SANUR, Indonesia (AFP) — While other countries in Asia have hosted major multi-sport events over the past 40 years, Indonesia, despite its sprawling size, has been left in the wilderness.
Since it held the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta, it has been routinely overlooked, largely due to its poor sports infrastructure, lack of organisational skills and security issues. (more…)
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Two East Java Men Tricked into Tattooing their Faces in Effort to Gain Coveted Civil Service Job.
Some people are irretrievably gullible. Unfortunately, in the case of two men from Bojonegoro, East Java, proof of their gullibility is now permanently written all over their faces.
The two men, Bambang (40) and Nanang (30), were recently offered the highly prized opportunity to become civil servants by the Chief of the village of Mulyaoagoang who approached the two men with an urgent offer, which at the time, seemed too good to refuse. (more…)
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So much for serendipity, as the late artist Antonio Blanco might have muttered.
Uniformly adorned in ethnic scarves and sandals, the audience tonight at his memorial museum and gallery high in the hills of Bali is a group of western ladies of a certain age, earnestly pursuing cultural enlightenment.
That they are visibly baffled by the exotic nudes and erotic daubs splashed before them in lurid colour would have come as no surprise to the flamboyant Blanco, who once told me that the essence of Bali is found in the heart rather than the eye. (more…)
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SANUR, Indonesia: Sun, sea, sand and a healthy dose of rivalry are on the agenda in this tourist playground from Saturday (tomorrow) as athletes from 45 countries descend for the inaugural Asian Beach Games.
It is a concept never tried on this scale before, with some 3,000 competitors pitting their wits in 17 sports. (more…)
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Graha Wicaksana, the head of Community Development for Kuta, Bali’s most famous beach area, has confirmed that the Kuta Karnival returns for nine days from October 18-26, 2008. more?
Graha Wicaksana, the head of Community Development for Kuta, Bali’s most famous beach area, has confirmed that the Kuta Karnival returns for nine days from October 18-26, 2008.
Initially organized as a response to the Bali terrorist attack of October 2002, the event has now become a regular fixture on Bali’s busy calendar of yearly events. This year’s event has been given the motto of “A Celebration of Life” reflecting the nine days of traditional art performances, sunset dances on the beach, sports activities, and an entire bazaar of culinary kiosks located in tents up and down the beach. (more…)
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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Bali will host a world film festival concurrently with the 2012 Bali International Film festival (BIFF).
“The World Film Festival would overshadow world class film festivals,” Dr Shri Arya Vedakarna, BIFF pioneer and conceptor said here, Wednesday. (more…)
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The second Asia-Europe labor minister meeting started in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, Antara news wire reported.
    Eighteen labor ministers, nine ambassadors and scores of senior officials take parts in the two-day meeting. Indonesian labor minister Erman Suparno opened the meeting. (more…)
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Denpasar (ANTARA News) - The number of American tourists to Bali has been increasing since the Indonesian government had lifted its travel warning, classiying the number of American tourists coming to the island resort as one of the big-ten.
The number of tourists from other western countries also increased by an average of 20 percent, Ida Komang Wisnu, Head of the Bali Central Bureau of Statistics said here Monday. (more…)
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Tri Vivi Suryani, Contributor, Denpasar
Inanimate materials are the usual media used by artists to portray their ideas, but fine artist I Gede Merta chooses living organisms for his artistic expressions and for that he has made a name for himself among Indonesia’s fine art enthusiasts.
Merta is highly skilled in transforming a unique tropical plant, adenium, into art pieces of high value. In his hand the desert-rose species is sculpted into works of creation. (more…)
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The Indonesia Open will move from the capital Jakarta to the paradise island of Bali in 2009.
The tournament will take place at the New Kuta Golf Resort from February 26 to March 1 and boast an increased prize fund of US dollars 1.25 million. (more…)
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