Often referred to as the “Island of the Gods,” Bali draws visitors with its immaculate beaches, energetic culture, and spiritual resonance. For some guests, though, a concern might linger: is pornography prohibited in this paradisiacal paradise? Like the island itself, the response exposes an interesting paradox. National Law vs. Local Nuance: Two Indonesia Stories As a country, Indonesia rules against …

Tourist-dependent Bali will impose a $10 tax on travellers entering the Indonesian resort Haven from next year onwards in order to preserve its environment and culture, officials said Wednesday. The fee will have to be paid electronically. While domestic Indonesian tourists would be spared, foreign tourists entering the island from abroad or from other parts of the country would need …

Indonesia – With the first international passenger flight to the Indonesian vacation island in in two years, Bali started a tentative re-opening to foreign visitors on Feb 16. Flights have resumed as the Southeast Asian archipelago relaxes quarantine laws despite an increase in Covid infections caused by the Omicron strain. A Singapore Airlines flight carrying 109 foreign passengers and 47 …

Indonesia – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, has said that Bali will be reopened for international travelers from February 4, 2022. “The government is also conveying that we will reopen international borders in Bali on February 4, 2022,” he informed while issuing an online press statement on the evaluation of public activity restrictions (PPKM), accessed …

Indonesia – Bali Governor I Wayan Koster announced a beautification project is underway, to prepare Bali as the main host of the G20 agendas in Indonesia, as well as ensure a favourable image of the nation is projected to the global community. Besides preparing the route for the delegates, the authority in Balialso is committed to planting 12 million mangrove …

Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism squad has arrested a convicted militant and suspected leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group that has been blamed for a string of past bombings in the country, Indonesia police said Monday. Abu Rusdan was seized late Friday in Bekasi near the capital of Jakarta, along with three other suspected members of Jemaah Islamiyah, police spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan said. …

The Indonesian naval force (TNI AL) is working steadily in its clearing endeavors to recuperate KRI Nanggala-402, a submarine that sank in the waters of Bali. In view of this, Clearing in the waters of Bali presently couldn’t seem to be directed as of not long ago. This is what Rear Admiral Muhammad Ali, the head of staff help of …

An oil spill was spotted by the rescuers on Wednesday where the missing Indonesian submarine boarding 53 people has lost contact near the vessel’s diving location. A navy spokesman said that the KRI Nanggala-402 was supposed to communicate the outcome of a torpedo drill that the 44-year-old submarine has conducted in the northern waters of Bali Island but failed to …

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) discussed the resuming of three COVID-19 green zones in Bali for the travel industry in the midst of a checked diminishing in the quantity of Indonesia’s day by day instances of Covid and cross country mass immunization crusade. They see that in the region of Bali that they need to focus on three assigned green zones, …

Here’s Edhy Prabowo, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries shared that planting a coral or coral reef is equal to planting 20 trees and will help efforts to boost the economy in the coastal areas of the country. He agrees that the conservation of coral or sea reefs could be useful in efforts to boost the coastal economies and is …