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Nicole Kidman reveals heartbreak at father’s death Associated Press
SYDNEY — Actress Nicole Kidman on Tuesday broke her public silence since the death of her father more than two weeks ago by sharing her heartbreak and thanking well-wishers for their comforting thoughts and prayers. “We would just like to thank everyone for their love and prayers over these past couple of weeks,” Kidman and her singer husband Keith Urban said in a joint statement posted on their Facebook pages.
“We are all heartbroken, but knowing we are in the hearts and thoughts of others is so comforting,” they added. They signed off: “Sending love, Nic and
Keith xx.” The Australian star of this year’s “Grace of Monaco” returned to her home of Sydney after her psychologist father Tony Kidman died during a vacation in Singapore on Sept. 12. The 75-year-old was in Singapore to visit his other daughter, Antonia, and her family. Authorities did not reveal the cause of this death.
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Australian actress Nicole Kidman with her father Tony Kidman. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File
Amanda Bynes arrested for DUI in Los Angeles Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Former actress Amanda Bynes was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of driving while under the influence of a drug, authorities said Monday. Bynes, 28, was stopped by a California Highway Patrol officer after she stopped in the middle of an intersection in Los Angeles around 4 a.m. on Sunday. The former child star was determined to be under the influence of an unidentified drug after being evaluated at a nearby police station, the CHP said in a statement. The release states that Bynes, who has had a series of driving-related arrests, was cooperative but appeared disheveled when she was taken into custody. Bynes was released hours later after posting $15,000 bail. A phone message left for her criminal defense attorney, Richard Hutton, was not immediately returned. The one-time actress remains on probation for a 2012 case filed after she clipped a Los Angeles County sheriff’s patrol car and was arrested for driving under the influence. Bynes pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving in February.
Amanda Bynes
In June, a New York judge dismissed a criminal case filed after Bynes was accused of throwing a bong out of her 36th-floor apartment. The case was dismissed after Bynes complied with orders to receive counseling and stay out of trouble. Last year, Bynes resolved a misdemeanor hit-and-run case in Los Angeles after entering a civil settlement with other drivers.
She received psychiatric treatment last year after authorities said she set a small fire in the driveway of a home in Thousand Oaks, California. Bynes was 13 when she landed her own hit variety program, “The Amanda Show” on Nickelodeon. She went on to star in the TV series “What I Like About You” and several movies, including “What a Girl Wants,” ‘’Hairspray” and “She’s the Man.” She has publicly stated that she has retired from acting. Her last film credit was 2010’s “Easy A,” which starred Emma Stone.
Tourists played water sport at Benoa Bay, Bali Island.
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MANGUPURA - Statement of the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu, who reminded all the stakeholders of keeping Bali from being over capacity was addressed seriously by Chairman of the Bali Tourism Society Alliance, Gusti Kade Sutawa. According to the man doubling as Secretary-General of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter, the concerns of the minister on the island would actually happen if this small island was reclaimed. “Nowadays, it is not yet overcapacity, but the worries of the minister will actually happen if the Benoa Bay reclamation is implemented by force. The growth of the accommodation today has been higher than the number of tourist visit, let alone be coupled with reclamation plan with the establishment of hundreds of accommodation. Bali will not only be overcapacity, but
also overloaded,” said Kade Sutawa when met on Monday (Sep 29). According to him, the concept of tourism aimed for people’s welfare had deviated. Today, the Bali tourism even more benefited investors rather than the public. “Although I am a tourism businessman, I reject the reclamation because it will not benefit the community. Let’s see and it is said that it will absorb
hundreds of thousands of workers, what percentage of Balinese people gets absorbed and what percentage of the outsiders. I have confidence the outsiders will dominantly get absorbed,” he said. He added that local government should no longer direct investors to Southern Bali, yet evenly distributed them to the Northern, Eastern and Western Bali. Thus, the concept on the distribution of tourism pie could be enjoyed equally by Balinese people. “Investors should not be taken to southern region, but take them to the northern and eastern region to create equity by providing infrastructure in the region. Surely, the investors want to invest in southern region as no longer needs intensive campaign,” he said. He supported if the government built infrastructure that would con-
nect the Northern, Eastern, Western, and Southern Bali to create equity. “Otherwise yes ... Bali will be obviously overloaded, especially in the Southern Bali,” he concluded. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Intellectuals Association (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, Putu Anom, argued that the number of tourist accommodation in Bali had been overcapacity since 20002010. “Based on the results of our study, the excessive number of hotel rooms can lead to a price war having been going on since 2010. We just recommended the establishment of homestays at tourism village. However, it is often violated,” he said. He said that the addition of hotel rooms by the county or municipality government was always done based on the number of tourist arrival
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to Bali, so the quality of travelers making a visit tended to decrease. Actually, calculating the carrying capacity was not based on the quantity of travelers coming to Bali. “It is happening now. Many see that the arrival of travelers exceeds the number of rooms, so that we need additional rooms. Moreover, there is now a reclamation plan that will add to the growth of the accommodation,” he said. It was mentioned that the concept of calculating the carrying capacity of Bali tourism should put priority on the needs of local community such as the need for water and land. “After that, it can be exploited for tourism. It must be calculated what percentage of the land and water can possibly be allocated for the needs of travelers,” he affirmed. (kmb27)
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Bali News Medical waste management at Tabanan Hospital
Third party being involved Bali Post
TABANAN - Health services are inseparable from medical waste, both the liquid and solid waste, as happened to Tabanan Hospital. Within a day, the medical solid waste generated at this hospital reaches 150 kilograms and 60 cubic meters of liquid waste discharged into the environment after being processed through the waste water treatment plant. The Division Head of Tabanan Hospital Non-Medical Services, Made Wisnawa, explained on Monday (Sep 29) that the processing of medical solid waste in the form of amputated organ pieces,
sharp objects such as needles and glass bottles of used drugs as well as infectious waste was burned in an incinerator with the capacity of 100 kg per single burning. An incineration process would take
two hours. Formerly, the capacity was overloaded. Other than incinerating the medical solid waste of the Tabanan Hospital, the hospital-owned incinerator was also used to incinerate
The officers of Tabanan Hospital show the waste management systme in the hopital
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solid waste of 13 health facilities including those of the public health centers in Tabanan and Denpasar. “When serving the 13 health facilities, the incinerator capacity was overloaded. Commonly the incineration could not be accomplished in a day,” said Wisnawa. To overcome the excessive medical waste processing, the Tabanan Hospital directed the health facilities making cooperation with its party to use the services provided by the third party named the Transporter. According to Wisnawa, the Transporter was a company processing solid medical waste located in Java. “The company is collecting solid medical waste within three to four days to be further conveyed to Java for processing,” said Wisnawa. After discontinuing the cooperation with the health facilities and directing them to the third party, the incinerator capacity of Tabanan Hospital returned to normal and the incineration could be done in one day. “At the moment, only two health facilities are still making cooperation with us, namely the Marga public health center and Tabanan III public health center,” said Wisnawa. Results of the medical solid waste incineration, admitted Wisnawa, were still disposed to landfill. But in the future, the Tabanan Hospital
would make cooperation with the Transporter because this company had a recycling program for the medical solid waste incineration. In addition to medical solid waste, the Tabanan Hospital also produced hazardous waste such as the medical devices containing mercury, batteries and lamp. On that account, the hazardous waste should not be burned and stored in a special room. Meanwhile, for processing of liquid waste, the Tabanan Hospital had the wastewater treatment plant applying the bio-filter aerobic technology. Maximum capacity of the treatment plant could serve 400 beds, while at the moment the Tabanan Hospital had only 222 beds. “So, the capacity is still adequate,” said Wisnawa. Emission test to the result of combustion by the incinerator located at Nyitdah was carried out by Tabanan Hospital once a year. Meanwhile, the wastewater test was carried out once a month. In addition, to ensure the result of recycled wastewater was safe before discharged to the environment, the results were collected first in the pond containing fish. “The pond contains fish and aquatic plants. If the fish and plant die, it means the results of wastewater are not safe,” added Wisnawa. (kmb24)
Most teachers reluctant to teach in Nusa Penida Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Ultimately the Klungkung Education Agency removed 349 teachers in all levels of education, Monday (Sep 29). Of this total number, 13 teachers were removed from the mainland of Klungkung to Nusa Penida Island. The Head of Klungkung Education Agency, Nyoman Mudarta, said that a majority of the teachers in Klungkung were still reluctant to teach in Nusa Penida. On that account, on the delivery of their decree, they should receive special guidance from the Klungkung Regent, Nyoman Suwirta. Handover of the decree was performed last Monday in the meeting hall of the SMAN 2 Semarapura high school. His party deliberately
distinguished the removal decree between the teachers removed to the area around Klungkung mainland and the teachers removed to Nusa Penida. In accordance with the instruction of the regent, Mudarta said that the 13 teachers who would be assigned to Nusa Penida in the near future would get a briefing in advance from Regent Suwirta. The briefing, he said, was necessary to convince the teachers that they were assigned to Nusa Penida because their skill was very much in need for the sustainability of education in Nusa Penida. The fear of those teachers to be on duty in Nusa Penida was quite reasonable. Although the law had mandated that every teacher was ready to be placed anywhere, the
underdevelopment of Nusa Penida had even raised their fear. “As the instruction of the regent, we in the Education Agency want to remove the impression that the teachers assigned to Nusa Penida were the outcast,” he affirmed. Actually, the teachers removed to Nusa Penida were selected people considered to have the capability of carry out the tasks of building the education in Nusa Penida. Even, Mudarta asserted that the 13 teachers assigned in Nusa Penida would receive a special allowance. Unfortunately, the allowance magnitude was still being deliberated by the regent with the Education Agency. The special allowance would be provided for transportation and the cost of rent-
ing a house for duty in Nusa Penida. It would be provided through the Regent Decree allocated in the Klungkung regional budget. The 13 teachers, said Mudarta, would teach at secondary and high/vocational schools. Meanwhile, he said that his party still lacked for teachers of elementary schools both in Nusa Penida and Klungkung mainland. So far, Klungkung has a total of 2,991 teachers at all levels. Of the total number, Klungkung remains to lack for 95 teachers at elementary level. Meanwhile, it also lacks for 36 sport teachers for junior high and high school/vocational schools. However, amid the lack of it, Klungkung has a surplus of 56 religion teachers. Faced with this problem, Mudarta affirmed
that Klungkung should immediately recruit teachers. Even, after Klungkung could get an allocation of 45 prospective civil servants, the Education Agency already set a format for the recruitment of 25 elementary school teachers. “Without recruitment, we will continue to be shortage of teachers in the future. Moreover, the retired teacher continues to grow,” he explained. To overcome the problem, his party temporarily covered the shortage of teachers by employing temporary teacher whose salary was taken from the school operation assistance. Recruitment of this kind of teachers was mostly carried out for the elementary school level because the highest shortage occurred in this level. (kmb31)
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Western food feat eastern food sensation
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DENPASAR - Travelling while doing business is often for those who work during their vacation. Now, Bali is an essential destination for any business traveler. Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center located in the heart of Denpasar City, continues to meet the guests’ expectations. Therefore, Jempiring Restaurant will be serving up East West Foodie Fest from 1 October to 31 December 2014. This food festival is a blend of Western Foods and Eastern Foods. The main menu includes Surf and Turf or seafood (surf because you can surf in the sea) and beef (turf because cow graze on turf) and Steam Barramundi Fish, a popular Chinese speciality with a piece of steamed fish infused with savoury herbs along with two kinds of sauce. You also get a salad with Vietnamese Spring Rolls, which are wrapped in rice paper and go well the sauce. Moreover, one of refreshing Virgin Strawberry Mojitos can cool you down in even the hottest sun during the day. For coffee lovers, Aston offer Hot Summer to accompany your busy work in front of your laptop. Come and enjoy the food festival in Jempiring Restaurant with your colleagues, you can easily finish your work.
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Calendar Event for September 28 through October 28, 2014 8 Sep Kajeng Kliwon Pamelastali/ Watu Gunung Runtuh Pura Penataran Agung Maha Gotra Tirta Harum Sri Srengga Nyalian Banjarrangkan Klungkung 30 Sep Paid-Paidan Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Marga Tabanan 1 Oct Urip 2 Oct Patetegan 3 Oct Pengeradanan 4 Oct Hari Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Bongkasa Abian Semal Pura Watu Gunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Rawa Mangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemekasan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Mambal Abiansemal 5 Oct Banyu Pinaruh 6 Oct Soma Ribek Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Batu Gaing Bangli Pura Tirta Wening Surabaya Pura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem 7 Oct Sabuh Mas 8 Oct Pagerwesi Dan Purnama Sasih Kapat Pura Labang SinduJiwa Ubud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wira Bhuana Magelang
Jawa Tengah Pura Padang Sakti Denpasar Timur Pura Payogan Agung Ketewel Sukawati Gianyar Pura Gaduh Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Masceti Tampak Siring Pura Dalem Ularan Tatasan Kaja Denpasar Pura Siwa Tohjiwa Penebel Tabanan Pura Luhur Giri Slaka Alas Purwo Banyuwangi Pura Sada Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Puseh Ketewel Sukawati Pura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar Pura penataran Agung Bhatara Tiga Sakti Besakih Pura Meru Cakra Lombok Pura Lempuyang Madya Karangasem Pura Penerejon Kintamani Bangli Pura Pulaki Buleleng Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Thirta Negari Karangasem Pura Thirta Empul Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Agung Tegalalang Pura Luhuring Akasa Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Desa Denjalan Batuyang Batubulan Pura Puseh Werdi Agung Sulawesi Utara Pura Pasraman Suci Renon Denpasar Pura Penataran Bumi Agung TMII Jakarta Pura Luhur Waisnawa Buleleng Pura Ulun Danu Songan Batur Kintamani Pura Agung Surya Bhuana Jaya Pura Papua Pura Gumang Bugbug Karangasem Pura Taman Sari Busung Biu Busung Biu Buleleng
Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sangguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Arya Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Jembrana Pura Taman Bubuan Seririt Singaraja Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Tegalalang Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Gianyar Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pura Batur Arya Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Marga Tabanan Pura Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati
13 Oct Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 18 Oct Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Sidakarya Denpasar
23 Oct Tilem Sasih Kapat
19 Oct Redite Umanis Ukir Pura Sanggah Gede Dukuh Sagening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 22 Oct Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan kawitan Arya Tauman Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung
24 Oct Hari Bhatara Sri 28 Oct Anggara Kasih Kulantir dan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan
Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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Lenovo looks to expand after IBM acquisition Associated Press
BANGKOK — Lenovo Group has received U.S. and European approval to complete its acquisition of IBM Corp.’s low-end server business and plans to use it to grow faster outside its personal computer business, Lenovo’s chairman said Monday. The $2.1 billion acquisition is due to close Wednesday following a successful review by a U.S. government security panel and European and Chinese regulators, the company said. The IBM assets will add a “growth engine” to a growing array of businesses that include computers, mobile devices and services, chairman Yang Yuanqing said in a telephone interview. Lenovo, which bought IBM’s PC unit in 2005, has carried out a flurry of acquisitions and launched initiatives including creating a
smartphone brand to expand into faster-growing businesses. Also this year, Lenovo bought the Motorola Mobility smartphone business from Google Inc. for $2.9 billion. “Our mobile business and our enterprise business will be growing even faster than our PC business,” said Yang. Lenovo has said the IBM acquisition will propel it from a No. 9 ranking among server manufacturers to No. 3 behind Hewlett Packard Co. and Dell Inc. Lenovo, with headquarters in Beijing and in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, passed HP in 2013 as the No. 1 PC maker, though that achievement was tempered by a slowdown in demand as users shift to mobile devices. Lenovo has said it expects mobile devices to become the bulk of its business in coming years. In the quarter ending in June,
sales of smartphones, tablet computers and other wireless technology rose 32 percent over a year earlier, Lenovo reported earlier. That helped to boost quarterly profit by 23 percent to $214 million. The latest acquisition includes IBM’s System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, blade networking and maintenance operations. The price was reduced from the previously announced $2.3 billion due to a change in valuation of IBM’s inventory and deferred revenue, according to Lenovo. It said none of the terms of the agreement changed. The IBM manager in charge of the x86 server business, Adalio Sanchez, will stay in that post with Lenovo, the company said.
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In this Aug. 15, 2013 file photo, people walk past a Lenovo flagship experience store in Beijing, China.
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Microsoft to offer early look at next Windows
Drought and water crisis spread out Bali Post
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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft plans to offer a glimpse of its vision for Windows this week, as its new CEO seeks to redefine the company and recover from missteps with its flagship operating system. Although the new software won’t be formally released until next year, analysts already consider its success crucial for Microsoft and Satya Nadella, who has made mobile devices and Internet-based services priorities since becoming CEO in February. With its tablet-like touch controls, Windows 8 had been Microsoft’s answer to slumping sales in personal computers amid a rising demand for mobile devices. But the company alienated many users by forcing radical behavioral changes. Research firm IDC even blamed Windows 8 for accelerating a decline in PC sales in the first full quarter following the system’s release in October 2012. Microsoft has released updates that address some of the complaints, yet analytics firm Net Applications estimates that five out of six Windows users are still using something other than Windows 8. The next major release will be the company’s chance to regain its footing and show that Microsoft can embrace mobile devices without sacrificing the traditional computing experience. “It’s one of the most important launches that they will ever have,” said Patrick Moorhead at the research firm Moor Insights and Strategy. “It’s very important they get it right.” Microsoft is expected to give an early look at some new features Tuesday during an event the company has billed as a discussion about “what’s next for Windows.” The company hasn’t said what it plans to call the new Windows version. The San Francisco event is geared toward the business market. Separate sessions focused on home computer users and others will be held in the coming months. Analysts say the sessions are part of an effort by Microsoft to gather feedback and avoid the stumbles it made with Windows 8. Even after two years of declining sales of personal computers, software licenses for Windows are a key element of a business segment that contributes roughly 21 percent of Microsoft’s annual revenue — second only to sales of the company’s commercial software. Windows 8 introduced a host of new features for personal comput-
ers, including touch-screen functions that are now common with tablets. Many PC users, however, found the redesigned interface difficult to navigate, particularly with keyboards and mice on devices without touch screens. They also missed familiar controls, such as the “start” button that was a longtime component of previous Windows systems. “It was a miscalculation on the part of Microsoft,” said analyst Steve Kleynhans at the Gartner research firm. “You can’t force people into a situation where everything they know changes.” Still, experts say Microsoft has good reason to design software that attempts to broaden its appeal to smartphone and tablet users. Although the company still dominates the PC industry, that market is barely growing. Meanwhile, Microsoft has gained little traction in a booming smartphone market dominated by Apple’s iPhones and devices running Google’s Android software. Nadella has said he wants the next version of Windows to be a “single, converged operating system for screens of all sizes.” Microsoft currently has three main systems — Windows 8 for traditional computers and tablets, Windows Phone 8 for cellphones and Xbox for its gaming console. That makes more work for developers, who must create three versions of apps if they want to reach people on multiple devices. By unifying the underlying systems, software developers will be able to create apps for the various devices more easily. Consumers will also be able to switch devices more easily and avoid having to buy the same apps multiple times. The new Windows is also expected to emphasize more software apps and services that are hosted on the Internet, or “in the cloud.” Nadella has made the transition to cloud computing a priority.
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Development program of tourism village having been conducted by Gianyar government since 2008 is now turning uncertain. A number of villages having proposed the development of tourism village do not get any response regarding the program sustainability.
Uncertain, sustainability of tourism village program
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GIANYAR - Development program of tourism village having been conducted by Gianyar government since 2008 is now turning uncertain. A number of villages having proposed the development of tourism village do not get any response regarding the program sustainability. As the data obtained on Monday (Sep 29), five villages in Gianyar having got the assistance for tourism village development included the Ubud, Sidan, Kemenuh, Pejeng and Tampaksiring village. The development assistance as a tourism village was obtained from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy through the National Program for People Empowerment (PNPM) in tourism sector worth IDR 80 million-IDR 100 million. The fund was used as the founding of the tourism village development. After more than a year, the tourism village program did not show any development. Even, the villagers having submitted their proposal did not receive any information on the continuity. Responding to that matter, the Head of Gianyar
Government Tourism Office, Anak Agung Ari Brahmanta, did not dismiss it. A total of 40 villages in Gianyar were proposed as tourism village in 2008. Of that number, 14 villages had operated and five others received the assistance. “The fourteen villages in operation means that they have been visited by travelers,” he said. Dormant condition of the tourism village sustainability occurred because Gianyar did not obtain development assistance any longer from the National Program for People Empowerment in tourism sector during the year 2014. As the reason, central government was made budgetary efficiency by 30 percent and in transition period in relation to political activities. “In 2014, Gianyar does not get any PNPM program in tourism sector
denoting the program of central government,” he said. He could not give any comments related to the villages having submitted the proposal. However, seeing the condition of the tourism village development program, potential of the village and human resource owned by the villages, the sustainability of the tourism village program could seemingly be carried out by each village. The government currently provided quite a lot of funds for villages, so that it was required an arrangement and planning on the utilization of fund coming into the village, where one of which was earmarked for tourism village development program. Thus, the sustainability of the tourism village program was also determined by the village itself. (kmb16)
AMLAPURA - Drought and water crisis are widespread in Karangasem. In the past, the clean water crisis was mostly experienced by residents in the Kubu subdistrict. However, from the observation since last May in Karangasem, the resident hit by the clean water crisis was widespread. Paddy fields and moors were also dry whose area was estimated to reach thousands of hectares. Other than in the area of Kubu subdistrict, similar condition also occurred in Selat subdistrict (Sebudi village), Rendang subdistrict (Besakih and Pempatan village), Sidemen subdistrict (Cegeng and surrounding areas), Manggis subdistrict (Manggis and Antiga village), Karangasem subdistrict (a number of settlements at Seraya Barat and Seraya Timur), Bebandem subdistrict (Butus hamlet, Nangka and Jungutan hill areas), Abang subdistrict (Bunutan hills areas, hilly areas of Kedampal) and Kubu subdistrict (most areas). A legislator from Tianyar, Nyoman Musna Antara, not long ago said that residents in Kubu had faced clean water crisis since last May. Aside from residents living on barren hills, those living at roadside of Amlapura-Singaraja also faced similar condition. Those who could afford would buy water, while others would ask for help. “I have made coordination with the Karangasem Social Agency to help ease the burden of Karangasem residents in getting clean water, chiefly for those in urgent need of clean water in large quantities for ritual activities,” said Musna. Most rainwater cisterns owned by local residents had dried up. Meanwhile, the government already built 13 units of retention basin used to hold rainwater in Karangasem. However, most of them had dried up such as a unit
at Batudawa Kaja, Muntig, two units at Kedampal hamlet, Datah village, Telung Buana and another unit under Pasar Agung Temple, Sebudi village. Residents at Besakih, according to a local leader, were forced to buy clean water at IDR 90,000IDR 100,000 per tank truck. It was the price valid at roadside such as around the residential area of Dalem Puri Temple. However, to provide clean water by tank truck to Kiduling Kreteg hamlet and the more remote areas, the water seller set the price for IDR 120,000 to IDR 150,000. Hamlet chief of Apadsari, Batudawa Kaja, Tulamben, Kubu, Wayan Putra, said the retention basin at Batudawa Kaja already dried up last month. Additionally, the water in the cistern owned by residents in the barren area had run thin, while some others dried up. Residual water in the public cistern only left about 50 cm and was estimated to be enough for a few days. “If it does not rain soon, we are forced to buy clean water. At the public cistern near my house, the clean water is sold for IDR 250,000 per tank truck containing 5,000 liters. Maximally, a tank truck can only be used for a few days,” he said. Meanwhile, related to the panca wali krama, wana kertih and pujawali or anniversary at the Pasar Agung Giri Tolangkir Temple at Sebudi, the ritual committee also claimed to dither. It happened because the water supply in the cistern at the upstream of the temple courtyard already dried up. Spokesperson of the Ritual Committee, Wayan Suara Arsana, expected there would be a help of clean water supply by tank truck from the county government such from Klungkung or Karangasem. The water was needed for the temple activity and to fill in the toilet at the parking lot underneath the temple. (013)
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Drought and water crisis are widespread in Karangasem. In the past, the clean water crisis was mostly experienced by residents in the Kubu subdistrict. However, from the observation since last May in Karangasem, the resident hit by the clean water crisis was widespread.
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Profit slumps at Hotel Grand Surya after murder case Bali Post
SINGARAJA - Investigation by the Seririt Police team has not completed in relation to the murder case of Putu Suastika aka Lelut, 34, who died because of murdered by security guard in front of the Hotel Grand Surya, Seririt, Buleleng, Tuesday (Sep 2). The murder case of Lelut, a resident from Tengah hamlet, Busungbiu village, Busungbiu subdistrict, remains uncertain and there has been no additional suspects. The owner of Hotel Grand Surya, Putu Singyen, rejected to be related to the case. He admitted that his hotel turnover decreased after the murder incident. As the latest information, police remained not to set the other suspects, while so far the culprit determined had the initials GS, the security guard of the Hotel Grand Surya, a resident of Jeroan hamlet, Patemon village, Seririt subdistrict. Another culprit had the initials ES aka D, a resident of Sibang hamlet, Patemon village, Seririt subdistrict. The culprit is still being detained at Seririt Police station.
According to the Operations Division Head of Buleleng Police, Riza Faizal, so far the development of murder case of Putu Suastika remained not to indicate any progress and police were still investigating. “I monitor the case every day. Until this morning, the suspects were only two persons,” he said, Monday (Sep 29). He explained that based on the results of reconstruction, GS was alleged to be the main executor in the murder
After dating, a French traveler robbed by shemales Bali Post
KUTA - A French traveler with the initials DW, 23, was robbed by two shemales on Jalan Batu Pageh, Legian, Kuta, Sunday morning (Sep 28). Other than his mobile phone was taken away, the victim was also beaten and dragged with motorcycle by the suspect RP, 26, and SL, 19, when trying to grab his mobile phone. “The victim just came back from a night club on Jalan Legian around 02:00 in the morning. In halfdrunk condition, the victim was taken to date by the suspects at the roadside,” said Chief of Kuta Police, Nyoman Sebudi, Monday (Sep 29). When dating, the suspect secretly took the victim’s mobile phone. Later, the two suspects rushed up to ride their motorcycle. When seeing both shemales fled, the victim realized that his mobile phone was missing and immediately ran after them. “The victim was holding the rear handlebar of the motorcycle, but the suspect even step on transmission pedal. As a result, the victim was dragged to injure his knee. At that time, the victim would like to take his mobile phone,” he said. In addition, the suspects also hit the victim’s face with a shoe to afflict a wound on the forehead and left temple. “Other than getting injured, the victim also suffered a loss worth IDR 5 million because his mobile phone was taken away. Furthermore, the victim reported the case to Kuta Police station,” said Sebudi. From the investigation carried out by the personnel of Kuta Police Criminal Investigation Unit on Sunday around 7 o’clock at that night, two suspects could be arrested in their boarding house in the area of Legian Kaja, Kuta. “The suspect confessed if the victim’s mobile phone was thrown on the street, but police are still looking for it. The suspects have been detained at police station,” he added. (kmb36)
case of Lelut. Another suspect, ES aka D, only served as auxiliary culprit and was alleged to get involved in the persecution of Lelut. Riza said that his party could not give any further details regarding additional culprits in the development of the murder case. The Criminal Investigation Unit of Seririt Police and Buleleng Police still developed the investigation against a total of 22 witnesses, including the owner of the
Hotel Grand Surya, Putu Singyen. “The interrogation is made to 22 witnesses. Currently, the concerned (Putu Singyen—Ed) still serves as a witness because the murder case occurred in front of his hotel. The CCTV footage of the hotel is very much needed. The concerned was very cooperative and provided clear information,” he said. Furthermore, when questioned, Putu Singyen said that the Hotel Grand Surya did not get involved in the murder case in front of his hotel. After the murder incident early September, the turnover of his hotel was said to decrease drastically. During operating the hotel business, he claimed to regularly contribute to tax payment worth some IDR 20 million every month to the
Buleleng Revenue Services. “The impact is very unusual for us. Our visitors dropped dramatically after the occurrence of the case. Even, at one night we did not receive any visitors at all. Coincidentally, it happened in front of the hotel and involved one of the hotel guests. Surely, it has something to do with safety and comfort,” he explained. This Golkar politician also confirmed that he did not get involved in the murder case of Lelut. “I declare that GS (Grand Surya) does not get involved. I have talked to the Chief of Seririt Police and will inform everything I know. But, I indeed do not know. We do support the law enforcement officers to disclose the case,” he ascertained. (kmb34)
Pecelengan Dam shallow
Two “subak” areas in Mendoyo turn dormant
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JEMBRANA - Prolonged drought has caused the water discharge of a number of dams in Jembrana to diminish and even turn shallow. One of the shallow dams is located at Pohsanten village. The Pecelengan dam irrigating hundreds of hectares of paddy fields at Subak Pecelengan and Subak Pedukuhan at Mendoyo Dangin Tukad village has turned shallow and dried up. In addition to the Pecelengan Dam, similar condition also happens to Semanggong Dam at Pohsanten. Around the mouth of the dam looks shallow as well as the sand and gravel materials look high. A number of farmers at Subak Pedukuhan and Subak Pecelengan revealed on Monday (Sep 29) that the Pecelengan Dam had not been functioning properly due to sedimentation for three years. Coupled with dry season, the bottom of the dam was then visible. The materials heaped up at the mouth of the dam with the height of almost parallel to the waterretaining embankment. Such condition caused the water to be unable to flow smoothly to 145 hectares of paddy fields in the subak areas. As observation on Monday, the sand and gravel materials covering the mouth of the dam spread along some 500 meters. Wayan Arnawa, 43, one of the farmers at the local subak said that subak members had actually been seeking to dredge the materials manually. However, it seemed less optimal because it was of great volume. The dam could not function when it rained because the rainwater flowed instantly.
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Hong Kong protesters set deadline for government Associated Press
HONG KONG — Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong set a Wednesday deadline for a response from the government to meet their demands for reforms after spending another night blocking streets in an unprecedented show of civil disobedience. A brief statement from the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement said it had set an Oct. 1 deadline for the city’s unpopular Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to meet their demands for genuine democracy and for him to step down as leader of Hong Kong. It said they would “announce new civil disobedience plans same day.” Wednesday is a holiday for China’s National Day, and even larger crowds are expected to flood the streets. The government said it was canceling a fireworks display planned to celebrate the National Day. One day after police shocked the city by firing tear gas at the crowds, the protesters passed a peaceful night Monday singing as the blocked streets in several parts of Hong Kong. They also staged a brief “mobile light” vigil, waving their glowing cell phones as the protests stretched into their fourth day. Crowds chanted calls for Leung to resign, and sang anthems calling for freedom. “The students are protecting the right to vote, for Hong Kong’s future. We are not scared, we are
not frightened, we just fight for it,” said Carol Chan, a 55-year-old civil service worker who took two days off to join the protests after becoming angered over police use of tear gas Sunday. Students and activists have been camped out since late Friday, demanding that Beijing grant democratic reforms to the former British colony. Police said they used 87 rounds of tear gas Sunday in what they called a necessary but restrained response to protesters pushing through cordons and barricades. They said 41 people were injured, including 12 police officers. “Police cordon lines were heavily charged, by some violent protesters. So police had to use the minimum force in order to separate the distance at that moment between the protesters and also the police,” said Cheung Tak-keung, the assistant police commissioner for operations. The atmosphere was more festive Monday as constantly shifting crowds blocked major roads. People moved in and out of the sit-ins,
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Wrapped in plastic to shield from pepper spray, a student protester stands behind a makeshift barrier blocking main streets in the central business district of Hong Kong, late Monday, Sept. 29, 2014.
some bringing in food and drink while others fetched their own. Some high school students, still in their school uniforms, sat on the pavement doing their homework. “It’s already the fourth day, so it’s really tiring,” said Ching-ching
Tse, a 24-year-old student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who was on her second day of collecting trash in the protest area with her friends. “So we are forming some groups and hope we can do some shifts and take turns.”
Officials announced that schools in some districts of Hong Kong would remain closed Tuesday because of safety concerns, while dozens of bus routes were canceled and some subway stops near protest areas were closed.
New tremors raise concern at Japan’s Mount Ontake Associated Press
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One of the dams in Jembrana area which already run out of water because the dry season.
Farmers hoped the heaping up sand and gravel materials could be dredged with the help of heavy equipment. Chief of Subak Pecelengan, Komang Arnyana, revealed the sedimentation had long happened so the dam could not be used whereas the two subak areas still had 145 hectares of productive paddy fields. Since the dam was unusable, more paddy field areas turned dormant. Besides, the subak members had repeatedly dredged the sedimentation in mutual assistance. Since the materials kept coming in large volume, they were finally resigned. If such condition was
not immediately addressed, he worried it would breach the dam embankment. The subak organization also had coordinated the matter with the Jembrana Public Works Agency and it planned to dredge in April. But, it was not carried out yet so far. Meanwhile, similar materials also heaped up in the Semanggong Dam with the height reaching two meters or were almost parallel to the entrance of the dam. The dam itself was also used to irrigate the paddy field at Subak Semanggong and Subak Ketengking. (kmb26)
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KISO, Japan — Increased seismic activity raised concern Tuesday about the possibility of another eruption at a Japanese volcano where 36 people were killed, forcing rescuers to suspend plans to try to recover at least two dozen bodies still near the summit. Volcanic tremors rose to a level not seen since Saturday evening, hours after Mount Ontake’s initial large eruption, said Shoji Saito of the Japan Meteorological Agency. The tremor levels were oscillating up and down. “At this point, anything can happen,” Saito said, though he stopped short of predicting another large eruption. About 80 to 100 relatives and friends of those who never returned from the summit were waiting for news in a municipal hall in the nearby central Japanese town of Kiso. Rescuers found five more bodies on Monday, bringing the death toll to 36. AP Photo/Kyodo News They have managed to airlift only 12 An aerial view shows volcanic smoke and fume raising from craters of Mount Ontake, central bodies off the mountain since the start of the eruption on Saturday because of Japan, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014.
dangerous conditions. There were believed to be at least 250 people on the mountain, a popular hiking destination, when it erupted. How the victims died remains unclear, though experts say it was probably from suffocating ash, falling rocks, toxic gases or some combination of them. Some of the bodies had severe contusions. Survivors told Japanese media that they were pelted by rocks from the eruption. Yuji Tsuno, a veteran mountain photographer, was near the summit. After taking pictures of the initial explosion as ash and debris rained down, he quickly took refuge in a nearby hut, he told the TBS TV network. About 20 minutes later, when the smoke partially subsided, Tsuno rushed out and began his descent. It was a gamble, but he believed it was his only chance, he said. “I almost thought it was the end of my life,” he said in the interview. On his way down, he spotted a man heading up. “I told him to go down with me, but he said he had to check on his child up there. I couldn’t stop him,” Tsuno said.
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Bill Gates ranked richest American by Forbes NEW YORK — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates topped Forbes’ latest list of the 400 richest Americans for the 21st straight year. The list, released on Monday, was largely unchanged for 2014 and showed the rich getting richer. The combined wealth of those on the list rose 13 percent to $2.29 trillion, helped by a stronger U.S. stock market. Gates’ net worth totaled $81 billion, up $9 billion from
2013. Investor Warren Buffett, the
head of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., remained in second place at $67 billion. Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison also kept his No. 3 spot with $50 billion. Brothers Charles and David Koch, co-owners of Koch Industries Inc., stay tied for fourth with $42 billion each.
There were 27 new members of the list, including WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum in the 62nd spot. Facebook announced plans to buy the mobile messaging app for $19 billion in February. The biggest gainer is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, No. 11, whose net worth grew $15 billion since last year to
JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a press conference on Tuesday morning said the government was planning to challenge the newly-inaugurated indirect regional election law which was passed by the Parliament last week.
$34 billion. The net worth of America’s wealthiest people has risen in the years since the financial crisis, widening the gap between the exceptionally well-to-do and the rest of the country. The average net worth of a Forbes 400 member is $5.7 billion, up from $5 billion last year.
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A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. Japan’s factory output saw a surprise drop and household spending kept falling in August, data showed Tuesday, fanning fears about the impact of April’s sales tax rise on the economy.
More gloomy data casts doubt on Japan recovery
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TOKYO - Japan’s factory output saw a surprise drop and household spending kept falling in August, data showed Tuesday, fanning fears about the impact of April’s sales tax rise on the economy. The figures will add to worries that the country’s tentative recovery has been knocked off kilter by the increased levy and strengthen the hand of those arguing against another hike next year. Industrial production shrank 1.5 percent month-on-month in August after rising 0.4 percent in July, the ministry of economy, trade and industry said. The latest reading also missed a market median forecast of a 0.3 percent rise. Separate data from the internal affairs ministry showed household spending in August fell a steeper-than-expected 4.7 percent from a year earlier.
Spending has now fallen for five straight months since the government pushed up sales tax from 5.0 percent to 8.0 percent. The latest fall was sharper than the market forecast of a 3.6 percent drop and came after a 5.9 percent plunge in July. Yet more weak data are likely to force policymakers to take a hard look at the state of the economy. The government and central bank leaders have argued the world’s third largest economy remains broadly on a recovery path and has withstood a temporary shock from the tax rise. But that position is getting harder to defend, say observers. “There is no sign at all of a V-shaped economic recovery previously forecast by the government,” said Norinchukin Research Institute chief economist Takeshi Minami.
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WTO in deadlock over key customs deal GENEVA - The World Trade Organization remained deadlocked Monday, two months after failing to seal a key deal on a global customs pact. Officials said that the United States blocked efforts by the WTO’s trade facilitation committee because of continued wrangling with India. At a meeting of the committee -- which seeks to make customs procedures faster and more efficient -- New Delhi refused to soften its position. A draft of the so-called Trade Facilitation Agreement was agreed at the WTO’s Bali conference in December last year and was meant to be finalised at the end of July. But sparring between members, notably over demands from India that the world body gives the green light to the developing power’s stockpiling of food, have put the long-sought deal on ice. While India and its supporters say such stockpiling is essential to ensure poor farmers and consumers survive in the cut-throat world of business, Western critics fear this food could be syphoned onto global markets, skewing trade. The 160 economies which make up the WTO set trade rules among themselves in an attempt to ensure a level playing field and spur growth by opening markets and removing trade barriers, including subsidies, excessive taxes and regulations. But they have failed repeatedly to conclude the Doha Round of trade liberalisation talks, which were launched in 2001 with the stated aim of underpinning development in poorer nations. All members have to agree to proposals under WTO rules, meaning that a single country can block any changes. New Delhi has demanded that the food issue be settled earlier than the 2017 deadline set at the Bali conference. But Western countries have insisted that the trade facilitation deal must move in lockstep with other parts of the Doha deal on agricultural and industrial goods.
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Government plans to challenge indirect election law
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Investors are now waiting for the Bank of Japan’s release Wednesday of its quarterly Tankan business sentiment survey. Retail sales had surged ahead of the April 1 sales tax rise -- Japan’s first in 17 years -- as shoppers made a last-minute dash to buy staples such as rice and toilet roll, as well as big-ticket items such as cars and refrigerators. But spending turned down right after the levy hike, weighing on activity and exacerbating worries that the higher tax would crimp consumer spending and hamper a wider economic recovery. The tax rise was seen as crucial for shrinking Japan’s mammoth national debt, proportionately the worst among wealthy nations. Policymakers are expected to decide by the end of the year on whether to go ahead with earlier plans to raise sales taxes again next year.
“We are now discussing on other ways to save the election system which I think is the best for Indonesia, that is direct election with some requirements following it. If Plan A does not work, we will use plan B,” said the president at the Halim Perdanakusuma airport. Yudhoyono said there was no personal interest or any other interest related to the government’s effort to fight for the direct election system. Earlier the chairman of the Indonesian Constitutional Court, Hamdan Zoelva, confirmed that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had called him to talk about the recent ratification of the Regional Elections Law by the House of Representatives (DPR). “Yes, it is true that yesterday evening (Sunday, Sept 28), Mr. President called me,” Hamdan told the press last Monday. Hamdan noted that during the phone conversation, President Yudhoyono expressed his disappointment over the result of the DPR`s voting that has ratified the Regional Elections Law under which the regional heads will be elected by the Regional Legislative Assembly. Hamdan said he informed Yudhoyono that in accordance with the Constitution of Indonesia, the
law was drafted by the DPR with the prior acceptance of the government. “I gave him the example of the Riau Island Law`s ratification: At that time, Madame Megawati (then Indonesian president) did not agree and, principally, did not sign to ratify the law. However, based on Article 20, Line (5), of the Constitution Law, whether or not a president signs a law, it automatically becomes applicable,” Hamdan explained. Hamdan added that Article 20, Line (5), of the Constitution Law, was framed based on a case that took place during the tenure of President Soeharto (the second Indonesian president). There were some laws that were accepted by the DPR`s plenary meeting, but Soeharto did not sign them, hence they could not be applied. A similar case arose during the tenure of President BJ Habibie (the third Indonesian president), when the State of Emergency Law was not signed by him, and it could not be applied. “Keeping those constitutional cases in mind, during the amendment of the 1945 Constitution Law through Article 20, Line (5), it was stated that if a law was ratified by the DPR`s plenary meeting, it
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a press conference on Tuesday morning said the government was planning to challenge the newly-inaugurated indirect regional election law which was passed by the Parliament last week.
would be automatically applied with or without the President`s signature,” Hamdan noted. “I said that (to President Yudhoyono) as I, too, had participated in the drafting of the 1945 Constitution Law`s amendment,” he added. Hamdan denied that President Yudhoyono had asked the Constitutional Court to annul the Regional
Elections Law. “No president would ask the Constitutional Court to annul the Regional Elections Law,” he stressed. This time, the Constitutional Court had received three submissions for judicial reviews on the Regional Elections Law. According to the Constitutional Court`s administrative officer, Denny Feishal, the three submissions
were made by a group of six individuals plus four non-governmental organizations (NGOs), renowned lawyer OC Kaligis, and another group of 13 individuals. Besides these submissions, more NGOs such as the Daily Labors Association, represented by its lawyer Andi Asrun, and the Poso Community Association also submit their judicial review proposal.
Indonesians in legal challenge State receives Rp683 trillion to scrapping local polls tax revenue until September Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - Indonesian rights groups and concerned citizens mounted a legal challenge Monday to parliament’s decision to scrap direct elections for local leaders, a move criticised as weakening the country’s young democracy. Since 2005 members of the public had the right to elect mayors, provincial governors and district heads but lawmakers voted Friday to end this system and hand power to local parliaments to pick them. Supporters said holding so many polls across the vast archipelago was costly. But critics argued that abolishing them would increase corruption and return Indonesia to the era of dictator Suharto, toppled in 1998 after three decades in power. The decision was an early defeat for presidentelect Joko Widodo -- he started his political career as a directly elected mayor before winning the presidency in July, and his party was against the bill. The bill was also seen as an act of revenge, as it was pushed by parties that had supported his rival
for the presidency, ex-general Prabowo Subianto. A coalition of several local rights groups, including leading organisation Imparsial, filed for a judicial review of the decision Monday at the Constitutional Court in the capital Jakarta, said a court spokesman. A group of concerned citizens unconnected to any specific group also filed a challenge, as did leading lawyer O.C. Kaligis, spokesman Budi Djohari told AFP. He added it was not yet clear whether judges would hear the challenges together or separately or when a decision would be reached on whether to strike down or uphold the law. Some independent analysts have said it is likely the court will strike down the law. Wahyudi Djafar, a lawyer representing the rights groups, said parliament’s decision ran contrary to the constitution. “We hope the Constitutional Court will put an end to this crisis by granting a fair ruling that upholds people’s right to choose their political leaders directly,” he said.
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JAKARTA - As of September 2014, the state has received Rp683 trillion in the form of tax revenue, the Finance Ministry’s Director General for Tax Affairs, Fuad Rahmany, stated on Tuesday. “The number is slightly higher as compared to last year’s revenue. The growth rate is as well,” noted Fuad. He explained that the government received more taxes from the nongas sector such as the income tax. However, Fuad also pointed out that a decrease in revenue from tax on luxury goods was a result of high tax levied on consumers and the growing consumer interest to buy low cost green cars (LCGCs).
“LCGC is not considered as a luxury item, and hence, it is cheaper for the consumers. But, we try to see the economic side of it, and we are glad that the people can afford to buy cheap cars,” Fuad remarked. The Indonesian government has set a target to collect Rp1,201.2 trillion in the form of tax revenue this year. Fuad emphasized that he will optimize all his efforts in order to meet the revenue target. “We will optimize tax income from personal tax. We will also cooperate with the regional governments and law institutions to look for revenue from the mining sector,” he stated, adding that the government is also planning to optimize income from property and online transaction sectors.
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Chinese patriotism fuels cruises to disputed isles
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ABOARD THE COCONUT PRINCESS — On a cruise more about politics than pleasure, Zhang Jing watched the gray shells of the Paracel Islands emerge from the purple, pre-dawn South China Sea. Cheers erupted on board at the sight of the distant land, and Zhang and the other passengers scurried to take pictures of each other at the railing holding China’s bright red flag. A few miles away, a Chinese navy frigate cruised by silently, part of the country’s continuing watch over the tiny islands it has long claimed as part of its territory. “This is the southern frontier of China,” Zhang, a policeman, said when he had reached one of the islands. “As a Chinese, I feel proud to come here and declare sovereignty.” With the Tangshan resident and 167 other Chinese tourists on board, the ship had traveled more than 200 miles south of Hainan Island off China’s southern coast to what they said was an indisputable outpost of their country. Each had waited months for permission to join the five-day tour, and spent from $1,200 to about $2,000 to visit these barren patches of sand, making do with the bland cabbage and noodles on board and blackouts of cellphone service. The passengers came to celebrate China’s growing power in the region, and to help press its claim to the 130 coral islands and reefs of the Paracels, known to the
Chinese as the Xishas. China is locked in disputes with Vietnam, the Philippines and other neighbors over much of the strategically crucial South China Sea, which holds important shipping lanes, rich fishing waters and — possibly — billions of barrels of oil. Patriotic tourists have become the region’s latest territorial chess pieces. China has stationed hundreds of troops on the Paracels and even built a massive government headquarters in the northern islands, though Vietnam and Taiwan also claim the territory. The tour company that Zhang used visits the southern Paracels. Since starting the tours in May 2013, it has ferried some 3,000 people to the islands, which are no bigger than a square mile. Videographers from The Associated Press were the first foreign journalists to join one of the tours. The cruises are useful to China because under international law, it must prove a civilian and not just a military use for the islands to claim sovereignty, said Kang Lin, a researcher at China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies. “Tourism to Xisha is a very good civilian tool to declare our
sovereignty over the islands, and it is supported by international laws,” Kang said. “China will speed up its exploration in the Xisha Islands.” The dispute has at times become heated, and there are concerns it could escalate. Over the summer, Vietnamese and Chinese boats repeatedly rammed each other in the Spratly Islands, several hundred miles south of the Paracels, after the Chinese moved an oil rig into contested waters. Bernard Loo Fook Weng, a military studies professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, said stoking nationalist fervor could backfire on leaders in Beijing if they eventually opt for a more conciliatory approach with China’s neighbors. “Playing the popular card is always potentially dangerous because you may unleash forces you can’t control,” Weng said. “But if the Chinese really want to reinforce its claims to the Paracels and if necessary resort to military force, it helps to get the population on its side.” Other than the passing navy frigate and a few sailors hitching a ride on the Coconut Princess, the tour group saw few signs of territorial tensions.
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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file picture airport employees prepare aircrafts of the airliner Lufthansa at the airport during an eight-hour warning strike of Lufthansa pilots in Munich, southern Germany.
Lufthansa long-haul pilots start 15-hour strike
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BERLIN — Pilots on Lufthansa’s long-haul fleet have started a 15-hour walkout at the airline’s main Frankfurt hub in a festering contract dispute. The Vereinigung Cockpit union called members out on strike from 8 a.m. (0600 GMT) Tuesday in its fourth limited several-hour walkout over recent weeks and the first since a new round of talks collapsed last week.
Thai man gets death penalty for train rape, murder
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In this Sept. 14, 2014 photo, a Chinese navy frigate cruise near the paracel islands of Sansha prefecture of China’s Hainan province. A cheer erupted on board at the sight of the distant land, and the other passengers scurried to take pictures of each other at the railing holding China’s bright red flag.
Lufthansa said it plans to go ahead with 32 of the day’s 57 scheduled intercontinental flights from Frankfurt — 26 flown by volunteer pilots, the other six pushed forward or back to Wednesday. The two sides are at odds over the pilots’ demand that Lufthansa keep a transition payment for those wanting early retirement. The airline, facing competition from European budget airlines and major Gulf carriers, wants to cut those payments.
BANGKOK — A former railway worker in Thailand was sentenced to death Tuesday for raping a 13year-old girl on an overnight train, then killing her and throwing her body out the window, an attack that sparked outrage in the Southeast Asian nation and prompted calls for the execution of rapists. The case also raised questions about the safety of Thailand’s longdistance trains, which are popular with tourists who visit the country’s southern beaches and enjoy jungle treks in the north. As a result of the July attack, the State Railway of Thailand introduced special carriages for women and children for overnight trains on main routes. The attacker, 22-year-old Wanchai Saengkhao, was a temporary train employee whose job it was to make beds in the sleeper cars. He confessed to drinking beer with his colleagues and taking drugs during his shift on the night of the attack and then raping the girl, who was sleeping in a lower bunk during a trip to Bangkok. The Hua Hin provincial court
on Tuesday convicted Wanchai of murder, raping a minor, concealing the body to hide the cause of death and other charges. It said Wanchai’s crimes were “outrageous,” ‘’inhumane” and “could have an impact on society’s order.” The girl was traveling with two of her sisters from their home in southern Thailand to the capital on their first solo train journey. When the sisters, ages 22 and 10, awoke in nearby beds, they found their 13-year-old sibling missing, and a nationwide manhunt began. During a reenactment of the crime, Wanchai told police that he smothered the girl and then threw her body out of the moving train. Her naked body was found three days after the murder in bushes alongside train tracks in western Thailand. “The behavior in this case was serious and, therefore, deserves severe punishment,” the judge said in the verdict. Capital punishment is the maximum penalty for murder in Thailand, and rape is punishable by four to 20 years in prison.
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INCHEON, South Korea — Japan is pinning its hopes of leaving the Asian Games with 50 gold medals on its track stars — and the marathon could be their biggest prize.
Kuta Art Market
KUTA - Pasar Seni Kuta (Kuta Art Market) is located between Kuta Square on Kartika Plaza street and the beach. Its quite a large area and has rows of stalls,
selling the same stuff you’ll find all over Kuta. The idea ‘if it works for your neighbor, copy it’, has been fully blown out in this neighborhood and most people are twiddling their thumbs, due to the downturn in tourism.
Wandering the art market today I did see some wooden clocks, that were in the shape of a giant wrist watch, quite clever. There were hanging Jesus’s, picture carvings with elephants, 4ft long carved lizards painted in Aboriginal motifs,
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Hawaiian shirts, baseball hats, surf shorts, Bintang t-shirts and messtopped bamboo food dishes. It costs nothing to browse a pasar seni, and if you don’t want to but just say, “Saya lihat-lihat saja.” (I’m only looking).
For Yuki Kawauchi, Japan’s top man in the race, there is already a lot riding on Friday’s main event, which will be run on a hilly course through the streets of Incheon. If he wins, he will automatically earn a berth in the 2015 world championships in Beijing. A finish in the top eight ahead of his teammate will be enough to send him to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. “I had a lot of poor performances in training but my condition has been steadily improving since August,” Kawauchi said on Tuesday. “I came here for the gold.” To get it, he will have to outrun Shumi Dechasa, an Ethiopian runner who competes for Bahrain. Dechasa won the Hamburg Marathon in May with a personal-best 2:06:43. Kawauchi’s
best is 2:08:14. Ryoko Kizaki is a gold-medal favorite in the women’s race. Japan, which is fielding one of the largest teams in Incheon, had 36 golds midway through Tuesday’s events. As expected, superstar Saori Yoshida won an unprecedented fourth consecutive Asian Games gold in the 55-kilogram division in women’s wrestling, and the Japan women are headed into the women’s football final against North Korea in another marquee event likely to generate a lot of excitement back home. But Japan had a mixed performance in the pool. The Japanese won 12 golds there — 10 behind the Chinese. Though strong in the heats, Japanese swimmers failed to come through in the
finals on the last day of the event, and were repeatedly relegated to second and third place. Losing their Asian Games title to China in the men’s 4x100 medley relay was an especially bitter end to the competition. To make matters worse, disputes over history and ownership of Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea prompted Chinese fans to boo Japanese swimmers, while China’s social media buzzed with anti-Japanese commentary. And, for the first time in their Asian Games history, the Japanese decided to expel a former gold medalist from their swimming squad after he confessed to stealing a South Korean photojournalist’s camera. Naoya Tomita, who failed to medal in Incheon, has been fined by authorities and is awaiting permission to get a flight out of the country — which Japanese officials say he will have to pay for himself.
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Japan’s Satomi Kubokura clears hurdle in the women’s 400m hurdles heat at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014.
Sharapova rolls into third round at China Open
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BEIJING — Maria Sharapova and Novak Djokovic advanced with ease at the China Open on Tuesday, while Agnieszka Radwanska’s late-season slump continued with another early loss. The fourth-seeded Sharapova saved seven of nine break points she faced in a 6-2, 6-2 second-round win over Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, a semifinalist last week at the Wuhan Open. “She’s sort of an up-and-comer. But playing really well. Has had some big results this year against top players,” Sharapova said of Svitolina. “Maybe the scoreline was a bit easier than the match showed.” Djokovic improved to 20-0 at the China Open with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the first round. The top-seeded Serb is seeking his fifth
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Maria Sharapova of Russia waves after she won over Elina Svitolina of Ukraine during the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, China, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014.
title in Beijing, having won the tournament every time he’s entered in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. This was his first outing since losing to Kei Nishikori in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. All of the big men’s names were in action on Tuesday, with Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray opening their accounts. The fifth-seeded Radwanska, meanwhile, became the highest seed to lose in the women’s draw, falling to Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-4, 6-4. Since winning the Canadian Open in August, the Pole hasn’t advanced past the quarterfinals in five events. She could have wrapped up her spot in the seasonending WTA Finals this week, but fell in the second round in both Wuhan and now Beijing. In other matches, second-seeded Simona Halep survived a tight match against 167th-ranked Lin Zhu of China, prevailing 7-5, 6-4. Halep is also seeking to regain her form after crashing out to 121st-ranked Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the U.S. Open. No. 1 Serena Williams took on Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria late Tuesday, while her sister Venus met rising French player Caroline Garcia for the second straight week; Garcia won in Wuhan in three sets.
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Sp rt Arsenal must now beat Galatasaray Reuters
LONDON - It is almost a given that Arsenal reach the Champions League knockout stages but their path to the last 16 could become “problematic” if they fail to beat Galatasaray on Wednesday. That was the stark warning from midfielder Santi Cazorla ahead of the clash with the Turkish side at The Emirates where Arsenal will attempt to kickstart their European campaign after failing to turn up in Dortmund two weeks ago. “It was a bad game (in Dortmund),” Cazorla told Arsenal’s website. “Now we are fully aware that we are almost obliged to win the next Champions League game because there may be problematic times for us if we don’t so we’d better win. “It’s true that Arsenal have a great record when it comes to the group stage. However, all that history doesn’t count now.” Arsenal got off lightly in their Group D opener, lucky to lose only 2-0 in Dortmund after being comprehensively outplayed for 90 minutes by the Bundesliga side who already look strong favourites to top the group. Although a home match against Galatasaray -- who have never beaten an English side away -would appear to offer the perfect
chance for Arsene Wenger’s side to respond with a handsome victory, things may not be quite that simple. Wenger’s squad is at full-stretch after a rash of injuries, the most recent of which came in Saturday’s 1-1 derby draw with Tottenham Hotspur when Michel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey were both ruled out of Wednesday’s match. With Jack Wilshere also a doubt after taking a knock to the ankle, right back Mathieu Debuchy out for three months and Theo Walcott still not ready to return from a cruciate ligament injury, Arsenal will not be at full strength. They still have the attacking threat of record signing Mesut Ozil, Danny Welbeck and Alexis Sanchez, who came off the bench against Tottenham having been rested, and Cazorla, however, not to mention Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who scored his side’s leveller against Spurs. “The most important thing for Arsenal right now is to win the next game and that is going to change
the scenario completely,” Cazorla said. “Once we go through the group stage it becomes even more difficult to win games.” Arsenal are in their 17th consecutive season in the Champions League and not since 1999-2000 have they failed to progress from their group, the same season they ended up losing to Galatasaray on penalties in the UEFA Cup final. Galatasaray, who b e g a n with a draw against Anderlecht, have not been anywhere near as reliable although they did reach the quarter-finals in 201213 after a five-year absence from the competition. They also reached the first knockout round last season but have started the current campaign in mediocre fashion.
six matches this season for Cesare Prandelli’s side. They will enjoy noisy support in north London, home of a large Turkish population and former Italy coach Prandelli says his side must not arrive with an inferiority complex, despite Arsenal having never lost to a Turkish team over 90 minutes. “We have to be mentally ready for the challenge, and aggressive on the pitch,” he told Turkish media. “We are representing Galatasaray and Turkey in the Champions League. “We know that wherever we play, our fans support us. We need to play our own game, always and regardless of where we play, with our heads held high.” Camerooon
defender Aurelien Chedjou, who scored against Sivasspor, said all the pressure would be on Arsenal. “We all know Dortmund and Arsenal are the favourites in the group, but there is always room for surprises and we are among the best teams in Turkey and Europe,” he said. “We are going there to do our best until the very end. Not being the favourites of the group eases the pressure we feel.”
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Stoke beats Newcastle 1-0 in Premier League Associated Press
STOKE, England — Peter Crouch headed in the only goal as Stoke beat Newcastle 1-0 for its first home victory of the season in the Premier League, ratcheting up the pressure on visiting manager Alan Pardew. Crouch rose above Fabricio Coloccini to head in a cross from Victor Moses in the 15th minute, which proved enough against a Newcastle side that struggled to create scoring chances and remained without a win this season. Moses was lively throughout at a rain-drenched Britannia Stadium and appealed unsuccessfully for a penalty when he was pushed down in the area by Yoan Gouffran shortly afterward. Substitute Marko Arnautovic hit the post for Stoke early in the second half. Jack Colback
came closest to equalizing when he hit the crossbar from close range late on. Newcastle is second from bottom with three points from six games and has won only once in 14 top-flight games stretching back to last season, with 10 of those being losses. Stoke climbed to 11th place with eight points. Magpies owner Mike Ashley was in the stands to watch this latest loss, with some of the visiting fans holding up “Sack Pardew” signs to voice their displeasure. Pardew acknowledged that “we’ve got to find a little more quality” but insisted that he expects to stay in the job. “We have to fight. I have to fight, the team has to fight,” Pardew said. “I’m here to lead the team, and that’s what I’ll do.”
INCHEON, South Korea — Host South Korea is striving to reach its first Asian Games men’s football final since 1986 when it takes on Thailand as the sprawling
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continental competition heads into its final days. Runners-up in the 2006 tournament, Iraq goes up against North Korea in Tuesday’s other semifinal, with the final to be played Thursday.
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Noisy Support
A 2-1 win over Sivasspor on Friday was only the second victory in
South Korea won bronze at the last Asian Games and is favored for gold following the elimination of defending champion Japan. Its squad features two players who ply their trade in the German Bundesliga; fullback Park Joo-ho with
FSV Mainz 05, and left back Kim Jin-su with TSG Hoffenheim. South Korea won the title in ‘86. Thailand has never won a medal in the Asian Games football tournament.
Norway call up 15-year-old Odegaard for Euro qualifiers
OSLO - Norway coach PerMattias Hogmo has called up Stromsgodset’s talented teenage playmaker Martin Odegaard to add creativity to his squad for the Euro 2016 qualifiers against Malta and Bulgaria. The 15-year-old attacking midfielder will join a side
whose attacking limitations were harshly exposed by Italy, who beat the Norwegians 2-0 in Oslo in their opening qualifier in September. Despite having more possession than the Italians, the home side did not manage a single shot on target, disappointing the sold-out crowd hoping for a good start to the campaign. “Martin has performed at
a high level for a longer period,” Hogmo told a news conference in Oslo. “He has shown quality in the Tippeligaen and he created chances on his debut.” Odegaard became Norway’s youngest player when he made his debut in a friendly against the United Arab Emirates in August at the age of 15 years and 253 days.
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Udinese’s Antonio Di Natale celebrates after scoring, during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Parma at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014.
Udinese beats Parma 4-2 to move 3rd in Serie A
South Korea seeking Asiad football finals berth Associated Press
The playmaker’s exciting dribbles and incisive passes for Stromsgodset have attracted the attention of top clubs like Barcelona and Bayern Munich, and scouts have been flocking to Drammen, just outside Oslo, to watch him. Second-bottom of Group H, Norway are away to bottom side Malta on Oct. 10 before hosting Bulgaria.
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Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain controls the ball during their English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England September 20, 2014. AP Photo/PA, Martin Rickett
Stoke City’s Peter Crouch, centre in air, scores his side’s first goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Stoke City and Newcastle United, at the Britannia Stadium, in Stoke on Trent, England, Monday Sept. 29, 2014.
MILAN — Antonio Di Natale scored twice as Udinese beat struggling Parma 4-2 to move third in the Serie A standings on Monday. Palermo also remained mired at the bottom of the table after Filip Djordjevic’s hat trick helped consign Giuseppe Iachini’s side to a 4-0 loss at home to Lazio. Parma took the lead in the 22nd minute when Antonio Cassano threaded the ball through for 18-year-old Jose Mauri to slot into the bottom left corner. Di Natale restored parity minutes later and fired Udinese in front on the stroke of halftime following a swift counter attack. However, there was still time before the break for Cassano to equalize with a cheeky chipped penalty after Silvan Widmer brought down Mauri. Udinese defender Thomas Heurtaux scored shortly before the hour mark with an acrobatic overhead kick, and Cyril Thereau sealed the result six minutes from time, shortly after Parma midfielder Afriyie Acquah had been sent off for a second booking. “Credit to Parma, they put us in difficulty in the first half, especially on the left wing,” Udinese coach Andrea Stramaccioni said. “We weren’t at 100 percent, there is still a lot to work on and we are here for that. We have to
get 40 points (for safety) and this start is useful for our mentality. We have to keep our feet on the ground.” Parma remained in the bottom three after just one win in its opening five matches. Palermo and Lazio also had just three points heading into the match in Sicily. The home side started the brighter and missed a host of opportunities but it was Lazio which took the lead moments before halftime when Antonio Candreva’s low cross was knocked in by Djordjevic at the far post for his first Serie A goal. Palermo wasted more chances in the second half and Djordjevic doubled his tally with a delightful effort, turning his marker as he gathered the ball before curling into the far side of the net. The Serbia striker — a summer signing from Nantes — completed his hat trick with a shot from a tight angle seven minutes from time. Marco Parolo added the fourth in injury time. “I am very happy for these three goals,” Djordjevic said. “A striker needs to score to have confidence. I am also very happy for the team because we played well with a lot of grit and aggressiveness. “We had had two or three good games but hadn’t managed to get the results. We didn’t play as well in the first half but after my first goal everything was easier.”
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Sp rt Arsenal must now beat Galatasaray Reuters
LONDON - It is almost a given that Arsenal reach the Champions League knockout stages but their path to the last 16 could become “problematic” if they fail to beat Galatasaray on Wednesday. That was the stark warning from midfielder Santi Cazorla ahead of the clash with the Turkish side at The Emirates where Arsenal will attempt to kickstart their European campaign after failing to turn up in Dortmund two weeks ago. “It was a bad game (in Dortmund),” Cazorla told Arsenal’s website. “Now we are fully aware that we are almost obliged to win the next Champions League game because there may be problematic times for us if we don’t so we’d better win. “It’s true that Arsenal have a great record when it comes to the group stage. However, all that history doesn’t count now.” Arsenal got off lightly in their Group D opener, lucky to lose only 2-0 in Dortmund after being comprehensively outplayed for 90 minutes by the Bundesliga side who already look strong favourites to top the group. Although a home match against Galatasaray -- who have never beaten an English side away -would appear to offer the perfect
chance for Arsene Wenger’s side to respond with a handsome victory, things may not be quite that simple. Wenger’s squad is at full-stretch after a rash of injuries, the most recent of which came in Saturday’s 1-1 derby draw with Tottenham Hotspur when Michel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey were both ruled out of Wednesday’s match. With Jack Wilshere also a doubt after taking a knock to the ankle, right back Mathieu Debuchy out for three months and Theo Walcott still not ready to return from a cruciate ligament injury, Arsenal will not be at full strength. They still have the attacking threat of record signing Mesut Ozil, Danny Welbeck and Alexis Sanchez, who came off the bench against Tottenham having been rested, and Cazorla, however, not to mention Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who scored his side’s leveller against Spurs. “The most important thing for Arsenal right now is to win the next game and that is going to change
the scenario completely,” Cazorla said. “Once we go through the group stage it becomes even more difficult to win games.” Arsenal are in their 17th consecutive season in the Champions League and not since 1999-2000 have they failed to progress from their group, the same season they ended up losing to Galatasaray on penalties in the UEFA Cup final. Galatasaray, who b e g a n with a draw against Anderlecht, have not been anywhere near as reliable although they did reach the quarter-finals in 201213 after a five-year absence from the competition. They also reached the first knockout round last season but have started the current campaign in mediocre fashion.
six matches this season for Cesare Prandelli’s side. They will enjoy noisy support in north London, home of a large Turkish population and former Italy coach Prandelli says his side must not arrive with an inferiority complex, despite Arsenal having never lost to a Turkish team over 90 minutes. “We have to be mentally ready for the challenge, and aggressive on the pitch,” he told Turkish media. “We are representing Galatasaray and Turkey in the Champions League. “We know that wherever we play, our fans support us. We need to play our own game, always and regardless of where we play, with our heads held high.” Camerooon
defender Aurelien Chedjou, who scored against Sivasspor, said all the pressure would be on Arsenal. “We all know Dortmund and Arsenal are the favourites in the group, but there is always room for surprises and we are among the best teams in Turkey and Europe,” he said. “We are going there to do our best until the very end. Not being the favourites of the group eases the pressure we feel.”
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Stoke beats Newcastle 1-0 in Premier League Associated Press
STOKE, England — Peter Crouch headed in the only goal as Stoke beat Newcastle 1-0 for its first home victory of the season in the Premier League, ratcheting up the pressure on visiting manager Alan Pardew. Crouch rose above Fabricio Coloccini to head in a cross from Victor Moses in the 15th minute, which proved enough against a Newcastle side that struggled to create scoring chances and remained without a win this season. Moses was lively throughout at a rain-drenched Britannia Stadium and appealed unsuccessfully for a penalty when he was pushed down in the area by Yoan Gouffran shortly afterward. Substitute Marko Arnautovic hit the post for Stoke early in the second half. Jack Colback
came closest to equalizing when he hit the crossbar from close range late on. Newcastle is second from bottom with three points from six games and has won only once in 14 top-flight games stretching back to last season, with 10 of those being losses. Stoke climbed to 11th place with eight points. Magpies owner Mike Ashley was in the stands to watch this latest loss, with some of the visiting fans holding up “Sack Pardew” signs to voice their displeasure. Pardew acknowledged that “we’ve got to find a little more quality” but insisted that he expects to stay in the job. “We have to fight. I have to fight, the team has to fight,” Pardew said. “I’m here to lead the team, and that’s what I’ll do.”
INCHEON, South Korea — Host South Korea is striving to reach its first Asian Games men’s football final since 1986 when it takes on Thailand as the sprawling
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continental competition heads into its final days. Runners-up in the 2006 tournament, Iraq goes up against North Korea in Tuesday’s other semifinal, with the final to be played Thursday.
Associated Press
Noisy Support
A 2-1 win over Sivasspor on Friday was only the second victory in
South Korea won bronze at the last Asian Games and is favored for gold following the elimination of defending champion Japan. Its squad features two players who ply their trade in the German Bundesliga; fullback Park Joo-ho with
FSV Mainz 05, and left back Kim Jin-su with TSG Hoffenheim. South Korea won the title in ‘86. Thailand has never won a medal in the Asian Games football tournament.
Norway call up 15-year-old Odegaard for Euro qualifiers
OSLO - Norway coach PerMattias Hogmo has called up Stromsgodset’s talented teenage playmaker Martin Odegaard to add creativity to his squad for the Euro 2016 qualifiers against Malta and Bulgaria. The 15-year-old attacking midfielder will join a side
whose attacking limitations were harshly exposed by Italy, who beat the Norwegians 2-0 in Oslo in their opening qualifier in September. Despite having more possession than the Italians, the home side did not manage a single shot on target, disappointing the sold-out crowd hoping for a good start to the campaign. “Martin has performed at
a high level for a longer period,” Hogmo told a news conference in Oslo. “He has shown quality in the Tippeligaen and he created chances on his debut.” Odegaard became Norway’s youngest player when he made his debut in a friendly against the United Arab Emirates in August at the age of 15 years and 253 days.
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Udinese’s Antonio Di Natale celebrates after scoring, during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Parma at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014.
Udinese beats Parma 4-2 to move 3rd in Serie A
South Korea seeking Asiad football finals berth Associated Press
The playmaker’s exciting dribbles and incisive passes for Stromsgodset have attracted the attention of top clubs like Barcelona and Bayern Munich, and scouts have been flocking to Drammen, just outside Oslo, to watch him. Second-bottom of Group H, Norway are away to bottom side Malta on Oct. 10 before hosting Bulgaria.
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Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain controls the ball during their English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England September 20, 2014. AP Photo/PA, Martin Rickett
Stoke City’s Peter Crouch, centre in air, scores his side’s first goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Stoke City and Newcastle United, at the Britannia Stadium, in Stoke on Trent, England, Monday Sept. 29, 2014.
MILAN — Antonio Di Natale scored twice as Udinese beat struggling Parma 4-2 to move third in the Serie A standings on Monday. Palermo also remained mired at the bottom of the table after Filip Djordjevic’s hat trick helped consign Giuseppe Iachini’s side to a 4-0 loss at home to Lazio. Parma took the lead in the 22nd minute when Antonio Cassano threaded the ball through for 18-year-old Jose Mauri to slot into the bottom left corner. Di Natale restored parity minutes later and fired Udinese in front on the stroke of halftime following a swift counter attack. However, there was still time before the break for Cassano to equalize with a cheeky chipped penalty after Silvan Widmer brought down Mauri. Udinese defender Thomas Heurtaux scored shortly before the hour mark with an acrobatic overhead kick, and Cyril Thereau sealed the result six minutes from time, shortly after Parma midfielder Afriyie Acquah had been sent off for a second booking. “Credit to Parma, they put us in difficulty in the first half, especially on the left wing,” Udinese coach Andrea Stramaccioni said. “We weren’t at 100 percent, there is still a lot to work on and we are here for that. We have to
get 40 points (for safety) and this start is useful for our mentality. We have to keep our feet on the ground.” Parma remained in the bottom three after just one win in its opening five matches. Palermo and Lazio also had just three points heading into the match in Sicily. The home side started the brighter and missed a host of opportunities but it was Lazio which took the lead moments before halftime when Antonio Candreva’s low cross was knocked in by Djordjevic at the far post for his first Serie A goal. Palermo wasted more chances in the second half and Djordjevic doubled his tally with a delightful effort, turning his marker as he gathered the ball before curling into the far side of the net. The Serbia striker — a summer signing from Nantes — completed his hat trick with a shot from a tight angle seven minutes from time. Marco Parolo added the fourth in injury time. “I am very happy for these three goals,” Djordjevic said. “A striker needs to score to have confidence. I am also very happy for the team because we played well with a lot of grit and aggressiveness. “We had had two or three good games but hadn’t managed to get the results. We didn’t play as well in the first half but after my first goal everything was easier.”
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INCHEON, South Korea — Japan is pinning its hopes of leaving the Asian Games with 50 gold medals on its track stars — and the marathon could be their biggest prize.
Kuta Art Market
KUTA - Pasar Seni Kuta (Kuta Art Market) is located between Kuta Square on Kartika Plaza street and the beach. Its quite a large area and has rows of stalls,
selling the same stuff you’ll find all over Kuta. The idea ‘if it works for your neighbor, copy it’, has been fully blown out in this neighborhood and most people are twiddling their thumbs, due to the downturn in tourism.
Wandering the art market today I did see some wooden clocks, that were in the shape of a giant wrist watch, quite clever. There were hanging Jesus’s, picture carvings with elephants, 4ft long carved lizards painted in Aboriginal motifs,
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Japan pins Asian Games medals on runners Associated Press
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Hawaiian shirts, baseball hats, surf shorts, Bintang t-shirts and messtopped bamboo food dishes. It costs nothing to browse a pasar seni, and if you don’t want to but just say, “Saya lihat-lihat saja.” (I’m only looking).
For Yuki Kawauchi, Japan’s top man in the race, there is already a lot riding on Friday’s main event, which will be run on a hilly course through the streets of Incheon. If he wins, he will automatically earn a berth in the 2015 world championships in Beijing. A finish in the top eight ahead of his teammate will be enough to send him to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. “I had a lot of poor performances in training but my condition has been steadily improving since August,” Kawauchi said on Tuesday. “I came here for the gold.” To get it, he will have to outrun Shumi Dechasa, an Ethiopian runner who competes for Bahrain. Dechasa won the Hamburg Marathon in May with a personal-best 2:06:43. Kawauchi’s
best is 2:08:14. Ryoko Kizaki is a gold-medal favorite in the women’s race. Japan, which is fielding one of the largest teams in Incheon, had 36 golds midway through Tuesday’s events. As expected, superstar Saori Yoshida won an unprecedented fourth consecutive Asian Games gold in the 55-kilogram division in women’s wrestling, and the Japan women are headed into the women’s football final against North Korea in another marquee event likely to generate a lot of excitement back home. But Japan had a mixed performance in the pool. The Japanese won 12 golds there — 10 behind the Chinese. Though strong in the heats, Japanese swimmers failed to come through in the
finals on the last day of the event, and were repeatedly relegated to second and third place. Losing their Asian Games title to China in the men’s 4x100 medley relay was an especially bitter end to the competition. To make matters worse, disputes over history and ownership of Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea prompted Chinese fans to boo Japanese swimmers, while China’s social media buzzed with anti-Japanese commentary. And, for the first time in their Asian Games history, the Japanese decided to expel a former gold medalist from their swimming squad after he confessed to stealing a South Korean photojournalist’s camera. Naoya Tomita, who failed to medal in Incheon, has been fined by authorities and is awaiting permission to get a flight out of the country — which Japanese officials say he will have to pay for himself.
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Japan’s Satomi Kubokura clears hurdle in the women’s 400m hurdles heat at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014.
Sharapova rolls into third round at China Open
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BEIJING — Maria Sharapova and Novak Djokovic advanced with ease at the China Open on Tuesday, while Agnieszka Radwanska’s late-season slump continued with another early loss. The fourth-seeded Sharapova saved seven of nine break points she faced in a 6-2, 6-2 second-round win over Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, a semifinalist last week at the Wuhan Open. “She’s sort of an up-and-comer. But playing really well. Has had some big results this year against top players,” Sharapova said of Svitolina. “Maybe the scoreline was a bit easier than the match showed.” Djokovic improved to 20-0 at the China Open with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the first round. The top-seeded Serb is seeking his fifth
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Maria Sharapova of Russia waves after she won over Elina Svitolina of Ukraine during the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, China, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014.
title in Beijing, having won the tournament every time he’s entered in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. This was his first outing since losing to Kei Nishikori in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. All of the big men’s names were in action on Tuesday, with Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray opening their accounts. The fifth-seeded Radwanska, meanwhile, became the highest seed to lose in the women’s draw, falling to Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-4, 6-4. Since winning the Canadian Open in August, the Pole hasn’t advanced past the quarterfinals in five events. She could have wrapped up her spot in the seasonending WTA Finals this week, but fell in the second round in both Wuhan and now Beijing. In other matches, second-seeded Simona Halep survived a tight match against 167th-ranked Lin Zhu of China, prevailing 7-5, 6-4. Halep is also seeking to regain her form after crashing out to 121st-ranked Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the U.S. Open. No. 1 Serena Williams took on Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria late Tuesday, while her sister Venus met rising French player Caroline Garcia for the second straight week; Garcia won in Wuhan in three sets.
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Chinese patriotism fuels cruises to disputed isles
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ABOARD THE COCONUT PRINCESS — On a cruise more about politics than pleasure, Zhang Jing watched the gray shells of the Paracel Islands emerge from the purple, pre-dawn South China Sea. Cheers erupted on board at the sight of the distant land, and Zhang and the other passengers scurried to take pictures of each other at the railing holding China’s bright red flag. A few miles away, a Chinese navy frigate cruised by silently, part of the country’s continuing watch over the tiny islands it has long claimed as part of its territory. “This is the southern frontier of China,” Zhang, a policeman, said when he had reached one of the islands. “As a Chinese, I feel proud to come here and declare sovereignty.” With the Tangshan resident and 167 other Chinese tourists on board, the ship had traveled more than 200 miles south of Hainan Island off China’s southern coast to what they said was an indisputable outpost of their country. Each had waited months for permission to join the five-day tour, and spent from $1,200 to about $2,000 to visit these barren patches of sand, making do with the bland cabbage and noodles on board and blackouts of cellphone service. The passengers came to celebrate China’s growing power in the region, and to help press its claim to the 130 coral islands and reefs of the Paracels, known to the
Chinese as the Xishas. China is locked in disputes with Vietnam, the Philippines and other neighbors over much of the strategically crucial South China Sea, which holds important shipping lanes, rich fishing waters and — possibly — billions of barrels of oil. Patriotic tourists have become the region’s latest territorial chess pieces. China has stationed hundreds of troops on the Paracels and even built a massive government headquarters in the northern islands, though Vietnam and Taiwan also claim the territory. The tour company that Zhang used visits the southern Paracels. Since starting the tours in May 2013, it has ferried some 3,000 people to the islands, which are no bigger than a square mile. Videographers from The Associated Press were the first foreign journalists to join one of the tours. The cruises are useful to China because under international law, it must prove a civilian and not just a military use for the islands to claim sovereignty, said Kang Lin, a researcher at China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies. “Tourism to Xisha is a very good civilian tool to declare our
sovereignty over the islands, and it is supported by international laws,” Kang said. “China will speed up its exploration in the Xisha Islands.” The dispute has at times become heated, and there are concerns it could escalate. Over the summer, Vietnamese and Chinese boats repeatedly rammed each other in the Spratly Islands, several hundred miles south of the Paracels, after the Chinese moved an oil rig into contested waters. Bernard Loo Fook Weng, a military studies professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, said stoking nationalist fervor could backfire on leaders in Beijing if they eventually opt for a more conciliatory approach with China’s neighbors. “Playing the popular card is always potentially dangerous because you may unleash forces you can’t control,” Weng said. “But if the Chinese really want to reinforce its claims to the Paracels and if necessary resort to military force, it helps to get the population on its side.” Other than the passing navy frigate and a few sailors hitching a ride on the Coconut Princess, the tour group saw few signs of territorial tensions.
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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file picture airport employees prepare aircrafts of the airliner Lufthansa at the airport during an eight-hour warning strike of Lufthansa pilots in Munich, southern Germany.
Lufthansa long-haul pilots start 15-hour strike
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BERLIN — Pilots on Lufthansa’s long-haul fleet have started a 15-hour walkout at the airline’s main Frankfurt hub in a festering contract dispute. The Vereinigung Cockpit union called members out on strike from 8 a.m. (0600 GMT) Tuesday in its fourth limited several-hour walkout over recent weeks and the first since a new round of talks collapsed last week.
Thai man gets death penalty for train rape, murder
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In this Sept. 14, 2014 photo, a Chinese navy frigate cruise near the paracel islands of Sansha prefecture of China’s Hainan province. A cheer erupted on board at the sight of the distant land, and the other passengers scurried to take pictures of each other at the railing holding China’s bright red flag.
Lufthansa said it plans to go ahead with 32 of the day’s 57 scheduled intercontinental flights from Frankfurt — 26 flown by volunteer pilots, the other six pushed forward or back to Wednesday. The two sides are at odds over the pilots’ demand that Lufthansa keep a transition payment for those wanting early retirement. The airline, facing competition from European budget airlines and major Gulf carriers, wants to cut those payments.
BANGKOK — A former railway worker in Thailand was sentenced to death Tuesday for raping a 13year-old girl on an overnight train, then killing her and throwing her body out the window, an attack that sparked outrage in the Southeast Asian nation and prompted calls for the execution of rapists. The case also raised questions about the safety of Thailand’s longdistance trains, which are popular with tourists who visit the country’s southern beaches and enjoy jungle treks in the north. As a result of the July attack, the State Railway of Thailand introduced special carriages for women and children for overnight trains on main routes. The attacker, 22-year-old Wanchai Saengkhao, was a temporary train employee whose job it was to make beds in the sleeper cars. He confessed to drinking beer with his colleagues and taking drugs during his shift on the night of the attack and then raping the girl, who was sleeping in a lower bunk during a trip to Bangkok. The Hua Hin provincial court
on Tuesday convicted Wanchai of murder, raping a minor, concealing the body to hide the cause of death and other charges. It said Wanchai’s crimes were “outrageous,” ‘’inhumane” and “could have an impact on society’s order.” The girl was traveling with two of her sisters from their home in southern Thailand to the capital on their first solo train journey. When the sisters, ages 22 and 10, awoke in nearby beds, they found their 13-year-old sibling missing, and a nationwide manhunt began. During a reenactment of the crime, Wanchai told police that he smothered the girl and then threw her body out of the moving train. Her naked body was found three days after the murder in bushes alongside train tracks in western Thailand. “The behavior in this case was serious and, therefore, deserves severe punishment,” the judge said in the verdict. Capital punishment is the maximum penalty for murder in Thailand, and rape is punishable by four to 20 years in prison.
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Bill Gates ranked richest American by Forbes NEW YORK — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates topped Forbes’ latest list of the 400 richest Americans for the 21st straight year. The list, released on Monday, was largely unchanged for 2014 and showed the rich getting richer. The combined wealth of those on the list rose 13 percent to $2.29 trillion, helped by a stronger U.S. stock market. Gates’ net worth totaled $81 billion, up $9 billion from
2013. Investor Warren Buffett, the
head of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., remained in second place at $67 billion. Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison also kept his No. 3 spot with $50 billion. Brothers Charles and David Koch, co-owners of Koch Industries Inc., stay tied for fourth with $42 billion each.
There were 27 new members of the list, including WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum in the 62nd spot. Facebook announced plans to buy the mobile messaging app for $19 billion in February. The biggest gainer is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, No. 11, whose net worth grew $15 billion since last year to
JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a press conference on Tuesday morning said the government was planning to challenge the newly-inaugurated indirect regional election law which was passed by the Parliament last week.
$34 billion. The net worth of America’s wealthiest people has risen in the years since the financial crisis, widening the gap between the exceptionally well-to-do and the rest of the country. The average net worth of a Forbes 400 member is $5.7 billion, up from $5 billion last year.
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A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. Japan’s factory output saw a surprise drop and household spending kept falling in August, data showed Tuesday, fanning fears about the impact of April’s sales tax rise on the economy.
More gloomy data casts doubt on Japan recovery
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TOKYO - Japan’s factory output saw a surprise drop and household spending kept falling in August, data showed Tuesday, fanning fears about the impact of April’s sales tax rise on the economy. The figures will add to worries that the country’s tentative recovery has been knocked off kilter by the increased levy and strengthen the hand of those arguing against another hike next year. Industrial production shrank 1.5 percent month-on-month in August after rising 0.4 percent in July, the ministry of economy, trade and industry said. The latest reading also missed a market median forecast of a 0.3 percent rise. Separate data from the internal affairs ministry showed household spending in August fell a steeper-than-expected 4.7 percent from a year earlier.
Spending has now fallen for five straight months since the government pushed up sales tax from 5.0 percent to 8.0 percent. The latest fall was sharper than the market forecast of a 3.6 percent drop and came after a 5.9 percent plunge in July. Yet more weak data are likely to force policymakers to take a hard look at the state of the economy. The government and central bank leaders have argued the world’s third largest economy remains broadly on a recovery path and has withstood a temporary shock from the tax rise. But that position is getting harder to defend, say observers. “There is no sign at all of a V-shaped economic recovery previously forecast by the government,” said Norinchukin Research Institute chief economist Takeshi Minami.
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WTO in deadlock over key customs deal GENEVA - The World Trade Organization remained deadlocked Monday, two months after failing to seal a key deal on a global customs pact. Officials said that the United States blocked efforts by the WTO’s trade facilitation committee because of continued wrangling with India. At a meeting of the committee -- which seeks to make customs procedures faster and more efficient -- New Delhi refused to soften its position. A draft of the so-called Trade Facilitation Agreement was agreed at the WTO’s Bali conference in December last year and was meant to be finalised at the end of July. But sparring between members, notably over demands from India that the world body gives the green light to the developing power’s stockpiling of food, have put the long-sought deal on ice. While India and its supporters say such stockpiling is essential to ensure poor farmers and consumers survive in the cut-throat world of business, Western critics fear this food could be syphoned onto global markets, skewing trade. The 160 economies which make up the WTO set trade rules among themselves in an attempt to ensure a level playing field and spur growth by opening markets and removing trade barriers, including subsidies, excessive taxes and regulations. But they have failed repeatedly to conclude the Doha Round of trade liberalisation talks, which were launched in 2001 with the stated aim of underpinning development in poorer nations. All members have to agree to proposals under WTO rules, meaning that a single country can block any changes. New Delhi has demanded that the food issue be settled earlier than the 2017 deadline set at the Bali conference. But Western countries have insisted that the trade facilitation deal must move in lockstep with other parts of the Doha deal on agricultural and industrial goods.
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Government plans to challenge indirect election law
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Investors are now waiting for the Bank of Japan’s release Wednesday of its quarterly Tankan business sentiment survey. Retail sales had surged ahead of the April 1 sales tax rise -- Japan’s first in 17 years -- as shoppers made a last-minute dash to buy staples such as rice and toilet roll, as well as big-ticket items such as cars and refrigerators. But spending turned down right after the levy hike, weighing on activity and exacerbating worries that the higher tax would crimp consumer spending and hamper a wider economic recovery. The tax rise was seen as crucial for shrinking Japan’s mammoth national debt, proportionately the worst among wealthy nations. Policymakers are expected to decide by the end of the year on whether to go ahead with earlier plans to raise sales taxes again next year.
“We are now discussing on other ways to save the election system which I think is the best for Indonesia, that is direct election with some requirements following it. If Plan A does not work, we will use plan B,” said the president at the Halim Perdanakusuma airport. Yudhoyono said there was no personal interest or any other interest related to the government’s effort to fight for the direct election system. Earlier the chairman of the Indonesian Constitutional Court, Hamdan Zoelva, confirmed that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had called him to talk about the recent ratification of the Regional Elections Law by the House of Representatives (DPR). “Yes, it is true that yesterday evening (Sunday, Sept 28), Mr. President called me,” Hamdan told the press last Monday. Hamdan noted that during the phone conversation, President Yudhoyono expressed his disappointment over the result of the DPR`s voting that has ratified the Regional Elections Law under which the regional heads will be elected by the Regional Legislative Assembly. Hamdan said he informed Yudhoyono that in accordance with the Constitution of Indonesia, the
law was drafted by the DPR with the prior acceptance of the government. “I gave him the example of the Riau Island Law`s ratification: At that time, Madame Megawati (then Indonesian president) did not agree and, principally, did not sign to ratify the law. However, based on Article 20, Line (5), of the Constitution Law, whether or not a president signs a law, it automatically becomes applicable,” Hamdan explained. Hamdan added that Article 20, Line (5), of the Constitution Law, was framed based on a case that took place during the tenure of President Soeharto (the second Indonesian president). There were some laws that were accepted by the DPR`s plenary meeting, but Soeharto did not sign them, hence they could not be applied. A similar case arose during the tenure of President BJ Habibie (the third Indonesian president), when the State of Emergency Law was not signed by him, and it could not be applied. “Keeping those constitutional cases in mind, during the amendment of the 1945 Constitution Law through Article 20, Line (5), it was stated that if a law was ratified by the DPR`s plenary meeting, it
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a press conference on Tuesday morning said the government was planning to challenge the newly-inaugurated indirect regional election law which was passed by the Parliament last week.
would be automatically applied with or without the President`s signature,” Hamdan noted. “I said that (to President Yudhoyono) as I, too, had participated in the drafting of the 1945 Constitution Law`s amendment,” he added. Hamdan denied that President Yudhoyono had asked the Constitutional Court to annul the Regional
Elections Law. “No president would ask the Constitutional Court to annul the Regional Elections Law,” he stressed. This time, the Constitutional Court had received three submissions for judicial reviews on the Regional Elections Law. According to the Constitutional Court`s administrative officer, Denny Feishal, the three submissions
were made by a group of six individuals plus four non-governmental organizations (NGOs), renowned lawyer OC Kaligis, and another group of 13 individuals. Besides these submissions, more NGOs such as the Daily Labors Association, represented by its lawyer Andi Asrun, and the Poso Community Association also submit their judicial review proposal.
Indonesians in legal challenge State receives Rp683 trillion to scrapping local polls tax revenue until September Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - Indonesian rights groups and concerned citizens mounted a legal challenge Monday to parliament’s decision to scrap direct elections for local leaders, a move criticised as weakening the country’s young democracy. Since 2005 members of the public had the right to elect mayors, provincial governors and district heads but lawmakers voted Friday to end this system and hand power to local parliaments to pick them. Supporters said holding so many polls across the vast archipelago was costly. But critics argued that abolishing them would increase corruption and return Indonesia to the era of dictator Suharto, toppled in 1998 after three decades in power. The decision was an early defeat for presidentelect Joko Widodo -- he started his political career as a directly elected mayor before winning the presidency in July, and his party was against the bill. The bill was also seen as an act of revenge, as it was pushed by parties that had supported his rival
for the presidency, ex-general Prabowo Subianto. A coalition of several local rights groups, including leading organisation Imparsial, filed for a judicial review of the decision Monday at the Constitutional Court in the capital Jakarta, said a court spokesman. A group of concerned citizens unconnected to any specific group also filed a challenge, as did leading lawyer O.C. Kaligis, spokesman Budi Djohari told AFP. He added it was not yet clear whether judges would hear the challenges together or separately or when a decision would be reached on whether to strike down or uphold the law. Some independent analysts have said it is likely the court will strike down the law. Wahyudi Djafar, a lawyer representing the rights groups, said parliament’s decision ran contrary to the constitution. “We hope the Constitutional Court will put an end to this crisis by granting a fair ruling that upholds people’s right to choose their political leaders directly,” he said.
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JAKARTA - As of September 2014, the state has received Rp683 trillion in the form of tax revenue, the Finance Ministry’s Director General for Tax Affairs, Fuad Rahmany, stated on Tuesday. “The number is slightly higher as compared to last year’s revenue. The growth rate is as well,” noted Fuad. He explained that the government received more taxes from the nongas sector such as the income tax. However, Fuad also pointed out that a decrease in revenue from tax on luxury goods was a result of high tax levied on consumers and the growing consumer interest to buy low cost green cars (LCGCs).
“LCGC is not considered as a luxury item, and hence, it is cheaper for the consumers. But, we try to see the economic side of it, and we are glad that the people can afford to buy cheap cars,” Fuad remarked. The Indonesian government has set a target to collect Rp1,201.2 trillion in the form of tax revenue this year. Fuad emphasized that he will optimize all his efforts in order to meet the revenue target. “We will optimize tax income from personal tax. We will also cooperate with the regional governments and law institutions to look for revenue from the mining sector,” he stated, adding that the government is also planning to optimize income from property and online transaction sectors.
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Profit slumps at Hotel Grand Surya after murder case Bali Post
SINGARAJA - Investigation by the Seririt Police team has not completed in relation to the murder case of Putu Suastika aka Lelut, 34, who died because of murdered by security guard in front of the Hotel Grand Surya, Seririt, Buleleng, Tuesday (Sep 2). The murder case of Lelut, a resident from Tengah hamlet, Busungbiu village, Busungbiu subdistrict, remains uncertain and there has been no additional suspects. The owner of Hotel Grand Surya, Putu Singyen, rejected to be related to the case. He admitted that his hotel turnover decreased after the murder incident. As the latest information, police remained not to set the other suspects, while so far the culprit determined had the initials GS, the security guard of the Hotel Grand Surya, a resident of Jeroan hamlet, Patemon village, Seririt subdistrict. Another culprit had the initials ES aka D, a resident of Sibang hamlet, Patemon village, Seririt subdistrict. The culprit is still being detained at Seririt Police station.
According to the Operations Division Head of Buleleng Police, Riza Faizal, so far the development of murder case of Putu Suastika remained not to indicate any progress and police were still investigating. “I monitor the case every day. Until this morning, the suspects were only two persons,” he said, Monday (Sep 29). He explained that based on the results of reconstruction, GS was alleged to be the main executor in the murder
After dating, a French traveler robbed by shemales Bali Post
KUTA - A French traveler with the initials DW, 23, was robbed by two shemales on Jalan Batu Pageh, Legian, Kuta, Sunday morning (Sep 28). Other than his mobile phone was taken away, the victim was also beaten and dragged with motorcycle by the suspect RP, 26, and SL, 19, when trying to grab his mobile phone. “The victim just came back from a night club on Jalan Legian around 02:00 in the morning. In halfdrunk condition, the victim was taken to date by the suspects at the roadside,” said Chief of Kuta Police, Nyoman Sebudi, Monday (Sep 29). When dating, the suspect secretly took the victim’s mobile phone. Later, the two suspects rushed up to ride their motorcycle. When seeing both shemales fled, the victim realized that his mobile phone was missing and immediately ran after them. “The victim was holding the rear handlebar of the motorcycle, but the suspect even step on transmission pedal. As a result, the victim was dragged to injure his knee. At that time, the victim would like to take his mobile phone,” he said. In addition, the suspects also hit the victim’s face with a shoe to afflict a wound on the forehead and left temple. “Other than getting injured, the victim also suffered a loss worth IDR 5 million because his mobile phone was taken away. Furthermore, the victim reported the case to Kuta Police station,” said Sebudi. From the investigation carried out by the personnel of Kuta Police Criminal Investigation Unit on Sunday around 7 o’clock at that night, two suspects could be arrested in their boarding house in the area of Legian Kaja, Kuta. “The suspect confessed if the victim’s mobile phone was thrown on the street, but police are still looking for it. The suspects have been detained at police station,” he added. (kmb36)
case of Lelut. Another suspect, ES aka D, only served as auxiliary culprit and was alleged to get involved in the persecution of Lelut. Riza said that his party could not give any further details regarding additional culprits in the development of the murder case. The Criminal Investigation Unit of Seririt Police and Buleleng Police still developed the investigation against a total of 22 witnesses, including the owner of the
Hotel Grand Surya, Putu Singyen. “The interrogation is made to 22 witnesses. Currently, the concerned (Putu Singyen—Ed) still serves as a witness because the murder case occurred in front of his hotel. The CCTV footage of the hotel is very much needed. The concerned was very cooperative and provided clear information,” he said. Furthermore, when questioned, Putu Singyen said that the Hotel Grand Surya did not get involved in the murder case in front of his hotel. After the murder incident early September, the turnover of his hotel was said to decrease drastically. During operating the hotel business, he claimed to regularly contribute to tax payment worth some IDR 20 million every month to the
Buleleng Revenue Services. “The impact is very unusual for us. Our visitors dropped dramatically after the occurrence of the case. Even, at one night we did not receive any visitors at all. Coincidentally, it happened in front of the hotel and involved one of the hotel guests. Surely, it has something to do with safety and comfort,” he explained. This Golkar politician also confirmed that he did not get involved in the murder case of Lelut. “I declare that GS (Grand Surya) does not get involved. I have talked to the Chief of Seririt Police and will inform everything I know. But, I indeed do not know. We do support the law enforcement officers to disclose the case,” he ascertained. (kmb34)
Pecelengan Dam shallow
Two “subak” areas in Mendoyo turn dormant
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JEMBRANA - Prolonged drought has caused the water discharge of a number of dams in Jembrana to diminish and even turn shallow. One of the shallow dams is located at Pohsanten village. The Pecelengan dam irrigating hundreds of hectares of paddy fields at Subak Pecelengan and Subak Pedukuhan at Mendoyo Dangin Tukad village has turned shallow and dried up. In addition to the Pecelengan Dam, similar condition also happens to Semanggong Dam at Pohsanten. Around the mouth of the dam looks shallow as well as the sand and gravel materials look high. A number of farmers at Subak Pedukuhan and Subak Pecelengan revealed on Monday (Sep 29) that the Pecelengan Dam had not been functioning properly due to sedimentation for three years. Coupled with dry season, the bottom of the dam was then visible. The materials heaped up at the mouth of the dam with the height of almost parallel to the waterretaining embankment. Such condition caused the water to be unable to flow smoothly to 145 hectares of paddy fields in the subak areas. As observation on Monday, the sand and gravel materials covering the mouth of the dam spread along some 500 meters. Wayan Arnawa, 43, one of the farmers at the local subak said that subak members had actually been seeking to dredge the materials manually. However, it seemed less optimal because it was of great volume. The dam could not function when it rained because the rainwater flowed instantly.
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Hong Kong protesters set deadline for government Associated Press
HONG KONG — Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong set a Wednesday deadline for a response from the government to meet their demands for reforms after spending another night blocking streets in an unprecedented show of civil disobedience. A brief statement from the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement said it had set an Oct. 1 deadline for the city’s unpopular Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to meet their demands for genuine democracy and for him to step down as leader of Hong Kong. It said they would “announce new civil disobedience plans same day.” Wednesday is a holiday for China’s National Day, and even larger crowds are expected to flood the streets. The government said it was canceling a fireworks display planned to celebrate the National Day. One day after police shocked the city by firing tear gas at the crowds, the protesters passed a peaceful night Monday singing as the blocked streets in several parts of Hong Kong. They also staged a brief “mobile light” vigil, waving their glowing cell phones as the protests stretched into their fourth day. Crowds chanted calls for Leung to resign, and sang anthems calling for freedom. “The students are protecting the right to vote, for Hong Kong’s future. We are not scared, we are
not frightened, we just fight for it,” said Carol Chan, a 55-year-old civil service worker who took two days off to join the protests after becoming angered over police use of tear gas Sunday. Students and activists have been camped out since late Friday, demanding that Beijing grant democratic reforms to the former British colony. Police said they used 87 rounds of tear gas Sunday in what they called a necessary but restrained response to protesters pushing through cordons and barricades. They said 41 people were injured, including 12 police officers. “Police cordon lines were heavily charged, by some violent protesters. So police had to use the minimum force in order to separate the distance at that moment between the protesters and also the police,” said Cheung Tak-keung, the assistant police commissioner for operations. The atmosphere was more festive Monday as constantly shifting crowds blocked major roads. People moved in and out of the sit-ins,
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Wrapped in plastic to shield from pepper spray, a student protester stands behind a makeshift barrier blocking main streets in the central business district of Hong Kong, late Monday, Sept. 29, 2014.
some bringing in food and drink while others fetched their own. Some high school students, still in their school uniforms, sat on the pavement doing their homework. “It’s already the fourth day, so it’s really tiring,” said Ching-ching
Tse, a 24-year-old student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who was on her second day of collecting trash in the protest area with her friends. “So we are forming some groups and hope we can do some shifts and take turns.”
Officials announced that schools in some districts of Hong Kong would remain closed Tuesday because of safety concerns, while dozens of bus routes were canceled and some subway stops near protest areas were closed.
New tremors raise concern at Japan’s Mount Ontake Associated Press
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One of the dams in Jembrana area which already run out of water because the dry season.
Farmers hoped the heaping up sand and gravel materials could be dredged with the help of heavy equipment. Chief of Subak Pecelengan, Komang Arnyana, revealed the sedimentation had long happened so the dam could not be used whereas the two subak areas still had 145 hectares of productive paddy fields. Since the dam was unusable, more paddy field areas turned dormant. Besides, the subak members had repeatedly dredged the sedimentation in mutual assistance. Since the materials kept coming in large volume, they were finally resigned. If such condition was
not immediately addressed, he worried it would breach the dam embankment. The subak organization also had coordinated the matter with the Jembrana Public Works Agency and it planned to dredge in April. But, it was not carried out yet so far. Meanwhile, similar materials also heaped up in the Semanggong Dam with the height reaching two meters or were almost parallel to the entrance of the dam. The dam itself was also used to irrigate the paddy field at Subak Semanggong and Subak Ketengking. (kmb26)
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KISO, Japan — Increased seismic activity raised concern Tuesday about the possibility of another eruption at a Japanese volcano where 36 people were killed, forcing rescuers to suspend plans to try to recover at least two dozen bodies still near the summit. Volcanic tremors rose to a level not seen since Saturday evening, hours after Mount Ontake’s initial large eruption, said Shoji Saito of the Japan Meteorological Agency. The tremor levels were oscillating up and down. “At this point, anything can happen,” Saito said, though he stopped short of predicting another large eruption. About 80 to 100 relatives and friends of those who never returned from the summit were waiting for news in a municipal hall in the nearby central Japanese town of Kiso. Rescuers found five more bodies on Monday, bringing the death toll to 36. AP Photo/Kyodo News They have managed to airlift only 12 An aerial view shows volcanic smoke and fume raising from craters of Mount Ontake, central bodies off the mountain since the start of the eruption on Saturday because of Japan, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014.
dangerous conditions. There were believed to be at least 250 people on the mountain, a popular hiking destination, when it erupted. How the victims died remains unclear, though experts say it was probably from suffocating ash, falling rocks, toxic gases or some combination of them. Some of the bodies had severe contusions. Survivors told Japanese media that they were pelted by rocks from the eruption. Yuji Tsuno, a veteran mountain photographer, was near the summit. After taking pictures of the initial explosion as ash and debris rained down, he quickly took refuge in a nearby hut, he told the TBS TV network. About 20 minutes later, when the smoke partially subsided, Tsuno rushed out and began his descent. It was a gamble, but he believed it was his only chance, he said. “I almost thought it was the end of my life,” he said in the interview. On his way down, he spotted a man heading up. “I told him to go down with me, but he said he had to check on his child up there. I couldn’t stop him,” Tsuno said.
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Lenovo looks to expand after IBM acquisition Associated Press
BANGKOK — Lenovo Group has received U.S. and European approval to complete its acquisition of IBM Corp.’s low-end server business and plans to use it to grow faster outside its personal computer business, Lenovo’s chairman said Monday. The $2.1 billion acquisition is due to close Wednesday following a successful review by a U.S. government security panel and European and Chinese regulators, the company said. The IBM assets will add a “growth engine” to a growing array of businesses that include computers, mobile devices and services, chairman Yang Yuanqing said in a telephone interview. Lenovo, which bought IBM’s PC unit in 2005, has carried out a flurry of acquisitions and launched initiatives including creating a
smartphone brand to expand into faster-growing businesses. Also this year, Lenovo bought the Motorola Mobility smartphone business from Google Inc. for $2.9 billion. “Our mobile business and our enterprise business will be growing even faster than our PC business,” said Yang. Lenovo has said the IBM acquisition will propel it from a No. 9 ranking among server manufacturers to No. 3 behind Hewlett Packard Co. and Dell Inc. Lenovo, with headquarters in Beijing and in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, passed HP in 2013 as the No. 1 PC maker, though that achievement was tempered by a slowdown in demand as users shift to mobile devices. Lenovo has said it expects mobile devices to become the bulk of its business in coming years. In the quarter ending in June,
sales of smartphones, tablet computers and other wireless technology rose 32 percent over a year earlier, Lenovo reported earlier. That helped to boost quarterly profit by 23 percent to $214 million. The latest acquisition includes IBM’s System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, blade networking and maintenance operations. The price was reduced from the previously announced $2.3 billion due to a change in valuation of IBM’s inventory and deferred revenue, according to Lenovo. It said none of the terms of the agreement changed. The IBM manager in charge of the x86 server business, Adalio Sanchez, will stay in that post with Lenovo, the company said.
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In this Aug. 15, 2013 file photo, people walk past a Lenovo flagship experience store in Beijing, China.
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Drought and water crisis spread out Bali Post
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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft plans to offer a glimpse of its vision for Windows this week, as its new CEO seeks to redefine the company and recover from missteps with its flagship operating system. Although the new software won’t be formally released until next year, analysts already consider its success crucial for Microsoft and Satya Nadella, who has made mobile devices and Internet-based services priorities since becoming CEO in February. With its tablet-like touch controls, Windows 8 had been Microsoft’s answer to slumping sales in personal computers amid a rising demand for mobile devices. But the company alienated many users by forcing radical behavioral changes. Research firm IDC even blamed Windows 8 for accelerating a decline in PC sales in the first full quarter following the system’s release in October 2012. Microsoft has released updates that address some of the complaints, yet analytics firm Net Applications estimates that five out of six Windows users are still using something other than Windows 8. The next major release will be the company’s chance to regain its footing and show that Microsoft can embrace mobile devices without sacrificing the traditional computing experience. “It’s one of the most important launches that they will ever have,” said Patrick Moorhead at the research firm Moor Insights and Strategy. “It’s very important they get it right.” Microsoft is expected to give an early look at some new features Tuesday during an event the company has billed as a discussion about “what’s next for Windows.” The company hasn’t said what it plans to call the new Windows version. The San Francisco event is geared toward the business market. Separate sessions focused on home computer users and others will be held in the coming months. Analysts say the sessions are part of an effort by Microsoft to gather feedback and avoid the stumbles it made with Windows 8. Even after two years of declining sales of personal computers, software licenses for Windows are a key element of a business segment that contributes roughly 21 percent of Microsoft’s annual revenue — second only to sales of the company’s commercial software. Windows 8 introduced a host of new features for personal comput-
ers, including touch-screen functions that are now common with tablets. Many PC users, however, found the redesigned interface difficult to navigate, particularly with keyboards and mice on devices without touch screens. They also missed familiar controls, such as the “start” button that was a longtime component of previous Windows systems. “It was a miscalculation on the part of Microsoft,” said analyst Steve Kleynhans at the Gartner research firm. “You can’t force people into a situation where everything they know changes.” Still, experts say Microsoft has good reason to design software that attempts to broaden its appeal to smartphone and tablet users. Although the company still dominates the PC industry, that market is barely growing. Meanwhile, Microsoft has gained little traction in a booming smartphone market dominated by Apple’s iPhones and devices running Google’s Android software. Nadella has said he wants the next version of Windows to be a “single, converged operating system for screens of all sizes.” Microsoft currently has three main systems — Windows 8 for traditional computers and tablets, Windows Phone 8 for cellphones and Xbox for its gaming console. That makes more work for developers, who must create three versions of apps if they want to reach people on multiple devices. By unifying the underlying systems, software developers will be able to create apps for the various devices more easily. Consumers will also be able to switch devices more easily and avoid having to buy the same apps multiple times. The new Windows is also expected to emphasize more software apps and services that are hosted on the Internet, or “in the cloud.” Nadella has made the transition to cloud computing a priority.
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Development program of tourism village having been conducted by Gianyar government since 2008 is now turning uncertain. A number of villages having proposed the development of tourism village do not get any response regarding the program sustainability.
Uncertain, sustainability of tourism village program
Bali Post
GIANYAR - Development program of tourism village having been conducted by Gianyar government since 2008 is now turning uncertain. A number of villages having proposed the development of tourism village do not get any response regarding the program sustainability. As the data obtained on Monday (Sep 29), five villages in Gianyar having got the assistance for tourism village development included the Ubud, Sidan, Kemenuh, Pejeng and Tampaksiring village. The development assistance as a tourism village was obtained from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy through the National Program for People Empowerment (PNPM) in tourism sector worth IDR 80 million-IDR 100 million. The fund was used as the founding of the tourism village development. After more than a year, the tourism village program did not show any development. Even, the villagers having submitted their proposal did not receive any information on the continuity. Responding to that matter, the Head of Gianyar
Government Tourism Office, Anak Agung Ari Brahmanta, did not dismiss it. A total of 40 villages in Gianyar were proposed as tourism village in 2008. Of that number, 14 villages had operated and five others received the assistance. “The fourteen villages in operation means that they have been visited by travelers,” he said. Dormant condition of the tourism village sustainability occurred because Gianyar did not obtain development assistance any longer from the National Program for People Empowerment in tourism sector during the year 2014. As the reason, central government was made budgetary efficiency by 30 percent and in transition period in relation to political activities. “In 2014, Gianyar does not get any PNPM program in tourism sector
denoting the program of central government,” he said. He could not give any comments related to the villages having submitted the proposal. However, seeing the condition of the tourism village development program, potential of the village and human resource owned by the villages, the sustainability of the tourism village program could seemingly be carried out by each village. The government currently provided quite a lot of funds for villages, so that it was required an arrangement and planning on the utilization of fund coming into the village, where one of which was earmarked for tourism village development program. Thus, the sustainability of the tourism village program was also determined by the village itself. (kmb16)
AMLAPURA - Drought and water crisis are widespread in Karangasem. In the past, the clean water crisis was mostly experienced by residents in the Kubu subdistrict. However, from the observation since last May in Karangasem, the resident hit by the clean water crisis was widespread. Paddy fields and moors were also dry whose area was estimated to reach thousands of hectares. Other than in the area of Kubu subdistrict, similar condition also occurred in Selat subdistrict (Sebudi village), Rendang subdistrict (Besakih and Pempatan village), Sidemen subdistrict (Cegeng and surrounding areas), Manggis subdistrict (Manggis and Antiga village), Karangasem subdistrict (a number of settlements at Seraya Barat and Seraya Timur), Bebandem subdistrict (Butus hamlet, Nangka and Jungutan hill areas), Abang subdistrict (Bunutan hills areas, hilly areas of Kedampal) and Kubu subdistrict (most areas). A legislator from Tianyar, Nyoman Musna Antara, not long ago said that residents in Kubu had faced clean water crisis since last May. Aside from residents living on barren hills, those living at roadside of Amlapura-Singaraja also faced similar condition. Those who could afford would buy water, while others would ask for help. “I have made coordination with the Karangasem Social Agency to help ease the burden of Karangasem residents in getting clean water, chiefly for those in urgent need of clean water in large quantities for ritual activities,” said Musna. Most rainwater cisterns owned by local residents had dried up. Meanwhile, the government already built 13 units of retention basin used to hold rainwater in Karangasem. However, most of them had dried up such as a unit
at Batudawa Kaja, Muntig, two units at Kedampal hamlet, Datah village, Telung Buana and another unit under Pasar Agung Temple, Sebudi village. Residents at Besakih, according to a local leader, were forced to buy clean water at IDR 90,000IDR 100,000 per tank truck. It was the price valid at roadside such as around the residential area of Dalem Puri Temple. However, to provide clean water by tank truck to Kiduling Kreteg hamlet and the more remote areas, the water seller set the price for IDR 120,000 to IDR 150,000. Hamlet chief of Apadsari, Batudawa Kaja, Tulamben, Kubu, Wayan Putra, said the retention basin at Batudawa Kaja already dried up last month. Additionally, the water in the cistern owned by residents in the barren area had run thin, while some others dried up. Residual water in the public cistern only left about 50 cm and was estimated to be enough for a few days. “If it does not rain soon, we are forced to buy clean water. At the public cistern near my house, the clean water is sold for IDR 250,000 per tank truck containing 5,000 liters. Maximally, a tank truck can only be used for a few days,” he said. Meanwhile, related to the panca wali krama, wana kertih and pujawali or anniversary at the Pasar Agung Giri Tolangkir Temple at Sebudi, the ritual committee also claimed to dither. It happened because the water supply in the cistern at the upstream of the temple courtyard already dried up. Spokesperson of the Ritual Committee, Wayan Suara Arsana, expected there would be a help of clean water supply by tank truck from the county government such from Klungkung or Karangasem. The water was needed for the temple activity and to fill in the toilet at the parking lot underneath the temple. (013)
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Drought and water crisis are widespread in Karangasem. In the past, the clean water crisis was mostly experienced by residents in the Kubu subdistrict. However, from the observation since last May in Karangasem, the resident hit by the clean water crisis was widespread.
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Bali News Medical waste management at Tabanan Hospital
Third party being involved Bali Post
TABANAN - Health services are inseparable from medical waste, both the liquid and solid waste, as happened to Tabanan Hospital. Within a day, the medical solid waste generated at this hospital reaches 150 kilograms and 60 cubic meters of liquid waste discharged into the environment after being processed through the waste water treatment plant. The Division Head of Tabanan Hospital Non-Medical Services, Made Wisnawa, explained on Monday (Sep 29) that the processing of medical solid waste in the form of amputated organ pieces,
sharp objects such as needles and glass bottles of used drugs as well as infectious waste was burned in an incinerator with the capacity of 100 kg per single burning. An incineration process would take
two hours. Formerly, the capacity was overloaded. Other than incinerating the medical solid waste of the Tabanan Hospital, the hospital-owned incinerator was also used to incinerate
The officers of Tabanan Hospital show the waste management systme in the hopital
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solid waste of 13 health facilities including those of the public health centers in Tabanan and Denpasar. “When serving the 13 health facilities, the incinerator capacity was overloaded. Commonly the incineration could not be accomplished in a day,” said Wisnawa. To overcome the excessive medical waste processing, the Tabanan Hospital directed the health facilities making cooperation with its party to use the services provided by the third party named the Transporter. According to Wisnawa, the Transporter was a company processing solid medical waste located in Java. “The company is collecting solid medical waste within three to four days to be further conveyed to Java for processing,” said Wisnawa. After discontinuing the cooperation with the health facilities and directing them to the third party, the incinerator capacity of Tabanan Hospital returned to normal and the incineration could be done in one day. “At the moment, only two health facilities are still making cooperation with us, namely the Marga public health center and Tabanan III public health center,” said Wisnawa. Results of the medical solid waste incineration, admitted Wisnawa, were still disposed to landfill. But in the future, the Tabanan Hospital
would make cooperation with the Transporter because this company had a recycling program for the medical solid waste incineration. In addition to medical solid waste, the Tabanan Hospital also produced hazardous waste such as the medical devices containing mercury, batteries and lamp. On that account, the hazardous waste should not be burned and stored in a special room. Meanwhile, for processing of liquid waste, the Tabanan Hospital had the wastewater treatment plant applying the bio-filter aerobic technology. Maximum capacity of the treatment plant could serve 400 beds, while at the moment the Tabanan Hospital had only 222 beds. “So, the capacity is still adequate,” said Wisnawa. Emission test to the result of combustion by the incinerator located at Nyitdah was carried out by Tabanan Hospital once a year. Meanwhile, the wastewater test was carried out once a month. In addition, to ensure the result of recycled wastewater was safe before discharged to the environment, the results were collected first in the pond containing fish. “The pond contains fish and aquatic plants. If the fish and plant die, it means the results of wastewater are not safe,” added Wisnawa. (kmb24)
Most teachers reluctant to teach in Nusa Penida Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Ultimately the Klungkung Education Agency removed 349 teachers in all levels of education, Monday (Sep 29). Of this total number, 13 teachers were removed from the mainland of Klungkung to Nusa Penida Island. The Head of Klungkung Education Agency, Nyoman Mudarta, said that a majority of the teachers in Klungkung were still reluctant to teach in Nusa Penida. On that account, on the delivery of their decree, they should receive special guidance from the Klungkung Regent, Nyoman Suwirta. Handover of the decree was performed last Monday in the meeting hall of the SMAN 2 Semarapura high school. His party deliberately
distinguished the removal decree between the teachers removed to the area around Klungkung mainland and the teachers removed to Nusa Penida. In accordance with the instruction of the regent, Mudarta said that the 13 teachers who would be assigned to Nusa Penida in the near future would get a briefing in advance from Regent Suwirta. The briefing, he said, was necessary to convince the teachers that they were assigned to Nusa Penida because their skill was very much in need for the sustainability of education in Nusa Penida. The fear of those teachers to be on duty in Nusa Penida was quite reasonable. Although the law had mandated that every teacher was ready to be placed anywhere, the
underdevelopment of Nusa Penida had even raised their fear. “As the instruction of the regent, we in the Education Agency want to remove the impression that the teachers assigned to Nusa Penida were the outcast,” he affirmed. Actually, the teachers removed to Nusa Penida were selected people considered to have the capability of carry out the tasks of building the education in Nusa Penida. Even, Mudarta asserted that the 13 teachers assigned in Nusa Penida would receive a special allowance. Unfortunately, the allowance magnitude was still being deliberated by the regent with the Education Agency. The special allowance would be provided for transportation and the cost of rent-
ing a house for duty in Nusa Penida. It would be provided through the Regent Decree allocated in the Klungkung regional budget. The 13 teachers, said Mudarta, would teach at secondary and high/vocational schools. Meanwhile, he said that his party still lacked for teachers of elementary schools both in Nusa Penida and Klungkung mainland. So far, Klungkung has a total of 2,991 teachers at all levels. Of the total number, Klungkung remains to lack for 95 teachers at elementary level. Meanwhile, it also lacks for 36 sport teachers for junior high and high school/vocational schools. However, amid the lack of it, Klungkung has a surplus of 56 religion teachers. Faced with this problem, Mudarta affirmed
that Klungkung should immediately recruit teachers. Even, after Klungkung could get an allocation of 45 prospective civil servants, the Education Agency already set a format for the recruitment of 25 elementary school teachers. “Without recruitment, we will continue to be shortage of teachers in the future. Moreover, the retired teacher continues to grow,” he explained. To overcome the problem, his party temporarily covered the shortage of teachers by employing temporary teacher whose salary was taken from the school operation assistance. Recruitment of this kind of teachers was mostly carried out for the elementary school level because the highest shortage occurred in this level. (kmb31)
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DENPASAR - Travelling while doing business is often for those who work during their vacation. Now, Bali is an essential destination for any business traveler. Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center located in the heart of Denpasar City, continues to meet the guests’ expectations. Therefore, Jempiring Restaurant will be serving up East West Foodie Fest from 1 October to 31 December 2014. This food festival is a blend of Western Foods and Eastern Foods. The main menu includes Surf and Turf or seafood (surf because you can surf in the sea) and beef (turf because cow graze on turf) and Steam Barramundi Fish, a popular Chinese speciality with a piece of steamed fish infused with savoury herbs along with two kinds of sauce. You also get a salad with Vietnamese Spring Rolls, which are wrapped in rice paper and go well the sauce. Moreover, one of refreshing Virgin Strawberry Mojitos can cool you down in even the hottest sun during the day. For coffee lovers, Aston offer Hot Summer to accompany your busy work in front of your laptop. Come and enjoy the food festival in Jempiring Restaurant with your colleagues, you can easily finish your work.
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Calendar Event for September 28 through October 28, 2014 8 Sep Kajeng Kliwon Pamelastali/ Watu Gunung Runtuh Pura Penataran Agung Maha Gotra Tirta Harum Sri Srengga Nyalian Banjarrangkan Klungkung 30 Sep Paid-Paidan Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Marga Tabanan 1 Oct Urip 2 Oct Patetegan 3 Oct Pengeradanan 4 Oct Hari Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Bongkasa Abian Semal Pura Watu Gunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Rawa Mangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemekasan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Mambal Abiansemal 5 Oct Banyu Pinaruh 6 Oct Soma Ribek Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Batu Gaing Bangli Pura Tirta Wening Surabaya Pura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem 7 Oct Sabuh Mas 8 Oct Pagerwesi Dan Purnama Sasih Kapat Pura Labang SinduJiwa Ubud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wira Bhuana Magelang
Jawa Tengah Pura Padang Sakti Denpasar Timur Pura Payogan Agung Ketewel Sukawati Gianyar Pura Gaduh Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Masceti Tampak Siring Pura Dalem Ularan Tatasan Kaja Denpasar Pura Siwa Tohjiwa Penebel Tabanan Pura Luhur Giri Slaka Alas Purwo Banyuwangi Pura Sada Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Puseh Ketewel Sukawati Pura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar Pura penataran Agung Bhatara Tiga Sakti Besakih Pura Meru Cakra Lombok Pura Lempuyang Madya Karangasem Pura Penerejon Kintamani Bangli Pura Pulaki Buleleng Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Thirta Negari Karangasem Pura Thirta Empul Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Agung Tegalalang Pura Luhuring Akasa Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Desa Denjalan Batuyang Batubulan Pura Puseh Werdi Agung Sulawesi Utara Pura Pasraman Suci Renon Denpasar Pura Penataran Bumi Agung TMII Jakarta Pura Luhur Waisnawa Buleleng Pura Ulun Danu Songan Batur Kintamani Pura Agung Surya Bhuana Jaya Pura Papua Pura Gumang Bugbug Karangasem Pura Taman Sari Busung Biu Busung Biu Buleleng
Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sangguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Arya Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Jembrana Pura Taman Bubuan Seririt Singaraja Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Tegalalang Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Gianyar Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pura Batur Arya Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Marga Tabanan Pura Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati
13 Oct Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 18 Oct Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Sidakarya Denpasar
23 Oct Tilem Sasih Kapat
19 Oct Redite Umanis Ukir Pura Sanggah Gede Dukuh Sagening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 22 Oct Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan kawitan Arya Tauman Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung
24 Oct Hari Bhatara Sri 28 Oct Anggara Kasih Kulantir dan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan
Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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Nicole Kidman reveals heartbreak at father’s death Associated Press
SYDNEY — Actress Nicole Kidman on Tuesday broke her public silence since the death of her father more than two weeks ago by sharing her heartbreak and thanking well-wishers for their comforting thoughts and prayers. “We would just like to thank everyone for their love and prayers over these past couple of weeks,” Kidman and her singer husband Keith Urban said in a joint statement posted on their Facebook pages.
“We are all heartbroken, but knowing we are in the hearts and thoughts of others is so comforting,” they added. They signed off: “Sending love, Nic and
Keith xx.” The Australian star of this year’s “Grace of Monaco” returned to her home of Sydney after her psychologist father Tony Kidman died during a vacation in Singapore on Sept. 12. The 75-year-old was in Singapore to visit his other daughter, Antonia, and her family. Authorities did not reveal the cause of this death.
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Australian actress Nicole Kidman with her father Tony Kidman. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File
Amanda Bynes arrested for DUI in Los Angeles Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Former actress Amanda Bynes was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of driving while under the influence of a drug, authorities said Monday. Bynes, 28, was stopped by a California Highway Patrol officer after she stopped in the middle of an intersection in Los Angeles around 4 a.m. on Sunday. The former child star was determined to be under the influence of an unidentified drug after being evaluated at a nearby police station, the CHP said in a statement. The release states that Bynes, who has had a series of driving-related arrests, was cooperative but appeared disheveled when she was taken into custody. Bynes was released hours later after posting $15,000 bail. A phone message left for her criminal defense attorney, Richard Hutton, was not immediately returned. The one-time actress remains on probation for a 2012 case filed after she clipped a Los Angeles County sheriff’s patrol car and was arrested for driving under the influence. Bynes pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving in February.
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In June, a New York judge dismissed a criminal case filed after Bynes was accused of throwing a bong out of her 36th-floor apartment. The case was dismissed after Bynes complied with orders to receive counseling and stay out of trouble. Last year, Bynes resolved a misdemeanor hit-and-run case in Los Angeles after entering a civil settlement with other drivers.
She received psychiatric treatment last year after authorities said she set a small fire in the driveway of a home in Thousand Oaks, California. Bynes was 13 when she landed her own hit variety program, “The Amanda Show” on Nickelodeon. She went on to star in the TV series “What I Like About You” and several movies, including “What a Girl Wants,” ‘’Hairspray” and “She’s the Man.” She has publicly stated that she has retired from acting. Her last film credit was 2010’s “Easy A,” which starred Emma Stone.
Tourists played water sport at Benoa Bay, Bali Island.
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MANGUPURA - Statement of the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu, who reminded all the stakeholders of keeping Bali from being over capacity was addressed seriously by Chairman of the Bali Tourism Society Alliance, Gusti Kade Sutawa. According to the man doubling as Secretary-General of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter, the concerns of the minister on the island would actually happen if this small island was reclaimed. “Nowadays, it is not yet overcapacity, but the worries of the minister will actually happen if the Benoa Bay reclamation is implemented by force. The growth of the accommodation today has been higher than the number of tourist visit, let alone be coupled with reclamation plan with the establishment of hundreds of accommodation. Bali will not only be overcapacity, but
also overloaded,” said Kade Sutawa when met on Monday (Sep 29). According to him, the concept of tourism aimed for people’s welfare had deviated. Today, the Bali tourism even more benefited investors rather than the public. “Although I am a tourism businessman, I reject the reclamation because it will not benefit the community. Let’s see and it is said that it will absorb
hundreds of thousands of workers, what percentage of Balinese people gets absorbed and what percentage of the outsiders. I have confidence the outsiders will dominantly get absorbed,” he said. He added that local government should no longer direct investors to Southern Bali, yet evenly distributed them to the Northern, Eastern and Western Bali. Thus, the concept on the distribution of tourism pie could be enjoyed equally by Balinese people. “Investors should not be taken to southern region, but take them to the northern and eastern region to create equity by providing infrastructure in the region. Surely, the investors want to invest in southern region as no longer needs intensive campaign,” he said. He supported if the government built infrastructure that would con-
nect the Northern, Eastern, Western, and Southern Bali to create equity. “Otherwise yes ... Bali will be obviously overloaded, especially in the Southern Bali,” he concluded. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Intellectuals Association (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, Putu Anom, argued that the number of tourist accommodation in Bali had been overcapacity since 20002010. “Based on the results of our study, the excessive number of hotel rooms can lead to a price war having been going on since 2010. We just recommended the establishment of homestays at tourism village. However, it is often violated,” he said. He said that the addition of hotel rooms by the county or municipality government was always done based on the number of tourist arrival
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to Bali, so the quality of travelers making a visit tended to decrease. Actually, calculating the carrying capacity was not based on the quantity of travelers coming to Bali. “It is happening now. Many see that the arrival of travelers exceeds the number of rooms, so that we need additional rooms. Moreover, there is now a reclamation plan that will add to the growth of the accommodation,” he said. It was mentioned that the concept of calculating the carrying capacity of Bali tourism should put priority on the needs of local community such as the need for water and land. “After that, it can be exploited for tourism. It must be calculated what percentage of the land and water can possibly be allocated for the needs of travelers,” he affirmed. (kmb27)