DENPASAR Prosecutors are seeking a six-year jail term for an 18-year-old man charged with having sex with an underage vocational school student. The man, Pratono, also known as Rudi, was caught in the act in January by a passing pecalang (neighbourhood security) patrol that noticed four motorbikes and a pair of red slippers outside a [...]
DENPASAR The Bali Times Rehabilitating the 25,000 hectares of forest in Bali defined as environmentally critical would cost Rp86 billion (US$9.5 million) over five years, provincial forestry chief Anak Agung Bhuana has told the island’s legislature. He said 5,000 hectares of forest needed to be rehabilitated every year to achieve the aim of elimination of [...]
NUSA DUA Conrad Bali, the plush hotel on the beach at Tanjung Benoa, has just planted 500 mangrove saplings at the neighbouring Tengkukung Beach as part of its 2010 environmental programme. The trees were provided by the Bali provincial forestry office for the local community in support of the coastal conservation efforts. Conrad general manager [...]
KABANJAHE Mt Sinabung in North Sumatra threw an ash cloud thousands of metres into the air on Tuesday in its most violent eruption yet. “Its latest eruption was double the previous outburst and we recorded a tower of ash reaching 5,000 metres,” government volcanologist Agus Budianto said. He said the 2,460-metre volcano erupted at 12.23am [...]
Muddy Job: Members of Conrad Bali’s staff plant environment-boosting mangrove saplings at Tanjung Benoa. The activity was as part of its 2010 environmental programme. Full story here.
For the past 10 years, water level at Buyan Lake has been mysteriously depleted. Based on satellite view, the current volume of water of Buyan Lake is approximated to be less than 50% of that in year 2000. At the south part of the lake, the dried lake has been filled with grasses and vegetations that cover almost 30% of the area. From our “eyes”…Buyan is dying.
In response to environmental damage at Buyan Lake, Tabanan-Bali, BALI Photography GUIDE initiates this photo story competition to expose to wider audiences the problems that we have in Buyan. We hope that through this event, many will be encouraged to visit Buyan and to see the real problem that we have there…and we hope that we can find the root of causes of the problems.
Do you care???….We do…please help us to stop the environmental damage in Buyan.
Criteria:
1. Photo must be taken around Buyan Lake, Tabanan-Bali.
2. The photos can be landscape, villagers’ activity at Buyan (Human Interest), animals (insects, fishes, etc) that fill the habitat, or portrait of Buyan villagers.
3. DON”T PRINT. Printing can be wasting a lot of papers…we don’t want to create any additional problems to mother earth…just upload the photos at this.
4. Dateline of the submission is 31 October 2010.
5. Title and short “story” of your photos must be presented to describe your photos but the write-up shall not more than 3000 words. [description can only with INDONESIA/ENGLISH]
6. Nominations are based on the photos & story/description.
Prize money:
1. 1st winner: Rp. 1’000’000.
2. 2nd winner: Rp. 500’000.
3. 3rd winner: Rp. 300’000.
Join our “VOICE FOR BUYAN” Photo Story Competition here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123148601069030&ref=mf
KUTA Harley Davidson riders invaded Nusa Penida — but it was all in a good cause. They were there to hand over money to help with temple works at Majapahit on Nusa Ceningan and assist schools on Penida itself. Thirty bikers, members of the Bali chapter of HOG bikers and other clubs including the Raskal [...]
Just the Drill: Police testing how their chain of command, operational commanders in the field and police units deployed would handle a potentially dangerous riot situation outside the Bali provincial government offices in Renon. Even police dogs were brought into the exercise. (Photo: The Bali Times/Juliyus)
LEGIAN Bali and much of Indonesia could end up having no dry season this year with forecasters saying bad weather is expected to return after the Idul Fitri holiday starting this Friday, bringing heavy rain, high seas and stormy skies that could make air travel bumpy. They blame the strong La Ni?a climate pattern — [...]
