Category: Charity

• Born Free

    HECTOR’S DIARY The Cage, Bali Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017   His regular diet of diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   THERE is a release, of sorts, in being relieved of the duty to write for a publication. You’re freer to write what you really think, in the patois of your choice, in…

  8degreesoflatitude

  December 4, 2017

  Bali, Charity, Global Politics, Indonesia, Lombok, NGOs, Tourism, Writing

  Climate change shamans, Cyclones, Deadlines, Donald Trump, Garuda, I’m an Angel, Lombok, Rain dances, Royal liaisons, Sex pests, Solemen Indonesia, Truman Capote, Volcanoes, Whingeing Aussies and Others

• Hit Parade

  HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jun. 21, 2017   IT’S always good fun to read the local Bahasa language press, as well as informative. Some people like to criticise the media – well, no, everyone likes to do that – and that’s no less common in Indonesia than anywhere. One of the things about critics is…

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 22, 2017

  Australia, Bali, Charity, Crime and Punishment, Music, NGOs, Writing

  Bali Police Chief Petrus Reinhard Golose, Christina Iskandar, Cocoon Seminyak, Debbie Amelsvoort, Divas, Drug Raids, Jazz, Kerry Ball, Marzi Panne, Polly Petrie, Sea Breeze Mendira, Songan landslide, Vincent’s Candi Dasa

• 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

• 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

• Seriously, Folks

  HECTOR’S DIARY in the Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 WE had an interesting chat the other day (no names, no pack-drill) about Bali’s new tourism demographics and their effect on the five-star-plus hotel sector. Basically, it’s not good news. The emphasis on the low-cost domestic and Chinese markets is bringing in lots more people…

  8degreesoflatitude

  February 1, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Charity, Economic Development, Foreign Aid, Rabies

  Be my babi, Fire Roosters, Happy Endings., Hotel room rates, Japanese Aid, MinYak, Rabies control, Rudi Suliawan, Sophie Digby

• 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

• Gaia Waives the Rules

   Hector’s Bali Diary His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences June 22, 2016   This seemed to be the consensus among the worriers, at least, those who observe ephemeral climatic events as a message from someone or other (and of course, themselves) about the dangers of human environmental iniquity. But climate is cyclical…

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 21, 2016

  Animal Welfare, Art, Australia, Bali, Charity, Economic Development, Environment, Social Development, Ubud

  Australian election, Australian Sex Party, Bali Arts Festival, BAWA, Garuda, Governor Made Mangku Pastika, Mercy Corps, Miss Mermaid Bali, President Joko Widodo, Ric Shreves, Ross Fitzgerald, Surf2Save, The Melting Pot, Tolak Reklamasi, Tommy Michael Costa Rica, Tomy Winata, Ubud, visas on arrival, Waterman’s Week 2016

• Go For It

  Hector’s Bali Diary His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences June 8, 2016   It’s always fun to read Alistair Speirs’ little homilies in NOW! Bali. They seem to carry a reminder of Episcopalian morality, which isn’t strange, really, given that Speirs is from Edinburgh, the Sassenach capital of Scotland. My Auntie Lizzie…

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 7, 2016

  Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Charity, General Interest, Public Administration, Sexual Health, Social Development, Tourism

  Alistair Speirs, Australian tourism, Bali Children Foundation, Bali DIVAS, Bali NOW!, Bali Update, Bank Indonesia, Carlotta, Chinese tourism, Christina Iskander, Coca-Cola Amatil, Cocoon Beach Club, Condoms, East Bali Poverty Project, Hotel Dynasty, IKEA, Jocelyn Johinke, Polly Petrie, Quicksilver, Sydney, Timor-Leste

• Keystone Kops

  Hector’s Bali Diary, May 11, 2016 His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   Exactly what went wrong on May 2, when the police arrived in strength at a location to arrest a French citizen, a man publicly known to be seriously mentally disturbed, needs to be fully explained. It hadn’t been explained…

  8degreesoflatitude

  May 10, 2016

  Australia, Bali, Charity, Public Administration, Social Development, Tourism

  Baggage collection, Bali Dynasty, Boeing 787, Brisbane Airport, Jetstar, Karl Marx, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, May Day, Ngurah Rai Airport, Paradise Property, Police actions, Qantas, Robert Epstone, Rubber bullets, SoleMen, Waterbom, Zappaz

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Mar. 16, 2016

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Keep them at Bay Made Wijaya, the go-to Bule for behind-the-friezes analysis of Bali society and what really makes it tick, has some very sensible things to say, in his latest Stranger in Paradise column, about the excrescence Governor Made Mangku Pastika and Jakarta business tycoon…

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 15, 2016

  Bali, Charity, Economic Development, Environment, Indonesia, Politics, Public Administration, Rabies, Social Development, Tourism

  Amanda Csebik, Association of Veterinarians Indonesia (PDHI), Badung Regency, Benoa mangroves, Deborah Cassrels, Ferry sinkings, Governor Pastika, Hat Party, International Women’s Day, Jewel Topsfield, Klungkung, Local Heroes, Made Restiani, Made Wijaya, Mike O’Leary, Muriel Ydo, Phantom Projects, Rabies Red Zone, Sydney Morning Herald, Tomy Winata, Tsunami buoys