Warning for Bali
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 by Sidarta WijayaSince the dawn of tourism in Bali, many researchers, writers, tourists, and others people have showed a great concern on the negative effects of tourism to the environment, culture and people of Bali. Here are some examples of the warnings from them on the threats that tourism brings to the island of Bali:
“How much more tourism can the island take? How much more traffic? How much more craft shops? How many more Kutas? How many more jets? The answer is that it never stops, the road are widened, the hotels multiply, the direct flight increase. Commercialism has crept into every aspect of Balinese life… It is now clear that the unbelievably complex social and religious fabric of the Balinese is at last breaking down under the tourist onslaught (Dalton 1990: 35-36)
“Say Bali, and two things come in mind: tourism and paradise. Both are inalienable features of the island, and also incompatible. For as fast as paradises seduce tourists, tourists reduce the paradises… Hardly has a last paradise been discovered than everyone converges on it so fast that it quickly becomes a paradise lost”. (Iyer 1988: 88)
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