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Police Show Face of Australian Tourist’s Rapist in Sketches

KUTA The North Kuta police have shown the face of an alleged rapist of an Australian tourist in a police-made sketch. “We have shown the face of the alleged rapist in a sketch and the victim recognized him,” said North Kuta Police chief, Adjunct Commissioner Reinhard Habonaran Naing-golan in Kuta. The rape incident took place [...]

Both Candidate Excellence in Polling Station

DENPASAR Candidate for Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika ahead in polling stations (TPS) 11 located in SD 5 Penatih, Denpasar, where voting in gubernatorial elections with the acquisition of 181 votes. While competitors Candidates for Governor Anak Agung Ngurah Puspayoga gained 149 votes. Voting Committee chairman in the TPS 11 Suwarta Wayan said, a [...]

45,9% AIDS Patients are in Productive Age

DENPASAR The National Population and Planned Family Agency (BKKBN) of Bali Province stated that 45.9 percent of HIV/ AIDS patients on the island infected people in productive age, 20-29 years old, thus it becomes a dilemma on teenager problem in Bali. “The patients of losing immunity in Bali during the last 27 years is 7.291 [...]

Bali to Offer 15 Bus Routes to Investors

DENPASAR Government of Bali Province offer fifteen routes from seventeen corridors of Trans-Sarbagita Bus to the prospective investors to support connecting the mass means of transportation. “The offer aims at adding means of transportation and bus stop in fifteen corridors that don’t run yet,” said the Head of Transportation, Information and Communication Department of Bali [...]

Sanglah Hospital Gets JCI Accreditation

DENPASAR Sanglah General Center Hospital (RSUP) in Denpasar, was finally accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI), a world-class accreditation agency, after struggling since 2011. The Prime Director of RSUP Sanglah I Wayan Sutarga in Denpasar said the hospital now has international accreditation in the region of Bali-Nusa Tenggara. The accreditation also made RSUP Sanglah [...]

Safety Riding for Foreign Tourists

KUTA Bali Police headquarter is now launching an extensive safety riding campaign targeting foreign tourists. Bali Police chief Insp.Gen Arif Wahyudi said during the launch of the campaign at the Bali Bombing Monument in Legian, Kuta, that foreign tourists were expected to wear safety helmets and to carry necessary documents when travelling by motorcycles and [...]

Ngurah Rai Airport Extension is on 80% of Completion

KUTA Extension project in NgurahRai International Airport until May 2013 has been completed up to 80 percent from the target to be finished in the middle of 2013 in order to support the APEC Summit in October. “Up to May 2013 is almost 80 percent of completion,” said General Manager of AngkasaPura I Ngurah Rai [...]

Tourism Entrepreneurs to Form Bali Convention Bureau after APEC

DENPASAR Tourism entrepreneurs in Bali province planned to establish an association called Bali Convention Bureau (BCB) following the implementation of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in October this year. Executive Director of Bali Hotel Association (BHA), Djinaldi Gosana made the remarks here, adding that the tourism stakeholders have been preparing such tourism bureau [...]

Miss World 2013 in Bali Attracts New Participants

KUTA The plan to organize Miss World 2013 in Bali has attracted countries which have never sent their representatives to the event, Miss Indonesia 2012 Ines Putri Tjiptadi said here on Sunday. “The Miss World in Bali has received good responses from many countries so the number of participants this year will be higher than [...]

Bali Police Arrest 95 Illegal Immigrants

DENPASAR The Bali police have arrested at least 95 illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern countries in Badung Strait about a mile from the Benoa Port in Denpasar. “Our patrol officers saw a suspicious boat, so they stopped it and checked the passengers one by one,” Bali provincial police spokesman Comr. Hariadi said in Denpasar. According [...]

Passenger Detection at the Airport to be Tighten

DENPASAR Health Department of Bali Province asked the staffs of Ngurah Rai Airport to keep their vigilance detecting passengers to prevent the spread of H7N9 virus, which is a new type of avian flu virus. “Airport and Harbor become the entrance for first filter so there is no case of imported disease from abroad,” said [...]

Lindsay Lodged Cassation to Cancel Death Sentence

DENPASAR British woman, Lindsay June Sandiford lodged cassation to the Supreme Court for death penalty sentenced on her by Denpasar District Court. “Just now we submitted our client’s cassation memory,” said Fadiah Agus as Lindsay’s attorney at Denpasar District Court. He thought that death penalty sentenced to his client in the case of smuggling 4.7 [...]

Woman Attacked by Crocodile at Western Australia’s Gorge

SYDNEY An Australian woman has survived a crocodile attack while swimming at a remote gorge near Wyndham in Western Australia’s north, local media reported. Wyndham artist Jane Dennis was bitten by a freshwater crocodile on the leg while swimming at the gorge near Diggers Rest Station on last Saturday with her two friends. The 51-year-old [...]

A Villa Occupied by Canadian Tourist is Robbed

DENPASAR A villa at Jalan Tegal Cupek I, North Kuta, Badung Regency, Bali, occupied by a Canadian tourist named Peter was robbed. Temporary allegation is that he forgot to lock his room and only lock the front door. “It’s a robbery at empty house because the occupant was not there,” said Badung Police Chief, AKBP [...]

Germany Says Will Sell 164 Tanks to Indonesia

BERLIN Germany has agreed to sell 164 used tanks to Indonesia, the government confirmed , after the Dutch parliament last year rejected a similar request over human rights concerns. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has given the green light to Duesseldorf-based weapons maker Rheinmetall AG to sell the tanks to Jakarta, said an economics ministry spokeswoman. [...]