BE MESERE(BALI SPICY BEEF)

Be Mesere is the one of Bali traditional food. It's the spicy(very hot) food, that will make your mouth burnt. But you will take it more and more, unconciously. Actually,Be Mesere is the meat fried sauce.

Let's cook.

Yield: 2 serving

250 gram beef
8 pcs red chillies
6 pcs little green chillies
1 small piece of trassi
1 small piece of soft brown sugar(Javanesse sugar), it should be the same amount with trassi
1/2 teaspoon of salt
3 table spoon vegetable oil
lime (if like)

1.Boiled beef until tender, then hit the meet and shred into small strips, pulling it apart with your fingers.
2.Mix all spicy together until you have a smooth paste.
3.Heat vegetable oil, then mix all ingredients into fry pan

Have a great meal!!!

Bedugul (Part 2)

Bedugul is a cool mountain area in Bali. It located about one or two hours drive from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in the normal traffic (not in weekend). In the weekend, you can reach it in two and half hours or more. The attitude of Bedugul is about 1400 meters above sea level, so like I said in my previous article, Bedugul has cool temperature. (the pic is taken from here)

In Bedugul you can find many beautiful tourism objects and facilities. Also you will see beautiful sights along your journey to this location. The Eka Karya Botanical Garden (the only botanical garden in Bali) located in Bedugul area (see the left pic), among Lake Beratan (right pic), Lake Tamblingan, Lake Buyan and natural forest in the west part.

At the edge of Lake Beratan you will see the Ulun Danu Temple which is beautifully and harmoniously featured with the surrounding nature. Some water sports activities are provided in this lake e.g. fishing, skiing, diving and parasailing. You can find the wonderful scene on the park in Bedugul area (right pic).

Walking from the parking area, you will enter and enjoy greenery and the shadow of the Banyan tree. A small garden with some of local flowers raises the beauty of the landscape in front of the temple.

Bedugul

Bedugul is a great place in Bali. Me and my wife visited there last week and had some picture there.

The weather is cool...you can compare it with Puncak (West Java) and Lembang (Bandung - West Java) since the temperature is about 20-24 Celcius degree.

There are many good places you must visit to, such as Desa Bedugul (Bedugul Village), Kebon Raya (I'll write this later), then Danau Beratan (Beratan Lake, you can see in background in left picture), Pura Ulun Danu (the background of 2 pictures), and Pasar Tradisional Candi Kuning (Candi Kuning Traditional Market - well I hadn't visited since I only passed by Bedugul).

So, don't forget to visit Bedugul if you go to Bali!!

Nasty Bali - Balinese & Indonesian Mafia

Bali is not the tropical island paradise people say it is, especially not for the Balinese who suffer human rights abuse from Jakarta and are insulted and abused by the majority of Javanese and foreign expatriates on their island. The conduit for this abuse from every angle is the Balinese (Indonesian) police, whose officers pay to get their jobs and positions despite the low wages because they know how much money they will be able to extort from others; this is Nasty Bali.

Other web sites show just how nasty it gets;
Nasty Bali
Bali BS
Fugly Bali
Bali SOS
Bomb Bali
Save A Life
Human Rights Watch Indonesia
Wikipedia on human rights in Indonesia
Tapol - The Indonesia Human Rights Campaign
US Congress Report on Indonesia (search for "human rights")
Transparency International December 2006 Corruption Report (look for "police")
Transparency International Corruption Index (look for "Indonesia" at the bottom)
Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2006 (Indonesian parliament, police and judiciary score some of the very worst marks for the whole world)

Nasty Bali expatriates do all they can to trash these sites but the truth is there for you to see; there are 2 cases of cited human rights abuse by the Balinese police against 2 different people on 2 different occasions (although involving the same police officers, including Made Pastika) who were involved in charitable work in Bali. These people were tortured by Bali's mafia police at the bequest of others for a few dollars and their services to the island and the Balinese people meant nothing! Why? Because the nasty expatriate and Javanese community in Bali care nothing about the Balinese, they only care about their wallets, which makes them excellent bed fellows for the corrupt Indonesian police.

This Nasty Bali blog looks to set the record straight and to highlight / expose just some of the nasty expats and Indonesians living / working in Bali. People like police chief and potential governor I Made Mangku Pastika, former PATA chairman Jack Daniels in Sanur who tried to murder a business rival, gay Bali real estate broker and alleged pedophile Bert Vierstra in Lovina, and Roy "Majapahit" Thompson the Ubud based drug dealer who is friends with both Bert and Made's sons.

Jack Daniels Bali; Bad Wig Wearer, Bad Facial Hair Organizer, Joke Shop Spectacle Customer, Helmet Loving Fat Ugly Travel Agent & Criminal

This is the face (I bet hindsight bothers him now), a few years gone, of one of the nastiest foreign expatriates that work unlawfully in Indonesia. He commits crimes in Bali and feeds like a leach off the Balinese while they go hungry; his name is John Millard Daniels, AKA Jack Daniels, former PATA Bali Chapter chairman and evidence shows him to be a psychopathic dog who works with corrupt police officers to try and kill someone. I stress what you read here are documented facts and like many criminals in Bali, JM Daniels is not behind bars only because he works with corrupt police, like Made Pastika, who are his fellow anti-Balinese dogs in crime.

Brief History
After competitor Mark Austin caught Daniels' travel agency cheating on the Internet offering hotel rates they (Bali Discovery Tours) could not honour (a common trick by Indonesian agents called "bait and switch", where you get someone's credit card details under false pretenses and then oblige them into booking another hotel through your company), Jack Daniels started paying the corrupt Balinese police money to conduct unlawful "investigations" (harassment and threats) against Mr. Austin; these are recorded facts. When Mr. Austin stood up for himself and his legal rights, then took things further by trying to sue American Daniels in the USA which threatened to officially confirm Daniels had been acting unlawfully, even illegally, Daniels made it quite clear he wanted Englishman Mark Austin dead.

Death Threats
Jack Daniels wanted Englishman Mark Austin murdered; this is an easy thing to do in Bali as a foreign human life costs only 20,000 USD or so to terminate through a hitman, likely an off duty policeman, although not necessarily off duty. Documented details emerged of death threats being made against Mr. Austin then by Balinese police officers too. At first Daniels simply got the police to check foreign arrivals at Bali International Airport for the Englishman as he knew Austin was still coming to Bali. Trouble for Jack is that Mark apparently knew what the game was and came in via Jakarta airport, clearing immigration there and then catching an internal flight into Bali which was not checked by Balinese immigration and therefore Mark slipped through the police "net". Because Bali's police were acting unlawfully, they could not apply for a watch order with the whole Indonesian immigration system in Jakarta, so the police appointed Jack Daniels as a police "deputy"; don't laugh, it is true. This fact is recorded in a police document which Mark Austin was able to buy through a bent lawyer in Bali; are there any other kind?

Illegal Police Acts
The police illegally furnished Daniels with copies of Mark Austin's passport, which they had unlawfully seized and photocopied in their earlier unlawful investigation against the Englishman. The corrupt police officers involved stupidly and incredibly recorded in an official police memo the fact they agreed Daniels could appoint "private detectives", which Austin also got a copy of. The police gave Daniels a copy of Austin's passport because it had his photograph on it, so that Daniels could make copies and pass them to his team of private detectives, mainly in the North of Bali where Austin had connections and was rumored to still be frequently visiting; so they could report any sitings of Mr. Austin back to Daniels. You of course will ask why the Balinese police did not pass around copies of Mr. Austin's photo with their own police officers in the north of the island but instead used the services of John M Daniels; the answer speaks for itself.

Legal Proof
Recently, concrete proof of all this came when one of Jack Daniels' "private detectives" (Dutchman and gay illegal villa salesman Bert Vierstra Lovina) gave a copy of Mark Austin's passport to a friend of his, who also disliked the Englishman; his name is Roy Thompson of Ubud, a local narcotics dealer who sells to school children. Roy Thompson then stupidly published details of Mr. Austin's passport on the Internet, including his copied passport photo and the exact details you get from a passport (full name, date of birth, place of birth). This photo and these personal details could not have come from anywhere else except the Balinese police.

Police Corruption Payments
But it gets worse. Despite Jack Daniels' team of private detectives scouring Northern Bali for poor Mark Austin, they never found him. Jack Daniels had already paid at least 3000 USD to corrupt police officers for them to agree to afflict the Englishman whenever and wherever they could, but now John Millard was going to take things to another nasty level. Knowing Mark Austin lived in Phuket, Thailand he paid the Balinese police another 3000 USD to have Mr. Austin's name placed on the regional Interpol watch list as a suspected insurgent. It is a fact the police then did this, the evidence exists from sworn statements by several people who were shown the Interpol file on Mr. Austin by the Balinese police. Just to set the record straight, there are clear conditions for placing an Interpol watch order on someone (e.g. thye have to be convicted of or charged with certain serious crimes - see here); the only legal documented investigation against Mr. Austin was however an alleged cases of criminal libel against, you got it, Jack Daniels! And guess who is said to have signed the Interpol watch order? Yes, you have it again, that dog of a police chief Made Pastika!

Attempted Murder By Jack Daniels
Details of Mr. Austin's whereabouts, his home address and his movements in and out of Thailand were fed by the Thai police under that Interpol watch order to the Balinese police who in turn gave that information directly to Jack Daniels. This is known to be true because of the submission by Jack Daniels in his failed domain dispute with Austin at the WIPO. What this publicly available document does not show you however are the pleadings made by both sides. The pleadings by Jack Daniels actually stated Mr. Austin's home address in Phuket; but how did Jack know Mark Austin's home address? It was not available publicly! This need to boast about what Daniels' knew about Mark Austin actually saved the Englishman's life, as it came at the same time as Thai gangsters arrived at the estate where Mr. Austin lived; they were demanding to know where Mr. Austin's house specifically was. Alerted to this fact by the estate security and realizing how had paid for them to pay him a visit, Mr. Austin and his family were able to flee their home before a bullet paid for by Daniels was put into his head.

You may baulk at all of this in utter incredulous amazement and disbelief, but these are all documented facts, including a telephone death promise to Mr. Austin from John M. AKA Jack Daniels in Bali. So why if this is all true is Daniels not in jail? Because policemen in Indonesia do not go to jail and putting Daniels in jail for this would also require putting senior police officers such as Made Pastika, potentially the next Bali Governor in jail too.

The evidence against John M. Daniels is well documented and considerable. He works with corrupt police officers to commit human rights abuse against others and he tried to have someone murdered. Unfortunately Mark Austin's civil case against Daniels in the USA failed, but don't let the pro-Daniels anti-Austin pundits fool you about why. Mark's case against Daniels had to go through the process of being filed locally at state level where they always play safe and opt for defense where possible. Then you appeal and it goes through the appeal courts and possibly even to the Supreme Court; you expect at the outset to have to do this. Unfortunately for Bali, Mark Austin's lawyers made a mistake and filed their motion two days after the deadline, so it was thrown out on procedural grounds, nothing else. If it had been filed on time, it is almost certain Daniels would either be in an Indonesian jail or deported by now. Mark Austin apparently got all of his money back, but a curse on Austin's lawyer anyway for not getting rid of this American bum.

I personally hate Jack Daniels because he has cheated and lied his way through his life here in Bali. He does nothing except take money from the Balinese as he simply runs a domestic travel agency. Not only this, all of Daniels' senior staff are Javanese or foreigners, not Balinese. He does not support any charities, he is just "take, take, take". His personal life is sleazy too and revolves solely around local whore houses often through his local resident expat pimp "friend" Bill Warden; that is why Jack Daniels only talks about his colleagues' private lives on Bali Discovery's web site, not his own.

Made Pastika; Bali Police Chief, Governor, Dog

This is the face of Made Mangku Pastika, the former police chief of Bali and PDI party contender for the position of Balinese Governor; Gods help us. The western and Indonesian media try to make Pastika out to be a hero of the Balinese people; he is not, he is a dirty low-life Indonesian dog. His only claim to fame is he was the police chief of Bali when the Australian, US and British police went about capturing the Javanese scum that detonated bombs in Bali in 2002. But look at the facts about Pastika; he is no hero and he is not Balinese any more.

Before his role as top cop in Bali, Pastika was the police of chief in Irian Jaya; West Papua as many westerners call it. Under his watch two aid workers were murdered under highly questionable circumstances which implicate the Indonesian military (TNI) and Made Pastika himself of murder and cover-up. You can read the facts, rather than what Jakarta and now Washington would have you believe here: Made Pastika West Papua. Basically two western school teachers were murdered almost certainly by the Indonesian military or their agents as a lesson to the Freeport Mining Company for reducing the amount they paid the TNI for "protection"; a revenge act to show they needed protection. You see, Freeport had to reduce their corruption bungs to the TNI in the wake of the US Enron scandal where major corporations in America came under intense scrutiny for undeclared substantial payments. The FBI at one point wanted to interview Made Pastika over these murders, but he declined. It is a well know fact published by the likes of Human Rights Watch (Indonesia) that the chiefs of police for West Papua are the most corrupt, most human right abusing dogs in Indonesia; Pastika is, let me assure you, no exception.

Pastika came to Bali in the aftermath of the 2002 terrorist bombings and just sat on his fat uneducated Indonesian behind because Jakarta had instructed him to allow foreign police to track down the bombers. This actually suited Pastika very well as it gave him more time for corruption and at the same time secured him undeserved fame. Corruption went up dramatically in Bali under Pastika and several high profile narcotics cases such as Corby and Leslie raised serious doubts about his ability and ethics with even the most stupid of people. During his time as police chief he authorized both illegal unofficial investigations in league with the local "mafia" and even signed an Interpol watch order against an innocent man, which reported information on his whereabouts overseas and which was passed to armed thugs to have him killed; fact (see Jack Daniels Bali). Pastika did nothing to ingratiate himself with the Balinese as he took an order to ban gambling to extremes and stopped traditional cock fights, the joy of many working Balinese men when he need not have. People close to him report he gloated about ruining the leisure activities of the everyday Balinese man and thus confirmed himself as an enemy of Bali, a former Balinese, a nasty Indonesian street dog. Made Pastika was also incredibly inept, proven by the fact that even after a presidential warning of an impending terrorist attack in Bali in 2005, Pastika did not tighten security as he should and more people lost their lives; this is a fact, the President himself declared that security had not been tightened enough by Bali's police after the bombings.

Implicated in unlawful police drugs "business" several times, against a backcloth of where narcotics and brothels in Indonesia are known to be controlled by the police (see: Indonesian Narcotics and Indonesian Brothels), Made Pastika did nothing about child sex workers or endemic street narcotics in Bali while he was police chief, why? Of course, in true Indonesian fashion, despite the fact Pasika did nothing about drugs himself and was even implicated in unlawful police drugs business, incredibly he was promoted to head Indonesia's Narcotics Police Unit, which is like appointing Kim Jong-il as the UN General Secretary; but the media machine loved it. Naturally, once out of Bali, I Made Mangku Pastika did another typically Indonesian thing; he opened his big fat mouth and blurted that Bali needed to clean up its act regarding narcotics and child prostitution.

A brief moment of hope came when Pastika was reported to have heart problems; thousands of Balinese prayed for him to die. Unfortunately Made Pastika seems to have recovered and now has been chosen as the PDI (an idiot TNI friendly political party lead by old crow and daughter of Sukarno, Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Soekarnoputri) as candidate for Governor of Bali. Perfect, a man who has done nothing except evil and even murderous deeds and who is hated by so many Balinese is likely to become head of state for Bali. How the US, Jakarta and TNI must be happy. Make no bones about it, if they can find a cell with an entrance large enough for his big head, Made Pastika should be in jail, not in office.

Roy "Majapahit" Thompson AKA Wayan; Ubud drug dealer

This is the face of Amercian Roy Thompson who lives in Ubud, sells narcotics, claims to be the friend of Made Pastika's family and calls himself Roy Majapahit or "Wayan". Roy is widely believed to be mentally unstable and a little short on good sense and now there is proof; you see Roy has published, as a grudge, a person's passport details on the Internet. Why is that such a big deal? Because the copy of this passport was purchased along with other so called confidential data from a Balinese police investigation file. That's right, Roy "Majapahit" Thompson, Ubud cuckoo, published proof that the Balinese police will do anything for money on the world wide web!

First though, the history of Roy; Mr. Thompson departed the USA after his lifelong girlfriend there left him. But that is not so bad you say? Ah, but apparently Roy's lifelong sweetheart left him for another woman! Roy came to Bali 8 years ago on holiday and met a "kupu kupu malam" (local street girl) Nyoman Eri and married her within 5 days of having met her, some argue in order to be able to stay in Bali. Roy and his wife now have three boys, although informed sources claim that at least one of these is not Roy's. One is reportedly the illegitimate child of a neighbour called "Frogy" (nice); you just have to see the child's skin, hair and eye colour to suspect something is not right. Roy plays in a local Balinese orchestra, wears Balinese clothes much of the time and officially works as an "art consultant" plus sells a few low quality Indonesian paintings and "kris" (ceremonial daggers). Not enough to earn a living? Well no, but then Roy does what a few expatriates do to make some bucks in Ubud, he sells narcotics. Roy Majapahit has a network of expat customers in Ubud, many of whom he socializes with at a local bar Nuris Warung (run by an ex-New Yorker "Brian" on Jl. Raya Sanggingan opposite the Neka Museum) on "Tuna Thursdays"; an event for the local and very weird looking Hash House Harriers (see some pictures) of which many are reportedly customers of Roy's.

Roy Thompson believes he is Balinese now and a very influential Balinese at that, citing connections with senior Indonesian politicians and the family of Bali's former police chief and governorial candidate, the much lauded yet very evil Made Pastika. Of course Roy does not have any influence outside his own toilet door, but you can easily search around Bert Vierstra's Bali Expat Forum (actual link shows Roy helped Bert found his nasty expat forum) to see what I tell you is true. Roy is not a big player in Bali or a particularly bad man, he is just very misguided and a little short on the IQ. He is a victim more than anything else but he made it to my blog because of who he sells narcotics to; children as young as 12 years old. Bali has a tremendous child drug problem and scum bags like phony Wayan Majapahit are to blame.

As mentioned before, sad nasty Roy also deserves a mention here for his sheer stupidity and callousness for posting confidential details of someone he has a huge grudge against, Mark Austin, on the Internet. These details originally came or were rather sold by the corrupt police to Jack Daniels (along with much more). Daniels then either passed copies of Austin's passport to his agent / accomplice in Lovina, Bert Vierstra who passed them to Roy, or less likely Daniels gave them directly to Roy Thompson.

Thompson's stupidity is date stamped April 15th, 2007 and coincides with his plugging, no doubt as thanks, Jack Daniels' site on Bert's expat forum a few days earlier and Jack Daniels' own support plus admiration for him (Jack admires Roy). I have been told by a friend Daniels first gave illicitly gained Austin's passport copy to Vierstra (see my page on the highly illegal gay Bert Vierstra) some time ago who then passed it on to Thompson earlier this year; this seems to be confirmed by the fact Vierstra shortly after added a link to Thompson's blog from his own site.

If you think this is all too much to believe, then answer the question how did Roy Thompson get a copy of Mark Austin's passport photograph, the exact one the Balinese police unlawfully seized and made copies of in 2002? How come Roy was able to publish the exact data you find in a passport; full name, date and place of birth? Roy's post (seen top left - yes, I blanked Austin's face out so as not to break the law or act indecently myself) has / had it all. This ultimately will probably be the act that sees Roy go to jail and be deported as I am told his drug dealings are done with the knowledge of the local police, for a fee. Hopefully this faux pas will also see Vierstra and Daniels go to jail and then be deported too with my and most Balinese's good riddance.

Bali's Bert Vierstra; Dutch Nazi, Lovina Villa Sales Agent & Gay Pedophile

I am not the sort of person who normally publishes here-say, but I have been told by no less then 3 people now that Dutch citizen Bert Vierstra, who lives and works as an unlawful Bali villas sales agent in Lovina, had to leave the Netherlands quickly and is in fact a practicing gay pedophile in Bali. Please be aware the UNCHR described Bali and Lombok as pedophile black-spots in 2007 and most of the island's expatriate child abusers are protected by the corrupt Balinese police; Transparency International rank them and their pet prosecutors and judges as one of the most corrupt in the world. What is of concern and why I feel this charge should be published is;
a) One of Mr. Vierstra's accusers said he himself was a pedophile and a member of the ring Bert belongs to in Bali.
b) Mr. Vierstra has published clear libel about another person on his web site based on a sole anonymous posting on some hack forum likely done by himself.
c) Mr. Vierstra defamed someone involved in charity work for Bali and who had previously helped Vierstra; Vierstra helps no-one but himself and unlawfully so.

We know from the Internet that Bert Vierstra is a practicing homosexual and therefore is living illegally in Indonesia (homosexuality is a crime under Indonesian law with a jail term of at least 2 years for these little "buggers"), just by checking Vierstra's Yahoo profile here and then doing a search on Google for his nickname "BuleBelanda" brings up his entry on a cyber meeting site called "faceparty"; do a search for his user name and what do we find, yes Bert Vierstra is gay. But what amazed me also were two claims that Bert comes from a Dutch nazi family. I always thought the Dutch hated nazis, but apparently not Click Here Mein Heir. Is it possible, a gay nazi living in Singaraja? He certainly has the "MO" for something very strange, ok, very ugly.

What I can also tell you and with absolute certainty about Bert Vierstra is that he runs an unlawful and very nasty business, works with corrupt immigration officials to get visas for villa buyers which one day will likely end them up in jail (check out the evidence here), runs a forum where he discusses how to abuse and hack other Bali web sites (quotes from Vierstra "I decided to post on his forum with an alias" and "but its true, I told someone that your privacy is better protected when you disable cookies, especially with sites that use this cookies to monitor individual behaviour of visitors" - actually he did much more), handles documents from confidential police files bought through corruption which he then abuses, and sells real estate under false pretenses claiming as he does foreigners can own land and operate holiday villa rentals in Bali when they can not. You will see the evidence against Bert Vierstra, Lovina's villa sales fraud is beyond doubt and that he should be in jail, not out amongst Balinese children and decent people. Bert Vierstra is a salesman and selectively "denies" everything of course, but look at the evidence and you will see he is a nasty crook.

Mr Vierstra makes money by lying and committing fraud in Bali; he sells villas to foreigners on the pretense they are freehold properties which can be used to generate rental income from holiday lets. First it is a fact that no foreigner can own land in Indonesia, so the properties he sells are not freehold as implied. Basically you have to allow the title of the land to be owned by an Indonesian and made available to you under a totally unlawful contract. The only way foreigners can even rent land, note never own land in Bali is to legally reside here and to pay taxes here. Also, only Indonesians or Indonesian companies (sorry, no foreign directors allowed) can legally operate holiday rental villas as only they can get operational permits. Of course foreigners do rent out "their" Bali villas (actually private residences under law) but these are now in the process of being closed down by the government; of course Bert Vierstra does not tell you that.

Bert Vierstra also runs the Bali Expat Forum, or one of them. On his forum he has discussed with members how to get past the security of other web sites, in particular certain travel forums which "compete" with Bert, so that hate and abusive messages can be posted by him and his expatriate friends there. Bert recently tried to cover up this well documented fact by claiming his and other's acts were to get past undue censorship on these forums! Undue censorship being where one forum owner does not allow the hate of another forum owner to be posted there! Thing is, once you have been banned from a forum, you have been told not to go back there (under law if you do this is trespass). If you go back and bypass their security to post hate / abusive messages there as Vierstra and his friends did, this is defacement as well on top of trespass. Research your law books Bert, defacement is classified as hacking and that makes you a hacker. Bert's accomplice and friend is this is one Roy "Majapahit" Thompson.

Bert Vierstra also works with a very shady character in Bali called John Millard Daniels (AKA Jack Daniels). Bert is actually one of Daniels' "spies" in the North of Bali to try and find a business rival by the name of Mark Austin. You can read about Daniels' own crimes here: Bali Discovery Tours, and Bert is his accomplice. You see, Jack Daniels gets bent police officers including Made Pastika to provide him with details out of the the police's highly unlawful unofficial investigation file on this character, Mark Austin, including copies of Austin's passport. Jack Daniels gave a copy of this to Bert Vierstra on the pretext it was police business and was needed for Bert and his friends to be able to recognize Austin from the passport photograph. Sound too unbelievable for you? Well it is true and Bert's forum buddy Roy "Majapahit" Thompson, who admitted being given a copy by Vierstra made the almighty mistake of actually publishing details from Austin's ill-gotten copy passport on the Internet.

Bert Vierstra is a smooth talking, sometimes credible individual and businessman, but just look at the facts about him and his unlawful Lovina Bali villas sales company.