maka, menulislah untuk berbagi, agar ceritamu abadi.
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Karangasem | Mon, 12/01/2008 10:59 AM | Bali
Life for Ketut Sari (not her real name) is more than complicated. The 25-year-old has to struggle not only with poverty but also with the deadly HIV inside her body.
Living in one of the island’s poorest and most isolated hamlets does nothing to help her situation.
SURABAYA | SURYA Online – Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) Indonesia memilih ketua dan sekretaris jenderal baru secara aklamasi lewat kongres di Hotel Sanur Beach, Denpasar, Bali, Sabtu (29/11) petang.
Ketuanya Nezar Patria, editor situs berita VivaNews.com milik PT Visi Media Asia, satu dari banyak anak perusahaan kelompok bisnis keluarga Aburizal Bakrie. Sedangkan sekretaris jenderalnya Jajang Jamaludin, editor Koran Tempo.
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Denpasar | Fri, 11/28/2008 10:54 AM | Bali
Prominent bloggers and executives of mainstream media outlets agreed Thursday that the old and new could achieve a “beneficial synergy” to give birth to a new force in information provision.
Enda Nasution, known as the “father” of blogging in Indonesia, said blogs and mainstream media could happily co-exist.
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar | Mon, 11/24/2008 12:26 PM | Bali
The number of deaths caused by HIV/AIDS in Bali has been steadily increasing year on year, with 72 people recorded as having died of the disease already this year.
Data from Sanglah Central Hospital’s VCT (Voluntary Counseling and Testing) clinic shows that the number of deaths by October was more than twice the number recorded in 2004.
Continue reading “HIV/AIDS mortality rate steadily increasing, 72 dead this year”
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, The Jakarta Post, Karangasem | Thu, 11/20/2008 10:29 AM | Bali
Construction of a major tourism facility has often resulted in the marginalization of smaller, less powerful business entities in its surrounding area.
Nyoman Rimben and Nyoman Sari are two out of as many as 10 small food and souvenir vendors who have suffered that marginalization after construction began on a five-star hotel, Chateau de Bali, on Mimba beach, Karangasem.
Continue reading “Hotel construction marginalizes locals, area vendors claim”
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Denpasar | Fri, 11/14/2008 11:01 AM | Bali
The market changes faster than people’s mindsets. This is particularly true in the agriculture sector, where many farmers still see themselves as commodity producers and not businessmen. There is a growing need for them to collaborate with different actors to link into the financial services and modern markets.
The issue was discussed at the “Inclusion of Small Producers in the Value Chain: From Field Evidence to Action”, a workshop jointly organized by Belgium-based Vredeseilanden (VECO), United Kingdom-based International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED), and Netherlands-based Cordaid.
Continue reading “Farmers need assistance to access markets”
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Denpasar | Tue, 11/11/2008 10:56 AM | Bali
With undisguised joy, Aryani Putri and her friends immersed themselves in the three boxes of books, donated through Bali Youth Corner and delivered by Putu Eka Dharmartha.
Putri, an eighth-grader at the state’s SMP 10 junior high school and her friends, Gede Santika and Mei Rismawati, carefully began cataloging the 250 books, which consisted of novels, comic books, school books and magazines.
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Bedugul | Tue, 11/11/2008 10:54 AM | Supplement
During their one and a half years in Bali, Rogier Eijkens and his family have gone to Bedugul six times for a holiday. For Eijkens, a Dutch citizen residing in Padanggalak Sanur, holidaying in Bedugul is much better than going to Kuta, Sanur, Nusa Dua and the like.
“If we come here for a holiday, my kids can learn about nature,” said Eijkens, who has two children with his Indonesian wife. In Bedugul, he went on, visitors can learn about plants, for example, the species, where the plants come from and what they are useful for.
Continue reading “Holidaying while learning something at Bali Botanical Garden”
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Denpasar | Thu, 10/30/2008 10:33 AM | Surfing Bali
She has not yet reached her 10th birthday, but Ni Wayan Cenik has already had an adult’s burden laid on her shoulders.
The young child works from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. and after a brief rest in her cramped house, she will return to work another shift until 8 p.m. On the average, Cenik works nine hours per day.
Continue reading “'Tukang Suun' reflects the plight of Balinese child workers”
Thu, 10/30/2008 10:32 AM | Surfing Bali
Cenik is just one of many child laborers in Bali. Her life reflects the hardships these children must endure and survive.
Ni Putu Suartini, a member of the island’s Commission for the Protection of Children (KPAI), said the child tukang suun of Peken Badung had never received their basic rights — the right to proper education and the right to healthcare services.
The 2002 Law on the Protection of Children stipulates that children under the age of 18 have the rights to healthcare services, social security, education and play and recreational activities.