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Posted by - ® Mark (Admin) on March 24, 2006 at 9:22 pm:
Sorry it is not so much about travel to Bali but more about my problems with the corrupt Balinese police. Some of you may remember that I was cursed with an Interpol watch order being placed on me by the Balinese / Indonesian police as a suspected insurgent and that this was causing my family concerns when travelling because of death threats I received while living in Thailand from, I am sure, a business competitor with a pronounced mental illness (one of the reasons we moved – unfortunately gangs do commit murders for very little Baht). Whatever watch order was placed has now been removed after a formal complaint by my London lawyers to Interpol some months back. Although Interpol don't admit to there ever being a watch order (I only found out because the corrupt Balinese police officer Tri Kuncoro boasted about it and showed the file to my Jakarta based lawyers), it has gone and can not be reinstated by them so easily. We have yet to hear about whether our formal petition under Interpol's anti-corruption mandate for them to formally complain to the central Indonesian police authority about this man (this would hopefully put him and the business competitor in jail) has been or is to be fully investigated. At least my wife, our two young children and I can now travel again to places like Thailand without fear our movements are being reported to this bent Balinese cop, who I am reliably informed passes everything on to my competitor (Jack Daniels of PT Bali Discovery Tours), who I am sure is solely responsible for the death threats we received in the first place.
Although it does not bring me any closer to ever going back to Bali, it does at least mean we can meet my wife's family much closer to their home in Thailand (big smile – real prawn with green curry again), rather than for them to fly all the way to see us in Portugal (not easy as they are simple Balinese people without any English skills). Legal action is still ongoing against my competitor outside Indonesia which when I am successful will require the Balinese police to arrest and prosecute him (as what he did is a crime in Bali). This and other efforts to have the toe rag element of one of if not the world's most corrupt police forces stop acting against me unlawfully are hopefully not too far away. Personally I can not wait to go back to somewhere like Ubud, relax watching the fireflies at night with my feet soaking in a bowl of cold Bintang (while I have a real beer) and forget that such a great island and people have such a nasty governing culture :-)
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