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Bali Aims to Reopen in July? Plans to reopen Bali to international tourism targeted for July 2021 are gradually taking shape. On Friday, 11 June 2021 a coordination meeting on preparing Bali to welcome back foreign tourists was held at the Bali Tourism Polytechnic attended by the Indonesian Minister for Tourism and the Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno. In that meeting that was also attended by Bali’s Deputy Governor, Tjok Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati (Cok Ace) standard operating procedures (SOPs) were reviewed surrounding how best to welcome international travelers back to the Island of Bali. Procedures to be put in place at Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport and the preparation of quarantine hotel were among the topics discussed. Quoted by Balipost.com, Indonesian Minister of Tourism and the Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno, said: “The President has directed us to identify strategic opportunities during the
current pandemic and prepare Bali to take decisive, rapid, and coordinated steps towards recovery. By joining hands, we will revitalize Bali’s position as the world’s best tourism destination, all supported by a colossal vaccination program. This is the key to fulfilling the pre-conditions to restore Bali to economic health. The Minister said management designs for prioritizing green zones and safe travel corridors in Bali are being reviewed. Procedures will also reportedly contemplate handling international tourists who will be comprised of both inoculate and noninoculated travelers. Plans are for arriving international travelers landing at Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport will be required to undergo PCR screening, wear face masks, and put in place strong sanctions for companies and institutions found to be ignoring health and safety protocols.
The Health Authorities at Bali’s Airport will register arriving passengers while checking that body temperatures are below 37.3 degree Celsius. Passengers will then proceed to immigration for visa processing followed by customs for baggage clearance. Public transport will be provided on vehicles that conform to government cleanliness, hygiene and safety protocols. Visitors will be required to undergo a five-day quarantine period at a preselected Bali hotel. Passengers holding proof of vaccination will be placed in hotels that allow use of the public areas and hotel facilities, while visitors without certificate will be largely confined to their rooms for the quarantine period. Any arriving passenger failing to pass the PCR Swab Test will be referred to a local hospital in Bali for further handling. (coconuts.co)
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A Poisonous Party 19 Prisoners Hospitalized And 1 Dead After Drinking Disinfectant According to the reports a total of 21 female prisoners consumed a mix of some sort of disinfection liquid mixed with an instant orange In a mass poisoning incident at beverage popularly known as the woman’s section of Bali’s Nutrisari in what some media most notorious Kerobokan reports described as an attempt prison one of the involved to get “drunk”.Unfortunately this female prisoners has didn’t work for almost all of unfortunately lost her life while a them. second inmate is reportedly still hospitalized and treated for liver 19 of the 21 women were failure. rushed to Sanglah General
Hospital in Denpasar after all of them initially complained about “stomach problems” at the medical facility inside the prison before confessing that they drank the poisonous mixture which promoted the prison authorities to act quickly. A doctor at the Sanglah emergency room confirmed that they had received 19 patients and that unfortunately they couldn’t save one of them. We couldn’t find any information about the remaining 2 inmates in the group of 21 who obviously did not experience any
symptoms of poisoning. There is also not much information available who initially mixed the instant drink with the disinfectant and what kind of disinfectant they used butt according to some reports in the local press the police is investigating the case. The Head of the Female Warden of Kerobokan Prison, Lili confirmed that some inmates might have gotten their hands on some disinfectant usually used to clean the cells.
United Again Superman is Dead Drummer Jerinx Finally Released From Jail After 10 Months Bali’s and probably Indonesia’s most popular Punk Rock band “Superman is Dead” has been united with their drummer, I Gede Aryastina commonly known as Jerinx, again after the latter has been released from jail on Tuesday morning last week. He was reportedly picked up at Kerobokan prison by his wife, Nora Alexandra, his father I Wayan Arjono and his two Superman is Dead band-mates, Bobby Cool and Eka Rock. As expected Jerinx refused to give any kind of statement to the waiting press. His lawyer, I Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, told the reporters that his client might hold a press conference later but until now we haven't heard anything. Jerinx was initially sentenced to 14 month in jail after a controversial Instagram post earlier last year in which he criticized the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) and accused them of being “flunkeys” to the World Health Organization (WHO) which ended in a police report made by IDI and Jerinx’s imprisonment for “hate speech”. His sentence was finally reduced to 10 months following an appeal. The 43year-old musician has been detained since August last year. The musician’s legion of fans has been celebrating his freedom on social media over the past week, trending the hashtags #WelcomeHomeJRXSID and #KamiBersamaJRX (we are with JRX). 8 SEMINYAK WEEKLY, 18 Jun -25 Jun 2021
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The Biggest Catch Bali Police Seizes 44 Kg Of Marijuana The National Narcotics Agency in Bali (BNNP) has foiled an attempt to smuggle 44 kg of marijuana, reportedly originating from the city of Medan in Sumatra, into Bali on June 14. The 22 packages of the drug were found hidden inside sacks of used clothes transported by a box truck along with piles of wood during a raid at the Mengwi Logistics Terminal. According to Coconuts Bali the authorities have been tailing the truck since it left Jakarta some
days ago but waited until the 30year-old truck driver met with the recipient of the shipment before stopping the vehicle and arresting the two men.
General Gede Sugianyar, this is the largest amount of marijuana ever found in Bali and a great achievement in the war against drugs on the island.
The shipment reportedly belonged to one of the most wanted marijuana suppliers in Bali who was arrested along with his wife at Banyuwangi in East Java on the last weekend prior to the bust in Bali.
Some local news outlets took the case a little too far by stating that the operation has “saved” tens of thousands of Balinese from becoming addicted to drugs. This latest bust is definitely a great achievement
According to the head of the BNNP Bali, Police Brigadier
but the amount found is probably only the tip of the iceberg. Bali reportedly has an increasing drug problem which is basically not related to marijuana but to Crystal Meth and other drugs much harder than marijuana.
Dumped On The Roadside 35 Kg Of Medical Waste Found In Gianyar Traced Back To Local Doctor doctor who is reportedly also working at a local hospital in the area.
After around 35 kg of medical waste have been found on the roadside in Bali’s Gianyar regency back in March the local authorities have now traced back this waste back to a local
that this move was highly illegal as this facility is only allowed to accept wast directly from the hospital.
According to the reports this doctor has instructed a contract worker at the hospital to dispose the medical waste from his private practice at the medical waste facility for the hospital. The head of the Gianyar Health Agency, Ida Komang Upeksa, told the press
It is not entirely clear how the medical waste ended up at the roadside but it seems that the medical waste facility refused to accept the bags originating from a private doctor which then prompted the person tasked with the disposal to simply dump 4
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it on the roadside instead of trying to find a proper solution for the problem. The identities of the persons involved in the case have not been revealed and we doubt that there will be any public follow up in the case. Dumping medical waste illegally somewhere on the roadside or on normal landfills is pretty normal on the island these days.
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News Compressed A Short Run-Down Of Stuff That Didn't Make It Into a Full Article Beside all that COVID-19 madness and the fact that almost all news are focusing on the development of the pandemic on the island there are still other things going on. If you live or have stayed in Bali you probably had (or still have) them in your neighborhood too or you have been regularly and heavily disturbed by them in your daily routine. We are talking about all these modified motorbikes with extremely loud exhaust systems. The are literally everywhere, are mainly used by teenagers or young male adults and have been objects of contention for a long time. But this might end soon as the Bali police is taking strict measures against these noisy exhaust systems now. According to the
press all motorbike workshops in the Badung regency, one of the areas where this problem went out of hand over the last years, have been instructed not to modify motorbikes with loud exhaust systems any more or to face legal consequences. On top of these instructions the Head of the Badung Traffic Police, AKP Aan Saputra, tols reporters that motorists who insist to use these exhaust systems may have their motorbikes sized by the police. A number of resident of a village of in Gianyar’s Tegalalang Sub-District have made it to the headlines after complaining about the stench of the
waste in the sewers inside their village. Funny enough this is a 100% homemade problem and the villagers are actually complaining about the smell of their own waste as confirmed by a village official. It seems that the villagers are constantly (and illegally) dumping their household waste in the sewers right in front of their house. This waste was usually washed away by the water in the sewer and became a problem somewhere else. But now, due to the construction of a new drainage system the water flow in the village sewers has been blocked. One would assume that the villagers would now stop throwing their rubbish in these sewers but no, they simply continue with their old habits. Now the sewers are full of rotting household waste and the resulting stench prompted the villagers to file a complaint with the authorities. Public prosecutors at the Denpasar District Court have demanded a 20 year jail term for the Indonesian man who murdered his 29-year-old Slovak girlfriend in her villa in Sanur back in January this year after she ended her relationship with him due to his alcohol problems about a month before the incident. The man, identified as LP reportedly went to her house to apologize for his mistakes but brought a knife with him, a fact that is now leading the prosecutors to charge him with premeditated murder which is punishable with a minimum 20 years in jail and with the death sentence as a maximum punishment under the Indonesian Criminal Code. A 50-year old Indonesian man was found dead in his hotel room in Kuta on Thursday last week when the hotel staff tried to remind him that he missed his checkout time. According to the Head of the Denpasar Public Relation Police Officer, Iptu I Ketut Sukadi, several prescription drugs were found in the man’s room leading the police to believe that he has died of illness. To get the latest pandemic related numbers along with some news daily follow @SanurWeekly on Facebook and get our daily wrap up with all numbers and facts on your timeline.
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