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Lady Gaga reveals rape as teenager Agence France-Presse

Kathy Griffin named new ‘Fashion Police’ host

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NEW YORK - Lady Gaga has revealed that she was raped as a teenager and said that it took her years of therapy to acknowledge and start to recover from the trauma.

“I don’t want to be defined by it,” the pop star said. “I’ll be damned if somebody is going to say that every creatively intelligent thing I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead that did that to me.”

Lady Gaga, 28, said that the rape took place when she was 19 and that she has gone through years of therapy. She did not go into detail but said that the aggressor was 20 years older than her.

“It happens every day. It’s really scary and it’s sad and it didn’t affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later,” she told radio host Howard Stern.

“I didn’t tell anybody -- I didn’t even tell myself for the longest time,” she said. “Then I was like, you know what,

all this drinking and all this nonsense, you have to go to the source, otherwise it won’t go away.”

The singer, who later became known for her gaudy outfits and outspoken social commentary, said that she did not report the rape. She said she saw her aggressor once more when she ran into him at a store and that she became “paralyzed by fear.”

Lady Gaga revealed the rape as she discussed her song “Swine” from her 2013 album “Artpop.” She performed the song at this year’s South

by Southwest festival, where she rode a mechanical bull in a suggestive fashion and had a collaborator vomit on her.

“The song is about rape. This song is about demoralization,” Lady Gaga said in her radio interview Tuesday.

“I want this chick to throw up on me in front of the world, so that I can tell them, you know what? You could never, ever degrade me as much as I could degrade myself and look how beautiful it is what I do.”

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Comfort at Ngurah Rai Airport reaped complaints

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DENPASAR - Travel agencies coalesced into the Association of the Indonesia Tour and Travel Agency (ASITA) of Bali Chapter complained about the services at Ngurah Rai Airport. The newly renovated airport has not been able to provide comfort for them when picking up their guests.

“The airport has not been 100 percent ready. Recently, there were many complaints about discomfort when picking up guests at the international arrival terminal. The arrangement was inappropriate due

to the existence of two paths. We need to discuss this issue with our members and then recommended it to Angkasa Pura,” said Chairman of the ASITA Bali, Ketut Ardana.

He said the services provided at

international arrival terminal should be given a good place to welcome visitors. “From decades ago, when picking up guests at international arrival terminal there was a tradition of garlanding. The area needs to be

given a nice touch, so that visitors would be impressed as soon as setting foot in Bali,” explained Ardana accompanied by the Advisory Board, Bagus Sudibya.

According to him, the complaints would be discussed in the first Regional Working Meeting 2014 held on Thursday (Dec 4). Not only that, the ASITA Bali also formulated some inputs from participants and it would be submitted to the airport

authority as the operator.

“Approximately the 223 present participants can formulate the problem to be further recommended to Angkasa Pura 1. We will also discuss about the preparation of human resources of the ASITA in the face of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 so that it can play an active role and becomes superior,” he said.

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NEW YORK — Kathy Griffin will be terrorizing the fashion crowd as the new host of “Fashion Police,” replacing the late Joan Rivers when it returns to E! in January.

The comic-commentary series, which had aired weekly, will now present 17 special episodes throughout 2015 that focus on high-profile red carpet and fashion events, E! announced Monday. It returns Jan. 12 for coverage of the Golden Globe Awards.

E! Executive Vice President Jeff Olde called Rivers “a dear friend and mentor to Kathy, who will no doubt continue her legacy and do the series justice by bringing her own unique comic style and tell-it-like-it-is personality to the host chair.”

“You celebrities better strap yourself in,” Griffin said, “as I am taking no prisoners.”

Griffin is an award-winning actress, comedian and author known for her biting comic style. She won two Emmys for her Bravo reality series, “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.”

Her selection had been widely anticipated.

“Kathy just feels right,” said Melissa Rivers, who continues as “Fashion Police” executive producer, adding: “I’m excited to see where this panel takes this series my mother so adored in

this next incarnation.”

Returning panelists Kelly Osbourne and Giuliana Rancic will be joined by newcomer Brad Goreski, a fashion stylist and lifestyle expert and the former star of Bravo’s “It’s a Brad, Brad World.”

Originally hosted by Rivers, “Fashion Police” had been off the air since the veteran comedian and TV personality was hospitalized in late August after going into cardiac arrest during a medical procedure at a New York doctor’s office. She died Sept. 4 at age 81.

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Travel agencies coalesced into the Association of the Indonesia Tour and Travel Agency (ASITA) of Bali Chapter complained about the services at Ngurah Rai Airport. The newly renovated airport has not been able to provide comfort for them when picking up their guests.

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Build infrastructure

Nusa Penida gets a fund worth IDR 28 billion

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SEMARAPURA - Infrastructural sector of Klungkung County will get serious attention next year, especially for Nusa Penida subdistrict. At least, it can be seen from the total budget allocated in General Budget Policy (KUA) in the Plafond Priority of Provisional Budget (PPAS), main regional budget of Nusa Penida 2015. Particularly in Nusa Penida, the development of infrastructure got the budget worth IDR 28 billion.

It was conveyed by Chairman of the Klungkung House, Wayan Baru, Wednesday (Dec 3), after a meeting in the Mandala Sabha, Parliament House of Klungkung. The increase was said to be very significant because all factions in the Klungkung House realized that the focus of development next year was the infrastructure in Nusa Penida subdistrict, especially road infrastructures. The legislator from the Nusa Penida electoral subdistrict said that last year the infrastructural budget was only worth IDR 5 billion. Moreover, it was intended for all the subdistricts. As a result, the overall condition of infrastructure lacked for attention and needed to be addressed.

Magnitude of the infrastructural budget in 2015 was the good will of the Regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, who wanted the acceleration of the development in Nusa Penida.

Nusa Penida required a big and dauntless leap to actually build the island region from the underdevelopment

compared to the other subdistricts. Another legislator of Klungkung House, Komang Gde Ludra, asserted that all this time there had been no really serious efforts to develop Nusa Penida.

The House agreed with the executive, that Nusa Penida should get the focus of development next year.

If the government wanted to gain greater regionally generated revenue than previous year, the condition of infrastructure should be built first. To open the investment opportunities, this was the key to develop Nusa Penida as the ‘golden egg’ of Bali.

“Good will of the regent is now focused on Nusa Penida. We really encourage the effort. All this time, we in the legislative also have the same idea, but it was not followed by good planning by the previous regent,” he said. Other than in Nusa Penida, Klungkung mainland territories (Banjarangkan, Dawan and Nusa Penida) will get smaller budget this year reaching only IDR 11 billion. Thus, the total budget of

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The Regent of Klungkung is inspecting the dry area in Nusa Penida infrastructure this year reached IDR 39 billion.

Ludra said that the infrastructural budget in Nusa Penida was greater and it happened for the first time.

It was enabled by the budget efficiency in a number of budgeting post.

Nevertheless, he said the large infrastructural budget this year would not

interfere with the other budget items.

He said the House should also make efficiency on official trip budget. The budget of official trip of the Klungkung House was only allocated for 12 times a year. It had been reduced from the previous year reaching 16 times. As planned, the official trip was projected for field observations

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to Nusa Penida subdistrict.

Joint meeting between the executive and the legislative on Wednesday (Dec 3) took place slowly. Until the afternoon, the meeting still lasted. As planned, after the joint meeting on Thursday (Dec 3), the KUA-PPAS would have been established by the executive and legislative. (kmb31)

Struggle for getting water, head got hacked

AMLAPURA - The difficulty to get clean water in Karangasem makes a number of people do desperate action when getting water. A resident on behalf of I Wayan Satya, 35, from Taman hamlet, Seraya Tengah, should get three stitches on head after being hacked by I Wayan Dani, 40, by using a sickle. The hacking action occurred after the two men were involved in quarrel

due to scrambling when fetching water in a reservoir in the local field area.

Information compiled by this newspaper told that the water scrambling ended in stabbing. At first, Wayan Satya came to the reservoir after getting a turn to get drinking water on Tuesday (Dec 2) around 6 o’clock in the afternoon.

Later, the culprit, Wayan Dani, came and directly grabbed water by overtaking the victim’s turn.

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Actually, at that time the culprit did not get his turn to fetch water.

Being upset with the act of the culprit taking his rights, the victim then got angry and threatened to cut off the pipeline of water flow leading to the reservoir.

Hearing what the victim said, the culprit immediately turned furious and rushed to swing his sickle towards the victim. Swinging of the culprit’s sickle injured the left side of the victim’s head.

As a result, the victim suffered lacerations and should get three stitches.

Since the act of the culprit could not be accepted, the victim then reported the incident to Karangasem Police on Wednesday (Dec 3) around eight o’clock in the afternoon. Associated with the abuse case, the Spokesperson of Karangasem Police, Ketut Dasta, with permission from the Chief of Karangasem Police Gede Adhi

Mulyawarman confirmed that his party had received the report from the victim.

Currently the case was still handled by the Karangasem Police Criminal Investigation Unit for further investigation. “Allegedly, the stabbing was kindled by the culprit that could not accept if the victim would cut off the pipeline of water flow into the reservoir,” he said when confirmed on Wednesday (Dec 3). (dwa)

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Victoria’s Secret ‘Angels’ strut in London for first time

Agence France-Presse

LONDON - Top models wearing gold wings and diamond-encrusted bras strutted the London catwalk on Tuesday in the first Victoria’s Secret annual lingerie show to be held in the British capital.

The event was billed as the US company’s most expensive ever with a price tag of $20 million (16 million euros), and featured some of the world’s best-paid models including Brazil’s Adriana Lima.

Only the second time the show has been held outside the United States since 1995, the event began on a glamourous note with the so-called “Victoria’s Secret Angels” dressed in white and sporting gold wings.

“The show is seen in 192 countries, the show is seen by 500 million people. That is completely unique in the industry. No one does what we do,” marketing director Ed Razek said.

Wearing long dark tresses and capes, Lima and fellow Brazilian Alessandra Ambrosio exhibited “Fantasy Bras” created by jeweller Mouawad, each studded with 16,000 precious stones including diamonds, rubies and sapphires valued at $2 million.

A change in ambiance arrived in the fourth section of the show, which was hosted by Grande and was dedicated to the brand’s more casual PINK line aimed at students, with

models dressed in leopard prints and bright colours.

Irish musician Hozier then performed his hit debut “Take Me to Church” as models dressed in pale green and pink with transparent fairy wings strutted in a magical setting of white trees and autumn leaves.

Among the 47 “Angels” chosen to represent the brand were Candice Swanepoel, Behati Prinsloo, Doutzen Kroes and Karlie Kloss -- the latter appeared wearing 18-carat gold wings.

Created in 1977 and with 1,000 stores in the United States, Victoria’s Secret is the market leader there and made $6.68 billion from sales last year.

It has been on the British market since 2005 and has a flagship store on London’s New Bond Street, one of 15 outlets in the country.

The flashy brand is not to everyone’s taste, however.

Three British students led a successful social media campaign that forced the company earlier this month to change its adverts featuring models wearing its new “Body” bras under the slogan: “The Perfect ‘Body’.”

The ad now reads: “A Body for Every Body.”

But Razek dismissed the controversy as “absurd” as he said the company had never intended to present “an example of the one and only perfect body in the world”.

Describing the models as “healthy” and “confident”, Razek said that those who performed in the show were “genuinely nice women” who defied stereotypes.

“The image of a vacuous supermodel who never eats and only worries about what she looks like is certainly not the image of our girls,” he said.

Swedish model Elsa Hosk said she had prepared for the show, which has helped launch the career of several famous supermodels, with “a lot of different workouts” including a mix of ballet and boxing.

“It’s one of the biggest shows that you can walk in as a model,” she told AFP ahead of the event.

“It’s such an honour for a model to walk in this show, just because it’s huge publicity for us.”

Dutch model Kroes said: “It feels really special.”

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DENPASAR - The rain having flushed the city of Denpasar caused floods at some points such as on Jalan Pidada, North Denpasar. It also made some markets muddy, where one of which was the Badung Market. Muddy condition typically occurred in the market courtyard, but this time was different. Muddy condition even occurred in the market and it was visible from the entrance of the first and third floor.

Precisely the muddy area occurred at the staircase in the eastern part of the market. Of course, it was very disturbing the convenience of visitors. Therefore, they should walk carefully, especially the elderly and the market visitors carrying a lot of stuff. They had to set foot carefully to feel whether the floor was slippery or not.

According to one of the tour guides, Sukarmi, it had already happened from long time ago. It was kindled by the water seepage from the walls occurred every rainy season. “Such condition always happens whereas the walls of the building have been covered by ceramic, but the water still comes through,” she explained.

When asked about the comfort of

travelers she escorted, she said there were no any comments. “Travelers did not give comment regarding the condition of water. They preferred to look at the interaction of buying and selling,” she added.

It was different from the comment given by the owner of Eagle necklace accessories shop located on the third floor who was asking for anonymity. The man was deeply disturbed by such condition. Seepage of water right in front of his shop often caused visitors to slip and fall down. “Here, many visitors often tucked, even some of them fall down,” he said.

To avoid more visitors or traders from falling, he place a piece of cardboard on the floor. This solution did not much help because of the seepage had caused the cardboard quickly destroyed.

Sukarmi revealed the seepage was alleged to originate from the building on the fourth floor. “Quality of the plumbing above was not good, so this condition happens like this,” she described. She hoped the management of PD Pasar Kota Denpasar could immediately take action regarding the problems in the market, so as not to become a seasonal problem. (sos)

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Model Behati Prinsloo displays a creation at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in London, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.

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Model Maud Welzen displays a creation at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in London, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.

Aburizal Bakrie announces central executive board members DENPASAR - The newly-elected general chairman of the Golkar Party, Aburizal Bakrie, on Thursday announced his central executive board comprising 199 members, including MS Hidayat as executive chairman.

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The newly-elected general chairman of the Golkar Party, Aburizal Bakrie, on Thursday announced his central executive board comprising 199 members, including MS Hidayat as executive chairman.

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Model Lais Ribeiro displays a creation at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in London, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.

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Heavy rain, building of Badung Market muddy

Supermodel Naomi Campbell launches Ebola fashion pop-up LONDON - British supermodel Naomi Campbell launched a pop-up fashion shop in east London to raise awareness of the spread of Ebola on Thursday.

Sporting a thick fringe and wearing a plunging grey dress, Campbell showed off party dresses, glittery high heels and other pieces donated by designers and friends to be sold at the store.

The “Fashion for Relief” shop, a fundraising drive founded

by Campbell after the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005, will be open for one week at the Westfield shopping centre in east London.

“Raising awareness for Ebola and educating about its prevention is crucial to help prevent the spread of this deadly disease,” Campbell said in a statement ahead of the opening.

“We hope the Fashion For Relief store will raise much-needed funds and awareness, whilst offering amazing pieces at accessible prices.”

Campbell was joined at the launch by fellow Londoners rapper Tinie Tempah and actor Idris Elba, famous for playing character Stringer Bell in TV show The Wire and Nelson Mandela in a 2013 biopic.

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Rain made some markets muddy, where one of which was the Badung Market. Muddy condition typically occurred in the market courtyard, but this time was different. Muddy condition even occurred in the market and it was visible from the entrance of the first and third floor.

“The board has 199 members, including nine deputy general chairpersons and one executive chairman, MS Hidayat,” Aburizal said at the plenary meeting of the party’s 9th congress at Hotel Westin in Nusa Dua, Bali.

The final plenary meeting was attended by the chiefs of political parties in the Red-White coalition. The coalition that supported Prabowo Subianto in the July 9 presidential election now controls the parliament.

The party chiefs who attended the meeting included general chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) Prabowo Subianto, president of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Anis Matta, former general chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) Suryadharma Ali, and current general chairman of the PPP Djan Faridz.

Reading out the names of the members on his central executive board for 2014-2019, Bakrie said, “The deputy general chairpersons are Nurdin Halid, Theo Sambuaga, Setya Novanto, Syarif Cicip S, Fadel Muhammad, Titiek Soeharto, Ahmadi Noer Supit, Akom, and Azis Syamsuddin.”

While Idrus Marham remained the party’s secretary general, Bambang

Soesatyo has been named general treasurer, he added.

Former contender Airlangga Hartarto, meanwhile, has been chosen as chairman of the department of industrial and trade affairs while Gandung Pardiman is chairman of caderization.

“George Toisuta is the chairman of defense and security wing,” Aburizal Bakrie said while drawing an applause. Toisuta is a former army chief of staff.

Party spokesman Tantowi Yahya has been named head of media communication and opinion building.

One of Aburizal’s son-in-laws, Taufan Rotorasiko, has been named head of village and backward region affairs.

Ponco Sutowo has been named as head of ideology and legislation assessment while the chairmanship of advisory board remains with Akbar Tanjung.

The 9th congress of the country’s second largest party has been held despite protests from a number of party figures who considered it against the party’s internal rules and therefore called it illegal.

Aburizal Bakrie has discharged all cadres planning to hold a rival congress in January.

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More than 50 percent of people have no private toilet Bali Post

AMLAPURA - The ownership of private toilet in Karangasem subdistrict only reaches about 45.4 percent based on the study conducted by EHRA in Karangasem subdistrict in July-August 2014, with a total sample of 335 households in each village. The samples indicate that people who do not have private toilet in Karangasem subdistrict reach more than 50 percent. Even, at each village, the number of people defecated at offhand place was still high. Results of the studies illustrate if the sanitation in Karangasem County is quite serious.

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The officers from Karangasem Government giving explaination on sanitation in a village.

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The Head of Karangasem Development Planning Board, I Ketut Merta Sedana, admitted that many people still did not have toilet in Karangasem subdistrict. Actually, when compared to other regions, Karangasem subdistrict was more advanced as the heart of Karangasem. As happened at Karangasem village and Subagan village, including the Bukit and Seraya Timur village, the number of people defecating haphazardly was still high, more than 20 percent. Meanwhile, the other villages were still under 20 percent.

Public awareness was still considered very low as they still often disposed of waste haphazardly. In Karangasem subdistrict, approximately 76.7 percent of people still disposed of rubbish on vacant land or in the field.

“This indicates a worrying condition of people’s behavior due to their lack of awareness about the importance of sanitation,” he said, Wednesday (Dec 3).

Associated with the government’s efforts to change the behavior of Karangasem people defecating as well as disposing of waste water and garbage properly, the Karangasem government organized a sanitation campaign at Susuan hamlet, Karangasem subdistrict, Wednesday (Dec 03).

This activity was attended by 204 people from all agencies in the

lineups of Karangasem government as well as headmen and hamlet chief across Karangasem subdistrict.

On that occasion, Sedana Mertha admitted that to address the sanitation issues, the government would conduct a Memorandum of Sanitation Sector Program (MPSS) with the planning of sanitation development for the period of 5 years. However, his party did not reveal any program to be done in addressing the sanitation problems.

Meanwhile, related to the waste problem, his party planned to buy plastic waste and do sorting at landfill.

“Wastewater will be overcome by the construction of communal wastewater treatment plan for urban areas and optimization of the IPLT Linggasana. Meanwhile, for drain sector, we will develop and rehabilitate the drain channels and river normalization,” he said.

The Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, said that all this time the sanitation program was only focused on the infrastructural development. It was the reason why the sanitary condition in Karangasem was unable to be repaired. To that end, he said the program would be transferred to the socialization of sanitation through the awareness of healthy living campaign. (dwa)

Collectors start to sort tobacco leaves

SINGARAJA - Production of tobacco leaf processing in Buleleng becomes a significant potential that can be further developed maximally. Toward the end of this year, the harvest of tobacco leaves is known to have come to an end.

It is discernible from a number of lands harvested by farmers that only left the tobacco stalks. Now, the tobacco leaves collected get drying process in an oven. After that, they

are sorted and sold to collectors at a number of tobacco leaf processing plant in Buleleng.

A number of housewives killed their time by sorting or sifting tobacco leaves based on quality classification. They worked from the morning to evening accompanied by a pile of tobacco leaves that have undergone drying process in the oven. Farmers get tobacco leaves from several paddy fields in the area around Sukasada, Tegallinggah and Panji. Some leaves looked

rotten after dried in the oven and then were separated from the leaves having prominent quality.

“From the nursery to harvest tobacco leaves farmers make cooperation with collectors. This may take six months. This year, the result of tobacco farming is less than the last year’s production.

It tends to happen because many tobacco leaves were infected by viruses,” said Luh Wardani, 42, a tobacco leaf collector from Dauh Margi hamlet, Pemaron village,

Buleleng, when met on Tuesday afternoon (Dec 2).

According to Wardani, accompanied by her husband, Kadek Kertana, 47, she involved approximately twenty housewives to help the sorting process of the tobacco leaves with various qualities. Her classification was based on the type of tobacco leaf in terms of the structure of leaves that were not rotten or damaged.

Meanwhile, the land area in use reached 5 hectares with an esti-

mated land contract rate of IDR 80,000 per hectare.

“It is quite difficult to grow tobacco seedlings, moreover from the hoeing of humus soil, selection of excellent tobacco seeds, spraying virus, harvesting process to sorting high-quality tobacco leaf as the last process. The price of dried tobacco leaf belonging to first class was sold for IDR 36,000 per kilogram, second class for IDR 35,000 per kg, and the class extends to fifth class,” she added. (kmb34)

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China marks Constitution Day amid legal push

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — China on Thursday marked its first Constitution Day as part of President Xi Jinping’s drive to show that the country embraces rule of law while ensuring that the ruling Communist Party holds on to its unrivaled authority. The new holiday was being commemorated with nationwide activities in schools, government offices and state-owned companies.

It is part of Xi’s campaign to institutionalize the party’s powers while strengthening the country’s legal system to reduce corruption and improve government efficiency.

Scores of serving and retired top officials have been detained on corruption charges.

“The constitution is the highest law of the country and embodies the will of the party and the people,” Xi said in remarks published on the front page of the Communist Party flagship newspaper People’s Daily.

China needs more awareness of the

constitution and better understanding of the role of law, Xi said.

Critics point to inherent contradictions in the rule of law campaign, including the party’s refusal to accept independent oversight and honor constitutional guarantees such as the right to free speech and religious assembly. Activists who have advocated stricter adherence to the constitution as a way of holding the country’s leaders accountable typically have been treated as subversives and have been detained.

China has enacted four constitutions since the communist state’s founding in 1949, with the current version adopted in 1982. Its first article forbids any challenge to the country’s socialist system, though it does not explicitly mention the Communist Party’s control of the country.

However, in an editorial Thursday, People’s Daily asserted that the primacy of the Communist Party was an essential element of the constitution.

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

In this Dec. 3, 2014 photo, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate for a Tokyo district, right, speaks with a voter during a lower house election campaign rally at a subway station in Tokyo.

Polls: Japan ruling party landslide in coming vote

Associated Press Writer

TOKYO — Japan’s ruling party may be headed toward an even larger-than-anticipated victory in upcoming national elections, according to major media polls published Thursday. The Liberal Democratic Party could take more than 300 of the 475 seats in Japan’s lower house election on Dec. 14, Japan’s major newspapers and Kyodo news service said, based on voter surveys each did.

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, June 4, 2014, a vendor sells commemorative plates with images of Chinese President Xi Jinping and late Chinese leader Mao Zedong near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

A resounding victory could help Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tackle politically difficult issues such as opening up Japan’s agriculture markets and restarting nuclear power plants.

Abe’s Liberal Democrats had 295 seats in the lower house before

he dissolved it last month to force a snap election. His party and coalition partner Komeito are widely expected to win the election, but many analysts have been predicting that they would lose some seats.

The polls indicate they will at least retain their large majority and

possibly even build on it. However, many voters are still undecided, so the results could be different.

The largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, would win about 70 seats, Kyodo said in its projection, about a 10-seat gain but short of its goal of 100.

lia their permanent home.

More than 30,000 asylum seekers who arrived on Australian shores since August 2012 have yet to have their refugees claims assessed because the government doesn’t want them to stay permanently.

The asylum seekers, who fled persecution and fighting in the

Middle East and Asia, live in immigration detention camps or in the community under bridging visas that do not permit them to work.

The government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants the Senate to pass legislation that would create a temporary three-year visa for the genuine refugees among them. They could be sent back to

their homelands if the threat of persecution had diminished by the time their visas expired. Refugees could get a five-year visa if they agreed to live and work in areas that are struggling with labor shortages.

Critics argue that such temporary visas would deprive refugees of certainty and stability in their

lives because they would still have to move after their visas expire.

Until recently, the government was six votes short of passing the bill. Australian media reports Thursday said the government had obtained the support of five senators and needed just one more to get a majority in the 76-seat Senate.

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File

Australia considers temporary visas for refugees

Associated Press Writer

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s Parliament on Thursday appeared close to passing a bill creating a new class of temporary visas for refugees that will allow them to stay and work in the country for three to five years but prevent them from making Austra-

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BUSINESS

Associated Press

MOSCOW — Oyster Bar built a thriving business serving mollusks to well-heeled Muscovites.

Then came Western sanctions, and the restaurant was forced to rechristen itself this fall. Today, it serves up burgers and pizza under a new name: No Oyster Bar.

AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko

Co-owner Ilya Sokhin said a Russian ban on European oyster imports hit hard, and the average check at his restaurant — a sleek new building in the famous Gorky Park — has more than halved.

Russia’s economy has been battered this year by uncertainty over the conflict in Ukraine, the falling price of oil, Western sanctions and retaliatory Russian import bans. Poor and middleclass Russians are increasingly challenging government insistence that a 40 percent drop in the value of the ruble — now worth a record low of 54 to the dollar — will affect mainly the rich.

Approval ratings have so far remained high for President Vladimir Putin, who has staked the reputation on Russia’s reemergence as an economic powerhouse after the turbulent 1990s. But Putin, who will give his annual state of the nation address on Thursday, faces growing anger from middle-class families and even poorer Russians as their quality of life declines.

Mikhail Antonov, a 27-yearold manager at a children’s goods store, had saved up this year to drive with friends from Moscow to Germany, and spend a week visiting Christmas markets and the countryside. But the 30,000 rubles he has saved up have gone from being worth 670 euros ($830) at the start of the year to less than 450 euros ($560) today,

and he has canceled the trip.

“This would have been my first trip abroad and my girlfriend and I had saved up,” he said.

“Now because of the situation in Europe and Ukraine, everything has gotten more expensive and our savings have been reduced to nothing.”

According to Vladimir Kantorovich, vice president of Russia’s Tour Operator Association, travel abroad for the winter holidays is down 30 percent, and trips to Europe have fallen about 50 percent. On Wednesday, Russia’s flagship airline, Aeroflot, hiked its ruble-denominated prices by 15 percent.

Olga Kupriyanova, a 35-yearold law professor at Moscow State University, says her family of four feels the pinch particularly when it comes to putting food on the table. Inflation is estimated to reach 10 percent by early next year, and food is rising fastest. According to the Federal Statistics Service, chicken costs 27 percent more than it did last year, pork 25 percent, and the beloved staple of buckwheat 48 percent. Russians on average spend about 30 percent of their income on food, compared with 6.7 percent in the United States.

“We’ve started to economize on food, but nonetheless because of rising prices our expenses have grown by about 10 percent,” said Kupriyanova, who has replaced red meat with chicken and cut

most cheese and fish out of the family’s diet.

Russia’s economic woes stem from a trifecta of problems.

First, oil and gas exports, which finance half of Russia’s budget, have been hit by the plummet in world markets: the global price of crude oil has fallen some 25 percent since the summer. Renaissance Capital analyst Oleg Kouzmin says if prices stay there, Russia could see its economy shrink by 3 percent next year.

Second, Russia’s banks, which were slapped with sanctions this summer as a response to Moscow’s role in Ukraine, have to pay off $90 billion in external debt before the end of 2015, which is becoming harder by the day as the ruble loses value. The central bank had tried to support the ruble but after spending $29 billion in October alone it gave up and floated the currency last month.

Finally, Russia banned Western meat, dairy, vegetables and fruit this summer in response to the sanctions, helping drive the steep spike in prices.

On Tuesday, Russia’s economic development ministry revised its economic forecast for 2015, predicting a drop of 0.8 percent instead of 1.2 percent growth.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has said the sanctions are costing Russia $40 billion a year, and falling oil prices another $90$100 billion.

China says 100 million ‘outbound trips’ this year Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - Chinese travellers have taken 100 million “outbound” trips this year, officials said, with the vast majority visiting Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Just under four percent of the 100 million trips counted up to the end of November were to Europe,

China’s state tourism administration said Wednesday, while 90 percent were within Asia.

Although Beijing considers self-governing Taiwan as part of China along with Hong Kong and Macau, the tourism administration said that nearly 71 percent of “outbound” trips were to the three territories.

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Ahead of cremation ceremony on Dec 9

Western sanctions, ruble crash hit Russians hard

People walk past a display with currency exchange rates at Kievskaya (Kiev’s) railway station in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014.

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The total number of people travelling abroad was not given but the figures call into doubt previous reports that some 97 million Chinese did so last year.

Six countries -- South Korea, Thailand, Japan, the United States, Vietnam and Singapore -- have seen more than one million trips

by Chinese citizens so far this

year, the administration said on its website.

China’s economy has boomed over the past decade, expanding the ranks of its middle-class who are hungry for foreign travel after the country’s decades of isolation in the last century.

European Union and Asian countries have moved to ease visa

application procedures for Chinese tourists in recent years, keen to cash in on their big-spending habits.

Chinese travellers spent $102 billion overseas in 2012, making them the world’s biggest spenders ahead of Germans and US tourists, the UN World Tourism Organization has said.

Ubud artists prepare bade tower Bali Post

GIANYAR - Taking place in front of the Ubud Palace, dozens of residents looked so enthusiastic to prepare bade tower (used to carry corpse to cemetery) whose structure has reached a height of 23 meters. The eleven-tiered bade tower is specially designed as an offering in the cremation ceremony to the inventor of the Sosrobahu road construction technique, Dr. Tjokorda Raka Sukawati, to be held on Tuesday (Dec 9).

The bade tower has been worked on since mid-November by some 40 artists from Ubud Palace. When completed, the grandeur of the bade will be always getting spotlight from foreign travelers due to soaring as high as 24 meters and has the weight of six to seven tons. “This best work will be presented to him, the native son to Ubud who has scented the name of this nation,” said Dr. Tjokorda Gde Raka Sukawati.

Tjok De, the nickname of Tjokorda Gde Raka Sukawati, said that all parties were vivacious in preparing the bade tower.

However, since the time was very short, he claimed to be working overtime to devote the aesthetics of the bade architecture. “As the time is very short, we must work extra hard by overtime to accomplish this bade tower,” he said.

Meanwhile, the ritual procession of cremation would be commenced on December 3 known as nancap karya and then bathing the corpse on Saturday (Dec 6). After that, it would be resumed with the cremation procession on Tuesday (Dec 9).

Meanwhile, Tjokorda Gede Abinanda Sukawati met on the sidelines of the bade making revealed that he was very much remembered the figure Dr. Tjokorda Raka Sukawati, the inventor of Sosrobahu technique who died on November 11, 2014.

The pioneer of Ubud who died at the age of 85 years was known as a father who wanted to give the freedom of expression

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and time discipline to his children. “The deceased father is a simple figure and gives us freedom to choose to be anything, provided that it is pursued seriously and if possible should get an outstanding achievement,” said the man familiarly addressed Tjok Abi. He told that even though he had lived in Jakarta since the age of three years old, the deceased always required him speaking Balinese language. It was made so that his children would not forget the Balinese identity, values and culture. “In Jakarta, when I did not greet in Balinese language, he did not want to reply. A.A. Istri Manik and I always instilled not to forget the local Balinese culture, especially Balinese language,” said the design lecturer at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI).

Before his death, the deceased left a message to Tjok Abi to maintain the Sosrobahu road construction technique legally.

The Sosrobahu technique is the construction technique used mainly to rotate the shoulder of concrete flyover. With this technique, the arm of flyover can be rotated up to 90 degrees so as not to disturb the traffic flow underneath. Sosrobahu technology is successfully working on the flyover project spreading between Cawang and Tanjung Priok, Jakarta. “This technique IBP/Manik is now widely used in the Philippines. He only left a message to keep this legacy Taking place in front of the Ubud Palace, dozens of residents looked so enthusias(the Sosrobahu technique—Ed) legally,” tic to prepare bade tower (used to carry corpse to cemetery) whose structure has he said. (nik) reached a height of 23 meters.

Again, visitor to Besakih complains

AMLAPURA - Apparently there are visitors to Besakih Temple remaining to be treated uncomfortably. The Head of Karangasem Tourism and Culture Agency, Nyoman Purna, admitted in Amlapura there were still complaints from visitors as they felt to have been exploited or treated uncomfortably.

Actually, said Purna, his party already provided guidance for local guides of Besakih at the office of Rendang subdistrict head. At that time, the speakers presented were from the Bali Government Tourism Office, Bali Municipal Police, Rendang Leadership Council, headman of Besakih and chief of Besakih customary village. “At Besakih,

there are almost 400 local tour guides divided into 4 shifts per day.

Indeed, some have been locally licensed, some others are unlicensed, while the remaining never participated in training,” he said.

When provided with coaching, local guides admitted and did not deny if any of them did cheating.

However, the group leader said the cheating was not committed during their working hours, but beyond theirs. Allegedly, these individuals were often suspected of cheating.

Purna admitted that complaint of visitors having been blackmailed or treated less comfortably at Besakih remained to exist. Related to these issues, his party had ever given a hard choice, whether the Besakih Temple should be delisted from the

status as tourist attraction. Actually, the county government was easy to close by delisting Besakih from the tourist destination. It could be taken if there was no change or local tourism players were not willing to change and keep the image or the sanctity and Besakih area as tourist attraction.

According to him, poor behavior of the tourism players at Besakih that did not want to be patient by looking for income dishonestly—namely getting much on the same day—could harm the image of Bali in its entirety.

“Similarly, I already delivered that travel agencies actually wanted to boycott the Besakih destination if the unscrupulous local players remain unwilling to change their

mindset and maintain the image of Besakih,” said Purna.

As the recent case, a native Balinese visitor coming to Besakih to escort his Muslim friend admitted to have been blackmailed. An unscrupulous canang oblation and incense trader forced to purchase her goods as mentioned in the rules.

Meanwhile, the visitor claimed to be Nyoman Dika had published his complaint in Bali Post on November 29 and forwarded it to Tourism Agency, where the local tour guide initially claimed to be a volunteer that provided escort services. At the end of the visit, the tour guide was given a tip worth IDR 50,000 but he claimed it inadequate and even asked for more. “As a native Balinese, I was embarrassed with

my friend related to the incident.

If my complaint gets no response, I will publish it to national media,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Regional Secretary of Karangasem government, Gde Adnya Mulyadi, said the regent of Karangasem had actually established a Besakih Area Controlling Team chaired by the Rendang subdistrict head. It had the tasks to discipline the individuals having treated visitors uncomfortably such as blackmailing or forcing them to buy merchandise or to use their services. Besides, it should also organize and discipline the traders so that they would not sell near the temple. “I do not know whether the team is still effective or not,” he said. (013)

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Approaching Philippine storm brings back nightmare Associated Press

AP Photo/Vincent Yu

A police officer raises a warning sign against protesters outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014. Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city’s streets for more than two months.

Hong Kong student leaders mull protest retreat Associated Press

HONG KONG — Hong Kong student leaders said Thursday they’re considering retreating from protest sites on city streets after more than two months in the latest sign that momentum is fading in their movement for greater democracy. Members of the Hong Kong Federation of Students said Thursday that they’re mulling whether to stay or go, with spokeswoman Yvonne Leung telling a local radio station that the group hopes to come to a decision within the next week.

The protesters have few options left after rallying supporters in a failed bid earlier this week to surround government headquarters that resulted in a night of violent clashes with police armed with batons and pepper spray. Public support for the protesters has fallen as the government has stuck to its apparent strategy of waiting them out.

Prominent student leader Joshua Wong said on his social media accounts that his group will discuss and coordinate with the

federation on the decision. Wong, 18, and four other members of his Scholarism group started a hunger strike this week to try to force the government to resume talks over the students’ demands, which include dropping Beijing’s requirement to screen candidates for inaugural 2017 elections. The two groups have played key roles in organizing the protests.

On “withdrawing or not withdrawing, any tactics, any methods will be considered,” Tommy Cheung, another federation member,

told reporters. “The federation will discuss the next step in our plan. ...

At the moment there’s no clear-cut decision.”

The talk of retreat comes after the founders of Occupy Central, which also played a role in the protests, called this week for the students to end the protests to avoid further violence. The three founders and about 60 supporters turned themselves into police Wednesday in a symbolic move to show they wanted to move on to a new phase of the movement, but police let them go.

MANILA — Villagers fled coastal homes and sparked panicbuying in grocery stores and gas stations in the central Philippines on Thursday as an approaching powerful storm brought back nightmares of last year’s deadly onslaught from Typhoon Haiyan.

Government forecasters said Typhoon Hagupit, which was packing sustained winds of 195 kilometers (122 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 230 kph (143 mph), may hit Eastern Samar province on Saturday and barrel inland along the same route where Haiyan leveled villages and left more than 7,300 dead and missing in November last year.

Haiyan survivor Emily Sagales said many of her still-edgy neighbors in central Tacloban city, which was ravaged by Haiyan, packed their clothes and fled to a sports stadium and safer homes of relatives. Long lines formed at grocery stores and gas stations as residents hoarded basic goods, she said.

“The trauma has returned,” the 23-year-old Sagales said. In the wake of last year’s typhoon,

which killed her mother-in-law and destroyed her home, she gave birth to a baby girl in a crowded makeshift clinic filled with the injured and the dying near the Tacloban airport. “It’s worse now because I didn’t have a baby to worry about last year,” said Sagales.

Haiyan had demolished about 1 million houses and displaced about 4 million people in the central Philippines. Hundreds of residents still in tents in Tacloban were prioritized in the ongoing evacuation.

Hotels in Tacloban, which barely recovered from the massive damage, were running out of rooms as wealthier families booked ahead for the weekend.

“The sun is still shining but people are obviously scared. Almost all of our rooms have been booked,” said Roan Florendo of the hilltop Leyte Park hotel, which lies near San Pedro Bay in Tacloban.

The government put the military on full alert, workers opened evacuation centers and transported food packs to far-flung villages, which could be cut off by heavy rains.

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From page 1 Related to the targets of the ministry of tourism to reach 20 million tourist arrivals to Bali in 2019, the advisor of the ASITA Bali, Bagus Sudibya, was optimistic to achieve it as long as it could be supported by all stakeholders ranging from the government, tourism players to communities around the tourist destinations.

“Geographically and demographically, Indonesia which is six times larger than Malaysia and Singapore must be visited by more travelers. However, in order to increase tourist arrivals, the accessibility, presence of tourist object, human resource readiness to face the AEC, and other factors must be improved,” he explained.

Human resources of Bali, said Bagus Sudibya, remained competitive in the AEC and were ready to host. Balinese human resources had plus value on soft skills, especially in terms of hospitality field. “Balinese Dance presented by native Balinese dancers will look more animate compared to Balinese Dance presented by the other dancers. Meanwhile, the tour guide had more taksu or divine vibration to explain

about Besakih than tour guides of non-native Balinese. This value must be well maintained and improved,” he concluded.

Co-General Manager of Angkasa Pura 1, I Gusti Ngurah Ardita, when contacted apologized for any inconvenience might have been caused in the area of the Ngurah Rai Airport, especially at the international arrival terminal. “We’re sorry because we are currently still making improvement so that the complaints of stakeholders can be resolved,” he said.

He admitted to have made coordination with the ASITA, the Indonesia Tour Guides Association (HPI) and Immigration Office in order the services provided at the airport would not kindle bad impression in the eyes of visitors and other users. “We have invited the board of the ASITA, the Indonesia Tour Guides Association (HPI) and Immigration Office to have looked around about the conditions in the field. Surely, we will continue to improve based on the inputs. One of them, at this time we are still doing an arrangement, so that please accept our apologies,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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INDONESIA Indonesia will sink three illegal vessel on Saturday Antara

JAKARTA - Authorities will sink three foreign-flagged illegal fishing vessels next Saturday (Dec 7), Coordinating Minister for Political, Law and Security Affairs Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said on Thursday.

“This is a tough move by the Indonesian government against illegal fishing activities in our territory,” Tedjo stated after meeting with President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace here on Thursday.

According to him, authorities had earlier seized three ships allegedly fishing illegally in Indonesian waters. After thorough investigations, authorities came to the conclusion that the crew of the three ships had indeed been illegally fishing and therefore will be held guilty of violating regulations in Indonesia.

The three ships will be sunk in Anambas waters in Riau island area.

“It can be burnt or blasted. The message here is that nobody can violate our regulation,” noted Tedjo.

Earlier, the Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief General Moeldoko remarked that

the TNI was looking for the best possible way to sink foreign vessels fishing illegally in Indonesian waters.

“I have ordered the Naval chief of staff to find the best possible way in accordance with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s instruction to sink foreign illegal fishing vessels in Indonesian waters so as not to reap global criticism,” Moeldoko stated.

He stressed that while he wanted the TNI to carry out the President’s order, he also wanted it to take a subjective view.

Therefore, he held a meeting with TNI high-ranking officers to discuss more elegant ways, which may be internationally acceptable, to sink foreign vessels caught fishing illegally in Indonesian waters.

“More importantly, Indonesia is as

firm as any other country against illegal fishing and other illegal activities,” the TNI chief affirmed.

Moeldoko also observed that the TNI will step up patrolling across Indonesian waters.

“The TNI Western Fleet Command and Eastern Fleet Command will conduct patrols across Indonesian waters to deal with illegal fishing activities,” he noted.

Meanwhile, Naval Chief of Staff Admiral Marsetio observed that although the Indonesian Air Force has the main radar, the Navy has also installed its radar along the Malacca Strait.

“We have covered the entire Malacca Strait. Besides that, the Navy also has a warship as mobile radar to make surface, air, and underwater contacts,” Marsetio added.

BI predicts downward trend in economic growth Antara

JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia (BI) has forecast that the country’s economic growth in 2015 will show a downward trend, even lower than BI’s estimate of 5.4-5.8 percent.

The central bank’s deputy governor Hendar remarked here on Thursday that Indonesia’s economy would continue to remain favorable in the future following the government’s bold decision to increase the price of subsidized fuel oils.

He, however, pointed out that it would all still be determined by the reallocation of fuel subsidy funds.

Hendar expressed hope that the global economy in 2015 would be better than this year, despite several lingering challenges.

“Under the current circumstances, we can assure that the country’s economy would grow around 5.4 percent in 2014,” he affirmed.

The government has set a growth target of 5.8 percent in the 2015 budget, which is above BI’s prediction.

Zulkifli Zaini, the general chairman of the Indonesian Bankers Association, has noted that in order to achieve 5.8 percent growth minimally, a credit growth of 17.4 percent, or three times the economic growth, would be needed.

The Financial Service Authority (OJK) has projected banking credit growth of 15 to 17 percent for 2015.

A. Prasentiantoko, the chief economist of state-owned Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN), stated that Indonesia could achieve higher growth if the current account deficit could be better managed to stay under three percent.

Death execution awaiting a nod from attorney general Antara

REUTERS/Beawiharta

A volunteer clears rubbish from the Ciliwung River in the Jatinegara district of Jakarta, December 3, 2014. More than 1,000 soldiers and volunteers cleared 80 tons of rubbish after flooding hit parts of the capital last week, local media reported.

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JAKARTA - Execution of the death sentence of five convicts is awaiting a letter from the Attorney General, a government official said.

Appeal for clemency by the five convicts has been rejected by the president, therefore, their verdict has been final, Coordinating Minister for Political Affairs, Security and Law Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said on Thursday.

Altogether there are 64 convicts in the death row including foreigners to be executed but only five of them having no legal channel left for appeal, Tedjo said after a meeting with President Joko Widodo.

He said the execution is to be carried out this month but implementation needs approval from the attorney general.

The attorney general will say the names of the convicts, he added.

“The execution is not ordered by the president, but the president has passed order that the legal process must be properly carried out. That is in line with the government commitment in law enforcement,” he said.

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Tegenungan Waterfall

GIANYAR - Gianyar Regency is indeed the hub to watch barong dance, sculpture and other types of arts. However, one time try to enjoy its natural attractions because this region also retains many attractions highlighting the interest in nature. Tegenungan Waterfall, for instance, is one of them. The attraction located at

Kemenuh Village offers a unique charm. Its natural aura can really be perceived. Once visiting this nature tourism will definitely make visitors addicted. Tegenungan Waterfall is different from any other waterfalls in Bali. Though it is not situated on a highland or mountain, it remains to offer beautiful natural scenery. Its height is about 4 meters and has very heavy torrents. Its crystal

clear water is very suitable for bathing or just playing around.

It is approximately 30 km from Denpasar or 13 km from the city of Gianyar.

Its scenery is so beautiful and enriched by lush tropical green trees growing on the riverbank.

Around the area, there are several bathing places with multiple showers coming out from natural springs. Surrounding residents

frequently take bath and fetch water here for daily consumption.

Similarly, travelers coming here often take advantage of the shower.

By and large, they use it to cleanse their face or refresh the body.

At particular time, the shower located near the temple is crowded with local residents because they perform a melasti procession, a series of deva yajna ceremony held by the Hindus community

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Undermanned Rockets beat Grizzlies 105-96

in Bali. If you want to capture an amazing picture, you should come in the afternoon or evening. This happens because the waterfall overlooks the west, so that it will be difficult to get an interesting photograph in the morning as disrupted by sunlight. To reach the waterfall from parking lot, you should go down some 150 stairs.

Afterward, go along the banks of the Petanu River.

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HOUSTON — The Houston Rockets overcame the absence of three starters to beat Memphis 105-96 on Wednesday, moving within one game of the Grizzlies, who sit atop the NBA’s Southwest Division.

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Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph grabs a defensive rebound between Houston Rockets forward Donatas Motiejunas (20), Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol and Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn.

Del Potro to defend Sydney title after Brisbane return Reuters

SYDNEY - Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro has confirmed he will defend his Sydney International title in January after making his return from 10 months on the sidelines in Brisbane the previous week. The Argentine last played on the ATP Tour when he retired from his opening match at the Dubai International in February and underwent surgery on his left wrist in late March.

Despite having a protected ranking of seventh in the world, the 26-year-old can only use it at a limited number of events and opted to take a wild card for the Sydney tournament, a warm-up for the Australian Open. “I love playing in Sydney.

The city and the fans are great and I can’t wait to come back and defend my title,” he said in a news release.

“Last year, I played some of my best tennis there and it is the perfect way to start the year. I am looking forward to being back in Sydney as it is one of my favourite cities to play.”

In the day’s other notable results, Dallas’ Monta Ellis came up with the clutch shot for the second straight night as the Mavericks edged Milwaukee, San Antonio’s eight-game winning streak ended in an overtime loss at Brooklyn, and Philadelphia finally got its first win of the season after 17 straight defeats.

Houston played without three starters, including Dwight Howard who missed his seventh straight game with a strained right knee. James Harden scored 21 points, and Trevor Ariza and Jason Terry added 16 as the Rockets ended Memphis’ run of five straight losses.

The Grizzlies’ only two prior losses this season had been by a combined five points but they were never in the contest this time. They trailed by a competitive 12 points at half time, but that ballooned out to 26 entering the fourth quarter. Dallas won 107105 at Milwaukee, thanks to a wild, fallaway jumper at the buzzer by Monta Ellis.

The same player had, the previous match, sunk clutch baskets at the end of regulation and in double overtime to beat Chicago. Ellis scored 23, with eight in the final two minutes on what otherwise had been a bad shooting night for the

After his triumph at Flushing Meadows in 2009, Del Potro’s career was severely disrupted by surgery on his right wrist in 2010 before he battled his way back into the top 10 again. His victory over local defending champion Bernard Tomic in the Sydney International final in January gave him his 18th career title.

Mavericks’ top scorer, playing against his former team.

The Mavericks won their fifth in a row while resting Dirk Nowitzki because of a sore back. Brandon Knight scored 25 points for the Bucks in their third straight loss. Brooklyn’s Mirza Teletovic had a season-high 26 points and a career-best 15 rebounds starting in place of Kevin Garnett, leading the Net past San Antonio 95-93 in overtime.

The Nets regrouped in overtime after blowing a 14-point lead in the final 5 minutes of regulation and for the first time this season managed to beat a team with a positive win-loss record. Danny Green had 20 points, 10 rebounds and the tying 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds left in regulation for the Spurs.

Philadelphia avoided tying the record for the worst start to a season in NBA history, ending their 0-17 skid with an 857 7 victory over Minnesota.

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PSG fails to take lead after drawing 1-1 at Lille Associated Press

PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain missed the chance to leapfrog Marseille and move into first place in the French league after drawing 1-1 at struggling Lille on Wednesday. Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani put two-time defending champion PSG ahead in the 29th minute but a blunder from goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu gifted Lille Associated Press Writer an equalizer just before halftime.

MANCHESTER, England — Chelsea and Manchester City secured convincing wins in the Premier Sirigu came to collect a corLeague on Wednesday to fuel expectations that it will be a two-team fight for the title this ner and turned the ball into his own net. season, while Alexis Sanchez was a match-winner again for Arsenal. Chelsea preserved He strayed its unbeaten start and six-point lead by defeating London rival Tottenham 3-0 too far off thanks to first-half goals in a three-minute span by Eden Hazard and Didier his line, Drogba, followed by a third from substitute Loic Remy. t h e n let the b a l l It was a predictable loss for Spurs, their performances and all the play- Wenger said. s l i p which hasn’t won at Stamford Bridge ers are having more trust in what “ H e s t i l l under since 1990 — a run that now extends we are doing,” said City manager finds that rehis body, to 28 games. Sergio Aguero is leading Manuel Pellegrini, who hailed the source to get AP Photo/Matt Dunham and ended City’s attempts to haul back Chelsea, continued excellence of Aguero. “At you something Chelsea’s Didier Drogba celebrates scoring his side’s second goal up kicking with the Argentina striker taking the moment, we are seeing very high special.” during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelit over the line his league-high tally to 14 goals by performances from him. Not only is he Coming soon after a 3-0 sea and Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, as he tried to make scoring in each half in a 4-1 win at scoring but he’s playing well as well.” loss to City on Sunday, SouthampWednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. amends. The draw Sunderland. The champions had to City opened up a four-point gap on ton’s fast start to the season is being means that PSG remains one come from a goal down in the 19th third-place Southampton, which con- derailed and the team could drop out point behind Marseille, which minute, with Stevan Jovetic and Pablo ceded an 89th-minute goal to Sanchez of the Champions League places if eran striker Drogba — made the most vain, a humble guy who plays and drew 1-1 at Lorient on Tuesday Zabaleta also scoring at the Stadium in a 1-0 loss at Arsenal. it loses to fourth-place Manchester of a rare start. The Ivory Coast great fights for the team. Fantastic.”

Tottenham’s feeble defense was night. of Light.

The Chile forward has scored 14 United on Monday. Everton drew 1-1 set up Hazard for the opener in the Although PSG extended its With four straight wins in all com- goals in 22 games in all competitions at home to Hull in the other game, with 19th and then scored himself — for the breached again in the 73rd when unbeaten run to 22 games this petitions, City has clearly overcome in his first season in English football, Sone Aluko scoring an equalizer for fifth time since his return to Chelsea substitute striker Remy sidefooted season, coach Laurent Blanc an earlier wobble. By scoring 10 goals with his latest strike hauling Arsenal the visitors as they ended a run of four — after goalkeeper Hugo Lloris’ weak after brushing off Jan Vertonghen. acknowledged that it was yet in its past three games, City looks to up a place to sixth — three points straight losses and climbed out of the clearance was seized on by Hazard Chelsea is undefeated this season in 20 matches and its 23-game unbeaten another below-par performance, be back to the kind of form that swept behind Southampton. “We were jaded relegation zone. Romelu Lukaku gave and Oscar.

“It’s remarkable,” Chelsea man- run in the league and cup equals a following Saturday’s drab 1-0 the team to a second title in three years physically but Alexis Sanchez can dig Everton the lead. home win against Nice. “We have last season. deep and has such desire and a will Diego Costa was suspended for ager Jose Mourinho said of Drogba. club record. mixed feelings because we came “The team is coming again in to win,” Arsenal manager Arsene Chelsea and his replacement — vet- “He’s a team player . not selfish, not here to get three points and take first place. We didn’t manage to do it,” Blanc said. “We’re not happy with the result but Lille deserved to get a point. We still have a lot of room for improvement in terms of how we’re playing.”

Saint-Etienne moved up to Associated Press and I think this will take us closer to off Alex Garcia into goal for Barce- Associated Press third place with a 2-0 win at success,” said Iniesta. “Our effec- lona’s fourth in the 72nd.

Montpellier, thanks to goals from MADRID — Andres Iniesta tiveness and the way we played this Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid TOKYO — The Japan Football Association is standing behind national defenders Florentin Pogba and scored once and provided two assists game made us feel quite relaxed,” swept to a 3-0 victory over third- team coach Javier Aguirre, who reportedly is being investigated for matchPaul Baysse. Rennes improved to help Barcelona romp to a 4-0 rout he said. “What’s important is that tier L’Hospitalet. France midfielder fixing in Spain. to fourth place after winning 2-1 of third-tier Huesca in the last 16 of the players who are in the squad are Antoine Griezmann broke the deadAccording to Spanish media reports, authorities in Spain are moving to at Nice, with goals from winger the Copa del Rey on Wednesday. well equipped to play because titles lock in the 67th minute of the first prosecute Aguirre and some 30 others on suspicion of fixing a La Liga game Paul-Georges Ntep and Danish Ivan Rakitic opened the scoring for aren’t won by just five or six, but by leg match when he headed home against Levante, when he managed Zaragoza in May 2011. JFA chairman midfielder Anders Konradsen.

Barcelona in the 12th minute when a whole team.” defender Jesus Gamez’s cross from Kuniya Daini said “he himself says it’s not a problem and there’s nothing we PSG coach Laurent Blanc’s he struck a free kick into the top left Barcelona reserve goalkeeper the right. can do but believe him.” decision to rest star striker Zlatan corner beyond Huesca goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen made an Gabriel Fernandez converted a Aguirre returned to Japan from Europe on Thursday but did not speak to Ibrahimovic ahead of next week’s Daniel Jimenez’s reach. athletic save from Tyronne del penalty in the 81st after Atletico’s reporters.

Champions League game away Iniesta, who returned from an in- Pino in the 32nd and looked solid attacking midfielder Alessio Cerci The match under investigation was played during the last round of the to Barcelona left PSG short on jury sustained in his team’s 3-1 loss throughout the match. Pedro Rodri- was held by Agustin Fernandez as 2010-11 season. Zaragoza won 2-1 at Levante, saving the club from relegaattacking options. “We decided at Real Madrid on Oct. 25, netted guez controlled Iniesta’s pass, ran he advanced in the area. Cristian tion. Daini said the situation would “require more consideration” if Aguirre to rest him because he’s played four minutes later after he latched forward and unleashed a powerful Rodriguez struck the third from was prosecuted in Spain. three games in a row,” Blanc said. onto Rakitic’s pass. shot inside the near post in the 39th outside the area in the second minute Under Aguirre, who was appointed following a disappointing World Cup per“I think he needed to rest before “We’re confident in what we do before Rafinha deflected his shot of stoppage time. formance by the Blue Samurai, Japan has won three matches and lost three.

we tackle a run of five games (leading up to the winter break).”

Despite not winning any of its past 10 games and only one in the past 14, Lille started brightly and had PSG on the back foot.

Striker Divock Origi forced Sirigu into an early save and the Italian goalie tipped midfielder Florent Balmont’s shot onto the crossbar shortly after.

PSG hit back and took the lead when Brazilian winger Lucas broke through several tackles and released Ezequiel Lavezzi down the right, and his cross was turned in by Cavani for this seventh league goal of the season.

The teams were even in the second half, although Lucas went closest when his shot was pushed onto the bar by Nigeria goalie Vincent Enyeama.

“I’m very happy with the attitude of my players. I think it was pretty even in terms of chances,” Lille coach Rene Girard said.

“We tried to stand up to them with a lot of aggression and determination.” Bordeaux dropped down to fifth place and behind Rennes on goal difference after drawing 0-0 at Metz. Elsewhere, there were important wins for Evian and Guingamp.Paris, France, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

Borussia Dortmund’s coach Juergen Klopp addresses a news conference in Dortmund December 3, 2014. Dortmund faces Hoffenheim at their Bundesliga first division soccer match on Friday.

Slumping Dortmund brace for Hoffenheim high noon Reuters

Barcelona beats Huesca 4-0 JFA backs Aguirre amid match-fixing reports in Spanish Copa del Rey

AP Photo/Christophe Ena

PSG’s Edinson Cavani and PSG’s head coach Laurent Blanc, right, celebrate their victory after the Champions League Group F soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Apoel at the Parc des Princes stadium in

BERLIN - Borussia Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp wants his team to wake from their slumber against Hoffenheim on Friday after a shocking start to the season reached its lowest point last weekend when they slipped to the bottom of the standings. Back-to-back German champions from 2011 and Champions League finalists last year, Dortmund have lost eight of their 13 league games to date and prop up the Bundesliga table on 11 points.

With undefeated leaders Bayern Munich seven points clear at the top as they march towards yet another Bundesliga title, the attention has turned towards the fate of former European champions Dortmund and their struggle to avoid relegation. “Friday is high noon,” Klopp told reporters. “Football has to be played then.” Dortmund have been hit by injuries and some bad luck, having hit the woodwork eight times so far this season.

They have not necessarily been disastrous in their games but they have been lacking their usual efficiency in front of goal with the absence of last season’s top scorer Robert Lewandowski, who joined Bayern, becoming more and more evident.

“I want to change this situation with everything I have at my disposal,” said the German coach, who has been in charge of the club since 2008. “I am still convinced that our work is correct. It is just seems to bear fruit faster at other times. It is not that we became a little stupid overnight and suddenly we do not know what works or doesn’t.”

Dortmund will be facing an in-form Hoffenheim side, who are seventh in the standings and boast one of the best attacks in the league.

What might be of some consolation for Klopp is that Hoffenheim also possess a less than stellar defensive record, having conceded 21 goals in 13 league games.

Still Dortmund, who could have central defender Mats Hummels back from injury, would have to improve their conversion rate in front of goal if they are to get anything out of the game.

“We will analyse our opponent but what is more important is our attitude and not what the opponent has to offer,” Klopp added. “We cannot demand seven chances to score. We have to do it the first time of asking in the situation we find ourselves in at the moment”.

Bayern host third-placed Bayer Leverkusen while second-placed VfL Wolfsburg, three points ahead of Leverkusen, take on Hanover 96.

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PSG fails to take lead after drawing 1-1 at Lille Associated Press

PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain missed the chance to leapfrog Marseille and move into first place in the French league after drawing 1-1 at struggling Lille on Wednesday. Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani put two-time defending champion PSG ahead in the 29th minute but a blunder from goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu gifted Lille Associated Press Writer an equalizer just before halftime.

MANCHESTER, England — Chelsea and Manchester City secured convincing wins in the Premier Sirigu came to collect a corLeague on Wednesday to fuel expectations that it will be a two-team fight for the title this ner and turned the ball into his own net. season, while Alexis Sanchez was a match-winner again for Arsenal. Chelsea preserved He strayed its unbeaten start and six-point lead by defeating London rival Tottenham 3-0 too far off thanks to first-half goals in a three-minute span by Eden Hazard and Didier his line, Drogba, followed by a third from substitute Loic Remy. t h e n let the b a l l It was a predictable loss for Spurs, their performances and all the play- Wenger said. s l i p which hasn’t won at Stamford Bridge ers are having more trust in what “ H e s t i l l under since 1990 — a run that now extends we are doing,” said City manager finds that rehis body, to 28 games. Sergio Aguero is leading Manuel Pellegrini, who hailed the source to get AP Photo/Matt Dunham and ended City’s attempts to haul back Chelsea, continued excellence of Aguero. “At you something Chelsea’s Didier Drogba celebrates scoring his side’s second goal up kicking with the Argentina striker taking the moment, we are seeing very high special.” during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelit over the line his league-high tally to 14 goals by performances from him. Not only is he Coming soon after a 3-0 sea and Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, as he tried to make scoring in each half in a 4-1 win at scoring but he’s playing well as well.” loss to City on Sunday, SouthampWednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. amends. The draw Sunderland. The champions had to City opened up a four-point gap on ton’s fast start to the season is being means that PSG remains one come from a goal down in the 19th third-place Southampton, which con- derailed and the team could drop out point behind Marseille, which minute, with Stevan Jovetic and Pablo ceded an 89th-minute goal to Sanchez of the Champions League places if eran striker Drogba — made the most vain, a humble guy who plays and drew 1-1 at Lorient on Tuesday Zabaleta also scoring at the Stadium in a 1-0 loss at Arsenal. it loses to fourth-place Manchester of a rare start. The Ivory Coast great fights for the team. Fantastic.”

Tottenham’s feeble defense was night. of Light.

The Chile forward has scored 14 United on Monday. Everton drew 1-1 set up Hazard for the opener in the Although PSG extended its With four straight wins in all com- goals in 22 games in all competitions at home to Hull in the other game, with 19th and then scored himself — for the breached again in the 73rd when unbeaten run to 22 games this petitions, City has clearly overcome in his first season in English football, Sone Aluko scoring an equalizer for fifth time since his return to Chelsea substitute striker Remy sidefooted season, coach Laurent Blanc an earlier wobble. By scoring 10 goals with his latest strike hauling Arsenal the visitors as they ended a run of four — after goalkeeper Hugo Lloris’ weak after brushing off Jan Vertonghen. acknowledged that it was yet in its past three games, City looks to up a place to sixth — three points straight losses and climbed out of the clearance was seized on by Hazard Chelsea is undefeated this season in 20 matches and its 23-game unbeaten another below-par performance, be back to the kind of form that swept behind Southampton. “We were jaded relegation zone. Romelu Lukaku gave and Oscar.

“It’s remarkable,” Chelsea man- run in the league and cup equals a following Saturday’s drab 1-0 the team to a second title in three years physically but Alexis Sanchez can dig Everton the lead. home win against Nice. “We have last season. deep and has such desire and a will Diego Costa was suspended for ager Jose Mourinho said of Drogba. club record. mixed feelings because we came “The team is coming again in to win,” Arsenal manager Arsene Chelsea and his replacement — vet- “He’s a team player . not selfish, not here to get three points and take first place. We didn’t manage to do it,” Blanc said. “We’re not happy with the result but Lille deserved to get a point. We still have a lot of room for improvement in terms of how we’re playing.”

Saint-Etienne moved up to Associated Press and I think this will take us closer to off Alex Garcia into goal for Barce- Associated Press third place with a 2-0 win at success,” said Iniesta. “Our effec- lona’s fourth in the 72nd.

Montpellier, thanks to goals from MADRID — Andres Iniesta tiveness and the way we played this Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid TOKYO — The Japan Football Association is standing behind national defenders Florentin Pogba and scored once and provided two assists game made us feel quite relaxed,” swept to a 3-0 victory over third- team coach Javier Aguirre, who reportedly is being investigated for matchPaul Baysse. Rennes improved to help Barcelona romp to a 4-0 rout he said. “What’s important is that tier L’Hospitalet. France midfielder fixing in Spain. to fourth place after winning 2-1 of third-tier Huesca in the last 16 of the players who are in the squad are Antoine Griezmann broke the deadAccording to Spanish media reports, authorities in Spain are moving to at Nice, with goals from winger the Copa del Rey on Wednesday. well equipped to play because titles lock in the 67th minute of the first prosecute Aguirre and some 30 others on suspicion of fixing a La Liga game Paul-Georges Ntep and Danish Ivan Rakitic opened the scoring for aren’t won by just five or six, but by leg match when he headed home against Levante, when he managed Zaragoza in May 2011. JFA chairman midfielder Anders Konradsen.

Barcelona in the 12th minute when a whole team.” defender Jesus Gamez’s cross from Kuniya Daini said “he himself says it’s not a problem and there’s nothing we PSG coach Laurent Blanc’s he struck a free kick into the top left Barcelona reserve goalkeeper the right. can do but believe him.” decision to rest star striker Zlatan corner beyond Huesca goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen made an Gabriel Fernandez converted a Aguirre returned to Japan from Europe on Thursday but did not speak to Ibrahimovic ahead of next week’s Daniel Jimenez’s reach. athletic save from Tyronne del penalty in the 81st after Atletico’s reporters.

Champions League game away Iniesta, who returned from an in- Pino in the 32nd and looked solid attacking midfielder Alessio Cerci The match under investigation was played during the last round of the to Barcelona left PSG short on jury sustained in his team’s 3-1 loss throughout the match. Pedro Rodri- was held by Agustin Fernandez as 2010-11 season. Zaragoza won 2-1 at Levante, saving the club from relegaattacking options. “We decided at Real Madrid on Oct. 25, netted guez controlled Iniesta’s pass, ran he advanced in the area. Cristian tion. Daini said the situation would “require more consideration” if Aguirre to rest him because he’s played four minutes later after he latched forward and unleashed a powerful Rodriguez struck the third from was prosecuted in Spain. three games in a row,” Blanc said. onto Rakitic’s pass. shot inside the near post in the 39th outside the area in the second minute Under Aguirre, who was appointed following a disappointing World Cup per“I think he needed to rest before “We’re confident in what we do before Rafinha deflected his shot of stoppage time. formance by the Blue Samurai, Japan has won three matches and lost three.

we tackle a run of five games (leading up to the winter break).”

Despite not winning any of its past 10 games and only one in the past 14, Lille started brightly and had PSG on the back foot.

Striker Divock Origi forced Sirigu into an early save and the Italian goalie tipped midfielder Florent Balmont’s shot onto the crossbar shortly after.

PSG hit back and took the lead when Brazilian winger Lucas broke through several tackles and released Ezequiel Lavezzi down the right, and his cross was turned in by Cavani for this seventh league goal of the season.

The teams were even in the second half, although Lucas went closest when his shot was pushed onto the bar by Nigeria goalie Vincent Enyeama.

“I’m very happy with the attitude of my players. I think it was pretty even in terms of chances,” Lille coach Rene Girard said.

“We tried to stand up to them with a lot of aggression and determination.” Bordeaux dropped down to fifth place and behind Rennes on goal difference after drawing 0-0 at Metz. Elsewhere, there were important wins for Evian and Guingamp.Paris, France, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

Borussia Dortmund’s coach Juergen Klopp addresses a news conference in Dortmund December 3, 2014. Dortmund faces Hoffenheim at their Bundesliga first division soccer match on Friday.

Slumping Dortmund brace for Hoffenheim high noon Reuters

Barcelona beats Huesca 4-0 JFA backs Aguirre amid match-fixing reports in Spanish Copa del Rey

AP Photo/Christophe Ena

PSG’s Edinson Cavani and PSG’s head coach Laurent Blanc, right, celebrate their victory after the Champions League Group F soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Apoel at the Parc des Princes stadium in

BERLIN - Borussia Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp wants his team to wake from their slumber against Hoffenheim on Friday after a shocking start to the season reached its lowest point last weekend when they slipped to the bottom of the standings. Back-to-back German champions from 2011 and Champions League finalists last year, Dortmund have lost eight of their 13 league games to date and prop up the Bundesliga table on 11 points.

With undefeated leaders Bayern Munich seven points clear at the top as they march towards yet another Bundesliga title, the attention has turned towards the fate of former European champions Dortmund and their struggle to avoid relegation. “Friday is high noon,” Klopp told reporters. “Football has to be played then.” Dortmund have been hit by injuries and some bad luck, having hit the woodwork eight times so far this season.

They have not necessarily been disastrous in their games but they have been lacking their usual efficiency in front of goal with the absence of last season’s top scorer Robert Lewandowski, who joined Bayern, becoming more and more evident.

“I want to change this situation with everything I have at my disposal,” said the German coach, who has been in charge of the club since 2008. “I am still convinced that our work is correct. It is just seems to bear fruit faster at other times. It is not that we became a little stupid overnight and suddenly we do not know what works or doesn’t.”

Dortmund will be facing an in-form Hoffenheim side, who are seventh in the standings and boast one of the best attacks in the league.

What might be of some consolation for Klopp is that Hoffenheim also possess a less than stellar defensive record, having conceded 21 goals in 13 league games.

Still Dortmund, who could have central defender Mats Hummels back from injury, would have to improve their conversion rate in front of goal if they are to get anything out of the game.

“We will analyse our opponent but what is more important is our attitude and not what the opponent has to offer,” Klopp added. “We cannot demand seven chances to score. We have to do it the first time of asking in the situation we find ourselves in at the moment”.

Bayern host third-placed Bayer Leverkusen while second-placed VfL Wolfsburg, three points ahead of Leverkusen, take on Hanover 96.

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GIANYAR - Gianyar Regency is indeed the hub to watch barong dance, sculpture and other types of arts. However, one time try to enjoy its natural attractions because this region also retains many attractions highlighting the interest in nature. Tegenungan Waterfall, for instance, is one of them. The attraction located at

Kemenuh Village offers a unique charm. Its natural aura can really be perceived. Once visiting this nature tourism will definitely make visitors addicted. Tegenungan Waterfall is different from any other waterfalls in Bali. Though it is not situated on a highland or mountain, it remains to offer beautiful natural scenery. Its height is about 4 meters and has very heavy torrents. Its crystal

clear water is very suitable for bathing or just playing around.

It is approximately 30 km from Denpasar or 13 km from the city of Gianyar.

Its scenery is so beautiful and enriched by lush tropical green trees growing on the riverbank.

Around the area, there are several bathing places with multiple showers coming out from natural springs. Surrounding residents

frequently take bath and fetch water here for daily consumption.

Similarly, travelers coming here often take advantage of the shower.

By and large, they use it to cleanse their face or refresh the body.

At particular time, the shower located near the temple is crowded with local residents because they perform a melasti procession, a series of deva yajna ceremony held by the Hindus community

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in Bali. If you want to capture an amazing picture, you should come in the afternoon or evening. This happens because the waterfall overlooks the west, so that it will be difficult to get an interesting photograph in the morning as disrupted by sunlight. To reach the waterfall from parking lot, you should go down some 150 stairs.

Afterward, go along the banks of the Petanu River.

Associated Press

HOUSTON — The Houston Rockets overcame the absence of three starters to beat Memphis 105-96 on Wednesday, moving within one game of the Grizzlies, who sit atop the NBA’s Southwest Division.

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Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph grabs a defensive rebound between Houston Rockets forward Donatas Motiejunas (20), Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol and Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn.

Del Potro to defend Sydney title after Brisbane return Reuters

SYDNEY - Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro has confirmed he will defend his Sydney International title in January after making his return from 10 months on the sidelines in Brisbane the previous week. The Argentine last played on the ATP Tour when he retired from his opening match at the Dubai International in February and underwent surgery on his left wrist in late March.

Despite having a protected ranking of seventh in the world, the 26-year-old can only use it at a limited number of events and opted to take a wild card for the Sydney tournament, a warm-up for the Australian Open. “I love playing in Sydney.

The city and the fans are great and I can’t wait to come back and defend my title,” he said in a news release.

“Last year, I played some of my best tennis there and it is the perfect way to start the year. I am looking forward to being back in Sydney as it is one of my favourite cities to play.”

In the day’s other notable results, Dallas’ Monta Ellis came up with the clutch shot for the second straight night as the Mavericks edged Milwaukee, San Antonio’s eight-game winning streak ended in an overtime loss at Brooklyn, and Philadelphia finally got its first win of the season after 17 straight defeats.

Houston played without three starters, including Dwight Howard who missed his seventh straight game with a strained right knee. James Harden scored 21 points, and Trevor Ariza and Jason Terry added 16 as the Rockets ended Memphis’ run of five straight losses.

The Grizzlies’ only two prior losses this season had been by a combined five points but they were never in the contest this time. They trailed by a competitive 12 points at half time, but that ballooned out to 26 entering the fourth quarter. Dallas won 107105 at Milwaukee, thanks to a wild, fallaway jumper at the buzzer by Monta Ellis.

The same player had, the previous match, sunk clutch baskets at the end of regulation and in double overtime to beat Chicago. Ellis scored 23, with eight in the final two minutes on what otherwise had been a bad shooting night for the

After his triumph at Flushing Meadows in 2009, Del Potro’s career was severely disrupted by surgery on his right wrist in 2010 before he battled his way back into the top 10 again. His victory over local defending champion Bernard Tomic in the Sydney International final in January gave him his 18th career title.

Mavericks’ top scorer, playing against his former team.

The Mavericks won their fifth in a row while resting Dirk Nowitzki because of a sore back. Brandon Knight scored 25 points for the Bucks in their third straight loss. Brooklyn’s Mirza Teletovic had a season-high 26 points and a career-best 15 rebounds starting in place of Kevin Garnett, leading the Net past San Antonio 95-93 in overtime.

The Nets regrouped in overtime after blowing a 14-point lead in the final 5 minutes of regulation and for the first time this season managed to beat a team with a positive win-loss record. Danny Green had 20 points, 10 rebounds and the tying 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds left in regulation for the Spurs.

Philadelphia avoided tying the record for the worst start to a season in NBA history, ending their 0-17 skid with an 857 7 victory over Minnesota.

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A police officer raises a warning sign against protesters outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014. Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city’s streets for more than two months.

Hong Kong student leaders mull protest retreat Associated Press

HONG KONG — Hong Kong student leaders said Thursday they’re considering retreating from protest sites on city streets after more than two months in the latest sign that momentum is fading in their movement for greater democracy. Members of the Hong Kong Federation of Students said Thursday that they’re mulling whether to stay or go, with spokeswoman Yvonne Leung telling a local radio station that the group hopes to come to a decision within the next week.

The protesters have few options left after rallying supporters in a failed bid earlier this week to surround government headquarters that resulted in a night of violent clashes with police armed with batons and pepper spray. Public support for the protesters has fallen as the government has stuck to its apparent strategy of waiting them out.

Prominent student leader Joshua Wong said on his social media accounts that his group will discuss and coordinate with the

federation on the decision. Wong, 18, and four other members of his Scholarism group started a hunger strike this week to try to force the government to resume talks over the students’ demands, which include dropping Beijing’s requirement to screen candidates for inaugural 2017 elections. The two groups have played key roles in organizing the protests.

On “withdrawing or not withdrawing, any tactics, any methods will be considered,” Tommy Cheung, another federation member,

told reporters. “The federation will discuss the next step in our plan. ...

At the moment there’s no clear-cut decision.”

The talk of retreat comes after the founders of Occupy Central, which also played a role in the protests, called this week for the students to end the protests to avoid further violence. The three founders and about 60 supporters turned themselves into police Wednesday in a symbolic move to show they wanted to move on to a new phase of the movement, but police let them go.

MANILA — Villagers fled coastal homes and sparked panicbuying in grocery stores and gas stations in the central Philippines on Thursday as an approaching powerful storm brought back nightmares of last year’s deadly onslaught from Typhoon Haiyan.

Government forecasters said Typhoon Hagupit, which was packing sustained winds of 195 kilometers (122 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 230 kph (143 mph), may hit Eastern Samar province on Saturday and barrel inland along the same route where Haiyan leveled villages and left more than 7,300 dead and missing in November last year.

Haiyan survivor Emily Sagales said many of her still-edgy neighbors in central Tacloban city, which was ravaged by Haiyan, packed their clothes and fled to a sports stadium and safer homes of relatives. Long lines formed at grocery stores and gas stations as residents hoarded basic goods, she said.

“The trauma has returned,” the 23-year-old Sagales said. In the wake of last year’s typhoon,

which killed her mother-in-law and destroyed her home, she gave birth to a baby girl in a crowded makeshift clinic filled with the injured and the dying near the Tacloban airport. “It’s worse now because I didn’t have a baby to worry about last year,” said Sagales.

Haiyan had demolished about 1 million houses and displaced about 4 million people in the central Philippines. Hundreds of residents still in tents in Tacloban were prioritized in the ongoing evacuation.

Hotels in Tacloban, which barely recovered from the massive damage, were running out of rooms as wealthier families booked ahead for the weekend.

“The sun is still shining but people are obviously scared. Almost all of our rooms have been booked,” said Roan Florendo of the hilltop Leyte Park hotel, which lies near San Pedro Bay in Tacloban.

The government put the military on full alert, workers opened evacuation centers and transported food packs to far-flung villages, which could be cut off by heavy rains.

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From page 1 Related to the targets of the ministry of tourism to reach 20 million tourist arrivals to Bali in 2019, the advisor of the ASITA Bali, Bagus Sudibya, was optimistic to achieve it as long as it could be supported by all stakeholders ranging from the government, tourism players to communities around the tourist destinations.

“Geographically and demographically, Indonesia which is six times larger than Malaysia and Singapore must be visited by more travelers. However, in order to increase tourist arrivals, the accessibility, presence of tourist object, human resource readiness to face the AEC, and other factors must be improved,” he explained.

Human resources of Bali, said Bagus Sudibya, remained competitive in the AEC and were ready to host. Balinese human resources had plus value on soft skills, especially in terms of hospitality field. “Balinese Dance presented by native Balinese dancers will look more animate compared to Balinese Dance presented by the other dancers. Meanwhile, the tour guide had more taksu or divine vibration to explain

about Besakih than tour guides of non-native Balinese. This value must be well maintained and improved,” he concluded.

Co-General Manager of Angkasa Pura 1, I Gusti Ngurah Ardita, when contacted apologized for any inconvenience might have been caused in the area of the Ngurah Rai Airport, especially at the international arrival terminal. “We’re sorry because we are currently still making improvement so that the complaints of stakeholders can be resolved,” he said.

He admitted to have made coordination with the ASITA, the Indonesia Tour Guides Association (HPI) and Immigration Office in order the services provided at the airport would not kindle bad impression in the eyes of visitors and other users. “We have invited the board of the ASITA, the Indonesia Tour Guides Association (HPI) and Immigration Office to have looked around about the conditions in the field. Surely, we will continue to improve based on the inputs. One of them, at this time we are still doing an arrangement, so that please accept our apologies,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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INDONESIA Indonesia will sink three illegal vessel on Saturday Antara

JAKARTA - Authorities will sink three foreign-flagged illegal fishing vessels next Saturday (Dec 7), Coordinating Minister for Political, Law and Security Affairs Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said on Thursday.

“This is a tough move by the Indonesian government against illegal fishing activities in our territory,” Tedjo stated after meeting with President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace here on Thursday.

According to him, authorities had earlier seized three ships allegedly fishing illegally in Indonesian waters. After thorough investigations, authorities came to the conclusion that the crew of the three ships had indeed been illegally fishing and therefore will be held guilty of violating regulations in Indonesia.

The three ships will be sunk in Anambas waters in Riau island area.

“It can be burnt or blasted. The message here is that nobody can violate our regulation,” noted Tedjo.

Earlier, the Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief General Moeldoko remarked that

the TNI was looking for the best possible way to sink foreign vessels fishing illegally in Indonesian waters.

“I have ordered the Naval chief of staff to find the best possible way in accordance with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s instruction to sink foreign illegal fishing vessels in Indonesian waters so as not to reap global criticism,” Moeldoko stated.

He stressed that while he wanted the TNI to carry out the President’s order, he also wanted it to take a subjective view.

Therefore, he held a meeting with TNI high-ranking officers to discuss more elegant ways, which may be internationally acceptable, to sink foreign vessels caught fishing illegally in Indonesian waters.

“More importantly, Indonesia is as

firm as any other country against illegal fishing and other illegal activities,” the TNI chief affirmed.

Moeldoko also observed that the TNI will step up patrolling across Indonesian waters.

“The TNI Western Fleet Command and Eastern Fleet Command will conduct patrols across Indonesian waters to deal with illegal fishing activities,” he noted.

Meanwhile, Naval Chief of Staff Admiral Marsetio observed that although the Indonesian Air Force has the main radar, the Navy has also installed its radar along the Malacca Strait.

“We have covered the entire Malacca Strait. Besides that, the Navy also has a warship as mobile radar to make surface, air, and underwater contacts,” Marsetio added.

BI predicts downward trend in economic growth Antara

JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia (BI) has forecast that the country’s economic growth in 2015 will show a downward trend, even lower than BI’s estimate of 5.4-5.8 percent.

The central bank’s deputy governor Hendar remarked here on Thursday that Indonesia’s economy would continue to remain favorable in the future following the government’s bold decision to increase the price of subsidized fuel oils.

He, however, pointed out that it would all still be determined by the reallocation of fuel subsidy funds.

Hendar expressed hope that the global economy in 2015 would be better than this year, despite several lingering challenges.

“Under the current circumstances, we can assure that the country’s economy would grow around 5.4 percent in 2014,” he affirmed.

The government has set a growth target of 5.8 percent in the 2015 budget, which is above BI’s prediction.

Zulkifli Zaini, the general chairman of the Indonesian Bankers Association, has noted that in order to achieve 5.8 percent growth minimally, a credit growth of 17.4 percent, or three times the economic growth, would be needed.

The Financial Service Authority (OJK) has projected banking credit growth of 15 to 17 percent for 2015.

A. Prasentiantoko, the chief economist of state-owned Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN), stated that Indonesia could achieve higher growth if the current account deficit could be better managed to stay under three percent.

Death execution awaiting a nod from attorney general Antara

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A volunteer clears rubbish from the Ciliwung River in the Jatinegara district of Jakarta, December 3, 2014. More than 1,000 soldiers and volunteers cleared 80 tons of rubbish after flooding hit parts of the capital last week, local media reported.

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JAKARTA - Execution of the death sentence of five convicts is awaiting a letter from the Attorney General, a government official said.

Appeal for clemency by the five convicts has been rejected by the president, therefore, their verdict has been final, Coordinating Minister for Political Affairs, Security and Law Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said on Thursday.

Altogether there are 64 convicts in the death row including foreigners to be executed but only five of them having no legal channel left for appeal, Tedjo said after a meeting with President Joko Widodo.

He said the execution is to be carried out this month but implementation needs approval from the attorney general.

The attorney general will say the names of the convicts, he added.

“The execution is not ordered by the president, but the president has passed order that the legal process must be properly carried out. That is in line with the government commitment in law enforcement,” he said.

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MOSCOW — Oyster Bar built a thriving business serving mollusks to well-heeled Muscovites.

Then came Western sanctions, and the restaurant was forced to rechristen itself this fall. Today, it serves up burgers and pizza under a new name: No Oyster Bar.

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Co-owner Ilya Sokhin said a Russian ban on European oyster imports hit hard, and the average check at his restaurant — a sleek new building in the famous Gorky Park — has more than halved.

Russia’s economy has been battered this year by uncertainty over the conflict in Ukraine, the falling price of oil, Western sanctions and retaliatory Russian import bans. Poor and middleclass Russians are increasingly challenging government insistence that a 40 percent drop in the value of the ruble — now worth a record low of 54 to the dollar — will affect mainly the rich.

Approval ratings have so far remained high for President Vladimir Putin, who has staked the reputation on Russia’s reemergence as an economic powerhouse after the turbulent 1990s. But Putin, who will give his annual state of the nation address on Thursday, faces growing anger from middle-class families and even poorer Russians as their quality of life declines.

Mikhail Antonov, a 27-yearold manager at a children’s goods store, had saved up this year to drive with friends from Moscow to Germany, and spend a week visiting Christmas markets and the countryside. But the 30,000 rubles he has saved up have gone from being worth 670 euros ($830) at the start of the year to less than 450 euros ($560) today,

and he has canceled the trip.

“This would have been my first trip abroad and my girlfriend and I had saved up,” he said.

“Now because of the situation in Europe and Ukraine, everything has gotten more expensive and our savings have been reduced to nothing.”

According to Vladimir Kantorovich, vice president of Russia’s Tour Operator Association, travel abroad for the winter holidays is down 30 percent, and trips to Europe have fallen about 50 percent. On Wednesday, Russia’s flagship airline, Aeroflot, hiked its ruble-denominated prices by 15 percent.

Olga Kupriyanova, a 35-yearold law professor at Moscow State University, says her family of four feels the pinch particularly when it comes to putting food on the table. Inflation is estimated to reach 10 percent by early next year, and food is rising fastest. According to the Federal Statistics Service, chicken costs 27 percent more than it did last year, pork 25 percent, and the beloved staple of buckwheat 48 percent. Russians on average spend about 30 percent of their income on food, compared with 6.7 percent in the United States.

“We’ve started to economize on food, but nonetheless because of rising prices our expenses have grown by about 10 percent,” said Kupriyanova, who has replaced red meat with chicken and cut

most cheese and fish out of the family’s diet.

Russia’s economic woes stem from a trifecta of problems.

First, oil and gas exports, which finance half of Russia’s budget, have been hit by the plummet in world markets: the global price of crude oil has fallen some 25 percent since the summer. Renaissance Capital analyst Oleg Kouzmin says if prices stay there, Russia could see its economy shrink by 3 percent next year.

Second, Russia’s banks, which were slapped with sanctions this summer as a response to Moscow’s role in Ukraine, have to pay off $90 billion in external debt before the end of 2015, which is becoming harder by the day as the ruble loses value. The central bank had tried to support the ruble but after spending $29 billion in October alone it gave up and floated the currency last month.

Finally, Russia banned Western meat, dairy, vegetables and fruit this summer in response to the sanctions, helping drive the steep spike in prices.

On Tuesday, Russia’s economic development ministry revised its economic forecast for 2015, predicting a drop of 0.8 percent instead of 1.2 percent growth.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has said the sanctions are costing Russia $40 billion a year, and falling oil prices another $90$100 billion.

China says 100 million ‘outbound trips’ this year Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - Chinese travellers have taken 100 million “outbound” trips this year, officials said, with the vast majority visiting Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Just under four percent of the 100 million trips counted up to the end of November were to Europe,

China’s state tourism administration said Wednesday, while 90 percent were within Asia.

Although Beijing considers self-governing Taiwan as part of China along with Hong Kong and Macau, the tourism administration said that nearly 71 percent of “outbound” trips were to the three territories.

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Ahead of cremation ceremony on Dec 9

Western sanctions, ruble crash hit Russians hard

People walk past a display with currency exchange rates at Kievskaya (Kiev’s) railway station in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014.

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The total number of people travelling abroad was not given but the figures call into doubt previous reports that some 97 million Chinese did so last year.

Six countries -- South Korea, Thailand, Japan, the United States, Vietnam and Singapore -- have seen more than one million trips

by Chinese citizens so far this

year, the administration said on its website.

China’s economy has boomed over the past decade, expanding the ranks of its middle-class who are hungry for foreign travel after the country’s decades of isolation in the last century.

European Union and Asian countries have moved to ease visa

application procedures for Chinese tourists in recent years, keen to cash in on their big-spending habits.

Chinese travellers spent $102 billion overseas in 2012, making them the world’s biggest spenders ahead of Germans and US tourists, the UN World Tourism Organization has said.

Ubud artists prepare bade tower Bali Post

GIANYAR - Taking place in front of the Ubud Palace, dozens of residents looked so enthusiastic to prepare bade tower (used to carry corpse to cemetery) whose structure has reached a height of 23 meters. The eleven-tiered bade tower is specially designed as an offering in the cremation ceremony to the inventor of the Sosrobahu road construction technique, Dr. Tjokorda Raka Sukawati, to be held on Tuesday (Dec 9).

The bade tower has been worked on since mid-November by some 40 artists from Ubud Palace. When completed, the grandeur of the bade will be always getting spotlight from foreign travelers due to soaring as high as 24 meters and has the weight of six to seven tons. “This best work will be presented to him, the native son to Ubud who has scented the name of this nation,” said Dr. Tjokorda Gde Raka Sukawati.

Tjok De, the nickname of Tjokorda Gde Raka Sukawati, said that all parties were vivacious in preparing the bade tower.

However, since the time was very short, he claimed to be working overtime to devote the aesthetics of the bade architecture. “As the time is very short, we must work extra hard by overtime to accomplish this bade tower,” he said.

Meanwhile, the ritual procession of cremation would be commenced on December 3 known as nancap karya and then bathing the corpse on Saturday (Dec 6). After that, it would be resumed with the cremation procession on Tuesday (Dec 9).

Meanwhile, Tjokorda Gede Abinanda Sukawati met on the sidelines of the bade making revealed that he was very much remembered the figure Dr. Tjokorda Raka Sukawati, the inventor of Sosrobahu technique who died on November 11, 2014.

The pioneer of Ubud who died at the age of 85 years was known as a father who wanted to give the freedom of expression

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and time discipline to his children. “The deceased father is a simple figure and gives us freedom to choose to be anything, provided that it is pursued seriously and if possible should get an outstanding achievement,” said the man familiarly addressed Tjok Abi. He told that even though he had lived in Jakarta since the age of three years old, the deceased always required him speaking Balinese language. It was made so that his children would not forget the Balinese identity, values and culture. “In Jakarta, when I did not greet in Balinese language, he did not want to reply. A.A. Istri Manik and I always instilled not to forget the local Balinese culture, especially Balinese language,” said the design lecturer at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI).

Before his death, the deceased left a message to Tjok Abi to maintain the Sosrobahu road construction technique legally.

The Sosrobahu technique is the construction technique used mainly to rotate the shoulder of concrete flyover. With this technique, the arm of flyover can be rotated up to 90 degrees so as not to disturb the traffic flow underneath. Sosrobahu technology is successfully working on the flyover project spreading between Cawang and Tanjung Priok, Jakarta. “This technique IBP/Manik is now widely used in the Philippines. He only left a message to keep this legacy Taking place in front of the Ubud Palace, dozens of residents looked so enthusias(the Sosrobahu technique—Ed) legally,” tic to prepare bade tower (used to carry corpse to cemetery) whose structure has he said. (nik) reached a height of 23 meters.

Again, visitor to Besakih complains

AMLAPURA - Apparently there are visitors to Besakih Temple remaining to be treated uncomfortably. The Head of Karangasem Tourism and Culture Agency, Nyoman Purna, admitted in Amlapura there were still complaints from visitors as they felt to have been exploited or treated uncomfortably.

Actually, said Purna, his party already provided guidance for local guides of Besakih at the office of Rendang subdistrict head. At that time, the speakers presented were from the Bali Government Tourism Office, Bali Municipal Police, Rendang Leadership Council, headman of Besakih and chief of Besakih customary village. “At Besakih,

there are almost 400 local tour guides divided into 4 shifts per day.

Indeed, some have been locally licensed, some others are unlicensed, while the remaining never participated in training,” he said.

When provided with coaching, local guides admitted and did not deny if any of them did cheating.

However, the group leader said the cheating was not committed during their working hours, but beyond theirs. Allegedly, these individuals were often suspected of cheating.

Purna admitted that complaint of visitors having been blackmailed or treated less comfortably at Besakih remained to exist. Related to these issues, his party had ever given a hard choice, whether the Besakih Temple should be delisted from the

status as tourist attraction. Actually, the county government was easy to close by delisting Besakih from the tourist destination. It could be taken if there was no change or local tourism players were not willing to change and keep the image or the sanctity and Besakih area as tourist attraction.

According to him, poor behavior of the tourism players at Besakih that did not want to be patient by looking for income dishonestly—namely getting much on the same day—could harm the image of Bali in its entirety.

“Similarly, I already delivered that travel agencies actually wanted to boycott the Besakih destination if the unscrupulous local players remain unwilling to change their

mindset and maintain the image of Besakih,” said Purna.

As the recent case, a native Balinese visitor coming to Besakih to escort his Muslim friend admitted to have been blackmailed. An unscrupulous canang oblation and incense trader forced to purchase her goods as mentioned in the rules.

Meanwhile, the visitor claimed to be Nyoman Dika had published his complaint in Bali Post on November 29 and forwarded it to Tourism Agency, where the local tour guide initially claimed to be a volunteer that provided escort services. At the end of the visit, the tour guide was given a tip worth IDR 50,000 but he claimed it inadequate and even asked for more. “As a native Balinese, I was embarrassed with

my friend related to the incident.

If my complaint gets no response, I will publish it to national media,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Regional Secretary of Karangasem government, Gde Adnya Mulyadi, said the regent of Karangasem had actually established a Besakih Area Controlling Team chaired by the Rendang subdistrict head. It had the tasks to discipline the individuals having treated visitors uncomfortably such as blackmailing or forcing them to buy merchandise or to use their services. Besides, it should also organize and discipline the traders so that they would not sell near the temple. “I do not know whether the team is still effective or not,” he said. (013)

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More than 50 percent of people have no private toilet Bali Post

AMLAPURA - The ownership of private toilet in Karangasem subdistrict only reaches about 45.4 percent based on the study conducted by EHRA in Karangasem subdistrict in July-August 2014, with a total sample of 335 households in each village. The samples indicate that people who do not have private toilet in Karangasem subdistrict reach more than 50 percent. Even, at each village, the number of people defecated at offhand place was still high. Results of the studies illustrate if the sanitation in Karangasem County is quite serious.

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The officers from Karangasem Government giving explaination on sanitation in a village.

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The Head of Karangasem Development Planning Board, I Ketut Merta Sedana, admitted that many people still did not have toilet in Karangasem subdistrict. Actually, when compared to other regions, Karangasem subdistrict was more advanced as the heart of Karangasem. As happened at Karangasem village and Subagan village, including the Bukit and Seraya Timur village, the number of people defecating haphazardly was still high, more than 20 percent. Meanwhile, the other villages were still under 20 percent.

Public awareness was still considered very low as they still often disposed of waste haphazardly. In Karangasem subdistrict, approximately 76.7 percent of people still disposed of rubbish on vacant land or in the field.

“This indicates a worrying condition of people’s behavior due to their lack of awareness about the importance of sanitation,” he said, Wednesday (Dec 3).

Associated with the government’s efforts to change the behavior of Karangasem people defecating as well as disposing of waste water and garbage properly, the Karangasem government organized a sanitation campaign at Susuan hamlet, Karangasem subdistrict, Wednesday (Dec 03).

This activity was attended by 204 people from all agencies in the

lineups of Karangasem government as well as headmen and hamlet chief across Karangasem subdistrict.

On that occasion, Sedana Mertha admitted that to address the sanitation issues, the government would conduct a Memorandum of Sanitation Sector Program (MPSS) with the planning of sanitation development for the period of 5 years. However, his party did not reveal any program to be done in addressing the sanitation problems.

Meanwhile, related to the waste problem, his party planned to buy plastic waste and do sorting at landfill.

“Wastewater will be overcome by the construction of communal wastewater treatment plan for urban areas and optimization of the IPLT Linggasana. Meanwhile, for drain sector, we will develop and rehabilitate the drain channels and river normalization,” he said.

The Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, said that all this time the sanitation program was only focused on the infrastructural development. It was the reason why the sanitary condition in Karangasem was unable to be repaired. To that end, he said the program would be transferred to the socialization of sanitation through the awareness of healthy living campaign. (dwa)

Collectors start to sort tobacco leaves

SINGARAJA - Production of tobacco leaf processing in Buleleng becomes a significant potential that can be further developed maximally. Toward the end of this year, the harvest of tobacco leaves is known to have come to an end.

It is discernible from a number of lands harvested by farmers that only left the tobacco stalks. Now, the tobacco leaves collected get drying process in an oven. After that, they

are sorted and sold to collectors at a number of tobacco leaf processing plant in Buleleng.

A number of housewives killed their time by sorting or sifting tobacco leaves based on quality classification. They worked from the morning to evening accompanied by a pile of tobacco leaves that have undergone drying process in the oven. Farmers get tobacco leaves from several paddy fields in the area around Sukasada, Tegallinggah and Panji. Some leaves looked

rotten after dried in the oven and then were separated from the leaves having prominent quality.

“From the nursery to harvest tobacco leaves farmers make cooperation with collectors. This may take six months. This year, the result of tobacco farming is less than the last year’s production.

It tends to happen because many tobacco leaves were infected by viruses,” said Luh Wardani, 42, a tobacco leaf collector from Dauh Margi hamlet, Pemaron village,

Buleleng, when met on Tuesday afternoon (Dec 2).

According to Wardani, accompanied by her husband, Kadek Kertana, 47, she involved approximately twenty housewives to help the sorting process of the tobacco leaves with various qualities. Her classification was based on the type of tobacco leaf in terms of the structure of leaves that were not rotten or damaged.

Meanwhile, the land area in use reached 5 hectares with an esti-

mated land contract rate of IDR 80,000 per hectare.

“It is quite difficult to grow tobacco seedlings, moreover from the hoeing of humus soil, selection of excellent tobacco seeds, spraying virus, harvesting process to sorting high-quality tobacco leaf as the last process. The price of dried tobacco leaf belonging to first class was sold for IDR 36,000 per kilogram, second class for IDR 35,000 per kg, and the class extends to fifth class,” she added. (kmb34)

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China marks Constitution Day amid legal push

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — China on Thursday marked its first Constitution Day as part of President Xi Jinping’s drive to show that the country embraces rule of law while ensuring that the ruling Communist Party holds on to its unrivaled authority. The new holiday was being commemorated with nationwide activities in schools, government offices and state-owned companies.

It is part of Xi’s campaign to institutionalize the party’s powers while strengthening the country’s legal system to reduce corruption and improve government efficiency.

Scores of serving and retired top officials have been detained on corruption charges.

“The constitution is the highest law of the country and embodies the will of the party and the people,” Xi said in remarks published on the front page of the Communist Party flagship newspaper People’s Daily.

China needs more awareness of the

constitution and better understanding of the role of law, Xi said.

Critics point to inherent contradictions in the rule of law campaign, including the party’s refusal to accept independent oversight and honor constitutional guarantees such as the right to free speech and religious assembly. Activists who have advocated stricter adherence to the constitution as a way of holding the country’s leaders accountable typically have been treated as subversives and have been detained.

China has enacted four constitutions since the communist state’s founding in 1949, with the current version adopted in 1982. Its first article forbids any challenge to the country’s socialist system, though it does not explicitly mention the Communist Party’s control of the country.

However, in an editorial Thursday, People’s Daily asserted that the primacy of the Communist Party was an essential element of the constitution.

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In this Dec. 3, 2014 photo, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate for a Tokyo district, right, speaks with a voter during a lower house election campaign rally at a subway station in Tokyo.

Polls: Japan ruling party landslide in coming vote

Associated Press Writer

TOKYO — Japan’s ruling party may be headed toward an even larger-than-anticipated victory in upcoming national elections, according to major media polls published Thursday. The Liberal Democratic Party could take more than 300 of the 475 seats in Japan’s lower house election on Dec. 14, Japan’s major newspapers and Kyodo news service said, based on voter surveys each did.

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, June 4, 2014, a vendor sells commemorative plates with images of Chinese President Xi Jinping and late Chinese leader Mao Zedong near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

A resounding victory could help Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tackle politically difficult issues such as opening up Japan’s agriculture markets and restarting nuclear power plants.

Abe’s Liberal Democrats had 295 seats in the lower house before

he dissolved it last month to force a snap election. His party and coalition partner Komeito are widely expected to win the election, but many analysts have been predicting that they would lose some seats.

The polls indicate they will at least retain their large majority and

possibly even build on it. However, many voters are still undecided, so the results could be different.

The largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, would win about 70 seats, Kyodo said in its projection, about a 10-seat gain but short of its goal of 100.

lia their permanent home.

More than 30,000 asylum seekers who arrived on Australian shores since August 2012 have yet to have their refugees claims assessed because the government doesn’t want them to stay permanently.

The asylum seekers, who fled persecution and fighting in the

Middle East and Asia, live in immigration detention camps or in the community under bridging visas that do not permit them to work.

The government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants the Senate to pass legislation that would create a temporary three-year visa for the genuine refugees among them. They could be sent back to

their homelands if the threat of persecution had diminished by the time their visas expired. Refugees could get a five-year visa if they agreed to live and work in areas that are struggling with labor shortages.

Critics argue that such temporary visas would deprive refugees of certainty and stability in their

lives because they would still have to move after their visas expire.

Until recently, the government was six votes short of passing the bill. Australian media reports Thursday said the government had obtained the support of five senators and needed just one more to get a majority in the 76-seat Senate.

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Australia considers temporary visas for refugees

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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s Parliament on Thursday appeared close to passing a bill creating a new class of temporary visas for refugees that will allow them to stay and work in the country for three to five years but prevent them from making Austra-

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Victoria’s Secret ‘Angels’ strut in London for first time

Agence France-Presse

LONDON - Top models wearing gold wings and diamond-encrusted bras strutted the London catwalk on Tuesday in the first Victoria’s Secret annual lingerie show to be held in the British capital.

The event was billed as the US company’s most expensive ever with a price tag of $20 million (16 million euros), and featured some of the world’s best-paid models including Brazil’s Adriana Lima.

Only the second time the show has been held outside the United States since 1995, the event began on a glamourous note with the so-called “Victoria’s Secret Angels” dressed in white and sporting gold wings.

“The show is seen in 192 countries, the show is seen by 500 million people. That is completely unique in the industry. No one does what we do,” marketing director Ed Razek said.

Wearing long dark tresses and capes, Lima and fellow Brazilian Alessandra Ambrosio exhibited “Fantasy Bras” created by jeweller Mouawad, each studded with 16,000 precious stones including diamonds, rubies and sapphires valued at $2 million.

A change in ambiance arrived in the fourth section of the show, which was hosted by Grande and was dedicated to the brand’s more casual PINK line aimed at students, with

models dressed in leopard prints and bright colours.

Irish musician Hozier then performed his hit debut “Take Me to Church” as models dressed in pale green and pink with transparent fairy wings strutted in a magical setting of white trees and autumn leaves.

Among the 47 “Angels” chosen to represent the brand were Candice Swanepoel, Behati Prinsloo, Doutzen Kroes and Karlie Kloss -- the latter appeared wearing 18-carat gold wings.

Created in 1977 and with 1,000 stores in the United States, Victoria’s Secret is the market leader there and made $6.68 billion from sales last year.

It has been on the British market since 2005 and has a flagship store on London’s New Bond Street, one of 15 outlets in the country.

The flashy brand is not to everyone’s taste, however.

Three British students led a successful social media campaign that forced the company earlier this month to change its adverts featuring models wearing its new “Body” bras under the slogan: “The Perfect ‘Body’.”

The ad now reads: “A Body for Every Body.”

But Razek dismissed the controversy as “absurd” as he said the company had never intended to present “an example of the one and only perfect body in the world”.

Describing the models as “healthy” and “confident”, Razek said that those who performed in the show were “genuinely nice women” who defied stereotypes.

“The image of a vacuous supermodel who never eats and only worries about what she looks like is certainly not the image of our girls,” he said.

Swedish model Elsa Hosk said she had prepared for the show, which has helped launch the career of several famous supermodels, with “a lot of different workouts” including a mix of ballet and boxing.

“It’s one of the biggest shows that you can walk in as a model,” she told AFP ahead of the event.

“It’s such an honour for a model to walk in this show, just because it’s huge publicity for us.”

Dutch model Kroes said: “It feels really special.”

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DENPASAR - The rain having flushed the city of Denpasar caused floods at some points such as on Jalan Pidada, North Denpasar. It also made some markets muddy, where one of which was the Badung Market. Muddy condition typically occurred in the market courtyard, but this time was different. Muddy condition even occurred in the market and it was visible from the entrance of the first and third floor.

Precisely the muddy area occurred at the staircase in the eastern part of the market. Of course, it was very disturbing the convenience of visitors. Therefore, they should walk carefully, especially the elderly and the market visitors carrying a lot of stuff. They had to set foot carefully to feel whether the floor was slippery or not.

According to one of the tour guides, Sukarmi, it had already happened from long time ago. It was kindled by the water seepage from the walls occurred every rainy season. “Such condition always happens whereas the walls of the building have been covered by ceramic, but the water still comes through,” she explained.

When asked about the comfort of

travelers she escorted, she said there were no any comments. “Travelers did not give comment regarding the condition of water. They preferred to look at the interaction of buying and selling,” she added.

It was different from the comment given by the owner of Eagle necklace accessories shop located on the third floor who was asking for anonymity. The man was deeply disturbed by such condition. Seepage of water right in front of his shop often caused visitors to slip and fall down. “Here, many visitors often tucked, even some of them fall down,” he said.

To avoid more visitors or traders from falling, he place a piece of cardboard on the floor. This solution did not much help because of the seepage had caused the cardboard quickly destroyed.

Sukarmi revealed the seepage was alleged to originate from the building on the fourth floor. “Quality of the plumbing above was not good, so this condition happens like this,” she described. She hoped the management of PD Pasar Kota Denpasar could immediately take action regarding the problems in the market, so as not to become a seasonal problem. (sos)

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Model Behati Prinsloo displays a creation at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in London, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.

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Model Maud Welzen displays a creation at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in London, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.

Aburizal Bakrie announces central executive board members DENPASAR - The newly-elected general chairman of the Golkar Party, Aburizal Bakrie, on Thursday announced his central executive board comprising 199 members, including MS Hidayat as executive chairman.

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The newly-elected general chairman of the Golkar Party, Aburizal Bakrie, on Thursday announced his central executive board comprising 199 members, including MS Hidayat as executive chairman.

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Model Lais Ribeiro displays a creation at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in London, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.

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Heavy rain, building of Badung Market muddy

Supermodel Naomi Campbell launches Ebola fashion pop-up LONDON - British supermodel Naomi Campbell launched a pop-up fashion shop in east London to raise awareness of the spread of Ebola on Thursday.

Sporting a thick fringe and wearing a plunging grey dress, Campbell showed off party dresses, glittery high heels and other pieces donated by designers and friends to be sold at the store.

The “Fashion for Relief” shop, a fundraising drive founded

by Campbell after the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005, will be open for one week at the Westfield shopping centre in east London.

“Raising awareness for Ebola and educating about its prevention is crucial to help prevent the spread of this deadly disease,” Campbell said in a statement ahead of the opening.

“We hope the Fashion For Relief store will raise much-needed funds and awareness, whilst offering amazing pieces at accessible prices.”

Campbell was joined at the launch by fellow Londoners rapper Tinie Tempah and actor Idris Elba, famous for playing character Stringer Bell in TV show The Wire and Nelson Mandela in a 2013 biopic.

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Rain made some markets muddy, where one of which was the Badung Market. Muddy condition typically occurred in the market courtyard, but this time was different. Muddy condition even occurred in the market and it was visible from the entrance of the first and third floor.

“The board has 199 members, including nine deputy general chairpersons and one executive chairman, MS Hidayat,” Aburizal said at the plenary meeting of the party’s 9th congress at Hotel Westin in Nusa Dua, Bali.

The final plenary meeting was attended by the chiefs of political parties in the Red-White coalition. The coalition that supported Prabowo Subianto in the July 9 presidential election now controls the parliament.

The party chiefs who attended the meeting included general chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) Prabowo Subianto, president of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Anis Matta, former general chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) Suryadharma Ali, and current general chairman of the PPP Djan Faridz.

Reading out the names of the members on his central executive board for 2014-2019, Bakrie said, “The deputy general chairpersons are Nurdin Halid, Theo Sambuaga, Setya Novanto, Syarif Cicip S, Fadel Muhammad, Titiek Soeharto, Ahmadi Noer Supit, Akom, and Azis Syamsuddin.”

While Idrus Marham remained the party’s secretary general, Bambang

Soesatyo has been named general treasurer, he added.

Former contender Airlangga Hartarto, meanwhile, has been chosen as chairman of the department of industrial and trade affairs while Gandung Pardiman is chairman of caderization.

“George Toisuta is the chairman of defense and security wing,” Aburizal Bakrie said while drawing an applause. Toisuta is a former army chief of staff.

Party spokesman Tantowi Yahya has been named head of media communication and opinion building.

One of Aburizal’s son-in-laws, Taufan Rotorasiko, has been named head of village and backward region affairs.

Ponco Sutowo has been named as head of ideology and legislation assessment while the chairmanship of advisory board remains with Akbar Tanjung.

The 9th congress of the country’s second largest party has been held despite protests from a number of party figures who considered it against the party’s internal rules and therefore called it illegal.

Aburizal Bakrie has discharged all cadres planning to hold a rival congress in January.

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Build infrastructure

Nusa Penida gets a fund worth IDR 28 billion

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Infrastructural sector of Klungkung County will get serious attention next year, especially for Nusa Penida subdistrict. At least, it can be seen from the total budget allocated in General Budget Policy (KUA) in the Plafond Priority of Provisional Budget (PPAS), main regional budget of Nusa Penida 2015. Particularly in Nusa Penida, the development of infrastructure got the budget worth IDR 28 billion.

It was conveyed by Chairman of the Klungkung House, Wayan Baru, Wednesday (Dec 3), after a meeting in the Mandala Sabha, Parliament House of Klungkung. The increase was said to be very significant because all factions in the Klungkung House realized that the focus of development next year was the infrastructure in Nusa Penida subdistrict, especially road infrastructures. The legislator from the Nusa Penida electoral subdistrict said that last year the infrastructural budget was only worth IDR 5 billion. Moreover, it was intended for all the subdistricts. As a result, the overall condition of infrastructure lacked for attention and needed to be addressed.

Magnitude of the infrastructural budget in 2015 was the good will of the Regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, who wanted the acceleration of the development in Nusa Penida.

Nusa Penida required a big and dauntless leap to actually build the island region from the underdevelopment

compared to the other subdistricts. Another legislator of Klungkung House, Komang Gde Ludra, asserted that all this time there had been no really serious efforts to develop Nusa Penida.

The House agreed with the executive, that Nusa Penida should get the focus of development next year.

If the government wanted to gain greater regionally generated revenue than previous year, the condition of infrastructure should be built first. To open the investment opportunities, this was the key to develop Nusa Penida as the ‘golden egg’ of Bali.

“Good will of the regent is now focused on Nusa Penida. We really encourage the effort. All this time, we in the legislative also have the same idea, but it was not followed by good planning by the previous regent,” he said. Other than in Nusa Penida, Klungkung mainland territories (Banjarangkan, Dawan and Nusa Penida) will get smaller budget this year reaching only IDR 11 billion. Thus, the total budget of

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The Regent of Klungkung is inspecting the dry area in Nusa Penida infrastructure this year reached IDR 39 billion.

Ludra said that the infrastructural budget in Nusa Penida was greater and it happened for the first time.

It was enabled by the budget efficiency in a number of budgeting post.

Nevertheless, he said the large infrastructural budget this year would not

interfere with the other budget items.

He said the House should also make efficiency on official trip budget. The budget of official trip of the Klungkung House was only allocated for 12 times a year. It had been reduced from the previous year reaching 16 times. As planned, the official trip was projected for field observations

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to Nusa Penida subdistrict.

Joint meeting between the executive and the legislative on Wednesday (Dec 3) took place slowly. Until the afternoon, the meeting still lasted. As planned, after the joint meeting on Thursday (Dec 3), the KUA-PPAS would have been established by the executive and legislative. (kmb31)

Struggle for getting water, head got hacked

AMLAPURA - The difficulty to get clean water in Karangasem makes a number of people do desperate action when getting water. A resident on behalf of I Wayan Satya, 35, from Taman hamlet, Seraya Tengah, should get three stitches on head after being hacked by I Wayan Dani, 40, by using a sickle. The hacking action occurred after the two men were involved in quarrel

due to scrambling when fetching water in a reservoir in the local field area.

Information compiled by this newspaper told that the water scrambling ended in stabbing. At first, Wayan Satya came to the reservoir after getting a turn to get drinking water on Tuesday (Dec 2) around 6 o’clock in the afternoon.

Later, the culprit, Wayan Dani, came and directly grabbed water by overtaking the victim’s turn.

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Actually, at that time the culprit did not get his turn to fetch water.

Being upset with the act of the culprit taking his rights, the victim then got angry and threatened to cut off the pipeline of water flow leading to the reservoir.

Hearing what the victim said, the culprit immediately turned furious and rushed to swing his sickle towards the victim. Swinging of the culprit’s sickle injured the left side of the victim’s head.

As a result, the victim suffered lacerations and should get three stitches.

Since the act of the culprit could not be accepted, the victim then reported the incident to Karangasem Police on Wednesday (Dec 3) around eight o’clock in the afternoon. Associated with the abuse case, the Spokesperson of Karangasem Police, Ketut Dasta, with permission from the Chief of Karangasem Police Gede Adhi

Mulyawarman confirmed that his party had received the report from the victim.

Currently the case was still handled by the Karangasem Police Criminal Investigation Unit for further investigation. “Allegedly, the stabbing was kindled by the culprit that could not accept if the victim would cut off the pipeline of water flow into the reservoir,” he said when confirmed on Wednesday (Dec 3). (dwa)

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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NEW YORK - Lady Gaga has revealed that she was raped as a teenager and said that it took her years of therapy to acknowledge and start to recover from the trauma.

“I don’t want to be defined by it,” the pop star said. “I’ll be damned if somebody is going to say that every creatively intelligent thing I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead that did that to me.”

Lady Gaga, 28, said that the rape took place when she was 19 and that she has gone through years of therapy. She did not go into detail but said that the aggressor was 20 years older than her.

“It happens every day. It’s really scary and it’s sad and it didn’t affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later,” she told radio host Howard Stern.

“I didn’t tell anybody -- I didn’t even tell myself for the longest time,” she said. “Then I was like, you know what,

all this drinking and all this nonsense, you have to go to the source, otherwise it won’t go away.”

The singer, who later became known for her gaudy outfits and outspoken social commentary, said that she did not report the rape. She said she saw her aggressor once more when she ran into him at a store and that she became “paralyzed by fear.”

Lady Gaga revealed the rape as she discussed her song “Swine” from her 2013 album “Artpop.” She performed the song at this year’s South

by Southwest festival, where she rode a mechanical bull in a suggestive fashion and had a collaborator vomit on her.

“The song is about rape. This song is about demoralization,” Lady Gaga said in her radio interview Tuesday.

“I want this chick to throw up on me in front of the world, so that I can tell them, you know what? You could never, ever degrade me as much as I could degrade myself and look how beautiful it is what I do.”

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Friday, December 5, 2014

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Comfort at Ngurah Rai Airport reaped complaints

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Travel agencies coalesced into the Association of the Indonesia Tour and Travel Agency (ASITA) of Bali Chapter complained about the services at Ngurah Rai Airport. The newly renovated airport has not been able to provide comfort for them when picking up their guests.

“The airport has not been 100 percent ready. Recently, there were many complaints about discomfort when picking up guests at the international arrival terminal. The arrangement was inappropriate due

to the existence of two paths. We need to discuss this issue with our members and then recommended it to Angkasa Pura,” said Chairman of the ASITA Bali, Ketut Ardana.

He said the services provided at

international arrival terminal should be given a good place to welcome visitors. “From decades ago, when picking up guests at international arrival terminal there was a tradition of garlanding. The area needs to be

given a nice touch, so that visitors would be impressed as soon as setting foot in Bali,” explained Ardana accompanied by the Advisory Board, Bagus Sudibya.

According to him, the complaints would be discussed in the first Regional Working Meeting 2014 held on Thursday (Dec 4). Not only that, the ASITA Bali also formulated some inputs from participants and it would be submitted to the airport

authority as the operator.

“Approximately the 223 present participants can formulate the problem to be further recommended to Angkasa Pura 1. We will also discuss about the preparation of human resources of the ASITA in the face of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 so that it can play an active role and becomes superior,” he said.

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Associated Press

NEW YORK — Kathy Griffin will be terrorizing the fashion crowd as the new host of “Fashion Police,” replacing the late Joan Rivers when it returns to E! in January.

The comic-commentary series, which had aired weekly, will now present 17 special episodes throughout 2015 that focus on high-profile red carpet and fashion events, E! announced Monday. It returns Jan. 12 for coverage of the Golden Globe Awards.

E! Executive Vice President Jeff Olde called Rivers “a dear friend and mentor to Kathy, who will no doubt continue her legacy and do the series justice by bringing her own unique comic style and tell-it-like-it-is personality to the host chair.”

“You celebrities better strap yourself in,” Griffin said, “as I am taking no prisoners.”

Griffin is an award-winning actress, comedian and author known for her biting comic style. She won two Emmys for her Bravo reality series, “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.”

Her selection had been widely anticipated.

“Kathy just feels right,” said Melissa Rivers, who continues as “Fashion Police” executive producer, adding: “I’m excited to see where this panel takes this series my mother so adored in

this next incarnation.”

Returning panelists Kelly Osbourne and Giuliana Rancic will be joined by newcomer Brad Goreski, a fashion stylist and lifestyle expert and the former star of Bravo’s “It’s a Brad, Brad World.”

Originally hosted by Rivers, “Fashion Police” had been off the air since the veteran comedian and TV personality was hospitalized in late August after going into cardiac arrest during a medical procedure at a New York doctor’s office. She died Sept. 4 at age 81.

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Travel agencies coalesced into the Association of the Indonesia Tour and Travel Agency (ASITA) of Bali Chapter complained about the services at Ngurah Rai Airport. The newly renovated airport has not been able to provide comfort for them when picking up their guests.