Lempuyang Temple Bali

Expert local governor wants a personal information center in the main religious temples of Bali.

The Bali provincial government plans to equip its most sacred Hindu temples (Khayangan Khayangan Jagat and sad) to the information centers to help tourists. The main temples of specific information centers are the most important religious places most frequented by visitors, Mother of Pura Besakih Temple Bali.

Quoted in Beritabali.com, Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said on Wednesday February 23, 2011, that the establishment of information centers is very necessary because many leaders are not false information to tourists. This is particularly true of leaders from outside Bali, which do not fully understand the traditions and culture of Bali.

Pastika said: "Information about Besakih often wrong, often the operator there who speak English sounds odd when used for listening .."

Pastika said that the centers of information provided by people around them, to really understand history, and local standards and protocols will be filled. This is particularly important in Bali, where every hallmark of its own set of rules and regulations.

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Fewer Cruise Ships Headed to Indonesia

Cruise visits Down as Port in Bali Tanah AMPO are not yet ready to receive large ships.

The number of times on cruises from Indonesia in 2011 is estimated at only 31, a decrease of the projected figures in the last year due to cancellation of planned ship visits to Bali and Komodo.

How Bisnis Indonesia reported, data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism 127 774 206 tourists visited Indonesia several ships a total of 206 separate interviews. In contrast, in 2011 only 31 vessels are expected to Indonesia with the transportation of passengers on Call 105 926 161st

Sapta Nirwandar, the chief marketing officer for the Ministry explained the decline and said, "is coming to this event due to ships Bali and Komodo, prepared mainly because the ports are not."

Culture and tourism officials are optimistic, however, increase the number of actual calls in the course of the year.

Most cruise ships called in the fall of Indonesia's middle class passenger capacity between 500-600 are called seniors who spend as much as U.S. $ 50-US $ 100 per port.

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Bali Back to Coffee

Restore Bali coffee can bring progress in the economic industry andreducing landslides and erosion.

Kompas reported that the government of Bali is taking aggressive steps to revive the island's coffee industry growing as fast as a means to improve the economic welfare of the citizens and also as a way to prevent soil erosion and landslides affecting certain areas.

grow as a result of these efforts in areas close to Kintamani, Kubu, Singaraja and other parts of Bali, once the vegetables, flowers and strawberries soaked dedicated acres planted new coffee plants.

Back to Bali coffee

In the recent past was a showcase for the coffee harvest in Bali, which 92% of all agricultural exports. In 1990, coffee exports amounted to 6,100 tons per year. A few years earlier in the decade of 1980, 56,000 hectares of land devoted to coffee cultivation in Bali, with 38,000 hectares devoted to populations of Robusta and the remaining 18,000 hectares of Arabica.

Today, only 31 400 hectares of coffee is held on the island. The decrease in more than two decades, the decline in coffee prices in world markets and economic opportunity in planting vegetables and fruit crops that offers linked.

However, they have grown to improve the market situation for coffee along with a growing global appetite for the distinctive flavor of coffee beans in Bali a renewed interest in the cultivation of this culture produces. In 2008, Bali also receive organic certification for his coffee, to help further increase the demand for Kopi Bali.

An unexpected benefit added back to Bali coffee program is leaving the potentially important role of coffee plantations, soil erosion and landslides in hazardous areas where they can play grown. Location thrive on steep slopes and rocky, making coffee plants have a proven ability in rainfall, because the plant reduces the broad leaves of the violent impact of heavy rains, literally, can trigger landslides. After Wayan Suarna a form of environmental assessment of Bali Udayana University researchers, "the planting of coffee is the soil erosion was prevented more effectively."

To maximize the benefits of two of the most favorable markets for coffee and the reduction of landslides and erosion, the government allocated 2.4 billion rupees from Bali (U.S. $ 266,000) from the 2010 budget for new coffee plantations. This helped lead to 2,611 hectares of coffee plantation. For 2011, the country's government aims to 1,020 hectares cultivated area of ​​coffee and see a steady annual increase of 1,000 hectares each year in a row.

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