Hotel Bidakara, Jakarta. Read the rest of this entry …

Enthusiasts of house music in Bali was entertained by Marlboro through Marlboro Lights Sundaze in Soul Heaven  performed at Blue Point, Uluwatu on Sunday (August 17th), which was corresponded to Indonesian independence day. In the event, house music enthusiasts witnessed the performance of Barbara Tucker, whose face should not be strange to fans of this music genre. Read the rest of this entry …

Study on identification and mitigation of natural disaster in Bali presented by the center of environmental research (PPLH) of Udayana University has shown that Bali land is very sensitive to potential natural disasters. Read the rest of this entry …

Board of Judges at Denpasar court of law approved proposition submitted by Australian government to extradite Paul Francis Callahan (48 years old), Australian citizen suspected for children sexual abuse. The decision announced by the chairman of the board IBP Madeg immediately also responded to cooperative attitude shown by Paul in the previous assembly. Read the rest of this entry …

Robbers initiating their action by deflating tire of victim’s vehicle which quite frequently take place in Denpasar has now spread to Singaraja, an old town on the north coast about three hours drive from Denpasar. After similar robbery took place in Denpasar the day before, on Wednesday (August 13th) Luh Sri Kusuma (28 years old), a resident of Penuktukan village, Tejakula, North Bali, had became a victim of robbery on Jalan Ahmad Yani in Singaraja downtown after the robber deflate tire of her car. The victim has lost 76 millions Rupiah in the incident. Read the rest of this entry …

Farmers in various location in Tabanan, the most fertile farming area in Bali, started to suffer for decreasing water flow. Farming groups are facing difficulties in allocating waters to their members. Water level of Lake Beratan in Bedugul resort area, among a few natural water reservoirs in Bali, has just decreased by almost four meters. Read the rest of this entry …

Increasing cases of violence involving Balinese indicates changes in Balinese attitude in respond to arising conflicts. Conflicts related to heired legacy, cemetery land, or village border which supposed to be in civil jurisdiction translated into violence classifiable as criminal conduct. In some cases heired legacy conflict results in assassination. Increasing popularity of nightlife with sprouting cafes in rural villages is also vulnerable to conflicts in addition to increasing number of teenage villagers engaged in prostitution. Read the rest of this entry …