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Flowers
for New Arrivals
Arrival of 67 Australian
visitors carried by Qantas Airlines flight
QF131 sector Darwin-Bali placed flower garlands
around their necks and delivered stalks
of a red roses. This constituted a sympathetic
action performed by the members of United
Balinese Youth on Thursday (27/10) night.
Chairman
of the United Balinese Youth, Putu Gede
Indrawan Karna, explained that the sympathetic
action, other than aiming at welcoming the
celebration of Youth Oath on 28 October,
also supporting the recovery of Bali Tourism
post-bomb explosion at Kuta and Jimbaran.
As youth of Bali, we are really aware
that economy of Bali highly depends on tourism.
However, this bomb explosion will not provoke
other young generations to act anarchically,
he said.Sympathetic action by distributing
roses to visitors who just arrived at the
airport was highly respected by visitors.
Other than flowers, they also received a
pamphlet conveying peace message. Such ambience
could be seen at the terminal of International
Arrival, Ngurah Rai International Airport
since 22:00 to 01:30 Local Time. There were
some 125 visitors who received flower garland
and hundreds of others were presented with
red roses. Aside from Qantas, the remaining
passengers that received this opportunity
were of Japan Airlines from Japan to Bali
with flight numbers JL716, JL729, and JL715.
Lately, the number of foreign tourist visit
to Bali has dropped drastically as that
of QF131 with capacity 146 seats and only
67 seats occupied. (BTN/Para)
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