{"id":75023,"date":"2025-11-04T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/04\/bali-kelingking-beach-lift-construction"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:59:24","slug":"bali-and-the-not-so-great-glass-elevator-construction-on-kelingking-beach-prompts-outrage-from-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75023","title":{"rendered":"Bali and the not-so-great glass elevator: construction on Kelingking beach prompts outrage from locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of 182-metre tall lift has been halted after outrage from locals on the  Indonesian tourist island<\/p>\n<p>It is famed for resembling the silhouette of a T rex. But the view of Kelingking beach in Bali will never be the same again, due to the construction of a new, 182-metre tall glass elevator that is meant to increase tourism to the area.<\/p>\n<p>Kelingking Beach sits on the coast of Nusa Penida, an island off Bali about a 45-minute ferry ride from Denpasar. The site is popular on the tourist track, with a breathtaking aerial view of a rock formation resembling a dinosaur and a treacherous path to the beach below.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/04\/bali-kelingking-beach-lift-construction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of 182-metre tall lift has been halted after outrage from locals on the  Indonesian tourist islandIt is famed for resembling the silhouette of a T rex. But the view of Kelingking beach in Bali will never be the same again, due to the const&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5047,"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":[41,413,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bali","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75023","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\/5047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75024,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75023\/revisions\/75024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}