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Entertainment

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Scarlett Johansson weds partner Dauriac

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson quietly tied the knot with her fiance Romain Dauriac, in October, US media reported Monday.

The couple have a daughter, Rose.

Johansson, considered one of Hollywood’s modern sex symbols, also starred in “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and Luc Besson thriller “Lucy.”

Taiwan leader quitting as party chief after polls

Ronaldo, Messi, Neuer up for Ballon d’Or

Fears of Serbia return to iron rule of nationalism

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DENPASAR - Financial literacy rate among the players of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) remains low. Based on the survey of the Financial Services Authority (OJK), the literacy rate of the MSMEs reaches only 16 percent.

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Bruce Springsteen, center, performs with U2 during the World AIDS Day (RED) concert In Times Square on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014 in New York.

Bruce Springsteen fills in at surprise U2 AIDS show Agence France-Presse

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Financial literacy of MSMEs still low

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Johansson -- best known for her roles in “Lost in Translation”, “The Avengers” and a string of Woody Allen films -- married Dauriac, a French journalist, in Montana on October 1, People magazine reported.

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NEW YORK - Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay’s Chris Martin tried to replace Bono’s legendary vocal cords Monday in a surprise U2 concert in New York to rally support for fighting AIDS. U2, which has played only select shows since a 2009-2011 tour, announced the free show in Times Square with several hours of notice to raise awareness and funding on World AIDS Day. But with frontman Bono injured in a bicycle incident last month, the Irish superstars offered the microphone to two of the rare vocalists who rival U2 in celebrity.

“Dreams come true for all old and young people alike,” a humbled Coldplay frontman Martin said on the stage set up underneath Times Square’s famous flashing screens on a rainy night.

Martin, who has long cited U2 as an influence on his work, joined The Edge and the rest of the band to perform “With or Without You” and

“A Beautiful Day” -- staying faithful to Bono’s lyrics and style while struggling to match his range.

Closing the hour-long concert, Springsteen summoned the depths of his emotional force to sing “Where the Streets Have No Name” before a more understated rendition of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Leaving behind his usual guitar, Springsteen cast a surprisingly similar physical appearance to Bono as he grabbed the microphone, with The Edge audibly driving the music.

Also performing were country singer Carrie Underwood and hip hop star Kanye West, who energetically blended hits such as “Stronger” and “Touch the Sky” -- while noting that he had to condense his set for the sake of television viewers.

The concert was organized by the Bono-backed Red campaign to mark a decade since the United States dramatically ramped up support for fighting AIDS. Bono appeared briefly in a video at the concert in which celebrities listed items -- such as French fries and

lipstick -- that cost the 40 US cents required to provide daily treatment.

“Two pills a day is what it takes to stay alive if you’re HIV positive,” Bono said.

Former US president Bill Clinton, who explained that Bono asked him to address the concert, said that 2014 marked the first time that more people around the world received life-saving drugs than were newly diagnosed with HIV. “Twenty-six years ago, we could never have had an event like this on World AIDS Day because to be diagnosed with AIDS was a death sentence,” said Clinton, referring to the start of the annual commemoration.

“We are going to win this fight,” Clinton said.

Clinton pointed to US anti-AIDS efforts as an example of cooperation across political lines. His successor George W. Bush spearheaded the socalled PEPFAR program, which now supports anti-retroviral medication for 7.7 million people, in large part in sub-Saharan Africa.

“Especially for the MSMEs, the literacy rate reaches 16 percent of the 56 million units of businesses where 55 million units belong to micro businesses. It is very low,” said the Board of Commissioner Member for the OJK Education and Consumer Protection, Kusumaningtuti S. Setiono, not long ago.

She said the financial access received by the MSMEs was still not comparable to their role in support-

ing the domestic economy. To that end, the financial literacy was also very important for the MSMEs. “Contribution of the MSMEs to the economy accounted for 59 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. This figure is quite large, so that it is very important for the increase in financial literacy of the MSMEs,” she said.

According to her, the contribution of the MSMEs to employment

absorption in Indonesia must be taken into account. Of the 56 million units of existing businesses, they had been able to provide employment for 107 million people or 78 percent of the total population of Indonesia.

On the other hand, the lineup of banking institutions considered the MSMEs an open market for loan distribution. However, most of the MSME players were

afraid of accessing the institutions because they did not have collateral.

“Many MSMEs do not dare to go to bank because they do not have collateral. Actually, there are loans without requiring collateral as long as the business runs well,” said Taufik Hakim, Director of Bank Pundi.

He said that his party placed the account officer in each region to attract MSMEs in need of working capital loans. “An account officer has a task to make approach to the MSMEs being feasible to be helped without having to own collateral,” he said.

Non-collateral loans, according to him, were designed for the small and micro entrepreneurs in order they could obtain capital. Nevertheless, the management of the noncollateral loans was recognized to require attention and special team so that the quality could be well maintained.

“More than 120,000 borrowers from Aceh to Papua have become our customers. Our products are diverse, ranging from the loans with collateral to the one without collateral. We provide credit ranging from IDR 5 million to IDR 50 million,” he explained. (kmb27)

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Financial literacy rate among the players of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) remains low. Based on the survey of the Financial Services Authority (OJK), the literacy rate of the MSMEs reaches only 16 percent.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Bali News

Activities

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Commemorate World AIDS Day

Students distribute stickers and roses Bali Post

SINGARAJA - A number of students in Buleleng came down to street on Monday afternoon (Dec 1). They did not hold a demonstration, but handed out stickers and red roses to riders. By distributing stickers containing message on HIV/AIDS prevention and red roses, the students would like to disseminate social message to the community to jointly alert and prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

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The student give a dvd on the street to commemorate World AIDS Day

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The sympathetic action of students in Buleleng was intentionally held in a series of the celebration of the World AIDS Day falling every December 1 each year. Other than the action of the students, a number of employees of community health centers in Buleleng held a series of social action for the World AIDS Day this year. Their activities were filled with free counseling, blood checkup and blood donation.

Meanwhile, on Monday afternoon until the evening, the celebration of the World AIDS Day was concentrated on the Singaraja Urban Park Square. In the activity, the residents and local government agreed to jointly combat the transmission of HIV/AIDS. It happened because the HIV/AIDS case in Northern Bali was very worrying, and always in the top three of HIV cases in the Bali Province.

Chairman of the AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPA) of Buleleng, Nyoman Sutjidra, said the current HIV case was estimated to reach 2,200 across the Buleleng area. Meanwhile, the formally registered HIV case in Buleleng reached 2,173 cases per September 2014. Sutjidra doubling as deputy regent of Buleleng said the high incidence of HIV in Buleleng happened due to misunderstanding among the youth. Moreover, of the thousands of cases, 47 percent of which affected teen-

agers.

To that end, the KPA would continue to launch socialization targeting school-age youth. From the socialization made, it was found misconception that the first sexual intercourse would not have the potential to transmit sexual diseases, including HIV/AIDS. “Such understanding is wrong because sexual intercourse whether the first, the second or the umpteenth time can be potentially infected by sexually transmitted diseases. To that end, we will intensify this socialization because we also found HIV cases in teenager of 16 years,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, who attended the event last Monday, invited all the schools to require the participation of all students in the Student Group Caring for AIDS and Drugs (KSPAN) activity from January 2015 or the next semester. The effort was taken to educate and protect young people in Northern Bali from the spread of HIV/ AIDS. “Based on the visible phenomenon, the cases reached 47 percent, while the undiscovered can even be greater. Now, let’s educate the students whether they are junior high school or high school students through the KSPAN extracurricular activities at schools,” he said. (kmb38)

Badung plans a development of cultural center

MANGUPURA - Pros and cons related to the cultural hall development plan in the area of the Badung Civic Center naturally happens. It occurs considering it poses a strategic plan in the effort to preserve the art and culture.

The Regent of Badung, A.A. Gde Agung, said that in response to the plan, all parties should think

positively.

Gde Agung said on Monday (Dec 1) the idea on the cultural hall construction was meant to provide a more decent place for the artists to show off their art creativities.

According to him, the cultural hall would have the function of preservation, especially the ancient art which had begun to be forgotten by community.

In addition, the cultural hall

was also expected to be a means that could encourage or yield creative young artists and promote the art activities especially in Badung.

“High sense of the art and culture can lead to the identity of polite and cultured Badung people,” he said.

Responding to the rejection against the location of the development by the Badung House not long ago, Gde Agung called on

that all parties should not think negatively. Badung government had a wealth of experience in organizing cultural festival at the Badung Civic Center. And so far, the audience reaching thousands of people were always orderly.

His party stated if the old building of the Badung Education Training Office would be very appropriate. The agency and other institution currently using the

building would immediately have its own new office. Even, if searching for new location, it would be very difficult, need many costs and take a very long process.

“Therefore, rather than letting the current building get obsolete, it will be better to use it. In addition, the land area is also adequate supported by ample parking space and road access,” said Gde Agung. (kmb25)

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Nandini Bali Jungle Resort & Spa is a quiet place, rooms are very private and is supported by all comforts to make the guests feel at home. Traveling time from the Ngurah Rai International Airport to the resort is about one and a half hours.

The perfect time to enjoy the beautiful scenery is in the morn-

ing while sitting on the balcony with the sound of birds chirping and monkeys roaming only to welcome guests just like saying “good morning and welcome to the jungle”. In the evening, you can enjoy the beauty of the sunset while swimming in the pool which was designed by the architectural experience with an atmosphere that

is very romantic, together with the natural atmosphere of the village that seems so unique.

They also serve food that is typical Indonesia, Europe, China and is always ready to deliver to a room with very friendly and fast service.

With an area of one acre of land, theyset up eighteen rooms that are

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very unique with Balinese style architecture equipped with large double bed, TV Color with satellite, AC, Separate Bath Tub & Shower, Free daily 2 bottle of mineral water, Amenities, Bathrobe, IDD phone, Mini Bar, Safety Box, DVD Player, Fire Extinguisher, Hair Dryer, Umbrella, Slipper, Coffee Table, Hot water heater and Private Balcony.

Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon.

The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Technology

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MIT engineers have high hopes for cheetah robot Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — It’s a robot unlike any other, inspired by the world’s fastest land animal and controlled by video game technology. The robot, called the cheetah, can run on batteries at speeds of more than 10 mph (16 kph), jump about 16 inches (40 centimeters) high, land safely and continue running for at least 15 minutes — all while using less power than a microwave oven.

It’s the creation of researchers at the Massachusetts of Technology, who had to design key elements from zero because of a lack of, or shortcomings in, existing technology.

That includes powerful, lightweight motors, electronics that control power for its 12 motors and an algorithm that determines the amount of force a leg should exert during the split second that it spends on the ground while running. That’s the key to helping the robot maintain balance and forward momentum.

An onboard computer organizes data from various sensors and sends commands to each motor.

“This is kind of a Ferrari in the robotics world, like, we have to put all the expensive components and make it really that instinctive,” said MIT Professor Sangbae Kim, who heads the school’s Biomimetic Robotics Lab that designed the robot. “That’s the only way to get that speed.”

Insight gleaned from the prototype could have real-world applications, including the design of revolutionary prosthetics, wearable technologies, all-terrain wheelchairs and vehicles that can travel efficiently in rough terrain much like animals do, Kim said. There are hopes the robot will be able to be used in search and rescue operations in hazardous or hostile environments where it’s too risky to send a human rescuer.

“When the robot is running, at every step, we calculate the appropriate amount of the force to the legs so that the robot can balance itself,” said MIT research scientist Hae-Won Park, who wrote the complex algorithm used to control the cheetah, which weighs around 70 pounds (31 kilograms)— about the same as one of its female feline counterparts.

The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The military research arm is also funding a similar robot being developed by Boston Dynamics.

The company says its version is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the center of a treadmill. Crafting the cheetah robot took five years of work and plenty of confidence to ignore those who said electric motors aren’t strong enough to propel a running mechanical cheetah powered by batteries.

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SoftBank Corp’s human-like robot named “Pepper” gestures as it introduces Nestle’s coffee machines at an electric shop in Tokyo December 1, 2014.

Coffee with Pepper?

Robot sells espresso machines in Japan TOKYO - Move over George Clooney -- Nestle has employed a fleet of chirpy robots to sell its coffee machines in Japanese stores.

AP Photo/Charles Krupa

The Hollywood heart-throb, who has become the global face of the Nespresso brand, has been given the elbow in favour of Pepper, a cheeky and chatty android, which its makers claim can answer customers’ questions.

“How do you enjoy coffee?

Number one: An eye-opener coffee; Number two: A post-meal cup of coffee,” Pepper asked a TV personality at a promotion event Monday.

The 120-centimetre (four-foot) tall robot has a human-like face perched on top of a white plastic body, with rollers and what looks like a tablet computer on its chest.

The gimmick will eventually see 1,000 stores across Japan with their own Pepper, which makers say can understand up to 80 percent of conversations.

The robots will “help us discover consumer needs through conversations between our customers and

Pepper,” said a joint statement from Nestle and SoftBank, whose French arm Aldebaran developed the technology.

Pepper, which was unveiled in June by SoftBank president Masayoshi Son, already sells mobile phones at SoftBank’s 74 Japanese stores, where it has been used to collect customers’ opinions.

Engineers claim the robot’s artificial intelligence has allowed it to expand its conversational ability by listening to what customers say.

The robot will go on sale to the public in February, with a price tag of 198,000 yen ($1,670) plus monthly fees. George Clooney, meanwhile, will not.

Smartphone expansion cooling, prices dropping

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The global smartphone market will see cooler growth in the next few years, amid “cutthroat” competition that will bring down prices for many consumers, a market tracker said Monday. A forecast by the research firm IDC indicates smartphone sales of 1.5 billion units in 2015, a rise of 12.2 percent from the current year’s

estimate. That would mean growth falling by more than half from the 26 percent pace of 2014.

The sluggish growth is likely to continue through 2018, IDC said, with the average increase over the period just 9.8 percent. Significantly, smartphone prices are likely to drop from an average selling price of $297 in 2014 to $241 by 2018.

Emerging markets like India will see much lower smartphone prices

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Fuel triggers inflation surge in Denpasar

Agence France-Presse

In this Oct. 24, 2014 photo, a robotic cheetah runs on an athletic field at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.

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-- $135 in 2014 and $102 by 2018.

Smartphone revenues “will be hard hit by the increasingly cutthroat nature of pricing,” growing just 4.2 percent over the same forecast period, according to IDC. “The impact of upstart Chinese players in the global market will be reflected in a race to the bottom when it comes to price,” IDC analyst Melissa Chau said.

“While premium phones aren’t

going anywhere, we are seeing increasingly better specs in more affordable smartphones. Consumers no longer have to go with a top-ofthe-line handset to guarantee decent hardware quality or experience. The biggest question now is how much lower can prices go?”

IDC said Google-powered Android devices will continue to dominate the market with 80 percent of global smartphones and 61 percent

of revenues. Apple’s iPhones will represent 13 percent of units sold and 34 percent of revenues, the report said.

“As shipment volume slows, we expect greater attention to shift toward value trends,” said IDC’s Ramon Llamas.

“Apple’s approach with premium pricing ensures a growing portion of overall revenues despite its declining market share.”

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The efforts to reduce poverty rate in Klungkung County remains to face steep road. Instead of pressing, the number of poor people in Klungkung even increases.

Klungkung has highest poverty rate in Bali Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - The efforts to reduce poverty rate in Klungkung County remains to face steep road. Instead of pressing, the number of poor people in Klungkung even increases. Even, the recent data issued by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Klungkung indicated if Klungkung had the highest percentage of poverty rate in Bali.

As the latest data reported by the official website of BPS Klungkung, the percentage of poverty rate of Klungkung in 2013 reached 7.01 percent or the poor amounted to 12,210 families. The number of poor population is almost the same as that of Bangli reaching 12,000.

However, the percentage of poor people in Bangli is much lower namely 5.45 percent. Even, Klungkung is still inferior to Karangasem having the percentage of poor population of 6.88 percent and Buleleng of 6.31 percent.

The number of poor people in Klungkung increased from the previous year where the percentage of poor people reached 5.37 percent or 9,400 people. Likewise, the data in 2011 indicated 6.10 percent, where the number of poor people as reported by BPS Klungkung reached 10,700 families. Seeing

the latest number of poor people in Klungkung, the figure 12,210 is also higher than the other data sources such as the data of the Social Protection Program (PPLS) in 2012 and the target household (RTS) or the so-called poor households (RTS) coming to 11,445.

The Head of Klungkung Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Gusti Ngurah Putra, when contacted on Monday (Dec 1) claimed to have seen the latest data of the BPS Klungkung. All this time, his party still used the data of PPLS 2012. It was a combination of the population census data with 14-variable approach and poverty line approach processed by the proxy mean test. “I will immediately make coordination with the BPS Klungkung,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of BPS Klungkung, Made Antarayasa, could not be asked for his response.

When contacted for several times on Monday, he preferred not to give any responses regarding the data of his institution. When contacted at his office, one of his officers said that he had a meeting in the meeting room.

The Poverty Reduction Team Leader of Klungkung, Made Kasta, was surprised by the data of BPS Klungkung. Although the data reflected the previous government, Kasta doubling as Deputy Regent of Klungkung would immediately take steps. Soon he would make coordination with the Social Welfare, Manpower and Resettlement Agency. After making sure the data, Kasta would maximize the real steps having been taken by the Poverty Reduction Team. Since the beginning of taking office, he and the Regent Nyoman Suwirta had committed to realize the people’s hope, namely minimizing the poverty rate of Klungkung to the lowest.

“We will synchronize the data first. After that, we will soon hold a meeting and rethink about the other steps that can be taken to continuously reduce the number of poor people here,” he said. (kmb31)

DENPASAR - The subsidized fuel price hike has triggered to price surge in basic necessities in Denpasar. Based on the results of price monitoring in November 2014, the inflation occurred at 1.62 percent with Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 114.17.

“Inflation happened due the fuel price hike as indicated by the increase in the index of the six groups of expenditure,” said the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Panusunan Siregar, in Denpasar.

The six groups of expenditure triggering inflation, as described

by Siregar, included the group of transportation, communication and financial services by 3.88 percent; foodstuff group (3.16 percent); housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel group (0.97 percent); health group (0.43 percent); education, recreation and sport group (0.16 percent); and processed food, beverage, cigarette and tobacco group (0.08 percent).

“Galungan, Christmas and New Year will also have an impact on inflation this month (December— Ed). We do hope the domino effect due to the fuel price hike can be muted, so that the inflation in December can be controlled,” he said.

He explained that a group of expenditure showed a deflation namely clothing group by 0.23 percent. Meanwhile, the commodities showing a price hike included the gasoline, electricity, water of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM), cayenne pepper,

red chili, rice, beans and green mustard. Meanwhile, some commodities undergoing price decline comprised the airline ticket, gold jewelry, snapper, boiled tuna, mackerel, wet shrimp and watermelon.

“The groups of commodity giving contribution to inflation in November comprised the transportation, communications and financial service group (0.7364 percent); foodstuff group (0.5853 percent); housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel group (0.2563 percent); health group (0.0254 percent); education, recreation and sport group (0.0140 percent) and processed food, beverage, cigarette and tobacco group (0.0119 percent),” he explained.

According to him, local government should take strategic steps to minimize the impact of the surge in inflation due to the fuel price hike. The surge in inflation would have an impact on the rising interest rates and decline in purchasing power.

“Inflation will have an impact on interest rate and 23 percent of Balinese people have the potential to become poor. To that end, the inflation must be held so that the low-income people will not fall into poverty,” he said.

He added that among the 82 cities recorded, all the cities experienced inflation. The highest inflation occurred in Padang (3.44 percent), while the lowest occurred in Manokwari (0.07 percent). When ranked from the highest inflation, Denpasar was ranked 25th of the 82 cities experiencing inflation. (kmb27)

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The subsidized fuel price hike has triggered to price surge in basic necessities in Denpasar.

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Fears of Serbia return to iron rule of nationalism

Golkar Party National Congress IX claimed to be the worst Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Senior politician Zainal Bintang claimed the implementation of the Golkar Party National Congress IX in Nusa Dua was the worst. The statement was made responding to his ban from entering the Mangupura Room at Westin Hotel, where the national congress took place, Monday (Dec 1).

Zainal came to the national congress based on the mandate of the Golkar founder, the Musyawarah Kekeluargaan Gotong Royong (MKGR) mass organization. In the letter signed by Chairman of the MKGR central executive board, AS Suryonegoro and Secretary General Bejo Rudiantoro, Zainal was mandated to be a co-delegate with Indra Muchlis Adnan and Bejo Suryonegoro. Besides, there were also other delegates including Kostia Permana, Mathilda Ingkiriwang and Nova Christalia mandated as observer.

Despite carrying the mandate letter, Zainal could not enter the area of the national congress because there was another letter of the MKGR signed by Deputy Secretary General of Golkar Party, Roem Kono.

“I come to the national congress because I do not want to see if the Golkar falls apart. After the presence of the rescue forum (Presidium of Golkar Party Rescue—Ed), I realized that Golkar has really fallen apart because the rescue forum will organize a national congress in January (Jan 2015—Ed),” said Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Council to MKGR central executive board.

Zainal also wanted the Golkar elite to come together and made the National Congress IX in Bali to last elegantly and peacefully as well as became a means of reconciliation. Zainal himself wanted to put up as candidate of the Golkar Party chairman for the subsequent period. Moreover, there was an indication if the chairman election would be directed to choose back the incumbent chairman Aburizal Bakrie.

“As the rescue party cannot come, do not want to come and is not allowed to come in, it means the number of chairman candidate will diminish. If the candidate of chairman decreases, I think Aburizal Bakrie must not be allowed to put up alone and there must be a balance. Now, I come here to declare myself as one of the chairman candidates,” he said.

Zainal hoped his presence in the chairman candidate election could provide an alternative choice for the national congress delegates, so that it would not just focus on a single candidate. If there was only one candidate for the election, it meant the election would be carried out by acclamation. Meanwhile, Zainal assessed that such a method would damage democracy.

“In fact, the implementation of this national congress is the worst since the committee closed its eyes on the existing truth, while it accommodates a legitimacy that is actually not correct as in the case of the MKGR. I worry that a number of county executive boards (DPD 2) are also likely to express their frustration. Hopefully, it will not happen so that it can run smoothly,” he continued.

Zainal asserted that the attitudes of the national congress committee that prevented and made pressure as experienced by the MKGR mass organization in the field was contradictory to the speech of Aburizal Bakrie at the opening of the national congress, Sunday night.

“His speech was very nice as inviting us to unite and combine all the disagreements. Then, he invited us to develop the Golkar Party in the future. It was really a nice speech, but did Aburizal Bakri (ARB) know if the committee hampered and gave pressure, such as the ban experienced by the MKGR?” questioned this senior Golkar Party politician.

Meanwhile, the Session Coordinator, Hisjam Ridwan, said that Zainal Bintang could not get into the room because there was a dualistic mandate in the internal MKGR organization. His party was still doing clarification related to the dualistic mandate.

“Indeed, we get difficulties related to the dualistic mandates.

Since the mandate was from the MKGR organization, a mandate mentioned Mr. Zainal, while another did not. So, now we are still clarifying, but the most important thing, when this (Zainal Bintang— Ed) can be resolved, he can get in. There is no problem if he is indeed from the MKGR organization, 5 people were delegated,” he explained. (kmb32)

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

International

Associated Press

STARA PAZOVA, Serbia — As nationalist hysteria gripped the Balkans a quarter century ago, Aslan Ballaj, an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, did something unthinkable: He moved to Serbia to open a bakery at a time when people like him were increasingly seen as the enemy.

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Candi Negara River which is filled with garbage

Residents of Kusamba anxious

Candi Negara River filled with garbage

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Since then, Ballaj has remained alongside his Serb neighbors even as their nations went to war in the late 1990s, managing against the odds to escape violence in the darkest days of the bloodshed. Just as he thought the times of fear and revenge were over, extremists in October attacked his bakery shop, riddling it with bullets and throwing a hand grenade that shattered windows and destroyed walls, tables and chairs.

“I thought this was the 21st century,” said the 50-year-old father of four. “I never dreamed this could happen, especially not now.” Nearly 20 minority-owned businesses were targeted along with Ballaj’s in a spate of coordinated attacks — triggered by a soccer brawl — that have brought back memories of the era of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who incited ethnic hatred at home to wage wars against Balkan neighbors.

Hate speech is on the rise. Anti-Western propaganda fills the airwaves. Liberal journalists are pulled off air. Nationalists talk up redrawing Balkan borders.

Mafia-style hits, a hallmark of the Milosevic years, are returning. And as Russia and the West collide over Ukraine, Serbia is falling firmly into the camp of traditional mentor Moscow, even as it tries to advance its case for EU membership. “Somebody

wants to remind us of the 1990s,” said government ombudsman Anika Muskinja-Hajnrih. “That is worrisome.”

Serbia, whose stability is crucial for peace in the still-volatile Balkans, has been simmering with ethnic and social tensions that exploded after fans brawled during a European Championship qualifying match between Serbia and Albania. The fight, which involved players and fans over an Albanian flag that was flown over the stadium, stirred the most strife in the multiethnic north of Serbia where Ballaj is from.

The increasingly strident rhetoric of Serb nationalists, tolerated if not encouraged by the government, has prompted many to ask if some of Milosevic’s trademark policies are back, despite the proclaimed pro-EU stance advocated by the current right-leaning government led by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

Critics warn that surging proRussian and conservative sentiment has sidelined liberal critics, threatening the country’s hardearned democracy. Vucic — who won Western support for promising to enact pro-EU political and economic reforms — has been accused at home of tightening his grip on power by curbing dissent and clamping down on the media.

“It has never been like this,

SEMARAPURA - Evidently the current rainy season started to be prone to cause flood at several locations. One of them is in the Candi Negara River at Kusamba village, Dawan, Klungkung.

The river crossing the Kusamba village and Kusamba kampong experienced silting. It made the surrounding residents anxious.

Moreover, the silting occurred due to large amount of rubbish and waste sediment in the river. This condition even drew the attention of the Klungkung Disaster Mitigation Coordinator. Deputy Regent of Klungkung, Made Kasta, led the Klungkung Disaster Mitigation Coordinator to come down to location of the shallow Candi Negara River, Monday (Dec 1).

Based on monitoring by mitigation coordinator, nearly along the river was shallow as filled with mud and garbage. This condition was

deplored by Deputy Regent Kasta.

Moreover, the silting occurred in the river originated from the upstream area. It was not only caused by sewage or waste disposal from Subak Dawan, but also the behavior of people disposing of garbage into the river. “Yes, it should be quickly addressed. Do not wait until it rains to take action,” said Deputy Regent Kasta.

Meanwhile, the headman of Kusamba kampong, Abdul Gafar, admitted if the Candi Negara River with a distance of 300 meters from the beach was often flooded when it rained. It occurred due to silting in the river. Even, the silting was said to have happened for almost 5

years. On that account, Abdul Gafar hoped the government to build revetment and riverside control path in order to facilitate residents to clean up the river. “The river was cleaned up and dredged three years ago. But, it is still dirty and settles back,” he said.

Responding to that matter, Deputy Regent Kasta appealed to people not to throw rubbish indiscriminately into the river. If it happened, the local residents would be disadvantaged. Therefore, he hoped the residents to always be vigilant in rainy season, particularly people who lived at riverside and under trees to avoid flooding and landslides. (kmb)

never,” said Olja Beckovic, a prominent journalist. “Just look

at the television stations, there is no criticism anywhere no more.”

Beckovic’s highly popular political talk show recently was removed from the program of B92, a private television station that once was the beacon of the lib-

eral, pro-democratic movement that led to Milosevic’s downfall in 2000. She said Vucic had personally intervened to influence her choice of guests and other aspects of her show. Other media also have faced either political or economic pressure, she said.

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In this Sunday, April 27, 2014 file photo, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic waves to his supporters in front of the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade, Serbia.

Malaysia detains another 3 suspected militants Associated Press

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London’s Mayor Boris Johnson rides on the monorail during an official visit to Kuala Lumpur December 1, 2014.

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian police said Tuesday that they have detained another three men, including two civil servants, suspected of being linked to the militant Islamic State group. The detentions bring the number of people held for suspected militant links to 43 this year.

National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the three were detained Nov. 27-28 in operations in Kuala Lumpur and in northern Kedah state. Khalid said in a

statement that a 36-year-old suspect had joined militant groups in Syria since Dec. 28 last year and returned to Malaysia on April 8.

Another two, both civil servants in their 20s, were believed to have been channeling funds to several Malaysians who want to go to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group, he said.

The spread of the Islamic state ideology has worried Prime Minister Najib Razak, who recently warned that it can cause chaos and conflict in the country. He said the government would introduce a

new anti-terrorism law next year to combat the security threat.

No details have been given on the new law, but officials said it may include preventive measures such as detention without trial.

Critics have urged the government not to revive the Internal Security Act, which allowed indefinite detention without trial.

It was abolished in 2012 as part of political reforms. The government said they have identified 39 Malaysians fighting in Syria and Iraq, including five who had died.

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China to implement property registration in March

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BEIJING - China will implement long-awaited property registration rules from March, a Chinese media outlet said Tuesday, in a move that could give the country’s anti-corruption investigators extra ammunition and pave the way for new taxes. ficials from hiding their assets.

It could also pave the way for nationwide real estate taxes, which are regarded as an effective way to curb speculation, after the country saw years of surging house prices, creating widespread resentment among ordinary Chinese.

But at the same time prices for real estate -- a key driver of the economy -- have been falling for months, and authorities want to avoid a disorderly plunge in the market.

The scheme was included in a landmark property law in 2007, but Chinese media have said its specific rules have been long delayed due to their sensitivity

and complexity.

The Ministry of Land and Resources, which is in charge of the registration, has said it aims to have the system operating by 2016.

Public outrage is intense over corrupt government officials who have sought to hide wealth by illegally amassing dozens of homes under false identities.

In one high-profile case last year, Gong Aiai, vice president of a bank in the northern province of Shaanxi and a delegate to the local legislature, was sentenced to three years in prison after she was found to have purchased more than 40 properties under multiple identities.

JAKARTA - Anti-graft agency Chief Abraham Samad on Tuesday called for preventive and repressive measures against corruption as its growth has been systematic, structured, and massive.

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Women look at a shop window on a main shopping street in Athens in this October 7, 2014 file photo. Greece’s negotiations with rescue lenders on the future of the country’s bailout program could last for another two months, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday.

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A construction site of a new residential and commercial complex is reflected in the waters of a canal in Beijing, November 18, 2014. China will implement long-awaited property registration rules from March, a Chinese media outlet said Tuesday, in a move that could give the country’s anti-corruption investigators extra ammunition and pave the way for new taxes.

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Under a draft of the regulations published in August, a national registration system will be established sharing information such as property location, area and origin of ownership among government departments including police, taxation and audit authorities “in real time”.

The rules have been approved by the State Council, China’s cabinet, and will take effect from March 1 “despite various hindrances”, news portal thepaper. cn reported, citing unidentified sources.

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ATHENS — Greece’s negotiations with rescue lenders on the future of the country’s bailout program could last for another two months, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday.

Athens is in talks on how to finance itself once the rescue loans from fellow eurozone countries end this year. It has accepted to shift from regular loans to a so-called precautionary credit line. But it wants easier austerity terms, arguing its economy is doing better.

Evangelos Venizelos told a conference in Athens that talks with lenders would be concluded before parliament elects a new Greek president in February — a vote that could topple the coalition government and that has revived anxiety in markets and eurozone governments.

“Without a doubt, the political uncertainty is the factor that is affecting the negotiations the most,” Venizelos said.

“Our aim is to conclude this process as quickly as possible,” he said. The hope would be to get a deal by next week’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers. At the latest, he said, an agreement is needed before the next presidential elections.

Greece failed to reach a deal last week at talks in Paris with representatives of the “troika” — the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. They disagree over the Greek government’s near-zero budget deficit forecast for next year.

The conservative-led coalition government needs support from opposition lawmakers to elect a new president. That would require independent members of parliament siding with the government, and some opposition lawmakers defying their own parties.

Alexis Tsipras, leader of the antibailout Syriza party that is leading opinion polls, is due to speak at the same conference as Venizelos on Tuesday.

“Corruption in Indonesia is systematic, structured, and massive and therefore we have to adopt progressive methods to deal with it. Harsh, preventive, and repressive actions must be taken; otherwise, more corruption cases will happen and the administration will come to a halt,” he said at a national conference here on corruption eradication.

The chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) stated that repressive action alone will not reduce corruption cases significantly and therefore it should be integrated with repressive measures.

He emphasized that the KPK’s actions were not only aimed at individuals but also at the system.

“We must understand that corruption involves two factors, namely individuals and the system. Corruption among individuals depends on qualities such

as morality and integrity. A person might be good, but if the system allows corruption to happen and he/she falls for it, what will that say about the person. Therefore, we are combining preventive and repressive measures,” he explained.

The KPK, which has won the people’s respect for its capability to bring to book corrupt officials, is now focusing on food security, fisheries, agriculture, health, education, energy, and state income sectors, Samad pointed out.

“We will improve the state’s income from tax revenue by increasing transparency and public participation in our anti-corruption drives,” he stressed.

Speaking at the conference, VicePresident Jusuf Kalla cited opportunity and authority as the two main reasons for corruption.

The event was also attended by a number of cabinet ministers.

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Visitors walk by life-siza Japanese popular anime character, Doraemon models on display during “100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo” in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec 2, 2014. The expo displays 100 life-sized Doraemon models with different gestures and facial expressions.

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Canadian teacher on trial for child abuse

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JAKARTA — A Canadian teacher and an Indonesia teaching assistant went on trial Tuesday accused of sexually abusing a kindergartner on the campus of a prestigious international school.

Neil Bantleman and Ferdinant Tjiong, who have been in detention since July, maintain their innocence as do fellow teachers and the principal at the Jakarta International School.

Around 60 teachers and parents of pupils at the school

protested outside the South Jakarta District Court in support of the pair.

“Free the innocents. We are here for you Neil and Ferdi. We believe in you,” they shouted.

The men are being tried separately in closed-door sessions.

A judge read the charges out against them in Tuesday’s session. They were not required to enter a plea.

Five janitors at the school are being tried over the same allegations. A sixth died in custody.

Supports of Bantleman and

Tjiong say the victim, who was six at the time the alleged abuse occurred, was subject to suggestive questioning by inexperienced police. The abuse was alleged to have happened at a room in the school during teaching hours.

The family of the victim is suing the school for $130 million.

The school in southern Jakarta is attended by the children of foreign diplomats, businesspeople and Indonesia’s elite. It has 2,400 students aged 3 to 18 from about 60 countries.

Indonesia to boost oil reserves, refineries in bid to tackle graft

Reuters

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s new administration plans a major expansion of oil storage and will construct more refineries as part of sweeping energy reforms that will also help in cracking down on corruption in the state oil trader.

Sworn in just six weeks ago, President Joko Widodo launched the overhaul of the scandal-tainted oil and gas sector last Friday by sacking the entire board of state oil giant Pertamina and pledging a comprehensive audit of its trading arm, Petral.

When completed, the plan to increase storage and refining capacity will allow Southeast Asia’s largest economy to shift from buying gasoline and diesel on the opaque spot market to stable long-term contracts with foreign producers. That would also reduce opportunities for graft at Petral.

“With limited storage, all you can do is buy on the spot market and then you are at the mercy of the market,” Ari Soemarno, a presidential adviser and former head of Pertamina, told Reuters.

Energy Minister Sudirman Said told reporters last week: “Every transaction that is hidden definitely has that potential (for corruption). Direct deals reduce that potential... and reduce the role of intermediaries.”

Indonesia plans to add a minimum of 9.4 million barrels of new fuel storage capacity by 2019, an increase of around 40

percent, at a cost of $2.44 billion, Pertamina officials said.

The country, which is expected to become the world’s largest gasoline importer by 2018, wants to increase its operational reserves to 30 days worth of fuel, up from the current 18-23 days.

In the longer term, Pertamina is looking to upgrade its six refineries to increase capacity to 1.5 million barrels per day from the current 1 million bpd. It is also considering investing in new refineries, despite not having built one since 1994.

The refinery and storage development plans are not new under President Widodo but have been held back for years by vested interests who profit from fuel imports, officials have said. Indonesia’s oil and gas sector is the largest contributor to state income, making up an estimated 12 percent of state revenue this year.

The president’s plan will also likely sideline Hong Kong-based Pertamina Energy Trading Limited (Petral). The company, which conducts its trading business from Singapore, holds a near monopoly on the trading of billions of dollars worth of crude and oil products in and out of the former OPEC member.

Petral reported revenue of $31.5 billion and net profit of $47 million in 2011, the latest data provided on the company’s website.

Petral regularly buys gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from

Malaysia’s Petronas, Chinese oil trader Unipec, Royal Dutch Shell, and others.

But the lack of transparency from its oil trades has raised concerns that transactions can be easily manipulated by what the president calls the oil mafia, which is believed to steal as much as $400 million a year, according to presidential adviser Soemarno.

Petral officials were not immediately available for comment. Oil traders in Singapore said they had not seen any major changes in Petral’s operations.

“It is not in the interest of the current Indonesian government to have either outflows or inflows disrupted, unless there is evidence that a particular shipment is directly tainted and for now, there is none,” said Thomson Reuters Oil Research & Forecasts (Asia) in a report.

Last week, State Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno, who is the sister of Ari Soemarno, said she would consider relocating Petral to Indonesia from its offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, a move that could allow for better government oversight of the company.

The energy ministry and the country’s main anti-graft w atchdog, the Corruption Eradication Commission, are planning separate audits of Petral to ensure no wrongdoing.

“So far, we have no conclusion about Petral. We are still waiting for recommendations,” Energy Minister Said told Reuters on Monday.

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Taiwan leader quitting as party chief after polls Associated Press

TAIPEI — Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said Tuesday that he is stepping down as chairman of the ruling Nationalist Party following stinging defeats in local elections over the weekend that cast a shadow over his pro-China policies. A statement issued by the Nationalists in Ma’s name said he holds himself responsible for the wave of losses in municipal races Saturday and considers it time to pass the torch after nine years as chairman.

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Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou walks into a polling station in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014.

“Over the last 120 years, the Nationalist Party has encountered countless failures, but has never been categorically defeated and each time we pick ourselves back up again,” Ma said in the statement.

“Let us take today’s loss and turn it into a new victorious beginning.”

Ma said he would formally tender his resignation at Wednesday’s meeting of the party’s Central Standing Committee. He is halfway through his second and final fouryear term as president.

The Nationalists lost nine city and county elections on Saturday, including in longtime strongholds Taipei, the capital, and the major central city of Taichung. The main opposition Democratic Progressive Party picked up seven of those seats, with independents winning two others.

The results showed widespread anxiety about Ma’s moves to integrate Taiwan’s economy with China’s, seen by many as a further step toward Beijing’s goal of eventual political unification between the sides. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to take control of the island by force if necessary.

Young Taiwanese blame competition from China for suppressing wages, and there is little enthusiasm here for merging the island’s vibrant democracy with Beijing’s authoritarian one-party system.

Niu Jun, a Taiwan expert at China’s Peking University, said the trend of closer economic ties across the Taiwan Strait probably is irreversible. But he said the election results reveal the

discontent among young voters and those in basic industries over their failure to share in the fruits of Ma’s policy of strengthening ties with China.

“So it is a question whether the benefits of the cross-Strait relations have been shared by the whole society, and Ma failed to take enough notice of that,” Niu said.

The electoral battering puts the Nationalist Party on the defensive ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Two potential Nationalist candidates to succeed Ma as president — Vice President Wu Den-yih and outgoing Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin — resigned their party vice chairman posts following the election defeats.

A former Japanese colony, Taiwan split from the Chinese mainland amid civil war in 1949.

Although the sides have no formal relations, the Nationalists have engaged extensively with China’s ruling Communist Party in recent years.

Since 2008, Taiwan and China have signed 21 trade, transit and investment agreements, but protesters in March occupied parliament in Taipei to stop ratification of a China trade liberalization deal.

3 crime scenes, 4 victims 5th strike of year grounds TAP Portugal flights in US shooting spree Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — A towing business owner fatally shot four people — including a business rival and a woman who filed a domestic violence case against him — before killing himself Monday, but officials have yet to piece together clues as to why he went on the spree, West Virginia police said.

During an hours-long search for Jody Lee Hunt, police released few details. They warned residents to look out for his truck, and that night his body was found in the vehicle in the woods. Hunt, 39, was wanted in three separate shootings, state police said. The door was padlocked at his business in Morgantown Monday.

Medical officials will work to confirm the body’s identity, and on Tuesday, investigators at each of the three crime scenes plan to “sit down and piece all those

puzzle pieces together and find out how this all happened,” state police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous said.

Police identified the victims as Sharon Kay Berkshire, 39; Michael David Frum, 28; Jody Taylor; and Doug Brady, owner of a towing company located less than a quarter-mile from Hunt’s company. Berkshire filed a domestic violence case against Hunt last month, according to Monongalia County Circuit Court records, which indicated there were no protective orders currently in place for Berkshire.

Frum’s aunt, Ellen Shafer, said she knew few details about her nephew’s death. She said Frum worked on detailing cars in Westover and did some construction work and other odd jobs. “We were just saddened, and we’re living with the realization of his death and coping the best we can,” Shafer said.

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LISBON — Portugal’s national airline is enduring its fifth walkout this year, with a 24-hour strike by cabin crew grounding around 200 flights.

The Civil Aviation Cabin Crew Union announced Tuesday’s strike in October, allowing TAP Air Portugal to move thousands of passengers onto flights with other airlines or switch their day of travel. The flag carrier says it has lost millions of euros (dollars) due to stoppages this year by pilots, cabin crew and airport service staff.

The strikes have mostly been over pay and working conditions, though unions are also uneasy about government plans to privatize the company before next November’s general election.

The government announced last month it intends to sell a 66 percent stake in the airline, with 5 percent of that set aside for its 7,500 staff.

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People listen to the union leader’s speech outside the Portuguese parliament during a protest by Portugal’s main union General Confederation of Portuguese Workers, CGTP, in Lisbon, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014.

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Fun swimming in Tirta Arum Pool

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MANGUPURA - If you are a swimmer or just like swimming, it is a good idea to try swimming in the Tirta Arum pool at Blahkiuh village, Abiansemal subdistrict, Badung. The location is very close to Sangeh tourist attraction or about 19 km north of Denpasar. The atmosphere is very beautiful and has complete and standard facilities.

Swimming athletes of Bali, the national and international swimmers have been familiar with this swimming pool owned by the Badung County. However, many people are utilizing it for taking a bath and relaxation. Certainly it is a convenient place because it also has a canteen selling food, drinks and snack.

Spacious parking and guarded by local people assures the security

as they know the ins and outs of the area. Cool atmosphere at the location has a positive aura. Understandably, in the north of the pond, there is a broad shower denoting the park of the Mengwi royal palace to relax. In front, there is a small pool intended for children and beginners.

By all means, it is also monitored by a guard to assure the safety.

Meanwhile, in the west side there is a large swimming pool which has

a length of 50 meters, a width of 21 meters, a depth of 2.5 meters and a shallowness of 130 meters.

The large pool is often utilized by the athletes before the Bali Art and Sport Games or the regional and national championship. Nevertheless, school children, general public and many foreign travelers also use it to swim.

It has been equipped with some facilities such as toilets, changing

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rooms for women and men, showers and a place to unwind. The swimming pool is open every day from 06:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. In order to be able to swim, visitors must buy admission ticket at IDR 5,000 for children and IDR 7,500 for adults.

With the ticket, visitors can bathe as much as they like. However, before plunging into the pool visitors are required to clean the body in the shower first.

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Australian Open tweaks extreme heat policy Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian Open organizers have tweaked the extreme heat policy for 2015 in the wake of complaints from players about dangerous conditions during a heat wave in Melbourne during the last tournament.

Tournament direct Craig Tiley said the decision on implementing the policy will take into account the weather forecast once the temperature exceeds 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and the Wet Bulb Global Temperature — a measurement that accounts for humidity, wind direction and the temperature — exceeds a reading of 32.5.

“We believe this update will clarify and streamline the communications process for both players and support staff,” Tiley said. “We’ve consulted the playing group and this is seen as

the fairest way to implement the policy by many of the top players.” The tournament referee still has the absolute discretion on whether or not to apply the extreme heat policy, organizers said, although setting the parameters will help players and coaches preparing for matches.

In the other change, matches in progress when the extreme heat policy is invoked will be suspended at the end of an even number of games in that set or at the completion of a tiebreaker.

With the recent opening of the remodeled Margaret Court Arena, the Australian Open has three courts with retractable roofs for 2015. Organizers said that will help weatherproof the tournament. The temperature topped 40 degrees C (104 degrees F) for four consecutive days during the tournament in January, the longest heat wave in the city in a century, but the extreme heat policy was rarely implemented.

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San Antonio Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard goes up for a shot during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, in Philadelphia. San Antonio won 109-103.

Leonard leads Spurs over 76ers 109-103

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PHILADELPHIA — Kawhi Leonard scored a game-high 26 points and had a crucial threepoint play in the final minute to help the San Antonio Spurs defeat the winless 76ers 109-103, extending Philadelphia’s club-worst losing streak to start the season to 0-17.

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Ana Ivanovic of the Indian Aces team sticks out her tongue after winning a point against Maria Sharapova of the Manila Mavericks, during the women’s singles match in the International Premier Tennis League at the Mall of Asia Arena at suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014.

The Spurs (13-4) played without stars Tim Duncan (rest) and Tony Parker (shoulder). Even without the duo’s more than 31 points out of the lineup, San Antonio had little trouble dispatching Philadelphia.

Aron Baynes scored 15 points and Manu Ginobili and Cory Joseph each added 14 for San Antonio, which won its eighth straight.

Leonard also had 10 rebounds while tying a career-high in points.

Michael Carter-Williams had 24 points and 11 rebounds and Alexey Shved chipped in 19 points for Philadelphia.

Philadelphia became just the fourth team in league history to open a season with 17 losses, joining the 1998-99 Clippers (0-17), 1988-89 Heat (0-17) and the 200910 Nets (0-18). The 76ers can tie the Nets for the worst start in NBA history on Wednesday at Minnesota with a potential chance to break the

record at home on Friday against Oklahoma City.

Denver’s Ty Lawson had 15 points and made a double-pump jumper to beat the shot clock with 29.6 seconds left to boost the Nuggets over the Utah Jazz 103-101.

The game heated up after Arron Afflalo was ejected and the Jazz stormed back from a 22-point deficit to tie the game in the final minutes.

Lawson, who also had 12 assists, made the game-winner from the left wing between two Jazz defenders.

Hayward scored 25 points, Burks had 22 and Burke chipped in 18, but Utah’s losing streak hit six games — the longest skid since March 10-19 last season.

At Washington, John Wall had 18 points and 13 assists as the Wizards made their first seven 3-pointers to beat the Miami Heat 107-86. The Wizard held the Heat

to 2 for 22 from beyond the arc for the game.

Rasual Butler scored 23, and Marcin Gortat added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Wizards, who never trailed and led by 21 in the first half and 25 in the second. Chris Bosh led Miami with 21 points, and Dwayne Wade had 20 in his second game back from an injured right hamstring.

The Los Angeles Clippers downed the Minnesota Timberwolves 127-101 in the most successful road trip in club history after Blake Griffin and J.J. Redick each scored 23 points before sitting out the fourth quarter.

DeAndre Jordan had 13 rebounds and 11 points for the Clippers, who won their fifth in a row following their 6-1 trip and beat Minnesota for the 10th straight time. Shabazz Muhammad had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves.

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Sp rt Ronaldo, Messi, Neuer up for Ballon d’Or Associated Press

LONDON — The goalkeeper who won the World Cup will be challenging Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for the Ballon d’Or. While the footballer of the year prize has switched between the world’s top scorers since 2008, Manuel Neuer of Germany is the first goalkeeper to make the Ballon d’Or top three since 2006.

Ronaldo won the 2013 honor, ending Argentina forward Messi’s three-year run as the world’s best player since FIFA and France Football magazine merged their awards.

In the women’s category, fivetime winner Marta of Brazil was nominated on Monday alongside 2012 winner Abby Wambach and Germany midfielder Nadine Kessler, who is seeking the honor for the first time. The winners, chosen by national team captains and coaches, plus selected journalists, will be announced in Zurich on Jan. 12.

Messi has broken the Champions League and Spanish league scoring records this month after winning the Golden Ball at the World Cup, but he will end 2014

without a team honor.

Argentina lost to Germany in the World Cup final, Bayern Munich goalkeeper Neuer keeping a clean sheet as he followed winning the German league and cup by lifting football’s biggest prize. The last goalkeeper to make the Ballon D’Or top three was Gianluigi Buffon after Italy won the World Cup final in a shootout against France.

Neuer earlier this month played down his chances of winning the top individual award in football by citing his lower profile away from the pitch, particularly his lack of photo shoots wearing underwear. Ronaldo, though, is one of the most marketable men in sport — posing regularly in adverts when wear-

ing little and celebrating scoring in the Champions League final in May by ripping off his shirt to show his muscled body to cameras.

Although the two-time Ballon D’Or winner triumphed in the Champions League and UEFA Super Cup with Real Madrid this year, he scored only one goal at the World Cup as Portugal went out in the group stage. That solitary goal was not enough to make FIFA’s goal of the year shortlist.

Two nominees for the Puskas Award were World Cup goals: James Rodriguez’s volley for Colombia against Uruguay and Robin van Persie’s header for the Netherlands against Spain.

The shortlist was completed by an unfamiliar name with Ireland forward Stephanie Roche nominated for her goal for Peamount United, socred in front of a handful of fans in a domestic game against Wexford Youths.

The FIFA ceremony in Zurich will also give awards to the best coaches in men’s and women’s football.

Mario Balotelli faces FA investigation over post Associated Press

LONDON — Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli is facing an investigation from the English Football Association after a post on social media site Instagram was criticized for being racist

Associated Press

FILE - in this July 13, 2014 file photo Germany’s goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, left, winner of the Golden Glove award for best goalkeeper, stands with Argentina’s Lionel Messi, right, winner of the Golden Ball award as the tournament’s top player, after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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and anti-Semitic.

Balotelli uploaded a picture of the video game character Super Mario, with whom the Italy international shares a nickname, with text around the image including “jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.” The FA

says “we are aware of it and we are looking into it.”

Under FA guidelines regarding social media, Balotelli could be suspended for five games if found guilty. Balotelli has since deleted the post and apologized on his Twitter account.

10-man Napoli salvages a 1-1 draw at Sampdoria

AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file

‘United’ Arsenal are creating something special

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LONDON - Arsenal are united as a club and are in the process of creating something special despite a turbulent start to the season, manager Arsene Wenger said on Tuesday. Arsenal, who beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 on Saturday, have lacked consistency this season and are sixth in the Premier League table, 13 points behind leaders Chelsea.

Wenger has come under increasing pressure from frustrated fans and supporters unveiled a banner that read “thanks for the memories but it’s time to say goodbye” during the victory at West Brom. But speaking ahead of Arsenal’s match against Southampton at the Emirates on Wednesday, Wenger, who has been in charge of the Gunners for 18 years, said he was unaffected by the criticism.

“We are internally very united,” Wenger told a news conference. “Our job is to be competitive and to fight and we are creating something special inside the club. “But that has to come out through performances and games won. That’s the best way to unite everybody.”

Arsenal’s progress has not been helped by a number of injuries and defenders Nacho Monreal

and Kieran Gibbs face a battle to face the Saints.

First-choice goalkeepers Wojciech Szczesny and David Ospina are still injured Along with midfielders Mesut Ozil, Jack Wilshere and Mikel Arteta. Third-placed Southampton travel to the Emirates on the back of a 3-0 home defeat by Manchester City on Sunday, but Wenger believes they are in the running for a top-four finish.

“Southampton are stable at the back and their new signings have integrated well,” he said. “If they can maintain their run, they can challenge for Champions League places. “But it’s a big game and an opportunity to show consistency in our results.”

Arsenal great Thierry Henry, who scored 228 goals in 377 appearances for the Gunners, left New York Red Bulls on Monday and Wenger expects the striker to return to north London in the future.

“He is an Arsenal man and enjoyed the best moments of his career here,” Wenger said. “I understand that he wants to reflect on what he wants to do.

“Certainly one day he will come back here.

In what role I don’t know. That is what he has to think about: what direction he wants to give to his next life.”

Kakuta gives Rayo 1-0 win at Almeria in Spain Associated Press

ALMERIA, Spain — Gael Kakuta scored with four minutes to play to give Rayo Vallecano a 1-0 win at Almeria in the Spanish league on Monday. The forward, who is on loan from Chelsea, used one touch to volley home Alberto Bueno’s well-placed cross after Manucho had headed the ball forward to start the decisive move.

Almeria created several scoring chances in the first half, only to squander them all. Jonathan Zongo fired high in the 21st before goalkeeper Cristian Alvarez stretched to save Tomer Hemed’s strike and make amends for his errant pass that led to Almeria’s best opportunity to score.

Rayo’s second straight win lifted it into 10th place. Almeria remained winless at home this season and on the brink of the relegation zone.

“It’s obvious that we let too many chances get away, and we ended up paying the price,” said Almeria midfield Fernando Soriano. “But if we have to lose, let us lose this way. We showed desire and courage and this is the way forward.”

Real Madrid tops the table after 13 rounds. Barcelona is two points adrift with defending champion Atletico Madrid trailing the pacesetter by four. The league will resume next weekend after the midweek slate of Copa del Rey games.

ROME — Ten-man Napoli salvaged a 1-1 draw at Sampdoria with an injury-time equalizer Monday in a key contest for third place and Serie A’s final Champions League berth. Napoli moved into third, level on points with Genoa, and one point ahead of Sampdoria in fifth. Colombian forward Duvan Zapata scored two minutes into added time after Brazilian forward Eder had given Sampdoria the lead in the 58th.

Eder scored with a low shot from beyond area through a crowd of defenders inside the near post. Zapata crouched down to head in after teammate Gonzalo Higuain distracted the defense by leaping for a header — but missing the ball completely.

In the 85th, Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly picked up his second yellow for tripping Eder, who had already dribbled by another defender. “We put on a great performance and we were completely superior,” said Sampdoria president Massimo Ferrero, who was chewing on his club scarf in anguish after Napoli’s goal. “We deserved three points. But that’s football. I’m going home with a near heart attack.”

Sampdoria has also drawn with AC Milan and Roma this season, and clearly has designs on a spot in Europe. Ferrero deflected reports that former Italy forward Antonio Cassano could join Sampdoria in the January transfer window. “I wish him very well but you’ll have to ask him,” Ferrero said.

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Sp rt Ronaldo, Messi, Neuer up for Ballon d’Or Associated Press

LONDON — The goalkeeper who won the World Cup will be challenging Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for the Ballon d’Or. While the footballer of the year prize has switched between the world’s top scorers since 2008, Manuel Neuer of Germany is the first goalkeeper to make the Ballon d’Or top three since 2006.

Ronaldo won the 2013 honor, ending Argentina forward Messi’s three-year run as the world’s best player since FIFA and France Football magazine merged their awards.

In the women’s category, fivetime winner Marta of Brazil was nominated on Monday alongside 2012 winner Abby Wambach and Germany midfielder Nadine Kessler, who is seeking the honor for the first time. The winners, chosen by national team captains and coaches, plus selected journalists, will be announced in Zurich on Jan. 12.

Messi has broken the Champions League and Spanish league scoring records this month after winning the Golden Ball at the World Cup, but he will end 2014

without a team honor.

Argentina lost to Germany in the World Cup final, Bayern Munich goalkeeper Neuer keeping a clean sheet as he followed winning the German league and cup by lifting football’s biggest prize. The last goalkeeper to make the Ballon D’Or top three was Gianluigi Buffon after Italy won the World Cup final in a shootout against France.

Neuer earlier this month played down his chances of winning the top individual award in football by citing his lower profile away from the pitch, particularly his lack of photo shoots wearing underwear. Ronaldo, though, is one of the most marketable men in sport — posing regularly in adverts when wear-

ing little and celebrating scoring in the Champions League final in May by ripping off his shirt to show his muscled body to cameras.

Although the two-time Ballon D’Or winner triumphed in the Champions League and UEFA Super Cup with Real Madrid this year, he scored only one goal at the World Cup as Portugal went out in the group stage. That solitary goal was not enough to make FIFA’s goal of the year shortlist.

Two nominees for the Puskas Award were World Cup goals: James Rodriguez’s volley for Colombia against Uruguay and Robin van Persie’s header for the Netherlands against Spain.

The shortlist was completed by an unfamiliar name with Ireland forward Stephanie Roche nominated for her goal for Peamount United, socred in front of a handful of fans in a domestic game against Wexford Youths.

The FIFA ceremony in Zurich will also give awards to the best coaches in men’s and women’s football.

Mario Balotelli faces FA investigation over post Associated Press

LONDON — Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli is facing an investigation from the English Football Association after a post on social media site Instagram was criticized for being racist

Associated Press

FILE - in this July 13, 2014 file photo Germany’s goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, left, winner of the Golden Glove award for best goalkeeper, stands with Argentina’s Lionel Messi, right, winner of the Golden Ball award as the tournament’s top player, after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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and anti-Semitic.

Balotelli uploaded a picture of the video game character Super Mario, with whom the Italy international shares a nickname, with text around the image including “jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.” The FA

says “we are aware of it and we are looking into it.”

Under FA guidelines regarding social media, Balotelli could be suspended for five games if found guilty. Balotelli has since deleted the post and apologized on his Twitter account.

10-man Napoli salvages a 1-1 draw at Sampdoria

AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file

‘United’ Arsenal are creating something special

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

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LONDON - Arsenal are united as a club and are in the process of creating something special despite a turbulent start to the season, manager Arsene Wenger said on Tuesday. Arsenal, who beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 on Saturday, have lacked consistency this season and are sixth in the Premier League table, 13 points behind leaders Chelsea.

Wenger has come under increasing pressure from frustrated fans and supporters unveiled a banner that read “thanks for the memories but it’s time to say goodbye” during the victory at West Brom. But speaking ahead of Arsenal’s match against Southampton at the Emirates on Wednesday, Wenger, who has been in charge of the Gunners for 18 years, said he was unaffected by the criticism.

“We are internally very united,” Wenger told a news conference. “Our job is to be competitive and to fight and we are creating something special inside the club. “But that has to come out through performances and games won. That’s the best way to unite everybody.”

Arsenal’s progress has not been helped by a number of injuries and defenders Nacho Monreal

and Kieran Gibbs face a battle to face the Saints.

First-choice goalkeepers Wojciech Szczesny and David Ospina are still injured Along with midfielders Mesut Ozil, Jack Wilshere and Mikel Arteta. Third-placed Southampton travel to the Emirates on the back of a 3-0 home defeat by Manchester City on Sunday, but Wenger believes they are in the running for a top-four finish.

“Southampton are stable at the back and their new signings have integrated well,” he said. “If they can maintain their run, they can challenge for Champions League places. “But it’s a big game and an opportunity to show consistency in our results.”

Arsenal great Thierry Henry, who scored 228 goals in 377 appearances for the Gunners, left New York Red Bulls on Monday and Wenger expects the striker to return to north London in the future.

“He is an Arsenal man and enjoyed the best moments of his career here,” Wenger said. “I understand that he wants to reflect on what he wants to do.

“Certainly one day he will come back here.

In what role I don’t know. That is what he has to think about: what direction he wants to give to his next life.”

Kakuta gives Rayo 1-0 win at Almeria in Spain Associated Press

ALMERIA, Spain — Gael Kakuta scored with four minutes to play to give Rayo Vallecano a 1-0 win at Almeria in the Spanish league on Monday. The forward, who is on loan from Chelsea, used one touch to volley home Alberto Bueno’s well-placed cross after Manucho had headed the ball forward to start the decisive move.

Almeria created several scoring chances in the first half, only to squander them all. Jonathan Zongo fired high in the 21st before goalkeeper Cristian Alvarez stretched to save Tomer Hemed’s strike and make amends for his errant pass that led to Almeria’s best opportunity to score.

Rayo’s second straight win lifted it into 10th place. Almeria remained winless at home this season and on the brink of the relegation zone.

“It’s obvious that we let too many chances get away, and we ended up paying the price,” said Almeria midfield Fernando Soriano. “But if we have to lose, let us lose this way. We showed desire and courage and this is the way forward.”

Real Madrid tops the table after 13 rounds. Barcelona is two points adrift with defending champion Atletico Madrid trailing the pacesetter by four. The league will resume next weekend after the midweek slate of Copa del Rey games.

ROME — Ten-man Napoli salvaged a 1-1 draw at Sampdoria with an injury-time equalizer Monday in a key contest for third place and Serie A’s final Champions League berth. Napoli moved into third, level on points with Genoa, and one point ahead of Sampdoria in fifth. Colombian forward Duvan Zapata scored two minutes into added time after Brazilian forward Eder had given Sampdoria the lead in the 58th.

Eder scored with a low shot from beyond area through a crowd of defenders inside the near post. Zapata crouched down to head in after teammate Gonzalo Higuain distracted the defense by leaping for a header — but missing the ball completely.

In the 85th, Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly picked up his second yellow for tripping Eder, who had already dribbled by another defender. “We put on a great performance and we were completely superior,” said Sampdoria president Massimo Ferrero, who was chewing on his club scarf in anguish after Napoli’s goal. “We deserved three points. But that’s football. I’m going home with a near heart attack.”

Sampdoria has also drawn with AC Milan and Roma this season, and clearly has designs on a spot in Europe. Ferrero deflected reports that former Italy forward Antonio Cassano could join Sampdoria in the January transfer window. “I wish him very well but you’ll have to ask him,” Ferrero said.

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Fun swimming in Tirta Arum Pool

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MANGUPURA - If you are a swimmer or just like swimming, it is a good idea to try swimming in the Tirta Arum pool at Blahkiuh village, Abiansemal subdistrict, Badung. The location is very close to Sangeh tourist attraction or about 19 km north of Denpasar. The atmosphere is very beautiful and has complete and standard facilities.

Swimming athletes of Bali, the national and international swimmers have been familiar with this swimming pool owned by the Badung County. However, many people are utilizing it for taking a bath and relaxation. Certainly it is a convenient place because it also has a canteen selling food, drinks and snack.

Spacious parking and guarded by local people assures the security

as they know the ins and outs of the area. Cool atmosphere at the location has a positive aura. Understandably, in the north of the pond, there is a broad shower denoting the park of the Mengwi royal palace to relax. In front, there is a small pool intended for children and beginners.

By all means, it is also monitored by a guard to assure the safety.

Meanwhile, in the west side there is a large swimming pool which has

a length of 50 meters, a width of 21 meters, a depth of 2.5 meters and a shallowness of 130 meters.

The large pool is often utilized by the athletes before the Bali Art and Sport Games or the regional and national championship. Nevertheless, school children, general public and many foreign travelers also use it to swim.

It has been equipped with some facilities such as toilets, changing

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rooms for women and men, showers and a place to unwind. The swimming pool is open every day from 06:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. In order to be able to swim, visitors must buy admission ticket at IDR 5,000 for children and IDR 7,500 for adults.

With the ticket, visitors can bathe as much as they like. However, before plunging into the pool visitors are required to clean the body in the shower first.

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Australian Open tweaks extreme heat policy Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian Open organizers have tweaked the extreme heat policy for 2015 in the wake of complaints from players about dangerous conditions during a heat wave in Melbourne during the last tournament.

Tournament direct Craig Tiley said the decision on implementing the policy will take into account the weather forecast once the temperature exceeds 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and the Wet Bulb Global Temperature — a measurement that accounts for humidity, wind direction and the temperature — exceeds a reading of 32.5.

“We believe this update will clarify and streamline the communications process for both players and support staff,” Tiley said. “We’ve consulted the playing group and this is seen as

the fairest way to implement the policy by many of the top players.” The tournament referee still has the absolute discretion on whether or not to apply the extreme heat policy, organizers said, although setting the parameters will help players and coaches preparing for matches.

In the other change, matches in progress when the extreme heat policy is invoked will be suspended at the end of an even number of games in that set or at the completion of a tiebreaker.

With the recent opening of the remodeled Margaret Court Arena, the Australian Open has three courts with retractable roofs for 2015. Organizers said that will help weatherproof the tournament. The temperature topped 40 degrees C (104 degrees F) for four consecutive days during the tournament in January, the longest heat wave in the city in a century, but the extreme heat policy was rarely implemented.

AP Photo/Matt Slocum

San Antonio Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard goes up for a shot during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, in Philadelphia. San Antonio won 109-103.

Leonard leads Spurs over 76ers 109-103

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PHILADELPHIA — Kawhi Leonard scored a game-high 26 points and had a crucial threepoint play in the final minute to help the San Antonio Spurs defeat the winless 76ers 109-103, extending Philadelphia’s club-worst losing streak to start the season to 0-17.

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Ana Ivanovic of the Indian Aces team sticks out her tongue after winning a point against Maria Sharapova of the Manila Mavericks, during the women’s singles match in the International Premier Tennis League at the Mall of Asia Arena at suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014.

The Spurs (13-4) played without stars Tim Duncan (rest) and Tony Parker (shoulder). Even without the duo’s more than 31 points out of the lineup, San Antonio had little trouble dispatching Philadelphia.

Aron Baynes scored 15 points and Manu Ginobili and Cory Joseph each added 14 for San Antonio, which won its eighth straight.

Leonard also had 10 rebounds while tying a career-high in points.

Michael Carter-Williams had 24 points and 11 rebounds and Alexey Shved chipped in 19 points for Philadelphia.

Philadelphia became just the fourth team in league history to open a season with 17 losses, joining the 1998-99 Clippers (0-17), 1988-89 Heat (0-17) and the 200910 Nets (0-18). The 76ers can tie the Nets for the worst start in NBA history on Wednesday at Minnesota with a potential chance to break the

record at home on Friday against Oklahoma City.

Denver’s Ty Lawson had 15 points and made a double-pump jumper to beat the shot clock with 29.6 seconds left to boost the Nuggets over the Utah Jazz 103-101.

The game heated up after Arron Afflalo was ejected and the Jazz stormed back from a 22-point deficit to tie the game in the final minutes.

Lawson, who also had 12 assists, made the game-winner from the left wing between two Jazz defenders.

Hayward scored 25 points, Burks had 22 and Burke chipped in 18, but Utah’s losing streak hit six games — the longest skid since March 10-19 last season.

At Washington, John Wall had 18 points and 13 assists as the Wizards made their first seven 3-pointers to beat the Miami Heat 107-86. The Wizard held the Heat

to 2 for 22 from beyond the arc for the game.

Rasual Butler scored 23, and Marcin Gortat added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Wizards, who never trailed and led by 21 in the first half and 25 in the second. Chris Bosh led Miami with 21 points, and Dwayne Wade had 20 in his second game back from an injured right hamstring.

The Los Angeles Clippers downed the Minnesota Timberwolves 127-101 in the most successful road trip in club history after Blake Griffin and J.J. Redick each scored 23 points before sitting out the fourth quarter.

DeAndre Jordan had 13 rebounds and 11 points for the Clippers, who won their fifth in a row following their 6-1 trip and beat Minnesota for the 10th straight time. Shabazz Muhammad had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves.

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Taiwan leader quitting as party chief after polls Associated Press

TAIPEI — Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said Tuesday that he is stepping down as chairman of the ruling Nationalist Party following stinging defeats in local elections over the weekend that cast a shadow over his pro-China policies. A statement issued by the Nationalists in Ma’s name said he holds himself responsible for the wave of losses in municipal races Saturday and considers it time to pass the torch after nine years as chairman.

AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou walks into a polling station in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014.

“Over the last 120 years, the Nationalist Party has encountered countless failures, but has never been categorically defeated and each time we pick ourselves back up again,” Ma said in the statement.

“Let us take today’s loss and turn it into a new victorious beginning.”

Ma said he would formally tender his resignation at Wednesday’s meeting of the party’s Central Standing Committee. He is halfway through his second and final fouryear term as president.

The Nationalists lost nine city and county elections on Saturday, including in longtime strongholds Taipei, the capital, and the major central city of Taichung. The main opposition Democratic Progressive Party picked up seven of those seats, with independents winning two others.

The results showed widespread anxiety about Ma’s moves to integrate Taiwan’s economy with China’s, seen by many as a further step toward Beijing’s goal of eventual political unification between the sides. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to take control of the island by force if necessary.

Young Taiwanese blame competition from China for suppressing wages, and there is little enthusiasm here for merging the island’s vibrant democracy with Beijing’s authoritarian one-party system.

Niu Jun, a Taiwan expert at China’s Peking University, said the trend of closer economic ties across the Taiwan Strait probably is irreversible. But he said the election results reveal the

discontent among young voters and those in basic industries over their failure to share in the fruits of Ma’s policy of strengthening ties with China.

“So it is a question whether the benefits of the cross-Strait relations have been shared by the whole society, and Ma failed to take enough notice of that,” Niu said.

The electoral battering puts the Nationalist Party on the defensive ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Two potential Nationalist candidates to succeed Ma as president — Vice President Wu Den-yih and outgoing Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin — resigned their party vice chairman posts following the election defeats.

A former Japanese colony, Taiwan split from the Chinese mainland amid civil war in 1949.

Although the sides have no formal relations, the Nationalists have engaged extensively with China’s ruling Communist Party in recent years.

Since 2008, Taiwan and China have signed 21 trade, transit and investment agreements, but protesters in March occupied parliament in Taipei to stop ratification of a China trade liberalization deal.

3 crime scenes, 4 victims 5th strike of year grounds TAP Portugal flights in US shooting spree Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — A towing business owner fatally shot four people — including a business rival and a woman who filed a domestic violence case against him — before killing himself Monday, but officials have yet to piece together clues as to why he went on the spree, West Virginia police said.

During an hours-long search for Jody Lee Hunt, police released few details. They warned residents to look out for his truck, and that night his body was found in the vehicle in the woods. Hunt, 39, was wanted in three separate shootings, state police said. The door was padlocked at his business in Morgantown Monday.

Medical officials will work to confirm the body’s identity, and on Tuesday, investigators at each of the three crime scenes plan to “sit down and piece all those

puzzle pieces together and find out how this all happened,” state police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous said.

Police identified the victims as Sharon Kay Berkshire, 39; Michael David Frum, 28; Jody Taylor; and Doug Brady, owner of a towing company located less than a quarter-mile from Hunt’s company. Berkshire filed a domestic violence case against Hunt last month, according to Monongalia County Circuit Court records, which indicated there were no protective orders currently in place for Berkshire.

Frum’s aunt, Ellen Shafer, said she knew few details about her nephew’s death. She said Frum worked on detailing cars in Westover and did some construction work and other odd jobs. “We were just saddened, and we’re living with the realization of his death and coping the best we can,” Shafer said.

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LISBON — Portugal’s national airline is enduring its fifth walkout this year, with a 24-hour strike by cabin crew grounding around 200 flights.

The Civil Aviation Cabin Crew Union announced Tuesday’s strike in October, allowing TAP Air Portugal to move thousands of passengers onto flights with other airlines or switch their day of travel. The flag carrier says it has lost millions of euros (dollars) due to stoppages this year by pilots, cabin crew and airport service staff.

The strikes have mostly been over pay and working conditions, though unions are also uneasy about government plans to privatize the company before next November’s general election.

The government announced last month it intends to sell a 66 percent stake in the airline, with 5 percent of that set aside for its 7,500 staff.

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People listen to the union leader’s speech outside the Portuguese parliament during a protest by Portugal’s main union General Confederation of Portuguese Workers, CGTP, in Lisbon, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014.

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China to implement property registration in March

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BEIJING - China will implement long-awaited property registration rules from March, a Chinese media outlet said Tuesday, in a move that could give the country’s anti-corruption investigators extra ammunition and pave the way for new taxes. ficials from hiding their assets.

It could also pave the way for nationwide real estate taxes, which are regarded as an effective way to curb speculation, after the country saw years of surging house prices, creating widespread resentment among ordinary Chinese.

But at the same time prices for real estate -- a key driver of the economy -- have been falling for months, and authorities want to avoid a disorderly plunge in the market.

The scheme was included in a landmark property law in 2007, but Chinese media have said its specific rules have been long delayed due to their sensitivity

and complexity.

The Ministry of Land and Resources, which is in charge of the registration, has said it aims to have the system operating by 2016.

Public outrage is intense over corrupt government officials who have sought to hide wealth by illegally amassing dozens of homes under false identities.

In one high-profile case last year, Gong Aiai, vice president of a bank in the northern province of Shaanxi and a delegate to the local legislature, was sentenced to three years in prison after she was found to have purchased more than 40 properties under multiple identities.

JAKARTA - Anti-graft agency Chief Abraham Samad on Tuesday called for preventive and repressive measures against corruption as its growth has been systematic, structured, and massive.

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Women look at a shop window on a main shopping street in Athens in this October 7, 2014 file photo. Greece’s negotiations with rescue lenders on the future of the country’s bailout program could last for another two months, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday.

Greece says bailout talks could end in February Associated Press

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A construction site of a new residential and commercial complex is reflected in the waters of a canal in Beijing, November 18, 2014. China will implement long-awaited property registration rules from March, a Chinese media outlet said Tuesday, in a move that could give the country’s anti-corruption investigators extra ammunition and pave the way for new taxes.

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Under a draft of the regulations published in August, a national registration system will be established sharing information such as property location, area and origin of ownership among government departments including police, taxation and audit authorities “in real time”.

The rules have been approved by the State Council, China’s cabinet, and will take effect from March 1 “despite various hindrances”, news portal thepaper. cn reported, citing unidentified sources.

The national registration system could potentially act as an anti-graft tool by preventing of-

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ATHENS — Greece’s negotiations with rescue lenders on the future of the country’s bailout program could last for another two months, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday.

Athens is in talks on how to finance itself once the rescue loans from fellow eurozone countries end this year. It has accepted to shift from regular loans to a so-called precautionary credit line. But it wants easier austerity terms, arguing its economy is doing better.

Evangelos Venizelos told a conference in Athens that talks with lenders would be concluded before parliament elects a new Greek president in February — a vote that could topple the coalition government and that has revived anxiety in markets and eurozone governments.

“Without a doubt, the political uncertainty is the factor that is affecting the negotiations the most,” Venizelos said.

“Our aim is to conclude this process as quickly as possible,” he said. The hope would be to get a deal by next week’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers. At the latest, he said, an agreement is needed before the next presidential elections.

Greece failed to reach a deal last week at talks in Paris with representatives of the “troika” — the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. They disagree over the Greek government’s near-zero budget deficit forecast for next year.

The conservative-led coalition government needs support from opposition lawmakers to elect a new president. That would require independent members of parliament siding with the government, and some opposition lawmakers defying their own parties.

Alexis Tsipras, leader of the antibailout Syriza party that is leading opinion polls, is due to speak at the same conference as Venizelos on Tuesday.

“Corruption in Indonesia is systematic, structured, and massive and therefore we have to adopt progressive methods to deal with it. Harsh, preventive, and repressive actions must be taken; otherwise, more corruption cases will happen and the administration will come to a halt,” he said at a national conference here on corruption eradication.

The chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) stated that repressive action alone will not reduce corruption cases significantly and therefore it should be integrated with repressive measures.

He emphasized that the KPK’s actions were not only aimed at individuals but also at the system.

“We must understand that corruption involves two factors, namely individuals and the system. Corruption among individuals depends on qualities such

as morality and integrity. A person might be good, but if the system allows corruption to happen and he/she falls for it, what will that say about the person. Therefore, we are combining preventive and repressive measures,” he explained.

The KPK, which has won the people’s respect for its capability to bring to book corrupt officials, is now focusing on food security, fisheries, agriculture, health, education, energy, and state income sectors, Samad pointed out.

“We will improve the state’s income from tax revenue by increasing transparency and public participation in our anti-corruption drives,” he stressed.

Speaking at the conference, VicePresident Jusuf Kalla cited opportunity and authority as the two main reasons for corruption.

The event was also attended by a number of cabinet ministers.

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Visitors walk by life-siza Japanese popular anime character, Doraemon models on display during “100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo” in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec 2, 2014. The expo displays 100 life-sized Doraemon models with different gestures and facial expressions.

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Canadian teacher on trial for child abuse

Associated Press

JAKARTA — A Canadian teacher and an Indonesia teaching assistant went on trial Tuesday accused of sexually abusing a kindergartner on the campus of a prestigious international school.

Neil Bantleman and Ferdinant Tjiong, who have been in detention since July, maintain their innocence as do fellow teachers and the principal at the Jakarta International School.

Around 60 teachers and parents of pupils at the school

protested outside the South Jakarta District Court in support of the pair.

“Free the innocents. We are here for you Neil and Ferdi. We believe in you,” they shouted.

The men are being tried separately in closed-door sessions.

A judge read the charges out against them in Tuesday’s session. They were not required to enter a plea.

Five janitors at the school are being tried over the same allegations. A sixth died in custody.

Supports of Bantleman and

Tjiong say the victim, who was six at the time the alleged abuse occurred, was subject to suggestive questioning by inexperienced police. The abuse was alleged to have happened at a room in the school during teaching hours.

The family of the victim is suing the school for $130 million.

The school in southern Jakarta is attended by the children of foreign diplomats, businesspeople and Indonesia’s elite. It has 2,400 students aged 3 to 18 from about 60 countries.

Indonesia to boost oil reserves, refineries in bid to tackle graft

Reuters

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s new administration plans a major expansion of oil storage and will construct more refineries as part of sweeping energy reforms that will also help in cracking down on corruption in the state oil trader.

Sworn in just six weeks ago, President Joko Widodo launched the overhaul of the scandal-tainted oil and gas sector last Friday by sacking the entire board of state oil giant Pertamina and pledging a comprehensive audit of its trading arm, Petral.

When completed, the plan to increase storage and refining capacity will allow Southeast Asia’s largest economy to shift from buying gasoline and diesel on the opaque spot market to stable long-term contracts with foreign producers. That would also reduce opportunities for graft at Petral.

“With limited storage, all you can do is buy on the spot market and then you are at the mercy of the market,” Ari Soemarno, a presidential adviser and former head of Pertamina, told Reuters.

Energy Minister Sudirman Said told reporters last week: “Every transaction that is hidden definitely has that potential (for corruption). Direct deals reduce that potential... and reduce the role of intermediaries.”

Indonesia plans to add a minimum of 9.4 million barrels of new fuel storage capacity by 2019, an increase of around 40

percent, at a cost of $2.44 billion, Pertamina officials said.

The country, which is expected to become the world’s largest gasoline importer by 2018, wants to increase its operational reserves to 30 days worth of fuel, up from the current 18-23 days.

In the longer term, Pertamina is looking to upgrade its six refineries to increase capacity to 1.5 million barrels per day from the current 1 million bpd. It is also considering investing in new refineries, despite not having built one since 1994.

The refinery and storage development plans are not new under President Widodo but have been held back for years by vested interests who profit from fuel imports, officials have said. Indonesia’s oil and gas sector is the largest contributor to state income, making up an estimated 12 percent of state revenue this year.

The president’s plan will also likely sideline Hong Kong-based Pertamina Energy Trading Limited (Petral). The company, which conducts its trading business from Singapore, holds a near monopoly on the trading of billions of dollars worth of crude and oil products in and out of the former OPEC member.

Petral reported revenue of $31.5 billion and net profit of $47 million in 2011, the latest data provided on the company’s website.

Petral regularly buys gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from

Malaysia’s Petronas, Chinese oil trader Unipec, Royal Dutch Shell, and others.

But the lack of transparency from its oil trades has raised concerns that transactions can be easily manipulated by what the president calls the oil mafia, which is believed to steal as much as $400 million a year, according to presidential adviser Soemarno.

Petral officials were not immediately available for comment. Oil traders in Singapore said they had not seen any major changes in Petral’s operations.

“It is not in the interest of the current Indonesian government to have either outflows or inflows disrupted, unless there is evidence that a particular shipment is directly tainted and for now, there is none,” said Thomson Reuters Oil Research & Forecasts (Asia) in a report.

Last week, State Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno, who is the sister of Ari Soemarno, said she would consider relocating Petral to Indonesia from its offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, a move that could allow for better government oversight of the company.

The energy ministry and the country’s main anti-graft w atchdog, the Corruption Eradication Commission, are planning separate audits of Petral to ensure no wrongdoing.

“So far, we have no conclusion about Petral. We are still waiting for recommendations,” Energy Minister Said told Reuters on Monday.

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Golkar Party National Congress IX claimed to be the worst Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Senior politician Zainal Bintang claimed the implementation of the Golkar Party National Congress IX in Nusa Dua was the worst. The statement was made responding to his ban from entering the Mangupura Room at Westin Hotel, where the national congress took place, Monday (Dec 1).

Zainal came to the national congress based on the mandate of the Golkar founder, the Musyawarah Kekeluargaan Gotong Royong (MKGR) mass organization. In the letter signed by Chairman of the MKGR central executive board, AS Suryonegoro and Secretary General Bejo Rudiantoro, Zainal was mandated to be a co-delegate with Indra Muchlis Adnan and Bejo Suryonegoro. Besides, there were also other delegates including Kostia Permana, Mathilda Ingkiriwang and Nova Christalia mandated as observer.

Despite carrying the mandate letter, Zainal could not enter the area of the national congress because there was another letter of the MKGR signed by Deputy Secretary General of Golkar Party, Roem Kono.

“I come to the national congress because I do not want to see if the Golkar falls apart. After the presence of the rescue forum (Presidium of Golkar Party Rescue—Ed), I realized that Golkar has really fallen apart because the rescue forum will organize a national congress in January (Jan 2015—Ed),” said Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Council to MKGR central executive board.

Zainal also wanted the Golkar elite to come together and made the National Congress IX in Bali to last elegantly and peacefully as well as became a means of reconciliation. Zainal himself wanted to put up as candidate of the Golkar Party chairman for the subsequent period. Moreover, there was an indication if the chairman election would be directed to choose back the incumbent chairman Aburizal Bakrie.

“As the rescue party cannot come, do not want to come and is not allowed to come in, it means the number of chairman candidate will diminish. If the candidate of chairman decreases, I think Aburizal Bakrie must not be allowed to put up alone and there must be a balance. Now, I come here to declare myself as one of the chairman candidates,” he said.

Zainal hoped his presence in the chairman candidate election could provide an alternative choice for the national congress delegates, so that it would not just focus on a single candidate. If there was only one candidate for the election, it meant the election would be carried out by acclamation. Meanwhile, Zainal assessed that such a method would damage democracy.

“In fact, the implementation of this national congress is the worst since the committee closed its eyes on the existing truth, while it accommodates a legitimacy that is actually not correct as in the case of the MKGR. I worry that a number of county executive boards (DPD 2) are also likely to express their frustration. Hopefully, it will not happen so that it can run smoothly,” he continued.

Zainal asserted that the attitudes of the national congress committee that prevented and made pressure as experienced by the MKGR mass organization in the field was contradictory to the speech of Aburizal Bakrie at the opening of the national congress, Sunday night.

“His speech was very nice as inviting us to unite and combine all the disagreements. Then, he invited us to develop the Golkar Party in the future. It was really a nice speech, but did Aburizal Bakri (ARB) know if the committee hampered and gave pressure, such as the ban experienced by the MKGR?” questioned this senior Golkar Party politician.

Meanwhile, the Session Coordinator, Hisjam Ridwan, said that Zainal Bintang could not get into the room because there was a dualistic mandate in the internal MKGR organization. His party was still doing clarification related to the dualistic mandate.

“Indeed, we get difficulties related to the dualistic mandates.

Since the mandate was from the MKGR organization, a mandate mentioned Mr. Zainal, while another did not. So, now we are still clarifying, but the most important thing, when this (Zainal Bintang— Ed) can be resolved, he can get in. There is no problem if he is indeed from the MKGR organization, 5 people were delegated,” he explained. (kmb32)

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Associated Press

STARA PAZOVA, Serbia — As nationalist hysteria gripped the Balkans a quarter century ago, Aslan Ballaj, an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, did something unthinkable: He moved to Serbia to open a bakery at a time when people like him were increasingly seen as the enemy.

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Candi Negara River which is filled with garbage

Residents of Kusamba anxious

Candi Negara River filled with garbage

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Since then, Ballaj has remained alongside his Serb neighbors even as their nations went to war in the late 1990s, managing against the odds to escape violence in the darkest days of the bloodshed. Just as he thought the times of fear and revenge were over, extremists in October attacked his bakery shop, riddling it with bullets and throwing a hand grenade that shattered windows and destroyed walls, tables and chairs.

“I thought this was the 21st century,” said the 50-year-old father of four. “I never dreamed this could happen, especially not now.” Nearly 20 minority-owned businesses were targeted along with Ballaj’s in a spate of coordinated attacks — triggered by a soccer brawl — that have brought back memories of the era of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who incited ethnic hatred at home to wage wars against Balkan neighbors.

Hate speech is on the rise. Anti-Western propaganda fills the airwaves. Liberal journalists are pulled off air. Nationalists talk up redrawing Balkan borders.

Mafia-style hits, a hallmark of the Milosevic years, are returning. And as Russia and the West collide over Ukraine, Serbia is falling firmly into the camp of traditional mentor Moscow, even as it tries to advance its case for EU membership. “Somebody

wants to remind us of the 1990s,” said government ombudsman Anika Muskinja-Hajnrih. “That is worrisome.”

Serbia, whose stability is crucial for peace in the still-volatile Balkans, has been simmering with ethnic and social tensions that exploded after fans brawled during a European Championship qualifying match between Serbia and Albania. The fight, which involved players and fans over an Albanian flag that was flown over the stadium, stirred the most strife in the multiethnic north of Serbia where Ballaj is from.

The increasingly strident rhetoric of Serb nationalists, tolerated if not encouraged by the government, has prompted many to ask if some of Milosevic’s trademark policies are back, despite the proclaimed pro-EU stance advocated by the current right-leaning government led by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

Critics warn that surging proRussian and conservative sentiment has sidelined liberal critics, threatening the country’s hardearned democracy. Vucic — who won Western support for promising to enact pro-EU political and economic reforms — has been accused at home of tightening his grip on power by curbing dissent and clamping down on the media.

“It has never been like this,

SEMARAPURA - Evidently the current rainy season started to be prone to cause flood at several locations. One of them is in the Candi Negara River at Kusamba village, Dawan, Klungkung.

The river crossing the Kusamba village and Kusamba kampong experienced silting. It made the surrounding residents anxious.

Moreover, the silting occurred due to large amount of rubbish and waste sediment in the river. This condition even drew the attention of the Klungkung Disaster Mitigation Coordinator. Deputy Regent of Klungkung, Made Kasta, led the Klungkung Disaster Mitigation Coordinator to come down to location of the shallow Candi Negara River, Monday (Dec 1).

Based on monitoring by mitigation coordinator, nearly along the river was shallow as filled with mud and garbage. This condition was

deplored by Deputy Regent Kasta.

Moreover, the silting occurred in the river originated from the upstream area. It was not only caused by sewage or waste disposal from Subak Dawan, but also the behavior of people disposing of garbage into the river. “Yes, it should be quickly addressed. Do not wait until it rains to take action,” said Deputy Regent Kasta.

Meanwhile, the headman of Kusamba kampong, Abdul Gafar, admitted if the Candi Negara River with a distance of 300 meters from the beach was often flooded when it rained. It occurred due to silting in the river. Even, the silting was said to have happened for almost 5

years. On that account, Abdul Gafar hoped the government to build revetment and riverside control path in order to facilitate residents to clean up the river. “The river was cleaned up and dredged three years ago. But, it is still dirty and settles back,” he said.

Responding to that matter, Deputy Regent Kasta appealed to people not to throw rubbish indiscriminately into the river. If it happened, the local residents would be disadvantaged. Therefore, he hoped the residents to always be vigilant in rainy season, particularly people who lived at riverside and under trees to avoid flooding and landslides. (kmb)

never,” said Olja Beckovic, a prominent journalist. “Just look

at the television stations, there is no criticism anywhere no more.”

Beckovic’s highly popular political talk show recently was removed from the program of B92, a private television station that once was the beacon of the lib-

eral, pro-democratic movement that led to Milosevic’s downfall in 2000. She said Vucic had personally intervened to influence her choice of guests and other aspects of her show. Other media also have faced either political or economic pressure, she said.

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In this Sunday, April 27, 2014 file photo, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic waves to his supporters in front of the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade, Serbia.

Malaysia detains another 3 suspected militants Associated Press

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London’s Mayor Boris Johnson rides on the monorail during an official visit to Kuala Lumpur December 1, 2014.

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian police said Tuesday that they have detained another three men, including two civil servants, suspected of being linked to the militant Islamic State group. The detentions bring the number of people held for suspected militant links to 43 this year.

National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the three were detained Nov. 27-28 in operations in Kuala Lumpur and in northern Kedah state. Khalid said in a

statement that a 36-year-old suspect had joined militant groups in Syria since Dec. 28 last year and returned to Malaysia on April 8.

Another two, both civil servants in their 20s, were believed to have been channeling funds to several Malaysians who want to go to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group, he said.

The spread of the Islamic state ideology has worried Prime Minister Najib Razak, who recently warned that it can cause chaos and conflict in the country. He said the government would introduce a

new anti-terrorism law next year to combat the security threat.

No details have been given on the new law, but officials said it may include preventive measures such as detention without trial.

Critics have urged the government not to revive the Internal Security Act, which allowed indefinite detention without trial.

It was abolished in 2012 as part of political reforms. The government said they have identified 39 Malaysians fighting in Syria and Iraq, including five who had died.

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MIT engineers have high hopes for cheetah robot Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — It’s a robot unlike any other, inspired by the world’s fastest land animal and controlled by video game technology. The robot, called the cheetah, can run on batteries at speeds of more than 10 mph (16 kph), jump about 16 inches (40 centimeters) high, land safely and continue running for at least 15 minutes — all while using less power than a microwave oven.

It’s the creation of researchers at the Massachusetts of Technology, who had to design key elements from zero because of a lack of, or shortcomings in, existing technology.

That includes powerful, lightweight motors, electronics that control power for its 12 motors and an algorithm that determines the amount of force a leg should exert during the split second that it spends on the ground while running. That’s the key to helping the robot maintain balance and forward momentum.

An onboard computer organizes data from various sensors and sends commands to each motor.

“This is kind of a Ferrari in the robotics world, like, we have to put all the expensive components and make it really that instinctive,” said MIT Professor Sangbae Kim, who heads the school’s Biomimetic Robotics Lab that designed the robot. “That’s the only way to get that speed.”

Insight gleaned from the prototype could have real-world applications, including the design of revolutionary prosthetics, wearable technologies, all-terrain wheelchairs and vehicles that can travel efficiently in rough terrain much like animals do, Kim said. There are hopes the robot will be able to be used in search and rescue operations in hazardous or hostile environments where it’s too risky to send a human rescuer.

“When the robot is running, at every step, we calculate the appropriate amount of the force to the legs so that the robot can balance itself,” said MIT research scientist Hae-Won Park, who wrote the complex algorithm used to control the cheetah, which weighs around 70 pounds (31 kilograms)— about the same as one of its female feline counterparts.

The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The military research arm is also funding a similar robot being developed by Boston Dynamics.

The company says its version is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the center of a treadmill. Crafting the cheetah robot took five years of work and plenty of confidence to ignore those who said electric motors aren’t strong enough to propel a running mechanical cheetah powered by batteries.

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SoftBank Corp’s human-like robot named “Pepper” gestures as it introduces Nestle’s coffee machines at an electric shop in Tokyo December 1, 2014.

Coffee with Pepper?

Robot sells espresso machines in Japan TOKYO - Move over George Clooney -- Nestle has employed a fleet of chirpy robots to sell its coffee machines in Japanese stores.

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The Hollywood heart-throb, who has become the global face of the Nespresso brand, has been given the elbow in favour of Pepper, a cheeky and chatty android, which its makers claim can answer customers’ questions.

“How do you enjoy coffee?

Number one: An eye-opener coffee; Number two: A post-meal cup of coffee,” Pepper asked a TV personality at a promotion event Monday.

The 120-centimetre (four-foot) tall robot has a human-like face perched on top of a white plastic body, with rollers and what looks like a tablet computer on its chest.

The gimmick will eventually see 1,000 stores across Japan with their own Pepper, which makers say can understand up to 80 percent of conversations.

The robots will “help us discover consumer needs through conversations between our customers and

Pepper,” said a joint statement from Nestle and SoftBank, whose French arm Aldebaran developed the technology.

Pepper, which was unveiled in June by SoftBank president Masayoshi Son, already sells mobile phones at SoftBank’s 74 Japanese stores, where it has been used to collect customers’ opinions.

Engineers claim the robot’s artificial intelligence has allowed it to expand its conversational ability by listening to what customers say.

The robot will go on sale to the public in February, with a price tag of 198,000 yen ($1,670) plus monthly fees. George Clooney, meanwhile, will not.

Smartphone expansion cooling, prices dropping

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The global smartphone market will see cooler growth in the next few years, amid “cutthroat” competition that will bring down prices for many consumers, a market tracker said Monday. A forecast by the research firm IDC indicates smartphone sales of 1.5 billion units in 2015, a rise of 12.2 percent from the current year’s

estimate. That would mean growth falling by more than half from the 26 percent pace of 2014.

The sluggish growth is likely to continue through 2018, IDC said, with the average increase over the period just 9.8 percent. Significantly, smartphone prices are likely to drop from an average selling price of $297 in 2014 to $241 by 2018.

Emerging markets like India will see much lower smartphone prices

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Fuel triggers inflation surge in Denpasar

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In this Oct. 24, 2014 photo, a robotic cheetah runs on an athletic field at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.

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-- $135 in 2014 and $102 by 2018.

Smartphone revenues “will be hard hit by the increasingly cutthroat nature of pricing,” growing just 4.2 percent over the same forecast period, according to IDC. “The impact of upstart Chinese players in the global market will be reflected in a race to the bottom when it comes to price,” IDC analyst Melissa Chau said.

“While premium phones aren’t

going anywhere, we are seeing increasingly better specs in more affordable smartphones. Consumers no longer have to go with a top-ofthe-line handset to guarantee decent hardware quality or experience. The biggest question now is how much lower can prices go?”

IDC said Google-powered Android devices will continue to dominate the market with 80 percent of global smartphones and 61 percent

of revenues. Apple’s iPhones will represent 13 percent of units sold and 34 percent of revenues, the report said.

“As shipment volume slows, we expect greater attention to shift toward value trends,” said IDC’s Ramon Llamas.

“Apple’s approach with premium pricing ensures a growing portion of overall revenues despite its declining market share.”

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The efforts to reduce poverty rate in Klungkung County remains to face steep road. Instead of pressing, the number of poor people in Klungkung even increases.

Klungkung has highest poverty rate in Bali Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - The efforts to reduce poverty rate in Klungkung County remains to face steep road. Instead of pressing, the number of poor people in Klungkung even increases. Even, the recent data issued by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Klungkung indicated if Klungkung had the highest percentage of poverty rate in Bali.

As the latest data reported by the official website of BPS Klungkung, the percentage of poverty rate of Klungkung in 2013 reached 7.01 percent or the poor amounted to 12,210 families. The number of poor population is almost the same as that of Bangli reaching 12,000.

However, the percentage of poor people in Bangli is much lower namely 5.45 percent. Even, Klungkung is still inferior to Karangasem having the percentage of poor population of 6.88 percent and Buleleng of 6.31 percent.

The number of poor people in Klungkung increased from the previous year where the percentage of poor people reached 5.37 percent or 9,400 people. Likewise, the data in 2011 indicated 6.10 percent, where the number of poor people as reported by BPS Klungkung reached 10,700 families. Seeing

the latest number of poor people in Klungkung, the figure 12,210 is also higher than the other data sources such as the data of the Social Protection Program (PPLS) in 2012 and the target household (RTS) or the so-called poor households (RTS) coming to 11,445.

The Head of Klungkung Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Gusti Ngurah Putra, when contacted on Monday (Dec 1) claimed to have seen the latest data of the BPS Klungkung. All this time, his party still used the data of PPLS 2012. It was a combination of the population census data with 14-variable approach and poverty line approach processed by the proxy mean test. “I will immediately make coordination with the BPS Klungkung,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of BPS Klungkung, Made Antarayasa, could not be asked for his response.

When contacted for several times on Monday, he preferred not to give any responses regarding the data of his institution. When contacted at his office, one of his officers said that he had a meeting in the meeting room.

The Poverty Reduction Team Leader of Klungkung, Made Kasta, was surprised by the data of BPS Klungkung. Although the data reflected the previous government, Kasta doubling as Deputy Regent of Klungkung would immediately take steps. Soon he would make coordination with the Social Welfare, Manpower and Resettlement Agency. After making sure the data, Kasta would maximize the real steps having been taken by the Poverty Reduction Team. Since the beginning of taking office, he and the Regent Nyoman Suwirta had committed to realize the people’s hope, namely minimizing the poverty rate of Klungkung to the lowest.

“We will synchronize the data first. After that, we will soon hold a meeting and rethink about the other steps that can be taken to continuously reduce the number of poor people here,” he said. (kmb31)

DENPASAR - The subsidized fuel price hike has triggered to price surge in basic necessities in Denpasar. Based on the results of price monitoring in November 2014, the inflation occurred at 1.62 percent with Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 114.17.

“Inflation happened due the fuel price hike as indicated by the increase in the index of the six groups of expenditure,” said the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Panusunan Siregar, in Denpasar.

The six groups of expenditure triggering inflation, as described

by Siregar, included the group of transportation, communication and financial services by 3.88 percent; foodstuff group (3.16 percent); housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel group (0.97 percent); health group (0.43 percent); education, recreation and sport group (0.16 percent); and processed food, beverage, cigarette and tobacco group (0.08 percent).

“Galungan, Christmas and New Year will also have an impact on inflation this month (December— Ed). We do hope the domino effect due to the fuel price hike can be muted, so that the inflation in December can be controlled,” he said.

He explained that a group of expenditure showed a deflation namely clothing group by 0.23 percent. Meanwhile, the commodities showing a price hike included the gasoline, electricity, water of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM), cayenne pepper,

red chili, rice, beans and green mustard. Meanwhile, some commodities undergoing price decline comprised the airline ticket, gold jewelry, snapper, boiled tuna, mackerel, wet shrimp and watermelon.

“The groups of commodity giving contribution to inflation in November comprised the transportation, communications and financial service group (0.7364 percent); foodstuff group (0.5853 percent); housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel group (0.2563 percent); health group (0.0254 percent); education, recreation and sport group (0.0140 percent) and processed food, beverage, cigarette and tobacco group (0.0119 percent),” he explained.

According to him, local government should take strategic steps to minimize the impact of the surge in inflation due to the fuel price hike. The surge in inflation would have an impact on the rising interest rates and decline in purchasing power.

“Inflation will have an impact on interest rate and 23 percent of Balinese people have the potential to become poor. To that end, the inflation must be held so that the low-income people will not fall into poverty,” he said.

He added that among the 82 cities recorded, all the cities experienced inflation. The highest inflation occurred in Padang (3.44 percent), while the lowest occurred in Manokwari (0.07 percent). When ranked from the highest inflation, Denpasar was ranked 25th of the 82 cities experiencing inflation. (kmb27)

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The subsidized fuel price hike has triggered to price surge in basic necessities in Denpasar.

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Commemorate World AIDS Day

Students distribute stickers and roses Bali Post

SINGARAJA - A number of students in Buleleng came down to street on Monday afternoon (Dec 1). They did not hold a demonstration, but handed out stickers and red roses to riders. By distributing stickers containing message on HIV/AIDS prevention and red roses, the students would like to disseminate social message to the community to jointly alert and prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

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The student give a dvd on the street to commemorate World AIDS Day

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The sympathetic action of students in Buleleng was intentionally held in a series of the celebration of the World AIDS Day falling every December 1 each year. Other than the action of the students, a number of employees of community health centers in Buleleng held a series of social action for the World AIDS Day this year. Their activities were filled with free counseling, blood checkup and blood donation.

Meanwhile, on Monday afternoon until the evening, the celebration of the World AIDS Day was concentrated on the Singaraja Urban Park Square. In the activity, the residents and local government agreed to jointly combat the transmission of HIV/AIDS. It happened because the HIV/AIDS case in Northern Bali was very worrying, and always in the top three of HIV cases in the Bali Province.

Chairman of the AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPA) of Buleleng, Nyoman Sutjidra, said the current HIV case was estimated to reach 2,200 across the Buleleng area. Meanwhile, the formally registered HIV case in Buleleng reached 2,173 cases per September 2014. Sutjidra doubling as deputy regent of Buleleng said the high incidence of HIV in Buleleng happened due to misunderstanding among the youth. Moreover, of the thousands of cases, 47 percent of which affected teen-

agers.

To that end, the KPA would continue to launch socialization targeting school-age youth. From the socialization made, it was found misconception that the first sexual intercourse would not have the potential to transmit sexual diseases, including HIV/AIDS. “Such understanding is wrong because sexual intercourse whether the first, the second or the umpteenth time can be potentially infected by sexually transmitted diseases. To that end, we will intensify this socialization because we also found HIV cases in teenager of 16 years,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, who attended the event last Monday, invited all the schools to require the participation of all students in the Student Group Caring for AIDS and Drugs (KSPAN) activity from January 2015 or the next semester. The effort was taken to educate and protect young people in Northern Bali from the spread of HIV/ AIDS. “Based on the visible phenomenon, the cases reached 47 percent, while the undiscovered can even be greater. Now, let’s educate the students whether they are junior high school or high school students through the KSPAN extracurricular activities at schools,” he said. (kmb38)

Badung plans a development of cultural center

MANGUPURA - Pros and cons related to the cultural hall development plan in the area of the Badung Civic Center naturally happens. It occurs considering it poses a strategic plan in the effort to preserve the art and culture.

The Regent of Badung, A.A. Gde Agung, said that in response to the plan, all parties should think

positively.

Gde Agung said on Monday (Dec 1) the idea on the cultural hall construction was meant to provide a more decent place for the artists to show off their art creativities.

According to him, the cultural hall would have the function of preservation, especially the ancient art which had begun to be forgotten by community.

In addition, the cultural hall

was also expected to be a means that could encourage or yield creative young artists and promote the art activities especially in Badung.

“High sense of the art and culture can lead to the identity of polite and cultured Badung people,” he said.

Responding to the rejection against the location of the development by the Badung House not long ago, Gde Agung called on

that all parties should not think negatively. Badung government had a wealth of experience in organizing cultural festival at the Badung Civic Center. And so far, the audience reaching thousands of people were always orderly.

His party stated if the old building of the Badung Education Training Office would be very appropriate. The agency and other institution currently using the

building would immediately have its own new office. Even, if searching for new location, it would be very difficult, need many costs and take a very long process.

“Therefore, rather than letting the current building get obsolete, it will be better to use it. In addition, the land area is also adequate supported by ample parking space and road access,” said Gde Agung. (kmb25)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon.

The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Scarlett Johansson weds partner Dauriac

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson quietly tied the knot with her fiance Romain Dauriac, in October, US media reported Monday.

The couple have a daughter, Rose.

Johansson, considered one of Hollywood’s modern sex symbols, also starred in “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and Luc Besson thriller “Lucy.”

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DENPASAR - Financial literacy rate among the players of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) remains low. Based on the survey of the Financial Services Authority (OJK), the literacy rate of the MSMEs reaches only 16 percent.

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Bruce Springsteen, center, performs with U2 during the World AIDS Day (RED) concert In Times Square on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014 in New York.

Bruce Springsteen fills in at surprise U2 AIDS show Agence France-Presse

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Johansson -- best known for her roles in “Lost in Translation”, “The Avengers” and a string of Woody Allen films -- married Dauriac, a French journalist, in Montana on October 1, People magazine reported.

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NEW YORK - Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay’s Chris Martin tried to replace Bono’s legendary vocal cords Monday in a surprise U2 concert in New York to rally support for fighting AIDS. U2, which has played only select shows since a 2009-2011 tour, announced the free show in Times Square with several hours of notice to raise awareness and funding on World AIDS Day. But with frontman Bono injured in a bicycle incident last month, the Irish superstars offered the microphone to two of the rare vocalists who rival U2 in celebrity.

“Dreams come true for all old and young people alike,” a humbled Coldplay frontman Martin said on the stage set up underneath Times Square’s famous flashing screens on a rainy night.

Martin, who has long cited U2 as an influence on his work, joined The Edge and the rest of the band to perform “With or Without You” and

“A Beautiful Day” -- staying faithful to Bono’s lyrics and style while struggling to match his range.

Closing the hour-long concert, Springsteen summoned the depths of his emotional force to sing “Where the Streets Have No Name” before a more understated rendition of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Leaving behind his usual guitar, Springsteen cast a surprisingly similar physical appearance to Bono as he grabbed the microphone, with The Edge audibly driving the music.

Also performing were country singer Carrie Underwood and hip hop star Kanye West, who energetically blended hits such as “Stronger” and “Touch the Sky” -- while noting that he had to condense his set for the sake of television viewers.

The concert was organized by the Bono-backed Red campaign to mark a decade since the United States dramatically ramped up support for fighting AIDS. Bono appeared briefly in a video at the concert in which celebrities listed items -- such as French fries and

lipstick -- that cost the 40 US cents required to provide daily treatment.

“Two pills a day is what it takes to stay alive if you’re HIV positive,” Bono said.

Former US president Bill Clinton, who explained that Bono asked him to address the concert, said that 2014 marked the first time that more people around the world received life-saving drugs than were newly diagnosed with HIV. “Twenty-six years ago, we could never have had an event like this on World AIDS Day because to be diagnosed with AIDS was a death sentence,” said Clinton, referring to the start of the annual commemoration.

“We are going to win this fight,” Clinton said.

Clinton pointed to US anti-AIDS efforts as an example of cooperation across political lines. His successor George W. Bush spearheaded the socalled PEPFAR program, which now supports anti-retroviral medication for 7.7 million people, in large part in sub-Saharan Africa.

“Especially for the MSMEs, the literacy rate reaches 16 percent of the 56 million units of businesses where 55 million units belong to micro businesses. It is very low,” said the Board of Commissioner Member for the OJK Education and Consumer Protection, Kusumaningtuti S. Setiono, not long ago.

She said the financial access received by the MSMEs was still not comparable to their role in support-

ing the domestic economy. To that end, the financial literacy was also very important for the MSMEs. “Contribution of the MSMEs to the economy accounted for 59 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. This figure is quite large, so that it is very important for the increase in financial literacy of the MSMEs,” she said.

According to her, the contribution of the MSMEs to employment

absorption in Indonesia must be taken into account. Of the 56 million units of existing businesses, they had been able to provide employment for 107 million people or 78 percent of the total population of Indonesia.

On the other hand, the lineup of banking institutions considered the MSMEs an open market for loan distribution. However, most of the MSME players were

afraid of accessing the institutions because they did not have collateral.

“Many MSMEs do not dare to go to bank because they do not have collateral. Actually, there are loans without requiring collateral as long as the business runs well,” said Taufik Hakim, Director of Bank Pundi.

He said that his party placed the account officer in each region to attract MSMEs in need of working capital loans. “An account officer has a task to make approach to the MSMEs being feasible to be helped without having to own collateral,” he said.

Non-collateral loans, according to him, were designed for the small and micro entrepreneurs in order they could obtain capital. Nevertheless, the management of the noncollateral loans was recognized to require attention and special team so that the quality could be well maintained.

“More than 120,000 borrowers from Aceh to Papua have become our customers. Our products are diverse, ranging from the loans with collateral to the one without collateral. We provide credit ranging from IDR 5 million to IDR 50 million,” he explained. (kmb27)

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Financial literacy rate among the players of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) remains low. Based on the survey of the Financial Services Authority (OJK), the literacy rate of the MSMEs reaches only 16 percent.