Bali Hotels / Villas / Travel - don't do it !

Thinking of traveling to hotels or villas in Bali or Indonesia? Think twice, think thrice! The Balinese police and Indonesian police are the nastiest, most corrupt police force in the world, as are the judiciary (prosecutors and judges). If someone decides to “get” you it is really easy and inexpensive for them, but expensive for you! You holiday to (hotel / villa stay) in Bali may well end up costing you more than money!

Here are some facts about Indonesia’s / Bali’s police force and sources so you know they are facts (hope this helps you chose the right hotel or villa, outside Bali).

1) Bali’s police are the most corrupt in the world (source: Transparency International).
2) It costs just $3000 for someone to have you falsely arrested and thrown into jail (source: Nasty Bali Blogspot).
3) Balinese police regular plant drugs on foreigners in order to be able to extort money from them (source: Czech Consul to Bali).
4) It costs around $20,000 to hire an “off duty” policeman to kill a foreigner, less for an Indonesian (source: Nasty Bali Org)
5) Most of the big hotels in Bali are owned by the murderous Suharto family; under Suharto thousands of Balinese were murdered in the mid 1960’s (source: Fugly Bali).
6) The Indonesian police operate and / or protect the country’s brothels (source: US State Department).
7) Bali and Lombok are both pedophile black-spots with several well organized (protected by the police) pedophile rings operating there (source: UNCHR and US State Department). Children are forced into the sex industry using false identity papers issued by corrupt Indonesian officials (source: US State Department).
8) Bali’s International Airport is a massive security (terrorism) risk (source: US Homeland Security / American Transportation Safety Administration) and massive flight safety risk (source: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration).
9) Street narcotics peddlers work with and pay a commission to the police. When the police are told to appear to crack down on foreign drug users for the media, they simply get their peddlers to “finger” a customer then walk away so the police ca claim the dealer ran off (source Bali BS).
10) It costs $3000 to have the Balinese police place your name on the regional Interpol watch list as a suspected insurgent. This is useful if you wish to have someone killed in a neighboring country (to Indonesia) and need to find out where they are (source: Mark Austin Bali).
11) It costs $5000 to shut down a foreign owned small business (source: Bali SOS)
12) Over half the villas in Bali operate illegally (no operational licenses) and are subject to closure as the police are now “cracking down” on them (source: Bali Discovery).
13) Foreigners can not officially own land in Bali and can not operate their properties as rental villas as only Indonesians can get operational licenses (source: Indonesian Government).
14) The Indonesian police use rape as a weapon / tool against people (source: Human Rights Watch).
15) Indonesia illegally occupied West Papua and the South Malaku islands (source: Wikipedia and Free West Papua)
16) Muslims receive lighter prison sentences than Christians in Indonesia (source: Jakarta Post and lawyers for Michelle Leslie). Churches are burned to the ground by militias linked to the Indonesian military. New building permits are not issued for churches which have been burnt down. Local vigilantes and police arrest Christians who pray at home on the basis their homes are unlicensed churches (source: Bali BS).
17) Foreigners are not entitles to protection under the Indonesian constitution (source: Indonesian Supreme Court in a ruling relating to the Bali Nine drugs case).
18) Foreigners are presumed guilty until proven innocent in spite of Indonesia’s presumption of innocence for its own citizens (source: Bali’s chief judge Linton Sirait in regard to the case against Schapelle Corby).
19) Bali is a haven for foreign criminals evading justice in the western world (source: Reuters)
20) Indonesian Terrorists are planning further attacks on Bali and to kidnap foreigners (Australian DFAT).
21) The EU Aviation Safety Commission bans all Indonesian airlines (including Garuda Indonesia) from EU skies after the Indonesian safety delegation could not even tell the commission how many planes each airline had, which showed their own Indonesian safety commission had fabricated the safety certifications for each airline (source: EU).
22) Garuda Indonesia management and flight staff have been implicated in the murder by arsenic poisoning of one of their customers / passengers, human rights activist Munir Said Thalib (source: Tapol, the Indonesian Human Rights Group based in England).
23) The Indonesian tsunami warning system is ineffective in warning people on Bali’s beaches because the fault line is too close to the island to give people time to get off the beaches (source: Professor Hermann Fritz from the Georgia Institute of Technology, THE Indonesian tsunami expert).
24) Dengue fever is at epidemic levels in and H5N1 bird flu at a dangerous stage in Bali / Indonesia. A record 200,000 dengue cases in Indonesia alone, resulting in an expected 2,200 deaths are forecast for 2007 after already making the half way point (100,000 cases with 1,100 deaths) in July. Indonesia has the highest number of human bird flu infections and deaths in the world. Indonesia has the third largest number of tuberculosis cases in the world (source: World Health Organization).
25) Serious disease statistics from Indonesia are actually historically suppressed by the authorities with experts agreeing the actual number of cases of infections such as dengue and H5N1 being much higher, maybe twice the reported numbers (source: CIA).
26) An estimated 90%+ of Balinese hotel service charges gets stolen by the hotel owners / management from the hotel staff who are legally entitled to it. Hotel workers generally earn the state minimum wage of around US$55 but hotels get around this and pay staff less by listing them as part time workers. Recent massive increases in fuel, clothing and food costs in Indonesia means that many hotel staff can only afford to eat once a day (source: A Balinese hotel worker).
27) An estimated 75%+ of due Bali sales taxes get stolen by the Indonesian travel industry through false claims and fraud (e.g. “twin book system”); these taxes go to pay for hospitals, schools, etc. and is the number one reason why so many Balinese stay in poverty (source: A foreign travel agent).
28) Indonesia and Bali are the credit card fraud capitals of the world with the highest number of fraudulent transactions Vs. genuine ones in the world. The Balinese are well trained at the "double swipe" and other methods to buy their next TV on your credit card (source: Credit Card Association).

Ok, you want to go to Bali and stay in some criminal owned hotel or villa and have subservient Balinese pander to your every selfish wish, go ahead, become part of the problem or even a victim yourself. But do us all a favor and don’t say you are going to Bali to support the Balinese; the Indonesians need to put their house in order first. If you are looking at Bali hotels or Balinese villas you are doing it for a cheap holiday / vacation where people have no choice but to look up to you, because you are a cheap charlie who gets no respect at home and you need your fix in Bali!