In Kerobokan on Sunday morning, a section of Teuku Umar Barat street (Jalan Teuku Umar Barat) was closed to cars for three hours — the first time Bali has tried out the “Badung First Car Free Day” for…
The Chez Gado Gado restaurant in Seminyak has burned down almost entirely. The fire started from party balloons during a birthday celebration and spread to the dry grass roof within minutes. No one wa…
New problems have appeared with the tourist levy (PWA) in Bali: foreigners cannot always pay it properly, and some of them even risk ending up on scam websites. Industry figures believe the system urg…
Indonesia's immigration service is shifting the monitoring of foreigners onto technology: artificial intelligence, facial recognition at passport control, and a shared digital database available…
Autogates let you clear passport control in Indonesia without dealing with an officer: the system reads your passport, matches your face against the photo and records your entry electronically. At the…
An Immigration Lounge has opened at Discovery Mall in Kuta — the first immigration centre in Bali located inside a shopping complex.
Plans for such a centre were announced back in June. The lounge now takes applications for Indonesian passports — up to 40 a day — and for residence permit extensions, with more than 150 applications…
From 1 September, Garuda Indonesia is switching to a piece-based baggage system. Your ticket will state how many bags you may check in and how much each of them can weigh: two pieces of 23 kilograms e…
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…
