BALI, Indonesia (CNN) -- On the island of Bali, the sea turtle has long been prized as a delicacy.

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He decided to go into petrochemicals while attending a Pacific Rim business conference in the Indonesian island of Bali in mid-1994.

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Indonesia has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

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The Rinjani Scops owl was first identified in 2003 and has since been spotted only on Lombok island, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the popular resort island of Bali.

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For outsiders in the month leading up to Oct. 8, the island of Bali must have seemed even more strange and possessed than normal, gripped by a trance and bathed in weird symbols.

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On October 10th, during a rally on the resort island of Bali, thousands of members of the Indonesian Democratic Party turned out to pick Sukarno's daughter, Megawati Sukarnoputri, as their presidential candidate for 1999.

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Unlike mostly Muslim Lombok, Bali is a predominantly Hindu island.

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Notwithstanding the terrorist blast in Bali that hurt air traffic to the resort island, Asia remains the world's fastest-growing air traffic market.

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In the 1970s he invited some of the first backpackers passing through Bali to stay in his family's simple one-room ancestral home, and to learn of the island's unique traditions.

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