With Bali’s economy on its knees due to it being virtually totally dependent on international visitors, it appears that the light at end of a very long tunnel for Bali may have been delayed again.
It has been reported that the Deputy Governor of Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, has said, “There are no plans to open to foreign tourists on December 1 and it looks like it will be early next year”.
With news like this open to a great deal of conjecture and rumour mongering in Bali, the island reopening has been “announced” or rumoured, a number of times in the past, but could not and cannot happen because the Indonesian Government has not fully reopened the country’s borders.
The Deputy Governor said that several conditions had to be met to push forward the reopening, adding, “Because, apart from all our efforts in Bali, the decision of the central government, as well as the condition of the market country is also very influential”.
Bali is currently open to domestic visitors but not international.
A report by John Alwyn-Jones
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