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Indonesian News
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David
J. Booth MBE
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| June 29: David Booth, the
founder of the East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP), has recently returned
to Bali after a trip back home to the U.K. where at Buckingham Palace where
he was invested with the MBE Award. |
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David receives his MBE award
from HRH Prince Charles
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| David is a MBE recipient in The Queens
2004 Birthday Honours List for "Services to sustain development in rural
East Bali, Indonesia." |
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Bali
Power Crisis
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| Bali: The Java-Bali electrical
power grid is suffering a sudden and severe shortfall in power generating
capabilities – estimated at between 77 – 328 megawatts. |
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| Officials say will persist until
late June 2005. The power crisis has been brought on by repairs currently
being carried out on gas supply pipes feeding the Muara Karang and Tanjung
Priok Steam Generating Plants in Java. These repairs have put added strain
on a power supply system already operating at near maximum levels. Most
major hotels in Bali and Java and many places of business already have
back-up emergency power generation systems in place to ensure uninterrupted
power supplies to their customers. |
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The KHO Power Battery Inverter
Emergency Back-Up System
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Visa-on-arrival
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| The Indonesian
government has announced that 13 countries in Europe and the Middle East
may obtain a visa-on-arrival (VOA) in an effort to attract tourists to
the country amid terrorism fears. The new countries are, India, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Egypt, Austria, Ireland, Qatar,
Greece and Luxembourg. Still the Netherlands and Sweden were not included,
though due to be for security reasons. This announcement has yet to become
law, if in doubt check with your Indonesian Embassy before travel. |
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Kuta
Security Clean-up
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| Bali's Chief of Police, Made Mangku
Pastika, is calling for the creation of "SATPAM Pariwisata" or special
tourism |
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| security guards as a necessary step
to improve security in Kuta and surrounding areas. After an incident involving
gang violence at Fuel Bar on Jalan Legian, in the early hours of Sun, June
6, 2005, |
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Indonesian
Pirates
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| Microsoft, is to
grant Indonesia an amnesty on pirated versions of its Windows program used
on government computers in exchange for a token payment of US$50,000. In
exchange, Indonesia would promise to purchase authorized MS merchandise
and launch a major crackdown on a pirated software racket that is one of
the world's worst. |
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'Buy
local ships' - SBY
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| President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
(SBY) called for firms to buy ships manufactured locally to help save on
foreign exchange, at a ceremony for the hand over of the 30,000 DWT, Fastron
tanker from state shipbuilding company PT PAL to state oil and gas firm
Pertamina in Surabaya, the tanker is the biggest ever built by PT PAL. |
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PT PAL docks in Surabaya
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