{"id":69660,"date":"2025-02-25T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/25\/bali-transformation-tourism-declassified-spy-satellite-reports-nusantara-atlas"},"modified":"2025-02-25T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:01:21","slug":"rice-paddies-to-mega-resorts-declassified-spy-satellite-images-reveal-balis-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69660","title":{"rendered":"Rice paddies to mega resorts: declassified spy satellite images reveal Bali\u2019s transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extent of decades of development is laid bare as Indonesia wrestles with how to control development on the holiday island<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder what Bali used to be like?\u201d is a common refrain heard on Indonesia\u2019s best-known holiday island.<\/p>\n<p>Famous for its lush green rice paddies and stunning beaches, the \u201cisland of the Gods\u201d has undergone rapid change over the past half-century with locals and tourists complaining about the traffic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/nov\/20\/bali-plastic-recycling-scheme-swamped-with-garbage\">pollution and badly behaved foreigners<\/a> that have come with the hotels and resorts that now swamp the island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/25\/bali-transformation-tourism-declassified-spy-satellite-reports-nusantara-atlas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extent of decades of development is laid bare as Indonesia wrestles with how to control development on the holiday island\u201cI wonder what Bali used to be like?\u201d is a common refrain heard on Indonesia\u2019s best-known holiday island.Famous for its lush green &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,413,156,3230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bali","category-indonesia","category-overtourism"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69660\/revisions\/69661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}