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Three restaurants in Petitenget caught fire

Three restaurants in Petitenget caught fire

Three restaurants caught fire in Seminyak

Three restaurants caught fire on the Jalan Raya Petitenget in Kerobokan, North Kuta on Saturday morning 27/02/2021 at 5.30 AM. The fire was discovered by a security guard who was shocked by the sound of the explosion on the ground floor of  restaurant Nostimo Greek Grill. Presumably caused by a short circuit and set fire that spread  rapidly to the nearby restaurants Shearlock and Baracca.

Few people tried first  to extinguish the fire with a water hose and decided later to contacted the fire department who send out  8 units at 5.15 AM.  The fire was extinguished by members of the Badung Fire department  at 6.30 AM. The incident is currently still being investigated by the authorities and the damaged is estimated at 1 billion IDR.

Three restaurants caught fire in Seminyak

Three restaurants caught fire

Source : https://indonesiaonline.co.id

Bali online taxi drive-thru vaccination campaign

Bali online taxi drive-thru vaccination campaign

Grab Bali drive-thru vaccination campaign started on Sunday 28/02/2021 at the Nusa Dua Convention Center and is the first to be done in Southeast Asia.The drive thru vaccination service is organised by the Health Office, the Bali  Tourism Office, Grab and  supervised by of the Indonesian Ministry of Health.

This vaccination campaign during five days hopes to get 5,000 people vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine witch is the currently the only available  vaccine in Bali. Indonesia uses also  Astra Zeneca, Pfizer Inc and Biontech and Novavax according The Minister of Health Budi Gunadi. He want to collaborate with the private sector to speed up the vaccine campaign.
Grab Bali drive-thru vaccination campaign
The Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster launched the national vaccination campaign in Nusa Dua, Sunday (28/02/2021)

Indonesia has made it mandatory for eligible citizens to take a shot. The nation is aggressively rolling out a mass-inoculation drive as it struggles to contain the largest coronavirus outbreak in Southeast Asia. It plans to vaccinate 70 million people by August, roughly a third of the total target of 181.5 million for the public campaign.

Grab Bali drive-thru vaccination campaign
Tourist employee  makes selfie of his own vaccination at the Nusa Dua Convention Center on sunday 28/02/2021

The Grab vaccine centre in Bali is prepared to dispense 840 shots a day, for a total of 5,000 vaccinations in a week, the company said in a statement. The first centre plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers in the transportation sector, including Grab drivers and delivery-partners and 2,500 public sector workers in tourism in Bali.

Grab Bali drive-thru vaccination campaign
Grab's Covid-19 vaccination drive-thru at Bali at the Convention Center in Nusa dua

According the President of Grab Indonesia Ridzki Kramadibrata, the vaccination drive-thru service will eventually make its way to other cities in the archipelago. Depending on the results of the first vaccination center, Grab and the Health Ministry will consider expanding the partnership to other cities in Indonesia. We will soon bring this drive-thru service to other cities says Ridzki.

 

 

Grab Bali drive-thru

Source : https://www.theedgemarkets.com/

Bali authorities creates team to Hunt Down COVID-19 offenders

Bali authorities  creates team to Hunt Down COVID-19 offenders

Bali Police Form Teams to Hunt Down COVID-19 Violators

Bali Police Form Teams to Hunt Down COVID-19 Violators and to accelerate the handling  of the vaccination campaign on the Island of the Gods on Monday 01/03/2021.

The Covid-19 Violators Hunting Team will be joined with  members of the Criminal Investigation office, TNI personnel, Satpol PP, and the Pecalang ( Local authorities ).

Two trucks and a car will be prepared for their future  operations of this team and will be active every day says de Bali Police officer Karo Ops on Monday, March 1 st 2021.The team will continue to visit red zones, carrying out mask raids on the streets and alerting shops  to the restrictions on operating hours. Karo Ops explained that all will be done must to crack down crowned places and could act with rapidly with the intervention of  Satpol PP  for possible closures.

Karo Ops hopes that this strategic step can have a positive effect to reduce the Covid-19 cases and the new concept will be more effective to move to different locations with planned targets.

He will ask all personnel who are included in this Task Force to work efficient  to help the people of Bali have been suffering already to long from this pandemic.

Bali Police Form Teams to Hunt Down COVID-19 Violators

Source : https://wartabalionline.com/

Bali will reopening soon for foreign tourists

Bali will reopening soon for foreign tourists

Bali preparing to reopen soon for foreign tourists

from Australia, Europe,Asia and  Middle East  says Minister of tourism Sandiaga Uno  on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Sandiaga Uno planning  to reopen Bali with  tourist destinations in Ubud and Nusa Dua, for international tourists under the travel bubble scheme after meeting  meeting with the Foreign Affairs Ministry Sec-Gen and several ambassadors to countries who are major tourist markets.Bali will be the first province to be reopened under the pandemic travel corridor as it is considered ready in terms of the enforcement of health protocols. Besides, the local government continued to increase the testing capacity, tracing, and handling of the virus spread which resulted in the drop of positive cases.

Bali preparing to reopen soon for foreign tourists

Meanwhile, Ubud and Nusa Dua were selected in consideration of their emergency status related to the pandemic. Both were classified as green zones that are at low risk of virus transmission. Sandiaga claimed that several countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia are ready to enter Bali after the mass vaccinations took place.

Bali preparing to reopen soon for foreign tourists We hope 120,000 vaccines will be given to tourism and creative economy players and people in Nusa Dua and Ubud, Sandiaga Uno ensured that the government will take stern action against tourists violating the predetermined health protocols. Several sanctions have been set and offenders could face deportation.

 

 

Source : https://www.tempo.co/

Bali Grab drive-through vaccination has started

Bali Grab drive-through  vaccination  has started

Grab Bali drive-thru vaccination campaign started on Sunday 28/02/2021 at the Nusa Dua Convention Center and is the first to be done in Southeast Asia.The drive thru vaccination service is organised by the Health Office, the Bali  Tourism Office, Grab and  supervised by of the Indonesian Ministry of Health.

This vaccination campaign during five days hopes to get 5,000 people vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine witch is the currently the only available  vaccine in Bali. Indonesia uses also  Astra Zeneca, Pfizer Inc and Biontech and Novavax according The Minister of Health Budi Gunadi. He want to collaborate with the private sector to speed up the vaccine campaign.
Grab Bali drive-thru vaccination campaign
The Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster launched the national vaccination campaign in Nusa Dua, Sunday (28/02/2021)

Indonesia has made it mandatory for eligible citizens to take a shot. The nation is aggressively rolling out a mass-inoculation drive as it struggles to contain the largest coronavirus outbreak in Southeast Asia. It plans to vaccinate 70 million people by August, roughly a third of the total target of 181.5 million for the public campaign.

Tourist employee  makes selfie of his own vaccination at the Nusa Dua Convention Center on sunday 28/02/2021

The Grab vaccine centre in Bali is prepared to dispense 840 shots a day, for a total of 5,000 vaccinations in a week, the company said in a statement. The first centre plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers in the transportation sector, including Grab drivers and delivery-partners and 2,500 public sector workers in tourism in Bali.

Grab Bali drive-thru vaccination campaign
Grab's Covid-19 vaccination drive-thru at Bali at the Convention Center in Nusa dua

According the President of Grab Indonesia Ridzki Kramadibrata, the vaccination drive-thru service will eventually make its way to other cities in the archipelago. Depending on the results of the first vaccination center, Grab and the Health Ministry will consider expanding the partnership to other cities in Indonesia. We will soon bring this drive-thru service to other cities says Ridzki.

 Grab Bali drive-thru

Source : https://www.theedgemarkets.com/

Bali is planning to reopen with travel corridor

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor with low-risk countries that have implemented mass vaccination such as China. Bali’s vice governor Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati  has proposed for the central government to establish a free Covid-19 corridor, as well as prioritise vaccination for tourism frontlines, in his latest bid to revive the island’s battered tourism sector.

 When Bali gets daily COVID-19 cases below 100  we will build the confidenance from international tourist again says Sanidago Uno last Thursday 18/02/2021 during a Virtual Meeting of the Coordinating Ministry for Investments  who Handling the COVID-19 Pandemic.As Covid-19 infection rates in Indonesia remains high, Tjokorda hopes that the central government would prioritise tourism workers in Bali to get vaccinated first to boost the confidence of international travellers. Such priority matters, even with Covid-safe protocols in place across the destination, said Tjokorda, who is also the chairman of Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association Bali chapter.

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor

The Bali administration has also proposed for the central government to extend a soft loan totalling 9.9 trillion rupiah (US$712 million) to help tourism players in Bali revive their business.In response, Sandiaga Uno, minister of tourism and creative economy, said that he had delivered Bali’s soft loan proposal to the minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy.He added that he had lobbied related officials to prioritise Jakarta and the country’s major destinations, namely, Bali, Batam, and Bintan, to get vaccinated first because they were the entry points for tourists

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor

The minister said that talks between his office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health, and Ministry of Law and Human Rights to make a free Covid-19 corridor was at its final stages. Under the plan, incoming travellers will be exempted from quarantine. He elaborated: “The plan is that tourists who are allowed to come are those who have been vaccinated at their home countries. (Upon arrival in Indonesia), they have to take an antigen test (and test negative) before they can (proceed to) do activities.”

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor

The government of Bali also expected to make a transition from mass tourism into quality tourism with new type of long term visa.

Bali plans reopening soon

Source :  https://www.ttgasia.com/

Escaped Russian fugitive arrested in Bali

Escaped Russian fugitive arrested in Bali

Escaped Russian fugitive arrested in a villa located at Jl Umalas I in Kerobokan on Wednesday morning 24/02/2021 at 1.30 AM and returned to immigration detention center after being hunted for 13 days. Bali police received recently information that the two Russia nationals Andrew Ayer and his partner Ekaterina Trubkina are hiding in the Canggu area.

Escaped Russian fugitive arrested in Bali

On Tuesday night 23/02/2021  At 10 PM Andrew Ayer and his partner Ekaterina Trubkina moved from a villa located at Jl Bumbak to another villa aprox 2 km distance at  Jl Umalas I, Kerbokan/  North Kuta The Bali Police and officers from the  Immigration Office arrived at 1.15 AM at the villa in Jl Umalas I  and both of them got arrested without any resistance  at 1.30 AM.

Escaped Russian fugitive arrested in Bali
The Special Class I TPI Ngurah Rai Kanim held a press conference on Wednesday, 24/02/2021

The Russian Citizens Andrew Ayer and  Ekaterina Trubkina  are currently being secured in the Class I Immigration Office Detention room where he previously escaped on 11/02/2021. Ekaterina prepared Andrew's escape carefully from the Immigration detection center in Denpasar on 11/02/2021 and also arranged the villa in the North of Kuta as their hiding place.
For her involvement into the  escaping process she could face a maximal sentence of 9 month according Djuhandai, the head of Criminal Investigation of the Bali Police present during a press conference on Wednesday 24/02/21.

Escaped Russian fugitive arrested in Bali

Andrew Ayer was arrested in 2019 and convicted of possession of more than 500 grams of hashish. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison. After completing his sentence, he was waiting for deportation to Russia on 11/02/2021 when he escaped during transfer from one immigration center to another when he was visited by his Russian partner Ekaterina Trubkina .

update 25/02/2021

According Jamaruli Manihuruk, the head of the Ministry of Law in Bali is Andrew for the Russian authorities considered as  a big drugs dealer  in his country  what made him red listed on Interpol . Jamaruli hopes to have them deported to Russia today or tomorrow . but Andrew doesn't have a passport and he used a fake passport ton enter Indonesia previously . First the Russian reprentative in Jakarta has to provide a new passport to be able to deport Andrew back to his home country. 

Currently , both of them  are now placed into the safer  Detention center  in Gianyar.

 

 

 

 

Escaped Russian fugitive arrested

Source : https://bali.tribunnews.com/

Bali first needs to get vaccinated before reopening borders

Bali first needs to get vaccinated before reopening borders

Bali vaccinated before reopening borders  says Minister of tourism Sandiaga Uno when Minister of Maritime affairs Luhut Pandjaitan  asking to resume tourism now the COVID-19 cases  are decreasing Sandiaga Uno, welcomed the vaccination program for tourism  in Bali and his party would also encourage the realization of the vaccination program for the concerned tourist workers in Bali taken place during March 2021.

Bali vaccinated before reopening borders

Bali has more than 2 million people but has needs to target first the touristic zones and later all tourism in Bali can be based on vaccine-based tourism sais Sandiaga on  Thursday (25/02/2021).Sandiaga hopes that the tourism sector and creative economy can recover soon and has been informed  that more than 10 thousand tourism workers in Bali have registered to get vaccinated immediately. He hopes to have revive the tourism sector and that the economy in Bali can come back to life in March 2021.

Waterbom vaccination drive thru

Sandiaga Uno visited on Thursday (25/02/2021) the Waterbom attraction park in Kuta witch could be suitable as a vaccine drive thru. The concept of vaccine drive thru has previously been tested in Disneyland at California and Florida (US ).

Bali vaccinated before reopening borders

Waterbom Bali, Indonesia, is one of the best water parks in Asia. Waterbom Bali also provides world-class slides, which are built according to strict international safety standards and are equipped with green spaces, so that anyone who visits this tourist area will feel cool.

Bali vaccinated before reopening borders
The Waterbom in Kuta could provide a drive thru vaccination area .

preparation G-20 Summit

Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan revealed that the number of COVID-19 cases in Bali has decreased and allows  to resume the touristic activities .
The number of Corona cases in Bali in the last few weeks has shown a decline due the enforcing of the implementation of health protocols throughout Bali says Luhut during a meeting for Bali tourism recovery in Jakarta on Thursday (25/02/2021).

Bali vaccinated before reopening borders

Luhut also explained that  the government had started a national  vaccination program and more than 13,000 hospital workers in Bali will immediately receive the vaccine injection. The Indonesian government continues to improve all facilities  related to Covid-19 throughout Bali and highlights the  preparation for the upcoming G-20 Summit. The Indonesian government has also invited foreign embassies to visit Bali to witness  the steps of the Covid-19 controls are the implemented to screen and protect foreign tourists says Luhut.

Luhut also appealed to foreigners and Indonesians to obey the existing regulations and that all violations will be strictly prosecuted by  law.

Bali vaccinated before reopening

Source :  https://finance.detik.com/

Russian influencer naked on elephant slammed

Russian influencer naked on elephant slammed

Russian model in Bali has been slammed for posing naked on top of an Sumatran elephant for Instagram likes. The 22-year-old model  is a daughter of the former tennis champion and world number one Yevgeny Kafelnikov.She shared the video on February 13 th 2021  to her 536,000 followers with the caption: "Natural vibes".In another ironic post, she posted a picture with the elephant telling her followers that "to love nature is human nature. While some followers posted desperate comments such as "for the first time ever, I want to be an elephant" others focused on the animal's welfare.

Russian model in Bali naked on elephant
Alesya has been to Bali several times and lives in three different countries, England, France and Indonesia.

One Instagram-user said: "Poor elephant. Aren't you ashamed to lie naked on an elephant? This is a living creature. Money overshadows everything."Another called the photoshoot a "violation" against the animal.A spokesperson from the charity Save the Asian Elephants told the SunOnline: "Yet another tragic trivialisation of the majestic Asian elephant when the species is fighting for its very existence against brutal abuse in tourism and human 'entertainment'

Russian model in Bali naked on elephant
Alesya Kafelnikova's is currently incorporated in IMG models and has several times been the cover of world fashion magazines Elle and Vogue Magazine.

"Save The Asian Elephants stands for a ban by law on the advertising and sale of unethical venues where these special creatures are commercialised with beating, stabbing and every kind of torture to break them for easy commercial exploitation - genuine sanctuaries only. In 2012 the Sumatran elephant was changed from 'Endangered' to 'Critically Endangered' by the WWF due to deforestation and the degradation of its natural habitat.

Russian model in Bali naked on elephant
Alesya Kafelnikova is the daughter from Yevgeny Kafelnikov, the famous tennis athlete who won the 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open.

Bali Tourism Office investigates

Despite Kafelnikova posing on a Sumatran elephant in Bali, where she currently lives, Sumatran elephants are not native to Bali but are kept on the island in captivity to serve the tourism industry. According to a 2017 report from National Geographic, the population of Sumatran elephants is estimated to be between 700 and 1,000. According News.detik Putu Astawa ,the Head of the Bali  Tourism Office wants first to investigate the picture and the 3 seconds long video. To know if it's recently been recorded and it happened in Bali  he says on Wednesday (17/02/2021). He regrets the incident and action will be taken to give Bali not a bad image in the world of tourism.

 

 

Russian model in Bali naked on elephant

Source : https://travel.okezone.com/

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor with low-risk countries that have implemented mass vaccination such as China. Bali’s vice governor Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati  has proposed for the central government to establish a free Covid-19 corridor, as well as prioritise vaccination for tourism frontlines, in his latest bid to revive the island’s battered tourism sector.

 When Bali gets daily COVID-19 cases below 100  we will build the confidenance from international tourist again says Sanidago Uno last Thursday 18/02/2021 during a Virtual Meeting of the Coordinating Ministry for Investments  who Handling the COVID-19 Pandemic.As Covid-19 infection rates in Indonesia remains high, Tjokorda hopes that the central government would prioritise tourism workers in Bali to get vaccinated first to boost the confidence of international travellers. Such priority matters, even with Covid-safe protocols in place across the destination, said Tjokorda, who is also the chairman of Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association Bali chapter.

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor

The Bali administration has also proposed for the central government to extend a soft loan totalling 9.9 trillion rupiah (US$712 million) to help tourism players in Bali revive their business.In response, Sandiaga Uno, minister of tourism and creative economy, said that he had delivered Bali’s soft loan proposal to the minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy.He added that he had lobbied related officials to prioritise Jakarta and the country’s major destinations, namely, Bali, Batam, and Bintan, to get vaccinated first because they were the entry points for tourists

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor

The minister said that talks between his office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health, and Ministry of Law and Human Rights to make a free Covid-19 corridor was at its final stages. Under the plan, incoming travellers will be exempted from quarantine. He elaborated: “The plan is that tourists who are allowed to come are those who have been vaccinated at their home countries. (Upon arrival in Indonesia), they have to take an antigen test (and test negative) before they can (proceed to) do activities.”

Bali plans reopening soon with travel corridor

Bali plans reopening soon

Source :  https://www.ttgasia.com/

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