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    Stories, Articles and Stuff to Read.

    Image:Ellie McManus Girl Gone Wild – My Life in the Sumatran Jungle, Indonesia Ellie McManus 24th January 2020 ...after just two days of clearing, replacing the grass roof slats and making good the rotting bamboo walls, our house appeared ready to move into. Were we mad? I love adventure...
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    Indonesian things we like.

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    Coping with lockdown.

    A week into isolation and it's not as bad as I thought it would be. Writing, editing photos, playing guitar, travel research, YouTube and general internet surfing have made time slide by with reasonable comfort. My friends upstairs are baking a lot so I've been finding fresh bread, scones and...
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    American chained up in Bali for jogging during Nyepi.

    At least it wasn't another Australian disrespecting the Balinese this time. I think it completely reasonable for individuals such as this idiot who blatantly disrespect local traditions such as Nyepi to be placed on the next flight home, or better still, enact a law with a minimum sentence of a...
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    COVID19 Indonesia. News Headlines.

    Indonesia needs 4,000 more medical workers JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Covid-19 rapid response task force has said that Indonesia needs an additional 1,500 doctors and 2,500 nurses to treat Covid-19 patients amid the surge in cases across the archipelago. “Indonesia currently needs...
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    Songs for the apocalypse.

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    Air Asia starting to cancel.

    My flight tomorrow on Air Asia from Lombok to Australia was just cancelled, with a member of another forum I belong to having just gone through KLIA reporting 90% of their flights have also been pulled. I'm assuming the Lembar-Padang Bai ferries are still running?
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    Gili islands Closed For Two weeks

    “We temporarily closed the entrance to Gili to ensure that the destination was free of the Coronavirus,” NTB Governor H Zulkieflimansyah said. According to the NTB Governor, so far the three Gili areas have always been filled with both foreign and domestic tourists. In particular, foreign...
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    The whites of their eyes.

    I enjoy portrait photography and have noticed on this trip a kind of muddying or browny bloodshot-ness of many Indonesian men's and women's eyes. Is this a diet/health related thing, or genetic? Women are less likely, in my experience, to present with the condition.
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    Wh owns the chicken?

    If you run over someone's chicken on a scooter or in a car and reasonably compensate them, do you then own the dead chicken?
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    3 Illegal Money Changers Shut Down In Legian For Scamming Tourists

    (Image: Bottleoftravel.com) The Bali Sun 26 Jan 2020 Three money changer locations have been shut down by local authorities after multiple compaints were received by tourists that had been scammed. All three operations were located in Legian and had their exchange boards and operational...
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    Riding Satan's Barrel

    Each night, 20-year-old stunt-rider Devi Apriliyani rides "Satan's Barrel" as her husband and daughter look on. An already controversial act in socially conservative Indonesia, one fact complicates matters further – she is pregnant. By Agues Rudianto 17 Jan 2020 "I want to be different, I want...
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    Expat Yoga Junta Declares Coup on Bali Government

    The Yoga Daily dictatorship on Bali comes at you gradually, then suddenly. By Breaking in Asia DENPASAR, BALI – A militant expat yoga junta calling itself OmPure and driven by a power-food-based neo-Lululemonist ideology has declared a coup on the Bali government, announcing from its beach...
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    Holy sh*t. Jakarta port fire. Video.

    From youtube "Research vessel BARUNA JAYA I, which became well-known after taking part in search for crashed flight Lion Air JT 610 black box, was nearly gutted by the disastrous fire in Muara Baru, Penjaringa, North Jakarta. Fire started in the afternoon Feb 23 on one of dozens of local fishing...
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    Indonesian Police Adopt New Interogation Technique.Vid.

    I guess if you don't like snakes...
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    Things I see around Yogya.

    I went looking for a quiet beach yesterday and found one with a driftwood structure built in the sand and a lone fisherman standing under it. I can only assume it's a look-out of some description, perhaps for boats.. A closer look at it. The local community had a small festival today where...
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    That money thing again.

    Back in Yogya I've become friends with the person I rent from when here, they're an expat who teaches at a local university. Having a catch-up coffee together it was explained the Indonesian partner has found themselves in a lot of debt through bad financial decisions in recent years causing...
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    Bali Drafts law to Impose Tourist Tax.

    I doubt $14 will be felt that much by annual holiday-makers, and personally I think it not unreasonable for tourists to contribute to the preservation of Bali's environment I do hope a portion of that money might go toward the further education of locals in regard to environmental conservation...
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    French drugs suspect escapes Indonesian jail using sarong.

    I vaguely remember reading there's no penalty or crime committed for a prison inmate escaping jail in Indonesia, and if that is the case, I guess if I was faced with possible execution I'd probably try my luck as well. Photo. Nine news...
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    Locals fed up with tourists riding scooters on beach. Vid.

    A scooter rider will have some explaining to do when he returns his bike to whoever he rented it from after being pushed into the ocean by a local who was apparently annoyed at the beach being used for joy rides.

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