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There is a outbreak of Dengue fever at the moment in Bali. so go prepared make sure of a night time you have, and use mozzie spray.Adam Air is also in trouble
if you have flights with this airline check out flights now. sorry about the doom and gloom Grumphy

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 03/19/2008 12:21 AM | Headlines

The financial troubles of PT Adam Skyconnection Airlines (Adam Air) climaxed Tuesday with airline regulators revoking the company's operating certificate as of Wednesday.

"With this I revoke Adam Air's operating certificate. Adam Air is no longer allowed to operate its planes," the Transportation Ministry's director general for air transportation, Budhi Mulyawan Suyitno, said at a press conference in Jakarta.

According to regulations, the company now has three months to address its internal problems before its Aircraft Operator Certificate is permanently revoked.

Responding to the decision, Adam Air president director Adam Aditya Suherman said the airline was working to address its financial problems. He also confirmed that all operations had been shut down as of Tuesday morning.

"Our employees are deeply demoralized now. So, I suppose, this decision is in the best interest of everyone," he said.

Earlier this week, PT Bhakti Investama, which owns 19 percent of Adam Air through its unit PT Global Transport Services (GTS), and the Bright Star Perkasa business consortium, which holds a 31 percent stake, announced they were pulling out of Adam Air and selling their stakes to the airline's founder Suherman and Sandra Ang.

Bhakti Investama president director Hary Djaja said the investment company would protect the interests of its public shareholders should its investment through GTS in Adam Air cause any losses.

Hary said his firm decided to pull out of Adam Air after claims by Bhakti Investama's legal adviser, Hotman Paris Hutapea, that Adam Air's management had misused internal funds totaling Rp 2.1 trillion.

Hotman also said potential losses suffered by the government related to loans from state-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia reached Rp 50 billion.

Hotman said his clients planned to report the misuse of funds to the Corruption Eradication Commission if the airline refused to be transparent in its financial reports, especially regarding cargo and ticket sales.

Suherman and Sandra Ang, who hold the remaining 50 percent stake in the airline, plan to buy the stake from Bhakti for Rp 100 billion in September, Hotman said.

Adam refuted Hotman's statement, saying Suherman and Sandra had not accepted the offer and that no notification had been delivered to the airline's management.

Also Tuesday, dozens of college students protested the cancellation of Adam Air flights at Soekarno-Hatta airport, Tangerang.

"We were informed of the cancellation only five minutes before the scheduled departure," one of the students, Mia Kurnaedi, 23, said as quoted by Antara news agency.

She said a group of students from Bandung, Makassar and Kalimantan were scheduled to fly to Batam aboard an Adam Air flight.

Another passenger, Hasaniah, 58, said she bought a ticket for an Adam Air flight from Jakarta to Surabaya for Rp 500,000, but was only refunded Rp 290,000 when the flight was canceled

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Check out this web site. make sure you spray your hotel room morning and night.
i have been to Bali 18 time in the last 10 years sometimes for the week end. sorry this is not a question but if it helps so be it.
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"...make sure of a night time you have, and use mozzie spray..." I am not sure if I understand that right. Dengue mozzies are day active so you need to take precaution also during daytime.

Grumphy,
Sadly you are giving out INCORRECT information. The mosquito that carries the DENGUE FEVER is active in the dalylight hours usually around midday. (not sure if the mozzie wears a watch, but this is what the experts say!!)
This mosquito is not active at night- a different variety of mosquito bites during the night.
Not quite sure what you mean by mozzie spray- do you mean to spray the air for the mosquitoes or spray oneself.

In my opinion the best thing to do is to try to prevent mosquito bites by wearing insect repellant during the day and night, burning mosquito coils at night and/or leaving an overhead fan on or a bed side table fan and using a mosquito net impregnated with pyrethium.
Pamela.