A protest took place on August 27 outside the parliament building (DPR) in Jakarta: police used tear gas and water cannon, and several streets were closed until midnight.
By the morning of August 28 the situation had returned to normal — the roads were reopened, and police have reported no new demonstrations.
From 28 to 30 August, Tanah Lot will host the seventh art and food festival. Every day, as sunset approaches, a parade of gebogan offerings moves across the grounds to a baleganjur percussion orchestr…
Imagine your baby coming into the world in a tropical paradise, surrounded by jungle and warm air, on an island filled with genuine care and love and the kind smiles of the Balinese, while your postpa…
There are no confirmed cases of the Zika virus in Bali: none have turned up in the island's hospitals or in reports from district health offices. At the same time, the island is expanding laborat…
A bike is an essential part of life in Bali, which is why people expect a lot from it: it has to be comfortable, feel steady on the road and not wear you out on longer rides. The Yamaha NMAX 155 Turbo…
A 27-year-old Australian citizen was taken off a flight to Brisbane at Ngurah Rai airport. Four days earlier, a security camera had recorded him and his female companion behaving indecently in the yar…
Bali's power sector is being turned toward solar. Work has begun in the island on a 300-megawatt plant with a gigawatt-hour storage battery, the aim being to move away from imported fuel: at pres…
Indonesia's immigration service has detained a 39-year-old Russian man who was filming a rally by supporters of West Papuan independence in Wamena. The agency concluded that the filming did not m…
A ban on turning onto Made Lebah Street has moved Ubud's traffic jam onto the surrounding streets. Drivers coming from the south — from Nyuh Kuning, Lodtunduh and Singakerta — can no longer turn…
You can see Bali from above without boarding a plane or climbing to a viewpoint. In Ubud there's a chance to rise over the island in a real hot air balloon and look down on rice fields, tropical…
