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Hugh Grant settles phone-hacking claim against Mirror newspapers LONDON - British actor Hugh Grant has settled a legal case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) after the company admitted that reporters at its three tabloid titles had hacked into his voicemails over a 10-year period to get scoops, he said on Monday.

Grant, who is known internationally for roles in films such as “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Notting Hill”, won substantial damages from MGN and will donate them to Hacked Off, a group that campaigns against press intrusion.

Grant was one of the highest profile victims of phone-hacking by reporters, a practice that became widespread at some of Britain’s fiercely competitive tabloids but was exposed during a major scandal in 2011.

Most of the focus at the time was on the News of the World, a Sunday tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch which the media mogul shut down at the height of the scandal.

Later, it emerged that phone-hacking had also occurred at the Sun, another Murdoch title, and at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, all owned by MGN which is part of Trinity Mirror.

“This newspaper group has misled the public and its shareholders for many years; and it has let down its readers and its hard-working journalists,” Grant said in a statement after his lawyers announced in court that the case had been settled.

“Those journalists have paid the price for the wrongdoing of executives who have left with large pay-offs and share options,” he said, naming several former editors of the three Trinity Mirror titles.

During a short hearing to inform the London High Court that the case had been settled, a lawyer for MGN said the company acknowledged phone-hacking was morally wrong and deeply regretted the acts of its former employees.

U.S. musician Paul Simon performs at the Bilbao Exhibition Center in Barakaldo, northern Spain, November 17, 2016. (rtr)

Paul Simon is Homeward Bound after 50-year touring career

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LOS ANGELES - Singer-songwriter Paul Simon announced on Monday he is quitting touring, saying it felt “a touch exhilarating, and something of a relief” to bring his 50-year performing career to an end.

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British actor Hugh Grant arrives at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in central London, Britain November 21, 2011.

In a Facebook posting, Simon, 76, said he would make a final tour - “Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour” - of North America and Europe later this year. After that, the “Sounds of Silence” singer said he would do an occasional performance “in a (hopefully) acoustically pristine hall.”

“I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to reach the point where I’d consider bringing my performing career to a natural end. Now I know: it feels a little unsettling, a touch exhilarating,

and something of a relief,” he wrote.

New York-based Simon said he came to the decision mostly because “I feel the travel and time away from my wife and family takes a toll that detracts from the joy of playing.”

Simon’s award-winning career includes a legendary partnership with singer Art Garfunkel.

They released their first album in 1964 and went on to record classics including “Mrs. Robinson,” “The Boxer” and “Bridge Over

Troubled Water.”

The duo split in 1970 and Simon launched a successful solo career with Grammy-winning albums like “Still Crazy After All These Years” and “Graceland.”

Simon is the latest pop artist from the 1960s and 1970s to step back from touring. Elton John announced last month that he would be making a final three-year farewell tour, and Neil Diamond announced he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease and would retire from touring. (rtr)

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A student on his way to school walks near a flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia February 6, 2018.

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Thousands evacuated in Indonesian capital over floods

JAKARTA - Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s capital have been evacuated due to flooding, Jakarta’s governor said on Tuesday, though the level of rivers swollen by the release of water from a reservoir upstream was dropping for now. The torrential rain had also caused landslides in satellite cities around Jakarta, with eight people missing after two landslides around the city of Bogor, police said.

TV footage on Tuesday showed people wading through murky brown water in some neighbourhoods of the capital Jakarta. City governor Anies Baswedan said about 6,500 people had been displaced by floods in parts of south and east Jakarta. “We are making sure that those evacuees receive aid,” Baswedan said in a statement, adding that flood waters had receded at the Manggarai floodgates in the city.

A day earlier dramatic TV foot-

age showed fast-running rivers of muddy water gushing down roads, bringing down trees and even some villas in the hilly areas around Jakarta.

Authorities were forced to release water from a reservoir upstream in the city of Bogor as water levels prompted the highest alert. Police and military personnel have been working with volunteers to deal with the impact of the floods.

City authorities have in the last

few years sought to improve lowlying Jakarta’s vulnerability to flooding during the rainy season.

More than 50 people died in one of the capital’s deadliest floods in 2007 and five years ago much of the centre of the city was inundated after canals overflowed.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has instructed the entire ranks of Jakarta Regional Government to carry out the Jakarta alert operation message: Readiness and Re-

sponse in the face of flood threat.

Through the instruction, the governor stated that at 4 p.m. Western Indonesia Standard Time (WIB) the Depok sluice gate showed the water level at 400 centimeters (above the 300 cm height which is the alert one status). The flood water is on its way to Jakarta.

Jakarta mayors should coordinate the entire work forces, deploy officers to the field in their respective territories. All command posts should be in the ready position and can accommodate all potential disaster affected victims.

Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) should coordinate, prevent and anticipate flood. Make sure the information is

delivered to all relevant sections, as well as to the public in need.

Primarily all residents in the Ciliwung River Basin (DAS) areas.

The Water Resources Service (SDA)`s blue forces should be on alert at flood-prone points and make sure there is no blockage in the water streams. Make sure the pumps are running well.

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Hampered by technical issues, renovations to Japanese cave delayed

SEMARAPURA - The government of the district of Klungkung’s desire to make improvements to the Japanese Cave, located on Jalan Raya Takmung-Banjarangkan is facing some challenges due to differences in opinion about the technical studies with the cultural reserve team. Because of this lack of agreement, the budget allocation is instead being used to make improvements to Belatung Beach at Pesinggahan village, Dawan.

The Japanese caves in Klungkung Regency

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Division Head of the Spatial Planning at the Klungkung Public Works and Housing Agency, Gusti Gde Gunarta, said on Monday (Feb. 5) that according to the results of their studies, the cave requires some technological assistance. The simplest method would involve building a revetment and the most sophisticated method would involve nailing a kind of revetment from within. The location is considered to be prone to landslides during the monsoon. Protecting the cave from landslides in this way however is viewed by some as threatening the authenticity of this site that is believed to be a heritage from the colonial era.

The cultural heritage team is adamant about the cave remaining intact as it is. “This causes a dilemma, as the cave is to be registered as a cultural heritage site and can thus not have any adjustments made to it, however for the sake of the safety of visitors some adjustments do need to be made”, explained Gunarta.

If the cultural heritage team gives the green light, then the Klungkung Public Works and Housing Agency is ready to go ahead with the adjustments immediately. “Indeed something needs to be sacrificed – either safety or authenticity”, he said.

Since there has yet to be agreement on the matter, the budget allocated for this project is instead being used to make improvements to Belatung Beach in Pesinggahan village where slat farming and tourism will be united. “For now, the district government will focus on the arrangement of Belatung Beach first”, added Gunarta.

Head of the Klungkung Education Agency, Nyoman Mudarta, said that his team will review the establishment of the Japanese Cave as a cultural heritage site this year. He added that his agency is not in charge of technical aspects of the project. “We only examine whether the cave can be designated as a cultural heritage site according to the existing criteria or not. The technical aspects are beyond our authority”, he said. (kmb45)

Buleleng waits for central govt aid to deal with lake water overflow

SINGARAJA - Water from Lake Bunyan has been overflowing at Pancasari village, Sukasada however the district government does not have the authority to deal with the matter first hand so they are waiting for the assistance of the Ministry of Forestry and Environment (KLHK) and the Ministry of Public Works of Housing (PUPR). Both ministries have the authority to deal with issues related to the lake. The district government, through Bali’s provincial government can only submit proposals about how to deal recovering the carrying capacity and supporting capacities of Lake Bunyan and Lake Tamblingan.

Head of the Buleleng Environment Agency (DLH), Nyoman Genep, on the sidelines of a meeting at the Buleleng parliament building

to discuss the Regional Mid-term Development Plan (RPJMD) on Monday (Feb. 5) further explained that they have submitted a proposal for the dredging and clean-up of water- hyacinths in Lake Bunyan with the aim of having the work done this year. The dredging and weed cleanup is a follow-up to a similar program that took place in 2017 by the Bali – Penida River Agency.

It is urgent that the sediment on the lakes bottom be dredged as the volume of lake water shows considerable increases and has inundated nearby farms and even a school. The sedimentation that has accumulated over the last few years needs to be dredged so that the lake can accommodate the large volume of water that enters during the rainy season.

“We have proposed several

programs including the ‘normalization’ of the lake that is under the authority of the KLHK and PUPR. Now, we are waiting for the follow-up by central government regarding the carrying capacity and supporting capacity of Lake Buyan”, he said.

According to Genap, silting in the lake and the overgrowing weeds on the lake’s surface are caused by changes to farming practices around the lake. Whereas previously there were many perennial plants around the lake, these have largely been replaces by crops that do not hold the soil in place and so it is flushed into the lake when it rains.

The eroded soil that gets flushed into the lake carries with it fertilizer used on the agricultural crops which causes the weeds to grow

rampantly on the lake’s surface.

Last year’s the district government commissioned dozens of contract workers from fishermen groups around the lake to assist in the clean-up.

“The silting has become a serious problem not to mention the fertilizer from the agricultural crops that also gets washed into the lake.

We therefor hope that the lake can be dredged as soon as possible”, said Genep.

This year’ proposed program, added Genep includes creating a water buffer catchments area by planting trees to hold the soil in place. There is also a pollution management program aimed at educating local residents about treating lake water waste that is being developed in cooperation with the Bali-Nusa Tenggara Ecorigion Development Control

Center (P3E).

“Other programs included in the proposal include reforestation, waste processing and public education about lake preservation. The government will also cooperate with P3E for Bali-Nusa Tenggara as they did last year”, explained Genep.

The increasing volume of water in Lake Bunyan continues to pose a problem during the rainy season. It is estimated that the lake water has risen 1. 5 meters and was particularly apparent on Wednesday (Jan 31) when water overflowed some 400 meters from the lakeshore. Agricultural crops in Dasong hamlet, Pancasari were destroyed and a teachers house and some of the classrooms of SDN 4 Sukasada were also damaged as 10 centimetres of water flooded the school. (kmb38)

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Harper Kuta Bali Hotel Celebrates Chinese New Year with a Festive Offer

Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year is the most important festival among the traditional Chinese holidays. 2018, the Chinese New Year which locally known as Imlek in Indonesia, will fall on February 16. To welcome and celebrate the Chinese Year of Wednesday February 7 19:30-21:00 Kiran With Om Ben & friends Intuitive Flow Yoga Studio Penestanan, Ubud 17:00-19:00 Mediates until Kesehatan Haha Therapy Sehat Jalan Tegal Luwih IV, No 34 Dalung, Badung 18:30-2:00 Good Life Chachara Bali Jalan Batu Belig, gang 2 Badung 0:00-3:00 Self Defense in Ubud JT Life Studio J; Subak Una PEtulu leah Ubud Thursday February 8 8:00-18:00 PAID Open Water Diver Course Pantai Sanur 11:00-12:30 Manifest 3 Desires Workshop by Indri Paradiso Ubud Jalan Gautama Selatan Ubud Friday February 9 11:00-15:00 Art for BARC Ubud Gallery, Jalan Raya Pengosekan Ubud 19:30-22:30 Friday Nights with Antonio Trio Siberia Restaurant Jln. Dropped 7 Denpasar 19:00-22:00 Kanda Jazz Night-Plaga Sangria Kanda Restaurant Jl. Kanda no 8A, Denpasar 19:00-22:00 Latin Fever Birdhouse Beach Club Jl.. Sugar Ayu, Sanur

Brown Earth Dog, Harper Kuta Bali Hotel presents Chinese New Year Package.

At only IDR 1.628.000,-++, the guests will enjoy a host of benefits at Harper Kuta Bali Hotel, including two nights stay at Superior Room, daily breakfast for 2 persons, one

time Chinese New Year buffet dinner for 2 persons on February 16, one time afternoon tea for 2 persons, 15% discount for laundry, 20% discount for food and beverage at Rustik Bistro & Bar. This package is valid on February 15-18.

“Chinese New Year is time for

a family reunion and thanksgiving, which is also a perfect time to manifest dreams and hope for good luck, fortune, happiness, wealth and longevity. Therefore, Harper Kuta Bali Hotel invites you and your family to join us in celebrating the most important festival

in the Chinese calendar, which is Chinese New Year“, said Monik R. Artajaya, Director of Sales of Harper Kuta Bali Hotel.

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At car secrets trial, Uber decries ‘conspiracy theory’, Waymo says Uber cheats

SAN FRANCISCO - Uber was either a cheating competitor willing to break the law to win the race to develop self-driving cars, or the victim of an unproven conspiracy theory stitched together by its main rival, Waymo, jurors heard in opening statements of a trade secrets trial on Monday.

The first salvos were delivered to a 10-person jury in San Francisco federal court in a civil lawsuit that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business nearly a year after Alphabet Inc’s self-driving car unit Waymo sued rival Uber Technologies Inc. The case hinges on whether ride-hailing firm Uber used apparent trade secrets to advance its autonomous vehicle program. Waymo’s allegation is that its former engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files in December 2015 containing designs for autonomous vehicles before going to work for Uber and leading its self-driving car unit in 2016.

“Waymo wants you to believe that Anthony Levandowski got together with Uber as part of some grand conspiracy to cheat and take trade secrets,” Uber attorney Bill Carmody said in his opening statement to the jury. “But like most conspiracy stories it just doesn’t make sense when you get the whole story.”

Waymo and Uber are part of a crowded field of automakers and technology companies competing to build fleets of self-driving cars that could transform urban transportation systems.

Waymo attorney Charles Verhoeven told the jury that the competitive pressures were so great to develop the cars that the then-Chief Executive of Uber, Travis Kalanick, decided that “winning was more important than obeying the law.”

“We’re bringing this case because Uber is cheating.

They took our technology ... to win this race at all costs,” Verhoeven said.

Waymo has estimated damages in the case at about $1.9 billion. Uber rejects the financial damages claim.

Uber attorney Carmody said the “elephant in the courtroom” was that, despite the downloads by Levandowski, Google’s proprietary information never made it to Uber and into its self-driving technology.

“There is no connection whatsoever between any files he downloaded ... and what’s in here,” Carmody said, pointing to an Uber-designed Lidar sensor sitting in front of him, a light-based sensor that is crucial to autonomous driving and central to the case.

“There’s not a single piece of Google proprietary information at Uber,” he added. “Nothing, zero, period.”

After what is expected to be two weeks of testimony, the jury will have to decide whether the eight apparent trade secrets were indeed such, and not common knowledge, and whether Uber improperly acquired them, used them and benefited from them.

Levandowski, regarded as a visionary in autonomous technology, is not a defendant in the case but is on Waymo’s witness list. Levandowski was fired from Uber in May 2017 because the company said he refused to cooperate with Uber in the Waymo lawsuit and did not hand over information requested of him in the case. (rtr)

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Waymo unveils a self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 8, 2017.

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Opening plan of foreign universities in Indonesia

Regulations and requirements must be equal

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The indieGo wheelchair powered assist device is seen a the New Lab in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., January 11, 2018. Picture taken January 11, 2018.

indieGo device converts any wheelchair into a power chair

NEW YORK - What if any wheelchair could be transformed into a power wheelchair?

That’s the question John Damiao, director of the Power Mobility Program at The Center for Discovery, sought to answer. He works with children and adults who use wheelchairs, and grew frustrated that his students often couldn’t find a power chair that fit their unique needs, especially when it came to seating modifications.

So he decided to create a way to solve that problem: the indieGo, a universal device that rolls onto any manual wheelchair to convert it into a power chair.

And now, thanks to partnerships with the Center’s assistive technologies department and the Hurleyville Maker’s Lab, and a $1.125 million grant from Google. org’s Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities, the indieGo is becoming a reality. It’s currently being tested among residents at The Center for Discovery and is slated to be available to the public in late 2017.

“Whether the user uses a joystick or access switches, has a folding wheelchair or rigid wheelchair, the indieGo is designed to accommodate as many people as possible,” marketing lead Jason Kean told The Mighty. “We also understand the intricacies of having a device fit into someone’s life; that’s why we are designing indieGo to be highly portable so it can be easily placed in the trunk of a car or carried up a flight of steps.”

The three men behind indieGo – Kean, Damiao and project manager Mark McNamara – believe their product will redefine mobility.

“At the Center, we believe very strongly that everyone has the

‘Right to Move’ under their own volition,” Kean said. “indieGo is about enabling independent movement, regardless of wheelchair or ability.” indieGo’s affordability, portability and open-source software open it up to a variety of applications.

“It can be an everyday power assist device for a manual wheelchair user in the community, a power mobility training tool for a rehabilitation center or hospital, a recreational device that can be shared for traveling long distances in a park, mall or museum, or a tool for learning and therapy for neuromotor rehabilitation,” Kean said.

And it’ll retail for about $1,000 — about 1/7 of the price of a typical power wheelchair — making it ideal for both individual consumers and rehabilitation centers. “indieGo is a device that is built to meet the needs of the underserved, to solve real everyday mobility problems,” Kean said. “By creating this device at an affordable price point, we are looking to give mobility to as many people as possible.”

That principle applies to access too; its controls can be adapted to each user’s abilities using joysticks, access switches and buttons.

Implications for the indieGo are broad, with an estimated 3.3 million wheelchair users in the United States alone and a power wheelchair market — too often plagued by sticker shock for consumers — projected to hit $3.9 billion by 2018.

McNamara summed up the premise of his team’s work in a promotional video: “It’s going to blow the whole idea of wheelchairs out of the water.” (net)

DENPASAR — The Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education plans to allow a number of foreign universities to open representatives in Indonesia.

However, the policy plan is rejected by some educational circles, especially private higher education with a variety of logical reasons. One of them, it is feared to threaten the existing higher education institutions because the quality of foreign universities is much more qualified than the domestic ones.

Chairman of KORPRI Welfare Foundation of Bali Province as the holder of Warmadewa University (Unwar), Dr. A.A. Gede Oka Wisnumurti, said the ministerial policy is a mandate from the higher education law which allows foreign universities to operate in Indonesia.

However, the policy should be accompanied with equality to the rules of higher education and must meet the requirements as applicable in the management of universities in Indonesia in general.

“I think they (the rules and requirements of higher education—Ed) are not easy because establishing universities must meet the requirements such as having buildings, the ratio of lecturers and students, as well as the teaching and learning should use Indonesian standards. If they are consistently carried out, I think it does not matter. Moreover, this is a challenge for us as a private education institution in order to increase competency,” said Wisnumurti.

Wisnumurti said that in the global market share as it is today, the competition cannot be dammed any longer. Thus, global competition in education becomes the trigger for higher education providers in managing their institutions.

Thus, the resulting output of human resources will be able to compete globally, while still building their spirit and character of Indonesia.

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Dr. A.A. Gede Oka Wisnumurti

“No matter how smart someone is, if he loses his character he will become someone else in the community of nation. I think they (foreign universities) indeed should be opened. In order to be fairer, they must be subject to the laws and rules on the establishment of higher education as applied to high education in Indonesia,” he said.

Similar opinion was also revealed by Chairman of STIMI Handayani Foundation as the organizer of the Handayani Education, Dr. I.B. Radendra Suastama. He said that provision of permission for several foreign universities to operate in Indonesia is a threat to universities, especially private universities in the country. However, if examined deeply, there are some potential benefits that may be obtained from the operation of foreign universities in Indonesia as long as the regulations and requirements must be strictly enforced to the permit for the operation of foreign universities.

“The problem is that the laws indeed give the possibility for the cooperation of foreign universities so that it just needs the policy level of government or ministry to limit and tighten the requirements. By that way, the optimal benefit can be obtained from the existence of certain foreign universities,” said Dr. Radendra.

He suggested that for this decade the government should not give permission with high discretion to foreign universities to operate in Indonesia as some universities in the country are still not ready to compete. In addition, he also suggested that currently the government is more focused on improving collaboration between domestic and foreign universities instead of opening foreign universities in Indonesia.

“If indeed should be opened, the benefits of the requirements such as the obligations of the number of local lecturers, technology transfer, managerial knowledge transfer et cetera should be optimized from their presence. The areas of operation of the universities making cooperation with foreign universities and the subject offered should also be limited and the composition of the ownership of the foundation must be limited. Thus, the optimization of benefits of foreign universities in our country can be realized from the arrangements.

Our children can learn from them without having to study overseas and live there. We also get benefits for the efficiency of children rather than having to study overseas,” he concluded. (win)

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The plans to establish medical waste treatment plant also appeared at Kembang hamlet, Cupel.

Medical waste processing plant near people’s settlement questioned

NEGARA — Aside from West Tegalbadeng village, Negara subdistrict, the plans to establish medical waste treatment plant also appeared at Kembang hamlet, Cupel. However, the development plan at Cupel reaps the pros and cons in the community. From the information compiled last weekend, before the dissemination, some residents revealed their objections because of being close to their settlement. They are worried about the impact it has in the future.

“It is said the establishment of the medical waste treatment plant does not matter if located away. But, this is close to our settlement,” said one of the residents participating in the meeting.

A number of residents also had time to submit the question. There should be certainty about the impact of the factory on the surrounding people. According to them, people will definitely accept if the location is far from their settlement. They are increasingly worried after the trees on the land have been cut down.

Hamlet chief of Kembang, Abdul Hamid, justified last weekend if there was dissemination on the construction plan of the medical waste treatment plant in his area. However, according to him, it is just limited to once dissemination. Hamid also admitted there were

some questions raised by residents in the dissemination related to the impact that may be caused. He said it is only a plan. “The land is located near the pond.

Initially, the location was planned to be used for housing so the trees are cut down,” said Hamid.

The land is planned to be used for the processing plant. Although there are objections, according to him it does not represent all the residents. On that account, there will be another dissemination conducted thoroughly related to the plan.

For further dissemination, the investors will invite residents to dissemination in Denpasar. In the dissemination will be explained about the environmental impact of the medical waste processing. However, the schedule has not yet been specified.

Other than at Cupel, previously the construction of medical waste treatment also appeared at West Tegalbadeng village. The investor from East Java has also conducted dissemination and set up the land at Anyar hamlet. In the dissemination, residents submitted a number of points of conditions that must be met by the investor. In total, there are nine points, where one of the points is regarding the establishment of health clinic.

Headmen of West Tegalbadeng, Made Sudiana, confirmed the plan. The development, according to him, has approached final stage. “Local residents proposed nine points, including the establishment of clinic for the surrounding community,” he said. (kmb26)

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Bali’s economy grows slowly at 5.59 percent DENPASAR — The economic growth of Bali in 2017 reached 5.59 percent, slower than in 2016 recorded to reach 6.32 percent.

This decrease is measured based on Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) at the current prices recorded to reach IDR 215.36 trillion in 2017.

Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Adi Nugroho, explained that GRDP from business sector shows the economic growth of Bali is dominantly boosted by the provision of accommodation, food and drink by 1.82 percent. The growth was also the highest compared to health services and social activities and information and communication that grew by 9.25 percent.

On the expenditure side, Bali’s economic growth was supported by household consumption expenditure of IDR 99.85 trillion or 46.36 percent of total expenditure component.

The decline in Bali’s economy is inseparable from the economic growth of Bali in the fourth quarter of 2017. In the fourth quarter of 2017, Bali’s economy grew negatively at minus 0.74 percent compared to third quarter of 2017. This negative growth happened due to the influence of Mount Agung eruption. When compared to the fourth quarter of 2016, Bali’s economy grew by 4.01 percent.

By quarter to quarter (qtq), in the fourth quarter of 2017, there were seven business fields experiencing negative growth rate. They are the agricultural, forestry and fishery sector (-0.37 percent), mining and quarrying (-11.73 percent), water procurement (-1.89 percent), wholesale and retail trade and repair of cars and motorcycles (-2.52 percent), transportation and warehousing (-5.33), provision of food and drink accommodation (-4.80 percent) and financial services (-1.98 percent). Meanwhile, the source experiencing highest positive growth is the procurement of electricity and gas at 5.30 percent.

By year of year, in the fourth quarter of 2017 there were 4 business fields experiencing negative growth. They are agriculture, forestry and fisheries (-1.37 percent), mining and quarrying (-10.49 percent), manufacturing industry (-0.66 percent) and financial services (-2.01 percent). The highest growth of business field in the fourth quarter of 2017 is the procurement of electricity and gas growing by 13.50 percent. (kmb42)

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The Besakih management board confirmed total visits to the Besakih area in 2017 reached threefold from the previous years.

Besakih management board claims tourist visit rises threefold

AMLAPURA — Besakih management board regretted the desire of the executive and legislative to re-manage the Besakih Temple area entirely. Surely, this discourse is the same as thinking backwards, where Besakih area is complained related to various problems hitting the management. Moreover, the Besakih management board confirmed total visits to the Besakih area in 2017 reached threefold from the previous years.

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Spokesperson of Besakih Management Board, Gusti Mangku Kariawan, said on Monday (Feb. 5) the party putting this issue into a discourse has to look back the contents of Gubernatorial Regulation No.51/2016 governing the existence of the Besakih management board.

The contents of regulation will also clarify the assumption that the elements of district government of Karangasem are not involved there.

Deputy Regent, Regional Secretary to the Head of Tourism Office, he said, actually have been included in the Besakih management board.

Gusti Mangku Kariawan also denied the statement of the Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office. Deposit of the Besakih management board to district government of Karangasem for the management year 2017 reached IDR 517 million, not IDR 460 million as presented by the Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office, Wayan Astika. It is 25 percent

of the total revenue in 2017 in accordance with the agreement.

In terms of total tourist visits in 2017, Gusti Mangku Kariawan confirmed the tourist visit tripled from the previous year.

“Probably, the portion of revenue to Karangasem district government (25 percent) decreased when compared to the previous year. However, in terms of the overall income, obviously there has been an increase,” he said.

Regarding the desire of district government of Karangasem to remanage Besakih area, Gusti Mangku Kariawan assessed the government less understood the history on the emergence of Gubernatorial Regulation No. 51/2016. Then, it should know the history how the governing body was established.

Actually, the governing body was established by Bali provincial government by issuing gubernatorial regulation to overcome many complaints against the management of

Besakih area where at that time it was still fully managed by district government. “This discourse seems not to catch the point in the field and the government only has orientation in pursuing revenue targets,” he highlighted.

This priest of Goa Raja Temple of Besakih assessed that the government is not wise if it only considered the Besakih Management Board in terms of how much regionally generated revenue (PAD) can be deposited to district government. Actually, it has been clear that the agreement has specified that 50 percent of the revenues are allocated for the temple, 25 percent for district government of Karangasem and 25 percent for Besakih customary village.

In other words, with the current management, it is clearly more responsible and in terms of revenue it is much more increasing rather than the management as a whole. (kmb31)

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A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper looks to the U.N-demarcated Blue Line border between Lebanon and Israel, Feb. 24, 2015.

Lebanon tells Israel its border wall violates sovereignty

BEIRUT - Lebanon said a wall Israel intends to build at the border marks a violation of Lebanese sovereignty during a meeting of Lebanese and Israeli military officers chaired by U.N. peacekeepers on Monday.

Disagreement over the wall and Lebanon’s plans to explore for offshore oil and gas in disputed maritime waters have elevated tensions between Israel and Lebanon, which is home to the powerful Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah.

The Israeli army has previously said the construction work is being done on sovereign Israeli territory.

The Lebanese government says the wall passes through territory that belongs to Lebanon but which is located on the Israeli side of the U.N.-designated Blue Line, which demarcated Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.

The Israeli defence minister, addressing the dispute last

week, accused Hezbollah of provocations, saying Israel had withdrawn to the recognised international border with Lebanon and was being challenged over a barrier in Israeli territory.

The sides met under the supervision of the U.N. peacekeeping force UNIFIL in their regular tripartite meeting at U.N. positions in the Ras al-Naqoura border area.

“The Lebanese side reviewed the matter of the wall which the Israeli enemy intends to build ... confirming the position of the Lebanese government rejecting the construction of this wall as it violates Lebanese sovereignty,” the Lebanese army said in a statement after Monday’s meeting.

Hezbollah and Israel last fought a major conflict in 2006.

In a statement, UNIFIL said the meeting had received great attention “due to engineering works south of the Blue Line previously announced by the Israeli side”. UNIFIL force commander Major General Beary noted there had been a “period of relative calm” since the last tripartite meeting.

“However, there has been a great deal of activity along the Blue Line. I would like to acknowledge the restraint exercised by both parties in decreasing tension and maintaining stability. No one wants to return to a period of escalating tensions and a breach of the cessation of hostilities,” he said. (rtr)

BEIRUT - Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near the capital and choking people with gas in Idlib in the northwest, rescue workers and a war monitor said on Monday.

President Bashar al-Assad’s government has vowed to retake all of Syria from rebels who have lost large swaths of the territory they have held in a war now entering its eighth year.

A years-long siege on the last major rebel-held area near the capital Damascus, the suburb of eastern Ghouta, has tightened in recent months. In the northwest, the government and its militia allies have been trying to advance in mostly rural Idlib, the last province still largely under rebel control.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said warplanes attacking eastern Ghouta near Damascus had struck the towns of Zamalka, Arbaeen, Hazza and Beitu Soua, killing at least 29 people. State media said rebel fighters shelling the government-held capital killed a woman.

International concern has been growing over the fate of eastern Ghouta, where residents say they have been running out of food and medicine.

In the northwest, the other main battlefield in the war between Assad’s government and its main rebel opponents, bombing also intensified on Sunday night after rebels shot down a Russian warplane on Saturday.

Rescue workers said at least nine people had suffered breathing problems from chemicals dropped from the air. Aid groups and rescuers said three hospitals had also been struck.

The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), a charity which supports hospitals in Syria, said its doctors in Idlib reported 11 patients “with symptoms indicative to usage of chlorine”.

Two barrels containing chemical gasses had been dropped from helicopters on Sunday night, Radi Saad, from the chemical weapons team of the White Helmets civil defence group that operates in rebelheld parts of Syria, told Reuters.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the White Helmets and the U.S.-based Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM) said healthcare facilities in northwestern Syria had been hit by air strikes.

“With the majority of hospitals no longer operating in these areas, these latest attacks will deprive tens of thousands of life-saving care,” the ICRC said on Twitter.

The Syrian government has consistently denied using chlorine or other chemical weapons during Syria’s conflict. Rescue workers and medical groups have accused government forces of using chlorine gas against the rebel-held eastern Ghouta at least three times over the last month, most recently on Thursday.

In Washington, the State Department said in a statement that the United States was “gravely alarmed” by reports the Syrian government has used chlorine gas in Idlib.

“The use of chemical weapons by all parties in Syria must unequivocally stop,” it said. (rtr)

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German industrial union, employers reach pace-setting pay deal

STUTTGART - Industrial workers and employers in southwestern Germany struck a hard-fought deal on pay and working hours on Monday night, setting a benchmark for millions of workers across Europe’s largest economy. The agreement between labour union IG Metall and the Suedwestmetall employers’ federation foresees a 4.3 percent pay raise from April and other payments spread over 27 months.

Tough wage negotiations are expected to end years of wage restraint in Germany, potentially aiding the European Central Bank as it tries to get euro zone inflation back up to the bank’s target rate of just below 2 percent. “Workers will have more money in their pockets in real terms; they will get a fair share of company profits; and that will boost consumption,” IG Metall negotiator Roman Zitzelsberger told journalists after 13 hours of regional talks in Stuttgart. On an annual basis, the deal is equivalent to a 3.5 percent increase in wages, according to Commerzbank analyst Eckart Tuchtfeld.

IG Metall had demanded an 8 percent annual raise for 3.9 million workers for 27 months, against a backdrop of a strong economic recovery and the lowest unemployment since German unification in 1990. The “pilot” deal covers half a million employees in southwestern Germany, home to industrial powerhouses like car maker Daimler AG. While the deal is below demands, it will reinforce market expectations for the ECB to dial back stimulus further this year as growth in the bloc is now self generating and wages are moving slowly upwards.

The deal comes as world stock and bond markets are selling off on fears

that a jobs bonanza in the United States may force early interest rate hikes there.

But the euro zone outlook is much different with the jobless rate still at almost 9 percent and the broader slack, which includes part-time and temporary workers, perhaps twice as high, economists say. The wage deal is expected to be applied in other German states as well and is also likely to influence negotiations in other industries.

Germany’s second-biggest union, Verdi, is expected to publish its wage demand for the public sector on Feb. 8. Verdi and IG Metall together account for about 15 percent of the German workforce, and other sectors tend to broadly follow their agreements.

HARD TO BEAR IG Metall had staged a series of 24-hour strikes and threatened to ballot its members for extended industrial action if employers failed to offer concessions at Monday’s sixth round of pay talks. Last week’s strikes cost carmakers, automotive suppliers and engineering firms almost 200 million euros ($249 million) in lost revenues, affecting big firms like Daimler, BMW and Airbus and dozens of smaller suppliers.

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A woman passes sale signs in a shop window in downtown Hamburg, Germany, January 25, 2018.

As is often the case in Germany’s ritualised system of wage bargaining, the details of the deal were highly complex. At the end of the day, Suedwestmetall negotiator Stefan Wolf said, the cost to employers would work out at below 4 percent per year.

In addition to April’s 4.3 percent pay rise, employees will receive a one-off payment of 100 euros extra for the first quarter.

From 2019, workers will get an

additional fixed annual sum of 400 euros as well as a payment equivalent to 27.5 percent of their monthly pay.

Some workers can choose to have more time off instead of receiving the additional money.

“While employers will see labour costs rise more than initially anticipated, at least this deal provides certainty through March 2020,” analysts at Barclays said. Meeting a key IG Metall demand, workers will also be

able to reduce their working week to 28 hours from the standard 35 to care for children, or for sick or elderly relatives, for a period of up to two years.

“For far too long, flexibility was the privilege of employers,” IG Metall chief Joerg Hofmann said.

In return, employers will be able to take on more staff willing to work for up to 40 hours - creating the flexibility they need to ramp up production during periods of high demand.(rtr)

Emerging stocks tumble 3 pct, worst daily fall since Nov 2016 LONDON - Emerging equities tumbled three percent on Tuesday to over one-month lows, set for their worst daily fall since November 2016 as the global stocks rout intensified.

Investors have scrambled for the exit in the wake of Friday’s data showing the largest U.S. wage growth since 2009. This has fuelled expectations of faster rate hikes, driving 10-year U.S. Treasury yields to four-year highs.

MSCI’s benchmark emerging stocks index fell 2.8 percent to over one-month lows, taking its cue from developed markets after Wall Street suffered its biggest percentage drop since August 2011.

“The fear is that should inflation rise faster in the U.S. then the Fed would have to tighten more than is currently priced in, which would mean a stronger dollar, plus higher financing costs and lower capital flows to emerging markets,” said Jakob Christensen, head of emerging markets research at Danske Bank.

He added that the sell-off was not a sign the world economy was heading for trouble, but more a reflection of stretched valuations in global equity markets after a prolonged bull run without any big corrections.

Asian markets set the tone, with big losses across the board. Hong

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Kong led the selling, down 5.1 percent, its worst daily fall since August 2015. Hong Kong is particularly exposed to U.S. rate moves because its currency is pegged to the U.S. dollar.

Index heavyweight Taiwan fell almost five percent, its biggest oneday fall since August 2011. Chinese mainland shares fell around three percent with the Shanghai index posting its biggest one-day fall in nearly two years. The selling extended into European trading with Turkish stocks sliding 1.7 percent after touching a record high last week, while Poland lost 2.4 percent and Hungary shares 1.7 percent.

The average yield spread of emerging market bonds over U.S. Treasuries on the JPMorgan EMBI Global Diversified index was at 277 basis points (bps), a one-month high, after widening 19 bps since the start of February.

South African assets remained in focus as pressure mounted on scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma to quit. Zuma has summoned cabinet ministers to a meeting in Cape Town today. “This is the power struggle I expected would happen,” said Christensen. “It’s hard to imagine a completely smooth process to remove Zuma and there are factions within

the ANC that are still backing him.”

South African stocks tumbled two percent to four-month lows, and South African dollar bonds fell across the curve, with the 2041 issue losing 0.7 cents. The country’s fiveyear credit default swaps rose five basis points (bps) from Monday’s close to 154 bps, according to IHS Markit data, a fresh one-month high, but the rand firmed 0.2 percent, helped by a slightly weaker dollar.

Other emerging currencies were also a touch firmer, with Tukey’s lira and Russian’s rouble up 0.3 percent , and the Chinese yuan up 0.26 percent. (rtr)

Traditional games look very simple. They always dwell on nature and get very close to the habits existing in the local social environment. This type of game seems to have no limit because almost all places can be used as a playground. This ancient game has many benefits such as learning sportsmanship, honesty, discipline and respect.

These values ??thrive because they always make dissemination to friends in the environment becoming their natural playground. Accepting defeat and recognizing the opponent’s victory in the game is an example of a sportsmanlike attitude. In addition to training physical endurance, the traditional games are also to hone the intelligence because when playing the children must be able to set the strategy.

Rector of the State Hindu Dharma Institute (IHDN) Denpasar, Prof. Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, said that traditional games in Bali can become a medium for dissemination. In the games, they will always invite others as a reflection of cooperation. “In the game, there is a lesson for mutual respect and apologies if something goes wrong and rewards when someone wins,” he said.

The games also have very positive influence because it forces the children to be creative as they also demand higher creativity. Such activity can also increase self-confidence because there are elements to train communication. Children as players of the game become more confident and democratic. “When determining a leader or punishment for the offending child, they do by agreement,” added Sudiana.

Besides, said this Chairman of Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bali, traditional games are also part of the application of Hindu teachings such as philosophy (tattva), karmic law, tat tvam asi (You are that (God)) and Tri Kaya Parisudha.

“When viewed from an educational perspective, people learn from nature.

Meanwhile, if learning from cultural theories, people learn from others and the environment,” he explained.

When playing, they always make others happy, in addition to make them happy. In Sundaram’s teachings meaning beauty it will be able to make others happy and peaceful. It is also the teaching of yadnya (sincere sacrifice).

Peacefulness makes them not quarrel, fight but strengthen friendship.

Moreover, the teachings of Karmic law limit them from doing arbitrarily. They realize if doing wrong and doing not good, they will get punishment from friends according to mutual agreement. Therefore a child will not dare to hurt his friend.

Because, if he is hurt will also feel the same. It is in accordance with the teaching of tat tvam asi.

The real application of Hinduism is the Tri Kaya Parisuda teaching, meaning think good, say good and do goodness. After performing the games, they uphold the values ??of

honesty, though not told before.

“It happens due to the influence of creative culture of children’s minds, especially through religious teaching,” he added.

According to Prof. Sudiana, traditional games in Bali are inspired by the teachings of Hinduism interpreted innocently by children. The games can be inspired by ritual activities, and so can the games into activity. For example, a ritual activity of sesuwunan (sanctified effigies) can then become a game such as in the mebarongbarongan (barong-like game), and mengunying-ngunyingan. On the contrary, a game can become a ritual procession, like the making of barong bangkung (boar) that can become sesuwunan because it passes through trance process.

Nevertheless, playing traditional games is not a form of offering, but an activity to fulfill the desire to interact with other children, relieve stress and saturation as well as grow creativity. More importantly, children can learn in their own environment.

“Children of the past made the natural surroundings into a medium of their game. Certainly it is from the results of their creativity, not consumptive like many children do in the current era,” he explained. (kmb)

Speaking about Balinese traditional culinary traditions will never end. One of the menus having not been widely known is plecing gonda (gooseweed with hot spices).

However, in one region, this type of green vegetable sometimes becomes favorite food. Moreover, it is processed in a simple manner. It just needs to be boiled and then mixed with tomato seasoning and fried onion to make the taste very delicious. It offers typical and tempting aroma.

Plecing gonda has become a typical food for Balinese community. This vegetable menu is very close to farmers living in countryside. Other than easy to get the ingredient, the preparation is also easy. Simply fill with spices in the form of garlic, chili, large chili peppers, tomatoes, shrimp paste, lemon and salt to taste, plecing gonda is already tasted different from other vegetables.

The preparation is not too complicated. Ingredient in the form of gonda is boiled until cooked. All spices are cleaned, pulverized until subsequently fried, except for lemon. Well, the serving of gonda having been boiled is spiced and then mixed until finely blended. To give a distinctive taste, it can be provided with grated kaffir lime.

Other than by boiling, this gooseweed vegetable can also be cooked by stir-frying. Optionally, it can also be roasted and then given seasoning like salt, chili and coconut oil (traditionally processed).

Such cooking method was usually performed by farmers that have completed their work in the fields. When they arrive home, they usually carry a handful of gooseweed.

This vegetable is processed as above and then eaten with the family.

Gonda plants are very close to farmers’ life in Bali, especially farmers in Tabanan, right in Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Marga subdistrict. This type of plant is actually a weed plant, but taken advantage by farmers as a daily food. It is planted on the sidelines of paddy plants (by intercropping), so it does not require a large area. Harvest time is also very short namely about 20-25 days. The color is green. It does not need to be sprayed with chemicals, so the gonda is free from chemicals. (kmb)

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Maldives declares state of emergency as Yameen tightens grip on power

MALE - Maldives President Abdulla Yameen on Monday declared a state of emergency, ordered security forces into the supreme court and arrested a former president, in moves the opposition called a “purge” in the Indian Ocean island nation.

Maldives police also arrested Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and another Supreme Court judge on Tuesday, dramatically escalating the legal battle with the archipelago’s top court.

Police said in a Twitter message they had arrested Saeed and Supreme Court Judge Ali Hameed “for an ongoing investigation”. The gave no details about the allegations or charges against the two judges.

The president has defied a Supreme Court ruling handed down last week, which revoked terrorism charges against nine leading opposition figures including the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, who is now in exile.

The court ordered the opposition figures, six of whom are being held in the country’s main jail on a sparsely inhabited island, to be freed.

“The President has been compelled to declare a state of emergency due to the risk currently posed to national security,” said a statement from Yameen’s office on Monday. “Implementation of the Supreme Court ruling is – in its current form – incompatible with maintenance of public safety.”

Police arrested another former president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom -- who is also Yameen’s half-brother

-- at his residence along with his son-in-law. Gayoom ruled the country for 30 years until 2008, and is now in the opposition. Gayoom’s son Faris is one of the jailed opposition figures ordered freed by the court.

In a recorded video sent to social media, Gayoom said he was being taken to the prison island of Dhoonidhoo: “I have not committed any crime. This arrest is unlawful. I will remain strong, and I ask the beloved people to remain strong.”

Yameen, who has held his position since 2013, faces mounting pressure at home and from the United States and India to obey the court’s order.

The Maldives is made up of 26 coral atolls and 1,192 islands. Politics centres on the tiny but densely populated capital Male.

China, the United States and India issued travel advisories for the Maldives, a country of 400,000 people best known as a beach paradise for the tourists that provide most of its foreign currency revenue.

The tumult comes during the peak tourism season.

Tourism brought in $2.7 billion of revenue for the Maldives in 2016.

As midnight approached, roads leading to the Supreme Court had been barricaded. At one spot, police with batons charged protesters to disperse them.

“I just spoke to the Chief Justice and he told me that the gates of the Supreme Court (are) being stormed by the military. He is inside and nobody can go out or come in,” Husnu Al Suood, the president of Maldives Bar Association and a former attorney general, told Reuters late on Monday. (rtr)

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Maldivian police stand guard on a main street during a protest by opposition supporters against the government’s delay in releasing their jailed leaders, including former president Mohamed Nasheed, despite a Supreme Court order, in Male, Maldives, February 5, 2018.

Pictures taken February 5, 2018.

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EU’s chief negotiator tells Britain: Time has come to make a Brexit choice

LONDON - The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told Britain on Monday that the time had come for Britain to make a choice on what sort of relationship it wanted with the bloc after Brexit.

Britain has ruled out staying in any customs union with the EU after Brexit, but the nature of its trading relationship with the world’s biggest trading bloc has split Theresa May’s government and Conservative Party.

Barnier, speaking after talks in Downing Street with Prime Minister May and Brexit Secretary David Davis, bluntly called on Britain to clarify how it saw the future relationship with the EU after it leaves on March 29, 2019.

“The only thing I can say: without a customs union and outside the single market, barriers to trade and goods and services are unavoidable,” Barnier told reporters in Downing Street. “Time has come to make a choice.”

“We need also clarity on the UK proposals for the future partnership,” Barnier said.

Britain, Davis said, wanted a comprehensive free trade agreement and a customs agreement

to make trade as frictionless as possible while being free to strike free trade deals with swiftly growing countries across the world.

Davis said the talks with Barnier had been constructive and that he was confident Britain could get agreement on a timelimited transition period by the March economic council which is scheduled for March 13.

With little more than a year left before Britain’s March 2019 exit from the European Union, May’s party remains deeply divided over what sort of relationship should be built between the EU and the world’s sixth-largest economy.

Such are the divisions within May’s government, that the debate over the extent of Britain’s possible post-Brexit participation in an EU customs union has taken place in public with key ministers offering a range of views.

“The conditions are clear: Everyone has to play by the same rules during this transition,” Barnier said. “The certainty about the transition will only come with the ratification of the withdrawal agreement.” (rtr)

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am today, but unfortunately she passed away at Mayapada Hospital in Tangerang three hours later.

“The victim died at Mayapada Hospital. We are in grief, but this is God’s will. We can’t reject God’s will,” said GMF Aeroasia Finance Director Insan Nurcahyo, as quoted by CNN Indonesia today.

Mutmainah was rescued at 7 am — some 13 hours after she was trapped in the car by the landslide — and is reportedly recovering well at Siloam Hospital in Karawaci.

The underpass runs below the railway track for the newlylaunched Railink airport train.

Due to the landslide, Railink operations are halted for at least today until further notice.

Jakarta was under a flood alert last night after extreme rainfall caused several landslides in the satellite city of Bogor, reportedly killing at least three people with fears that the toll will rise as rescue efforts are ongoing. East Jakarta and South Jakarta have been the most affected, with at least 6,000 people displaced from their homes due to flooding. (rtr)

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A 24-year-old woman identified as Dyanti Dyah Ayu tragically became the casualty of a landslide on the southern perimeter road of Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, which is believed to have been caused by the extreme weather that rocked the Greater Jakarta Area yesterday. According to reports, the landslide occurred at around 6 pm yesterday and buried Dyanti’s Honda Brio just as she was driving through an underpass with a friend, Mutmainah, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

Based on photos of the location circulating online, it appeared that a retaining wall of the underpass collapsed allowing dirt to spill through and onto the road, though officials have not yet determined the cause for the landslide. Both Dyanti and Mutmainah were employees at Garuda Maintenance Facilities (GMF) Aeroasia, which has an office at the Soekarno-Hatta Rescuers managed to evacuate Dyanti out of the car at around 3

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Widodo, Kalla discuss economic issues JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo held a meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla here on Tuesday to discuss economic issues, such as investment, exports, and preparations, for the 2018 Asian Games. The meeting was conducted at the Vice President`s office, Jakarta, here on Tuesday.

“We discussed about how to increase investment and exports, as those are our keys in the economy.

We also spoke about preparations for the 2018 Asian Games,” Widodo said after the meeting here on Tuesday. The president pointed out that investment and exports were keys to boost economic growth.

Investment opportunities in the field of mining, industry and infrastructure need to be improved, the president noted. On Monday afternoon, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) released cumulative economic growth of 5.07 percent (yoy) in 2017.

According to spending, economic growth in 2017 is supported

by household consumption, which grew 4.95 percent; gross fixed capital formation, which grew 6.15 percent; and government consumption, which grew 2.14 percent.

A trend of rising commodity prices, which is believed to attract investment flows and boost household consumption, will increase the economic growth in 2018 to 5.3 percent year-on-year (yoy), an economist of DBS Bank Gundy Cahyadi earlier remarked. “If commodities remain at current levels, the investment growth and household consumption will increase,” Cahyadi stated.

In addition, the realization of infrastructure development will affect the economy in 2018. In 2017, infrastructure development attracted investment that boosted Indonesia`s economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2017 by 5.19 percent (yoy). “We expect GDP growth of 5.3 percent in 2018,” Cahyadi remarked. (ant)

Marsudi attends ASEAN foreign ministers retreat in Singapore

JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi attended the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat in Singapore on Tuesday. The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted on Tuesday that it was the first ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat during Singapore`s chairmanship in ASEAN this year, with a theme of “A Resilient and Innovative ASEAN.” ASEAN foreign ministers in Singapore discussed drafts of documents, which will be discussed by the ASEAN leaders during the ASEAN Summit in April. The ministers also discussed strengthening of regional architecture, which was based on the spirit of cooperation and respect to the international law.

During the ASEAN FM Retreat, Marsudi conveyed the support of ASEAN member states for Indonesia`s bid as non-permanent member of UN Security Council in 2019-2020.

Previously, during a press briefing in Jakarta on Thursday (Feb 1), the Director of Politics and Security of ASEAN of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chandra Widya Yudha, stated that the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat, held in Singapore from Feb 4 to 6, would discuss several agenda, including

the follow-up of the 31st ASEAN Summit in Manila and priorities of Singapore chairmanship in ASEAN, which is summarized in the ASEAN Leaders Vision for a resilient and innovative ASEAN. “The ASEAN Leaders Vision includes several priorities of Singapore`s chairmanship and implementation of the ASEAN Vision 2025,” Yudha noted. During the AMM Retreat, Indonesia highlighted several issues, including the establishment of ASEAN extradition treaty instrument to facilitate strong legal cooperation between ASEAN member states, especially in combating transnational crimes.

Indonesia also emphasized the importance of ASEAN-China to achieve substantive and significant progress on the negotiation of the Code of Conduct on the South China Sea, which includes the framework agreed by ASEANChina ministers last year and the importance of unity, centrality, and leadership of ASEAN amid the developing and dynamic regional architectures.

Indonesia has also encouraged the designing of an action plan for the implementation of ASEAN Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers. (ant)

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Sick children are treated by health workers at a hospital in Agats, Asmat District, after the government dispatched military and medical personnel to the remote region of Papua to combat malnutrition and measles, Indonesia January 22, 2018 in this photo taken by Antara Foto.

Indonesia declares Papua health crisis under control

JAKARTA - A measles and malnutrition crisis that killed dozens of children in Indonesia’s impoverished province of Papua over the past few months is under control, the health ministry said on Tuesday.

At least 72 people, mostly children, died from complications of malnutrition and measles in Asmat, a remote area of the country’s easternmost province.

The outbreak prompted health authorities to send in military paramedics and aid and declare an “extraordinary outbreak” on Jan. 15.

“We have withdrawn the ‘extraordinary outbreak’

status because the trend of affected people is declining,” Asmat chief Elisa Kambu said in a statement published on the health ministry website.

Around 650 children have contracted measles and at least 223 are suffering from malnutrition. More than 17,300 children have been immunised, the statement added. “We still need support in Asmat, nurses and doctors,” Kambu said.

Some activists and Papuans have blamed the health crisis on neglect by the central government. Papua is one of Indonesia’s poorest areas and President Joko Widodo, after coming to power in 2014, pledged to speed up its development. (rtr)

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TABANAN - Kelating beach is lo- in Tabanan. to surf and ride the waves at this beach. cated in the Village Kelating, District Heading to Kelating is very easy, For visitors with two-wheeled vehicle, Kerambitan,Tabanan,about 13 km from the access of the road could be take can go around the streets heading to the town of Tabanan. Distance from by motorcycle, for tourist it is not dif- south part of the coast. From this place, Denpasar City about 33 miles and you ficult riding own vehicle. Some of the visitors will find a palce like a large pool only took about 70 minutes away from instructions way to the beach are found containing fresh water from the drains Ngurah Rai Airport to reach this Kelating along the road. As arrive at the beach, around the village. In the middle of the Coast attractions. From the airport, you the beautiful black sand sparks with the pool, there is a sand beach that seems to lived through the Sunset Road,then in the silver shine of the sun. Once entering the divide between freshwater and seawater. direction towards Mengwi Kerobokan. coastal area, will be greeted with a gently “On this beach we can also see a blending After that you just follow the road to Ta- sloping stretch of black sand. between the fresh water and sea water,” banan district leading to Kerambitan. On Exoticism black sand more beautiful said a local people Wayan Suka, told the way to the beach Kelating you will be when exposed by sunlight. The refraction Tribun. Some buildings such warungs faced with a view of the green rice field. of light makes the black sand sparkles (small coffee shop) are also available.

The road has been paved with the good like jewels flashing in the sand. If there The condition of the beach is silence, a that will also make you feel trip more is no sun, sand beach will look normal. deserted beach away from the noise and enjoyable. If you want to rent a vehicle Kelating beach has a kind of tide which uproar. (kmb) can use cheap rent car nearest-located is Butterfly large enough, andas bescorpions, a place for surfers TABANAN - The Bali such tarantulas and 1993 after the implementation of Park is one of the popular attractions tiger beetles in a small building on International Butterfly Conference in Tabanan County and the only one the right side of the flower garden. held on August 24-27, 1993 in Ujung in this archipelago. This park also Similarly, it also has a collection of Pandang (Makassar). Departed from makes a breeding of butterflies for strange grasshopper in the shape of the idea that biological resources scientific purposes and education in leaves and twigs of wood brought in in the form of butterfly were very the future. from outside Bali. abundant, it would be unfortunate if As the name implies, most of the The park is managed by PT Kupu- they went extinct. The park was then land is covered by paranet in order kupu Taman Lestari. It spreads across opened on December 17, 1996 by the butterflies do not fly out of their the area of 1 hectare with netting area Mrs. Asiawati Oka, Chairman of the collections and disappear. Various (closed area with paranet) on 3,700 PKK of Bali Province. The butterfly species of butterflies in Indonesia m3. Each month the butterfly park park is located on Jalan Batukaru, can be found here. Some of the well releases at least 3,500 butterflies Sandan Lebah hamlet, Wanasari, known butterflies include: butterfly of to its original habitat. Besides, the exactly 6 km to the north of Tabanan. paradise (Ornithoptera paradisea), the park also produces various kinds of This park is open every day from 8:00 atlas moth (Attacus atlas), Sulawesi handicraft made of a variety of insects a.m. through at 5:00 p.m. and the last butterfly (Papilio gigon), Sumatra but- such as: framed butterfly, framed ticket is sold at 4:00 p.m. Supporting terfly (Atrophaneura nox), Stibociana beetle, key chain made from insects, facilities available are parking area, coressia, Lexias aegle, Axchaeoat- bookmarks insertion, paperweight art shop combined with cafeteria tacus staud, Butterfly of Mt. Batukaru made of transparent fiber containing and restrooms. Biodiversity must be (Actias maenas), Morphonestira, Am- butterflies, paintings made of but- preserved from the extinction in order TABANAN - Soka Beach is located at Antap village, Selemadeg athu siidae sp, and so on. terfly wings, etc. it remains stable. Therefore, when subdistrict, Tabanan County, right on the main road connecting In addition to butterfly, the park Development of the Bali Butterfly you come to Bali, make a visit to this Jembrana to Denpasar. The distance from Denpasar is about 45 also has a collection of other animals Park has been planned since October Butterfly Park. (kmb) km and about 84 km from Gilimanuk. Density of vehicles passing through the route is very high from the morning till night because it is the only road connecting Java to Bali. On the east of the Soka Beach lies a cave under the rock cliff, called Bulungdaya Cave inhabited by thousands of swallows. On the western side lies coconut grove along the coastline. It offers a beautiful landscape with black sandy beach, while on the far west is bounded by verdant hills concatenated into one with Mount Batukaru in the north. In the east, visitors will be able to see the Mount Agung and Mount Batukaru while in the south spreads the Indonesian Ocean.

Beautiful panorama merging with the atmosphere of the hills in the southern tip of Bali as well as the pounding waves is capable of keeping people away from hustles and bustles. So, it will unsurprisingly make them more convenient and peaceful. Beach panorama offered by Soka Beach is indeed very exotic and romantic that can touch the heart for those visiting the location. (kmb)

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Bach hails North, South Korea Evergreen Kostner thrives on for harnessing Olympic spirit resilience in podium quest

GANGNEUNG - North and South Korea will send MOSCOW - When Carolina Kostner competed ina “powerful message of peace” to the worldinwhen march together her first European championships 2003, they the current under oneAlina flag atZagitova the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang champion was only eight months old.

Winter Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) PresiCompeting her fourth this month, Kostner has dent ThomasinBach saidOlympics on Monday.

demonstrated incredible resilience in a sport where fleeting brilliance is more common thanopening decades ofthe endurance.

Bach, speaking at the Olympics have brought some graceful Italian, who will on the evefrom of thethe opening of The the IOC’s 132nd Session in turn the 31respite standoff over ceremony in Pyeongchang week, hasPyongyang’s returned fromnuclear a suspen-and missile South Korean coastal city this of Gangsion andwhich emerged a contender amongprogrammes. a host of teenaged rivals. neung willashost the sliding 2015, events the five-time European was handed a andInskating at the Feb. 9-25 champion North Korea are sending 22 ath16-month ban for allegedly assistingletes her to former boyfriend, Games, praised both governments compete in Pyeongchang, Olympic race towalker Alex with covering up his il- players for choosing harness theSchwazer, Olym- including 12 ice hockey legal doping. pic spirit. who will form a joint team with Today Kostner spirit refershas to the suspension, the challenges of her “The Olympic brought the South. comeback the lows in for her careers inIteuphemisms -- “obtwo sides and together that too will mark the first time the stacles” anddivided “falls”. by mistrust and two Koreas will compete as a unilong were REUTERS/Marko Djurica She is now on her return, herteam absence. animosity.

Thefocused Olympic spirit has notfied at the Olympics but the U.S. Davis Cup team poses for a picture after their win over Serbia.

“It’s not so much about what obstacles you encounter or if you brought real hope for a brighter decision has been met with anger fall down,” Kostner said after her shortfrom programme at the Korean Euro- athletes, future for everyone on the Korean some South pean champions Moscow last month,while whereanshe wonpetition bronze, against the Peninsula,” Bachinsaid. online herWhile 11th medal at the Europeans. the Olympics had opened move garnered tens of thousands of about how you get back and how you keep on fighting.” the“It’s door to opportunity for up talks signatories.

Six weeks afterKoreas, returning to competition in December 2016, between the two Bach said South Korean President Moon she finished sixthtoatsee thethe world championships.

A few it was important process Jae-in said themonths atmosphere on later, she was back on the podium, winning bronze athad the 2017 through. the peninsula brightened sigEuropean championships.

“This initiative gives all parties nificantly thanks to the approaching believetothat I still on have a lotthe of space for improvement the“Ichance reflect what Olympic festival of and sport. space actually shewere said. futuretocould lookimprove,” like, if we “One or two months ago, many a six-time world spirit,” championship podium finisher andsafety at the all Kostner, guided by this Olympic countries worried over REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji bronze medallist at the 2014 Sochi Games, feared her extended heTHE added.

Pyeongchang Olympics,” perform during IOCboth Session ahead of the 2018 Olympic Games U.S. as we have played the the last 132nd winning of Friday’s singles LopezWinter and Pablo Carreno Busta in United States surged to an unbeatable 3-0 leadMoon to theArtists absence the demands hernot body said. to return to competition “But and Korea’s journey on does Pyeongchang, February 5, 2018. two on the road, so we are looking matches.

Attila Balazs and Marton comfortably beat Britain’s Jamie eliminate 2010 champions Serbia in the first round of the Davis could spell the of her career. end here.

Theend political tensions “For many, North Korea par- forward to that opportunity.”

Fucsovics kept Hungary’s chances Murray and Dominic Inglot 6-4 6-4 Cup on Saturday. is stillovernight. improving,” Kostner said in anininterview a and need what one seemed during Games received boost 7-6(4)North official will“My not body disappear Sport ticipating the Olympics or a disappeared Holders France moreim- alive withthe a 6-3 6-4 6-7(2) 4-6a7-5 to giveKorea’s them a 2-1 lead.KCNA day after finishing atthethe European championships. possible is now to a reality.” earlier Monday with news news grabbed agency confirmed that Kim cannot create peace, butexit Olympeaceful where North on Sunday progress to the win over on Ruben Bemelmans andthat Italy a 2-1 advantage Joining Serbia atthird the were down to beatOlympics Nikola “And Milojevic and victory for me it’s a huge points of success.

I wouldn’t have thought.

It’s REUTERS/Grigory Hopes that the Olympics could North Korea’s ceremonial leader is Yong Nam would attend Pypic Games can open the way with and South Korea forming a unified over Japan, while Germany the alsoDukor 2014 winners Switzerland, who Miljan Zekic 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5 6-4 in quarter-finals after Pierre Hugues Joris De Loore in Liege. been a surprise after a surprise.” (rtr) prove a springboard to serious to make an unprecedented visit to eongchang Olympics’ opening Carolina Kostner of Italy competes. powerful symbols.” team seemed impossible.

Herbert and Nicolas Mahut earned Croatia mounted a superb comestood one win away from a last eight were also overwhelmed 3-0 by front of a partisan Serbian crowd. dialogue Koreas back South Korea this week. ceremony on Friday. (rtr)in the The talks between “However, thosetoworries have them a 2-1 between lead overthe thetwo Netherin their tie against Canada, with place after beating Australia Kazakhstan after failing Koreas to mounton “We are thrilled be in the much of a challenge in the absence quarter-finals and most likely a lands following a 7-6(6) 6-3 6-7(3) world number three Marin Cilic and doubles. Kazakhstan became the first of 20-times grand slam champion home tie,” U.S. captain Jim Couri- 7-6(2) victory over Robin Haase Ivan Dodlig roaring back from two team to reach the quarter-finals after Roger Federer. er, whose side will take on Belgium and Jean-Julien Rojer in almost sets down to eke out a 2-6 3-6 6-4 Timur Khabibulin and Aleksandr 3-1/2 hours in Albertville.

7-5 6-2 win over Daniel Nestor and Nedovyesov secured a 6-4 6-4 3-6 Holding a 2-0 lead after Friday’s or Hungury, told reporters.

Belgium, finalists last year, Vasek Pospisil for a 2-1 lead.

6-7(5) 6-3 win over Marc-Andrea singles, Americans Ryan Harrison “That would be nice, it would give The Spanish pairing of Feliciano Luca Margaroli. and Steve Johnson came from a set these guys a chance to play back in slipped up against Hungary after powerand delivery and the new(rtr) engine,” LONDON - Ducati can fight for Huesler the MotoGP title with both riders added the Italian.

“We tried to make the engine this year, works team manager Daand wrenching less aggressive, this Tardozzi after Spaniard CHARLOTTE - Former USA Gym- the devastatingvide impact that has yousaid have had girls andsmoother women gave and powis something riders requested. pace at theerful first accounts nastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced on the victims,Jorge theirLorenzo familiesset andthe friends,” of howthe Nassar abused them, During thetheir winter weparents workedpresent on that pre-season test are in Malaysia. to an additional 40 to 125 years in prison she told Nassar.

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by Nassar have said approxiwith each other,” the Austrian said and it’s really just about had atogood I the top time.

Theextending doctor offered a“We’ve brief apology his winter, as a preteen gymnast, told Reuters. “It’s mately margin.

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Former champions Serbia and Switzerland knocked out in Davis Cup first round

Gymnastics doctor gets up to Ducati ready forEx-USA two-pronged attack on MotoGP title 125 more years in prison for abuse Hamilton yet to sign new contract, says Wolff

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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Sp rt Courtois backs Conte after Watford defeat

Brazilian football clubs reject VAR for first division

LONDON - Chelsea players remain supportive of manager Antonio Conte despite suffering a second successive three-goal defeat in the Premier League on Monday, goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has said. Five days after losing 3-0 at home to Bournemouth, Chelsea’s defence of their league title hit a new low when they were beaten 4-1 at Watford.

Chelsea’s Olivier Giroud looks dejected after the match

REUTERS/David Klein

The result left them fourth in the table, 19 points adrift of leaders Manchester City, and increased the pressure already mounting on their Italian manager. “We believe in him and we believe in our team. We have two bad results and we just try to get back, regroup and just continue,” Courtois told club’s website (www. chelseafc.com).

“Obviously we are disappointed with the two results we have had in the last week, obviously it is not good, but we have to regroup in training, have heads high and continue the hard work and just continue what we were doing.

“We have now two bad losses but we are a team with the manager, and everyone is positive about that, and we will try to do our best to win next week.” Chelsea were reduced to 10 men against Watford when Tiemoue Bakayoko was sent off after half an hour and they fell behind to Troy Deeney’s penalty 12 minutes later.

Eden Hazard equalised eight minutes from time, but late goals from Daryl Janmaat, Gerard Deulofeu and Roberto Pereyra condemned Chelsea to back-to-back three-goal defeats for the first time since 1995.

“We showed that we wanted to fight, even with 10 men, and that shows we have character, but when you lose twice like that, it is not good and there are questions raised, but we go back to training with the manager, and training well and turn this situation around,” Courtois added.

Chelsea started 2018 second in the table and in the semi-finals of the League Cup, but they were beaten over two legs by Arsenal and have drawn two and lost two of their five Premier League matches so far this year.

Conte’s side are now just one point ahead of fifth-placed Tottenham Hotspur and face a fight for Champions League qualification. They remain in this season’s competition but face runaway La Liga leaders Barcelona in the last-16, with the first leg at home on Feb. 20. (rtr)

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Koeman to be named Dutch coach on Tuesday-media

Ronald Koeman is set to be named as the new coach of the Netherlands after the Dutch football association (KNVB) called a news conference for Tuesday, multiple media reports said. Koeman has been the only person linked with the job by the Dutch media, and the official presentation is expected to take place at KNVB headquarters in Zeist.

The 54-year-old will replace Dick Advocaat who stepped down as coach in November having failed to qualify the team for this year’s World Cup in Russia. Koeman will have the task of resurrecting the fortunes of a team who less than eight years ago were World Cup runners-up but have not played in a major tournament since 2014, after missing out on the last European Championship two years ago.

The Dutchman has been out of work since being

dismissed in October by Everton after a horrendous run of form in the Premier League. His immediate mission will be high quality friendlies against England and Portugal in March, as the Netherlands help Russiabound teams with their World Cup preparations. His ultimate goal, though, will be a place at Euro 2020.

Koeman, who won 78 caps for the Netherlands, brings a wealth of experience to the job, having coached club sides Vitesse Arnhem, Ajax Amsterdam, Benfica, PSV Eindhoven, Valencia, AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord, Southampton and Everton.

Dutch media said Everton goalkeeping coach Patrick Lodewijks and former Dutch international Kees van Wonderen would be Koeman’s assistants, leaving no place for Ruud Gullit who had served as assistant to Advocaat. (rtr)

Pique could face punishment for Espanyol celebration - Tebas BARCELONA - Barcelona defender Gerard Pique’s goal celebration against Espanyol in their 1-1 draw at the weekend will be examined to see if he was provoking the fans at the RCDE Stadium in Cornella, La Liga president Javier Tebas said on Monday. If the Spanish football federation’s competition committee deems Pique’s actions punishable, the Spanish international could face a suspension of up to three games.

Pique put his finger to his lips to shush the crowd after heading home an 82nd minute equaliser against their local rivals, with home

fans reacting furiously.

“The committee will rule if the gesture is punishable, but we will take it to them so they can make a decision,” Tebas told reporters.

“The regulations mean that certain ways of celebrating goals can be considered provocation.”

Pique has a frayed relationship with Espanyol fans and has often riled them with provocative comments, recently mocking the club for being based in Cornella, a town 10 km south-west of Barcelona.

Following the game, Pique said his celebration was the least he could do after some of the insults

Espanyol fans have aimed at his family, although Tebas disagreed.

“We have to highlight the fact Espanyol worked well and until that moment, Pique’s goal, there was not a single insult aimed at Pique’s family, which is something we were worried about at La Liga. “His provocative gesture made the fans react and come out with insults, which are intolerable. “(The shushing celebration) has been done before but on few occasions has it generated widespread irritation. We should avoid celebrations that irritate people.” (rtr)

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Gerrard Pique celebration after scoring goal against Espanyol

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s first division clubs voted a g a i n s t a d o p t i n g t h e Vi d e o Assistant Referee (VAR) on Monday, five months after the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said they would introduce the review system in the top flight tournament. The CBF did not explain why the clubs voted against adopting the system but multiple media reports said the 12-7 vote to reject VAR was mainly down to cost.

Installing VAR would cost each club around 1 million reais (£219,440), according to Brazilian website globoesporte. globo.com. Instead, the CBF will pay to install the system for use in some Brazilian Cup matches.

“The use of video referees was addressed and the clubs de-

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cided it will not be implemented in the 2018 Brasileirao (the first division championship),” the body said in a statement.

The CBF had promised the system would be used in some league matches last September after Corinthians beat Vasco da Gama 1-0 thanks to a goal scored by Jo, who bundled the ball into the goal with his arm.

A t M o n d a y ’s m e e t i n g i n Rio, the clubs voted to allow synthetic pitches to be used in the top division and they also permitted each team to play up to five ‘home’ games in states other than their own. Brazilian teams often play home games in distant cities, where they can make more money from gate receipts. However, the CBF stipulated that the option would not be permitted in the last five games of the season. (rtr)

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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Sp rt Courtois backs Conte after Watford defeat

Brazilian football clubs reject VAR for first division

LONDON - Chelsea players remain supportive of manager Antonio Conte despite suffering a second successive three-goal defeat in the Premier League on Monday, goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has said. Five days after losing 3-0 at home to Bournemouth, Chelsea’s defence of their league title hit a new low when they were beaten 4-1 at Watford.

Chelsea’s Olivier Giroud looks dejected after the match

REUTERS/David Klein

The result left them fourth in the table, 19 points adrift of leaders Manchester City, and increased the pressure already mounting on their Italian manager. “We believe in him and we believe in our team. We have two bad results and we just try to get back, regroup and just continue,” Courtois told club’s website (www. chelseafc.com).

“Obviously we are disappointed with the two results we have had in the last week, obviously it is not good, but we have to regroup in training, have heads high and continue the hard work and just continue what we were doing.

“We have now two bad losses but we are a team with the manager, and everyone is positive about that, and we will try to do our best to win next week.” Chelsea were reduced to 10 men against Watford when Tiemoue Bakayoko was sent off after half an hour and they fell behind to Troy Deeney’s penalty 12 minutes later.

Eden Hazard equalised eight minutes from time, but late goals from Daryl Janmaat, Gerard Deulofeu and Roberto Pereyra condemned Chelsea to back-to-back three-goal defeats for the first time since 1995.

“We showed that we wanted to fight, even with 10 men, and that shows we have character, but when you lose twice like that, it is not good and there are questions raised, but we go back to training with the manager, and training well and turn this situation around,” Courtois added.

Chelsea started 2018 second in the table and in the semi-finals of the League Cup, but they were beaten over two legs by Arsenal and have drawn two and lost two of their five Premier League matches so far this year.

Conte’s side are now just one point ahead of fifth-placed Tottenham Hotspur and face a fight for Champions League qualification. They remain in this season’s competition but face runaway La Liga leaders Barcelona in the last-16, with the first leg at home on Feb. 20. (rtr)

IBP/net

Koeman to be named Dutch coach on Tuesday-media

Ronald Koeman is set to be named as the new coach of the Netherlands after the Dutch football association (KNVB) called a news conference for Tuesday, multiple media reports said. Koeman has been the only person linked with the job by the Dutch media, and the official presentation is expected to take place at KNVB headquarters in Zeist.

The 54-year-old will replace Dick Advocaat who stepped down as coach in November having failed to qualify the team for this year’s World Cup in Russia. Koeman will have the task of resurrecting the fortunes of a team who less than eight years ago were World Cup runners-up but have not played in a major tournament since 2014, after missing out on the last European Championship two years ago.

The Dutchman has been out of work since being

dismissed in October by Everton after a horrendous run of form in the Premier League. His immediate mission will be high quality friendlies against England and Portugal in March, as the Netherlands help Russiabound teams with their World Cup preparations. His ultimate goal, though, will be a place at Euro 2020.

Koeman, who won 78 caps for the Netherlands, brings a wealth of experience to the job, having coached club sides Vitesse Arnhem, Ajax Amsterdam, Benfica, PSV Eindhoven, Valencia, AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord, Southampton and Everton.

Dutch media said Everton goalkeeping coach Patrick Lodewijks and former Dutch international Kees van Wonderen would be Koeman’s assistants, leaving no place for Ruud Gullit who had served as assistant to Advocaat. (rtr)

Pique could face punishment for Espanyol celebration - Tebas BARCELONA - Barcelona defender Gerard Pique’s goal celebration against Espanyol in their 1-1 draw at the weekend will be examined to see if he was provoking the fans at the RCDE Stadium in Cornella, La Liga president Javier Tebas said on Monday. If the Spanish football federation’s competition committee deems Pique’s actions punishable, the Spanish international could face a suspension of up to three games.

Pique put his finger to his lips to shush the crowd after heading home an 82nd minute equaliser against their local rivals, with home

fans reacting furiously.

“The committee will rule if the gesture is punishable, but we will take it to them so they can make a decision,” Tebas told reporters.

“The regulations mean that certain ways of celebrating goals can be considered provocation.”

Pique has a frayed relationship with Espanyol fans and has often riled them with provocative comments, recently mocking the club for being based in Cornella, a town 10 km south-west of Barcelona.

Following the game, Pique said his celebration was the least he could do after some of the insults

Espanyol fans have aimed at his family, although Tebas disagreed.

“We have to highlight the fact Espanyol worked well and until that moment, Pique’s goal, there was not a single insult aimed at Pique’s family, which is something we were worried about at La Liga. “His provocative gesture made the fans react and come out with insults, which are intolerable. “(The shushing celebration) has been done before but on few occasions has it generated widespread irritation. We should avoid celebrations that irritate people.” (rtr)

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Gerrard Pique celebration after scoring goal against Espanyol

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s first division clubs voted a g a i n s t a d o p t i n g t h e Vi d e o Assistant Referee (VAR) on Monday, five months after the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said they would introduce the review system in the top flight tournament. The CBF did not explain why the clubs voted against adopting the system but multiple media reports said the 12-7 vote to reject VAR was mainly down to cost.

Installing VAR would cost each club around 1 million reais (£219,440), according to Brazilian website globoesporte. globo.com. Instead, the CBF will pay to install the system for use in some Brazilian Cup matches.

“The use of video referees was addressed and the clubs de-

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cided it will not be implemented in the 2018 Brasileirao (the first division championship),” the body said in a statement.

The CBF had promised the system would be used in some league matches last September after Corinthians beat Vasco da Gama 1-0 thanks to a goal scored by Jo, who bundled the ball into the goal with his arm.

A t M o n d a y ’s m e e t i n g i n Rio, the clubs voted to allow synthetic pitches to be used in the top division and they also permitted each team to play up to five ‘home’ games in states other than their own. Brazilian teams often play home games in distant cities, where they can make more money from gate receipts. However, the CBF stipulated that the option would not be permitted in the last five games of the season. (rtr)

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TABANAN - Kelating beach is lo- in Tabanan. to surf and ride the waves at this beach. cated in the Village Kelating, District Heading to Kelating is very easy, For visitors with two-wheeled vehicle, Kerambitan,Tabanan,about 13 km from the access of the road could be take can go around the streets heading to the town of Tabanan. Distance from by motorcycle, for tourist it is not dif- south part of the coast. From this place, Denpasar City about 33 miles and you ficult riding own vehicle. Some of the visitors will find a palce like a large pool only took about 70 minutes away from instructions way to the beach are found containing fresh water from the drains Ngurah Rai Airport to reach this Kelating along the road. As arrive at the beach, around the village. In the middle of the Coast attractions. From the airport, you the beautiful black sand sparks with the pool, there is a sand beach that seems to lived through the Sunset Road,then in the silver shine of the sun. Once entering the divide between freshwater and seawater. direction towards Mengwi Kerobokan. coastal area, will be greeted with a gently “On this beach we can also see a blending After that you just follow the road to Ta- sloping stretch of black sand. between the fresh water and sea water,” banan district leading to Kerambitan. On Exoticism black sand more beautiful said a local people Wayan Suka, told the way to the beach Kelating you will be when exposed by sunlight. The refraction Tribun. Some buildings such warungs faced with a view of the green rice field. of light makes the black sand sparkles (small coffee shop) are also available.

The road has been paved with the good like jewels flashing in the sand. If there The condition of the beach is silence, a that will also make you feel trip more is no sun, sand beach will look normal. deserted beach away from the noise and enjoyable. If you want to rent a vehicle Kelating beach has a kind of tide which uproar. (kmb) can use cheap rent car nearest-located is Butterfly large enough, andas bescorpions, a place for surfers TABANAN - The Bali such tarantulas and 1993 after the implementation of Park is one of the popular attractions tiger beetles in a small building on International Butterfly Conference in Tabanan County and the only one the right side of the flower garden. held on August 24-27, 1993 in Ujung in this archipelago. This park also Similarly, it also has a collection of Pandang (Makassar). Departed from makes a breeding of butterflies for strange grasshopper in the shape of the idea that biological resources scientific purposes and education in leaves and twigs of wood brought in in the form of butterfly were very the future. from outside Bali. abundant, it would be unfortunate if As the name implies, most of the The park is managed by PT Kupu- they went extinct. The park was then land is covered by paranet in order kupu Taman Lestari. It spreads across opened on December 17, 1996 by the butterflies do not fly out of their the area of 1 hectare with netting area Mrs. Asiawati Oka, Chairman of the collections and disappear. Various (closed area with paranet) on 3,700 PKK of Bali Province. The butterfly species of butterflies in Indonesia m3. Each month the butterfly park park is located on Jalan Batukaru, can be found here. Some of the well releases at least 3,500 butterflies Sandan Lebah hamlet, Wanasari, known butterflies include: butterfly of to its original habitat. Besides, the exactly 6 km to the north of Tabanan. paradise (Ornithoptera paradisea), the park also produces various kinds of This park is open every day from 8:00 atlas moth (Attacus atlas), Sulawesi handicraft made of a variety of insects a.m. through at 5:00 p.m. and the last butterfly (Papilio gigon), Sumatra but- such as: framed butterfly, framed ticket is sold at 4:00 p.m. Supporting terfly (Atrophaneura nox), Stibociana beetle, key chain made from insects, facilities available are parking area, coressia, Lexias aegle, Axchaeoat- bookmarks insertion, paperweight art shop combined with cafeteria tacus staud, Butterfly of Mt. Batukaru made of transparent fiber containing and restrooms. Biodiversity must be (Actias maenas), Morphonestira, Am- butterflies, paintings made of but- preserved from the extinction in order TABANAN - Soka Beach is located at Antap village, Selemadeg athu siidae sp, and so on. terfly wings, etc. it remains stable. Therefore, when subdistrict, Tabanan County, right on the main road connecting In addition to butterfly, the park Development of the Bali Butterfly you come to Bali, make a visit to this Jembrana to Denpasar. The distance from Denpasar is about 45 also has a collection of other animals Park has been planned since October Butterfly Park. (kmb) km and about 84 km from Gilimanuk. Density of vehicles passing through the route is very high from the morning till night because it is the only road connecting Java to Bali. On the east of the Soka Beach lies a cave under the rock cliff, called Bulungdaya Cave inhabited by thousands of swallows. On the western side lies coconut grove along the coastline. It offers a beautiful landscape with black sandy beach, while on the far west is bounded by verdant hills concatenated into one with Mount Batukaru in the north. In the east, visitors will be able to see the Mount Agung and Mount Batukaru while in the south spreads the Indonesian Ocean.

Beautiful panorama merging with the atmosphere of the hills in the southern tip of Bali as well as the pounding waves is capable of keeping people away from hustles and bustles. So, it will unsurprisingly make them more convenient and peaceful. Beach panorama offered by Soka Beach is indeed very exotic and romantic that can touch the heart for those visiting the location. (kmb)

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Bach hails North, South Korea Evergreen Kostner thrives on for harnessing Olympic spirit resilience in podium quest

GANGNEUNG - North and South Korea will send MOSCOW - When Carolina Kostner competed ina “powerful message of peace” to the worldinwhen march together her first European championships 2003, they the current under oneAlina flag atZagitova the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang champion was only eight months old.

Winter Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) PresiCompeting her fourth this month, Kostner has dent ThomasinBach saidOlympics on Monday.

demonstrated incredible resilience in a sport where fleeting brilliance is more common thanopening decades ofthe endurance.

Bach, speaking at the Olympics have brought some graceful Italian, who will on the evefrom of thethe opening of The the IOC’s 132nd Session in turn the 31respite standoff over ceremony in Pyeongchang week, hasPyongyang’s returned fromnuclear a suspen-and missile South Korean coastal city this of Gangsion andwhich emerged a contender amongprogrammes. a host of teenaged rivals. neung willashost the sliding 2015, events the five-time European was handed a andInskating at the Feb. 9-25 champion North Korea are sending 22 ath16-month ban for allegedly assistingletes her to former boyfriend, Games, praised both governments compete in Pyeongchang, Olympic race towalker Alex with covering up his il- players for choosing harness theSchwazer, Olym- including 12 ice hockey legal doping. pic spirit. who will form a joint team with Today Kostner spirit refershas to the suspension, the challenges of her “The Olympic brought the South. comeback the lows in for her careers inIteuphemisms -- “obtwo sides and together that too will mark the first time the stacles” anddivided “falls”. by mistrust and two Koreas will compete as a unilong were REUTERS/Marko Djurica She is now on her return, herteam absence. animosity.

Thefocused Olympic spirit has notfied at the Olympics but the U.S. Davis Cup team poses for a picture after their win over Serbia.

“It’s not so much about what obstacles you encounter or if you brought real hope for a brighter decision has been met with anger fall down,” Kostner said after her shortfrom programme at the Korean Euro- athletes, future for everyone on the Korean some South pean champions Moscow last month,while whereanshe wonpetition bronze, against the Peninsula,” Bachinsaid. online herWhile 11th medal at the Europeans. the Olympics had opened move garnered tens of thousands of about how you get back and how you keep on fighting.” the“It’s door to opportunity for up talks signatories.

Six weeks afterKoreas, returning to competition in December 2016, between the two Bach said South Korean President Moon she finished sixthtoatsee thethe world championships.

A few it was important process Jae-in said themonths atmosphere on later, she was back on the podium, winning bronze athad the 2017 through. the peninsula brightened sigEuropean championships.

“This initiative gives all parties nificantly thanks to the approaching believetothat I still on have a lotthe of space for improvement the“Ichance reflect what Olympic festival of and sport. space actually shewere said. futuretocould lookimprove,” like, if we “One or two months ago, many a six-time world spirit,” championship podium finisher andsafety at the all Kostner, guided by this Olympic countries worried over REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji bronze medallist at the 2014 Sochi Games, feared her extended heTHE added.

Pyeongchang Olympics,” perform during IOCboth Session ahead of the 2018 Olympic Games U.S. as we have played the the last 132nd winning of Friday’s singles LopezWinter and Pablo Carreno Busta in United States surged to an unbeatable 3-0 leadMoon to theArtists absence the demands hernot body said. to return to competition “But and Korea’s journey on does Pyeongchang, February 5, 2018. two on the road, so we are looking matches.

Attila Balazs and Marton comfortably beat Britain’s Jamie eliminate 2010 champions Serbia in the first round of the Davis could spell the of her career. end here.

Theend political tensions “For many, North Korea par- forward to that opportunity.”

Fucsovics kept Hungary’s chances Murray and Dominic Inglot 6-4 6-4 Cup on Saturday. is stillovernight. improving,” Kostner said in anininterview a and need what one seemed during Games received boost 7-6(4)North official will“My not body disappear Sport ticipating the Olympics or a disappeared Holders France moreim- alive withthe a 6-3 6-4 6-7(2) 4-6a7-5 to giveKorea’s them a 2-1 lead.KCNA day after finishing atthethe European championships. possible is now to a reality.” earlier Monday with news news grabbed agency confirmed that Kim cannot create peace, butexit Olympeaceful where North on Sunday progress to the win over on Ruben Bemelmans andthat Italy a 2-1 advantage Joining Serbia atthird the were down to beatOlympics Nikola “And Milojevic and victory for me it’s a huge points of success.

I wouldn’t have thought.

It’s REUTERS/Grigory Hopes that the Olympics could North Korea’s ceremonial leader is Yong Nam would attend Pypic Games can open the way with and South Korea forming a unified over Japan, while Germany the alsoDukor 2014 winners Switzerland, who Miljan Zekic 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5 6-4 in quarter-finals after Pierre Hugues Joris De Loore in Liege. been a surprise after a surprise.” (rtr) prove a springboard to serious to make an unprecedented visit to eongchang Olympics’ opening Carolina Kostner of Italy competes. powerful symbols.” team seemed impossible.

Herbert and Nicolas Mahut earned Croatia mounted a superb comestood one win away from a last eight were also overwhelmed 3-0 by front of a partisan Serbian crowd. dialogue Koreas back South Korea this week. ceremony on Friday. (rtr)in the The talks between “However, thosetoworries have them a 2-1 between lead overthe thetwo Netherin their tie against Canada, with place after beating Australia Kazakhstan after failing Koreas to mounton “We are thrilled be in the much of a challenge in the absence quarter-finals and most likely a lands following a 7-6(6) 6-3 6-7(3) world number three Marin Cilic and doubles. Kazakhstan became the first of 20-times grand slam champion home tie,” U.S. captain Jim Couri- 7-6(2) victory over Robin Haase Ivan Dodlig roaring back from two team to reach the quarter-finals after Roger Federer. er, whose side will take on Belgium and Jean-Julien Rojer in almost sets down to eke out a 2-6 3-6 6-4 Timur Khabibulin and Aleksandr 3-1/2 hours in Albertville.

7-5 6-2 win over Daniel Nestor and Nedovyesov secured a 6-4 6-4 3-6 Holding a 2-0 lead after Friday’s or Hungury, told reporters.

Belgium, finalists last year, Vasek Pospisil for a 2-1 lead.

6-7(5) 6-3 win over Marc-Andrea singles, Americans Ryan Harrison “That would be nice, it would give The Spanish pairing of Feliciano Luca Margaroli. and Steve Johnson came from a set these guys a chance to play back in slipped up against Hungary after powerand delivery and the new(rtr) engine,” LONDON - Ducati can fight for Huesler the MotoGP title with both riders added the Italian.

“We tried to make the engine this year, works team manager Daand wrenching less aggressive, this Tardozzi after Spaniard CHARLOTTE - Former USA Gym- the devastatingvide impact that has yousaid have had girls andsmoother women gave and powis something riders requested. pace at theerful first accounts nastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced on the victims,Jorge theirLorenzo familiesset andthe friends,” of howthe Nassar abused them, During thetheir winter weparents workedpresent on that pre-season test are in Malaysia. to an additional 40 to 125 years in prison she told Nassar.

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Thursday. first today and wethere stillare have some to end the three-day test withProsecutors child pornography ley Lorencen, track who was abused

by Nassar have said approxiwith each other,” the Austrian said and it’s really just about had atogood I the top time.

Theextending doctor offered a“We’ve brief apology his winter, as a preteen gymnast, told Reuters. “It’s mately margin.

265 known victims in total, includin an interview on the team website it and enhancing victims it, working on would say,” added. “No real “This bike gives more ourOlympic on Monday, saying, “Thehevisions finally done.” “We’re happy with things ining gold medalists likeconfidence McKayla (www.mercedesamgf1.com). what more I can do for them, for drama, but there is always stress andand it isAly more to my riding(style),” garage. I think we can be competiof your testimonies will forever be present Maroney Raisman.

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Former champions Serbia and Switzerland knocked out in Davis Cup first round

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Maldives declares state of emergency as Yameen tightens grip on power

MALE - Maldives President Abdulla Yameen on Monday declared a state of emergency, ordered security forces into the supreme court and arrested a former president, in moves the opposition called a “purge” in the Indian Ocean island nation.

Maldives police also arrested Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and another Supreme Court judge on Tuesday, dramatically escalating the legal battle with the archipelago’s top court.

Police said in a Twitter message they had arrested Saeed and Supreme Court Judge Ali Hameed “for an ongoing investigation”. The gave no details about the allegations or charges against the two judges.

The president has defied a Supreme Court ruling handed down last week, which revoked terrorism charges against nine leading opposition figures including the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, who is now in exile.

The court ordered the opposition figures, six of whom are being held in the country’s main jail on a sparsely inhabited island, to be freed.

“The President has been compelled to declare a state of emergency due to the risk currently posed to national security,” said a statement from Yameen’s office on Monday. “Implementation of the Supreme Court ruling is – in its current form – incompatible with maintenance of public safety.”

Police arrested another former president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom -- who is also Yameen’s half-brother

-- at his residence along with his son-in-law. Gayoom ruled the country for 30 years until 2008, and is now in the opposition. Gayoom’s son Faris is one of the jailed opposition figures ordered freed by the court.

In a recorded video sent to social media, Gayoom said he was being taken to the prison island of Dhoonidhoo: “I have not committed any crime. This arrest is unlawful. I will remain strong, and I ask the beloved people to remain strong.”

Yameen, who has held his position since 2013, faces mounting pressure at home and from the United States and India to obey the court’s order.

The Maldives is made up of 26 coral atolls and 1,192 islands. Politics centres on the tiny but densely populated capital Male.

China, the United States and India issued travel advisories for the Maldives, a country of 400,000 people best known as a beach paradise for the tourists that provide most of its foreign currency revenue.

The tumult comes during the peak tourism season.

Tourism brought in $2.7 billion of revenue for the Maldives in 2016.

As midnight approached, roads leading to the Supreme Court had been barricaded. At one spot, police with batons charged protesters to disperse them.

“I just spoke to the Chief Justice and he told me that the gates of the Supreme Court (are) being stormed by the military. He is inside and nobody can go out or come in,” Husnu Al Suood, the president of Maldives Bar Association and a former attorney general, told Reuters late on Monday. (rtr)

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Maldivian police stand guard on a main street during a protest by opposition supporters against the government’s delay in releasing their jailed leaders, including former president Mohamed Nasheed, despite a Supreme Court order, in Male, Maldives, February 5, 2018.

Pictures taken February 5, 2018.

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EU’s chief negotiator tells Britain: Time has come to make a Brexit choice

LONDON - The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told Britain on Monday that the time had come for Britain to make a choice on what sort of relationship it wanted with the bloc after Brexit.

Britain has ruled out staying in any customs union with the EU after Brexit, but the nature of its trading relationship with the world’s biggest trading bloc has split Theresa May’s government and Conservative Party.

Barnier, speaking after talks in Downing Street with Prime Minister May and Brexit Secretary David Davis, bluntly called on Britain to clarify how it saw the future relationship with the EU after it leaves on March 29, 2019.

“The only thing I can say: without a customs union and outside the single market, barriers to trade and goods and services are unavoidable,” Barnier told reporters in Downing Street. “Time has come to make a choice.”

“We need also clarity on the UK proposals for the future partnership,” Barnier said.

Britain, Davis said, wanted a comprehensive free trade agreement and a customs agreement

to make trade as frictionless as possible while being free to strike free trade deals with swiftly growing countries across the world.

Davis said the talks with Barnier had been constructive and that he was confident Britain could get agreement on a timelimited transition period by the March economic council which is scheduled for March 13.

With little more than a year left before Britain’s March 2019 exit from the European Union, May’s party remains deeply divided over what sort of relationship should be built between the EU and the world’s sixth-largest economy.

Such are the divisions within May’s government, that the debate over the extent of Britain’s possible post-Brexit participation in an EU customs union has taken place in public with key ministers offering a range of views.

“The conditions are clear: Everyone has to play by the same rules during this transition,” Barnier said. “The certainty about the transition will only come with the ratification of the withdrawal agreement.” (rtr)

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am today, but unfortunately she passed away at Mayapada Hospital in Tangerang three hours later.

“The victim died at Mayapada Hospital. We are in grief, but this is God’s will. We can’t reject God’s will,” said GMF Aeroasia Finance Director Insan Nurcahyo, as quoted by CNN Indonesia today.

Mutmainah was rescued at 7 am — some 13 hours after she was trapped in the car by the landslide — and is reportedly recovering well at Siloam Hospital in Karawaci.

The underpass runs below the railway track for the newlylaunched Railink airport train.

Due to the landslide, Railink operations are halted for at least today until further notice.

Jakarta was under a flood alert last night after extreme rainfall caused several landslides in the satellite city of Bogor, reportedly killing at least three people with fears that the toll will rise as rescue efforts are ongoing. East Jakarta and South Jakarta have been the most affected, with at least 6,000 people displaced from their homes due to flooding. (rtr)

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A 24-year-old woman identified as Dyanti Dyah Ayu tragically became the casualty of a landslide on the southern perimeter road of Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, which is believed to have been caused by the extreme weather that rocked the Greater Jakarta Area yesterday. According to reports, the landslide occurred at around 6 pm yesterday and buried Dyanti’s Honda Brio just as she was driving through an underpass with a friend, Mutmainah, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

Based on photos of the location circulating online, it appeared that a retaining wall of the underpass collapsed allowing dirt to spill through and onto the road, though officials have not yet determined the cause for the landslide. Both Dyanti and Mutmainah were employees at Garuda Maintenance Facilities (GMF) Aeroasia, which has an office at the Soekarno-Hatta Rescuers managed to evacuate Dyanti out of the car at around 3

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Widodo, Kalla discuss economic issues JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo held a meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla here on Tuesday to discuss economic issues, such as investment, exports, and preparations, for the 2018 Asian Games. The meeting was conducted at the Vice President`s office, Jakarta, here on Tuesday.

“We discussed about how to increase investment and exports, as those are our keys in the economy.

We also spoke about preparations for the 2018 Asian Games,” Widodo said after the meeting here on Tuesday. The president pointed out that investment and exports were keys to boost economic growth.

Investment opportunities in the field of mining, industry and infrastructure need to be improved, the president noted. On Monday afternoon, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) released cumulative economic growth of 5.07 percent (yoy) in 2017.

According to spending, economic growth in 2017 is supported

by household consumption, which grew 4.95 percent; gross fixed capital formation, which grew 6.15 percent; and government consumption, which grew 2.14 percent.

A trend of rising commodity prices, which is believed to attract investment flows and boost household consumption, will increase the economic growth in 2018 to 5.3 percent year-on-year (yoy), an economist of DBS Bank Gundy Cahyadi earlier remarked. “If commodities remain at current levels, the investment growth and household consumption will increase,” Cahyadi stated.

In addition, the realization of infrastructure development will affect the economy in 2018. In 2017, infrastructure development attracted investment that boosted Indonesia`s economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2017 by 5.19 percent (yoy). “We expect GDP growth of 5.3 percent in 2018,” Cahyadi remarked. (ant)

Marsudi attends ASEAN foreign ministers retreat in Singapore

JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi attended the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat in Singapore on Tuesday. The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted on Tuesday that it was the first ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat during Singapore`s chairmanship in ASEAN this year, with a theme of “A Resilient and Innovative ASEAN.” ASEAN foreign ministers in Singapore discussed drafts of documents, which will be discussed by the ASEAN leaders during the ASEAN Summit in April. The ministers also discussed strengthening of regional architecture, which was based on the spirit of cooperation and respect to the international law.

During the ASEAN FM Retreat, Marsudi conveyed the support of ASEAN member states for Indonesia`s bid as non-permanent member of UN Security Council in 2019-2020.

Previously, during a press briefing in Jakarta on Thursday (Feb 1), the Director of Politics and Security of ASEAN of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chandra Widya Yudha, stated that the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat, held in Singapore from Feb 4 to 6, would discuss several agenda, including

the follow-up of the 31st ASEAN Summit in Manila and priorities of Singapore chairmanship in ASEAN, which is summarized in the ASEAN Leaders Vision for a resilient and innovative ASEAN. “The ASEAN Leaders Vision includes several priorities of Singapore`s chairmanship and implementation of the ASEAN Vision 2025,” Yudha noted. During the AMM Retreat, Indonesia highlighted several issues, including the establishment of ASEAN extradition treaty instrument to facilitate strong legal cooperation between ASEAN member states, especially in combating transnational crimes.

Indonesia also emphasized the importance of ASEAN-China to achieve substantive and significant progress on the negotiation of the Code of Conduct on the South China Sea, which includes the framework agreed by ASEANChina ministers last year and the importance of unity, centrality, and leadership of ASEAN amid the developing and dynamic regional architectures.

Indonesia has also encouraged the designing of an action plan for the implementation of ASEAN Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers. (ant)

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Sick children are treated by health workers at a hospital in Agats, Asmat District, after the government dispatched military and medical personnel to the remote region of Papua to combat malnutrition and measles, Indonesia January 22, 2018 in this photo taken by Antara Foto.

Indonesia declares Papua health crisis under control

JAKARTA - A measles and malnutrition crisis that killed dozens of children in Indonesia’s impoverished province of Papua over the past few months is under control, the health ministry said on Tuesday.

At least 72 people, mostly children, died from complications of malnutrition and measles in Asmat, a remote area of the country’s easternmost province.

The outbreak prompted health authorities to send in military paramedics and aid and declare an “extraordinary outbreak” on Jan. 15.

“We have withdrawn the ‘extraordinary outbreak’

status because the trend of affected people is declining,” Asmat chief Elisa Kambu said in a statement published on the health ministry website.

Around 650 children have contracted measles and at least 223 are suffering from malnutrition. More than 17,300 children have been immunised, the statement added. “We still need support in Asmat, nurses and doctors,” Kambu said.

Some activists and Papuans have blamed the health crisis on neglect by the central government. Papua is one of Indonesia’s poorest areas and President Joko Widodo, after coming to power in 2014, pledged to speed up its development. (rtr)

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German industrial union, employers reach pace-setting pay deal

STUTTGART - Industrial workers and employers in southwestern Germany struck a hard-fought deal on pay and working hours on Monday night, setting a benchmark for millions of workers across Europe’s largest economy. The agreement between labour union IG Metall and the Suedwestmetall employers’ federation foresees a 4.3 percent pay raise from April and other payments spread over 27 months.

Tough wage negotiations are expected to end years of wage restraint in Germany, potentially aiding the European Central Bank as it tries to get euro zone inflation back up to the bank’s target rate of just below 2 percent. “Workers will have more money in their pockets in real terms; they will get a fair share of company profits; and that will boost consumption,” IG Metall negotiator Roman Zitzelsberger told journalists after 13 hours of regional talks in Stuttgart. On an annual basis, the deal is equivalent to a 3.5 percent increase in wages, according to Commerzbank analyst Eckart Tuchtfeld.

IG Metall had demanded an 8 percent annual raise for 3.9 million workers for 27 months, against a backdrop of a strong economic recovery and the lowest unemployment since German unification in 1990. The “pilot” deal covers half a million employees in southwestern Germany, home to industrial powerhouses like car maker Daimler AG. While the deal is below demands, it will reinforce market expectations for the ECB to dial back stimulus further this year as growth in the bloc is now self generating and wages are moving slowly upwards.

The deal comes as world stock and bond markets are selling off on fears

that a jobs bonanza in the United States may force early interest rate hikes there.

But the euro zone outlook is much different with the jobless rate still at almost 9 percent and the broader slack, which includes part-time and temporary workers, perhaps twice as high, economists say. The wage deal is expected to be applied in other German states as well and is also likely to influence negotiations in other industries.

Germany’s second-biggest union, Verdi, is expected to publish its wage demand for the public sector on Feb. 8. Verdi and IG Metall together account for about 15 percent of the German workforce, and other sectors tend to broadly follow their agreements.

HARD TO BEAR IG Metall had staged a series of 24-hour strikes and threatened to ballot its members for extended industrial action if employers failed to offer concessions at Monday’s sixth round of pay talks. Last week’s strikes cost carmakers, automotive suppliers and engineering firms almost 200 million euros ($249 million) in lost revenues, affecting big firms like Daimler, BMW and Airbus and dozens of smaller suppliers.

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A woman passes sale signs in a shop window in downtown Hamburg, Germany, January 25, 2018.

As is often the case in Germany’s ritualised system of wage bargaining, the details of the deal were highly complex. At the end of the day, Suedwestmetall negotiator Stefan Wolf said, the cost to employers would work out at below 4 percent per year.

In addition to April’s 4.3 percent pay rise, employees will receive a one-off payment of 100 euros extra for the first quarter.

From 2019, workers will get an

additional fixed annual sum of 400 euros as well as a payment equivalent to 27.5 percent of their monthly pay.

Some workers can choose to have more time off instead of receiving the additional money.

“While employers will see labour costs rise more than initially anticipated, at least this deal provides certainty through March 2020,” analysts at Barclays said. Meeting a key IG Metall demand, workers will also be

able to reduce their working week to 28 hours from the standard 35 to care for children, or for sick or elderly relatives, for a period of up to two years.

“For far too long, flexibility was the privilege of employers,” IG Metall chief Joerg Hofmann said.

In return, employers will be able to take on more staff willing to work for up to 40 hours - creating the flexibility they need to ramp up production during periods of high demand.(rtr)

Emerging stocks tumble 3 pct, worst daily fall since Nov 2016 LONDON - Emerging equities tumbled three percent on Tuesday to over one-month lows, set for their worst daily fall since November 2016 as the global stocks rout intensified.

Investors have scrambled for the exit in the wake of Friday’s data showing the largest U.S. wage growth since 2009. This has fuelled expectations of faster rate hikes, driving 10-year U.S. Treasury yields to four-year highs.

MSCI’s benchmark emerging stocks index fell 2.8 percent to over one-month lows, taking its cue from developed markets after Wall Street suffered its biggest percentage drop since August 2011.

“The fear is that should inflation rise faster in the U.S. then the Fed would have to tighten more than is currently priced in, which would mean a stronger dollar, plus higher financing costs and lower capital flows to emerging markets,” said Jakob Christensen, head of emerging markets research at Danske Bank.

He added that the sell-off was not a sign the world economy was heading for trouble, but more a reflection of stretched valuations in global equity markets after a prolonged bull run without any big corrections.

Asian markets set the tone, with big losses across the board. Hong

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Kong led the selling, down 5.1 percent, its worst daily fall since August 2015. Hong Kong is particularly exposed to U.S. rate moves because its currency is pegged to the U.S. dollar.

Index heavyweight Taiwan fell almost five percent, its biggest oneday fall since August 2011. Chinese mainland shares fell around three percent with the Shanghai index posting its biggest one-day fall in nearly two years. The selling extended into European trading with Turkish stocks sliding 1.7 percent after touching a record high last week, while Poland lost 2.4 percent and Hungary shares 1.7 percent.

The average yield spread of emerging market bonds over U.S. Treasuries on the JPMorgan EMBI Global Diversified index was at 277 basis points (bps), a one-month high, after widening 19 bps since the start of February.

South African assets remained in focus as pressure mounted on scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma to quit. Zuma has summoned cabinet ministers to a meeting in Cape Town today. “This is the power struggle I expected would happen,” said Christensen. “It’s hard to imagine a completely smooth process to remove Zuma and there are factions within

the ANC that are still backing him.”

South African stocks tumbled two percent to four-month lows, and South African dollar bonds fell across the curve, with the 2041 issue losing 0.7 cents. The country’s fiveyear credit default swaps rose five basis points (bps) from Monday’s close to 154 bps, according to IHS Markit data, a fresh one-month high, but the rand firmed 0.2 percent, helped by a slightly weaker dollar.

Other emerging currencies were also a touch firmer, with Tukey’s lira and Russian’s rouble up 0.3 percent , and the Chinese yuan up 0.26 percent. (rtr)

Traditional games look very simple. They always dwell on nature and get very close to the habits existing in the local social environment. This type of game seems to have no limit because almost all places can be used as a playground. This ancient game has many benefits such as learning sportsmanship, honesty, discipline and respect.

These values ??thrive because they always make dissemination to friends in the environment becoming their natural playground. Accepting defeat and recognizing the opponent’s victory in the game is an example of a sportsmanlike attitude. In addition to training physical endurance, the traditional games are also to hone the intelligence because when playing the children must be able to set the strategy.

Rector of the State Hindu Dharma Institute (IHDN) Denpasar, Prof. Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, said that traditional games in Bali can become a medium for dissemination. In the games, they will always invite others as a reflection of cooperation. “In the game, there is a lesson for mutual respect and apologies if something goes wrong and rewards when someone wins,” he said.

The games also have very positive influence because it forces the children to be creative as they also demand higher creativity. Such activity can also increase self-confidence because there are elements to train communication. Children as players of the game become more confident and democratic. “When determining a leader or punishment for the offending child, they do by agreement,” added Sudiana.

Besides, said this Chairman of Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bali, traditional games are also part of the application of Hindu teachings such as philosophy (tattva), karmic law, tat tvam asi (You are that (God)) and Tri Kaya Parisudha.

“When viewed from an educational perspective, people learn from nature.

Meanwhile, if learning from cultural theories, people learn from others and the environment,” he explained.

When playing, they always make others happy, in addition to make them happy. In Sundaram’s teachings meaning beauty it will be able to make others happy and peaceful. It is also the teaching of yadnya (sincere sacrifice).

Peacefulness makes them not quarrel, fight but strengthen friendship.

Moreover, the teachings of Karmic law limit them from doing arbitrarily. They realize if doing wrong and doing not good, they will get punishment from friends according to mutual agreement. Therefore a child will not dare to hurt his friend.

Because, if he is hurt will also feel the same. It is in accordance with the teaching of tat tvam asi.

The real application of Hinduism is the Tri Kaya Parisuda teaching, meaning think good, say good and do goodness. After performing the games, they uphold the values ??of

honesty, though not told before.

“It happens due to the influence of creative culture of children’s minds, especially through religious teaching,” he added.

According to Prof. Sudiana, traditional games in Bali are inspired by the teachings of Hinduism interpreted innocently by children. The games can be inspired by ritual activities, and so can the games into activity. For example, a ritual activity of sesuwunan (sanctified effigies) can then become a game such as in the mebarongbarongan (barong-like game), and mengunying-ngunyingan. On the contrary, a game can become a ritual procession, like the making of barong bangkung (boar) that can become sesuwunan because it passes through trance process.

Nevertheless, playing traditional games is not a form of offering, but an activity to fulfill the desire to interact with other children, relieve stress and saturation as well as grow creativity. More importantly, children can learn in their own environment.

“Children of the past made the natural surroundings into a medium of their game. Certainly it is from the results of their creativity, not consumptive like many children do in the current era,” he explained. (kmb)

Speaking about Balinese traditional culinary traditions will never end. One of the menus having not been widely known is plecing gonda (gooseweed with hot spices).

However, in one region, this type of green vegetable sometimes becomes favorite food. Moreover, it is processed in a simple manner. It just needs to be boiled and then mixed with tomato seasoning and fried onion to make the taste very delicious. It offers typical and tempting aroma.

Plecing gonda has become a typical food for Balinese community. This vegetable menu is very close to farmers living in countryside. Other than easy to get the ingredient, the preparation is also easy. Simply fill with spices in the form of garlic, chili, large chili peppers, tomatoes, shrimp paste, lemon and salt to taste, plecing gonda is already tasted different from other vegetables.

The preparation is not too complicated. Ingredient in the form of gonda is boiled until cooked. All spices are cleaned, pulverized until subsequently fried, except for lemon. Well, the serving of gonda having been boiled is spiced and then mixed until finely blended. To give a distinctive taste, it can be provided with grated kaffir lime.

Other than by boiling, this gooseweed vegetable can also be cooked by stir-frying. Optionally, it can also be roasted and then given seasoning like salt, chili and coconut oil (traditionally processed).

Such cooking method was usually performed by farmers that have completed their work in the fields. When they arrive home, they usually carry a handful of gooseweed.

This vegetable is processed as above and then eaten with the family.

Gonda plants are very close to farmers’ life in Bali, especially farmers in Tabanan, right in Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Marga subdistrict. This type of plant is actually a weed plant, but taken advantage by farmers as a daily food. It is planted on the sidelines of paddy plants (by intercropping), so it does not require a large area. Harvest time is also very short namely about 20-25 days. The color is green. It does not need to be sprayed with chemicals, so the gonda is free from chemicals. (kmb)

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Bali’s economy grows slowly at 5.59 percent DENPASAR — The economic growth of Bali in 2017 reached 5.59 percent, slower than in 2016 recorded to reach 6.32 percent.

This decrease is measured based on Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) at the current prices recorded to reach IDR 215.36 trillion in 2017.

Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Adi Nugroho, explained that GRDP from business sector shows the economic growth of Bali is dominantly boosted by the provision of accommodation, food and drink by 1.82 percent. The growth was also the highest compared to health services and social activities and information and communication that grew by 9.25 percent.

On the expenditure side, Bali’s economic growth was supported by household consumption expenditure of IDR 99.85 trillion or 46.36 percent of total expenditure component.

The decline in Bali’s economy is inseparable from the economic growth of Bali in the fourth quarter of 2017. In the fourth quarter of 2017, Bali’s economy grew negatively at minus 0.74 percent compared to third quarter of 2017. This negative growth happened due to the influence of Mount Agung eruption. When compared to the fourth quarter of 2016, Bali’s economy grew by 4.01 percent.

By quarter to quarter (qtq), in the fourth quarter of 2017, there were seven business fields experiencing negative growth rate. They are the agricultural, forestry and fishery sector (-0.37 percent), mining and quarrying (-11.73 percent), water procurement (-1.89 percent), wholesale and retail trade and repair of cars and motorcycles (-2.52 percent), transportation and warehousing (-5.33), provision of food and drink accommodation (-4.80 percent) and financial services (-1.98 percent). Meanwhile, the source experiencing highest positive growth is the procurement of electricity and gas at 5.30 percent.

By year of year, in the fourth quarter of 2017 there were 4 business fields experiencing negative growth. They are agriculture, forestry and fisheries (-1.37 percent), mining and quarrying (-10.49 percent), manufacturing industry (-0.66 percent) and financial services (-2.01 percent). The highest growth of business field in the fourth quarter of 2017 is the procurement of electricity and gas growing by 13.50 percent. (kmb42)

Air strikes pound Syria’s last rebel strongholds, gas chokes civilians

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The Besakih management board confirmed total visits to the Besakih area in 2017 reached threefold from the previous years.

Besakih management board claims tourist visit rises threefold

AMLAPURA — Besakih management board regretted the desire of the executive and legislative to re-manage the Besakih Temple area entirely. Surely, this discourse is the same as thinking backwards, where Besakih area is complained related to various problems hitting the management. Moreover, the Besakih management board confirmed total visits to the Besakih area in 2017 reached threefold from the previous years.

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Spokesperson of Besakih Management Board, Gusti Mangku Kariawan, said on Monday (Feb. 5) the party putting this issue into a discourse has to look back the contents of Gubernatorial Regulation No.51/2016 governing the existence of the Besakih management board.

The contents of regulation will also clarify the assumption that the elements of district government of Karangasem are not involved there.

Deputy Regent, Regional Secretary to the Head of Tourism Office, he said, actually have been included in the Besakih management board.

Gusti Mangku Kariawan also denied the statement of the Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office. Deposit of the Besakih management board to district government of Karangasem for the management year 2017 reached IDR 517 million, not IDR 460 million as presented by the Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office, Wayan Astika. It is 25 percent

of the total revenue in 2017 in accordance with the agreement.

In terms of total tourist visits in 2017, Gusti Mangku Kariawan confirmed the tourist visit tripled from the previous year.

“Probably, the portion of revenue to Karangasem district government (25 percent) decreased when compared to the previous year. However, in terms of the overall income, obviously there has been an increase,” he said.

Regarding the desire of district government of Karangasem to remanage Besakih area, Gusti Mangku Kariawan assessed the government less understood the history on the emergence of Gubernatorial Regulation No. 51/2016. Then, it should know the history how the governing body was established.

Actually, the governing body was established by Bali provincial government by issuing gubernatorial regulation to overcome many complaints against the management of

Besakih area where at that time it was still fully managed by district government. “This discourse seems not to catch the point in the field and the government only has orientation in pursuing revenue targets,” he highlighted.

This priest of Goa Raja Temple of Besakih assessed that the government is not wise if it only considered the Besakih Management Board in terms of how much regionally generated revenue (PAD) can be deposited to district government. Actually, it has been clear that the agreement has specified that 50 percent of the revenues are allocated for the temple, 25 percent for district government of Karangasem and 25 percent for Besakih customary village.

In other words, with the current management, it is clearly more responsible and in terms of revenue it is much more increasing rather than the management as a whole. (kmb31)

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A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper looks to the U.N-demarcated Blue Line border between Lebanon and Israel, Feb. 24, 2015.

Lebanon tells Israel its border wall violates sovereignty

BEIRUT - Lebanon said a wall Israel intends to build at the border marks a violation of Lebanese sovereignty during a meeting of Lebanese and Israeli military officers chaired by U.N. peacekeepers on Monday.

Disagreement over the wall and Lebanon’s plans to explore for offshore oil and gas in disputed maritime waters have elevated tensions between Israel and Lebanon, which is home to the powerful Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah.

The Israeli army has previously said the construction work is being done on sovereign Israeli territory.

The Lebanese government says the wall passes through territory that belongs to Lebanon but which is located on the Israeli side of the U.N.-designated Blue Line, which demarcated Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.

The Israeli defence minister, addressing the dispute last

week, accused Hezbollah of provocations, saying Israel had withdrawn to the recognised international border with Lebanon and was being challenged over a barrier in Israeli territory.

The sides met under the supervision of the U.N. peacekeeping force UNIFIL in their regular tripartite meeting at U.N. positions in the Ras al-Naqoura border area.

“The Lebanese side reviewed the matter of the wall which the Israeli enemy intends to build ... confirming the position of the Lebanese government rejecting the construction of this wall as it violates Lebanese sovereignty,” the Lebanese army said in a statement after Monday’s meeting.

Hezbollah and Israel last fought a major conflict in 2006.

In a statement, UNIFIL said the meeting had received great attention “due to engineering works south of the Blue Line previously announced by the Israeli side”. UNIFIL force commander Major General Beary noted there had been a “period of relative calm” since the last tripartite meeting.

“However, there has been a great deal of activity along the Blue Line. I would like to acknowledge the restraint exercised by both parties in decreasing tension and maintaining stability. No one wants to return to a period of escalating tensions and a breach of the cessation of hostilities,” he said. (rtr)

BEIRUT - Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near the capital and choking people with gas in Idlib in the northwest, rescue workers and a war monitor said on Monday.

President Bashar al-Assad’s government has vowed to retake all of Syria from rebels who have lost large swaths of the territory they have held in a war now entering its eighth year.

A years-long siege on the last major rebel-held area near the capital Damascus, the suburb of eastern Ghouta, has tightened in recent months. In the northwest, the government and its militia allies have been trying to advance in mostly rural Idlib, the last province still largely under rebel control.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said warplanes attacking eastern Ghouta near Damascus had struck the towns of Zamalka, Arbaeen, Hazza and Beitu Soua, killing at least 29 people. State media said rebel fighters shelling the government-held capital killed a woman.

International concern has been growing over the fate of eastern Ghouta, where residents say they have been running out of food and medicine.

In the northwest, the other main battlefield in the war between Assad’s government and its main rebel opponents, bombing also intensified on Sunday night after rebels shot down a Russian warplane on Saturday.

Rescue workers said at least nine people had suffered breathing problems from chemicals dropped from the air. Aid groups and rescuers said three hospitals had also been struck.

The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), a charity which supports hospitals in Syria, said its doctors in Idlib reported 11 patients “with symptoms indicative to usage of chlorine”.

Two barrels containing chemical gasses had been dropped from helicopters on Sunday night, Radi Saad, from the chemical weapons team of the White Helmets civil defence group that operates in rebelheld parts of Syria, told Reuters.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the White Helmets and the U.S.-based Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM) said healthcare facilities in northwestern Syria had been hit by air strikes.

“With the majority of hospitals no longer operating in these areas, these latest attacks will deprive tens of thousands of life-saving care,” the ICRC said on Twitter.

The Syrian government has consistently denied using chlorine or other chemical weapons during Syria’s conflict. Rescue workers and medical groups have accused government forces of using chlorine gas against the rebel-held eastern Ghouta at least three times over the last month, most recently on Thursday.

In Washington, the State Department said in a statement that the United States was “gravely alarmed” by reports the Syrian government has used chlorine gas in Idlib.

“The use of chemical weapons by all parties in Syria must unequivocally stop,” it said. (rtr)

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Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army fighters are seen in the eastern suburbs of al Bab, Syria February 4, 2018.

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At car secrets trial, Uber decries ‘conspiracy theory’, Waymo says Uber cheats

SAN FRANCISCO - Uber was either a cheating competitor willing to break the law to win the race to develop self-driving cars, or the victim of an unproven conspiracy theory stitched together by its main rival, Waymo, jurors heard in opening statements of a trade secrets trial on Monday.

The first salvos were delivered to a 10-person jury in San Francisco federal court in a civil lawsuit that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business nearly a year after Alphabet Inc’s self-driving car unit Waymo sued rival Uber Technologies Inc. The case hinges on whether ride-hailing firm Uber used apparent trade secrets to advance its autonomous vehicle program. Waymo’s allegation is that its former engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files in December 2015 containing designs for autonomous vehicles before going to work for Uber and leading its self-driving car unit in 2016.

“Waymo wants you to believe that Anthony Levandowski got together with Uber as part of some grand conspiracy to cheat and take trade secrets,” Uber attorney Bill Carmody said in his opening statement to the jury. “But like most conspiracy stories it just doesn’t make sense when you get the whole story.”

Waymo and Uber are part of a crowded field of automakers and technology companies competing to build fleets of self-driving cars that could transform urban transportation systems.

Waymo attorney Charles Verhoeven told the jury that the competitive pressures were so great to develop the cars that the then-Chief Executive of Uber, Travis Kalanick, decided that “winning was more important than obeying the law.”

“We’re bringing this case because Uber is cheating.

They took our technology ... to win this race at all costs,” Verhoeven said.

Waymo has estimated damages in the case at about $1.9 billion. Uber rejects the financial damages claim.

Uber attorney Carmody said the “elephant in the courtroom” was that, despite the downloads by Levandowski, Google’s proprietary information never made it to Uber and into its self-driving technology.

“There is no connection whatsoever between any files he downloaded ... and what’s in here,” Carmody said, pointing to an Uber-designed Lidar sensor sitting in front of him, a light-based sensor that is crucial to autonomous driving and central to the case.

“There’s not a single piece of Google proprietary information at Uber,” he added. “Nothing, zero, period.”

After what is expected to be two weeks of testimony, the jury will have to decide whether the eight apparent trade secrets were indeed such, and not common knowledge, and whether Uber improperly acquired them, used them and benefited from them.

Levandowski, regarded as a visionary in autonomous technology, is not a defendant in the case but is on Waymo’s witness list. Levandowski was fired from Uber in May 2017 because the company said he refused to cooperate with Uber in the Waymo lawsuit and did not hand over information requested of him in the case. (rtr)

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Waymo unveils a self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 8, 2017.

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The indieGo wheelchair powered assist device is seen a the New Lab in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., January 11, 2018. Picture taken January 11, 2018.

indieGo device converts any wheelchair into a power chair

NEW YORK - What if any wheelchair could be transformed into a power wheelchair?

That’s the question John Damiao, director of the Power Mobility Program at The Center for Discovery, sought to answer. He works with children and adults who use wheelchairs, and grew frustrated that his students often couldn’t find a power chair that fit their unique needs, especially when it came to seating modifications.

So he decided to create a way to solve that problem: the indieGo, a universal device that rolls onto any manual wheelchair to convert it into a power chair.

And now, thanks to partnerships with the Center’s assistive technologies department and the Hurleyville Maker’s Lab, and a $1.125 million grant from Google. org’s Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities, the indieGo is becoming a reality. It’s currently being tested among residents at The Center for Discovery and is slated to be available to the public in late 2017.

“Whether the user uses a joystick or access switches, has a folding wheelchair or rigid wheelchair, the indieGo is designed to accommodate as many people as possible,” marketing lead Jason Kean told The Mighty. “We also understand the intricacies of having a device fit into someone’s life; that’s why we are designing indieGo to be highly portable so it can be easily placed in the trunk of a car or carried up a flight of steps.”

The three men behind indieGo – Kean, Damiao and project manager Mark McNamara – believe their product will redefine mobility.

“At the Center, we believe very strongly that everyone has the

‘Right to Move’ under their own volition,” Kean said. “indieGo is about enabling independent movement, regardless of wheelchair or ability.” indieGo’s affordability, portability and open-source software open it up to a variety of applications.

“It can be an everyday power assist device for a manual wheelchair user in the community, a power mobility training tool for a rehabilitation center or hospital, a recreational device that can be shared for traveling long distances in a park, mall or museum, or a tool for learning and therapy for neuromotor rehabilitation,” Kean said.

And it’ll retail for about $1,000 — about 1/7 of the price of a typical power wheelchair — making it ideal for both individual consumers and rehabilitation centers. “indieGo is a device that is built to meet the needs of the underserved, to solve real everyday mobility problems,” Kean said. “By creating this device at an affordable price point, we are looking to give mobility to as many people as possible.”

That principle applies to access too; its controls can be adapted to each user’s abilities using joysticks, access switches and buttons.

Implications for the indieGo are broad, with an estimated 3.3 million wheelchair users in the United States alone and a power wheelchair market — too often plagued by sticker shock for consumers — projected to hit $3.9 billion by 2018.

McNamara summed up the premise of his team’s work in a promotional video: “It’s going to blow the whole idea of wheelchairs out of the water.” (net)

DENPASAR — The Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education plans to allow a number of foreign universities to open representatives in Indonesia.

However, the policy plan is rejected by some educational circles, especially private higher education with a variety of logical reasons. One of them, it is feared to threaten the existing higher education institutions because the quality of foreign universities is much more qualified than the domestic ones.

Chairman of KORPRI Welfare Foundation of Bali Province as the holder of Warmadewa University (Unwar), Dr. A.A. Gede Oka Wisnumurti, said the ministerial policy is a mandate from the higher education law which allows foreign universities to operate in Indonesia.

However, the policy should be accompanied with equality to the rules of higher education and must meet the requirements as applicable in the management of universities in Indonesia in general.

“I think they (the rules and requirements of higher education—Ed) are not easy because establishing universities must meet the requirements such as having buildings, the ratio of lecturers and students, as well as the teaching and learning should use Indonesian standards. If they are consistently carried out, I think it does not matter. Moreover, this is a challenge for us as a private education institution in order to increase competency,” said Wisnumurti.

Wisnumurti said that in the global market share as it is today, the competition cannot be dammed any longer. Thus, global competition in education becomes the trigger for higher education providers in managing their institutions.

Thus, the resulting output of human resources will be able to compete globally, while still building their spirit and character of Indonesia.

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Dr. A.A. Gede Oka Wisnumurti

“No matter how smart someone is, if he loses his character he will become someone else in the community of nation. I think they (foreign universities) indeed should be opened. In order to be fairer, they must be subject to the laws and rules on the establishment of higher education as applied to high education in Indonesia,” he said.

Similar opinion was also revealed by Chairman of STIMI Handayani Foundation as the organizer of the Handayani Education, Dr. I.B. Radendra Suastama. He said that provision of permission for several foreign universities to operate in Indonesia is a threat to universities, especially private universities in the country. However, if examined deeply, there are some potential benefits that may be obtained from the operation of foreign universities in Indonesia as long as the regulations and requirements must be strictly enforced to the permit for the operation of foreign universities.

“The problem is that the laws indeed give the possibility for the cooperation of foreign universities so that it just needs the policy level of government or ministry to limit and tighten the requirements. By that way, the optimal benefit can be obtained from the existence of certain foreign universities,” said Dr. Radendra.

He suggested that for this decade the government should not give permission with high discretion to foreign universities to operate in Indonesia as some universities in the country are still not ready to compete. In addition, he also suggested that currently the government is more focused on improving collaboration between domestic and foreign universities instead of opening foreign universities in Indonesia.

“If indeed should be opened, the benefits of the requirements such as the obligations of the number of local lecturers, technology transfer, managerial knowledge transfer et cetera should be optimized from their presence. The areas of operation of the universities making cooperation with foreign universities and the subject offered should also be limited and the composition of the ownership of the foundation must be limited. Thus, the optimization of benefits of foreign universities in our country can be realized from the arrangements.

Our children can learn from them without having to study overseas and live there. We also get benefits for the efficiency of children rather than having to study overseas,” he concluded. (win)

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The plans to establish medical waste treatment plant also appeared at Kembang hamlet, Cupel.

Medical waste processing plant near people’s settlement questioned

NEGARA — Aside from West Tegalbadeng village, Negara subdistrict, the plans to establish medical waste treatment plant also appeared at Kembang hamlet, Cupel. However, the development plan at Cupel reaps the pros and cons in the community. From the information compiled last weekend, before the dissemination, some residents revealed their objections because of being close to their settlement. They are worried about the impact it has in the future.

“It is said the establishment of the medical waste treatment plant does not matter if located away. But, this is close to our settlement,” said one of the residents participating in the meeting.

A number of residents also had time to submit the question. There should be certainty about the impact of the factory on the surrounding people. According to them, people will definitely accept if the location is far from their settlement. They are increasingly worried after the trees on the land have been cut down.

Hamlet chief of Kembang, Abdul Hamid, justified last weekend if there was dissemination on the construction plan of the medical waste treatment plant in his area. However, according to him, it is just limited to once dissemination. Hamid also admitted there were

some questions raised by residents in the dissemination related to the impact that may be caused. He said it is only a plan. “The land is located near the pond.

Initially, the location was planned to be used for housing so the trees are cut down,” said Hamid.

The land is planned to be used for the processing plant. Although there are objections, according to him it does not represent all the residents. On that account, there will be another dissemination conducted thoroughly related to the plan.

For further dissemination, the investors will invite residents to dissemination in Denpasar. In the dissemination will be explained about the environmental impact of the medical waste processing. However, the schedule has not yet been specified.

Other than at Cupel, previously the construction of medical waste treatment also appeared at West Tegalbadeng village. The investor from East Java has also conducted dissemination and set up the land at Anyar hamlet. In the dissemination, residents submitted a number of points of conditions that must be met by the investor. In total, there are nine points, where one of the points is regarding the establishment of health clinic.

Headmen of West Tegalbadeng, Made Sudiana, confirmed the plan. The development, according to him, has approached final stage. “Local residents proposed nine points, including the establishment of clinic for the surrounding community,” he said. (kmb26)

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Hampered by technical issues, renovations to Japanese cave delayed

SEMARAPURA - The government of the district of Klungkung’s desire to make improvements to the Japanese Cave, located on Jalan Raya Takmung-Banjarangkan is facing some challenges due to differences in opinion about the technical studies with the cultural reserve team. Because of this lack of agreement, the budget allocation is instead being used to make improvements to Belatung Beach at Pesinggahan village, Dawan.

The Japanese caves in Klungkung Regency

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Division Head of the Spatial Planning at the Klungkung Public Works and Housing Agency, Gusti Gde Gunarta, said on Monday (Feb. 5) that according to the results of their studies, the cave requires some technological assistance. The simplest method would involve building a revetment and the most sophisticated method would involve nailing a kind of revetment from within. The location is considered to be prone to landslides during the monsoon. Protecting the cave from landslides in this way however is viewed by some as threatening the authenticity of this site that is believed to be a heritage from the colonial era.

The cultural heritage team is adamant about the cave remaining intact as it is. “This causes a dilemma, as the cave is to be registered as a cultural heritage site and can thus not have any adjustments made to it, however for the sake of the safety of visitors some adjustments do need to be made”, explained Gunarta.

If the cultural heritage team gives the green light, then the Klungkung Public Works and Housing Agency is ready to go ahead with the adjustments immediately. “Indeed something needs to be sacrificed – either safety or authenticity”, he said.

Since there has yet to be agreement on the matter, the budget allocated for this project is instead being used to make improvements to Belatung Beach in Pesinggahan village where slat farming and tourism will be united. “For now, the district government will focus on the arrangement of Belatung Beach first”, added Gunarta.

Head of the Klungkung Education Agency, Nyoman Mudarta, said that his team will review the establishment of the Japanese Cave as a cultural heritage site this year. He added that his agency is not in charge of technical aspects of the project. “We only examine whether the cave can be designated as a cultural heritage site according to the existing criteria or not. The technical aspects are beyond our authority”, he said. (kmb45)

Buleleng waits for central govt aid to deal with lake water overflow

SINGARAJA - Water from Lake Bunyan has been overflowing at Pancasari village, Sukasada however the district government does not have the authority to deal with the matter first hand so they are waiting for the assistance of the Ministry of Forestry and Environment (KLHK) and the Ministry of Public Works of Housing (PUPR). Both ministries have the authority to deal with issues related to the lake. The district government, through Bali’s provincial government can only submit proposals about how to deal recovering the carrying capacity and supporting capacities of Lake Bunyan and Lake Tamblingan.

Head of the Buleleng Environment Agency (DLH), Nyoman Genep, on the sidelines of a meeting at the Buleleng parliament building

to discuss the Regional Mid-term Development Plan (RPJMD) on Monday (Feb. 5) further explained that they have submitted a proposal for the dredging and clean-up of water- hyacinths in Lake Bunyan with the aim of having the work done this year. The dredging and weed cleanup is a follow-up to a similar program that took place in 2017 by the Bali – Penida River Agency.

It is urgent that the sediment on the lakes bottom be dredged as the volume of lake water shows considerable increases and has inundated nearby farms and even a school. The sedimentation that has accumulated over the last few years needs to be dredged so that the lake can accommodate the large volume of water that enters during the rainy season.

“We have proposed several

programs including the ‘normalization’ of the lake that is under the authority of the KLHK and PUPR. Now, we are waiting for the follow-up by central government regarding the carrying capacity and supporting capacity of Lake Buyan”, he said.

According to Genap, silting in the lake and the overgrowing weeds on the lake’s surface are caused by changes to farming practices around the lake. Whereas previously there were many perennial plants around the lake, these have largely been replaces by crops that do not hold the soil in place and so it is flushed into the lake when it rains.

The eroded soil that gets flushed into the lake carries with it fertilizer used on the agricultural crops which causes the weeds to grow

rampantly on the lake’s surface.

Last year’s the district government commissioned dozens of contract workers from fishermen groups around the lake to assist in the clean-up.

“The silting has become a serious problem not to mention the fertilizer from the agricultural crops that also gets washed into the lake.

We therefor hope that the lake can be dredged as soon as possible”, said Genep.

This year’ proposed program, added Genep includes creating a water buffer catchments area by planting trees to hold the soil in place. There is also a pollution management program aimed at educating local residents about treating lake water waste that is being developed in cooperation with the Bali-Nusa Tenggara Ecorigion Development Control

Center (P3E).

“Other programs included in the proposal include reforestation, waste processing and public education about lake preservation. The government will also cooperate with P3E for Bali-Nusa Tenggara as they did last year”, explained Genep.

The increasing volume of water in Lake Bunyan continues to pose a problem during the rainy season. It is estimated that the lake water has risen 1. 5 meters and was particularly apparent on Wednesday (Jan 31) when water overflowed some 400 meters from the lakeshore. Agricultural crops in Dasong hamlet, Pancasari were destroyed and a teachers house and some of the classrooms of SDN 4 Sukasada were also damaged as 10 centimetres of water flooded the school. (kmb38)

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Hugh Grant settles phone-hacking claim against Mirror newspapers LONDON - British actor Hugh Grant has settled a legal case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) after the company admitted that reporters at its three tabloid titles had hacked into his voicemails over a 10-year period to get scoops, he said on Monday.

Grant, who is known internationally for roles in films such as “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Notting Hill”, won substantial damages from MGN and will donate them to Hacked Off, a group that campaigns against press intrusion.

Grant was one of the highest profile victims of phone-hacking by reporters, a practice that became widespread at some of Britain’s fiercely competitive tabloids but was exposed during a major scandal in 2011.

Most of the focus at the time was on the News of the World, a Sunday tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch which the media mogul shut down at the height of the scandal.

Later, it emerged that phone-hacking had also occurred at the Sun, another Murdoch title, and at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, all owned by MGN which is part of Trinity Mirror.

“This newspaper group has misled the public and its shareholders for many years; and it has let down its readers and its hard-working journalists,” Grant said in a statement after his lawyers announced in court that the case had been settled.

“Those journalists have paid the price for the wrongdoing of executives who have left with large pay-offs and share options,” he said, naming several former editors of the three Trinity Mirror titles.

During a short hearing to inform the London High Court that the case had been settled, a lawyer for MGN said the company acknowledged phone-hacking was morally wrong and deeply regretted the acts of its former employees.

U.S. musician Paul Simon performs at the Bilbao Exhibition Center in Barakaldo, northern Spain, November 17, 2016. (rtr)

Paul Simon is Homeward Bound after 50-year touring career

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LOS ANGELES - Singer-songwriter Paul Simon announced on Monday he is quitting touring, saying it felt “a touch exhilarating, and something of a relief” to bring his 50-year performing career to an end.

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British actor Hugh Grant arrives at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in central London, Britain November 21, 2011.

In a Facebook posting, Simon, 76, said he would make a final tour - “Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour” - of North America and Europe later this year. After that, the “Sounds of Silence” singer said he would do an occasional performance “in a (hopefully) acoustically pristine hall.”

“I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to reach the point where I’d consider bringing my performing career to a natural end. Now I know: it feels a little unsettling, a touch exhilarating,

and something of a relief,” he wrote.

New York-based Simon said he came to the decision mostly because “I feel the travel and time away from my wife and family takes a toll that detracts from the joy of playing.”

Simon’s award-winning career includes a legendary partnership with singer Art Garfunkel.

They released their first album in 1964 and went on to record classics including “Mrs. Robinson,” “The Boxer” and “Bridge Over

Troubled Water.”

The duo split in 1970 and Simon launched a successful solo career with Grammy-winning albums like “Still Crazy After All These Years” and “Graceland.”

Simon is the latest pop artist from the 1960s and 1970s to step back from touring. Elton John announced last month that he would be making a final three-year farewell tour, and Neil Diamond announced he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease and would retire from touring. (rtr)

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A student on his way to school walks near a flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia February 6, 2018.

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Thousands evacuated in Indonesian capital over floods

JAKARTA - Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s capital have been evacuated due to flooding, Jakarta’s governor said on Tuesday, though the level of rivers swollen by the release of water from a reservoir upstream was dropping for now. The torrential rain had also caused landslides in satellite cities around Jakarta, with eight people missing after two landslides around the city of Bogor, police said.

TV footage on Tuesday showed people wading through murky brown water in some neighbourhoods of the capital Jakarta. City governor Anies Baswedan said about 6,500 people had been displaced by floods in parts of south and east Jakarta. “We are making sure that those evacuees receive aid,” Baswedan said in a statement, adding that flood waters had receded at the Manggarai floodgates in the city.

A day earlier dramatic TV foot-

age showed fast-running rivers of muddy water gushing down roads, bringing down trees and even some villas in the hilly areas around Jakarta.

Authorities were forced to release water from a reservoir upstream in the city of Bogor as water levels prompted the highest alert. Police and military personnel have been working with volunteers to deal with the impact of the floods.

City authorities have in the last

few years sought to improve lowlying Jakarta’s vulnerability to flooding during the rainy season.

More than 50 people died in one of the capital’s deadliest floods in 2007 and five years ago much of the centre of the city was inundated after canals overflowed.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has instructed the entire ranks of Jakarta Regional Government to carry out the Jakarta alert operation message: Readiness and Re-

sponse in the face of flood threat.

Through the instruction, the governor stated that at 4 p.m. Western Indonesia Standard Time (WIB) the Depok sluice gate showed the water level at 400 centimeters (above the 300 cm height which is the alert one status). The flood water is on its way to Jakarta.

Jakarta mayors should coordinate the entire work forces, deploy officers to the field in their respective territories. All command posts should be in the ready position and can accommodate all potential disaster affected victims.

Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) should coordinate, prevent and anticipate flood. Make sure the information is

delivered to all relevant sections, as well as to the public in need.

Primarily all residents in the Ciliwung River Basin (DAS) areas.

The Water Resources Service (SDA)`s blue forces should be on alert at flood-prone points and make sure there is no blockage in the water streams. Make sure the pumps are running well.

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