Menarik juga baca dikoran bahwa Bupati Badung dalam hal ini Dinas Kebersihan dikatakan KEPUPUNGAN, kurang lebih bangun kesiangan dan jadi panik berkaitan dengan artikel di majalah Time yang mengatakan bahwa Bali bukan lagi pulau sorga tetapi pulau neraka. Sadis memang. Ya meskipun terlambat kan masih lebih baik daripada TIDAK. It is better being late than NEVER. Dan itu kan biasa. Kalau sudah ribut baru semuanya RIBUT. Andaikata tidak ditulis majalah TIME mungkin juga tidak akan ribut. Jadi majalah Time ini tukang bikin ribut. Contoh lain Rabies. Saya pernah menulis di surat pembaca tentang bahayanya rebies supaya cepat di tanggulangi. Tidak ada yang hirau. Business as usual, katanya. Tenang-tenang saja, aman terkendali. Sudah banyak yang mati, baru kepupungan. Sekarang pantai Kuta bersih dalam semalam. Bravo. Salut. Tetapi......dampaknya sudah terlanjur meluas all over the world. Bisakah citra Kuta khususnya dan Bali umumnya dikembalikan dalam waktu semalam seperti membersihkan pantai Kuta dalam waktu semalam? Kecuali kalau kita minta bantuan jin dari ceritera 1001 malam. Nothing is impossible. Good. Lets try. Who knows that God is at our side.
It is better doing nothing than being busy but doing nothing. Have a nice weekend mate and good luck. Astungkara. Nyoman Suwela ________________________________ From: Asana Viebeke Lengkong <asan...@indo.net.id> To: bali@lp3b.or.id; bali-b...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 6:54:35 AM Subject: [bali] Bali confronts Its "Hellish' Problems Bali Confronts Its ‘Hellish’ Problems Made Arya Kencana & Camelia Pasandaran | April 07, 2011 Denpasar. While most government officials seem allergic to criticism, Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said on Wednesday that he had no problem with Time labeling the island a hellish holiday destination. “We cannot deny it. It is a fact,” Pastika said “If Bali is allowed to continue [like this], it will become hell for tourists.” In an April 1 article titled “Holidays in Hell: Bali’s Ongoing Woes,” Andrew Marshall examined the various problems faced by the resort island, from garbage to beach pollution and traffic congestion. The magazine article covered similar issues to those uncovered in a Bali Tourism Office survey that found one of the first complaints tourists made after arriving in Bali was that litter was out of control, Pastika said. “It is true that we are dirty, much more than other countries,” he said. Pastika also said he had received numerous complaints about the island’s increasingly congested traffic, including from participants at the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in May 2009. He asked Balinese people not to become offended by the article or send letters of protest or rebuttal to the magazine. “The facts are there and Time only wrote what it saw,” Pastika said. “It is a magazine with a high level of credibility. We should look at this as a chance for introspection.” He said he hoped the report would open Balinese people’s eyes to the problems that urgently needed to be addressed. “It should not be like it is now, where the construction of a new toll road is held up or the moratorium on the building of new hotels is opposed,” he said. Ida Bagus Subhiksu, head of the Bali Tourism Office, said he was not worried of the impact of the report. “It could even be positive. Tourists who have visited Bali might want to check the veracity of the report,” he said, adding he was gathering tourism industry professionals to discuss the appropriate response to the report. “We will try as best as we can to ensure Bali regains its image as a heavenly island,” he said. On Wednesday, Kuta’s famous beach saw a massive clean-up operation. “Almost every day, Kuta receives the equivalent of 20 to 100 trucks of garbage,” said Anak Agung Ngurah Tresna, who heads the Kuta Beach Task Force. Tresna said the beach will now be cleaned five times daily, instead of the usual two to three .
