Pollution hurts Bali's tourism

In the second time within a year at Kuta Beach in Bali, I had the same experience with pollution.

Basically, the whole beach and sea were full of plastic bags, waste and rubbish. Negligence was shown by officials and hotels' management to take the action to simply clean the beaches. People did not enter the sea and complained bitterly at the hotel swimming pools. It seems the waste is dumped into the sea without considering the negative impact on the tourist industry. If this behavior of dumping waste into the sea is not stopped immediately, one of the tourist paradises will be destroyed forever and leave Indonesia without the urgent required revenue from the tourist industry.

I hope that officials take note of this problem and implement appropriate actions!

HANS EBERLE

Jakarta