{"id":6186,"date":"2023-03-15T05:34:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/2023\/03\/15\/bali-wants-to-ban-foreigners-from-renting-motorbikes\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:34:56","slug":"bali-wants-to-ban-foreigners-from-renting-motorbikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/2023\/03\/15\/bali-wants-to-ban-foreigners-from-renting-motorbikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bali Wants To Ban Foreigners From Renting Motorbikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enough is enough: after years of tourists behaving badly and injuring themselves (and others) on Bali\u2019s already-chaotic roads, the Balinese government has tabled plans to ban foreigners from renting motorbikes and scooters.<\/p>\n<p>For many tourists \u2013 especially Aussie tourists \u2013 renting a bike and scooting around Bali is a rite of passage. But after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmarge.com\/woman-broken-leg-no-helmet-bali\">a recent spate of injuries and deaths<\/a>, Bali Governor I Wayan Koster announced that foreigners will only be allowed to use modes of transport prepared by tourism services that meet certain standards \u201cto ensure quality and dignified tourism.\u201d\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKoster has also reportedly requested the legal ministry\u2019s support in revoking the visas of tourists caught riding motorbikes in Bali.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dmarge.com\/bali-wants-to-ban-foreigners-from-renting-motorbikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough is enough: after years of tourists behaving badly and injuring themselves (and others) on Bali\u2019s already-chaotic roads, the Balinese government has tabled plans to ban foreigners from renting motorbikes and scooters. For many tourists \u2013 especially Aussie tourists \u2013 renting a bike and scooting around Bali is a rite of passage. But after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":6187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}