{"id":5746,"date":"2012-10-08T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/bali-update-edition-840-08-october-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:12:00","slug":"bali-update-edition-840-08-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/10\/bali-update-edition-840-08-october-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Bali Update Edition 840 – 08 October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Om Swastiastu . . . <\/p>\n

There a growing controversy brewing over a license granted by the Bali provincial government to a private company to develop part of the protected mangrove forest near Bali\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n

Other news includes the imprisonment of the former regent of Bangli for corruption; the arrest of a Dutch national for the sexual molestation of under-aged girls; and news that a Russian man may face 11 years in a Bali prison for drug smuggling.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re articles of the commemoration of two Bali bombings<\/a> and a commemoration of a different sort for the tens of thousands who died in Bali in the 1960s in the aftermath of the \u201cGestapu\u201d affair.<\/p>\n

The local press last week looked at the alarming number of serious head injuries linked to traffic accidents; the illegal levies demanded from Balinese seeking to work on board ships; and how a Jakarta businessman who tried to illegally expropriate a villas in Bali is now a fugitive from the law.<\/p>\n

Denpasar has been officially designated a kid-friendly city and the Museum Bali in the capital will open its doors in December after undergoing major renovations.<\/p>\n

The naming of the Jatiluwih Rice Terraces as a UNESCO Heritage area may be fueling an unwanted property boom in that area. <\/p>\n

A Jakarta-based marketing guru shares why Bali must reinvent the way it promotes itself.<\/p>\n

President Yudhoyono has invited the Egyptian president to Bali in December 2102 and, a year later, a Culture Forum is scheduled for Bali in December of 2013.<\/p>\n

Find out in this week\u2019s Update why a village outside Ubud recently resembled a stage production from the \u201cRocky Horror Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

In aviation news: The passenger service charge is now included in the ticket price for people flying Garuda internationally or domestically from Bali. Meanwhile, Citilink is now flying daily Bandung to Bali.<\/p>\n

Looking Ahead: <\/p>\n