In Reply to: sweetheart... posted by junglegirl on Sunday, 28. February 2010 at 18:19 Bali Time:
in Bali is WELL familiar with the way Balinese often blame Java/Javanese for any alleged or real criminal activity, bad experience one might relate to them about hawkers etc..
Sorry to say, I laughed myself. Not because I did not feel sympathy for threadstarter's predicament over theft, but because I also recalled the oft-heard "Must be be Java people".
As for the predicament, I would go straight tho the top, or to the police. It is pretty damn shocking they were not called by staff. This is a serious amount of money in anyone's currency and has to be a professional job.