As we go to press, Merpati Airline’s pilots are threatening to go on strike – read the details and possible links with the fatal crash of a Sukhoi Jet in West Java last week.

Narcotics continue to cast a shadow over Bali. Three convictions for very long prison terms where handed down last week to those who smuggled drugs into Bali ,while a member of the ‘Bali Nine’ is making a final plea to the Indonesian President to spare his life.

There’s been another rabies death in Bali, the second recorded in the month of May.

Controversy grows surrounding plans to lease large tracts of a North Bali jungle owned by the government to a private party for tourism development.

Medicine is in the news this week. Bali is one the road to developing medical tourism as the province allocates funds to start construction of the Bali Provincial Hospital and the Minster of Tourism applauds the new BIMC Hospital in Nusa Dua as an important first step in stemming the tide of Indonesians seeking medical treatment abroad.

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