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Bali still targeting July reopening for foreign tourists, deputy governor says The discovery of new COVID-19 variants in Bali is not deterring officials from their target of reopening to foreign tourists in July, the deputy governor said. “We have yet to shift the target, there’s still a few months to go,” Bali deputy governor Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati, or Cok Ace, said. “A few days ago I was with [Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin] and we are still holding on to our focus for [reopening in] July.” Back in March, Indonesian officials announced plans for a travel corridor program that could see foreign tourists
visiting Bali by the middle of this year, with President Joko Widodo emphasizing that the COVID-19 pandemic must be under control for that to happen. The proposed “travel corridor arrangement” will be offered to countries that are able to contain the spread of the coronavirus, have high vaccination rates, and could offer reciprocal benefits, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno previously said. Indonesia is now reconsidering the countries it will be working with now that India and Singapore are facing new
outbreaks of the coronavirus, Cok Ace said. “We can still hope for China, in terms of quantity, as they contributed quite a large [amount of visitors] in previous years,” he added. With nearly 1.2 million Chinese travelers in 2019, they became the second largest group of foreign tourists visiting Bali, just slightly behind Australian visitors, though Chinese tourists held the top spot for several years prior.
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They Are On their Way Now Russian “Mask Prank” Influencer And Canadian “Non Yoga Teacher” Deported The Russian social media influencer, Se Leia AKA Lisha who gained a lot of official attention after a video showing her walking around in a local supermarket in Bali with a face mask which was only painted on her face, has been deported on Wednesday last week which puts an end to a week long controversy which dominated the press in Bali for quite some time. The case even draw the attention of Bali’s Governor, I Wayan Koster, who stated that the island’s officials will not tolerate this kind of behavior any more on a recent press conference.
Immigration authorities have deemed Lisha guilty of violating a gubernatorial regulation mandating mask use in public. As Indonesia’s immigration laws subject foreign nationals to comply with local regulations, such violations mean they can be deported from the country. Lisha’s companion, a Taiwanese YouTuber who filmed and published the video and was wearing a real face mask during the stunt was allowed to stay and no further charges are pressed against him.
country this week was a 38-year-old Canadian citizen, identified as CKM, who advertised a “Tantric Full Body Orgasm” on social media which officials the public announcements after deemed as highly “disrespectful” the cancellation the Indonesian to local culture and customs. immigration insisted on a deportation since he has no Regardless of the fact that the valid work permit and is, on top event has been officially of that not a “certified” Yoga canceled a while ago after the teacher. owner of the place initially rented for the event canceled CKM and Lisha have been the agreement, that CKM stated officially placed on the that the event didn’t involve any Indonesian immigration Blacklist sexual activities and was just a and are not allowed to enter The second foreigner who has breathing technique lesson and Indonesia again for the next been deported back to his home that he simply “forget” to delete year or so.
An Easy Catch ATM Operator Arrested For Embezzling Over 500 Million Rupiah Rupiah ($US36,000) over the course of six months between July and December last year. An ATM operator, tasked with refilling ATM at the Ngurah Rai Airport domestic terminal has bee arrested for embezzling more than 500,000 million
have lost a substantial amount of cash and that they suspect one of their employees to be involved in the case.
The man, reportedly originating from Central Java, came into police focus after the company owning and operating the ATM filed a police report claiming to
The head of Denpasar Police Department, Kombes Pol Jansen Avitus Panjaitan, confirmed the arrest adding that the man has admitted his crime. 4
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According to Panjaitan the man used various methods to trigger system errors at the ATM to have an excuse to do some “maintenance” at the machine. He is now facing a lengthy jail sentence for theft an embezzlement Panjaitan concluded.
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An Unhappy Governor Bali Governor Not Really Happy After Getting Scolded Over Problematic Tourists And Religious Ceremonies On separate occasions, Koster stated that ministers from Jakarta keep sending him photos and videos showing religious ceremonies taking place amid the pandemic attended by people not wearing masks and not following the social distancing rules as well as tourists violating local rules and regulations.
always get videos or photos sent to me from ministers in Jakarta,” Koster said at a press conference adding that the same applies for religious ceremonies when people post photos or videos showing COVID-19 rule violations at these events.
villages and communities have conducted ceremonies without following the protocols as if there was no pandemic. They just did it like the did it before COVID,” Koster acknowledged.
He also warned the community about the increased COVID-19 infection risk after the new virus Koster explained that he has variants have been found in Bali “asked” the community to and concluded by saying that implement strict health protocols the authorities have not yet at any religious ceremony as imposed more strict regulations these events are currently not but that these new measures prohibited or regulated at all. might be coming pretty soon. “But it seems that a number of Let’s wait and see.
As reported by Coconuts Bali the island’s Governor, I Wayan Koster, is scratching his head over religious ceremonies and problematic tourists on the island, saying he’s being scolded by Indonesian ministers “Whenever something happens for failing to keep stuff in check in Bali involving foreign in recent weeks. nationals violating [the law], I
Restaurant Gone Restaurant At Ayodya Resort Nusa Dua Burned To The Ground A large restaurant located at the Ayodya Resort at the Tourism Development Complex (ITDC) in Nusa Dua burned down to the ground in the early hours of May 5. According to an article by DenPost the restaurant has been completely destroyed by the fire with the damage valued in the billions of Rupiah. Fortunately the restaurant,
which is facing the popular Mengiat Beach, is physically separated from the main hotel complex which spared the rest of the resort from being engulfed in flames too. The rapid response of the fire department and the deployment of 7 fire trucks to the scene saw the blaze brought under control within 2 hours at 5:40 in the morning.
According to several press reports the resort is, despite the loss of its popular restaurant, operating normally. The head of the Denpasar Police Public Relations Department, Iptu Ketut Sukadi, stated that the investigation is still ongoing and that, until now, the cause of the fire has not been determined yet. Sukadi also confirmed that no one was 8
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injured in the incident. We couldn’t find any statement from the hotel management except the announcement that the beach bar still operating. Well, that’s good news.
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It’s Still Out There 11 Villages In Bali’s Klungkung Regency Declared As Rabies Red Zone A total of 11 villages in Bali’s Klungkung regency have been officially declared as a Rabies Red Zone. Since the beginning of this year. The latest addition to this list is the Semarapura region, home to the popular Kerta Gosa Palace, after 16 residents were bitten by rabid dogs on Saturday and Sunday.
The head of the Klungkung Agriculture Agency, Ida Bagus Juanida, who is also in charge for animal health in the regency has stated that his agency is
now carrying out emergency rabies vaccinations in the affected villages to ensure that the dogs in the area can’t contract the disease and that everyone who has been bitten by a dog in the area over should come forward to receive his post-exposure rabies shot vaccine in time. Juanida added that residents who are suspicious about the behavior of a wild or a pet dog should immediately report their
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Officials in Klungkung are now trying to find anyone beside these 16 people who has also been bitten by a dog over the last weeks to ensure that all these victims, even the ones
who just suffered from a small scratch after the dog attack, will receive their rabies vaccine in time. Unfortunately the dog in question, who has bitten the 16 people on the weekend, has been killed by the local residents and his carcass disappeared leaving the authorities with no proof of the dogs rabies infection.
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findings to the authorities who then will take the appropriate action which basically means that the dog will be killed before testing. He also stressed that Klungkung’s Nusa Penida area is not affected and has, due to it’s remote location off the shore of Bali, not reported a single rabies case since 2017.
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Two Two New New COVID-19 COVID-19 Variants Variants Have Arrived In Bali Bali’s Bali’s Governor, Governor, II Wayan Wayan Koster, Koster, has has announced announced the the discovery discovery of of two two new new SARSSARSCoV-2 CoV-2 virus virus variants variants on on the the island island on on May May 4, 4, just just hours hours after after we we started started to to print print our our last last Sanur Sanur Weekly Weekly Edition. Edition.
while the second patient, infected with the UK virus variant, reportedly came from Denpasar and has fully recovered since.
According According to to Koster Koster one one patient patient has has been been found found to to have have been been infected infected with with the the B1351 B1351 variant variant of of the the virus virus which which was was first first found found in in South South Africa while while the the second second one one Africa was infected infected with with the the B117 B117 was variant initially initially discovered discovered in in variant the UK. UK. the
According to a number of press reports the island’s health authorities seems to have some problems to conduct contact tracing in these cases which is not very surprising given the fact that the first sample was taken 4 months ago and that contact tracing in Indonesia is limited to a small number of close contacts and is different from how this is performed in other countries..
The patient patient infected infected with with the the The South African African variant variant was was South tested and and diagnosed diagnosed with with tested COVID-19 on on January January 25 25 in in COVID-19 Badung and and unfortunately unfortunately the the Badung patient died died on on February February 16 16 patient
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Singapore, Singapore, which which were were initially initially targeted targeted to to participate participate in in the the “Travel “Travel Corridor”, Corridor”, are are now now facing facing new new virus virus outbreaks outbreaks the the official focus has, official focus has, again, again, moved moved to to China, China, Cok Cok Ace Ace concluded. concluded. We’ll We’ll see see how how that that goes goes in in aa few few weeks. weeks.
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