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Thursday, January 5, 2017 Janet Jackson accepts the Ultimate Icon Award during the 2015 BET Awards in Los Angeles, California, June 28, 2015.

Janet Jackson, 50, announces birth of first child

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NEW YORK - Pop star Janet Jackson has given birth to her first child, a boy, at the age of 50, her publicist has said.

“Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana are thrilled to welcome their new son Eissa Al Mana into the world,” the singer’s representative said in a statement to People magazine.

“Janet had a stress-free, healthy delivery and is resting comfortably.”

Jackson and Qatari businessman

Mr Al Mana married in 2012, and the singer in April postponed her Unbreakable world tour so they could focus on starting a family.

In October, she showed off her baby bump in an exclusive photo for People magazine.

Jackson, the fiercely private youngest child of the famed Jackson singing family, has not given any details of the pregnancy or where the baby was born.

She and her husband have stayed out of the limelight since their nuptials, which didn’t stop tabloids

from reporting the singer had converted to Islam.

In October, photos emerged of Jackson in a full-length head covering which fuelled the rumours of conversion. The singer has not commented on her religion and as several social media users pointed out, the covering was in fact an item from a menswear line released that year.

She had two previous marriages: a year-long union with soul singer James DeBarge in the mid-1980s, and with dancer Rene Elizondo Jr from 1991 to 2000. (rtr)

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The relative of a prisoner at the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex holds up a newspaper showing the faces of inmates after a prison riot in Manaus, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. Brazilian authorities said Tuesday the inmates responsible for the killings of 56 rivals at this prison will be transferred to high security federal institutions in addition to being prosecuted.

Brazil proposes prisons overhaul after massacre, families hold vigil

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MANAUS, Brazil - Brazil’s justice minister on Tuesday proposed an overhaul of the penal system to tackle chronic prison overcrowding a day after 56 inmates were massacred in the deadliest riot in two decades.

The minister, Alexandre de Moraes, said Brazil needed to improve conditions in jails, which are home to an estimated 600,000 inmates, after visiting the prison in the jungle city of Manaus where violence erupted between rival drug gangs.

In an incident that shocked even Brazilians inured to regular outbreaks of prison violence, machete-wielding gangs decapitated inmates on Monday and threw their bodies over a wall of the penitentiary, which houses more than three times its capacity.

Hundreds of anguished relatives,

hugging each other and sobbing uncontrollably, gathered outside the morgue in Manaus, waiting to discover if their loved ones were alive. A morgue employee emerged from time to time to read from a list of those confirmed dead.

“I never imagined something like this could happen,” cried Diana after learning that her son Ronei Pinheiro had been killed. “Please help me bury my son.”

Officials were forced to rent a refrigerated truck to store bodies, while medical examiners tried to identify the remains.

A war for control of the lucrative drug trade fueled the latest gang violence in Brazil’s understaffed prisons, raising concerns that Monday’s massacre could unleash a wave of reprisals.

Some 223 inmates from other prisons in Amazonas state were relocated to an abandoned jail in Manaus to protect them from rival gangs following the riot.

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Brazil prison riot Drug gangs sparked a prison riot that killed 56 people, with decapitated bodies thrown over prison walls in the bloodiest violence in more than two decades in Brazil's overcrowded penitentiary system.

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Bali News

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Tourism promotion budget reduced to IDR 300 million in 2017

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A forigner is walking on Kuta Beach with a surfer instructor. The number of foreign worker in Bali is increasing year by year.

In the face of foreign workers

Govt may not keep silent

DENPASAR - Government is reminded not to keep silent and just sit behind a desk. However, it must take active action and respond to the current situation. Moreover, it is in the face of the ASEAN Economic Community and the current era of globalization. There seems an invasion of investors, goods and services and foreign labors.

“We used to speak it and all the parties claimed to have been ready including the government. Now, the impact has been visible like the onslaught of investors as well as foreign workers. Everyone hits the roof when all goods and services have come in,” said Chairman of Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives, Nengah Tamba, in Denpasar on Tuesday (Jan. 3).

Tamba added that foreign workers cannot be stopped. Moreover, there has been a visa-free policy.

They are able to fly very easily from their home country to Indonesia, especially Bali. On that account, human resources of Bali should enrich themselves with knowledge, technology and capital.

“That’s not enough and we must also work together with the government. Local government should also help local entrepreneurs. If they are not given the ease of capital or licensing, we are troublesome. The government should not remain silent as it could be a source of problem later on,” he explained.

Tamba asserted that the last filter indeed lies in the government. Entrepreneurs from outside should be given advice by the government to partner with local entrepreneurs. On the other hand, local entrepreneurs and all other components of Balinese community are

reminded not to only complain and become spectators.

“If it happens, we will just sit, complain, look and watch it. We’ll get marginalized. Do not blame as the AEC has been opened and globalization has been in motion,” he said. Correspondingly, Tamba worried about the incoming illegal foreign workers. Their presence would be difficult to be dammed. Currently, there has emerged illegal Chinese tour guides along with a driver who are also of foreign national.

“Indeed it is difficult to arrest the illegal workers as it must be proved by their salary slip. For instance, if they have a promenade, they can claim to be a traveler.

They can check-in in Bali but work in Sumatra or check-in in Jakarta but work in Bali. It is also difficult to track as they do not always check-in in Bali and work in Bali. They are very smart. Otherwise, they are arrested when getting involved in crime,” he said.

Earlier, Head of the Bali Manpower Agency, I Ketut Wija, claimed to have not found any illegal foreign labor. Actually, there have been plenty of complaints, mainly from the tourism sector concerning with illegal tourist guides. However, the surveillance is still being undertaken by a joint team of the manpower agency, police, prosecutor and immigration.

“We at manpower agency have 24 labor inspectors to supervise local labor and foreign labor. As the name implies, the illegal foreign workers are indeed very difficult to arrest. If people indeed find indications regarding the illegal foreign labor, please report to immigration office or manpower agency. Later, we’ll do a search and they can be repatriated to their home country,” he concluded. (kmb32)

BANGLI - The budget managed by the Bangli Tourism and Culture Agency in 2017 to promote tourism has decreased from the previous year. This year the agency will only obtain the promotion budget of IDR 300 million.

Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, said that in 2016 his agency only got the budget for tourism promotion as much as IDR 384 million.

However, this year the amount is reduced to IDR 300 million. He claimed not to know exactly why the budget of tourism promotion is reduced.

Though reduced, Adnyana admitted to continuously do promotion maximally with the budget available. As planned, of the IDR 300 million of promotion budget allocated, approximately IDR 200 million will be used for promotion in the activity held in Nusa Dua. In these activities, there will be a meeting with buyers in order to bring in travelers, especially foreign travelers to Bangli.

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In the meantime, to bring in more domestic travelers than the previous year, his agency will make promotion to Java such as Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta. The focus of object to be sold is the geopark region, Penglipuran and Kehen Temple.

“The world-class destination like geopark will be focused to be sold,” he said. He targeted that the number of tourist visit coming to Bangli in 2017 could reach 1.2 million people.

When asked about the tourist visit in 2016, Adnyana said that the tourists visiting Bangli last year reached more than 1.5 million.

According to him, all this time the counting on the number of travelers is only carried out to travelers that visited the paid destinations. However, the visit to unpaid destinations is excluded. This condition seems to cause if the target of tourist visits cannot be fulfilled. “The tourist visits to unpaid destinations are also counted, the number can surely be met,” he added. (kmb40)

Berry Glee: Happiness is Glee Berry Glee Hotel is the property that inspired and managed by Avilla Hospitality. Henry Setiono as Chief Operations Officer Avilla Hospitality proudly stated that Avilla is presenting the trendy property of Avilla Hospitality to people, especially for smart travelers that is now completed with thematic hotel suitable for family, young people or anyone with youthful soul.

David Priambowo, General Manager of Berry Glee Hotel

also added that with this newest unit, hopefully Berry Glee Hotel can always bring joy through in house activities with wide range of facilities provided. Among others are Funpods Family Karaoke & e-lounge with thematic room that opens not only for guest but also for public. Keller’s American Eatery also open for outside guests, Glee Jr. Kids’ Club, Glee StarPool and Glee PlayHub that suitable for corporate event.

WEEKLY EVENTS and FARMERS MARKETS EVERY SATURDAY Meditation class by Mangku Budi Dharma 14-16:30 Bona, Blahbatuh meet at Ubud Cocomarket at 13:00 Saturday Market Oldman’s Cafe Canggu, Batu Bolong Beach, pottery fresh produce, clothing Sand Beach Club and Restaurant, Sanur Every second Saturday Biasa Art Space, Jl. Raya Seminyak 24, Seminyak, Fresh produce, potted plants, meat pie, sshie, coffee and more.

Every Saturday 9AM-2PM OrganIc Farmer’s Market Pizza Bagus (Jl. Pengosekan), Ubud EVERY SUNDAY Soul to soul spirituall dialogue Anand Ashram, Ubud Jl Sri Wedari KM 3 Mantra chanting 6-6:30pm Navaraha Arati 6:30-6:45pm Meditation, Satsang and celebration 6:45-8:30pm www.ubudashram.org SUNDAY MARKETS 10AM 1PM Sunday Market at Batu Jimbar Jl. Danau Tablingan , Sanur 10AM-4PM The Sands Beach Club and Restaurant Sunday MArket Jl. Danau Tamblingan, No 27, Sanur 9:30AM-1PM Sunday Market @ Warung Sopa Jl. Sugriwas no36, Padang Tegal, Ubud 9AM-2PM Samadi Sunday Market Jalan. Padang Linjong 39, Canggu, 9AM-2PM Wednesday and Sunday Ubud Organik Market Jl. Raya Pengosekan across from Zens Hotel Tebesaya, Ubud 12PM-10PM Sunday Food Festival & Bazaar Byrdhouse Beach Club, Sanur

Kintamani is one of the tourists destination in Bangli

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“Basically Berry Glee Hotel presents wide range of facilities required for fun family traveler and for the young as well the young at heart people, so they wouldn’t feel dull while staying in Berry Glee

Hotel,” David said.

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Health

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Omega-3 fatty acids linked to lower risk of heart disease

WASHINGTON - Omega-3 fatty acids in fish and dietary supplements are associated with lower odds of heart disease even in people already at elevated risk because of excessive levels of fats or bad cholesterol in their blood, a research review suggests.

The American Heart Association recommends eating at least two servings of fish a week and considering supplements of omega-3 fatty acids when that’s not possible. Previous research has linked omega-3s to a lower risk of abnormal heartbeats, less fats in the blood, reduced risk of artery-clogging deposits known as plaque, and slightly lower blood pressure.

For the current study, researchers examined previously published research on two omega-3s: EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). They found that consumption of omega-3s in food or supplements was associated with a 16 percent lower risk of heart disease in people with high triglycerides, or fats, in the blood, and a 14 percent lower risk for patients with elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the bad kind.

“The collective evidence from all studies supports a beneficial role of EPA and DHA on coronary heart disease, and stronger associations were observed among those who may benefit acutely from EPA and DHA, such as those with elevated triglyceride levels and those with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol,” said lead study author Dominik Alexander of EpidStat Institute, with offices in Seattle, Washington, and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

To examine the connection between omega-3s and heart disease, researchers analyzed data from 18 trials that randomly assigned about 93,000 people to get a certain amount of these nutrients.

Across these randomized trials, they found omega3s associated with a 6 percent lower risk of heart disease, but this was too small to rule out the possibility it was due to chance.

The study also reviewed results from another 17 previously published trials that observed about 732,000 people over long periods of time while they followed their usual diets. Over all of these studies, omega-3s were tied to a statistically meaningful 18 percent reduction in the risk of heart disease.

The study was funded by the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED), an advocacy group with manufacturers and sellers of omega-3 dietary supplements among its members. Several study authors have also served as consultants to manufacturers of omega-3 supplements.

Limitations of the study include the wide variation in study designs for the randomized trials, which included patients with a range of eating habits and heart disease risk factors and tested omega-3s over different time periods, the authors note in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Some studies in the current analysis also didn’t track heart health or the amount of omega-3s in people’s diets at the start, making it harder to determine how much these nutrients might directly influence heart disease risk over time, the authors also point out. (rtr)

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Omega-3 fatty acids in fish and dietary supplements are associated with lower odds of heart disease even in people already at elevated risk.

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Wife of Vice President Yusuf Kalla

Visits Semarapura market and buys endek and songket fabric

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It may be tempting to clean your ears with Q-tips or try ear candling to clear away any clogs, but it’s best to check with a professional before taking matters into your own hands, doctors advise.

Why you shouldn’t treat earwax without seeing a doctor

SEATTLE - It may be tempting to clean your ears with Q-tips or try ear candling to clear away any clogs, but it’s best to check with a professional before taking matters into your own hands, doctors advise.

“Patients may try to blindly instrument their ears with cotton ear buds, bobby pins, or other tools,” said Dr. Seth Schwartz, chair of a committee that drafted new guidelines for diagnosing and treating earwax for the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

“These are generally ineffective and potentially dangerous,” Schwartz, director of the Listen For Life Center at Virginia Mason in Seattle, said by email.

“Scratching of the ear canal skin can lead to pain and infection,” Schwartz added. “Sometimes they just push the wax in further, and there also is the potential for damage to the ear drum.”

The body makes earwax, or cerumen, to keep ears clean and trap substances like dust and dirt, preventing debris from getting further into the ear where it can cause damage. As new skin grows in the ear canal, it pushes old earwax from the inside of the ears closer to the opening where it naturally flakes off or washes away during bathing.

Often, there’s nothing wrong with having a little earwax near the

opening, doctors stress in guidelines published in Otolaryngology– Head and Neck Surgery.

But when the ear’s self-cleaning process doesn’t work well, too much earwax may accumulate and partially or fully block the ear canal. This can cause problems including pain, itching, discharge from the ear, ringing in the ear or hearing loss.

Roughly one in 10 children and one in 20 adults suffer from excessive earwax buildup, as do more than one third of elderly people, according to the guidelines.

Excessive cleaning can irritate the ear canal, cause infection, and even increase the chances of excessive buildup, or what’s known as cerumen impaction, the guidelines note.

There’s no evidence that using ear candles, a process that relies on heat to remove buildup, actually works at clearing impaction, and this can cause serious damage to the ear canal and eardrum, the guidelines also emphasize.

Patients should see a doctor if they experience hearing loss, pain or feel fullness in their ears or aren’t certain whether the amount of wax is normal.

People should also get a checkup if they have ear drainage or bleeding because these symptoms aren’t tied to impaction and may be an indication of other problems. (rtr)

SEMARAPURA - At the beginning of 2017, the Semarapura art market was visited by a special shopper. She is Mufidah Yusuf Kalla, wife of the seventh Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, H. Muhammad Yusuf Kalla, who was spending holidays with family in Bali. Her arrival at the central marketplace of endek fabric was welcomed by the Regent of Klungkung Nyoman Suwirta accompanied

by Mrs. Ayu Suwirta at the west entrance of the Semarapura art market on Monday (Jan. 2).

Similarly, Commander of the 1610/Klungkung Military Resort Franciscus Ari Susetyo and Chief of Klungkung Police FX Arendra Wahyudi with his wife were also present to welcome the vice president’s wife. The entourage previously departed from the Tampaksiring Presidential Palace arrived at the Semarapura market around 10:00. On arriving at the market, the entourage went immediately to one of the Klungkung’s typical endek fabric shops, Toko Winata.

The atmosphere previously sterile and getting security from presidential secret service was suddenly crowded. Mufidah Yusuf Kalla and the entourage chose endek and songket fabric at some shops for approximately an hour. Without hesitation, the wife of vice president directly chose fabrics becoming her target, starting from endek to songket fabric denoting the

typical product of Klungkung.

After buying some fabrics, the entourage then left Semarapura art market around 11:00 heading for the Tampaksiring Presidential Palace.

One of the fabric merchants, A.A Ratnawati, admitted not to guess the arrival of the special shopper. Moreover, the vice president’s wife purchased a piece of songket fabric worth IDR 1 million at her shop. “I really did not guess if the shopper purchasing a piece of songket fabric at my shop is vice president’s wife,” she said happily.

In the meantime, related to the visit of the vice president’s wife, Regent Nyoman Suwirta said that readiness and sanitation of market has been well maintained. According to him, her arrival at the Semarapura market is expected to have an impact on the condition of the market, including the visit of shoppers.

“Through this visit, the Semarapura market can be increasingly promoted,” said Suwirta.

Besides, the visit of vice president’s wife will become a spirit in building Klungkung district.

Other than the wife of Vice President Jusuf Kalla, the Semarapura art market was previously visited by the wife of former President of the Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), Ani Yudhoyono. The former President of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarno Putri, also ever made a visit to this market. (kmb)

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Opening new tourist destination, repairing infrastructure and enhancing the existing ones are the measures that will be try to extend the length of stay of foreign travelers.

To extend travelers’ length of stay

Destination to be increased and restyled

DENPASAR - The length of stay of foreign travelers is recently at issue in Bali tourism following there has been a decrease in the length of stay when compared to the past time.

Actually, there is an increase in the number of tourists visit.

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Mufidah Yusuf Kalla (3rd left) at the central marketplace of endek.

As happened in 2016, the number of tourist visit has exceeded the target by 30 percent in November. “The length of stay is three days, so that by November it already exceeded the target of 4.4 million. We’re just waiting for the data of December. Up to November, there has been an increase of 30 percent. So, in my prediction there will be about 4.8 million until December,” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, in Denpasar on Monday (Jan. 2).

Yuniartha admitted that the length of stay of foreign travelers in Bali is unlike before reaching five and even seven days. Bali itself is unable to close itself from not spreading travelers to other provinces.

In other words, the travelers coming to Bali to-

day also visit the destinations outside Bali, so that it reduces the length of stay on the Island of the Gods.

“Where they travel next is departing from Bali. Now, we are trying to improve the existing destinations in Bali. So, opening new tourist destination, repairing infrastructure and enhancing the existing ones are the measures we will try to extend the length of stay,” he explained.

These measures, added Yuniartha, require collaboration with the district and municipality because the destinations are located in the district and municipality. Through coordination meeting, his agency has emphasized on the district and municipality to increase destinations and renew the existing destinations.

“The promotion will be made with the assistance of the ministry of tourism as well through cooperation with travel agencies. Besides, we will try to develop through information technology, so that we can promote the destinations via YouTube and website,” he said. (kmb32)

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International

Karangasem job fair 2017

Tourism sector and cruise ship still promising

AMLAPURA - Karangasem job fair 2017 is still dominated by tourism and cruise ships. These two sectors are predicted to dominate the employment absorption in Karangasem. It is seen from the response of the labor market last year and seeing the prospect of sector next few years.

Head of the Karangasem Manpower and Transmigration Agency, I Gusti Nyoman Arya Sulang, said on Tuesday (Jan. 3) that tourism sector showed pretty good absorption of employment throughout 2016. This trend grows in harmony with the growth of independent business players in this sector.

Aside from tourism sector, this independent business also grows in other sector such as culinary and other businesses. “Independent business player (PKN) shows an increase. This trend is good for Karangasem,” said Arya Sulang.

Moreover, the job market overseas at cruise ship also remains widely open. He also admitted to receive information from the BNP2TKI and BP3TKI that great job opportunities overseas are also available in the manufacturing and housing sector. The greatest opportunities are available in Korea.

There are also job opportunities as chef in Australia. He claimed to have received a bundle of requirements from the BP3TKI. “The op-

portunities are wide as long as the candidates have the capability of speaking English well. In the first quarter, we have disseminated these job opportunities to villages with subdistrict heads,” he said.

After receiving the materials, his agency planned to perform dissemination to villages through subdistricts and villages. All this time, many Karangasem residents use this opportunity after receiving information from Denpasar. So, many residents of Karangasem then depart from Denpasar. Other than in Korea, the other job opportunities in manufacturing sector are also available in Japan, especially the job of home care for the elders.

Local people need home care attendant to take care of their parents.

Apart from domestic works, local hospitals also need of Indonesian workers.

“Every year, there are about 800 to 1,000 workers from Karangasem who left the country in the tourism sector through Denpasar. Now, we are going to aggressively inform to

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working in cruise ship become one of the main gol of the people in Karangasem Regency villages,” he said.

Other than this sector, his agency will also continue its annual program, namely providing skills training. One of them is the training of office secretary. The other trainings are skills in refrigeration engineering, electrical installation, welders, workshop, sewing and automotive skills. Every year, there

are 27 to 30 packages of training. A package, for instance, is taken by about 16 people. It means that approximately 480 people are attending this skill training organized by the manpower and transmigration agency of Karangasem.

To raise the awareness of job seekers, Arya Sulang claimed to be disseminating the information

to schools, especially vocational education. So, after graduating, they just need to deepen their ability at the vocational training center (BLK) before getting involved in person in the job world. Moreover, in the ASEAN Economic Community, people must always be ready to compete against workers at home and overseas. (kmb31)

Competence inappropriate with job market

Many college graduates unemployed Vineyard at Dencarik village boosts people’s economy

DENPASAR - Until August 2016, the unemployment rate in Bali was dominated by college graduates. They include 206,389 diploma graduates and 202,205 university graduates (bachelor—Ed). Many college graduates are unemployed mainly due to their competence is not appropriate with the demand of job market.

“I think universities need to make a revitalization or adjustment by opening the majors indeed highly needed by job market. Do not open the majors that will not get absorbed,” said the Head of Bali Manpower Agency, I Ketut Wija, in Denpasar on Monday (Jan. 2).

Judging from the development of Bali’s economy, added Wija, the business sector absorbing many labor is the accommodation, food and beverage (hospitality, restaurant) as much as 23 percent. Then, it is also absorbed by agriculture (15 percent), transportation (10 percent), trading (9 percent) and construction (9 percent).

“So, the job market is also around it and those having no job (unemployment—Ed) do not lead to the demand of job markets,” he explained.

According to Wija, in Online Job Fair there are approximately 5,000 job opportunities. Tourism sector remains to be the highest followed by trade and

construction sector. This includes the opportunity to work on cruise ships such as the Royal Caribbean where this year it will recruit 1,500 workers. “Not to mention, the other cruise ships also need. So, the job opportunity in cruise ships for young people of Bali is still very, very promising,” he explained.

Overall, Wija said that the unemployment rate in Bali reaches 1.89 percent as of August 2016. In addition to college graduates, there are also graduates of primary school downwards amounting to 13,945 people, junior high school (30,215 people), high school (100,870 people) and vocational school (184,077 people).

“From these data, we see a trend of unemployed people belonging to the age of junior high school downwards, but the unemployment of high school/ vocational and higher education tend to increase. It needs considering. Particularly the vocational schools may need to adjust its curriculum so that their graduates can really match the job markets,” he said.

Wija added that graduates of high school are usually prepared to attend college. If there are some graduates unemployed because of not going to college, they should attend vocational school. On that account, the number of vocational school can be increased. (kmb32)

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International

SO far, the agricultural potential owned by Buleleng develops quite well.

People do not only cultivate clove and rice commodity, but also grape. At Dencarik village in Banjar, for instance, the yields of this black fruit is able to boost the local economy.

Headman of Dencarik, Made Suteja, stated that vineyards have been developed in the area since 35 years ago. It is inseparable from the suitable environmental conditions. Seeing the promising prospect, more and more local people have cultivated the crops having three times harvest a year since 20 years ago. “At first, only few people cultivated it. Seeing the good prospect, more and more people then followed,” he said on Tuesday (Jan. 3).

The selling price of the crop is still relatively promising, so that it could boost the economy of local community. This farm is also capable of giving new job opportunities to a number of people. For instance, people can become a grape picker. “People’s economy can be helped by these vineyards,” he said.

Amid the current uncertain weather, the vineyards get a challenge. Pest attacks that can trigger a decline in the quality of fruit are on the rise. They indirectly affect the selling price at the market. “This harvest season slightly downs due to unfavorable weather condition,” said Suteja.

He added that since recent years when entering harvest season, the siege of middlemen is also on the rise. This phenomenon frequently has an impact on the cheaper grape sales. “Sometimes the middlemen purchase at much cheaper price. This significantly affects the income of farmers,” he concluded. (sos)

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Smog-hit Beijing slapped with top “fog” alert for second day

BEIJING - The Chinese capital issued its highest red fog alert for a second day on Wednesday, keeping highways closed in and around the city which is already under a smog alert after weeks of choking winter pollution.

China’s weather bureau warned of visibility of less than 50 metres in some areas, leading many airports to cancel flights. More than 2,000 tourists were stranded on a cruise ship for two extra days near the port of Tianjin, as smog prevented the ship from docking until Monday, the Beijing Evening News reported.

Poor visibility prompted three major northern ports to suspend the loading of ships on Tuesday, maritime safety agencies said.

Pollution alerts are common in northern China, especially during bitterly cold winters when energy demand, much of it met by coal, soars. Beijing’s smog alert is at the second-highest orange only, raising questions from some living in the city.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection said it hadn’t issued a smog red alert because of discrepancies in the forecasts for different parts of Beijing.

China is in the third year of a war on pollution aimed at reversing the damage done to its skies, soil and water after decades of untrammelled economic growth. But measures taken so far have had little or no effect.

Heavily polluted Hebei province, which surrounds most of Beijing, said on Tuesday it had ordered all polluting firms in Tangshan, China’s biggest steelproducing city to the east of Beijing, to shut down.

In a statement on its website, the Hebei government named Tangshan Luanxian Xinglong Iron and Steel Co. Ltd as a major culprit for failing to control emissions and even allowing the staff canteen to directly burn coal, contravening regulations.

Hebei, home to seven of China’s 10 smoggiest cities in 2015, will also build the world’s biggest dust prevention barrier, stretching nearly two miles, at the major coal port of Qinhuangdao in a bid to cut pollution, state media said on Wednesday. (rtr)

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Buildings are seen among fog on a polluted day in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, January 3, 2017.

North Korea cannot ‘tip’ missile with nuclear warhead -U.S. State Dept

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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un smiles as he visits Sohae Space Center in Cholsan County, North Pyongan province for the testing of a new engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 9, 2016.

WASHINGTON - North Korea continues to pursue nuclear and ballistic missile technologies but the United States does not believe it is in a position to “tip” one of them with a nuclear warhead, State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, said on Sunday his nuclear-capable country was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), raising the prospect of putting parts of the United States within range.

“We do not believe that at this point in time he has the capability to tip one of these with a nuclear warhead ... but we do know that he continues to want to have those

capabilities and the programs continue to march in that direction,” Kirby told reporters.

Asked whether he would agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment that China was not helping to contain North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, Kirby said: “We would not agree with that assessment.”

Trump, who will take office on Jan. 20, tweeted on Monday that North Korea would not be allowed to complete a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States, although he did not say how he would stop it. “It won’t happen!” he said on Twitter.

Trump’s transition spokesman, Sean Spicer, said the tweet spoke for

itself but added that it meant, “Under his watch he’s going to make sure that that doesn’t happen.”

Pyongyang’s action will be discussed at a meeting in Washington on Thursday between the United States, Japan and South Korea, led by Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Kirby said.

“No question that tensions on the Korean peninsula will be a topic of discussion (but) where that is going to take us, especially in light of Kim Jong Un’s speech, I don’t know,” Kirby said.

Asked about the possibility of more sanctions against Pyongyang, he added: “We haven’t ruled out the possibility of additional sanctions.” (rtr)

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Japanese throng shrines to pray for profitable 2017

TOKYO - Thousands packed a 1,300-year-old Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo on Wednesday, the first official working day of 2017 in Japan, to pray for good luck and economic success in the new year.

Investors did their part to kick off the year on a positive note, sending the Nikkei 225 index soaring 2.5 percent to its highest in 13 months.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was greeted by squealing crowds as he visited the Ise Grand Shrine, the holiest site in Japan’s Shinto religion, near where Group of Seven leaders met last year for a summit.

“We will put the highest priority on the economy,” said Abe, dressed in a formal morning coat, at his New Year’s press conference.

Although the yen’s recent weakness against the dollar has lifted sentiment among the nation’s vital exporters, the country faces persistent challenges in a sluggish, deflationary economy and an aging, shrinking population.

Abe smiled and high-fived some onlookers during his shrine visit, but his speech highlighted the serious problems facing Japan.

“The trend of the diminishing number of

children coupled with growing population of the elderly is rapidly progressing,” he said.

“Deflation ... has been weighing on the Japanese economy for nearly 20 years and shaken our confidence on sustainable growth.”

Abe also highlighted a “tougher” security environment surrounding Japan, a nod to China’s aggressive maritime expansion and North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.

Japan needed to tackle its economic problems head-on, Abe said, pledging to stick with his three-pronged “Abenomics” strategy of monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms, which he referred to as his three “arrows.”

In the Chinese zodiac, 2017 is the Year of the Rooster, which some investors believe will bring robust economic activity. “If the saying that markets in the year of the monkey (2016) and rooster are raucous holds true, then this year will be clamorous indeed,” Akira Kiyota, chief executive of Japan Exchange Group, said at the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s opening ceremony.

“Though I hope all this year’s commotion will be positive,” he added. In downtown Tokyo, the Kanda Shrine was packed - typical of many shrines and Buddhist temples over New Years. The shrine is popular among company employees and business owners

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People bow during a purification ceremony as they offer prayers at the start of the new business year at Kanda Myojin Shrine, which is known to be frequented by worshippers seeking good luck and prosperous businesses, in Tokyo, Japan, January 4, 2017. because as it is dedicated to two of seven lucky gods.

“I’d like to do my best as company

president and I prayed for my employees’ health,” said businessman Yoshimichi Morishita.(rtr)

Wall Street extends rally, but some investors wary

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A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. December 28, 2016.

Wall Street rose on Tuesday as a post-election rally extended into the new year, even as some investors warned they need to see results from President-elect Donald Trump before pushing stock prices significantly higher.

U.S. stocks have surged over the past two months on expectations that Trump will stimulate the economy with tax cuts and infrastructure spending and slash regulations in the financial industry.

Now with the Dow Jones Industrial Average trading near the neverbefore-reached 20,000 mark, some investors say additional strong gains are unlikely in the short term. They want to see evidence that Trump’s campaign-trail promises will be approved by Republican lawmakers concerned about widening the federal budget deficit.

The S&P 500 rose by over 1 percent on Tuesday before giving up most of those gains, suggesting the rally is losing steam, said Warren West, principal at Greentree Broker-

age Services in Philadelphia.

“The president-elect can’t just wave a magic wand. He has to deal with Congress, and Congress hasn’t proved to be able to agree with itself,” West said.

The Dow came within a hair’s breadth of the historic 20,000 milestone in December but it has since fallen back. The average rose to as much as 19,938.53 earlier in the session on Tuesday, helped by Walt Disney.

Ford Motor rose 3.80 percent.

The carmaker said it would cancel a planned $1.6 billion factory in Mexico and invest $700 million at a Michigan factory, after Trump had harshly criticized the Mexico investment plan.

Oil prices hit 18-month high before turning negative. The S&P energy index rose 0.53 percent, with Kinder Morgan up 3.6 percent.

The U.S. dollar touched a 14-year high after data showed U.S. factory activity accelerated to a two-year high in December. At 2:42 p.m. ET, the

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Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.17 percent to 19,795.71 points and the S&P 500 had gained 0.38 percent to 2,247.41.

The Nasdaq Composite added 0.32 percent to 5,400.56.

The S&P health index rose 1.06 percent, with Merck & Co up 2.16 percent and Gilead Sciences rising 3.39 percent. The S&P utilities index dipped 0.39 percent.

Verizon gave the biggest boost to the S&P 500, rising 1.95 percent after Citigroup upgraded the stock to “buy.”

Marathon Petroleum rose 5.2 percent after the company said it would explore a spinoff of its retail business, caving to pressure from activist investor Elliott Management.

Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.99-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.17to-1 ratio favored advancers.

The S&P 500 posted 17 new 52-week highs and 1 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 112 new highs and 21 new lows.(rtr)

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Sangging, a Person Officiating in Tooth Filling Ritual

One of the obligatory ceremonies to be implemented by the Hindus in Bali is mapandes or tooth filing ceremony. The ceremony is conducted by a sangging or tooth filer symbolically chiseling the four upper incisors and two canines. Then, it is resumed with filing the teeth by using a saw filer, so that they become flat and neat.

Dr. I Made Surada, a lecturer of State Hindu Dharma Institute (IHDN) Denpasar, said that sangging is person who has certain ability in the ceremony, such as making the offerings, bade tower, shrine building, sculpture, painting and others. People having the profession as sangging have already owned the skills. “To become a sangging, people have to go through a pawintenan or initiation rite according to the level of ceremony performed,” he said.

Sangging, a Person Officiating in Tooth Filling Ritual_2 A sangging is not only good at making the works, but also able to perform initiation rite (spiritually animate the work). Sangging is not only able to officiate over physically (sekala), but also psychically (niskala). “Sangging has to be able to chant mantra so that a sangging should have undergone a pawintenan at its spiritual teacher,” he said.

Temple priest and high priest usually also serve as sangging.

In certain case, the sangging can also be assisted in the process of ceremony. At first, he consecrates the chisel, filer and gem with the meaning that the tooth to be filed will become brilliant. The palmleaf manuscripts used as reference for this tooth-filing ceremony are the Tatwa Kala, Kala Puja Pati, Semaradahana and Tutur Sanghyang

Yama.

Lately, there is an official becoming a sangging. It is okay provided that it has undergone the initiation rite for the profession.

Otherwise, it can only watch the procession because the ritual must be accompanied with mantra to be chanted. Without mantra, the procession will be the same as filing teeth at beauty salon or dental clinic. “Although the people are not high priests, they can also become a sangging as long as they have taken the initiation rite for the profession first,” he said.

READ ‘’Nenek Moyangku Seorang Pelaut”, Ekspresi Lukisan di BBDF 2016 It is different from the case of tooth filing for dead people. The sangging will be assigned to its biological mother. This provision is carried in the Proktah palm-leaf manuscript. The tool used to file the teeth is rice knife commonly used in earlier times. Otherwise, it can be replaced with lotus flower as the rice knife seems to be difficult to find. “Sangging having not undergone the initiation rite is believed to bring in an effect on the next descent,” he explained.

He said that Hindu communities in Bali always organizes tooth filing ceremony for their sons and daughters after growing adult. This ceremony aims to control the influence of Shadripu (six enemies) in

the children because their desire will give more opportunities to be teased. When this happens, it will infiltrate and have negative impact on their behavior.

On that account, they are purified by tooth filing rite whose implementation comes with a set of offerings symbolizing the teeth. In the filing ritual for the six teeth, the ends symbolize Adharma (untruth) that are then filed to make them flat symbolizing dharma. By doing so, dharma remains to control of the life of children having undergone the ritual.

Tooth filing is a ritual with the meaning to discover the true

nature of human and release from the shackles of darkness or Shadripu effect in humans. Shadripu poses six enemies arising from the nature of bad deeds in human, namely Kama (lust), Lobha (greed), Krodha (anger), Mada (arrogance), Moha (attachment) and Matsarya (jealousy).

READ A Unique Pendet Pasepan Dance People can undergo the tooth filing ceremony when they physically have entered adolescent period. In girls, it can be done after getting the first menstruation and in boys after experiencing voice changes. This

Secret Bay Secret Bay is the more poetic name given by Bali’s diving community to Gilimanuk Bay, adjacent to where the ferries to and from Java dock. It is about 20mins by road from Labuan Lalang/ Menjangan and located in West Bali National Park. The bay is about 2km wide, very shallow (3-12M), contains two small islands, and has some areas of mangrove. Being the only bay off the narrow Bali Strait, where currents can reach 7knots, means that Gilimanuk acts as a catch tank (a big underwater nursery!) for many larval fish. A reef lying just outside the mouth of the bay creates a channel through which these waters are swept; this is what makes Gilimanuk an extremely interesting dive site.

These strong tidal currents mean

ritual is meant to remove impurities in the form of kala, bhuta, pisacas and raksasa in the sense that the body and soul are overwhelmed by the Shadripu nature so as to find true nature of human.

Another objective is also to get reunited with their father and mother having been in sacred realm, to avoid punishment in hell later on imposed by Lord Yama in the form of biting lower end of petung bamboo as stated in the Atma Prasangsa palm-leaf manuscript and parents can meet their obligations to their children so as to be genuine human.(kmb)

that the fish and invertebrates are extremely healthy, colourful and well-fed (also that the water is colder than generally found in Bali, around 25C). Entering the bay, as these macro critters do, from the channel, the bottom is fine black and grey volcanic sand. The channel contains no coral although the sides are scattered with bommies full of angelfish, butterflyfish, schools of razorfish and tiny reef fish that include cardinalfish and multitudes of damselfish. Secret Bay is muck-diving (ie: diving with a mud bottom) in shallow water with no water movement. Therefore, too much fin movement and/or less than perfect buoyancy control will stir up the bottom, leaving you with low visibility in that area. (IBP)

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Mexican protesters’ blockades cause “critical situation” - Pemex

MEXICO CITY - Blockades of fuel storage terminals by protesters angered by a double-digit increase in gasoline prices has led to a “critical situation” in at least three Mexican states, state oil company Pemex said on Tuesday.

There were distribution problems in northern Chihuahua and Durango states, as well as Morelos state just south of the Mexican capital, due to the blockades affecting key terminals, Pemex said in a statement.

The company added that if the blockades continue, the operations of nearby airports could also be affected.

One association of gas stations with a large presence in Mexico City, Grupo Gasolinero G500, said in a statement late on Tuesday that it would shut some of its stations on Wednesday where it has identified insufficient security.

The finance ministry’s decision last week to raise fuel prices by between 14 and 20 percent effective Jan. 1 has been widely criticized across the oil-rich country, prompting numerous street protests and criticism of the government.

The gasoline and diesel price spikes, derided by locals as “gasolinazos” in Spanish, follow plans the government announced last month detailing a gradual, year-long region-by-region price liberalization for 2017. (rtr)

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A general view shows a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, November 9, 2016. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Moraes said the solution to Brazil’s chronic prison violence was not just to keep opening new prisons.

“We need to make sure those who deserve to be in jail stay there and those who committed minor crimes get out,” Moraes told reporters after visiting the Anisio Jobim penitentiary. “If not, we are only providing organized crime groups with new soldiers.”

The minister said 42 percent of inmates in Brazil’s prisons were awaiting trial, versus a global average of just 20 percent. The prison system is among the worst in the world, according to human rights groups.

Overcrowding and violence are common, and rights groups describe medieval conditions with food scarce and cells so packed that prisoners have no space to lie down.

Brazil’s federal government will provide 1.2 billion reais ($367.82 million) to states by June to beef up security and buy more X-ray machines to prevent weapons from entering prisons, Moraes said.

The prison system in Amazonas state is run by two private companies that won a 27-year public contract.

The massacre in Manaus occurred when members of a local criminal gang known as North Family, which controls the Anisio Jobim prison complex, attacked inmates from the rival First Capital Command (PCC), security officials said.

A video seen by Reuters, whose authenticity could not be verified, showed prisoners tapping the decapitated heads of four men with knifes and yelling: “These are all PCC.” SELFIE AFTER THEY ESCAPE

The riot was the deadliest since a 1992 prison massacre at the Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo state in which

111 inmates were killed. Amnesty International called on Brazil to launch an independent investigation to bring those responsible to justice.

Police erected roadblocks and increased patrols around Manaus to hunt down more than 100 inmates who escaped from the prison during the 17-hour riot.

Sergio Fontes, security chief for Amazonas state, said he could request help from federal security forces if need be, but so far the situation was under control.

State police and army officials who were on holiday were recalled to help look for the escaped inmates, state news representatives said in a statement. According to state officials, 54 inmates had been recaptured

by Tuesday afternoon.

One inmate had posted a selfie of himself and other prisoners on his Facebook account shortly after they escaped by tearing down a wall. (rtr)

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Partnership should be based on mutual benefit: Minister Sri Mulyani

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Britain’s ambassador to the European Union Ivan Rogers is pictured leaving the EU Summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 28, 2016. Picture taken June 28, 2016.

Britain’s EU envoy abruptly resigns months before formal Brexit talks

LONDON - Britain’s ambassador to the European Union, who sometimes clashed with London over its approach to Europe, abruptly resigned less than three months before Prime Minister Theresa May is due to trigger formal Brexit negotiations.

Ivan Rogers, Britain’s envoy to the EU, told staff on Tuesday that he would step down from his post early but did not explain his reasons for resigning, said the Financial Times, which was first to report the resignation.

Britain said in a statement that Rogers, who had been due to leave his post in October 2017, had stepped down to enable a successor to be appointed before May triggers formal Brexit talks by the end of March. Rogers will leave within weeks.

“Ivan Rogers has resigned a few months early,” a British government spokeswoman said. “We are grateful for his work and commitment over the last three years.”

May now faces formal Brexit talks – likely to be among the most complicated negotiations in postWorld War Two European history – without one of Britain’s most accomplished EU experts.

“This weakens May’s ability to get a good EU deal,” said Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform think tank. “Ivan Rogers was one of the very few people at the top of the British government who understand the EU.” The resignation is the second by a senior British EU official in the wake of the referendum. Jonathan

Hill quit as Britain’s European commissioner in June.

Rogers was known in London for sometimes blunt assessments of how far Britain could push EU allies – often expressed in long emails – that jarred with the expectations of some senior advisers around May and before her, David Cameron.

In October, Rogers warned British ministers that the consensus was that a trade deal with the EU might not be done until the early to mid2020s and that national parliaments could ultimately reject it, the BBC reported last month.

Opponents of British membership applauded the loss of Rogers, who they said was a Europhile, and said Britain needed a new set of officials to negotiate a clear break with the club Britain joined in 1973.

“If Mrs May were serious about leaving the EU she would have removed him long before,” Gerard Batten, United Kingdom Independence Party’s Brexit spokesman, said.

Rogers, appointed by Cameron as Britain’s permanent representative to the EU in November 2013, formerly worked in Downing Street, the British Treasury, the European Commission and at Citigroup and Barclays Capital.

After Cameron lost the June 23 Brexit vote and resigned, Rogers drew criticism from some of Cameron’s advisers in London for lacking ambition in the 2015 attempt to redefine Britain’s relationship with the bloc. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani said all forms of partnership with financial agencies should be formed based on good relations and mutual benefit.

However, under the prevailing condition, it would be better if positive psychological form is created and the countrys economy would continue to be managed professionally amid the global condition that shows no signs of improvement.

“It does not mean everything is perfect, but we will seek improvement with professionalism, accountability, and transparency and would continue to create relations with mutual respect,” Sri Mulyani said here on Tuesday.

She was commenting on the breaking of all ties between the government and JP Morgan Chase Bank.

“We would be open to criticism and assessment, as it is important to improve ourselves. However, an agency having big name carries big responsibility to create positive psychology instead of misleading,” she said apparently referring to the U.S. bank.

She said she hope all governments partners could contribute to maintaining the national economic fundamental through positive and sustainable cooperation.

She said the government has paid

good attention to the people and views of agencies having high credibility such as in the issue of tax reform.

“If we think the state budget as a sources of problem, we are not hesitate to make correction as we believe professional, accountable and credible relations are important,” she said.

Earlier the Finance Ministry terminated all business partnerships with JPMorgan Chase & Co. after a survey by the bank is considered potential to destabilize the countrys financial system.

The government decided to stop using JPMorgan as a primary dealer and as an underwriter of its sovereign bonds.

Robert Pakpahan, the ministrys director-general for budget financing and risk management told reporters here on Tuesday the research

by JP Morgan cast doubt on the quality of the assets of Indonesian companies.

Robert said the result of the research is “very much questionable based on not accurate and credible evaluation.”

He said JPMorgan will no longer serve as sales agent for government bonds and as joint lead underwriter for the government global bonds.

Its position as perception bank for tax payments will be replaced by other bank, he added. (ant)

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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Australian Army soldiers Major General Stuart Smith (L) and Sergeant Francis Jakis (C) run with Indonesian Army soldiers during the Junior Officer Combat Instructor Training course conducted by the Australian Army’s Combat Training Centre in Tully, Australia, October 10, 2014.

Indonesia armed forces “suspend cooperation with Australia over insult”

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s military suspended cooperation with Australia’s armed forces last week, Indonesian officials said on Wednesday, after what media described as insulting teaching materials were found at a base in Western Australia.

But a spokesman for Indonesian President Joko Widodo said there had been no discussion of the matter with the president and that the issue had been exaggerated.

“This was not a decision of the president,” spokesman Johan Budi told Reuters.

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne said merely that some activities had been “postponed”.

Military cooperation between the two sides, which have important military ties ranging from counterterrorism cooperation to border protection, was suspended for “technical reasons”, a spokesman for the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) told Reuters.

“All forms of cooperation have been suspended,” Major General Wuryanto said. He said a broad range of activities would be affected.

“There are technical matters that need to be dis-

cussed,” Wuryanto said. Among these was the training material seen at an Australian military base, he said without elaborating.

It was “highly likely” cooperation would resume once those issues were resolved, Wuryanto said.

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne acknowledged suspension of some activities and said concerns were raised by an Indonesian military officer late last year about some teaching materials and remarks at an army language training facility in Australia.

“As a result, some interaction between the two defence organisations has been postponed until the matter is resolved. Cooperation in other areas is continuing,” she said.

A spokesman for Indonesia’s Defence Ministry said it had first heard about the matter from the media. A spokesman for Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry did not answer calls or respond to a written request for comment.

Widodo planned to visit Australia in November, with a focus on economic and maritime cooperation and efforts to counter Islamist militancy, but the trip was postponed amid unrest in Jakarta. (rtr)

Gain and loss from visa-free travel policy

DENPASAR - The Indonesian government has offered visa-free travel for tourists from more group of countries, hoping to lure in more visitors and boost the country tourism sector.

Currently tourists from 174 countries are no longer need visa to visit Indonesia.

The latest group of countries offered the facility include Australia, Brazil, Ukraine, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Palestine, Honduras, Pakistan,

Mongolia, Sierra Leone, Uruguay, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Albania, Mozambique, Macedonia, El Salvador, Zambia, Moldova, Madagascar, Georgia, Namibia, Kiribati, Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Guatemala, Mauritania, and Paraguay.

“Offering visa-free travel is one of the easiest ways to boost tourist numbers,” Tourism Minister Arief Yahya has said.

Indonesia hopes to chalk up 20 million visits by foreign tourists

in 2019 or doubling the 2015s record.

Visa-free travel will only be available through five international airports in Jakarta, Medan, Batam, Bali and Surabaya, and would come with tighter monitoring to minimize misuse of the facility, a government official has said, adding foreign tourists found smuggling illegal goods, such as drugs, would face serious penalties.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has repeatedly said the visa free

travel is offered to boost the countrys tourism industry.

In answer to critics about the negative impact of the policy especially on the state security, Jokowi said all policies have both positive and negative impacts.

He pointed to Singapore and Malaysia which adopted similar policy to more than 170 countries and they have no security problem.

The two smaller country have succeeded in luring much more for-

eign tourists than Indonesia has.

Based on data at the Tourism Ministry, foreign tourist visits to Indonesia totaled 10.41 million exceeding the target of 10 million in 2015 or a 7.2 percent increase from the previous year.

The 2015 annual growth was higher than the worlds average growth of 4.4 percent and ASEAN growth of 6 percent. In 2016, the target for the number of foreign tourists was set at 12 million. (ant)

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Murray opens year with Chardy win, extends streak to 25

DOHA - World number one Andy Murray extended his career-best winning streak on the ATP Tour to 25 as he swept past Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-0 7-6(2) in his opener at the Qatar Open on Tuesday.

Mengening Beach BADUNG - One more beach in Bali that you must visit, the beach was named Mengening Beach. Located in the Cemagi Village, Mengwi sub district, Badung regency. From Ngurah Rai Airport approximately 60 minutes travel time. If you ‘ve been to Pura Tanah Lot , then feel free to come to this beach , because of its location adjacent to the Tanah Lot temple . Access to this beach is easy, paved and drivable vehicles of any kind.

In Mengening beach visitors can find a temple that leads to the middle of the beach and surrounded by large rocks which are very charming.

This temple called Pura Gede Luhur Batungaus

and is usually crowded when certain religious ceremonies as an indigenous culture in Bali. Enjoy the beauty of the waves on the beach which surrounded by large rocks and commonly used for fishing activities. In addition to the rocks and waves, visitors can also see the beautiful black sand. Some areas on the beach is often used as an object of photography because it has amazing natural charm.

When the sun began to slant, not to be missed romantic moment with friends to see the sunset at the beach. Lots of tourists and photographers who take advantage of this moment. (IBP/net)

Andy Murray reacts

In his first competitive match of 2017, the 29-year-old Scot, who received a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list after a stunning 2016, dropped seven points in the first set.

Chardy, ranked 69, broke serve at the start of the second set and although he dropped his own immediately he pushed Murray hard for the rest of the match on a warm desert evening.

Twice Chardy held serve to stay in the match and stretch Murray into a tiebreak but the pressure eventually told on the Frenchman as Murray completed a useful workout when Chardy sent a forehand volley over the baseline.

Olympic and Wimbledon champion Murray, bidding for a third Doha title after wins in 2008 and

2009, will play Austrian Gerald Melzer in the second round.

He is unbeaten in regular tournament play since losing to Kei Nishikori in the U.S. Open quarterfinals in September and won his last five tournaments of 2016 to topple Novak Djokovic from the top of the rankings.

“He didnt’t start well and it’s always difficult in the first match of the year but in the second set he played extremely well and pushed me hard,” Murray said.

Defending champion Djokovic, who will be bidding for a seventh Australian Open title later this month, opened his account on Monday with a straight sets win against Jan-Lennard Struff and will face Argentine Horacio Zeballos on Wednesday. (rtr)

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JAKARTA - Indonesian driver Rio Haryanto has suffered a major setback in his bid to return to Formula One this season after stateowned energy company Pertamina announced it was ending its sponsorship.

“This year there will not be a continuation of participation by Pertamina in F1,” spokeswoman Wianda Pusponegoro said in a statement on Tuesday, noting that Pertamina could not meet a sponsorship deadline.

“Of course we regret this very much, but we have already made maximal efforts for Rio and Indonesia,” she said.

Haryanto, the first Indonesian to race in Formula One and only Asian driver on the grid last season, said in a text message that he had “not yet confirmed” his position and hoped to reach a decision as soon as possible.

“We are still working on a plan to keep Rio in Formula One,” Haryanto’s manager, Piers Hunnisett, told Reuters.

“People in the Formula One world felt he did a good job and he deserves to be there,” Hunnisett said, adding

that it would be a “great shame” if Haryanto missed out on a seat in 2017.

The only likely vacancies still open are the two Manor seats and there is lingering uncertainty about that team’s future ownership.

Swiss-based Sauber, who like Manor expect their drivers to bring financial backing, are expected to sign German driver Pascal Wehrlein, who is backed by Mercedes, alongside Sweden’s Marcus Ericsson.

“Obviously, we were hoping to move into a team like Sauber - that was the plan but things are going to slow down a little bit,” said Hunnisett.

Haryanto started 12 races for Manor in 2016, alongside Wehrlein, before being replaced by French rookie Esteban Ocon after the German Grand Prix in July. Ocon has since moved on to Force India.

Pertamina have been Haryanto’s constant backers in the costly sport, and Hunnisett said last month that while he was looking for other nongovernment backers he was confident that Pertamina would continue to sponsor Haryanto. (rtr)

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Sp rt Giroud caps hot streak by spearheading Arsenal comeback

LONDON — Olivier Giroud rescued Arsenal from embarrassment at Bournemouth, taking center stage for the London club yet again with his third game-changing contribution in nine days. With Arsenal three goals down entering the final 20 minutes, Giroud spearheaded a stirring fightback on the south coast in the Premier League.

After setting up Alexis Sanchez’s header and Lucas Perez’s volley, Giroud saved the biggest moment for himself - flicking home a header in stoppage time to salvage a 3-3 draw.

The 30-year-old striker only made his first start of the start of the league campaign on Dec. 26 and he has made the most of a rare break in the team.

After providing the winning goal against West Bromwich Albion on Boxing Day, the striker who divides opinion at the Emirates Stadium scored an eye-catching “scorpion” goal in Sunday’s win against Crystal Palace.

With another influential performance at Bournemouth, Giroud has made it harder for manager Arsene Wenger to return him to his usual spot on the

substitutes’ bench.

Not that Giroud reveled in his impact on Tuesday night, instead bemoaning the early capitulation that saw Charlie Daniels netting and Callum Wilson scoring a penalty inside 20 minutes and Ryan Fraser putting the ball through Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech’s legs early in the second half.

“It’s a shame we conceded three goals like that,” Giroud said. “We should not have done these kind of mistakes. At halftime we wanted to come back ... it’s very frustrating. Hopefully we are going to learn from our mistakes today.”

Arsenal had already reduced the deficit to 3-2 when it gained a man advantage in the 82nd minute with the dismissal of Simon Francis for a challenge on Aaron Ramsey. “We refused to lose the game and there’s a great resilience in the team,” Wenger said.

Even with Giroud’s late equalizer, Arsenal missed a chance to regain third place from Manchester City and the club could be knocked out of the top four on Wednesday if north London rival Tottenham beats leader Chelsea. “At least we have come back and shown great mental strength,” Giroud said. (ap)

Reuters / Dylan Martinez

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud celebrates after Lucas Perez scored their second goal

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Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel completes transfer to Tianjin

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Fan Violence and Stadium Security Is An Eternal Issue In Serbia

Players warned to avoid Serbian clubs over worsening conditions

ZURICH - Footballers have been warned not to sign for Serbian clubs in the January transfer window due to what the world players’ union FIFPro described as worsening working conditions in the country.

FIFPro said that, in addition to existing problems over late payment of wages, players faced “even less chance of receiving fair treatment” after changes to the arbitration panel which rules on disputes between them and the clubs.

FIFPro said the Serbian FA (FSS) had dismissed arbitrators chosen by the local players’ union Nezavisnost and replaced them with officials linked to the biggest clubs. The players also had to pay increased fees to lodge a complaint, FIFPro said.

The FSS could not immediately be reached for comment. “This is a flagrant violation of the fundamental rights of the professional football players in Serbia who are now effectively playing in a lawless environment,” said FIFPro general secretary Theo van Seggelen.

“We call upon the Serbian Football Association to immediately reverse its decision. “Until this situation is resolved we strongly advise players not to go and play football in Serbia.”

FIFPro said that the move flouted FIFA regulations, which recom-

mend that such panels, usually known as the National Dispute Resolution Chamber, should be made up equally of arbitrators chosen by the clubs and players.

A FIFPro report in November into the working conditions of players around the world found that 68 percent of those in Serbia had experienced late payment of wages at some point in the past two years, compared to a global figure of 41 percent.

Around 250 players in Serbia have gone to arbitration in the last two years, according to Nezavisnost. “When you sign a contract with a club in Serbia you have a 50 percent chance of ending up in court,” Mirko Poledica, the union’s president, said.

“It is therefore absolutely fundamental that the chamber is an independent and impartial arbitration body,” he said, adding that the previous system had been working satisfactorily.

According to the website transfermarkt.de, there are 427 players in the Serbian top flight including 79 foreigners.

Most of the foreign players are from neighbouring countries including 25 from Montenegro, 10 from Bosnia and seven from Macedonia. Others include five from Brazil and four each from Ghana and Nigeria. (rtr)

BEIJING — Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel has become the latest Europe-based player to move to the Chinese Super League.

Zenit St. Petersburg said Wednesday in a statement that the 27-yearold Witsel will join Tianjin Quanjian, a club recently promoted to China’s top league and coached by former Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro.

Italian media quoted Witsel this week saying that he had turned down a chance to join Juventus after receiving “a crucial offer for my family that I couldn’t turn down” from Tianjin. The transfer fee was not disclosed.

The cash-rich Super League has spent enormous sums luring stars to China. Recent transfers include Argentine striker Carlos Tevez, who joined Shanghai Shenhua, and Brazilian midfielder Oscar, who signed with crosstown rivals

Shanghai SIPG. Top coaches have also made the switch, with former Manchester City and Real Madrid coach Manual Pellegrini now at Hebei China Fortune and Luiz Felipe Scolari, the former Brazil coach, leading Guangzhou Evergrande. China’s national team recently hired Italian World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi to a hefty contract, signaling its desire to become a regional superpower.

Witsel joined Zenit from Benfica in 2012 and made 180 appearances for the Russian side. The central midfielder also played for Belgium at the European Championship.

Witsel’s transfer is not the first big-money transfer from Zenit to a Chinese club. Zenit sold Brazilian striker Hulk in June to Shanghai SIPG for 55.8 million euros, breaking the Asian transfer record. (ap)

REUTERS/United Photos/Toussaint Kluiters

AZ Alkmaar’s Ben Rienstra and Zenit’s Axel Witsel during the match.

Watford manager Walter Mazzarri looks dejected after the game

Reuters / Darren Staples

Mazzarri not feeling pressure as Watford woes continue Watford manager Walter Mazzarri is confident he has the owners’ backing despite the club suffering their sixth defeat in eight games at Stoke City on Tuesday.

Watford have not been helped by their growing injury list, with nine first-team players currently on the sidelines, including the likes of Roberto Pereyra, Juan Zuniga, Nordin Amrabat, Isaac Success, Daryl Janmaat and Valon Behrami.

“I don’t feel under pressure because I speak with the owner every day,” Mazzarri told British media. “We know what our objective is and we’re not only looking at the next five or six matches, we are looking at the next three years.

“When you look at all the injuries we have, it is difficult to get results in the Premier League. Now we have to take this occasion to look and work for the future.”

Mazzarri is the eighth manager to work at Vicarage Road under the club’s Italian owner Gino Pozzo, whose family took over in 2012.

Watford, placed 14th in the league after 20 games, have had five managers in the past three years. “The important thing is to keep fighting for the next games,” Mazzarri added.

“I liked the way our fans behaved because they understood the moment we’re in and they supported us until the end and this

is very important for us.” Watford host second tier side Burton Albion in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday. (rtr)

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Sp rt Giroud caps hot streak by spearheading Arsenal comeback

LONDON — Olivier Giroud rescued Arsenal from embarrassment at Bournemouth, taking center stage for the London club yet again with his third game-changing contribution in nine days. With Arsenal three goals down entering the final 20 minutes, Giroud spearheaded a stirring fightback on the south coast in the Premier League.

After setting up Alexis Sanchez’s header and Lucas Perez’s volley, Giroud saved the biggest moment for himself - flicking home a header in stoppage time to salvage a 3-3 draw.

The 30-year-old striker only made his first start of the start of the league campaign on Dec. 26 and he has made the most of a rare break in the team.

After providing the winning goal against West Bromwich Albion on Boxing Day, the striker who divides opinion at the Emirates Stadium scored an eye-catching “scorpion” goal in Sunday’s win against Crystal Palace.

With another influential performance at Bournemouth, Giroud has made it harder for manager Arsene Wenger to return him to his usual spot on the

substitutes’ bench.

Not that Giroud reveled in his impact on Tuesday night, instead bemoaning the early capitulation that saw Charlie Daniels netting and Callum Wilson scoring a penalty inside 20 minutes and Ryan Fraser putting the ball through Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech’s legs early in the second half.

“It’s a shame we conceded three goals like that,” Giroud said. “We should not have done these kind of mistakes. At halftime we wanted to come back ... it’s very frustrating. Hopefully we are going to learn from our mistakes today.”

Arsenal had already reduced the deficit to 3-2 when it gained a man advantage in the 82nd minute with the dismissal of Simon Francis for a challenge on Aaron Ramsey. “We refused to lose the game and there’s a great resilience in the team,” Wenger said.

Even with Giroud’s late equalizer, Arsenal missed a chance to regain third place from Manchester City and the club could be knocked out of the top four on Wednesday if north London rival Tottenham beats leader Chelsea. “At least we have come back and shown great mental strength,” Giroud said. (ap)

Reuters / Dylan Martinez

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud celebrates after Lucas Perez scored their second goal

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Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel completes transfer to Tianjin

IBP/net

Fan Violence and Stadium Security Is An Eternal Issue In Serbia

Players warned to avoid Serbian clubs over worsening conditions

ZURICH - Footballers have been warned not to sign for Serbian clubs in the January transfer window due to what the world players’ union FIFPro described as worsening working conditions in the country.

FIFPro said that, in addition to existing problems over late payment of wages, players faced “even less chance of receiving fair treatment” after changes to the arbitration panel which rules on disputes between them and the clubs.

FIFPro said the Serbian FA (FSS) had dismissed arbitrators chosen by the local players’ union Nezavisnost and replaced them with officials linked to the biggest clubs. The players also had to pay increased fees to lodge a complaint, FIFPro said.

The FSS could not immediately be reached for comment. “This is a flagrant violation of the fundamental rights of the professional football players in Serbia who are now effectively playing in a lawless environment,” said FIFPro general secretary Theo van Seggelen.

“We call upon the Serbian Football Association to immediately reverse its decision. “Until this situation is resolved we strongly advise players not to go and play football in Serbia.”

FIFPro said that the move flouted FIFA regulations, which recom-

mend that such panels, usually known as the National Dispute Resolution Chamber, should be made up equally of arbitrators chosen by the clubs and players.

A FIFPro report in November into the working conditions of players around the world found that 68 percent of those in Serbia had experienced late payment of wages at some point in the past two years, compared to a global figure of 41 percent.

Around 250 players in Serbia have gone to arbitration in the last two years, according to Nezavisnost. “When you sign a contract with a club in Serbia you have a 50 percent chance of ending up in court,” Mirko Poledica, the union’s president, said.

“It is therefore absolutely fundamental that the chamber is an independent and impartial arbitration body,” he said, adding that the previous system had been working satisfactorily.

According to the website transfermarkt.de, there are 427 players in the Serbian top flight including 79 foreigners.

Most of the foreign players are from neighbouring countries including 25 from Montenegro, 10 from Bosnia and seven from Macedonia. Others include five from Brazil and four each from Ghana and Nigeria. (rtr)

BEIJING — Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel has become the latest Europe-based player to move to the Chinese Super League.

Zenit St. Petersburg said Wednesday in a statement that the 27-yearold Witsel will join Tianjin Quanjian, a club recently promoted to China’s top league and coached by former Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro.

Italian media quoted Witsel this week saying that he had turned down a chance to join Juventus after receiving “a crucial offer for my family that I couldn’t turn down” from Tianjin. The transfer fee was not disclosed.

The cash-rich Super League has spent enormous sums luring stars to China. Recent transfers include Argentine striker Carlos Tevez, who joined Shanghai Shenhua, and Brazilian midfielder Oscar, who signed with crosstown rivals

Shanghai SIPG. Top coaches have also made the switch, with former Manchester City and Real Madrid coach Manual Pellegrini now at Hebei China Fortune and Luiz Felipe Scolari, the former Brazil coach, leading Guangzhou Evergrande. China’s national team recently hired Italian World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi to a hefty contract, signaling its desire to become a regional superpower.

Witsel joined Zenit from Benfica in 2012 and made 180 appearances for the Russian side. The central midfielder also played for Belgium at the European Championship.

Witsel’s transfer is not the first big-money transfer from Zenit to a Chinese club. Zenit sold Brazilian striker Hulk in June to Shanghai SIPG for 55.8 million euros, breaking the Asian transfer record. (ap)

REUTERS/United Photos/Toussaint Kluiters

AZ Alkmaar’s Ben Rienstra and Zenit’s Axel Witsel during the match.

Watford manager Walter Mazzarri looks dejected after the game

Reuters / Darren Staples

Mazzarri not feeling pressure as Watford woes continue Watford manager Walter Mazzarri is confident he has the owners’ backing despite the club suffering their sixth defeat in eight games at Stoke City on Tuesday.

Watford have not been helped by their growing injury list, with nine first-team players currently on the sidelines, including the likes of Roberto Pereyra, Juan Zuniga, Nordin Amrabat, Isaac Success, Daryl Janmaat and Valon Behrami.

“I don’t feel under pressure because I speak with the owner every day,” Mazzarri told British media. “We know what our objective is and we’re not only looking at the next five or six matches, we are looking at the next three years.

“When you look at all the injuries we have, it is difficult to get results in the Premier League. Now we have to take this occasion to look and work for the future.”

Mazzarri is the eighth manager to work at Vicarage Road under the club’s Italian owner Gino Pozzo, whose family took over in 2012.

Watford, placed 14th in the league after 20 games, have had five managers in the past three years. “The important thing is to keep fighting for the next games,” Mazzarri added.

“I liked the way our fans behaved because they understood the moment we’re in and they supported us until the end and this

is very important for us.” Watford host second tier side Burton Albion in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday. (rtr)

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International

Murray opens year with Chardy win, extends streak to 25

DOHA - World number one Andy Murray extended his career-best winning streak on the ATP Tour to 25 as he swept past Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-0 7-6(2) in his opener at the Qatar Open on Tuesday.

Mengening Beach BADUNG - One more beach in Bali that you must visit, the beach was named Mengening Beach. Located in the Cemagi Village, Mengwi sub district, Badung regency. From Ngurah Rai Airport approximately 60 minutes travel time. If you ‘ve been to Pura Tanah Lot , then feel free to come to this beach , because of its location adjacent to the Tanah Lot temple . Access to this beach is easy, paved and drivable vehicles of any kind.

In Mengening beach visitors can find a temple that leads to the middle of the beach and surrounded by large rocks which are very charming.

This temple called Pura Gede Luhur Batungaus

and is usually crowded when certain religious ceremonies as an indigenous culture in Bali. Enjoy the beauty of the waves on the beach which surrounded by large rocks and commonly used for fishing activities. In addition to the rocks and waves, visitors can also see the beautiful black sand. Some areas on the beach is often used as an object of photography because it has amazing natural charm.

When the sun began to slant, not to be missed romantic moment with friends to see the sunset at the beach. Lots of tourists and photographers who take advantage of this moment. (IBP/net)

Andy Murray reacts

In his first competitive match of 2017, the 29-year-old Scot, who received a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list after a stunning 2016, dropped seven points in the first set.

Chardy, ranked 69, broke serve at the start of the second set and although he dropped his own immediately he pushed Murray hard for the rest of the match on a warm desert evening.

Twice Chardy held serve to stay in the match and stretch Murray into a tiebreak but the pressure eventually told on the Frenchman as Murray completed a useful workout when Chardy sent a forehand volley over the baseline.

Olympic and Wimbledon champion Murray, bidding for a third Doha title after wins in 2008 and

2009, will play Austrian Gerald Melzer in the second round.

He is unbeaten in regular tournament play since losing to Kei Nishikori in the U.S. Open quarterfinals in September and won his last five tournaments of 2016 to topple Novak Djokovic from the top of the rankings.

“He didnt’t start well and it’s always difficult in the first match of the year but in the second set he played extremely well and pushed me hard,” Murray said.

Defending champion Djokovic, who will be bidding for a seventh Australian Open title later this month, opened his account on Monday with a straight sets win against Jan-Lennard Struff and will face Argentine Horacio Zeballos on Wednesday. (rtr)

Motor racing-Pertamina drops sponsorship for F1 driver Haryanto

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JAKARTA - Indonesian driver Rio Haryanto has suffered a major setback in his bid to return to Formula One this season after stateowned energy company Pertamina announced it was ending its sponsorship.

“This year there will not be a continuation of participation by Pertamina in F1,” spokeswoman Wianda Pusponegoro said in a statement on Tuesday, noting that Pertamina could not meet a sponsorship deadline.

“Of course we regret this very much, but we have already made maximal efforts for Rio and Indonesia,” she said.

Haryanto, the first Indonesian to race in Formula One and only Asian driver on the grid last season, said in a text message that he had “not yet confirmed” his position and hoped to reach a decision as soon as possible.

“We are still working on a plan to keep Rio in Formula One,” Haryanto’s manager, Piers Hunnisett, told Reuters.

“People in the Formula One world felt he did a good job and he deserves to be there,” Hunnisett said, adding

that it would be a “great shame” if Haryanto missed out on a seat in 2017.

The only likely vacancies still open are the two Manor seats and there is lingering uncertainty about that team’s future ownership.

Swiss-based Sauber, who like Manor expect their drivers to bring financial backing, are expected to sign German driver Pascal Wehrlein, who is backed by Mercedes, alongside Sweden’s Marcus Ericsson.

“Obviously, we were hoping to move into a team like Sauber - that was the plan but things are going to slow down a little bit,” said Hunnisett.

Haryanto started 12 races for Manor in 2016, alongside Wehrlein, before being replaced by French rookie Esteban Ocon after the German Grand Prix in July. Ocon has since moved on to Force India.

Pertamina have been Haryanto’s constant backers in the costly sport, and Hunnisett said last month that while he was looking for other nongovernment backers he was confident that Pertamina would continue to sponsor Haryanto. (rtr)

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Mexican protesters’ blockades cause “critical situation” - Pemex

MEXICO CITY - Blockades of fuel storage terminals by protesters angered by a double-digit increase in gasoline prices has led to a “critical situation” in at least three Mexican states, state oil company Pemex said on Tuesday.

There were distribution problems in northern Chihuahua and Durango states, as well as Morelos state just south of the Mexican capital, due to the blockades affecting key terminals, Pemex said in a statement.

The company added that if the blockades continue, the operations of nearby airports could also be affected.

One association of gas stations with a large presence in Mexico City, Grupo Gasolinero G500, said in a statement late on Tuesday that it would shut some of its stations on Wednesday where it has identified insufficient security.

The finance ministry’s decision last week to raise fuel prices by between 14 and 20 percent effective Jan. 1 has been widely criticized across the oil-rich country, prompting numerous street protests and criticism of the government.

The gasoline and diesel price spikes, derided by locals as “gasolinazos” in Spanish, follow plans the government announced last month detailing a gradual, year-long region-by-region price liberalization for 2017. (rtr)

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A general view shows a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, November 9, 2016. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Moraes said the solution to Brazil’s chronic prison violence was not just to keep opening new prisons.

“We need to make sure those who deserve to be in jail stay there and those who committed minor crimes get out,” Moraes told reporters after visiting the Anisio Jobim penitentiary. “If not, we are only providing organized crime groups with new soldiers.”

The minister said 42 percent of inmates in Brazil’s prisons were awaiting trial, versus a global average of just 20 percent. The prison system is among the worst in the world, according to human rights groups.

Overcrowding and violence are common, and rights groups describe medieval conditions with food scarce and cells so packed that prisoners have no space to lie down.

Brazil’s federal government will provide 1.2 billion reais ($367.82 million) to states by June to beef up security and buy more X-ray machines to prevent weapons from entering prisons, Moraes said.

The prison system in Amazonas state is run by two private companies that won a 27-year public contract.

The massacre in Manaus occurred when members of a local criminal gang known as North Family, which controls the Anisio Jobim prison complex, attacked inmates from the rival First Capital Command (PCC), security officials said.

A video seen by Reuters, whose authenticity could not be verified, showed prisoners tapping the decapitated heads of four men with knifes and yelling: “These are all PCC.” SELFIE AFTER THEY ESCAPE

The riot was the deadliest since a 1992 prison massacre at the Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo state in which

111 inmates were killed. Amnesty International called on Brazil to launch an independent investigation to bring those responsible to justice.

Police erected roadblocks and increased patrols around Manaus to hunt down more than 100 inmates who escaped from the prison during the 17-hour riot.

Sergio Fontes, security chief for Amazonas state, said he could request help from federal security forces if need be, but so far the situation was under control.

State police and army officials who were on holiday were recalled to help look for the escaped inmates, state news representatives said in a statement. According to state officials, 54 inmates had been recaptured

by Tuesday afternoon.

One inmate had posted a selfie of himself and other prisoners on his Facebook account shortly after they escaped by tearing down a wall. (rtr)

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Partnership should be based on mutual benefit: Minister Sri Mulyani

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Britain’s ambassador to the European Union Ivan Rogers is pictured leaving the EU Summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 28, 2016. Picture taken June 28, 2016.

Britain’s EU envoy abruptly resigns months before formal Brexit talks

LONDON - Britain’s ambassador to the European Union, who sometimes clashed with London over its approach to Europe, abruptly resigned less than three months before Prime Minister Theresa May is due to trigger formal Brexit negotiations.

Ivan Rogers, Britain’s envoy to the EU, told staff on Tuesday that he would step down from his post early but did not explain his reasons for resigning, said the Financial Times, which was first to report the resignation.

Britain said in a statement that Rogers, who had been due to leave his post in October 2017, had stepped down to enable a successor to be appointed before May triggers formal Brexit talks by the end of March. Rogers will leave within weeks.

“Ivan Rogers has resigned a few months early,” a British government spokeswoman said. “We are grateful for his work and commitment over the last three years.”

May now faces formal Brexit talks – likely to be among the most complicated negotiations in postWorld War Two European history – without one of Britain’s most accomplished EU experts.

“This weakens May’s ability to get a good EU deal,” said Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform think tank. “Ivan Rogers was one of the very few people at the top of the British government who understand the EU.” The resignation is the second by a senior British EU official in the wake of the referendum. Jonathan

Hill quit as Britain’s European commissioner in June.

Rogers was known in London for sometimes blunt assessments of how far Britain could push EU allies – often expressed in long emails – that jarred with the expectations of some senior advisers around May and before her, David Cameron.

In October, Rogers warned British ministers that the consensus was that a trade deal with the EU might not be done until the early to mid2020s and that national parliaments could ultimately reject it, the BBC reported last month.

Opponents of British membership applauded the loss of Rogers, who they said was a Europhile, and said Britain needed a new set of officials to negotiate a clear break with the club Britain joined in 1973.

“If Mrs May were serious about leaving the EU she would have removed him long before,” Gerard Batten, United Kingdom Independence Party’s Brexit spokesman, said.

Rogers, appointed by Cameron as Britain’s permanent representative to the EU in November 2013, formerly worked in Downing Street, the British Treasury, the European Commission and at Citigroup and Barclays Capital.

After Cameron lost the June 23 Brexit vote and resigned, Rogers drew criticism from some of Cameron’s advisers in London for lacking ambition in the 2015 attempt to redefine Britain’s relationship with the bloc. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani said all forms of partnership with financial agencies should be formed based on good relations and mutual benefit.

However, under the prevailing condition, it would be better if positive psychological form is created and the countrys economy would continue to be managed professionally amid the global condition that shows no signs of improvement.

“It does not mean everything is perfect, but we will seek improvement with professionalism, accountability, and transparency and would continue to create relations with mutual respect,” Sri Mulyani said here on Tuesday.

She was commenting on the breaking of all ties between the government and JP Morgan Chase Bank.

“We would be open to criticism and assessment, as it is important to improve ourselves. However, an agency having big name carries big responsibility to create positive psychology instead of misleading,” she said apparently referring to the U.S. bank.

She said she hope all governments partners could contribute to maintaining the national economic fundamental through positive and sustainable cooperation.

She said the government has paid

good attention to the people and views of agencies having high credibility such as in the issue of tax reform.

“If we think the state budget as a sources of problem, we are not hesitate to make correction as we believe professional, accountable and credible relations are important,” she said.

Earlier the Finance Ministry terminated all business partnerships with JPMorgan Chase & Co. after a survey by the bank is considered potential to destabilize the countrys financial system.

The government decided to stop using JPMorgan as a primary dealer and as an underwriter of its sovereign bonds.

Robert Pakpahan, the ministrys director-general for budget financing and risk management told reporters here on Tuesday the research

by JP Morgan cast doubt on the quality of the assets of Indonesian companies.

Robert said the result of the research is “very much questionable based on not accurate and credible evaluation.”

He said JPMorgan will no longer serve as sales agent for government bonds and as joint lead underwriter for the government global bonds.

Its position as perception bank for tax payments will be replaced by other bank, he added. (ant)

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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Australian Army soldiers Major General Stuart Smith (L) and Sergeant Francis Jakis (C) run with Indonesian Army soldiers during the Junior Officer Combat Instructor Training course conducted by the Australian Army’s Combat Training Centre in Tully, Australia, October 10, 2014.

Indonesia armed forces “suspend cooperation with Australia over insult”

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s military suspended cooperation with Australia’s armed forces last week, Indonesian officials said on Wednesday, after what media described as insulting teaching materials were found at a base in Western Australia.

But a spokesman for Indonesian President Joko Widodo said there had been no discussion of the matter with the president and that the issue had been exaggerated.

“This was not a decision of the president,” spokesman Johan Budi told Reuters.

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne said merely that some activities had been “postponed”.

Military cooperation between the two sides, which have important military ties ranging from counterterrorism cooperation to border protection, was suspended for “technical reasons”, a spokesman for the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) told Reuters.

“All forms of cooperation have been suspended,” Major General Wuryanto said. He said a broad range of activities would be affected.

“There are technical matters that need to be dis-

cussed,” Wuryanto said. Among these was the training material seen at an Australian military base, he said without elaborating.

It was “highly likely” cooperation would resume once those issues were resolved, Wuryanto said.

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne acknowledged suspension of some activities and said concerns were raised by an Indonesian military officer late last year about some teaching materials and remarks at an army language training facility in Australia.

“As a result, some interaction between the two defence organisations has been postponed until the matter is resolved. Cooperation in other areas is continuing,” she said.

A spokesman for Indonesia’s Defence Ministry said it had first heard about the matter from the media. A spokesman for Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry did not answer calls or respond to a written request for comment.

Widodo planned to visit Australia in November, with a focus on economic and maritime cooperation and efforts to counter Islamist militancy, but the trip was postponed amid unrest in Jakarta. (rtr)

Gain and loss from visa-free travel policy

DENPASAR - The Indonesian government has offered visa-free travel for tourists from more group of countries, hoping to lure in more visitors and boost the country tourism sector.

Currently tourists from 174 countries are no longer need visa to visit Indonesia.

The latest group of countries offered the facility include Australia, Brazil, Ukraine, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Palestine, Honduras, Pakistan,

Mongolia, Sierra Leone, Uruguay, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Albania, Mozambique, Macedonia, El Salvador, Zambia, Moldova, Madagascar, Georgia, Namibia, Kiribati, Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Guatemala, Mauritania, and Paraguay.

“Offering visa-free travel is one of the easiest ways to boost tourist numbers,” Tourism Minister Arief Yahya has said.

Indonesia hopes to chalk up 20 million visits by foreign tourists

in 2019 or doubling the 2015s record.

Visa-free travel will only be available through five international airports in Jakarta, Medan, Batam, Bali and Surabaya, and would come with tighter monitoring to minimize misuse of the facility, a government official has said, adding foreign tourists found smuggling illegal goods, such as drugs, would face serious penalties.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has repeatedly said the visa free

travel is offered to boost the countrys tourism industry.

In answer to critics about the negative impact of the policy especially on the state security, Jokowi said all policies have both positive and negative impacts.

He pointed to Singapore and Malaysia which adopted similar policy to more than 170 countries and they have no security problem.

The two smaller country have succeeded in luring much more for-

eign tourists than Indonesia has.

Based on data at the Tourism Ministry, foreign tourist visits to Indonesia totaled 10.41 million exceeding the target of 10 million in 2015 or a 7.2 percent increase from the previous year.

The 2015 annual growth was higher than the worlds average growth of 4.4 percent and ASEAN growth of 6 percent. In 2016, the target for the number of foreign tourists was set at 12 million. (ant)

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Japanese throng shrines to pray for profitable 2017

TOKYO - Thousands packed a 1,300-year-old Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo on Wednesday, the first official working day of 2017 in Japan, to pray for good luck and economic success in the new year.

Investors did their part to kick off the year on a positive note, sending the Nikkei 225 index soaring 2.5 percent to its highest in 13 months.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was greeted by squealing crowds as he visited the Ise Grand Shrine, the holiest site in Japan’s Shinto religion, near where Group of Seven leaders met last year for a summit.

“We will put the highest priority on the economy,” said Abe, dressed in a formal morning coat, at his New Year’s press conference.

Although the yen’s recent weakness against the dollar has lifted sentiment among the nation’s vital exporters, the country faces persistent challenges in a sluggish, deflationary economy and an aging, shrinking population.

Abe smiled and high-fived some onlookers during his shrine visit, but his speech highlighted the serious problems facing Japan.

“The trend of the diminishing number of

children coupled with growing population of the elderly is rapidly progressing,” he said.

“Deflation ... has been weighing on the Japanese economy for nearly 20 years and shaken our confidence on sustainable growth.”

Abe also highlighted a “tougher” security environment surrounding Japan, a nod to China’s aggressive maritime expansion and North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.

Japan needed to tackle its economic problems head-on, Abe said, pledging to stick with his three-pronged “Abenomics” strategy of monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms, which he referred to as his three “arrows.”

In the Chinese zodiac, 2017 is the Year of the Rooster, which some investors believe will bring robust economic activity. “If the saying that markets in the year of the monkey (2016) and rooster are raucous holds true, then this year will be clamorous indeed,” Akira Kiyota, chief executive of Japan Exchange Group, said at the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s opening ceremony.

“Though I hope all this year’s commotion will be positive,” he added. In downtown Tokyo, the Kanda Shrine was packed - typical of many shrines and Buddhist temples over New Years. The shrine is popular among company employees and business owners

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People bow during a purification ceremony as they offer prayers at the start of the new business year at Kanda Myojin Shrine, which is known to be frequented by worshippers seeking good luck and prosperous businesses, in Tokyo, Japan, January 4, 2017. because as it is dedicated to two of seven lucky gods.

“I’d like to do my best as company

president and I prayed for my employees’ health,” said businessman Yoshimichi Morishita.(rtr)

Wall Street extends rally, but some investors wary

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A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. December 28, 2016.

Wall Street rose on Tuesday as a post-election rally extended into the new year, even as some investors warned they need to see results from President-elect Donald Trump before pushing stock prices significantly higher.

U.S. stocks have surged over the past two months on expectations that Trump will stimulate the economy with tax cuts and infrastructure spending and slash regulations in the financial industry.

Now with the Dow Jones Industrial Average trading near the neverbefore-reached 20,000 mark, some investors say additional strong gains are unlikely in the short term. They want to see evidence that Trump’s campaign-trail promises will be approved by Republican lawmakers concerned about widening the federal budget deficit.

The S&P 500 rose by over 1 percent on Tuesday before giving up most of those gains, suggesting the rally is losing steam, said Warren West, principal at Greentree Broker-

age Services in Philadelphia.

“The president-elect can’t just wave a magic wand. He has to deal with Congress, and Congress hasn’t proved to be able to agree with itself,” West said.

The Dow came within a hair’s breadth of the historic 20,000 milestone in December but it has since fallen back. The average rose to as much as 19,938.53 earlier in the session on Tuesday, helped by Walt Disney.

Ford Motor rose 3.80 percent.

The carmaker said it would cancel a planned $1.6 billion factory in Mexico and invest $700 million at a Michigan factory, after Trump had harshly criticized the Mexico investment plan.

Oil prices hit 18-month high before turning negative. The S&P energy index rose 0.53 percent, with Kinder Morgan up 3.6 percent.

The U.S. dollar touched a 14-year high after data showed U.S. factory activity accelerated to a two-year high in December. At 2:42 p.m. ET, the

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Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.17 percent to 19,795.71 points and the S&P 500 had gained 0.38 percent to 2,247.41.

The Nasdaq Composite added 0.32 percent to 5,400.56.

The S&P health index rose 1.06 percent, with Merck & Co up 2.16 percent and Gilead Sciences rising 3.39 percent. The S&P utilities index dipped 0.39 percent.

Verizon gave the biggest boost to the S&P 500, rising 1.95 percent after Citigroup upgraded the stock to “buy.”

Marathon Petroleum rose 5.2 percent after the company said it would explore a spinoff of its retail business, caving to pressure from activist investor Elliott Management.

Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.99-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.17to-1 ratio favored advancers.

The S&P 500 posted 17 new 52-week highs and 1 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 112 new highs and 21 new lows.(rtr)

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Sangging, a Person Officiating in Tooth Filling Ritual

One of the obligatory ceremonies to be implemented by the Hindus in Bali is mapandes or tooth filing ceremony. The ceremony is conducted by a sangging or tooth filer symbolically chiseling the four upper incisors and two canines. Then, it is resumed with filing the teeth by using a saw filer, so that they become flat and neat.

Dr. I Made Surada, a lecturer of State Hindu Dharma Institute (IHDN) Denpasar, said that sangging is person who has certain ability in the ceremony, such as making the offerings, bade tower, shrine building, sculpture, painting and others. People having the profession as sangging have already owned the skills. “To become a sangging, people have to go through a pawintenan or initiation rite according to the level of ceremony performed,” he said.

Sangging, a Person Officiating in Tooth Filling Ritual_2 A sangging is not only good at making the works, but also able to perform initiation rite (spiritually animate the work). Sangging is not only able to officiate over physically (sekala), but also psychically (niskala). “Sangging has to be able to chant mantra so that a sangging should have undergone a pawintenan at its spiritual teacher,” he said.

Temple priest and high priest usually also serve as sangging.

In certain case, the sangging can also be assisted in the process of ceremony. At first, he consecrates the chisel, filer and gem with the meaning that the tooth to be filed will become brilliant. The palmleaf manuscripts used as reference for this tooth-filing ceremony are the Tatwa Kala, Kala Puja Pati, Semaradahana and Tutur Sanghyang

Yama.

Lately, there is an official becoming a sangging. It is okay provided that it has undergone the initiation rite for the profession.

Otherwise, it can only watch the procession because the ritual must be accompanied with mantra to be chanted. Without mantra, the procession will be the same as filing teeth at beauty salon or dental clinic. “Although the people are not high priests, they can also become a sangging as long as they have taken the initiation rite for the profession first,” he said.

READ ‘’Nenek Moyangku Seorang Pelaut”, Ekspresi Lukisan di BBDF 2016 It is different from the case of tooth filing for dead people. The sangging will be assigned to its biological mother. This provision is carried in the Proktah palm-leaf manuscript. The tool used to file the teeth is rice knife commonly used in earlier times. Otherwise, it can be replaced with lotus flower as the rice knife seems to be difficult to find. “Sangging having not undergone the initiation rite is believed to bring in an effect on the next descent,” he explained.

He said that Hindu communities in Bali always organizes tooth filing ceremony for their sons and daughters after growing adult. This ceremony aims to control the influence of Shadripu (six enemies) in

the children because their desire will give more opportunities to be teased. When this happens, it will infiltrate and have negative impact on their behavior.

On that account, they are purified by tooth filing rite whose implementation comes with a set of offerings symbolizing the teeth. In the filing ritual for the six teeth, the ends symbolize Adharma (untruth) that are then filed to make them flat symbolizing dharma. By doing so, dharma remains to control of the life of children having undergone the ritual.

Tooth filing is a ritual with the meaning to discover the true

nature of human and release from the shackles of darkness or Shadripu effect in humans. Shadripu poses six enemies arising from the nature of bad deeds in human, namely Kama (lust), Lobha (greed), Krodha (anger), Mada (arrogance), Moha (attachment) and Matsarya (jealousy).

READ A Unique Pendet Pasepan Dance People can undergo the tooth filing ceremony when they physically have entered adolescent period. In girls, it can be done after getting the first menstruation and in boys after experiencing voice changes. This

Secret Bay Secret Bay is the more poetic name given by Bali’s diving community to Gilimanuk Bay, adjacent to where the ferries to and from Java dock. It is about 20mins by road from Labuan Lalang/ Menjangan and located in West Bali National Park. The bay is about 2km wide, very shallow (3-12M), contains two small islands, and has some areas of mangrove. Being the only bay off the narrow Bali Strait, where currents can reach 7knots, means that Gilimanuk acts as a catch tank (a big underwater nursery!) for many larval fish. A reef lying just outside the mouth of the bay creates a channel through which these waters are swept; this is what makes Gilimanuk an extremely interesting dive site.

These strong tidal currents mean

ritual is meant to remove impurities in the form of kala, bhuta, pisacas and raksasa in the sense that the body and soul are overwhelmed by the Shadripu nature so as to find true nature of human.

Another objective is also to get reunited with their father and mother having been in sacred realm, to avoid punishment in hell later on imposed by Lord Yama in the form of biting lower end of petung bamboo as stated in the Atma Prasangsa palm-leaf manuscript and parents can meet their obligations to their children so as to be genuine human.(kmb)

that the fish and invertebrates are extremely healthy, colourful and well-fed (also that the water is colder than generally found in Bali, around 25C). Entering the bay, as these macro critters do, from the channel, the bottom is fine black and grey volcanic sand. The channel contains no coral although the sides are scattered with bommies full of angelfish, butterflyfish, schools of razorfish and tiny reef fish that include cardinalfish and multitudes of damselfish. Secret Bay is muck-diving (ie: diving with a mud bottom) in shallow water with no water movement. Therefore, too much fin movement and/or less than perfect buoyancy control will stir up the bottom, leaving you with low visibility in that area. (IBP)

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Karangasem job fair 2017

Tourism sector and cruise ship still promising

AMLAPURA - Karangasem job fair 2017 is still dominated by tourism and cruise ships. These two sectors are predicted to dominate the employment absorption in Karangasem. It is seen from the response of the labor market last year and seeing the prospect of sector next few years.

Head of the Karangasem Manpower and Transmigration Agency, I Gusti Nyoman Arya Sulang, said on Tuesday (Jan. 3) that tourism sector showed pretty good absorption of employment throughout 2016. This trend grows in harmony with the growth of independent business players in this sector.

Aside from tourism sector, this independent business also grows in other sector such as culinary and other businesses. “Independent business player (PKN) shows an increase. This trend is good for Karangasem,” said Arya Sulang.

Moreover, the job market overseas at cruise ship also remains widely open. He also admitted to receive information from the BNP2TKI and BP3TKI that great job opportunities overseas are also available in the manufacturing and housing sector. The greatest opportunities are available in Korea.

There are also job opportunities as chef in Australia. He claimed to have received a bundle of requirements from the BP3TKI. “The op-

portunities are wide as long as the candidates have the capability of speaking English well. In the first quarter, we have disseminated these job opportunities to villages with subdistrict heads,” he said.

After receiving the materials, his agency planned to perform dissemination to villages through subdistricts and villages. All this time, many Karangasem residents use this opportunity after receiving information from Denpasar. So, many residents of Karangasem then depart from Denpasar. Other than in Korea, the other job opportunities in manufacturing sector are also available in Japan, especially the job of home care for the elders.

Local people need home care attendant to take care of their parents.

Apart from domestic works, local hospitals also need of Indonesian workers.

“Every year, there are about 800 to 1,000 workers from Karangasem who left the country in the tourism sector through Denpasar. Now, we are going to aggressively inform to

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working in cruise ship become one of the main gol of the people in Karangasem Regency villages,” he said.

Other than this sector, his agency will also continue its annual program, namely providing skills training. One of them is the training of office secretary. The other trainings are skills in refrigeration engineering, electrical installation, welders, workshop, sewing and automotive skills. Every year, there

are 27 to 30 packages of training. A package, for instance, is taken by about 16 people. It means that approximately 480 people are attending this skill training organized by the manpower and transmigration agency of Karangasem.

To raise the awareness of job seekers, Arya Sulang claimed to be disseminating the information

to schools, especially vocational education. So, after graduating, they just need to deepen their ability at the vocational training center (BLK) before getting involved in person in the job world. Moreover, in the ASEAN Economic Community, people must always be ready to compete against workers at home and overseas. (kmb31)

Competence inappropriate with job market

Many college graduates unemployed Vineyard at Dencarik village boosts people’s economy

DENPASAR - Until August 2016, the unemployment rate in Bali was dominated by college graduates. They include 206,389 diploma graduates and 202,205 university graduates (bachelor—Ed). Many college graduates are unemployed mainly due to their competence is not appropriate with the demand of job market.

“I think universities need to make a revitalization or adjustment by opening the majors indeed highly needed by job market. Do not open the majors that will not get absorbed,” said the Head of Bali Manpower Agency, I Ketut Wija, in Denpasar on Monday (Jan. 2).

Judging from the development of Bali’s economy, added Wija, the business sector absorbing many labor is the accommodation, food and beverage (hospitality, restaurant) as much as 23 percent. Then, it is also absorbed by agriculture (15 percent), transportation (10 percent), trading (9 percent) and construction (9 percent).

“So, the job market is also around it and those having no job (unemployment—Ed) do not lead to the demand of job markets,” he explained.

According to Wija, in Online Job Fair there are approximately 5,000 job opportunities. Tourism sector remains to be the highest followed by trade and

construction sector. This includes the opportunity to work on cruise ships such as the Royal Caribbean where this year it will recruit 1,500 workers. “Not to mention, the other cruise ships also need. So, the job opportunity in cruise ships for young people of Bali is still very, very promising,” he explained.

Overall, Wija said that the unemployment rate in Bali reaches 1.89 percent as of August 2016. In addition to college graduates, there are also graduates of primary school downwards amounting to 13,945 people, junior high school (30,215 people), high school (100,870 people) and vocational school (184,077 people).

“From these data, we see a trend of unemployed people belonging to the age of junior high school downwards, but the unemployment of high school/ vocational and higher education tend to increase. It needs considering. Particularly the vocational schools may need to adjust its curriculum so that their graduates can really match the job markets,” he said.

Wija added that graduates of high school are usually prepared to attend college. If there are some graduates unemployed because of not going to college, they should attend vocational school. On that account, the number of vocational school can be increased. (kmb32)

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SO far, the agricultural potential owned by Buleleng develops quite well.

People do not only cultivate clove and rice commodity, but also grape. At Dencarik village in Banjar, for instance, the yields of this black fruit is able to boost the local economy.

Headman of Dencarik, Made Suteja, stated that vineyards have been developed in the area since 35 years ago. It is inseparable from the suitable environmental conditions. Seeing the promising prospect, more and more local people have cultivated the crops having three times harvest a year since 20 years ago. “At first, only few people cultivated it. Seeing the good prospect, more and more people then followed,” he said on Tuesday (Jan. 3).

The selling price of the crop is still relatively promising, so that it could boost the economy of local community. This farm is also capable of giving new job opportunities to a number of people. For instance, people can become a grape picker. “People’s economy can be helped by these vineyards,” he said.

Amid the current uncertain weather, the vineyards get a challenge. Pest attacks that can trigger a decline in the quality of fruit are on the rise. They indirectly affect the selling price at the market. “This harvest season slightly downs due to unfavorable weather condition,” said Suteja.

He added that since recent years when entering harvest season, the siege of middlemen is also on the rise. This phenomenon frequently has an impact on the cheaper grape sales. “Sometimes the middlemen purchase at much cheaper price. This significantly affects the income of farmers,” he concluded. (sos)

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Smog-hit Beijing slapped with top “fog” alert for second day

BEIJING - The Chinese capital issued its highest red fog alert for a second day on Wednesday, keeping highways closed in and around the city which is already under a smog alert after weeks of choking winter pollution.

China’s weather bureau warned of visibility of less than 50 metres in some areas, leading many airports to cancel flights. More than 2,000 tourists were stranded on a cruise ship for two extra days near the port of Tianjin, as smog prevented the ship from docking until Monday, the Beijing Evening News reported.

Poor visibility prompted three major northern ports to suspend the loading of ships on Tuesday, maritime safety agencies said.

Pollution alerts are common in northern China, especially during bitterly cold winters when energy demand, much of it met by coal, soars. Beijing’s smog alert is at the second-highest orange only, raising questions from some living in the city.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection said it hadn’t issued a smog red alert because of discrepancies in the forecasts for different parts of Beijing.

China is in the third year of a war on pollution aimed at reversing the damage done to its skies, soil and water after decades of untrammelled economic growth. But measures taken so far have had little or no effect.

Heavily polluted Hebei province, which surrounds most of Beijing, said on Tuesday it had ordered all polluting firms in Tangshan, China’s biggest steelproducing city to the east of Beijing, to shut down.

In a statement on its website, the Hebei government named Tangshan Luanxian Xinglong Iron and Steel Co. Ltd as a major culprit for failing to control emissions and even allowing the staff canteen to directly burn coal, contravening regulations.

Hebei, home to seven of China’s 10 smoggiest cities in 2015, will also build the world’s biggest dust prevention barrier, stretching nearly two miles, at the major coal port of Qinhuangdao in a bid to cut pollution, state media said on Wednesday. (rtr)

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Buildings are seen among fog on a polluted day in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, January 3, 2017.

North Korea cannot ‘tip’ missile with nuclear warhead -U.S. State Dept

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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un smiles as he visits Sohae Space Center in Cholsan County, North Pyongan province for the testing of a new engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 9, 2016.

WASHINGTON - North Korea continues to pursue nuclear and ballistic missile technologies but the United States does not believe it is in a position to “tip” one of them with a nuclear warhead, State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, said on Sunday his nuclear-capable country was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), raising the prospect of putting parts of the United States within range.

“We do not believe that at this point in time he has the capability to tip one of these with a nuclear warhead ... but we do know that he continues to want to have those

capabilities and the programs continue to march in that direction,” Kirby told reporters.

Asked whether he would agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment that China was not helping to contain North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, Kirby said: “We would not agree with that assessment.”

Trump, who will take office on Jan. 20, tweeted on Monday that North Korea would not be allowed to complete a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States, although he did not say how he would stop it. “It won’t happen!” he said on Twitter.

Trump’s transition spokesman, Sean Spicer, said the tweet spoke for

itself but added that it meant, “Under his watch he’s going to make sure that that doesn’t happen.”

Pyongyang’s action will be discussed at a meeting in Washington on Thursday between the United States, Japan and South Korea, led by Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Kirby said.

“No question that tensions on the Korean peninsula will be a topic of discussion (but) where that is going to take us, especially in light of Kim Jong Un’s speech, I don’t know,” Kirby said.

Asked about the possibility of more sanctions against Pyongyang, he added: “We haven’t ruled out the possibility of additional sanctions.” (rtr)

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Omega-3 fatty acids linked to lower risk of heart disease

WASHINGTON - Omega-3 fatty acids in fish and dietary supplements are associated with lower odds of heart disease even in people already at elevated risk because of excessive levels of fats or bad cholesterol in their blood, a research review suggests.

The American Heart Association recommends eating at least two servings of fish a week and considering supplements of omega-3 fatty acids when that’s not possible. Previous research has linked omega-3s to a lower risk of abnormal heartbeats, less fats in the blood, reduced risk of artery-clogging deposits known as plaque, and slightly lower blood pressure.

For the current study, researchers examined previously published research on two omega-3s: EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). They found that consumption of omega-3s in food or supplements was associated with a 16 percent lower risk of heart disease in people with high triglycerides, or fats, in the blood, and a 14 percent lower risk for patients with elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the bad kind.

“The collective evidence from all studies supports a beneficial role of EPA and DHA on coronary heart disease, and stronger associations were observed among those who may benefit acutely from EPA and DHA, such as those with elevated triglyceride levels and those with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol,” said lead study author Dominik Alexander of EpidStat Institute, with offices in Seattle, Washington, and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

To examine the connection between omega-3s and heart disease, researchers analyzed data from 18 trials that randomly assigned about 93,000 people to get a certain amount of these nutrients.

Across these randomized trials, they found omega3s associated with a 6 percent lower risk of heart disease, but this was too small to rule out the possibility it was due to chance.

The study also reviewed results from another 17 previously published trials that observed about 732,000 people over long periods of time while they followed their usual diets. Over all of these studies, omega-3s were tied to a statistically meaningful 18 percent reduction in the risk of heart disease.

The study was funded by the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED), an advocacy group with manufacturers and sellers of omega-3 dietary supplements among its members. Several study authors have also served as consultants to manufacturers of omega-3 supplements.

Limitations of the study include the wide variation in study designs for the randomized trials, which included patients with a range of eating habits and heart disease risk factors and tested omega-3s over different time periods, the authors note in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Some studies in the current analysis also didn’t track heart health or the amount of omega-3s in people’s diets at the start, making it harder to determine how much these nutrients might directly influence heart disease risk over time, the authors also point out. (rtr)

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Omega-3 fatty acids in fish and dietary supplements are associated with lower odds of heart disease even in people already at elevated risk.

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Wife of Vice President Yusuf Kalla

Visits Semarapura market and buys endek and songket fabric

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It may be tempting to clean your ears with Q-tips or try ear candling to clear away any clogs, but it’s best to check with a professional before taking matters into your own hands, doctors advise.

Why you shouldn’t treat earwax without seeing a doctor

SEATTLE - It may be tempting to clean your ears with Q-tips or try ear candling to clear away any clogs, but it’s best to check with a professional before taking matters into your own hands, doctors advise.

“Patients may try to blindly instrument their ears with cotton ear buds, bobby pins, or other tools,” said Dr. Seth Schwartz, chair of a committee that drafted new guidelines for diagnosing and treating earwax for the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

“These are generally ineffective and potentially dangerous,” Schwartz, director of the Listen For Life Center at Virginia Mason in Seattle, said by email.

“Scratching of the ear canal skin can lead to pain and infection,” Schwartz added. “Sometimes they just push the wax in further, and there also is the potential for damage to the ear drum.”

The body makes earwax, or cerumen, to keep ears clean and trap substances like dust and dirt, preventing debris from getting further into the ear where it can cause damage. As new skin grows in the ear canal, it pushes old earwax from the inside of the ears closer to the opening where it naturally flakes off or washes away during bathing.

Often, there’s nothing wrong with having a little earwax near the

opening, doctors stress in guidelines published in Otolaryngology– Head and Neck Surgery.

But when the ear’s self-cleaning process doesn’t work well, too much earwax may accumulate and partially or fully block the ear canal. This can cause problems including pain, itching, discharge from the ear, ringing in the ear or hearing loss.

Roughly one in 10 children and one in 20 adults suffer from excessive earwax buildup, as do more than one third of elderly people, according to the guidelines.

Excessive cleaning can irritate the ear canal, cause infection, and even increase the chances of excessive buildup, or what’s known as cerumen impaction, the guidelines note.

There’s no evidence that using ear candles, a process that relies on heat to remove buildup, actually works at clearing impaction, and this can cause serious damage to the ear canal and eardrum, the guidelines also emphasize.

Patients should see a doctor if they experience hearing loss, pain or feel fullness in their ears or aren’t certain whether the amount of wax is normal.

People should also get a checkup if they have ear drainage or bleeding because these symptoms aren’t tied to impaction and may be an indication of other problems. (rtr)

SEMARAPURA - At the beginning of 2017, the Semarapura art market was visited by a special shopper. She is Mufidah Yusuf Kalla, wife of the seventh Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, H. Muhammad Yusuf Kalla, who was spending holidays with family in Bali. Her arrival at the central marketplace of endek fabric was welcomed by the Regent of Klungkung Nyoman Suwirta accompanied

by Mrs. Ayu Suwirta at the west entrance of the Semarapura art market on Monday (Jan. 2).

Similarly, Commander of the 1610/Klungkung Military Resort Franciscus Ari Susetyo and Chief of Klungkung Police FX Arendra Wahyudi with his wife were also present to welcome the vice president’s wife. The entourage previously departed from the Tampaksiring Presidential Palace arrived at the Semarapura market around 10:00. On arriving at the market, the entourage went immediately to one of the Klungkung’s typical endek fabric shops, Toko Winata.

The atmosphere previously sterile and getting security from presidential secret service was suddenly crowded. Mufidah Yusuf Kalla and the entourage chose endek and songket fabric at some shops for approximately an hour. Without hesitation, the wife of vice president directly chose fabrics becoming her target, starting from endek to songket fabric denoting the

typical product of Klungkung.

After buying some fabrics, the entourage then left Semarapura art market around 11:00 heading for the Tampaksiring Presidential Palace.

One of the fabric merchants, A.A Ratnawati, admitted not to guess the arrival of the special shopper. Moreover, the vice president’s wife purchased a piece of songket fabric worth IDR 1 million at her shop. “I really did not guess if the shopper purchasing a piece of songket fabric at my shop is vice president’s wife,” she said happily.

In the meantime, related to the visit of the vice president’s wife, Regent Nyoman Suwirta said that readiness and sanitation of market has been well maintained. According to him, her arrival at the Semarapura market is expected to have an impact on the condition of the market, including the visit of shoppers.

“Through this visit, the Semarapura market can be increasingly promoted,” said Suwirta.

Besides, the visit of vice president’s wife will become a spirit in building Klungkung district.

Other than the wife of Vice President Jusuf Kalla, the Semarapura art market was previously visited by the wife of former President of the Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), Ani Yudhoyono. The former President of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarno Putri, also ever made a visit to this market. (kmb)

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Opening new tourist destination, repairing infrastructure and enhancing the existing ones are the measures that will be try to extend the length of stay of foreign travelers.

To extend travelers’ length of stay

Destination to be increased and restyled

DENPASAR - The length of stay of foreign travelers is recently at issue in Bali tourism following there has been a decrease in the length of stay when compared to the past time.

Actually, there is an increase in the number of tourists visit.

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Mufidah Yusuf Kalla (3rd left) at the central marketplace of endek.

As happened in 2016, the number of tourist visit has exceeded the target by 30 percent in November. “The length of stay is three days, so that by November it already exceeded the target of 4.4 million. We’re just waiting for the data of December. Up to November, there has been an increase of 30 percent. So, in my prediction there will be about 4.8 million until December,” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, in Denpasar on Monday (Jan. 2).

Yuniartha admitted that the length of stay of foreign travelers in Bali is unlike before reaching five and even seven days. Bali itself is unable to close itself from not spreading travelers to other provinces.

In other words, the travelers coming to Bali to-

day also visit the destinations outside Bali, so that it reduces the length of stay on the Island of the Gods.

“Where they travel next is departing from Bali. Now, we are trying to improve the existing destinations in Bali. So, opening new tourist destination, repairing infrastructure and enhancing the existing ones are the measures we will try to extend the length of stay,” he explained.

These measures, added Yuniartha, require collaboration with the district and municipality because the destinations are located in the district and municipality. Through coordination meeting, his agency has emphasized on the district and municipality to increase destinations and renew the existing destinations.

“The promotion will be made with the assistance of the ministry of tourism as well through cooperation with travel agencies. Besides, we will try to develop through information technology, so that we can promote the destinations via YouTube and website,” he said. (kmb32)

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Tourism promotion budget reduced to IDR 300 million in 2017

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A forigner is walking on Kuta Beach with a surfer instructor. The number of foreign worker in Bali is increasing year by year.

In the face of foreign workers

Govt may not keep silent

DENPASAR - Government is reminded not to keep silent and just sit behind a desk. However, it must take active action and respond to the current situation. Moreover, it is in the face of the ASEAN Economic Community and the current era of globalization. There seems an invasion of investors, goods and services and foreign labors.

“We used to speak it and all the parties claimed to have been ready including the government. Now, the impact has been visible like the onslaught of investors as well as foreign workers. Everyone hits the roof when all goods and services have come in,” said Chairman of Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives, Nengah Tamba, in Denpasar on Tuesday (Jan. 3).

Tamba added that foreign workers cannot be stopped. Moreover, there has been a visa-free policy.

They are able to fly very easily from their home country to Indonesia, especially Bali. On that account, human resources of Bali should enrich themselves with knowledge, technology and capital.

“That’s not enough and we must also work together with the government. Local government should also help local entrepreneurs. If they are not given the ease of capital or licensing, we are troublesome. The government should not remain silent as it could be a source of problem later on,” he explained.

Tamba asserted that the last filter indeed lies in the government. Entrepreneurs from outside should be given advice by the government to partner with local entrepreneurs. On the other hand, local entrepreneurs and all other components of Balinese community are

reminded not to only complain and become spectators.

“If it happens, we will just sit, complain, look and watch it. We’ll get marginalized. Do not blame as the AEC has been opened and globalization has been in motion,” he said. Correspondingly, Tamba worried about the incoming illegal foreign workers. Their presence would be difficult to be dammed. Currently, there has emerged illegal Chinese tour guides along with a driver who are also of foreign national.

“Indeed it is difficult to arrest the illegal workers as it must be proved by their salary slip. For instance, if they have a promenade, they can claim to be a traveler.

They can check-in in Bali but work in Sumatra or check-in in Jakarta but work in Bali. It is also difficult to track as they do not always check-in in Bali and work in Bali. They are very smart. Otherwise, they are arrested when getting involved in crime,” he said.

Earlier, Head of the Bali Manpower Agency, I Ketut Wija, claimed to have not found any illegal foreign labor. Actually, there have been plenty of complaints, mainly from the tourism sector concerning with illegal tourist guides. However, the surveillance is still being undertaken by a joint team of the manpower agency, police, prosecutor and immigration.

“We at manpower agency have 24 labor inspectors to supervise local labor and foreign labor. As the name implies, the illegal foreign workers are indeed very difficult to arrest. If people indeed find indications regarding the illegal foreign labor, please report to immigration office or manpower agency. Later, we’ll do a search and they can be repatriated to their home country,” he concluded. (kmb32)

BANGLI - The budget managed by the Bangli Tourism and Culture Agency in 2017 to promote tourism has decreased from the previous year. This year the agency will only obtain the promotion budget of IDR 300 million.

Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, said that in 2016 his agency only got the budget for tourism promotion as much as IDR 384 million.

However, this year the amount is reduced to IDR 300 million. He claimed not to know exactly why the budget of tourism promotion is reduced.

Though reduced, Adnyana admitted to continuously do promotion maximally with the budget available. As planned, of the IDR 300 million of promotion budget allocated, approximately IDR 200 million will be used for promotion in the activity held in Nusa Dua. In these activities, there will be a meeting with buyers in order to bring in travelers, especially foreign travelers to Bangli.

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In the meantime, to bring in more domestic travelers than the previous year, his agency will make promotion to Java such as Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta. The focus of object to be sold is the geopark region, Penglipuran and Kehen Temple.

“The world-class destination like geopark will be focused to be sold,” he said. He targeted that the number of tourist visit coming to Bangli in 2017 could reach 1.2 million people.

When asked about the tourist visit in 2016, Adnyana said that the tourists visiting Bangli last year reached more than 1.5 million.

According to him, all this time the counting on the number of travelers is only carried out to travelers that visited the paid destinations. However, the visit to unpaid destinations is excluded. This condition seems to cause if the target of tourist visits cannot be fulfilled. “The tourist visits to unpaid destinations are also counted, the number can surely be met,” he added. (kmb40)

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Janet Jackson, 50, announces birth of first child

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NEW YORK - Pop star Janet Jackson has given birth to her first child, a boy, at the age of 50, her publicist has said.

“Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana are thrilled to welcome their new son Eissa Al Mana into the world,” the singer’s representative said in a statement to People magazine.

“Janet had a stress-free, healthy delivery and is resting comfortably.”

Jackson and Qatari businessman

Mr Al Mana married in 2012, and the singer in April postponed her Unbreakable world tour so they could focus on starting a family.

In October, she showed off her baby bump in an exclusive photo for People magazine.

Jackson, the fiercely private youngest child of the famed Jackson singing family, has not given any details of the pregnancy or where the baby was born.

She and her husband have stayed out of the limelight since their nuptials, which didn’t stop tabloids

from reporting the singer had converted to Islam.

In October, photos emerged of Jackson in a full-length head covering which fuelled the rumours of conversion. The singer has not commented on her religion and as several social media users pointed out, the covering was in fact an item from a menswear line released that year.

She had two previous marriages: a year-long union with soul singer James DeBarge in the mid-1980s, and with dancer Rene Elizondo Jr from 1991 to 2000. (rtr)

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The relative of a prisoner at the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex holds up a newspaper showing the faces of inmates after a prison riot in Manaus, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. Brazilian authorities said Tuesday the inmates responsible for the killings of 56 rivals at this prison will be transferred to high security federal institutions in addition to being prosecuted.

Brazil proposes prisons overhaul after massacre, families hold vigil

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MANAUS, Brazil - Brazil’s justice minister on Tuesday proposed an overhaul of the penal system to tackle chronic prison overcrowding a day after 56 inmates were massacred in the deadliest riot in two decades.

The minister, Alexandre de Moraes, said Brazil needed to improve conditions in jails, which are home to an estimated 600,000 inmates, after visiting the prison in the jungle city of Manaus where violence erupted between rival drug gangs.

In an incident that shocked even Brazilians inured to regular outbreaks of prison violence, machete-wielding gangs decapitated inmates on Monday and threw their bodies over a wall of the penitentiary, which houses more than three times its capacity.

Hundreds of anguished relatives,

hugging each other and sobbing uncontrollably, gathered outside the morgue in Manaus, waiting to discover if their loved ones were alive. A morgue employee emerged from time to time to read from a list of those confirmed dead.

“I never imagined something like this could happen,” cried Diana after learning that her son Ronei Pinheiro had been killed. “Please help me bury my son.”

Officials were forced to rent a refrigerated truck to store bodies, while medical examiners tried to identify the remains.

A war for control of the lucrative drug trade fueled the latest gang violence in Brazil’s understaffed prisons, raising concerns that Monday’s massacre could unleash a wave of reprisals.

Some 223 inmates from other prisons in Amazonas state were relocated to an abandoned jail in Manaus to protect them from rival gangs following the riot.

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Brazil prison riot Drug gangs sparked a prison riot that killed 56 people, with decapitated bodies thrown over prison walls in the bloodiest violence in more than two decades in Brazil's overcrowded penitentiary system.

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Anisio Jobim prison complex Violence began late Sunday and was brought under control by around 7 a.m. (local time) on Monday

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