DREAM LAND BEACH GATE ENTRY FEE

Bali on Sunday 4th November'07 at about 5:30pm..

Jocopo, Assyon, Eric and my self were driving motor bike. after long drive we finally end up at the portal entry after the main one. There were several security who guarding the portal.. one of them was trying to stop Jacopo & Assyon on a motor bike, this security was asking them to stop but Jacopo & Assyon kept going slowly even the security tried to kick the bike though. I was following him and they tried to stop me and i said no no.. we passed without problem.. but Eric was the last person, he was driving his motor bike and i saw from the rearview mirror he fell off when he stopped the bike with his toes that was injured earlier. so that he can't press the back brake. he used front brake caused him unable to control the bike while many sands on asphalt. You can figure out yourself when you try to stop your bike suddenly because this security was just standing in front of you. This is unbelieveable. I saw Eric fell then i turn my drive and followed by Jacopo in a few minutes. I stopped and ask the security who stopped us.. HOW MUCH !!!! HOW MUCH DO WE HAVE TO PAY ??? one of them said.. 5 thousand Rupiah !!! What ??? i was sooo surprised !!! i talked very serious.. OH ONLY FIVE THOUSAND, AND HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO PAY FOR MY FRIEND's BIKE that part of it broken and HIS WOUNDS???. no answer !! jacopo with his brave shouted.. !!! DON'T TALK TO ME !! DON'T TOUCH ME !! we were arguing each other and JACOPO bravely again asked SHOW ME THE PAPER that all tourists must pay kind of this CORRUPTED MONEY from which the security has no authorisation to collect the money from people who want to go to the beach !!!... Of course they can't show the paper that stated of entry fee. They just defense themselves and i am indonesian notice that this is another CORRUPTION made by balinese security at the DREAMLAND BEACH !!!


So i suggest to all of you even local and tourists " Please please try to drive slowly when you are entering at the second portal gate to the dream land beach" you will see some of security standing on the mid of the road " you drive slowly and if they still ask you to stop then try to ask them why do they stop you !!! They will ask you to pay as above explained. further, please don't let this corruption again happen in our country.. if they want to collect the money there should be ticket fee Rp. 5000 or ticket fee Rp. 1.000.000,- or USD 100/entry/person. and this banner should be sticked at the first gate or few hundred meter before reaching the second portal gate.

Don't try to drive fast as i am afraid they will do bad thing.

When we argued with the security and i heard they speak balinese language which is just similar like javanese language as written in the history. One of them requested to the other to take a note on Jacopo's bike plat number. I told Jacopo to park the bike in remote place that they won't see cos anything can happen if they are serious to what they noted... why would they wrote the plat number of Jacopo's bike if they don't have something to do with it ??

In the other hand. we knew that this DREAM LAND BEACH is not a private beach.. this is PUBLIC belong to all people who want to relax and surfing or just enjoying the beautiful of white sand and some local food at the warung (small restaurant).

To the BALINESE GOVERNMENT " KUTA/BADUNG DISTRICT ", i would like you to please try to spy this kind of operation/transaction. Can you imagine that if they collect from every bike Rp. 5,000,- and car i don't know how much they charge for ??..

:: Is this rules from the local resident at DREAM LAND area ??
:: Do they have own motivation as it seems well organized ??
:: What is for the money they collect since they can not show or give us the ticket or paperwork requesting the tourist who will enter to the beach.
:: why people who stays in dreamland beach never requested to pay ??
:: what's the different in between tourists and tenants while we all spend our money to buy the foods/drinks or even rent the chairs to locals.

Is there any justification or can you " Bali Government " explain us ? why this happen and what is the money from the collection for ???

I appreciate and further my friends who always like to visit bali can support the local by telling the other friends to come to bali peacefully...

To my blogger friends... if this had happened to you and you did not see any ticket fee shown, please give comment ??

Do you think this has to be stopped or should we bring to the world press.?? so that every tourist who wants to go to bali will be aware and they are ok to pay even if small money but imagine how many people go to dreamland everday.. more than hundred and hundred in a day !!!


DREAM LAND BEACH in BALI is a nice place to be visited and please don't deal with human who has kind of greed character. Because this character will not educate and make this world live in harmony and peacefully...


Love you all,
Didi