Tag: Made Wijaya

• That Other Kuta

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Lombok / Bali Oct. 26, 2016   IT’S quieter and rather less crowded than Kuta Bali, though it has grown a little. There’s something that resembles a main street with an Indomaret supermarket and a few other junior emporiums. The warungs along the beach, those […]

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  October 25, 2016

  Animal Welfare, Art, Bali, Environment, Indonesia, Lombok, Photography, Public Administration, Public Works, Tourism

  Aceh, Airline delays, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Blasphemy, Bridges Restaurant, Exhibitions, Made Wijaya, Michael Johnsey, Omar Khayyám, Petty theft, Photography, Sharia law, Solemen Indonesia, Untustan, UWRF 2016, Villa Kitty, Wallace Line

• A Dog’s Life

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Sep. 28, 2016   THE criminal epidemic of dog-snatching and random killing that afflicts Bali shows no sign of ending; nor is there any indication that the authorities will do anything other than continue to silently applaud the cull and ignore the rest. Such […]

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  September 27, 2016

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Environment, Indonesian Law

  Alcohol laws, Alila Villas Uluwatu, Bali DIVAS, Christina Iskandar, Dangerous Menus, Diana Shearin, Dog-snatching, Hometown Sydney, Joko Widodo, Made Wijaya, Mara Wolford, OMNIA Dayclub, Sake No Hana

• No Nooky Nonsense, Please

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Sep. 14, 2016   THE view that the state should legislate morality and sexual conduct is hardly novel. Those who think they know better are ubiquitous. They appear in all societies, proselytising a prescriptive view of how their fellow citizens should behave. This […]

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  September 13, 2016

  Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Indonesian Law, Ubud

  Adultery, Catherine Stewart, Constitutional Court, Garden Drum, Indonesian studies, jade richardson, Latika Bourke, Le Moulin Creperie, Made Wijaya, New Colombo Plan, Rio Helmi, Writing Courses

• Shibboleths Revealed

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Aug. 31. 2016 Expatria, the spreading collection of dots that peppers the map of Bali like kibbutzim, as if it were the beginnings of an overbearing expropriation, had an unpleasant frisson of ferment recently over the tragic death of a policeman in an […]

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  August 30, 2016

  Australia, Bali, Books, Expatria, Festivals, Fine Dining, Indonesia, Ubud, Writing

  Appeals, Bali, Biblical floods, Candi Dasa, jade richardson, Janet DeNeefe, Jo Hocking, Ku De Ta, Made Wijaya, Murder charges, Perth, Quinoa, The Ark, UWRF 2016, Vincent’s, Wayan Sudarsa

• Blots on the Landscape

  HECTOR’S DIARY   His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Jul. 20, 2016   Where to start? We’ll leave aside (for the moment) certain segments of the bar scene where duty of care, which shouldn’t be an entirely foreign concept, is spelt WTF, and winks and nods at malfeasant bad behaviour, if […]

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  July 20, 2016

  Art, Australia, Bali, Books, Environment, Festivals, Food, General Interest, History, Indonesia, Indonesian Law, Ubud

  Adrian Vickers, Australia, Bali, Bar riskers, Dog racing, Made Wijaya, Marian Carroll, NSW Premier Mike Baird, Sand extraction, Sophie Digby, Tim Hannigan, Ubud

• 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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  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

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 25, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Blacklisted It’s official. The Diary and Vulcan, god of the underworld and chief patron of volcanic excess, are no longer speaking. Vulcan has been blacklisted. Until further notice, even if we should by chance fly over one of the spectacular mountain vents that lead down to […]

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  November 23, 2015

  Bali, General Interest

  2015 Yak Awards, Alistair Speirs, Australia, Boat Turn-backs, Busy Bees, Gili Trawangan, Kilts, Made Wijaya, Marriage Law, Mike O’Leary, Mt Rinjani, Perth Highland Pipe Band, ROLE Foundation, Royal Visits, Sahid Hotel Jakarta, Sassenachs, Scottish Peccadilloes, St Andrew’s Day, Vulcan, Weddings

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 24, 2014

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   Art with a Frisson Two books recently given an Australian launch – at the University of Sydney – provide a more profound focus on the real Bali than any number of tourist-oriented creations. The real Bali is of course not found in performances of the […]

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  December 22, 2014

  Art, Bali, Indonesia, Lombok, Music, Politics

  Adrian Vickers, British Council, Christmas, DJ Mr Best, Greg Moriarty, Lempad of Bali, Liverpool FC, Lyndal Moor, Made Wijaya, Majapahit Style, Moazzam Malik, Paul Grigson, Peter Duncan, Rock Bar, Ross Fitzgerald, Rotary Club of Bali Kartika, Surabaya, Taman Restaurant Senggigi, Tourist numbers, Wiwik Pusparini

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 29, 2014

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Three Hearty Woofs It was interesting to read that when the Bali Street Dog Fund and other friends and supporters of BAWA gathered for the 10th annual Bali Nights fundraiser in Melbourne on Oct. 10, they raised record funds to save and protect Bali’s animals. It […]

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  October 28, 2014

  Art, Bali, Indonesia, Politics

  Bali Spirit Festival, BIMC, Bogans, Ecuador, Four Seasons Jimbaran, Ganesha Gallery, I Made Wiradana, jade richardson, Made Wijaya, Road works, Truman Capote

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 1, 2014

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   A Zesty Little Soup, Again This year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival kicks off today without the assistance of V.S. Naipaul, the Tolstoy of Trinidad, who withdrew from the program last month apparently dissatisfied with the quantum of perquisites set to come his way. Never […]

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  September 30, 2014

  Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Writing

  Bali Update, Batur resources, Homecoming, Made Wijaya, Spectator magazine, UWRF 2014, VS Naipaul