A Sydney man has been found dead in his room at a popular budget Bali hotel after he failed to check out after a month-long stay Australian tourist Christopher Steven Tolley was found dead on Tuesday (5/5) around 1:30 pm at the FaveHotel in Seminyak. Head of Emergency and Logistics Badung, Ni Nyoman Ermy Setiari …
In a recent string of foreigner deaths in Bali in the last week, an American national was found dead in a Seminyak Villa on Thursday. The 50-year old man from the United States has been identified as Darrel Carlton. Head of Denpasar’s Search and Relief Office (Basarnas Bali), Gede Darmada told The Bali Sun that …
Australian mother-of-two Sara Connor will be released from Bali’s horrific Kerobokan prison in July. The 49-year-old from Byron Bay has spent the last four years in the notorious prison, after the fatal bashing of a police officer in Kuta in 2016. Ms Connor’s ex-boyfriend and David Taylor, from the UK, is serving a six-year sentence for …
Two foreign owned fishing vessels that were anchored in Benoa Harbor caught fire on Monday (11/5) night around 7:15 pm. The fire was reported to have started approximately 1.5 km from the western pier of Benoa Harbor. The Bali Police Labfor Team conducts a crime scene to find out the cause of the burning of …
A foreign tourist from Spain was caught stealing food from the Bintang Supermarket in Seminyak on Monday. Luckily for the perpetrator, his two friends offered to pay for the food so he was able to avoid charges by police. Head of Denpasar Police, Kompol Nyoman Gatra, confirmed the incident and said the perpetrator’s attempted theft …
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Karangasem, Bali and Lombok early Monday, but there was no potential for tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said. The quake was at a depth of 13km, EMSC said, adding that there was no direct damage and no tsunami was expected. Indonesia, which sits on the seismically active Pacific‘Ring of Fire’, …
An unidentified foreigner in Bali recorded himself damaging a rice field so he could get famous on Tiktok while locals are struggling to eat due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 10 second public video that was uploaded to TikTok shows the foreigner jumping into the rice field face first and flattening a large section of …
The Covid-19 pandemic is impacting public safety and public order in Bali according to officials. Denpasar Police Chief AKBP Jansen Avitus Panjaitan stated Friday that the situation is now impoving but police need the public’s help in order to keep it under control. The increase in crime has been triggered by the socioeconomic impact caused …
A large fire broke out in Kuta on Saturday morning that destroyed 11 shops. Head of the Denpasar Police Public Relations Iptu I Ketut Sukadi confirmed the fire to The Bali Sun. “11 shops were burnt at an estimated loss of approximately 1 billion Rupia,” explained Sukadi. According to witnesses, the fire started in Padang …
Australians will not be permitted to travel to Bali for the ‘forseeable future’. The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that International travel for Australians will be one of the last Coronvirus restrictions to be lifted. Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed National Cabinet’s three-step plan for relaxing coronavirus restrictions which he said would hopefully be rolled …
42 people were arrested by the Denpasar and Bali Police Task Force in a sweeping April drug operation. Among the arrested are 17 couriers and 25 habitual drug users. Depasar police official, Mikael Hutabarat told The Bali Sun, “Based on the results we revealed, we found 17 people who served as couriers and 25 people …
An intense fire gutted the JFC restaurant and a nearby house Sunday morning in Canggu. Officals say damage is estimated at IDR 1 Billion. The JFC loss was estimated at Rp. 300 million and the house next door at Rp. 700 million Badung Police Public Relations Head, I Ketut Oka Bawa explained, the fire …