THE Badung regional administration should not have arbitrarily “felled” dozens of telecommunication towers in its region. The recent unilateral removal of towers that has become a “trend” in the tourist area of Bali could be seen as a breach of the law. It is true that the local government banned the erection of the steel towers, which tends to ruin esthetics, wreck town planning or are too tall and higher than temples.

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