Toru Maruyana, a Japanese tourist, was arrested by the police on Tuesday, November 11th 2008 because posessing 7.9 grams of marijuana. When the police searched him, the officers found the illegal drug in his pocket wrapped in a small plastic bag.

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Bali Regional Police Chief Inspector General T Ashikin Husein said on Sunday he had ordered his rank and file to tighten control over the in- and out-coming ships in the tourist resort island if Bali following the execution of Bali bombers Amrozi et al at the wee hours on Sunday.

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Bali as a world tourism destination needed a special importer of alcoholic beverages for mostly foreign tourists visiting the island, and official said here Friday. “I made a recommendation to the central government to issue a license for special importers of alcoholic drinks for foreign tourists here,” said I Gusti Ngurah Suteja, head of Bali’s [...]

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Emotions ran high in Bali on Sunday as Indonesia executed three Islamists convicted for the 2002 bombing on the island which killed more than 200 people and ruined the local tourism business. Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, and ringleader Imam Samudra, 38, were executed by firing squad near their prison on Nusakambangan Island off [...]

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Algot Backlan, 23 years old Swedish tourist, was found dead in Sanur Beach. Erin C Rusmana, the vice director of Criminal Division of Bali Police Department said “We have found a body that was suspected as Algot Backlan who was reported missing by the Swedish Embassy.”

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An Indonesian prosecutor on the resort island of Bali on Thursday recommended that judges sentence an Australian man to eight months in jail for possessing 0.4 grams of heroin.

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Sniffer dogs have been deployed at every point of entry into the resort island of Bali following the recent arrest of a number of terror suspects in Jakarta, police said.

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After months of in-depth consultations Indonesian lawmakers have decided that bikinis are acceptable attire for beaches in the mainly Muslim country, an Muslim party said Friday. The move will bring a sigh of relief from Indonesia’s lucrative tourism industry, which has expressed concern over a new anti-pornography bill being pushed by conservative Muslim parties.

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The US financial crisis which had developed into a global crisis has caused an unfavorable impact on Bali’s economy.  “The US financial crisis also posed an disincentive to Bali’s economy as a whole,” Head of the Bank Indonesia branch office in Denpasar Viraguna Bagoes Oka said in a two-day training of 35 journalists in Candidasa [...]

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Muslim cleric and former leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council (MMI) Abubakar Baasyir was prohibited from meeting Bali I bombing death row convicts Amrozi, Mukhlas, and Imam Samudra at the Batu correctional institute in Nusakambangan, Cilacap, on Monday. Baasyir and his entourage arrived at Cilacap’s Wijayapura ferry port at 10.30 local time on Monday morning [...]

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