Some 39 suspects from China and Taiwan had been arrested from a luxurious villa in Indonesia’s resort island Bali on April 4, 2015, for allegedly involving in cyber crimes, an Indonesian police office said. “We are going to hand them over to the People’s Republic of China’s police today, as soon as we finish all administrative procedures,” Chief of the Bali Provincial Police Inspector General Ronny Sompie stated Monday. Read more from The Bali Times here …
Bali Travel News presented Tri Hita Karana awards to elements of the community in Bali judged to conduct their business and organizational activities in a way that reflects the Balinese cultural manifesto of Tri Hita Karana that demands balance be unfailingly maintained between Man and Man, Man and Nature, and Man and God. Read more from blidiscovery.com here …
The Attorney General’s Office implied on Thursday that the execution of 11 death-row convicts would likely be conducted after the Commemoration of Asia-Africa Congress in Bandung scheduled for the end of this month. Read more from The Jakarta Post here …
A 21- year-old man managed to walk his way down a wheel well of a Garuda Indonesia jetliner where he had hidden throughout its one-hour flight from Pekanbaru, Riau, to Jakarta on Tuesday afternoon. Read more from The Jakarta Post here …
Around 500 beer sellers in Banyumas, Cilacap, Purbalingga and Banjarnegara regencies in Central Java have voiced their protest over the government’s ban on selling beer in shops and convenience stores. Read more from The Jakarta Post here …
balidiscovery.com reports that Professor Wayan Arthana, head of the Environmental Research Center at Udayana University in Bali, has sounded a warning that natural resources and the environment in Bali are undergoing a rapid and worrying rate of degradation. Read more from balidiscovery.com …
Some people do not drink cocktails saying they are too expensive but there is still many people who prefer this beverage to anything else. So why are cocktails so popular? To find out, we took a closer look at them and made a list of 25 most popular cocktails with their recipes. Can you try all of them in one night? (We’re kidding…please don’t try all of these in one night. And please remember not to drink and drive after having one of these amazing cocktails). By Petr Habarta, read more here …
The Jakarta Globe is reporting a regulation supported by Islamic groups that is scheduled to come into effect next month will prohibit the sale of beer at convenience stores and other small shops in the world’s fourth-most populous country.
The ban adds to a growing list of measures by President Joko Widodo’s administration that run counter to the pro- business messages he presented while campaigning for office last year. Read more here …