Shocked by the Devils of North Bali

 A village in North Bali, which was disturbed by an allegation of zoophilia involving one of its residents, held a special meeting of traditional leaders to find a solution to an incident believed to have desecrated the community. The zoophilia, also known as zoosexuality and bestiality, is the practice of sex between humans and animals. A person who practices zoophilia is known as a zoophile. While sex with animals is not outlawed in some countries such as Finland, Denmark, Germany and Mexico, it is illegal under the animal abuse laws in most countries.

“He remembered entering a different world, where a beautiful girl approached him and seduced him into having sex with her. That’s how he recalled the incident,”  Professor Luh Ketut Suryani disclosed when she  was invited to the meeting, suggested that the cost should not be imposed on the offender and adding that the man considered killing himself out of shame after the incident. Suryani stated that she had interviewed the alleged culprit and concluded that the man suffered from acute depression due to economic problems.

 

 

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Insanity in The Island of God

Scores of women have invaded Bali after the movie eat pray and love (sex), looking to emulate Gilbert’s enlightenment. Their expressions are serene; their caftans, expensive. But their beatific dollars aren’t necessarily a good thing. Once the movie opens, this whole area has turned into a far-flung Magnolia Bakery line, with women typing frantically on their blackberries and snapping photos of menus and street signs as their bored boyfriends gaze off into the middle distance. The influx of 30- and 40-something women wearing caftans will ruin the area, making the place they like to party into one big estrogen-fueled.

Far from this euphoria of estrogen-fueled and influx of tourists, many Balinese still living for a water shortage and a possible drought. Many of them has to suffer from mental illness with no attention from neither government or the tourism industry that make the island of God unity with island of Hell. “Today, Bali is not only island of God but at the same time also the island of Hell because you can see at the same moment and place two different things happening, one praying and one stealing”, said Professor Luh Ketut Suryani as she keeps regularly stumble across Bali hidden mental illness.

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Happy 23rd anniversary Wreda Sejahtera Bali Foundation

Today marks the 23rd anniversary of Wreda Sejahtera Bali Foundation. On September 8, 1988 the foundation was established, ten years before the Guidelines of State Policy and seventeen years before the issuance of the Law of Elderly Welfare by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia. The bright and relieving idea for the elderly people in Bali was brought by Professor Luh Ketut Suryani and has became the pioneer of elderly care movement in Indonesia.

“I saw the growing number of elderly population and increasing the length of life expectancy as a result of the progress achieved in development today, then those who have the experience, expertise and wisdom need to be given the opportunity to play a role in development which our government still blind and deaf to this situation”, said Professor Luh Ketut Suryani during the celebration in Denpasar with around 2000 elderly from around Bali. “We have grown and changed a lot since our humble beginnings, and we’d like our elderly people still strong and healthy in physical, mental and spiritual”, add Professor Suryani.

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