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Star Johnson needed therapy after horror film ‘Suspiria’

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VENICE - Actress Dakota Johnson admitted Saturday that she had to see a shrink after playing the lead in Oscar-winning director Luca Guadagnino’s new horror flick, “Suspiria”.

The star of the sado-masochism-tinged “Fifty Shades of Grey” films made the confession as the movie was premiered at the Venice film festival.

“When you’re working sometimes with dark subject matter it can stay with you,” she told reporters.

“I absorb a lot of people’s feelings,” Johnson said.

“Then you talk about it with someone very nice afterwards. It is a really nice to (help you) move on from the project and my therapist is a very nice woman,” she said.

Johnson, 28, the daughter of actors Melanie Griffiths and Don Johnson, and the grand-daughter of Hitchcock favourite, Tippi Hedren, plays a young American Amish woman obsessed with a German modern dance group.

After auditioning for them she is drawn

into a macabre cult of modern witches as fellow dancers disappear one after the other.

Guadagnino -- maker of last year’s arthouse hit “Call Me By Your Name” -- unleashes his most savagely baroque fantasies onto a stellar female cast that included his regular muse, British actress Tilda Swinton, in one of her best roles in years.

The film, a blood-soaked remake of horror legend Dario Argento’s 1977 chiller, is set in a creepy all-female dance school in Cold War Berlin hard by the wall. (afp) Actress Dakota Johnson arrives for the premiere of the film “Suspiria” presented in competition on September 1, 2018 during the 75th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido.

U2 cancels Berlin show after Bono loses his voice

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Irish lead singer of rock band U2, Bono

BERLIN - Irish rock group U2 was forced to cut short a concert in Berlin before thousands of fans after performing only a few songs when lead singer Bono lost his voice.

“We’re so sorry for tonight’s cancellation,” the group said in a statement on its website about the Saturday night show.

“Bono was in great form and great voice prior to the show and we were all looking forward to the second night in Berlin, but after a

few songs, he suffered a complete loss of voice.”

“We don’t know what has happened and we’re taking medical advice.”

It was the second and last concert by the group in the German capital as part of its “Experience + Innocence” tour.

After the first few songs Bono appeared to have a problem with his voice. Several times, the 58year-old stopped singing to drink from a thermos flask.

He finally announced that he could no longer continue. The audience will be able to return for another U2 concert at a future date.

“As always, we appreciate our audience’s understanding and all our fans’ support in Berlin and those who travelled from afar. We will update you very soon,” the statement said.

At the first Berlin show on Friday, Bono condemned the recent far-right violence in the German city of Chemnitz. (afp)

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Fireworks explode over the Gelora Bung Karno main stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on September 2, 2018.

Indonesia announces surprise bid for 2032 Olympics

JAKARTA - Indonesia will bid to host the 2032 Olympics following the success of the Asian Games held there over the past two weeks, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said in a surprise announcement Saturday that highlights the rising ambition of the giant but long underperforming Southeast Asian nation.

Jokowi, who is campaigning for a second term, made the announcement at a meeting in Bogor with the presidents of the International Olympic Committee and the Asian Olympic Committee.

“With the experience we have in organizing the 18th Asian Games, we are sure Indonesia can also host a bigger event,” Jokowi said in a statement after the meeting.

IOC President Thomas Bach welcomed the candidacy of Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, saying that the

Asian Games provided a “strong foundation” for the country’s 2032 bid.

He said Indonesia has shown that it has all the ingredients to hold the Olympics successfully.

“You see that Indonesia is on the move. And you see the enthusiasm of the people,” Bach told The Associated Press. “It’s a very young country. This of course also makes it very interesting for the IOC.” About 12,000 athletes from 45 nations and territories as well as several thousand officials and

journalists took part in the Asian Games, which end Saturday. As host, Indonesia provided a spectacular opening ceremony and also exceeded its own expectations in winning 30 golds, placing fourth on the medal table.

Indonesia, projected to be among the world’s 10 biggest economies by 2030, used the games to shift perceptions that it’s in the “too hard” basket, paving the way for a tilt at even bigger sports hosting baubles.

The country’s hosting of the

Asian Games without major organizational hitches has been a boost for Jokowi as he heads to elections in April. With the 2032 bid announcement, he gets to extend the shelf life of the Asian Games afterglow.

Bach said the formal selection process for 2032 hasn’t begun but Germany and India have also expressed interest.

“And we have heard from other continents and other cities,” he said. “Given that the decision will most likely be taken in 2025, you can understand that we are already very happy at this stage to have such an interest.”

Tokyo is hosting the 2020 Olympics. Paris and Los Angeles have already been selected to host the

following two games, in 2024 and 2028, respectively.

Massive problems with the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, a developing country with endemic corruption, may count against Indonesia’s chances. It cost Brazil about $20 billion to host the Olympics, a bill that is likely to raise objections in Indonesia, where poverty remains widespread. (ap) 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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Praying for the universe, Hundreds of Brahmin priests hold Swasti Puja A total of 111 sulinggih or Brahmin priests in Karangasem performed the Swasti Puja ritual on Friday (Aug. 31). Swasti Puja is a puja mantra carried out together to pray for the universe and its contents.This activity was centered at the Candra Bhuana Art Center of Karangasem and took place starting at around 10:00. A total of 255 Brahmin priests from Karangasem were invited with 15 ready to attend, but finally only 111 Brahmin priests could attend.

The Swasti Puja event was initiated by the Regent of Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumatri was held by sarwa sadaka including Shivites, Buddhists, Empu, Reshi and Pandita. This ceremony is held to pray for peace and safety for the universe and its contents.

This particular ceremony was held in response to the recent natural

disasters that affected Karangasem, like the eruptions of Mount Agung and the earthquakes in Lombok.

Regent Sumatri explained that before the ceremony alms were distributed to the Brahmin priests by representatives of each subdistrict of Karangasem contained Bank books with pre-paid ATM cards with IDR 1.5 million each

The Regent of Karangasem and priests held Swasti Puja

on them. “Once each priest has received an bank account number, the Karangasem District government will distribute alms worth IDR 500,000 a month to the Brahmin priests”, she said.

Brahmin priests have the very difficult task of praying for the universe to be peaceful and safe, so the government should support

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this, explained Regent Sumatri adding that the alms are a way for the Karangasem District government to show their concern for the Brahmin priests.

The swasti puja that took place on Friday was also attended by several public figures including customary village chiefs from across Karangasem, other Brahmoin priests, Chief of the General Assembly of Customary Village (MUDP) of Bali, Jro Gede Putus Upedesa, Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Karangasem and the Regional Secretariat of Karangasem’s district government.

Before the actual Swasti Puja, there was a Trisandya Puja after which the event resumed with muspa or prayers carried out by the everyone present as well as the 111 Brahmin priests chanting the puja.

Director of Hindu Community Development, Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Ketut Widnya, who was present for the puja event, expressed his appreciation for the Regent of Karangasem’s idea to hold this prayer event. “This worship is meant to pray for the universe for the peace of the world including of course Indonesia”, he said.

The prayers are also intended for general peace. Widnya added that every morning Brahmin priests do Surya Sewana puja to pray for the

world and that this event involves 111 Brahmin priests through this Swasti Puja. “The worship performed for the universe by just one Brahmin priest is extraordinary just imagine, this is being done by over one hundred Brahmin priests”, he said with awe.

This will certainly result in positive vibrations, added Widnya.

Brahmin priests do not pray or worship carelessly but do so with Tantra, Mantra, Mudra, Yoga and Yadnya. So, it has extraordinary strength to have prayers realized.

Hopefully, this event manifests peace in the universe.. “The prayers of Brahmin priests are based on their daily practice of prayers and puja”, he added.

According to Widnya, Tantra, Mantra, Mudra, Yoga and Yadnya were first done 2,500 years ago in the era of King Darmawangsa Teguh in Java. Thus, this Swasti Puja held in Karangasem is now connecting the historical tradition in the past ot tthe present. “I very much appreciate the regent of Karangasem initiating this ceremony”, he said, adding that Regent Sumatri likely had a spiritual vision.

With prayers done by Brahmins like the sulinggih the country or region will experience peace, said Widnya who also said that alms for Brahmin priests are an extraordinary matter of concern.(kmb)

Lack of understanding

Tourism villages need to know what makes them unique DENPASAR —Tourism villages are thought to be one way creating economic equality. Although the government is intensively designating tourism villages, not everyone involved understands what this designation means. Identifying an iconic feature needs to be done so that the village can be branded.

Chief of the Desa Wisata Nusantara Foundation, Mangku Kandia, explained that Bali has been developing tourism since 1914. However even today, many people do not understand the basics of tourism. “Tourism doesn’t just mean having tourists come buy a statue of other product from Bali and that’s it. People need to understand about how tourist perceive things because it

not the same”, explained Mangku Kandia.

Not all villages have potential that can be developed. A village’s tourist attractions or icon can be a legacy of the village, something that is made there or something created especially for tourism.

This year, Governor of Bali Mangku Pastika declared 220 villages to be tourism villages but not all of them can actually perform this function. A tourism village needs to have a unique aspect that is branded. Mas Village for example has been branded as a village of wood carvers, Ubud as a village of painters, Peliatan is known for its Legong Dance or the GWK Park has its iconic statue, he explained.

“Actually, the culture (iconic

uniqueness of a village) should be established or agreed upon first, then the tourists come. Tourism is a bonus. So a tourism village needs to identify what cultural aspect makes them unique”, explained this former Chairman of the Central Executive Board of Indonesia Tour Guides Association (HPI) serving between 2001-2011.

The general public mindset about tourism needs to be changed and the local community needs to be accepting. Not everyone understands about tourism. This is the problem many so called tourism villages are facing today.

“This is really important and it takes a long time for people to become aware”, said the pioneer of Mas tourism village. (kmb42)

Penglipuran, one of the tourism villages in Bali

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15 Activities BALI PARAGON RESORT HOTEL WINNING THE BEST HOTEL & SERVICE EXCELLENT 2018 Monday, September 3, 2018

Bali Paragon Resort Hotel announced as the Best Hotel & Service Excellent 2018 in 7 Media Asia Award 2018, at The Trans Resort Bali, in Seminyak, recently.

7 Media Asia, collaborated with Asia Global Council and The Key Magazine selected 4 hotels within 7 hotels in category of The Best Hotel & Service Excellence 2018, and Bali Paragon Resort Hotel is one of them. A total of 22 awards were given during the official events.

“As a new 4-star hotel in Jim-

baran, it is an honor to receive this prestigious award, and of course, it motivates us even more to continue improving our quality & service,” Resort Manager Alice Matulessy said.

This is the first annual 7 Media Asia Award; recognized seven categories of achievers, included: The Best Government, The Best Hotel & Service, The Best Business, The Best Women Leader, The Best BUMD, The Best Education and The Best Company. Vice President Asia Global Council

Indonesia Andi Surya Pratama, MBA handed over the awards to all of the winners.

This award is an appreciation to industry’s players in Indonesia and regional institutions, who are able to produce the best innovations and compete in the tight industry competition as well. The scoring and judging was managed by 7 Media Asia Secretariat, supported by Asia Global Council & Key People Magazine within 25th of August 2017 to 15th of August 2018.

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Walking the Alpe-Adria Trail around Lake Millstatt, Carinthia, Austria

LAST year, I walked a selection of this trail but missed out on one of the most beautiful parts in Carinthia. That’s a good enough reason to return to Austria, complete a couple of sections and explore the Lake District.

The Alpe-Adria Trail runs for 750km from the foot of the Grossglockner (at 3,798m Austria’s highest mountain), into Slovenia and ends in Italy, near Trieste on the Adriatic coast.

Lake Millstätter See I fly into Klagenfurt in the early evening and take a taxi transfer to Millstätt. After around an hour, we crest a ridge and suddenly Lake Millstätter See is spread out below me, hemmed in by high mountains

with snow still visible on the distant peaks. At over seven miles long, it’s only Carinthia’s second largest, but is the deepest, plunging to 146m. So clean that they say you can drink it, and it’s crammed with freshwater fish.

The most famous is the Reinanke, belonging to the salmon family, prosaically known in English as White Fish. It entered the lake at the end of the last ice age from the Arctic sea, and people have been eating it ever since. It fed the Benedictine

monks in the Millstatt Monastery and in the 19th century the Bacher family were selected to supply the Imperial court in Vienna. Their descendants still have the right to check their nets every morning and bring in the fish for lunch.

I’m staying right next to lake in the charming Hotel See-Villa, built in 1884, and one of a number of country houses built to cater for aristocrats when they started coming here from Vienna in the 19th century.

The hotel has been in the hands of the Tacoli family for the last 40 years and it shows in the efficient way they run it. The restaurant has tables at the water’s edge, a delightful opportunity to observe

the lake in its many moods. It’s surprisingly warm, since no glacial mountain streams drain into it, and temperatures can reach 25°C in summer. I get into the routine of a daily morning and evening dip.

What they’re promoting here is peace and quiet, with the German slogan Zeit zu zweit, although the English Time for Two doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. If you’re a couple, however, a table for two on a pontoon in the middle of the lake, is a romantic option – each course is delivered by boat.

You can also stay in one of seven Biwaks, scattered around the lake, a sort of luxury bivouac in a wooden shed. Inside there’s a large double

bed and windows in the roof so you can observe the stars as you drift into sleep.

An early morning antique rowing boat trip, across to the unspoilt south side of the lake, is an opportunity to admire the fish in the crystal clear waters, with birdsong the only sound.

Motor boats are restricted and you can happily swim across the lake without fear of being mown down. E-biking is also popular and a circuit of the lake is a pleasant way to spend a morning. Being Austria there are plenty of cafes on the way offering draught beer, sausage and cheese and, of course, Apple Strudel. (net)

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Perpetrators of thuggery and drugs should be ostracized DENPASAR — Declaration of No Narcotics and No Thuggery held by the Bali Police at Puputan Margarana Field, Renon, East Denpasar, was followed by approximately 11,000 participants on Saturday (Sep. 9). In his remarks, Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose, emphasized that thuggery perpetrators are cowards. He also asked customary villages to impose onstracizion sanctions against thugs and drugs offenders.

“We agree to eradicate drugs and thuggery. Thugs under the guise of thuggery must be eradicated and cannot be in any form in Bali,” he said.

Golose will not tolerate all actions that lead to thuggery including thugs under the guise of community organizations. “Pass the greeting of Bali Police Chief to them. Once again, I beg this from the innermost heart. Many people ask what if the Bali Police Chief moves? Today the answer is that

the Balinese people go up against all forms of thuggery. Do you agree or not?” asked Bali Police Chief and answered by the audience in agreement.

“The cowards are those that do not raise their hand. Ladies and gentlemen, do not worry the Bali Police Chief is behind you. And this is the most important,” he affirmed.

This two-star general on shoulder confronts the customary village, the Chief of the MUDP, the

Interfaith Harmony Communication Forum (FKUB) and all customary stakeholders should impose an ostracizion to the perpetrators of drugs or thuggery.

“Ostricize them from the village, do not only be subjected to positive law but the customary village should also punish them. It is the only and most important way that I think can eliminate the thuggery on the Island of the God,” he said.

“Go up against them as they mean nothing. They are just a group

of cowards. Right now those having been arrested are suspected of being drug addicted in prison, crying like small children. If there is anyone greater, please tell that Peter Golose is awaiting them,” said this former BNPT official.

He hoped that by carrying out this declaration, Balinese people can live peacefully without thuggery and drugs. “I thank the comrades of Bali.

Let’s look after Bali,” he pleaded. (kmb36)

Declaration of No Narcotics and No Thuggery held by the Bali Police at Puputan Margarana Field, Renon, East Denpasar, was followed by approximately 11,000 participants.

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Tourists complain about motorbike parked on sidewalk

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Sanur Beach is increasingly crowded with domestic and foreign tourists. The condition is not matched with adequate parking space so that it is often crowded and many motorbikes park on the sidewalk.

DENPASAR —Sanur Beach is increasingly crowded with domestic and foreign tourists. Additionally, it is coupled with the passengers of high speed boat crossing to Nusa Penida.

The condition is not matched with adequate parking space so that it is often crowded and many motorbikes park on the sidewalk.

As an impact of this condition, South Denpasar Police often received complaints. Many tourists feel disturbed by such condition.

There are even thighs of tourist scratched by a motorcycle license plate.

“Starting today, we will conduct dissemination to prohibit the sidewalks from being used as parking space of motorbike. The sidewalks are for pedestrians, jogging tracks

and diffables,” said Chief of South Denpasar Police, I Nyoman Wirajaya, on Saturday (Sep. 1).

Together with dozens of its personnel, Wirajaya conducted a raid from Jalan Hang Tuah, Sanur Beach, in front of GBB and other jogging track locations. “We will disseminate the jogging track area along 4 kilometers,” he said.

The effort was made because international events such as the IMF and World Bank (WB) will soon be held. According to him, the event will bring in thousands of guests ahead of and after the IMF event. “Sanur will be visited by adequately large number of tourists that come especially before the IMF until the end of the IMF. Facilities like jogging track must be

clear because it is one of the facilities indeed owned by Sanur other than the beach,” he said.

So, from now on his authority is disseminating it so that at least mid-September the jogging track can be cleared from parking and used optimally.

The dissemination will be carried out over the next two weeks.

After that, if there is still motorbike parking on the sidewalk, it will be impounded at the police station and can only be taken after the IMF event.

“We hope that all parties should realize that this extraordinary international event will be held in Bali.

Let’s look after our region so that it is truly safe and comfortable,” he hoped. (kmb36)

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Toya Devasya gets Indonesia Hospitality Winner 2018 Choice Awards MANGUPURA — Toya Devasya Natural Hot Spring & Camping Resort offering the natural beauty of Lake Batur returned to receive a prestigious award. This time, the Indonesia Award Magazine awarded the Indonesia Hospitality Winner 2018 Choice Awards to Dr. I Ketut Mardjana as General Manager of Toya Devasya Hotspring Wellness Resort. Located at The Patra Bali Resort & Villas on Friday night (Aug. 31), the award recipient was represented by the Managing Director of Toya Group, Putu Ayu Astiti Saraswati.

On that occasion, when met after receiving the award, Ayu Astiti Saraswati expressed her pride that Toya Devasya had won another award from the Choice Awards. “We are proud the results of hard work have been recognized so far. However, this does not stop until we will also continue to improve service, we will also continuously improve the services, insfrastructure and information technology,” she said proudly.

In the future, her management with the beauty of the panorama presented, visitors do not only visit Toya Devasya once but can make a visit for many times. To support this, her management will also expand the instagrammable spots in addition to improvements in infrastructure.

“We also develop and learn about the favorite of visitors and together make it happen with properties from the Toya Group,” she said.

Regarding the number of tourist visits to Toya Devasya, Ayu said the visits continued to increase every year. During peak season, both do-

mestic and foreign tourists continue to increase. For that reason, she hoped the tourism conditions in Bali and Indonesia will continue to be good so that tourists will continue to increase.”

Quantitatively, the average daily visit to Toya Devasya reaches 800 people on weekday, while on weekend can reach 1,000 more visits.

“Compared to last year of the same period, the number of tourist visits far grows,” she said.

At this location, said Ayu, visitors can enjoy the charm of eastern Bali with its stunning panorama of Mount Batur. Nice combination of hot spring pool located on the shores of Lake Batur and the magnificent panoramic views around it are wrapped in the coolness of the mountain air. Of course, this will give the impression of calmness that evokes enthusiasm. Besides, for those who like to drive adrenaline, there are also outdoor activities that will get visitors closer to nature, like camping. (kmb23)

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Toya Devasya Natural Hot Spring & Camping Resort offering the natural beauty of Lake Batur returned to receive a prestigious award.

B20 policy applied and tourism boosted B20 policy and boosts tourism.

Governor of Bank Indonesia, Perry Warjiyo, said the effort to reduce the current account deficit does not happen due to the too high deficit

Governor of Bank Indonesia, Perry Warjiyo

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China’s ‘Silk Road’ project runs into debt jam

BEIJING - China’s massive and expanding “Belt and Road” trade infrastructure project is running into speed bumps as some countries begin to grumble about being buried under Chinese debt.

To lower current transaction deficit DENPASAR - To reduce the current account deficit widening 3 percent of the GDP or USD 8 billion in the second quarter of 2018, the government implements

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but because foreign financing is running uncertain. “So,it is better to lower the deficit of current transaction. We reduce to make it safer. If being normal, our current account deficit is safe, it does not matter if our current account deficit problem is more than 3 percent. However, during the downturn condition, it is better for us to reduce,” he explained.

This is done by applying biodiesel or B20. The need for fuel currently obtained from oil will be replaced from biodiesel produced from palm oil processing. This policy will be carried out en masse on September 1, 2018. Therefore, the use of biodiesel will increase and reduce oil imports.

With the use of B20 from September, it is estimated it can reduce oil imports by USD 2.2 billionn 2018. Whereas in 2019, it is expected to reduce oil imports by USD 6.6 billion. The advantage of using B20 is that the price of palm

oil will rise because it is more used for biodiesel.

“Some of the palm oil we export is used to produce biodiesel.

Indonesia is the largest supplier of palm oil. So, the price of palm oil will rise. If it rises, the export value of palm oil will also rise,” said the man born in Sukoharjo. The price increase of palm oil exports is estimated to reach USD 4-5 billion.

But this increase will have just an impact next year.

On that account, the implementation of B20 can save oil imports of USD 6.6 billion, coupled with the increase in the value of USD 4-5 billion of palm oil exports.

Then, the foreign exchange of USD 10 billion can be obtained. “So, the current account deficit can be better, and our economic resilience can be stronger,” he concluded.

In addition to the implementation of the B20, the government has also boosted tourism to obtain foreign exchange. “Tour-

ism will very quickly generate foreign exchange, encourage growth to provide employment and alleviate poverty,” he explained.

In 2019, the target of foreign tourist visit is 20 million. Of the 20 million foreign tourists, there will be a foreign exchange of USD 17.6 billion. In 2024, it is expected that a minimum of 25 million foreign tourists will come to Indonesia and the foreign exchange target will reach USD 28.5 billion.

One of the efforts made is infrastructure development. Other than Bali, the tourism in the Joglo Semar (Yogyakarta, Solo, Semarang) region will also be boosted.

Thus, the new Yogyakarta Airport will be launched in March or April 2019. Hopefully, it will be able to increase the visit to Yogyakarta reaching 400,000. Within 5 years, the capacity can reach 15 million and then more and more tourists will come. (kmb42)

First announced in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the initiative also known as the “new Silk Road” envisions the construction of railways, roads and ports across the globe, with Beijing providing billions of dollars in loans to many countries.

Five years on, Xi has found himself defending his treasured idea as concerns grow that China is setting up debt traps in countries which may lack the means to pay back the Asian giant.

“It is not a China club,” Xi said in a speech on Monday to mark the project’s anniversary, describing Belt and Road as an “open and inclusive” project.

Xi said China’s trade with Belt and Road countries had exceeded $5 trillion, with outward direct investment surpassing $60 billion. But some are starting to wonder if it is worth the cost.

During a visit to Beijing in August, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said his country would shelve three China-backed projects, including a $20 billion railway.

The party of Pakistan’s new prime minister, Imran Khan, has vowed more transparency amid fears about the country’s ability to repay Chinese loans related to the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Meanwhile the exiled leader of the opposition in the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has said China’s actions in the Indian Ocean archipelago amounted to a “land grab” and “colonialism”, with 80 percent of its debt held by Beijing.

Sri Lanka has already paid a heavy price for being highly indebted to China.

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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping before their bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 2, 2018.

Last year, the island nation had to grant a 99-year lease on a strategic port to Beijing over its inability to repay loans for the $1.4billion project.

- ‘Ambiguous partner’ “China does not have a very competent international bureaucracy in foreign aid, in expansion of soft power,” Anne StevensonYang, co-founder and research director at J

Capital Research, told AFP. “So not surprisingly they’re not very good at it, and it brought up political issues like Malaysia that nobody anticipated,” she said.

“As the RMB (yuan) becomes weaker, and China is perceived internationally as a more ambiguous partner, it’s more likely that the countries will take a more jaundiced eye on these projects.”

The huge endeavour brings much-needed infrastructure improvements to developing countries, while giving China destinations to unload its industrial overcapacity and facilities to stock up on raw materials.

But a study by the Center for Global Development, a US think-tank, found “serious concerns” about the sustainability of the sovereign debt in eight countries receiving Silk Road funds. (afp)

Japan braces for ‘very strong’ typhoon

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Passengers pass next to a bulletin board with operations information of “shinkansen” bullet trains at Shin-osaka Station in Osaka on August 23, 2018, as Typhoon Cimaron nears the Japanese coastline.

TOKYO - Japan on Sunday braced for a “very strong” typhoon, with authorities warning of high waves, floods and landslides, including in areas hit by deadly flooding earlier this year.

Typhoon Jebi, packing winds of up to 252 kilometres (156 miles) an hour, is expected to make landfall on the country’s main island on Tuesday, according to Japan’s Meteorological Agency.

“Maintaining its very strong power, the typhoon is forecast to approach western and eastern Japan,” the agency said.

The path of the typhoon appeared to cover the western Chugoku region, where record rainfall in July unleashed flooding and landslides, killing around 220 people in Japan’s worst weather-related disaster in decades.

Local media said the typhoon, which is still hundreds of kilometres away from Japan in the Pacific, could be the strongest storm to hit the nation this year.

The meteorological agency urged residents in western and eastern Japan to prepare for high seas, landslides and floods.

The storm comes as some 27,000

people in Nagato in western Japan were temporarily ordered to evacuate their homes on Saturday due to torrential rain.

Japan is now in typhoon season, and is regularly struck by major storm systems during the summer and autumn.

Jebi is to follow Typhoon Cimaron, which made landfall on August 23 disrupting transport links, but injuries and damages were limited.

Jebi is the latest weather front to batter Japan, which has also been sweating through a record and deadly heatwave. (afp)

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BUSINESS German unemployment low amid strong labor market

BERLIN - The number of people without jobs in Germany dropped slightly in August as the labor market remained strong in Europe’s largest economy.

The Federal Labor Office said Thursday

that the number of unemployed dropped by 8,000 from July, according to seasonally adjusted figures, leaving the jobless rate unchanged at 5.2 percent.

In unadjusted figures, the rate rose

slightly to 5.2 percent from 5.1 the previous month, with a total of 2.35 million people registered as unemployed.

IHC economist Timo Klein says the numbers show that “overall, the German

labor market seems largely unfazed by growing international uncertainty since mid-2016 linked to Brexit and disruptive U.S. trade policies under President Trump.” (ap)

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An old gamelan instrument called Caruk made its first appearance at the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) this year. The Caruk gamelan troupe from Pau Village, Banjarangkan performed music that is rarely heard, on the Amgsoka stage of the Denpsar Art Center. “The caruk gamelan instrument is estimated to have originated in the fifteenth century and this is the fifth generation of this particular gamelan troupe” explained art coordinator of Pau customary village, Nengah Sukirta. Pau Village and Tangkas Village are the only places in Klungkung where caruk gamlean can be found, said Sukirta adding that they are only played for Deva Yajna and Pitri Yajna religious cermonies.

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina’s Central Bank on Thursday increased its benchmark interest rate to 60 percent — the world’s highest — in an effort to halt a sharp slide in the value of the peso, which plunged to a record low.

“For Pitri Yajna rituals, caruk gamelan is played during the cremation ceremony during menek tumpang salu, menek bea and mapurwadaksina rites that culminate in the nyekah ritual. For Dewa Yajna rituals, caruk gamelan is played during the mamungkah rite. It is played at the peak of the ritual when the deities circle the offerings clockwise –known as murwa daksina” he elaborated.

Head of Pau customary village’s caruk gamelan troupe, I Wayan Suendra, said that this gamelan instrument is a rare and sacred instrument. Caruk gamelan consists of two small xylophones and one saron that are always played together. “We also have an extra player so for the BAF performance there were four musicians” he Suendra. Suendra added that nine different caruk gamelan compositions were handed down by the ancestors, however because the palmleaf manuscripts on which they were written are hard to read, only five of the compositions are played. All five were performed at this year’s BAF: the Tabuh Ririgan, Tabuh Rejang, Tabuh Ombak Segara, Tabuh Panji Marga and Tabuh Manu Kaba.

“For a very long time only five of the compositions can be played because of the difficulty in reading the lontars, but we are determined to find a way to read the others so that we can perform them in next year’s BAF”, explained Suendra.

Currently, there are only four people in Pau customary village who are actively involved playing gamelan so Suendra is eager to encourage younger people to learn to play. “The notation for caruk gamelan music is different than other gamelan so it is harder to learn.

It takes many years to master. After the BAF we will start to teach young children, which may take even longer”, he said. (kmb)

Tulamben Awaits Your Arrival

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People walk past an exchange house in Buenos Aires, Argentina Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. Argentina’s Central Bank increased its benchmark interest rate to 60 percent Thursday as the peso hit a new all-time low. The sharp devaluation of its currency has led prompted Argentina to seek a financing deal with the International Monetary Fund. But the peso keeps tumbling and it has hit markets and investor confidence in Latin America’s No. 3 economy.

Many also have bad memories of the IMF and blame its free-market economic policies for contributing to the country’s worst crisis in 2001-2002, when one of every five Argentines went unemployed and millions fell into poverty.

Seeing journalists filming screens showing the exchange rates in downtown Buenos Aires, Ruben Montiel, 55, burst out: “Macri is an embarrassment!

“You can’t live like this. The prices of everything go up on a

daily basis,” he said. “There’s no work, utility rates have gone through the roof ... people are sleeping on the streets.”

Macri, a pro-business conservative who came into office in 2015, had promised to trim Argentina’s fiscal deficit, reduce poverty and curb inflation. He cut red tape and tried to reduce the government’s budget deficit by ordering layoffs and cutting utility subsidies, but it triggered labor unrest.

Then in December, officials

announced a rise in the inflation target, which caused investors to begin doubting Macri’s commitment to taming price rises.

Meanwhile, the peso slumped against the dollar as rising U.S. interest rates lured investors to pull greenbacks out of Argentina.

That caused jitters among Argentines, who have been used to stashing away dollars as a cushion since the 2001 crisis, when banks froze deposits and put up sheetmetal barricades as thousands of

protesters unsuccessfully tried to withdraw their savings. Dozens died in protests and looting in December 2001 as the economy unraveled and Argentina eventually suffered a record $100 billion debt default.

“The government will need to shuffle its cabinet and strike deals with provincial governors for next year’s budget,” said Argentine economist Marcos Buscaglia. “In the short-term, the government just needs to stop this crisis. (ap)

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Argentina hikes interest rate to 60 percent; peso plunges

The peso fell more than 13 percent against the dollar on Thursday, closing at an all-time low of 39.2 per greenback, after slipping about 7 percent the day before.

The Central Bank said in a statement that it was hiking its benchmark interest rate by 15 percentage points to 60 percent in response to the currency problems and the risk of greater impact on local inflation, which is already running at about 30 percent a year.

The tumult in the exchange market came a day after President Mauricio Macri said he was asking for an early release of some IMF funds under an $50 billion backup financing arrangement approved earlier.

Some experts said the announcement, combined with the interest rate hike, had the unintended effect of fueling the crisis of confidence.

“I think today’s interest hike announcement will do nothing but leave investors even more jittery,” said Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

“I’m finding it difficult to understand why, after yesterday’s announcement about front-loading more of the IMF funding, the government thought the hike was warranted. Hyperactivity starts to look like desperation.”

Macri has struggled to calm markets and bring confidence to Argentines who continue to lose purchasing power. Many are frustrated with layoffs, higher utility rates and a rise in poverty levels.

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For you belonging to the underwater lovers, especially marine tourism, Tulamben definitely has been very familiar. Well, the marine tourism area of Tulamben, Karangasem, is now growing. This growth is in line with the optimism of tourism players in Tulamben.

The occupancy rate of the accommodation at this prominent diving and snorkeling site has reached For you belonging to the underwater lovers, especially marine tourism, Tulamben definitely has been very familiar. Well, the marine tourism area of Tulamben, Karangasem, is now growing. This growth is in line with the optimism of tourism players in Tulamben. The occupancy rate of the accommodation at this prominent diving and snorkeling site has reached 30 percent dominated

by Chinese tourists.

Manager of Ocean View Tulamben Dive and Resort, Sita Marlina, said not long ago that Tulamben offers the beauty of coral reef under the sea. Until February 2018, the natural beauty can also make Tulamben revive after being dormant from the tourism activities when the condition of Mount Agung was in the first warning alert level on September 22, 2017. “Currently, the condition has begun to improve.

Hotel occupancy rate has been growing by 30 percent from its

normal condition during the period of January-February existing in the range of 70 percent,” he said.

Hotel occupancy has showed improved conditions since the beginning of the year marked by a 30-percent increase in the visits to tourist attractions where 20 percent come from China and the rest from Russia. This condition is much different when the Mount Agung was in the first warning alert level in September – October 2017 that already entered full booking but was then followed by many cancellations.

“At that time, there was anxiety because it was the first disaster

experienced after the last eruption of Mount Agung. The anxiety is more directed to explain about the conditions occurred to tourists having made a reservation, especially to Turkish tourists whose country has no volcano,” he said.

Another impact of Mount Agung condition at the time, said Sita, was a dramatic decrease in occupancy.

In September 2017, the occupancy reached 90 percent then in October there was no visit at all, in November (60 percent) and in December there was no visit. When entering 2018, the condition was getting better though it grows minimally,

namely 30 percent respectively in January and February from the ideal growth of 30-70 percent in normal condition. “In January to February, actually it has entered low season while high season generally occurs in July-November marked with full booking,” he said.

Nevertheless, he constantly continued to do various promotions either through online, including dissemination related to the latest conditions of Bali especially Tulamben that has improved. As realized, to convince tourists to come back is not easy because there was much incorrect information spreading related to

the impact of Mount Agung. He also provided discounts in the range of 50 percent until the end of March.

Visitors from the Netherlands and Germany, Margriet van Dijken and Sarah Krüger, when met admitted this was the first time for them to visit Tulamben and did not know anything associated with Mount Agung. Nevertheless, they are very happy to come to the attraction that offers the underwater beauty as the location is quiet and the atmosphere is pleasant. They will also tell their friends in their home country that Bali is safe and Tulamben tourism has been opened. (kmb)

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Turkey calls US ‘wild wolves’, vows to abandon dollar in trade

BISHKEK - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday vowed Ankara would pursue non-dollar transactions in trade with Russia and other countries, accusing the US of behaving like “wild wolves.”

Both Turkey and Russia are reeling from punitive economic measures imposed by Washington.

“America behaves like wild wolves. Don’t believe them,” Erdogan told a business forum during a visit to Kyrgyzstan, in comments translated into Kyrgyz.

He said his country was in negotiations with Russia over nondollar trade.

“Using the dollar only damages us. We will not give up. We will be victorious,” Erdogan told the meeting, attended by Kyrgyz and Turkish businessmen as well as government officials.

Ties between NATO members Washington and Ankara hit a new low last month as US President Donald Trump announced steep new tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium in response to the detention of an American pastor in Turkey.

The Turkish lira shed a quarter of its value last month as the trade war with the US ratcheted up.

Russia meanwhile saw its ruble tumble to two-year lows in August after the US announced fresh sanctions in connection with a nerve agent poisoning incident in the British city of Salisbury.

Erdogan has also used the visit to ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan to demand the Central Asian country of six million people relinquish all ties to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric and educator Ankara accuses of fomenting a coup in 2016.

Speaking Sunday, Erdogan said Turkish businesses should invest in Kyrgyzstan but “may face barriers from FETO,” the term Ankara uses to describe the network of people and institutions linked to Gulen.

The refusal of the United States to extradite 77-year-old Gulen to face trial in Turkey is one of several sore points that have plagued a once-strong bilateral relationship.

Gulen, whose Hizmet movement has led to the creation of schools in dozens of countries including Kyrgyzstan has always denied any links to the 2016 coup attempt.

Since July 2016, over 55,000 people have been arrested over coup links in Turkey, while more than 140,000 public sector employees have been sacked or suspended. (afp)

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) visits the Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, during a ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of Victory Day, commemorating a decisive battle in the Turkish War of Independence, in Ankara, on August 30, 2018.

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Freedom of expression exercised in accordance with regulations: Jokowi

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo has defended the police`s acts of securing the law and order in dealing with the people`s rights to freedom of association and expression, arguing that they should be exercised in accordance with regulations.

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In this file photo taken on November 23, 2016 Sahra Wagenknecht of the Left party (Die Linke) delivers a speech at the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin on November 23, 2016.

German far-left leaders launch ‘Stand Up’ grassroots movement

BERLIN - Its battle cry is “Stand up”, its public face is a divisive anti-capitalist politician who supports limiting immigration, its aim is to build a populist leftwing movement to shake up Merkel-era Germany.

On Tuesday, Sahra Wagenknecht, 48, will launch the grassroots project which borrows from the campaigns of British Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, French Socialist Jean-Luc Melenchon and US Democrat Bernie Sanders.

Its aim is to energise followers of her far-left Die Linke party, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and ecologist Greens -- but also to win back disenchanted workingclass voters who have drifted to far-right protest parties.

Its website launched in mid-August cites reggae singer Bob Marley’s chant “get up, stand up!” and declares boldly that “no politician, no party will solve our problems if we don’t do it ourselves”.

Tens of thousands have signed up online to join the fight for secure jobs and pensions, good education, protecting the environment, disarmament and “a true democracy not ruled by banks, corporations and lobbyists”.

The jury is still out on whether it will spark a political revolution or quickly fizzle out.

Unsurprisingly, party leaders

across the left, including Wagenknecht’s own comrades at Die Linke, have rejected the Stand Up (“Aufstehen”) guerilla campaign as divisive and unhelpful.

The leader of the SPD, Germany’s traditional labour party, Andrea Nahles, quipped that she “wasn’t losing any sleep over it”.

Others have greeted the effort to re-energise the left as a challenge to Merkel’s centrist coalition government and the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

News weekly Der Spiegel said that, after populist anger over immigration swept the AfD into parliament last year, “it is high time to launch a movement of rallying the left”.

- ‘Open borders unrealistic’ But even backers of the idea have wondered whether it is being led by the right people.

Wagenknecht, 48 and hailing from the former communist East Germany, is a lawmaker and polarising TV talk show star, married to a firebrand leftist SPD defector, exfinance minister Oskar Lafontaine.

Known as rhetorically brilliant but awkward with voters, she is frequently critical of the EU and defends Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

She argues that the SPD has sold out its principles and failed to fight back against unbridled capitalism and Merkel’s neo-liberal” policies.

As Germany has absorbed a mass influx of migrants and refugees, which has sparked a far-right backlash, Wagenknecht has also broken with the left’s traditional orthodoxy on immigration.

“The idea of ‘open borders for all’ is unrealistic,” she said in a recent interview.

“If the core concern of leftist politics is to represent the disadvantaged, then the no-borders position is the opposite of being on the left.

“All successes in restraining and regulating capitalism have been achieved within individual states, and states have borders.”

Berlin political scientist Dieter Rucht said such views may indeed “please some of the AfD’s voters”, predicting success for the new movement “at least in the short term”. (afp)

“In a democratic state, there are the rights to freedom of assembly, expression, and association, but, once again, they are exercised in accordance with regulations. Do not break security and social order,” he said here on Saturday evening.

Speaking at the National Democrat Party`s occasion, President Joko Widodo, commonly known as Jokowi, said the police have done well in ensuring the implementation of the security and social order for the sake of the people`s cause.

“If the police do not do anything, then a clash occurs, who will be blamed? The police will again be blamed,” said the head of state, who has attempted to get reelected in next year`s presidential race.

Along with his running mate, Ma`ruf Amin, Jokowi is challenged by Chief Patron of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Prabowo Subianto, who has selected Sandiaga Uno, former deputy Jakarta governor, as his vice presidential candidate.

According to Jokowi, making efforts to defend the order and security is part of the police`s duties.

Despite massive support for Jokowi`s reelection bid, there are still groups that endorse the #2019GantiPresiden (#2019ChangePresident) movement in different parts of the country, such as Medan (North Sumatra), Batam (Riau Islands), and Pekanbaru (Riau).

However, persecutions against the key figures and those supporting the #2019ChangePresident movement have frequently occurred in certain parts of the country. The latest incident happened in Pekanbaru, the capital city of Riau Province.

Neno Warisman, one of the leading figures of the movement, recently failed to join those wanting to declare the movement in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, after being forced by the local security apparatus to return to Jakarta.

Before being forced to get back to Jakarta by a commercial aircraft, Neno Warisman said she kept staying inside a sedan that would transport her to Pekanbaru city for at least six hours.

The car could not get out of the Sultan Syarif Kasim International Airport after the gate of the airport complex area was blocked by the opponents of the #2019ChangePresident movement that staged a noisy rally under the local police`s tight security.

In response to this situation, Prabowo Subianto condemned the acts of letting the persecutions against those supporting the movement who want to exercise their rights to freedom of expression.

“Democracy demands freedoms of expression, associate, and assembly,” he told participants of a seminar, organized for reviewing his book titled “The Paradox of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto`s Strategic Perspectives: Rich Country, But Many of Its People Remain Poor” here recently. The people`s fundamental rights are guaranteed by the state`s constitution and democracy.

According to Prabowo Subianto, among the community members, who wish to declare the #2019ChangePresident movement, are housewives. “There is a housewife, wanting to declare the movement, is expelled in her own country.”

“She wants to come to a city in her country but she is expelled. Is this the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia that its founding fathers want to build?” he said.

As a country, which has been independent for 73 years, the state apparatuses must well serve and take care of all citizens, who want to express their aspirations and fight for their rights, he said.

Therefore, Prabowo Subianto said he is deeply concerned with the state apparatuses, who actually belong to the state and the nation but fail to understand that they must protect the whole people of Indonesia.

“The state apparatuses do not belong to a certain group in the country. I think, this is absolutely against the state`s constitution,” he said. If the acts of violating the state`s constitution remain allowed to happen, the history of human being has revealed that the people will not accept the condition if it is not improved.

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Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison (L) listens while Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (R) speaks at a press conference during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Bogor on August 31, 2018.

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Federer out-maneuvers Kyrgios, Cilic survives as Kerber, Zverev fall at US Open

NEW YORK - Five-time champion Roger Federer found a new way to amaze Saturday as he reached the US Open last 16 with a 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 victory over Nick Kyrgios.

The second-seeded Swiss withstood an early onslaught from the unpredictable Aussie, firing 51 winners that included an unlikely forehand flicked around the net post that Kyrgios couldn’t believe.

“Definitely a bit of luck and good feet,” Federer said of the shot that had Kyrgios wide-eyed at the net.

The wonder shot was the talk of the day -- but the night belonged to 2014 champion Marin Cilic and 19-year-old Australian Alex de Minaur, who battled for four hours on Louis Armstrong Stadium before Cilic pulled off a 4-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 victory.

De Minaur, ranked 45th in the world, pushed seventh-ranked Cilic until the bitter end, saving seven match points as he rallied from 5-2 down in the fifth set before finally succumbing after four hours on court.

“Incredible fighting spirit,” Cilic said of de Minaur after the young Aussie kept him on court until 2.22 am (0622 GMT) Sunday morning -- the second-latest finish in US Open history.

“This is a moment to remember,” added Cilic, who booked a fourth-round meeting with Belgian David Goffin.

Federer will take on Australian John Millman, who reached the last 16 of a major for the first time with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin.

If he makes it past Millman, Federer could find Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic waiting in the last eight.

Djokovic, winner of US Open titles in 2011 and 2015, extended his dominance over Richard Gasquet with a 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 victory in front of a rowdy night crowd on the massive Ashe Stadium.

“It was the best match of the week so far without a doubt, and one of the best performances of the hardcourt season after Wimbledon,” said Djokovic, who warmed up for Flushing Meadows by beating Federer in the Cincinnati Masters final.

Djokovic saved all five break points he faced to book a meeting with Joao Sousa of Portugal, a 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/5) winner over France’s Lucas Pouille. (afp)

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LOS ANGELES - Britain’s Luol Deng was waived Saturday by the Los Angeles Lakers, enabling the club to save enough money under NBA salary cap rules to land a top 2019 free agent.

The move came on the first day the Lakers could use a waive-andstretch rule to spread the final year of his salary cap cost over three seasons. That will give the Lakers enough money next year to add a maximum-level free agent to play alongside LeBron James as the once-mighty team tries to rebuild

around the four-time NBA Most Valuable Player after years of struggles.

Deng, 33, played in 57 games for the Lakers over two seasons, averaging 7.5 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists. But his time was limited since Magic Johnson took charge of the club.

“We made this move to further our future salary cap and roster flexibility as we continue to build this Lakers team according to our current overall vision,” Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka said.

Next year’s potential free agent market includes Golden State stars Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson and Toronto’s Kawhi Leonard.

Deng, born in what is now South Sudan, looks to continue his career for what would be a 15th NBA campaign after more than nine seasons in Chicago and stints in Cleveland, Miami as well as with the Kakers.

He has career averages of 15.0 points, 6.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.0 steals over 880 NBA games. (afp)

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ASIAN GAMES 2018 Jakarta Palembang

Beef, sushi on menu as Japan’s Ikee scoops MVP

Teenage swimming sensation Rikako Ikee said she would celebrate with barbecued beef and sushi as she was named the best athlete at the Asian Games on Sunday. Ikee, 18, who grabbed a record six gold medals in Jakarta, said she hoped she had put Japanese swimming on the map ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

“I’m looking forward to eating some barbecued beef and sushi,” said Ikee, the first woman to win the Most Valuable Player award.

“To become the first Japanese to win six golds... it has put Japanese swimming on the map,” she added on the final day of the regional Olympics. Ikee is the first woman to win six golds at a single Games, and she finished with eight medals in total -- equalling the record set

by North Korean shooter So Gin Man in 1982.

Ikee captured titles in the 50m butterfly, 100m fly, 50m free, 100m free, 4x100m free and the 4x100m medley in a show-stealing performance in Jakarta.

Next up for Ikee, set to be the face of the 2020 Olympics in her home city, is an attempt at her first world title next year in South Korea.

“I still haven’t won a world title so that’s my next goal,” she said, adding that she was already back in Japan when she was told she’d won MVP. “I was on the train to Disneyland when my coach called to tell me it might be me and I couldn’t stop grinning,” she said.

“Hasn’t quite sunk in but it’s something I wanted to win so to win the award is a real honour.”(afp)

Son thanks ‘special’ Spurs as Asian gold spares him military duty Son Heung-min will rejoin his Tottenham Hotspur teammates next week buzzing after his emotional rollercoaster ride at the Asian Games in Jakarta.

The decision by Spurs to release Son for a far-flung, under-23 tournament already looks like a shrewd piece of business after he led South Korea to a gold medal that spares him a career-threatening stint of military service.

One of three permitted overage players in the Korean squad, the 26-year-old forward recently signed a new five-year deal with the London club and was quick to thank Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino after a 2-1 extra-time win over Japan on Saturday.

“I’m so grateful to Tottenham because they let me come here,” Son told AFP, clutching his gold

medal and grinning from ear to ear.

“Normally that’s not an easy decision. I would have felt very sorry if I didn’t win the gold medal,” he added, after escaping almost two years of compulsory military service. “I really want to say thank you to the coach, the players and fans of Spurs. They are so special.”

Son’s plight has captured the hearts of Spurs fans, who have taken to social media in their thousands to wish the player luck in Indonesia.

Nearly every able-bodied South Korean male is required to perform 21 months of military service before the age of 28, although the government rewards Asian Games gold medals and Olympic medals of any colour with an exemption.

“I’m so grateful for all the support,” said Son, who will have missed at least three games at the start of the Premier League season to play the Asian Games.

“It means a lot to me. Now I’m looking forward to getting back to England and showing what I can do. I’ll continue to work hard for Tottenham.”

- Tears of joy Hugely popular at Spurs, Son joked before the final that he was upset team-mates Harry Kane and Dele Alli hadn’t texted.

With the weight of the world lifted from his shoulders after overcoming Japan, he revealed that he was still waiting.

“Not yet, but it doesn’t matter -- I know they’re focused on the Premier League so no worries,”

Japan’s swimmer Ikee Rikako, who won six gold medals during the games, poses after being named as the “Most Valuable Player (MVP)” at an awards ceremony for the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on September 2, 2018.

China break all-Korean hearts in women’s basketball thriller

Anthony WALLACE / AFP

(L-R) Unified Korea’s Lim Yung-hui and China’s Li Yuan compete for the ball during the women’s gold medal basketball match between Unified Korea and China at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on September 1, 2018.

China dashed the Unified Korea’s hopes of an emotional women’s basketball gold medal when they won a tense final 71-65 at the Asian Games on Saturday. Lim Yung-hui top-scored with 24 points in a losing cause as China pulled away from 38-38 at halftime before holding off the Koreans in the final quarter.

Park Ji-su was tearful after the game as the Korean team, featuring players from both sides of the heavily fortified Korean border, came up short. “As a player... I am disappointed,” Park said, breaking into tears.

“All our team-mates played very well.

It was a close game,” she sobbed.

Lim and coach Lee Moon-kyu said the squad, which only came together shortly before the Games, hadn’t had enough time to practise together. “I feel sorry because we weren’t able to live up to the expectations of the Korean people,” said Lim. “We have been able to participate in the Asian Games as a joint team, and it has been a special time for us.

Also it was a meaningful time because the South and North were one,” she added.

The Koreans were supported

throughout the tournament by vocal fans brandishing blue and white Korean unification flags and wearing “One Corea” T-shirts.

Despite the loss, the Korean fans were still celebrating after the match, waving their flags and applauding the players. “At first I heard that there were difficulties because of the language difference and so I was worried when I came,” said Park, who plays in the WNBA. “But having spent a month with the other players I could understand them all and there was no problem with communication. And because

we’re all around the same age, we bonded easily.”

She added: “I’m so thankful for all the fans here, and because of that I would like us to gather again.”

The two Koreas marched together at the opening ceremony and also formed joint teams in canoeing, in which they won a gold and two bronze medals.

It follows similar gestures at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which set the stage for an unprecedented thaw in relations between the two countries still technically at war.(afp) Arief Bagus / AFP

Asian Games 2018 Final Medal Tally Rank Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

132 75 49 31 21 20 17 15 15 12

92 56 58 24 24 20 19 24 17 12

65 74 70 43 25 22 31 30 44 13

289 205 177 98 70 62 67 69 76 37

China Japan Republic of Korea Indonesia Uzbekistan IR Iran Chinese Taipei India Kazakhstan DPR Korea

South Korea’s Heung Min Son celebrates after winning against Japan in the men’s gold medal football match at the 2018 Asian Games in Bogor on September 1, 2018.

smiled Son. “The coaching staff from Tottenham have been watching me.

I hope this makes them happy.

It’s the best present for my life.”

Goals from Lee Seung-woo and Hwang Hee-chan in sweltering West Java will allow the South Korea pin-up to see out his new contract in London, although a late header from Ayase Ueda meant the defending champions had to survive a heart-stopping last few minutes.

Son, substituted in the dying seconds, sprinted from the bench to embrace World Cup goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo, sobbing tears of joy as they rolled on the turf together.

“I’ve got the gold medal around my neck but it really belongs to the Korean people,” he

said. “Without them we couldn’t win this tournament.” Son’s former club Bayer Leverkusen refused to release him for the 2014 Asian Games when the Koreans also scooped gold.

His tears after South Korea’s quarter-final defeat by Honduras at the 2016 Rio Olympics moved a nation, and thousands offered to do double their own military service in an online petition if Son could be pardoned.

After his ordeal was finally over, the World Cup star complained his chunky winner ’s medal was “heavy”.

But it was worth more than its weight in gold to him, his Korean team-mates -- and perhaps to Spurs. “We were a hungry bunch of guys and that hunger got us through,” said Son. “It’s the best day in my life!”(afp)

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Beef, sushi on menu as Japan’s Ikee scoops MVP

Teenage swimming sensation Rikako Ikee said she would celebrate with barbecued beef and sushi as she was named the best athlete at the Asian Games on Sunday. Ikee, 18, who grabbed a record six gold medals in Jakarta, said she hoped she had put Japanese swimming on the map ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

“I’m looking forward to eating some barbecued beef and sushi,” said Ikee, the first woman to win the Most Valuable Player award.

“To become the first Japanese to win six golds... it has put Japanese swimming on the map,” she added on the final day of the regional Olympics. Ikee is the first woman to win six golds at a single Games, and she finished with eight medals in total -- equalling the record set

by North Korean shooter So Gin Man in 1982.

Ikee captured titles in the 50m butterfly, 100m fly, 50m free, 100m free, 4x100m free and the 4x100m medley in a show-stealing performance in Jakarta.

Next up for Ikee, set to be the face of the 2020 Olympics in her home city, is an attempt at her first world title next year in South Korea.

“I still haven’t won a world title so that’s my next goal,” she said, adding that she was already back in Japan when she was told she’d won MVP. “I was on the train to Disneyland when my coach called to tell me it might be me and I couldn’t stop grinning,” she said.

“Hasn’t quite sunk in but it’s something I wanted to win so to win the award is a real honour.”(afp)

Son thanks ‘special’ Spurs as Asian gold spares him military duty Son Heung-min will rejoin his Tottenham Hotspur teammates next week buzzing after his emotional rollercoaster ride at the Asian Games in Jakarta.

The decision by Spurs to release Son for a far-flung, under-23 tournament already looks like a shrewd piece of business after he led South Korea to a gold medal that spares him a career-threatening stint of military service.

One of three permitted overage players in the Korean squad, the 26-year-old forward recently signed a new five-year deal with the London club and was quick to thank Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino after a 2-1 extra-time win over Japan on Saturday.

“I’m so grateful to Tottenham because they let me come here,” Son told AFP, clutching his gold

medal and grinning from ear to ear.

“Normally that’s not an easy decision. I would have felt very sorry if I didn’t win the gold medal,” he added, after escaping almost two years of compulsory military service. “I really want to say thank you to the coach, the players and fans of Spurs. They are so special.”

Son’s plight has captured the hearts of Spurs fans, who have taken to social media in their thousands to wish the player luck in Indonesia.

Nearly every able-bodied South Korean male is required to perform 21 months of military service before the age of 28, although the government rewards Asian Games gold medals and Olympic medals of any colour with an exemption.

“I’m so grateful for all the support,” said Son, who will have missed at least three games at the start of the Premier League season to play the Asian Games.

“It means a lot to me. Now I’m looking forward to getting back to England and showing what I can do. I’ll continue to work hard for Tottenham.”

- Tears of joy Hugely popular at Spurs, Son joked before the final that he was upset team-mates Harry Kane and Dele Alli hadn’t texted.

With the weight of the world lifted from his shoulders after overcoming Japan, he revealed that he was still waiting.

“Not yet, but it doesn’t matter -- I know they’re focused on the Premier League so no worries,”

Japan’s swimmer Ikee Rikako, who won six gold medals during the games, poses after being named as the “Most Valuable Player (MVP)” at an awards ceremony for the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on September 2, 2018.

China break all-Korean hearts in women’s basketball thriller

Anthony WALLACE / AFP

(L-R) Unified Korea’s Lim Yung-hui and China’s Li Yuan compete for the ball during the women’s gold medal basketball match between Unified Korea and China at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on September 1, 2018.

China dashed the Unified Korea’s hopes of an emotional women’s basketball gold medal when they won a tense final 71-65 at the Asian Games on Saturday. Lim Yung-hui top-scored with 24 points in a losing cause as China pulled away from 38-38 at halftime before holding off the Koreans in the final quarter.

Park Ji-su was tearful after the game as the Korean team, featuring players from both sides of the heavily fortified Korean border, came up short. “As a player... I am disappointed,” Park said, breaking into tears.

“All our team-mates played very well.

It was a close game,” she sobbed.

Lim and coach Lee Moon-kyu said the squad, which only came together shortly before the Games, hadn’t had enough time to practise together. “I feel sorry because we weren’t able to live up to the expectations of the Korean people,” said Lim. “We have been able to participate in the Asian Games as a joint team, and it has been a special time for us.

Also it was a meaningful time because the South and North were one,” she added.

The Koreans were supported

throughout the tournament by vocal fans brandishing blue and white Korean unification flags and wearing “One Corea” T-shirts.

Despite the loss, the Korean fans were still celebrating after the match, waving their flags and applauding the players. “At first I heard that there were difficulties because of the language difference and so I was worried when I came,” said Park, who plays in the WNBA. “But having spent a month with the other players I could understand them all and there was no problem with communication. And because

we’re all around the same age, we bonded easily.”

She added: “I’m so thankful for all the fans here, and because of that I would like us to gather again.”

The two Koreas marched together at the opening ceremony and also formed joint teams in canoeing, in which they won a gold and two bronze medals.

It follows similar gestures at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which set the stage for an unprecedented thaw in relations between the two countries still technically at war.(afp) Arief Bagus / AFP

Asian Games 2018 Final Medal Tally Rank Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

132 75 49 31 21 20 17 15 15 12

92 56 58 24 24 20 19 24 17 12

65 74 70 43 25 22 31 30 44 13

289 205 177 98 70 62 67 69 76 37

China Japan Republic of Korea Indonesia Uzbekistan IR Iran Chinese Taipei India Kazakhstan DPR Korea

South Korea’s Heung Min Son celebrates after winning against Japan in the men’s gold medal football match at the 2018 Asian Games in Bogor on September 1, 2018.

smiled Son. “The coaching staff from Tottenham have been watching me.

I hope this makes them happy.

It’s the best present for my life.”

Goals from Lee Seung-woo and Hwang Hee-chan in sweltering West Java will allow the South Korea pin-up to see out his new contract in London, although a late header from Ayase Ueda meant the defending champions had to survive a heart-stopping last few minutes.

Son, substituted in the dying seconds, sprinted from the bench to embrace World Cup goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo, sobbing tears of joy as they rolled on the turf together.

“I’ve got the gold medal around my neck but it really belongs to the Korean people,” he

said. “Without them we couldn’t win this tournament.” Son’s former club Bayer Leverkusen refused to release him for the 2014 Asian Games when the Koreans also scooped gold.

His tears after South Korea’s quarter-final defeat by Honduras at the 2016 Rio Olympics moved a nation, and thousands offered to do double their own military service in an online petition if Son could be pardoned.

After his ordeal was finally over, the World Cup star complained his chunky winner ’s medal was “heavy”.

But it was worth more than its weight in gold to him, his Korean team-mates -- and perhaps to Spurs. “We were a hungry bunch of guys and that hunger got us through,” said Son. “It’s the best day in my life!”(afp)

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International

Federer out-maneuvers Kyrgios, Cilic survives as Kerber, Zverev fall at US Open

NEW YORK - Five-time champion Roger Federer found a new way to amaze Saturday as he reached the US Open last 16 with a 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 victory over Nick Kyrgios.

The second-seeded Swiss withstood an early onslaught from the unpredictable Aussie, firing 51 winners that included an unlikely forehand flicked around the net post that Kyrgios couldn’t believe.

“Definitely a bit of luck and good feet,” Federer said of the shot that had Kyrgios wide-eyed at the net.

The wonder shot was the talk of the day -- but the night belonged to 2014 champion Marin Cilic and 19-year-old Australian Alex de Minaur, who battled for four hours on Louis Armstrong Stadium before Cilic pulled off a 4-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 victory.

De Minaur, ranked 45th in the world, pushed seventh-ranked Cilic until the bitter end, saving seven match points as he rallied from 5-2 down in the fifth set before finally succumbing after four hours on court.

“Incredible fighting spirit,” Cilic said of de Minaur after the young Aussie kept him on court until 2.22 am (0622 GMT) Sunday morning -- the second-latest finish in US Open history.

“This is a moment to remember,” added Cilic, who booked a fourth-round meeting with Belgian David Goffin.

Federer will take on Australian John Millman, who reached the last 16 of a major for the first time with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin.

If he makes it past Millman, Federer could find Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic waiting in the last eight.

Djokovic, winner of US Open titles in 2011 and 2015, extended his dominance over Richard Gasquet with a 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 victory in front of a rowdy night crowd on the massive Ashe Stadium.

“It was the best match of the week so far without a doubt, and one of the best performances of the hardcourt season after Wimbledon,” said Djokovic, who warmed up for Flushing Meadows by beating Federer in the Cincinnati Masters final.

Djokovic saved all five break points he faced to book a meeting with Joao Sousa of Portugal, a 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/5) winner over France’s Lucas Pouille. (afp)

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LOS ANGELES - Britain’s Luol Deng was waived Saturday by the Los Angeles Lakers, enabling the club to save enough money under NBA salary cap rules to land a top 2019 free agent.

The move came on the first day the Lakers could use a waive-andstretch rule to spread the final year of his salary cap cost over three seasons. That will give the Lakers enough money next year to add a maximum-level free agent to play alongside LeBron James as the once-mighty team tries to rebuild

around the four-time NBA Most Valuable Player after years of struggles.

Deng, 33, played in 57 games for the Lakers over two seasons, averaging 7.5 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists. But his time was limited since Magic Johnson took charge of the club.

“We made this move to further our future salary cap and roster flexibility as we continue to build this Lakers team according to our current overall vision,” Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka said.

Next year’s potential free agent market includes Golden State stars Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson and Toronto’s Kawhi Leonard.

Deng, born in what is now South Sudan, looks to continue his career for what would be a 15th NBA campaign after more than nine seasons in Chicago and stints in Cleveland, Miami as well as with the Kakers.

He has career averages of 15.0 points, 6.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.0 steals over 880 NBA games. (afp)

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Turkey calls US ‘wild wolves’, vows to abandon dollar in trade

BISHKEK - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday vowed Ankara would pursue non-dollar transactions in trade with Russia and other countries, accusing the US of behaving like “wild wolves.”

Both Turkey and Russia are reeling from punitive economic measures imposed by Washington.

“America behaves like wild wolves. Don’t believe them,” Erdogan told a business forum during a visit to Kyrgyzstan, in comments translated into Kyrgyz.

He said his country was in negotiations with Russia over nondollar trade.

“Using the dollar only damages us. We will not give up. We will be victorious,” Erdogan told the meeting, attended by Kyrgyz and Turkish businessmen as well as government officials.

Ties between NATO members Washington and Ankara hit a new low last month as US President Donald Trump announced steep new tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium in response to the detention of an American pastor in Turkey.

The Turkish lira shed a quarter of its value last month as the trade war with the US ratcheted up.

Russia meanwhile saw its ruble tumble to two-year lows in August after the US announced fresh sanctions in connection with a nerve agent poisoning incident in the British city of Salisbury.

Erdogan has also used the visit to ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan to demand the Central Asian country of six million people relinquish all ties to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric and educator Ankara accuses of fomenting a coup in 2016.

Speaking Sunday, Erdogan said Turkish businesses should invest in Kyrgyzstan but “may face barriers from FETO,” the term Ankara uses to describe the network of people and institutions linked to Gulen.

The refusal of the United States to extradite 77-year-old Gulen to face trial in Turkey is one of several sore points that have plagued a once-strong bilateral relationship.

Gulen, whose Hizmet movement has led to the creation of schools in dozens of countries including Kyrgyzstan has always denied any links to the 2016 coup attempt.

Since July 2016, over 55,000 people have been arrested over coup links in Turkey, while more than 140,000 public sector employees have been sacked or suspended. (afp)

ADEM ALTAN / AFP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) visits the Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, during a ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of Victory Day, commemorating a decisive battle in the Turkish War of Independence, in Ankara, on August 30, 2018.

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Freedom of expression exercised in accordance with regulations: Jokowi

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo has defended the police`s acts of securing the law and order in dealing with the people`s rights to freedom of association and expression, arguing that they should be exercised in accordance with regulations.

TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP

In this file photo taken on November 23, 2016 Sahra Wagenknecht of the Left party (Die Linke) delivers a speech at the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin on November 23, 2016.

German far-left leaders launch ‘Stand Up’ grassroots movement

BERLIN - Its battle cry is “Stand up”, its public face is a divisive anti-capitalist politician who supports limiting immigration, its aim is to build a populist leftwing movement to shake up Merkel-era Germany.

On Tuesday, Sahra Wagenknecht, 48, will launch the grassroots project which borrows from the campaigns of British Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, French Socialist Jean-Luc Melenchon and US Democrat Bernie Sanders.

Its aim is to energise followers of her far-left Die Linke party, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and ecologist Greens -- but also to win back disenchanted workingclass voters who have drifted to far-right protest parties.

Its website launched in mid-August cites reggae singer Bob Marley’s chant “get up, stand up!” and declares boldly that “no politician, no party will solve our problems if we don’t do it ourselves”.

Tens of thousands have signed up online to join the fight for secure jobs and pensions, good education, protecting the environment, disarmament and “a true democracy not ruled by banks, corporations and lobbyists”.

The jury is still out on whether it will spark a political revolution or quickly fizzle out.

Unsurprisingly, party leaders

across the left, including Wagenknecht’s own comrades at Die Linke, have rejected the Stand Up (“Aufstehen”) guerilla campaign as divisive and unhelpful.

The leader of the SPD, Germany’s traditional labour party, Andrea Nahles, quipped that she “wasn’t losing any sleep over it”.

Others have greeted the effort to re-energise the left as a challenge to Merkel’s centrist coalition government and the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

News weekly Der Spiegel said that, after populist anger over immigration swept the AfD into parliament last year, “it is high time to launch a movement of rallying the left”.

- ‘Open borders unrealistic’ But even backers of the idea have wondered whether it is being led by the right people.

Wagenknecht, 48 and hailing from the former communist East Germany, is a lawmaker and polarising TV talk show star, married to a firebrand leftist SPD defector, exfinance minister Oskar Lafontaine.

Known as rhetorically brilliant but awkward with voters, she is frequently critical of the EU and defends Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

She argues that the SPD has sold out its principles and failed to fight back against unbridled capitalism and Merkel’s neo-liberal” policies.

As Germany has absorbed a mass influx of migrants and refugees, which has sparked a far-right backlash, Wagenknecht has also broken with the left’s traditional orthodoxy on immigration.

“The idea of ‘open borders for all’ is unrealistic,” she said in a recent interview.

“If the core concern of leftist politics is to represent the disadvantaged, then the no-borders position is the opposite of being on the left.

“All successes in restraining and regulating capitalism have been achieved within individual states, and states have borders.”

Berlin political scientist Dieter Rucht said such views may indeed “please some of the AfD’s voters”, predicting success for the new movement “at least in the short term”. (afp)

“In a democratic state, there are the rights to freedom of assembly, expression, and association, but, once again, they are exercised in accordance with regulations. Do not break security and social order,” he said here on Saturday evening.

Speaking at the National Democrat Party`s occasion, President Joko Widodo, commonly known as Jokowi, said the police have done well in ensuring the implementation of the security and social order for the sake of the people`s cause.

“If the police do not do anything, then a clash occurs, who will be blamed? The police will again be blamed,” said the head of state, who has attempted to get reelected in next year`s presidential race.

Along with his running mate, Ma`ruf Amin, Jokowi is challenged by Chief Patron of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Prabowo Subianto, who has selected Sandiaga Uno, former deputy Jakarta governor, as his vice presidential candidate.

According to Jokowi, making efforts to defend the order and security is part of the police`s duties.

Despite massive support for Jokowi`s reelection bid, there are still groups that endorse the #2019GantiPresiden (#2019ChangePresident) movement in different parts of the country, such as Medan (North Sumatra), Batam (Riau Islands), and Pekanbaru (Riau).

However, persecutions against the key figures and those supporting the #2019ChangePresident movement have frequently occurred in certain parts of the country. The latest incident happened in Pekanbaru, the capital city of Riau Province.

Neno Warisman, one of the leading figures of the movement, recently failed to join those wanting to declare the movement in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, after being forced by the local security apparatus to return to Jakarta.

Before being forced to get back to Jakarta by a commercial aircraft, Neno Warisman said she kept staying inside a sedan that would transport her to Pekanbaru city for at least six hours.

The car could not get out of the Sultan Syarif Kasim International Airport after the gate of the airport complex area was blocked by the opponents of the #2019ChangePresident movement that staged a noisy rally under the local police`s tight security.

In response to this situation, Prabowo Subianto condemned the acts of letting the persecutions against those supporting the movement who want to exercise their rights to freedom of expression.

“Democracy demands freedoms of expression, associate, and assembly,” he told participants of a seminar, organized for reviewing his book titled “The Paradox of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto`s Strategic Perspectives: Rich Country, But Many of Its People Remain Poor” here recently. The people`s fundamental rights are guaranteed by the state`s constitution and democracy.

According to Prabowo Subianto, among the community members, who wish to declare the #2019ChangePresident movement, are housewives. “There is a housewife, wanting to declare the movement, is expelled in her own country.”

“She wants to come to a city in her country but she is expelled. Is this the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia that its founding fathers want to build?” he said.

As a country, which has been independent for 73 years, the state apparatuses must well serve and take care of all citizens, who want to express their aspirations and fight for their rights, he said.

Therefore, Prabowo Subianto said he is deeply concerned with the state apparatuses, who actually belong to the state and the nation but fail to understand that they must protect the whole people of Indonesia.

“The state apparatuses do not belong to a certain group in the country. I think, this is absolutely against the state`s constitution,” he said. If the acts of violating the state`s constitution remain allowed to happen, the history of human being has revealed that the people will not accept the condition if it is not improved.

SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison (L) listens while Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (R) speaks at a press conference during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Bogor on August 31, 2018.

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BUSINESS German unemployment low amid strong labor market

BERLIN - The number of people without jobs in Germany dropped slightly in August as the labor market remained strong in Europe’s largest economy.

The Federal Labor Office said Thursday

that the number of unemployed dropped by 8,000 from July, according to seasonally adjusted figures, leaving the jobless rate unchanged at 5.2 percent.

In unadjusted figures, the rate rose

slightly to 5.2 percent from 5.1 the previous month, with a total of 2.35 million people registered as unemployed.

IHC economist Timo Klein says the numbers show that “overall, the German

labor market seems largely unfazed by growing international uncertainty since mid-2016 linked to Brexit and disruptive U.S. trade policies under President Trump.” (ap)

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An old gamelan instrument called Caruk made its first appearance at the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) this year. The Caruk gamelan troupe from Pau Village, Banjarangkan performed music that is rarely heard, on the Amgsoka stage of the Denpsar Art Center. “The caruk gamelan instrument is estimated to have originated in the fifteenth century and this is the fifth generation of this particular gamelan troupe” explained art coordinator of Pau customary village, Nengah Sukirta. Pau Village and Tangkas Village are the only places in Klungkung where caruk gamlean can be found, said Sukirta adding that they are only played for Deva Yajna and Pitri Yajna religious cermonies.

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina’s Central Bank on Thursday increased its benchmark interest rate to 60 percent — the world’s highest — in an effort to halt a sharp slide in the value of the peso, which plunged to a record low.

“For Pitri Yajna rituals, caruk gamelan is played during the cremation ceremony during menek tumpang salu, menek bea and mapurwadaksina rites that culminate in the nyekah ritual. For Dewa Yajna rituals, caruk gamelan is played during the mamungkah rite. It is played at the peak of the ritual when the deities circle the offerings clockwise –known as murwa daksina” he elaborated.

Head of Pau customary village’s caruk gamelan troupe, I Wayan Suendra, said that this gamelan instrument is a rare and sacred instrument. Caruk gamelan consists of two small xylophones and one saron that are always played together. “We also have an extra player so for the BAF performance there were four musicians” he Suendra. Suendra added that nine different caruk gamelan compositions were handed down by the ancestors, however because the palmleaf manuscripts on which they were written are hard to read, only five of the compositions are played. All five were performed at this year’s BAF: the Tabuh Ririgan, Tabuh Rejang, Tabuh Ombak Segara, Tabuh Panji Marga and Tabuh Manu Kaba.

“For a very long time only five of the compositions can be played because of the difficulty in reading the lontars, but we are determined to find a way to read the others so that we can perform them in next year’s BAF”, explained Suendra.

Currently, there are only four people in Pau customary village who are actively involved playing gamelan so Suendra is eager to encourage younger people to learn to play. “The notation for caruk gamelan music is different than other gamelan so it is harder to learn.

It takes many years to master. After the BAF we will start to teach young children, which may take even longer”, he said. (kmb)

Tulamben Awaits Your Arrival

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People walk past an exchange house in Buenos Aires, Argentina Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. Argentina’s Central Bank increased its benchmark interest rate to 60 percent Thursday as the peso hit a new all-time low. The sharp devaluation of its currency has led prompted Argentina to seek a financing deal with the International Monetary Fund. But the peso keeps tumbling and it has hit markets and investor confidence in Latin America’s No. 3 economy.

Many also have bad memories of the IMF and blame its free-market economic policies for contributing to the country’s worst crisis in 2001-2002, when one of every five Argentines went unemployed and millions fell into poverty.

Seeing journalists filming screens showing the exchange rates in downtown Buenos Aires, Ruben Montiel, 55, burst out: “Macri is an embarrassment!

“You can’t live like this. The prices of everything go up on a

daily basis,” he said. “There’s no work, utility rates have gone through the roof ... people are sleeping on the streets.”

Macri, a pro-business conservative who came into office in 2015, had promised to trim Argentina’s fiscal deficit, reduce poverty and curb inflation. He cut red tape and tried to reduce the government’s budget deficit by ordering layoffs and cutting utility subsidies, but it triggered labor unrest.

Then in December, officials

announced a rise in the inflation target, which caused investors to begin doubting Macri’s commitment to taming price rises.

Meanwhile, the peso slumped against the dollar as rising U.S. interest rates lured investors to pull greenbacks out of Argentina.

That caused jitters among Argentines, who have been used to stashing away dollars as a cushion since the 2001 crisis, when banks froze deposits and put up sheetmetal barricades as thousands of

protesters unsuccessfully tried to withdraw their savings. Dozens died in protests and looting in December 2001 as the economy unraveled and Argentina eventually suffered a record $100 billion debt default.

“The government will need to shuffle its cabinet and strike deals with provincial governors for next year’s budget,” said Argentine economist Marcos Buscaglia. “In the short-term, the government just needs to stop this crisis. (ap)

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Argentina hikes interest rate to 60 percent; peso plunges

The peso fell more than 13 percent against the dollar on Thursday, closing at an all-time low of 39.2 per greenback, after slipping about 7 percent the day before.

The Central Bank said in a statement that it was hiking its benchmark interest rate by 15 percentage points to 60 percent in response to the currency problems and the risk of greater impact on local inflation, which is already running at about 30 percent a year.

The tumult in the exchange market came a day after President Mauricio Macri said he was asking for an early release of some IMF funds under an $50 billion backup financing arrangement approved earlier.

Some experts said the announcement, combined with the interest rate hike, had the unintended effect of fueling the crisis of confidence.

“I think today’s interest hike announcement will do nothing but leave investors even more jittery,” said Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

“I’m finding it difficult to understand why, after yesterday’s announcement about front-loading more of the IMF funding, the government thought the hike was warranted. Hyperactivity starts to look like desperation.”

Macri has struggled to calm markets and bring confidence to Argentines who continue to lose purchasing power. Many are frustrated with layoffs, higher utility rates and a rise in poverty levels.

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For you belonging to the underwater lovers, especially marine tourism, Tulamben definitely has been very familiar. Well, the marine tourism area of Tulamben, Karangasem, is now growing. This growth is in line with the optimism of tourism players in Tulamben.

The occupancy rate of the accommodation at this prominent diving and snorkeling site has reached For you belonging to the underwater lovers, especially marine tourism, Tulamben definitely has been very familiar. Well, the marine tourism area of Tulamben, Karangasem, is now growing. This growth is in line with the optimism of tourism players in Tulamben. The occupancy rate of the accommodation at this prominent diving and snorkeling site has reached 30 percent dominated

by Chinese tourists.

Manager of Ocean View Tulamben Dive and Resort, Sita Marlina, said not long ago that Tulamben offers the beauty of coral reef under the sea. Until February 2018, the natural beauty can also make Tulamben revive after being dormant from the tourism activities when the condition of Mount Agung was in the first warning alert level on September 22, 2017. “Currently, the condition has begun to improve.

Hotel occupancy rate has been growing by 30 percent from its

normal condition during the period of January-February existing in the range of 70 percent,” he said.

Hotel occupancy has showed improved conditions since the beginning of the year marked by a 30-percent increase in the visits to tourist attractions where 20 percent come from China and the rest from Russia. This condition is much different when the Mount Agung was in the first warning alert level in September – October 2017 that already entered full booking but was then followed by many cancellations.

“At that time, there was anxiety because it was the first disaster

experienced after the last eruption of Mount Agung. The anxiety is more directed to explain about the conditions occurred to tourists having made a reservation, especially to Turkish tourists whose country has no volcano,” he said.

Another impact of Mount Agung condition at the time, said Sita, was a dramatic decrease in occupancy.

In September 2017, the occupancy reached 90 percent then in October there was no visit at all, in November (60 percent) and in December there was no visit. When entering 2018, the condition was getting better though it grows minimally,

namely 30 percent respectively in January and February from the ideal growth of 30-70 percent in normal condition. “In January to February, actually it has entered low season while high season generally occurs in July-November marked with full booking,” he said.

Nevertheless, he constantly continued to do various promotions either through online, including dissemination related to the latest conditions of Bali especially Tulamben that has improved. As realized, to convince tourists to come back is not easy because there was much incorrect information spreading related to

the impact of Mount Agung. He also provided discounts in the range of 50 percent until the end of March.

Visitors from the Netherlands and Germany, Margriet van Dijken and Sarah Krüger, when met admitted this was the first time for them to visit Tulamben and did not know anything associated with Mount Agung. Nevertheless, they are very happy to come to the attraction that offers the underwater beauty as the location is quiet and the atmosphere is pleasant. They will also tell their friends in their home country that Bali is safe and Tulamben tourism has been opened. (kmb)

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Toya Devasya gets Indonesia Hospitality Winner 2018 Choice Awards MANGUPURA — Toya Devasya Natural Hot Spring & Camping Resort offering the natural beauty of Lake Batur returned to receive a prestigious award. This time, the Indonesia Award Magazine awarded the Indonesia Hospitality Winner 2018 Choice Awards to Dr. I Ketut Mardjana as General Manager of Toya Devasya Hotspring Wellness Resort. Located at The Patra Bali Resort & Villas on Friday night (Aug. 31), the award recipient was represented by the Managing Director of Toya Group, Putu Ayu Astiti Saraswati.

On that occasion, when met after receiving the award, Ayu Astiti Saraswati expressed her pride that Toya Devasya had won another award from the Choice Awards. “We are proud the results of hard work have been recognized so far. However, this does not stop until we will also continue to improve service, we will also continuously improve the services, insfrastructure and information technology,” she said proudly.

In the future, her management with the beauty of the panorama presented, visitors do not only visit Toya Devasya once but can make a visit for many times. To support this, her management will also expand the instagrammable spots in addition to improvements in infrastructure.

“We also develop and learn about the favorite of visitors and together make it happen with properties from the Toya Group,” she said.

Regarding the number of tourist visits to Toya Devasya, Ayu said the visits continued to increase every year. During peak season, both do-

mestic and foreign tourists continue to increase. For that reason, she hoped the tourism conditions in Bali and Indonesia will continue to be good so that tourists will continue to increase.”

Quantitatively, the average daily visit to Toya Devasya reaches 800 people on weekday, while on weekend can reach 1,000 more visits.

“Compared to last year of the same period, the number of tourist visits far grows,” she said.

At this location, said Ayu, visitors can enjoy the charm of eastern Bali with its stunning panorama of Mount Batur. Nice combination of hot spring pool located on the shores of Lake Batur and the magnificent panoramic views around it are wrapped in the coolness of the mountain air. Of course, this will give the impression of calmness that evokes enthusiasm. Besides, for those who like to drive adrenaline, there are also outdoor activities that will get visitors closer to nature, like camping. (kmb23)

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Toya Devasya Natural Hot Spring & Camping Resort offering the natural beauty of Lake Batur returned to receive a prestigious award.

B20 policy applied and tourism boosted B20 policy and boosts tourism.

Governor of Bank Indonesia, Perry Warjiyo, said the effort to reduce the current account deficit does not happen due to the too high deficit

Governor of Bank Indonesia, Perry Warjiyo

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China’s ‘Silk Road’ project runs into debt jam

BEIJING - China’s massive and expanding “Belt and Road” trade infrastructure project is running into speed bumps as some countries begin to grumble about being buried under Chinese debt.

To lower current transaction deficit DENPASAR - To reduce the current account deficit widening 3 percent of the GDP or USD 8 billion in the second quarter of 2018, the government implements

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but because foreign financing is running uncertain. “So,it is better to lower the deficit of current transaction. We reduce to make it safer. If being normal, our current account deficit is safe, it does not matter if our current account deficit problem is more than 3 percent. However, during the downturn condition, it is better for us to reduce,” he explained.

This is done by applying biodiesel or B20. The need for fuel currently obtained from oil will be replaced from biodiesel produced from palm oil processing. This policy will be carried out en masse on September 1, 2018. Therefore, the use of biodiesel will increase and reduce oil imports.

With the use of B20 from September, it is estimated it can reduce oil imports by USD 2.2 billionn 2018. Whereas in 2019, it is expected to reduce oil imports by USD 6.6 billion. The advantage of using B20 is that the price of palm

oil will rise because it is more used for biodiesel.

“Some of the palm oil we export is used to produce biodiesel.

Indonesia is the largest supplier of palm oil. So, the price of palm oil will rise. If it rises, the export value of palm oil will also rise,” said the man born in Sukoharjo. The price increase of palm oil exports is estimated to reach USD 4-5 billion.

But this increase will have just an impact next year.

On that account, the implementation of B20 can save oil imports of USD 6.6 billion, coupled with the increase in the value of USD 4-5 billion of palm oil exports.

Then, the foreign exchange of USD 10 billion can be obtained. “So, the current account deficit can be better, and our economic resilience can be stronger,” he concluded.

In addition to the implementation of the B20, the government has also boosted tourism to obtain foreign exchange. “Tour-

ism will very quickly generate foreign exchange, encourage growth to provide employment and alleviate poverty,” he explained.

In 2019, the target of foreign tourist visit is 20 million. Of the 20 million foreign tourists, there will be a foreign exchange of USD 17.6 billion. In 2024, it is expected that a minimum of 25 million foreign tourists will come to Indonesia and the foreign exchange target will reach USD 28.5 billion.

One of the efforts made is infrastructure development. Other than Bali, the tourism in the Joglo Semar (Yogyakarta, Solo, Semarang) region will also be boosted.

Thus, the new Yogyakarta Airport will be launched in March or April 2019. Hopefully, it will be able to increase the visit to Yogyakarta reaching 400,000. Within 5 years, the capacity can reach 15 million and then more and more tourists will come. (kmb42)

First announced in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the initiative also known as the “new Silk Road” envisions the construction of railways, roads and ports across the globe, with Beijing providing billions of dollars in loans to many countries.

Five years on, Xi has found himself defending his treasured idea as concerns grow that China is setting up debt traps in countries which may lack the means to pay back the Asian giant.

“It is not a China club,” Xi said in a speech on Monday to mark the project’s anniversary, describing Belt and Road as an “open and inclusive” project.

Xi said China’s trade with Belt and Road countries had exceeded $5 trillion, with outward direct investment surpassing $60 billion. But some are starting to wonder if it is worth the cost.

During a visit to Beijing in August, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said his country would shelve three China-backed projects, including a $20 billion railway.

The party of Pakistan’s new prime minister, Imran Khan, has vowed more transparency amid fears about the country’s ability to repay Chinese loans related to the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Meanwhile the exiled leader of the opposition in the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has said China’s actions in the Indian Ocean archipelago amounted to a “land grab” and “colonialism”, with 80 percent of its debt held by Beijing.

Sri Lanka has already paid a heavy price for being highly indebted to China.

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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping before their bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 2, 2018.

Last year, the island nation had to grant a 99-year lease on a strategic port to Beijing over its inability to repay loans for the $1.4billion project.

- ‘Ambiguous partner’ “China does not have a very competent international bureaucracy in foreign aid, in expansion of soft power,” Anne StevensonYang, co-founder and research director at J

Capital Research, told AFP. “So not surprisingly they’re not very good at it, and it brought up political issues like Malaysia that nobody anticipated,” she said.

“As the RMB (yuan) becomes weaker, and China is perceived internationally as a more ambiguous partner, it’s more likely that the countries will take a more jaundiced eye on these projects.”

The huge endeavour brings much-needed infrastructure improvements to developing countries, while giving China destinations to unload its industrial overcapacity and facilities to stock up on raw materials.

But a study by the Center for Global Development, a US think-tank, found “serious concerns” about the sustainability of the sovereign debt in eight countries receiving Silk Road funds. (afp)

Japan braces for ‘very strong’ typhoon

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Passengers pass next to a bulletin board with operations information of “shinkansen” bullet trains at Shin-osaka Station in Osaka on August 23, 2018, as Typhoon Cimaron nears the Japanese coastline.

TOKYO - Japan on Sunday braced for a “very strong” typhoon, with authorities warning of high waves, floods and landslides, including in areas hit by deadly flooding earlier this year.

Typhoon Jebi, packing winds of up to 252 kilometres (156 miles) an hour, is expected to make landfall on the country’s main island on Tuesday, according to Japan’s Meteorological Agency.

“Maintaining its very strong power, the typhoon is forecast to approach western and eastern Japan,” the agency said.

The path of the typhoon appeared to cover the western Chugoku region, where record rainfall in July unleashed flooding and landslides, killing around 220 people in Japan’s worst weather-related disaster in decades.

Local media said the typhoon, which is still hundreds of kilometres away from Japan in the Pacific, could be the strongest storm to hit the nation this year.

The meteorological agency urged residents in western and eastern Japan to prepare for high seas, landslides and floods.

The storm comes as some 27,000

people in Nagato in western Japan were temporarily ordered to evacuate their homes on Saturday due to torrential rain.

Japan is now in typhoon season, and is regularly struck by major storm systems during the summer and autumn.

Jebi is to follow Typhoon Cimaron, which made landfall on August 23 disrupting transport links, but injuries and damages were limited.

Jebi is the latest weather front to batter Japan, which has also been sweating through a record and deadly heatwave. (afp)

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Walking the Alpe-Adria Trail around Lake Millstatt, Carinthia, Austria

LAST year, I walked a selection of this trail but missed out on one of the most beautiful parts in Carinthia. That’s a good enough reason to return to Austria, complete a couple of sections and explore the Lake District.

The Alpe-Adria Trail runs for 750km from the foot of the Grossglockner (at 3,798m Austria’s highest mountain), into Slovenia and ends in Italy, near Trieste on the Adriatic coast.

Lake Millstätter See I fly into Klagenfurt in the early evening and take a taxi transfer to Millstätt. After around an hour, we crest a ridge and suddenly Lake Millstätter See is spread out below me, hemmed in by high mountains

with snow still visible on the distant peaks. At over seven miles long, it’s only Carinthia’s second largest, but is the deepest, plunging to 146m. So clean that they say you can drink it, and it’s crammed with freshwater fish.

The most famous is the Reinanke, belonging to the salmon family, prosaically known in English as White Fish. It entered the lake at the end of the last ice age from the Arctic sea, and people have been eating it ever since. It fed the Benedictine

monks in the Millstatt Monastery and in the 19th century the Bacher family were selected to supply the Imperial court in Vienna. Their descendants still have the right to check their nets every morning and bring in the fish for lunch.

I’m staying right next to lake in the charming Hotel See-Villa, built in 1884, and one of a number of country houses built to cater for aristocrats when they started coming here from Vienna in the 19th century.

The hotel has been in the hands of the Tacoli family for the last 40 years and it shows in the efficient way they run it. The restaurant has tables at the water’s edge, a delightful opportunity to observe

the lake in its many moods. It’s surprisingly warm, since no glacial mountain streams drain into it, and temperatures can reach 25°C in summer. I get into the routine of a daily morning and evening dip.

What they’re promoting here is peace and quiet, with the German slogan Zeit zu zweit, although the English Time for Two doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. If you’re a couple, however, a table for two on a pontoon in the middle of the lake, is a romantic option – each course is delivered by boat.

You can also stay in one of seven Biwaks, scattered around the lake, a sort of luxury bivouac in a wooden shed. Inside there’s a large double

bed and windows in the roof so you can observe the stars as you drift into sleep.

An early morning antique rowing boat trip, across to the unspoilt south side of the lake, is an opportunity to admire the fish in the crystal clear waters, with birdsong the only sound.

Motor boats are restricted and you can happily swim across the lake without fear of being mown down. E-biking is also popular and a circuit of the lake is a pleasant way to spend a morning. Being Austria there are plenty of cafes on the way offering draught beer, sausage and cheese and, of course, Apple Strudel. (net)

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Perpetrators of thuggery and drugs should be ostracized DENPASAR — Declaration of No Narcotics and No Thuggery held by the Bali Police at Puputan Margarana Field, Renon, East Denpasar, was followed by approximately 11,000 participants on Saturday (Sep. 9). In his remarks, Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose, emphasized that thuggery perpetrators are cowards. He also asked customary villages to impose onstracizion sanctions against thugs and drugs offenders.

“We agree to eradicate drugs and thuggery. Thugs under the guise of thuggery must be eradicated and cannot be in any form in Bali,” he said.

Golose will not tolerate all actions that lead to thuggery including thugs under the guise of community organizations. “Pass the greeting of Bali Police Chief to them. Once again, I beg this from the innermost heart. Many people ask what if the Bali Police Chief moves? Today the answer is that

the Balinese people go up against all forms of thuggery. Do you agree or not?” asked Bali Police Chief and answered by the audience in agreement.

“The cowards are those that do not raise their hand. Ladies and gentlemen, do not worry the Bali Police Chief is behind you. And this is the most important,” he affirmed.

This two-star general on shoulder confronts the customary village, the Chief of the MUDP, the

Interfaith Harmony Communication Forum (FKUB) and all customary stakeholders should impose an ostracizion to the perpetrators of drugs or thuggery.

“Ostricize them from the village, do not only be subjected to positive law but the customary village should also punish them. It is the only and most important way that I think can eliminate the thuggery on the Island of the God,” he said.

“Go up against them as they mean nothing. They are just a group

of cowards. Right now those having been arrested are suspected of being drug addicted in prison, crying like small children. If there is anyone greater, please tell that Peter Golose is awaiting them,” said this former BNPT official.

He hoped that by carrying out this declaration, Balinese people can live peacefully without thuggery and drugs. “I thank the comrades of Bali.

Let’s look after Bali,” he pleaded. (kmb36)

Declaration of No Narcotics and No Thuggery held by the Bali Police at Puputan Margarana Field, Renon, East Denpasar, was followed by approximately 11,000 participants.

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Tourists complain about motorbike parked on sidewalk

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Sanur Beach is increasingly crowded with domestic and foreign tourists. The condition is not matched with adequate parking space so that it is often crowded and many motorbikes park on the sidewalk.

DENPASAR —Sanur Beach is increasingly crowded with domestic and foreign tourists. Additionally, it is coupled with the passengers of high speed boat crossing to Nusa Penida.

The condition is not matched with adequate parking space so that it is often crowded and many motorbikes park on the sidewalk.

As an impact of this condition, South Denpasar Police often received complaints. Many tourists feel disturbed by such condition.

There are even thighs of tourist scratched by a motorcycle license plate.

“Starting today, we will conduct dissemination to prohibit the sidewalks from being used as parking space of motorbike. The sidewalks are for pedestrians, jogging tracks

and diffables,” said Chief of South Denpasar Police, I Nyoman Wirajaya, on Saturday (Sep. 1).

Together with dozens of its personnel, Wirajaya conducted a raid from Jalan Hang Tuah, Sanur Beach, in front of GBB and other jogging track locations. “We will disseminate the jogging track area along 4 kilometers,” he said.

The effort was made because international events such as the IMF and World Bank (WB) will soon be held. According to him, the event will bring in thousands of guests ahead of and after the IMF event. “Sanur will be visited by adequately large number of tourists that come especially before the IMF until the end of the IMF. Facilities like jogging track must be

clear because it is one of the facilities indeed owned by Sanur other than the beach,” he said.

So, from now on his authority is disseminating it so that at least mid-September the jogging track can be cleared from parking and used optimally.

The dissemination will be carried out over the next two weeks.

After that, if there is still motorbike parking on the sidewalk, it will be impounded at the police station and can only be taken after the IMF event.

“We hope that all parties should realize that this extraordinary international event will be held in Bali.

Let’s look after our region so that it is truly safe and comfortable,” he hoped. (kmb36)

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Praying for the universe, Hundreds of Brahmin priests hold Swasti Puja A total of 111 sulinggih or Brahmin priests in Karangasem performed the Swasti Puja ritual on Friday (Aug. 31). Swasti Puja is a puja mantra carried out together to pray for the universe and its contents.This activity was centered at the Candra Bhuana Art Center of Karangasem and took place starting at around 10:00. A total of 255 Brahmin priests from Karangasem were invited with 15 ready to attend, but finally only 111 Brahmin priests could attend.

The Swasti Puja event was initiated by the Regent of Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumatri was held by sarwa sadaka including Shivites, Buddhists, Empu, Reshi and Pandita. This ceremony is held to pray for peace and safety for the universe and its contents.

This particular ceremony was held in response to the recent natural

disasters that affected Karangasem, like the eruptions of Mount Agung and the earthquakes in Lombok.

Regent Sumatri explained that before the ceremony alms were distributed to the Brahmin priests by representatives of each subdistrict of Karangasem contained Bank books with pre-paid ATM cards with IDR 1.5 million each

The Regent of Karangasem and priests held Swasti Puja

on them. “Once each priest has received an bank account number, the Karangasem District government will distribute alms worth IDR 500,000 a month to the Brahmin priests”, she said.

Brahmin priests have the very difficult task of praying for the universe to be peaceful and safe, so the government should support

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this, explained Regent Sumatri adding that the alms are a way for the Karangasem District government to show their concern for the Brahmin priests.

The swasti puja that took place on Friday was also attended by several public figures including customary village chiefs from across Karangasem, other Brahmoin priests, Chief of the General Assembly of Customary Village (MUDP) of Bali, Jro Gede Putus Upedesa, Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Karangasem and the Regional Secretariat of Karangasem’s district government.

Before the actual Swasti Puja, there was a Trisandya Puja after which the event resumed with muspa or prayers carried out by the everyone present as well as the 111 Brahmin priests chanting the puja.

Director of Hindu Community Development, Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Ketut Widnya, who was present for the puja event, expressed his appreciation for the Regent of Karangasem’s idea to hold this prayer event. “This worship is meant to pray for the universe for the peace of the world including of course Indonesia”, he said.

The prayers are also intended for general peace. Widnya added that every morning Brahmin priests do Surya Sewana puja to pray for the

world and that this event involves 111 Brahmin priests through this Swasti Puja. “The worship performed for the universe by just one Brahmin priest is extraordinary just imagine, this is being done by over one hundred Brahmin priests”, he said with awe.

This will certainly result in positive vibrations, added Widnya.

Brahmin priests do not pray or worship carelessly but do so with Tantra, Mantra, Mudra, Yoga and Yadnya. So, it has extraordinary strength to have prayers realized.

Hopefully, this event manifests peace in the universe.. “The prayers of Brahmin priests are based on their daily practice of prayers and puja”, he added.

According to Widnya, Tantra, Mantra, Mudra, Yoga and Yadnya were first done 2,500 years ago in the era of King Darmawangsa Teguh in Java. Thus, this Swasti Puja held in Karangasem is now connecting the historical tradition in the past ot tthe present. “I very much appreciate the regent of Karangasem initiating this ceremony”, he said, adding that Regent Sumatri likely had a spiritual vision.

With prayers done by Brahmins like the sulinggih the country or region will experience peace, said Widnya who also said that alms for Brahmin priests are an extraordinary matter of concern.(kmb)

Lack of understanding

Tourism villages need to know what makes them unique DENPASAR —Tourism villages are thought to be one way creating economic equality. Although the government is intensively designating tourism villages, not everyone involved understands what this designation means. Identifying an iconic feature needs to be done so that the village can be branded.

Chief of the Desa Wisata Nusantara Foundation, Mangku Kandia, explained that Bali has been developing tourism since 1914. However even today, many people do not understand the basics of tourism. “Tourism doesn’t just mean having tourists come buy a statue of other product from Bali and that’s it. People need to understand about how tourist perceive things because it

not the same”, explained Mangku Kandia.

Not all villages have potential that can be developed. A village’s tourist attractions or icon can be a legacy of the village, something that is made there or something created especially for tourism.

This year, Governor of Bali Mangku Pastika declared 220 villages to be tourism villages but not all of them can actually perform this function. A tourism village needs to have a unique aspect that is branded. Mas Village for example has been branded as a village of wood carvers, Ubud as a village of painters, Peliatan is known for its Legong Dance or the GWK Park has its iconic statue, he explained.

“Actually, the culture (iconic

uniqueness of a village) should be established or agreed upon first, then the tourists come. Tourism is a bonus. So a tourism village needs to identify what cultural aspect makes them unique”, explained this former Chairman of the Central Executive Board of Indonesia Tour Guides Association (HPI) serving between 2001-2011.

The general public mindset about tourism needs to be changed and the local community needs to be accepting. Not everyone understands about tourism. This is the problem many so called tourism villages are facing today.

“This is really important and it takes a long time for people to become aware”, said the pioneer of Mas tourism village. (kmb42)

Penglipuran, one of the tourism villages in Bali

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15 Activities BALI PARAGON RESORT HOTEL WINNING THE BEST HOTEL & SERVICE EXCELLENT 2018 Monday, September 3, 2018

Bali Paragon Resort Hotel announced as the Best Hotel & Service Excellent 2018 in 7 Media Asia Award 2018, at The Trans Resort Bali, in Seminyak, recently.

7 Media Asia, collaborated with Asia Global Council and The Key Magazine selected 4 hotels within 7 hotels in category of The Best Hotel & Service Excellence 2018, and Bali Paragon Resort Hotel is one of them. A total of 22 awards were given during the official events.

“As a new 4-star hotel in Jim-

baran, it is an honor to receive this prestigious award, and of course, it motivates us even more to continue improving our quality & service,” Resort Manager Alice Matulessy said.

This is the first annual 7 Media Asia Award; recognized seven categories of achievers, included: The Best Government, The Best Hotel & Service, The Best Business, The Best Women Leader, The Best BUMD, The Best Education and The Best Company. Vice President Asia Global Council

Indonesia Andi Surya Pratama, MBA handed over the awards to all of the winners.

This award is an appreciation to industry’s players in Indonesia and regional institutions, who are able to produce the best innovations and compete in the tight industry competition as well. The scoring and judging was managed by 7 Media Asia Secretariat, supported by Asia Global Council & Key People Magazine within 25th of August 2017 to 15th of August 2018.

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Star Johnson needed therapy after horror film ‘Suspiria’

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VENICE - Actress Dakota Johnson admitted Saturday that she had to see a shrink after playing the lead in Oscar-winning director Luca Guadagnino’s new horror flick, “Suspiria”.

The star of the sado-masochism-tinged “Fifty Shades of Grey” films made the confession as the movie was premiered at the Venice film festival.

“When you’re working sometimes with dark subject matter it can stay with you,” she told reporters.

“I absorb a lot of people’s feelings,” Johnson said.

“Then you talk about it with someone very nice afterwards. It is a really nice to (help you) move on from the project and my therapist is a very nice woman,” she said.

Johnson, 28, the daughter of actors Melanie Griffiths and Don Johnson, and the grand-daughter of Hitchcock favourite, Tippi Hedren, plays a young American Amish woman obsessed with a German modern dance group.

After auditioning for them she is drawn

into a macabre cult of modern witches as fellow dancers disappear one after the other.

Guadagnino -- maker of last year’s arthouse hit “Call Me By Your Name” -- unleashes his most savagely baroque fantasies onto a stellar female cast that included his regular muse, British actress Tilda Swinton, in one of her best roles in years.

The film, a blood-soaked remake of horror legend Dario Argento’s 1977 chiller, is set in a creepy all-female dance school in Cold War Berlin hard by the wall. (afp) Actress Dakota Johnson arrives for the premiere of the film “Suspiria” presented in competition on September 1, 2018 during the 75th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido.

U2 cancels Berlin show after Bono loses his voice

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Irish lead singer of rock band U2, Bono

BERLIN - Irish rock group U2 was forced to cut short a concert in Berlin before thousands of fans after performing only a few songs when lead singer Bono lost his voice.

“We’re so sorry for tonight’s cancellation,” the group said in a statement on its website about the Saturday night show.

“Bono was in great form and great voice prior to the show and we were all looking forward to the second night in Berlin, but after a

few songs, he suffered a complete loss of voice.”

“We don’t know what has happened and we’re taking medical advice.”

It was the second and last concert by the group in the German capital as part of its “Experience + Innocence” tour.

After the first few songs Bono appeared to have a problem with his voice. Several times, the 58year-old stopped singing to drink from a thermos flask.

He finally announced that he could no longer continue. The audience will be able to return for another U2 concert at a future date.

“As always, we appreciate our audience’s understanding and all our fans’ support in Berlin and those who travelled from afar. We will update you very soon,” the statement said.

At the first Berlin show on Friday, Bono condemned the recent far-right violence in the German city of Chemnitz. (afp)

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Fireworks explode over the Gelora Bung Karno main stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on September 2, 2018.

Indonesia announces surprise bid for 2032 Olympics

JAKARTA - Indonesia will bid to host the 2032 Olympics following the success of the Asian Games held there over the past two weeks, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said in a surprise announcement Saturday that highlights the rising ambition of the giant but long underperforming Southeast Asian nation.

Jokowi, who is campaigning for a second term, made the announcement at a meeting in Bogor with the presidents of the International Olympic Committee and the Asian Olympic Committee.

“With the experience we have in organizing the 18th Asian Games, we are sure Indonesia can also host a bigger event,” Jokowi said in a statement after the meeting.

IOC President Thomas Bach welcomed the candidacy of Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, saying that the

Asian Games provided a “strong foundation” for the country’s 2032 bid.

He said Indonesia has shown that it has all the ingredients to hold the Olympics successfully.

“You see that Indonesia is on the move. And you see the enthusiasm of the people,” Bach told The Associated Press. “It’s a very young country. This of course also makes it very interesting for the IOC.” About 12,000 athletes from 45 nations and territories as well as several thousand officials and

journalists took part in the Asian Games, which end Saturday. As host, Indonesia provided a spectacular opening ceremony and also exceeded its own expectations in winning 30 golds, placing fourth on the medal table.

Indonesia, projected to be among the world’s 10 biggest economies by 2030, used the games to shift perceptions that it’s in the “too hard” basket, paving the way for a tilt at even bigger sports hosting baubles.

The country’s hosting of the

Asian Games without major organizational hitches has been a boost for Jokowi as he heads to elections in April. With the 2032 bid announcement, he gets to extend the shelf life of the Asian Games afterglow.

Bach said the formal selection process for 2032 hasn’t begun but Germany and India have also expressed interest.

“And we have heard from other continents and other cities,” he said. “Given that the decision will most likely be taken in 2025, you can understand that we are already very happy at this stage to have such an interest.”

Tokyo is hosting the 2020 Olympics. Paris and Los Angeles have already been selected to host the

following two games, in 2024 and 2028, respectively.

Massive problems with the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, a developing country with endemic corruption, may count against Indonesia’s chances. It cost Brazil about $20 billion to host the Olympics, a bill that is likely to raise objections in Indonesia, where poverty remains widespread. (ap) 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.