A model showed a dress made of endek cloth which was created by Balinese designers. Endek is a kind of woven cloth unique to Bali island which is now being marketed abroad. One of the destination is Australia.

DENPASAR Finalists of Beauty Emvee 2012 look elegant and enchanting in the evening dresses by Mary Lynn Bridal. They look stunning with the evening dress in the 2nd anniversary of Emvee magazine, which took place recently at the Art Center, Denpasar. According to Natasha, the chief editor of Emvee Magazine, said the evening dresses from [...]

DENPASAR Balinese painting maestro Dr. I Nyoman Gunarsa (58) got the traffic accident in Tegal, Central Java, on the way home from Jakarta. “Due to the accident, Gunarsa’s driver named Wayan Wartana (30) passed away,” said Made Wija, Gunarsa Museum employee, when contacted from Denpasar. In addition, Gunarsa’swife, Indra Wati Gunarsa suffered fracture and had [...]

DENPASAR The major tourism practitioners have called on the provincial administration and its related agencies to regulate zoning divisions to categorize tourist accommodation immediately. According to Tjok Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, chairman of the Bali chapter of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) the zoning policy was closely related to preserving the quality of [...]

KUTA Tourism accommodations like hotels, restaurants and cafes are encouraged to use local coffee products amidst the coffee product competition from abroad. “I expected either in the cafe or hotel should be bold to highlight the local coffee. The product is already there, but not many, that’s what we want to push,” said the Head [...]

NUSA DUA Indonesian government will offer the cosmology concept “Tri Hita Karana” in the World Culture for Development Forums (WCF) as a solution to overcome the crisis of global culture. “In the post-MDGs in 2015, the concept of Tri Hita Karana (the relationship of man with man, man with surrounding environment, and man with God) [...]

JAKARTA Although no special event was organized during the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17, the government has declared its commitment to reducing the poverty rate. To mark the day themed “Ending the Violence of Extreme Poverty: Promoting Empowerment and Building Peace”, representatives of governments and civil society gathered at the [...]

JAKARTA Investment in the country in the first nine months of this year increased by 27 percent to Rp229.9 trillion compared with investment figures for the same period last year. Acknowledging its function as a prime driver of economic development, the government hopes that the increasing investment figures this year would be maintained to boost [...]