A permanent exhibition room in Agung Rai Museum of Art (ARMA) is immortalized as Anak Agung Made Djelantik Room to honour Anak Agung Made Djelantik’s dedication for art and culture of Bali especially Balinese painting. This permanent exhibition room houses the watercolor paintings of Anak Agung Made Djelantik, the founder of Bali Walter Spies Foundation and the Honorary President of German Walter Spies Society. A strong bond between Walter Spies and Anak Agung Made Djelantik is showed by the position of this new room that is next to Walter Spies Room.

Left to Right: Bulan Trisna Djelantik (the doughter), Anak Agung Rai (owner of ARMA), Horst Jordt (President Walter Spies Society Germany), and the picture of Anak Agung Made Djelantik

The watercolor paintings of Anak Agung Made Djelantik which are exhibited here depict the fateful events in Anak Agung Made Djelantik life, from early in the childhood up to retirement years. The theme of the paintings range from the black magic to culture shock, from temple to boat race, in short the themes of the paintings cover all aspects of Anak Agung Made Djelantik life.

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“Yayasan Walter Spies Bali” and “Walter Spies Society Germany”

cordially invites you to attend the opening of the

“A. A. Made Djelantik Room”

at ARMA MUSEUM Ubud

on 9th January 2008, 17.00 pm.

This Permanent Exhibition of water color paintings to Celebrates the Life of a Balinese Prince, a Humanitarian, Doctor and an Artist.

You can find moneychangers in all tourism are all over Bali, but moneychangers in major tourism area will give you the best rate due to the intense competition, the one in far reaches tourism area such as Gilimanuk does not offer a good rate. Moneychangers generally do not charge a fee for their services, so you can change money as often as you want without it costing you. The moneychangers rates are vary, but they offer quicker service and usually give a better exchange rate than banks. They also do not open as early as banks but stay open much longer than banks. Bank seldom post exchange rates, but moneychangers always do.

Though the rate of the moneychangers are vary it is best for you to use the service of authorized moneychangers to prevent you from being robbed at un-authorized moneychangers and support Indonesian Central Bank to fight against money laundering. The authorized moneychangers posted this logo:

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The New Year eve in Denpasar was celebrated by fireworks party along Jl. Cok Agung Tresna in Renon (the area of government’s offices), Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai, Jl. Diponegoro, Jl. Gajah Mada (Jl. = street) and in some houses in Denpasar. The sound and the beauty of the launched fireworks created a cheerful atmosphere and made the traffic became a joyful thing to feel. Even though there was no special place and time to shoot the fireworks but it was done by everyone from their house, school, office, street, and etc.

This year, the New Year celebration in Denpasar is simpler than last year. No music performance in open space except in Art Centre Bali, no many artists, alias special occasion for gathering people to celebrate the coming year. But the condition did not abolish the togetherness with family or friends. The fireworks party became another pleasure to celebrate the New Year eve.

The fireworks party indirectly became a medium to build the unity among people. When a group of people played with it alongside the street, some other people who were not belong to the group were getting closer to watch and clap their hands as they enjoyed the fireworks show. Then they were having a chat each other. Balinese, Javanese, American, Australian, Japanese, Indians, no matter where they come from, all were having great time. No hatred, no mistrust but cheer and joy.

It was reported on Bali Post, Sunday (16/12) that Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, the leader of Jamaah Islamiah (JI), visited the three sentenced of the 1st Bali Bomb Blast Case; Amrozy, Mukhlas, and Imam Samudra in Nusa Kambangan prison.

He stated that the verdict was mistaken due to the death sentence to those three persons. He considers that Amrozy and his friends are not terrorists but they are contra-terrorist.

Ba’asyir also stated that actually those people who are in jail was only trying to defend the Muslims but unfortunately they used wrong ways and for expiating their sin they are doing two months fast (kifarat) currently since there was innocent people killed on 1st Bali Bomb Blast incident. And his last statement that sounds like a threat was there will be a big disturbance/danger if those three sentenced are sent to death because they are mujahid (fighter).

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BALI, Indonesia Dec 16, `07 A UN Climate Change Conference adopted a plan to negotiate a new global warming pact on Saturday, Dec 15, after the United States suddenly reversed its opposition to a call by developing nations for technological help to battle rising temperatures.

The adoption came after marathon negotiations overnight, which first settled a battle between Europe and the U.S. over whether the document should mention specific goals for rich countries obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The agreement launches a two-year negotiating process - the Bali roadmap - aiming to secure a binding deal at the 2009 UN summit in Denmark.

European and U.S. envoys dueled into the final hours of the two-week meeting over the EUs proposal that the Bali mandate suggest an ambitious goal for cutting the emissions of industrial nations_ by 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

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