No motorcycles please, asks US Secret Service

US President Barack Obama’s presence at the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, has been noticable, with several new regulations introduced in efforts to heighten security in and around the area.

A number of US Secret Service personnel have been deployed in and around the Grand Hyatt Hotel and Peninsula Island Resort in Nusa Dua, attracting hotel employees and guests’ attention.

A hotel security employee said that the Secret Service had asked the committee not to allow motorcycles to enter the hotel and resort area.

“This is the new procedure, requested by the [US] Secret Service,” the employee said Friday as quoted by tribunnews.com.

Initially, all vehicles equipped with special stickers were allowed to enter the ASEAN Summit area.

Motorcyclists hoping to attend the Summit will have to park their motorcycles outside the hotel compound, or near the Bali Tourism Development Center, he said.