The trial of Toshiyuki Tabuchi, a Japanese national, and an Indonesian man from Banyuwangi, Subagiyono, who were both arrested last March for allegedly attacking a police officer in Kerobokan, began yesterday at the Denpasar Court.

Yesterday, the Denpasar Court sentenced a Peruvian national, Jorgei Rafael Albornoz Gamarra,  to 10 years in prison for smuggling 4 kilograms of cocaine into Bali. 

“We sentence the defendant to 10 years in prison and a fine of IDR 1 billion (USD 70,500),” said Bambang Ekaputra, who heads the panel of judges, as quoted by Radar Bali.

An official from Bali immigration yesterday said foreign tourists who have ran out of money or are pretending to be beggars will be reported and sent to their respective embassies, alluding to a rising number of cases involving problematic tourists visiting the island recently.

Prosecutors in Bali demanded earlier today that Andrei Zhestkov, a Russian man who was arrested for attempting to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia, be sentenced to six months in jail for violating Indonesia’s 1990 Conservation Law.

Sarah Ayu Tamaela, a young shooting athlete from Bali, ranked first in the Lady Open and Shoot Off categories at the 2019 CZ Extreme Euro Open international shooting competition in the Czech Republic on Sunday.