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New film shows painful legacy of China’s one-child policy
PARIS - To see what China’s one-child policy has done to the most populous country on Earth, you just have to look around you, said acclaimed filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai. “There is often one child now to six grown-ups. You have the four grandparents and two parents for one child. It’s a bit unbalanced,” the director added with not a little understatement. “So Long, My Son”, which won its stars Yong Mei and Wang Jingchun the best actor award at the Berlin film festival earlier this year, plunges audiences into the ocean of pain and heartbreak the policy caused. The tragic story of a couple whose only son is drowned in an accident, is an epic account of how families were bent and buckled during the 36 years of the world’s biggest demographic experiment. “It made me realise to what extent we as Chinese people lived through something that was completely out of the ordinary and unique in the world,” Wang told AFP just before the film opened in France. “That is what pushed me to shoot the film,” said the director, who made his name in the West with “Beijing Bicycle”, a prize-winner at Berlin back in 2001. “Generally speaking people in China don’t live for themselves, or put themselves forward,” he said. - ‘We don’t control our lives’ “We are not in control of our own lives” and everything can be changed by the “smallest directive from on high”. “People do things for the collective, for the country. That is why every time there is a new policy, even one which has a huge impact on their lives, people tend to bend to it.” When the one-child policy was first adopted in 1979, “people kind of understood” it was in the country’s economic interests, Wang said, with three-quarters of the population said to support it. “Of course there were people who fought against it but after 30 years people had accepted it.” Finally getting rid of it four years ago was “a good thing”, Wang argued, because “it allows people to be more in charge of their own lives, to have more freedom on what kind of family they want to build.” But by the time it was replaced by a two-child policy in 2016, the single child family “had become anchored” in society, the new norm reinforced by the rise of the middle classes. (afp)
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Chinese film director Wang Xiaoshuai, whose new film shows the pain the one-child policy inflicted on families.
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Star Wars characters gather before the Star Wars theme game pitting the Minnesota Twins against the Tampa Bay Rays at Target Field on June 26, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Original ‘Star Wars’ creators lift lid on special effects challenges
BEVERLY HILLS - Remember the scene when Luke Skywalker failed his first attempt to blow up the Death Star? Or when C3PO chased him up the stairs of his Tatooine desert home? Of course you don’t -- both were among countless improvised changes made to the original “Star Wars” due to budget, time and technological restraints, its creators explained at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on Thursday. At an event celebrating visual effects innovation in the classic sci-films, luminaries who created George Lucas’s 1977 blockbuster contrasted their world of filming -- and sometimes blowing up -- wooden Star Destroyer models with today’s digital masterpieces. “The technology and techniques of the 70s put considerable constraints on the way shots had to be staged,” said John Knoll, chief creative officer of Lucasfilm effects company Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).
“By that I don’t mean just whether it looked good or not but whether you could actually put the thing together at all!” He pointed to the suit worn by C3PO actor Anthony Daniels, which severely restricted his vision and range of motion in the original films. On two occasions where the robotic character is supposed to follow humans up or down stairs, editors had to cut or pan away just in time to obscure the impossibility of Daniels tackling the steps in his clunky suit. By contrast, the human-shaped droid in 2016’s Star Wars film Rogue One was entirely CGI. While the first film was put together in a stuffy Los Angeles warehouse with no air-conditioning for $11 million, Rogue One cost
$200 million to produce. Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar for editing “Star Wars,” explained how she cobbled together an early impression of the film’s climactic fight scene from World War Two footage, to assist the visual effects artists -- and realized a drastic change was required. “In the script when Luke goes down and makes his trench run he uses the computer and he misses the shot,” she said. “So he goes back up to a dogfight, he has to go down again and make a second run.” Viewing her footage, the team agreed to cut out the first run entirely. “ILM was very pleased that they didn’t have to do half of the special effects shots that happened when he made two runs,” said Lucas, ex-wife of George, adding: “We saved some money!” (afp)
Indonesia President Joko Widodo arrives for the family photo at the G20 Osaka Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.
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Jokowi calls on Indonesians to forget political differences
JAKARTA - President-elect Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has called on all Indonesians to forget differences in political choices during the presidential election, and to reunite as one nation. “I call on all the Indonesian people to forget differences in political choices that have disunited us. Number 02 and 01, we must be reunited as one Indonesia, a nation with Pancasila to unite us,” Jokowi said in his address at the plenary meeting of the General Election Commission (KPU) here on Sunday. Pancasila is Indonesia’s state
ideology consisting of five tenets -- belief in one and the only God Almighty, humanity, unity, democracy and social justice. Jokowi, accompanied by vice president-elect KH Ma’ruf Amin, has thanked the Indonesian people for theirs trust in the pair. He was also grateful to the KPU that has completed its task
to organize the elections, and to name the president-elect and vice president-elect through an open plenary meeting. Jokowi has promised to work hard to continue the development during his first term in office with Vice President Jusuf Kalla. The General Election Commission has named Joko Widodo-KH
Ma’ruf Amin as president-elect and vice president-elect for 20192024 term in a plenary meeting at the KPU building in Jakarta on Sunday. “Declare candidate pair number 01 Joko Widodo and KH Ma’ruf Amin as president-elect and vice president-elect in the presidential election 2019,” KPU chairman Arief Budiman said. Jokowi-Ma’ruf won the election with 85.607.362 votes or
55.5 percent of the votes, while Prabowo and Sandiaga Uno garnered 68.650.239 votes or 44.5 percent.(ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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For Kintamanian dog preservation, a dog contest to be held this year Head of the Bali Animal Husbandry and Animal Health Agency, Wayan Mardiana, said that up to now the Kintamanian dog population reaches 2,970. This dog is commonly found at Sukawana village, Bangli. To preserve Kintamanian dogs, the Bali provincial government is going to hold a contest. He hoped the contest will also increase the Balinese people’s interest switching to keep Kintamanian dogs compared to other breeds of dogs. “Moreover, this dog has
advantages such as being intelligent and very capable of keeping a home,” he said. In addition to holding contests, another measure to preserve the dogs is to establish Kintamanian dog breeding groups. Provincial government plans to provide assistance in the form of funds or feed assistance. It is important to establish Kintamanian dog breeding, said Mardiana, because so far most Kintamanian dogs live wildly. Most of the population breeds in
caves or gardens. “If there is captivity, they are well-maintained, easier to be vaccinated and surely their health can be checked if they are sick,” he said. Since most of them are still wild, it is rather difficult for the officers to reach them for vaccinations, especially vaccination against rabies. Although there are no reports of Kintamanian dogs being exposed to rabies, this potential can occur if they are left to live wildly. According to Mardiana, if bred, Kintama-
nian dogs will not undergo genetic changes. “However, its nature can change from wild to tame. Their health is also better monitored, “‘ he said. At present, Mardiana said that at Sukawana village, Bangli, there are already a number of people breeding the Kintamanian dogs. Usually the breeders have understood the economic value of the Kintamani breed so that they take good care of their dogs. Currently, the selling price of a two-month-old Kintamanian puppy reaches IDR 1,000,000. To ensure the authenticity of the race, some breeders already have certificates for their Kintamanian dogs. In the future, this certificate
will be encouraged by the provincial government of Bali so that all Kintamanian dogs can own it. “Getting this certificate needs a process like taking notes to determine the Kintamanian lineage. There are special authorities. In the future, we will facilitate Kintamanian dog breeders with the authorized institutions,” he explained. Mardiana also called for that when buying and selling Kintamanian dogs, the owners and buyers must pay attention to the history of rabies vaccination of the dogs. This is to prevent transmission of rabies across the regencies and of course to protect the Kintamanian dogs from the rabies virus. (kmb24)
Many residents bitten
Stray dogs at Ulun Danu Batur Temple eliminated
BANGLI - The elimination against stray dogs by the Bangli Agriculture, Food Security and Fisheries (PKP) Agency in the Batur village area, Kintamani, reaped a lot of criticism on social media. Pursuant to the criticism, the elimination activity did not only target stray dogs, but also the domestic dogs belonging to local residents. Division Head of the Animal Health at the PKP Bangli, Sri Rahayu, when asked for her confirmation in connection with the matter
on Sunday (Jun. 30) acknowledged that her agency had carried out stray dog elimination in the Batur region on Thursday. The elimination was carried out according to the SOP to selective and targeted dogs. Sri Rahayu explained the stray dog elimination was carried out on the request from apparatus of Batur customary village following a dog bite case happened to a pilgrim from Gianyar in the Ulun Danu Batur Temple area. “Indeed the results are positive (to rabies),”
she said. In the elimination activities carried out around the area of the Ulun Danu Batur Temple, Sri Rahayu said the officers were escorted and accompanied directly by several customary apparatuses. They even showed directly to the officers the stray dogs deserving to be eliminated. Approximately, a dozen of dogs were eliminated in the activity. “The officers did not dare to carelessly eliminate let alone come into people’s houses,” she explained.
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Bali Dynasty Resort Receives Renewed Five - Star Hotel Rating
Bali Dynasty Resort has officially had its Five-Star Hotel rating renewed after a recent Indonesian certification process and audit took place on 19th & 20th June 2019. This detailed evaluation was conducted by Sucofindo, a government-appointed independent business certification board. Following a thorough examination, the result from the two-day audit showed that Bali Dynasty Resort has successfully exceeded
KINTAMANIAN dog has been recognized worldwide as a world race dog by Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI). Therefore, to preserve Bali’s Germplasm the Bali provincial government plans to hold the Kintamanian Dog Contest 2019. If there are no obstacles, this contest will be held at the end of next August.
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Meanwhile, headman of Batur Tengah, Gede Sarjana, when asked for his confirmation separately also justified the same thing. He explained the stray dog elimination activity was carried out by officers in the Ulun Danu Batur Temple area on the request of customary village according to the results of the meeting. The elimination was carried out because many people have become victims of dog bites in the temple area. “Many people had been bitten, including Jero Kesinoman bitten
in the temple area. We are worried about the incoming pilgrims if they will be bitten as well,” he explained. He said that so far the number of stray dogs in the Ulun Danu Batur Temple area is quite a lot. They are not only wandering around the temple area, but also breed there. According to him, if indeed there are residents regretting the actions of the officers eliminating the stray dogs in the temple area, he asked the citizens to care more about their pets by tying or impounding them. (kmb40)
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prestigious accreditation, which is valid for three years, since June 2016. Such certification not only contributes to the resort’s positive image, it is also an assurance for guests that they will enjoy a great holiday experience. The certification is a part of a legal regulation by the current Indonesian Ministry of Tourism, which states that all hotels operating in the country must be audited by an independent business certification board.
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the launch of our street-front Gracie Kelly’s Irish Pub in March 2019 and the recent opening of a Premier Lounge that caters to late departing guests. In addition, a 109m lagoon pool and 16 re-designed family rooms with direct pool access will be ready to accommodate guests by mid July 2019. To date, almost every part of the resort has been refreshed and renewed making it the perfect home away from home for international travellers
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In mice, a high-fat diet cuts a ‘brake’ used to control appetite
NORTH CAROLINA - A gut-busting diet may set the brain up for more of the same. After mice ate fatty food for just two weeks, cells in their brains that send a “stop eating” signal were quieter than those in mice that didn’t eat high-fat chow, researchers report in the June 28 Science. The result helps untangle the complex relationship between food and appetite, one that can become muddled when people overeat. Because food is crucial to survival, the brain has built-in redundancy — a multitude of overlapping pro-food systems to make sure animals eat enough. Neuroscientist Garret Stuber of the University of Washington in Seattle took aim at one brain area known to be involved in eating behavior. Called the lateral hypothalamus, this brain structure contains a large number of diverse cells. Stuber and his colleagues looked at gene behavior in single cells there, and found that one group, called glutamatergic nerve cells, showed particularly big changes in which genes were active when the team compared lean mice with obese mice. Earlier work suggested that these glutamatergic cells acted like a brake on feeding: When the cells were artificially blocked from firing signals, mice ate more food and gained more weight. But it wasn’t clear how these cells actually behaved over a more natural shift from leanness to obesity. “Obesity doesn’t just happen overnight,” says Stuber, who conducted some of the work while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. To study that gradual transition, the researchers began feeding mice high-fat mouse chow, while periodically using a sophisticated microscope to look at the glutamatergic cells’ ability to fire off signals. Two weeks into the binge, even before the mice plumped up, the nerve cells already showed more sluggish activity, both in their spontaneous behavior and when an animal was given a sip of sweet liquid. That reduction continued as the animals grew larger, for up to 12 weeks, the researchers found. These cells’ “activity is going down as a function of a high-fat diet,” Stuber says. The results imply that “these cells’ decreased activity is removing the brake on feeding and obesity,” says neuroscientist Stephanie Borgland of the University of Calgary in Canada, who wrote a related commentary in the same issue of Science. The researchers don’t know whether these cells would regain their normal behavior if the mice stopped eating high-fat food and shed weight. It would be technically hard to keep monitoring the same cells for the weeks or months it would take for the mice to normalize their body weight, Stuber says. While the results offer a clear example of cells that control feeding behavior in mice, it’s hard to say whether similar appetite-suppressing nerve cells are at work in people. Brain-imaging experiments have shown that the same brain region, the hypothalamus, is involved when people shift between being hungry and full. Stuber points out that while these cells in mice seem particularly responsive to a high-fat diet, obesity probably affects a much wider population of cells. “This is probably happening across the brain,” he says. Understanding those complex interactions might ultimately point to better strategies for managing human appetites. (net)
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After weeks on a high-fat diet, certain cells showed less activity in part of the appetite-controlling part of the brain in mice, results that suggest the fatty diet encourages overeating.
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Scientists used a device consisting of two diamonds (similar to this one) to squeeze hydrogen to extreme pressure. The element turned into a metal, researchers report.
Latest claim of turning hydrogen into a metal may be the most solid yet
WASHINGTON - Physicists are crushing it — hydrogen, that is. Squeezing the chemical element to extremely high pressure transforms it into a metal, a trio of researchers claims. The purported metallic hydrogen appeared at a pressure more than 4 million times that of Earth’s atmosphere, the scientists report June 13 at arXiv.org. If confirmed, the achievement would fulfill a long-standing quest to produce the elusive metal, first predicted in the 1930s to exist. The work has yet to undergo peer review. But it is “definitely a very substantial step ahead” of previous research, says physicist Alexander Goncharov of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the study. “I think it’s quite conclusive it is metallic.” Other researchers are more skeptical. Physicist Eugene Gregoryanz of the University of Edinburgh says that he does not find the new experiment convincing, and notes that many previous claims of metallic hydrogen have been proven wrong in the end. Some aspects of the result disagree with previously published measurements of hydrogen at high pressure, says physicist Isaac Silvera of Harvard University. In 2017, he and his colleagues reported spot-
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ting hydrogen turning into a metal, a claim that was criticized by other scientists, including Gregoryanz (SN: 2/18/17, p. 14). Physicist Paul Loubeyre of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Arpajon, a coauthor of the new study, did not respond to requests for comment for this article. Metallic hydrogen is particularly enticing to physicists because of predictions that it may be a superconductor, a material that allows electricity to flow without resistance. But unlike other known superconductors, which must be chilled to very low temperatures, metallic hydrogen might be a superconductor at room temperature. Scientists’ eventual goal is to find a superconductor that requires neither cooling nor high pressure. If such materials are found, they could be integrated into electronics and save vast amounts of energy. To create the purported metal, Loubeyre and colleagues squeezed hydrogen gas between two diamonds. An improved setup, with diamonds etched with a doughnut
shape, allowed the researchers to reach higher pressures than previous experiments. Using a powerful source of light called a synchrotron, the team sent infrared light through the diamonds and the squeezed hydrogen. As the physicists ratcheted up the pressure, the hydrogen suddenly became opaque to the light, a sign of a transition to a metal. “It’s the best experimental data to date on hydrogen in this pressure range,” says physicist Russell Hemley of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The behavior of hydrogen at high pressures is complex, taking on a variety of different phases depending on the conditions, as molecules and atoms rearrange under the squeeze. For example, there may be semimetallic phases as well as a true metal. It’s unclear what the properties of the claimed metal are, such as whether it is superconducting. But the new result adds to the complexities of hydrogen that scientists have already uncovered, Hemley says. “It’s part of this developing story about the nature of hydrogen at high pressure.” (net)
LOW Key technique is often applied by photographers to produce dramatic photos by using more dominant darker tones. Low key lighting tends to intensify contrast in images by reducing the intensity of lighting. The basic principle of the low key technique is not just intended to produce dark images, but instead requires a photographer to selectively use lighting so that only certain parts of the object are illuminated. Typical features of a photo produced with a low key technique are having most of the tones in the shadow region. Most of the photos actually look dark. Only certain parts of the object look bright. The photos produced with the low key technique utilize contrast in different ways to attract the attention of those who enjoy the photo. Low key techniques are generally applied by photographers in the studio to photograph models and products to make them look elegant, by using lighting arrangement. However, it does not necessarily mean that dramatic and artistic low key photos cannot be produced by using natural lighting. Indeed it is rather difficult compared to photographing in studio, considering we cannot fully control the incoming light. One of the ways to produce low key photos without using studio lights is by taking pictures outside the room at night. We will benefit naturally because of
the dark conditions. However, we must be smart to find the right light source. Moonlight or city lights can be good sources of lighting. The road only illuminated by dim lights and city parks can be an ideal location for producing photos with low key techniques. The rest just need our foresight to take advantage of varied lighting conditions to produce dramatic photos. When shooting with a low key technique, look for a background having two brightness levels below the object. For example, the object is illuminated with dim lights and the background is dark. After that, set the camera to manual mode, darken or underexpose the background up to 2 stops. Set the aperture and shutter speed as desired when the EV marker is at the number -2. When shooting with a low key technique, make sure the light entering the camera is minimal but not too dark. For example, set the exposure at 1/80 sec, the aperture f / 6.3, and ISO 100. The usage of low ISO usually produces too dark images, but this is exactly what is needed. At ISO 100, the image quality of photo will remain high due to minimal noise and the object’s color will stand out against a solid black background. Have a nice try of the low key technique. (ian)
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North Bali Airport to be built after supporting infrastructure ready SINGARAJA — Certainty when the North Bali International Airport will begin to get a clue. Right now, the public is still waiting for when the location determination permit is issued. The latest news told that central government has not yet issued the permit because it is still focused on preparing road infrastructure from South Bali to North Bali. This access is considered very important so that airport operations run optimally. This was revealed by Bali Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, during a working visit to Buleleng last week. During his visit, he was accompanied by Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana (PAS), Deputy Regent Nyoman Sutjidra and Chairperson of Buleleng House of Representatives, Gede Supriatna. Governor said the access to North Bali must be able to shorten the travel time. On that account, the airport in North Bali will be able to operate optimally. The governor added the North Bali Airport later may not be like the Kertajati Airport in Majalengka, West Java, where the infrastructure is not operating optimally because of insufficient access. “Do not let it resemble to the Kertajati Airport where it has not owned an access so the airport is quiet. I think this is only a matter of time because the access to North Bali must be smooth first. I think the shortcut is not enough because it remains to take 2.5 hours, so there must be alternative access,” he said. According to this governor from Sembiran village, Tejakula, the central government has considered several alternative accesses to North Bali, such as the construction of railroad lines, bypass or a combination of bypass roads with toll
roads. Meanwhile, the alternative toll road section is fully considered less appropriate in Bali. He is going to conduct a study in advance regarding the making of access to the infrastructure. He promised that during his leadership the alternative access can be realized, so that the construction of North Bali Airport can begin. “This is very technical, so that I have not dared to comment much as this must be discussed first,” he said firmly. As reported earlier, the discourse on the development of North Bali Airport had received certainty to be soon realized with the presence of important officials of Indonesia starting from the Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi to the special staff of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Lenis Kogoya. At that time, Minister Budi Karya Sumadi confirmed the North Bali International Airport at Kubutambahan village, Kubutambahan, will be immediately built on land owned by Kubutambahan customary village. The development process begins with a feasibility study started in January 2019. After the feasibility study is completed around 4 months in April, it was followed with a bidding process for cooperation with private sector (bidding). Meanwhile, the special staff of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Lenis Kogoya promised to immediately coordinate with Ministry of Transportation, regarding the issuance of permits for determining the airport location. This was conveyed by Lenis Kogoya when meeting with the traditional leaders of Kubutambahan and residents regarding the planned airport construction at Kubutambahan village on February 21, 2019. (kmb38)
Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster
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Tutankhamun sculpture’s London auction sparks Egyptian outcry
US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea.
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The storyline presented entitled Sastra Semara Pingit with the background of the Panji story is full of romance and royal life as the feature of the gong drama so far.
Mudra art troupe restores the guidelines of drama gong
PERFORMANCE of drama gong art had experienced its heyday in the 1980s and 1990s. However, after that the guidelines of the drama gong performance began to fade. To restore the guidelines of the drama gong, the Mudra Art Troupe of Petang as the envoy of Badung district in the drama gong parade of the Bali Arts Festival 2019 has a mission to restore the guidelines of the drama gong. When making performance in the Ayodya Stage of Bali Art Center on Saturday night (Jun. 29), the drama gong players from the Mudra Art Troupe were able to suck up visitors to watch it. Moreover, their three-hour appearance seemed to have been able to relieve the longing of drama gong lovers. The storyline presented entitled Sastra Semara Pingit with the background of the Panji story is full of romance and royal life as the feature of the gong drama so far. This Panji story is composed as attractive as possible without losing the identity and guidelines of the drama gong itself. Through the Panji story, the audiences are introduced to sor singgih or level of Balinese speaking language in the royal palace of Bali. Performance of the storyline
only relies on five players having the experience in playing drama gong, while the rest are the artists playing their roles for the first time in such drama gong. Meanwhile, the exercises were carried out for about four months. The storyline of Sastra Semara Pingit tells about the romance of princess of the Daha kingdom of the first wife with the viceroy who is full of intricacies because of the greed of the second wife of the king of Daha. The second wife of the Daha king originating from Pejarakan is famous for her black magic. In one scene, the princess is kidnapped by a crazy king after he injured the viceroy. The viceroy is worried about the safety of the princess. However, Vice Regent Anom advised the viceroy not to worry about it. Moreover, before
her mother of the princess died, the deceased had given the princess the an ajian or ‘magic application’ named Sastra Semara Pingit where no one can associate with the princess without being desired by the princess herself. The moral message wishing to be conveyed to the audience is that the truth will always win even though it should take a long and winding path. No matter how much suffering happens in the end if we are right, honest and patient, we will achieve what we expect. “In addition to restoring the guidelines of drama gong, through the performance of the drama gong, we also want to introduce sor singgih to Balinese language to younger generation,” said the Coordinator of the Mudra Art Troupe, I Gusti Lanang Subamya. (win)
North Korea hails ‘historic’ Kim-Trump summit
SEOUL - North Korea on Monday hailed the weekend meeting between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in the Demilitarized Zone as “historic”, as analysts said Pyongyang was looking to shape the narrative to its own agenda. The two leaders agreed to “resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, the official Korean Central News Agency said. After a Twitter invitation by the US president on Saturday, the two men met a day later in the strip of land that has divided the peninsula for 66 years since the end of the Korean War, when the two countries and their allies fought each other to a standstill. Kim and Trump shook hands over the concrete slabs dividing North and South before Trump walked a few paces into Pyongyang’s territory -- the first US president ever to set foot on North Korean soil. “The top leaders of the DPRK and the US exchanging historic handshakes at Panmunjom” was an “amazing event”, KCNA said, describing the truce village as a “place that had been known as the symbol of division” and referring to past “inglorious relations” between the countries. The impromptu meeting in the DMZ -- where the US president said they agreed to resume working-level talks within weeks on the North’s nuclear programme -- was full of symbolism. Trump’s border-crossing -which he said was uncertain until the last moment -- was an extraordinary sequel to the scene at Kim’s
first summit with Moon Jae-in last year, when the young leader invited the South Korean president to walk over the Military Demarcation Line, as the border is officially known. “It was an honour that you asked me to step over that line, and I was proud to step over the line,” Trump told Kim. Pictures from the meeting -including a sequence of images from the two men emerging from opposite sides for a handshake and a skip across the border -- were splashed across the front page of the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, which carried 35 images in total. Shin Beom-chul, an analyst at the Asan Institute of Policy Studies, said the KCNA report was “typical North Korean propaganda that glorified Kim as leading the tremendous changes in geopolitics”. - ‘Mysterious force’ Analysts have been divided by Sunday’s events, some saying they spurred new momentum into deadlocked nuclear talks, while others described them as “reality show theatrics”. The first Trump-Kim summit took place in a blaze of publicity in Singapore last year but produced only a vaguely worded pledge about denuclearisation. A second meeting in Vietnam in
February collapsed after the pair failed to reach an agreement over sanctions relief and what the North was willing to give in return. Contact between the two sides has since been minimal -- with Pyongyang
issuing frequent criticisms of the US position -- but the two leaders exchanged a series of letters before Trump issued his offer to meet at the DMZ. Regional powerhouse China on Monday said renewed discussions between North Korea and the United States are of “great significance”. “It is hoped that all parties concerned will seize the opportunity, move in the same direction, actively explore effective solutions to each other’s concerns and make progress on the peninsula,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters in Beijing. (afp)
LONDON - A 3,000-year-old head sculpture of an eternally-young Tutankhamun -- the Egyptian pharaoh known as King Tut -- goes under the hammer this week in London despite an outcry from Cairo. Christie’s expects the 28.5-centimetre (11-inch) brown quartzite relic from the Valley of the Kings to fetch more than £4 million ($5.1 million, 4.5 million euros) on Thursday. The Financial Times reported that it was the first such Egyptian statuette to go on the market since 1985. The pharaoh’s finely-chiselled head -- its serene eyes and puffed lips emoting a sense of eternal peace -- comes from the private Resandro Collection of ancient art that Christie’s last sold in 2016 for £3 million. But Egyptian authorities overseeing the north African country’s unparalleled collection of antiquities want to see the auction halted and the treasure returned. “The Egyptian embassy in London requested the British foreign affairs ministry and the auction hall to stop the sale,” Egypt’s foreign ministry said on June 10. Former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass told AFP on Sunday that the piece appears to
have been “stolen” in the 1970s from the Karnak Temple complex of Egypt’s great monuments. “The owners have given false information,” he said in a telephone interview. “They have not shown any legal papers to prove its ownership.” The French-owned British auction house explained that the current lot was acquired by Resandro from a Munich-based dealer in 1985. It traces its prior origins to the 1973-74 acquisition by another dealer in Austria from the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis in modern-day Germany. The trail peters out shortly afterwords and little is known to the public about how the statue found its way to Europe. “Ancient objects by their nature cannot be traced over millennia,” Christie’s said in a statement released to AFP. “It is hugely important to establish recent ownership and legal right to sell which we have clearly done,” it added. “We would not offer for sale any object where there was concern over ownership or export.” Britain’s Foreign Office has been in touch with Egyptian authorities but is not expected to intervene. (afp)
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An undated handout picture released by the auction house Christie’s in London on June 26, 2019, shows a 3,000-year-old stone bust of Tutankhamun, set to be auctioned on July 4.
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International forum: Don’t expect cheap money to do it all
FRANKFURT - Stocks have risen on expectation of more help from central banks, but an international financial forum warned Sunday that the global recovery can’t just rely on support from the likes of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank to get past its current shaky stretch. The admonition from the Bank for International Settlements comes as the Fed and the ECB are signaling that more stimulus could be on the way. That message from Fed chair Jay Powell and ECB head Mario Draghi has helped send stock higher in Europe and the S&P 500 in the U.S. to a record high. The BIS is cautioning that governments need to bring other policies into the game — and that there are risks in relying too much on central bank stimulus such as cuts in interest rates and bond purchases that lower market borrowing costs. Those other policies include government spending where possible on growth-friendly infrastructure as well as progrowth reforms such as slashing red tape for business. “Monetary policy can no longer be the main engine of economic growth, and other policy drivers need to kick in to ensure the global economy achieves sustainable momentum,” the BIS said in its annual economic report. BIS General Manager Agustin Carstens warned that while stimulus can help in the short run, it can have side effects further out such as over-inflating asset prices such as stocks and bonds, and feeding less productive zombie firms that wouldn’t survive without cheap borrowing. Policymakers, he said, need “to be mindful of all those tradeoffs.” The BIS, a forum for central banks based in Basel, Switzerland, said the service industries and falling unemployment can shore up the ailing global recover in
coming months. Rising wages and less unemployment are offsetting a slowdown in manufacturing and global trade. Still, it said significant risks remain, notably related to trade tensions between the U.S. and China. U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to reduce China’s trade surplus and has imposed new tariffs, or import taxes, while negotiating for a trade deal. Despite some apparent progress at a meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the summit of leaders from the Group of 20 countries in Osaka, Japan, there’s uncertainty about the outcome, and whether more tariffs might be coming. “The trade tensions bring up questions about the viability of existing supply chain structures and the very future of the global trading system,” Carstens said in a speech to the BIS annual meeting Sunday. “It bears repeating: trade wars have no winners, only losers. Another risk he identified is high levels of corporate debt. Carstens pointing to “clear signs of overheating in the corporate sector in a number of advanced countries.” He called attention to the $3 trillion market in so-called leveraged loans — those that are made to already indebted companies and then often sliced up and sold on to investors. “Credit standards have been declining as investors have searched for yield,” he said. “Should the leveraged loans sector deteriorate, the economic impact could be amplified through the banking system.”(ap)
Keben Comes with Glass and Shell Decorations
Many craftsmen increasingly innovate so that their products always survive. One of them is keben crafter from Kukuh village, Marga, Tabanan. We can find its innovative products in the 41st Bali Arts Festival (BAF) at the Bali Art Center. The keben exhibited is decorated with glass and shells. The keben business pioneered by Made Wintara originated from an economic downturn due to the Bali Bombing I in 2002. Today, for almost 16 years, the business of making glass and shelf keben remains to exist and is not affected by fluctuating economic conditions. Currently, the market is not only in Bali but also outside Bali. According to Gita Suandewi, the daughter of Made Wintara, when met at the booth of Bali
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In this file photo dated Saturday June 22, 2019, The European Central Bank during sunset in Frankfurt, Germany. The European Central Bank and US Federal Reserve are signalling that more stimulus could be on the way which has sent stocks higher, but an international forum for central bankers is warning Sunday June 30, 2019, that the global economic recovery will need further support to get past its current shaky stretch.
Inflation remains weak in eurozone as ECB mulls stimulus FRANKFURT - Consumer price inflation across the 19 countries that use the euro remained stuck at an annual 1.2% in June, well below their central bank’s goal despite years of stimulus policies. The official figure released Friday by the EU statistics agency
matched the May reading and came in short of the European Central Bank’s target of just under 2% considered best for the economy. The figure for core inflation, which excludes volatile fuel and food prices, rose more than some expected, however, climbing to 1.1%
from 0.8% in May. Core inflation is considered to give a truer picture of trends in consumer prices. ECB President Mario Draghi said last week that unless inflation improves, more stimulus such as interest rate cuts or bond purchases will be needed.
In December, the central bank phased out a 2.6 trillion euro ($2.9 trillion) bond-purchase stimulus program that pumped newly printed money into the economy over almost four years, saying inflation was finally headed toward the target. But since then the bank has
had to shift its stance toward more stimulus as economic indicators have been weaker and fears have grown that the U.S.-China trade conflict will hurt growth. The European Central Bank holds its next policy meeting July 25.(ap)
Arts Festival (BAF) on Tuesday (Jun. 18), the keben craft business pioneered by her father since 2003 is named the Mozaik Hindu Bali. At that time, Wintara was forced to change profession because the business of the company where he worked was sluggish due to the Bali Bombing I. “Initially, my father made mannequins and jars decorated with glass mosaic. But the order was canceled. To prevent from losing money, my father then
decorated the keben with glass mosaic,” explained Gita. Unexpectedly, in fact the innovation of keben decorated with glass mosaic is much in demand. In 2015, her keben ornaments also used shells. In the BAF arena, her keben products are sold for around IDR 100,000 to IDR 250,000. Gita added the keben ornaments are brought in from Java. “We usually order 10 to 20 kilograms of shell per month in Java,” he said. (kmb)
Artists from Bali, Singapore, US collaborate on ‘wayang’ performance DENPASAR - A number of artists from Bali, Singapore, and the U.S. showed an innovative collaboration performance of ‘wayang’ (Indonesian traditional puppet show) under the theme “He Who Saw the Deep” at the event of the 41st Bali Arts Festival 2019 which was held at the Bali Art Centre, Denpasar. “This is the first collaboration with non-Singaporean artists so that I am very pleased to be a producer of this event,” producer Elena Yeo from Singapore said at Ksirarnawa Building on Saturday, June 29, night.
This event of “He Who Saw the Deep” tells the story of King Gilgamesh who had achieved the enlightenment. Gilgamesh was reminded to have more attention to nature and people loved him after he knew about the deepest meaning between life and death. In the two-hour performance, “He Who Saw the Deep” presented the epic ancient story to the audiences at the biggest annual art festival in Bali. The performing artists were I Kadek Budi Setiawan and I Wayan Mardika from Bali as the actors, Shawn M. from the
U.S. as the narrator, and Ayu Sada from Bali as the singer of Balinese accompaniment songs. There were also modern and traditional aspects on the setting transitions of the performance. “Wayang should not be ended, it should always be alive,” the actor Setiawan stated as by this he hoped innovative collaboration performance of wayang would make society interested in wayang amid the global era. After its performance at Bali Arts Festival, “He Who Saw the Deep” will also be performed in Singapore.(ant)
Tuesday, 2nd July 2019 Time
: 09.00 MIT
Location : Citta Kalangen Hall, ISI Denpasar Program : Seminar Time
: 11.00 MIT
Location : Ayodya Stage Program : the Great Show of Popular Artists, Sudamala Arts Group, the Banjar of Sukajati, Taman village, Abiansemal subdistrict representing Badung regency Time
: 14.00 MIT
Location : Angsoka Stage Program : Telek and Rejang Dance Performance by Taksu Murti Kemanisan Arts Group, Legian village, Kuta subdistrict, representing Badung Regency Time
: 16.30 MIT
Location : in the area of the Art Centre Program : Nglawang – performing dance and musics by going around the area, by the Arts Group of Gurnita Santhi, the Banjar of Ambengan, Pedungan village, South Denpasar subdistrict, representing Denpasar Time
: 19.30 MIT
Location : Ksirarnawa Hall Program : Parade of Janger Malampahan, by Maos Pait Arts Group, Taman Bali Village, representing Bangli Regency Time
: 19.30 MIT
Location : Ardha Candra Amphitheatre Program : Parade of Gong Kebyar Musics for Adults, by ‘Maheswara Jaya Pasti’ Group, Perancak village, representing Jembrana Regency to meet ‘Manggeh Jayengrat’ Group of Munggu village, Mengwi sub district, representing Badung Regency
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Insect apocalypse: German bug watchers sound alarm
KREFELD - For almost 30 years they passed as quirky eccentrics, diligently setting up their insect traps in the Rhine countryside to collect tens of millions of bugs and creepy crawlers. Now the group of German entomology enthusiasts can boast a world-class scientific treasure: evidence of what is described as one of Earth’s worst extinction phases since the dinosaurs vanished. Insects, which comprise two thirds of all terrestrial species, have been dying off at alarming rates, with disastrous impacts on food chains and habitats, researchers say. The home of the Amateur Entomology Society of Krefeld on the Dutch border is a former school building where thick curtains block out the sunlight. Inside in glass cabinets are stored thousands of butterflies, their wings bleached by time, along with exotic fist-sized beetles and dragonflies, brought back from around the world by amateur collectors. - Treasure trove Traditionally “entomology was mainly about drying and collecting rare specimens,” says the society’s president Martin Sorg, wearing John Lennonstyle glasses, a multi-pocket jacket and sandals.
He and an army of volunteers have over the years gathered as many as 80 million insects that are now floating in countless ethanol bottles. Each bottle contains the amount caught by a single insect trap over a set period, and each box represents a collection of such catches over nearly three decades. “Since 1982, the traps we manufacture ourselves have been standardised and controlled, all of the same size and the same material, and they are collected at the same rate in 63 locations that are still identical,” explains Sorg. The result is a treasure trove of quantitative data that dwarfs that of any funded university project, he says. But if he is visibly proud of the society’s research, the outcome terrifies him: in the test period, the total biomass of flying insects here has plummeted by 76 percent. - Quaint Sunday hobby To demonstrate the rapid decline, a lab technician holds up two bottles: one from 1994 contains 1,400 grammes of trapped insects,
the newest one just 300 grammes. “We only became aware of the seriousness of this decline in 2011, and every year since then we have seen it get worse,” says Sorg, the man who sounded the alarm. At the time, the news didn’t make major waves outside ecological circles. Concern about biodiversity loss focused mostly on large charismatic mammal species, and environmental monitoring such as that in Krefeld was considered a quaint Sunday hobby, largely ignored by the scientific community. Also in 2011, just across the Dutch border, ecology professor Hans de Kroon was working on the decline of birds in the region. He hypothesised that the birds suffered from a shortage of food, especially insects, but had no data to prove it. “Then our German colleagues from Krefeld got in touch and said, ‘we have the data, we’ve witnessed a strong decline, we are very concerned, could you analyse the data?’. “That’s how it all started.” (afp)
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Martin Sorg, entomologist and president of the volunteer-run Entomology Society Krefeld, holds an insect on a field in Krefeld, western Germany, on May 9, 2019. For almost 30 years they passed as quirky eccentrics, diligently setting up their insect traps in the Rhine countryside to collect tens of millions of bugs and creepy-crawlies.
Heatwave sees surge in drowning victims in Poland, Lithuania WARSAW - Nearly 150 people drowned, the vast majority of them men, in Poland and neighbouring Lithuania in June as temperatures soared to record highs, officials said on Monday. Poland’s Government Centre for Security (RCB) said that 113 people drowned in June, including ten on Sunday alone, as the EU country of 38 million people sizzled. “As successive heatwaves set in, not a day went by in June without someone drowning,” Bozena Wysocka, an RCB spokeswoman told AFP on Monday, adding that 90 percent of the victims were male.
Alcohol consumption and recklessness were cited among the leading causes. Thirty-two people drowned in neighbouring Lithuania, fire and rescue officials said. The death toll, which included 26 men, was the highest in the last five years in the Baltic state of 2.8 million. Poland recorded its highest ever June temperature with mercury soaring to 38.2 degrees Celsius. Lithuanian temperatures also hit a record June high of 35.7 degrees Celsius (96.2 degrees Fahrenheit), forcing school closures and threatening crops. (afp)
Beachgoers enjoy a sunny day at the public bathing beach “Strandbad Wannsee” at Wannsee lake as the heatwave in Europe continues, on June 30, 2019 in Berlin.
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Police encouraged to probe into crimes in sea: Susi
JAKARTA - Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti encourages the National Police (Polri) officers to conduct a comprehensive investigation against the perpetrators of various illegal activities in Indonesia’s seas to support national sovereignty. In a press release that ANTARA received here on Sunday, Susi said that the police had a very important role to play in maintaining Indonesia’s sovereignty. She raised the issue while delivering a public lecture at Polri’s High Staff and Command School (Sespimti) in Jakarta, on Friday (June 28). On that occasion, the minister emphasized the important role of the police to take action against foreign fishing boat owners who carry out illegal activities in Indonesian waters. This reflects on her experience in handling the case of a large fish carrier loaded with 3,000 tons of fish in Sabang, Aceh Province, as well as other vessels such as MV Viking and STS 50 some time ago. Minister Susi said that even though she managed to capture those vessels and confiscate a cargo of fish worth Rp20billion in it, real ship owners and masterminds had not been dragged by law enforcers. She revealed that the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has limitations in handling similar cases, because it is only able to punish field actors. Therefore, she said, the police are expected to be able to fill the role in taking action against the ship owners who are perpetrators of illegal activities in the sea and other masterminds of those acts of crime. In overcoming the issue, education in police institutions must be improved to enable the police investigators to handle various crime cases in the sea. “(One of the main requirements in) developed countries, modern countries, and prosperous countries is the law enforcement which strives to go in a direction with integrity,” she noted. Conducting a full and comprehensive investigation against the perpetrators of crimes in the sea is very important to support growth in marine and fisheries sectors. Therefore, the ministry continues carrying out policies in combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. “The keys to eradicating the IUU fishing are national policy and strong political support. We encourage countries to make strict policies, invest in increasing law enforcement capacity, and take stern law enforcement measures to close doors the occurrence of IUU fishing,” the ministry’s Research and HR Agency Head Sjarief Widjaja explained. According to Sjarief, eradicating IUU fishing through various regional and international cooperation forums is important because the perpetrators are often cross-country. In addition, he said, illegal fishing activities were also carried out by foreign ships with crews from various nationalities.(ant)
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Indonesian people participate in the carnival parade to mark the 492nd anniversary of the capital city in Jakarta on June 30, 2019.
Jakarnaval 2019 portrays local and foreign culture, arts
JAKARTA - Jakarnaval 2019, a traditional arts and culture parade to celebrate the capital city’s anniversary, repeated the success achieved during last year’s edition by showcasing local and foreign traditional arts performances. Some 3,500 people grouped in 65 contingents representing Jakarta’s indigenous Betawi community, several other Indonesian regions, such as Yogyakarta and Ponorogo (East Java), Bima (West Nusa Tenggara), and Papua, as well as foreign countries, including South Korea, Morocco, India, and China, also participated in the carnival. “We organize this in order to invite everybody to join in the celebrations to welcome Jakarta’s anniversary,” Anies Baswedan, the Jakarta governor, stated after officially opening the Jakarnaval on Sunday (June 30, 2019). The Jakarnaval 2019 parade, themed “The New Face of Jakarta,” was organized as part of the celebrations to commemorate Jakarta’s 492nd anniversary.
The embassies of Morocco, South Korea, Belgium, Pakistan, Japan, and Australia, among others, took part in the event, Head of Destination and Marketing, Jakarta Tourism Office, Hari Wibowo had informed ANTARA earlier. Jakarnaval has been included in the ministry’s annual calendar of tourism events. Next year, travel agents will be able to promote and sell Jakarnaval in their tourism packages, Wibowo added. He is upbeat that the event would receive greater publicity following cooperation between the Jakarta administration and the Ministry of Tourism. Kepulauan Seribu (One Thousand Islands) District, which is under the administration of the Jakarta Special Region, presented several artists dressed in
vibrant traditional clothing based on the theme of “One Thousand Colors” during the parade. Rich and colorful Indonesian traditions and culture displayed during the carnival captivated a Belgian tourist, Floortje Clerix. “I am pleased to see those costumes, dances, and music, as all of them showcase Indonesian traditions. They are very colorful. It is interesting to be able to see the varied cultures of Indonesia,” Clerix stated. Jakarnaval was earlier organized in 2018 after being held in 2015. While inaugurating the event, Baswedan expressed optimism that the annual event would help boost the microeconomic and macroeconomic conditions of the capital city.(ant)
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Undisan tourism village BANGLI - Tourism village in Bangli is not only Penglipuran alone. In Tembuku subdistrict, there is Undisan tourism village. Even though having been stipulated in the mid of 2014, the tourism village applying the Tri Hita Karana (three sources of happiness) concept is already quite well known among travelers. To get to this tourism village is not difficult. From the town of Bangli, travelers only take about 15 minutes by choosing the Ban-
gli-Besakih road section. As the instruction you have arrived at the location, simply use the banyan tree growing in the corner intersection as the directive. As soon as setting foot, the beautiful atmosphere can have been immediately experienced. A local tourism player, I Putu Winastra, said that the newly initiated tourism village in less than three years has become a new destination in supporting the advancement of tourism in Bali. To
pamper travelers, he does not only offer natural beauty of countryside, but also the concept of Tri Hita Karana. “The concept has become the branding of this tourism village. All this time, we also have the concept of sustainable tourism where from the beginning we have combined the concept of ecology and tradition,” he said. This tourism village bordering with Bangbang village has been equipped with accommodation named De Klumpu Bali and De
Umah Bali. In addition, nearby location offers a waterfall, natural trekking path, cycling, jewelry craft center and activities of experiencing life as a farmer. Likewise, travelers can get traditional Balinese cooking recipes in the activity of traditional cooking class and other activities that will certainly give you an unforgettable experience that may not be found in other places. “There are several objects considered to become an adequate tourism supporting destination,”
he explained. In order to introduce this object, promotional measures continue to be made. Considering the recent visit is quite crowded, the government is expected to provide support in terms of infrastructure and superstructure, such as quality of human resources, quality tourist destinations, management and others. “Development of tourism village should be mutually supported and is the promotion,” said Winastra. (sos)
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Verstappen retains Austria win after stewards’ investigation
SPIELBERG - Max Verstappen retained his victory for Red Bull in a thrilling Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday following a stewards’ hearing. The 21-year-old Dutchman won the race after forcing his way past Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari in a wheel-bashing passing move two laps from the end of a race that was a shot in the arm for Formula One after the soporific French GP. The incident was swiftly put under official investigation by the race stewards, who confirmed the result nearly three hours after the race ended. In a statement, the FIA said: “We did not consider that either driver was wholly or predominantly to blame for the incident. We consider that this is a racing incident.” The outcome meant more disappointment for Ferrari after they were on the wrong side of a stewards’ decision in Canada, where Sebastian Vettel was deprived of victory after he had won the race. That race was handed to Mercedes’ defending five-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who had finished second. Leclerc has twice suffered disappointment and frustration when seemingly set for victory, having missed out in Bahrain where he was foiled by a late engine problems. His barnstorming victory in Austria came after a thrilling charge following a terrible start that saw him drop to seventh on the opening lap, after starting alongside pole sitter Leclerc on the front row of the grid. The two drivers made up the youngest front row in F1 history. It was the 21-year-old Dutchman’s sixth career win and ended Mercedes record run of eight straight wins this season and ten overall. It also delighted a huge orange-clad army of Dutch supporters. - ‘The right result’ Leclerc finished second for Ferrari ahead of Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes, Vettel and Hamilton. Hamilton now has 197 points in the drivers’ standings, 31 ahead of Bottas, with Verstappen third on 126. “It’s the right result, the right thing for Max, for Formula One and for Honda,” said Red Bull team chief Christian Horner. “It’s been a very stressful last few hours,” said Verstappen. “But it is the right result and the right result for F1.” Before the stewards delivered their verdict, Verstappen said the incident was merely “hard racing” and that if he were penalised there would be “no point in F1 -- and we should all go and stay at home.” Horner said the sort of wheel-to-wheel racing that sparked the investigation was essential for the future of Formula One. “This is what we need – drivers going wheel-to-wheel and fighting each other,” he said. (afp)
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Red Bull Racing’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen celebrates on the podium after the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix in Spielberg on June 30, 2019.
Defending men’s singles champion, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, speaks during a press conference at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 29, 2019, two days before the start of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament.
Djokovic, Osaka share centre stage on Wimbledon opening day
LONDON - Defending champion Novak Djokovic shares centre stage on Centre Court with Naomi Osaka on Monday as Wimbledon gets underway. Top seed and world number one Djokovic is seeking a fifth Wimbledon and 16th major as the Serb attempts to bounce back from his shattering Roland Garros exit. His five-set semi-final loss to Dominic Thiem ended his hopes of becoming just the second man in history to hold all four majors at the same time on two occasions. On Monday, he opens proceedings on Centre Court against German veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber. It will be their fourth meeting in 2019 -- 35-year-old Kohlschreiber winning at Indian Wells before Djokovic triumphed at Monte Carlo and Rome. “I am fine-tuning. I’m working on my movement. I’m working on the right balance on the court, trying to execute the shots, take short balls, come in,” said Djokovic, who was also Wimbledon champion in 2011, 2014 and 2015. Djokovic has added 2001 Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic to his team following a call out of the blue. “It’s all unusual, a rather unexpected call came a few days ago,” Ivanisevic told Serbian reporters at the All England Club, according to sports channel sportklub online. “Unfortunately it seems I will be able to stay only for the first week since I have obligations. I’m trying to postpone them,” he said, adding that “when Novak Djokovic calls you, you put many things aside.”
Japanese second seed Osaka, the US and Australian Open winner, lost her world top ranking to Roland Garros champion Ashleigh Barty recently. However, the 21-year-old was not too upset by the new order after complaining in Paris that she was suffering from stress and headaches as she exited in the third round. Osaka could be facing another stressful afternoon on Monday when she starts her campaign against Yulia Putintseva who has a 2-0 career hold over the Japanese. One of those wins came on grass in Birmingham less than two weeks ago. Osaka has yet to get past the third round at Wimbledon although her two previous visits saw defeats to 2018 champion Angelique Kerber and five-time champion Venus Williams. Venus, now 39, first played at the All England Club in 1997. Her opponent on Court One on Monday, 15-year-old compatriot Cori Gauff was still seven years away from being born. Gauff is the youngest player ever to have qualified for Wimbledon and comes into the tournament ranked at 313 in the world. She needed a wild card to play in qualifying while juggling her high school tests in the evening.
“She’s an exciting young player, and she’s so cool,” said Venus’s sister Serena of Gauff. “She’s a great girl. It’s a great moment for her and for Venus.” Elsewhere on Monday, women’s third seed Karolina Pliskova, fresh from beating Wimbledon champion Kerber in the Eastbourne final on Saturday, faces China’s Zhu Lin. Pliskova has never got beyond the fourth round at Wimbledon. Fellow former world number one Simona Halep, the deposed French Open champion, made the semi-finals at the All England Club in 2014. The Romanian ninth seed starts against Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus. ‘NextGen’ stars Alexander Zverev, seeded six, and seventh-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas face Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic and Italy’s Thomas Fabbiano respectively. Kevin Anderson, the 2018 runnerup, is seeded four this year but has been battling an elbow injury. The giant South African, who last year featured in the second longest match ever played at Wimbledon when he overcame John Isner in a 6-hour 36-minute semi-final, starts Monday against Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France. (afp)
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Lampard excused from Derby pre-season to conclude Chelsea return
Derby County have excused manager Frank Lampard from the start to the Championship club’s pre-season training programme with the former midfielder expected to complete a return to Chelsea this week. Lampard was last week given permission to speak to the Blues, with whom he won 13 trophies in 13 years as a player at Stamford Bridge. “Derby County Football Club has excused Frank Lampard from reporting back for pre-season training on Monday and Tuesday to allow his discussions regarding a potential move to Chelsea to be concluded as soon as possible,” Derby said in a statement on Monday. “On the assumption that Frank will reach an agreement with Chelsea to become their new manager, the club shall step up its efforts to find a replacement manager.” Chelsea have been seeking a new manager since Maurizio Sarri departed to take charge of Juventus last month.(afp)
Brazil’s Everton, center, reacts during a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match against Paraguay at the Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Thursday, June 27, 2019.
‘Little onion’ Everton making Brazilians cry with joy at Copa
When Neymar was ruled out of the Copa America with an ankle injury just over a week before the big kick-off, there was reason for hosts Brazil to dispair. But one player more than any other has given rise to renewed optimism within the Selecao ranks, and that’s Everton -- a player reportedly courted by both Manchester clubs, City and United, and Paris Saint-Germain. The dynamic 23-year-old winger has been a revelation for Brazil since earning a starting berth in their final Copa America group game against Peru. He had already scored the third goal in a 3-0 win over Bolivia in the tournament opener after coming on as a substitute. After the dire 0-0 draw with Venezuela, Everton was one of two changes made by coach Tite to Brazil’s attacking triumvirate -- Gabriel Jesus was also promoted to the starting XI -- and rewarded his coach with another goal and swashbuckling performance down the left flank.
And in his home stadium in Porto Alegre, where he plays for Gremio, Everton was the one player who lifted the crowd onto their feet every time he got the ball in an otherwise frustrating blank against Paraguay in the quarter-finals, before Brazil won on penalties. “He’s the one who opens up the marking, who faces up to it,” said Atletico Madrid full-back Filipe Luis, who’s linked up well with Everton down the flank. “Those who benefit are those players playing close to him.” That’s a move that will likely materialize once this tournament is over for the player nicknamed “Cebolinha” -- little onion, a reference not to him making defenders cry but to his likeness to a cartoon character of the same name due to the tuft of hair on his otherwise shaved scalp. His popularity amongst Brazilian fans is evident and largely
because he’s one of just three of the 23-man tournament squad still plying his trade in his homeland. The other two -- reserve goalkeeper Cassio and second choice full-back Fagner -- have yet to feature, meaning Everton is the only home player gracing the Copa America that local fans are able to watch at close quarters. Although that is almost certain to change soon enough. “He’s a player who’s ready to play in Europe,” said Felipe Luis. - ‘Audacity’ After Everton’s scoring cameo against Bolivia, one of the most respected football journalists in Brazil, Juca Kfouri, wrote in the prestigious Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that “Everton must start for the Selecao.” “You have to have the courage to pick those that have the audacity
to play football,” he added. Everton doesn’t quite have the wing wizardry of one of Brazil’s greats, Garrincha, but his bustling, powerful running and impressive close control are mightily effective, as is his ability to cut inside and shoot. Like a right-footed Arjen Robben, who likewise operates on the opposite flank to the one he should naturally occupy, Everton has been particularly dangerous cutting in from the left onto his good peg. Both his goals came from that move, firing an unstoppable shot into the top far corner against Bolivia, and catching out Peru goalkeeper Pedro Gallese with a drilled low effort to the near post. “That’s one of my characteristics, I like to cut inside,” Everton said after his goal against Venezuela. “I feinted to shoot twice and then hit it hard, giving the goalkeeper no chance.” That was his first goal for the national team, in his seventh ap-
pearance, many of which had been as a substitute. “I really wanted to score that first goal, I was starting to beat myself up about it and get impatient.” He didn’t have to wait long for his next one -- it came two matches later -- and given the way he’s playing, he surely won’t be getting impatient again. Brazilians, though, will have to make the most of watching him here because he looks a certainty to be heading to European shores before the new season begins in August, no matter how much the fans want to hold onto him. Manchester City are waiting in the wings and although a defiant internet user suggested this would be possible only if the Premier League champions offered Sergio “Aguero and 50 million euros,” given his release clause is 60 million euros, City won’t have to part with their Argentine star if they do decide to move in on the popular Brazilian.(afp)
New Zealander Singh signs for Bayern Munich
Wellington Phoenix midfielder Sarpreet Singh Monday agreed terms with German powerhouse Bayern Munich in one of the highest-profile transfers of a New Zealand footballer. Born in New Zealand to Indian parents, the 20-year-old was an academy graduate at the A-League club and has stamped his mark on the first team over the past two seasons, playing 38 games and scoring nine goals. He signed for Bayern’s youth side on a three-year deal, with a view of him being a member of their first team should performances go well. “We are thrilled for Sarpreet and his family and are extremely proud of what he has achieved to get to this stage of his career,” said Phoenix general manager David Dome. “We wish him all the best in Germany and look forward to seeing him progress all the way through to Bayern’s first team as he continues his development as a professional footballer.” No financial details were given, but the New Zealand Herald reported it would be a record transfer for the Wellington club, which plays in Australia’s domestic league. In a country where rugby is king, only a handful of New Zealanders have made the grade at major football clubs around the world, including Winston Reid (West Ham) and Chris Wood (Burnley).(afp)
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United States’ Weston Mckennie, right, celebrates with Tyler Boyd after Mcnennie’s goal during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match against Curacao, Sunday, June 30, 2019, in Philadelphia.
US beats Curacao 1-0, plays Jamaica in Gold Cup semifinals
PHILADELPHIA - Christian Pulisic and the United States are headed to the CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals after an underwhelming performance against Curacao. The U.S. was outplayed during the second half by the world’s 79th-ranked national team but managed to advance with a 1-0 win Sunday night behind Weston McKennie’s goal in the 25th minute. The defending champion U.S. extended its Gold Cup winning streak to nine and will play Jamaica on Wednesday at Nashville, Tennessee, in the second semifinal, a night after Mexico faces Haiti at Glendale, Arizona. The U.S. reached the semifinals for the 10th straight Gold Cup and 14th in 15 overall. “When you get to the knockout stages, everyone wants to move on to the next round and they’re giving absolutely everything,” Pulisic said. “Curacao 100 percent wanted that — you could see that in the way they played.” Pulisic, the Americans’ star midfielder, captained the U.S. for the second time and fed fellow 20-year-old McKennie for the goal. Pulisic cut in from a flank and crossed, and McKennie headed in the ball from 4 yards for
his second goal in 12 international appearances. “That’s one of my strengths, running into the box late,” McKennie said. “I always tell him to look for me. He knows to look for me. That’s a little something we work on together.” Playing near his hometown of Hershey, Pulisic shot just wide in the second minute and was denied in the fourth when goalkeeper Eloy Room, while falling to his left, reached to his right to tip his shot over the crossbar. “I wanted to lead the team from the start,” Pulisic said. “In the end, we needed to finish more chances to make it much easier on ourselves.” Curacao had 60 percent possession in the second half and outshot the U.S. 15-10 overall. American goalkeeper Zack Steffen, a native of suburban Philadelphia, made a leaping save on Leandro Bacuna in the 84th minute. The 30th-ranked Americans have outscored opponents 12-0 in the tournament, the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean, and have held opponents scoreless for 405 minutes overall. Gregg Berhalter, hired as U.S. coach in December, said it was a tactical decision to fall back
and not press in the second half, which allowed Curacao to control possession. “When you look at these quarterfinal matches, they’re all tight matches,” Berhalter told reporters. “You guys wanted us to go out there and beat them 5-0. But we knew it was going to be a difficult game.” This will be the third straight Gold Cup in which the U.S. and Jamaica meet in the knockout stage. The Reggae Boyz upset the U.S. in the 2015 semifinals, and the Americans defeated Jamaica in the 2017 final. Berhalter returned to the same starting lineup he used for the initial group stage matches against Guyana and then Trinidad and Tobago. With the U.S. assured of advancing, Berhalter changed all 11 starters against Panama for the group stage finale. Berhalter has had nine different captains in 10 games. Pulisic’s only previous game as captain was in a 1-0 exhibition defeat to Italy last Nov. 20 under interim coach Dave Sarachan. “It was something that he readily accepted,” Berhalter said. “He’s a guy that despite getting fatigued in the game, he didn’t stop working.”(ap)
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Lampard excused from Derby pre-season to conclude Chelsea return
Derby County have excused manager Frank Lampard from the start to the Championship club’s pre-season training programme with the former midfielder expected to complete a return to Chelsea this week. Lampard was last week given permission to speak to the Blues, with whom he won 13 trophies in 13 years as a player at Stamford Bridge. “Derby County Football Club has excused Frank Lampard from reporting back for pre-season training on Monday and Tuesday to allow his discussions regarding a potential move to Chelsea to be concluded as soon as possible,” Derby said in a statement on Monday. “On the assumption that Frank will reach an agreement with Chelsea to become their new manager, the club shall step up its efforts to find a replacement manager.” Chelsea have been seeking a new manager since Maurizio Sarri departed to take charge of Juventus last month.(afp)
Brazil’s Everton, center, reacts during a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match against Paraguay at the Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Thursday, June 27, 2019.
‘Little onion’ Everton making Brazilians cry with joy at Copa
When Neymar was ruled out of the Copa America with an ankle injury just over a week before the big kick-off, there was reason for hosts Brazil to dispair. But one player more than any other has given rise to renewed optimism within the Selecao ranks, and that’s Everton -- a player reportedly courted by both Manchester clubs, City and United, and Paris Saint-Germain. The dynamic 23-year-old winger has been a revelation for Brazil since earning a starting berth in their final Copa America group game against Peru. He had already scored the third goal in a 3-0 win over Bolivia in the tournament opener after coming on as a substitute. After the dire 0-0 draw with Venezuela, Everton was one of two changes made by coach Tite to Brazil’s attacking triumvirate -- Gabriel Jesus was also promoted to the starting XI -- and rewarded his coach with another goal and swashbuckling performance down the left flank.
And in his home stadium in Porto Alegre, where he plays for Gremio, Everton was the one player who lifted the crowd onto their feet every time he got the ball in an otherwise frustrating blank against Paraguay in the quarter-finals, before Brazil won on penalties. “He’s the one who opens up the marking, who faces up to it,” said Atletico Madrid full-back Filipe Luis, who’s linked up well with Everton down the flank. “Those who benefit are those players playing close to him.” That’s a move that will likely materialize once this tournament is over for the player nicknamed “Cebolinha” -- little onion, a reference not to him making defenders cry but to his likeness to a cartoon character of the same name due to the tuft of hair on his otherwise shaved scalp. His popularity amongst Brazilian fans is evident and largely
because he’s one of just three of the 23-man tournament squad still plying his trade in his homeland. The other two -- reserve goalkeeper Cassio and second choice full-back Fagner -- have yet to feature, meaning Everton is the only home player gracing the Copa America that local fans are able to watch at close quarters. Although that is almost certain to change soon enough. “He’s a player who’s ready to play in Europe,” said Felipe Luis. - ‘Audacity’ After Everton’s scoring cameo against Bolivia, one of the most respected football journalists in Brazil, Juca Kfouri, wrote in the prestigious Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that “Everton must start for the Selecao.” “You have to have the courage to pick those that have the audacity
to play football,” he added. Everton doesn’t quite have the wing wizardry of one of Brazil’s greats, Garrincha, but his bustling, powerful running and impressive close control are mightily effective, as is his ability to cut inside and shoot. Like a right-footed Arjen Robben, who likewise operates on the opposite flank to the one he should naturally occupy, Everton has been particularly dangerous cutting in from the left onto his good peg. Both his goals came from that move, firing an unstoppable shot into the top far corner against Bolivia, and catching out Peru goalkeeper Pedro Gallese with a drilled low effort to the near post. “That’s one of my characteristics, I like to cut inside,” Everton said after his goal against Venezuela. “I feinted to shoot twice and then hit it hard, giving the goalkeeper no chance.” That was his first goal for the national team, in his seventh ap-
pearance, many of which had been as a substitute. “I really wanted to score that first goal, I was starting to beat myself up about it and get impatient.” He didn’t have to wait long for his next one -- it came two matches later -- and given the way he’s playing, he surely won’t be getting impatient again. Brazilians, though, will have to make the most of watching him here because he looks a certainty to be heading to European shores before the new season begins in August, no matter how much the fans want to hold onto him. Manchester City are waiting in the wings and although a defiant internet user suggested this would be possible only if the Premier League champions offered Sergio “Aguero and 50 million euros,” given his release clause is 60 million euros, City won’t have to part with their Argentine star if they do decide to move in on the popular Brazilian.(afp)
New Zealander Singh signs for Bayern Munich
Wellington Phoenix midfielder Sarpreet Singh Monday agreed terms with German powerhouse Bayern Munich in one of the highest-profile transfers of a New Zealand footballer. Born in New Zealand to Indian parents, the 20-year-old was an academy graduate at the A-League club and has stamped his mark on the first team over the past two seasons, playing 38 games and scoring nine goals. He signed for Bayern’s youth side on a three-year deal, with a view of him being a member of their first team should performances go well. “We are thrilled for Sarpreet and his family and are extremely proud of what he has achieved to get to this stage of his career,” said Phoenix general manager David Dome. “We wish him all the best in Germany and look forward to seeing him progress all the way through to Bayern’s first team as he continues his development as a professional footballer.” No financial details were given, but the New Zealand Herald reported it would be a record transfer for the Wellington club, which plays in Australia’s domestic league. In a country where rugby is king, only a handful of New Zealanders have made the grade at major football clubs around the world, including Winston Reid (West Ham) and Chris Wood (Burnley).(afp)
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United States’ Weston Mckennie, right, celebrates with Tyler Boyd after Mcnennie’s goal during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match against Curacao, Sunday, June 30, 2019, in Philadelphia.
US beats Curacao 1-0, plays Jamaica in Gold Cup semifinals
PHILADELPHIA - Christian Pulisic and the United States are headed to the CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals after an underwhelming performance against Curacao. The U.S. was outplayed during the second half by the world’s 79th-ranked national team but managed to advance with a 1-0 win Sunday night behind Weston McKennie’s goal in the 25th minute. The defending champion U.S. extended its Gold Cup winning streak to nine and will play Jamaica on Wednesday at Nashville, Tennessee, in the second semifinal, a night after Mexico faces Haiti at Glendale, Arizona. The U.S. reached the semifinals for the 10th straight Gold Cup and 14th in 15 overall. “When you get to the knockout stages, everyone wants to move on to the next round and they’re giving absolutely everything,” Pulisic said. “Curacao 100 percent wanted that — you could see that in the way they played.” Pulisic, the Americans’ star midfielder, captained the U.S. for the second time and fed fellow 20-year-old McKennie for the goal. Pulisic cut in from a flank and crossed, and McKennie headed in the ball from 4 yards for
his second goal in 12 international appearances. “That’s one of my strengths, running into the box late,” McKennie said. “I always tell him to look for me. He knows to look for me. That’s a little something we work on together.” Playing near his hometown of Hershey, Pulisic shot just wide in the second minute and was denied in the fourth when goalkeeper Eloy Room, while falling to his left, reached to his right to tip his shot over the crossbar. “I wanted to lead the team from the start,” Pulisic said. “In the end, we needed to finish more chances to make it much easier on ourselves.” Curacao had 60 percent possession in the second half and outshot the U.S. 15-10 overall. American goalkeeper Zack Steffen, a native of suburban Philadelphia, made a leaping save on Leandro Bacuna in the 84th minute. The 30th-ranked Americans have outscored opponents 12-0 in the tournament, the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean, and have held opponents scoreless for 405 minutes overall. Gregg Berhalter, hired as U.S. coach in December, said it was a tactical decision to fall back
and not press in the second half, which allowed Curacao to control possession. “When you look at these quarterfinal matches, they’re all tight matches,” Berhalter told reporters. “You guys wanted us to go out there and beat them 5-0. But we knew it was going to be a difficult game.” This will be the third straight Gold Cup in which the U.S. and Jamaica meet in the knockout stage. The Reggae Boyz upset the U.S. in the 2015 semifinals, and the Americans defeated Jamaica in the 2017 final. Berhalter returned to the same starting lineup he used for the initial group stage matches against Guyana and then Trinidad and Tobago. With the U.S. assured of advancing, Berhalter changed all 11 starters against Panama for the group stage finale. Berhalter has had nine different captains in 10 games. Pulisic’s only previous game as captain was in a 1-0 exhibition defeat to Italy last Nov. 20 under interim coach Dave Sarachan. “It was something that he readily accepted,” Berhalter said. “He’s a guy that despite getting fatigued in the game, he didn’t stop working.”(ap)
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Undisan tourism village BANGLI - Tourism village in Bangli is not only Penglipuran alone. In Tembuku subdistrict, there is Undisan tourism village. Even though having been stipulated in the mid of 2014, the tourism village applying the Tri Hita Karana (three sources of happiness) concept is already quite well known among travelers. To get to this tourism village is not difficult. From the town of Bangli, travelers only take about 15 minutes by choosing the Ban-
gli-Besakih road section. As the instruction you have arrived at the location, simply use the banyan tree growing in the corner intersection as the directive. As soon as setting foot, the beautiful atmosphere can have been immediately experienced. A local tourism player, I Putu Winastra, said that the newly initiated tourism village in less than three years has become a new destination in supporting the advancement of tourism in Bali. To
pamper travelers, he does not only offer natural beauty of countryside, but also the concept of Tri Hita Karana. “The concept has become the branding of this tourism village. All this time, we also have the concept of sustainable tourism where from the beginning we have combined the concept of ecology and tradition,” he said. This tourism village bordering with Bangbang village has been equipped with accommodation named De Klumpu Bali and De
Umah Bali. In addition, nearby location offers a waterfall, natural trekking path, cycling, jewelry craft center and activities of experiencing life as a farmer. Likewise, travelers can get traditional Balinese cooking recipes in the activity of traditional cooking class and other activities that will certainly give you an unforgettable experience that may not be found in other places. “There are several objects considered to become an adequate tourism supporting destination,”
he explained. In order to introduce this object, promotional measures continue to be made. Considering the recent visit is quite crowded, the government is expected to provide support in terms of infrastructure and superstructure, such as quality of human resources, quality tourist destinations, management and others. “Development of tourism village should be mutually supported and is the promotion,” said Winastra. (sos)
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Verstappen retains Austria win after stewards’ investigation
SPIELBERG - Max Verstappen retained his victory for Red Bull in a thrilling Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday following a stewards’ hearing. The 21-year-old Dutchman won the race after forcing his way past Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari in a wheel-bashing passing move two laps from the end of a race that was a shot in the arm for Formula One after the soporific French GP. The incident was swiftly put under official investigation by the race stewards, who confirmed the result nearly three hours after the race ended. In a statement, the FIA said: “We did not consider that either driver was wholly or predominantly to blame for the incident. We consider that this is a racing incident.” The outcome meant more disappointment for Ferrari after they were on the wrong side of a stewards’ decision in Canada, where Sebastian Vettel was deprived of victory after he had won the race. That race was handed to Mercedes’ defending five-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who had finished second. Leclerc has twice suffered disappointment and frustration when seemingly set for victory, having missed out in Bahrain where he was foiled by a late engine problems. His barnstorming victory in Austria came after a thrilling charge following a terrible start that saw him drop to seventh on the opening lap, after starting alongside pole sitter Leclerc on the front row of the grid. The two drivers made up the youngest front row in F1 history. It was the 21-year-old Dutchman’s sixth career win and ended Mercedes record run of eight straight wins this season and ten overall. It also delighted a huge orange-clad army of Dutch supporters. - ‘The right result’ Leclerc finished second for Ferrari ahead of Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes, Vettel and Hamilton. Hamilton now has 197 points in the drivers’ standings, 31 ahead of Bottas, with Verstappen third on 126. “It’s the right result, the right thing for Max, for Formula One and for Honda,” said Red Bull team chief Christian Horner. “It’s been a very stressful last few hours,” said Verstappen. “But it is the right result and the right result for F1.” Before the stewards delivered their verdict, Verstappen said the incident was merely “hard racing” and that if he were penalised there would be “no point in F1 -- and we should all go and stay at home.” Horner said the sort of wheel-to-wheel racing that sparked the investigation was essential for the future of Formula One. “This is what we need – drivers going wheel-to-wheel and fighting each other,” he said. (afp)
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Red Bull Racing’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen celebrates on the podium after the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix in Spielberg on June 30, 2019.
Defending men’s singles champion, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, speaks during a press conference at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 29, 2019, two days before the start of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament.
Djokovic, Osaka share centre stage on Wimbledon opening day
LONDON - Defending champion Novak Djokovic shares centre stage on Centre Court with Naomi Osaka on Monday as Wimbledon gets underway. Top seed and world number one Djokovic is seeking a fifth Wimbledon and 16th major as the Serb attempts to bounce back from his shattering Roland Garros exit. His five-set semi-final loss to Dominic Thiem ended his hopes of becoming just the second man in history to hold all four majors at the same time on two occasions. On Monday, he opens proceedings on Centre Court against German veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber. It will be their fourth meeting in 2019 -- 35-year-old Kohlschreiber winning at Indian Wells before Djokovic triumphed at Monte Carlo and Rome. “I am fine-tuning. I’m working on my movement. I’m working on the right balance on the court, trying to execute the shots, take short balls, come in,” said Djokovic, who was also Wimbledon champion in 2011, 2014 and 2015. Djokovic has added 2001 Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic to his team following a call out of the blue. “It’s all unusual, a rather unexpected call came a few days ago,” Ivanisevic told Serbian reporters at the All England Club, according to sports channel sportklub online. “Unfortunately it seems I will be able to stay only for the first week since I have obligations. I’m trying to postpone them,” he said, adding that “when Novak Djokovic calls you, you put many things aside.”
Japanese second seed Osaka, the US and Australian Open winner, lost her world top ranking to Roland Garros champion Ashleigh Barty recently. However, the 21-year-old was not too upset by the new order after complaining in Paris that she was suffering from stress and headaches as she exited in the third round. Osaka could be facing another stressful afternoon on Monday when she starts her campaign against Yulia Putintseva who has a 2-0 career hold over the Japanese. One of those wins came on grass in Birmingham less than two weeks ago. Osaka has yet to get past the third round at Wimbledon although her two previous visits saw defeats to 2018 champion Angelique Kerber and five-time champion Venus Williams. Venus, now 39, first played at the All England Club in 1997. Her opponent on Court One on Monday, 15-year-old compatriot Cori Gauff was still seven years away from being born. Gauff is the youngest player ever to have qualified for Wimbledon and comes into the tournament ranked at 313 in the world. She needed a wild card to play in qualifying while juggling her high school tests in the evening.
“She’s an exciting young player, and she’s so cool,” said Venus’s sister Serena of Gauff. “She’s a great girl. It’s a great moment for her and for Venus.” Elsewhere on Monday, women’s third seed Karolina Pliskova, fresh from beating Wimbledon champion Kerber in the Eastbourne final on Saturday, faces China’s Zhu Lin. Pliskova has never got beyond the fourth round at Wimbledon. Fellow former world number one Simona Halep, the deposed French Open champion, made the semi-finals at the All England Club in 2014. The Romanian ninth seed starts against Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus. ‘NextGen’ stars Alexander Zverev, seeded six, and seventh-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas face Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic and Italy’s Thomas Fabbiano respectively. Kevin Anderson, the 2018 runnerup, is seeded four this year but has been battling an elbow injury. The giant South African, who last year featured in the second longest match ever played at Wimbledon when he overcame John Isner in a 6-hour 36-minute semi-final, starts Monday against Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France. (afp)
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Insect apocalypse: German bug watchers sound alarm
KREFELD - For almost 30 years they passed as quirky eccentrics, diligently setting up their insect traps in the Rhine countryside to collect tens of millions of bugs and creepy crawlers. Now the group of German entomology enthusiasts can boast a world-class scientific treasure: evidence of what is described as one of Earth’s worst extinction phases since the dinosaurs vanished. Insects, which comprise two thirds of all terrestrial species, have been dying off at alarming rates, with disastrous impacts on food chains and habitats, researchers say. The home of the Amateur Entomology Society of Krefeld on the Dutch border is a former school building where thick curtains block out the sunlight. Inside in glass cabinets are stored thousands of butterflies, their wings bleached by time, along with exotic fist-sized beetles and dragonflies, brought back from around the world by amateur collectors. - Treasure trove Traditionally “entomology was mainly about drying and collecting rare specimens,” says the society’s president Martin Sorg, wearing John Lennonstyle glasses, a multi-pocket jacket and sandals.
He and an army of volunteers have over the years gathered as many as 80 million insects that are now floating in countless ethanol bottles. Each bottle contains the amount caught by a single insect trap over a set period, and each box represents a collection of such catches over nearly three decades. “Since 1982, the traps we manufacture ourselves have been standardised and controlled, all of the same size and the same material, and they are collected at the same rate in 63 locations that are still identical,” explains Sorg. The result is a treasure trove of quantitative data that dwarfs that of any funded university project, he says. But if he is visibly proud of the society’s research, the outcome terrifies him: in the test period, the total biomass of flying insects here has plummeted by 76 percent. - Quaint Sunday hobby To demonstrate the rapid decline, a lab technician holds up two bottles: one from 1994 contains 1,400 grammes of trapped insects,
the newest one just 300 grammes. “We only became aware of the seriousness of this decline in 2011, and every year since then we have seen it get worse,” says Sorg, the man who sounded the alarm. At the time, the news didn’t make major waves outside ecological circles. Concern about biodiversity loss focused mostly on large charismatic mammal species, and environmental monitoring such as that in Krefeld was considered a quaint Sunday hobby, largely ignored by the scientific community. Also in 2011, just across the Dutch border, ecology professor Hans de Kroon was working on the decline of birds in the region. He hypothesised that the birds suffered from a shortage of food, especially insects, but had no data to prove it. “Then our German colleagues from Krefeld got in touch and said, ‘we have the data, we’ve witnessed a strong decline, we are very concerned, could you analyse the data?’. “That’s how it all started.” (afp)
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Martin Sorg, entomologist and president of the volunteer-run Entomology Society Krefeld, holds an insect on a field in Krefeld, western Germany, on May 9, 2019. For almost 30 years they passed as quirky eccentrics, diligently setting up their insect traps in the Rhine countryside to collect tens of millions of bugs and creepy-crawlies.
Heatwave sees surge in drowning victims in Poland, Lithuania WARSAW - Nearly 150 people drowned, the vast majority of them men, in Poland and neighbouring Lithuania in June as temperatures soared to record highs, officials said on Monday. Poland’s Government Centre for Security (RCB) said that 113 people drowned in June, including ten on Sunday alone, as the EU country of 38 million people sizzled. “As successive heatwaves set in, not a day went by in June without someone drowning,” Bozena Wysocka, an RCB spokeswoman told AFP on Monday, adding that 90 percent of the victims were male.
Alcohol consumption and recklessness were cited among the leading causes. Thirty-two people drowned in neighbouring Lithuania, fire and rescue officials said. The death toll, which included 26 men, was the highest in the last five years in the Baltic state of 2.8 million. Poland recorded its highest ever June temperature with mercury soaring to 38.2 degrees Celsius. Lithuanian temperatures also hit a record June high of 35.7 degrees Celsius (96.2 degrees Fahrenheit), forcing school closures and threatening crops. (afp)
Beachgoers enjoy a sunny day at the public bathing beach “Strandbad Wannsee” at Wannsee lake as the heatwave in Europe continues, on June 30, 2019 in Berlin.
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Police encouraged to probe into crimes in sea: Susi
JAKARTA - Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti encourages the National Police (Polri) officers to conduct a comprehensive investigation against the perpetrators of various illegal activities in Indonesia’s seas to support national sovereignty. In a press release that ANTARA received here on Sunday, Susi said that the police had a very important role to play in maintaining Indonesia’s sovereignty. She raised the issue while delivering a public lecture at Polri’s High Staff and Command School (Sespimti) in Jakarta, on Friday (June 28). On that occasion, the minister emphasized the important role of the police to take action against foreign fishing boat owners who carry out illegal activities in Indonesian waters. This reflects on her experience in handling the case of a large fish carrier loaded with 3,000 tons of fish in Sabang, Aceh Province, as well as other vessels such as MV Viking and STS 50 some time ago. Minister Susi said that even though she managed to capture those vessels and confiscate a cargo of fish worth Rp20billion in it, real ship owners and masterminds had not been dragged by law enforcers. She revealed that the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has limitations in handling similar cases, because it is only able to punish field actors. Therefore, she said, the police are expected to be able to fill the role in taking action against the ship owners who are perpetrators of illegal activities in the sea and other masterminds of those acts of crime. In overcoming the issue, education in police institutions must be improved to enable the police investigators to handle various crime cases in the sea. “(One of the main requirements in) developed countries, modern countries, and prosperous countries is the law enforcement which strives to go in a direction with integrity,” she noted. Conducting a full and comprehensive investigation against the perpetrators of crimes in the sea is very important to support growth in marine and fisheries sectors. Therefore, the ministry continues carrying out policies in combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. “The keys to eradicating the IUU fishing are national policy and strong political support. We encourage countries to make strict policies, invest in increasing law enforcement capacity, and take stern law enforcement measures to close doors the occurrence of IUU fishing,” the ministry’s Research and HR Agency Head Sjarief Widjaja explained. According to Sjarief, eradicating IUU fishing through various regional and international cooperation forums is important because the perpetrators are often cross-country. In addition, he said, illegal fishing activities were also carried out by foreign ships with crews from various nationalities.(ant)
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Indonesian people participate in the carnival parade to mark the 492nd anniversary of the capital city in Jakarta on June 30, 2019.
Jakarnaval 2019 portrays local and foreign culture, arts
JAKARTA - Jakarnaval 2019, a traditional arts and culture parade to celebrate the capital city’s anniversary, repeated the success achieved during last year’s edition by showcasing local and foreign traditional arts performances. Some 3,500 people grouped in 65 contingents representing Jakarta’s indigenous Betawi community, several other Indonesian regions, such as Yogyakarta and Ponorogo (East Java), Bima (West Nusa Tenggara), and Papua, as well as foreign countries, including South Korea, Morocco, India, and China, also participated in the carnival. “We organize this in order to invite everybody to join in the celebrations to welcome Jakarta’s anniversary,” Anies Baswedan, the Jakarta governor, stated after officially opening the Jakarnaval on Sunday (June 30, 2019). The Jakarnaval 2019 parade, themed “The New Face of Jakarta,” was organized as part of the celebrations to commemorate Jakarta’s 492nd anniversary.
The embassies of Morocco, South Korea, Belgium, Pakistan, Japan, and Australia, among others, took part in the event, Head of Destination and Marketing, Jakarta Tourism Office, Hari Wibowo had informed ANTARA earlier. Jakarnaval has been included in the ministry’s annual calendar of tourism events. Next year, travel agents will be able to promote and sell Jakarnaval in their tourism packages, Wibowo added. He is upbeat that the event would receive greater publicity following cooperation between the Jakarta administration and the Ministry of Tourism. Kepulauan Seribu (One Thousand Islands) District, which is under the administration of the Jakarta Special Region, presented several artists dressed in
vibrant traditional clothing based on the theme of “One Thousand Colors” during the parade. Rich and colorful Indonesian traditions and culture displayed during the carnival captivated a Belgian tourist, Floortje Clerix. “I am pleased to see those costumes, dances, and music, as all of them showcase Indonesian traditions. They are very colorful. It is interesting to be able to see the varied cultures of Indonesia,” Clerix stated. Jakarnaval was earlier organized in 2018 after being held in 2015. While inaugurating the event, Baswedan expressed optimism that the annual event would help boost the microeconomic and macroeconomic conditions of the capital city.(ant)
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International forum: Don’t expect cheap money to do it all
FRANKFURT - Stocks have risen on expectation of more help from central banks, but an international financial forum warned Sunday that the global recovery can’t just rely on support from the likes of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank to get past its current shaky stretch. The admonition from the Bank for International Settlements comes as the Fed and the ECB are signaling that more stimulus could be on the way. That message from Fed chair Jay Powell and ECB head Mario Draghi has helped send stock higher in Europe and the S&P 500 in the U.S. to a record high. The BIS is cautioning that governments need to bring other policies into the game — and that there are risks in relying too much on central bank stimulus such as cuts in interest rates and bond purchases that lower market borrowing costs. Those other policies include government spending where possible on growth-friendly infrastructure as well as progrowth reforms such as slashing red tape for business. “Monetary policy can no longer be the main engine of economic growth, and other policy drivers need to kick in to ensure the global economy achieves sustainable momentum,” the BIS said in its annual economic report. BIS General Manager Agustin Carstens warned that while stimulus can help in the short run, it can have side effects further out such as over-inflating asset prices such as stocks and bonds, and feeding less productive zombie firms that wouldn’t survive without cheap borrowing. Policymakers, he said, need “to be mindful of all those tradeoffs.” The BIS, a forum for central banks based in Basel, Switzerland, said the service industries and falling unemployment can shore up the ailing global recover in
coming months. Rising wages and less unemployment are offsetting a slowdown in manufacturing and global trade. Still, it said significant risks remain, notably related to trade tensions between the U.S. and China. U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to reduce China’s trade surplus and has imposed new tariffs, or import taxes, while negotiating for a trade deal. Despite some apparent progress at a meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the summit of leaders from the Group of 20 countries in Osaka, Japan, there’s uncertainty about the outcome, and whether more tariffs might be coming. “The trade tensions bring up questions about the viability of existing supply chain structures and the very future of the global trading system,” Carstens said in a speech to the BIS annual meeting Sunday. “It bears repeating: trade wars have no winners, only losers. Another risk he identified is high levels of corporate debt. Carstens pointing to “clear signs of overheating in the corporate sector in a number of advanced countries.” He called attention to the $3 trillion market in so-called leveraged loans — those that are made to already indebted companies and then often sliced up and sold on to investors. “Credit standards have been declining as investors have searched for yield,” he said. “Should the leveraged loans sector deteriorate, the economic impact could be amplified through the banking system.”(ap)
Keben Comes with Glass and Shell Decorations
Many craftsmen increasingly innovate so that their products always survive. One of them is keben crafter from Kukuh village, Marga, Tabanan. We can find its innovative products in the 41st Bali Arts Festival (BAF) at the Bali Art Center. The keben exhibited is decorated with glass and shells. The keben business pioneered by Made Wintara originated from an economic downturn due to the Bali Bombing I in 2002. Today, for almost 16 years, the business of making glass and shelf keben remains to exist and is not affected by fluctuating economic conditions. Currently, the market is not only in Bali but also outside Bali. According to Gita Suandewi, the daughter of Made Wintara, when met at the booth of Bali
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In this file photo dated Saturday June 22, 2019, The European Central Bank during sunset in Frankfurt, Germany. The European Central Bank and US Federal Reserve are signalling that more stimulus could be on the way which has sent stocks higher, but an international forum for central bankers is warning Sunday June 30, 2019, that the global economic recovery will need further support to get past its current shaky stretch.
Inflation remains weak in eurozone as ECB mulls stimulus FRANKFURT - Consumer price inflation across the 19 countries that use the euro remained stuck at an annual 1.2% in June, well below their central bank’s goal despite years of stimulus policies. The official figure released Friday by the EU statistics agency
matched the May reading and came in short of the European Central Bank’s target of just under 2% considered best for the economy. The figure for core inflation, which excludes volatile fuel and food prices, rose more than some expected, however, climbing to 1.1%
from 0.8% in May. Core inflation is considered to give a truer picture of trends in consumer prices. ECB President Mario Draghi said last week that unless inflation improves, more stimulus such as interest rate cuts or bond purchases will be needed.
In December, the central bank phased out a 2.6 trillion euro ($2.9 trillion) bond-purchase stimulus program that pumped newly printed money into the economy over almost four years, saying inflation was finally headed toward the target. But since then the bank has
had to shift its stance toward more stimulus as economic indicators have been weaker and fears have grown that the U.S.-China trade conflict will hurt growth. The European Central Bank holds its next policy meeting July 25.(ap)
Arts Festival (BAF) on Tuesday (Jun. 18), the keben craft business pioneered by her father since 2003 is named the Mozaik Hindu Bali. At that time, Wintara was forced to change profession because the business of the company where he worked was sluggish due to the Bali Bombing I. “Initially, my father made mannequins and jars decorated with glass mosaic. But the order was canceled. To prevent from losing money, my father then
decorated the keben with glass mosaic,” explained Gita. Unexpectedly, in fact the innovation of keben decorated with glass mosaic is much in demand. In 2015, her keben ornaments also used shells. In the BAF arena, her keben products are sold for around IDR 100,000 to IDR 250,000. Gita added the keben ornaments are brought in from Java. “We usually order 10 to 20 kilograms of shell per month in Java,” he said. (kmb)
Artists from Bali, Singapore, US collaborate on ‘wayang’ performance DENPASAR - A number of artists from Bali, Singapore, and the U.S. showed an innovative collaboration performance of ‘wayang’ (Indonesian traditional puppet show) under the theme “He Who Saw the Deep” at the event of the 41st Bali Arts Festival 2019 which was held at the Bali Art Centre, Denpasar. “This is the first collaboration with non-Singaporean artists so that I am very pleased to be a producer of this event,” producer Elena Yeo from Singapore said at Ksirarnawa Building on Saturday, June 29, night.
This event of “He Who Saw the Deep” tells the story of King Gilgamesh who had achieved the enlightenment. Gilgamesh was reminded to have more attention to nature and people loved him after he knew about the deepest meaning between life and death. In the two-hour performance, “He Who Saw the Deep” presented the epic ancient story to the audiences at the biggest annual art festival in Bali. The performing artists were I Kadek Budi Setiawan and I Wayan Mardika from Bali as the actors, Shawn M. from the
U.S. as the narrator, and Ayu Sada from Bali as the singer of Balinese accompaniment songs. There were also modern and traditional aspects on the setting transitions of the performance. “Wayang should not be ended, it should always be alive,” the actor Setiawan stated as by this he hoped innovative collaboration performance of wayang would make society interested in wayang amid the global era. After its performance at Bali Arts Festival, “He Who Saw the Deep” will also be performed in Singapore.(ant)
Tuesday, 2nd July 2019 Time
: 09.00 MIT
Location : Citta Kalangen Hall, ISI Denpasar Program : Seminar Time
: 11.00 MIT
Location : Ayodya Stage Program : the Great Show of Popular Artists, Sudamala Arts Group, the Banjar of Sukajati, Taman village, Abiansemal subdistrict representing Badung regency Time
: 14.00 MIT
Location : Angsoka Stage Program : Telek and Rejang Dance Performance by Taksu Murti Kemanisan Arts Group, Legian village, Kuta subdistrict, representing Badung Regency Time
: 16.30 MIT
Location : in the area of the Art Centre Program : Nglawang – performing dance and musics by going around the area, by the Arts Group of Gurnita Santhi, the Banjar of Ambengan, Pedungan village, South Denpasar subdistrict, representing Denpasar Time
: 19.30 MIT
Location : Ksirarnawa Hall Program : Parade of Janger Malampahan, by Maos Pait Arts Group, Taman Bali Village, representing Bangli Regency Time
: 19.30 MIT
Location : Ardha Candra Amphitheatre Program : Parade of Gong Kebyar Musics for Adults, by ‘Maheswara Jaya Pasti’ Group, Perancak village, representing Jembrana Regency to meet ‘Manggeh Jayengrat’ Group of Munggu village, Mengwi sub district, representing Badung Regency
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North Bali Airport to be built after supporting infrastructure ready SINGARAJA — Certainty when the North Bali International Airport will begin to get a clue. Right now, the public is still waiting for when the location determination permit is issued. The latest news told that central government has not yet issued the permit because it is still focused on preparing road infrastructure from South Bali to North Bali. This access is considered very important so that airport operations run optimally. This was revealed by Bali Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, during a working visit to Buleleng last week. During his visit, he was accompanied by Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana (PAS), Deputy Regent Nyoman Sutjidra and Chairperson of Buleleng House of Representatives, Gede Supriatna. Governor said the access to North Bali must be able to shorten the travel time. On that account, the airport in North Bali will be able to operate optimally. The governor added the North Bali Airport later may not be like the Kertajati Airport in Majalengka, West Java, where the infrastructure is not operating optimally because of insufficient access. “Do not let it resemble to the Kertajati Airport where it has not owned an access so the airport is quiet. I think this is only a matter of time because the access to North Bali must be smooth first. I think the shortcut is not enough because it remains to take 2.5 hours, so there must be alternative access,” he said. According to this governor from Sembiran village, Tejakula, the central government has considered several alternative accesses to North Bali, such as the construction of railroad lines, bypass or a combination of bypass roads with toll
roads. Meanwhile, the alternative toll road section is fully considered less appropriate in Bali. He is going to conduct a study in advance regarding the making of access to the infrastructure. He promised that during his leadership the alternative access can be realized, so that the construction of North Bali Airport can begin. “This is very technical, so that I have not dared to comment much as this must be discussed first,” he said firmly. As reported earlier, the discourse on the development of North Bali Airport had received certainty to be soon realized with the presence of important officials of Indonesia starting from the Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi to the special staff of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Lenis Kogoya. At that time, Minister Budi Karya Sumadi confirmed the North Bali International Airport at Kubutambahan village, Kubutambahan, will be immediately built on land owned by Kubutambahan customary village. The development process begins with a feasibility study started in January 2019. After the feasibility study is completed around 4 months in April, it was followed with a bidding process for cooperation with private sector (bidding). Meanwhile, the special staff of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Lenis Kogoya promised to immediately coordinate with Ministry of Transportation, regarding the issuance of permits for determining the airport location. This was conveyed by Lenis Kogoya when meeting with the traditional leaders of Kubutambahan and residents regarding the planned airport construction at Kubutambahan village on February 21, 2019. (kmb38)
Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster
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Tutankhamun sculpture’s London auction sparks Egyptian outcry
US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea.
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The storyline presented entitled Sastra Semara Pingit with the background of the Panji story is full of romance and royal life as the feature of the gong drama so far.
Mudra art troupe restores the guidelines of drama gong
PERFORMANCE of drama gong art had experienced its heyday in the 1980s and 1990s. However, after that the guidelines of the drama gong performance began to fade. To restore the guidelines of the drama gong, the Mudra Art Troupe of Petang as the envoy of Badung district in the drama gong parade of the Bali Arts Festival 2019 has a mission to restore the guidelines of the drama gong. When making performance in the Ayodya Stage of Bali Art Center on Saturday night (Jun. 29), the drama gong players from the Mudra Art Troupe were able to suck up visitors to watch it. Moreover, their three-hour appearance seemed to have been able to relieve the longing of drama gong lovers. The storyline presented entitled Sastra Semara Pingit with the background of the Panji story is full of romance and royal life as the feature of the gong drama so far. This Panji story is composed as attractive as possible without losing the identity and guidelines of the drama gong itself. Through the Panji story, the audiences are introduced to sor singgih or level of Balinese speaking language in the royal palace of Bali. Performance of the storyline
only relies on five players having the experience in playing drama gong, while the rest are the artists playing their roles for the first time in such drama gong. Meanwhile, the exercises were carried out for about four months. The storyline of Sastra Semara Pingit tells about the romance of princess of the Daha kingdom of the first wife with the viceroy who is full of intricacies because of the greed of the second wife of the king of Daha. The second wife of the Daha king originating from Pejarakan is famous for her black magic. In one scene, the princess is kidnapped by a crazy king after he injured the viceroy. The viceroy is worried about the safety of the princess. However, Vice Regent Anom advised the viceroy not to worry about it. Moreover, before
her mother of the princess died, the deceased had given the princess the an ajian or ‘magic application’ named Sastra Semara Pingit where no one can associate with the princess without being desired by the princess herself. The moral message wishing to be conveyed to the audience is that the truth will always win even though it should take a long and winding path. No matter how much suffering happens in the end if we are right, honest and patient, we will achieve what we expect. “In addition to restoring the guidelines of drama gong, through the performance of the drama gong, we also want to introduce sor singgih to Balinese language to younger generation,” said the Coordinator of the Mudra Art Troupe, I Gusti Lanang Subamya. (win)
North Korea hails ‘historic’ Kim-Trump summit
SEOUL - North Korea on Monday hailed the weekend meeting between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in the Demilitarized Zone as “historic”, as analysts said Pyongyang was looking to shape the narrative to its own agenda. The two leaders agreed to “resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, the official Korean Central News Agency said. After a Twitter invitation by the US president on Saturday, the two men met a day later in the strip of land that has divided the peninsula for 66 years since the end of the Korean War, when the two countries and their allies fought each other to a standstill. Kim and Trump shook hands over the concrete slabs dividing North and South before Trump walked a few paces into Pyongyang’s territory -- the first US president ever to set foot on North Korean soil. “The top leaders of the DPRK and the US exchanging historic handshakes at Panmunjom” was an “amazing event”, KCNA said, describing the truce village as a “place that had been known as the symbol of division” and referring to past “inglorious relations” between the countries. The impromptu meeting in the DMZ -- where the US president said they agreed to resume working-level talks within weeks on the North’s nuclear programme -- was full of symbolism. Trump’s border-crossing -which he said was uncertain until the last moment -- was an extraordinary sequel to the scene at Kim’s
first summit with Moon Jae-in last year, when the young leader invited the South Korean president to walk over the Military Demarcation Line, as the border is officially known. “It was an honour that you asked me to step over that line, and I was proud to step over the line,” Trump told Kim. Pictures from the meeting -including a sequence of images from the two men emerging from opposite sides for a handshake and a skip across the border -- were splashed across the front page of the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, which carried 35 images in total. Shin Beom-chul, an analyst at the Asan Institute of Policy Studies, said the KCNA report was “typical North Korean propaganda that glorified Kim as leading the tremendous changes in geopolitics”. - ‘Mysterious force’ Analysts have been divided by Sunday’s events, some saying they spurred new momentum into deadlocked nuclear talks, while others described them as “reality show theatrics”. The first Trump-Kim summit took place in a blaze of publicity in Singapore last year but produced only a vaguely worded pledge about denuclearisation. A second meeting in Vietnam in
February collapsed after the pair failed to reach an agreement over sanctions relief and what the North was willing to give in return. Contact between the two sides has since been minimal -- with Pyongyang
issuing frequent criticisms of the US position -- but the two leaders exchanged a series of letters before Trump issued his offer to meet at the DMZ. Regional powerhouse China on Monday said renewed discussions between North Korea and the United States are of “great significance”. “It is hoped that all parties concerned will seize the opportunity, move in the same direction, actively explore effective solutions to each other’s concerns and make progress on the peninsula,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters in Beijing. (afp)
LONDON - A 3,000-year-old head sculpture of an eternally-young Tutankhamun -- the Egyptian pharaoh known as King Tut -- goes under the hammer this week in London despite an outcry from Cairo. Christie’s expects the 28.5-centimetre (11-inch) brown quartzite relic from the Valley of the Kings to fetch more than £4 million ($5.1 million, 4.5 million euros) on Thursday. The Financial Times reported that it was the first such Egyptian statuette to go on the market since 1985. The pharaoh’s finely-chiselled head -- its serene eyes and puffed lips emoting a sense of eternal peace -- comes from the private Resandro Collection of ancient art that Christie’s last sold in 2016 for £3 million. But Egyptian authorities overseeing the north African country’s unparalleled collection of antiquities want to see the auction halted and the treasure returned. “The Egyptian embassy in London requested the British foreign affairs ministry and the auction hall to stop the sale,” Egypt’s foreign ministry said on June 10. Former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass told AFP on Sunday that the piece appears to
have been “stolen” in the 1970s from the Karnak Temple complex of Egypt’s great monuments. “The owners have given false information,” he said in a telephone interview. “They have not shown any legal papers to prove its ownership.” The French-owned British auction house explained that the current lot was acquired by Resandro from a Munich-based dealer in 1985. It traces its prior origins to the 1973-74 acquisition by another dealer in Austria from the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis in modern-day Germany. The trail peters out shortly afterwords and little is known to the public about how the statue found its way to Europe. “Ancient objects by their nature cannot be traced over millennia,” Christie’s said in a statement released to AFP. “It is hugely important to establish recent ownership and legal right to sell which we have clearly done,” it added. “We would not offer for sale any object where there was concern over ownership or export.” Britain’s Foreign Office has been in touch with Egyptian authorities but is not expected to intervene. (afp)
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An undated handout picture released by the auction house Christie’s in London on June 26, 2019, shows a 3,000-year-old stone bust of Tutankhamun, set to be auctioned on July 4.
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In mice, a high-fat diet cuts a ‘brake’ used to control appetite
NORTH CAROLINA - A gut-busting diet may set the brain up for more of the same. After mice ate fatty food for just two weeks, cells in their brains that send a “stop eating” signal were quieter than those in mice that didn’t eat high-fat chow, researchers report in the June 28 Science. The result helps untangle the complex relationship between food and appetite, one that can become muddled when people overeat. Because food is crucial to survival, the brain has built-in redundancy — a multitude of overlapping pro-food systems to make sure animals eat enough. Neuroscientist Garret Stuber of the University of Washington in Seattle took aim at one brain area known to be involved in eating behavior. Called the lateral hypothalamus, this brain structure contains a large number of diverse cells. Stuber and his colleagues looked at gene behavior in single cells there, and found that one group, called glutamatergic nerve cells, showed particularly big changes in which genes were active when the team compared lean mice with obese mice. Earlier work suggested that these glutamatergic cells acted like a brake on feeding: When the cells were artificially blocked from firing signals, mice ate more food and gained more weight. But it wasn’t clear how these cells actually behaved over a more natural shift from leanness to obesity. “Obesity doesn’t just happen overnight,” says Stuber, who conducted some of the work while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. To study that gradual transition, the researchers began feeding mice high-fat mouse chow, while periodically using a sophisticated microscope to look at the glutamatergic cells’ ability to fire off signals. Two weeks into the binge, even before the mice plumped up, the nerve cells already showed more sluggish activity, both in their spontaneous behavior and when an animal was given a sip of sweet liquid. That reduction continued as the animals grew larger, for up to 12 weeks, the researchers found. These cells’ “activity is going down as a function of a high-fat diet,” Stuber says. The results imply that “these cells’ decreased activity is removing the brake on feeding and obesity,” says neuroscientist Stephanie Borgland of the University of Calgary in Canada, who wrote a related commentary in the same issue of Science. The researchers don’t know whether these cells would regain their normal behavior if the mice stopped eating high-fat food and shed weight. It would be technically hard to keep monitoring the same cells for the weeks or months it would take for the mice to normalize their body weight, Stuber says. While the results offer a clear example of cells that control feeding behavior in mice, it’s hard to say whether similar appetite-suppressing nerve cells are at work in people. Brain-imaging experiments have shown that the same brain region, the hypothalamus, is involved when people shift between being hungry and full. Stuber points out that while these cells in mice seem particularly responsive to a high-fat diet, obesity probably affects a much wider population of cells. “This is probably happening across the brain,” he says. Understanding those complex interactions might ultimately point to better strategies for managing human appetites. (net)
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After weeks on a high-fat diet, certain cells showed less activity in part of the appetite-controlling part of the brain in mice, results that suggest the fatty diet encourages overeating.
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Scientists used a device consisting of two diamonds (similar to this one) to squeeze hydrogen to extreme pressure. The element turned into a metal, researchers report.
Latest claim of turning hydrogen into a metal may be the most solid yet
WASHINGTON - Physicists are crushing it — hydrogen, that is. Squeezing the chemical element to extremely high pressure transforms it into a metal, a trio of researchers claims. The purported metallic hydrogen appeared at a pressure more than 4 million times that of Earth’s atmosphere, the scientists report June 13 at arXiv.org. If confirmed, the achievement would fulfill a long-standing quest to produce the elusive metal, first predicted in the 1930s to exist. The work has yet to undergo peer review. But it is “definitely a very substantial step ahead” of previous research, says physicist Alexander Goncharov of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the study. “I think it’s quite conclusive it is metallic.” Other researchers are more skeptical. Physicist Eugene Gregoryanz of the University of Edinburgh says that he does not find the new experiment convincing, and notes that many previous claims of metallic hydrogen have been proven wrong in the end. Some aspects of the result disagree with previously published measurements of hydrogen at high pressure, says physicist Isaac Silvera of Harvard University. In 2017, he and his colleagues reported spot-
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ting hydrogen turning into a metal, a claim that was criticized by other scientists, including Gregoryanz (SN: 2/18/17, p. 14). Physicist Paul Loubeyre of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Arpajon, a coauthor of the new study, did not respond to requests for comment for this article. Metallic hydrogen is particularly enticing to physicists because of predictions that it may be a superconductor, a material that allows electricity to flow without resistance. But unlike other known superconductors, which must be chilled to very low temperatures, metallic hydrogen might be a superconductor at room temperature. Scientists’ eventual goal is to find a superconductor that requires neither cooling nor high pressure. If such materials are found, they could be integrated into electronics and save vast amounts of energy. To create the purported metal, Loubeyre and colleagues squeezed hydrogen gas between two diamonds. An improved setup, with diamonds etched with a doughnut
shape, allowed the researchers to reach higher pressures than previous experiments. Using a powerful source of light called a synchrotron, the team sent infrared light through the diamonds and the squeezed hydrogen. As the physicists ratcheted up the pressure, the hydrogen suddenly became opaque to the light, a sign of a transition to a metal. “It’s the best experimental data to date on hydrogen in this pressure range,” says physicist Russell Hemley of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The behavior of hydrogen at high pressures is complex, taking on a variety of different phases depending on the conditions, as molecules and atoms rearrange under the squeeze. For example, there may be semimetallic phases as well as a true metal. It’s unclear what the properties of the claimed metal are, such as whether it is superconducting. But the new result adds to the complexities of hydrogen that scientists have already uncovered, Hemley says. “It’s part of this developing story about the nature of hydrogen at high pressure.” (net)
LOW Key technique is often applied by photographers to produce dramatic photos by using more dominant darker tones. Low key lighting tends to intensify contrast in images by reducing the intensity of lighting. The basic principle of the low key technique is not just intended to produce dark images, but instead requires a photographer to selectively use lighting so that only certain parts of the object are illuminated. Typical features of a photo produced with a low key technique are having most of the tones in the shadow region. Most of the photos actually look dark. Only certain parts of the object look bright. The photos produced with the low key technique utilize contrast in different ways to attract the attention of those who enjoy the photo. Low key techniques are generally applied by photographers in the studio to photograph models and products to make them look elegant, by using lighting arrangement. However, it does not necessarily mean that dramatic and artistic low key photos cannot be produced by using natural lighting. Indeed it is rather difficult compared to photographing in studio, considering we cannot fully control the incoming light. One of the ways to produce low key photos without using studio lights is by taking pictures outside the room at night. We will benefit naturally because of
the dark conditions. However, we must be smart to find the right light source. Moonlight or city lights can be good sources of lighting. The road only illuminated by dim lights and city parks can be an ideal location for producing photos with low key techniques. The rest just need our foresight to take advantage of varied lighting conditions to produce dramatic photos. When shooting with a low key technique, look for a background having two brightness levels below the object. For example, the object is illuminated with dim lights and the background is dark. After that, set the camera to manual mode, darken or underexpose the background up to 2 stops. Set the aperture and shutter speed as desired when the EV marker is at the number -2. When shooting with a low key technique, make sure the light entering the camera is minimal but not too dark. For example, set the exposure at 1/80 sec, the aperture f / 6.3, and ISO 100. The usage of low ISO usually produces too dark images, but this is exactly what is needed. At ISO 100, the image quality of photo will remain high due to minimal noise and the object’s color will stand out against a solid black background. Have a nice try of the low key technique. (ian)
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For Kintamanian dog preservation, a dog contest to be held this year Head of the Bali Animal Husbandry and Animal Health Agency, Wayan Mardiana, said that up to now the Kintamanian dog population reaches 2,970. This dog is commonly found at Sukawana village, Bangli. To preserve Kintamanian dogs, the Bali provincial government is going to hold a contest. He hoped the contest will also increase the Balinese people’s interest switching to keep Kintamanian dogs compared to other breeds of dogs. “Moreover, this dog has
advantages such as being intelligent and very capable of keeping a home,” he said. In addition to holding contests, another measure to preserve the dogs is to establish Kintamanian dog breeding groups. Provincial government plans to provide assistance in the form of funds or feed assistance. It is important to establish Kintamanian dog breeding, said Mardiana, because so far most Kintamanian dogs live wildly. Most of the population breeds in
caves or gardens. “If there is captivity, they are well-maintained, easier to be vaccinated and surely their health can be checked if they are sick,” he said. Since most of them are still wild, it is rather difficult for the officers to reach them for vaccinations, especially vaccination against rabies. Although there are no reports of Kintamanian dogs being exposed to rabies, this potential can occur if they are left to live wildly. According to Mardiana, if bred, Kintama-
nian dogs will not undergo genetic changes. “However, its nature can change from wild to tame. Their health is also better monitored, “‘ he said. At present, Mardiana said that at Sukawana village, Bangli, there are already a number of people breeding the Kintamanian dogs. Usually the breeders have understood the economic value of the Kintamani breed so that they take good care of their dogs. Currently, the selling price of a two-month-old Kintamanian puppy reaches IDR 1,000,000. To ensure the authenticity of the race, some breeders already have certificates for their Kintamanian dogs. In the future, this certificate
will be encouraged by the provincial government of Bali so that all Kintamanian dogs can own it. “Getting this certificate needs a process like taking notes to determine the Kintamanian lineage. There are special authorities. In the future, we will facilitate Kintamanian dog breeders with the authorized institutions,” he explained. Mardiana also called for that when buying and selling Kintamanian dogs, the owners and buyers must pay attention to the history of rabies vaccination of the dogs. This is to prevent transmission of rabies across the regencies and of course to protect the Kintamanian dogs from the rabies virus. (kmb24)
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Stray dogs at Ulun Danu Batur Temple eliminated
BANGLI - The elimination against stray dogs by the Bangli Agriculture, Food Security and Fisheries (PKP) Agency in the Batur village area, Kintamani, reaped a lot of criticism on social media. Pursuant to the criticism, the elimination activity did not only target stray dogs, but also the domestic dogs belonging to local residents. Division Head of the Animal Health at the PKP Bangli, Sri Rahayu, when asked for her confirmation in connection with the matter
on Sunday (Jun. 30) acknowledged that her agency had carried out stray dog elimination in the Batur region on Thursday. The elimination was carried out according to the SOP to selective and targeted dogs. Sri Rahayu explained the stray dog elimination was carried out on the request from apparatus of Batur customary village following a dog bite case happened to a pilgrim from Gianyar in the Ulun Danu Batur Temple area. “Indeed the results are positive (to rabies),”
she said. In the elimination activities carried out around the area of the Ulun Danu Batur Temple, Sri Rahayu said the officers were escorted and accompanied directly by several customary apparatuses. They even showed directly to the officers the stray dogs deserving to be eliminated. Approximately, a dozen of dogs were eliminated in the activity. “The officers did not dare to carelessly eliminate let alone come into people’s houses,” she explained.
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Bali Dynasty Resort Receives Renewed Five - Star Hotel Rating
Bali Dynasty Resort has officially had its Five-Star Hotel rating renewed after a recent Indonesian certification process and audit took place on 19th & 20th June 2019. This detailed evaluation was conducted by Sucofindo, a government-appointed independent business certification board. Following a thorough examination, the result from the two-day audit showed that Bali Dynasty Resort has successfully exceeded
KINTAMANIAN dog has been recognized worldwide as a world race dog by Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI). Therefore, to preserve Bali’s Germplasm the Bali provincial government plans to hold the Kintamanian Dog Contest 2019. If there are no obstacles, this contest will be held at the end of next August.
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Meanwhile, headman of Batur Tengah, Gede Sarjana, when asked for his confirmation separately also justified the same thing. He explained the stray dog elimination activity was carried out by officers in the Ulun Danu Batur Temple area on the request of customary village according to the results of the meeting. The elimination was carried out because many people have become victims of dog bites in the temple area. “Many people had been bitten, including Jero Kesinoman bitten
in the temple area. We are worried about the incoming pilgrims if they will be bitten as well,” he explained. He said that so far the number of stray dogs in the Ulun Danu Batur Temple area is quite a lot. They are not only wandering around the temple area, but also breed there. According to him, if indeed there are residents regretting the actions of the officers eliminating the stray dogs in the temple area, he asked the citizens to care more about their pets by tying or impounding them. (kmb40)
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prestigious accreditation, which is valid for three years, since June 2016. Such certification not only contributes to the resort’s positive image, it is also an assurance for guests that they will enjoy a great holiday experience. The certification is a part of a legal regulation by the current Indonesian Ministry of Tourism, which states that all hotels operating in the country must be audited by an independent business certification board.
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New film shows painful legacy of China’s one-child policy
PARIS - To see what China’s one-child policy has done to the most populous country on Earth, you just have to look around you, said acclaimed filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai. “There is often one child now to six grown-ups. You have the four grandparents and two parents for one child. It’s a bit unbalanced,” the director added with not a little understatement. “So Long, My Son”, which won its stars Yong Mei and Wang Jingchun the best actor award at the Berlin film festival earlier this year, plunges audiences into the ocean of pain and heartbreak the policy caused. The tragic story of a couple whose only son is drowned in an accident, is an epic account of how families were bent and buckled during the 36 years of the world’s biggest demographic experiment. “It made me realise to what extent we as Chinese people lived through something that was completely out of the ordinary and unique in the world,” Wang told AFP just before the film opened in France. “That is what pushed me to shoot the film,” said the director, who made his name in the West with “Beijing Bicycle”, a prize-winner at Berlin back in 2001. “Generally speaking people in China don’t live for themselves, or put themselves forward,” he said. - ‘We don’t control our lives’ “We are not in control of our own lives” and everything can be changed by the “smallest directive from on high”. “People do things for the collective, for the country. That is why every time there is a new policy, even one which has a huge impact on their lives, people tend to bend to it.” When the one-child policy was first adopted in 1979, “people kind of understood” it was in the country’s economic interests, Wang said, with three-quarters of the population said to support it. “Of course there were people who fought against it but after 30 years people had accepted it.” Finally getting rid of it four years ago was “a good thing”, Wang argued, because “it allows people to be more in charge of their own lives, to have more freedom on what kind of family they want to build.” But by the time it was replaced by a two-child policy in 2016, the single child family “had become anchored” in society, the new norm reinforced by the rise of the middle classes. (afp)
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Chinese film director Wang Xiaoshuai, whose new film shows the pain the one-child policy inflicted on families.
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Original ‘Star Wars’ creators lift lid on special effects challenges
BEVERLY HILLS - Remember the scene when Luke Skywalker failed his first attempt to blow up the Death Star? Or when C3PO chased him up the stairs of his Tatooine desert home? Of course you don’t -- both were among countless improvised changes made to the original “Star Wars” due to budget, time and technological restraints, its creators explained at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on Thursday. At an event celebrating visual effects innovation in the classic sci-films, luminaries who created George Lucas’s 1977 blockbuster contrasted their world of filming -- and sometimes blowing up -- wooden Star Destroyer models with today’s digital masterpieces. “The technology and techniques of the 70s put considerable constraints on the way shots had to be staged,” said John Knoll, chief creative officer of Lucasfilm effects company Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).
“By that I don’t mean just whether it looked good or not but whether you could actually put the thing together at all!” He pointed to the suit worn by C3PO actor Anthony Daniels, which severely restricted his vision and range of motion in the original films. On two occasions where the robotic character is supposed to follow humans up or down stairs, editors had to cut or pan away just in time to obscure the impossibility of Daniels tackling the steps in his clunky suit. By contrast, the human-shaped droid in 2016’s Star Wars film Rogue One was entirely CGI. While the first film was put together in a stuffy Los Angeles warehouse with no air-conditioning for $11 million, Rogue One cost
$200 million to produce. Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar for editing “Star Wars,” explained how she cobbled together an early impression of the film’s climactic fight scene from World War Two footage, to assist the visual effects artists -- and realized a drastic change was required. “In the script when Luke goes down and makes his trench run he uses the computer and he misses the shot,” she said. “So he goes back up to a dogfight, he has to go down again and make a second run.” Viewing her footage, the team agreed to cut out the first run entirely. “ILM was very pleased that they didn’t have to do half of the special effects shots that happened when he made two runs,” said Lucas, ex-wife of George, adding: “We saved some money!” (afp)
Indonesia President Joko Widodo arrives for the family photo at the G20 Osaka Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.
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Jokowi calls on Indonesians to forget political differences
JAKARTA - President-elect Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has called on all Indonesians to forget differences in political choices during the presidential election, and to reunite as one nation. “I call on all the Indonesian people to forget differences in political choices that have disunited us. Number 02 and 01, we must be reunited as one Indonesia, a nation with Pancasila to unite us,” Jokowi said in his address at the plenary meeting of the General Election Commission (KPU) here on Sunday. Pancasila is Indonesia’s state
ideology consisting of five tenets -- belief in one and the only God Almighty, humanity, unity, democracy and social justice. Jokowi, accompanied by vice president-elect KH Ma’ruf Amin, has thanked the Indonesian people for theirs trust in the pair. He was also grateful to the KPU that has completed its task
to organize the elections, and to name the president-elect and vice president-elect through an open plenary meeting. Jokowi has promised to work hard to continue the development during his first term in office with Vice President Jusuf Kalla. The General Election Commission has named Joko Widodo-KH
Ma’ruf Amin as president-elect and vice president-elect for 20192024 term in a plenary meeting at the KPU building in Jakarta on Sunday. “Declare candidate pair number 01 Joko Widodo and KH Ma’ruf Amin as president-elect and vice president-elect in the presidential election 2019,” KPU chairman Arief Budiman said. Jokowi-Ma’ruf won the election with 85.607.362 votes or
55.5 percent of the votes, while Prabowo and Sandiaga Uno garnered 68.650.239 votes or 44.5 percent.(ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.