inspiring foreigners, ignored by locals

Category : uncategorized | Posted on Sep 22, 2017
While hidden in semi-obscurity back home, Indonesia’s gamelan instruments have managed to penetrate the experimental mindsets of Western musicians. There are several forms of gamelan, depending on the region. There is the Javanese gamelan, the Sundanese gamelan and the Balinese gamelan, among others. Each of them has a different sound, scale, playing method and tools. A gamelan ensemble can consist of 20 or fewer players playing various bronze bell-like instruments, brass glocken...

bali’s mt. agung shows some rumbling activity

Category : uncategorized | Posted on Sep 15, 2017
Mt. Agung, Bali’s tallest volcano, has been showing activity with some rumbles, but we shouldn’t be too worried just yet, say authorities. A video of the activity, accompanied by photos taken at the crater, was posted to Facebook yesterday by They Sauna (Mount Agung Trekking). The post has gotten over a thousand shares in just over 24 hours. “Activity at Mt. Agung today. Increasingly violent sulfur fumes and roaring sounds from the crater of Mt. Agung,” the video was captioned....

bali-based jewelry designer

Category : uncategorized | Posted on Sep 13, 2017
A successful Bali-based jewelry brand has just planted its millionth bamboo seedling in Indonesia as a part of an environmentally-minded corporate social responsibility program. Launching in Bali back in 1975, John Hardy has become a prestigious name in the jewelry biz with designs regularly worn on A-list celebrities like Emma Watson, Cara Delevigne (who even posed topless for the brand), and Zendaya. Pledging to plant at least one bamboo seed for every $200 purchased in its Bamboo Co...

make a change.

Category : uncategorized | Posted on Sep 13, 2017
A pair of brothers from Bali is paddling down Indonesia’s toxic Citarum River on two kayaks they had built –custom-made from bamboo and discarded plastic bottles — to create a “shocking visual” and “bring awareness about the dangers of plastic pollution.”Flowing through industrial West Java, the Citarum is said to be the most polluted river in the world. More than 15 million people live on the Citarum and most of them rely on its flow for their water supply.It’s no news that Indone...

overwhelmed by massive arrivals, bali airport hopes to install immigration autogate by 2018

Category : uncategorized | Posted on Sep 11, 2017
Immigration can hardly keep up with the massive amount of people coming through Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport everyday, so plans to install some autogates are in the works. The government has been pushing so hard to get foreign arrivals up, with the aim of meeting ambitious annual targets, but the island’s infrastructure isn’t moving quite as quickly. In the past two months—no doubt, peak season in Bali—as many as 17,000 foreign travelers are coming through the airport a day, a...

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