Waste invasion: tons of rubbish wash ashore Kuta Beach in Bali

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Waste invasion: tons of rubbish wash ashore Kuta Beach in Bali

2017-11-23 13:15 Last Updated At：13:15

Tons of waste has been washed up on Kuta Beach, in Bali. The beach is located in Badung regency, in island's southwest coast.

During to the rainy season started in the past couple few weeks in Bali, rubbish like logs and plastic trash washed ashore tragically and was placed along the coastline of the beach.

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Badung’s Environment and Hygiene Agency (LHK) an "emergency status" on Tuesday. "It had just been five tons a day, but now it's significantly gone up, up to 50 tons," said Badung LHK director, I Putu Eka Merthawan.

Merthawan described the situation as "waste invasion" occurring annually due to the rainy season, but it comes earlier this year.

The official arranged workforce to move the trash away. "The plan is to deploy 700 janitors to the beach to clean up," Merthawan said.

Other beaches like Pererenen, Canggu, Seseh, Berawa, Petitenget, and Jimbaran in Badung coastline has not raised the "alert level" yet but janitors are standby.

"People need not worry, same with tourists. We have prepared our course of action according to standard operational procedures," The LHK director said.

There were volunteers helping to clean the beach last year.

5 Australians serving life sentences for drugs in Indonesia could soon return home

2024-12-03 17:59 Last Updated At：18:01

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The remaining five Australians from the Bali Nine group who are serving life sentences for drug smuggling in Indonesia could be repatriated home this month as Indonesia and Australia put finishing touches on a draft proposal for their transfer, Indonesia's senior law minister said Tuesday.

The Indonesian government is awaiting Australia's response to key points related to the transfer arrangements, including provisions requiring Australia to acknowledge Indonesia’s sovereignty, respect the rulings of Indonesian courts and ensure that the five maintain their prisoner status after returning home, Yusril Ihza Mahendra told reporters.

“I hope that we can find an understanding on that, agreed on the draft. And we hope that we can finalize these matters in December,” Mahendra said after meeting Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke in Jakarta.

Burke said the proposal "is a significant step forward and shows significant goodwill. We now need to work through the issues within each country and we’ll we will be doing that without delay.”

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last month appealed to Indonesia's new President Prabowo Subianto to allow their repatriation.

Two convicted ringleaders of the Bali Nine, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were executed by a firing squad in 2015, causing a diplomatic furor between neighbors Indonesia and Australia. Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen died from cancer in prison in May.

The nine were arrested in an attempt to smuggle 8.3 kilograms (18.3 pounds) of heroin from Indonesia’s resort island of Bali to Australia in 2005,

The five are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. Renae Lawrence, the only woman in the group, was released and returned to Australia in 2018.

Of the five, Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman are held in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison, while the others have been transferred to facilities elsewhere.

For years, they have sought clemency ahead of Indonesia’s Independence Day. Each request has gone unanswered, underscoring the country’s hard line stance on drug offenses.

Last month, Indonesia agreed to repatriate to the Philippines a death-row drug convict who was nearly executed by firing squad but got a reprieve due to years of pleadings from Manila.

Associated Press writer Rod McGuirk, in Melbourne, Australia, contributed to this report.