I Ketut Sudikerta, a former deputy governor of Bali, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering by the Denpasar District Court today.

Two Indian nationals, 32-year-old Manjeet Singh and 26-year-old Harvinder Singh, began their trial at the Denpasar District Court yesterday, a few months after their arrest on suspicion of smuggling at least 2.7 kilograms of shabu (meth) into Bali in September.

Bali Police destroyed thousands of illicit liquor bottles in Denpasar earlier today, which were kept as evidence collected from a recent island-wide operation exposing unlicensed and illegal alcohol. 

“We destroyed the items, some of which were unlicensed alcohol, whose sellers did not carry permits,” Bali Police Chief Petrus Reinhard Golose said, as quoted in a statement.

Basement Love x PNNY presents: HAAi, Ata at La Brisa Bali

La Brisa Bali will host London-based, Australian-born DJ HAAi and producer, as well as German DJ Ata Macias on Friday.

The father of a local man who posted a photo on Facebook over the weekend showing that he hanged a cat on a tree uploaded an apology video online, after residents and activists scorned him for alleged animal abuse.