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“American Honey” and “I, Daniel Blake” triumph in UK film awards

LONDON - “American Honey”, “Under the Shadow” and “I, Daniel Blake” were among the winners at the British Independent Film Awards in London on Sunday, scooping some of the top prizes at the ceremony.

“American Honey”, about a runaway teenage girl travelling across the American Midwest, was named Best British Independent Film and Andrea Arnold won the best director prize. Newcomer Sasha Lane won in the best actress category and the movie also picked up the award

for Outstanding Achievement in Craft. “Under the Shadow”, set in post-revolution Iran in the 1980s, took the best screenplay award, the Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director) for Babak Anvari and best supporting actress for Avin Manshadi. Veteran director Ken Loach’s drama “I, Daniel Blake”

saw Dave Johns pick up the “best actor” award while actress Hayley Squires won “most promising newcomer”.

“Moonlight”, a story about a young black man growing up in a rough Miami neighbourhood, was named Best International Independent Film. The event, which drew the likes of “Spectre” actress Naomie Harris and Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender, was hosted by British comedian Jennifer Saunders. (rtr)

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CONMEBOL awards Copa Sudamericana to Chapecoense team

ASUNCION - South American soccer’s governing body CONMEBOL awarded the 2016 Copa Sudamericana championship to Brazil’s Chapecoense club on Monday after most of the team died in a plane crash in Colombia last week.

Only six people survived the crash en route to the final, which killed 71 passengers and crew, shocked football fans worldwide, and plunged Brazil into mourning.

Colombia’s Club Atletica Nacional, which would have played

Chapecoense in the biggest game in the club’s history, asked for the trophy to be awarded to the Brazilian team to honor the victims, CONMEBOL said in a statement.

CONMEBOL’s council decided to honor that request with all of the

“sport and economic prerogatives that entails,” the statement said. Club Atletico was also given a one-time Fair Play award.

As Sudamericana champions, Chapecoense will automatically play Libertadores champions Atletico Nacional for the Recopa Sudamericana next year.

They will also get a guaranteed spot in next year’s Copa Libertadores, South America’s equivalent of the

Champions League.

Family and friends donning the team’s green and white colors grieved over 50 caskets flown to Chapeco for an open-air wake in the team’s stadium on Saturday. Chapecoense had ascended in a storybook tale from the minor leagues to reach the final of a major South American tournament.

A BAe146 regional airliner operated by Bolivian charter company LAMIA had radioed that it was run-

ning out of fuel before smashing into a hillside outside Medellin, Colombia. (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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“American Honey”, about a runaway teenage girl travelling across the American Midwest.

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Spiritual tourism in Karangasem

D E N PASAR - Customary village based spiritual tourism is one of the programs that the governmenr of Karangasem is working on as a way to alleviate poverty in the region. Regent of Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumatri, recently said that

this region of lava land is indeed different from other districts. The biggest Hindu temple in Bali and in fact the world: Besakih Temple is located in Karangasem and the local economy should be able to benefit from this.

“There are a lot of big temples are in Karangasem, yet there are

still people beg. This needs to be resolved so that the community’s economy can grow”, he said.

Legislator of the Bali House of Representatives from Karangasem constituency, I Nyoman Oka Antara, said that Karangasem is worthy of developing spiritual tourism. In the regional spatial plan

(RDTR) of the local district, like in Sidemen, for instance, will have a papyrus museum built. Karangasem has been named as the home of the kris dagger and has numerous other places with sacred heritages.

“There is Batuaya, Kelodan, Kanginan, Kaleran, Mate and the Grand Palace of Karangasem as

well. These palaces retain many heritage obejcts such sacred kris, spears, kingdom-era furniture and antique musical instruments”, he said when met at the parliament hall on Monday (Dec. 5).

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Oka added that in the subdistrict of Abang subdistrict a tourism attraction covering some 108 hectares is being developed with plans for a sacred pool and a place for people to learn about the sacred vedas. To further support Karangasem as a spiritual tourist destination, some supporting facilities are required such as a private runaway and a harbour for private boats. According to Oka, investors have approached the community about building a runaway and a harbor at Datah village and Laba Sari village, in Abang.

“Many rich people overseas want to visit Bali and enjoy spiritual tourism. Now, local villages are lobbying for the development of the runwa and the harbour. Some Balinese style homes spread across some 1,000 sqaure meters will also be established. These will include

pavilions intended for elite guests so that they can stay in places that resemble the homes of local residents”, he explained.

Oka’s colleague representing the Karangasem constituency, I Gusti Putu Widjera, said that developing spiritual tourism in Karangasem will likely face some tough challenges, particularly regarding spiritual concepts. Infrastructure, facilities and spiritual supporting tourism are other challenges that need to be addresed.

“The challenges here are regarding how to create spiritual tourism.

Besakih for instance is intended for devotees, so what kind of tourism can take place there? The plan sounds good, but it needs to be studied first”, he said.

According to Widjera, developing spiritual tourism is as difficult as the development of snake-fruit agro-tourism. It would be advisable for the local government to develop marine tourism or water tourism,

especially diving.

“Diving tourism is appropriate for Karangasem such as the marine tourism in Tulamben that

has beautiful coral reef. Actually, it is more appropriate to develop existing tourist destinations rather that exploring spiritual tourism,

espeicially considering that in Karagasem, from Yeh Malet, to the border of Singaraja, is coastline”, he said. (kmb32)

The fisherman is still go to the sea even the weather is bad.

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“Certainly it is fresh wind for the fishermen of Tabanan. As a result, they eagerly return to go to sea although the weather slightly less supports,” explained Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Fishermen (HNSI) of Tabanan, Ketut ‘Sadam’ Arsana Yasa, Mon-

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day (Dec. 5).

He said that all this time fishermen of Tabanan are experiencing near-death condition after the issuance of the regulation related to the catching of lobster becoming the excellence of Tabanan fishermen. “The fishermen seem more excited today,” he said.

Nevertheless, Saddam also appealed so that fishermen could remain cautious and vigilant when going to sea because the rain happening recently is still likely to be accompanied with strong winds.

He admitted that fishermen are currently made busy by harvest season of beltfish becoming one of the commodities for consumption in the local and export market.

Moreover, lobster fishermen previously objecting to the Regulation of the Minister of Maritime and Fisheries in 2015 related to restrictions on the size lobster has got new hope since November 2016. The government of Bali Province has allowed the trade lobster weighing 100 grams upwards to the local market. The demand is quite large in line with the level of tourist visit to Bali.

“Do not always be oriented first

to export market because Regulation of the Minister of Maritime and Fisheries in 2015 has not been revised so far. Most importantly, our fishermen can get the results even though the value is not as large as the sales in the export market share,” he said.

By targeting local market, said Sadam, the selling price of lobster caught by fishermen is much cheaper than ever before.

For example, a lobster weighing 100-500 grams can only be sold in the range of IDR 100,000 to IDR 150,000 per kg or far cheaper than the selling price of export reaching IDR 350,000 per kg with similar condition.

Sadam confirmed that his association will continue to fight for the revision of policy on lobster trade because it has an impact that impoverishes lobster fishermen today. On the other hand, the market share of lobster in the level of export previously occupied by Indonesia is even taken over by Singapore, India and Thailand.

“The policy of the Indonesian government actually provides benefits for other countries, and we can only become a spectator,” he concluded. (kmb28)

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Extreme weather, Fishermen appealed to alert when going to sea TABANAN - Bad weather condition seems to still ‘haunt’ Tabanan district. However, this condition does not deter the fishermen of Tabanan to still pursue their profession, especially when entering the current harvest season of beltfish.

Besides, Tabanan fishermen begin to get new spirit as they have been allowed to trade lobster above 100 grams by the government of Bali Province since November 2016.

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Deputy Regent Suiasa cares for waste management in Kuta

MANGUPURA - Washed-up waste starts to overwhelm the coastal areas in Badung, especially in the tourist destination area of Kuta Beach. The Badung Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) stated this condition happens due to annual phenomenon of west monsoon where the peak is predicted to happen in December 2016.

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Nissan Motor Co.’S “Leaf”, with no one inside, pulls a trailer with three other Leafs on it, during a demonstration of the automaker’s Intelligent Vehicle Towing system at Nissan Oppama plant in Yokohama, near Tokyo Monday, Dec. 5, 2016.

Cars without drivers scoot around Nissan plant, towing cars

YOKOSUKA — Nissan Motor Co. is testing self-driving cars at one of its plants in Japan that can tow vehicles on a trailer to the wharf for loading on transport ships. The Japanese automaker thinks the technology will, in the long run, save costs and boost efficiency. The tests also can add to knowledge needed to take such autonomous driving onto public roads.

Nissan executive Haruhiko Yoshimura said the automaker hoped to use the technology throughout the Oppama plant by 2019, and in overseas plants in the future. During a demonstration Monday, a Leaf car with no one

inside scooted along the road, pulling a trailer with three other Leafs on it, stopped properly for other vehicles, and then veered into a parking lot.

But one vehicle ran into trouble, refused to move and was not able

to take part in the demonstration.

Kazuhiro Doi, a Nissan vice president, acknowledged such glitches showed a challenge unique to the technology. “If there are drivers, they can take action,” he said. “Mechanical operations are all there is in a driverless car.”

Nissan, which makes the March subcompact, Infiniti luxury models and the Leaf electric car, now has just two of the self-driving Leaf cars.

For all the vehicles produced at

the Oppama plant to be towed in a driverless way, five more such vehicles are needed, according to Nissan.

People still had to get inside each of the towed vehicles to drive them to the proper wharf, but Nissan hopes that as self-driving technology advances cars will drive themselves into the ships, up the plank on their own. Driverless cars are still not allowed on regular public roads in Japan, although major automakers are all working on

such technology. Driverless driving is legal within private facilities like Nissan’s.

In commercial products available in Japan, the vehicles, with some variation of autonomous driving, can stop on their own before a crash or stay inside the lane on their own for highway driving, although all must have drivers.

Nissan, allied with Renault SA of France, has been carrying out tests with driverless towing since last year. (ap)

Many smartphone health apps don’t flag danger, says review NEW YORK — Don’t count on smartphone health apps in an emergency: A review shows many don’t warn when you’re in danger.

The study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs found problems even with apps considered to be among the highest-quality offerings on the market. There’s been a proliferation of health apps

for mobile phones. According to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, there are more than 165,000 health apps out there.

“The state of health apps is even worse than we thought,” said Dr. James Madara, chief executive of the American Medical Association, who was not involved in the study. This wasn’t a survey of step-

counting fitness apps. The research team reviewed 137 apps designed for patients with serious ongoing health problems, including asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and depression.

The health apps, for example, help those with diabetes track and record every blood sugar reading and insulin injection. One invites

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Only 28 of 121 apps responded appropriately to such red-flag information, researchers said.

users to photograph their moles, and offers analysis on whether they are changing in a way that signals skin cancer. The study suggests that, though some apps are good, there are problems.

Perhaps most concerning was what happened when doctor reviewers entered information that should have drawn warnings from the app — like selecting “yes” when the app asked if the user was feeling suicidal, or entering extremely abnormal levels for blood sugar levels.

Only 28 of 121 apps responded appropriately to such red-flag information, researchers said. Health apps “should have some commonsense standards” said lead author Dr. Karandeep Singh, a University of Michigan internist. “The vast majority of apps do not have any kind of response.”

Another issue is the safeguarding of medical privacy. While patients commonly enter health information into apps, a lot of the information

is shared through insecure methods like text message or emailing, the researchers said. The reviewed apps came from Apple iTunes and Google Play app stores — most of them free. Each app was reviewed by a doctor and a tech expert. The researchers named most of the apps but didn’t publish their reviews.

Instead, they shared them with the app companies.

Singh said they were interested in “identifying gaps that need to be filled” instead of naming winners and losers. Overall, the industry needs to do more work to improve safety and privacy, he said. And patients need to go beyond consumer ratings on websites before depending on apps to make crucial decisions about their health. Health apps face a limited amount of regulation. For example, the Food and Drug Administration does not require premarket review for most apps, though it can require a developer to remove apps under certain circumstances. (ap)

This condition got the attention from Deputy Regent of Badung, I Ketut Suiasa. Moreover, this Golkar politician immediately came down to see the situation of waste handling on the white sandy beach.

Spokesman of Badung government, A.A. Gede Raka Yuda, when met on Sunday (Dec. 4) admitted the presence of Deputy Regent Suiasa in the field was accompanied by the Head of the DKP Badung Putu Eka Merthawan, a legislator of Badung Ni Luh Made Mediastuti, secretary of Kuta subdistrict Ketut Gede Artha and headman of Kuta Wayan Daryana.

“This is a part of government rapid response to incident and problems in the Badung district.

The tagline of ‘responsive, adaptive and solution (RAS)’ has inspired the ranks of the Badung government to always address problems and challenges of development in Badung quickly,” he said.

According to him, the commitment to present the government amid the society at least has been showed with real work by Deputy Regent Suiasa in addressing various issues of development especially waste problem becoming a classic problem when the west monsoon occurred in the Kuta area.

“Since the beginning, the regent

and deputy regent have committed to resolving various issues becoming the challenges in tourism development, where one of which is the waste problem. Waste and congestion handling in Kuta has always been given a priority by the government,” he said.

The Head of the DKP Badung, I Putu Eka Merthawan, said that his agency has set a high alert starting

on Friday (Dec. 18). Reflecting on the experience of last year, the annual phenomenon happened due to west monsoon where the peak is predicted to occur in December 2016.

“Within the past week, the waste has been visible on the beach starting from the area of Patitenget to Kuta Beach approximately reaching four km. They include plastic waste and twigs of trees,” he said.

With the establishment of the alert status, Merthawan instructed the ranks of the Rapid Response Unit (URC) to stand by and take measures any time if the washedup waste booms. The URC team

is also asked to disseminate to all members of society, and especially visitors, so that they will not get surprised by washed-up waste occurred each year. However, the alert status is not necessarily meant to scare people. It is a part of the effort to anticipate so that people can understand when the government attempt to optimally cope with the washed-up waste.

“We hope that all parties can work together to jointly anticipate the arrival of washed-up waste.

We predict the peak will occur in December,” he explained.

In the meantime, the national weather forecast (BBMKG) for

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The garbage on Kuta Beach

region III Denpasar predicted that the peak of rainfall will occur in January-February 2017. However, currently it has entered a mediumto-heavy rainfall. Thus, the community should remain vigilant.

Division Head of Data and Information of the BMKG region III Denpasar, Nyoman Gede Wirya Jaya, said that lately it had rained heavily in Bali. Due to dynamic atmospheric conditions, it has monitored some indications the potential for heavy rains in some regions of Bali such as Jembrana, Northern Tabanan and Western Buleleng, North Badung, Gianyar, Bangli, Klungkung and Karangasem. Thus, for the next three days the community must also remain vigilant due to the potential for heavy rains in the region of Bali. Seeing the high intensity of rain in the past few days, people are encouraged to remain vigilant and cautious.

“Due to extreme weather condition and heavy rain, a few natural disasters have occurred in several regions of Bali such as landslides in Petang Badung, Gianyar and other areas,” he said.

Besides, the activities in the sea should also beware due to the potential of high waves with a height of two meters. “Activities in the sea are also very necessary to be watched out related to the high waves,” he explained.

Related to the weather forecast for the next three days, he said, it is still experiencing moderate to heavy intensity of rain. The wind blows from the southwest to the west at the speed of 8-34 km per hour. (kmb27)

A year after AEC takes effect

Labor certification in Bali still under two percent BANGLI - The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has been in effect for almost a year, and so tourism wirkers for example should already be certified.

However, in the district of Bangli only two percent of toursim workers are certified. According to plan, at least half of all workers should be certified however very few people understand the importance of taking the steps needed to get a certificate of competency.

Head of the Bangli Manpower and Transmigration Agency, I Nengah Sukarta, explained on Monday (Dec. 5) that the AEC has been in effect since the begin-

nignof the year and those working in tourism are required to have skill certificates in order to be able to compete on the newly opened job market. Date however shows that only 169 of the 1,001 people working in tourism in Bangli have been certified – a very low figure indeed.

“The number of certified workers is still very small. It is less than two percent”, said Sukarta accompanied by Labor Inspector Kadek Wuri Lestari Handayani.

The certification process is actually free of charge and is being implemented in cooperation with a professional certification

institute (LSP). The main reasoin that so few workers have applied for certification is that few people understand the porcess. “Many fear that the certification test is too hard, whereas in fact it is not. The test can be carried out at their place of work and is free of charge”, he explained.

According to Government Regulation No.52/2012, companies must have at least 50 percent of employees consiste of certified workers. Given current conditions, Sukarta’s agency will continue to intensify their dissemination of information regarding this matter.

“Right now there is still very

little awareness amongst the labour force. We are encouraging everyine concerned to participate in the certification program in 2017. This is our target. The LSP has been very supportive of the program”, he added.

In order to realize this goal, efforts need to be made by more than just the district government.

Companies with employees also have an obligation to encourage their staff to get certified. Certifies labour will also be better able to improve the quality of services which will in turn will be able to increase consumer confidence.

If companies insiste on ignoring the issue of certification, he confirmed that the permits for these business establishments will not be issued or renewed. This will be coordinated with the Integrated Licensing Office. In addition to companies, schools that have a tourism department will also be required to carry out certification for their students, so that after graduation the students can directly compete against people from elsewhere.

“Today, they (students—Ed) are only armed with diplomas. In the future, they should be equipped with a certificate of competency”, he concluded. (kmb45)

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Celebration of 18th Anniversary of Bali Travel News

DENPASAR – Bali Travel News is celebrating their 18th Anniversary on Monday, December 5.

It was a small celebration filled with tumpeng cutting and blowing a candle. The celebration was held in the Bali Post Office after praying together.

The General Manager of Bali Travel News, Gde Palgunadi said that the age of 18, the media is looking forward to be the leading tabloid in tourism. “We are working hard to give the best information for the readers. There is great hope that we can be better in the future,” he said.

Palgunadi also explained that the Anniversari of Bali Travel News is also celebrated by beach clean activities held in Mertasari and Petitenget Beach. Hoteliers, stakeholders in tourism and students took part in the event.

The beach cleaning is done to raise the awareness of the society about the importance of cleanliness and hygiene not only in tourism destination but all around the island.

There is also Green Hotel Award which is done in cooperation with Denpasar Government. The award is given to the hotel that is applying the environmental friendly concept. “We hope that more and more hotels will take part in this so the sustainable tourism can be fulfilled in the future,” Palgunadi said.

In the end of the celebration, there was birds that was released as the symbol of gratitude towards the God.(kmb33)

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Abe to become first Japanese PM to visit Pearl Harbor

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor this month with U.S. President Barack Obama, becoming his country’s first leader to travel to the site of the Japanese attack 75 years ago that drew the United States into World War Two. “This will be a visit to console the souls of the victims,” Abe told reporters on Monday. “I would like to show to the world the resolve that horrors of war should never be repeated.”

Birds releasing during the celebration of the 18th Anniversarry of Bali Travel News

Black sweet fruits penetrate export market

DENPASAR - A total of 36 farmer groups from Tabanan are developing mangosteen cultivation. A group consisting of 40-100 farmers under PT. Raja Manggis Sejati successfully penetrates international market.

The mangosteen of Bali variety is planted in two subdistricts of Tabanan namely Pupuan and West Selemadeg spreading across the area of 950 hectares.

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owner of PT. Raja Manggis Sejati in the event entitled Agrinesia 2016, Saturday (Dec. 3) at the Inna Grand Bali Beach, Sanur. He added that Tabanan has also been included in the area of national mangosteen development by the Ministry of Agriculture since 2004.

Orchard of the farmers has been registered and each group member is provided with a temporary mangosteen processing. After that, it is taken to the STA to do final process-

ing before being exported.

The company has been running since 2004 where at the very beginning in 1992 the region experienced oversupply of mangosteen production. Moreover, in each mangosteen season the farmer groups in the region have over production of 1,000-2,000 tons a month.

However, at that time the mangosteen farmer group had not been managed yet.

After getting coaching from the Ministry of Agriculture, it was then established a sub-terminal of agribusiness. “We started by orchard registration program because it must have a registration number and meet the standards.

Eventually, it was made a company because in the past our mangosteen was ever rejected

by China because our products were considered containing cadmium,” he said.

Finally, it was made classification of mangosteen based on the origin of farmers, groups and the number of orchard to ascertain whether it has met the standards of operations or not. In case there is a problem at the level of buyer, it will be easily traced back. To maintain continuity of supply, the company also takes mangosteen from other areas. Indonesia has three largest mangosteen-producing regions in the world namely Bali, West Java and West Kalimantan. “Bali has the best mangosteen trend in the world, although the price is slightly expensive because Bali is a tourism area. However, it tastes different because in Bali there are many organic farms so that it is automatically different,” he explained.

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In addition, according to him, delicious flavor of mangosteen is obtained from the treatment of Balinese people against the trees whether they are given rituals or respected so that Bali mangosteen is also famous in the world.

He continued that Bali mangosteen was initially just marketed in the country but it has now penetrated the export market after a fairly long journey since 20 years ago.

Originally, he was a hawker with his parents and one day met with buyers from overseas and exported piecemeal. “Our friends also do the same where they cannot directly export or directly to reach the world market,” he said.

Sweet result of the long journey in the period of 2015-2016 was exporting 4,000 tons of mangosteen per month where the fruit can last for a month. It can be achieved after applying the eco-friendly technology and appropriate SOP from planting until the end of processing. “Each company has its own SOP regarding how to do harvest, postharvest and processing. In short, everything has procedures,” he added.

With coaching and training organized continuously both by the company and government, the farmers can get a better result.

“The price of mangosteen is also influenced by the factor whether it fulfills the processing standards or not,” he said.

Other than being successful in marketing, the farmer groups in the region also managed to create a new variety of mangosteen named Palasari serasi mangosteen and has got approval. (kmb42)

The Dec. 26-27 visit will come seven months after Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima, on which the United States dropped an atomic bomb in the closing days of the war, in 1945. Abe will hold his final summit meeting with the outgoing U.S. president during the trip to Hawaii. Obama has close ties to the island state where he was born and where he and his family have vacationed throughout his White House term.

Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor with torpedo planes, bombers and fighter planes on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, bombing the U.S. fleet moored there in the hope of destroying U.S. power in the Pacific. The attack led to the United States entering World War Two and the eventual defeat of Japan in August 1945, days after U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The White House said Abe’s visit would highlight the alliance between the former wartime enemies. “The two leaders’ visit will showcase the power of reconciliation that has turned former adversaries into the closest of allies, united by common interests and shared values,” the White House said in a statement.

Abe last year spoke to the U.S. Congress and expressed “deep repentance” over Japan’s role in World War Two. An outright apolREUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo ogy from Abe would be unlikely during his Pearl Harbor visit, said Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University’s U.S. President Barack Obama (L) carries a wreath as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abelooks Japan campus. (rtr) on, in front of a cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016.

Trump fires opening salvo in risky test of wills with Beijing

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gives a thumbs up to the media as he arrives at a costume party at the home of hedge fund billionaire and campaign donor Robert Mercer in Head of the Harbor, New York, U.S., December 3, 2016.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump indicated a tougher U.S. approach to China by speaking to Taiwan’s president last week, but how far he will push a risky test of wills to wring concessions from Beijing on issues from trade to North Korea is unclear. The call between Trump and Tsai Ing-wen was the first by a U.S. president-elect or president with a Taiwanese leader since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition to Chinafrom Taiwan in 1979.

It prompted a diplomatic protest from China which the outgoing Obama administration warned could undermine progress in relations with Beijing, which has been carefully built up over decades by both Republican and Democratic administrations. Analysts say it could provoke military confrontation with China if pressed too far. Trump officials and Vice President-elect Mike Pence sought to play down the significance of the 10-minute conversation, saying it was a “courtesy” call and not intended to show a policy shift.

However, Trump fueled the fire on Sunday by complaining about Chinese economic and military policy on Twitter, while on Monday an economic adviser to Trump, Stephen Moore, said if Beijing did not like it, “screw ‘em.” Analysts, including senior former U.S. officials, said the call appeared to be at least an initial shot across China’s bow to signal a

tougher approach to Beijing, which includes plans for a buildup in the U.S. military, in part in response to China’s growing power in the Asia-Pacific region. Jon Huntsman, reportedly among the candidates to become Trump’s secretary of state, was quoted by The New York Times as saying at the weekend that Taiwan might prove a “useful leverage point” in dealings with China.

Trump adviser and China hawk Peter Navarro, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, another in the mix for the top U.S. diplomatic role, have both proposed using degrees of escalation on Taiwan to pressure China to step back from its pursuit of territory in East Asia. Navarro, who has produced books and multipart television documentaries warning of the dangers of China’s rise, has suggested stepped up engagement with Taiwan, including assistance with a submarine development program.

He argued that Washington should stop referring to a “one-China” policy, but stopped short of suggesting it should recognize Taipei, saying “there is no need to unnecessarily poke the Panda.” Bolton though, in an article in January, countenanced a “diplomatic ladder of escalation” that could start with receiving Taiwanese diplomats officially at the State Department and lead to restoring full diplomatic recognition. (rtr)

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Solution found on Masela Block pending issues, says Luhut

Bank of England’s Carney says Trump’s views on trade “not right”

LONDON - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s conclusions on international trade were wrong but it was important for governments not to forget people who have been left behind by globalisation. “He is not right on the conclusion about trade and the contribution to the economy,” Carney told Britain’s Channel 4 television on Monday when asked about Trump’s views on trade.

“But it is the whole suite of policies around trade, and recognising that some are left behind by trade, through no fault of their own,” he said in an interview. On the campaign trail, Trump said China was “killing us” on trade and he threatened to levy a 45 percent tariff on all Chinese goods and pull out of the World Trade Organization.

He has also said he will rule

out U.S. participation in the wideranging Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and has vowed to renegotiate or quit the NAFTA trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. Earlier on Monday, Car-

ney - a Canadian national - said in a speech that the openness of the world economy was endangered by frustration among many voters who feel they have lost out from globalisation. (rtr)

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney delivers the Liverpool John Moores University’s Roscoe Lecture, at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool, Britain December 5, 2016.

Venezuelan women flock to Colombia border town to sell hair LA PARADA - Women from crisis-hit Venezuela are crossing the border in droves and selling their hair in a Colombian border town in order to afford scarce basic necessities such as food, diapers or medicines. The trend, which has taken off in recent weeks, is another sign of the oil-rich country’s deepening crisis amid shortages and spiraling inflation that have millions skipping meals and forgoing costly medical treatment. Dozens of middlemen, known as “draggers,” stand on a bridge linking San Antonio, Venezuela, to Colombia’s La Parada, calling out: “We buy hair!”

Some 200 women a day are taking up their offer at one of seven makeshift stands dotting La Parada, according to estimates from five middlemen. The locks are then sold as extensions in the western Colombian city of Cali.

Celina Gonzales, a 45-year-old street vendor, stood in line for an hour to sell her mid-length brown hair for 60,000 Colombian pesos, or about $20 - the equivalent of a monthly minimum wage and food tickets back home.

“I suffer arthritis and I need to buy medicine. This won’t be much, but at least I can buy painkillers,” said Gonzales, who had not told her family what she was doing. Venezuela’s leftist government blames the crisis on businessmen waging an REUTERS/Marco Bello “economic war” to sabotage it. The People cross to Venezuela over the Simon Bolivar international bridge after shopping in Cucuta, Colombia December Information Ministry did not respond 1, 2016. to a request for comment. (rtr)

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People walk past a mock one thousand Rupiah coin on display at Bank Indonesia’s headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, November 17, 2016.

Indonesia strong in face of Trump effect: Analyst

JAKARTA - Indonesias economy is strong enough to face the challenges to the global economy likely to emanate from Donald Trumps policies, an academician and economic analyst has said. “I do not see any reason to be concerned because our consumption still accounts for 56 percent of our total output,” Wahyoe Soedarmono, who is also the chairman of the study management program of the University of Indonesia (UI), said here on Monday.

He made the remark after attending an expose on Indonesias economy 2017 entitled: Waiting for the Daybreak in the New Global Economic Equilibrium,” organized

by Sampoerna. In the third quarter of 2016, Indonesias current account deficit of 1.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) is seen as adequately good. This could minimize the negative sentiment against Indonesias economy, and result in lower capital outflows.

The capital outflow in midNovember, or when Donald Trump was elected president, reached Rp16 trillion. Yet, the effect of the capital outflow is far smaller on Indonesia compared with Thailand, India, Taiwan or South Korea, Wahyoe said.

Pressures in Indonesia that could cause the depreciation of the rupiah could be reduced through an increase in state revenue from the tax amnesty program. The assets declared under the program have reached a redemption value of Rp98.7 trillion, and repatriation funds are worth Rp143 trillion. The funds will be entering Indonesia until the end of the year (2016).

The budget cut and not-too-high exports to the United States are also supporting factors for Indonesias economy in the face of the fiscal policy and the economic policies of the incoming Trump administration. “In general, Indonesias position is relatively strong and it is ready to face the short-term market turmoil, at least until the

end of 2017,” he said.

However, Indonesia should watch the planned increase of the benchmark rate by the United States Federal Reserve at the end of 2016 and the whole of 2017. There are a number of policy choices such as expenditure-switching policy and increase of Bank Indonesias (BI) reference rates. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that the Indonesian economy will grow at 5.1 percent next year, mostly fueled by high consumption and private investment. “The growth will follow a recovery in commodity prices, and a lower lending rate in 2017,” IMF Executive Council Luis E Breuer said in a press statement released last month (November 25).

The IMF also predicted that Indonesias economy will expand by 5.0 percent this year, propelled by high private consumption. The countrys inflation rate in 2016 is projected to reach 3.3 percent yearon-year and increase to the midrange of 3-5 percent in 2017 due to the revised electricity subsidy target, he added. (ant)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Natural Resources Luhut Binsar Panjaitan said a way out has been found over pending issue in negotiation with Inpex Corporation, the operator of the Masela gas block.

“We already have a solution,” Luhut said after a meeting with Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Minister Ignasius Jonan and Deputy ESDM Minister Arcandra Tahar here on Monday. Last week Luhut met with Managing Executive Officer of Inpex Kenji Kawano to discuss the companys requests.

“We discussed details of two pending issues in the contract .

Discussion of the two items have been almost final but there are still minor differences,” he said after the meeting with Kenji . The two items are about compensation in length of contract and the capacity of the LNG plant to be built as a result of the change in location of the LNG plant, he said.

Inpex asked for an addition of 10 years to its contract in compensation for the change in the location of LNG plant as asked by the government.

The government wants the LNG plant to be built on shore instead of off-shore as originally agreed. “An addition of 10 years, however, is not possible. We are looking for an acceptable figure (for the additional length of contract),” he said. On Monday, Luhut said a solution had been found but he refused to elaborate .

“It is yet to be reported to the president before being discussed at a limited cabinet meeting,” he said. Inpex said it needs an extension of contract to reach an economic value and reasonable investment level.

The existing contract of Inpex in Masela is to expire in 2028 with the capacity of the LNG plant at 7.5 million tons per year. Inpex wanted a larger capacity for the LPN plant at 9.5 million tons to increase the internal rate of return (IRR), but the government said the capacity should be in proportion with the size of the reserve in the Abadi field.

Jonan said the government does not agree with Inpex request to increase the LNG regasification capacity to 9.5 million tons a year (mtpa). “The plan is 7.5 mtpa. There is, however, request from the industry ministry that part of the production is set aside for downstream industry . Therefore, the capacity would larger than 7.5 mtpa but not much higher,” he said. (ant)

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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks during a media conference after a referendum on constitutional reform at Chigi palace in Rome, Italy, December 5, 2016.

Renzi to resign after referendum rout, leaving Italy in limbo

ROME - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced on Monday that he would resign after suffering a resounding defeat in a referendum over constitutional reform, leaving the euro zone’s third-largest economy in political limbo. Italy’s largely ceremonial head of state, President Sergio Mattarella, told the prime minister to stay on until parliament had approved the 2017 budget. That could be achieved as soon as later this week, after which, the president said, Renzi would be free to tender his resignation.

His decision to quit after less than three years in office deals a new blow to Western political establishments, still in shock from Britain’s unexpected vote to leave the European Union and the U.S. election of outsider Donald Trump as president. The referendum, intended to change rules to make Italy more governable, was opposed by right-wing and populist parties, including groups that want Italy to ditch the euro.

Those groups have crowed that the referendum showed voters reject traditional elites, in the

vein of the victories of Brexit and Trump, although mainstream opposition parties and even some leaders of Renzi’s fractured centreleft Democratic Party (PD) had also campaigned for “no”. Italy’s youngest ever premier had been feted around the world as a proEuropean reformer and lauded by U.S. President Barack Obama for his “bold, progressive” leadership.

Obama had hoped Renzi would stay on even if he lost the referendum.

But the 41-year-old Renzi said he would leave office after voters

decisively rejected his plans to reduce the role of the upper house Senate and centralise power. Voters had turned the referendum into a de facto vote on Renzi, who gambled everything by pledging to quit if he lost. After a meeting lasting about half an hour, Mattarella’s office said in a statement that the prime minister had told the president he could no longer remain in office.

The president, who serves as the ultimate political arbiter in times of crisis, told Renzi to see through the passage of the budget, so as to prevent emergency funding rules from kicking in at the start of the year. After the referendum the euro initially fell along with European stock and bond markets on concerns that early elections could follow, possibly paving the way for an anti-euro party to win power. But markets rebounded as European officials dismissed talk of a broader euro zone crisis. (rtr)

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Merkel’s conservatives meet to prepare for “toughest” election

ESSEN - Chancellor Angela Merkel will rally her conservatives at a party conference on Tuesday to gird for a German election next year that she expects to be “tough like no other”. Seeking a fourth term in office, Merkel must unite her Christian Democrats (CDU) and try to recapture some of her personal popularity, undermined by the crises that have rocked Europe.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s referendum defeat on Sunday and the impending departure of French President Francois Hollande underline Merkel’s status as Europe’s most experienced leader, but she needs to win back disgruntled voters at home. The CDU has seen its support eroded by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has profited from popular concern about the infux into Germany last year of around a million migrants, many fleeing war in the Middle East.

“We know our world is changing. It always has been. Anyone who promises to be able to stop that isn’t being honest,” said CDU Secretary General Peter Tauber. “What we are promising is to turn this change in a good direction for our country.”

With Britain poised to leave the EU, Russia testing the NATO alliance and southern Europe’s economies struggling, the CDU will debate a main resolution entitled: “Orientation in difficult times - for a successful Germany and Europe”. The conference is in Essen, a former industrial hub where unemployment is at 11.6 percent, twice the national average. It is where Merkel was first elected CDU party chairwoman in 2000.

Returning to Essen, Merkel, aged 62 and chancellor for 11 years, must rally her party to fight off the social media-savvy AfD while also appealing to the centre ground.

Since declaring last month she would seek a fourth term, her conservatives have gained support. A survey by pollster Emnid published on Sunday showed support for the conservative bloc -Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union - rising by 2 points to 37 percent, the highest level since January. (rtr)

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German Chancellor and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party CDUAngela Merkel (C) poses with CDU leaders ahead a CDU party convention in Essen, Germany, December 5, 2016.

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Alonso happy at McLaren, says Brown

Garden Eel Point SINGARAJA - Starting this dive from the most north-western tip of Menjangan Island, following the wall southwards towards the Bali/Menjangan channel, you will see some of the most healthy and diverse coral on Menjangan. The cracks and breaks in the wall are filled with a great diversity of reef fish. If conditions dictate that you cannot enter at the NW tip of the island, you will enter closer to Garden Eel Point. Gradually following the wall down from the top (5-8M) to 25M (max depth 35M), where it becomes a white sand slope, you find a big gorgonian fan with long-nose

hawkfish.

This area is also known for sightings of white tip reef shark, small schools of barracudas, turtles, and of course Napoleonfish. From this 25M point we ascend (slowly) up the slope, over many soft corals, until reaching a huge colony of garden eels, which covers the slope from 20M to beyond where it flattens out at 14M. From Garden Eel Point we head south to a coral garden at 5-12M. This area gives us Big-Eyed Trevally, Titan Triggerfish, many clownfish in their anemones and often a surprisingly number of scorpionfish. (IBP/net)

LONDON - McLaren have no fears about losing Fernando Alonso to Mercedes after Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg’s sudden retirement, the team’s new executive director Zak Brown said on Monday. “We have a contract with Fernando and he’s very happy,” the American told Sky Sports.

“Obviously, he wants to be winning races, as do we, but I am not worried about that scenario (leaving).

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Mc Laren’s Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain relaxes in his garage during the first practice session.

“We are very comfortable where we are at.” McLaren have not won a race since 2012 and have under-performed since the start of their new partnership with Honda in 2015, finishing sixth overall this year and ninth out of 10 teams in 2015.

Alonso, a double world champion with Renault, joined McLaren from

Ferrari at the end of 2014 and has been disappointed by their lack of success. He is due to partner Belgian rookie Stoffel Vandoorne next year.

Formula One’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone told Reuters last week that Alonso, a team mate of triple world champion Lewis Hamilton at McLaren in 2007, would be

his ideal replacement for Rosberg at Mercedes alongside Britain’s Lewis Hamilton.

Rosberg announced his retirement on Friday, five days after winning the world title in Abu Dhabi.

Mercedes began their search for a new driver on Monday with nonexecutive chairman Niki Lauda saying at the weekend that he hoped the most-prized seat on the starting grid could be filled by the end of the year. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, another driver mentioned in media speculation and a four-times world champion, ruled himself out of the reckoning on Sunday. (rtr)

Formula One returns to France after 10-year absence

PARIS - The French Formula One Grand Prix will return in 2018 after a 10-year absence with the race scheduled to take place at the Circuit Paul Ricard in southern France, regional politician Christian Estrosi said on Monday. “We and those who are with me are very proud...it’s a great victory,” Estrosi told reporters.

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France hosted the first recognised grand prix near Le Mans in 1906, and was also part of the first world championship season in 1950 with a race at Reims.

The five-year deal was agreed with the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur (PACA) region in association with the city of Toulon,

department of Var and the French motorsport association (FFSA).

PACA president Estrosi, an exmayor of Nice and a former car and motorcycle racer who finished fourth in the 1978 French 500cc Grand Prix at Nogaro, said the event was likely to happen in the European summer.

He declined to say how much it had cost to bring back motor racing’s elite competition, but said the contract was in the normal price

range for a grand prix in Europe.

“Losing the grand prix left a real scar on the country,” Estrosi said.

Germany has been axed from the 2017 calendar for financial reasons, despite the country having world champions in dominant Mercedes, but Hockenheim still has a contract to host the loss-making race in 2018.Le Castellet, which features the long Mistral straight, has been fully renovated and is now owned

by Formula One supremo Bernie

Ecclestone’s family trust.

The Briton told Reuters last week that the trust was not involved in the race and would be leasing the facility to “the people that are going to be the promoters.” France currently has two drivers on the starting grid, Romain Grosjean and Esteban Ocon, while French manufacturer Renault has its own team and provides engines to former champions Red Bull and Toro Rosso. (rtr)

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An aerial view shows the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet near Marseille, France, in this picture taken on February 17, 2016. The French Formula One Grand Prix will return in 2018 after a 10-year absence it was announced December 5, 2016. Picture taken February 17, 2016.

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Olympique Lyon’s Rachid Ghezzal (top R) flies over Paris St Germain’s goalkeeper Alphonse Areola (bottom).

Lyon must put firecracker trauma behind them in group finale

PARIS - Olympique Lyonnais need to shake off the psychological shock of the firecracker attack on their goalkeeper Anthony Lopes when they take on Sevilla in a must-win Champions League Group H finale on Wednesday.

Lyon, whose Ligue 1 game at Metz had to be abandoned in the first half after the hurled missiles deafened Lopes, were shaken by the incident which left him in hospital.

They are third in their group on seven points, three behind secondplaced Sevilla and, after a 1-0 loss in the first leg, a win by a two-goal margin would take Lyon past Spain’s Europa League champions and into the last 16.

They cannot be leapfrogged by bottom side Dinamo Zagreb, who travel to already-qualified Juventus. Lyon, however, seemed badly affected by Lopes having to be sent to a hospital on Saturday night after a couple of the firecrackers

exploded near him.

“The eardrums were not damaged but he is suffering from traumatic deafness,” Lyon said in a statement on Sunday while Lopes added on Instagram that he would need two weeks of treatment. It was not clear, however, whether Lopes would be fit for Wednesday’s clash.

“Lyon underline the fact that the whole squad... have been seriously shaken emotionally by this aggression,” the club statement added. Lyon, who played the Champions League semi-finals in 2010, will be relying on the in-form Mathieu Valbuena to take them into the last 16 for the first time in three years.

‘Gutted’ Jones says United must stop dropping points

Pride at stake against Bayern, says Atletico’s Simeone

After a timid start to the season, the France international has been in good form lately, scoring two goals in his last two appearances.

Sevilla, third in La Liga, geared up for the clash with a 2-1 defeat at Granada last weekend and they will need to be fully focused if they are to reach the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time since 2010.

Sevilla still have a slim chance to finish top of the group as they trail Juventus by one point. “I think we were a bit distracted by the Champions League,” said midfielder Vicente Iborra.

“We could not show the best side of us,” coach Jorge Sampaoli added. Sevilla will be boosted by the return of influential midfielder Samir Nasri, who took part in training on Sunday after missing two games with a muscle injury. (rtr)

MADRID - Atletico Madrid are treating Tuesday’s Champions League game at Bayern Munich as a very important challenge even though the two teams have already qualified for the round of 16. The Spanish outfit, who beat Bayern 1-0 in Madrid int he first clash, are the only side to have won all five games in this season’s competition and have clinched top spot in Group D. “There are times when pride matters much more than points and tomorrow is one of those days,” Atletico coach Diego Simeone told a news conference on the eve of the match.

“Bayern are a very complicated rival and have very important players. They now propose something different to what they did under (their former coach Pep) Guardiola but the final aim remains the same, to win titles.”

Bayern dominated domestic

competition in their three seasons under Guardiola but did not win the Champions League, something they are aiming to do with his successor Carlo Ancelotti.

“Ancelotti has arrived at the club and I have no doubt that he will fight for what the club wants, which is the Champions League,” Simeone added.

Atletico drew 0-0 at home to Espanyol in La Liga at the weekend and missed the chance to reduce the nine-point deficit to leaders Real Madrid, who drew 1-1 at Barcelona.

Simeone’s team did keep a clean sheet for a fourth consecutive game and the Argentine coach says much of the credit belongs to their Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak.

“He is growing year after year,” he said. “He worked hard to earn a starting place, he waited for the opportunity and he has consolidated himself.” (rtr)

Manchester United’s Phil Jones in action with Everton’s Enner Valencia

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Man City, Chelsea charged with failing to control players LONDON - Manchester City and Chelsea have been charged with failing to control their players during Saturday’s Premier League match, the FA said on Monday.

City striker Sergio Aguero’s reckless tackle on Chelsea defender David Luiz in stoppage time sparked a melee at the Etihad Stadium, with players and coaching staff from both teams involved in ugly scenes.

City’s Aguero and Fernandinho

were sent off and will serve four and three-game bans respectively.

“Both Manchester City and Chelsea have been charged for failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative behaviour,” the FA said in a statement. Leaders Chelsea won the match 3-1 to move four points clear of fourthplaced City.

Later on Monday, West Brom-

wich Albion and Watford were also charged for failing to control their players in Saturday’s league game at the Hawthorns, which the hosts won 3-1.

In the 84th minute, Watford’s Roberto Pereyra was sent off after reacting angrily to James McClean’s challenge, resulting in a touchline clash involving both sets of players. All the clubs charged by the FA have until 1800 GMT on Dec. 8 to respond. (rtr)

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Manchester City’s Fernandinho clashes with Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas before being sent off

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Atletico Madrid’s Fernando Torres attends training session before UEFA Champions League soccer match against Bayern Munich.

Phil Jones was left “gutted” when Manchester United once gain failed to close out a match from a promising position after conceding a late penalty against Everton at the weekend.

United have been held to draws in six of their last eight league games, including consecutive 1-1 draws against Arsenal, West Ham United and, on Sunday, Everton.

“We are losing too many points now. It’s becoming a common trend, and we need to put that right quick,” the England defender told the club website.(www.manutd. com) “I can think of four or five games now where we have dominated but not managed to win. It’s happened again and I’m gutted.”

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he thought United had been a bit unlucky not to have won some of the games but midfielder Juan Mata said he had no time for self-pity.

“We could just say that it was a pity and how helpless we feel when important points slip away at the end of games that you think you deserved to have won,” he wrote in a blog on the club website.

“We have to look forward. Complaining about the bad luck is not worth it. We must close (out) the games and get what we deserve.

That should be the only idea in our heads.”

Sixth-placed United will hope to break the cycle on Sunday when they host Tottenham Hotspur, who are a spot above them in the league table. (rtr)

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Olympique Lyon’s Rachid Ghezzal (top R) flies over Paris St Germain’s goalkeeper Alphonse Areola (bottom).

Lyon must put firecracker trauma behind them in group finale

PARIS - Olympique Lyonnais need to shake off the psychological shock of the firecracker attack on their goalkeeper Anthony Lopes when they take on Sevilla in a must-win Champions League Group H finale on Wednesday.

Lyon, whose Ligue 1 game at Metz had to be abandoned in the first half after the hurled missiles deafened Lopes, were shaken by the incident which left him in hospital.

They are third in their group on seven points, three behind secondplaced Sevilla and, after a 1-0 loss in the first leg, a win by a two-goal margin would take Lyon past Spain’s Europa League champions and into the last 16.

They cannot be leapfrogged by bottom side Dinamo Zagreb, who travel to already-qualified Juventus. Lyon, however, seemed badly affected by Lopes having to be sent to a hospital on Saturday night after a couple of the firecrackers

exploded near him.

“The eardrums were not damaged but he is suffering from traumatic deafness,” Lyon said in a statement on Sunday while Lopes added on Instagram that he would need two weeks of treatment. It was not clear, however, whether Lopes would be fit for Wednesday’s clash.

“Lyon underline the fact that the whole squad... have been seriously shaken emotionally by this aggression,” the club statement added. Lyon, who played the Champions League semi-finals in 2010, will be relying on the in-form Mathieu Valbuena to take them into the last 16 for the first time in three years.

‘Gutted’ Jones says United must stop dropping points

Pride at stake against Bayern, says Atletico’s Simeone

After a timid start to the season, the France international has been in good form lately, scoring two goals in his last two appearances.

Sevilla, third in La Liga, geared up for the clash with a 2-1 defeat at Granada last weekend and they will need to be fully focused if they are to reach the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time since 2010.

Sevilla still have a slim chance to finish top of the group as they trail Juventus by one point. “I think we were a bit distracted by the Champions League,” said midfielder Vicente Iborra.

“We could not show the best side of us,” coach Jorge Sampaoli added. Sevilla will be boosted by the return of influential midfielder Samir Nasri, who took part in training on Sunday after missing two games with a muscle injury. (rtr)

MADRID - Atletico Madrid are treating Tuesday’s Champions League game at Bayern Munich as a very important challenge even though the two teams have already qualified for the round of 16. The Spanish outfit, who beat Bayern 1-0 in Madrid int he first clash, are the only side to have won all five games in this season’s competition and have clinched top spot in Group D. “There are times when pride matters much more than points and tomorrow is one of those days,” Atletico coach Diego Simeone told a news conference on the eve of the match.

“Bayern are a very complicated rival and have very important players. They now propose something different to what they did under (their former coach Pep) Guardiola but the final aim remains the same, to win titles.”

Bayern dominated domestic

competition in their three seasons under Guardiola but did not win the Champions League, something they are aiming to do with his successor Carlo Ancelotti.

“Ancelotti has arrived at the club and I have no doubt that he will fight for what the club wants, which is the Champions League,” Simeone added.

Atletico drew 0-0 at home to Espanyol in La Liga at the weekend and missed the chance to reduce the nine-point deficit to leaders Real Madrid, who drew 1-1 at Barcelona.

Simeone’s team did keep a clean sheet for a fourth consecutive game and the Argentine coach says much of the credit belongs to their Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak.

“He is growing year after year,” he said. “He worked hard to earn a starting place, he waited for the opportunity and he has consolidated himself.” (rtr)

Manchester United’s Phil Jones in action with Everton’s Enner Valencia

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Man City, Chelsea charged with failing to control players LONDON - Manchester City and Chelsea have been charged with failing to control their players during Saturday’s Premier League match, the FA said on Monday.

City striker Sergio Aguero’s reckless tackle on Chelsea defender David Luiz in stoppage time sparked a melee at the Etihad Stadium, with players and coaching staff from both teams involved in ugly scenes.

City’s Aguero and Fernandinho

were sent off and will serve four and three-game bans respectively.

“Both Manchester City and Chelsea have been charged for failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative behaviour,” the FA said in a statement. Leaders Chelsea won the match 3-1 to move four points clear of fourthplaced City.

Later on Monday, West Brom-

wich Albion and Watford were also charged for failing to control their players in Saturday’s league game at the Hawthorns, which the hosts won 3-1.

In the 84th minute, Watford’s Roberto Pereyra was sent off after reacting angrily to James McClean’s challenge, resulting in a touchline clash involving both sets of players. All the clubs charged by the FA have until 1800 GMT on Dec. 8 to respond. (rtr)

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Manchester City’s Fernandinho clashes with Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas before being sent off

REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

Atletico Madrid’s Fernando Torres attends training session before UEFA Champions League soccer match against Bayern Munich.

Phil Jones was left “gutted” when Manchester United once gain failed to close out a match from a promising position after conceding a late penalty against Everton at the weekend.

United have been held to draws in six of their last eight league games, including consecutive 1-1 draws against Arsenal, West Ham United and, on Sunday, Everton.

“We are losing too many points now. It’s becoming a common trend, and we need to put that right quick,” the England defender told the club website.(www.manutd. com) “I can think of four or five games now where we have dominated but not managed to win. It’s happened again and I’m gutted.”

Manager Jose Mourinho said

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he thought United had been a bit unlucky not to have won some of the games but midfielder Juan Mata said he had no time for self-pity.

“We could just say that it was a pity and how helpless we feel when important points slip away at the end of games that you think you deserved to have won,” he wrote in a blog on the club website.

“We have to look forward. Complaining about the bad luck is not worth it. We must close (out) the games and get what we deserve.

That should be the only idea in our heads.”

Sixth-placed United will hope to break the cycle on Sunday when they host Tottenham Hotspur, who are a spot above them in the league table. (rtr)

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Alonso happy at McLaren, says Brown

Garden Eel Point SINGARAJA - Starting this dive from the most north-western tip of Menjangan Island, following the wall southwards towards the Bali/Menjangan channel, you will see some of the most healthy and diverse coral on Menjangan. The cracks and breaks in the wall are filled with a great diversity of reef fish. If conditions dictate that you cannot enter at the NW tip of the island, you will enter closer to Garden Eel Point. Gradually following the wall down from the top (5-8M) to 25M (max depth 35M), where it becomes a white sand slope, you find a big gorgonian fan with long-nose

hawkfish.

This area is also known for sightings of white tip reef shark, small schools of barracudas, turtles, and of course Napoleonfish. From this 25M point we ascend (slowly) up the slope, over many soft corals, until reaching a huge colony of garden eels, which covers the slope from 20M to beyond where it flattens out at 14M. From Garden Eel Point we head south to a coral garden at 5-12M. This area gives us Big-Eyed Trevally, Titan Triggerfish, many clownfish in their anemones and often a surprisingly number of scorpionfish. (IBP/net)

LONDON - McLaren have no fears about losing Fernando Alonso to Mercedes after Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg’s sudden retirement, the team’s new executive director Zak Brown said on Monday. “We have a contract with Fernando and he’s very happy,” the American told Sky Sports.

“Obviously, he wants to be winning races, as do we, but I am not worried about that scenario (leaving).

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Mc Laren’s Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain relaxes in his garage during the first practice session.

“We are very comfortable where we are at.” McLaren have not won a race since 2012 and have under-performed since the start of their new partnership with Honda in 2015, finishing sixth overall this year and ninth out of 10 teams in 2015.

Alonso, a double world champion with Renault, joined McLaren from

Ferrari at the end of 2014 and has been disappointed by their lack of success. He is due to partner Belgian rookie Stoffel Vandoorne next year.

Formula One’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone told Reuters last week that Alonso, a team mate of triple world champion Lewis Hamilton at McLaren in 2007, would be

his ideal replacement for Rosberg at Mercedes alongside Britain’s Lewis Hamilton.

Rosberg announced his retirement on Friday, five days after winning the world title in Abu Dhabi.

Mercedes began their search for a new driver on Monday with nonexecutive chairman Niki Lauda saying at the weekend that he hoped the most-prized seat on the starting grid could be filled by the end of the year. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, another driver mentioned in media speculation and a four-times world champion, ruled himself out of the reckoning on Sunday. (rtr)

Formula One returns to France after 10-year absence

PARIS - The French Formula One Grand Prix will return in 2018 after a 10-year absence with the race scheduled to take place at the Circuit Paul Ricard in southern France, regional politician Christian Estrosi said on Monday. “We and those who are with me are very proud...it’s a great victory,” Estrosi told reporters.

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France hosted the first recognised grand prix near Le Mans in 1906, and was also part of the first world championship season in 1950 with a race at Reims.

The five-year deal was agreed with the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur (PACA) region in association with the city of Toulon,

department of Var and the French motorsport association (FFSA).

PACA president Estrosi, an exmayor of Nice and a former car and motorcycle racer who finished fourth in the 1978 French 500cc Grand Prix at Nogaro, said the event was likely to happen in the European summer.

He declined to say how much it had cost to bring back motor racing’s elite competition, but said the contract was in the normal price

range for a grand prix in Europe.

“Losing the grand prix left a real scar on the country,” Estrosi said.

Germany has been axed from the 2017 calendar for financial reasons, despite the country having world champions in dominant Mercedes, but Hockenheim still has a contract to host the loss-making race in 2018.Le Castellet, which features the long Mistral straight, has been fully renovated and is now owned

by Formula One supremo Bernie

Ecclestone’s family trust.

The Briton told Reuters last week that the trust was not involved in the race and would be leasing the facility to “the people that are going to be the promoters.” France currently has two drivers on the starting grid, Romain Grosjean and Esteban Ocon, while French manufacturer Renault has its own team and provides engines to former champions Red Bull and Toro Rosso. (rtr)

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An aerial view shows the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet near Marseille, France, in this picture taken on February 17, 2016. The French Formula One Grand Prix will return in 2018 after a 10-year absence it was announced December 5, 2016. Picture taken February 17, 2016.

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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks during a media conference after a referendum on constitutional reform at Chigi palace in Rome, Italy, December 5, 2016.

Renzi to resign after referendum rout, leaving Italy in limbo

ROME - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced on Monday that he would resign after suffering a resounding defeat in a referendum over constitutional reform, leaving the euro zone’s third-largest economy in political limbo. Italy’s largely ceremonial head of state, President Sergio Mattarella, told the prime minister to stay on until parliament had approved the 2017 budget. That could be achieved as soon as later this week, after which, the president said, Renzi would be free to tender his resignation.

His decision to quit after less than three years in office deals a new blow to Western political establishments, still in shock from Britain’s unexpected vote to leave the European Union and the U.S. election of outsider Donald Trump as president. The referendum, intended to change rules to make Italy more governable, was opposed by right-wing and populist parties, including groups that want Italy to ditch the euro.

Those groups have crowed that the referendum showed voters reject traditional elites, in the

vein of the victories of Brexit and Trump, although mainstream opposition parties and even some leaders of Renzi’s fractured centreleft Democratic Party (PD) had also campaigned for “no”. Italy’s youngest ever premier had been feted around the world as a proEuropean reformer and lauded by U.S. President Barack Obama for his “bold, progressive” leadership.

Obama had hoped Renzi would stay on even if he lost the referendum.

But the 41-year-old Renzi said he would leave office after voters

decisively rejected his plans to reduce the role of the upper house Senate and centralise power. Voters had turned the referendum into a de facto vote on Renzi, who gambled everything by pledging to quit if he lost. After a meeting lasting about half an hour, Mattarella’s office said in a statement that the prime minister had told the president he could no longer remain in office.

The president, who serves as the ultimate political arbiter in times of crisis, told Renzi to see through the passage of the budget, so as to prevent emergency funding rules from kicking in at the start of the year. After the referendum the euro initially fell along with European stock and bond markets on concerns that early elections could follow, possibly paving the way for an anti-euro party to win power. But markets rebounded as European officials dismissed talk of a broader euro zone crisis. (rtr)

International

Merkel’s conservatives meet to prepare for “toughest” election

ESSEN - Chancellor Angela Merkel will rally her conservatives at a party conference on Tuesday to gird for a German election next year that she expects to be “tough like no other”. Seeking a fourth term in office, Merkel must unite her Christian Democrats (CDU) and try to recapture some of her personal popularity, undermined by the crises that have rocked Europe.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s referendum defeat on Sunday and the impending departure of French President Francois Hollande underline Merkel’s status as Europe’s most experienced leader, but she needs to win back disgruntled voters at home. The CDU has seen its support eroded by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has profited from popular concern about the infux into Germany last year of around a million migrants, many fleeing war in the Middle East.

“We know our world is changing. It always has been. Anyone who promises to be able to stop that isn’t being honest,” said CDU Secretary General Peter Tauber. “What we are promising is to turn this change in a good direction for our country.”

With Britain poised to leave the EU, Russia testing the NATO alliance and southern Europe’s economies struggling, the CDU will debate a main resolution entitled: “Orientation in difficult times - for a successful Germany and Europe”. The conference is in Essen, a former industrial hub where unemployment is at 11.6 percent, twice the national average. It is where Merkel was first elected CDU party chairwoman in 2000.

Returning to Essen, Merkel, aged 62 and chancellor for 11 years, must rally her party to fight off the social media-savvy AfD while also appealing to the centre ground.

Since declaring last month she would seek a fourth term, her conservatives have gained support. A survey by pollster Emnid published on Sunday showed support for the conservative bloc -Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union - rising by 2 points to 37 percent, the highest level since January. (rtr)

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German Chancellor and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party CDUAngela Merkel (C) poses with CDU leaders ahead a CDU party convention in Essen, Germany, December 5, 2016.

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Solution found on Masela Block pending issues, says Luhut

Bank of England’s Carney says Trump’s views on trade “not right”

LONDON - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s conclusions on international trade were wrong but it was important for governments not to forget people who have been left behind by globalisation. “He is not right on the conclusion about trade and the contribution to the economy,” Carney told Britain’s Channel 4 television on Monday when asked about Trump’s views on trade.

“But it is the whole suite of policies around trade, and recognising that some are left behind by trade, through no fault of their own,” he said in an interview. On the campaign trail, Trump said China was “killing us” on trade and he threatened to levy a 45 percent tariff on all Chinese goods and pull out of the World Trade Organization.

He has also said he will rule

out U.S. participation in the wideranging Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and has vowed to renegotiate or quit the NAFTA trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. Earlier on Monday, Car-

ney - a Canadian national - said in a speech that the openness of the world economy was endangered by frustration among many voters who feel they have lost out from globalisation. (rtr)

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney delivers the Liverpool John Moores University’s Roscoe Lecture, at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool, Britain December 5, 2016.

Venezuelan women flock to Colombia border town to sell hair LA PARADA - Women from crisis-hit Venezuela are crossing the border in droves and selling their hair in a Colombian border town in order to afford scarce basic necessities such as food, diapers or medicines. The trend, which has taken off in recent weeks, is another sign of the oil-rich country’s deepening crisis amid shortages and spiraling inflation that have millions skipping meals and forgoing costly medical treatment. Dozens of middlemen, known as “draggers,” stand on a bridge linking San Antonio, Venezuela, to Colombia’s La Parada, calling out: “We buy hair!”

Some 200 women a day are taking up their offer at one of seven makeshift stands dotting La Parada, according to estimates from five middlemen. The locks are then sold as extensions in the western Colombian city of Cali.

Celina Gonzales, a 45-year-old street vendor, stood in line for an hour to sell her mid-length brown hair for 60,000 Colombian pesos, or about $20 - the equivalent of a monthly minimum wage and food tickets back home.

“I suffer arthritis and I need to buy medicine. This won’t be much, but at least I can buy painkillers,” said Gonzales, who had not told her family what she was doing. Venezuela’s leftist government blames the crisis on businessmen waging an REUTERS/Marco Bello “economic war” to sabotage it. The People cross to Venezuela over the Simon Bolivar international bridge after shopping in Cucuta, Colombia December Information Ministry did not respond 1, 2016. to a request for comment. (rtr)

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People walk past a mock one thousand Rupiah coin on display at Bank Indonesia’s headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, November 17, 2016.

Indonesia strong in face of Trump effect: Analyst

JAKARTA - Indonesias economy is strong enough to face the challenges to the global economy likely to emanate from Donald Trumps policies, an academician and economic analyst has said. “I do not see any reason to be concerned because our consumption still accounts for 56 percent of our total output,” Wahyoe Soedarmono, who is also the chairman of the study management program of the University of Indonesia (UI), said here on Monday.

He made the remark after attending an expose on Indonesias economy 2017 entitled: Waiting for the Daybreak in the New Global Economic Equilibrium,” organized

by Sampoerna. In the third quarter of 2016, Indonesias current account deficit of 1.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) is seen as adequately good. This could minimize the negative sentiment against Indonesias economy, and result in lower capital outflows.

The capital outflow in midNovember, or when Donald Trump was elected president, reached Rp16 trillion. Yet, the effect of the capital outflow is far smaller on Indonesia compared with Thailand, India, Taiwan or South Korea, Wahyoe said.

Pressures in Indonesia that could cause the depreciation of the rupiah could be reduced through an increase in state revenue from the tax amnesty program. The assets declared under the program have reached a redemption value of Rp98.7 trillion, and repatriation funds are worth Rp143 trillion. The funds will be entering Indonesia until the end of the year (2016).

The budget cut and not-too-high exports to the United States are also supporting factors for Indonesias economy in the face of the fiscal policy and the economic policies of the incoming Trump administration. “In general, Indonesias position is relatively strong and it is ready to face the short-term market turmoil, at least until the

end of 2017,” he said.

However, Indonesia should watch the planned increase of the benchmark rate by the United States Federal Reserve at the end of 2016 and the whole of 2017. There are a number of policy choices such as expenditure-switching policy and increase of Bank Indonesias (BI) reference rates. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that the Indonesian economy will grow at 5.1 percent next year, mostly fueled by high consumption and private investment. “The growth will follow a recovery in commodity prices, and a lower lending rate in 2017,” IMF Executive Council Luis E Breuer said in a press statement released last month (November 25).

The IMF also predicted that Indonesias economy will expand by 5.0 percent this year, propelled by high private consumption. The countrys inflation rate in 2016 is projected to reach 3.3 percent yearon-year and increase to the midrange of 3-5 percent in 2017 due to the revised electricity subsidy target, he added. (ant)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Natural Resources Luhut Binsar Panjaitan said a way out has been found over pending issue in negotiation with Inpex Corporation, the operator of the Masela gas block.

“We already have a solution,” Luhut said after a meeting with Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Minister Ignasius Jonan and Deputy ESDM Minister Arcandra Tahar here on Monday. Last week Luhut met with Managing Executive Officer of Inpex Kenji Kawano to discuss the companys requests.

“We discussed details of two pending issues in the contract .

Discussion of the two items have been almost final but there are still minor differences,” he said after the meeting with Kenji . The two items are about compensation in length of contract and the capacity of the LNG plant to be built as a result of the change in location of the LNG plant, he said.

Inpex asked for an addition of 10 years to its contract in compensation for the change in the location of LNG plant as asked by the government.

The government wants the LNG plant to be built on shore instead of off-shore as originally agreed. “An addition of 10 years, however, is not possible. We are looking for an acceptable figure (for the additional length of contract),” he said. On Monday, Luhut said a solution had been found but he refused to elaborate .

“It is yet to be reported to the president before being discussed at a limited cabinet meeting,” he said. Inpex said it needs an extension of contract to reach an economic value and reasonable investment level.

The existing contract of Inpex in Masela is to expire in 2028 with the capacity of the LNG plant at 7.5 million tons per year. Inpex wanted a larger capacity for the LPN plant at 9.5 million tons to increase the internal rate of return (IRR), but the government said the capacity should be in proportion with the size of the reserve in the Abadi field.

Jonan said the government does not agree with Inpex request to increase the LNG regasification capacity to 9.5 million tons a year (mtpa). “The plan is 7.5 mtpa. There is, however, request from the industry ministry that part of the production is set aside for downstream industry . Therefore, the capacity would larger than 7.5 mtpa but not much higher,” he said. (ant)

Luhut Binsar Panjaitan

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Celebration of 18th Anniversary of Bali Travel News

DENPASAR – Bali Travel News is celebrating their 18th Anniversary on Monday, December 5.

It was a small celebration filled with tumpeng cutting and blowing a candle. The celebration was held in the Bali Post Office after praying together.

The General Manager of Bali Travel News, Gde Palgunadi said that the age of 18, the media is looking forward to be the leading tabloid in tourism. “We are working hard to give the best information for the readers. There is great hope that we can be better in the future,” he said.

Palgunadi also explained that the Anniversari of Bali Travel News is also celebrated by beach clean activities held in Mertasari and Petitenget Beach. Hoteliers, stakeholders in tourism and students took part in the event.

The beach cleaning is done to raise the awareness of the society about the importance of cleanliness and hygiene not only in tourism destination but all around the island.

There is also Green Hotel Award which is done in cooperation with Denpasar Government. The award is given to the hotel that is applying the environmental friendly concept. “We hope that more and more hotels will take part in this so the sustainable tourism can be fulfilled in the future,” Palgunadi said.

In the end of the celebration, there was birds that was released as the symbol of gratitude towards the God.(kmb33)

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Abe to become first Japanese PM to visit Pearl Harbor

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor this month with U.S. President Barack Obama, becoming his country’s first leader to travel to the site of the Japanese attack 75 years ago that drew the United States into World War Two. “This will be a visit to console the souls of the victims,” Abe told reporters on Monday. “I would like to show to the world the resolve that horrors of war should never be repeated.”

Birds releasing during the celebration of the 18th Anniversarry of Bali Travel News

Black sweet fruits penetrate export market

DENPASAR - A total of 36 farmer groups from Tabanan are developing mangosteen cultivation. A group consisting of 40-100 farmers under PT. Raja Manggis Sejati successfully penetrates international market.

The mangosteen of Bali variety is planted in two subdistricts of Tabanan namely Pupuan and West Selemadeg spreading across the area of 950 hectares.

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owner of PT. Raja Manggis Sejati in the event entitled Agrinesia 2016, Saturday (Dec. 3) at the Inna Grand Bali Beach, Sanur. He added that Tabanan has also been included in the area of national mangosteen development by the Ministry of Agriculture since 2004.

Orchard of the farmers has been registered and each group member is provided with a temporary mangosteen processing. After that, it is taken to the STA to do final process-

ing before being exported.

The company has been running since 2004 where at the very beginning in 1992 the region experienced oversupply of mangosteen production. Moreover, in each mangosteen season the farmer groups in the region have over production of 1,000-2,000 tons a month.

However, at that time the mangosteen farmer group had not been managed yet.

After getting coaching from the Ministry of Agriculture, it was then established a sub-terminal of agribusiness. “We started by orchard registration program because it must have a registration number and meet the standards.

Eventually, it was made a company because in the past our mangosteen was ever rejected

by China because our products were considered containing cadmium,” he said.

Finally, it was made classification of mangosteen based on the origin of farmers, groups and the number of orchard to ascertain whether it has met the standards of operations or not. In case there is a problem at the level of buyer, it will be easily traced back. To maintain continuity of supply, the company also takes mangosteen from other areas. Indonesia has three largest mangosteen-producing regions in the world namely Bali, West Java and West Kalimantan. “Bali has the best mangosteen trend in the world, although the price is slightly expensive because Bali is a tourism area. However, it tastes different because in Bali there are many organic farms so that it is automatically different,” he explained.

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In addition, according to him, delicious flavor of mangosteen is obtained from the treatment of Balinese people against the trees whether they are given rituals or respected so that Bali mangosteen is also famous in the world.

He continued that Bali mangosteen was initially just marketed in the country but it has now penetrated the export market after a fairly long journey since 20 years ago.

Originally, he was a hawker with his parents and one day met with buyers from overseas and exported piecemeal. “Our friends also do the same where they cannot directly export or directly to reach the world market,” he said.

Sweet result of the long journey in the period of 2015-2016 was exporting 4,000 tons of mangosteen per month where the fruit can last for a month. It can be achieved after applying the eco-friendly technology and appropriate SOP from planting until the end of processing. “Each company has its own SOP regarding how to do harvest, postharvest and processing. In short, everything has procedures,” he added.

With coaching and training organized continuously both by the company and government, the farmers can get a better result.

“The price of mangosteen is also influenced by the factor whether it fulfills the processing standards or not,” he said.

Other than being successful in marketing, the farmer groups in the region also managed to create a new variety of mangosteen named Palasari serasi mangosteen and has got approval. (kmb42)

The Dec. 26-27 visit will come seven months after Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima, on which the United States dropped an atomic bomb in the closing days of the war, in 1945. Abe will hold his final summit meeting with the outgoing U.S. president during the trip to Hawaii. Obama has close ties to the island state where he was born and where he and his family have vacationed throughout his White House term.

Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor with torpedo planes, bombers and fighter planes on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, bombing the U.S. fleet moored there in the hope of destroying U.S. power in the Pacific. The attack led to the United States entering World War Two and the eventual defeat of Japan in August 1945, days after U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The White House said Abe’s visit would highlight the alliance between the former wartime enemies. “The two leaders’ visit will showcase the power of reconciliation that has turned former adversaries into the closest of allies, united by common interests and shared values,” the White House said in a statement.

Abe last year spoke to the U.S. Congress and expressed “deep repentance” over Japan’s role in World War Two. An outright apolREUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo ogy from Abe would be unlikely during his Pearl Harbor visit, said Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University’s U.S. President Barack Obama (L) carries a wreath as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abelooks Japan campus. (rtr) on, in front of a cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016.

Trump fires opening salvo in risky test of wills with Beijing

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gives a thumbs up to the media as he arrives at a costume party at the home of hedge fund billionaire and campaign donor Robert Mercer in Head of the Harbor, New York, U.S., December 3, 2016.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump indicated a tougher U.S. approach to China by speaking to Taiwan’s president last week, but how far he will push a risky test of wills to wring concessions from Beijing on issues from trade to North Korea is unclear. The call between Trump and Tsai Ing-wen was the first by a U.S. president-elect or president with a Taiwanese leader since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition to Chinafrom Taiwan in 1979.

It prompted a diplomatic protest from China which the outgoing Obama administration warned could undermine progress in relations with Beijing, which has been carefully built up over decades by both Republican and Democratic administrations. Analysts say it could provoke military confrontation with China if pressed too far. Trump officials and Vice President-elect Mike Pence sought to play down the significance of the 10-minute conversation, saying it was a “courtesy” call and not intended to show a policy shift.

However, Trump fueled the fire on Sunday by complaining about Chinese economic and military policy on Twitter, while on Monday an economic adviser to Trump, Stephen Moore, said if Beijing did not like it, “screw ‘em.” Analysts, including senior former U.S. officials, said the call appeared to be at least an initial shot across China’s bow to signal a

tougher approach to Beijing, which includes plans for a buildup in the U.S. military, in part in response to China’s growing power in the Asia-Pacific region. Jon Huntsman, reportedly among the candidates to become Trump’s secretary of state, was quoted by The New York Times as saying at the weekend that Taiwan might prove a “useful leverage point” in dealings with China.

Trump adviser and China hawk Peter Navarro, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, another in the mix for the top U.S. diplomatic role, have both proposed using degrees of escalation on Taiwan to pressure China to step back from its pursuit of territory in East Asia. Navarro, who has produced books and multipart television documentaries warning of the dangers of China’s rise, has suggested stepped up engagement with Taiwan, including assistance with a submarine development program.

He argued that Washington should stop referring to a “one-China” policy, but stopped short of suggesting it should recognize Taipei, saying “there is no need to unnecessarily poke the Panda.” Bolton though, in an article in January, countenanced a “diplomatic ladder of escalation” that could start with receiving Taiwanese diplomats officially at the State Department and lead to restoring full diplomatic recognition. (rtr)

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Deputy Regent Suiasa cares for waste management in Kuta

MANGUPURA - Washed-up waste starts to overwhelm the coastal areas in Badung, especially in the tourist destination area of Kuta Beach. The Badung Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) stated this condition happens due to annual phenomenon of west monsoon where the peak is predicted to happen in December 2016.

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Nissan Motor Co.’S “Leaf”, with no one inside, pulls a trailer with three other Leafs on it, during a demonstration of the automaker’s Intelligent Vehicle Towing system at Nissan Oppama plant in Yokohama, near Tokyo Monday, Dec. 5, 2016.

Cars without drivers scoot around Nissan plant, towing cars

YOKOSUKA — Nissan Motor Co. is testing self-driving cars at one of its plants in Japan that can tow vehicles on a trailer to the wharf for loading on transport ships. The Japanese automaker thinks the technology will, in the long run, save costs and boost efficiency. The tests also can add to knowledge needed to take such autonomous driving onto public roads.

Nissan executive Haruhiko Yoshimura said the automaker hoped to use the technology throughout the Oppama plant by 2019, and in overseas plants in the future. During a demonstration Monday, a Leaf car with no one

inside scooted along the road, pulling a trailer with three other Leafs on it, stopped properly for other vehicles, and then veered into a parking lot.

But one vehicle ran into trouble, refused to move and was not able

to take part in the demonstration.

Kazuhiro Doi, a Nissan vice president, acknowledged such glitches showed a challenge unique to the technology. “If there are drivers, they can take action,” he said. “Mechanical operations are all there is in a driverless car.”

Nissan, which makes the March subcompact, Infiniti luxury models and the Leaf electric car, now has just two of the self-driving Leaf cars.

For all the vehicles produced at

the Oppama plant to be towed in a driverless way, five more such vehicles are needed, according to Nissan.

People still had to get inside each of the towed vehicles to drive them to the proper wharf, but Nissan hopes that as self-driving technology advances cars will drive themselves into the ships, up the plank on their own. Driverless cars are still not allowed on regular public roads in Japan, although major automakers are all working on

such technology. Driverless driving is legal within private facilities like Nissan’s.

In commercial products available in Japan, the vehicles, with some variation of autonomous driving, can stop on their own before a crash or stay inside the lane on their own for highway driving, although all must have drivers.

Nissan, allied with Renault SA of France, has been carrying out tests with driverless towing since last year. (ap)

Many smartphone health apps don’t flag danger, says review NEW YORK — Don’t count on smartphone health apps in an emergency: A review shows many don’t warn when you’re in danger.

The study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs found problems even with apps considered to be among the highest-quality offerings on the market. There’s been a proliferation of health apps

for mobile phones. According to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, there are more than 165,000 health apps out there.

“The state of health apps is even worse than we thought,” said Dr. James Madara, chief executive of the American Medical Association, who was not involved in the study. This wasn’t a survey of step-

counting fitness apps. The research team reviewed 137 apps designed for patients with serious ongoing health problems, including asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and depression.

The health apps, for example, help those with diabetes track and record every blood sugar reading and insulin injection. One invites

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Only 28 of 121 apps responded appropriately to such red-flag information, researchers said.

users to photograph their moles, and offers analysis on whether they are changing in a way that signals skin cancer. The study suggests that, though some apps are good, there are problems.

Perhaps most concerning was what happened when doctor reviewers entered information that should have drawn warnings from the app — like selecting “yes” when the app asked if the user was feeling suicidal, or entering extremely abnormal levels for blood sugar levels.

Only 28 of 121 apps responded appropriately to such red-flag information, researchers said. Health apps “should have some commonsense standards” said lead author Dr. Karandeep Singh, a University of Michigan internist. “The vast majority of apps do not have any kind of response.”

Another issue is the safeguarding of medical privacy. While patients commonly enter health information into apps, a lot of the information

is shared through insecure methods like text message or emailing, the researchers said. The reviewed apps came from Apple iTunes and Google Play app stores — most of them free. Each app was reviewed by a doctor and a tech expert. The researchers named most of the apps but didn’t publish their reviews.

Instead, they shared them with the app companies.

Singh said they were interested in “identifying gaps that need to be filled” instead of naming winners and losers. Overall, the industry needs to do more work to improve safety and privacy, he said. And patients need to go beyond consumer ratings on websites before depending on apps to make crucial decisions about their health. Health apps face a limited amount of regulation. For example, the Food and Drug Administration does not require premarket review for most apps, though it can require a developer to remove apps under certain circumstances. (ap)

This condition got the attention from Deputy Regent of Badung, I Ketut Suiasa. Moreover, this Golkar politician immediately came down to see the situation of waste handling on the white sandy beach.

Spokesman of Badung government, A.A. Gede Raka Yuda, when met on Sunday (Dec. 4) admitted the presence of Deputy Regent Suiasa in the field was accompanied by the Head of the DKP Badung Putu Eka Merthawan, a legislator of Badung Ni Luh Made Mediastuti, secretary of Kuta subdistrict Ketut Gede Artha and headman of Kuta Wayan Daryana.

“This is a part of government rapid response to incident and problems in the Badung district.

The tagline of ‘responsive, adaptive and solution (RAS)’ has inspired the ranks of the Badung government to always address problems and challenges of development in Badung quickly,” he said.

According to him, the commitment to present the government amid the society at least has been showed with real work by Deputy Regent Suiasa in addressing various issues of development especially waste problem becoming a classic problem when the west monsoon occurred in the Kuta area.

“Since the beginning, the regent

and deputy regent have committed to resolving various issues becoming the challenges in tourism development, where one of which is the waste problem. Waste and congestion handling in Kuta has always been given a priority by the government,” he said.

The Head of the DKP Badung, I Putu Eka Merthawan, said that his agency has set a high alert starting

on Friday (Dec. 18). Reflecting on the experience of last year, the annual phenomenon happened due to west monsoon where the peak is predicted to occur in December 2016.

“Within the past week, the waste has been visible on the beach starting from the area of Patitenget to Kuta Beach approximately reaching four km. They include plastic waste and twigs of trees,” he said.

With the establishment of the alert status, Merthawan instructed the ranks of the Rapid Response Unit (URC) to stand by and take measures any time if the washedup waste booms. The URC team

is also asked to disseminate to all members of society, and especially visitors, so that they will not get surprised by washed-up waste occurred each year. However, the alert status is not necessarily meant to scare people. It is a part of the effort to anticipate so that people can understand when the government attempt to optimally cope with the washed-up waste.

“We hope that all parties can work together to jointly anticipate the arrival of washed-up waste.

We predict the peak will occur in December,” he explained.

In the meantime, the national weather forecast (BBMKG) for

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The garbage on Kuta Beach

region III Denpasar predicted that the peak of rainfall will occur in January-February 2017. However, currently it has entered a mediumto-heavy rainfall. Thus, the community should remain vigilant.

Division Head of Data and Information of the BMKG region III Denpasar, Nyoman Gede Wirya Jaya, said that lately it had rained heavily in Bali. Due to dynamic atmospheric conditions, it has monitored some indications the potential for heavy rains in some regions of Bali such as Jembrana, Northern Tabanan and Western Buleleng, North Badung, Gianyar, Bangli, Klungkung and Karangasem. Thus, for the next three days the community must also remain vigilant due to the potential for heavy rains in the region of Bali. Seeing the high intensity of rain in the past few days, people are encouraged to remain vigilant and cautious.

“Due to extreme weather condition and heavy rain, a few natural disasters have occurred in several regions of Bali such as landslides in Petang Badung, Gianyar and other areas,” he said.

Besides, the activities in the sea should also beware due to the potential of high waves with a height of two meters. “Activities in the sea are also very necessary to be watched out related to the high waves,” he explained.

Related to the weather forecast for the next three days, he said, it is still experiencing moderate to heavy intensity of rain. The wind blows from the southwest to the west at the speed of 8-34 km per hour. (kmb27)

A year after AEC takes effect

Labor certification in Bali still under two percent BANGLI - The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has been in effect for almost a year, and so tourism wirkers for example should already be certified.

However, in the district of Bangli only two percent of toursim workers are certified. According to plan, at least half of all workers should be certified however very few people understand the importance of taking the steps needed to get a certificate of competency.

Head of the Bangli Manpower and Transmigration Agency, I Nengah Sukarta, explained on Monday (Dec. 5) that the AEC has been in effect since the begin-

nignof the year and those working in tourism are required to have skill certificates in order to be able to compete on the newly opened job market. Date however shows that only 169 of the 1,001 people working in tourism in Bangli have been certified – a very low figure indeed.

“The number of certified workers is still very small. It is less than two percent”, said Sukarta accompanied by Labor Inspector Kadek Wuri Lestari Handayani.

The certification process is actually free of charge and is being implemented in cooperation with a professional certification

institute (LSP). The main reasoin that so few workers have applied for certification is that few people understand the porcess. “Many fear that the certification test is too hard, whereas in fact it is not. The test can be carried out at their place of work and is free of charge”, he explained.

According to Government Regulation No.52/2012, companies must have at least 50 percent of employees consiste of certified workers. Given current conditions, Sukarta’s agency will continue to intensify their dissemination of information regarding this matter.

“Right now there is still very

little awareness amongst the labour force. We are encouraging everyine concerned to participate in the certification program in 2017. This is our target. The LSP has been very supportive of the program”, he added.

In order to realize this goal, efforts need to be made by more than just the district government.

Companies with employees also have an obligation to encourage their staff to get certified. Certifies labour will also be better able to improve the quality of services which will in turn will be able to increase consumer confidence.

If companies insiste on ignoring the issue of certification, he confirmed that the permits for these business establishments will not be issued or renewed. This will be coordinated with the Integrated Licensing Office. In addition to companies, schools that have a tourism department will also be required to carry out certification for their students, so that after graduation the students can directly compete against people from elsewhere.

“Today, they (students—Ed) are only armed with diplomas. In the future, they should be equipped with a certificate of competency”, he concluded. (kmb45)

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Oka added that in the subdistrict of Abang subdistrict a tourism attraction covering some 108 hectares is being developed with plans for a sacred pool and a place for people to learn about the sacred vedas. To further support Karangasem as a spiritual tourist destination, some supporting facilities are required such as a private runaway and a harbour for private boats. According to Oka, investors have approached the community about building a runaway and a harbor at Datah village and Laba Sari village, in Abang.

“Many rich people overseas want to visit Bali and enjoy spiritual tourism. Now, local villages are lobbying for the development of the runwa and the harbour. Some Balinese style homes spread across some 1,000 sqaure meters will also be established. These will include

pavilions intended for elite guests so that they can stay in places that resemble the homes of local residents”, he explained.

Oka’s colleague representing the Karangasem constituency, I Gusti Putu Widjera, said that developing spiritual tourism in Karangasem will likely face some tough challenges, particularly regarding spiritual concepts. Infrastructure, facilities and spiritual supporting tourism are other challenges that need to be addresed.

“The challenges here are regarding how to create spiritual tourism.

Besakih for instance is intended for devotees, so what kind of tourism can take place there? The plan sounds good, but it needs to be studied first”, he said.

According to Widjera, developing spiritual tourism is as difficult as the development of snake-fruit agro-tourism. It would be advisable for the local government to develop marine tourism or water tourism,

especially diving.

“Diving tourism is appropriate for Karangasem such as the marine tourism in Tulamben that

has beautiful coral reef. Actually, it is more appropriate to develop existing tourist destinations rather that exploring spiritual tourism,

espeicially considering that in Karagasem, from Yeh Malet, to the border of Singaraja, is coastline”, he said. (kmb32)

The fisherman is still go to the sea even the weather is bad.

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“Certainly it is fresh wind for the fishermen of Tabanan. As a result, they eagerly return to go to sea although the weather slightly less supports,” explained Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Fishermen (HNSI) of Tabanan, Ketut ‘Sadam’ Arsana Yasa, Mon-

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day (Dec. 5).

He said that all this time fishermen of Tabanan are experiencing near-death condition after the issuance of the regulation related to the catching of lobster becoming the excellence of Tabanan fishermen. “The fishermen seem more excited today,” he said.

Nevertheless, Saddam also appealed so that fishermen could remain cautious and vigilant when going to sea because the rain happening recently is still likely to be accompanied with strong winds.

He admitted that fishermen are currently made busy by harvest season of beltfish becoming one of the commodities for consumption in the local and export market.

Moreover, lobster fishermen previously objecting to the Regulation of the Minister of Maritime and Fisheries in 2015 related to restrictions on the size lobster has got new hope since November 2016. The government of Bali Province has allowed the trade lobster weighing 100 grams upwards to the local market. The demand is quite large in line with the level of tourist visit to Bali.

“Do not always be oriented first

to export market because Regulation of the Minister of Maritime and Fisheries in 2015 has not been revised so far. Most importantly, our fishermen can get the results even though the value is not as large as the sales in the export market share,” he said.

By targeting local market, said Sadam, the selling price of lobster caught by fishermen is much cheaper than ever before.

For example, a lobster weighing 100-500 grams can only be sold in the range of IDR 100,000 to IDR 150,000 per kg or far cheaper than the selling price of export reaching IDR 350,000 per kg with similar condition.

Sadam confirmed that his association will continue to fight for the revision of policy on lobster trade because it has an impact that impoverishes lobster fishermen today. On the other hand, the market share of lobster in the level of export previously occupied by Indonesia is even taken over by Singapore, India and Thailand.

“The policy of the Indonesian government actually provides benefits for other countries, and we can only become a spectator,” he concluded. (kmb28)

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Extreme weather, Fishermen appealed to alert when going to sea TABANAN - Bad weather condition seems to still ‘haunt’ Tabanan district. However, this condition does not deter the fishermen of Tabanan to still pursue their profession, especially when entering the current harvest season of beltfish.

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“American Honey” and “I, Daniel Blake” triumph in UK film awards

LONDON - “American Honey”, “Under the Shadow” and “I, Daniel Blake” were among the winners at the British Independent Film Awards in London on Sunday, scooping some of the top prizes at the ceremony.

“American Honey”, about a runaway teenage girl travelling across the American Midwest, was named Best British Independent Film and Andrea Arnold won the best director prize. Newcomer Sasha Lane won in the best actress category and the movie also picked up the award

for Outstanding Achievement in Craft. “Under the Shadow”, set in post-revolution Iran in the 1980s, took the best screenplay award, the Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director) for Babak Anvari and best supporting actress for Avin Manshadi. Veteran director Ken Loach’s drama “I, Daniel Blake”

saw Dave Johns pick up the “best actor” award while actress Hayley Squires won “most promising newcomer”.

“Moonlight”, a story about a young black man growing up in a rough Miami neighbourhood, was named Best International Independent Film. The event, which drew the likes of “Spectre” actress Naomie Harris and Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender, was hosted by British comedian Jennifer Saunders. (rtr)

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CONMEBOL awards Copa Sudamericana to Chapecoense team

ASUNCION - South American soccer’s governing body CONMEBOL awarded the 2016 Copa Sudamericana championship to Brazil’s Chapecoense club on Monday after most of the team died in a plane crash in Colombia last week.

Only six people survived the crash en route to the final, which killed 71 passengers and crew, shocked football fans worldwide, and plunged Brazil into mourning.

Colombia’s Club Atletica Nacional, which would have played

Chapecoense in the biggest game in the club’s history, asked for the trophy to be awarded to the Brazilian team to honor the victims, CONMEBOL said in a statement.

CONMEBOL’s council decided to honor that request with all of the

“sport and economic prerogatives that entails,” the statement said. Club Atletico was also given a one-time Fair Play award.

As Sudamericana champions, Chapecoense will automatically play Libertadores champions Atletico Nacional for the Recopa Sudamericana next year.

They will also get a guaranteed spot in next year’s Copa Libertadores, South America’s equivalent of the

Champions League.

Family and friends donning the team’s green and white colors grieved over 50 caskets flown to Chapeco for an open-air wake in the team’s stadium on Saturday. Chapecoense had ascended in a storybook tale from the minor leagues to reach the final of a major South American tournament.

A BAe146 regional airliner operated by Bolivian charter company LAMIA had radioed that it was run-

ning out of fuel before smashing into a hillside outside Medellin, Colombia. (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Spiritual tourism in Karangasem

D E N PASAR - Customary village based spiritual tourism is one of the programs that the governmenr of Karangasem is working on as a way to alleviate poverty in the region. Regent of Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumatri, recently said that

this region of lava land is indeed different from other districts. The biggest Hindu temple in Bali and in fact the world: Besakih Temple is located in Karangasem and the local economy should be able to benefit from this.

“There are a lot of big temples are in Karangasem, yet there are

still people beg. This needs to be resolved so that the community’s economy can grow”, he said.

Legislator of the Bali House of Representatives from Karangasem constituency, I Nyoman Oka Antara, said that Karangasem is worthy of developing spiritual tourism. In the regional spatial plan

(RDTR) of the local district, like in Sidemen, for instance, will have a papyrus museum built. Karangasem has been named as the home of the kris dagger and has numerous other places with sacred heritages.

“There is Batuaya, Kelodan, Kanginan, Kaleran, Mate and the Grand Palace of Karangasem as

well. These palaces retain many heritage obejcts such sacred kris, spears, kingdom-era furniture and antique musical instruments”, he said when met at the parliament hall on Monday (Dec. 5).

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