Category: Business

• The Sisyphus Factor

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   Bali, July 6, 2016 The retreat of the resources sector is apparently hitting the accommodation and pembantu sectors in Jakarta, as well as business generally. For a country such as Indonesia, just as for Australia, depressed demand and sinking prices for commodities hit […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  July 5, 2016

  Bali, Bureaucracy, Business, Charity, Fine Dining, Food, General Interest, Indonesia, Wine

  Alexsander Martins Paim, Arief Wicaksono, Brexit, Casillero del Diablo, Marian Carroll, Mike O’Leary, ROLE Foundation, Samantha Coomber, Vin+, Waterman’s Week 2016

• Ordure of the Day

  Hector’s Bali Diary His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences May 25, 2016 News that Bali’s beaches are the repositories of sewage is hardly novel, and it’s not by any means confined to the Legian beachfront, where the latest discovery by those who should ensure it doesn’t happen has stirred up a noisome […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  May 24, 2016

  Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Bureaucracy, Business, Death Penalty, Environment, Indonesia

  Aceh, Alcohol, Australian Sex Party, beach follies, Beach pollution, Capsized ferries, drains, Legian, Rodrigo Duterte, Ross Fitzgerald, Rottnest Island Surferfest, Runaway deer, Surabaya, Sweania Betzeba Delisa

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Feb. 17, 2016

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   Far Queue Again The periodic struggle to get vehicles into and out of Ngurah Rai airport was worse than usual on Feb. 5, apparently. We weren’t there, which is probably a good thing. One hour-plus irritation a month already tests our toleration limit. It isn’t […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  February 16, 2016

  Australia, Bali, Business, Indonesia, Indonesian Law, Labor Party, Law, Politics, Public Administration, Tourism

  Automated mail, Bali’s airport, Castaway resort, IKEA, Invisible Men, Lembongan, Nusa Dua Beach Hotel, Rule of Lore, sentient justices, Suna Cavanagh, Tabloid TV, Traffic jams, Unhappy Hour