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Actress Nicole Kidman arrives at the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, U.S., December 11, 2016.

Hanks, Kidman honoured as 2017 awards season starts in Palm Springs

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PALM SPRINGS - Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman were among the actors honoured at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Monday night as the 2017 awards season began.

Oscar winner Hanks received the “Icon Award” for his portrayal in drama “Sully” of pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who in 2009 carried out a successful emergency plane landing in the Hudson River.

Kidman took the “International Star Award” for “Lion”, in which she plays an Australian woman who adopts an Indian child.

Also honoured at the festival’s Film Awards Gala were Andrew Garfield with the “Spotlight Award” for his role in Mel Gibson’s war drama “Hacksaw Ridge” and Natalie Portman who received the “Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress” for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy in “Jackie”.

“Manchester by the Sea” actor Casey Affleck took the “Desert

Palm Achievement Award”.

“Arrival” actress Amy Adams was given the “Chairman’s Award”, Annette Bening was honoured with the “Career Achievement Award” and “Moonlight” actor Mahershala Ali took the honours in the “Breakthrough Performance” category.

Picking up the “Vanguard Award” which went to musical “La La Land”, actor Ryan Gosling paid tribute to the late Debbie Reynolds.

The 84-year-old “Singin’ in the Rain” star died last week, a day after the death of her “Star Wars” actress daughter Carrie Fisher. (rtr)

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Youth of Bali must be the frontrunner

The youth in Bali has the opportunity to play an important role. Bali cannot only become audience but must become the motor. In the future, Bali needs to have the leader that can create the golden generation of Bali.

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The receivers of K.Nadha Nugraha 2017

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The discussion held during the K.Nadha Nugraha Press Award

The CEO of Bali Post Satria Naradha stated that on the K.Nadha Press Award on Thursday, January 5th in K.Nadha Pers Building. The event was attended by The Vice Governor Ketut Sudikerta, Vice Badung Regent Ketut Suiasa, The Rector of Udayana University Prof Ketut Suastika, The Head of Bali House of Chambers Alit Wiraputra, the heads of educational foundations and others.

Satria Naradha also said that 2017 is the moment for Bali to be more serious to make the youths as the golden generation who will continue the struggle to fulfill the goal of Indonesian Independence. “Press especially Bali Post Media Group and the Balinese aware that the golden generation of Bali must be the first in this nation,” he added.

Satra Naradha also said that eventhough there are some weaknesses but the youth of Bali still have the opportunity to play big part in the future. For that reason, the leaders

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The Janger performance by the Women Association of Warmadewa University. must take the necessary steps to prepare them.

“In the next few months, Bali will prepare its future leaders. The speakers have stated their strategists in realizing the golden generation of Bali.

This is the first step for our leaders to create a better life,” he explained.

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Hectares of paddy fields prone to be pounded by tidal waves

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The resident of Bugis Kampong in Serangan move their belongings after the execution.

Four residents of Bugis kampong named suspects,

Seven houses stated to be wrongly executed DENPASAR - House buildings located in the east of the road or on Jalan Tukad Bulan, Bugis kampong, Serangan, South Denpasar, have been razed to the ground. Only a pole house remains belonging to cultural heritage.

After the execution, a total of 36 families of Bugis kampong affected by the execution do not know where to take shelter after their house has been dismantled by executor team of the Denpasar district court.

But interestingly, the house of seven residents claimed to exclude from the 36 families was executed as well. The seven residents are Edi, Sulkivli, Mauludin, Husein, Sakaria, Siti Hajar and Muhayat. Their house is located behind the pole house. These residents will report the case to police. “There are seven houses outside the 36 families also executed. It is wrong and I have met the clerk of the court,” said Rizal Akbar Maya Poetra. Due to the wrong execution, he is going to report the case to police on Thursday.

In the meantime, Spokesperson of Denpasar district court, I Made Sukereni, told that the court will not only hear unilaterally. However, it listens to both sides. Evidence has been at hand, so that chief of the Denpasar district court will not carry out the execu-

tion simply based on oral information but based on the existing data and evidences. Regarding the accusation of excessive execution, Sukereni said that the execution is carried out based on the verdict. If they do not accept the execution, they can sue.

On the other hand, regarding the chaos during the execution last Wednesday, Rizal admitted that four residents of Bugis kampong were named suspects by police. They are Aditya Sulaiman, Amir Hadli, Harris Fadilah and Said Saddam. They armed with sharp weapon and one brought arrows. “For these suspects, we will immediately file a surety, I with some community leaders become the warrantor,” said Rizal.

Then, what about the recent condition of the residents? Rizal said they will persist. Now, some of them spend the night at neighboring family, while some others sleep in a tent and in the mosque. However, he had already explained to the residents that they will soon receive certificate of their land for the 36 families affected by the execution.

“I emphasize that before a month the land will be recovered. There has been cancellation of certificate from the national land agency (BPN),” he said. Does the cancellation of the certificate go through the process of lawsuit? When asked so, Rizaldi said that it is a different case. “It is different, the administration can be resolved,” he explained. (kmb37)

SINGARAJA - Dozens of hectares of paddy fields in Buleleng are prone to be affected by tidal waves. Paddy fields spreading across Sawan and Kubutambahan subdistrict are directly adjacent to seashore. If tidal waves strike again, some paddy fields planted with rice and the others being cultivated are threatened by the blows of tidal waves. So far, the seashore bordering with the paddy fields has not been protected with concrete revetment.

As observed on Wednesday (Jan. 4), the paddy fields at Sangsit and Kerobokan village (Sawan subdistrict) spread across respectively five hectares. In addition, the other ten hectares are at Kubutambahan village (Kubutambahan subdistrict). Currently, most of these paddy fields have been planted with rice with the age of about two weeks. The rest is being cultivated by farmers. In the meantime, the recent extreme weather still overwhelms the seashore of Buleleng and tidal waves are predicted to peak until February 2017, so that this situation can cause significant damages to crops.

Head of the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, said at his office last Wednesday that since the extreme weather hit his agency does not received any reports on the damages to rice due to the impact of tidal waves. At present, his agency has commissioned the agricultural extension officers (PPL) to monitor each target area. In addition, the agency intensively provides appeals to farmers through the meeting of subak (irrigation cooperative) group so as to consider planting time in order to avoid damages to crops due to the blows of tidal waves.

“For the time being, there have been no reports regarding the damages to paddy fields caused by the tidal waves. We’ve urged farmers to pay attention to weather condition. If it indeed does not support, the planting can be delayed. Otherwise, wait for good weather and make preparation to allow early planting,” he explained.

According to him, the pounding tidal waves that soak the plants surely cause the plants to die. If the plants are only exposed to hazes of seawater due to high winds during tidal waves the leaves of rice will turn yellow and dry out. However, the lower stems and the plants can still grow normally. In addition, they can still add clumps of the seedlings planted.

“Seawater contains salt. If soaking paddy plants in long time, it can cause them to totally die.

Differently, if the plants are only exposed to hazes of seawater, the leaves turn yellow and after that they will grow back to normal and their clumps still grow like normal plants,” he explained.

On the other hand, Swatantra said that to anticipate losses of plants due to tidal waves, his agency has made preparation to help farmers. This assistance covers seed replacement and the program of repairing irrigation facilities.

Thus, the paddy fields hit by tidal waves can then treated with sufficient irrigation so that the effects of seawater can be overcome. As a result, the losses can be prevented by farmers.

“We’ve been anticipating. Once the extreme weather strikes again, we will coordinate with BPM-PD to make short-term and long-term handling, so that these efforts will minimize the losses suffered by our farmers,” added Swatantra. (kmb38)

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

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

The ricefiled near the beach in Sawan, Buleleng

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10AM-6PM, Mercure,last sunday of every month, jl. ,Mertasari, Sanur, fashion food and and kids activities The Coffee Spot, Jalan Peigenet 888X,Seminyak, last Sunday of every month, garage sale clothing, books, and hand-made jewellery

All About The Meat

Fresh, quality meats are now easily obtainable in Bali with the recent opening of Nikuya Meat Shop, a specialty meat shop selling the highest quality organic and non-organic pork, beef, lamb and chicken.

With a brand spanking new outlet in Sunset Road alongside Sakanaya and Ramen-Boy - other outlets also established under the

umbrella of the renowned Ryoshi brand - now finding your protein of choice is so easy. If Nikuya Meat Shop serves quality meats, Sakanaya offers fresh produce from the ocean; Ramen Boy and La Mien delicious Japanese noodle dishes and Ryoshi all time Japanese favorites.

In addition to the outlets men-

tioned above, Ryoshi also recently opened a brand-spanking new outlet in Sanur called “The Drunken Monkey”, an Asian fusion restaurant serving Asian favourites like Pad Thai from Thailand, Pho Bo from Vietnam, Fish Head Curry from Singapore, Bibimbap from Korea, Sup Buntut from Indonesia and so much more.

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley designed the workout clothes of your dreams

IF you follow Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley’s style closely, you know that she’s always spotted in workout clothes, so it’s safe to say she knows a thing or two about gym wares. Today, the fitness pro has launched the latest activewear collection under her Rosie for Autograph line. (You may already know about the brand’s chic pajamas and lingerie.) Available exclusively at Marks & Spencer, the chic wares have modest, under-$100 price tags, which means you should definitely stock up on multiple pieces.

Need proof that HuntingtonWhiteley is the perfect person to dress you for the gym? In a recent interview with Elle UK, she explained that she feels her best when she’s working out. “I feel there are a lot of different things a woman’s body is expected to be, but my favorite way to see mine is when it’s being physical,” she told the magazine. (IBP/net)

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Gedong Kirtya hard to add manuscript collections

GEDONG Kirtya is still known as a repository of thousands of palm-leaf manuscripts. It does not only intrigue the interest of local people to visit, but also foreign travelers. A variety of information related to manuscript can be explored in this museum. However, beyond its function as a source of education, the institution having been established for decades remains to be entangled by some problems. What are they?

Buleleng district is not only rich in natural beauty being able to draw travelers to visit. Having examined further, the region nicknamed as the land of Panji Sakti has a very important institution. It is the Gedong Kirtya.

When setting foot at Gedong Kirtya, the atmosphere is quite different. From the entrance gates, we can have seen older buildings established before the era of independence. From outside, it looks very lonely. Only some few people are passing by.

However, after tracing further inwardly, our eyes will be faced with thousands of palm-leaf manuscripts stored in wooden boxes.

They do not only belong to one category, but many categories. The palm-leaf manuscripts containing a variety of science have recently become a public appeal, especially among the local students. When holidays arrive, many domestic and foreign travelers see the collections. Some of them are curious about the motif of the scripts made by knife.

Behind the increasing public interest to study the manuscripts, the management has desire to

increase the number of collection.

One of the ways is by copying the palm-manuscripts in the community. However, it just remains in a dream because the budget is very limited. “We want to increase the collection of palm-leaf manuscript, but cannot do it. It’s still hampered by budgetary matter,” said Chief of Gedong Kirtya, Putu Gede Wiriasa, on Tuesday (Jan. 3).

Every year, he said the museum just gets a budget of IDR 350 million to IDR 400 million. It will run out just to meet the operating needs as well as printing a number of books required by society. “Most budgets are spent to meet the needs of general public like printing of books,” he said.

Copying cost of the palm-leaf manuscript is not fairly cheap like a printed book. Each page of the palm-leaf manuscript with a length of 35 cm will cost about IDR 25,000. If multiplied by the number of palm-leaf manuscript as a whole, the cost becomes very large. “Each volume costs very expensive. Moreover, we want to copy the palm-leaf manuscripts recorded in the community. It must be very large,” he said.

Faced with such problems, Wiriasa admitted that the program related to the preservation of manuscripts carried out is only limited to the data collection in the community. If there are researchers in need of reference in the form of palm-leaf manuscript, the data can be used as reference. “Despite the low budget, we still come down to the community to make data collection. It poses one of the conservation efforts,” he added. (sos)

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Behind the increasing public interest to study the manuscripts, the management has desire to increase the number of collection. One of the ways is by copying the palm-manuscripts in the community.

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Other than rafting, nature tourism and cacao processing, in 2005 the True Bali Experience with the area of 16 hectares started to introduce the concept of Elephant Camp.

One-stop destination at True Bali Experience

MANGUPURA - “Now, are in True Bali Experience,” said IGAA Indha Trimafo Yudha, the owner of PT. Kasianan operating the True Bali Experience tourist attraction, when opening the conversation during a site inspection by some media recently.

True Bali Experience is a private company operating the nature adventure tourism activities, conservation and agro-tourism located at Carang Sari village, Petang. The experiences offered include whitewater rafting. The rafting business has run for 16 years, and becomes the first local rafting company. “We are a part of Carang Sari community, Petang,” she said.

Over time, the management began to escort travelers, introduced the potential owned by local village while riding bicycle to Bedugul, passed through forest and walked. Then, three years ago her company processed cacao pods.

Other than rafting, nature tourism and cacao processing, in 2005 the True Bali Experience with the area of 16 hectares started to introduce the concept of Elephant Camp. To open the Elephant Camp, the company must cooperate with central government, the Ministry of Forestry and natural resources conservation agency (KSDA) that later on became a partner. “We are given the right to become an elephant conservation agency in particular by adopting from Riau and Lampung,” she said.

The main requirements as well as the mission are to foster the conservation, regeneration process as well as take care of the elephants. “Elephants are protected endangered animals. Since Bali is the gates and ambassador of Indonesia, the government then

provides an opportunity to introduce the rare animals into tourism sector. Pursuant to our main mission, we have succeeded to breed the elephants. This year, two baby elephants were born,” she explained.

A total of 13 elephants were brought in at a fairly young age. One of the characteristics of happy elephants can be seen from their success in the matter of breeding.

Going up to the assembly point, all the journalists were invited to the location of chocolate processing.

There, the machine only has the capacity of processing cacao as much as 5 tons a month. She opened the cacao processing (factory) in Mengwi in 2016 that can process nine folds or a total of 45 tons a month. “It can be imagined that we have the capacity of accommodating labor and cacao production. Thus, we do not only export raw materials but also products with added-value,” she explained.

She deliberately does not have any cocoa plants because she wanted to purchase from farmers so that farmers will not export raw materials only.

Formerly, the tourist visit to her factory reached 40-100 people. She admitted that her company must share tourist visit because there are also similar concept elsewhere. “Like in the current rainy season, guests prefer to take indoor activities,” she said.

With so many similar businesses in Bali, she strived to continuously innovate and think creatively.

“We’re trying to create something with the concept of one-stop-shopping, or by knowing the character of guests whether they are European guests that are used to seeing something glamorous. On that account, we give something natural and the most important is education,” she explained. (kmb42)

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Australia, Indonesia seek to patch up wounds over military row

SYDNEY - Indonesia and Australia sought to calm tensions on Thursday after Indonesia’s military suspended ties because of “insulting” teaching material found at an Australian base that questioned Jakarta’s sovereignty in Papua province.

Fall from cliff of Uluwatu Temple

Traveler from Surakarta died The evacuation process of the tourist in Uluwatu

A traveler from Surakarta named Kwan Anto Randy Saputro, 57, fell down from the cliff as high as 100 meters at Uluwatu tourist attraction, South Kuta, on Wednesday (Jan. 4). Due to the incident, the late was killed in pathetic condition due to concussion.

This unlucky traveler was previously on vacation with his wife, Auw Jang Phin Khuan, 51. According to Saputro, an eyewitness, Anto had passed the fence and seemed to stand too close to the cliff edge.

Suddenly he slipped and fell into

the gorge.

Responding to the incident, Made Sumerta as the manager of the tourist attraction contacted the national SAR agency in Denpasar around 12:15. Through his report, Sumerta explained that the victim’s

condition has been seen lifeless and being adrift in the ocean currents.

At 12:30, the rescue team drove to location by deploying a total of 25 personnel and personnel transport truck, SAR rapid deployment unit and evacuation vehicle.

Gede Darmada, Operation Section Head of the SAR Agency, who came down to the location leading as the on-scene commander said that at that time the tidal waves began to go higher and the slope

is quite steep. It is only accessible from above. Previously, two rescue personnel were sent down from the cliff side to secure the victim’s position located 20 meters from the beach. However, since the tidal waves began to go higher, the rescue team got difficulties and could not reach the victim’s location. Finally, it was decided to use a vertical rescue technique.

The evacuation was carried out very carefully and involved up to

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24 rescuers assisted by the other SAR elements. Ultimately, the victim managed to be taken up after two hours of evacuation process.

Furthermore, the victim’s body was then taken to Sanglah Hospital by ambulance of the BPBD Badung.

Other potential SAR personnel involved are military, police, lifesaver and the regional disaster mitigation agency (BPBD). (kmb23)

Papua, where a separatist movement has simmered for decades, is a sensitive issue for Indonesia, which took over the former Dutch colony after a widely criticized U.N.backed referendum in 1969.

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne expressed regrets and promised a thorough investigation of the row, which highlighted the sometimes prickly relationship between the neighbours.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said ties with Australia were “still in a fine condition” and that his defence minister and military chief had been asked to investigate.

“We have agreed, Indonesia, Australia, to respect each other, to value each other and not meddle in each other’s domestic affairs,” Widodo said.

Military cooperation between the two countries ranges from countertenors programs to border protection.

But the neighbours have had a rocky military relationship in recent years. Australia stopped joint training exercises with Indonesian

special forces (Kopassus) after accusations of abuses by the unit in East Timor in 1999, as the territory prepared for independence.

Ties resumed when counterterrorism cooperation became imperative after the 2002 nightclub bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Australia’s defence minister said an investigation into the teaching materials, found at Campbell Barracks in the west Australian city of Perth, would be concluded “imminently”.

“We have indicated our regret that this occurred and that offence was taken. I think that’s appropriate when a significant counterpart raises their concerns with you,” Payne told reporters in Sydney.

Australia would present the findings of the report to Indonesia’s government and military, Payne said. She denied allegations, reportedly made by Indonesia’s Armed Forces Chief Gatot Nurmantyo in a lecture last year, that Australia had tried to recruit Indonesian soldiers as agents during training. (rtr)

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Australian Army soldiers assist Indonesian Army personnel during the Junior Officer Combat Instructor Training course conducted by the Australian Army’s Combat Training Centre in Tully, Australia, October 10, 2014.

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Ngoncang Poses an Expression of Australian and British citizen Gratitude after Rice Harvest transferred to attorney Involved in hashish

DENPASAR - Alleged to get involved in drug case belonging to hashish type, two foreigners were transferred by police to Denpasar district attorney on Wednesday (Jan. 4). Both foreigners are Giuseppe Serafino from Australia and David Fox Matthew from Britain.

Section head of general crime of Denpasar district attorney, Ketut Maha Agung, said that the suspect is alleged to get involved in the illicit goods belonging to hashish. The evidence that handed over by police is hashish with the weight of 7.32 grams owned by Giuseppe and hashish with the weight of 10.09 grams owned by David.

He said that both suspects in a separate file are charged under Article 111 Paragraph 1, Article 115 Paragraph 1, Article 127 Paragraph 1 letter a of the Law No.35/2009 on narcotics.

To be noted, when seeing the articles, said the section head of general crime, the suspects can be charged with a maximum penalty of 12 years. And, he continued, if there are no obstacles, the files will be taken to district court to stand trial within a week. (kmb37)

The art of ngoncang or pounding mortar also enlivened the opening of the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest) 2016. No halfheartedly, there are ten pounding art troupes presenting this agrarian art predominantly used in religious ceremonies.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism, Nyoman Sutrisna, said the ten pounding art troupes involved came from the subdistrict of Buleleng, Sukasada and Sawan. Each troupe may consist of six to ten people.

They used round and elongated mortar made from teak wood or devil tree wood with the length of two to three meters. In the middle it has a hole and is hit by using wooden round-end pestle gener-

ally used for pounding rice.

This pounding art is representing the excitement of gratitude of housewives when celebrating post-harvest time.

Rhythm of the beat sounding harmonious symbolizes their unity and oneness. As ancestral heritage, the existence is still preserved to these days. Through the Bulfest, younger generations are expected to know about this tradition. They will see in person the shape and pattern of pounding the rice mortar. Meaning of the sound produced becomes a symbol of harmony of life.

Visitors can learn and know a lot of things that Buleleng has diverse cultures and traditions,” he said. (kmb)

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Men fight for an oiled coconut as they play American Football during a festival to mark Myanmar’s 69th Independence Day in Yangon, Myanmar January 4, 2017.

KUALA LUMPUR - Myanmar faces a growing danger of attacks by foreign supporters of Islamic State (IS) recruited from Southeast Asian networks in support of persecuted Muslim Rohingyas, Malaysia’s top counter-terrorism official has said.

Malaysian authorities have detained a suspected IS follower planning to head to Myanmar to carry out attacks, the head of the Malaysian police counter-terrorism division, Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, said in an interview.

The suspect, an Indonesian whom he did not identify, was detained in Malaysia last month. The suspect was scheduled to be charged on Wednesday for possession of materials linked to terrorist groups, which carries a seven-year jail term or fine, Ayob Khan said.

More militants are likely to try to follow his lead in support of the Rohingya cause, Ayob Khan said.

“He was planning to perform jihad in Myanmar, fighting against the Myanmar government for this Rohingya group in Rakhine State,” Ayob Khan said.

A Myanmar army sweep since October in the north of Rakhine State, on its border with Bangladesh, has sent about 34,000 members of the Rohingya minority fleeing into Bangladesh, the United Nations says.

Residents and rights groups accuse security forces in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar of summary executions and rape in the army operation, launched in response to attacks on police posts on Oct. 9 that killed nine officers. The government of Aung San Suu Kyi denies the accusations of abuse.

Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay told Reuters an official report into October’s violence in Rakhine state found no evidence of an IS presence there or that the attacks were linked to IS. (rtr)

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BUSINESS China’s choices narrowing as it burns through FX reserves to support yuan

SINGAPORE - As China’s foreign exchange reserves threaten to tumble below the critical $3 trillion mark, the biggest fear for investors is not whether Beijing can continue to defend the yuan but whether it will set off a vicious cycle of more outflows and currency depreciation.

Data this week is expected to show China’s forex reserves precariously perched just above $3 trillion at end-December, the lowest level since February 2011, according to a Reuters poll. While the world’s second-largest economy still has the largest stash of forex reserves by far, it has been churning through them rapidly since August 2015, when it stunned global investors by devaluing the yuan and moving to what it promised would be a slightly freer and more transparent currency regime.

Since then, authorities have repeatedly intervened to support the yuan when it weakened too sharply, burning through half a trillion dollars of reserves and prompting them to sell some of their massive holdings of U.S. government bonds.

They also have put a tightening regulatory chokehold on individuals and businesses who want to move money out of the country, while denying they were imposing new capital controls.

Concerns over the speed with which China is depleting its ammunition are swirling, with some analysts estimating it needs to retain a minimum of $2.6 trillion to $2.8 trillion under the International Monetary Fund’s adequacy measures.

“There has been quite a bit of anxiety and speculation because the way many people in China talk about it is ‘will the government defend the 7-per-dollar level or the 3 trillion dollars’,” said Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics in Hong Kong.

China stepped into both its onshore and offshore yuan markets this week to shore up the yuan as it neared the 7 level, sparking speculation that it wants to regain a firm grip ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened to brand

Beijing a currency manipulator.

But if forex reserves continue to be depleted at a fast pace and capital flight continues, some strategists believe China’s leaders may have little choice but to sanction another big “oneoff” devaluation.

That could set off competitive currency devaluations by other struggling emerging economies, even as the world braces for greater trade protectionism under Trump.

MORE CONTROLS To slow the yuan’s decline without depleting reserves at an ever faster pace, analysts and economists expect authorities to turn to even tighter regulatory measures, including more scrutiny of outbound investments, overseas lending and export revenues, and closing loopholes in existing capital controls.

But as fast as authorities jump to control one exit ramp, others may open up unless Beijing can reverse the market’s mind-set that the yuan is on a one-way depreciation path.

“It doesn’t matter if there’s actually enough reserves or not,” said Joey Chew, Asia foreign exchange strategist at HSBC, who believes China doesn’t need a buffer of more than $2 trillion.

“If people think there won’t be enough they’ll try to get out and it becomes a selffulfilling mechanism.

“The authorities are already aware that trying to run down reserves will be counterproductive, which is why they’re relying on regulatory controls,” she added.

As recently as last week, authorities introduced requirements for financial institutions to report all single domestic and overseas cash transactions of more than 50,000 yuan ($7,212.72) from July onwards, down from

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A logo of yuan is seen at a foreign exchange store in Shanghai, China, December 1, 2015.

200,000 yuan previously.

The authorities also stepped up scrutiny on individual foreign currency purchases, although they kept the $50,000 annual individual quota in place.

“Previously, capital controls had been relatively loose and authorities had turned a blind eye to individual forex purchases because of abundant foreign exchange reserves,” said Jerry Hu, an economist at Shanghai Securities. “But they are now strengthening supervision in order to change expectations.”

With regulators also pledging to increase scrutiny of major outbound deals, “it’s not impossible to see that we’ll see further moves in that area,” Kuijs said.

China could also encourage its domestic exporters to convert more of their earnings into

yuan, HSBC’s Chew said. Chew believes new capital controls are unlikely.

“There are a lot of controls already,” she said. “They were maybe not as strictly enforced, so they’ll focus on improving that. But the tweaks may not be enough. We still expect capital outflows and we still expect RMB depreciation.”

Dwyfor Evans, head of Asia-Pacific macro strategy at State Street Global Markets, also feared authorities may be limited in how they respond. “Chinese officials have few policy options,” he said.

“If they allow faster depreciation, this will only spur pressures for greater outflows. And a one-off devaluation risks a repeat of the market turbulence evidenced twice in the past 18 months.”(rtr)

Aramco Raises Oil Pricing to Asia and U.S. as OPEC Cuts Output Saudi Arabia raised pricing for February oil sales to Asia and increased premiums for light grades to the U.S. as the world’s largest crude exporter prepares to reduce output to help counter a global oversupply.

State-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco, increased its official pricing for Arab Light crude to Asia by 60 cents a barrel to 15 cents below the regional benchmark, it said in an e-mailed statement. The company had been expected to increase the

pricing for shipments of Arab Light crude by 50 cents a barrel, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of five refiners and traders.

Oil jumped 52 percent last year, its first annual gain in four years as OPEC agreed to reduce production for the first time in eight years.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and 11 other producers, including Russia, agreed to decrease output by 1.8 million barrels a day this year after prices had dropped more than half from

the 2014 level.

Crude is set to recover as OPEC fulfills its agreement, Khalid AlFalih, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, said last month in Riyadh. The intervention is intended to “nudge along” a re-balancing of the oil market, as prices will need to rise to encourage investment in new supplies, Al-Falih said in an interview.

Crude will balance between $50 and $100 a barrel, he said.

Buyers in the U.S. will pay premiums that are 20 cents a barrel higher for both Extra Light and Light grade

crudes in February, while pricing for Medium and Heavy blends remains unchanged, according to the statement. Saudi Aramco reduced pricing for all grades sold in Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean region next month.

Saudi Arabia boosted output to a record 10.66 million barrels a day in July. Two months later it backed a reversal in OPEC’s Saudi-led policy of letting members pump without limits. Saudi Aramco is curbing sales this month to parts of Southeast Asia, as part of its OPEC

obligation to cut production by 486,000 barrels a day to just under 10.1 million.

Middle Eastern producers compete with cargoes from Latin America, North Africa and Russia for buyers in Asia, its largest market. Producers in the Persian Gulf region sell mostly under long-term contracts to refiners. Most of the Gulf’s state oil companies price their crude at a premium or discount to a benchmark. For Asia the benchmark is the average of Oman and Dubai oil grades.(rtr)

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Ngibing Joged Bungbung at Tanah Lot

On releasing the year 2016 and welcoming the New Year 2017, the management of Tanah Lot tourist attractions organized an open house activity. The event lasting for three days (Dec. 30-31, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017) specifically involved the driver, guide and tour leader. “This activity aims to provide appreciation and express gratitude for the cooperation of stakeholders in order to contribute positively to Tanah Lot tourist attraction,” said Operations Manager Toya Adnyana.

Open house provides various types of special traditional food served to the shareholders. Besides, it also graced with dance performance like Joged Bumbung at 17:00 in front of the office of the operation management. “This performance is expected to entertain visitors while enjoying the New Year holidays at Tanah Lot. Tour guide, domestic and foreign travelers even joined the dance (ngibing),” said Toya Adnyana proudly.

Since day seven before the New Year, the incoming travelers to Tanah Lot have started soaring as coincide with school holidays.

Thousands of the travelers came from various cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Makassar. From the afternoon until evening, from viewing post on a cliff top of ??Tanah Lot Beach could be seen that travelers

used various types of cameras and video cameras to capture the sunset moments.

Tanah Lot tourist attraction remains to become prominent destination for travelers to spend the remaining times of 2016 and welcome the New Year 2017. During holiday season, visitors to Tanah Lot continue to abound. Festive atmosphere happened when the sun set and thousands of visitors, as if being commanded, immediately applauded in unison.

READ Presenting Roasted Suckling Pig Every Birth The sun went down into west horizon and became an immeasurably exotic scenery. “The sunset view is so pretty this afternoon, the highlight of the round was clearly visible although its central part is slightly covered in cloud,” commented a visitor when capturing the moment of the sun back into the dusk. (kmb)

Barong Enlivens Bukit Sari Sangeh Attraction

Bukit Sari Sangeh tourist attraction became the venue of cultural event entitled Sangeh Barong Festival. At least, there were 31 participants in the contest organized

by Sari Guna customary village youth club, Sari hamlet, Sangeh, Badung. More interestingly, the participants were mostly young people of primary and junior high schools from different regions in Bali such as Bangli, Ubud (Gianyar), Sanur as well as of Petang, Mengwi, Bongkasa, Cemagi and

Jimbaran (Badung).

The Sangeh Barong Festival took place at the outermost courtyard of Pucak Sari Temple (in the woods) for two days (Dec. 17-18, 2016) starting at 19:00. On the first day it featured 15 participants and on the second day featured 16 participants. However, before the contest began, the organizer featured a guest star namely the single kid barong dance and single kid drum as a form of appreciation to young artist. Thus, it encour-

aged the vivacity of preserving the Balinese culture.

Each barong dancer came with a drum player as a partner. Nevertheless, each barong dancer and drum player is assessed by the jury panel.

Each participant should present mask composition, Goak Macok, Playon Bongkasa, Omang and drum improvisation. They were given 15-20 minutes to make their performance.

Atmosphere of the contest on the second day looked more fes-

tive because the Regent of Badung, Giri Prasta, came to watch and give encouragement. He also invited other young men to exemplify the implementation of the Sangeh Barong Festival. Regent highly supported the positive and innovative works of the Badung younger generation in the field of art or sport. On that account, the Regent Giri Prasta gave appreciation fund worth IDR 30 million and bonuses to each winner.

READ Tumpek Kandang, Fruit Arrangement Parade at Alas Kedaton At the festival, I Putu Dedik Sutyana (Ubud) was finally elected as the first winner of the barong dancer and followed by I Putu Eka Darmayasa (Cemagi) and Ida Bagus Alit (Sanur) respectively as the second and third winner. Other than receiving trophy and award, the winners also received cash prize and bonus from the regent of Badung valued at IDR 2.5 million and a bonus of IDR 2 million (first winner), IDR 2 million and bonus of IDR 1.5 million (second winner) and IDR 1.5 million and bonus of 1 million (third winner).

For single drum player, the first, second and third winner was respectively achieved by Mank Monot (Jimbaran) with the prize of IDR 1.5 million and a bonus of IDR 1 million, Komang Wahyu

(Denpasar) with the prize of IDR 1 million and a bonus of IDR 750,000 and Agus Sattvika (Mengwi) with the prize of IDR 750,000 and bonus of IDR 500,000. As the appreciation, the committee also awarded to the first, second and third consolation prize for the single barong dancer and single drum player as well as to the talented (favorite) winner.

Committee chairman, Ida Bagus Gede Pujawan, said that the Sangeh Barong Festival serves as a medium for Balinese cultural preservation, especially gamelan and barong dance. In addition, it also aims to promote Sangeh village having the potential of forest (nature) and its monkey. Sangeh Barong Festival is the first festival agenda held to coincide with celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the Sari Guna customary village youth club.

This cultural event will add to the attraction of Sangeh having been designated as a tourism village. In addition to nutmeg forest and monkeys, Sangeh also has Taman Mumbul as a water recreation, ancient Balinese house and homestay supported by a wide variety of unique cuisines of Sangeh. “Our next program is the gala dinner, nature and culture. Thus, visitors will have a lot of choices when making a visit to Sangeh,” said Gede Pujawan.(kmb)

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New York train crash injures more than 100 commuters

NEW YORK - A New York City train derailed at a downtown Brooklyn terminal during Wednesday’s morning rush hour, injuring more than 100 commuters in the metropolitan area’s second major rail accident since late September.

Emergency crews swarmed Atlantic Terminal after the Long Island Rail Road train went off the tracks inside the busy transportation hub at 8:20 a.m. local time (1320 GMT), the New York City Fire Department said.

While none of the injuries were life-threatening, at least 11 people were sent to the hospital, Deputy

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An injured passenger is taken from Atlantic Terminal in the Brooklyn borough of New York after a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

Assistant Chief Dan Donoghue said at a briefing at the crash site.

The train, arriving from the Queens neighborhood of Far Rockaway, failed to stop on time. Traveling at a fairly slow speed, it derailed after striking a bumping block, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the briefing.

A National Transportation Safety Board investigator told reporters that about 430 passengers and three crew members were on board the train at the time of the collision and that 104 people were injured.

The front two cars of the six-carriage train were severely damaged. The station’s partitions and bumping block, which prevents railway vehicles from going past the end of a section of track, were also damaged.

Passengers said the blood and chaos following the derailment were frightening.

“There were people crying,” said Aaron Neufeld, a 26-year-old paralegal who commutes on the rail line daily. “I saw some bloody faces.”

Neufeld, who was riding in the second car, said the train appeared to be approaching normally until it crashed, knocking passengers on top of one another and shattering glass windows.

“Bags went flying,” he said. “People were thrown to the ground.”

The engineer was probably responsible for failing to stop the train before it hit the bumper, said Tom Prendergast, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the agency that runs the railroad.

The train was traveling between 10 and 15 miles per hour (16 to 24 km per hour) as it approached the bumper, he said, which is standard.

“At that speed, it’s pretty much the locomotive engineer’s responsibility to stop the train,” Prendergast said as he stood beside Cuomo at the briefing.

Investigators will interview the engineer, the conductor and brakeman to determine the cause of the accident, he said. (rtr)

Behind fence, Mexico’s notorious Juarez is wary of Trump’s wall CIUDAD JUAREZ - Mexicans overwhelmingly say they oppose the wall U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to build along their northern border.

But in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, where extensive fencing was erected by the United States to secure the border between 2007 and 2010, residents have a more nuanced view of what a wall can mean.

They say the Juarez fence has both caused and relieved problems in the city and nearby areas.

Some say the barrier has made life in Juarez better, diverting drug and human traffickers to more remote spots where crossing the border is easier. Others say the high fence bred a new kind of crime in the city, encouraging drug dealers

who find it harder to get wares across the border to divert some of their product to expanding and serving a local market.

Juarez’s newly elected mayor, Armando Cabada, sees both sides.

He says the fencing, cameras, sensors and stricter controls on border bridges have stopped flagrant crossings of undocumented Mexican migrants into downtown El Paso, Texas, which sits just across the fortified border, in sight of his wood-panelled office.

On balance, however, the negatives have outweighed the positives, he says. He notes that shortly after the wall was built, Juarez was plunged into a hellish war between cartels that made it the murder capital of the world, while El Paso

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remained the safest U.S. city of its size.

After the border got tighter, Cabada said, “the narco traffickers had to battle much harder to cross their drugs into the United States, and a lot ended up staying here.”

The increased local supply of drugs changed social dynamics in the city and addiction and petty crime soared, he said.

It is hard to isolate causes of the chaos that engulfed Juarez in 2008 when the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels fought over trafficking routes, but the belief that tighter controls contributed to the city’s deadly, downward spiral is widespread among business leaders, security officials and politicians consulted

by Reuters. (rtr)

Youth of Bali...

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There are thirteen foundations and schools receiving the awards, they are Dwijendra University, Mahasaraswati University, SMAN 4 Denpasar, SMAN 7 Denpasar, SMKN 1 Pertanian Petang, SMAN Bali Mandara, SMK PGRI 3 Denpasar, SMP PGRI 2 Denpasar,, Mahendradatta Foundation, Widya

Kerthi Foundation, Bali Korpri Foundation, YPLP Kota PGRI Denpasar and Health Educational Foundation or YPPLPK Bali.

The event was also filled with many entertainments such as Pendet Dance from SD PGRI YPLP Denpasar, Janger Dance from the Women Association of Warmadewa University and Titiapi, Pejeng art group as the music performer. (ian/rin)

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Relatives cry during the burial of an inmate killed in a prison riot, at the Parque Taruma cemetery, in Manaus, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

Brazil prison riot, a ‘butchery foretold,’ sparks fear of more killings

SAO PAULO - The killing of 56 inmates by fellow prisoners in Brazil’s deadliest jail uprising in decades was a “butchery foretold” by escalating turf wars between drug gangs that threatens to plunge a chaotic penitentiary system deeper into violence.

Prior to this week’s massacre of members of the First Capital Command (PCC) in the Anisio Jobim penitentiary in the jungle city of Manaus, security experts warned for months about intensifying clashes in prisons between Brazil’s two most powerful drug gangs - the Sao Paulo-based PCC and the Red Command, based in Rio de Janeiro.

Now they fear the feud will escalate in prisons and on the streets of the South American nation of 207 million people. Rio, Brazil’s most popular tourist destination, is particularly vulnerable, along with major cities in the north and northeast, the experts say.

“This situation is tense, very ripe for new tragedies,” said Camila Dias, a sociologist at the Federal University of ABC in Sao Paulo, who is an expert on Brazil’s prison system and author of a book on the PCC. “This was a butchery foretold.”

For more than two decades, the PCC and Red Command maintained an uneasy working relationship to ensure a steady flow of

marijuana, cocaine and guns over Brazil’s porous borders and into its cities.

But in June the partnership ended with the killing of Jorge Rafaat Toumani, a powerful Brazilian drug lord based in Paraguay who controlled trafficking routes along Brazil’s southeastern border.

While Toumani was not publicly affiliated to one group or another, and details of his death remain murky, Paraguayan officials believe he was killed at the PCC’s behest so it could seize his lucrative trafficking routes.

What is clear, security experts say, is that the PCC has taken control of Toumani’s former domain.

As a result, relations between the PCC and Red Command fell apart.

Communications between the factions’ leaders obtained by police and leaked in October, revealed a race to become Brazil’s dominant gang. That same month, clashes between gang members in three prisons elsewhere in Brazil’s Amazon left 22 dead.

Control of the drug gangs’ turf has been increasingly balkanized in recent months. That has left the Red Command weaker and allowed the PCC - powered by proceeds from their base in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s richest city - to encroach on their turf in Rio. (rtr)

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Govt to set up cyber agency to fight fake news

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government will soon establish a National Cyber Agency to help overcome the threat of fake news that aims to spread slanderous messages and hatred through social media.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) had instructed him during a meeting to immediately establish the National Cyber Agency, according to Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto.

The president had directed that the agency be formed at the earliest to curb the spread of false news that could threaten people and harm their interests.

The spread of hoax messages through the social media, among others, can create confusion and doubts about the veracity of the information. Irresponsible parties can thus exploit this confusion created to sow hatred, and create disunity and hostility among the people, the minister explained.

“We are technologically advanced now. We are grateful that technology has facilitated better education and helped disseminate information faster, but we are also concerned because individuals could use it to spread defamatory material. This confuses people,” Wiranto stressed on Tuesday (January 3).

If this happens, the nations de-

velopment will be hampered. It will put the people, nation and the state at a disadvantage. People should be responsible while using technology and spreading information, Wiranto pointed out that.

“So, we will regulate the spread of false news in the social media.

All are free to express opinions; they are allowed to do so, but they should do it in an elegant and respectable manner,” Wiranto stated.

Noting that the social media has a huge influence on the public, Director General of Culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture Hilmar Farid said many were still unable to differentiate between fake and real news.

Even professors, doctors and academicians were likely to believe the information available on the social media, Farid added.

“The social media has an extraordinary influence. A false piece of information, which is given a picture and a title, can spread quickly (after it is uploaded),” the director general said.

Usually, those who believe in hoax materials belong to the transitional generation. There are many professors and doctors who believe in such false news (disseminated through social media), a research conducted by Farid with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) in 2015, found out. (ant)

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PT Pertamina said it needs an investment of at least Rp1,000 trillion and 10 years to catch up with Malaysian rival Petronas.

Pertamina needs Rp1,000 trillion investment to catch up with Petronas

JAKARTA - PT Pertamina said it needs an investment of at least Rp1,000 trillion and 10 years to catch up with Malaysian rival Petronas.

An additional investment of at least Rp1,000 trillion in 10 years would be needed to increase the assets of Pertamina 2.5 times of what it has at present and beat Petronas, Dwi Soetjipto, the president director of the state-owned oil and gas company, said here on Wednesday.

Dwi said satisfactory performance was recorded by Pertamina in 2016 with profit of around Rp40 trillion (US$3 billion).

“This was the first time Pertamina was ahead of

Petronas in term of profit,” he said.

Pertamina reported around US$40 billion in income though declining as a result of oil price fall.

In the first half of 2016, Pertamina reported US$2.38 billion in profit as against Petronas US$1.6 billion.

Dwi attributed the good performance to improved efficiency in the past two years.

In the past two years we have focused on improving efficiency. In 2015, efficiency saved around US$800 million and in the first 11 months of 2016 efficiency of US$2.8 billion was a breakthrough project,” he said.

With a number of breakthroughs Pertamina could beat Petronas such as synergy with PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) and the Special Unit of Upstream Oil and Gas (SKK Migas), he said. (ant)

Indonesian KPK summons house speaker as witness in e-id corruption case

Presiden Joko Widodo

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JAKARTA - The Indonesia Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has summoned House Speaker Setya Novanto as a witness in an electronic identity card (e-ID) corruption case.

“Setya Novanto has been called as a witness for suspect Sugiharto,” KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah stated here, Wednesday.

This is the second time that the KPK has summoned Novanto after the first one on December 13, 2016, for the case that occurred during the

Nov 2011-2012 period, when he was the treasurer of Golkar Party and concurrently head of the Golkar Party sanction at the Parliament.

Novanto denied that members of Commission II of the House of Representatives had received bribe money for the e-ID project.

In addition to Novanto, the KPK has summoned Director of PT. Gajendra Adhi Sakti Azmin Aulia, businessman Afdal Noverman, and auditor of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency

(BPKP) Mahmud Toha Siregar.

The KPK has named two suspects in the e-ID corruption case: former director general of population and civil administration of the Home Affairs Ministry Irman and Population Administration Information Manager of the Home Affairs Ministry Sugiharto.

According to the BPKP, the state incurred losses reaching some Rp2.3 trillion owing to a mark up in the e-ID project that cost some Rp6 trillion. (ant)

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‘Game over’ declares Al-Attiyah after Dakar drama

SAN MIGUEL - Nasser Al-Attiyah’s hopes of repeating his 2011 and 2015 Dakar Rally victories disappeared on Wednesday after the Qatari ripped a wheel off his Toyota and lost two hours and 17 minutes on a third stage won by reigning champion Stephane Peterhansel.

Al-Attiyah had been set to regain the lead from nine times world rally champion Sebastien Loeb when he hit trouble between San Miguel de Tucuman and San Salvador de Jujuy in Argentina.

The Qatari went off-piste and hit a hole at around the 414 km mark.

The winner of the first stage, and runner-up on day two, got going about an hour later at slow speed but had to stop again after another 30km.

While Al-Attiyah is likely to continue, with the rally heading to Bolivia and Paraguay before ending in Buenos Aires, the setback means he will have to focus on individual stage wins rather than the overall prize.

“Game over. A bad day,” he told the Dakar website (www.dakar. com) after ending the day 32nd overall. “We hit the other side on a

Yeh Leh Beach

NEGARA - Yeh Leh beach is located in Jembrana, just off the Denpasar-Gilimanuk highway.

Yeh Leh is not decorated with soft white sand like your ideal beach.

Instead, thousands of boulders litter the shore, either covered in algae or washed clean by the waves.

These mysterious rocks have been smoothed over for hundreds of years, leaving few clues about their origin.

Yeh Leh beach remains undeveloped as a tourist spot in Bali.

The fact that not many people visit this beach has made it unique and peaceful.

The beach is actually easily accessible, and you can visit at low

tide to see Yeh Leh in all its glory, with the boulders unearthed and many interesting marine animals caught in the rock pools. And if you can, don’t miss its stunning sunset, which lights up every shining rock on the shore.

Yeh Leh Pengeragoan Beach very unique. The beach is composed of two parts, western and eastern parts. The western part of the beach is the rock, while the eastern part of the beach is black sand.

In the west, this beach has a fairly wide stretch of coral. Interestingly not only rock, there is also a large stone and round. The stones were to gather in one place. As if there is someone who collects the stones.

When the afternoon, the sunset was beautiful, display the most beautiful sunsets there in October to February. Because of the stretcher in the sun is in the south of the equator, so the sun sets will be visible to the south. Reddish sunlight will look perfect when the month.

Yeh Leh Pengeragoan Beach also be a place for Melasti ritual by local people. Before the day of Nyepi, the Balinese people will hold a spiritual cleansing ritual to all amenities and facilities available in the temple. This ritual is called Melasti. Yeh Leh Pengeragoan Beach into place to implement the Melasti ritual by villagers in Pengeragoan. (IBP/net)

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“We decided to use some rocks and the wheel to make up the balance but we had to drive 80km like this. We stopped to repair but we could not. We don’t have all the parts.

“It was a mistake ... it’s bad luck but this is the race. This is how the Dakar is. We were doing a really good job, we were leading but there you go...”

Wednesday’s stage, reaching 5,000 meters in altitude, ended as a one-two-three for Peugeot.

Frenchman Loeb leads, 42 seconds clear of Spanish team mate and former world rally champion Carlos Sainz -- the father of the current Formula One driver of the same name -- with Peterhansel third after his first stage win of this year’s event. (rtr)

Murray struggles to tame Melzer in Doha DOHA - World number one Andy Murray laboured past Austrian Gerald Melzer 7-6(6) 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open on Wednesday after defending champion Novak Djokovic had also progressed with relative ease.

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Driver Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and co-driver Matthieu Baumel of France race their Toyota during the 3rd stage of the Dakar Rally 2017, between the San Miguel de Tucuman and San Salvador de Jujuy of Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

his opponent.

Eventually the Scot got the break in the seventh game of the second set but he failed to claim victory when serving at 5-4 as the 26-year-old Melzer forced a break of his own.

When the 29-year-old Murray served for the match for the second time he made no mistake, wrapping up victory when Melzer sent a backhand return wide.

Murray, who looked drained at the end, will play Spain’s Nicolas Almagro next.

“He played great, great tennis and dominated large parts of the match,” Murray said on court after warmly congratulating his opponent. “I told him at the net he will keep climbing the rankings if he plays tennis like that.”

“I played pretty good but he was hitting the ball huge.”

Djokovic, seeded two, had an easier time against Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos, winning 6-3 6-4 in 72 minutes.

The Serb will face 38-year-old Czech Radek Stepanek who became the oldest ATP Tour quarter-finalist since Jimmy Connors, aged 42, in 1995, when REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon he beat wildcard ArMurray shakes hands with Melzer after their match. thur De Greef. (rtr)

F1 champions Mercedes to ‘unveil the beast’ on Feb. 23 LONDON - Mercedes, Formula One’s dominant team who have yet to announce a replacement for retired world champion Nico Rosberg, will present their 2017 car at Silverstone on Feb. 23.

The Mercedes website (www. mercedesamgf1.com) said on Wednesday that the reigning champions would “unveil the beast to the world” at the British Grand Prix circuit down the road from their Brackley factory.

Fans who register for a prize draw on Facebook will have the chance to win VIP access to witness the first laps of the W08 challenger.

Mercedes won 19 of 21 races last season and started all but one from pole position.

They will start the season in Australia in March as favourites for a fourth successive title, with Britain’s triple world champion Lewis Hamilton leading the campaign in the absence of former rival Rosberg.

The German driver stunned Formula One by announcing his retirement five days after win-

ning a first title in Abu Dhabi in late November, saying he had reached the peak and achieved his ambition.

His decision left Mercedes in a difficult position, with other leading drivers all under contract with rivals at such a late point in the year.

It was also an admission of just how tough a team mate Hamilton, who won 10 grands prix to Rosberg’s nine, had been to beat over the course of a season.

Rosberg’s replacement is expected to be announced imminently, with testing starting at the end of February in Spain.

Finland’s Valtteri Bottas is seen as a safe bet, as well as a safe pair of hands, to land the seat.

The motorsport.com website has reported that the Williams driver visited the Mercedes factory over the Christmas break.

The 2017 season will see wider tyres, faster cars and revised aerodynamics with Mercedes likely to face a tougher test from rivals Red Bull -- who have Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Dutch teenager Max Verstappen -- and Ferrari. (rtr)

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Sp rt Tottenham beats Chelsea 2-0 to end 13-match EPL winning run

LONDON — Dele Alli underlined his growing reputation by single-handedly ending Chelsea’s 13-match winning run Wednesday, scoring two headed goals to give Tottenham a 2-0 victory over the Premier League leaders.

The defense has been the bedrock of Chelsea’s three-month hot streak but Alli was gifted space to score carbon copy goals in each half at White Hart Lane after meeting crosses from Christian Eriksen.

By taking his tally to seven goals in four games, the 20-year-old Alli inflicted Chelsea’s first loss since its last trip to north London at Arsenal in September and prevented the Blues from earning a league record 14th successive win in a single season.

“This league is very tough,” Chelsea manager Antonio Conte said. “Now it’s important to restart.

After 13 wins in a row it’s difficult to accept defeat.”

Chelsea still leads Liverpool by five points but Tottenham is now only seven points behind in third after

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Tottenham’s Dele Alli celebrates scoring a goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at White Hart Lane stadium in London, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

a fifth successive victory.

“It’s a big statement for us but we are happy to stay under the radar,” said Alli, whose team’s hopes of a first title since 1961 were ended by Chelsea last season. Conte established the winning run that sent Chelsea to the summit after switching to a three-man defense to stem the tide of goals in a 3-0 first half collapse at Arsenal.

But the defense is now leaking goals, conceding four in the last two matches after only letting in two in the previous 12 fixtures. Tottenham matched Chelsea’s formation and restricted Conte’s side to few chances, while proving more cohesive and solid at the back to frustrate the visitors’ forward line. “I didn’t get on the ball as much as I would have liked to,” Alli said.

The midfielder didn’t need to. Alli was described on the eve of the game by manager Mauricio Pochettino as the “most important player to emerge in English football in recent years.” Signed from third-tier club MK Dons two years ago for 5 million pounds (then $8 million), Alli lived up to his manager’s exalted praise with his mastery of the attacking spaces.

While Chelsea was looking more likely to score on the counterattack in the first half, Tottenham used a break to devastating effect on the stroke of halftime with Alli making the breakthrough.

Kyle Walker teed up Eriksen and as the cross was floated into the penalty area, Alli was left unmarked between Victor Moses and Cesar Azpilicueta to coolly nod past goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. It was an assertive start to the second half by Chelsea, but Tottenham preserved its lead.

Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris blocked a low shot from Diego Costa, Eden Hazard’s low header was off target and Moses’ penalty appeals were dismissed when he was clipped by Mousa Dembele. Spurs then punished Chelsea’s porous defending again in the 54th minute with a replica of the opener.

Walker did the running down the right flank before laying the ball off for Eriksen. The Danish international picked out Alli between Moses and Azpilicueta, and the midfielder found the target with this header.

“We were short of the levels we set ourselves, for whatever reason that may be, a few misplaced passes and not moving the ball as quick as we have been,” Chelsea defender Gary Cahill said. “They are a top quality opposition and we got punished for being short.”

Chelsea’s plight in the derby was summed up in the first half by the team’s top scorer, Costa, engaging in an on-pitch row with Pedro Rodriguez for several minutes. It followed Pedro’s failure to run into space in front of goal to meet a pass from Costa when the score was still 0-0. “It is normal disappointment,” Conte said. “It was a good chance for us and we wasted it.” (ap)

Standings

1 Chelsea

2 Liverpool

3 Tottenham Hotspur ------------------------4 Manchester City

------------------------5 Arsenal

------------------------6 Manchester United 7 Everton

------------------------8 West Bromwich Albion 9 Bournemouth

10 Southampton

11 Stoke City

12 Burnley

13 West Ham United

14 Watford

15 Leicester City

16 Middlesbrough

17 Crystal Palace

------------------------18 Sunderland

19 Swansea City

20 Hull City

Emmanuel Adebayor

P W D 20 16 1 20 13 5 20 12 6

L F 3 42 2 48 2 39

A 15 23 14

Pts 49 44 42

20 13 3 4 41

22

42

20 12 5 3 44

22

41

20 11 6 3 31 20 8 6 6 28

19 23

39 30

20 8 20 7 20 6 20 6 20 7 20 6 20 6 20 5 20 4 20 4

7 28 9 29 8 19 8 24 11 22 10 23 10 23 9 24 9 17 12 30

24 34 25 32 31 35 36 31 22 37

29 25 24 24 23 22 22 21 19 16

20 4 3 13 19 20 4 3 13 23 20 3 4 13 17

37 45 44

15 15 13

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Squad: Goalkeepers: Kossi Agassa (unattached), Cedric Mensah (Le Mans), Baba Tchagouni (FC Marmande) Defenders: Serge Akakpo (Trabzonspor), Vincent Bossou (Young Africans), Djene Dakonam (St Truiden), Maklibe Kouloun (Dyto Lome), Abdoul Gafar Mamah (Dacia Chisinau), Sadat Ouro-Akoriko (Al Khaleej), Hakim Ouro-Sama (AS Port Too) Midfielders: Lalawele Atakora (Helsingborg), Franco Atchou (Dyto Lome), Floyd Ayite (Fulham), Razak Boukari (Chateauroux), Mathieu Dossevi (Standard Liege), Henritse Eninful (Doxa Katakopias), Alaixys Romao (Olympiakos), Prince Segbefia (Goztepe) Forwards: Emmanuel Adebayor (unattached), Komlan Agbegniadan (Wafa), Ihlas Bebou (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Serge Gakpe (Genoa), Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba (Renissance Berkane).

5 4 6 6 2 4 4 6 7 4

Clubless Adebayor to captain Togo at Nations Cup

LOME - Striker Emmanuel Adebayor will captain Togo at the African Nations Cup despite being without a club since leaving Premier League side Crystal Palace last May, the country’s football federation said on Thursday.

Adebayor and veteran goalkeeper Kossi Agassa are currently free agents yet both were included in the 23-man squad for the tournament starting later this month in Gabon.

Agassa, 38, left French club Stade Reims last season while Adebayor has only played for Togo in the last eight months, although he has been linked with a possible move to French Ligue 1 side Montpellier once the tournament concludes.

Togo will compete in Group C at the finals, which runs from Jan. 14-Feb. 5, alongside holders Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Morocco. (rtr)

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Cahill confident Chelsea will soon shrug off Spurs defeat

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill expects the side to draw strength from their extended winning run in the Premier League and not dwell on the 2-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on Wednesday.

A Dele Alli brace either side of the break ended a remarkable 13-game streak that has taken Chelsea five points clear at the top of the standings but Cahill remains adamant that the loss will not derail their title bid.

“We were short all over the pitch, I don’t know why. We are not robots,” Cahill told British media on Wednesday.

“It was a great opportunity for us but one defeat out of 14 is not a problem. We won’t dwell on this for a week, we go again and kick off another run.”

Chelsea will now switch their focus to Sunday’s FA Cup third round clash against Peterborough United.

“We’ve got the cup game to prepare for and then we go again in the league... dust this one off and go again.”

The league leaders, who have lost twice on the road this season, visit defending champions Leicester on Jan. 14 before travelling to second-placed Liverpool on Jan. 31. (rtr)

James Rodriguez comes through for Madrid in Copa del Rey win

MADRID — James Rodriguez made the most of a rare start for Real Madrid on Wednesday, scoring twice in a convincing 3-0 win over Sevilla in a firstleg match in the Copa del Rey’s Round of 16.

Less than a month after he called for more playing time and said he might leave the club if things didn’t change, the Colombian midfielder got to start at the Santiago Bernabeu. And his performance showed that Rodriguez believes he should still be considered for a place in Zinedine Zidane’s regular starting lineup.

“Obviously we all want to play,” Rodriguez said.

“We all go through bad moments, but this is like a new beginning for me. I’m staying, I’m staying in Madrid.” He opened the scoring with a low, leftfoot shot from outside the area in the 11th minute, and netted his second by converting a penalty just before halftime after Luka Modric had been fouled inside the area.

“He played a good game,” Zidane said of Rodriguez, who was cheered loudly by the crowd when he was substituted near the end. “He scored the goals and worked well. I’m happy for the match he had.”

Defender Raphael Varane scored the other goal with a header from the middle of the area in the 29th, as Madrid extended its unbeaten streak to 38 games - one short of the Spanish record set by Luis Enrique’s Barcelona last season.

Zidane, celebrating one year at Madrid’s helm, had downplayed Rodriguez’s complaints following the Club World Cup in December, saying he counted on the talented midfielder going forward.

He included Rodriguez in Wednesday’s lineup after resting some of the regular starters, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema.

Madrid, which beat Sevilla in the European Super Cup five months ago, will be the clear favorite

for the second leg in Seville on Jan. 12. The teams are only four points apart atop the Spanish league, with Madrid first and Sevilla third. Sevilla lost last season’s Copa final to Barcelona, which plays at Athletic Bilbao on Thursday.

Also Wednesday, Real Sociedad earned a 3-1 home win against Villarreal in another matchup between teams near the top of the Spanish league table - Villarreal is fourth, one spot ahead of Real Sociedad. In a game between second-division clubs, Alcorcon and Cordoba played to a scoreless draw. (ap)

REUTERS/Juan Medina

Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez and Sevilla’s Vitolo in action.

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Tottenham’s Harry Kane, front, competes for the ball with Chelsea’s Gary Cahill during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at White Hart Lane stadium in London, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

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Sp rt Tottenham beats Chelsea 2-0 to end 13-match EPL winning run

LONDON — Dele Alli underlined his growing reputation by single-handedly ending Chelsea’s 13-match winning run Wednesday, scoring two headed goals to give Tottenham a 2-0 victory over the Premier League leaders.

The defense has been the bedrock of Chelsea’s three-month hot streak but Alli was gifted space to score carbon copy goals in each half at White Hart Lane after meeting crosses from Christian Eriksen.

By taking his tally to seven goals in four games, the 20-year-old Alli inflicted Chelsea’s first loss since its last trip to north London at Arsenal in September and prevented the Blues from earning a league record 14th successive win in a single season.

“This league is very tough,” Chelsea manager Antonio Conte said. “Now it’s important to restart.

After 13 wins in a row it’s difficult to accept defeat.”

Chelsea still leads Liverpool by five points but Tottenham is now only seven points behind in third after

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Tottenham’s Dele Alli celebrates scoring a goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at White Hart Lane stadium in London, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

a fifth successive victory.

“It’s a big statement for us but we are happy to stay under the radar,” said Alli, whose team’s hopes of a first title since 1961 were ended by Chelsea last season. Conte established the winning run that sent Chelsea to the summit after switching to a three-man defense to stem the tide of goals in a 3-0 first half collapse at Arsenal.

But the defense is now leaking goals, conceding four in the last two matches after only letting in two in the previous 12 fixtures. Tottenham matched Chelsea’s formation and restricted Conte’s side to few chances, while proving more cohesive and solid at the back to frustrate the visitors’ forward line. “I didn’t get on the ball as much as I would have liked to,” Alli said.

The midfielder didn’t need to. Alli was described on the eve of the game by manager Mauricio Pochettino as the “most important player to emerge in English football in recent years.” Signed from third-tier club MK Dons two years ago for 5 million pounds (then $8 million), Alli lived up to his manager’s exalted praise with his mastery of the attacking spaces.

While Chelsea was looking more likely to score on the counterattack in the first half, Tottenham used a break to devastating effect on the stroke of halftime with Alli making the breakthrough.

Kyle Walker teed up Eriksen and as the cross was floated into the penalty area, Alli was left unmarked between Victor Moses and Cesar Azpilicueta to coolly nod past goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. It was an assertive start to the second half by Chelsea, but Tottenham preserved its lead.

Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris blocked a low shot from Diego Costa, Eden Hazard’s low header was off target and Moses’ penalty appeals were dismissed when he was clipped by Mousa Dembele. Spurs then punished Chelsea’s porous defending again in the 54th minute with a replica of the opener.

Walker did the running down the right flank before laying the ball off for Eriksen. The Danish international picked out Alli between Moses and Azpilicueta, and the midfielder found the target with this header.

“We were short of the levels we set ourselves, for whatever reason that may be, a few misplaced passes and not moving the ball as quick as we have been,” Chelsea defender Gary Cahill said. “They are a top quality opposition and we got punished for being short.”

Chelsea’s plight in the derby was summed up in the first half by the team’s top scorer, Costa, engaging in an on-pitch row with Pedro Rodriguez for several minutes. It followed Pedro’s failure to run into space in front of goal to meet a pass from Costa when the score was still 0-0. “It is normal disappointment,” Conte said. “It was a good chance for us and we wasted it.” (ap)

Standings

1 Chelsea

2 Liverpool

3 Tottenham Hotspur ------------------------4 Manchester City

------------------------5 Arsenal

------------------------6 Manchester United 7 Everton

------------------------8 West Bromwich Albion 9 Bournemouth

10 Southampton

11 Stoke City

12 Burnley

13 West Ham United

14 Watford

15 Leicester City

16 Middlesbrough

17 Crystal Palace

------------------------18 Sunderland

19 Swansea City

20 Hull City

Emmanuel Adebayor

P W D 20 16 1 20 13 5 20 12 6

L F 3 42 2 48 2 39

A 15 23 14

Pts 49 44 42

20 13 3 4 41

22

42

20 12 5 3 44

22

41

20 11 6 3 31 20 8 6 6 28

19 23

39 30

20 8 20 7 20 6 20 6 20 7 20 6 20 6 20 5 20 4 20 4

7 28 9 29 8 19 8 24 11 22 10 23 10 23 9 24 9 17 12 30

24 34 25 32 31 35 36 31 22 37

29 25 24 24 23 22 22 21 19 16

20 4 3 13 19 20 4 3 13 23 20 3 4 13 17

37 45 44

15 15 13

IBP/net

Squad: Goalkeepers: Kossi Agassa (unattached), Cedric Mensah (Le Mans), Baba Tchagouni (FC Marmande) Defenders: Serge Akakpo (Trabzonspor), Vincent Bossou (Young Africans), Djene Dakonam (St Truiden), Maklibe Kouloun (Dyto Lome), Abdoul Gafar Mamah (Dacia Chisinau), Sadat Ouro-Akoriko (Al Khaleej), Hakim Ouro-Sama (AS Port Too) Midfielders: Lalawele Atakora (Helsingborg), Franco Atchou (Dyto Lome), Floyd Ayite (Fulham), Razak Boukari (Chateauroux), Mathieu Dossevi (Standard Liege), Henritse Eninful (Doxa Katakopias), Alaixys Romao (Olympiakos), Prince Segbefia (Goztepe) Forwards: Emmanuel Adebayor (unattached), Komlan Agbegniadan (Wafa), Ihlas Bebou (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Serge Gakpe (Genoa), Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba (Renissance Berkane).

5 4 6 6 2 4 4 6 7 4

Clubless Adebayor to captain Togo at Nations Cup

LOME - Striker Emmanuel Adebayor will captain Togo at the African Nations Cup despite being without a club since leaving Premier League side Crystal Palace last May, the country’s football federation said on Thursday.

Adebayor and veteran goalkeeper Kossi Agassa are currently free agents yet both were included in the 23-man squad for the tournament starting later this month in Gabon.

Agassa, 38, left French club Stade Reims last season while Adebayor has only played for Togo in the last eight months, although he has been linked with a possible move to French Ligue 1 side Montpellier once the tournament concludes.

Togo will compete in Group C at the finals, which runs from Jan. 14-Feb. 5, alongside holders Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Morocco. (rtr)

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Cahill confident Chelsea will soon shrug off Spurs defeat

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill expects the side to draw strength from their extended winning run in the Premier League and not dwell on the 2-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on Wednesday.

A Dele Alli brace either side of the break ended a remarkable 13-game streak that has taken Chelsea five points clear at the top of the standings but Cahill remains adamant that the loss will not derail their title bid.

“We were short all over the pitch, I don’t know why. We are not robots,” Cahill told British media on Wednesday.

“It was a great opportunity for us but one defeat out of 14 is not a problem. We won’t dwell on this for a week, we go again and kick off another run.”

Chelsea will now switch their focus to Sunday’s FA Cup third round clash against Peterborough United.

“We’ve got the cup game to prepare for and then we go again in the league... dust this one off and go again.”

The league leaders, who have lost twice on the road this season, visit defending champions Leicester on Jan. 14 before travelling to second-placed Liverpool on Jan. 31. (rtr)

James Rodriguez comes through for Madrid in Copa del Rey win

MADRID — James Rodriguez made the most of a rare start for Real Madrid on Wednesday, scoring twice in a convincing 3-0 win over Sevilla in a firstleg match in the Copa del Rey’s Round of 16.

Less than a month after he called for more playing time and said he might leave the club if things didn’t change, the Colombian midfielder got to start at the Santiago Bernabeu. And his performance showed that Rodriguez believes he should still be considered for a place in Zinedine Zidane’s regular starting lineup.

“Obviously we all want to play,” Rodriguez said.

“We all go through bad moments, but this is like a new beginning for me. I’m staying, I’m staying in Madrid.” He opened the scoring with a low, leftfoot shot from outside the area in the 11th minute, and netted his second by converting a penalty just before halftime after Luka Modric had been fouled inside the area.

“He played a good game,” Zidane said of Rodriguez, who was cheered loudly by the crowd when he was substituted near the end. “He scored the goals and worked well. I’m happy for the match he had.”

Defender Raphael Varane scored the other goal with a header from the middle of the area in the 29th, as Madrid extended its unbeaten streak to 38 games - one short of the Spanish record set by Luis Enrique’s Barcelona last season.

Zidane, celebrating one year at Madrid’s helm, had downplayed Rodriguez’s complaints following the Club World Cup in December, saying he counted on the talented midfielder going forward.

He included Rodriguez in Wednesday’s lineup after resting some of the regular starters, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema.

Madrid, which beat Sevilla in the European Super Cup five months ago, will be the clear favorite

for the second leg in Seville on Jan. 12. The teams are only four points apart atop the Spanish league, with Madrid first and Sevilla third. Sevilla lost last season’s Copa final to Barcelona, which plays at Athletic Bilbao on Thursday.

Also Wednesday, Real Sociedad earned a 3-1 home win against Villarreal in another matchup between teams near the top of the Spanish league table - Villarreal is fourth, one spot ahead of Real Sociedad. In a game between second-division clubs, Alcorcon and Cordoba played to a scoreless draw. (ap)

REUTERS/Juan Medina

Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez and Sevilla’s Vitolo in action.

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Tottenham’s Harry Kane, front, competes for the ball with Chelsea’s Gary Cahill during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at White Hart Lane stadium in London, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

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International

Friday, January 6, 2017

International

‘Game over’ declares Al-Attiyah after Dakar drama

SAN MIGUEL - Nasser Al-Attiyah’s hopes of repeating his 2011 and 2015 Dakar Rally victories disappeared on Wednesday after the Qatari ripped a wheel off his Toyota and lost two hours and 17 minutes on a third stage won by reigning champion Stephane Peterhansel.

Al-Attiyah had been set to regain the lead from nine times world rally champion Sebastien Loeb when he hit trouble between San Miguel de Tucuman and San Salvador de Jujuy in Argentina.

The Qatari went off-piste and hit a hole at around the 414 km mark.

The winner of the first stage, and runner-up on day two, got going about an hour later at slow speed but had to stop again after another 30km.

While Al-Attiyah is likely to continue, with the rally heading to Bolivia and Paraguay before ending in Buenos Aires, the setback means he will have to focus on individual stage wins rather than the overall prize.

“Game over. A bad day,” he told the Dakar website (www.dakar. com) after ending the day 32nd overall. “We hit the other side on a

Yeh Leh Beach

NEGARA - Yeh Leh beach is located in Jembrana, just off the Denpasar-Gilimanuk highway.

Yeh Leh is not decorated with soft white sand like your ideal beach.

Instead, thousands of boulders litter the shore, either covered in algae or washed clean by the waves.

These mysterious rocks have been smoothed over for hundreds of years, leaving few clues about their origin.

Yeh Leh beach remains undeveloped as a tourist spot in Bali.

The fact that not many people visit this beach has made it unique and peaceful.

The beach is actually easily accessible, and you can visit at low

tide to see Yeh Leh in all its glory, with the boulders unearthed and many interesting marine animals caught in the rock pools. And if you can, don’t miss its stunning sunset, which lights up every shining rock on the shore.

Yeh Leh Pengeragoan Beach very unique. The beach is composed of two parts, western and eastern parts. The western part of the beach is the rock, while the eastern part of the beach is black sand.

In the west, this beach has a fairly wide stretch of coral. Interestingly not only rock, there is also a large stone and round. The stones were to gather in one place. As if there is someone who collects the stones.

When the afternoon, the sunset was beautiful, display the most beautiful sunsets there in October to February. Because of the stretcher in the sun is in the south of the equator, so the sun sets will be visible to the south. Reddish sunlight will look perfect when the month.

Yeh Leh Pengeragoan Beach also be a place for Melasti ritual by local people. Before the day of Nyepi, the Balinese people will hold a spiritual cleansing ritual to all amenities and facilities available in the temple. This ritual is called Melasti. Yeh Leh Pengeragoan Beach into place to implement the Melasti ritual by villagers in Pengeragoan. (IBP/net)

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“We decided to use some rocks and the wheel to make up the balance but we had to drive 80km like this. We stopped to repair but we could not. We don’t have all the parts.

“It was a mistake ... it’s bad luck but this is the race. This is how the Dakar is. We were doing a really good job, we were leading but there you go...”

Wednesday’s stage, reaching 5,000 meters in altitude, ended as a one-two-three for Peugeot.

Frenchman Loeb leads, 42 seconds clear of Spanish team mate and former world rally champion Carlos Sainz -- the father of the current Formula One driver of the same name -- with Peterhansel third after his first stage win of this year’s event. (rtr)

Murray struggles to tame Melzer in Doha DOHA - World number one Andy Murray laboured past Austrian Gerald Melzer 7-6(6) 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open on Wednesday after defending champion Novak Djokovic had also progressed with relative ease.

A passive Murray dropped serve twice in the opening set and world number 68 Melzer saved eight set points with some brave hitting before the Briton took the opener on a tiebreak.

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Driver Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and co-driver Matthieu Baumel of France race their Toyota during the 3rd stage of the Dakar Rally 2017, between the San Miguel de Tucuman and San Salvador de Jujuy of Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

his opponent.

Eventually the Scot got the break in the seventh game of the second set but he failed to claim victory when serving at 5-4 as the 26-year-old Melzer forced a break of his own.

When the 29-year-old Murray served for the match for the second time he made no mistake, wrapping up victory when Melzer sent a backhand return wide.

Murray, who looked drained at the end, will play Spain’s Nicolas Almagro next.

“He played great, great tennis and dominated large parts of the match,” Murray said on court after warmly congratulating his opponent. “I told him at the net he will keep climbing the rankings if he plays tennis like that.”

“I played pretty good but he was hitting the ball huge.”

Djokovic, seeded two, had an easier time against Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos, winning 6-3 6-4 in 72 minutes.

The Serb will face 38-year-old Czech Radek Stepanek who became the oldest ATP Tour quarter-finalist since Jimmy Connors, aged 42, in 1995, when REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon he beat wildcard ArMurray shakes hands with Melzer after their match. thur De Greef. (rtr)

F1 champions Mercedes to ‘unveil the beast’ on Feb. 23 LONDON - Mercedes, Formula One’s dominant team who have yet to announce a replacement for retired world champion Nico Rosberg, will present their 2017 car at Silverstone on Feb. 23.

The Mercedes website (www. mercedesamgf1.com) said on Wednesday that the reigning champions would “unveil the beast to the world” at the British Grand Prix circuit down the road from their Brackley factory.

Fans who register for a prize draw on Facebook will have the chance to win VIP access to witness the first laps of the W08 challenger.

Mercedes won 19 of 21 races last season and started all but one from pole position.

They will start the season in Australia in March as favourites for a fourth successive title, with Britain’s triple world champion Lewis Hamilton leading the campaign in the absence of former rival Rosberg.

The German driver stunned Formula One by announcing his retirement five days after win-

ning a first title in Abu Dhabi in late November, saying he had reached the peak and achieved his ambition.

His decision left Mercedes in a difficult position, with other leading drivers all under contract with rivals at such a late point in the year.

It was also an admission of just how tough a team mate Hamilton, who won 10 grands prix to Rosberg’s nine, had been to beat over the course of a season.

Rosberg’s replacement is expected to be announced imminently, with testing starting at the end of February in Spain.

Finland’s Valtteri Bottas is seen as a safe bet, as well as a safe pair of hands, to land the seat.

The motorsport.com website has reported that the Williams driver visited the Mercedes factory over the Christmas break.

The 2017 season will see wider tyres, faster cars and revised aerodynamics with Mercedes likely to face a tougher test from rivals Red Bull -- who have Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Dutch teenager Max Verstappen -- and Ferrari. (rtr)

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New York train crash injures more than 100 commuters

NEW YORK - A New York City train derailed at a downtown Brooklyn terminal during Wednesday’s morning rush hour, injuring more than 100 commuters in the metropolitan area’s second major rail accident since late September.

Emergency crews swarmed Atlantic Terminal after the Long Island Rail Road train went off the tracks inside the busy transportation hub at 8:20 a.m. local time (1320 GMT), the New York City Fire Department said.

While none of the injuries were life-threatening, at least 11 people were sent to the hospital, Deputy

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An injured passenger is taken from Atlantic Terminal in the Brooklyn borough of New York after a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

Assistant Chief Dan Donoghue said at a briefing at the crash site.

The train, arriving from the Queens neighborhood of Far Rockaway, failed to stop on time. Traveling at a fairly slow speed, it derailed after striking a bumping block, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the briefing.

A National Transportation Safety Board investigator told reporters that about 430 passengers and three crew members were on board the train at the time of the collision and that 104 people were injured.

The front two cars of the six-carriage train were severely damaged. The station’s partitions and bumping block, which prevents railway vehicles from going past the end of a section of track, were also damaged.

Passengers said the blood and chaos following the derailment were frightening.

“There were people crying,” said Aaron Neufeld, a 26-year-old paralegal who commutes on the rail line daily. “I saw some bloody faces.”

Neufeld, who was riding in the second car, said the train appeared to be approaching normally until it crashed, knocking passengers on top of one another and shattering glass windows.

“Bags went flying,” he said. “People were thrown to the ground.”

The engineer was probably responsible for failing to stop the train before it hit the bumper, said Tom Prendergast, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the agency that runs the railroad.

The train was traveling between 10 and 15 miles per hour (16 to 24 km per hour) as it approached the bumper, he said, which is standard.

“At that speed, it’s pretty much the locomotive engineer’s responsibility to stop the train,” Prendergast said as he stood beside Cuomo at the briefing.

Investigators will interview the engineer, the conductor and brakeman to determine the cause of the accident, he said. (rtr)

Behind fence, Mexico’s notorious Juarez is wary of Trump’s wall CIUDAD JUAREZ - Mexicans overwhelmingly say they oppose the wall U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to build along their northern border.

But in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, where extensive fencing was erected by the United States to secure the border between 2007 and 2010, residents have a more nuanced view of what a wall can mean.

They say the Juarez fence has both caused and relieved problems in the city and nearby areas.

Some say the barrier has made life in Juarez better, diverting drug and human traffickers to more remote spots where crossing the border is easier. Others say the high fence bred a new kind of crime in the city, encouraging drug dealers

who find it harder to get wares across the border to divert some of their product to expanding and serving a local market.

Juarez’s newly elected mayor, Armando Cabada, sees both sides.

He says the fencing, cameras, sensors and stricter controls on border bridges have stopped flagrant crossings of undocumented Mexican migrants into downtown El Paso, Texas, which sits just across the fortified border, in sight of his wood-panelled office.

On balance, however, the negatives have outweighed the positives, he says. He notes that shortly after the wall was built, Juarez was plunged into a hellish war between cartels that made it the murder capital of the world, while El Paso

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remained the safest U.S. city of its size.

After the border got tighter, Cabada said, “the narco traffickers had to battle much harder to cross their drugs into the United States, and a lot ended up staying here.”

The increased local supply of drugs changed social dynamics in the city and addiction and petty crime soared, he said.

It is hard to isolate causes of the chaos that engulfed Juarez in 2008 when the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels fought over trafficking routes, but the belief that tighter controls contributed to the city’s deadly, downward spiral is widespread among business leaders, security officials and politicians consulted

by Reuters. (rtr)

Youth of Bali...

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There are thirteen foundations and schools receiving the awards, they are Dwijendra University, Mahasaraswati University, SMAN 4 Denpasar, SMAN 7 Denpasar, SMKN 1 Pertanian Petang, SMAN Bali Mandara, SMK PGRI 3 Denpasar, SMP PGRI 2 Denpasar,, Mahendradatta Foundation, Widya

Kerthi Foundation, Bali Korpri Foundation, YPLP Kota PGRI Denpasar and Health Educational Foundation or YPPLPK Bali.

The event was also filled with many entertainments such as Pendet Dance from SD PGRI YPLP Denpasar, Janger Dance from the Women Association of Warmadewa University and Titiapi, Pejeng art group as the music performer. (ian/rin)

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Relatives cry during the burial of an inmate killed in a prison riot, at the Parque Taruma cemetery, in Manaus, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.

Brazil prison riot, a ‘butchery foretold,’ sparks fear of more killings

SAO PAULO - The killing of 56 inmates by fellow prisoners in Brazil’s deadliest jail uprising in decades was a “butchery foretold” by escalating turf wars between drug gangs that threatens to plunge a chaotic penitentiary system deeper into violence.

Prior to this week’s massacre of members of the First Capital Command (PCC) in the Anisio Jobim penitentiary in the jungle city of Manaus, security experts warned for months about intensifying clashes in prisons between Brazil’s two most powerful drug gangs - the Sao Paulo-based PCC and the Red Command, based in Rio de Janeiro.

Now they fear the feud will escalate in prisons and on the streets of the South American nation of 207 million people. Rio, Brazil’s most popular tourist destination, is particularly vulnerable, along with major cities in the north and northeast, the experts say.

“This situation is tense, very ripe for new tragedies,” said Camila Dias, a sociologist at the Federal University of ABC in Sao Paulo, who is an expert on Brazil’s prison system and author of a book on the PCC. “This was a butchery foretold.”

For more than two decades, the PCC and Red Command maintained an uneasy working relationship to ensure a steady flow of

marijuana, cocaine and guns over Brazil’s porous borders and into its cities.

But in June the partnership ended with the killing of Jorge Rafaat Toumani, a powerful Brazilian drug lord based in Paraguay who controlled trafficking routes along Brazil’s southeastern border.

While Toumani was not publicly affiliated to one group or another, and details of his death remain murky, Paraguayan officials believe he was killed at the PCC’s behest so it could seize his lucrative trafficking routes.

What is clear, security experts say, is that the PCC has taken control of Toumani’s former domain.

As a result, relations between the PCC and Red Command fell apart.

Communications between the factions’ leaders obtained by police and leaked in October, revealed a race to become Brazil’s dominant gang. That same month, clashes between gang members in three prisons elsewhere in Brazil’s Amazon left 22 dead.

Control of the drug gangs’ turf has been increasingly balkanized in recent months. That has left the Red Command weaker and allowed the PCC - powered by proceeds from their base in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s richest city - to encroach on their turf in Rio. (rtr)

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Govt to set up cyber agency to fight fake news

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government will soon establish a National Cyber Agency to help overcome the threat of fake news that aims to spread slanderous messages and hatred through social media.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) had instructed him during a meeting to immediately establish the National Cyber Agency, according to Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto.

The president had directed that the agency be formed at the earliest to curb the spread of false news that could threaten people and harm their interests.

The spread of hoax messages through the social media, among others, can create confusion and doubts about the veracity of the information. Irresponsible parties can thus exploit this confusion created to sow hatred, and create disunity and hostility among the people, the minister explained.

“We are technologically advanced now. We are grateful that technology has facilitated better education and helped disseminate information faster, but we are also concerned because individuals could use it to spread defamatory material. This confuses people,” Wiranto stressed on Tuesday (January 3).

If this happens, the nations de-

velopment will be hampered. It will put the people, nation and the state at a disadvantage. People should be responsible while using technology and spreading information, Wiranto pointed out that.

“So, we will regulate the spread of false news in the social media.

All are free to express opinions; they are allowed to do so, but they should do it in an elegant and respectable manner,” Wiranto stated.

Noting that the social media has a huge influence on the public, Director General of Culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture Hilmar Farid said many were still unable to differentiate between fake and real news.

Even professors, doctors and academicians were likely to believe the information available on the social media, Farid added.

“The social media has an extraordinary influence. A false piece of information, which is given a picture and a title, can spread quickly (after it is uploaded),” the director general said.

Usually, those who believe in hoax materials belong to the transitional generation. There are many professors and doctors who believe in such false news (disseminated through social media), a research conducted by Farid with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) in 2015, found out. (ant)

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PT Pertamina said it needs an investment of at least Rp1,000 trillion and 10 years to catch up with Malaysian rival Petronas.

Pertamina needs Rp1,000 trillion investment to catch up with Petronas

JAKARTA - PT Pertamina said it needs an investment of at least Rp1,000 trillion and 10 years to catch up with Malaysian rival Petronas.

An additional investment of at least Rp1,000 trillion in 10 years would be needed to increase the assets of Pertamina 2.5 times of what it has at present and beat Petronas, Dwi Soetjipto, the president director of the state-owned oil and gas company, said here on Wednesday.

Dwi said satisfactory performance was recorded by Pertamina in 2016 with profit of around Rp40 trillion (US$3 billion).

“This was the first time Pertamina was ahead of

Petronas in term of profit,” he said.

Pertamina reported around US$40 billion in income though declining as a result of oil price fall.

In the first half of 2016, Pertamina reported US$2.38 billion in profit as against Petronas US$1.6 billion.

Dwi attributed the good performance to improved efficiency in the past two years.

In the past two years we have focused on improving efficiency. In 2015, efficiency saved around US$800 million and in the first 11 months of 2016 efficiency of US$2.8 billion was a breakthrough project,” he said.

With a number of breakthroughs Pertamina could beat Petronas such as synergy with PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) and the Special Unit of Upstream Oil and Gas (SKK Migas), he said. (ant)

Indonesian KPK summons house speaker as witness in e-id corruption case

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JAKARTA - The Indonesia Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has summoned House Speaker Setya Novanto as a witness in an electronic identity card (e-ID) corruption case.

“Setya Novanto has been called as a witness for suspect Sugiharto,” KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah stated here, Wednesday.

This is the second time that the KPK has summoned Novanto after the first one on December 13, 2016, for the case that occurred during the

Nov 2011-2012 period, when he was the treasurer of Golkar Party and concurrently head of the Golkar Party sanction at the Parliament.

Novanto denied that members of Commission II of the House of Representatives had received bribe money for the e-ID project.

In addition to Novanto, the KPK has summoned Director of PT. Gajendra Adhi Sakti Azmin Aulia, businessman Afdal Noverman, and auditor of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency

(BPKP) Mahmud Toha Siregar.

The KPK has named two suspects in the e-ID corruption case: former director general of population and civil administration of the Home Affairs Ministry Irman and Population Administration Information Manager of the Home Affairs Ministry Sugiharto.

According to the BPKP, the state incurred losses reaching some Rp2.3 trillion owing to a mark up in the e-ID project that cost some Rp6 trillion. (ant)

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BUSINESS China’s choices narrowing as it burns through FX reserves to support yuan

SINGAPORE - As China’s foreign exchange reserves threaten to tumble below the critical $3 trillion mark, the biggest fear for investors is not whether Beijing can continue to defend the yuan but whether it will set off a vicious cycle of more outflows and currency depreciation.

Data this week is expected to show China’s forex reserves precariously perched just above $3 trillion at end-December, the lowest level since February 2011, according to a Reuters poll. While the world’s second-largest economy still has the largest stash of forex reserves by far, it has been churning through them rapidly since August 2015, when it stunned global investors by devaluing the yuan and moving to what it promised would be a slightly freer and more transparent currency regime.

Since then, authorities have repeatedly intervened to support the yuan when it weakened too sharply, burning through half a trillion dollars of reserves and prompting them to sell some of their massive holdings of U.S. government bonds.

They also have put a tightening regulatory chokehold on individuals and businesses who want to move money out of the country, while denying they were imposing new capital controls.

Concerns over the speed with which China is depleting its ammunition are swirling, with some analysts estimating it needs to retain a minimum of $2.6 trillion to $2.8 trillion under the International Monetary Fund’s adequacy measures.

“There has been quite a bit of anxiety and speculation because the way many people in China talk about it is ‘will the government defend the 7-per-dollar level or the 3 trillion dollars’,” said Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics in Hong Kong.

China stepped into both its onshore and offshore yuan markets this week to shore up the yuan as it neared the 7 level, sparking speculation that it wants to regain a firm grip ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened to brand

Beijing a currency manipulator.

But if forex reserves continue to be depleted at a fast pace and capital flight continues, some strategists believe China’s leaders may have little choice but to sanction another big “oneoff” devaluation.

That could set off competitive currency devaluations by other struggling emerging economies, even as the world braces for greater trade protectionism under Trump.

MORE CONTROLS To slow the yuan’s decline without depleting reserves at an ever faster pace, analysts and economists expect authorities to turn to even tighter regulatory measures, including more scrutiny of outbound investments, overseas lending and export revenues, and closing loopholes in existing capital controls.

But as fast as authorities jump to control one exit ramp, others may open up unless Beijing can reverse the market’s mind-set that the yuan is on a one-way depreciation path.

“It doesn’t matter if there’s actually enough reserves or not,” said Joey Chew, Asia foreign exchange strategist at HSBC, who believes China doesn’t need a buffer of more than $2 trillion.

“If people think there won’t be enough they’ll try to get out and it becomes a selffulfilling mechanism.

“The authorities are already aware that trying to run down reserves will be counterproductive, which is why they’re relying on regulatory controls,” she added.

As recently as last week, authorities introduced requirements for financial institutions to report all single domestic and overseas cash transactions of more than 50,000 yuan ($7,212.72) from July onwards, down from

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A logo of yuan is seen at a foreign exchange store in Shanghai, China, December 1, 2015.

200,000 yuan previously.

The authorities also stepped up scrutiny on individual foreign currency purchases, although they kept the $50,000 annual individual quota in place.

“Previously, capital controls had been relatively loose and authorities had turned a blind eye to individual forex purchases because of abundant foreign exchange reserves,” said Jerry Hu, an economist at Shanghai Securities. “But they are now strengthening supervision in order to change expectations.”

With regulators also pledging to increase scrutiny of major outbound deals, “it’s not impossible to see that we’ll see further moves in that area,” Kuijs said.

China could also encourage its domestic exporters to convert more of their earnings into

yuan, HSBC’s Chew said. Chew believes new capital controls are unlikely.

“There are a lot of controls already,” she said. “They were maybe not as strictly enforced, so they’ll focus on improving that. But the tweaks may not be enough. We still expect capital outflows and we still expect RMB depreciation.”

Dwyfor Evans, head of Asia-Pacific macro strategy at State Street Global Markets, also feared authorities may be limited in how they respond. “Chinese officials have few policy options,” he said.

“If they allow faster depreciation, this will only spur pressures for greater outflows. And a one-off devaluation risks a repeat of the market turbulence evidenced twice in the past 18 months.”(rtr)

Aramco Raises Oil Pricing to Asia and U.S. as OPEC Cuts Output Saudi Arabia raised pricing for February oil sales to Asia and increased premiums for light grades to the U.S. as the world’s largest crude exporter prepares to reduce output to help counter a global oversupply.

State-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco, increased its official pricing for Arab Light crude to Asia by 60 cents a barrel to 15 cents below the regional benchmark, it said in an e-mailed statement. The company had been expected to increase the

pricing for shipments of Arab Light crude by 50 cents a barrel, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of five refiners and traders.

Oil jumped 52 percent last year, its first annual gain in four years as OPEC agreed to reduce production for the first time in eight years.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and 11 other producers, including Russia, agreed to decrease output by 1.8 million barrels a day this year after prices had dropped more than half from

the 2014 level.

Crude is set to recover as OPEC fulfills its agreement, Khalid AlFalih, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, said last month in Riyadh. The intervention is intended to “nudge along” a re-balancing of the oil market, as prices will need to rise to encourage investment in new supplies, Al-Falih said in an interview.

Crude will balance between $50 and $100 a barrel, he said.

Buyers in the U.S. will pay premiums that are 20 cents a barrel higher for both Extra Light and Light grade

crudes in February, while pricing for Medium and Heavy blends remains unchanged, according to the statement. Saudi Aramco reduced pricing for all grades sold in Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean region next month.

Saudi Arabia boosted output to a record 10.66 million barrels a day in July. Two months later it backed a reversal in OPEC’s Saudi-led policy of letting members pump without limits. Saudi Aramco is curbing sales this month to parts of Southeast Asia, as part of its OPEC

obligation to cut production by 486,000 barrels a day to just under 10.1 million.

Middle Eastern producers compete with cargoes from Latin America, North Africa and Russia for buyers in Asia, its largest market. Producers in the Persian Gulf region sell mostly under long-term contracts to refiners. Most of the Gulf’s state oil companies price their crude at a premium or discount to a benchmark. For Asia the benchmark is the average of Oman and Dubai oil grades.(rtr)

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Ngibing Joged Bungbung at Tanah Lot

On releasing the year 2016 and welcoming the New Year 2017, the management of Tanah Lot tourist attractions organized an open house activity. The event lasting for three days (Dec. 30-31, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017) specifically involved the driver, guide and tour leader. “This activity aims to provide appreciation and express gratitude for the cooperation of stakeholders in order to contribute positively to Tanah Lot tourist attraction,” said Operations Manager Toya Adnyana.

Open house provides various types of special traditional food served to the shareholders. Besides, it also graced with dance performance like Joged Bumbung at 17:00 in front of the office of the operation management. “This performance is expected to entertain visitors while enjoying the New Year holidays at Tanah Lot. Tour guide, domestic and foreign travelers even joined the dance (ngibing),” said Toya Adnyana proudly.

Since day seven before the New Year, the incoming travelers to Tanah Lot have started soaring as coincide with school holidays.

Thousands of the travelers came from various cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Makassar. From the afternoon until evening, from viewing post on a cliff top of ??Tanah Lot Beach could be seen that travelers

used various types of cameras and video cameras to capture the sunset moments.

Tanah Lot tourist attraction remains to become prominent destination for travelers to spend the remaining times of 2016 and welcome the New Year 2017. During holiday season, visitors to Tanah Lot continue to abound. Festive atmosphere happened when the sun set and thousands of visitors, as if being commanded, immediately applauded in unison.

READ Presenting Roasted Suckling Pig Every Birth The sun went down into west horizon and became an immeasurably exotic scenery. “The sunset view is so pretty this afternoon, the highlight of the round was clearly visible although its central part is slightly covered in cloud,” commented a visitor when capturing the moment of the sun back into the dusk. (kmb)

Barong Enlivens Bukit Sari Sangeh Attraction

Bukit Sari Sangeh tourist attraction became the venue of cultural event entitled Sangeh Barong Festival. At least, there were 31 participants in the contest organized

by Sari Guna customary village youth club, Sari hamlet, Sangeh, Badung. More interestingly, the participants were mostly young people of primary and junior high schools from different regions in Bali such as Bangli, Ubud (Gianyar), Sanur as well as of Petang, Mengwi, Bongkasa, Cemagi and

Jimbaran (Badung).

The Sangeh Barong Festival took place at the outermost courtyard of Pucak Sari Temple (in the woods) for two days (Dec. 17-18, 2016) starting at 19:00. On the first day it featured 15 participants and on the second day featured 16 participants. However, before the contest began, the organizer featured a guest star namely the single kid barong dance and single kid drum as a form of appreciation to young artist. Thus, it encour-

aged the vivacity of preserving the Balinese culture.

Each barong dancer came with a drum player as a partner. Nevertheless, each barong dancer and drum player is assessed by the jury panel.

Each participant should present mask composition, Goak Macok, Playon Bongkasa, Omang and drum improvisation. They were given 15-20 minutes to make their performance.

Atmosphere of the contest on the second day looked more fes-

tive because the Regent of Badung, Giri Prasta, came to watch and give encouragement. He also invited other young men to exemplify the implementation of the Sangeh Barong Festival. Regent highly supported the positive and innovative works of the Badung younger generation in the field of art or sport. On that account, the Regent Giri Prasta gave appreciation fund worth IDR 30 million and bonuses to each winner.

READ Tumpek Kandang, Fruit Arrangement Parade at Alas Kedaton At the festival, I Putu Dedik Sutyana (Ubud) was finally elected as the first winner of the barong dancer and followed by I Putu Eka Darmayasa (Cemagi) and Ida Bagus Alit (Sanur) respectively as the second and third winner. Other than receiving trophy and award, the winners also received cash prize and bonus from the regent of Badung valued at IDR 2.5 million and a bonus of IDR 2 million (first winner), IDR 2 million and bonus of IDR 1.5 million (second winner) and IDR 1.5 million and bonus of 1 million (third winner).

For single drum player, the first, second and third winner was respectively achieved by Mank Monot (Jimbaran) with the prize of IDR 1.5 million and a bonus of IDR 1 million, Komang Wahyu

(Denpasar) with the prize of IDR 1 million and a bonus of IDR 750,000 and Agus Sattvika (Mengwi) with the prize of IDR 750,000 and bonus of IDR 500,000. As the appreciation, the committee also awarded to the first, second and third consolation prize for the single barong dancer and single drum player as well as to the talented (favorite) winner.

Committee chairman, Ida Bagus Gede Pujawan, said that the Sangeh Barong Festival serves as a medium for Balinese cultural preservation, especially gamelan and barong dance. In addition, it also aims to promote Sangeh village having the potential of forest (nature) and its monkey. Sangeh Barong Festival is the first festival agenda held to coincide with celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the Sari Guna customary village youth club.

This cultural event will add to the attraction of Sangeh having been designated as a tourism village. In addition to nutmeg forest and monkeys, Sangeh also has Taman Mumbul as a water recreation, ancient Balinese house and homestay supported by a wide variety of unique cuisines of Sangeh. “Our next program is the gala dinner, nature and culture. Thus, visitors will have a lot of choices when making a visit to Sangeh,” said Gede Pujawan.(kmb)

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Australia, Indonesia seek to patch up wounds over military row

SYDNEY - Indonesia and Australia sought to calm tensions on Thursday after Indonesia’s military suspended ties because of “insulting” teaching material found at an Australian base that questioned Jakarta’s sovereignty in Papua province.

Fall from cliff of Uluwatu Temple

Traveler from Surakarta died The evacuation process of the tourist in Uluwatu

A traveler from Surakarta named Kwan Anto Randy Saputro, 57, fell down from the cliff as high as 100 meters at Uluwatu tourist attraction, South Kuta, on Wednesday (Jan. 4). Due to the incident, the late was killed in pathetic condition due to concussion.

This unlucky traveler was previously on vacation with his wife, Auw Jang Phin Khuan, 51. According to Saputro, an eyewitness, Anto had passed the fence and seemed to stand too close to the cliff edge.

Suddenly he slipped and fell into

the gorge.

Responding to the incident, Made Sumerta as the manager of the tourist attraction contacted the national SAR agency in Denpasar around 12:15. Through his report, Sumerta explained that the victim’s

condition has been seen lifeless and being adrift in the ocean currents.

At 12:30, the rescue team drove to location by deploying a total of 25 personnel and personnel transport truck, SAR rapid deployment unit and evacuation vehicle.

Gede Darmada, Operation Section Head of the SAR Agency, who came down to the location leading as the on-scene commander said that at that time the tidal waves began to go higher and the slope

is quite steep. It is only accessible from above. Previously, two rescue personnel were sent down from the cliff side to secure the victim’s position located 20 meters from the beach. However, since the tidal waves began to go higher, the rescue team got difficulties and could not reach the victim’s location. Finally, it was decided to use a vertical rescue technique.

The evacuation was carried out very carefully and involved up to

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24 rescuers assisted by the other SAR elements. Ultimately, the victim managed to be taken up after two hours of evacuation process.

Furthermore, the victim’s body was then taken to Sanglah Hospital by ambulance of the BPBD Badung.

Other potential SAR personnel involved are military, police, lifesaver and the regional disaster mitigation agency (BPBD). (kmb23)

Papua, where a separatist movement has simmered for decades, is a sensitive issue for Indonesia, which took over the former Dutch colony after a widely criticized U.N.backed referendum in 1969.

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne expressed regrets and promised a thorough investigation of the row, which highlighted the sometimes prickly relationship between the neighbours.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said ties with Australia were “still in a fine condition” and that his defence minister and military chief had been asked to investigate.

“We have agreed, Indonesia, Australia, to respect each other, to value each other and not meddle in each other’s domestic affairs,” Widodo said.

Military cooperation between the two countries ranges from countertenors programs to border protection.

But the neighbours have had a rocky military relationship in recent years. Australia stopped joint training exercises with Indonesian

special forces (Kopassus) after accusations of abuses by the unit in East Timor in 1999, as the territory prepared for independence.

Ties resumed when counterterrorism cooperation became imperative after the 2002 nightclub bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Australia’s defence minister said an investigation into the teaching materials, found at Campbell Barracks in the west Australian city of Perth, would be concluded “imminently”.

“We have indicated our regret that this occurred and that offence was taken. I think that’s appropriate when a significant counterpart raises their concerns with you,” Payne told reporters in Sydney.

Australia would present the findings of the report to Indonesia’s government and military, Payne said. She denied allegations, reportedly made by Indonesia’s Armed Forces Chief Gatot Nurmantyo in a lecture last year, that Australia had tried to recruit Indonesian soldiers as agents during training. (rtr)

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Australian Army soldiers assist Indonesian Army personnel during the Junior Officer Combat Instructor Training course conducted by the Australian Army’s Combat Training Centre in Tully, Australia, October 10, 2014.

Myanmar faces danger from IS militants, Malaysian police say

Ngoncang Poses an Expression of Australian and British citizen Gratitude after Rice Harvest transferred to attorney Involved in hashish

DENPASAR - Alleged to get involved in drug case belonging to hashish type, two foreigners were transferred by police to Denpasar district attorney on Wednesday (Jan. 4). Both foreigners are Giuseppe Serafino from Australia and David Fox Matthew from Britain.

Section head of general crime of Denpasar district attorney, Ketut Maha Agung, said that the suspect is alleged to get involved in the illicit goods belonging to hashish. The evidence that handed over by police is hashish with the weight of 7.32 grams owned by Giuseppe and hashish with the weight of 10.09 grams owned by David.

He said that both suspects in a separate file are charged under Article 111 Paragraph 1, Article 115 Paragraph 1, Article 127 Paragraph 1 letter a of the Law No.35/2009 on narcotics.

To be noted, when seeing the articles, said the section head of general crime, the suspects can be charged with a maximum penalty of 12 years. And, he continued, if there are no obstacles, the files will be taken to district court to stand trial within a week. (kmb37)

The art of ngoncang or pounding mortar also enlivened the opening of the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest) 2016. No halfheartedly, there are ten pounding art troupes presenting this agrarian art predominantly used in religious ceremonies.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism, Nyoman Sutrisna, said the ten pounding art troupes involved came from the subdistrict of Buleleng, Sukasada and Sawan. Each troupe may consist of six to ten people.

They used round and elongated mortar made from teak wood or devil tree wood with the length of two to three meters. In the middle it has a hole and is hit by using wooden round-end pestle gener-

ally used for pounding rice.

This pounding art is representing the excitement of gratitude of housewives when celebrating post-harvest time.

Rhythm of the beat sounding harmonious symbolizes their unity and oneness. As ancestral heritage, the existence is still preserved to these days. Through the Bulfest, younger generations are expected to know about this tradition. They will see in person the shape and pattern of pounding the rice mortar. Meaning of the sound produced becomes a symbol of harmony of life.

Visitors can learn and know a lot of things that Buleleng has diverse cultures and traditions,” he said. (kmb)

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Men fight for an oiled coconut as they play American Football during a festival to mark Myanmar’s 69th Independence Day in Yangon, Myanmar January 4, 2017.

KUALA LUMPUR - Myanmar faces a growing danger of attacks by foreign supporters of Islamic State (IS) recruited from Southeast Asian networks in support of persecuted Muslim Rohingyas, Malaysia’s top counter-terrorism official has said.

Malaysian authorities have detained a suspected IS follower planning to head to Myanmar to carry out attacks, the head of the Malaysian police counter-terrorism division, Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, said in an interview.

The suspect, an Indonesian whom he did not identify, was detained in Malaysia last month. The suspect was scheduled to be charged on Wednesday for possession of materials linked to terrorist groups, which carries a seven-year jail term or fine, Ayob Khan said.

More militants are likely to try to follow his lead in support of the Rohingya cause, Ayob Khan said.

“He was planning to perform jihad in Myanmar, fighting against the Myanmar government for this Rohingya group in Rakhine State,” Ayob Khan said.

A Myanmar army sweep since October in the north of Rakhine State, on its border with Bangladesh, has sent about 34,000 members of the Rohingya minority fleeing into Bangladesh, the United Nations says.

Residents and rights groups accuse security forces in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar of summary executions and rape in the army operation, launched in response to attacks on police posts on Oct. 9 that killed nine officers. The government of Aung San Suu Kyi denies the accusations of abuse.

Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay told Reuters an official report into October’s violence in Rakhine state found no evidence of an IS presence there or that the attacks were linked to IS. (rtr)

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IF you follow Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley’s style closely, you know that she’s always spotted in workout clothes, so it’s safe to say she knows a thing or two about gym wares. Today, the fitness pro has launched the latest activewear collection under her Rosie for Autograph line. (You may already know about the brand’s chic pajamas and lingerie.) Available exclusively at Marks & Spencer, the chic wares have modest, under-$100 price tags, which means you should definitely stock up on multiple pieces.

Need proof that HuntingtonWhiteley is the perfect person to dress you for the gym? In a recent interview with Elle UK, she explained that she feels her best when she’s working out. “I feel there are a lot of different things a woman’s body is expected to be, but my favorite way to see mine is when it’s being physical,” she told the magazine. (IBP/net)

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Gedong Kirtya hard to add manuscript collections

GEDONG Kirtya is still known as a repository of thousands of palm-leaf manuscripts. It does not only intrigue the interest of local people to visit, but also foreign travelers. A variety of information related to manuscript can be explored in this museum. However, beyond its function as a source of education, the institution having been established for decades remains to be entangled by some problems. What are they?

Buleleng district is not only rich in natural beauty being able to draw travelers to visit. Having examined further, the region nicknamed as the land of Panji Sakti has a very important institution. It is the Gedong Kirtya.

When setting foot at Gedong Kirtya, the atmosphere is quite different. From the entrance gates, we can have seen older buildings established before the era of independence. From outside, it looks very lonely. Only some few people are passing by.

However, after tracing further inwardly, our eyes will be faced with thousands of palm-leaf manuscripts stored in wooden boxes.

They do not only belong to one category, but many categories. The palm-leaf manuscripts containing a variety of science have recently become a public appeal, especially among the local students. When holidays arrive, many domestic and foreign travelers see the collections. Some of them are curious about the motif of the scripts made by knife.

Behind the increasing public interest to study the manuscripts, the management has desire to

increase the number of collection.

One of the ways is by copying the palm-manuscripts in the community. However, it just remains in a dream because the budget is very limited. “We want to increase the collection of palm-leaf manuscript, but cannot do it. It’s still hampered by budgetary matter,” said Chief of Gedong Kirtya, Putu Gede Wiriasa, on Tuesday (Jan. 3).

Every year, he said the museum just gets a budget of IDR 350 million to IDR 400 million. It will run out just to meet the operating needs as well as printing a number of books required by society. “Most budgets are spent to meet the needs of general public like printing of books,” he said.

Copying cost of the palm-leaf manuscript is not fairly cheap like a printed book. Each page of the palm-leaf manuscript with a length of 35 cm will cost about IDR 25,000. If multiplied by the number of palm-leaf manuscript as a whole, the cost becomes very large. “Each volume costs very expensive. Moreover, we want to copy the palm-leaf manuscripts recorded in the community. It must be very large,” he said.

Faced with such problems, Wiriasa admitted that the program related to the preservation of manuscripts carried out is only limited to the data collection in the community. If there are researchers in need of reference in the form of palm-leaf manuscript, the data can be used as reference. “Despite the low budget, we still come down to the community to make data collection. It poses one of the conservation efforts,” he added. (sos)

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Behind the increasing public interest to study the manuscripts, the management has desire to increase the number of collection. One of the ways is by copying the palm-manuscripts in the community.

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Other than rafting, nature tourism and cacao processing, in 2005 the True Bali Experience with the area of 16 hectares started to introduce the concept of Elephant Camp.

One-stop destination at True Bali Experience

MANGUPURA - “Now, are in True Bali Experience,” said IGAA Indha Trimafo Yudha, the owner of PT. Kasianan operating the True Bali Experience tourist attraction, when opening the conversation during a site inspection by some media recently.

True Bali Experience is a private company operating the nature adventure tourism activities, conservation and agro-tourism located at Carang Sari village, Petang. The experiences offered include whitewater rafting. The rafting business has run for 16 years, and becomes the first local rafting company. “We are a part of Carang Sari community, Petang,” she said.

Over time, the management began to escort travelers, introduced the potential owned by local village while riding bicycle to Bedugul, passed through forest and walked. Then, three years ago her company processed cacao pods.

Other than rafting, nature tourism and cacao processing, in 2005 the True Bali Experience with the area of 16 hectares started to introduce the concept of Elephant Camp. To open the Elephant Camp, the company must cooperate with central government, the Ministry of Forestry and natural resources conservation agency (KSDA) that later on became a partner. “We are given the right to become an elephant conservation agency in particular by adopting from Riau and Lampung,” she said.

The main requirements as well as the mission are to foster the conservation, regeneration process as well as take care of the elephants. “Elephants are protected endangered animals. Since Bali is the gates and ambassador of Indonesia, the government then

provides an opportunity to introduce the rare animals into tourism sector. Pursuant to our main mission, we have succeeded to breed the elephants. This year, two baby elephants were born,” she explained.

A total of 13 elephants were brought in at a fairly young age. One of the characteristics of happy elephants can be seen from their success in the matter of breeding.

Going up to the assembly point, all the journalists were invited to the location of chocolate processing.

There, the machine only has the capacity of processing cacao as much as 5 tons a month. She opened the cacao processing (factory) in Mengwi in 2016 that can process nine folds or a total of 45 tons a month. “It can be imagined that we have the capacity of accommodating labor and cacao production. Thus, we do not only export raw materials but also products with added-value,” she explained.

She deliberately does not have any cocoa plants because she wanted to purchase from farmers so that farmers will not export raw materials only.

Formerly, the tourist visit to her factory reached 40-100 people. She admitted that her company must share tourist visit because there are also similar concept elsewhere. “Like in the current rainy season, guests prefer to take indoor activities,” she said.

With so many similar businesses in Bali, she strived to continuously innovate and think creatively.

“We’re trying to create something with the concept of one-stop-shopping, or by knowing the character of guests whether they are European guests that are used to seeing something glamorous. On that account, we give something natural and the most important is education,” she explained. (kmb42)

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Hectares of paddy fields prone to be pounded by tidal waves

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The resident of Bugis Kampong in Serangan move their belongings after the execution.

Four residents of Bugis kampong named suspects,

Seven houses stated to be wrongly executed DENPASAR - House buildings located in the east of the road or on Jalan Tukad Bulan, Bugis kampong, Serangan, South Denpasar, have been razed to the ground. Only a pole house remains belonging to cultural heritage.

After the execution, a total of 36 families of Bugis kampong affected by the execution do not know where to take shelter after their house has been dismantled by executor team of the Denpasar district court.

But interestingly, the house of seven residents claimed to exclude from the 36 families was executed as well. The seven residents are Edi, Sulkivli, Mauludin, Husein, Sakaria, Siti Hajar and Muhayat. Their house is located behind the pole house. These residents will report the case to police. “There are seven houses outside the 36 families also executed. It is wrong and I have met the clerk of the court,” said Rizal Akbar Maya Poetra. Due to the wrong execution, he is going to report the case to police on Thursday.

In the meantime, Spokesperson of Denpasar district court, I Made Sukereni, told that the court will not only hear unilaterally. However, it listens to both sides. Evidence has been at hand, so that chief of the Denpasar district court will not carry out the execu-

tion simply based on oral information but based on the existing data and evidences. Regarding the accusation of excessive execution, Sukereni said that the execution is carried out based on the verdict. If they do not accept the execution, they can sue.

On the other hand, regarding the chaos during the execution last Wednesday, Rizal admitted that four residents of Bugis kampong were named suspects by police. They are Aditya Sulaiman, Amir Hadli, Harris Fadilah and Said Saddam. They armed with sharp weapon and one brought arrows. “For these suspects, we will immediately file a surety, I with some community leaders become the warrantor,” said Rizal.

Then, what about the recent condition of the residents? Rizal said they will persist. Now, some of them spend the night at neighboring family, while some others sleep in a tent and in the mosque. However, he had already explained to the residents that they will soon receive certificate of their land for the 36 families affected by the execution.

“I emphasize that before a month the land will be recovered. There has been cancellation of certificate from the national land agency (BPN),” he said. Does the cancellation of the certificate go through the process of lawsuit? When asked so, Rizaldi said that it is a different case. “It is different, the administration can be resolved,” he explained. (kmb37)

SINGARAJA - Dozens of hectares of paddy fields in Buleleng are prone to be affected by tidal waves. Paddy fields spreading across Sawan and Kubutambahan subdistrict are directly adjacent to seashore. If tidal waves strike again, some paddy fields planted with rice and the others being cultivated are threatened by the blows of tidal waves. So far, the seashore bordering with the paddy fields has not been protected with concrete revetment.

As observed on Wednesday (Jan. 4), the paddy fields at Sangsit and Kerobokan village (Sawan subdistrict) spread across respectively five hectares. In addition, the other ten hectares are at Kubutambahan village (Kubutambahan subdistrict). Currently, most of these paddy fields have been planted with rice with the age of about two weeks. The rest is being cultivated by farmers. In the meantime, the recent extreme weather still overwhelms the seashore of Buleleng and tidal waves are predicted to peak until February 2017, so that this situation can cause significant damages to crops.

Head of the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, said at his office last Wednesday that since the extreme weather hit his agency does not received any reports on the damages to rice due to the impact of tidal waves. At present, his agency has commissioned the agricultural extension officers (PPL) to monitor each target area. In addition, the agency intensively provides appeals to farmers through the meeting of subak (irrigation cooperative) group so as to consider planting time in order to avoid damages to crops due to the blows of tidal waves.

“For the time being, there have been no reports regarding the damages to paddy fields caused by the tidal waves. We’ve urged farmers to pay attention to weather condition. If it indeed does not support, the planting can be delayed. Otherwise, wait for good weather and make preparation to allow early planting,” he explained.

According to him, the pounding tidal waves that soak the plants surely cause the plants to die. If the plants are only exposed to hazes of seawater due to high winds during tidal waves the leaves of rice will turn yellow and dry out. However, the lower stems and the plants can still grow normally. In addition, they can still add clumps of the seedlings planted.

“Seawater contains salt. If soaking paddy plants in long time, it can cause them to totally die.

Differently, if the plants are only exposed to hazes of seawater, the leaves turn yellow and after that they will grow back to normal and their clumps still grow like normal plants,” he explained.

On the other hand, Swatantra said that to anticipate losses of plants due to tidal waves, his agency has made preparation to help farmers. This assistance covers seed replacement and the program of repairing irrigation facilities.

Thus, the paddy fields hit by tidal waves can then treated with sufficient irrigation so that the effects of seawater can be overcome. As a result, the losses can be prevented by farmers.

“We’ve been anticipating. Once the extreme weather strikes again, we will coordinate with BPM-PD to make short-term and long-term handling, so that these efforts will minimize the losses suffered by our farmers,” added Swatantra. (kmb38)

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The ricefiled near the beach in Sawan, Buleleng

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Actress Nicole Kidman arrives at the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, U.S., December 11, 2016.

Hanks, Kidman honoured as 2017 awards season starts in Palm Springs

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PALM SPRINGS - Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman were among the actors honoured at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Monday night as the 2017 awards season began.

Oscar winner Hanks received the “Icon Award” for his portrayal in drama “Sully” of pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who in 2009 carried out a successful emergency plane landing in the Hudson River.

Kidman took the “International Star Award” for “Lion”, in which she plays an Australian woman who adopts an Indian child.

Also honoured at the festival’s Film Awards Gala were Andrew Garfield with the “Spotlight Award” for his role in Mel Gibson’s war drama “Hacksaw Ridge” and Natalie Portman who received the “Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress” for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy in “Jackie”.

“Manchester by the Sea” actor Casey Affleck took the “Desert

Palm Achievement Award”.

“Arrival” actress Amy Adams was given the “Chairman’s Award”, Annette Bening was honoured with the “Career Achievement Award” and “Moonlight” actor Mahershala Ali took the honours in the “Breakthrough Performance” category.

Picking up the “Vanguard Award” which went to musical “La La Land”, actor Ryan Gosling paid tribute to the late Debbie Reynolds.

The 84-year-old “Singin’ in the Rain” star died last week, a day after the death of her “Star Wars” actress daughter Carrie Fisher. (rtr)

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The discussion held during the K.Nadha Nugraha Press Award

The CEO of Bali Post Satria Naradha stated that on the K.Nadha Press Award on Thursday, January 5th in K.Nadha Pers Building. The event was attended by The Vice Governor Ketut Sudikerta, Vice Badung Regent Ketut Suiasa, The Rector of Udayana University Prof Ketut Suastika, The Head of Bali House of Chambers Alit Wiraputra, the heads of educational foundations and others.

Satria Naradha also said that 2017 is the moment for Bali to be more serious to make the youths as the golden generation who will continue the struggle to fulfill the goal of Indonesian Independence. “Press especially Bali Post Media Group and the Balinese aware that the golden generation of Bali must be the first in this nation,” he added.

Satra Naradha also said that eventhough there are some weaknesses but the youth of Bali still have the opportunity to play big part in the future. For that reason, the leaders

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The Janger performance by the Women Association of Warmadewa University. must take the necessary steps to prepare them.

“In the next few months, Bali will prepare its future leaders. The speakers have stated their strategists in realizing the golden generation of Bali.

This is the first step for our leaders to create a better life,” he explained.

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