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Ariana Grande pleads for ‘one okay day’ in series of tweets LOS ANGELES - Ariana Grande has told her fans she has endured a “tough month” and asked for just “one okay day” in a series of tweets.

The singer was set to appear at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on 17 September with her fiance Pete Davidson but pulled out following the death of her ex-partner, rapper Mac Miller, who died from a suspected overdose.

On Thursday, Grande tweeted: “ur angels in my life. it’s just been a tough month. i’m trying to get my work done and get back to normal and it’s hard and i’m human and tired. sorry i let u in or worried u. i shouldn’t have tweeted. i kno better.”

She added: “Can i pls have one okay day. just one. pls.”

Fans of the 25-year-old were quick to respond with words of reassurance, with one tweeting: “I’m so sorry for your loss... Everything will be okay.”

Grande followed up her tweets by thanking fans, writing: “ty for loving me sm i do not deserve it.”

Earlier this month, Grande announced she would be taking “much needed time to heal and mend” following “events of the past couple of years”.

In an interview with Vogue earlier this year, she discussed her battle with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder following the suicide bomb attack at her concert at the Manchester Arena. She said: “It’s hard to talk about because so many people have suffered such severe, tremendous loss. (IBP/net)

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Kanye West and his son Saint throw out a ceremonial first pitch before the game between the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs on September 23, 2018 at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois.

Kanye West is now Ye, but unchanged on backing Trump

NEW YORK - Kanye West has decided that he now wants to be called Ye. But on political matters, nothing has changed for the pro-Trump rapper.

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“The being formally (sic) known as Kanye West. I am Ye,” he wrote on Twitter.

Ye has long been a nickname for West, along with Yeezy, and he chose “Ye” as the title of his last album. He has previously said that he found a spiritual significance to “Ye” -- the plural or formal version of the second-person pronoun in Middle English -- as he so frequently read it in the Bible.

West -- or, rather, Ye -- announced the name change shortly before he appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” the widely watched television skit show.

He performed with fellow rapper Lil Pump dressed as water bottles,

drawing an overwhelmingly negative reaction on social media where a number of professed fans questioned his creative direction.

West closed the show by singing a track off “Ye” while wearing one of President Donald Trump’s signature red “Make America Great Again” caps.

After the live show ended, West stayed on the microphone and gave an impromptu speech about politics, again voicing his support for the president.

“So many times I talk to a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist,’” West said, according to footage posted on Instagram by

comedian Chris Rock.

“Well, if I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago.”

He also accused the rival Democratic Party of seeking to keep people dependent on welfare payments and repeated his interest in running for president himself in 2020 -- when Trump would face re-election.

His speech was met with a smattering of applause but louder booing from the New York audience.

West has stunned fans by becoming one of the few celebrities -as well as one of the only prominent African Americans -- to support Trump. (afp)

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This picture taken on September 29, 2018 shows residents helping remove a body after an earthquake and tsunami hit Palu, on Sulawesi island. The death toll from a powerful earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has reached 420, state media said on Spetember 30, 2018, as rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region and survivors helped to retrieve the remains of those killed.

Mass burials as death toll in Indonesia quake-tsunami tops 800

The death toll in Indonesia’s quake-tsunami disaster nearly doubled to more than 800 Sunday, as ill-equipped rescuers struggled to reach scores of trapped victims, health officials resorted to mass burials and desperate residents looted shops for food and water.

“The casualties will keep increasing,” said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, whose agency announced 832 deaths. “Today we will start the mass burial of victims, to avoid the spread of disease.”

Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said the final death toll in the north of Sulawesi island could be in the “thousands” since many regions have still not been reached.

“It feels very tense,” said 35year-old mother Risa Kusuma, comforting her feverish baby boy at an evacuation centre in the gutted coastal city of Palu. “Every minute an ambulance brings in bodies.

Clean water is scarce. The minimarkets are looted everywhere.”

Indonesia’s Metro TV on Sunday broadcast footage from a coastal community in Donggala, close to the epicentre of the quake.

Some waterfront homes appeared crushed but a resident said most people fled to higher ground after the quake struck.

“When it shook really hard, we all ran up into the hills,” a man identified as Iswan told the TV. Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrived in the region Sunday afternoon.

In Palu on Sunday aid was trickling in, the Indonesian military had been deployed and search-andrescue workers were doggedly combing the rubble for survivors -- looking for dozens feared trapped

under one hotel alone.

“Communication is limited, heavy machinery is limited... it’s not enough for the numbers of buildings that collapsed,” Nugroho said.

The 7.5-magnitude quake struck Friday, sparking a tsunami that ripped apart the city’s coastline.

Save The Children program director Tom Howells said access was a “huge issue” hampering relief efforts. “Aid agencies and local authorities are struggling to reach several communities around Donggala, where we are expecting there to be major damage and potential large-scale loss of life,” Howells said.

Dozens of corpses lay in an

open courtyard at the back of a Palu hospital, baking under a fierce tropical sun, with only one building separating it from an open triage site on the opposite side.

“I have one child -- he’s missing,” Baharuddin, a 52-year-old Palu resident, told AFP as he stood on floor tiles smeared with blood.

“I last spoke to him before he went to school in the morning.”

The disaster agency said it believed about 71 foreigners were in Palu when the quake struck, with most safe.

Three French nationals and a South Korean, who may have been staying at a flattened hotel, had not yet been accounted for, it added.

Amid the levelled trees, overturned cars, concertinaed homes and flotsam tossed up to 50 metres inland, survivors and rescuers struggled to come to grips with the

scale of the disaster.

On Saturday evening residents fashioned makeshift bamboo shelters or slept out on dusty playing fields, fearing powerful aftershocks would topple damaged homes and bring yet more carnage.

C-130 military transport aircraft with relief supplies managed to land at the main airport in Palu, which reopened to humanitarian flights and limited commercial flights, but only to pilots able to land by sight alone.

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Women, tradition and art in Bali

Young painter Satya Cipta breaking ground Museum Puri Lukisan was established to maintain a high level of quality in the arts of Bali at a time when artistic production was shifting away from the purely religious into the realm of the commercial. Although art in Bali is no longer produced exclusively in the context of religious and cultural practices, the cultural and religious practices of Balinese Hindus are inseparable from artistic expression and also inform how art is viewed more broadly.

Although what is today referred to as traditional Balinese art is certainly rooted in these cultural and religious practices it stands apart from them in certain distinct ways, including the relative freedom given to express a certain amount of personal impressions. Forms and techniques are also given a wider berth. How far the boundaries can be stretched before a particular artistic expression is no longer considered traditional is up for debate. While some consider that any art produced using traditional techniques and style to still be traditional, others feel that themes and subject should also remain within certain boundaries to be considered traditional.

The works of Satya Cipta stand somewhere in this grey area of tradition -and perhaps intentionally so. Cipta was born to Balinese parents in Sulawesi where she grew up as a cultural and religious minority.

After studying art in Jakarta and returning to Bali with her family she found herself as a new kind of minority as her experience with and exposure to other ways of seeing and being in the world, left her no choice but to question certain aspects of her own culture – most notably the role that women are expected to play in Bali.

Cipta married a man from the village of Batuan, which is known the world over not only for the tremendous number of skilled artists of all disciplines who call this small village home, but also for the way that panting in particular has flourished due to the extending of traditional boundaries in the subjects presented, while still maintaining certain core foundations.

In a very short time, Cipta learned to paint in the traditional style of

Batuan but soon felt that the wide berth given to artists here to explore different subjects was too narrow for here. She went on to explore the style of painting developed by I Nyoman Lempad and then found a master painter in Ubud whose style and subject and approach she resonated with.

I Ketut Budiana is a truly masterful painter and sculptor whose works are distinctly rooted in the visual

and philosophical traditions of Bali, yet depart from conventions in an equally distinct manner. Although a great number of painters in Bali have been influenced by Budiana’s style and approach, few if any have studied directly with him – until Satya Cipta that is.

In little over a year, this talented young painter came to find a visual and conceptual vocabulary of her own. In line with the Balinese tradition of learning directly from master painters by imitating their style, Cipta has taken key elements of Budiana’s work – both visually and conceptually. However instead of only minor personal additions or derivations from her master’s style and methods, Cipta has leapt into an entirely new field of enquiry.

While, like Budiana, she focuses on expressing her own inner world through the lens of the lexicon of Balinese traditional arts, Satya has begun to explore her experience as a woman in Balinese society. This exploration ends up speaking of the role of women more broadly, bringing up some rather uncomfortable questions about the place of women including sexual violence, objectification and the silencing of the female voice both in terms of the subjects presented in her works and the manner they are presented.

Perhaps if she had chosen to use a different visual vocabulary to express her feelings about such subjects, her works could be read as more personal explorations. However given the fact that the style of her works -though certainly not strictly traditional in technique and compositional style, they do contain enough elements of traditional Balinese painting to draw attention to the particular context that she is referring to.

Satya Cipta’s works will be on display at Museum Puri Lukisan form October 6th to November 6th in a solo exhibition that presents her learning process. From the at times awkwardly self conscious compositions of her earliest works to her powerfully harmonious rendering of lines in her more recent ones, this exhibition represents a momentous shift in woman’s place in the art of Bali.

Through her own personal explorations of her place, position and feelings about these within her own culture, Satya Cipta has perhaps unwittingly carved out a new way of looking at and being a woman in Bali. (kmb)

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IHG HOTELS & RESORTS IN BALI

GALVANIZE FOR GIVING FOR GOOD MONTH

IHG Hotels & Resorts in Bali (which includes six properties in prominent areas of the island: InterContinental Bali Resort, Hotel Indigo Bali Seminyak Beach, Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali, Holiday Inn Resort Bali Benoa, Holiday Inn Express Baruna Bali and Holiday Inn Express Bali Raya Kuta) held a

series of community-based activities throughout the whole month of September. Dubbed as Giving for Good Month, these activities are part of True Hospitality for Good - IHG’s new initiative for communities and charitable giving. Giving for Good Month will also be driving an effort for the Lombok Earthquake Disaster

Relief.

On 5 August 2018, the neighbouring island of Lombok was struck with an earthquake measured at 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale following its foreshocks that started in late July and with aftershocks recorded up until September.

In an effort to support the disaster

relief in Lombok, the six IHG properties in Bali got together to help our fellow island communities through IHG’s new programme for communities and charitable giving, True Hospitality for Good.

This initiative by IHG is aimed to change lives for the better through building skills and education in hospitality as well as to support communities when disaster strikes. With the local activities like Giving for Good Month, the programme provides each team member of IHG hotels as well as its offices around the world a greater say in how the company can contribute. This is done through each team member pledging to do a community-based activity under one of the three actions—Volunteer, Go Green, and Keep Healthy—where IHG will donate up to $4 for each pledge done by every team member throughout September to a team member’s selection charity partners.

Here in Bali, IHG Hotels & Resorts in Bali held four communitybased activities involving all of the hotels’ team members. Starting with mangrove plantation around the Serangan Bay area on 7 September, then followed with a Blood Drive

at InterContinental Bali Resort on 14 September 2018. For the third event, Hotel Indigo Bali Seminyak Beach held a Keep Healthy action through Beach Morning Fun Run where it saw team members joined in either 4, 5, or 6 km run. Ending the Giving for Good Month on the Go Green note, IHG Hotels & Resorts in Bali held their final event at Kuta Beach which saw a great number of the hotel team members releasing Sea Turtle Hatchlings out into the great ocean.

The team members of IHG Hotels & Resorts in Bali have chosen SOS Children Village for IHG to donate $4 for each of the team members working at the 6 IHG properties across the island. Globally we aim to engage 100,000 IHG colleagues to take part in Giving for Good month activities in September, for a total donation of USD $400,000 to our charity partners.

In addition to that, IHG Foundation Fund has also confirmed to donate US$25,000 to the Lombok community, this amount will be channeled through its disaster relief partner, International Federation of Red Cross.

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ADDIS ABABA - The annual Timkat Festival, which celebrates the Ethiopian Epiphany, is one of the biggest events in the Ethiopian social calendar, and joy to observe in the country’s capital, Addis Ababa.

Timkat (also known as Timket) is an Orthodox Christian celebration of the Ethiopian Epiphany.

It marks the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River.

Pilgrims come from far and wide to take part in the festival and witness the re-enactment of the baptism. All over the country large crowds assemble as the religious festivities commence, with spectacular processions, song, dance and prayer.

The festival lasts for three days and is at its most colourful in the capital, Addis Ababa, where everyone gets involved in the celebrations.

When

The festival takes place in Ethiopia every year on January 19th (or January 20th on leap years), starting with Ketera (preparations) the day before, and it lasts for three days.

Where

In Addis Ababa, the festival is particularly spectacular. The streets are adorned with green, red and yellow to represent the Ethiopian flag and priests walk through the streets holding colourful and richly decorated umbrellas.

Timkat is celebrated by Orthodox Christians all over Ethiopia, so if you can’t make it to Addis Ababa you can still get involved in the celebrations.

What’s On

The religious ceremony commences on the first day when models of the Ark of the Covenant, called Tabots, are carried to the river in a procession led by the most senior priest of each church, who carry the arks on top of their heads. At dawn the water is blessed and sprin- kled on the participants,

some of whom jump in the water to renew their baptismal vows.

The Tabot symbolises the Ark of the Covenant and the tablets describing the Ten Commandments, which God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai to serve as the core principles of the moral behaviour for humanity.

The original Ark of the Covenant is said to be under permanent guard in Northern Ethiopia, protected by priests who have sworn never to leave the sacred grounds. he second day of Timkat marks the main celebrations, with Orthodox Ethiopians from every segment of society merrily march through the streets in a riot of colour, singing, dancing and feasting. All but one of the Tabots are returned to their respective churches.

On the third day of Timkat, known as the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, the Tabot of St. Michael’s Church is returned, accompanied by a procession of priests and believers.

DENPASAR — Thousands of students from various universities in Bali gathered at Puputan Margarana Square, Renon, East Denpasar, on Saturday (Sep. 29). They followed the Declaration of Student Movement to Knit Nationality attended by the Chief of Bali Police, Petrus Reinhard Golose, and Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Prof.

H. Mohamad Nasir, Ph.D.

Experience Timkat with Far and Wild

If you’re interested in experiencing this wonderful festival first hand, UK based tour operator Far and Wild are organising a 13-day tour of Ethiopia, starting on January 17, 2019. Highlights include participation in the Timkat Festival in Addis Ababa, two days at the Simien Mountains National Park and a visit to the stunning rock churches at Lalibela.

Prices start from £3,095 per person and include return international Ethiopian Airlines flights, domestic Ethiopian Airlines flights, airport taxes, airport facilitation, all transfers and transportation, services of professional English-speaking Ethiopian tour leader/guide throughout, excursions and activities as outlined, all permits and entry fees, accommodation and some meals.

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Timkat Festival (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2019) What

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Lessening of the lake water has happened since the past three months.

Drought, Lake Batur’s water starts to recede

BANGLI — The water level of Lake Batur in Kintamani overflowing all this time to soak agricultural land and a number of houses at Terunyan village have now begun to recede. Lessening of the lake water has happened since the past three months.

On Saturday (Sep. 29), the water of Lake Batur was seen to no longer inundate the asphalt road in the area around the Cemara Landung hamlet. Similarly, the paved road previously submerged up to more than one meter has now begun to be seen. Some residents’ houses formerly flooded with lake water are now dry, and local residents can resume their normal activities.

A local resident, Surni, said the waters of Lake Batur had begun to recede since the past three months.

Lake water receded, according to him, due to the weather having begun to enter the dry season. “Approximately it recedes to about one meter,” he said.

When the water of Lake Batur overflowed and soaked her house for several months, she admitted to hold out at home with her fam-

ily members. It happened because she has no other place to evacuate. “In the past, when the water overflowed, I made a dike and put bamboo at home, so that I could do my activities,” he said.

Surni hoped the water of Lake Batur will no longer overflow and soak her house. However, from her experience so far, the water of Lake Batur will usually return to overflow during the rainy season.

“If the rain lasts long, the lake water will rise again. “It usually starts to rain in the fifth month of Balinese calendar (around OctoberNovember),” she added.

Other than at Terunyan village, the ebb tide of lake water is also visible from the non-submerging of the existing asphalt road at Buahan village. Agricultural land on the outskirts of the lake submerged a few months ago can now be cultivated by residents. A resident of Buahan, Made Antara, said the decline in lake water had occurred about two months ago.

“The lessening approximately reaches one meter,” he said. (kmb40)

The declaration contained four points. Firstly, Balinese students stated that Pancasila is the ideology of Indonesia; secondly, Balinese students stated the 1945 Constitution is the basis of the Republic of Indonesia; thirdly, Balinese students stated that Bhineka Tunggal Ika is our Motto as the nation of Indonesia; fourthly, Balinese students stated that the Unitary States of the Republic of Indonesia is non-compromising for Indonesian.

In the oration, Chief Golose in front of thousands of students expressed his appreciation to all students and academicians having organized the declaration. This activity is a form of support from students and the academic community to the stability of the state security, especially in the province of Bali.

“This age is a period to the development of Generation Z, the millennial getting involved in the world of technology. Thus, the understanding on the ideology needs to be instilled because the development of technology will easily influence the lifestyle of the next generations,” he said.

According to him, students as Generation Z must uphold the basic consensus of the nation namely the Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia and Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Tan Hana Dharma Mangrwa (Unity in Diversity).

“I am very proud that Balinese students have a different identity from other students that do not like to demonstrate. They are not easily provoked and not easily influenced by practical politics. As students, they must make Bali into the Island of the Students,” he said.

Golose invited the students to uphold the seven national values

as the crystallization of values contained in the four basic consensus of the nation. They are consisting of divine value, human value, value of unity, democratic value, value of justice, pluralistic and multi-cultural value as well as patriotic value.

“I am from the security apparatus together with the minister and chancellor very grateful that up to these days and as what we have found no Balinese students are getting involved in radicalism,” he said.

Moreover, this graduate of 1988 Police Academy insisted that he did not see any students in Bali getting involved in the networks leading to terrorism.

On that occasion, Golose added that Bali will host the IMF-WB Annual Meeting 2018 as the second largest event in the world because the event involves 189 countries with more than 25,000 participants.

According to him, the IMF-WB is estimated to be held again by Indonesia for at least 567 years to come.

Additionally, Indonesia will also carry out the 2019 democratic agendas, namely the presidential and legislative election. He hoped the students must be neutral, not to be easily provoked and become political means.

Students may not participate in spreading fake news so that the presidential election can be avoided from unwanted things.

Meanwhile, Prof. Mohamad Nasir in his speech said the development of the world is so powerful and there are many changes occurred so fast when facing the industrial revolution 4.0. Students as young generation must keep away from things related to ethnicity, racialism, religious and inter-group-based discrimination, radicalism and intolerance. (kmb36)

Chief of Bali Police, Petrus Reinhard Golose (C).

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Luhut asks Bali not to engage in polemic

DENPASAR - All components of Balinese community hold joint prayer and declaration to welcome the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting on October 8-14 at front courtyard of Bajra Sandhi Monument, Renon, Denpasar, on Friday (Sep. 28).

The joint prayer led by Ida Sri Bhagawan Putra Nata Nawa Wangsa and 108 other Brahmin priests was also attended by the Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan.

Luhut, who had just arrived from New York, stated that all financial institutions in the world are ready to attend the event in Bali.

Undeniably, there are still parties “sneering” about the benefits that Indonesia will get, especially Bali, as the host of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting.

“Probably, there are people questioning what is the advantage for Indonesia? At the very least, the biggest promotion of the IMFWorld Bank Annual Meeting in history will be conducted in Indonesia, precisely in Bali,” he said.

Luhut added, the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting will be a free promotion for Bali tourism and will open 32,700 job opportunities. The National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) calculated it will grow the Bali’s economy by 0.64 percent to 6.54 percent this year.

It is based on the assumption that there are 15,000 delegates coming.

Meanwhile, the current data continue to move and they are possibly more than 20,000 delegates attending the meeting in Bali.

“Maybe they reach 25,000 people because until now the list of participant has been 22,000 people.

The impact is great. The money we spend up to these days reaches IDR 566 billion and approximately IDR 100 billion will be non-tax state revenue (PNBP—Ed). So, the government funds we use are IDR 466 billion,” added this Chairperson of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting National Committee.

According to Luhut, Bali’s economic growth will also increase due to a number of infrastructures built for the needs of the IMF-

World Bank Annual Meeting. One of them is the widening of the Ngurah Rai Airport’s apron resulting in an increase of 1.2 million passengers. Flight is indeed a complicated problem, but coordination has been carried out including by the immigration, customs, and air traffic control. On the other hand, there will be delegates coming by private jets. So, more than 20 private jets are estimated to be landing in Bali. Right now, hotels have been fully booked.

“If the price (of hotel, food or drink—Ed) is increased, it’s allowed to. But we appeal not to make odd increase. There should be no extreme increase. Similarly, there are non-extreme ones,” he explained.

Luhut appealed to all Balinese people to be good hosts. Some technical arrangements are still being reviewed and will be decided at the latest on October 3. They include school holidays and the workers around the Nusa Dua and Jimbaran areas, odd-even vehicles, and the options to free Bali Mandara toll from entrance fee to avoid congestion. As for vehicles, a maximum number of 3,300 vehicles have been decided so the traffic in Nusa Dua remains smooth.

“Regarding the security, I ask all components of community to pay attention to security. We don’t want the beautiful, comfortable and peaceful Bali to be littered with unnecessary activities. Anyone who sees suspicious activities should report them to the security authority,” he added.

In particular, Luhut pleaded that Bali should not be polemic about

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Typhoon Trami injures 56, readies direct hit on Japan mainland

KAGOSHIMA - A powerful typhoon hurtled toward Japan’s mainland Sunday after injuring dozens on southern islands, as weather officials warned that fierce winds and torrential rain could trigger landslides and floods.

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan (C). the development of tourism on the Island of the Gods. His ministry has asked the World Bank and Udayana University (Unud) to collaborate in studying the development of airfields in North Bali and the infrastructure connecting North Bali to South Bali. Thus, the development carried out in Bali can be sustainable because it has been based on scientific studies.

“As instruction of the president, it cannot disrupt culture and the environment because Balinese culture is the attraction to millions of tourists to come here. On that account, I hope that my friends in Bali to give input. However, there must be a decision. There must be no conflict among people later on,”

he said.

Meanwhile, Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, said that one of the purposes of the joint prayers and declarations is echoing and inflating the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting from Bali to all corners of the world. Other than building participation of all components of the Balinese community to succeed the event, it is also meant to keep Bali safe, comfortable and peaceful. Moreover, this international event will be attended by participants from 189 countries with nearly 2,500 meetings during its implementation.

“All parties must take responsibility. The success of this big event will bring the image and reputation

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of the Indonesian people and Balinese in particular. This must be an awareness of all of us that direct and indirect impacts on Bali are extraordinary,” he said.

Currently, Koster continued that Bali has already received infrastructure support such as the underpass at the Ngurah Rai Monument intersection, the widening of the Ngurah Rai Airport’s apron, the new icon of the Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue and the handling of the Sarbagita Regional Landfill.

“I have also calculated statistically. There is something very strong driving our efforts to advance the economy in Bali. Not only for now, it is also for the years to come,” he explained. (kmb32)

Typhoon Trami has already disrupted travel in the world’s third-biggest economy, with bullet train services in the west of Japan suspended, more than 1,000 flights cancelled due to the closure of a key airport and Tokyo’s evening train services scrapped.

The storm is forecast to smash into the mainland near the city of Osaka shortly after 6pm (0900 GMT) and churn across the Japanese archipelago, likely hitting areas still recovering from extreme weather that has battered Japan in recent months.

Trami tore through the southern island of Okinawa on Saturday, bringing winds strong enough to flip over cars. Several houses were flooded or damaged and 46 people on the island sustained minor injuries but no one was feared dead, local officials said.

Nationwide, authorities have issued noncompulsory evacuation advisories to 1.5 million residents, according to public broadcaster NHK. Nearly 500,000 households in Kyushu and Okinawa have lost power, local utilities said.

As the typhoon barrelled east, rail authorities took the highly unusual step of cancelling evening train services in Tokyo, one of the world’s busiest networks, urging passengers to shelter indoors when the storm hits.

The typhoon is not expected to hit the capital head-on but strong winds and heavy rain are still feared from later Sunday. Some businesses were already putting up shutters and hunkering down.

Trami is the latest in a string of extreme natural events in Japan, which has suffered typhoons, flooding, earthquakes and heatwaves in recent months, claiming scores of lives and causing extensive damage.

Packing maximum gusts of 216 kilometres (134 miles) per hour, Trami was expected to travel over most of the archipelago, weakening slightly but

causing extreme weather into Monday, forecasters said.

Still classed as a “very strong” typhoon, Trami pounded Kagoshima on the western tip of Japan early Sunday, causing 10 minor injuries -- such as cuts from broken windows and people knocked over by gusts.

“We are strongly urging our residents to stay indoors because it is extremely dangerous to be outside now,” Masaaki Tamaki, an official of Kagoshima’s disaster management section, told AFP. - ‘Bang, bang’ The Japanese meteorological agency warned the typhoon would bring strong winds and downpours, which could trigger landslides and floods as well as lightning strikes and tornados across the nation.

Violent gusts swept away roof tiles on some houses in the western city of Kochi.

“There was a big ‘bang, bang’. That woke me up,” an elderly man in Kochi told national broadcaster NHK. Cities in the expected path of the typhoon were already taking precautions.

East Japan Railway announced that it would gradually suspend train services in and around Tokyo and end all trains around 8pm, shortly before the typhoon was to draw near the Japanese capital.

“Shinkansen” bullet train services, particularly those in western areas, also reduced or cancelled their services.

Osaka’s Kansai Airport, which is situated on reclaimed land offshore and suffered extensive damage in a storm earlier in September, closed two runways. Officials piled up sandbags to avoid a repeat of flooding seen during the previous storm. (afp)

Vietnam seizes nearly a ton of pangolin scales, ivory

At least 300 Balinese go to Japan each month

MANGUPURA - At least 300 people from Bali work or have internship to Japan each month. In addition, the main destination of Balinese people to international routes is Japan. On that account, Garuda Indonesia urges its sales to Japan. Nevertheless, the sales of Garuda Indonesia sales indeed reach 55 percent more to international routes.

General Manager of Garuda Indonesia for Bali Branch, Joseph A. Saul, said that Balinese people are now different from ever before. In the past, Balinese people tended IBP/net to receive guests, but now they are more inGeneral Manager of Garuda Indone- clined to go for a promenade. It can be seen sia for Bali Branch, Joseph A. Saul from ticket sales of Garuda Indonesia for Bali

branch ranked fourth in Indonesia.

In order to be able to send more labor force to Japan, Garuda Indonesia signed the MoU with LPK-LPJ Bali. The collaboration is in the form of provision of special rates.

This collaboration is done for the first time.

In the future, there will be cooperation with other educational institutions. The institutions sent many interns to Japan. “We also have Japanese flight attendants. Many people have internship in Japan, each month they send at least 300 people to Japan,” he said during the GATF phase II on Friday (Sep. 28).

Garuda Indonesia has one flight a day to Japan, namely to Narita. Garuda Indonesia is

consulting to boost the overseas market share.

He said to have a lot of domestic market and the sales are good.

Until now the international routes with great demand for Balinese people are Tokyo (Japan), Australia and London. Seeing the condition, Garuda Indonesia developed sales strategy by boosting the markets of Japan, China and Australia. The demand of the three countries is quite high. Meanwhile, the existing route to India is Mumbai while Balinese people are also said to like going to New Delhi. “Later, we will push it to New Delhi,” he said. (kmb40)

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A couple crosses the street in the city centre of Naha, Okinawa prefecture, on September 29, 2018 as the island is the first part of Japan to face super Typhoon Trami.

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Seized endangered pangolin scales are seen during a press conference at the Kwai Chung Customhouse Cargo Examination Compound in Hong Kong on september 5, 2018.

HANOI - Vietnam has seized around a ton of pangolin scales and ivory hidden inside dozens of boxes on a flight from Nigeria, state media reported, a haul highlighting the illegal wildlife trade routes connecting Africa and Southeast Asia.

Both the ivory and pangolin trade have been banned in Vietnam.

But weak law enforcement in the communist state has allowed a black market to flourish and feed into a global multibillion dollar industry in animal parts and exotic pets.

Southeast Asian countries have become a busy thoroughfare for tusks trafficked from Africa and destined for other parts of Asia, mainly China. Pangolins are treasured in Vietnam and the region for their meat and alleged medicinal

properties of their scales.

Authorities at Hanoi’s airport found 805 kilograms of pangolin scales as well as 193 kilograms of ivory and ivory-derived products in two dozen boxes on Friday, said a report in the official newspaper of the customs department.

The goods were sent from two companies based in Nigeria, according to the labelling. They had arrived on a September 21 flight but were never picked up.

“The (intended) recipients of the cargo package have refused to receive the goods,” the article said.

Photos showed a pile of the pangolin scales on the floor as inspectors went through the boxes, which were initially covered in an extra layer of wrapping and taped shut.

The tiny and shy pangolin,

which resembles a scaly anteater, is the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal and despite bans the trade remains rampant.

Vietnam outlawed the ivory trade in 1992 but illegal trade still persists and shops sell ivory predating the ban for decorative and medicinal purposes.

The haul is the latest to make headlines in Vietnam, where seizures are infrequent but usually large.

Last year police found 2.7 tonnes of tusks inside cartons on the back of a truck in the central province of Thanh Hoa. In October 2016 customs officials in Vietnam discovered about 3.5 tonnes of elephant tusks at Cat Lai port in Ho Chi Minh City. (afp)

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Kober with Hanuman Figure, Based on Story of Arjuna Pramada

After 3 years, Greece ends limits on bank cash withdrawals ATHENS - Greek authorities said Thursday they will lift within days restrictions on domestic cash withdrawals imposed more than three years ago to prevent a bank run by panicking depositors at the height of the country’s debt crisis.

The finance ministry said that from Oct. 1 depositors will face no limits on withdrawals from bank accounts in Greece. Greeks abroad will be able to withdraw up to 5,000 euros ($5,800) a month. Furthermore, the limit on carrying cash abroad will be increased from 3,000 euros to 10,000 euros.

The moves, which restore a key element of normality to Greece’s battered economy, come a month after the country formally emerged from its last bailout program.

The restrictions were imposed in June 2015 to prevent banks from failing as depositors tried to empty their accounts after talks between the government and bailout creditors appeared on the verge of collapse.

Initially, account holders were only allowed to withdraw 60 euros ($70) a day, and if they missed one withdrawal they were unable to get the cash another day. That led to long queues outside bank cash machines, with some banks laying out refreshments for frustrated customers in the first few days.

The monthly limit of about 1,800 euros was gradually raised, reaching 5,000 euros in May. The finance ministry said it aimed to fully end capital controls “as soon as possible.”

Greece was forced to request international rescue loans in 2010, when its credit rating was repeatedly downgraded following revelations it had misreported key fiscal data, and private investors refused to lend the country at affordable rates.

It received three successive bailouts — a total of about 290 billion euros ($340 billion) — in return for which successive governments imposed severe income cuts, tax hikes and economic reforms. But the cutbacks ravaged the economy, which lost about a quarter of its value during the bailout years.

Despite the end of the bailout program on Aug. 21, austerity policies remain in place, unemployment is the highest in the European Union at just under 20 percent, and Greece’s credit rating is well below investment grade, meaning it would pay high interest to sell its bonds to private investors.

On Thursday, the rate on Greece’s benchmark 10-year bond was just above 4 percent, compared to 0.5 percent for the corresponding German bond. The country’s finances are still subject to deep scrutiny from its European creditors and the International Monetary Fund, which will issue quarterly progress reports. If these prove favorable, Greece will receive 4.8 billion euros over the next four years in profits from Greek bonds held by its European creditors. (ap)

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The buildings of the banking district are illuminated by red clouds after sunset in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

Underlying inflation in eurozone remains stubbornly low

LONDON - Underlying inflation across the 19-country eurozone remains stubbornly low, official figures showed Friday, in what is likely to be a disappointment to policymakers at the European Central Bank who have been predicting a pick-up.

Statistics agency Eurostat said Friday that the core rate of consumer price inflation, which strips out volatile items like energy and food, fell to 0.9 percent in the year to September. That’s down on the previous month’s 1.0 percent and confounded expectations for a modest rise to 1.1 percent. The fall provides further evidence that recent pay increases, particularly in countries like Germany, have yet to fully feed through the economy by encouraging companies to raise prices.

The headline inflation rate, which includes all items, rose to 2.1 percent from 2 percent, but that was largely due to higher energy prices on the back of steadily increasing oil prices.

Though the headline rate is above the ECB’s goal of just below 2 percent, rate-setters want to see a pick-up in the underlying rate to make sure inflation is sustainable and not reliant on external

factors like the price of oil.

This week, ECB President Mario Draghi said he expected underlying inflation to rise as a stronger job market pushes up wages. He cited annual growth in negotiated wages of 2.2 percent in the second quarter, up from 1.7 percent in the first quarter. He added that the central bank was increasingly confident that the pick-up in wages would continue because wage agreements often last two years or more.

Peter Vanden Houte, chief eurozone economist at ING, said there could be factors linked to the recent slowdown in the eurozone’s economic growth that may be offsetting the impact on inflation of higher wages.

“European households’ expectations regarding the labor market have deteriorated over the summer, which is unlikely to boost their wage bargaining power,” he said.

The fact that the headline rate has in-

creased has been enough for the ECB to rein in its stimulus policies.

In June, the ECB announced that its monthly bond purchase program would come to a halt at the end of the year. The program effectively involves printing new money to stoke lending and, ultimately, inflation.

But interest rates, including the headline rate, which stands at zero, are not expected to rise before well into next year.

“The decrease in core inflation back to its June low should make the ECB less confident that inflation is broad-based and self-sustainable in the medium-run,” said Daniel Harenberg, senior economist at Oxford Economics.

“Core inflation therefore continues to remain stubbornly subdued, despite signs of stronger wage growth which may represent a possible reason to delay the first rate hike beyond the summer 2019 as currently envisaged.” (afp)

Jembong Waterfall, Cheap and Fun Nature Tourism

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Generally when making a trip to waterfall, tourists must step down hundreds of stairs first. However, it is different when visiting Jembong waterfall where you just need to climb dozens of stairs.

Within three minutes, you can take selfie with the background of fascinating Jembong waterfall.

Armed with the capital of IDR 5,000, tourists can have enjoyed the allurement of Jembong waterfall.

However, if you only want to swim, you only need to pay as much as IDR 5,000 for adult and IDR 3,000 for child.

There are three fairly large pools with very clear water. Each has the depth of 110 cm for adult, while two children pools have varied depths, namely 80 cm and 60 cm. The water purely comes from Jembong waterfall having been filtered.

If you want to take selfie with an instragrammable background, you can pose on the bridge with a distance of about five meters from the waterfall. Verdant trees in combination with the beautiful waterfall will make your photos more interesting.

Jembong waterfall located at Ambengan village, Sukasada,

Buleleng, also provides a challenging adrenaline attraction, namely flying fox. There are several tracks, such as flying fox of track A with the price set at IDR 15,000; track B at IDR 25,000; and track A & B at IDR 30,000.

Some other activities that can still be enjoyed by tourists here include the trekking and wet rappelling. This tourist attraction is managed by Banten Sari tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) where it can draw the visit up to 500 people each day.

Pokdarwis leader, Made Suneka, said the attraction was officially opened in 2013. “Tourists making a visit here do not only domestic, but also foreign ones,” he said recently.

He added that tourist visits are usually crowded during holidays.

Similar opinion was also revealed by one of Pokdarwis staff, Wayan Surung. He said although

the flying fox was just officially opened two months ago, it has been widely demanded. Moreover, there are about 60 students of Ganesha University of Education Singaraja that have tried the excitement of flying fox.

One of the visitors, Sumiasih, expressed her excitement at the Jembong waterfall. She claimed to spend her time to swim and soak.

“Water of the pools here directly flows from Jembong waterfall, so it is fresh and very cool,” said the student who is currently studying at the STAHN Mpu Kuturan, Singaraja.

If visitors are hungry and thirsty, the operator has provided with a stall and some gazebos to rest for a moment. In addition, for visitors wishing to do melukat or purificatory rite, the operator has also provided a place to do it located near the waterfall. (kmb)

Ritual paraphernalia like kober (flags) are used as symbols of greatness and have philosophical meaning related to the power of the gods.

Thus, it is common to find such objects bineng used in the the Hindu rituals of the Balinese community – especially in temples. The scale of these ritual objects is pursuant to the scale of the ritual being held.

The use of flag or kober with the figure of Hanuman is frequently identified as a symbol of strength.

Hanuman is a character in the Ramayana epic, often told in the form of a puppet show in Bali. According to mythology, Hanuman is son of Lord Bayu known as Maruti, he is not worshipped as a god.

As Prof. Dr. I Made Bandem explains, Hanuman appears in the story Arjuna Pramada or Arjuna Pradalba.

When Rama and Laksmana were leading their troops to build a bridge to Lanka, Arjuna came with Krishna.

At that time, Rama-Laksmana and Krishna-Arjuna shared physical resemblances.

Because the scene in this part of the story was crowded with many people the two pairs got mixed up so that Arjuna was with Rama and made the mistkae of saying that he could constuct a brigde from India to Lanka that was more robust than the one that Rama had made with his monkey army.

Arjuna was asked to prove his words and he drew his arrow from South India to Lanka in order to crete the bridge. Since Rama was still in doubt about the strength of the bridge, Hanuman in the form of a little monkey tried to walk across the bridge, but as he walked, he grew in size. By the time he arrived to the middle of the bridge, the structure collapsed under his weight.

“This story goes beyond the standard patterns of the story that tells of the meeting of the the Ramayana Story with the story of the Mahabharata. Although this story is clas-

sified as the creation of puppeteers, it is said to have been narrated in a palm-leaf manuscript”, explained Prof. Bandem.

As the story goes, Arjuna then kept his oath to worship Hanuman for his success. However, Hanuman could not stand to be worshiped by Arjuna so he finally apologized for having dared to dabble with a deity (pramada). With this apology he also promised to help Arjuna when needed. Arjuna took the initiative to make a flag with the figure of Hanuman that also symbolizes Lord Vayu which was then installed on his chariot. From this story was born the tradition of putting up these kober flags at temple.

There is also another version of this story , said Dr. I Gusti Made Ngurah, which begins with Arjuna accompanied by Krishna who was send by Yudhishthira to the former kingdom of Lanka to look for a refferences that could for a symbol when carrying out a ritual.

On the way, Arjuna and Krishna encountered a little monkey on a bridge. Arjuna was arrogant and insulted the little monkey. The little monkey answered that he was actually Hanuman and challenged Arjuna to try to destroy the bridge. Arjuna failed to meet this challenge.

Arjuna was tested several times by the monkey but always failed.

Finally the little monkey revealed his identity as Hanuman son of Lord Vayu. Hanuman said that he would respect Arjuna because he is a human but that Arjuna should also respect Hanuman as he is son of Lord Vayu and in this way there would be mutual respect.

“Finally, Hanuman requested that Arjuna to create a flag that depicting Hanuman. This flag was then taken everywhere. The flag with the image of Hanuman ths became a symbol of Arjuna honoring Hanuman”, said Prof. Bandem. (kmb)

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Saudi Arabia embraces yoga in pivot towards ‘moderation’

JEDDAH - In a sparse, wood-floored studio, Saudi women squat, lunge and do headstands.

Even a year ago, teaching these yoga postures could have rendered them outlaws in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

Widely perceived as a Hindu spiritual practice, yoga was not officially permitted for decades in Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islam where all non-Muslim worship is banned.

But with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman vowing an “open, moderate Islam”, the kingdom last November recognised yoga as a sport amid a new liberalisation drive that has sidelined religious hardliners.

Spearheading efforts to normalise yoga in the kingdom is Nouf Marwaai, a Saudi woman who has battled insults and threats from extremists to challenge the notion that yoga is incompatible with Islam.

“I have been harassed, (and) sent a lot of hate messages,” said the 38-year-old head of the Arab Yoga Foundation, which has trained hundreds of yoga instructors in the kingdom.

“Five years ago, this (teaching yoga) would have been impossible,” added Marwaai, as she began training a cluster of women students at a private studio in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Hanging up their body-shrouding abayas and headscarves, the

women stretched in unison in an arching warrior pose known as “virabhadrasana”.

Arms outstretched, their bodies folded into a 180-degree backward bending posture known as “chakrasana”, or wheel pose.

In a country where women have long been denied the right to exercise publicly, the students -- some of whom regularly attend yoga retreats in India -- said the exercise had transformed their lives.

Ayat Samman, a 32-year-old health educator, said yoga helped alleviate her lifelong struggle with fibromyalgia, a chronic pain disorder that often left her bedridden.

Yoga also works as therapy, the women said, helping them vent bottled up emotions and tackle a woefully common ailment -- depression.

“It just opened me up like a water balloon,” said Yasmin Machri, 32.

“After my first class... I started breaking down and crying.”

- Religious outreach -

In just a few months since yoga’s recognition, a new industry of yoga studios and instructors has

sprouted in various Saudi cities.

That includes Mecca and Medina, Islam’s holiest cities, Marwaai said.

Prince Mohammed, the de facto ruler, has sought to project a moderate image of the kingdom, long associated with a fundamentalist strain of Wahhabi Islam, with a new push for inter-religious exchange.

Saudi Arabia in recent months has hosted officials linked to the Vatican and the prince also met a group of Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders in New York earlier this year, in a rare inter-faith gesture.

“The prince’s outreach to other religions is apparent in the interfaith gatherings and the new enthusiasm for Saudi Arabia’s pre-Islamic heritage,” said Kristin Diwan, of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

For decades, Saudi rulers derived much of their legitimacy from their alliance with a clerical establishment that pushed a puritanical vision of Islam.

But the prince appears to have upturned the system, seeking instead to tap support from the kingdom’s swelling youth base through a surge of nationalism and a muchhyped modernisation drive. (afp)

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Macedonia votes on new name to end Greek row

SKOPJE - Macedonians went to the polls Sunday to vote on whether to re-name their country North Macedonia in a bid to settle a long-running row with Greece and unlock its path to NATO and EU membership.

Macedonia has struggled for recognition of its name since its birth in 1991 when the landlocked country declared independence from Yugoslavia.

Athens protested immediately, accusing Skopje of stealing the name of its own northern province also called Macedonia.

The dispute stretches back nearly three decades, with both countries claiming links to Alexander the Great’s ancient empire of Macedon, which spanned the territories.

A grandiose “antiquisation” project under Macedonia’s former government that plastered Skopje with neo-classical facades and statues of Alexander the Great added fuel to the fire.

But in June Macedonia’s new premier Zoran Zaev and his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras reached a

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Satellite imagery provided by regional relief teams showed severe damage at some of the area’s major ports, with large ships tossed on land, quays and bridges trashed and shipping containers thrown around.

Hospitals were overwhelmed by the influx of injured, with many people being treated in the open air. There were widespread power blackouts. “People here need aid -- food, drink, clean water,” said Anser Bachmid, a 39-year-old Palu resident.

- ‘I just ran’ -

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Nouf Marwaai, 38, the head of the Arab Yoga Foundation (foreground), instructs her yoga students with at her studio in the western Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on September 7, 2018.

Dramatic video footage captured from the top floor of a parking ramp as the tsunami rolled in showed waves toppling several buildings and inundating a large mosque. “I just ran when I saw the waves hitting homes on the coastline,” said Palu resident Rusidanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

“This was a terrifying double disaster,” said Jan Gelfand, a Jakarta-based official at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “The Indonesian Red Cross is racing to help survivors.”

Images showed a double-arched yellow bridge had collapsed with its two metal arches twisted as cars

landmark compromise under which Greece would drop its objections to Macedonia joining the EU and NATO in return for the name change.

Polls opened at 7am (0500 GMT) and are to close at 7pm in the referendum on whether to accept or reject the deal.

Only a trickle of voters showed up at a polling station set up in the high school Josip Broz Tito in downtown Skopje in the first hour of polling.

“I hope that the result will be positive. This referendum will change something if it opens the door for Europe and NATO,” 74-year old retired nurse Olivera Argirovska told AFP after casting her ballot.

“It will change things for the youth”.

Some feel it is embarrassing to have to change the name at the request of another country.

But a desire to anchor their future to the West -- and the economic prosperity that it could bring -- is a powerful motivation to accept the deal in one of Europe’s poorest nations. (afp) bobbed in the water below.

A key access road had been badly damaged and was partially blocked by landslides, the disaster agency said.

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Desperate quake-hit Indonesians turn to looting Hundreds of desperate people in the tsunami-struck Indonesian city of Palu looted supermarkets and petrol stations Sunday, as an initial trickle of aid into the devastated area failed to relieve an acute shortage of water, food and fuel.

Hordes of residents on Sulawesi island were seen scrambling over broken glass and through broken-down barricades at a supermarket in the centre of Palu, which was ravaged by a powerful 7.5-magnitude quake and a tsunami on Friday.

Men and women made off with plastic bin bags and baskets full of biscuits, crisps, nappies, gas canisters, tissue paper and more.

“There has been no aid, we need to eat. We don’t have any other choice, we must get food,” shouted one man. “We are in a crisis,” cried another.

Two small aftershocks hit while looters marauded through the building, prompting screams of “Earthquake, earthquake.”

But undeterred, more and more mopeds arrived, depositing people in front of the

store. “This situation forced us to do this. We need everything, food, water,” said a group of teenagers.

“We took anything we could take.

We can’t even cook. So that’s why we looted.”

A handful of vastly outnumbered police officers stood by or looked on from the police station across the road -- unable or unwilling to uphold law and order that has quickly melted away.

There was a similar scene at a local petrol station where crowds tried to tap underground storage wells for fuel.

“There is only one petrol station that is still operational,” Ray Pratama, a local photographer -- who was not involved in the looting -- told AFP. “People are desperate.”

They filled up jerrycans, empty soft drink bottles and kitchenware. “If you sell with rea-

sonable price, that’s okay, but they increase the prices sharply, for basic goods,” said one female looter.

Many Palu residents are still sleeping outside for fear of more aftershocks. Even if they had access to plug sockets, there would be no electricity.

Some aid has started to trickle in to Sulawesi, located in the centre of Indonesia’s vast, 17,000-island archipelago. The government is flying in six field kitchens capable of producing a total of 36,000 rice plates a day and thousands of mattresses, blankets and ready to eat meals.

But it is not coming quick enough for some. “The shops aren’t open and the markets are empty,” one 33-year-old looter, who only identified himself as Eddy, told AFP. “We have to break into all of them one by one.” (afp)

- Disaster-prone -

Friday’s tremor was also felt in the far south of the island in its largest city Makassar and on neighbouring Kalimantan, Indonesia’s portion of Borneo island. As many as 2.4 million people could have felt the quake, the disaster agency said.

The initial quake struck as evening prayers were about to begin in the world’s biggest Muslim majority country on the holiest day of the week. Indonesia is one of the world’s most disaster-prone nations.

It lies on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.

Earlier this year a series of powerful quakes hit Lombok, killing more than 550 people on the holiday island and neighbouring Sumbawa. Indonesia has been hit by a string of other deadly quakes including a devastating 9.1-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Sumatra in December 2004.

That Boxing Day quake triggered a tsunami that killed 220,000 throughout the region, including 168,000 in Indonesia.(afp)

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People loot a convenience store in Palu, in Central Sulawesi, on September 30, 2018, after a strong earthquake trigered a tsunami that struck the area. The death toll from a powerful earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has reached 420, state media said on Spetember 30, 2018, as rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region and survivors helped to retrieve the remains of those killed.

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Tegallalang Rice Terraces

UBUD - Tegallalang Rice Terraces in Ubud is famous for its beautiful scenes of rice paddies involving the subak (traditional Balinese cooperative irrigation system), which according to history, was passed down by a revered holy man named Rsi Markandeya in the eighth century. Tegallalang forms the three most splendid terraced landscapes in Ubud’s shared region, with the others being in the villages of Pejeng and Campuhan. The Tegallalang rice terraces alone offers a scenic outlook that spreads down before you and away to the rice paddies on the slopes across the valley. The high roadside location is cool and breezy and it is a well-known spot for tourists to stop and take photos. Painters and nature lovers also enjoy visiting this spot, and there are numerous art kiosks and cafes near the ledge offering their ware.

Ancient valley Tegallalang rice terraces offer a perfect Bali photo opportunity with its dramatic views. The vista sprawls down and away to the rice terraces on the slopes across the valley. A local elder, a farmer who owns the land invites visitors to sample his green

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This ancient valley has a timeless quality whether there are tourists there or not. The small village of Pakudui, a craftsman’s dominion located in Tegallalang, is a journey of witnessing the splendour of local talent at its best. Here you will find an extraordinary variety of ornamental woodwork and various carvings. The villagers here are avid Balinese craftsmen and have taken up different forms of sculptures, either handed down through generations or as a result of an ever-growing creative process using the most natural of all media – wood. But through your village tour in Pakudui you will notice the recurring presence of one particular mythical Balinese figure - the Garuda. Amongst the carved mythical lions, horses, human figures, dogs, dragons, vases, frogs, kangaroos, cats, ornate totems, panels, doors, windows, tables and the many brilliant forms of creativity – extending even to large-scale dinosaurs – the Garuda seems to be majestically ever present amongst the creations.

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Good to Know Some souvenir sellers and the old farmer will seem occasionally pushy, but there are no fixed prices, so have those bargaining skills at hand or best still, remind yourself that you are just there for the picture. A ‘modest fee’ for the posing farmer is at your own discretion. While the rice terraces serve as a

highlight photo-op in the Tegallalang area, souvenir shopping options abound along the roadsides, and the trip to Pakudui village is worth its while. Pakudui is reachable after a right turn up from the famed rice paddy outlook. Find magnificent carvings and wooden art forms lined up along the small and winding village road. (IBP/net)

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Del Potro savours ‘amazing year’ after injury hell

BEIJING - Juan Martin del Potro said Sunday he will go into this week’s China Open enjoying the “best moments” of a career that came perilously close to being destroyed by injury.

The strapping but softly spoken 30-year-old is the favourite in Beijing with reigning champion and world number one Rafael Nadal out injured and Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer also absent.

The man fondly known as “Delpo” is ranked fourth in the world behind that trio and while there has never been any doubt about his ability, his career has been blighted by wrist injuries.

Del Potro, the 2009 US Open winner, was beaten by Djokovic in the final at Flushing Meadows in early September.

But that did nothing to dispel

the notion that Del Potro is a man enjoying his tennis again having painstakingly rebuilt his career.

“This could be one of the best seasons of my career,” Del Potro, a popular figure in the locker room, said ahead of his assault on the China Open.

“I won my first Masters 1000, at Indian Wells, I got my highest ranking ever this season (three) and another Grand Slam final after nine years.

“It’s an amazing year for me, but I also want to keep going because I like to pressurise myself, and I’m excited about that.”

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- Looking deep within Del Potro, who faces Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas in his Beijing opener, will head to the Shanghai Masters immediately after the China Open and is also chasing a spot at the season-ending ATP Finals.

The Argentine, whose outsized 6ft 6in (1.98m) frame belies his gentle nature, is savouring being largely pain-free after multiple wrist surgeries.

He was unable to defend his US Open title in 2010 and reached a low point in 2015, playing just four ATP matches.

He has previously admitted that

he was close to quitting tennis.

“You have to find deep in your body the strength to be with the pain and injuries,” Del Potro said of advice he would give to players struggling with injury.

He credits friends and others close to him for keeping him going in those dark days.

“Now I’m here living the best moments ever of my career,” he told reporters in Beijing.

The fourth member of tennis’s “Big Four”, Andy Murray, has endured injury problems of his own and pulled out of the China Open with an ankle complaint.

The Briton is scrapping his way back to form and fitness after hip surgery in January.

That leaves upcoming young star Alexander Zverev and Grigor Dimitrov as Del Potro’s chief threats in Beijing. The women’s draw has been similarly hit by the high-profile absence of Serena Williams.

No reason was given for her withdrawal from the WTA Tour mandatory event, but the American has been in the spotlight since accusing an umpire of lying and sexism in losing the US Open final.

Simona Halep, the top seed, was to start her tilt at the China Open later on Sunday against qualifier Ons Jabeur of Tunisia.

Naomi Osaka, who stunned Williams in the New York final, is among those aiming to stop Halep. (afp)

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LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers is seen during media day at UCLA Health Training Center on September 24, 2018 in El Segundo, California.

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Lakers fans will get a first chance to see newly acquired superstar LeBron James playing in the team’s purple and gold in a pre-season game on Sunday -- but if they blink they could miss it.

Lakers head coach Luke Walton confirmed in comments on the team’s website on Saturday that four time NBA Most Valuable Player James will play in the exhibition opener against the Denver Nuggets in San Diego.

“It will be more than one and less than 48,” Walton said of how many minutes James might play.

At practice earlier this week James indicated that even with a new team he didn’t think he needed too much pre-season action at this stage of his career.

“I don’t need pre-season games to get ready,” he said.

James played just one pre-season game last year for the Cleveland Cavaliers as he recovered from a left ankle injury. Over the past

three years he has made just six pre-season appearances.

James, 33, joined the Lakers in July on a four-year, $154 million deal sealed just weeks after his Cavs were beaten by the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals for the third time in four years.

He arrives in Los Angeles with the Lakers desperately trying to regain their former glory after several years of decline. The Lakers have failed to make the playoffs for five straight seasons. (afp)

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Monday, October 1, 2018

Are Man United and Mourinho nearing end of the road?

Manchester United are a club in crisis and Jose Mourinho is seemingly powerless to prevent a slide into mid-table mediocrity for the 20-time English champions. The Old Trafford hierarchy preened this week after the latest financial results showed the club had earned revenue of more than half a billion pounds for the third year running.

But United, who finished a distant second behind Manchester City last season, are going backwards on the pitch -- licking their wounds after their worst start to a league campaign for 29 years.

Mourinho’s men travelled to the London Stadium on Saturday boasting an enviable record against West Ham but came away chastened after a 3-1 defeat killed off any realistic hopes of a Premier League challenge before the end of September.

Languishing nine points behind leaders City, they now face a battle even to qualify for the lucrative Champions League, a prospect that will give the money men sleepless nights. Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said the club face some “big decisions” over the manager’s future after the listless display in the capital.

“There are some big decisions to be made at United now,” he said. “There will be conversations at the top level, about the future of the manager and the squad, because the basics are not being done. There has to be something said.”

- Pogba-Mourinho rift -

United’s build-up to the match against West Ham was overshadowed by the growing rift between Mourinho and Paul Pogba, who was stripped of the vice-captaincy before their League Cup exit against Championship side Derby in midweek.

It came after the French World Cup winner implicitly criticised his manager’s tactics, imploring United to attack more and as rumours continued to swirl linking him with a move to Barcelona.

It is difficult to see how both player and manager can work together in the long term after such public displays of disunity.

United are anxious to hang on to one of the world’s most marketable players but all the signs are that they are sticking with Mourinho for now despite their desperately poor start to the season, which has seen them muster just 10 points from seven games.

Pogba gave another under-par performance against West Ham but he was not the only player to disappoint in the late September sunshine.

United are lacking in ideas, short of inspiration and shape, with many of the players looking like square pegs in round holes.

Manchester City and Liverpool have a definable ethos and way of playing but United -- for so long the standard bearers of swashbuckling forward play under Alex Ferguson -- are painfully lacking in identity in Mourinho’s third season at the club.

They have a clutch of top players including Pogba, Nemanja Matic, Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez -- who was left out of the squad against West Ham. United have backed Mourinho heavily in the transfer market but their policy has been scattergun, with January signing Sanchez failing to recreate his Arsenal form at Old Trafford.

Mourinho did not look too despondent after Saturday’s result but his attempts to shift the blame for two of United’s goals onto the officials failed to take the spotlight off his under-performing players.

United appeared to have turned the corner after a poor start to the season, winning three away games on the bounce.

But a disappointing draw against promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers last week came before the Derby setback.

United’s hierarchy may appear relatively sanguine despite the poor run but how long can they afford to wait before they reach crunch point?

Defeat on penalties in the League Cup leaves only two

competitions left that they can win barring a miracle in the Premier League -- the FA Cup and the Champions League -- and victory in Europe looks an unlikely prospect.

United are already onto their third manager since Ferguson retired as a Premier League champion in 2013.

The club used to pride itself on its stability during the Ferguson years as other clubs chopped and changed but they have to pull themselves out of their current spiral of decline. Will they stick or twist? (afp)

Inter Milan coach Luciano Spalletti hailed new striker Lautaro Martinez as having the right dose of “selfishness” after he scored his first Serie A goal in a 2-0 win over Cagliari on Saturday.

Martinez, who joined Inter from Racing Club this season, got a rare start up front against the Sardinians with fellow Argentine Mauro Icardi rested ahead of next week’s Champions League trip to PSV Eindhoven.

And the 22-year-old headed in after 12 minutes in the San Siro with another new boy Matteo Politano also scoring his first goal with a powerful volley a minute from time to ensure a fourth straight win for Inter between the championship and Champions League.

“Lautaro is talented. He’s strong and has everything, quality, technique and strength,” said Spalletti. “He’s also a bit selfish,

but it does not hurt to have that thread of selfishness.

“I think training with Icardi is helping him to learn something about attacking the space, but he already had everything.

“He is also a bit egotistical, such as when he went for goal and it was two against one, but that’s not a bad thing for a striker to be a little egotistical. “Lautaro is very good friends with Icardi, they are two sensitive guys.”

Martinez said he was living “a dream” having scored in the Italian league. “I always say that the group comes first, but I’m really happy for this goal,” said the Argentine.

Spalletti, meanwhile, said he was confident Inter had regained their form after struggling with just four points from their first four games.

“It was a deserved and important victory, which allowed

Barca stay top after Real and Atletico share derby spoils Barc e l o n a slipped up for the third time in a week but stay top of La Liga after Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid cancelled each other out at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday.

Real and Atletico began a pulsating derby less than three hours after Barca had scrambled to a 1-1 draw at home to Athletic Bilbao, but goalkeepers reigned supreme in the capital to ensure the grudge match finished goalless.

It means Real second, level on points with Barcelona, while Atletico are just two behind in fourth.

Sevilla are third.

Gareth Bale had to be substituted at half-time with what the club confirmed was a thigh strain and is

a doubt for the European champions ahead of their visit to CSKA Moscow on Tuesday. Bale will be assessed on Sunday.

It was a scenario Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde tried to avoid before his side’s visit to Tottenham on Wednesday by resting Lionel Messi at the Camp Nou. But the Argentine was needed in the second half after Oscar de Marcos gave Bilbao a deserved lead.

Munir El Haddadi snatched Barca a point, diverting in Messi’s shot with six minutes left.

After drawing at home to Girona and being beaten by Leganes, Barcelona head to Wembley to face Spurs short of rhythm and lacking confidence.

Barcelona will be without Sergi Roberto for the Champions League

Group B clash after it was confirmed he had picked up a thigh strain.

The last time Bilbao took a point at the Camp Nou in 2004, Valverde was sitting in the away team’s dugout during his first spell as Bilbao coach.

He faced questions after his bold decision to rest Messi with Tottenham in mind, along with Sergio Busquets.

“Leaving Messi on the bench is absolutely my responsibility,” Valverde said. “He has four games in 10 days and I think it’s good for Leo to rest, like Busquets, thinking of the Champions League. “I know it was the right decision. It was a risk and on this occasion, it didn’t come off.”

- ‘Intense’ match -

Lack of rotation was chief among the criticisms levelled at

Manchester United’s Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho gestures from the touchline during the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Manchester United at The London Stadium, in east London on September 29, 2018.

‘Selfish’ Lautaro pleases Inter coach Spalletti

us to have a correct classification for the name we carry,” said Spalletti, as Inter moved up to fourth -- eight points behind champions Juventus.

“We are Inter, this is one of the most loved teams in the world and we have this mission. “I want to be remembered for my commitment to this club,” added the former Roma and Zenit St Petersburg coach.

Inter, fourth last season, made a host of summer signings including Radja Nainggolan, Politano, Sime Vrsaljko and Keita Balde, as they chase their first Serie A title since 2010, when they won the treble under Jose Mourinho.

“When you have a large squad with this much quality, you can choose a whole new 11 every few days and that is important,” the coach added. (afp)

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Spanish referee Jaime Latre (2L) shows a yellow card to Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi at the end of the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Athletic Club Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on September 29, 2018.

Valverde after Barcelona crashed out of the Champions League quarter-finals last season, with Luis Suarez admitting he regretted playing 90 minutes three days before the collapse against Roma.

Valverde has certainly acted.

Of the preferred 11 that started a 4-0 win over PSV Eindhoven two weeks ago, eight started at least one of the three games since on the bench. Seven of those were required to come on as substitutes.

“We can’t expect Messi just to come on and fix things,” Suarez said. “We should have won the game before he came on, that’s why we are Barca.”

Real and Atletico face midweek Champions League matches away to CSKA Moscow and home to Club Brugge respectively, but there was no letting up on their part.

Thibaut Courtois came back to haunt his former club and Jan Oblak showed why he is considered arguably the finest goalkeeper in the world.

Courtois spent three seasons

at Atletico on loan from Chelsea but this was his first Madrid derby for Real. He made the most of it, saving when both Antoine Griezmann and Diego Costa had only the Belgian to beat.

Bale could have won it for Real too but he sidefooted wide from close range towards the end of the first half and then had to be replaced.

Barca might feel spared but Real and Atletico seemed satisfied at the final whistle. Atleti maintained their resurgence after a miserable start to the season while Real steadied the ship following their hammering at Sevilla on Wednesday.

“We have not won because we didn’t score but overall we have been very superior,” Real Madrid boss Julen Lopetegui said.

“The match was intense,” added Atletico manager Diego Simeone. “We had chances through Griezmann and Costa but they were saved by Courtois. It’s a pity because we wanted to win but we leave with a good result.” (afp)

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Monday, October 1, 2018

Are Man United and Mourinho nearing end of the road?

Manchester United are a club in crisis and Jose Mourinho is seemingly powerless to prevent a slide into mid-table mediocrity for the 20-time English champions. The Old Trafford hierarchy preened this week after the latest financial results showed the club had earned revenue of more than half a billion pounds for the third year running.

But United, who finished a distant second behind Manchester City last season, are going backwards on the pitch -- licking their wounds after their worst start to a league campaign for 29 years.

Mourinho’s men travelled to the London Stadium on Saturday boasting an enviable record against West Ham but came away chastened after a 3-1 defeat killed off any realistic hopes of a Premier League challenge before the end of September.

Languishing nine points behind leaders City, they now face a battle even to qualify for the lucrative Champions League, a prospect that will give the money men sleepless nights. Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said the club face some “big decisions” over the manager’s future after the listless display in the capital.

“There are some big decisions to be made at United now,” he said. “There will be conversations at the top level, about the future of the manager and the squad, because the basics are not being done. There has to be something said.”

- Pogba-Mourinho rift -

United’s build-up to the match against West Ham was overshadowed by the growing rift between Mourinho and Paul Pogba, who was stripped of the vice-captaincy before their League Cup exit against Championship side Derby in midweek.

It came after the French World Cup winner implicitly criticised his manager’s tactics, imploring United to attack more and as rumours continued to swirl linking him with a move to Barcelona.

It is difficult to see how both player and manager can work together in the long term after such public displays of disunity.

United are anxious to hang on to one of the world’s most marketable players but all the signs are that they are sticking with Mourinho for now despite their desperately poor start to the season, which has seen them muster just 10 points from seven games.

Pogba gave another under-par performance against West Ham but he was not the only player to disappoint in the late September sunshine.

United are lacking in ideas, short of inspiration and shape, with many of the players looking like square pegs in round holes.

Manchester City and Liverpool have a definable ethos and way of playing but United -- for so long the standard bearers of swashbuckling forward play under Alex Ferguson -- are painfully lacking in identity in Mourinho’s third season at the club.

They have a clutch of top players including Pogba, Nemanja Matic, Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez -- who was left out of the squad against West Ham. United have backed Mourinho heavily in the transfer market but their policy has been scattergun, with January signing Sanchez failing to recreate his Arsenal form at Old Trafford.

Mourinho did not look too despondent after Saturday’s result but his attempts to shift the blame for two of United’s goals onto the officials failed to take the spotlight off his under-performing players.

United appeared to have turned the corner after a poor start to the season, winning three away games on the bounce.

But a disappointing draw against promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers last week came before the Derby setback.

United’s hierarchy may appear relatively sanguine despite the poor run but how long can they afford to wait before they reach crunch point?

Defeat on penalties in the League Cup leaves only two

competitions left that they can win barring a miracle in the Premier League -- the FA Cup and the Champions League -- and victory in Europe looks an unlikely prospect.

United are already onto their third manager since Ferguson retired as a Premier League champion in 2013.

The club used to pride itself on its stability during the Ferguson years as other clubs chopped and changed but they have to pull themselves out of their current spiral of decline. Will they stick or twist? (afp)

Inter Milan coach Luciano Spalletti hailed new striker Lautaro Martinez as having the right dose of “selfishness” after he scored his first Serie A goal in a 2-0 win over Cagliari on Saturday.

Martinez, who joined Inter from Racing Club this season, got a rare start up front against the Sardinians with fellow Argentine Mauro Icardi rested ahead of next week’s Champions League trip to PSV Eindhoven.

And the 22-year-old headed in after 12 minutes in the San Siro with another new boy Matteo Politano also scoring his first goal with a powerful volley a minute from time to ensure a fourth straight win for Inter between the championship and Champions League.

“Lautaro is talented. He’s strong and has everything, quality, technique and strength,” said Spalletti. “He’s also a bit selfish,

but it does not hurt to have that thread of selfishness.

“I think training with Icardi is helping him to learn something about attacking the space, but he already had everything.

“He is also a bit egotistical, such as when he went for goal and it was two against one, but that’s not a bad thing for a striker to be a little egotistical. “Lautaro is very good friends with Icardi, they are two sensitive guys.”

Martinez said he was living “a dream” having scored in the Italian league. “I always say that the group comes first, but I’m really happy for this goal,” said the Argentine.

Spalletti, meanwhile, said he was confident Inter had regained their form after struggling with just four points from their first four games.

“It was a deserved and important victory, which allowed

Barca stay top after Real and Atletico share derby spoils Barc e l o n a slipped up for the third time in a week but stay top of La Liga after Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid cancelled each other out at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday.

Real and Atletico began a pulsating derby less than three hours after Barca had scrambled to a 1-1 draw at home to Athletic Bilbao, but goalkeepers reigned supreme in the capital to ensure the grudge match finished goalless.

It means Real second, level on points with Barcelona, while Atletico are just two behind in fourth.

Sevilla are third.

Gareth Bale had to be substituted at half-time with what the club confirmed was a thigh strain and is

a doubt for the European champions ahead of their visit to CSKA Moscow on Tuesday. Bale will be assessed on Sunday.

It was a scenario Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde tried to avoid before his side’s visit to Tottenham on Wednesday by resting Lionel Messi at the Camp Nou. But the Argentine was needed in the second half after Oscar de Marcos gave Bilbao a deserved lead.

Munir El Haddadi snatched Barca a point, diverting in Messi’s shot with six minutes left.

After drawing at home to Girona and being beaten by Leganes, Barcelona head to Wembley to face Spurs short of rhythm and lacking confidence.

Barcelona will be without Sergi Roberto for the Champions League

Group B clash after it was confirmed he had picked up a thigh strain.

The last time Bilbao took a point at the Camp Nou in 2004, Valverde was sitting in the away team’s dugout during his first spell as Bilbao coach.

He faced questions after his bold decision to rest Messi with Tottenham in mind, along with Sergio Busquets.

“Leaving Messi on the bench is absolutely my responsibility,” Valverde said. “He has four games in 10 days and I think it’s good for Leo to rest, like Busquets, thinking of the Champions League. “I know it was the right decision. It was a risk and on this occasion, it didn’t come off.”

- ‘Intense’ match -

Lack of rotation was chief among the criticisms levelled at

Manchester United’s Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho gestures from the touchline during the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Manchester United at The London Stadium, in east London on September 29, 2018.

‘Selfish’ Lautaro pleases Inter coach Spalletti

us to have a correct classification for the name we carry,” said Spalletti, as Inter moved up to fourth -- eight points behind champions Juventus.

“We are Inter, this is one of the most loved teams in the world and we have this mission. “I want to be remembered for my commitment to this club,” added the former Roma and Zenit St Petersburg coach.

Inter, fourth last season, made a host of summer signings including Radja Nainggolan, Politano, Sime Vrsaljko and Keita Balde, as they chase their first Serie A title since 2010, when they won the treble under Jose Mourinho.

“When you have a large squad with this much quality, you can choose a whole new 11 every few days and that is important,” the coach added. (afp)

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Spanish referee Jaime Latre (2L) shows a yellow card to Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi at the end of the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Athletic Club Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on September 29, 2018.

Valverde after Barcelona crashed out of the Champions League quarter-finals last season, with Luis Suarez admitting he regretted playing 90 minutes three days before the collapse against Roma.

Valverde has certainly acted.

Of the preferred 11 that started a 4-0 win over PSV Eindhoven two weeks ago, eight started at least one of the three games since on the bench. Seven of those were required to come on as substitutes.

“We can’t expect Messi just to come on and fix things,” Suarez said. “We should have won the game before he came on, that’s why we are Barca.”

Real and Atletico face midweek Champions League matches away to CSKA Moscow and home to Club Brugge respectively, but there was no letting up on their part.

Thibaut Courtois came back to haunt his former club and Jan Oblak showed why he is considered arguably the finest goalkeeper in the world.

Courtois spent three seasons

at Atletico on loan from Chelsea but this was his first Madrid derby for Real. He made the most of it, saving when both Antoine Griezmann and Diego Costa had only the Belgian to beat.

Bale could have won it for Real too but he sidefooted wide from close range towards the end of the first half and then had to be replaced.

Barca might feel spared but Real and Atletico seemed satisfied at the final whistle. Atleti maintained their resurgence after a miserable start to the season while Real steadied the ship following their hammering at Sevilla on Wednesday.

“We have not won because we didn’t score but overall we have been very superior,” Real Madrid boss Julen Lopetegui said.

“The match was intense,” added Atletico manager Diego Simeone. “We had chances through Griezmann and Costa but they were saved by Courtois. It’s a pity because we wanted to win but we leave with a good result.” (afp)

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International

Tegallalang Rice Terraces

UBUD - Tegallalang Rice Terraces in Ubud is famous for its beautiful scenes of rice paddies involving the subak (traditional Balinese cooperative irrigation system), which according to history, was passed down by a revered holy man named Rsi Markandeya in the eighth century. Tegallalang forms the three most splendid terraced landscapes in Ubud’s shared region, with the others being in the villages of Pejeng and Campuhan. The Tegallalang rice terraces alone offers a scenic outlook that spreads down before you and away to the rice paddies on the slopes across the valley. The high roadside location is cool and breezy and it is a well-known spot for tourists to stop and take photos. Painters and nature lovers also enjoy visiting this spot, and there are numerous art kiosks and cafes near the ledge offering their ware.

Ancient valley Tegallalang rice terraces offer a perfect Bali photo opportunity with its dramatic views. The vista sprawls down and away to the rice terraces on the slopes across the valley. A local elder, a farmer who owns the land invites visitors to sample his green

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highlight photo-op in the Tegallalang area, souvenir shopping options abound along the roadsides, and the trip to Pakudui village is worth its while. Pakudui is reachable after a right turn up from the famed rice paddy outlook. Find magnificent carvings and wooden art forms lined up along the small and winding village road. (IBP/net)

Monday, October 1, 2018

International

Del Potro savours ‘amazing year’ after injury hell

BEIJING - Juan Martin del Potro said Sunday he will go into this week’s China Open enjoying the “best moments” of a career that came perilously close to being destroyed by injury.

The strapping but softly spoken 30-year-old is the favourite in Beijing with reigning champion and world number one Rafael Nadal out injured and Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer also absent.

The man fondly known as “Delpo” is ranked fourth in the world behind that trio and while there has never been any doubt about his ability, his career has been blighted by wrist injuries.

Del Potro, the 2009 US Open winner, was beaten by Djokovic in the final at Flushing Meadows in early September.

But that did nothing to dispel

the notion that Del Potro is a man enjoying his tennis again having painstakingly rebuilt his career.

“This could be one of the best seasons of my career,” Del Potro, a popular figure in the locker room, said ahead of his assault on the China Open.

“I won my first Masters 1000, at Indian Wells, I got my highest ranking ever this season (three) and another Grand Slam final after nine years.

“It’s an amazing year for me, but I also want to keep going because I like to pressurise myself, and I’m excited about that.”

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- Looking deep within Del Potro, who faces Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas in his Beijing opener, will head to the Shanghai Masters immediately after the China Open and is also chasing a spot at the season-ending ATP Finals.

The Argentine, whose outsized 6ft 6in (1.98m) frame belies his gentle nature, is savouring being largely pain-free after multiple wrist surgeries.

He was unable to defend his US Open title in 2010 and reached a low point in 2015, playing just four ATP matches.

He has previously admitted that

he was close to quitting tennis.

“You have to find deep in your body the strength to be with the pain and injuries,” Del Potro said of advice he would give to players struggling with injury.

He credits friends and others close to him for keeping him going in those dark days.

“Now I’m here living the best moments ever of my career,” he told reporters in Beijing.

The fourth member of tennis’s “Big Four”, Andy Murray, has endured injury problems of his own and pulled out of the China Open with an ankle complaint.

The Briton is scrapping his way back to form and fitness after hip surgery in January.

That leaves upcoming young star Alexander Zverev and Grigor Dimitrov as Del Potro’s chief threats in Beijing. The women’s draw has been similarly hit by the high-profile absence of Serena Williams.

No reason was given for her withdrawal from the WTA Tour mandatory event, but the American has been in the spotlight since accusing an umpire of lying and sexism in losing the US Open final.

Simona Halep, the top seed, was to start her tilt at the China Open later on Sunday against qualifier Ons Jabeur of Tunisia.

Naomi Osaka, who stunned Williams in the New York final, is among those aiming to stop Halep. (afp)

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LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Lakers fans will get a first chance to see newly acquired superstar LeBron James playing in the team’s purple and gold in a pre-season game on Sunday -- but if they blink they could miss it.

Lakers head coach Luke Walton confirmed in comments on the team’s website on Saturday that four time NBA Most Valuable Player James will play in the exhibition opener against the Denver Nuggets in San Diego.

“It will be more than one and less than 48,” Walton said of how many minutes James might play.

At practice earlier this week James indicated that even with a new team he didn’t think he needed too much pre-season action at this stage of his career.

“I don’t need pre-season games to get ready,” he said.

James played just one pre-season game last year for the Cleveland Cavaliers as he recovered from a left ankle injury. Over the past

three years he has made just six pre-season appearances.

James, 33, joined the Lakers in July on a four-year, $154 million deal sealed just weeks after his Cavs were beaten by the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals for the third time in four years.

He arrives in Los Angeles with the Lakers desperately trying to regain their former glory after several years of decline. The Lakers have failed to make the playoffs for five straight seasons. (afp)

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Saudi Arabia embraces yoga in pivot towards ‘moderation’

JEDDAH - In a sparse, wood-floored studio, Saudi women squat, lunge and do headstands.

Even a year ago, teaching these yoga postures could have rendered them outlaws in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

Widely perceived as a Hindu spiritual practice, yoga was not officially permitted for decades in Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islam where all non-Muslim worship is banned.

But with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman vowing an “open, moderate Islam”, the kingdom last November recognised yoga as a sport amid a new liberalisation drive that has sidelined religious hardliners.

Spearheading efforts to normalise yoga in the kingdom is Nouf Marwaai, a Saudi woman who has battled insults and threats from extremists to challenge the notion that yoga is incompatible with Islam.

“I have been harassed, (and) sent a lot of hate messages,” said the 38-year-old head of the Arab Yoga Foundation, which has trained hundreds of yoga instructors in the kingdom.

“Five years ago, this (teaching yoga) would have been impossible,” added Marwaai, as she began training a cluster of women students at a private studio in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Hanging up their body-shrouding abayas and headscarves, the

women stretched in unison in an arching warrior pose known as “virabhadrasana”.

Arms outstretched, their bodies folded into a 180-degree backward bending posture known as “chakrasana”, or wheel pose.

In a country where women have long been denied the right to exercise publicly, the students -- some of whom regularly attend yoga retreats in India -- said the exercise had transformed their lives.

Ayat Samman, a 32-year-old health educator, said yoga helped alleviate her lifelong struggle with fibromyalgia, a chronic pain disorder that often left her bedridden.

Yoga also works as therapy, the women said, helping them vent bottled up emotions and tackle a woefully common ailment -- depression.

“It just opened me up like a water balloon,” said Yasmin Machri, 32.

“After my first class... I started breaking down and crying.”

- Religious outreach -

In just a few months since yoga’s recognition, a new industry of yoga studios and instructors has

sprouted in various Saudi cities.

That includes Mecca and Medina, Islam’s holiest cities, Marwaai said.

Prince Mohammed, the de facto ruler, has sought to project a moderate image of the kingdom, long associated with a fundamentalist strain of Wahhabi Islam, with a new push for inter-religious exchange.

Saudi Arabia in recent months has hosted officials linked to the Vatican and the prince also met a group of Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders in New York earlier this year, in a rare inter-faith gesture.

“The prince’s outreach to other religions is apparent in the interfaith gatherings and the new enthusiasm for Saudi Arabia’s pre-Islamic heritage,” said Kristin Diwan, of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

For decades, Saudi rulers derived much of their legitimacy from their alliance with a clerical establishment that pushed a puritanical vision of Islam.

But the prince appears to have upturned the system, seeking instead to tap support from the kingdom’s swelling youth base through a surge of nationalism and a muchhyped modernisation drive. (afp)

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Macedonia votes on new name to end Greek row

SKOPJE - Macedonians went to the polls Sunday to vote on whether to re-name their country North Macedonia in a bid to settle a long-running row with Greece and unlock its path to NATO and EU membership.

Macedonia has struggled for recognition of its name since its birth in 1991 when the landlocked country declared independence from Yugoslavia.

Athens protested immediately, accusing Skopje of stealing the name of its own northern province also called Macedonia.

The dispute stretches back nearly three decades, with both countries claiming links to Alexander the Great’s ancient empire of Macedon, which spanned the territories.

A grandiose “antiquisation” project under Macedonia’s former government that plastered Skopje with neo-classical facades and statues of Alexander the Great added fuel to the fire.

But in June Macedonia’s new premier Zoran Zaev and his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras reached a

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Satellite imagery provided by regional relief teams showed severe damage at some of the area’s major ports, with large ships tossed on land, quays and bridges trashed and shipping containers thrown around.

Hospitals were overwhelmed by the influx of injured, with many people being treated in the open air. There were widespread power blackouts. “People here need aid -- food, drink, clean water,” said Anser Bachmid, a 39-year-old Palu resident.

- ‘I just ran’ -

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Nouf Marwaai, 38, the head of the Arab Yoga Foundation (foreground), instructs her yoga students with at her studio in the western Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on September 7, 2018.

Dramatic video footage captured from the top floor of a parking ramp as the tsunami rolled in showed waves toppling several buildings and inundating a large mosque. “I just ran when I saw the waves hitting homes on the coastline,” said Palu resident Rusidanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

“This was a terrifying double disaster,” said Jan Gelfand, a Jakarta-based official at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “The Indonesian Red Cross is racing to help survivors.”

Images showed a double-arched yellow bridge had collapsed with its two metal arches twisted as cars

landmark compromise under which Greece would drop its objections to Macedonia joining the EU and NATO in return for the name change.

Polls opened at 7am (0500 GMT) and are to close at 7pm in the referendum on whether to accept or reject the deal.

Only a trickle of voters showed up at a polling station set up in the high school Josip Broz Tito in downtown Skopje in the first hour of polling.

“I hope that the result will be positive. This referendum will change something if it opens the door for Europe and NATO,” 74-year old retired nurse Olivera Argirovska told AFP after casting her ballot.

“It will change things for the youth”.

Some feel it is embarrassing to have to change the name at the request of another country.

But a desire to anchor their future to the West -- and the economic prosperity that it could bring -- is a powerful motivation to accept the deal in one of Europe’s poorest nations. (afp) bobbed in the water below.

A key access road had been badly damaged and was partially blocked by landslides, the disaster agency said.

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Desperate quake-hit Indonesians turn to looting Hundreds of desperate people in the tsunami-struck Indonesian city of Palu looted supermarkets and petrol stations Sunday, as an initial trickle of aid into the devastated area failed to relieve an acute shortage of water, food and fuel.

Hordes of residents on Sulawesi island were seen scrambling over broken glass and through broken-down barricades at a supermarket in the centre of Palu, which was ravaged by a powerful 7.5-magnitude quake and a tsunami on Friday.

Men and women made off with plastic bin bags and baskets full of biscuits, crisps, nappies, gas canisters, tissue paper and more.

“There has been no aid, we need to eat. We don’t have any other choice, we must get food,” shouted one man. “We are in a crisis,” cried another.

Two small aftershocks hit while looters marauded through the building, prompting screams of “Earthquake, earthquake.”

But undeterred, more and more mopeds arrived, depositing people in front of the

store. “This situation forced us to do this. We need everything, food, water,” said a group of teenagers.

“We took anything we could take.

We can’t even cook. So that’s why we looted.”

A handful of vastly outnumbered police officers stood by or looked on from the police station across the road -- unable or unwilling to uphold law and order that has quickly melted away.

There was a similar scene at a local petrol station where crowds tried to tap underground storage wells for fuel.

“There is only one petrol station that is still operational,” Ray Pratama, a local photographer -- who was not involved in the looting -- told AFP. “People are desperate.”

They filled up jerrycans, empty soft drink bottles and kitchenware. “If you sell with rea-

sonable price, that’s okay, but they increase the prices sharply, for basic goods,” said one female looter.

Many Palu residents are still sleeping outside for fear of more aftershocks. Even if they had access to plug sockets, there would be no electricity.

Some aid has started to trickle in to Sulawesi, located in the centre of Indonesia’s vast, 17,000-island archipelago. The government is flying in six field kitchens capable of producing a total of 36,000 rice plates a day and thousands of mattresses, blankets and ready to eat meals.

But it is not coming quick enough for some. “The shops aren’t open and the markets are empty,” one 33-year-old looter, who only identified himself as Eddy, told AFP. “We have to break into all of them one by one.” (afp)

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Friday’s tremor was also felt in the far south of the island in its largest city Makassar and on neighbouring Kalimantan, Indonesia’s portion of Borneo island. As many as 2.4 million people could have felt the quake, the disaster agency said.

The initial quake struck as evening prayers were about to begin in the world’s biggest Muslim majority country on the holiest day of the week. Indonesia is one of the world’s most disaster-prone nations.

It lies on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.

Earlier this year a series of powerful quakes hit Lombok, killing more than 550 people on the holiday island and neighbouring Sumbawa. Indonesia has been hit by a string of other deadly quakes including a devastating 9.1-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Sumatra in December 2004.

That Boxing Day quake triggered a tsunami that killed 220,000 throughout the region, including 168,000 in Indonesia.(afp)

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People loot a convenience store in Palu, in Central Sulawesi, on September 30, 2018, after a strong earthquake trigered a tsunami that struck the area. The death toll from a powerful earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has reached 420, state media said on Spetember 30, 2018, as rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region and survivors helped to retrieve the remains of those killed.

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Kober with Hanuman Figure, Based on Story of Arjuna Pramada

After 3 years, Greece ends limits on bank cash withdrawals ATHENS - Greek authorities said Thursday they will lift within days restrictions on domestic cash withdrawals imposed more than three years ago to prevent a bank run by panicking depositors at the height of the country’s debt crisis.

The finance ministry said that from Oct. 1 depositors will face no limits on withdrawals from bank accounts in Greece. Greeks abroad will be able to withdraw up to 5,000 euros ($5,800) a month. Furthermore, the limit on carrying cash abroad will be increased from 3,000 euros to 10,000 euros.

The moves, which restore a key element of normality to Greece’s battered economy, come a month after the country formally emerged from its last bailout program.

The restrictions were imposed in June 2015 to prevent banks from failing as depositors tried to empty their accounts after talks between the government and bailout creditors appeared on the verge of collapse.

Initially, account holders were only allowed to withdraw 60 euros ($70) a day, and if they missed one withdrawal they were unable to get the cash another day. That led to long queues outside bank cash machines, with some banks laying out refreshments for frustrated customers in the first few days.

The monthly limit of about 1,800 euros was gradually raised, reaching 5,000 euros in May. The finance ministry said it aimed to fully end capital controls “as soon as possible.”

Greece was forced to request international rescue loans in 2010, when its credit rating was repeatedly downgraded following revelations it had misreported key fiscal data, and private investors refused to lend the country at affordable rates.

It received three successive bailouts — a total of about 290 billion euros ($340 billion) — in return for which successive governments imposed severe income cuts, tax hikes and economic reforms. But the cutbacks ravaged the economy, which lost about a quarter of its value during the bailout years.

Despite the end of the bailout program on Aug. 21, austerity policies remain in place, unemployment is the highest in the European Union at just under 20 percent, and Greece’s credit rating is well below investment grade, meaning it would pay high interest to sell its bonds to private investors.

On Thursday, the rate on Greece’s benchmark 10-year bond was just above 4 percent, compared to 0.5 percent for the corresponding German bond. The country’s finances are still subject to deep scrutiny from its European creditors and the International Monetary Fund, which will issue quarterly progress reports. If these prove favorable, Greece will receive 4.8 billion euros over the next four years in profits from Greek bonds held by its European creditors. (ap)

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The buildings of the banking district are illuminated by red clouds after sunset in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

Underlying inflation in eurozone remains stubbornly low

LONDON - Underlying inflation across the 19-country eurozone remains stubbornly low, official figures showed Friday, in what is likely to be a disappointment to policymakers at the European Central Bank who have been predicting a pick-up.

Statistics agency Eurostat said Friday that the core rate of consumer price inflation, which strips out volatile items like energy and food, fell to 0.9 percent in the year to September. That’s down on the previous month’s 1.0 percent and confounded expectations for a modest rise to 1.1 percent. The fall provides further evidence that recent pay increases, particularly in countries like Germany, have yet to fully feed through the economy by encouraging companies to raise prices.

The headline inflation rate, which includes all items, rose to 2.1 percent from 2 percent, but that was largely due to higher energy prices on the back of steadily increasing oil prices.

Though the headline rate is above the ECB’s goal of just below 2 percent, rate-setters want to see a pick-up in the underlying rate to make sure inflation is sustainable and not reliant on external

factors like the price of oil.

This week, ECB President Mario Draghi said he expected underlying inflation to rise as a stronger job market pushes up wages. He cited annual growth in negotiated wages of 2.2 percent in the second quarter, up from 1.7 percent in the first quarter. He added that the central bank was increasingly confident that the pick-up in wages would continue because wage agreements often last two years or more.

Peter Vanden Houte, chief eurozone economist at ING, said there could be factors linked to the recent slowdown in the eurozone’s economic growth that may be offsetting the impact on inflation of higher wages.

“European households’ expectations regarding the labor market have deteriorated over the summer, which is unlikely to boost their wage bargaining power,” he said.

The fact that the headline rate has in-

creased has been enough for the ECB to rein in its stimulus policies.

In June, the ECB announced that its monthly bond purchase program would come to a halt at the end of the year. The program effectively involves printing new money to stoke lending and, ultimately, inflation.

But interest rates, including the headline rate, which stands at zero, are not expected to rise before well into next year.

“The decrease in core inflation back to its June low should make the ECB less confident that inflation is broad-based and self-sustainable in the medium-run,” said Daniel Harenberg, senior economist at Oxford Economics.

“Core inflation therefore continues to remain stubbornly subdued, despite signs of stronger wage growth which may represent a possible reason to delay the first rate hike beyond the summer 2019 as currently envisaged.” (afp)

Jembong Waterfall, Cheap and Fun Nature Tourism

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Generally when making a trip to waterfall, tourists must step down hundreds of stairs first. However, it is different when visiting Jembong waterfall where you just need to climb dozens of stairs.

Within three minutes, you can take selfie with the background of fascinating Jembong waterfall.

Armed with the capital of IDR 5,000, tourists can have enjoyed the allurement of Jembong waterfall.

However, if you only want to swim, you only need to pay as much as IDR 5,000 for adult and IDR 3,000 for child.

There are three fairly large pools with very clear water. Each has the depth of 110 cm for adult, while two children pools have varied depths, namely 80 cm and 60 cm. The water purely comes from Jembong waterfall having been filtered.

If you want to take selfie with an instragrammable background, you can pose on the bridge with a distance of about five meters from the waterfall. Verdant trees in combination with the beautiful waterfall will make your photos more interesting.

Jembong waterfall located at Ambengan village, Sukasada,

Buleleng, also provides a challenging adrenaline attraction, namely flying fox. There are several tracks, such as flying fox of track A with the price set at IDR 15,000; track B at IDR 25,000; and track A & B at IDR 30,000.

Some other activities that can still be enjoyed by tourists here include the trekking and wet rappelling. This tourist attraction is managed by Banten Sari tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) where it can draw the visit up to 500 people each day.

Pokdarwis leader, Made Suneka, said the attraction was officially opened in 2013. “Tourists making a visit here do not only domestic, but also foreign ones,” he said recently.

He added that tourist visits are usually crowded during holidays.

Similar opinion was also revealed by one of Pokdarwis staff, Wayan Surung. He said although

the flying fox was just officially opened two months ago, it has been widely demanded. Moreover, there are about 60 students of Ganesha University of Education Singaraja that have tried the excitement of flying fox.

One of the visitors, Sumiasih, expressed her excitement at the Jembong waterfall. She claimed to spend her time to swim and soak.

“Water of the pools here directly flows from Jembong waterfall, so it is fresh and very cool,” said the student who is currently studying at the STAHN Mpu Kuturan, Singaraja.

If visitors are hungry and thirsty, the operator has provided with a stall and some gazebos to rest for a moment. In addition, for visitors wishing to do melukat or purificatory rite, the operator has also provided a place to do it located near the waterfall. (kmb)

Ritual paraphernalia like kober (flags) are used as symbols of greatness and have philosophical meaning related to the power of the gods.

Thus, it is common to find such objects bineng used in the the Hindu rituals of the Balinese community – especially in temples. The scale of these ritual objects is pursuant to the scale of the ritual being held.

The use of flag or kober with the figure of Hanuman is frequently identified as a symbol of strength.

Hanuman is a character in the Ramayana epic, often told in the form of a puppet show in Bali. According to mythology, Hanuman is son of Lord Bayu known as Maruti, he is not worshipped as a god.

As Prof. Dr. I Made Bandem explains, Hanuman appears in the story Arjuna Pramada or Arjuna Pradalba.

When Rama and Laksmana were leading their troops to build a bridge to Lanka, Arjuna came with Krishna.

At that time, Rama-Laksmana and Krishna-Arjuna shared physical resemblances.

Because the scene in this part of the story was crowded with many people the two pairs got mixed up so that Arjuna was with Rama and made the mistkae of saying that he could constuct a brigde from India to Lanka that was more robust than the one that Rama had made with his monkey army.

Arjuna was asked to prove his words and he drew his arrow from South India to Lanka in order to crete the bridge. Since Rama was still in doubt about the strength of the bridge, Hanuman in the form of a little monkey tried to walk across the bridge, but as he walked, he grew in size. By the time he arrived to the middle of the bridge, the structure collapsed under his weight.

“This story goes beyond the standard patterns of the story that tells of the meeting of the the Ramayana Story with the story of the Mahabharata. Although this story is clas-

sified as the creation of puppeteers, it is said to have been narrated in a palm-leaf manuscript”, explained Prof. Bandem.

As the story goes, Arjuna then kept his oath to worship Hanuman for his success. However, Hanuman could not stand to be worshiped by Arjuna so he finally apologized for having dared to dabble with a deity (pramada). With this apology he also promised to help Arjuna when needed. Arjuna took the initiative to make a flag with the figure of Hanuman that also symbolizes Lord Vayu which was then installed on his chariot. From this story was born the tradition of putting up these kober flags at temple.

There is also another version of this story , said Dr. I Gusti Made Ngurah, which begins with Arjuna accompanied by Krishna who was send by Yudhishthira to the former kingdom of Lanka to look for a refferences that could for a symbol when carrying out a ritual.

On the way, Arjuna and Krishna encountered a little monkey on a bridge. Arjuna was arrogant and insulted the little monkey. The little monkey answered that he was actually Hanuman and challenged Arjuna to try to destroy the bridge. Arjuna failed to meet this challenge.

Arjuna was tested several times by the monkey but always failed.

Finally the little monkey revealed his identity as Hanuman son of Lord Vayu. Hanuman said that he would respect Arjuna because he is a human but that Arjuna should also respect Hanuman as he is son of Lord Vayu and in this way there would be mutual respect.

“Finally, Hanuman requested that Arjuna to create a flag that depicting Hanuman. This flag was then taken everywhere. The flag with the image of Hanuman ths became a symbol of Arjuna honoring Hanuman”, said Prof. Bandem. (kmb)

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Luhut asks Bali not to engage in polemic

DENPASAR - All components of Balinese community hold joint prayer and declaration to welcome the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting on October 8-14 at front courtyard of Bajra Sandhi Monument, Renon, Denpasar, on Friday (Sep. 28).

The joint prayer led by Ida Sri Bhagawan Putra Nata Nawa Wangsa and 108 other Brahmin priests was also attended by the Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan.

Luhut, who had just arrived from New York, stated that all financial institutions in the world are ready to attend the event in Bali.

Undeniably, there are still parties “sneering” about the benefits that Indonesia will get, especially Bali, as the host of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting.

“Probably, there are people questioning what is the advantage for Indonesia? At the very least, the biggest promotion of the IMFWorld Bank Annual Meeting in history will be conducted in Indonesia, precisely in Bali,” he said.

Luhut added, the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting will be a free promotion for Bali tourism and will open 32,700 job opportunities. The National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) calculated it will grow the Bali’s economy by 0.64 percent to 6.54 percent this year.

It is based on the assumption that there are 15,000 delegates coming.

Meanwhile, the current data continue to move and they are possibly more than 20,000 delegates attending the meeting in Bali.

“Maybe they reach 25,000 people because until now the list of participant has been 22,000 people.

The impact is great. The money we spend up to these days reaches IDR 566 billion and approximately IDR 100 billion will be non-tax state revenue (PNBP—Ed). So, the government funds we use are IDR 466 billion,” added this Chairperson of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting National Committee.

According to Luhut, Bali’s economic growth will also increase due to a number of infrastructures built for the needs of the IMF-

World Bank Annual Meeting. One of them is the widening of the Ngurah Rai Airport’s apron resulting in an increase of 1.2 million passengers. Flight is indeed a complicated problem, but coordination has been carried out including by the immigration, customs, and air traffic control. On the other hand, there will be delegates coming by private jets. So, more than 20 private jets are estimated to be landing in Bali. Right now, hotels have been fully booked.

“If the price (of hotel, food or drink—Ed) is increased, it’s allowed to. But we appeal not to make odd increase. There should be no extreme increase. Similarly, there are non-extreme ones,” he explained.

Luhut appealed to all Balinese people to be good hosts. Some technical arrangements are still being reviewed and will be decided at the latest on October 3. They include school holidays and the workers around the Nusa Dua and Jimbaran areas, odd-even vehicles, and the options to free Bali Mandara toll from entrance fee to avoid congestion. As for vehicles, a maximum number of 3,300 vehicles have been decided so the traffic in Nusa Dua remains smooth.

“Regarding the security, I ask all components of community to pay attention to security. We don’t want the beautiful, comfortable and peaceful Bali to be littered with unnecessary activities. Anyone who sees suspicious activities should report them to the security authority,” he added.

In particular, Luhut pleaded that Bali should not be polemic about

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Typhoon Trami injures 56, readies direct hit on Japan mainland

KAGOSHIMA - A powerful typhoon hurtled toward Japan’s mainland Sunday after injuring dozens on southern islands, as weather officials warned that fierce winds and torrential rain could trigger landslides and floods.

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan (C). the development of tourism on the Island of the Gods. His ministry has asked the World Bank and Udayana University (Unud) to collaborate in studying the development of airfields in North Bali and the infrastructure connecting North Bali to South Bali. Thus, the development carried out in Bali can be sustainable because it has been based on scientific studies.

“As instruction of the president, it cannot disrupt culture and the environment because Balinese culture is the attraction to millions of tourists to come here. On that account, I hope that my friends in Bali to give input. However, there must be a decision. There must be no conflict among people later on,”

he said.

Meanwhile, Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, said that one of the purposes of the joint prayers and declarations is echoing and inflating the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting from Bali to all corners of the world. Other than building participation of all components of the Balinese community to succeed the event, it is also meant to keep Bali safe, comfortable and peaceful. Moreover, this international event will be attended by participants from 189 countries with nearly 2,500 meetings during its implementation.

“All parties must take responsibility. The success of this big event will bring the image and reputation

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of the Indonesian people and Balinese in particular. This must be an awareness of all of us that direct and indirect impacts on Bali are extraordinary,” he said.

Currently, Koster continued that Bali has already received infrastructure support such as the underpass at the Ngurah Rai Monument intersection, the widening of the Ngurah Rai Airport’s apron, the new icon of the Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue and the handling of the Sarbagita Regional Landfill.

“I have also calculated statistically. There is something very strong driving our efforts to advance the economy in Bali. Not only for now, it is also for the years to come,” he explained. (kmb32)

Typhoon Trami has already disrupted travel in the world’s third-biggest economy, with bullet train services in the west of Japan suspended, more than 1,000 flights cancelled due to the closure of a key airport and Tokyo’s evening train services scrapped.

The storm is forecast to smash into the mainland near the city of Osaka shortly after 6pm (0900 GMT) and churn across the Japanese archipelago, likely hitting areas still recovering from extreme weather that has battered Japan in recent months.

Trami tore through the southern island of Okinawa on Saturday, bringing winds strong enough to flip over cars. Several houses were flooded or damaged and 46 people on the island sustained minor injuries but no one was feared dead, local officials said.

Nationwide, authorities have issued noncompulsory evacuation advisories to 1.5 million residents, according to public broadcaster NHK. Nearly 500,000 households in Kyushu and Okinawa have lost power, local utilities said.

As the typhoon barrelled east, rail authorities took the highly unusual step of cancelling evening train services in Tokyo, one of the world’s busiest networks, urging passengers to shelter indoors when the storm hits.

The typhoon is not expected to hit the capital head-on but strong winds and heavy rain are still feared from later Sunday. Some businesses were already putting up shutters and hunkering down.

Trami is the latest in a string of extreme natural events in Japan, which has suffered typhoons, flooding, earthquakes and heatwaves in recent months, claiming scores of lives and causing extensive damage.

Packing maximum gusts of 216 kilometres (134 miles) per hour, Trami was expected to travel over most of the archipelago, weakening slightly but

causing extreme weather into Monday, forecasters said.

Still classed as a “very strong” typhoon, Trami pounded Kagoshima on the western tip of Japan early Sunday, causing 10 minor injuries -- such as cuts from broken windows and people knocked over by gusts.

“We are strongly urging our residents to stay indoors because it is extremely dangerous to be outside now,” Masaaki Tamaki, an official of Kagoshima’s disaster management section, told AFP. - ‘Bang, bang’ The Japanese meteorological agency warned the typhoon would bring strong winds and downpours, which could trigger landslides and floods as well as lightning strikes and tornados across the nation.

Violent gusts swept away roof tiles on some houses in the western city of Kochi.

“There was a big ‘bang, bang’. That woke me up,” an elderly man in Kochi told national broadcaster NHK. Cities in the expected path of the typhoon were already taking precautions.

East Japan Railway announced that it would gradually suspend train services in and around Tokyo and end all trains around 8pm, shortly before the typhoon was to draw near the Japanese capital.

“Shinkansen” bullet train services, particularly those in western areas, also reduced or cancelled their services.

Osaka’s Kansai Airport, which is situated on reclaimed land offshore and suffered extensive damage in a storm earlier in September, closed two runways. Officials piled up sandbags to avoid a repeat of flooding seen during the previous storm. (afp)

Vietnam seizes nearly a ton of pangolin scales, ivory

At least 300 Balinese go to Japan each month

MANGUPURA - At least 300 people from Bali work or have internship to Japan each month. In addition, the main destination of Balinese people to international routes is Japan. On that account, Garuda Indonesia urges its sales to Japan. Nevertheless, the sales of Garuda Indonesia sales indeed reach 55 percent more to international routes.

General Manager of Garuda Indonesia for Bali Branch, Joseph A. Saul, said that Balinese people are now different from ever before. In the past, Balinese people tended IBP/net to receive guests, but now they are more inGeneral Manager of Garuda Indone- clined to go for a promenade. It can be seen sia for Bali Branch, Joseph A. Saul from ticket sales of Garuda Indonesia for Bali

branch ranked fourth in Indonesia.

In order to be able to send more labor force to Japan, Garuda Indonesia signed the MoU with LPK-LPJ Bali. The collaboration is in the form of provision of special rates.

This collaboration is done for the first time.

In the future, there will be cooperation with other educational institutions. The institutions sent many interns to Japan. “We also have Japanese flight attendants. Many people have internship in Japan, each month they send at least 300 people to Japan,” he said during the GATF phase II on Friday (Sep. 28).

Garuda Indonesia has one flight a day to Japan, namely to Narita. Garuda Indonesia is

consulting to boost the overseas market share.

He said to have a lot of domestic market and the sales are good.

Until now the international routes with great demand for Balinese people are Tokyo (Japan), Australia and London. Seeing the condition, Garuda Indonesia developed sales strategy by boosting the markets of Japan, China and Australia. The demand of the three countries is quite high. Meanwhile, the existing route to India is Mumbai while Balinese people are also said to like going to New Delhi. “Later, we will push it to New Delhi,” he said. (kmb40)

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A couple crosses the street in the city centre of Naha, Okinawa prefecture, on September 29, 2018 as the island is the first part of Japan to face super Typhoon Trami.

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Seized endangered pangolin scales are seen during a press conference at the Kwai Chung Customhouse Cargo Examination Compound in Hong Kong on september 5, 2018.

HANOI - Vietnam has seized around a ton of pangolin scales and ivory hidden inside dozens of boxes on a flight from Nigeria, state media reported, a haul highlighting the illegal wildlife trade routes connecting Africa and Southeast Asia.

Both the ivory and pangolin trade have been banned in Vietnam.

But weak law enforcement in the communist state has allowed a black market to flourish and feed into a global multibillion dollar industry in animal parts and exotic pets.

Southeast Asian countries have become a busy thoroughfare for tusks trafficked from Africa and destined for other parts of Asia, mainly China. Pangolins are treasured in Vietnam and the region for their meat and alleged medicinal

properties of their scales.

Authorities at Hanoi’s airport found 805 kilograms of pangolin scales as well as 193 kilograms of ivory and ivory-derived products in two dozen boxes on Friday, said a report in the official newspaper of the customs department.

The goods were sent from two companies based in Nigeria, according to the labelling. They had arrived on a September 21 flight but were never picked up.

“The (intended) recipients of the cargo package have refused to receive the goods,” the article said.

Photos showed a pile of the pangolin scales on the floor as inspectors went through the boxes, which were initially covered in an extra layer of wrapping and taped shut.

The tiny and shy pangolin,

which resembles a scaly anteater, is the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal and despite bans the trade remains rampant.

Vietnam outlawed the ivory trade in 1992 but illegal trade still persists and shops sell ivory predating the ban for decorative and medicinal purposes.

The haul is the latest to make headlines in Vietnam, where seizures are infrequent but usually large.

Last year police found 2.7 tonnes of tusks inside cartons on the back of a truck in the central province of Thanh Hoa. In October 2016 customs officials in Vietnam discovered about 3.5 tonnes of elephant tusks at Cat Lai port in Ho Chi Minh City. (afp)

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ADDIS ABABA - The annual Timkat Festival, which celebrates the Ethiopian Epiphany, is one of the biggest events in the Ethiopian social calendar, and joy to observe in the country’s capital, Addis Ababa.

Timkat (also known as Timket) is an Orthodox Christian celebration of the Ethiopian Epiphany.

It marks the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River.

Pilgrims come from far and wide to take part in the festival and witness the re-enactment of the baptism. All over the country large crowds assemble as the religious festivities commence, with spectacular processions, song, dance and prayer.

The festival lasts for three days and is at its most colourful in the capital, Addis Ababa, where everyone gets involved in the celebrations.

When

The festival takes place in Ethiopia every year on January 19th (or January 20th on leap years), starting with Ketera (preparations) the day before, and it lasts for three days.

Where

In Addis Ababa, the festival is particularly spectacular. The streets are adorned with green, red and yellow to represent the Ethiopian flag and priests walk through the streets holding colourful and richly decorated umbrellas.

Timkat is celebrated by Orthodox Christians all over Ethiopia, so if you can’t make it to Addis Ababa you can still get involved in the celebrations.

What’s On

The religious ceremony commences on the first day when models of the Ark of the Covenant, called Tabots, are carried to the river in a procession led by the most senior priest of each church, who carry the arks on top of their heads. At dawn the water is blessed and sprin- kled on the participants,

some of whom jump in the water to renew their baptismal vows.

The Tabot symbolises the Ark of the Covenant and the tablets describing the Ten Commandments, which God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai to serve as the core principles of the moral behaviour for humanity.

The original Ark of the Covenant is said to be under permanent guard in Northern Ethiopia, protected by priests who have sworn never to leave the sacred grounds. he second day of Timkat marks the main celebrations, with Orthodox Ethiopians from every segment of society merrily march through the streets in a riot of colour, singing, dancing and feasting. All but one of the Tabots are returned to their respective churches.

On the third day of Timkat, known as the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, the Tabot of St. Michael’s Church is returned, accompanied by a procession of priests and believers.

DENPASAR — Thousands of students from various universities in Bali gathered at Puputan Margarana Square, Renon, East Denpasar, on Saturday (Sep. 29). They followed the Declaration of Student Movement to Knit Nationality attended by the Chief of Bali Police, Petrus Reinhard Golose, and Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Prof.

H. Mohamad Nasir, Ph.D.

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Prices start from £3,095 per person and include return international Ethiopian Airlines flights, domestic Ethiopian Airlines flights, airport taxes, airport facilitation, all transfers and transportation, services of professional English-speaking Ethiopian tour leader/guide throughout, excursions and activities as outlined, all permits and entry fees, accommodation and some meals.

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Lessening of the lake water has happened since the past three months.

Drought, Lake Batur’s water starts to recede

BANGLI — The water level of Lake Batur in Kintamani overflowing all this time to soak agricultural land and a number of houses at Terunyan village have now begun to recede. Lessening of the lake water has happened since the past three months.

On Saturday (Sep. 29), the water of Lake Batur was seen to no longer inundate the asphalt road in the area around the Cemara Landung hamlet. Similarly, the paved road previously submerged up to more than one meter has now begun to be seen. Some residents’ houses formerly flooded with lake water are now dry, and local residents can resume their normal activities.

A local resident, Surni, said the waters of Lake Batur had begun to recede since the past three months.

Lake water receded, according to him, due to the weather having begun to enter the dry season. “Approximately it recedes to about one meter,” he said.

When the water of Lake Batur overflowed and soaked her house for several months, she admitted to hold out at home with her fam-

ily members. It happened because she has no other place to evacuate. “In the past, when the water overflowed, I made a dike and put bamboo at home, so that I could do my activities,” he said.

Surni hoped the water of Lake Batur will no longer overflow and soak her house. However, from her experience so far, the water of Lake Batur will usually return to overflow during the rainy season.

“If the rain lasts long, the lake water will rise again. “It usually starts to rain in the fifth month of Balinese calendar (around OctoberNovember),” she added.

Other than at Terunyan village, the ebb tide of lake water is also visible from the non-submerging of the existing asphalt road at Buahan village. Agricultural land on the outskirts of the lake submerged a few months ago can now be cultivated by residents. A resident of Buahan, Made Antara, said the decline in lake water had occurred about two months ago.

“The lessening approximately reaches one meter,” he said. (kmb40)

The declaration contained four points. Firstly, Balinese students stated that Pancasila is the ideology of Indonesia; secondly, Balinese students stated the 1945 Constitution is the basis of the Republic of Indonesia; thirdly, Balinese students stated that Bhineka Tunggal Ika is our Motto as the nation of Indonesia; fourthly, Balinese students stated that the Unitary States of the Republic of Indonesia is non-compromising for Indonesian.

In the oration, Chief Golose in front of thousands of students expressed his appreciation to all students and academicians having organized the declaration. This activity is a form of support from students and the academic community to the stability of the state security, especially in the province of Bali.

“This age is a period to the development of Generation Z, the millennial getting involved in the world of technology. Thus, the understanding on the ideology needs to be instilled because the development of technology will easily influence the lifestyle of the next generations,” he said.

According to him, students as Generation Z must uphold the basic consensus of the nation namely the Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia and Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Tan Hana Dharma Mangrwa (Unity in Diversity).

“I am very proud that Balinese students have a different identity from other students that do not like to demonstrate. They are not easily provoked and not easily influenced by practical politics. As students, they must make Bali into the Island of the Students,” he said.

Golose invited the students to uphold the seven national values

as the crystallization of values contained in the four basic consensus of the nation. They are consisting of divine value, human value, value of unity, democratic value, value of justice, pluralistic and multi-cultural value as well as patriotic value.

“I am from the security apparatus together with the minister and chancellor very grateful that up to these days and as what we have found no Balinese students are getting involved in radicalism,” he said.

Moreover, this graduate of 1988 Police Academy insisted that he did not see any students in Bali getting involved in the networks leading to terrorism.

On that occasion, Golose added that Bali will host the IMF-WB Annual Meeting 2018 as the second largest event in the world because the event involves 189 countries with more than 25,000 participants.

According to him, the IMF-WB is estimated to be held again by Indonesia for at least 567 years to come.

Additionally, Indonesia will also carry out the 2019 democratic agendas, namely the presidential and legislative election. He hoped the students must be neutral, not to be easily provoked and become political means.

Students may not participate in spreading fake news so that the presidential election can be avoided from unwanted things.

Meanwhile, Prof. Mohamad Nasir in his speech said the development of the world is so powerful and there are many changes occurred so fast when facing the industrial revolution 4.0. Students as young generation must keep away from things related to ethnicity, racialism, religious and inter-group-based discrimination, radicalism and intolerance. (kmb36)

Chief of Bali Police, Petrus Reinhard Golose (C).

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Women, tradition and art in Bali

Young painter Satya Cipta breaking ground Museum Puri Lukisan was established to maintain a high level of quality in the arts of Bali at a time when artistic production was shifting away from the purely religious into the realm of the commercial. Although art in Bali is no longer produced exclusively in the context of religious and cultural practices, the cultural and religious practices of Balinese Hindus are inseparable from artistic expression and also inform how art is viewed more broadly.

Although what is today referred to as traditional Balinese art is certainly rooted in these cultural and religious practices it stands apart from them in certain distinct ways, including the relative freedom given to express a certain amount of personal impressions. Forms and techniques are also given a wider berth. How far the boundaries can be stretched before a particular artistic expression is no longer considered traditional is up for debate. While some consider that any art produced using traditional techniques and style to still be traditional, others feel that themes and subject should also remain within certain boundaries to be considered traditional.

The works of Satya Cipta stand somewhere in this grey area of tradition -and perhaps intentionally so. Cipta was born to Balinese parents in Sulawesi where she grew up as a cultural and religious minority.

After studying art in Jakarta and returning to Bali with her family she found herself as a new kind of minority as her experience with and exposure to other ways of seeing and being in the world, left her no choice but to question certain aspects of her own culture – most notably the role that women are expected to play in Bali.

Cipta married a man from the village of Batuan, which is known the world over not only for the tremendous number of skilled artists of all disciplines who call this small village home, but also for the way that panting in particular has flourished due to the extending of traditional boundaries in the subjects presented, while still maintaining certain core foundations.

In a very short time, Cipta learned to paint in the traditional style of

Batuan but soon felt that the wide berth given to artists here to explore different subjects was too narrow for here. She went on to explore the style of painting developed by I Nyoman Lempad and then found a master painter in Ubud whose style and subject and approach she resonated with.

I Ketut Budiana is a truly masterful painter and sculptor whose works are distinctly rooted in the visual

and philosophical traditions of Bali, yet depart from conventions in an equally distinct manner. Although a great number of painters in Bali have been influenced by Budiana’s style and approach, few if any have studied directly with him – until Satya Cipta that is.

In little over a year, this talented young painter came to find a visual and conceptual vocabulary of her own. In line with the Balinese tradition of learning directly from master painters by imitating their style, Cipta has taken key elements of Budiana’s work – both visually and conceptually. However instead of only minor personal additions or derivations from her master’s style and methods, Cipta has leapt into an entirely new field of enquiry.

While, like Budiana, she focuses on expressing her own inner world through the lens of the lexicon of Balinese traditional arts, Satya has begun to explore her experience as a woman in Balinese society. This exploration ends up speaking of the role of women more broadly, bringing up some rather uncomfortable questions about the place of women including sexual violence, objectification and the silencing of the female voice both in terms of the subjects presented in her works and the manner they are presented.

Perhaps if she had chosen to use a different visual vocabulary to express her feelings about such subjects, her works could be read as more personal explorations. However given the fact that the style of her works -though certainly not strictly traditional in technique and compositional style, they do contain enough elements of traditional Balinese painting to draw attention to the particular context that she is referring to.

Satya Cipta’s works will be on display at Museum Puri Lukisan form October 6th to November 6th in a solo exhibition that presents her learning process. From the at times awkwardly self conscious compositions of her earliest works to her powerfully harmonious rendering of lines in her more recent ones, this exhibition represents a momentous shift in woman’s place in the art of Bali.

Through her own personal explorations of her place, position and feelings about these within her own culture, Satya Cipta has perhaps unwittingly carved out a new way of looking at and being a woman in Bali. (kmb)

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GALVANIZE FOR GIVING FOR GOOD MONTH

IHG Hotels & Resorts in Bali (which includes six properties in prominent areas of the island: InterContinental Bali Resort, Hotel Indigo Bali Seminyak Beach, Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali, Holiday Inn Resort Bali Benoa, Holiday Inn Express Baruna Bali and Holiday Inn Express Bali Raya Kuta) held a

series of community-based activities throughout the whole month of September. Dubbed as Giving for Good Month, these activities are part of True Hospitality for Good - IHG’s new initiative for communities and charitable giving. Giving for Good Month will also be driving an effort for the Lombok Earthquake Disaster

Relief.

On 5 August 2018, the neighbouring island of Lombok was struck with an earthquake measured at 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale following its foreshocks that started in late July and with aftershocks recorded up until September.

In an effort to support the disaster

relief in Lombok, the six IHG properties in Bali got together to help our fellow island communities through IHG’s new programme for communities and charitable giving, True Hospitality for Good.

This initiative by IHG is aimed to change lives for the better through building skills and education in hospitality as well as to support communities when disaster strikes. With the local activities like Giving for Good Month, the programme provides each team member of IHG hotels as well as its offices around the world a greater say in how the company can contribute. This is done through each team member pledging to do a community-based activity under one of the three actions—Volunteer, Go Green, and Keep Healthy—where IHG will donate up to $4 for each pledge done by every team member throughout September to a team member’s selection charity partners.

Here in Bali, IHG Hotels & Resorts in Bali held four communitybased activities involving all of the hotels’ team members. Starting with mangrove plantation around the Serangan Bay area on 7 September, then followed with a Blood Drive

at InterContinental Bali Resort on 14 September 2018. For the third event, Hotel Indigo Bali Seminyak Beach held a Keep Healthy action through Beach Morning Fun Run where it saw team members joined in either 4, 5, or 6 km run. Ending the Giving for Good Month on the Go Green note, IHG Hotels & Resorts in Bali held their final event at Kuta Beach which saw a great number of the hotel team members releasing Sea Turtle Hatchlings out into the great ocean.

The team members of IHG Hotels & Resorts in Bali have chosen SOS Children Village for IHG to donate $4 for each of the team members working at the 6 IHG properties across the island. Globally we aim to engage 100,000 IHG colleagues to take part in Giving for Good month activities in September, for a total donation of USD $400,000 to our charity partners.

In addition to that, IHG Foundation Fund has also confirmed to donate US$25,000 to the Lombok community, this amount will be channeled through its disaster relief partner, International Federation of Red Cross.

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Ariana Grande pleads for ‘one okay day’ in series of tweets LOS ANGELES - Ariana Grande has told her fans she has endured a “tough month” and asked for just “one okay day” in a series of tweets.

The singer was set to appear at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on 17 September with her fiance Pete Davidson but pulled out following the death of her ex-partner, rapper Mac Miller, who died from a suspected overdose.

On Thursday, Grande tweeted: “ur angels in my life. it’s just been a tough month. i’m trying to get my work done and get back to normal and it’s hard and i’m human and tired. sorry i let u in or worried u. i shouldn’t have tweeted. i kno better.”

She added: “Can i pls have one okay day. just one. pls.”

Fans of the 25-year-old were quick to respond with words of reassurance, with one tweeting: “I’m so sorry for your loss... Everything will be okay.”

Grande followed up her tweets by thanking fans, writing: “ty for loving me sm i do not deserve it.”

Earlier this month, Grande announced she would be taking “much needed time to heal and mend” following “events of the past couple of years”.

In an interview with Vogue earlier this year, she discussed her battle with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder following the suicide bomb attack at her concert at the Manchester Arena. She said: “It’s hard to talk about because so many people have suffered such severe, tremendous loss. (IBP/net)

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Kanye West and his son Saint throw out a ceremonial first pitch before the game between the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs on September 23, 2018 at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois.

Kanye West is now Ye, but unchanged on backing Trump

NEW YORK - Kanye West has decided that he now wants to be called Ye. But on political matters, nothing has changed for the pro-Trump rapper.

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“The being formally (sic) known as Kanye West. I am Ye,” he wrote on Twitter.

Ye has long been a nickname for West, along with Yeezy, and he chose “Ye” as the title of his last album. He has previously said that he found a spiritual significance to “Ye” -- the plural or formal version of the second-person pronoun in Middle English -- as he so frequently read it in the Bible.

West -- or, rather, Ye -- announced the name change shortly before he appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” the widely watched television skit show.

He performed with fellow rapper Lil Pump dressed as water bottles,

drawing an overwhelmingly negative reaction on social media where a number of professed fans questioned his creative direction.

West closed the show by singing a track off “Ye” while wearing one of President Donald Trump’s signature red “Make America Great Again” caps.

After the live show ended, West stayed on the microphone and gave an impromptu speech about politics, again voicing his support for the president.

“So many times I talk to a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist,’” West said, according to footage posted on Instagram by

comedian Chris Rock.

“Well, if I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago.”

He also accused the rival Democratic Party of seeking to keep people dependent on welfare payments and repeated his interest in running for president himself in 2020 -- when Trump would face re-election.

His speech was met with a smattering of applause but louder booing from the New York audience.

West has stunned fans by becoming one of the few celebrities -as well as one of the only prominent African Americans -- to support Trump. (afp)

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This picture taken on September 29, 2018 shows residents helping remove a body after an earthquake and tsunami hit Palu, on Sulawesi island. The death toll from a powerful earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has reached 420, state media said on Spetember 30, 2018, as rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region and survivors helped to retrieve the remains of those killed.

Mass burials as death toll in Indonesia quake-tsunami tops 800

The death toll in Indonesia’s quake-tsunami disaster nearly doubled to more than 800 Sunday, as ill-equipped rescuers struggled to reach scores of trapped victims, health officials resorted to mass burials and desperate residents looted shops for food and water.

“The casualties will keep increasing,” said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, whose agency announced 832 deaths. “Today we will start the mass burial of victims, to avoid the spread of disease.”

Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said the final death toll in the north of Sulawesi island could be in the “thousands” since many regions have still not been reached.

“It feels very tense,” said 35year-old mother Risa Kusuma, comforting her feverish baby boy at an evacuation centre in the gutted coastal city of Palu. “Every minute an ambulance brings in bodies.

Clean water is scarce. The minimarkets are looted everywhere.”

Indonesia’s Metro TV on Sunday broadcast footage from a coastal community in Donggala, close to the epicentre of the quake.

Some waterfront homes appeared crushed but a resident said most people fled to higher ground after the quake struck.

“When it shook really hard, we all ran up into the hills,” a man identified as Iswan told the TV. Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrived in the region Sunday afternoon.

In Palu on Sunday aid was trickling in, the Indonesian military had been deployed and search-andrescue workers were doggedly combing the rubble for survivors -- looking for dozens feared trapped

under one hotel alone.

“Communication is limited, heavy machinery is limited... it’s not enough for the numbers of buildings that collapsed,” Nugroho said.

The 7.5-magnitude quake struck Friday, sparking a tsunami that ripped apart the city’s coastline.

Save The Children program director Tom Howells said access was a “huge issue” hampering relief efforts. “Aid agencies and local authorities are struggling to reach several communities around Donggala, where we are expecting there to be major damage and potential large-scale loss of life,” Howells said.

Dozens of corpses lay in an

open courtyard at the back of a Palu hospital, baking under a fierce tropical sun, with only one building separating it from an open triage site on the opposite side.

“I have one child -- he’s missing,” Baharuddin, a 52-year-old Palu resident, told AFP as he stood on floor tiles smeared with blood.

“I last spoke to him before he went to school in the morning.”

The disaster agency said it believed about 71 foreigners were in Palu when the quake struck, with most safe.

Three French nationals and a South Korean, who may have been staying at a flattened hotel, had not yet been accounted for, it added.

Amid the levelled trees, overturned cars, concertinaed homes and flotsam tossed up to 50 metres inland, survivors and rescuers struggled to come to grips with the

scale of the disaster.

On Saturday evening residents fashioned makeshift bamboo shelters or slept out on dusty playing fields, fearing powerful aftershocks would topple damaged homes and bring yet more carnage.

C-130 military transport aircraft with relief supplies managed to land at the main airport in Palu, which reopened to humanitarian flights and limited commercial flights, but only to pilots able to land by sight alone.

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