FR KUTA WEEKLEEY Volume 7, Issue 379 13 Mar - 19 Mar 2014 (379) BALI V-TWIN DOCTOR Crusoe’s Kuta Townhouses DO YOURSELF A “FLAVOUR” Shall we Meet in Bali? Bali Ranks 48th and Jakarta 172 Try our Among World D e s t i n a t i o n s for Meeting and Conferences The director development for for only m e e t i n g s , i n c e n t i v e s , Rp. conferences and exhibitions (MICE) 125,000 for the Ministry of Tourism and the Creative Economy, Includes Soup & Salad Achyaruddin, has told conclusion reflects the Bisnis.com that only Bali and findings of the International Buffet Station Jakarta qualify as “existing Congress and Convention destinations” for the lucrative Association (ICCA) who meeting and conference globally review facilities and Monday to Sunday i n d u s t r y c a p a b l e o f services available for SEE competing for a share of the meetings and conference. PAGE 5:30pm to 10:30pm international MICE market. 22 Continue to page 2 Achyaruddin's If you have any interesting articles or would would like to advertise please send to [email protected] - Ph. 087 860 904 078 1 Kuta Weekly 13 Mar - 19 Mar 2014 (379) News Corner Kuta Weekly 13 Mar - 19 Mar 2014 (379) News Corner Come Fly with Me! I n d o n e s i a Wibowo, who P o i s e d t o is also CEO of Citilink Airline, said Become Fifth the current rapid L a r g e s t growth in domestic A v i a t i o n air travel would soon see Indonesia M a r k e t i n as the world's fifth T e r m s o f largest aviation D o m e s t i c market after the Fliers U . S . A . , C h i n a , Japan and Brazil. T h e S t a t e According to a News Agency Antara study conducted by r e p o r t s t h a t Association (INACA), Arif M c K i n s e y a n d C o m p a n y, Indonesia's expanding economy Wibowo, calculates that domestic Indonesia will become the world's will soon propel the Country into air traffic doubled from 2008 to 7th largest economy in 2030 with becoming the fifth largest 2013 when 74.2 million people 90 million people taking a flight domestic air market in the world. flew domestically. each year. That total surpasses U n d e r l y i n g t h e h u g e Meanwhile, 10.8 million the 77 million French citizens who potential for Indonesian air traffic is people flew internationally through currently take a flight each year. the Country's population of 240 an Indonesian airport in 2013. million and the large area of the By 2015 the total size of the www.balidiscovery.com globe covered by Indonesia's domestic air traffic market among more than 17,000 islands. all ASEAN countries will hit 100 The chairman of the million, a number expected to Indonesian National Air Carrier grow to 180 million by 2018. Continued from page 1 markedly from ranking 92nd interesting attractions, in 2012. Meanwhile, Jakarta accommodation quality and In the ICCA rankings, only ranked 176th in 2012, slipping availability, exhibition space, two Indonesian destinations meet slightly from the rank of 172 one meeting facilities, destination their established criteria as year before. image, environmental quality and international MICE destinations: A m o n g t h e c r i t e r i a skill-base of workers in the MICE Jakarta and Bali. c o n s i d e r e d b y I C C A i n sector. Bali was listed as the 48th determining the competitiveness best MICE destination worldwide of a given MICE destination are: www.balidiscovery.com in the 2013 rankings, improving accessibility, stakeholder support, 2 3 Kuta Weekly 13 Mar - 19 Mar 2014 (379) News Corner Kuta Weekly 13 Mar - 19 Mar 2014 (379) News Corner BALI THE RIGHT WAY Treading Water G'day again punters and welcome to the first week of the A.F.L I K e t u t Ti r t a , a l l a c c i d e n t s , ” h e season for 2014. I'm hoping for a huge run at the premiership for executive secretary of explained. the Mighty Pies and am looking forward to seeing what pans out Gahawisri-Bali, told the T i r t a s a i d h e h a s during the year. I'd say the lads on all teams will be about as fit as State News Agency repeatedly reminded Gahawisri they can be and provided injury doesn't hit home to early in the run, Antara, “On the average members to put safety concerns every water sports before profit in serving their we should all be in for a pisser season of footy, Karn The Pies. Just operator employs 20-25 tourist guests. At the same time, [email protected] quickly and in closing regards the footy, don't forget to get into the guides, but those to members are asked to establish “Kuta Town Houses” and throw your nomination down for the whom we are able to standard operating and safety footy tipping. For those of us that never missit each year, I suggest you remind everyone, as every year provide training is only p r o c e d u r e s f o r m a r i n e there are so many people that want to come to the wind up party and get into a decent shin dig, but alas, around two people for operations. without a tipping membership you can only watch. Trust me when I say it's the best value deal on the each company.” Tirta alluded to the recent island and generally costs the powers that be a damn sight more than is available from tipster Tirta said the incident in which two Japanese contributions. Get in and see Mr Derrick and get your name on the list. Karn The Pies, training of water sports tourists died, saying the failure to guides is very important use a local guide was a Ok moving along this week saw the passing of a true legend in the world when Mr Len Buckridge passed given the risks implied in contributing factor in that tragedy. at age 77. We are talking about a true man amongst men who would not let the powers that be get one over Need for More Safety their field of work. Water “In fact, every foreign company is him. He stood up to the people that thought they might be a little more than they were and generally guides, he said, need to know required to used local guides who played a cool hand and beat whoever tried. I remember a time while being involved in the building and Training of Bali's Water about the weather, sea conditions know the local sea conditions. In Sports Personnel and safety procedures. this regard, we think government construction industry in Perth when Mr Buckridge started doing his own concrete pads for his spec homes “The training we provide supervision is weak. We hope in and after a while the companies that supplied the concrete mix decided that he was under charging and The Bali chapter of the I n d o n e s i a W a t e r S p o r t provides at least the base the future that government will that the best action was to hold supply on him, needless to say this caused a hiccup in the B.G.C building E n t r e p r e n e u r s A s s o c i a t i o n foundation for water sports intensify their supervision of time frames, so he went straight to the source and built his own batching plant and now is arguably the (Gahawisri) is asking the provincial guides, making them better able foreigners working without the biggest and most successful concrete merchant in Australia. The same companies that tried to slow him government of Bali to facilitate the to perform professionally in proper permits,” said Tirta. down back in the day are probably now his biggest customers. The same thing happened with timber training of water sports guides on a providing service to tourists. At the supply when an apparent higher ranking person thought they might take the wind from his sails, he did the minimum schedule of twice a year. very least, we hope it will eliminate www.balidiscovery.com same thing, he just started his own mill and dealt direct with timber growers or imported high grade products essentially cutting out the middle man. He was a very clever man. (I heard about a fellow who runs a newspaper that is much the same) The Buckridge group employs many thousands of people in Australia and overseas and doesn't look like slowing at all. The brand is now famous for many landmark Get Inked @ Bali Ink buildings in and around Perth, Australia, and the rest of the world. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all family members who survived Len, and thank the family for the fantastic contribution they have all made to the state.