BALI NEWS
Until today, 100% of Bali's electric power needs is coming from
Java, funneled through a single sea cable.
Some time ago, we registered BaliEnergy.com
intending to use this domain to network Bali energy related information.
We need to gather information about the energy situation in Indonesia
with the focus on Bali, our beloved home.
This morning, I browsed the web and updated BaliSOS website in
regard to the energy problems here on Bali.
While on the job, I received message after message from sos@bali-in-danger.net,
our very active Lovina Power Plant Resistance Group.
(Indonesia's PLN Persero plans to relocate a disastrous antique
dinosaur diesel power plant from Jakarta / Java to Lovina / Bali)
Well, BaliSOS has been updated and the domain BaliEnergy.com
has been activated, presently being a mirror of BaliSOS.com.
It's about time now to join forces to find better solutions for
our energy supplies here on Bali.
We intend to build a new site using BaliEnergy.com, focusing
exclusively on our energy problems on Bali.
You are welcome to join with ideas, thoughts and information.
BaliSOS is not intending to take any leadership or coordination
with this project, we are only initiating it and willing to contribute
as much as we can.
Please contact admin@BaliEnergy.com
and let us know your ideas, suggestions and critics.
We suggest to schedule a meeting with all interested individuals
and organizations as soon as possible.
Please let us also know what you suggest to be included in the
Agenda of the first meeting.
Initial concepts for BaliEnergy.com:
Community Portal based on OpenSource CMS (PHPNuke)
- allows various editors / administrators to coordinate and maintain
the site
- provides Yahoo Groups alike features incl. mailing lists, etc.
- provides a public Forum (BBS System, BurningBoard)
- provides a chat system for life communication
Initial Site Content:
Energy related information focussing on Bali and Indonesia
Links to related websites
The
Ring of Fire:
Current Utilization of Geothermal Energy in Indonesia
For Indonesia's myriad smaller islands, as well as for rural
locations that cannot be economically connected to the grid, electric
power development strategy is increasingly seen more in terms
of the country's abundant renewable energy resources.
Geothermal, hydro, biomass, solar and wind energy are being explored
for their potential to generate power, to lessen national dependence
on fossil fuels.
Expert attention today is focused on exploiting the huge geothermal
potential of the spectacular mountain ranges in Java and Sumatra,
volcanic Indonesia's so-called "Ring of Fire".
It's our mission to help focus this attention on Bali too,
as Bali has a huge reservoir of renewable energy sources.
Read ReFocus
2003 Reports
on Geothermal Energy Production and Use in Indonesia.
Read World
Energy Council's Extract
from the Survey of Energy Resources 2001
Avian Flu: No human cases of Avian flu have been reported
on Bali.
Child abduction on Bali: In
mid February, stories were published worldwide about child abuse
and child abduction on Bali.
Thousands of children were supposedly abused by paedophile tourists
and dozens of children were declared abducted and eventually murdered.
These "news" were "released" by "Child
Wise".
The head of "Child Wise" , Australia's leading organisation
against child abuse says she wishes she had never made public
an explosive report on paedophiles in Bali.
Ms Bernadette McMenamin, the national director of Melbourne-based
Child Wise, yesterday declined to endorse most of the allegations
in the report, which include an unsourced, anecdotal claim
that 80 children were killed by one man in a sexual frenzy in
East Bali and buried in a cave.
Read
more on theAge...
Australian "Ibu Gloria Goodwin" from "Bali Crisis
Center" made similiar allegations in public and says now:
"We
have tried to have the claims investigated but we keep running
into dead ends,".
Child abuse is a very serious crime and it can't
be denied that paedophile tourists come to Bali with the purpose
of satisfying their sickening desires.
But Bali, same like any other place in this world, does not need
tourists to have cases of child abuse.
There are bars on Bali, especially one in Seminyak, where juvenile
sex workers get "hired" by mostly homosexual paedohilics.
And it is not a rare site on the beach to see an elderly man with
a juvenile male sex worker.
There are no known places here on bali were Children are traded
for sex, though some of the sex workers may hardly be of age.
To our understanding there are no public places where paedophiles
have a "market". At least we never heard of such here.
Read
more on Google News
Read more on "Child Wise" Website
Feb. 23, 2004
Movies:
2 new Movies related to 2002 Bombings at Biasa Gallery in Seminyak:
"Bali: Hope in Paradise" by Jane Walters &
Padi Films
Wed, Feb. 25 at 7:00 pm
"Niskala" by Mira & Tansen - Thu, Feb. 26
at 6:30 pm
Avian Flu: No human cases of Avian flu have been reported
on Bali.
Child abduction on Bali: The
head of "Child Wise" , Australia's leading organisation
against child abuse says she wishes she had never made public
an explosive report on paedophiles in Bali.
Ms Bernadette McMenamin, the national director of Melbourne-based
Child Wise, yesterday declined to endorse most of the allegations
in the report, which include an unsourced, anecdotal claim
that 80 children were killed by one man in a sexual frenzy in
East Bali and buried in a cave.
Read
more on theAge...
Australian "Ibu Gloria Goodwin" from "Bali Crisis
Center" made similiar allegations in public and says now:
"We
have tried to have the claims investigated but we keep running
into dead ends,".
Child abuse is a very serious crime and it can't
be denied that paedophilic tourists come to Bali with the purpose
of satisfying their sickening desires.
But Bali, same like any other place in this world, does not need
tourists to have cases of child abuse.
There are bars on Bali, especially one in Seminyak, where juvenile
sex workers get "hired" by mostly homosexual paedohilics.
And it is not a rare site on the beach to see an elderly man with
a juvenile male sex worker.
There are no known places here on bali were Children are traded
for sex, though some of the sex workers may hardly be of age.
To our understanding there are no public places where paedophiles
have a "market". At least we never heard of such here.
Nov. 7, 2003
Is George W Bush coming to Bali?
The Bali Post (27/9/03) reported the US President may come to
Bali as part of his Asian tour.
The report says an advance team from the White House recently
met with officials from Bali’s provincial government.
We await formal confirmation from the Indonesian Department of
Foreign Affairs.
Ronald Reagan was the last US President to visit Bali, in 1984.
Remembrance Service Nov. 11, 2003:
A Balinese altar, 22 flags/flag poles (one for each nationality
killed in the bomb) and a ‘mountain’ symbolising the
Universe will be erected before the Remembrance Service.
Once completed, the memorial site will include a granite monument
into which the names of the 202 known victims will be carved.
The Australian and New Zealand governments, while maintaining
their Travel Advisories for Indonesia, have funding for families
and survivors of last year’s bombing to come to Bali to
attend the Remembrance Service.
The Australian Prime Minister John Howard, together with an estimated
1,500 Australians and the New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff
with 75 survivors and family members, will be in attendance.
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