Speaking about criminal in Bali, it is no other part of the world is comparable
to the land of Bali. An American lady who change her name to Ketut Tantri was
so impressed by the peace of Bali and security from criminal in 1930 at every
spot of land in Bali. Then she wrote a book with the title of " Revolusi Nusa
Damai" meaning The Revolt in Peaceful Island. It is true until 1970s Bali was
totally free of any type of crime when there was still 100% Balinese to settle
the island. Tourism business developed, various people come to Bali from other
provinces of Indonesia and from other countries. What happened? Those people come
to Bali from America, Australia and Europe have not been as only a tourists but
some were allegedly criminals or at least black business practitioners in many
fields of economy. Some of them already to clear that buy the handicraft product
at carver of A then brought the sample to B or to Java or to other places to get cheaper
cost of production, or even bringing people from Java to Bali for their own production,
lately also taken from Lombok island. When they do not have project to produce
the Javanese of Lombok workers were neglected roaming around big city of Denpasar
without enough skill to compete. By 1980s had been many Javanese and Lombok people
roaming in Denpasar city and their existence favored the new booming projects
of constructing hotels, villas, restaurants, and many also government construction.
Most of these people were not ready to live in modern way, they got the money
and then spent out, just like living in food hunter and food gatherer. It is hard
to understand historically Javanese and Balinese are actually come from the same
root of ethnic, what has made them spiritually so different, many speculation
about the causes can be read in the internet also. This is the beginning of Bali
encountered with criminal such as thieveries, pick pockets, liars, falsifications,
deceiving and the types. Too many Balinese handicraft producers were deceived
by foreign importers, including garment manufactures, gold and silver smith producers
and even workers between 1970 to 1990. Local government did not aware of what
happened in the society, a request of SOS to Indonesian diplomatic mission abroad
never got response, and at last the Balinese that got the final burden. Later
1990s a new trend coming from Japan what is spoken by people working in tourism
as pre-conditioned complaint, especially those having romantic relation with Japanese
lady which hit the staff of hotel or tour operator. It had been such persistent
education for Balinese to do crime, and thanks Gods the personality of 99.99%
of Balinese still intact, not being inspired by this way of life. |
