Category: Social Development
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Red Sales in the Sunset
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 WE had a little giggle this week when we read that the Minister for National Development Planning, Professor Bambang Brodjonegoro, had wondered why more Australian investment was directed to Mexico than to Indonesia. Mexico, as he…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Hector’s Bali Diary, Mar. 30, 2016
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Voice of the People That 29 banjars can get together to protest the proposed corporate vandalism of Benoa Bay and the destruction of its precious mangrove environment is a political problem for the provincial government and the lesser authorities whose fief is Badung regency. This…
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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…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Mar. 3, 2016
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Don’t Miss Saigon A few days gazing at the Saigon River from the 16th floor apartment of friends, enjoying the quieter street life of post-Tet Ho Chi Minh City, cruising on the Mekong, and briskly sampling the crispness of the mountain resort city of Dalat,…
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