"I'm sure that the number of tourists coming here will fall by more than 50%, " says I Made Mertha, a tour operator at Bali's Kuta Beach.

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Try beach pedicures in Bali, leg-hair threading in Vietnam or having your dead skin nibbled off by doctor fish in Hong Kong.

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On Oct. 8, the day Megawati opened the congress before tens of thousands of red-clad supporters on a blistering field in the beach resort of Sanur, Bali helped pull off exactly what the PDI team wanted: a grand political spectacle to punctuate Megawati's transformation from party outcast to presidential contender.

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