The export sale of  Bali handicraft products to overseas experienced a decrease due to the economic condition of the consumer countries, particularly countries in Europe and USA which has yet to be conducive. An employee of handicraft product company in Seminyak area is cleaning dust off the export quality products. Photo by Juliyus/The Bali Times.

JAKARTA By the end of this year rent prices for villas in the Province of Bali are expected to rise 4 percent over the increasing number of tourists, both domestic and foreign. “The average rental price for a ‘private villa’ with one single room range from 334 dollars at ‘low season’ to 420 dollars during [...]

DENPASAR Alexander Simonov (30), a Russian citizen and yoga teacher is sentenced to prison for eight years for proven guilty of smuggling nearly a pound hashish. He has swallowed hashish capsules and stored it in his stomach. The customs officials of Ngurah Rai arrested Alexander Simonov at the international arrival terminal on the 24th of [...]

DENPASAR Head of Bali Provincial Department of Agriculture and Foodstuffs, Ida Bagus Wisnuardhana said drought do not threaten food sustainability in Paradise island. “Based on data of drought from period of June to September 2012, the drought impact on 400 hectares rice fields in Bali. From the figure, 140 hectares are experiencing total failure or [...]

DENPASAR Employers who serve foreign tourists holidaying in Bali has dwindled the import foods, liquors and tobaccos, as it begins to deliver local beverage products. Foreign exchange on importing food and liquor during January-June 2012 was relatively small and only 345 thousand US dollars, said Assistant Director of the Representative Office of Bank Indonesia Region [...]

NEGARA People in Jembrana regency, Bali, requesting the additional school buildings in Pekutatan Sub District since so far there are only Pekutatan and PGRI Senior High Schools. “The sub district area is quite extensive and the number of school-age youth continues to grow, then it should be an additional of new school,” said I Wayan [...]

DENPASAR The Bali administration has vowed to tightly supervise PT Tirta Rahmat Bahari, the private company endowed with the right to manage 102.2 hectares of mangrove forest in Suwung, Denpasar. The administration guaranteed that the private investor would not destroy the forest. “The investor will use the natural mangrove forest as the main attraction for [...]

DENPASAR The outbreaks of rabies and avian flu in Bali have started to ease in the last three months, an official says. I Putu Sumantara, head of the Bali Animal Husbandry office, said that the provincial administration had enforced the one-health management system effectively. “There were no reports of humans infected by the rabies virus [...]