Jamal Hussain General Manager

Hotel Property Limited (HPL) Singapore is pleased to announce the promotion of Mr. Jamal Hussain, a Malaysian national, as the General Manager of Hard Rock Hotel Bali. He obtained a degree in Hotel & Tourism Management from Schloss Klesheim, Salzburg, Austria in 1975. He is married to a Singaporean and is the proud father of two young girls.
Previously the Acting General Manager of Hard Rock Hotel Bali, Mr. Hussain converses fluently in 5 languages and is a regular squash player here on the island. His impressive background spans 24 years in the international hospitality area.

Darryl Marsden
Executive Assistant Manager

Jamal Hussain, General Manager of Hard Rock Hotel, Bali is pleased to announce the promotion of Mr. Darryl Marsden to Executive Assistant Manager. AN Australian National, Darryl was previously the Regional Director of Food & Beverage for Hard Rock Hotels & Resort based here in Bali. Prior to moving to Bali he was the Operations Manager of The Magellan Sutera Hotel & Spa, Sabah, Malaysia. His other previous positions include Director of Food & Beverage at Palace of Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Executive Chef of Grand Wailea Resort, Hotel & Spa, Hawaii and Sonesta Beach Hotel & Spa, Bermuda. He was also involved in several World Class & Official State Events, including The 7th Summit of Gianyar-15 Meeting, The 2nd ASEAN Informal Summit Meeting, The 4th Asian – Pacific Dialogue and many more similar high profile events.

Donna D Dewayani :
Senior Sales Manager

Jamal Hussain, General Manager of Hard Rock Hotel Bali is pleased to announce the appointment of Donna D Dewayani as Senior Sales Manager. A graduated from the Hotel and Tourism Institute, Bali, Donna’s career in the hospitality industry includes experience at several high profile five-star hotels and establishments, such as Bali Cliff Resort, Mandara Spa Bali and Grand Hyatt Bali. Prior to this assignment, Donna was previously Sales Manager at Nikko Bali Resort & Spa.
At Hard Rock Hotel Bali, Donna will be responsible for Australian and Asian markets. With her expertise and extensive experience in Sales & Marketing, she will be a valuable contribution to the Hard Rock Hotel Bali’s Sales Team led by Vincent Bongsu, Director of Sales.

Bagus Natya :
A Young Balinese Puppeteer

The Dalang (Puppeteer) plays an essential part in every wayang kulit (leather puppet) show. While functioning as the director of the play, the puppeteer also performs the actions of these two-dimensional puppets. A puppeteer should master the art of dance, drama, and literature.
Bagus Widjna Bharatanatya, a 14 year-old boy, is one of the Balinese teen puppeteers. He has been a skilled puppeteer from a very young age. At the age of 7, with great bravery, he performed a topeng (mask) dance without ever having studied before. When he reached the age of 9, he could perform several difficult dances fluently including the Baris dance, Jauk dance, Gopala dance, Satya Brasta dance and Kebyar Duduk dance.
Natya, as he is known, also shows a magnificent talent in karawitan art. In the children’s Gong Kebyar group in his home in Babakan sub-village, Sukawati, Gianyar, Natya is an ugal instrument’s player (giying), responsible for leading and controlling the gamelan (instrument) rhythm. This wonder boy can play the most difficult of Balinese gamelan, gender wayang (music instruments of puppet show), proficiently.
His skill as a puppeteer was supported a lot by his environment; Sukawati Village is famous as the source of Balinese leather puppets. He learned his skills from his grandfather, the famous senior puppeteer I Wayan Nartha (62). When he was 12 years old he made his first performance on stage, ‘mekebah,’ at Pura Desa Sukawati, presenting the story of “Arjuna Wiwaha”. Afterwards, TVRI Denpasar profiled him on one of its programs. At year’s Bali Arts Festival, Bali TV also recorded and broadcasted his performance. Now, this teenager who has just moved up to the third level of junior high school at SLTP Negeri Sukawati, Gianyar, is continuing to study hard to master the puppet art as well as the other art forms.
(BTN/026)

El Lisaling :
The Snake Queen of Cobra Palace

El Lisaling, born on 30 March 1981, is skilled in cooking traditional food by processing ingredients especially adapted from animals, especially the cobra. She has been doing this since the age of twelve following training by her parents, Hadi Hatari and Iin Marlina. Lisaling is the second of four children in the family, which lives in Bali at Ngurah Rai Bypass No. 24X (close to Dewa Ruci Statue), Kuta. They later decided to pioneer a restaurant business called ‘Restaurant Istana Raja Kobra’ (‘King Cobra Palace Restaurant’) with its head office in Jakarta.
Gradually the restaurant flourished and now serves food of from a wider choice. The commodity sold includes not only animal-based foodstuffs but also various accessories produced from snakeskin and pearls. “Such a development has taken place due to the effect of tourism. We were motivated to extend our trade by adding the sale of accessories, presuming that after a meal consumers like to buy the things”, the lady told Bali Travel News recently.
Miss Lisaling, who at present is a six-semester student at the private National Education University in Denpasar, claimed speedy tourism development in Bali has encouraged the restaurant’s to extend beyond the local market. Now tourists frequently visit to enjoy the restaurant’s delicacies. “It has been a great surprise for us,” she said. Even during the economic crises following Bali’s Black October, there restaurant has still been visited but to a lesser degree. She is optimistic about the future.
There are also medicaments made of ingredients gained from the cobra as a mix of its blood and its gall. Some of the medicines also take the form of capsules sold to other regions of the country. From the oil gained from cobra, there are ointments for external use, for instance (1) ‘Bulus A’, (2) ‘Bulus Bumbung’ and (3) ‘Bulus Consulate’, respectively (1) for providing men with greater sexual potential; (2) cleaning facial skin and (3) giving large and full breasts.
The restaurant also has a delicious menu on sale made of the animal flesh, including cobra satay and soup, fried monkey, iguana, and bat. Miss Lisaling expressed pride in being able to make use of frightening beasts such as snake to produce something advantageous to human health. (BTN 015)

R. Pangasihan Gaut Bali’s Polda New PR Chief

Indonesian Police have recently appointed a woman senior police, Kombes Pol. R. Pangasihan Gaut, BBA as Public Relations Chief of Bali’s Polda Police. She is an experienced policewoman born in Flores 55 years ago. She has devoted mind and energy in regulating information communication into and out of Bali, a region suffering much because of the Bali bombing.
Ms. R. Pangasihan Gaut has had a great variety of experiences, both at national and international levels. As examples of her career ups and downs, we would see the following: She is a prestigious police officer, appointed as Commander of UN Female Police for Peace in Bosnia & Herzegovina (1999 – 2000); she participated in the International Police Woman Conference in Canberra (2002); and she participated in a session program X of Senior Criminal Justice Executive in Bangkok, Thailand (2002).
She received awards for merit as policewoman in her eminent services to Indonesian Government, amongst others: Satyalencana of 8-Year Loyalty (by the end 2000), Satyalencana of 16-Year Loyalty, that of 24-Year Loyalty, Satyalencana-of-Santi-dharma Merit (1999 – 2000), and United Nations Bronze Medal for her participation in the peace keeping Mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina (1999 –2000).(Poll)