Bali topped Travel + Leisure magazine’s 2014 list for best island in Asia and made number five for its Top 10 Islands in the World, announced the Jakarta Post. Ahead of Bali on the world list were Santorini, Maui, Kauai and Hawaii. Rankings were determined by the magazine’s readers from a survey held December 2013 […]
Aussies have a reputation for hitting Bali for fun in the sun. But while their jaunts to Bali infamously involve binge drinking and clubbing, some Aussies are heading to the island for another reason: fitness “retreats.” With a price tag of $2000, not counting flights, the latest craze is to fly out to the island […]
While Bali may have lofty goals of building up its airport into the world’s best, what may look great on the outside doesn’t exactly mean everything’s all good inside. Tommy Soetomo, the CEO of PT Angkasa Pura I, Bali’s airport authority, claimed that Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport is the world’s most beautiful airport, reported […]
In Indonesia where the drug trafficking penalties are obscenely harsh, being caught carrying drugs is the last thing you want to get charged with. German Hans Peter Naumann who was recently apprehended for smuggling cocaine into Bali could face death if convicted. Naumann, 48, allegedly attempted to smuggle 8.4 ounces of cocaine last Friday reported […]
In a symbolic victory against Indonesia’s military “corruptocrat” old guard, self-made and straight-talking Joko Widodo will now lead Southeast Asia’s largest country. Read our letter from Jakarta by Anand Mathai on elections in the world’s third-largest democracy, and stay tuned for more Coconuts coverage of Indonesia. LETTER FROM JAKARTA – The official results of Indonesia’s bitterly contested presidential election were […]
Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul has been dropped by an international literary festival in Bali after the event refused to meet his “11th-hour request” for a $20,000 fee to appear, its organisers said Wednesday. The Trinidad-born British writer had been one of the biggest names booked for this year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), scheduled […]
An American man has confessed to killing his girlfriend’s mother at a luxury resort on the Indonesian island of Bali, while the girlfriend has admitted helping stuff the body into a suitcase, police said Friday. The battered body of Sheila von Wiese Mack, 62, was found in the case in the boot of a taxi in […]