DENPASAR - While Bali's Governor has condemned the recently passed anti-pornography law as opposed to Balinese culture and therefore unenforceable in his province, the Bali Chief of Police Inspector General Teuku Ashikin Husein told the press that he will be compelled to enforce the new law once the legislation is formally promulgated.

"I have no option. The police must enforce every positive law in the country," he told Tempointeraktif.com. General Ashikin, a native of Sumatra, will find himself in an extremely tenous position should his force begin criminally prosecuting Balinese for what are seen locally as acts of free cultural expression.

In line with the actions of a number of Indonesian provinces, Bali is seeking to overturn the new law before the constitutional courts while local community leaders and cultural groups are threatening to undertake civil disobedience in opposition to the law.

Posted in Oddly enough ... @ 16 November 2008 00:34 CET by Jeroen · · permalink · © Bali Discovery

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daft_punk
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Posted @ 16 November 2008 09:41

news/TOURISM
Tourist arrivals over 2008 likely to reach only 6.4 million


Posted 12 November 2008 08:39


JAKARTA, 12 November 2008 - Bisnis.com quotes Noviendi Makalam, the Secretary of the Directorate General of Marketing at the Department of Culture and Tourism as trying to gain some distance from previously stated targets, saying "the 8 million foreign tourists target and 6.4 billion euro in foreign exchange is the result a government-wide plan involving not only the Department of Culture and Tourism, but also other institutions including the Department of Finance."

Noviendi explained that the official target of 7 million foreign tourists spending a total 5.4 billion euro in 2008 forms part of the "Visit Indonesia Year 2008" campaign. The tourism official admitted to Bisnis.com that the proclaimed target is likely to slip with only 4,069,474 tourists coming to Indonesia through the end of August 2008. Noviendi suggested Indonesia would end 2008 with 6.4 million tourists, a 16.4% increase over the 5.5 million visitors achieved in 2007.

The government is currently considering extending "Visit Indonesia Year" throughout 2009 and focusing its marketing efforts on 13 key markets.

Well it would do Bali no good if they ecctualy force that bill.
Would it realy come so far?

Nemesis
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Posted @ 17 November 2008 19:02

Too much Islam is a serious problem for a economy.

Other countries that went that way had enough oil to sell to make a living. Indonesia does not have such an alternative. They'll always need a working economy to feed everyone.

So, this is a very dangerous road they're following.

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