On Kuta Beach<\/p>\n
I refer to the letter by Horst Geerken in The Jakarta Post,
\nDec. 20, titled Filth and sloth on Kuta Beach. He said that many
\ntourists in Kuta are complaining about the \"unbearable\"
\nsituation.<\/p>\n
Have the Balinese people not suffered enough!<\/p>\n
I am here again for Christmas and find the beaches quite
\nbeautiful.<\/p>\n
How dare you say you see \"the local people sitting around
\ntalking and talking and not cleaning the beach\".<\/p>\n
Is it their job to clean up the mess, the majority of which is
\ncontributed by Westerners?<\/p>\n
I am glad to hear that you would rather visit Thailand for
\nyour next holiday. Because it is people like you who expect to be
\nwaited on hand and foot, and who treat the Balinese people like
\nthe rubbish you see on these beaches.<\/p>\n
Holiday, or no holiday, Westerners are a large source of these
\nbeaches being \"unbearable\". Do not kid yourself. I am more than
\nsure you have done your fair share of littering the streets and
\nbeaches of Bali with garbage.<\/p>\n
Instead of complaining and writing about it, why don't you do
\nsomething different for a change and pick up after yourself, or
\naid in the process of cleaning these beaches you find so
\n\"unbearable\".<\/p>\n
JOLIE E. DOREY, Jakarta<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/on-kuta-beach-1447899208", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }