Canggu Weekly No 272 Apr 2022

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No: 271, 08 Apr - 15 Apr 2022

Tourism Minister to visit Australia to encourage more Aussie tourists in Bali Tourism and Creative Economy,” Sandiaga said yesterday.

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno is scheduled to visit Australia from July 6 to July 12 in a bid to boost Bali tourism by encouraging Australians to travel to the Island of Gods. “We are preparing a visit to Australia. This will be my first official visit since I started my term in the Ministry of

Australians are typically among Bali’s top travelers – bolstered by cheap flights and keenly priced tourism attractions, from night clubs to beaches. Since Bali started gradually reopening its international airport for international flights, Australians have begun flocking to Bali to satisfy their pent-up wanderlust. “We see that Australia is still a potential market to increase tourist arrivals [with] Bali as the main destination. But naturally there are other destinations that we have prepared,” the minister added. This year, Indonesia aims to see between 1.8 to 3.6 million tourist arrivals.

According to the Ministry, 15,000 travelers have arrived in Bali in 2022 as of last week with visas on arrival (VOA). Most of them came from Australia, Singapore, the US, France, and the UK. There are currently only 42 nationalities eligible for VOA entry. A publication has claimed that tourist arrivals from down under, in particular, have been helping revive Bali’s economy. Separately, Australia’s Ambassador to Indonesia Penny Williams confirmed that many Australians are looking forward to returning to Bali now that the island is officially open to tourists again. (coconuts.co)


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US calls for Russia’s exclusion from G20 Summit in Bali, plans boycott “[President Biden has] asked that Russia be removed from the G20, and I’ve made clear to my colleagues in Indonesia that we will not be participating in a number of meetings if the Russians are there,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said yesterday.

Amid President Vladimir Putin’s plan to attend the G20 Summit in Bali — despite calls for Russia’s exclusion from the club — a top U.S. official has said they will boycott “a number of G20 meetings” if Russian representatives take part in them.

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis has reportedly put Indonesia, which holds the G20 presidency for the first time, in an awkward position. The increasing calls for excluding Russia from the summit poses a question on whether welcoming Putin to Bali would jeopardize Indonesia’s own interests in the G20.

Indonesia’s G20 Co-Sherpa Dian Triansyah Djani said recently that Indonesia has the obligation to invite all G20 members for the 2022 Summit. Coconuts reached out to Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman Teuku Faizasyah for comment regarding Yellen’s statement. His reply was short. “Not every statement needs to be responded to,” he said in a text message. (coconuts.co)

American found dead by suicide in Kerobokan hotel Parwata reportedly attempted to call JMH’s room first to ask whether the victim would like to extend his stay or not. “The victim was supposed to check out [from the hotel yesterday] at 2pm,” said Badung Police’s spokesman Ketut Sudana. An American man in his late 20s was found dead in his hotel room in Mertanadi, Kerobokan. Police suspected that he took his own life. The lifeless body of JMH. 28, was found by the hotel’s housekeeper, Putu Agus Parwata, yesterday around 2:30pm.

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Sudana said, adding that there was no foul play in his death and the police suspected JMH had committed suicide. If you or anyone you know is suffering from depression and/or contemplating suicide, you can get more information and resources from several local NGOs dealing with mental health and suicide prevention. For those of you who live in Bali, you can reach out to Bali-based Love Inside Suicide Awareness (LISA) helpline at +62 811-3815-472 (English) and +62 811-3855-472 (Bahasa Indonesia/Indonesian). (coconuts.co)


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Six Eastern Europeans deported from Bali over squatting in villa they claimed was ‘gift from God’ “Based on the information from the villa owner, in the morning at around 7am, the villa owner and Pererenan Village officials came to see the foreigners and [they] claim the villa belongs to them that was given from God,” said the Ministry of Law and Human Rights’ Bali office’s spokesman I Wayan Muliarta.

The Denpasar Immigration Office recently apprehended five Moldovan nationals and one Russian for unlawful entry into a villa in Mengwi in the early hours of April 2. They were later identified as DD, 35, EE, 32, EC, 35, AE, 5, and DM, 9 (all from Moldova) as well as AD, 23, from Russia.

All of the foreigners were reportedly acting nonchalant when questioned by immigration officers. Muliarta said they refused to show their passports and stay permits, and were tight-lipped when asked about their countries of origin.

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“When we put them into custody […] the foreigners at some point fought back and it was handled by the field officers,” Muliarta added. The officers later searched the villa and found four passports–one of them already burned. At the time of this article’s publication, the six Eastern Europeans were being detained at the Denpasar Immigration’s detention facility and shortly set for deportation. (balidiscovery.com)


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Baked and arrested: Bali police apprehends a man for baking and selling weed cookies Denpasar Police Chief Comr. Bambang Yugo Pamungkas said that Yogyakartaborn ECB, 24, was arrested on Tukad Musi Street on April 1 at around 7pm.

Denpasar Police recently arrested a man for making cannabis cookies at a house in the capital of Bali. The suspect has also reportedly served jail time in the past for drug-related offenses.

The police later searched his house on Ida Bagus Oka Gang Pasa Tempo Street and found 19 cookies laced with weed. ECB was previously arrested for a similar crime in 2018, and served two years and eight months behind bars after he was found guilty. ECB confessed to the authorities that he was instructed by D, now a fugitive, to bake cannabis cookies in March.

sugar, salt, baking powder, and cannabinoid powder. He later noted that a synthetic cannabinoid called ADB-FUBIATA, also found in the cookies, is not yet included on Indonesia’s drugs list. “[Now that it is confirmed] that ADBFUBIATA is in Indonesia, [this] can be a warning to the Ministry of Health to update the narcotics list so that [ADBFUBIATA] can be included,” he said, adding that the synthetic cannabinoid was sent from China. (balidiscovery.com)

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