Comments on: The Bali Post: All The News That’s Fit to Print . . . and Then Some! http://susijohnston.com/2010/01/bali-post-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print-and-then-some/ The Sleeping Tiger on the Island of Bali blogs about interiors, architecture Indonesian arts, textiles, and life as it is lived Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:12:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: a! http://susijohnston.com/2010/01/bali-post-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print-and-then-some/comment-page-1/#comment-8643 a! Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:39:26 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1614#comment-8643 aha. so, so we discuss about the most prominent newspaper in bali which is full of bintang. not beer of course, but it's quite similiar. to many drink bintang, ah, sorry. i mean to many read bintang in bali post we'll make us headache. :) that is what they called marketing journalism. no firewall. no explanation for readers that it's adv. let reader be stupid by read the article, i mean the fake articles. :) aha. so, so we discuss about the most prominent newspaper in bali which is full of bintang. not beer of course, but it’s quite similiar. to many drink bintang, ah, sorry. i mean to many read bintang in bali post we’ll make us headache. :)

that is what they called marketing journalism. no firewall. no explanation for readers that it’s adv. let reader be stupid by read the article, i mean the fake articles. :)

]]> By: Susi http://susijohnston.com/2010/01/bali-post-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print-and-then-some/comment-page-1/#comment-8458 Susi Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:36:44 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1614#comment-8458 The contractor for the Semer Road, BTW, was Tunas Jaya. They've done a lot of surprisingly competent work lately in Bali. What a relief, what a rarity. Bravo Tunas Jaya. The contractor for the Semer Road, BTW, was Tunas Jaya. They’ve done a lot of surprisingly competent work lately in Bali. What a relief, what a rarity. Bravo Tunas Jaya.

]]> By: Susi http://susijohnston.com/2010/01/bali-post-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print-and-then-some/comment-page-1/#comment-8457 Susi Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:35:49 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1614#comment-8457 Actually, the road construction in Semer was excellent, and is holding up admirably. One of the best road construction projects I've seen in Bali, and one of the quickest, too. The sidewalks seem to have been handled by a separate subcontractor. The designs seem fine, but the materials and workmanship (which I watched day by day), look not quite up to snuff. The good news is that so far, even with bouts of heavy rain, their "new style" drainage system seems to be working OK. No major floods, no evident erosion of the road. Shame about the sidewalks, but nobody in Semer ever walks, they all have motorbikes, which they ride recklessly with no helmets, even if it's only to go 30 meters to the warung to buy a sachet of shampoo and a pack of cigarettes. Actually, the road construction in Semer was excellent, and is holding up admirably. One of the best road construction projects I’ve seen in Bali, and one of the quickest, too.

The sidewalks seem to have been handled by a separate subcontractor. The designs seem fine, but the materials and workmanship (which I watched day by day), look not quite up to snuff.

The good news is that so far, even with bouts of heavy rain, their “new style” drainage system seems to be working OK. No major floods, no evident erosion of the road.

Shame about the sidewalks, but nobody in Semer ever walks, they all have motorbikes, which they ride recklessly with no helmets, even if it’s only to go 30 meters to the warung to buy a sachet of shampoo and a pack of cigarettes.

]]> By: Richard Valentine http://susijohnston.com/2010/01/bali-post-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print-and-then-some/comment-page-1/#comment-8002 Richard Valentine Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:06:32 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1614#comment-8002 Building flyovers to cope with the hideous traffic? Frightening thought for a place that can't even build a sidewalk. For months last year residents of Banjar Semer in Kerobokan were inconvenienced by the desultory construction of guttering and a raised sidewalk the length of the main road; barely three months later the kerbing is crumbling in places and the paving stones are lifting and cracking. What next? A nuclear power station at Serangan to cope with the grossly inadequate electrical supply? Building flyovers to cope with the hideous traffic?

Frightening thought for a place that can’t even build a sidewalk.

For months last year residents of Banjar Semer in Kerobokan were inconvenienced by the desultory construction of guttering and a raised sidewalk the length of the main road; barely three months later the kerbing is crumbling in places and the paving stones are lifting and cracking.

What next? A nuclear power station at Serangan to cope with the grossly inadequate electrical supply?

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