{"id":808716,"date":"2026-07-18T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T18:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:43:19","slug":"shameful-aussie-confronts-tourist-for-littering-at-scenic-indonesian-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808716\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shameful\u2019: Aussie confronts tourist for littering at scenic Indonesian hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video shows a furious Aussie berating a fellow tourist who was accused of littering at a popular Indonesian hiking spot. <\/p>\n<p>Holidaymakers were taking in the sweeping views on a hiking trail at Indonesia\u2019s Padar Island, near Bali, when a Chinese tourist allegedly threw his plastic water bottle on the ground this week.<\/p>\n<p>An Aussie bystander then grabbed the bottle and gave the man a dressing down that was caught on camera. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care, you saw the sign. This is beautiful, and you ruin it,\u201d she says in the clip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShameful. Shame on you. Don\u2019t come back. I don\u2019t care, don\u2019t litter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man tries to argue, asking, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d to which the bystander unhesitatingly replies, \u201cAustralia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman steps in, telling the man: \u201cHey, you\u2019re rude. You should go. No one likes you,\u201d before he shambles off down the hiking path.<\/p>\n<p>The Komodo National Park Authority said all visitors are briefed about littering before going on the Padar Island hike.<\/p>\n<p>Staff would tighten supervision and remind tourists to maintain cleanliness at the park, the authority said.<\/p>\n<p>Padar Island, accessed from Bali via Labuan Bajo, is globally renowned for its spectacular, panoramic hike. <\/p>\n<p>Located in the heart of Indonesia\u2019s Komodo National Park, the short 30 to 45-minute trek features roughly 800 concrete and wooden steps leading to a viewpoint that looks out over three crescent beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video shows a furious Aussie berating a fellow tourist who was accused of littering at a popular Indonesian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[383521,383507,383518,383510,383522,383516,383494,383497,383513,383508,383501,383491,383496,383503,383520,43336,63,13146,8046,135850,72893,43,383519,383490,4805,17358,383492,383512,383515,44,377271,383493,383506,383509,383514,144033,383504,383499,383500,381869,377511,379036,383505,378658,383498,377221,383502,383517,383489,383511,383495,41,39,42,40,26681,17160,446],"class_list":["post-808716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-another-woman","tag-s-komodo-national-park","tag-s-padar-island","tag-a-chinese-tourist","tag-a-disgraceful-act","tag-a-dressing","tag-a-fellow-tourist","tag-a-furious-aussie","tag-a-hiking-trail","tag-a-popular-hiking-spot","tag-a-popular-indonesian-hiking-spot","tag-a-tourist","tag-a-viewpoint","tag-all-visitors","tag-an-aussie","tag-aussie","tag-australia","tag-bali","tag-camera","tag-chinese-tourist","tag-cleanliness","tag-headlines","tag-his-plastic-water-bottle","tag-holidaymakers","tag-indonesia","tag-island","tag-its-spectacular","tag-komodo-national-park-authority","tag-labuan-bajo","tag-news","tag-no-one","tag-panoramic-hike","tag-roughly-800-concrete-and-wooden-steps","tag-scenic-indonesian-hotspot","tag-shameful","tag-supervision","tag-the-authority","tag-the-bottle","tag-the-bystander","tag-the-clip","tag-the-ground","tag-the-heart","tag-the-hiking-path-the","tag-the-man","tag-the-padar-island-hike-staff","tag-the-park","tag-the-short-30-to-45-minute-trek","tag-the-sign","tag-the-sweeping-views","tag-this-week-an-aussie-bystander","tag-three-crescent-beaches","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tourist","tag-tourists","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}