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Indonesia foils illegal Facebook sale of Komodo dragons
Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday they had seized five Komodo dragons and dozens of other animals being sold on Facebook, as the country battles to clamp down on the illegal wildlife trade. The vast Southeast Asian archipelago nation’s dense tropical rainforests boast some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world and it has for years been a key source and transit point for animal trafficking. Five smugglers, identified only by their initials, were arrested in Semarang and Surabaya on Java island for allegedly
trafficking the komodos — the world’s biggest lizard — along with bearcats, cockatoos and cassowary birds. “The suspect VS sold the Komodos online through Facebook,” East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said in a statement. The dragons, which can only be found in their natural habitat on a cluster of islands in eastern Indonesia, were sold for between 15 and 20 million rupiah ($1,000-$1,400), Mangera said. In a separate case, three other people were arrested in East Java over the alleged online sale of otters, leopard cats and pangolin, Mangera said.
turtles from smugglers in Indonesia’s easternmost province Papua.
If convicted, the smugglers could face up to five years in prison and an IDR100 million (US$7,200) fine. The haul of Komodo dragons comes just a day after authorities seized more than 5,000 endangered pig-nosed
Just last week, authorities in Bali arrested a Russian tourist who attempted to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia in his suitcase to keep as a pet.
The pig-nosed turtle — which has a distinctive snout-like nose and webbed feet — is only found in Australia and New Guinea, an island shared between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, and is protected under Indonesian conservation laws. Indonesia’s illegal trade in wildlife along with habitat loss has driven numerous endangered species, from the Sumatran elephant to the orangutan, to the brink of extinction.
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Canggu has long been known as the official brekkie capital of the world, with grammable food available at every corner. While breakfast and lunch spots are easier to find than helmet-less tourists riding around on loud bikes, dinner spots can be a little trickier. We have our favourites and tend to over-do them, so we’re constantly on the lookout for new spots to tickle our dinner pickles. Enter Synkonah. Exit all other dinner plans - Synkonah is THE s**t on the Berawa block. Mediterranean cuisine made with fresh ingredients and lots of love. A trendy street-side setting with a few tables outside and plenty of room inside. A list of gins to make other Bali gin lists pale in comparison.
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Pop over for an early dinner setting at sunset and order a tapas-style setting from the small plates selection; tuna carpaccio, beautiful green pea falafels and the creamiest burrata to share. Pair that with a Spanish Gin Mare cocktail with a sprig of rosemary. Enjoy a Balinese twist of lemongrass with your otherwise classic Gordon’s Gin. Watch the surfers head back from sunset and move on to the selection of charcuterie; pick and mix to create your own dream team of pork fennel & chili sausage, morano local prosciutto duck confit (! ) and pickled vegetables to balance the flavours. Make sure you order a side of the roasted beetroot with feta, because the world is simply better with that in your life. Once the first few rounds of your gin-perience have you buzzing, it’s time to dig in to the mains. The porchetta rolled pork belly with spiced apple is juicy and crispy at the same time. We collectively loved the whole roasted spring chicken, and while the menu admittedly is a little meatier than most of the Gu eateries, the vegetable tagine with root vegetables more than makes up for the lack of selection.
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The gin selection on it’s own is enough of a reason to make this a destination worth making the trek from near and far. Everything from your common Gibson’s and Gordon’s to Tanquerays and Sipsmiths. All the gins are served with tonic or soda water and garnished in the signature Synkonah style. The cocktail list houses all your favourite classics (it’s a Tangerine Tom Collins for me " ♀
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ForBALI chides govt. officials’ handling of Benoa Bay reclamation project during protest processed again from scratch, but it’s unclear whether that happened. “This is a bad legal precedent, so we have taken action again,” he explained. He also called out Indonesian political parties, who he said in the run-up to the elections had all claimed to reject the project. “This will also be a bad political precedent because people are making promises to reject the reclamation project without genuine intentions,” he said, as quoted by Bali Post.
The Balinese People’s Forum to Reject Reclamation (ForBALI), an activist group of artists, musicians, lawyers, and other impassioned locals, took to the streets of Denpasar once again on Saturday in their first demonstration this year against the controversial Benoa Bay reclamation project.
One of ForBALI’s loudest voices is Jerinx, the activist-drummer of Bali punk rock band Superman is Dead. Questioned by the source during the rally, he chided Minister Susi for blocking critical comments on her social media accounts and failing to
Formed in 2013, the group is the driving force behind “tolak reklamasi” (reject reclamation), the biggest resistance movement against the proposed project. If realized, the development would see Dubai-esque artificial islands created in South Bali’s Benoa Bay, a fresh base for hotels, restaurants and tourist entertainment facilities. According to local reports, this latest march comes after the location permit expired last year, but was suddenly reissued — to the same developer, PT Tirta Wahana Bali International (TWBI) — on 29 November by the Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Susi Pudjiastuti. Talking to Bali Post, ForBALI coordinator, I Wayan Gendo Suardana, explained, “This action is actually the same as the others, except it’s a response to the location permit issued by Susi. We believe that the government does not side with the people’s movement.” Suardana claimed that legally, since the permit had expired, it should have been
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reply to a video related to the public rejection of the Benoa Bay project. “Susi should go to minister school again,” he said. Jerinx also called for more transparency in the government, arguing that Bali Governor Wayan Koster should make public the letter he allegedly wrote to President Jokowi rejecting the Benoa Bay project. Since the planned development of Benoa Bay was first announced several years ago, it has been one of the island’s most contentious issues. The artificial islands would not only bring mass development to an area already declared as “sacred” by the country’s governing Hindu authority, but also rip up mangrove forests and likely create flooding issues in Benoa and much of South Bali.
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