Tag: Governor Pastika
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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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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, Jan. 20, 2016
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Modern Times There’s been an outbreak of nostalgia for the “old Bali” recently, one of those periodic episodes where everyone puts on their rose-tinted glasses and peers back into the past, fondly recalling what they think they remember. Ah, the old days! Things were so…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Mar. 18, 2015
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Gone to the Dogs The resurgence of rabies in Bali is yet another of those avoidable things that the chaps in charge of the asylum could have avoided if they could have been bothered, or if they hadn’t blown the budget on lots of other things.…
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