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No. 288 - 19. Apr - 26. Apr 2017
Busses Going Bust Bali Lawmakers Label Sabargita Bus System a Waste of Taxpayers Money Due to Low Passenger Numbers The Provincial House of Repre-
provided by the Central Govern- of passengers carried. ment, continue to lose money and costs the province Rp. 18 Quoted in NusaBali, Tebillion each year in subsidies. naya said, "What I see is empty seats. We are just I Ketut Yama Tenaya, a memthrowing away our monsentatives for Bali (DPRD-Bali) ber of Commission I of the ey." Tenaya said many is asking that a critical review of DPRD-Bali, told a House hear- times the Trans Sabargita the Sabargita Public Bus Sysing on Monday, April 10, 2017, buses leave for Nusa Dua tem be undertaken. Lawmakers that the bus service continues without a single passenare lamenting that the bus sys- to be a waste of public funds ger. (www.balidiscovery.com) tem, operated with buses due to the low number
A Submerged Society One of Bali's Most Ancient Cultures Sinking Under the Waters of Lake Batur open air on the lake's edge. The flooding conditions at Trunyan are causing a downturn in tourist visitors to the village.
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from tourism have also declined. Observers in the field estimate the water level of the lake has risen 1-meter. A breakwater 400 meters in length that protected the village from waves is now under water.
Local villagers are appealing to regional and provincial authorities to build sea walls Meanwhile, the head of and increase the height of local public works for the Bangli roads. regency, I Wayan Lawe, said he was unaware of In normal times, some 30 tour- the situation in the ists visit the village each day by Trunyan Village and insistNusaBali reports that homes boat. However, since February ed he had received no and roads are now under water when the rising water phenome- formal report on the rising in the village uniquely renowned non commenced, the number of waters. Lawe promised he in Bali for its practice of leaving visitors has decreased dramati- would look into the matter. their dead to decompose in the cally and local incomes derived A large number of homes in the Bali Aga village of Trunyan on the shores of Lake Batur in Kintamani are being submerged below the rising waters on the ancient volcanic lake.
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