‘Don’t erase the soul of Bingin’: Bali locals dismayed as 48 businesses destroyed in local crackdown

‘Don’t erase the soul of Bingin’: Bali locals dismayed as 48 businesses destroyed in local crackdown

Demolition of 48 cliffside establishments at Bingin beach marks flashpoint in the struggle between mass tourism and desire to retain Indonesian island’s ‘magic’“I can’t believe this is happening,” said Komang Agus, looking on in despair at his workplace of 16 years in the Bali tourist hotspot of Bingin, lying in fresh ruins.“I have a wife, three sons, my father is sick and in the hospital, how am I going to support them?” the manager of Morabito…