Authorities in Bali have detained a tourist from Australia, identified by his initials ROM, for allegedly not paying for his meals at a restaurant in Kuta yesterday. According to reports from local media, his case is now being handled by Bali immigration.

The Indonesian government has announced that Bali will be the site of an upcoming trial run of electric motorcycles that will help determine national policy on the environmentally-friendly machines as the country revs up its ambitions to become a major manufacturer of electric vehicles.

Police in Bali’s Badung regency have arrested two underage boys, both of whom now potentially face life sentences for allegedly killing a man on Sunday. 

“They face lifetime imprisonment. The suspects are not facing the death penalty because they are underage,” Chief of Badung Police, Police Superintendent Yudith Satriya Hananta, said yesterday, as reported by Tribun-Bali.

Pretty Little Liars, the hugely popular American TV teen drama that ran from 2010-2017, is getting an Indonesian-language remake filmed on the tropical island of Bali. 

Viu, a Hong Kong-based streaming service available throughout Asia and the Middle East, will be producing the series for their service in conjunction with Warner Bros.

As we were painfully reminded this month, so many of Indonesia’s public holidays inconveniently fell on weekends this year that we only got one official long weekend (for Good Friday on April 19).