(Transcript from World News Australia Radio)
Eleven years after bombs ripped through the Sari Club & Paddy's Bar, Bali's tourism industry has more than recovered.
Tourism is providing much-needed employment.
But the rapid development associated with it is causing environmental damage and cultural change.
Karen Middleton reports.
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Living their hopes, singing their dreams.
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These young women's ambitions are pinned on Bali's tourism industry and the charitable foundation giving them a chance.
"To break the poverty (cycle), right, so they live better in the future and also the women can also give a good education for their children."
Benny Kusbandrianto manages the Bali Wise program, offering six months' schooling to disadvantaged women and girls aged 16 to 45, from across Indonesia.
They spend three months learning English, three more on vocational skills, including training in hotels and villas.
"Maybe if we can learn English better here we can have better opportunities in the future."
The school is in Nusa Dua, beside the exclusive enclave of hotels and resorts which provide the girls' livelihood.
"If something happened with tourism industry here, in the vocational class we also teach them about marketing, personal finance and also small business management."
Many are too young to remember what the terrorist bombings did to Bali's tourism industry.
In the 11 years since the first bombings, Balinese tourism has gone from bust to boom.
The number of tourists and rate of development -- sometimes with a dubious disregard for regulations -- are taking their own toll on the environment and culture.
But Bali now can't live without it.
Today, tourism accounts for about 60 per cent of Bali's economy.
With rice farmers increasingly selling off their land, there are moves to ensure future development's more community-driven and culturally- considerate.
At the new barely-developed Pandawa Beach in southern Nusa Dua, they're asking visitors what they'd like to see.
The survey's led by Dr Agung Suryawan Wiranatha, of Udayana University's Research Centre for Culture and Tourism.
"Because tourism has got a lot from Bali, especially culture and environment, so tourism should give back."
He wants tourists to pay a conservation charge to help protect it - 15 to 30 thousand rupiah, or one to three Australian dollars, for Indonesians and five to 15 dollars for foreigners.
"So when tourists come to Bali they will see Bali clean from the plastic garbage, Bali is green, something like that."
Expat Australian Mike O'Leary has the same hope.
He runs the ROLE Foundation - for Rivers, Oceans and Land Ecology.
"What we're trying to do is fund the Balinese that do care, and educate them from the bottom up. They're not happy about their beautiful Bali being turned into a trash camp."
Mike O'Leary runs pollution education programs.
His foundation also operates the Baliwise girls' school, which is sponsored by Coca Cola.
The students learn craft skills recycling rubbish - making foil coffee sachets into handbags, plastic cups and drinking straws into table decorations, and rice sacks into shopping bags.
Last week, the latest class graduated.
"We want to change our destiny to make our life much better in the future."
They know Bali's future is their own.
