maka, menulislah untuk berbagi, agar ceritamu abadi.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Tabanan | Tue, 10/28/2008 10:27 AM | Bali
The farmers of Jatiluwih are facing hardship as their crops are destroyed not only by the wereng insect and a mystery disease, but as water springs around the village dry up.
Lying on the northern tip of Tabanan, Jatiluwih is one of the island’s main rice producers, with more than 300 hectares of rice fields. The vast landscape of beautifully terraced paddies also makes Jatiluwih, some 60 kilometers north of the island’s capital Denpasar, one of Bali’s main tourist attractions.
One of the local farmers, I Wayan Sukabuana, said conditions began to change around three years ago.
“Three years ago the water springs started producing less water than before,” he said.
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Denpasar | Thu, 10/23/2008 10:58 AM | Bali
It was a scorching hot day in Bal, a hamlet in Kubu, one of the poorest villages in Bali. The wind that swept past the village brought nothing but dry dust.
Seventeen-year-old Wayan Teken scooped water from a pond in front of his house with a pail. It was a shallow pond. The water was opaque in color and littered with dried leaves and other garbage. Teken, however, drank the water without hesitation.
Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Denpasar | Sun, 10/19/2008 1:34 PM | Bali
Indonesian farmers do not pay enough attention to organic and fair trade certification aimed at increasing agricultural exports, Indro Surono of PT Biocert, a certification institution for agricultural products in Denpasar, said.
Speaking at a seminar on “Social and Fairtrade: Toward Responsible and Fair Business in Agriculture”in Denpasar last week, Indro said less than 1,200 farmers in Indonesia hold organic and fair trade product certifications.
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Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Buleleng | Thu, 09/25/2008 1:07 PM | Surfing Bali
Night descended slowly on Pegayaman, a village nestled in a hilly region in the southern part of Buleleng. The quiet ambience was gradually filled with the noise of people getting ready to break their fast.
Groups of children walked along the village’s dusty main road. In their hands were plastic bags filled with cakes and fruits. They chatted animatedly as they delivered the plastic bags to the homes of their relatives and neighbors.