{"id":42273,"date":"2017-01-30T16:46:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T09:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/trump-hotel-bali-will-anger-the-gods-locals-fear\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T10:14:15","slug":"trump-hotel-bali-will-anger-the-gods-locals-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/trump-hotel-bali-will-anger-the-gods-locals-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Hotel Bali will anger the Gods, locals fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nUS president\u2019s business interest in Bali may be sacrilegious<br \/>\nTanah Lot, a sacred Hindu site in Bali dating back to the 1500s, will face a Trump resort in 2018. Tatiana Popova\/Shutterstock<br \/>\nIndonesians are denouncing the\u00a0construction of a Bali resort licenced to bear US President Donald Trump\u2019s name \u2014 and it is an outrage of the divine kind, Bloomberg\u00a0reported.<br \/>\nBilled as the largest resort project in the island, the six-star Trump International Hotel and Tower Bali will include structures higher than coconut trees, a\u00a0slight to the gods according to island\u00a0locals. Adding insult to cosmic injury is the fact that the property faces the 16th-century temple Tanah Lot.<br \/>\n\u201cIf he forces his bling bling decoration here then it just won\u2019t work,\u201d said Made Sumawa, ethnic head of the village where the project is located, referring to Trump. \u201cIf he tries to force his style upon us then of course we will give recommendation against it.\u201d<br \/>\nSet to start construction by 2018, the Trump resort in Bali resort will cover\u00a0over 140 hectares, up from the original announcement of 106 hectares, Bloomberg reported. The expansive nature of the project has farmers worried that it would encroach on surrounding fertile land.<br \/>\nMore: The ultimate guide to SE Asian real estate in 2016<br \/>\nThe addition of a golf course, a signature amenity of Trump developments, may also be anathema to sacred sites nearby. \u201cA golf course isn\u2019t a forest and it isn\u2019t nature so it conflicts with the philosophy of upholding the temple\u2019s sacredness,\u201d said I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, local chief of the religious organisation Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia.<br \/>\n\u201cThese things are sensitive in Bali. The Balinese don\u2019t tend to speak up, but these things related to the sacredness of the temple are very sensitive, only the enforcement is too weak.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nIndonesian property development giant MNC Group announced the licencing deal with The Trump Organisation\u00a0in 2015. MNC Group founder Hary Tanoesoedibjo has since grown closer to the US president, who invited him to his inauguration this month in Washington, DC. Tanoesoedibjo himself is considering a run for the presidency in Indonesia.<br \/>\nAlthough Balinese are largely Hindu, Indonesia is a predominantly Islamic country, the world\u2019s largest and one of several missing in\u00a0Trump\u2019s so-called Muslim ban, signed Friday. The order is an executive order that outlines extreme vetting procedures against\u00a0travelers and citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.<br \/>\nCritics on social media note that Trump\u2019s EO spares those originating from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, and the UAE, countries where he has several licencing and development deals. The hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks were citizens of three of those countries.<\/p>\n<p>1\/ WARNING: Mr. Pres. your Muslim ban excludes countries where you have business interests.That is a CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION.See u in court<br \/>\n\u2014 Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) January 26, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Read next: Where does your country stand in a Trump presidency?&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : property-report.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.property-report.com\/trump-hotel-bali-will-anger-the-gods-locals-fear\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Hotel Bali will anger the Gods, locals fear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; US president\u2019s business interest in Bali may be sacrilegious Tanah Lot, a sacred Hindu site&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-aZP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29351,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/whats-driving-tourists-and-investors-away-from-bali-and-into-the-gili-islands\/","url_meta":{"origin":42273,"position":0},"title":"What\u2019s driving tourists and investors away from Bali and into the Gili Islands","date":"October 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Luxury villa projects springing up in Gili Meno Gili Meno, Indonesia. soft_light\/Shutterstock Growing urbanisation in Bali may have driven more and more beach frolickers from Bali toward the more laidback idylls of the nearby Gili Islands. 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