ABOUT BALI INTERNATIONAL
Bali — a living laboratory for culture and community
An island of temples, rice terraces, and daily ritual. Also a place where people from around the world gather, share, and imagine something new.
WHAT WE DO
A portal and a gathering place
Bali International is a news, information, and directory portal that studies Bali as a case study in global development.
Most websites about Bali fall into one of two categories. They are either travel guides — telling you where to eat, sleep, and party — or policy reports — analyzing Indonesia’s economy from a distance. We do something different.
We look at Bali from both angles at once.
A beach club is not just a place for a sunset cocktail. It is also a business that employs Balinese staff, sources local produce, and makes choices about waste and energy that affect the island’s future. An NGO is not just a charity. It is an organization testing new models for health, education, and environmental stewardship that could scale across Indonesia and beyond.
We document these stories. We connect them to global frameworks — the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Indonesia’s national development plans, and the research published on our parent platform, RYB Global Development.
WHAT WE CARE ABOUT
Culture of Peace — not a UN framework
Our focus is not on government targets or institutional programmes. We care about culture — the arts, creativity, community, and the kind of peace that grows between people when they genuinely connect.
UNESCO calls this a Culture of Peace. We think Bali already embodies much of it. Our job is to amplify that, share it, and help build the conditions for more of it.
PILOT SPACES — COMING TO BALI
Two places to test an idea
We plan to open two physical spaces on the island. Think of them as creative development labs — places to test what happens when you bring artists, thinkers, travellers, and local community together under one roof.
- Canggu — beach village, west coast
One of Bali’s most vibrant coastal villages. Eco Beach. Yoga studios. Health food shops. Tattoo artists. And once in a while — a full moon rising over the water, bare feet in the sand, and people dancing until the tide comes in. A natural home for creative energy. - Near Bedugul — mountain range, central Bali
Central Bali’s volcanic highlands. Cool air, crater lakes, sacred forest. A quieter counterpoint to the coast — a space for reflection, deeper work, and reconnection with nature. Where ideas breathe differently.
These are pilot spaces. We want to learn what works. Each space will respect its surroundings — local architecture, local community, local wisdom.
On the road to Bedugul, Lake Beratan - © Bali International
WHO WE ARE
Part of a larger platform
Bali International is published by Europa Regina and is part of the RYB Global Development platform. We cross-link with RYB’s Indonesia country pages to give our readers the national and global context they need to understand what is happening in Bali.
We are not a travel agency. We are not an NGO. We are an independent media platform with a specific mission: to show how the places people love to visit are also places, where the future of development is being written.
Share your thoughts on social media. Tag us. Start a conversation. That is exactly the kind of connection we are here to support.