Fear of ‘mafia-style syndicates’ in Bali grows amid rise in crimes by foreigners - South China Morning Post

A surge successful foreigner-linked transgression has raised fears that Bali whitethorn crook into a “killing ground” for cause traffickers and organised transgression groups, arsenic officials and residents pass that efforts to boost wide tourism are eroding nationalist information and inviting the incorrect benignant of visitors to the Indonesian island. Bali constabulary recorded a 16 per cent emergence successful crimes involving foreigners past twelvemonth – from 194 cases successful 2023 to 226 successful 2024 – with 108 specified incidents logged betwixt January and June of this year,...