Category: Bureaucracy

• Straight to the Point

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018   IT’S magic what you can do these days with a talking smart phone. The other day we had to drive into Denpasar – a strange bit of it with which we are unfamiliar – and it was…

  8degreesoflatitude

  February 18, 2018

  Australia, Bali, Books, Bureaucracy, Festivals, Health, Indonesia, Public Administration, Rabies, Ubud, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Volcanoes, Writing

  Australian politics, Barnaby Joyce, Ethics and Office, Health studies, Janet DeNeefe, Mt Agung

• Degrees of Idiocy

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare THE CAGE Bali Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017 Degrees of Idiocy THE President of the Republic, Joko Widodo, familiarised here in the Indonesian way as Jokowi, has just visited Bali. Miraculously, the beaches appeared clear of the middens of muck that despoil them year round,…

  8degreesoflatitude

  January 4, 2018

  Bali, Bureaucracy, Environment, Indonesia, Lombok, Travel, Volcanoes

  AlIikai, Amanda Zsebik, Christmas, Happy New Year, Indonesian Island Sail, Mt Agung

• Who Let the Dogs Out?

    HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2017   EATING dog is something we would never do. It disgusts us, for all sorts of reasons. We also understand that this is largely a cultural issue. Eating man’s best friend is not generally a practice of people whose conditioning originates from what is now Europe.…

  8degreesoflatitude

  July 19, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Bureaucracy, Fine Dining, Food, Indonesian Law, NGOs, Tourism, Ubud

  Animal Welfare, Chris Salans, Dog meat, Farewells, Kerala Ceramics, Life-saving coffee, Lloyd Hassencahl, Marathons, Mozaic, School aid, Sky News, Tom Hickman, tourist cuisines

• Statuary Declaration

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare Candi Dasa, Bali Wednesday, Jun. 28, 2017   TEN days in the blissful zephyrs, beside the azure briny you get in the better parts of the archipelago, can do you a power of good. Such a break provides time to read books – or…

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 28, 2017

  America, Australia, Bali, Books, Bureaucracy, Crime and Punishment, General Interest, Indonesia, Tourism

  David Nicholls, El Kabron, Four Seasons Sayan, James Grippando, Kiran Desai, Music, Rose Madder, Titian

• True Glue

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Jun. 7, 2017   LONG-TIME Indonesia hand Keith Loveard has a fine column in the July edition of GlobeAsia, the Lippo Group business magazine. He wrote it on Pancasila Day (Jun. 1). It’s titled Pacasila and why it matters. He noted…

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 7, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Bureaucracy, Charity, Indonesia, Islamic beliefs, NGOs, Public Administration, Rabies, Waste Management

  Bung Sukarno, Deputy Governor Ketut Sudikerta, GlobeAsia, Keith Loveard, Pancasila principles, rabies, Ramadan, Terrorists, Udayana University, University of Minnesota, Wahabbism, World Oceans Day, Zakat Puasa, Zero Waste to Ocean Education and Demonstration Centre

• A Dog’s Life

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali May 13, 2017   THERE was a revolting instance of animal cruelty in Denpasar this week, which thanks to quick-thinking and wonderfully caring local people swiftly swamped the social media, where it attracted an immediate chorus of shock and shame. The…

  8degreesoflatitude

  May 14, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Bureaucracy, Festivals, Fine Dining, Indonesia, Ubud, USA

  Animal cruelty laws, Dog meat, Dog thieves, Donald Chump, Janet DeNeefe, Locovare, pump priming, Ubud Food Festival, UWRF 2017, Yogyakarta hospital care

• Bali Daze

  HECTOR’S DIARY in the Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Apr. 26, 2017 THEY do things differently there. That used to be something people said of the past, as in its being a foreign country. In the tried and true practice of Bali, however, doing things differently is something those who rule the island prefer to do in…

  8degreesoflatitude

  April 27, 2017

  Bali, Bureaucracy, Economic Development, Environment, General Interest, Health and Hospitals, Indonesia, Rabies, Social Development, Sustainable tourism, Tourism

  Bali Children Foundation, BAWA, BIMC, Craig Beveridge, Floating airports, Gold Coast Divas, IFAW, Lippo Group, North Bali Airport, Program Dharma, Ramadhan, Siloam Hospitals, Sydney Divas

• Property Bloom

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious experiences The Cage, Bali Apr. 8, 2017 OK, so in Bali a property boom that will surely be unregulated – if it eventuates anywhere beyond the hype files of realtors – has about as much of a helpful impact as an algal bloom in fragile…

  8degreesoflatitude

  April 9, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Bureaucracy, Economic Development, Environment, NGOs, Rabies, Social Development

  All Fools’ Day, Aussie rules (not the footy), Beach dogs, Karang Beach, Property blooms, Sanur

• PLN’s Best Day

  HECTOR’S DIARY in the Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Mar. 29, 2017   IT was Nyepi yesterday (Mar. 28): Bali’s Silent Day. It is celebrated on the first new moon in March – at the same time as Indian Hindus mark their festival of Ugadi – and ushers in the Balinese New Year. It was then 1939…

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 29, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Bureaucracy, Charity, Indonesia, Rabies, Social Development

  Bangli, Governor Pastika, Jembrana, King Salman, rabies, Tabanan, Traditional Dress, Zoonotic diseases

• Little Ripples

    HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other tasty morsels Bali, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017   WHERE Indonesia and Australia are concerned, you can always count on something unexpected to suddenly ripple the waters. It’s a bit the same as an Indonesian volcano: it’s quiet until it goes boom. In Australia, it’s mostly…

  8degreesoflatitude

  January 13, 2017

  America, Australia, Bureaucracy, Indonesia, Public Administration, Tourism, Ubud

  Baturiti, Bedugul, Bonfire of the Vanities, Books, Donald Trump, Golden Showers, Goon Squads, Helen Razer, Kopassus, La Favela, Linda Garland, Lovina, Pierre Poretti, Rio Helmi, Seminyak, Tiger Air, Villa Patria, Virgin Australia, West Papua