A beautiful land situated in rice field… just 10 meters away from main road.. a very quiet yet close to Ubud center.

Suitable for private villa. Price is negotiable.

A beautiful land, perfect for private villa, settled in quiet are overlooking the rice field in Ubud.

This great land is located on the top of the hill in Pecatu – Bukit area, with overlooking to amazing Ocean view. The property only 40 minutes drives to the Airport, 5 minutes drives to the famous Bvlgari Resort. Having 6 meters road access, this land is perfect for Villa development.

The greatest and the only cliff front land available in Balangan, Jimbaran. Cliff front with spectacular view of Indian Ocean, Jimbaran beach and Ngurah Rai’s International Airport.

Access to famous among surfers Balangan beach, and access to a small private beach. 5 minutes from Dreamland and New Kuta Golf Course. 25 minutes drives from Bali’s International airport. Perfect land for the development of 5 stars hotel.

The greatest and the only cliff front land available on Dreamland beach. Cliff front with spectacular view of Indian Ocean. This great location is become very famous since dreamland is very well known with its white sandy private beach and the New Kuta Golf Course.

Distances are only 5 minutes walking to New Kuta Golf Course and approximately 25 minutes drives from Bali’s International Airport. This land is perfect for the development of 5 stars hotel or High Class Resort.

This unique cool complex has been designed with a blend of artistic masterpieces and minimalist contemporary flair, making it something very elegant yet subdued. Each of the four spacious two-bedroom villas meet all the standard of comfort and luxury required by even the discerning traveler – something not to be defined, only to be discovered.

With open style living/dining room; spacious air-conditioned bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms; an entertainment room featuring broadband internet access, satellite TV, IDD Telephone, DVD player, stereo system and a private pool, makes it a true reflection of avant garde – beautiful from any point of view.

You do not just buy 4 units of villas in an area of 5400 square meters, the selling price includes the price of a company that has permission to build the villa as much as 8 units each year. Imagine this rare opportunity becomes yours.

In short you are purchasing a complete resort with its business, and with more value… situated in one piece of heaven on earth.

we consider the opening price for this property is relatively cheap, compared to what you will get, it’s on fast sale.

Healthy, Tasty or Both?

Every morning he drinks coffee made by his wife. It is a habit. He thinks he has been addicted. If one day he does not drink a glass of coffee, he will feel sick. He likes Balinese coffee. Most of Balinese people have the same habits as him, he guesses. In every celebration, ceremony, like wedding party, tooth filling, three-month baby ceremony and the others, the neighborhood, relatives and best friends of the family will be invited to come to do ngeeb bawang for the men, done early in the morning to slice union, garlic, ginger, and the other kitchen spices for the food prepared to the guests, and ngajang banten for the women to take the offerings from the offering maker that is called jero tukang. They place the offerings on their head and walk to the house of the person that conducts the ceremony. Those men and women will be served by given a glass of coffee and Balinese rice cake.

After trying many brands of coffee since he was young, this man decided the most delicious coffee for him. He consumes it every day until now; his first daughter has been married. The information he read in the local newspapers about brown rice coffee raises his curiosity. What he knows about coffee is it is made of coffee seeds that is dried and by using a certain machine; it is processed to be coffee powder. And his wife pours hot water to the glass and mixes it with a tea spoon of coffee powder and sugar, and serves it to him every morning.

Coffee made of brown rice. This coffee is the Arabica coffee that is mixed with brown rice from Jatiluwih, Tabanan regency. This new type of coffee is made through special grain to maintain the wholeness of the husk, aroma and micro nutrition. He is a little bit surprised when he read the advantages of the brown rice coffee. It is said that this coffee can make good blood circulation and improve the stamina, especially after illness. The Chinese believes the charcoal of brown rice is good to overcome the digestion trouble, diarrhea, maag or stomach ache. When the brown rice is fried without oil, that rice is believed contain substance that can inhibit the development of cholesterol in the human’s liver, and it also contain saturated oil.

The coffee commodity has important role in North Bali. Currently, Buleleng is said to be the central of coffee production. There are 15,520 ha areas in Buleleng used to plant coffee; 3,921 ha for Arabica coffee and 12,599 ha for Robusta coffee. They are in Busung Biu, Sawan, Sukasada, Kubutambahan sub districts. The productions are some 2,000 to 3,000 ton per year on average. With that wide area and supported by many factors, Buleleng regency actually can manage eco tourism. It can be one alternative of places of interest in North Bali. The tourists see directly coffee plantation area, the production process and try the product. He thinks it such a great idea.

He sips his coffee and imagines how the taste of the brown rice coffee is. The Balinese coffee he consumes every day has special taste and high quality. Can the taste of the new coffee make him change his favorite? He knows the answer, of course, after he tries the new one. The brown rice coffee has a lot of advantages to the human being. Unfortunately, he cannot try it soon because the distribution is still only in South Bali. He promises himself, when the coffee has distributed to this regency, he will buy it soon. He likes drinking coffee, and he likes to be healthy too.

*Source: http://www.bali-information.com/bali-news.php/story/42/bali-kopi

MOST Malaysian property buyers are a discerning and sophisticated lot nowadays, with the more affluent ones casting their sights on properties overseas.

S.K. Brothers Realty chief executive officer Charlie Chan sees Australia, Singapore and Britain as popular countries for Malaysians investing in properties overseas.

“With the growing affluence of Malaysians, investing in properties overseas is one way to hedge their investments. They want to put their eggs in different baskets,” he said.

Chan said those who had invested in properties in Britain years ago would be enjoying capital appreciation and foreign exchange gains, thus encouraging them to invest further.

Australia is also a favourite place – especially Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Gold Coast – for Malaysians to buy property as many have children who are studying there.

“I don’t see these investments affecting our local property market. People are still buying properties here to stay and invest in.

“We are also attracting foreign buyers into our market, especially after the recently introduced policies such as the abolition of the real property gains tax,” Chan said.

He believes these cross-border property investments are good for the country.

“People are looking for security and good returns on their investments,” he said.

General manager Chan Ai Cheng said investors were always on the lookout for new opportunities.

“Land investment in Britain is also something worth considering. Investors can expect a return of 300% to 700% over a five to 10-year period,” she said.

Strategic land investment involves buying land with agricultural status or brownfield land which would be converted into residential, commercial or industrial land in future.

The strategy is simple – buy an undeveloped piece of land, wait until its price goes up (with planning permission) and then sell.

When the land is sold, a capital gain is made, but since the British government only taxes people who live or work in Britain, Malaysians will not pay this tax.

“We have clinched a deal worth over RM500,000 from a single investor before,” Ai Cheng said.

Khong & Jaafar Sdn Bhd managing director Elvin Fernandez noted that one of the hottest sectors in the property market in Asean was the high-end luxurious condominium in Singapore.

“That market has been hot for the past one year. International buyers including Malaysians – high net worth individuals – are buying into the sector for capital appreciation and rental income,” he said.

Some high-end luxury condos are said to be selling at about S$3,000 per sq ft.

Elvin pointed out the need for good rental returns for a well-supported luxury high-end condo market.

“We will need a strong expatriate market to push up rental income for Malaysia so that the local luxury high-end condo can benefit from the spillover effect from Singapore,” he said.

He added that there could be more foreign workers in the country with projects from the Ninth Malaysia Plan rolling in and this would strengthen the luxury high-end condo market, as they would be looking to rent the condos.

Colliers International Property Consultants Sdn Bhd deputy managing director Lee Vun-Tsir reckoned the prices of luxury high-end condos in Singapore had doubled in the last eight months.

Lee expects a bigger expat workforce in Singapore, especially with the construction of Genting Inter- national’s Sentosa integrated resort, which will have the region’s first Universal Studios theme park and a casino.

He said this would help boost the property market there and make it even more attractive for foreign investors.

“Indonesia, especially Bali, is also one of the places Malaysians invest in – cash-rich individuals looking to buy resort developments, private villas and other such properties.

“Bali’s resort developments are a favourite as they are relatively cheaper compared with the other resorts in the region – for example, it is one third the price of resort properties in Phuket. We also speak a similar language,” he said.

Lee said the company was not aggressively moving into the overseas property market but rather catered to a niche market with resort properties such as the Angsana Resort and Spa in Bali.

Denpasar (ANTARA News) – The Bali provincial government has set aside Rp1.6 billion in funds to reforest 500-600 hectares of denuded land this year.

“The funds taken from the regional budget will be used to reforest denuded land in forest areas,” Head of the Bali Provincial Forestry Service Anak Agung Ngurah Buana said here on Friday.

The provincial government is determined to reforest denuded land inside and outside forest areas, he said.

“The reforestation program this year will target 500-600 hectares of denuded land inside forest areas. A variety of drought-resistant trees will be grown there,” he said.

To date, the province has 25,338 hectares of denuded land found in eight of its nine districts. The denuded land is mostly found in Karangasem, Klungkung, Karangasem and Bangli districts.

Through the reforestation program the denuded land can hopefully be reforested in stages, he said.

He said various kinds of trees typical to the province, such as mahogany, trembesi, and panggal buaya will be grown through the reforestation program to meet wood demand from small-scale handicraft industry.

Bali now has 130,686 hectares of forest consisting of 95,766 hectares of protected forest (73.28 percent), 26,293 hectares of conservation forest (20.12 percent) and 8,626 hectares of production forest (6.60 percent).

The forest is made up of 22 percent of the province`s land territory. Ideally, the forest should account for 30 percent of the land territory, he said.

*Source: Antara News

http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/1278654434/bali-allocates-rp16-b-to-reforest-denuded-land-this-year

In a move toward developing sustainable natural resources in Bali, hundreds of people, who are concerned with the state of the island’s environment and agriculture, on Saturday declared “Bali as an organic island”.

The declaration, initiated by an agricultural student at Udayana University, aims to raise awareness to recover the degrading quality of farming lands throughout Bali by applying organic agriculture methods.

“We as the krama *people* of Bali, are fully aware that we have to manage this small island based on a unified ecosystem, and we have to adhere to the traditional teachings and principles that we inherited from our predecessors,” the declaration read.

“Organic agriculture is one way to recover the condition of our nature. Therefore, we declare Bali as an organic island.”

The declaration is supported by environmental groups and several NGOs, farmers, organic product consumers, local administrations and the Agriculture Ministry.

Ni Luh Kartini from Udayana University, who initiated the declaration, said that the condition of agriculture lands in Bali had degraded due to conventional ways of farming using chemical fertilizers.

“The condition of agriculture resources in this island has been very alarming, especially concerning land fertility and water availability.”

She cited that the concentration of organic substances in many farming lands was very low, causing severe drought in dry season.

“Low concentration of organic substance is due to excessive use of chemical fertilizers.

“Therefore, we have to encourage farmers to use organic fertilizers.”

Other worrying conditions were that water level in many rivers had receded, and groundwater reserves had decreased due to exploitation.

Lakes have also been polluted, she added.

“But farmers and related stakeholders have not been fully aware about this condition.

“If this persists, farming lands will continue to degrade, and it will threaten our food resilience.

“We expect that the declaration will revive their awareness of how to manage farming lands while preserving nature.”

If the organic farming system could be applied successfully throughout Bali, it would also positively impact on the island’s tourism sector, because people could develop agriculture and eco-tourism, she added.

Organic farming systems have been applied in several areas in Bali, including Baturiti in Tabanan, Gianyar, Buleleng, and Kintamani in Bangli.

However, Bali farmers still face a short supply of organic fertilizers.

“We expect the government to supply us with organic fertilizers, or provide livestock so that we can produce our own fertilizers,” said farmer Wayan Sumadra, from Pancasari village, Buleleng.

He criticized the government for subsidizing state-owned companies to produce organic fertilizer, as those companies would then sell it to farmers, instead of directly subsidizing the farmers.

Desy Nurhayati , The Jakarta Post , Buleleng | Mon, 11/23/2009 1:38 PM | Bali

*Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/11/23/bali-declares-itself-organic-prevents-land-degradation.html