Over the last few months, various regions in Indonesia have been hit by natural disasters such as floods, landslides, and strong wind, causing huge material losses  and claiming tens of lives. Floods and landslides were mainly triggered by relatively high precipitation during the ongoing rainy season. Since the beginning of the rainy season in November [...]

DENPASAR Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika sent letter to four Ministers in relation to the temporary closing of Ngurah Rai International Airport due to Nyepi Holiday, Saka New Year 1935 on Tuesday 12 March 2013. “The letter had been sent early so that it could be sread out to any institution bot national and international,” [...]

MATARAM The beverage that killed an Australian teenager in the popular holiday island of Gili Trawangan contained methanol, food and drug regulators in West Nusa Tenggara have confirmed. Sri Utami Ekaningtiyas, the head of the provincial office of the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM), said that tests on the vodka drink consumed by Liam [...]

DENPASAR A South Korea resident, Kim Seong Cheol (42) was robbed in his house at Jalan Dharmawangsa, Nusa Dua, Bali. “Based on his statement, at that time he just arrived at front of his house, which is also his office. When he was about to go out from his car, the robber Alexander Sakan tried [...]

SINGARAJA Two victims of landslides at Gitgit village, Buleleng regency, Bali was found died. “The victim search finally brings about a result throughour personnel hard work helped by Search and Rescue (SAR) team and Indonesian Army (TNI),” the Head of Buleleng Disaster Mitigation Agency(BPBD) Putu Dana said in Singaraja. He mentioned that the two victims [...]

SINGARAJA Indonesian Immigration Office of Singaraja, Bali has deported 12 illegal Chinese workers who work as technicians at the steam power plant, Celukan Bawang in Buleleng, Bali. “We deport those 12 Chinese migrant workers since they don’t have work license from the Manpower affairs Ministry or related authorities,” said Head of Immigration Office of Singaraja [...]

NEGARA Police have arrested three orphans who allegedly stole millions of US dollar from a house in Jembrana, Bali province. “We arrest them after getting information from a money changer saying that three children had exchanged US dollar currency into rupiah,” Head of Public Relations Department of Jembrana Regional Police, Adjunct commissioner Wayan Setiajaya said [...]

I open this note with the statement of John Locke from his famous book The Second Treatise of Government in 1690 : “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any supervisor power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law [...]