Bali

Time bomb in Bali

A culture that suppresses conflict disguises decades-long tensions in Balinese communities

Stars and stereotypes

The big business of Indo celebrities creates illusory expectations but things may be changing

In search of sustainable farming

Bali-based NGOs are an important part of Indonesia’s growing sustainable agriculture movement

Not just an elite game

In Bali, it’s neither policy, parties nor entrenched elites, but image-savvy politicians and an all-powerful media that are dominating the new electoral landscape

The election as a Karya Agung ritual

Listening to the grassroots explain the 2009 general election in Bali

Keeping Bali strong?

Hindu-Muslim tensions have mounted, but not to boiling point

Hot debates

A law on pornography still divides the community

The name game

Or, the years of living with no one to blame

Go home, tourist!

In Kuta, a local surfer has found that it is worthwhile to share waves with tourists.

Bali's wild side

Managing conservation, tourism and the needs of local communities in Bali Barat National Park

Rich, Asian and all-natural

Indonesia’s wealthy partake of a booming spa tourism industry, joining a pan-Asian community of well-to-do consumers of the ‘non-west’

Food for the future

Organic farming takes root in post-bomb Bali

Post-bomb lessons

Strategic planning for disaster remains a low priority for the central government, despite the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Bali bombings.

Waiting for Ngaben

Kuta Beach ceased some time ago to be what the brochures say it is. For Robert Goodfellow, the piles of plastic rubbish are signs of a deeper malaise.

Punks, rastas and headbangers: Bali's Generation X

Quite unknown to the tourists, Balinese youth are creating a dynamic musical identity that refuses to be colonised. EMMA BAULCH joins the death thrashers for an evening of metal.

Diany Sinung: from poverty to painting

GLORIA FRYDMAN talks with successful artist Diany Sinung about her favourite subject, other women.

Sleaze with Balinese kids

Amidst the 'sea, sand, sun and sex' at Kuta, little girls become sex objects for tourists. Some may even be sold overseas. PUTU WIRATA explores a spat that revealed more than intended.

Bali's other face

Geoffrey Robinson, The dark side of Paradise: political violence in Bali, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995, xxii, 341 pp.

Spread the word

MELODY KEMP discovers some quiet achievers in environmental education -- who accept no foreign aid.

Whose tourism? Balinese fight back

CAROL WARREN reports on developments at Padanggalak, where outside money and graft encounter strong opposition.

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