Australian holiday-makers and travel agents have threatened to snub Bali if accused drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is found guilty by the Indonesian courts.
Almost 70 per cent of respondents to a nationwide survey of travel agents said the outcome of the case would affect the way they sold Bali holiday packages and air fares.
Conducted by travel industry journal Travel Daily, the survey showed 68 per cent of the 168 respondents would stop promoting Bali as a destination if Corby, 27, found at Bali airport with 4.1 kilograms of marijuana in her bodyboard bag, was convicted.
Instead, they would encourage tourists to visit alternative destinations such as Fiji, Phuket, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands and New Zealand.
If the travel industry boycott takes effect, it is expected to make a serious dent in the already fragile Balinese economy that has suffered a series of blows in recent years.
From Bali faces Corby backlash
This is a huge blow to Bali, especially since so many of their tourists come from Oz. It really highlights what’s riding on this case. I wonder how people would react if the same situation had happened to someone less media-friendly - an older male, a minority, a poor woman with kids - basically, someone people are more likely to expect as a ‘drug smuggler’. I’m not saying she’s innocent or guilty, I’m just intrigued by the reaction this case has gotten. It’s definitely good for Corby, however, that travel agents and influential people are treating it this seriously.
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corby may be guilty but it is no reason to bost i think that she’S tOtaLly nOt GUILTY SOOOOO IF YOU THINK THAT YOUR STUPID. IT IS SOOOO stuPid thAt WheN Corby Talks She nevEr SounDs Sad Or Upset Why Is shE nevEr SayinG thaT sHe diDn’t Do It by abbey and JAsMyNE
I think this is a good lesson for all the Australians. They are worst of the discriminatory type, has no respect for others and think they can do whatever they want. I guess this is part of their heredity.
I think there is no doubt she is guilty and chances are she is part of a larger group of junkies. It is no secret lot of young people in Australia smoke a lot of drugs and they are commonly available in the streets.
What made all the Australians think they can just immediately claim her innocence? Would they do the same thing if it was an Indonesian or someone from a pooper country who was caught in Australia??? Have you people ever spent five minutes to find out how much discriminatory and racist decisions are taken in Australia and how many poor innocent people are made to suffer?
I think Indonesia has made a good point by doing this and judging her guilty and sentencing her. She should’ve got the death penalty.
I dont care if she did do it (and I do think she is innocent). The only thing she is guilty of is travelling to a Mickey Mouse, 3rd world, backwards country and expecting to be treated as fairly as she would be in a Western country like the UK, US or Australia. If I was running things, I would be on the phone to their highest authority and tell them to give us our girl back in one unmolested piece or you will pay George Bush style. My advice to all fellow Americans and to members of other 1st world countries like Australia…we have nice beaches! Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, California…we dont need to risk our safety and go to some backwards, dangerous place just to save a few bucks. It’s not worth it. If I was the President or Prime Minister I would never let my citizens, guilty or not, be tried in a foreign court. We the muscle to bring her home, we should flex it.
Sam, you are an idiot. There is really not much more to say. I got stuck in France once…a horrible thing to have happen to you… and some Australians walking by recogized my American accent and immediately came to help me out. If I had to pick another country besides the US, it would be Australia. Free Corby!
What a system this third world island has. Guilty until proven innocent. That shows how far behind Bali is. Everything is so cheap in Bali that even the 3 monkey judges were hired from a local zoo. I am not saying shapelle corby was guilty or innocent but compare her sentence to the hideous crime aku bashir masterminded. Yes that’s right everyone, he will be out next year to create more havoc. No wonder everyone that I have spoken to will boycott Bali forever. I think bashir’s followers are in for a shock when they find out alla is just a cartoon character when they get to hell.
Typical Indonesia. Mass murderer Abu Bakar Bashir is let go with a really really light sentence after KILLING people through horific BOMBINGS…..
Then Adiguna, son of rich tycoon, Hilton owner…….watch, he WILL get less than Corby’s sentence, and for what?……KILLING A HILTON EMPLOYEE AT THE HILTON HOTEL INFRONT OF SEVERAL WITNESSES.
Justice in Indonesia is A JOKE. Do not believe it.
Boycott Bali and the rest of Indonesia.
I think “Sam” (the Indonesian possibly!) is from the most corrupt AND discriminatory country in Asia : Indonesia……
These people (Indonesians……) will not only discriminate against “bules” (white people) but love to do this against the Chinesse as well as their own too. So long as you are different, you will be discriminated against in Indonesia.
Please think next time you want to help Indonesia.
BTW, I was in Bali a while back. In less than 2 minutes I was offered drugs right on the side walk…….by who? Indonesians, speaking perfect english……
Funny huh? how they can just operate in broad daylight?
Yeah, maybe because they are “orang kita”……
Matt the (Stupid) American,
Its nice to hear that there is still stupid americans who say “George Bush Style” Mate, haven’t you people had enough????? Do you really want your boys and girls getting killed all over the world?? Idiot!!!
“Give our innocent girl back” Gimme a friggin’ break!!!!! Who the f!@# are you to say this? What do you know????
Do you know that in any civilized part of the world you are responsible for your OWN luggage? Do you think any US or any so called first world countries will accept if YOU as an AMERICAN tell them it wasn’t your bag and you don’t know whats in it???
It is idiots like you who can think you can march across the world with your stinking flag create terrorists like Osamas, because you are challenging countries, systems and people and cultures you don’t understand making people face upto your stupidity. If you think you can get on the horn and free everyone arrested overseas, why do we need democracy and a system?? All we need is “MATT THE MONKEY”
Have some respect if you want some!
BTW, just out of curiosity, why were you stuck in France?? Did you have any sustance you weren’t aware of??? 
And Jack, I bet you bought the drugs… I am sure those dealers knew how to recognize a junkie…
Have you considered that the most logical explanation to Corby’s conviction is that she is guilty? Only the hopelessly naive, caught up in the hype and hysteria could believe the incredible conspiracy theory that is doing the rounds. Consider the theory:
Corrupt person 1: A check-in counter staff member from an airline company in Brisbane decides that Corby’s bag will be the one to be used to smuggle drugs to Sydney, so he/she doesn’t weight the bag, but marks it some how for corrupt person 2.
Corrupt person 2: A baggage handler is out back waltzing around with a CLEAR plastic bag containing grass. He gets a text message from the counter staff identifing the bag. Wow, what a co-incidence, the bag fits neatly.
Corrupt person 3: A security officer working for the Brisbane Airport Corporation (nothing to do with the airline), gets a text message ‘destroy the tape of CORBY getting onto the flight’. He does as he is told.
Corrupt person 4: A baggage handler at Sydney airport. Forgets to take the dope out of CORBY’s bag and off it goes to Bali.
Corrupt people 5 & 6: Two custom’s officials at Bali find the dope and for no good reason, decide to lie their souls out by saying that Corby was evasive when questioned,and pushed their hands away as they tried to open the bag.
Come on people - wake up. Schapelle Corby looks like ‘the-girl-next-door’ so we love here and want her back. But let’s not overlook the simple explanation that she tried to smuggle a heap of dope into Bali (complacently - because it may be her 2nd or third go) deliberately not placing a lock on her bag, thinking that the old ‘I didn’t know it was there’ argument would work for an attractive Aussie girl. If Schapelle Corby was male, ugly, covered in tatts and missing teeth, Australia wouldn’t give a rats bum about him.
Have you considered that the most logical explanation to Corby’s conviction is that she is guilty? Only the hopelessly naive, caught up in the hype and hysteria could believe the incredible conspiracy theory that is doing the rounds. Consider the theory:
Corrupt person 1: A check-in counter staff member from an airline company in Brisbane decides that Corby’s bag will be the one to be used to smuggle drugs to Sydney, so he/she doesn’t weight the bag, but marks it some how for corrupt person 2.
Corrupt person 2: A baggage handler is out back waltzing around with a CLEAR plastic bag containing grass. He gets a text message from the counter staff identifing the bag. Wow, what a co-incidence, the bag fits neatly.
Corrupt person 3: A security officer working for the Brisbane Airport Corporation (nothing to do with the airline), gets a text message ‘destroy the tape of CORBY getting onto the flight’. He does as he is told.
Corrupt person 4: A baggage handler at Sydney airport. Forgets to take the dope out of CORBY’s bag and off it goes to Bali.
Corrupt people 5 & 6: Two custom’s officials at Bali find the dope and for no good reason, decide to lie their souls out by saying that Corby was evasive when questioned,and pushed their hands away as they tried to open the bag.
Come on people - wake up. Schapelle Corby looks like ‘the-girl-next-door’ so we love here and want her back. But let’s not overlook the simple explanation that she tried to smuggle a heap of dope into Bali (complacently - because it may be her 2nd or third go) deliberately not placing a lock on her bag, thinking that the old ‘I didn’t know it was there’ argument would work for an attractive Aussie girl. If Schapelle Corby was male, ugly, covered in tatts and missing teeth, Australia wouldn’t give a rats bum about him.
The drugs were placed in the wrong bag and on the wrong plane,dope is 20 times cheaper in Bali than in Australia [I don't think Corby is that stupid]the rest is just bad luck and a fucked up corrupt legal system in a corrupt fucked up third world country. Been there heaps and been offered EVERYTHING by the toe rags on the street and the cops do nothing,the place is rotten.I made my mind up years ago never to go back and have’nt.ISLAND PARADISE-”PIGS ARSE” good luck Schepple
Thanks Channel 9 for hyping up this up to fever pitch. Hope you got to sell lots of product on the back of a young Aussie. Let’s remember: This is not the extermination of the Jewish people, it’s not Pol Pot killing millions in Cambodia, it’s not the Russians in Afganistan - it’s one girl who’ll serve no more that 2 years in jail before coming home. Lets keep some proportion in all of this.
I still find it hard to accept how these judges who made up their mind before corby entered the courtroom, couldn’t even speak english never known understand what corby was trying to say in her defence statements. I would suggest anyone thinking of travelling to bali should make sure you are a millionaire first because if something goes wrong like in shapelles case, then at least you know a bribe to the right authorities will get you back home sooner.
To think I donated money to the tsunami victims in which I’m sure there are some decent people there but now, on reflecting that decision just maybe my hundred bucks went to the some of the most corrupt authorities in the world. I wonder how much got through to the people who needed it most.
It was also interesting how in approximately 500 cases before these judges for similar offences that not 1 (that’s right, not 1) got off. How proud these judges were of that record & didn’t they let that known. Corby had no chance.
Perhaps the only thing the Australian government can learn from this is when child mollesters, rapists, murderers of the worst kind, vicious robberies & other serious related crimes, then long & lengthy sentences like corbys should be adhered to & when 20 years is given 20 years should be served. Not 20 given, out in 5.
Darren
Having watched this case unfold over the last 4-5 days & heard other’s opinions, while I have little doubt that there IS corruption amongst the Indonesian authorities - one thing’s for sure: that this will encourage others to up their own personal security measures and as sure as night follows day - and mostly because of HUMAN COMPLACENCY and the never-ending quest for CONVENIENCE, this will merely hasten the introduction of smartcards and MICROCHIPS.
This kind of things happened before in Australia as well.
http://www.justicefornickbaker.org/en/041201-01.htm
This was big issue in Japan .
I hope Coby get free and justice can be done for this time..
we all know indonesia is corrpt these bastards murdered 89 austrailians or have we forgotten ,indonesia is justt to dangerous to even go near ,justice in indonesia is a joke i will be joining the boycott of all indonesian products travel,hell there safer places to go to fiji ,new zealand ,where there no terrorist ,corrupt justice lets teach these indonesian pricks a costly lession
I believe that Shapelle Corby is guilty.
Why you might ask? You be the judge…..
1. She at any point could not state to the court who packed her bag. In one interview she says to the media that she packed her bag and then in another interview with the media her father is saying that he packed her bag.
2. She could not provide any other evidence – aside from a witness to “here say” that the drug transporting is happening.
3. Yes she did have friends who wanted to witnesses but the courts didn’t allow it as these witnesses (friends) were not present the time of packing her bag and would merely be there to be character witnesses.
4. The allegation she initially claimed the drugs were hers
5. Customs official Gusti Nyoman Winata said he asked Corby to open the bag, but she unzipped only a front pocket. When she opened it a bit, she said: ‘No’,” Mr Winata said. “I asked: ‘Why?’, and she said: ‘I have some,’ and looked confused.” Mr Winata added that she blocked his hand to stop him opening the main zip
6. Corby disputed Mr Winata’s version, but there was no CCTV system in operation to support her denial.
7. Another customs official said Corby admitted owning the drugs.
8. Prosecutors claim the plastic bag was the same size and shape as the boogie board bag, suggesting it had been organised to fit, as opposed to being stuffed in by someone else, such as baggage handlers
9. Hydroponic marijuana is extremely popular expatriates and tourists in Bali.
10. Had Corby been aware of the drugs and had her bag been properly secured with a padlock, there would have been no chance of her claiming that the marijuana had been planted in her bag.
Yes I believe that Drug transporting from the Airports does happen but in this instance I believe that is not what happened.
Ron Bakir, I believe is the one that Corby was working for – hence the reason why he is financially backing her now – with a guilty conscience. He too has registered her name as a company and also has 50% of the profits when she writes a book?? I guess she will be writing a book. He has never been involved in this case because he is a caring compassionate man. It’s all about the money!!
I believe the entire Corby family is involved with the Importing of the drugs. Look at her father, Michael Corby. He has been convicted of the same crime as his daughter Shapelle back in the 1970s. Her brother is also in a QLD Jail for fraud, break and enter, stealing.
In addition to my previous comments, I found out last week that my bosses wife went to Bali a month after Scapelle was arrested. She went to Bali with her two sons for a holiday while my boss had to work back here in Australia because of heavy work loads. His wife had finished her holiday & went to the bali airport to come back to Australia. She put her luggage through the appropriate channels then after 20 minutes or so she got called into another room by authorities. They said to her the luggage exceeded the maximum weight by 30kg’s & said it would normally cost $500.00 but for $300.00 they would turn a blind eye & pass it through. Naturally she shit herself after the Corby ordeal only weeks before. Fortunately she had $300.00 on her & gave it to authorities so she could get on the plane & back to Australia. When she got back to Australia & checked the weight, it was 30kg’s less than what the balinese authorities said it was.
This might have nothing to do with Corbys case but it tells me just how corrupt this joint is. Don’t forget $300.00 is about a years wages for some of these crooks. Money talks many languages especially when corruption is involved.
My boss thinks she might have got picked on because of no man with her, just her two young sons. This place may be cheap but is it worth risking your life, I don’t think so. I will only travel to countries where there are humans.
In addition to my previous comments, I found out last week that my bosses wife went to Bali a month after Scapelle was arrested. She went to Bali with her two sons for a holiday while my boss had to work back here in Australia because of heavy work loads. His wife had finished her holiday & went to the bali airport to come back to Australia. She put her luggage through the appropriate channels then after 20 minutes or so she got called into another room by authorities. They said to her the luggage exceeded the maximum weight by 30kg’s & said it would normally cost $500.00 but for $300.00 they would turn a blind eye & pass it through. Naturally she shit herself after the Corby ordeal only weeks before. Fortunately she had $300.00 on her & gave it to authorities so she could get on the plane & back to Australia. When she got back to Australia & checked the weight, it was 30kg’s less than what the balinese authorities said it was.
This might have nothing to do with Corbys case but it tells me just how corrupt this joint is. Don’t forget $300.00 is about a years wages for some of these crooks. Money talks many languages especially when corruption is involved.
My boss thinks she might have got picked on because of no man with her, just her two young sons. This place may be cheap but is it worth risking your life, I don’t think so. I will only travel to countries where there are humans.
Schapelle Corby has been found guilty!