“This is where it all started,” says Rizal Tandjung, gazing out over a sandy shoreline lapped by dying breakers. Almost 40 years old, Tandjung is one of Bali’s surfing pioneers. Picking up his first ...

Tons of trash have washed onto Bali’s famous Kuta Beach, prompting locals to spend the first day of the new year staging a cleanup. Residents from the Badung area on the Indonesian island cleared 30 ...

Dispatch is a new series of first-person stories from the road. Readers can share their experiences, from the sublime to the strange. In early February, a tweet from the Wall Street Journal asked, ...

Plastic straws and food packaging are strewn between sunbathers, while surfers bobbing behind the waves dodge waste flushed out from rivers or brought in by swirling currents. “When I want to swim, it ...

Horror new photos show Bali locals wading through piles of rubbish as they try to clean one of the island's formerly pristine beaches. The mounds of plastic bottles, food containers and abandoned ...

Bali's iconic beaches and typically idyllic waters have transformed into rubbish dumps with tonnes of filth piling higher than deck chairs where Australian tourists once sunned themselves on holiday.

Wind conditions were pristine for this session at Kuta Beach. The early risers were greeted with a silky-smooth ocean and some fun waist high waves that peeled all the way to the beach. Even when the ...