Bali will regain its status as an area free of rabies in a year if the ongoing emergency mitigation program succeeds, a coordination meeting between officials and experts concluded Friday. The meeting was organized by the directorate general of the Ministry of Agriculture's animal husbandry division. more >>>
The tourism industry in Bali has criticized the provincial administration's decision to cut the tourism promotion fund in a bid to free up more money for health and poverty eradication programs. Head of the Balinese Tourism Agency I Gede Nurjaya said Saturday the administration had allocated Rp 4 billion, Rp 1 billion less than this year more >>>
Indonesia's Minister of Culture and Tourism, Jero Wacik, came in for a scathing page-one attacks in Nusa Bali in response to his calls for easy acceptance of the controversial anti-pornography legislation signed into law by the President last week.
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Abstract art emerged as a rebellion against realism. It had its moments of victory before it was callously indicted by the new zeitgeist that paved the way for the emergence of so-called "contemporary art", which is dominated by the concept of "new-realism". more >>>
The number of child sex workers in Indonesia has more than doubled in the past decade, with the majority operating around resorts amid the country's booming tourism industry, an NGO has warned. Jakarta, Bali, Batam, Lombok -- the country's main tourist destinations -- are among the locations with the highest prevalence of child sex workers. more >>>
