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Vol. X December, 2015

Rinjani - Indonesia

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An increasing number of tourists are visiting the Lake Tambing ecotourism destination in Lore Lindu National

Park (LLNP) in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

Situated at an altitude of 1.7 thousand meters above sea level and some 80 kilo-meters from the provincial city of Palu, the lake is the ideal choice for bird lovers and outdoor adventure enthusiasts.

The beautiful lake is part of the LLNP, which is flanked by the districts of Dong-gala, Poso, and Sigi in Central Sulawesi.

The scenic views around the lake cou-pled with the melodious songs of the birds greet and mesmerize the visitors, making them feel at home and are no longer keen to return to their lodgings.

LLNP Head Sudaryatna stated in Palu on Monday that the number of tourists visiting Lake Tambing continued to increase in the recent months.

“Over the past three months, the num-ber of domestic and foreign tourist arrivals at the lake continued to rise,” Sudaryatna said, adding that several months earlier, there were no tourists due to security breach in the District of Lore and the coastal area of Poso.

However, he noted that currently, an average of 100-200 domestic and foreign tourists from the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United States visit Lake Tambing on Saturdays and Sundays.

He noted that foreign tourists are mostly bird lovers and researchers as the area is home to around 77 bird species, 60 percent of which are endemic to Sulawesi Island.

“In addition to the beautiful lake as a tourist attraction, the visitors can get a firsthand glimpse of the variety of birds in varied colors, which live and breed in the surrounding forest area,” he affirmed.

Sudaryatna explained that until the end of November 2015, around three thousand foreign and domestic tourists had visited the Lake Tambing ecotourism destination.

Further, he added that the LLNP had received a budget of around Rp600 million in 2015 to improve the existing facilities at the ecotourism destination of Lake Tamb-ing.

Sudaryatna stated on Monday that the funds from the state budget for the Min-istry of Forestry and Environment will be channeled to build and improve the infra-

structure and facilities at the Lake Tambing ecotourism destination.

He noted that the infrastructure and facilities being built include a road connect-ing to the tourist attraction at the lakeside, a home generator to anticipate power failure, electrical installations, procurement of a motorcycle to transport garbage, a parking lot that can accommodate up to 50 cars and motorcycles, a mosque, and an information center.

On arrival, the existing officers at the information center will offer a briefing to the visitors about the lake and the variety of other attractions at the national park.

Sudaryatna noted that in future, the LLNP will also build other facilities, such as a pavilion, cottages, outbound areas, and a bird observation tower near Lake Tambing.

He remarked that a tracking line, orchid breeding garden, and gallery will also be built for the visitors, so that they can enjoy their visit to Lake Tambing and the national park.

“These improvements are urgently needed to attract more domestic and foreign tourists to visit the ecotourism area at the lake and park,” he added.

LLNP Head of the Technical Subdivi-sion Ahmad Yani stated in Palu early this month that the national park is a habitat to almost all of Sulawesis endangered animal species, such as the mountain anoa, a dwarf buffalo once common but now rarely seen; babirusa, an animal resembling both a pig and hippopotamus; tarsier, the worlds smallest primate; tonkean macaque; and marsupial cuscus.

The tourists visiting Central Sulawesi can plan a visit to the LLNP for trekking to see the prehistoric relics from the megalithic stone culture in the valleys of Bada, Besoa,

and Napu.Yani remarked in the Central Sulawesi

provincial city of Palu that infrastructure and supporting facilities at the park are be-ing improved to draw more domestic and foreign tourists.

“We are performing maintenance work on several facilities at the national park in order to attract as many foreign tourists as possible,” Achmad said in Palu recently.

He noted that the park was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1978 and was formed through the unification of three existing reserves: the Lore Kalamanta Nature Reserve, the Lake Lindu Recreation and Protection Forest, and the Lore Lindu Wildlife Reserve.

The park, which is located south of the town of Palu, covers a 2,180-square-kilo-meter area, with altitudes ranging between 200 and 2.3 thousand meters above sea level.

Achmad noted that the maintenance work on several facilities in the park is part of its preparations for an anticipated in-crease in tourist arrivals in Central Sulawesi province.

He said the LLNP is also home to the maleo (macrocephalon maleo) breeding site that will continue to be developed into an interesting tourism attraction in the province.

Maleo, well known as the iconic bird in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, is found nowhere else in the world.

The birds have been fully protected under Indonesian law since 1972 when it was formally recognized that their popula-tion was threatened due to overharvesting of their enormous eggs coupled with the loss and fragmentation of their native forest habitat. ***

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The Bali provincial administration is optimistic that nine Balinese traditional dances will be recongnized

by UNESCO as part of the World non-object Cultural Heritage during a meeting on December 1 and 2.

“The nine dances have been entered into UNESCOs list. The chance of them being accepted is 98 percent,” the Head of Culture Office, Dewa Putu Beratha, said here on Thursday.

The nine Balinese dances are Barong Ket, Joged, Legong Kraton, Wayang Wong Drama Dance, Gambuh Drama Dance, To-peng Sidakarya, Baris Upacara, Sanghyang Dedari and Rejang.

“UNESCO will convene on December 1 and 2,” he added.

A Balinese cultural humanist Prof. I Made Bandem is also optimistic that the nine dances will be recognized by UNESCO.

“The Ministry of Education and Culture has set the nine dances as the national non-objects of Cultural Heritage,” he said.

This is a guarantee for UNESCO that the proposed dances will be maintained by the government and community.

“I am optimistic we can get funding to preserve the dances. It will convince UNESCO to give recognition to the nine traditional dances,” Made said. (Antara)

Bali optimistic about traditional dance forms being recognized by UNESCO


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Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika has opposed the idea of developing sharia tourism on the Island of the

Gods, saying it had the potential to cause discord on the Hindu-majority province.

Pastika said on Tuesday that tourism in Indonesia’s most prominent tourist destina-tion was going well just the way it was.

“I disagree with it. It would only cause an uproar; [tourism] has been running well,” he said as quoted by Antara news agency.

Several college students and local peo-ple protested at the Bali Legislative Council (DPRD) on Tuesday. Wearing local Bondres masks, the protesters loudly expressed disapproval of introducing sharia tourism on the island.

“Bali is not suited as a sharia tourist destination because it does not fit in with the essence of the locale. Bali has always had its own culture that is recognized worldwide. So there is no need to make any changes,” Ketut Bagus Arjana, the head

of the Indonesian Hindu Dharma Student Association, told Antara.

Sharia Economic Society (MES) chair-man Muliaman D. Hadad previously said sharia tourism was suitable to be devel-oped in Bali and was worth exploring as a business opportunity.

“We are not talking about religion but economics,” said the chairman of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) during an event in Bali earlier this month.

He said 7 million domestic travelers and 3 million foreigners visited Bali annually, offering vast business opportunities.

Muliaman said Islamic-based tourism was not only developed in Arab coun-tries. Southeast Asian countries have also developed it, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Thailand was recognized as the world’s best Islamic health destination at a recent event in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, he said.***

As many as 1,100 Japanese visitors, including businessmen, parliamentarians and government

officials, have just arrived in Jakarta, as an evidence of cooperation on the visa-free policy between Indonesia and Japan.

The Japanese tourists are being led by the chairman of the Indonesia-Japan Parlia-mentary League, Toshihiro Nikai, Foreign Affairs Minister Retno LP Marsudi told ANTARA News here.

According to the minister, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was scheduled to have a get together with these 1,100 Japa-nese tourists at a reception in Jakarta on Monday evening (Nov. 23).

The visit is aimed at increasing the people exchange programs between the two countries.

Indonesia has issued a policy which of-fers visa free facility to people in 75 coun-tries for a short term visit to Indonesia.

Under the new policy, Indonesia offers a visa free facility for short term visits to those from South Africa, Algeria, the United States, Angola, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, the Netherlands, Be-

larus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Ghana, Hungary, India, Britain, Ireland, Island, Italy, Japan, and Germany.

Also, Canada, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Croatia, South Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Leba-non, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Egypt, Mo-naco, Norway, Oman, Panama, Papua New

Guinea, France, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, China, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Seychelles, Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Timor Leste, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vatican, Venezuela, Jordan, and Greece.***

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1,100 Japanese tourists visiting Indonesia

On 10 April 1815 at around 7 pm in the evening, the world was stunned by a loud thundering noise when

Mt Tambora on the island of Sumbawa literally blew its top sending volcanic materials 27 miles into the air. The ash circled the globe causing “ The year without Summer” in Europe and North America the next year 1816. The explosion caused tsunamis, and killed an estimated 49,000 victims of whom 11,000 perished directly by the eruption and its pyroclastic clouds.

In 2004, Prof. Haraldur Sigurdsson together with colleagues of the University of North Carolina and the Indonesian Directorate of Volcanology unearthed a lost village here buried 3 meters deep under ash . “Their houses and culture are still en-capsulated there as they were in 1815” said Professor Sigurdsson. They found remains of a house with two preserved bodies of its occupants, more bronze bowls, and ceramic pots, concluding that this may well be called “the Pompeii of the East”, refer-ring to the lost city that was charred by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, but where bodies were preserved intact.

The volcano whose peak before the eruption stood at a majestic height of 4,882 meters above sea level had col-lapsed to just 2,851 meters above sea level. In history, the 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora is recorded as the largest in the world after Mt. Taupo in 181 AD, hav-ing reached 7 at the Volcanic Expolisivity Index (VEI) , one of the most powerful in recorded history.

To commemorate this catastrophic event suffered by their forefathers two centuries ago, the government of the Province of West Nusatenggara will hold a series of events in April this year named : “Tambora greets the World”. This initiative has been warmly greeted by the people especially of Dompu and Bima, nearest districts to Tambora. Earlier, the West Nusatenggara government organized the Tambora Festival in November 2014, and a joint climb of Mt. Tambora by 60 climbers in August 2014 participated by journalists, nature lovers and the Dompu district govern-ment officials, in anticipation of the 2015

Commemoration of the Catastrophic Mt, Tambora eruption.

Today Mt. Tambora remains an active stratovolcano that sits on the north-eastern peninsula of the island of Sumbawa in the province of West Nusatenggara. But con-stant volcanic monitoring has shown that it has remained benign and safe to climb. Today, its slopes are again covered with forests, rich vegetation and wildlife.

Before its explosion in 1815, the volcano was the second highest peak in the Indo-nesian archipelago after Mt. Jaya Wijaya on Papua. But its eruption cut off the upper half of this giant volcano. While its caldera collapsed to become a large gaping hole of 7 km wide, where its crater lies 800 meter below the crest of the volcano’s peak.

The explosion on 10 April 1815 was heard as far away as Sumatra, Makassar and Ternate, some 2,600 km distance away from here. 400 million tons of sulphu-rous gas was thrown 43 km up into the stratosphere, while its thick ash covered the nearby island of Bali killing its vegeta-tion. The surrounding areas within a radius of 600 km were plunged in darkness for two whole days, when even the hot tropical sun could not penetrate the thick layers of volcanic material.

Scientists noted that the dust of Tam-bora was blown around the globe, tearing the thin ozone layer, and stayed in the

troposphere for a number of years to fall continuously with the wind and rain on to earth. The following year Europe and North America experienced drastic changes in its climate, seeing hardly any sun, remem-bering 1816 as the Year without Summer. China, Europe, Ireland suffered failed har-vests, and France suffered a famine which caused social upheavals in the country, recorded as the worst famine of the 19th century.

While the 1883 eruption of Mt. Krakatau in the Sunda Strait was a gigantic explo-sion, the Tambora super volcanic explo-sion of 1815 was four times that of Mt. Krakatau.

The Sumbawa people believe that this catastrophe is somehow linked to its ominous name. For in the local language Tambora consists of two words, namely “ta” and “mbora”, meaning “let us disappear together”.

But for now, the people of Sumbawa wish to also take the positive side of the eruption, to draw tourists to Sumbawa to commemorate the 200th anniversary of this amazing supervolcanic eruption of Mt. Tambora.

To reach Tambora one has to fly from Jakarta or Bali to the city of Bima on the island of Sumbawa. Garuda Indonesia , Wings Air and Trans Nusa have regular flights to Bima. ***


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Commemorating Mt. Tambora’s Super-volcanic Eruption 2 Centuries On :

“Tambora Greets the World”


Shipwreck diving in Bali, Indonesia

We waded into the warm sea from the black sand beach, slipped on our flippers, did a last safety

check and then dived down. Our dive master Wayan had only led our small group of divers along the gently sloping seabed for a minute or two when the massive hull

of the Liberty shipwreck came in sight, taking my breath away. The 125-metre long wreck is still reasonably intact, with towering metal beams reaching from the huge cargo bay towards the glistening surface, and colourful fish swarming all over and around it.

In the shallow waters just off the beach of Tulamben village, near Amed in east Bali, the Liberty wreck is one of Asia’s best dive spots. The US Army cargo ship was torpe-doed by the Japanese in 1942, then towed towards Singaraja harbour in northwest Bali but sank near Tulamben and was beached in order to save the cargo. Liberty lay there until the violent 1963 eruption of Bali’s Gunung Agung volcano caused her to slide back into the sea, where it now hosts an incredible variety of sea life.

Swimming through the holes in the wreck, we spotted hundreds of resident reef fish, and plenty of larger fish from deeper down visiting for a snack. With some luck you see herds of huge hump-head parrotfish grazing on the Liberty’s coral in the early morning, but there are reef sharks, turtles, rays and many other species too.

“There are so many fish that sometimes you need to push them aside to see the wreck,” explained John Huxley, enthusiasti-cally pawing imaginary fish away with his hands. Huxley is the Canadian manager of Eco Dive, the first dive centre to open in Amed in 1997. “By now, generations of fish have grown up with divers around, so

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they’re quite fearless and allow you to get very close. The Liberty is great for snor-kellers too, as the upper parts lie just below the surface.”

East Bali’s other main centre for snorkel-ling and diving is Padang Bai, a busy village that’s also the main port for car ferries and fast boats to neighbouring Lombok island. Cedric Saveuse of the French/British-run Geko Dive says that Padang Bai is the perfect place for underwater adventures. “The diving and snorkelling is excellent here as we can reach most sites in under ten minutes, the coral is in good condition and there’s a surprising amount of sea life, including tiny pygmy seahorses, whitetip reef sharks, turtles and great macro diving, focusing on small creatures. East Bali is great for offering a lot of surprises on land too.”

Padang Bai’s village beach is crowded with fishing and tourist boats, but out along the headlands and in the deeper ferry channel there’s excellent diving. A short walk away across the headland, the tiny Blue Lagoon beach has colourful coral and large numbers of fish in the shallows, so that children too can safely snorkel here.

The region is little visited when com-pared to the bustling resort towns around Kuta near the airport in the south of the is-land, but it’s gaining recognition as a place to take it easy, see living traditions and take in the beautiful landscapes. The diving scene here is still very low-key, relaxed and affordable, certainly when compared to other Asian dive areas.

A number of factors makes diving around Amed and Padang Bai especially good. The black volcanic sand absorbs the light and makes colours stand out for

underwater photography enthusiasts. The deep trench between Bali and Lombok supplies the coast with a constant current of cooler, nutrient-rich water, benefiting corals and plankton-eating sea life, and flushing out pollution and river sediment. East Bali also has a very good variety of shallow reefs and steep dropoffs, most of them with only moderate currents, making the area suitable for divers of all levels.

East Bali is also best positioned for day trips to Nusa Penida island, where Manta Point and other dive sites rank as the best in the world, albeit only for very experi-enced divers as the weather and currents can be treacherous. Besides manta rays,

large sharks and huge mola-mola sunfish, the heaviest bony fish in the world, can be seen here.

After having dived the Liberty wreck, Wayan took us a few hundred metres east along the coast to explore the Tulamben Wall dive site. There was nobody else on the beach as we waded in, and our slow drift dive in clear visibility along the vertical cliff revealed yet more stunning underwater wildlife. As we swam back to shallow wa-ters, we passed dozens of spotted garden eels, sticking their heads out of their sandy burrows and swaying in the current. I waved back to the eels, determined to return for underwater adventures.


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Diving with the wow factor: the Raja Ampat islands“Ladies and gentlemen we have begun

our descent to Sorong”. Flicking up the airline window blind I’m greeted with

an almost comical vision of paradise. Pink candyfloss clouds part to reveal tropical islands straight out of King Kong, each crowned with a mohican of swaying palms and fringed with bleached white sand. To the east sunlight breaks over the mountains of Papua New Guinea, to the west stretch the fabled spice islands of the Moluccas while below me lies my destination, the reefs of Raja Ampat.

Translating as “the Four Kings”, this quar-tet of craggy limestone lumps sprinkled off Indonesian West Papua form a kind of marine Galapagos. Packed with unique creatures – among them walking sharks and pygmy seahorses – it’s the most di-verse underwater ecosystem on the planet, with over 1700 species of fish (compared with just 300 in UK waters) and 600 types

of coral. Unsurprisingly it’s on every diver’s bucket list and I’m giddy with excitement to be arriving here in early January.

Home for the next ten days is a luxury liveaboard confidently named the WAOW, an acronym for “Water Adventure Ocean Wide” – though they should have just gone for “OMG!”. Anchored off Sorong, she resembles the love child of the Black Pearl and an oligarch’s mega-yacht: 190ft of stunning Borneo ironwood and canvas sails pimped up with five-star comfort and state of the art scuba kit. Mooring along-side I can feel the hairs on the back of my neck prickling.

A nut-brown, tattooed figure grabs me by the elbow and pulls me on deck. “Bienvenue!” he says, welcoming the other guests, all of whom happen to be Swiss or French. I start to worry my schoolboy Fran-cais won’t survive the trip but fortunately Jay and wife Kay, our cruise directors, are

fluent in seven languages from English to Thai. We meet the crew and our dive guide, Hawe – 5ft nothing of bouffant hair and giggling enthusiasm – and have the three essentials pointed out: there’ll be 3-4 dives per day, free wine with dinner and “please don’t fall overboard”.

After a morning watching dolphins danc-ing in our wake we reach Blue Magic, our first dive site. Splashing in off the side I’m reminded of why I learnt to dive in the first place. The reefs here simply look like reefs should look – pulsing with fish and irrides-cent with colour. Having blown gigabytes of camera memory within a couple of days, I’m soon searching for a Safari style “Big Five”: giant mantas, grey reef sharks, the not-so-big pygmy seahorses, schools of barracuda and the “walking” epaulette shark which drags itself across the ocean floor on its fins. Amazingly, these are ticked off by

day five, a testament to Hawe’s eagle eyes and Raja’s sheer vitality.

Back on board, time passes in a lazy sequence of mealtime bells, dive briefings and hammock snoozing. Exploring the ship’s library I find Alfred Russell Wallace’s The Malay Archipelago which describes the very same “jutting limestone pinnacles and azure depths” that drift by outside. I realise that little has changed here since the 1850s. Thanks to its remote location there are barely half a dozen small scale dive resorts, with most visitors cruising through on a liveaboard like ours. Eventually the Francophone atmosphere begins to rub off and I’m soon saying “plongeur” rather than “dive” and have adopted “requin!” for “shark!”. Somehow the language of Mon-sieur Cousteau seems appropriate.

On day six I wake up with a head clogged with cold. Having swallowed enough Su-dafed to knock out a whale shark, I decide it’s best to stay above water for a while and commandeer the ship’s kayak. Annoyed to be missing the day’s diving, my mood quickly improves when I find half a dozen baby reef sharks darting beneath me in a lagoon. Dragging the craft onto a beach, I narrowly avoid crunching several hermit crabs wrestling in the sand. Above me neon-green honeyeaters flit in and out of the razor-sharp karst cliffs.

It turns out travelling by kayak makes you something of a curiosity, and I’m soon

chatting to a pair of fishermen who paddle past in a canoe weighed down with Span-ish mackerel. They invite me to a game of volleyball and a drink on nearby Arborek Island. Despite my notebook overflowing with underwater superlatives it’s this en-counter that sticks longest in the memory – laughing curly-haired kids posing for photos and the taste of fresh coconut juice, cut from the nearest palm tree.

Thanks to a combination of traditional

know-how and some help from NGOs like Sea Sanctuaries the people of Arborek and Raja’s other islands have made sure they can pass on a stunning natural inheritance to the next generation. Turning back toward Sorong and my flight home I can’t help echoing Alfred Russell Wallace: while the WAOW, like Wallace’s Victorian steamer is “one of the highest results of our civiliza-tion”, like him, I’m inclined to rate the simple luxuries of a kayak almost as highly.


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semua pelaku pariwisata untuk menunjang kegiatan pemerintah ataupun sektor swasta , serta dapat memberikan lapangan kerja bagi masyarakat setempat yang mampu bersaing secara sehat dengan hotel – hotel yang ada di Makassar sebagai mitra bisnis untuk membangun pertumbuhan ekonomi khususnya di bidang perhotelan .Demikian harapan beliau di selah selah penandatan-gan kerja sama pengelolaan Hotel Manage-ment.

ADONARA Hotel Management , sebagai Hotel Management ,terus melakukan kerja sama dengan para Investor sebagai mitra bisnis potensial dalam membangun usaha bersama dengan beberapa merk dagang seperti : U STAY , untuk hotel bintang 1 ,CORAL untuk hotel bintang 2 ,ARNAVA untuk hotel bintang 3 dan BOSTON untuk hotel bintang 4.

Saat ini Adonara telah melakukan take over beberapa existing hotel seperti MJ Hotel Samarinda , Puri Garden Hotel Semarang , Pejaten Suite Jakarta , , Arnava Hotel Seminyak Bali , Arnava Hotel Airport Soekarno Hatta yang akan berop-erasi pada bulan Januari 2016 , Jakarta dan beberapa hotel baru seperti Ar-nava Bogor Hotel Bogor , Emerald Borneo Ketapang , Kalimantan

Barat , Zenith Hotel Kendari, Rail Transit Suite Gambir , salah satu hotel yang ada di Stasiun Gambir bekerja sama dengan PT Kereta Api Indonesia , M Express Sorong yang baru beroperasi sejak awal Nopember 2015.

Tahun 2016 , ADONARA kembali mem-buka beberapa hotel baru seperti Coral Solo , Coral Cibinong , Coral Manado , Ar-nava Kwitang Jakarta , Arnava Dramaga Ho-tel & Resort Bogor , Arnava Batam Hotel & Resort , Arnava Makassar , Arnava Resort Raja Empat Sorong , Boston Hotel & Resort Jimbaran Bali , The Milnove Garden Gorontalo , dan beberapa projek lain yang dalam tahap design dan pembangunan .


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Best Western Hotel Imperial Jimbaran Bali mendekati tahap akhir pembangunan hotel.

Tim manajemen dari Best Western International Indonesia, pemilik perusahaan PT Jimbaran Sukses Makmur, Handono Laymanto dan Bapak Albert Laymanto, Komisaris PT Archikon Wiratama Bapak Yohanes Susanto Suliawan beserta dengan para kontraktor dan konsultan berkumpul bersama mengadakan acara Topping Off pada 20 November 2015.

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penuangan cor topping off oleh Bapak Iwanto Hartojo selaku Presiden Direktur Best Western International Area Development Office Indonesia dan Bapak Albert Laymanto selaku pemilik PT Jimbaran Sukses Makmur yang disertai dengan bunyi sirene dan pelepasan balon di udara, ditutup dengan pemotongan tumpeng.

Bangunan yang berlokasi dekat dengan tempat wisata Garuda Wisnu Kencana ini memiliki 5 lantai dan nantinya dengan total kamar sejumlah 120 kamar. Best Western Hotel Imperial Jimbaran Bali akan memiliki fasilitas seperti meeting room, ballroom, coffee shop, roof top restaurant, lounge, spa dan kolam renang.

Dalam dunia konstruksi ban-gunan, Topping Off merupakan upacara yang dilaksanakan untuk peletakan berkas atau mate-rial terakhir di bagian paling atas bangunan. Pembangunan hotel yang dimulai sejak kuartal ke-1 di tahun 2015 ini direncanakan akan mulai beroperasi pada kuartal ke-3 tahun 2016. ***


Legian, Kuta, Bali (November 2nd , 2015) - The ONE Legian, New Urban Legian is pleased to announce that

The ONE Legian, an impressive One Stop Kuta – Legian Experience, a Self contain Hotel in the milieu of Kuta located on The most legendary Legian Street offering 300 rooms, has been granted a 4-star hotel rating by LSU Mandiri (Independent

Business Survey Institute) recommended by PHRI (Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association). The announcement will further contribute to the famous state of the Bali hospitality industry which is experiencing steady growth recently. The presence of another 4-star hotel in the heart of New Urban Legian gives leisure traveler, business professionals, corporate

executives and families visiting Kuta, Bali more choices for accommodation.

The 4-star Rating Hotel Classification took place at Legian Room which was at-tended by LSU Mandiri assessors and The Platinum TEAM. The Platinum TEAM was welcomed the assessors by New Urban Legian concept followed the opening by MC and praying together. Welcoming

An Elegant Transformation of

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Speech and presentation from the host presented by Mrs. Dewi Mas, The ONE Legian, General Manager. Continued with Hotel Inspection by LSU Mandiri Asses-sors assisted by The Platinum TEAM then checking the supporting data. The THK Accreditation closed by lunch and taking photo together.

Voted as a Indonesia Leading Lifestyle Hotel by Indonesia Travel Tourism Awards 2014 and Bali Leading Lifestyle Hotel by Bali Tourism Awards 2015, The ONE Legian is committed to be the center of BALI, LIFESTYLE and BEYOND which of-fers ONE STOP Kuta-Legian Experience, a self Contain Hotel in the milieu of Kuta. The “ONE” Legian is inspired from the Spirit of Sunrise or Matahari Pagi, as begin-ning of Fresh New Day of vibe and active lifestyle. The ONE Legian is a new spirit of elegant transformation of the hotel whom previously operating under name The 1O1 Bali Legian (3 Stars Premium) into 4-star Brand to represent NEW URBAN LEGIAN concept which is focused on New Urban DESIGN, New Urban LIVING, New Urban LIFESTYLE, New Urban HOSPITALITY and New Urban BOOKING. The CHIC and TRENDY hotel, The ONE Legian consists of

6 types of Rooms with total accommoda-tion 300 rooms feature The ONE Superior Room, The ONE Deluxe Room, The ONE Deluxe Balcony, The ONE Deluxe Pool Access, The ONE Deluxe Family, and The ONE Suite, which offer great experience for escaping life stressors and venture to Bali’s legendary Urban Village of Legian. Guest also may enjoy a tasteful meal within one of the 3 dining venues which includes Rooftop Dine & Music Lounge, De Basilico Kitchen & Bar and “Happening” Urban Street Party at The Deck. There is also an extensive list of wellness facilities: The SPA, Fitness Center, Two outdoor swim-ming pools with different ambience of cozy calmness at Romeo Pool and active trendy lifestyle at Skypool which also accom-modate “Happening” Skypool Party that

guest never experienced. Find also another extraordinary facilities with Rooftop Movie Night which will be great for spending guest time at Night by Special BOX OFFICE Movies. With it stylish walking distances to re-born traditional Legian Stores, Lifestyle Pub & Restaurant and Bali most famous nightlife clubs. It is beyond doubt the heaven for active, urban-lifestyle, young at heart, sophisticated individual and those with passion to explore the richness of Bali in Urban Legian way which complete your journey for passion and memorable holiday in urban style of Bali.

The ONE Legian currently has 300 rooms, 3 restaurants, 4 bars, room service and 2 outdoor swimming pools, all elegantly styled and furnished with New Urban amenities to meet the demands of travelers who are looking for comfortable yet affordable hotels. Mrs. Dewi Mas, The ONE Legian, General Manager said

“We are extremely proud to announce that The ONE Legian has been granted a license of a 4-star hotel from LSU Mandiri and will now operate as per the standards and ratings of a 4-star hotel. Indeed, this is another major achievement for The ONE Legian as we strive to provide our guests superb facilities and excellent accommoda-tion combined with One Stop Kuta Legian Experience through BALI, LIFESTYLE AND BEYOND. At The ONE Legian, we have always been dedicated to exceed our guests’ expectations, thus, the 4-star li-cense proved that our service quality is well deserved and will even set our standards higher.”

With the new hotel rating, guests of The ONE Legian can expect utmost comfort living experience, whether travelling on business or leisure.

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You can easily access our Hotel from all corners of the city, and staying in our Hotel will also give you easy access to many of Bali’s major locations, attrac-tions, and landmarks. You just cannot go wrong with our Hotel if you wish to enjoy Bali for all it is worth, Arnava Ninety 8 Bali Manage by Adonara

Management, Featuring a collection of 98 guest rooms divided into 2 dif-ferent types Superior room (24 M2), Suiteroom (28 M2), as well as a host of complimentary facility such as a convenient dining restaurant where guest can enjoy a variety of quality din-ing at their own convenience, 24 hours

in room dining service,meeting room, Internet access, laundry, Spa and swimming pool Complemented with professional service and an excellent ambient atmosphere,Arnava Ninety 8 Hotel designed as a business and lei-sure hotel and we will always delighted to serve you wholeheartedly.

Conveniently situated at Seminyak – Bali

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Quiksilver Rock n’ Rolls out the Kelompok Penerbang Rocket (KPR)

“Stay High” Tour

To introduce Quiksilver’s new brand narrative – “Stay High” – as well as their new partnership

with Indonesia’s latest emerging band KPR, they set off on a 3 stop tour of Bali which included performances at Preety Poison in Canggu, Straw Hut in Seminyak and Single Fin at Uluwatu.

The tour kicked off in Canggu where Preety Poison, AKA, “the bar with the skate bowl” was also launching a pre-mier of DC’s latest video - “De la Calle

Da Rua” - whilst skaters from around the globe took it in turns of putting on a skate demo for the hundreds of fans who were taking advantage of the Bintang, Sailor Jerry and LaCalita taco’s that were provided.

As the movie premier finished and the band kicked off their first set, the skate bowl came alive as holidaying pro skaters Bugs Fardell and Casey Ainsworth raised the skate bar higher to the hooting and howling of the

onlooking fans.Following the first gig, the band

moved to Straw Hut in Seminyak which followed a similar tone to the Preety Poison gig however a swimming pool filled with water and party-people was swapped out for the concrete skate bowl that was used the previous night.

To complete the tour of Bali, KPR made their way up Bali’s famed bukit peninsula to Single Fin at Uluwatu.


Uluwatu is one of Bali’s most famous waves and Single Fin is arguably the best place to see the sun go down after a hot day in the surf and sun. Joined by another emerging band, Roll Fast – KPR ended the tour on top of the cliffs of Uluwatu having started amongst the rice fields of Canggu.

Quiksilver’s new ‘Stay High’ campaign is divided into two distinct stories: the AM and PM collection.

The Surf Tripp AM collection is a daytime style inspired by iconic 80’s surf wear. This collection brings bright popping colors, loose brush work with irreverent humor, mixing up traditional surf fabrics like nylon, corduroy, terry toweling, flannels and knits into fashion forward combina-tions. The collection was out in full force during the tour with Quiksilver’s team riders taking time to hang with KPR at the beach between surf ses-

sions.The Dark Rituals PM collection rep-

resents street culture and night-time

styles with inspiration from tough, serious graphics from Quiksilver’s darker side of the 1990’s. The collec-tion would raise its head at the 3 gigs as the tour would display the best of Bali’s music scene, street culture and gritty nighttime happenings which occur when the sun sets on the Island of the Gods.

Quiksilver and Kelompok Pener-bang Rocket would like to thank the sponsors for making the “Stay High” tour a reality: Swiss Belhotel Interna-tional Petitenget and Swiss Belhotel Rainforest Kuta, Rolling Stones Maga-zine, Bali Belly, Balebengong.net, Beer Bintang, Sailor Jerry, LaCalita and Coca-Cola.

Stay tuned to @quiksilverid and @penerbangroket to be kept up to date on details of the next approaching tour of Jakarta. ***

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Legian, Bali November 20, 2015 – This November is a prefect time in holding End of Year Gathering presented by

ICA (Indonesia Chef Association) and IFBEC (Indonesia Food Beverage Executive Association). The annual gathering event features ABI (Association Bartender Indonesia) that have special interactive flair competition, slated to commence at 4.40 pm, Friday, November 20th at The ONE Legian, a New Urban Legian.

“The Bartender Flair Competition is a part of collaboration in order to optimize Food and Beverage Competition in Bali Hospitality as well being part of ICA and IF-BEC Association to introduce a worthwhile hospitality industry cause, bringing leading

corporate chefs and executives to team with ABI member in an exciting competi-tion,” said Mr. Made Darmayasa, Associa-tion Bartender Indonesia Chairman.

“This exciting and interactive flair competition was attended and watched by ICA and IFBEC member among The ONE Legian TEAM Skypool for Bali culinary food and beverage association while providing a fun and unique experience to our show for attendees.” added Mr. Nyoman Gede Suasta, Indonesia Food Beverage Execu-tive Association.

After Flair Competition presented by ABI, the Gathering opened by opening speech from The ONE Legian MC, then continue with welcoming speech of the

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host, Mrs. Dewi Mas as General Man-ager of The ONE Legian. Next speech presented by Mr. Henry Alexie Bloem as President of Indonesia Chef Association continued with Indonesia Food Bever-age Executive Association speech came from Mr. Nyoman Gede Suasta as IFBEC Chairman then another speech from As-sociation Bartender Indonesia presented by Mr. Made Darmayasa as the chairman. Closing speech was delivered by Chef Nyoman Picha who is The ONE Legian Chef and Beverage Manager. In the prime time, the event is followed by Dinner and Entertainment which was combined by Fun Games and Door Prize. Last but not least, the event was closed by Winner Announce-ment of Bartender Flair Competition, free program and farewell.

The End of Year 2015 Gathering is a fun and interactive event that is lucky enough to convene some of the top brands in the industry to enliven the event as well as maintaining relationship between Indonesia Chef and Food Beverage Executive.

President of Indonesia Chef Associa-tion, Mr. Henry Alexie Bloem said. “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to maintain support and awareness about the Associa-tion at the show, while providing our ICA, IFBEC and ABI member a once in a year for experiencing to work alongside an industry

leader.” Sponsors include Balimoon, PT. Soe-

jasch Bali, Lets Eat Magazine, Fitrafood, Bintang Pilsener, PHRI (Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association), Lipton, Iceland Vodka, Dineta Jaya, Bapak Bakery, PT. Sukanda Djaya, Aroma, Bali Hai, Bali Travel News, Megah Food, Puri Pangan Utama, Squeeze, Kulinari Bali, and The ONE Legian.

“We proud to be a part of the biggest event of the year as The Gathering is com-bined with 3 biggest and famous Associa-tion collaboration; ICA, IFBEC and ABI. By this event, The ONE Legian, a New Urban Legian declare that our TEAM will be fully support Indonesia Culinary Development in the current and future time“ commented Mrs. Dewi Mas, General Manager, The ONE Legian.


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Grand Aston Bali Beach Resort has prepared a delectable Festive Season program for its guests and

also outside guests to celebrate 2015 and to welcome 2016.

The celebration starts on the 25th of December, kicking off the festivities with Christmas Eve dinners on 4 Food and Bev-erages outlets. Then proceeds a two-week exhilarating agenda that includes Christmas Carols, and sumptuous Christmas Eve dinners that will delight the taste buds. Sumptuous and lavish 4 course Italian Dinner at Giorgio Italian Ristorante Piz-zeria, classic Christmas turkey dinner with seafood and Gluehwein – German mulled wine, Christmas turkey dinner with seafood at Grand Benoa Resto.

Homemade Christmas Goodies platter include Tiramisu Yule Log, Christmas

Stolen, and cookies available at Samudera Lounge. A visit from someone special (with a ho ho ho) is arranged for the little ones. Be prepared for a very unique entry of the big man in red at Bali Luna Pool Side lunch at the Christmas day. A Boxing Day BBQ Lunch helps to relieve the post Christmas blues with bucket of beer with special price.

Drop your presents in the giant gift box in the lobby and all your gifts and dona-tions will be delivered to Narayan Seva Children’s Home as Christmas time is the time to let our hearts do the thinking with spirit of sharing and giving to those who are less fortunate in their life.

Building up to the New Year there will be a variety of day and night time adventures to choose from, at any pace suits from Sunrise Yoga to Beach Volleyball.

The best night of the year begins with cocktail party at Samudera Lounge in preparation for the “The Hollywood Party” dinner, show and party. Be prepared to walk the red carpet and be photographed by paparazzi. After the live band, and live DJ spinning you to have fun, dance till you drop at our dance floor and wrap the year 2015 with New Year’s Eve fireworks to welcome 2016.

Mr. Raffaele Solferino, General Manager, Grand Aston Bali Beach Resort, comment-ed, ”As we bid farewell to 2015 and praise the re-awakening of the resort, we will enjoy celebrating the success of the year with our guests with this full, exciting and unique program. We know these events

will delight and kick off yet another in-spirational year at Grand Aston Bali Beach Resort.”

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