BANGLI The Bali Times A Swedish man was killed on Wednesday after he fell into a crater of Mt Batur volcano after a climb of the peak in eastern Bali early in the morning, police said. Daniel Petersen, 25, was reported by friends to the authorities after he went missing, local police chief Made Oka [...]

By Hector VETERAN observers of the idiocy that is PLN would not perhaps have been surprised to read last week’s lead story in The Bali Times. The state-owned (and massively subsidised) power utility was reported therein as saying it is unable to fix Bali’s electricity shortage. This is because Bali’s power plants are all so [...]

AMPLAPURA The Bali Times KARANGASEM regency is urgently looking for Rp200 billion (US$21.9 million) to double the size of its showcase cruise terminal harbour near Padang Bai – because it has been built only half the size that’s needed to take cruise liners. The new Amuk Port at Tanah Ampo, billed as the biggest in [...]

DENPASAR                                                                                                                      The Bali Times SEVEN of Bali’s nine districts were short of vital anti-rabies (VAR) vaccine or out of stock altogether this week, according to a provincial government statement issued on Tuesday. Only Buleleng and Karangasem had reserve stocks of VAR this week, said government spokesman Ketut Teneng. “We will continue to lack VAR, whatever [...]

JAKARTA The Bali Times A MARCH 17 manoeuvre by the finance ministry, raising the excise tax on liquor, has wiped out the cost savings consumers could have expected from the scrapping of luxury tax on alcohol announced just last week and could lead to prices rising by up to 40 percent. The high price of [...]

SYDNEY/LEGIAN The Bali Times, AFP Global landmarks from Sydney’s Opera House to the Forbidden City and the glittering Las Vegas Strip will be plunged into darkness on Saturday as activists try to reinvigorate the climate change fight. Hundreds of millions of homes in scores of cities scattered around some 125 countries will join the great [...]

  Sadar Arsyad, 45, is from Lamongan in East Java and has been living in the province’s Banyuwangi port town since 1987, from where he operates the KMP Gilimanuk ferry on the small stretch of water between Java and Bali. The father of four shared his day with The Bali Times. My day starts before [...]

  From the perspective of I Nyoman Pasek, a 43-year-old foodseller from Sidemen, Karangasem. What are we here for? To continue the generations. Do you believe in the Big Bang theory that the 13.7-billion-year-old universe and all that’s in it was created by a massive explosion of enormously dense matter at what may have been [...]

  I Ketut Matri, 80 and a builder from Canggu, has eight children and 20 grandchildren. What’s greatest lesson life has taught you? To help each other. What most important? Family and working to get money. What advice would you give the younger generations? Get an education as high as you can and work hard. [...]

Name : I Gusti Ketut Budiasa Address : Negara, Jembrana Age : 52 Profession : Clothing and bag seller at Negara Market How do you think the country is doing now? It feels better at the moment. Is the central government doing enough for the regions? Yes. And it has helped Bali’s local governments to provide [...]

…living in Bali is safe and peaceful.  Sugianto, 43, Madura, East Java

By Vyt Karazija The behaviour of some visitors to Bali continues to stagger and amaze. Sometimes youthful (and not so youthful) high jinks cross over into the territory of disrespect; sometimes they are merely thoughtless or annoying. But sometimes such events commence as an episode of bad taste and end as a wonderful example of karma [...]