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Thursday, May 23, 2013
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BSMP showing Baris Dance IBP GIANYAR - Starting from May 20th, 2013, Bali Safari & Marine Park will present Tari Baris or Warrior Dance as a new ttraction for the visitors. Tari Baris not only will become an attraction, but also a unique souvenir from Bali as the guests are welcome to take picture with the dancers. ‘The show will provide a new cultural presentation which will entertain as well as invite the guests to love Indonesian culture more,’ said Hans Manansang, the General Manager of Bali Safari & Marine Park. Visitors can enjoy the new attraction three times a week. It will be performed every Monday at 2 pm, and at 1 pm every Tuesday and Thursday, before the Bali Agung Show. The new performance is one of Bali Safari & Marine Park’s efforts to improve the entertainment, especially the cultural performance for the visitors. In addition of being a leading wildlife conservation institution, Bali Safari & Marine Park aims to preserve and introduce the culture of Indonesia through theatre show, traditional dance and musical performance, wrap together in this beautifully landscaped award winning amusement park. Bali Safari & Marine Park is located in Gianyar and can be reached in an hour from Denpasar. Bali Safari & Marine Park is the latest development of Taman Safari Indonesia which has been famous as the leading wildlife conservation park in Indonesia with the first establishment of Taman Safari in Cisarua, Bogor, West Java and the second in Prigen, East Java. (kmb18)
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Starting from May 20th, 2013, Bali Safari & Marine Park will present Tari Baris or Warrior Dance as a new attraction for the visitors.
Green School held a Rainbow Warrior competition to win scholarship scheduled to IBP
BADUNG - A competition has launched this week for kids age 10-17 to win a free week at Green SuperCamp, the camp that combines academic acceleration and personal leadership with environmental education. Two winners of the competition, which has an entry deadline of June 2, will be granted a free week at Green SuperCamp, to be held at Green School in Bali in July. One winner each for the Junior Forum (age 10-13) taking place July 1-7 and the Senior Forum (age 14-17) taking place July 10-16, will win a full scholarship to the all-inclusive camp, valued at US $3000. A limited number of runner-up scholarships offering a 50% discount will also be awarded. Green SuperCamp was founded in 2011 as a combination of the proven academic acceleration echniques of the U.S.-based superCamp with the environmental education principles of Green School Bali. While SuperCamp has graduated over 65,000students worldwide in the past 35 years, 2013 marks the third year Green SuperCamp is being offered at Green School Bali. Students from all over Indonesia and around the world will be attending. Green SuperCamp Director Heather Yelland said, “At Green SuperCamp, young people enter an environment where they are encouraged to experience their own magnificence. In this environment,
they achieve incredible results across the board. In fact, we have found that 100% of the participants achieve increases in self-discipline and commitment, communication and relationship skills, and confidence and courage.” The Green SuperCamp Scholarship Competition is geared toward parents who would like their children to win a free week at Green SuperCamp at Green School in Bali. To enter, parents must go to the website at http://www.greensupercamp.com/ global_comp and write (in 400 words or less) why they want their child to attend Green SuperCamp in Bali and what this opportunity would mean for their life. Leteicha Webb, a parent whose son participated in Green Super Camp last year, said, “My boy went through a really rough patch and starting doing badly at school and I was really worried about him. That’s why I sent him to Green SuperCamp. Thechange in him is unbelievable. He’s doing so well at school that even his teachers are surprised.” Sarah Cooper, a student who completed Green SuperCamp last year said, “My life has changed so much since Green SuperCamp. I’m always looking on the brighter side of life. I have become so much more confident, not just in school, but also in myself. I am taking every opportunity I am given and making the most of it. I have also noticed that my grades have gone up so much because of the activities I did at Green SuperCamp.” (kmb18)
anchor late May IBP DENPASAR - Greenpeace campaign vessel, Rainbow Warrior, is scheduled to anchor in Bali at the end of May 2013. The vessel bringing the mission to campaign the Indonesia’s biodiversity is currently sailing from Jayapura to Bali. Voyage of the vessel is one of the tour series of the Indonesia’s marine biodiversity. “We are the center of biodiversity in the world in terms of forestry and marine sector. We want to celebrate it together with the people in Bali. Therefore, there will a welcoming event for the Rainbow Warrior on May 31 and there is also a public exhibition. We will invite all the public to come to Bali on board or go up onto the vessel and meet the crews,” said the Ocean Campaigner Indonesia, Arif Nasution, in Denpasar. He added, especially in Bali, the Rainbow Warrior vessel brought a mission to emphasize to the public
that Bali was the Indonesian barometer that should be managed sustainably. If indeed there was a desire to develop massive tourism sector it should be noticed that any development had restrictedness so that it would not only pursue profits. He said that many elements of biodiversity in Bali could be preserved such as Bali snakefruit as germ plasm and should be protected from being eroded by the other seeds from outside. Besides, Balinese customs should be protected because biodiversity was also attached to the cultural aspect. “I think Bali is a great example that constantly keeps its culture. However, it is not enough if we cannot fight against the big waves of capitalization and privatization to the management of our natural resources,” he said. Later, the anchoring activities of the other Rainbow Warrior would be coupled with the twentieth anniversary of service made by the Wisnu Foundation in Bali. (ina)