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Indian actress takes #MeToo claims to police

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In this file photo taken on August 11, 2014 A minature Oscars statue and an “I will miss you” note is seen at Robin Williams’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is seen in Hollywood, California.

Robin Williams memorabilia fetches $6.1 million in NY NEW YORK - Art, film memorabilia and personal effects owned by the late actor Robin Williams and his wife fetched $6.1 million at auction in New York on Thursday, four years after his death, Sotheby’s said.

The Oscar-winner, movie veteran, stand-up comedian and television star was one of Hollywood’s most popular entertainers whose death in August 2014 triggered an outpouring of emotion the world over.

More than 2,000 fans and collectors from across the globe registered to bid for some 300 works owned by Williams and his second wife, film producer and philanthropist Marsha Garces Williams, Sotheby’s said.

The most expensive lot was Swiss artist Adolf Wolfli’s “Der San Salvathor” that sold for $795,000, the auction house said.

Stand-out items included a watercolor from the movie “Good Will Hunting” that sold for $90,000 and street artist Banksy’s “Happy Choppers” from 2006 that fetched

$735,000.

Williams won an Oscar in 1998 for “Good Will Hunting.”

The watercolor, painted by the film’s director Gus Van Sant and inscribed to Williams, was displayed in the office of his therapist character Sean Maguire.

Forty-five watches from Williams’ personal collection sold for a combined total of $445,000, including his watch from “Dead Poets Society” (1989) that went for $32,500, the auction house said.

The entire sale fetched $6.1 million, smashing pre-sale estimates of $4.6 million with 95 percent of all lots sold. Among the organizations to benefit are The Juilliard School in New York, where a permanent scholarship in Williams’s name will be set up, the Wounded Warrior Project and the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

A father of three, he was known for high-energy, rapid-fire improvisation and clowning, and starred in hit films such as “Good Morning, Vietnam” and “Mrs Doubtfire.” (afp)

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MUMBAI - The Indian actress whose public allegations of sexual harassment by a Bollywood star is sparking a string of similar #MeToo claims has filed a formal complaint, police told AFP Sunday.

Former Miss Universe contestant Tanushree Dutta first alleged in 2008 that multi-award-winning Nana Patekar behaved inappropriately towards her during the making of a romantic comedy the same year.

No action was taken at the time against Patekar and she made no formal complaint.

But emboldened by the global #MeToo campaign -- where women have shared accounts of harassment or assault -- Dutta repeated the allegations in a recent interview and on Saturday went to the police to officially report the 2008 sexual harrassment claims.

“Dutta visited the police station last night and submitted a written complaint,” Shailesh Pasalwar, a Mumbai police inspector, told AFP. “We are investigating the case but right now, it is not an FIR (First Information Report, or a formal investigation) but a written complaint about harassment incident,” he added.

She also alleged in the interview that filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri had behaved inappropriately towards her during the shooting of the 2005 movie “Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets”.

The actress said in a statement last week that she had received legal

notices from both Patekar and Agnihotri, who deny her accusations.

Dutta said she had also received “violent threats” from the fringe, far-right nationalist group Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and has been hounded by a “smear campaign” on social media since reiterating her claims against the pair.

“This is the age-old saga of survivors in our nation,” she said.

India has yet to witness its own version of the #MeToo movement that rocked Hollywood last year, but Dutta has received the backing of several high-profile stars including Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar and Sonam Kapoor.

Other actresses have however begun to speak out about an issue almost never discussed in Indian media.

I n December, star S w a r a Bhaskar said she had been harassed by an unnamed director early in her career. (afp) In this file photo taken on May 04, 2013, Indian Bollywood ctress Tanushree Dutta poses for a photo during an event for the Mandate Model Hunt contest in Mumbai.

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Residents and rescuers walk in front of a washed out passenger ferry in Wani, Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi on October 7, 2018, following the September 28 earthquake and tsunami. Aid poured into disaster-ravaged Palu after days of delays as efforts ramped up to reach 200,000 people in desperate need following a deadly quake-tsunami in the Indonesian city.

IMF gathers in quake-battered Indonesia to focus on global economic tremors

Rising protectionism, vulnerable emerging markets and record debt levels: The IMF holds its annual meeting this week in earthquake-stricken Indonesia, as it shines a light on tremors in the global economy.

Finance ministers and central bankers from 180 nations will be among 32,000 attendees in Bali for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which takes place every three years outside of Washington. The gathering will be held from Tuesday to Sunday.

The resort island of Bali is 1,125 kilometers (700 miles) from Palu, the city on Sulawesi that wracked by an

earthquake and tsunami on September 28 that left more than 1,500 dead and 1,000 missing.

Despite the distance, security is a major concern for Indonesian organizers. Bali experienced a series of volcanic eruptions over the summer, while the neighboring island of Lombok was struck by a string of deadly earthquakes.

If there is an earthquake, Jakarta

recommends participants stay in the conference center, which, like many hotels in Bali, is built to withstand such seismic events. In case of tsunami risk, attendees would be evacuated to a nearby building.

But the focus of the meeting is averting economic rather than natural disasters. The trade war launched by US President Donald Trump against China, along with disputes with allies like the European Union, Mexico and Canada, is a key source of concern.

The dispute caused a proliferation of protectionist measures in recent months that is weighing more and

more on international trade.

- Risks materialize Trump has imposed tariffs on $250 billion of annual imports from China, to try to pressure Beijing to change trade policies he calls unfair, including theft of American technology. Beijing countered by imposing punitive duties on $110 billion of US products. Washington also has imposed steep tariffs on steel, aluminum, washing machines and solar panels, drawing retaliation from Canada, Mexico, China and others.

Like the OECD, which lowered

its economic growth forecast for the world economy to 3.7 percent for 2018, IMF chief Christine Lagarde signaled the fund would cut the outlook which in July stood at 3.9 percent.

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DENPASAR —The Faculty of Humanities (FIB) of Udayana University (Unud) prepared 25 students to take part in the IMF-WB Annual Meeting. The students are prepared as companions of journalists from all over the world.

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Dr. Ni Luh Sutjiati Beratha, stated that preparation of the companion to journalist is cooperation between PT. Telkom and Udayana University through MoU, while at the faculty level is made a memorandum of agreement (MoA). “We are asked to recruit a number of students that will be in charge of the media center. They will get in touch with a number of journalists from all over the world,” she stated on Thursday (Oct. 4).

They are looking for students who have free time and are be able to become or participate as interpreters or as journalist companion. The selected students are those who are preparing their undergraduate final project.

“Of course, we do not involve the students of semester 5 because they are still attending college and their lectures are ongoing. So, we decided with the coordinator of the study program to look for those who are finishing their thesis,” she explained.

The participating students have been trained in advance for about two weeks or a week before the event they have been really ready. (kmb42)

Mixed menus for IMF-WB delegates

DENPASAR —The IMF-WB delegates will be presented with mixed menus consisting of the Western, Asian and Indonesian food. To prepare the food, the hotels will not only prepare local ingredients but also imported ones.

Chairman of the Bali Hotel Association (BHA), Ricky Putra, said the food supplies for the delegates are dominated by local products and supported by several imported products such as beef, mutton, and several types of wines. Later the delegates will be presented with mixed menus consisting of the Western, Asian and Indonesian food.

Chairman of the Association of Horticultural Businessmen (Aspehorti), I Wayan Sugiarta, said that he and other members have got accustomed to supplying fruits, vegetables and flowers to hotels, especially hotels in the ITDC area. Related to the IMF-WB Meeting, the supply volume to the hotels will be doubled In a series of the implementation of IMF-WB, he must supply one ton of commodities each day. His supplies include fruits and vegetables for four hotels in the ITDC area. “So, this increase is normal because we are used to supplying to hotels. We usually increase the volume, so that our suppliers just need to increase the amount. Since there are high season and events at hotels, we are accustomed to preparing it,” said Sugiarta on Friday (Oct. 5).

Recently, he and the hotels held a meeting related to the delivery of supplies during the IMF-WB 2018 event. Deliveries are made at 22:00 and the last ones are at 5:00. In addition to fruits and vegetables for the needs of the IMF-WB, the Aspehorti also prepares orchid and marigold for room decoration and meeting venues.

Aspehorti members getting involved as horticultural suppliers in a series of the IMF-WB 2018 comprise 5 flower suppliers as well as 4 vegetable and fruit suppliers. “Other than Aspehorti members, there are also other suppliers belonging to non-members of the Aspehorti, supplying the need for the IMFWB event,” he said. More than 90 percent of the horticultural supplies to hotels in Bali come from local Bali and Indonesia. He directly got supplies from farmer groups. When facing any shortages, it will be taken from the Anyar Sari Central Market. Vegetables are taken from Bedugul, Kembang Merta, Luwus and Mengwi Market. “We don’t have farmers in the farms, so finally we take it from the market. It’s easy for us to send even though the volume increases.

Central market is the last alternative,” he said.

Bali cannot fulfill its own needs. Pineapple, for instance, is not cultivated in Bali and 90 percent of papaya is brought in from outside Bali, 60 percent of watermelons and melons from Java as well. Meanwhile, 40 percent is met from farmers in Jembrana, 70 percent of bananas are supplied from outside Bali, 50 percent of dragon fruit from Bali and 50 percent others from outside Bali. The fruits available in Bali are grapefruit, snakefruit, passion fruit and mangosteen.

A total of 15 farmers from all over Bali supplies fruits and vegetables to him. All the fruits are supplied to the needs of IMF-WB 2018. “If taking from Balinese farmers, the fruits are usually fresher and cheaper than those from outside Bali,” he added. (kmb42)

Export to the United States declines

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Indonesia must take opportunities of China

DENPASAR —In August 2018, the exports of Bali fell 4.93 percent compared to July 2018.

The highest decline in exports was to Hong Kong and the United States respectively amounting to 19.10 percent and 18.02 percent.

Head of the Bali Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Adi Nugroho, said the decline in exports is considered to happen due to the strengthening of dollar. The exports in 2018 up to April follow the previous year’s export pattern. However, in May and June the export fell sharply, but in July and August it rose again.

“Hopefully, it will rise again. If it can be achieved, this proves that Bali’s exporters are able to take advantage of the situation when the US dollar strengthens,” he said during the release of the Official Gazette of Statistics (BRS) in early October.

Dropped exports were also accompanied by falling imports.

Bali’s imports in August 2018 fell 23.52 percent. The highest decline of imports was from Hong Kong and the United States. Decrease in imported goods happened to watches, bells and parts, articles of leather, essential oils, cosmetics

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Baby Turtles Release at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa

Students of Unud serve as journalist companion

Aspehorti doubles its horticulture supplies

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and fragrances.

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) of Bali, A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, stated the moment of the United States and Chinese trade war must be taken advantage

by Indonesia. The commodities having been exported by China to the United States can be replaced

by Indonesia.

“The decline in exports from Bali to the United States should not happen because Indonesia has the potential to be a substitute for China. We just need to list what commodities are imported from China, and then we supply it to the United States as we are not subjected to trade warfare. The government must be smart to take this opportunity,” he explained.

In addition, the decline in exports to the United States also happened because Bali’s entrepreneurs are still waiting and seeing.

The US is also suspected of stopping consumption from overseas.

Commodities from Bangladesh and Vietnam began to enter Europe and the United States taking over the position of Indonesian market.

“Why should we be defeated by products from Bangladesh? Jeans from Bangladesh enter the United States and Europe,” he explained.

Indonesia, according to him, can take export opportunities to the United States but had not yet seen the opportunities. In addition, Indonesia, especially Bali, tends to be silent when the economic situation is uncertain.

Nevertheless, totally the exports of Bali indeed declined.

However, the exports to Arabia are said to increase. In particular, after the visit of the King of Saudi Arabia to Bali, the exports showed an increase, especially furniture and wooden products because in Arabia there are no wood and carvers. (kmb42)

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Guests were invited to join this event and enjoy that wonderful moment as these baby turtles splash their way into the waters of the Indian Ocean.

As part of its ongoing commitment to supporting the local community, Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa works closely with a local Turtle Conservation “Bali Sea Turtle Society” to retrieve such eggs and ensure they are carefully incubated in a secured environment. Since year 2013, the resort has released more than 2200 baby

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Experiencing the light fantastic at the Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, Finland

HELSINKI - The newly opened Amos Rex museum in Helsinki is a subterranean wonderland with exhibitions designed to stir the senses through light and sound. The newly opened self-proclaimed “museum for all”, Amos Rex museum, in Helsinki‘s landscaped Lasipalatsi Square, forms part of a large-scale cultural space that includes a cinema, an artistic workshop and an education space.

The 6,230 square meter building is almost entirely underground, and bubbles into the public sphere through a series of concrete domes that are decorated in funky geometric patterns.

The five domes, which double as a sloping playground, are topped with skylights made of steel and glass.

Inside, the museum feels classically Scandinavian, with crisp, white space and plenty of light.

However this all changes as you make your way downstairs to the museum’s Massless exhibition.

Experiencing the light fantastic The subterranean Massless

exhibition is the brainchild of international digital art collective, teamLab, and consists of a series of interactive 3D installations. Black fabric covers almost every inch of exhibition space in order to provide a dark enough backdrop to display the colourful projections.

The first room, titled “Black Waves”, is inspired by Japanese paintings and features a series of lines which mimic the continuous movement of waves as they roll and crash against each other. The waves seem completely three dimensional, and have a mesmerising quality that is amplified by the ac-

companying sound effects.

In the next room: “Graffiti Nature: Lost, Immersed and Reborn” visitors are presented with an interactive ecosystem of plants and animals that bloom, swim, jump and fly through the room in a riot of colour. Whales swim and twirl on the floor, frogs hop along the walls and butterflies flit amongst the flowers.

Visitors can add animals into the landscape by scanning their coloured-in drawings into the system. The circle of life is visible for all to see, as flowers bloom and die and animals catch and eat their

prey. It’s mesmerising.

In contrast to the dazzling colours of “Graffiti Nature”, the next room we wandered into was a vast space called the “Vortex of Light Particles”. Inspired by the movement of water, the installation features a series of flowing blue particles that flow towards the skylight, creating a kind of virtual vortex. Hidden at the back of the room is a black curtain that leads to the final light installation entitled “Crows…”

The seemingly innocuous room is suddenly filled with light and sound as a flock of crows soar around the room, creating a euphoric and somewhat dizzying sensation. The crows crash into each other and transform into colourful flowers. The music ends, and the room falls into darkness.

The installation is rendered in real

time by a computer programme, and is therefore in constant change.

Fact File Opening hours: The Amos Rex Museum is open every day from 11am except Tuesday, when it is closed. Bookings can be made by phone on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, between 1pm and 4pm.

Price: General admission costs €18 per person. Students under 30 can purchase tickets for just €5. Getting there: Helsinki is a very walkable city and you can reach the museum from most places on foot. The address is Amos Rex, Mannerheimintie 2224, 00100, Helsinki. Flying there: Finnair offer direct flights to Helsinki from all over the world, including the UK, USA and East Asia. From London Heathrow start at £91 each way. (IBP/net)

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Tourists visit drops 8.10 percent in high season DENPASAR — Foreign tourist arrivals decreased by 8.10 percent in August 2018 when compared to July 2018 (month to month). By year of year, foreign tourists visiting Bali also experienced a decline of 4.67 percent. The markets experiencing the decline were China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, et cetera.

Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Adi Nugroho, said that foreign tourist visits in August 2018 amounted to 573,766 people. “Up to July, the foreign tourist visits always

exceeded the number of previous years although the visit in January was low because of the eruption of Mount Agung,” he said.

After the tourist visit has recovered since March 2018, it has

always surpassed the previous year setting new records. However, in August 2018, the number of visits dropped to lower than the previous year.

Adi Nugroho suspected the

By year of year, foreign tourists visiting Bali experienced a decline of 4.67 percent.

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decline happened due to the influence of the earthquake happening in Lombok and impacting to Bali. In addition, the foreign tourists are alleged to turn to other tourist destinations. In August 2017, total foreign tourist visits reached 4.5 million and by the end of 2017 amounted to 5.7 million. Meanwhile, until August 2018, foreign tourists visit has reached 4.91 million, so that by the end of 2018 it is expected to reach more than 5.7 million.

By their nationality, Chinese tourists still occupy the first position with the highest number of visits, namely 155,761 in August 2017 and increased to 136,424 in August 2018. In the meantime, foreign tourists from Australia increased from 3.95 percent (yoy).

The decline of Chinese tourists, according to Adi, is very likely to be influenced by China’s economic downturn so that it had an impact on the purchasing power of Chinese people. It is also coupled with the Lombok disaster in August. Besides, this decline is inseparable from the factor of transition to another destination. “So, if there is interference in other destinations, they are likely to influence the intention to visit Bali,” he said.

All of these factors are considered to have affected the decline of foreign tourists, especially Chinese tourists having always occupied the highest position of foreign tourist arrival who come to Bali. However, to find out the

exact cause and percentage, it is needed further research.

In addition to Chinese tourists, Japanese tourists also experienced similar decline. “Japanese tourists are relatively stable.

But, we must compete to grab with other destinations because we can lock Japanese fanatic tourists. By and large, they are also selective about the services and attractiveness of the destinations as comparison of Bali,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the tourist visit from Australia, United Kingdom and France experienced an increase, where Australian tourists occupied the second highest position, the United Kingdom as the fourth and France as the fifth. “United Kingdom and France usually do not enter the top five,” he said.

Deputy Chairman I of the Central Executive Board of Indonesia Hotel General Manager Association (IHGMA), I Made Ramia Adnyana, said that July and August usually belong to high season. “August should be the highest visit because of holiday season,” he concluded.

He admitted to never be worried about business in July and August because hotels in Bali are always fully occupied. According to him, this decline needed to be analyzed. “Maybe last year there was a large group or MICE in July and August. Meanwhile, this year it is purely filled with leisure Free Independent Traveler (FIT),” he concluded. (kmb42)

When visiting Tabanan

District Police ready to secure IMF-World Bank delegates TABANAN — The International Monetary Fund and World Bank (IMF-WB) Annual Meeting will take place in Nusa Dua on October 8-14. The delegates and their extended families are scheduled to visit a number of tourist objects.

One of them is Tanah Lot in Tabanan. To make sure their safety during the visit to Tanah Lot and the possibility to visit a number of other tourist objects such as Ulundanu Beratan and Jatiluwih, Tabanan Police ranks held regional security readiness on Wednesday (Oct. 3) in the Alit Saputra Square, Tabanan, led by Chief of Tabanan Police, Made Sinar Subawa.

Before around 200 joint personnel of the National Police

(Polri), the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the Transportation Agency, Sinar Subawa confirmed to his personnel to carry out their duties as well as possible. According to him, the IMF meeting is a history because Indonesia will possibly return to have the opportunity to host in the next 300 years. On that account, the implementation of security must be carried out with a sense of responsibility.

“The regional taskforce is assigned to ensure the security of the route and location of the activity. Hopefully, all members can really understand and know their position and what to do,” he said.

Security is also carried out at

tourist objects to be visited by the delegates, other than Tanah Lot. Sinar Subawa added they will give special attention to Ulundanu Beratan and Jatiluwih tourist object, especially Jatiluwih having become the UNESCO’s heritage.

“I’m confident there are delegates that know and wish to see them right away. For security, we are assisted by the military ranks, Transportation Agency and security officers of each attraction,” he explained.

In addition to the readiness of personnel, the police chief on that occasion also checked the supporting facilities of the tasks such as motorcycle, cars and other equipment. (kmb28)

Tabanan Police ranks held regional security readiness.

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Story on Palu’s refugees at Gilimanuk

her children were in the house. She wanted to say Maghrib prayers.

However, she did not have time to do it as the earthquake happened.

At first, she stayed inside the house.

After the shakes stopped, she and her children went out to the field and had time to return home to lock the doors.

Then, the aftershocks were very loud. The second earthquake caused the reservoir near the Petobo housing complex to burst and the water mixed with mud rose into the housing that caused the housing to collapse.

According to him, the Petobo housing is underneath the housing they occupied. His housing complex was not exposed to mud. Then, they lived in quite safe refugee camp.

However, they could only stay in refugee camp for three days. Food and clean water are said to have run thin while the aids had not yet arrived.

Besides, the stench of corpses buried in debris have not been evacuated and become even more intense.

Heryadi was worried about the health of his children starting to decline. The land at the location is said to still frequently shake and they are worried if it collapses.

Seeing his children’s declining health condition, Heryadi who is worried then decided to evacuate to Gilimanuk with his family. He departed with a logistics truck coming back after transporting assistance to Mamuju. After an overnight in Mamuju, he then headed for Makassar and took a flight to Bali.

They arrived at Gilimanuk on Friday night. Heryadi, a civil servant from the Central Sulawesi Forestry Service, admitted to still want to immediately return to Palu so that he can work and the school of his first child remaining in grade IV of elementary school can continue. (kmb)

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One of the surviving families fled to his family’s home at Gilimanuk.

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Sayonara Tsukiji! Exodus as relocation of Tokyo’s famed fish market begins

Evacuating because of child health NEGARA - The earthquake and tsunami disaster in Palu, Central Sulawesi, kept profound sorrow not only to the people of Palu but also the people of Indonesia in general.

Survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in Palu are now doing various ways to survive.

One of the surviving families fled to his family’s home at Gilimanuk. Heryadi took his wife, Hariati Tanaiyo, and two children Jarwali, 10, and Aufar, 3, to take refuge at the house of Jirah Sujati, which is also chief of Asih neighborhood at Gang IV, Gilimanuk.

To journalists, Heryadi stated on Saturday (Oct. 6) that when the disasters happened, he was participating in the training while his wife and children were at home at Griya Petobo. According to him, the first earthquake was remarkably felt and the plafond of the building where he got training fell down.

Being worried about his family, he then left the training center to go home by his motorbike. From the training center to the home is around 5 km. When heading for his home, he had to lift his motorbike because the road was severely damaged by the earthquake.

According to him, the road was like a folded paper. To go to his home located about five kilometers away from his training center was not easy because the road was severely damaged by the earthquake.

When arriving home, he found his house had fallen apart and the wall was broken. “At first, I thought my wife and children went to the beach to join the celebration of Palu City Anniversary. However, after finding them surviving in the field at first I was very worried,” he said.

Hariati also told that when first earthquake hit the region she and

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TOKYO - Hundreds of fishmongers on forklifts and trucks rose before dawn in Tokyo to join a mammoth exodus of vendors as the world-famous Tsukiji market relocates to a new site.

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Teaching Balinese language, especially to the younger generation, has a great challenge today.

Great challenge to teach Balinese language for young generation

DENPASAR - The issuance of the gubernatorial rules and instructions regarding the use of Balinese scripts, Balinese language, and Balinese traditional attires are positively appreciated

by Balinese language instructors. Real implementation of this regulation has long been awaited in the community. Moreover, teaching Balinese language, especially to the younger generation, has a great challenge today.

“We are very grateful and appreciate to the gubernatorial regulation because we have also been mapping out the signboard so far and calling for Balinese days. However, it did not get many responds because there is no regulation,” said Coordinator of Balinese Language Extension, I Nyoman Suka Ardiyasa, when confirmed on Saturday (Oct. 6).

According to Suka, the issuance of the regulations such as the Regional Regulation, the Gubernatorial Regulation to Gubernatorial Instruction is like a tit for tat. Balinese language instructor will also be facilitated in inviting the community to love and preserve Balinese language by disseminating the regulation. When talking about cultural preservation, Balinese language as the root is indeed very important to be preserved.

“With this policy, Balinese people inevitably are forced to return to love Balinese scripts, for example, by changing their house number with Balinese characters. Then, we are able to teach children Balinese language, including at the agency

level,” he explained.

Suka added that Balinese language instructor is ready to attend if problems arise from the implementation of the existing regulations. For example, there are those who do not understand about Balinese language, the government can call the Balinese instructor to share knowledge about it. So far, the great challenges faced are teaching Balinese language among young people.

“All this time, we find difficulties among the younger generation and children. As for the elementary school children, we can still provide coaching. The problem is our difficulty to approach teenager,” he explained.

Suka explained that elementary students are more easily coached because they must be participating in study groups formed by the Balinese language instructors. Meanwhile, teenagers are just commonly interested in installing Bali Simbar font or knowing how to read Balinese script on smartphone. For the remaining, the extension workers are quite difficult to get in touch more

youngsters in teaching the Balinese language. At some hamlets, the meeting of Sekaa Taruna or customary youth club supposed to speak Balinese language even agrees to speak Indonesian because no one can speak Balinese language.

“Indeed such problem cannot be generalized, but some of our findings are like that. There is a very good process of how they learn Balinese. This is indeed our challenge other than each village is only filled with one instructor. So, it is rather difficult to conduct guidance to all villages,” he explained.

Nevertheless, Suka continued that Balinese language instructors are still trying to provide input for the government regarding the next policy. As it is now, the extension officers are currently distributing questionnaires to find out the position of Balinese language in relation to the use of the Balinese language.

Likewise, it involves the field of Balinese script and literature. As scheduled, the data about this matter are targeted to have been completed in December. (kmb32)

In small vehicles and the market’s famed “turret trucks” -- one-man flatbeds with a barrelshaped steering column at the front -- they drove out of the Tsukiji site one last time, headed for Toyosu, the market’s new home.

The main bridge out from the market was closed to traffic for the move, with security guards in place to wave along the leaving wholesalers who drove in orderly lines between safety cones topped with flashing red and green lights.

Hundreds of the 900 businesses that once handled 480 kinds of seafood worth $14 million daily -- as well as 270 types of fruits and vegetables -- are relocating.

A total of 2,600 turret trucks and forklifts will drive about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 miles) from Tsukiji to the new site over a period of five days, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government.

The move began a day after the last tuna auction at the market, a pre-dawn ritual for Tokyo’s food world that also once drew crowds of tourists hoping for one of just 120 spots to watch.

The 83-year-old market’s move has been in the works for decades, prompted by its rundown state, but it has been a lengthy and controversial process, hindered by pollution rows and construction delays.

The discovery of soil contamination at Toyosu, formerly home to a gas plant, sparked safety fears about the new site and forced local authorities to spend millions of

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A fishmonger cleans his shop at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on October 7, 2018, the first day of relocation to the new Toyosu market following Tsukiji’s final tuna auction on October 6. dollars to clean up the area.

After experts declared Toyosu safe, the Tokyo governor took the final decision to move the market there in late 2017, ending years of delays.

But while the new site promises state-ofthe-art refrigeration and will keep gawping tourists away from the business of the market in a gallery behind glass, the move has still

left a bitter taste for some.

“I feel nostalgic as Tsukiji has been my home ground for 15 years. We are sad to lose the Tsukiji brand,” vegetable wholesaler Tsukasa Kujirai told AFP on Saturday.

Opened in 1935, Tsukiji was for many years known only to its vendors and the food industry, but it gained international reknown in recent decades and its tuna auctions even

hit the headlines, with one fish going for a record $1.8 million at the market’s New Year’s auction in 2013.

The highest bidder at Saturday’s final auction paid 4.4 million yen ($38,700) for a bluefin tuna weighing 162 kilograms (357 pounds) caught off Aomori, northern Japan.

Toyosu will officially throw open its doors on October 11. (afp)

JERUSALEM - The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial Sunday for allegedly using state funds to fraudulently pay for hundreds of meals, part of a list of legal troubles facing the family.

The start of Sara Netanyahu’s trial will be the latest chapter in a saga intensely scrutinised in Israel, but dismissed by the Netanyahus as another “absurd” attempt to discredit them.

The premier himself faces possible charges in separate corruption investigations, leading to speculation that he will eventually be forced to step down.

Sara Netanyahu was charged with fraud and breach of trust in June.

Prosecutors accuse her of misusing state funds to pay for catered meals costing $100,000 (85,000 euros) by falsely declaring there were no cooks available at the premier’s TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP official residence.

From 2010 to 2013, she, her family and Sara Netanyahu (2nd R), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, watches her husband address the 73rd General Assembly of the United Na- guests received “fraudulently from the state hundreds of prepared meals”, the indictment tions in New York September 27, 2018.

read. According to the charge sheet, the meals were ordered from a variety of well-known Jerusalem businesses, including an Italian restaurant, a Middle Eastern grill joint and a sushi establishment.

The trial, which could run for months, opens in the Jerusalem magistrates court at 1:30 PM (1030 GMT) with a hearing on whether it should be overseen by a panel of three judges instead of one due to the case’s “public sensitivity”.

It was due to start in July but was postponed for reasons that were not made public.

Sara Netanyahu, 59 and a high-profile presence at her husband’s side throughout his long tenure, has denied any wrongdoing.

“For the first time in history, charges are being pressed against a leader’s wife over noodles and take-away containers from six to seven years ago,” a statement from her lawyers said Sunday.

The meals were ordered “against Sara Netanyahu’s will”, it said. (afp)

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Marina Silva, presidential candidate of the Sustainability Network Party, gestures to the audience before a live, televised presidential debate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. Brazil will hold general elections on Oct. 7.

A glance at economic proposals of Brazil’s top candidates

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilians will go to the polls Sunday at a time when the economy is only slowly recovering from a prolonged recession and more than 13 million people remain out of work.

Here is a look at the main economic issues at stake: PENSION REFORM President Michel Temer had hoped to pare back Brazil’s generous pension system to lower the country’s deficit, but his proposal to raise the retirement age led to nationwide protests and ended up flailing in Congress.

Economists agree the next president will have to tackle this issue.

Far-right congressman and pollleader Jair Bolsonaro has proposed allowing workers to pay into individual retirement accounts. If employers decide to use such a system, they would be allowed to decrease employee benefits.

Workers’Party candidate Fernando Haddad, who is in second place, has rejected the idea of cutting pension

benefits and says that he would reduce the deficit by growing the economy and creating more formal contracts for workers.

Center-left candidate Ciro Gomes and Sustainability Party candidate Marina Silva both favor a sort of individual retirement account system.

Center-right candidate Geraldo Alckmin says he will create a single pension system for everyone and establish a more rigid minimum retirement age.

TAX REFORM High tax rates and convoluted bureaucratic processes have made Brazil a hard place to do business, according to a World Bank report that ranked the South American nation 184 out of 190 countries under the rubric of ‘Paying Taxes.’

Bolsonaro has vowed to cut taxes and rejected his own financial adviser’s suggestion of a tax on financial transactions.

Haddad plans to fund social programs and eliminate income taxes for the poorest by increasing rates for the super-rich. The leftist has also proposed gradually replacing other taxes with a value-added tax.

Gomes proposes taxing the rich to invest in education and social programs, while Silva says she’d avoid the need to raise taxes by curbing public spending and combatting corruption.

Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party also wants to replace many taxes with a value-added tax.

LABOR LAWS Last year, Congress loosened Brazil’s strict labor laws, allowing for more flexible working hours and optional contributions to unions.

Bolsonaro plans to let employees entering the labor market decide between following the new labor laws or negotiating their own contracts.

Both Haddad and Gomes have denounced the labor reform as an attack on workers’ rights and want to replace it with more labor-friendly legislation.

Silva told Globo News she would largely maintain the labor reform but scratch “draconian” measures like forcing pregnant or breast-feeding employees to work in potentially unsanitary conditions.

Alckmin has said he will “not repeal any of the labor reform’s key measures.”

PRIVATIZATION Some say that many of Brazil’s 149 state-owned companies should be privatized, arguing they are inefficient and subject to corruption, as shown by a multi-billion dollar kickback scheme centered on Petrobras. Others worry

about too much foreign involvement in Brazil’s most strategic industries.

Bolsonaro has said he wants to privatize many state-owned companies, but would exempt the banks Caixa Economica and Banco do Brasil.

Haddad plans to limit privatizations, saying state companies are vital for the country’s development.

Gomes’ economic adviser said his party would consider privatizing about half of state-controlled companies while keeping Petrobras, Banco do Brasil and the electricity company Eletrobras in state hands.

Silva wants to keep Petrobras, Banco do Brasil and Caixa Economica public, and would analyze the benefits of privatizing other companies.

Alckmin has said he doesn’t trust the state to run businesses and wants to sell many to make the economy more efficient. However, he says he would not privatize Petrobras and Banco do Brasil.(ap)

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Tipat Bantal War Tools, Symbol of Male and Female

Tradition of tipat and bantal war organized at Kapal customary village is a unique tradition because the participating people will perform activities of mutual throwing by using tipat and bantal posing one of the favorite foods for the community of Bali.

It is an expression of gratitude to God for the blessing extended in the form of abundance of fertility in the environment. However, since it is a tradition and ritual, of course, this kind of tipat-bantal war will begin with a procession of presenting oblations and so forth before implemented.

The temple priest Jero Nyoman Lidriani said that preparation ceremony will be preceded by banten pejati, byakaonan and pangulapan.

After being presented, it will be followed by Hindu people or Kapal.

After completing the presentation of offerings, it is resumed with joint prayers and matimpugan.

It is commenced with jejatonan for 3 times in front of the bale agung temple or middle courtyard of the temple. Executor of the jejatonan itself is not arbitrary namely temple priest and village officials.

Sometimes, it is followed by government officials such as the regent

usually presented every 2 years.

After that, it is carried out in outermost courtyard by many people in accordance with norms.

“Formerly, it was only carried out in front of the bale agung pavilion. Since the current pilgrims are consisting of more people the pavilion is worried to get damaged.

Thus, the activities are continued in the outermost temple courtyard and only the jejatonan is still held in the bale agung,” he said.

Furthermore, he said that before starting matimpugan, all the pilgrims put soda offerings pursuant to their affordability and must contain tipat sirikan (rice bag) and six pieces of bantal fresh cake. The

rice bag is placed in the temple while the bantal can be brought back home.

Similar opinion was conveyed

by I Ketut Sudarsana where the rice bag is incised transverse in the middle as a symbol of female genital or Pradhana while the bantal snack itself is a symbol of male genital or Purusa. Encounter of both elements will produce or bring up the seeds of life. In this case, it symbolizes the emergence and fertility for the seeds of food sources of society.

Besides, both entities symbolize the sea and mountains.

In the procession held at the outermost courtyard of the local temple, all the pilgrims that will

throw rice bag are positioned in the south because it is a symbol of male or sea while in the north is the area of ??the pitch throwing group as the symbol of Purusa or mountains believed to be in the north. Then, even though there is impression of throwing each other to each participant, it will be attempted that tipat and bantal will hit each other in the air because it is the most important point of the tradition.

“After finishes, it is ended with a joint prayer while for the remnants scattered will be collected and then distributed to residents and made into fertilizer for their respective paddy field. It is believed to increase fertility,” he added. (kmb)

“Wrap” Wanna Taste It?

Our Head Chef Wijang Wibi Herdoko & Mike from Mr Sausage has added a new menu as a compliment on your selection in Food Truck. Names “Wrap” It’s wrapped in Tortillas with large size.

Our menu is probably better known as Burrito by American society.

Consists of “Sober Wrap and Drunk Wrap”. This menu has a different variant, Sober Wrap presents vegetarian food with a choice of fresh vegetables, avocado, red beans, bean sprouts, salsa and other complimentary additions. While Drunk Wrap presents a selection of minced beef and chicken fillet.

“We make and select items for our new menu to

provide continuity in food choices” Chef Wijang said. In addition to the Jumbo Hot Dogs and Burgers we have, I hope our Sober & Drunk Wrap can be an option to accompany your night in Legian.

If you are interesting and want to try our new menus, please come to Height Bar & Restaurant at J4 Hotels Legian on the 5th floor. You can feel the sensation of eating on the roof with pool and city views. Or order via our Food Truck which will be present every afternoon at 5 until dawn. Also available on the “Go-Food” Food Delivery service by entering “Height Bar & Restaurant” in the application’s search field. (r)

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Honduras zoo struggles to replace the drug money that built it

SANTA CRUZ - An imposingly tall giraffe, powerful African lions and proud Bengal tigers are among the many highlights of a zoo -- created by wealthy drug traffickers -- that is like a Garden of Eden in the green mountains of Honduras.

But the Joya Grande animal park is now languishing because of a shortage of funds.

The zoo was allegedly modeled after the Hacienda Napoles -the vast estate of the late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar -- by a violent Honduran cartel known as the Cachiros, which was sanctioned by the United States in 2013.

“The eco-park was very profitable, it was new, we had a lot of investment, but now we lack the capital that the owners had” since their arrests, biologist and zoo manager Maria Diaz told AFP. Diaz, who is Guatemalan, is desperately hoping for government economic assistance to keep the park going.

Four months of demonstrations against the re-election last November of President Juan Orlando Hernandez blocked the main access road to the zoo, sharply curtailing the number of visitors.

The facility sits atop a hill 150 kilometers (95 miles) north of the capital city Tegucigalpa. A sign formed of white stones set on a grassy hillside welcomes tourists with the words “Great Jewel Zoo.” The giraffe stretches out its neck to greet visitors, while zebras leisurely munch on hay in a nearby corral. Further down a steep slope are enclosures for deer, camels and big, pig-like tapirs -- including a newborn -- as well as the pools in which hippos wallow.

Next come cages and enclosures containing powerful members of the cat family -- African lions, Bengal tigers, jaguars and pumas -- followed by bison, llamas, wildebeest, ostriches, peacocks and other exotic animals.

Visitors can rent water bicycles, ride horses or enjoy the zoo’s cafeterias, pools and restaurants, as well as the 15 cabins for tourists -- who are sorely lacking.

Honduras’s Office of Seized Assets (OABI) confiscated the facility from the drug cartel in April 2014, at which point the biologist Diaz -- who had been in charge of caring for the animals -- managed to obtain a government concession to operate the place for $7,400 a month. (afp)

IMF...

From page 1 After sounding the alarm in recent years about threats to the global economy, Lagarde said last week “some of those risks have begun to materialize” and “there are signs that global growth has plateaued.”

The rise in trade barriers is slowing trade, and dampening investment and manufacturing as uncertainty increases, she said.

And she repeated the warning about rising debt levels which “reached an all-time high of $182 trillion -- almost 60 percent higher than in 2007.” That creates concerns for emerging market economies which will come under increased pressure as the US central bank raises interest rates, while investors are likely to pull out of those markets seeking higher returns.

Argentina and Turkey already have been hit by headwinds, seeing their currencies collapse and

forcing Buenos Aires to go the IMF for help.

The fund recently increased support for Argentina by $7 billion to $57 billion in exchange for tough economic policy reforms, although the loan has not yet been approved by the IMF board.

But Economist Monica de Bolle of the Peterson Institute for International Economics said Brazil also was likely to see market turbulence next year and South Africa is vulnerable as well.

“This is not going to end well,” de Bolle said of the emerging market outlook. There could be broader repercussions in the event China’s economic engine slows sharply amid the trade confrontation.

Group of 20 finance ministers also are due to meet in Bali on the sidelines of the IMF meeting to discuss topics such as US sanctions against Iran or taxes on digital giants. This will the last meeting prior to the leaders’ summit in Buenos Aires at the end of November. (afp)

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Christians seek solace in prayer after Indonesia disasters

PALU — Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, hoping for answers to the double tragedy that inflicted deep trauma on their community.

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In this file photo taken on September 14, 2018 Vermont Democratic gubernatorial challenger Christine Hallquist posing for a photo after a debate with Vermont Governor Phil Scott at the Tunbridge World’s Fair in Tunbridge, Vermont.

Transgender Vermont grandparent hopes to make US history

BURLINGTON - When Christine Hallquist first told her children she wanted to run for governor, they were angry. When she told her former board of directors, they thought it was a joke.

Now, the Vermont grandparent is on the cusp of making history as America’s first transgender governor -- if she beats Republican incumbent Phil Scott in the November 6 midterm elections.

Before the race, 62-year-old Hallquist was best known in her bucolic home state for leading the charge toward renewable energy, and as a pioneering American CEO who transitioned on the job.

Until 2015, she was officially Dave, father of three and husband of Pat. Today, she is Christine, still living with Pat, and convinced that she can pull off an upset victory against a moderate and fairly popular Republican in a largely blue state whose most famous politician is Senator Bernie Sanders, a selfdescribed Democratic Socialist.

Jumping into state-wide politics has been a breeze compared to the life-altering events of her transition and its impact on her family, documented by her son in the 2016 film “Denial.”

“This is definitely not the hardest thing I ever did,” Hallquist tells

AFP, sitting in a demure skirt and jacket at the Democratic Party’s cramped campaign headquarters in the lake-side city of Burlington.

“In 2014, I had cancer, I was sure I was going to die,” she says.

“When it came to transitioning, it was harder than facing my own death... So once you cross that threshold and I’m sitting here today, I’m just enjoying.”

- ‘Despot’ Crisscrossing the state, Hallquist is campaigning hard. But politics was never her goal in life. Instead, her passion was trying to solve climate change as CEO of a Vermont electricity cooperative.

Donald Trump’s 2016 election, she says, “changed everything.”

Having run an incendiary campaign, in office the president has sought to erode transgender rights, including an attempted military ban, roll back environmental protections and orchestrated a crackdown on immigration.

Neither has peaceful, rural Vermont, home to just 624,000 people, been cocooned from growing intol-

erance. White supremacist flyers, as well as racist and Nazi graffiti, have been reported.

Hallquist says it was hearing four Muslim girls perform slam poetry about being harassed, that made her decide to run, determined to counter a president she accuses of eroding American values.

“We have a despot,” she says, “doing all the classic things that an autocratic leader in a banana republic would do.”

Polls are few and far between in Vermont, so there is little objective data about her chances against Scott, who if defeated would become the state’s first incumbent governor ousted since 1962.

Hallquist trailed Scott 42-50 percent, with a margin of error of 4.86 percent, in a survey released by the Democratic Party on October 1.

The Republican holds a modest fundraising lead and after only two years on the job, some critics are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, not all of them particularly energized about Hallquist. (afp)

Indonesia’s disaster agency said Sunday that the death toll had climbed to 1,763, with more than 5,000 feared missing. Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said officials were trying to confirm the number still missing in several villages obliterated when the quake caused loose soil to liquefy, sucking houses into deep mud and burying occupants.

Protestants, Catholics and Charismatics make up about 10 percent of the population of Palu, where neighborhoods and miles of coastline were obliterated by the Sept. 28 quake and tsunami.

At least 200 people including soldiers filled the grey pews of the Protestant Manunggal church in Palu for the second of three services planned Sunday.

They sang as a young girl in a black and white dress with a red bow danced in the aisle, prayed and listened to a 30-minute sermon from the priest, Lucky Malonda. A woman in the front pew wept.

Min Kapala, a 49-year-old teacher, said she came to the city of more than 25 churches from an outlying area because her usual house of worship was destroyed and liquefaction moved a different piece of ground to its location.

“I’m here at this particular church

because my own church is no more; it’s leveled, and on its location there’s a corn plant,” she said. “That was very strange to me.”

Outside the church, Malonda said the intensity of the disaster had taken even scientists by surprise and called it the will of God. Two people from his congregation were missing, he said.

“This is for sure part of godly intervention, not outside the power of almighty God, that can’t be predicted or planned for by anything,” he said.

Malonda said religious leaders are discussing holding inter-faith prayers but nothing has been agreed yet.

Central Sulawesi, of which Palu is the capital, has a history of violent conflict between Muslims and Christians, though tensions have calmed in the past decade.

As searchers continued to dig through rubble Sunday, central Sulawesi governor Loki Djanggola said local officials were meeting religious groups and families of victims to seek their consent to turn neighborhoods wiped out by liquefaction into mass graves.

He said on local television that survivors in the outlying villages in Petobo, Balaroa and Jono Oge could be relocated and monuments be built

in the areas, which now look like wastelands, to remember the victims interred there.

Hundreds of bodies are believed buried in deep mud in these areas, but officials have said it is not safe for heavy equipment to operate there and also they fear the risk of the spread of disease from decomposed bodies.

While grappling with immediate relief needs, the government is also mapping out plans to help more than 70,000 people, including tens of thousands of children, who have been displaced by the disasters to rebuild their lives.

Social welfare officials have set up nurseries in makeshift tents as stopgap to keep children safe and help them heal from the trauma.

Local television showed children coloring in one such tent in Palu and staff using puppets to minister to affected kids.

Market vendors have resumed business and roadside restaurants were open in Palu but long lines of cars and motorcycles still snarled out of gas stations.

In the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, volunteers walked around thoroughfares empty of cars collecting donations for earthquake victims during the weekly car free morning in the city center.(ap)

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Christians listen to the priest inside a church at the earthquake and tsunami-hit town of Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018. Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, hoping for answers to the double tragedy that inflicted deep trauma on their community.

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Ubud Royal Palace (Puri Saren Ubud) A Royal Palace and Cultural Repository in Ubud

UBUD - The Ubud Royal Palace is one of the most prominent places in Ubud, as it is smack-dab on the main Jalan Raya Ubud road and intersection. The palace can also be regarded as the focal landmark of Ubud. The Ubud palace was built during the lordship of the late Ida Tjokorda Putu Kandel (1800-1823), and is well-kept by his successive heirs. A visit to the Puri Saren is on many of the itineraries to the Ubud area. It has well-preserved Balinese architecture and charming garden settings, and is best known among lovers of Balinese arts as one of the main sites to view dramatic evening dance performances.

Puri Saren Ubud is reachable

after an approximate hour’s drive north from the provincial capital of Denpasar. Many visitors find the palace a convenient stopover, as it is strategically the focal point of Ubud, with the Ubud Art Market, various local and international restaurants just steps away along the main Jalan Raya Ubud. The community meeting hall or bale banjar is just across the road, with the famous Babi Guling Bu Oka warung, serving acclaimed spit roast pig, alongside. The sacred monkey forest of Padangtegal is just down the southern intersection, following through the Jalan Monkey Forest Road.

The performance stage, with a

backdrop of ornate angkul-angkul traditional gate and guardian statues, hosts nightly dance performances with gamelan orchestras. The palace provides a great setting with a gorgeous entrances and exotic architectural elements. Tickets to these performances usually start to be sold in the afternoon. The front section of the palace is open to the public. Walkthroughs for viewing and photos during the day are complimentary. A local guide can be occasionally met around the wantilan pavilions, who will be able to assist with visitors’ inquiries about the history and features of the palace.

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Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates his victory with teammates in the pits at the conclusion of the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on October 7, 2018.

Hamilton romps to Japan win to close on world title

BURIRAM - Marc Marquez won a thrilling inaugural Thailand MotoGP Sunday to extend his lead in the championship to 77 points as he goes in pursuit of a fifth premier class title.

Spain’s Marquez edged out Italy’s Andrea Dovizioso at the end of a breathtaking last-lap duel after the pair had swapped the lead several times over the closing stages of a pulsating battle.

Honda rider Marquez finished the race in 39min 55.722 sec, just 0.115sec ahead of Dovizioso’s Ducati with Maverick Vinales on a Yamaha third as just 0.270sec separated the top three.

The 25-year-old reigning champion started from pole but lost the lead early on to both Valentino Rossi and then Dovizioso.

But the Spaniard fought back towards the end of the 26-lap race as he and Dovizioso went wheel-to-wheel up front in a battle that had the fans on their feet and screaming.

Marquez took the chequered flag after overtaking Dovizioso on the final bend to secure victory by the slimmest of margins.

“I tried to give everything, I forget the championship, I forget all these things,” Marquez said afterwards.

“The last five laps were very very nice for the Thai fans.”

Dovizioso was pleased with the result but said it was “bad to lose the victory on the last turn for sure”.

Marquez now has 271 points, 77 ahead of Dovizioso with a maximum of 100 available in the final four races of season, making him a

strong favourite to retain his title.

Marquez also made history over the weekend as he became the first rider to climb out of Q1 to claim pole position, the 50th of his stunning career.

The Spaniard delighted his supporters, who sought out pictures with him and wore caps with his number 93.

Thailand’s first MotoGP is being held in the rural town of Buriram in the northeast, about a five-hour drive from the capital Bangkok.

Buriram has seen explosive growth through investment in football and racing sports, and expectations for the event were high.

Thousands of hotel rooms and jobs have been created through a football stadium and the 2014 Chang International Circuit, the only Formula One grade track in the country.

The town has a population of about 30,000 but more than double that have turned out to see the debut spectacle, which attracted fans from all over the country and abroad. But attendees missed out on seeing star Jorge Lorenzo, who had to pull out of the race after a crash injured his wrist in practice.

The maiden MotoGP had a local twist as the country’s famous food was being sold by vendors alongside a popular exhibition of Muay Thai, a traditional martial art.Both Dovizioso and Marquez praised the energy and excitement of supporters.

“In Europe the fans have to learn from the Thai fans,” Dovizioso said, while Marquez described the atmosphere as akin to a party. (afp)

SUZUKA - A rampant Lewis Hamilton led a Mercedes one-two at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday to move to the brink of a fifth Formula One world title.

The Briton dominated at Suzuka after starting on pole, stretching his lead over Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to 67 points with just four races left as the German’s hopes were dashed by a collision with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

Valtteri Bottas held off Verstappen to take second almost 13 seconds behind Hamilton in a breathless 53-lap race at the fast-flowing Japanese circuit.

“Woo-hoo! I love you guys!”

Hamilton screamed over team radio after his sixth win in the last seven races.

“I hope you guys are not getting bored of this -- because I’m definitely not.”

Vettel realistically needed to win to keep alive his fading title hopes but, despite making up four places in a frantic start after starting on the fourth row, spun off on lap eight in a shower of sparks after a risky

lunge on Verstappen.

The German, who began from eighth in qualifying, survived the scrape but found himself back in 19th and could only finish sixth, dealing a hammer blow to his slim title hopes. Hamilton will retain his world title if he wins the next race at Austin and Vettel fails to finish second.

“It’s a great one-two for Mercedes and a true showing of the strength in depth we have,” said the Briton after his fifth Japan victory and ninth of the season.

- ‘Unleash the beast’ “I can’t wait to unleash this beast in Austin,” he added, pointing at his car. “We’ve gone from strength to strength this year as a team but I’m taking it one step at a time.”

Daniel Ricciardo finished fourth for Red Bull after starting way back in 15th with Kimi Raikkonen fifth

after Ferrari opted not to switch his position with Vettel for the sake of two extra points.

Vettel was left wondering what might have been after a ruining an electric start with an ill-advised attempt to duck inside Verstappen at turn 13.

“In that corner you can’t overtake,” shrugged the Dutchman, who had earlier received a five-second penalty for nudging Raikkonen off the track.

“I even gave him space but he under-steered into my car.”

Red Bull boss Christian Horner put it even more bluntly when asked to assess Vettel’s rush of blood.

“It was a bit late and obviously opportunistic,” he said. “You know with Max, he’s never going to give an inch and it’s cost Sebastian dear today. That’s probably the end of his championship.” (afp)

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Repsol Honda Team’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez celebrates on the track after winning the MotoGP race of the inaugural Thailand Grand Prix at Buriram International Circuit on October 7, 2018.

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Lopetegui dismisses uncertain future after Madrid hit 33-year drought

Julen Lopetegui insisted it is too early to be questioning his future despite Real Madrid suffering a shock defeat by Alaves on Saturday to make it four games without a victory.

It is four games without a goal too for the European champions, their longest scoring drought since 1985, as Manu Garcia headed home in the 95th minute to send the Mendizorrotza Stadium wild.

It is the first time they have beaten Madrid at home in 87 years.

Alaves fans ran onto the pitch to celebrate their stunning 1-0 win and the chants continued long after the final whistle.

For Real, this was another body blow and to make matters worse, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema, their chief attacking threats, were both forced off injured. Bale had missed the Champions League loss to CSKA Moscow on Tuesday with a groin strain.

It means Barcelona can go three points clear if they win their game in hand against Valencia on Sunday while Alaves’ excellent start to the season continues. They move up to third, level on points with Real.

Lopetegui had been asked on Friday if he felt under pressure at the club he left Spain for on the eve of the World Cup and the question was put to him again after the match here. “It interests you but is not a question that concerns me,” Lopetegui said.

“We know what the life of a coach is, especially at Real Madrid, but we also know it is October and you have to keep perspective and stay calm.”

Captain Sergio Ramos was more emphatic. “It’s other people who make those decisions but it’s never good to have a change of coach,” he said. “It would be crazy.”

Talk of change feels premature but it will increase if Madrid fail to find fluency soon and, in particular, if Barca pull away. The Clasico at the Camp Nou looms at the end of the month. “We are disappointed,” Lopetegui added. “In the end, defeat is a harsh punishment.”

- Courtois at fault Thibaut Courtois took over from Keylor Navas in goal and was at fault for Alaves’ winner. The Bel-

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gian edged out but failed to claim a cross, leaving Garcia to head into any empty net. Supporters behind that goal had unfurled three banners during the match that read: ‘A club is not made great by its titles but by its people’.

Some of the 19,000 fans here might have seen their team beat Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu in 2000, but not at home. It was 1931 when that last happened.

There was a UEFA Cup final too in 2001, which they lost to Gerard Houllier’s Liverpool, but recent years have been tough, with three seasons spent in the third tier.

Alaves climbed their way back up and reached the final of the Copa del Rey in 2017. But for drama, this will be hard to beat.

“I feel very proud,” Garcia said.

“It is the most beautiful day of my sporting life.” Bale had been passed fit to start while Luka Modric and Ramos returned after being rested against CSKA. Ramos clattered Jonathan Calleri early on and then elbowed the Alaves striker in the face. The referee deemed it accidental but Calleri responded with a clip on the defender’s leg.

Bale span in behind and backheeled to Benzema, who teed up Dani Ceballos to shoot. Benzema had a header volleyed off the line

by Victor Laguardia.

But Alaves grew into the half and it took Raphael Varane’s diving header to prevent Ibai Gomez from tapping in at the back post.

Benzema was replaced at half-time

by Mariano Diaz, who instantly looked more dangerous.

The rain came down and the whistles grew louder as Madrid dominated the ball but their opponents could have won it sooner when Jony sprinted clear, only to drag his finish wide.

Bale trudged off and another Alaves chance arrived in injury time. Courtois came for the cross but failed to gather and Ruben Sobrino sent the ball to the back post.

Garcia was perfectly placed.(afp)

Real Madrid’s Spanish-Dominican forward Mariano jumps during the Spanish league football match between Deportivo Alaves and Real Madrid CF at the Mendizorroza stadium in Vitoria on October 6, 2018.

Nzonzi, Dzeko score as resurgent Roma move third in Serie A Steven Nzonzi and Edin Dzeko scored in either half as resurgent Roma won their fourth consecutive game to move third in Serie A with a 2-0 win over promoted Empoli in Tuscany on Saturday.

Eusebio Di Francesco’s side had slumped to ninth after a fourgame winless streak, but jumped into the top three with a win over second-from-bottom Empoli.

French World Cup winner Nzonzi headed in his first goal for Roma since his move from Sevilla in the 36th minute, with

Bosnian ace Dzeko following his midweek Champions League hat-trick against Viktoria Plzen by wrapping up the points five minutes from time.

Roma are now ten points behind leaders Juventus -- who have a maximum 24 points after eight games -- and one point adrift of Carlo Ancelotti’s Napoli who host Sassuolo on Sunday.

The main thing is we’re back winning,” said Dzeko.

“It wasn’t an easy period but we worked our way through it, we have now won four games in

a row heading into the international break and we have fixed things a bit.”

Teenage defender Luca Pellegrini got his first Roma start, with midfielder Javier Pastore and centre-back Aleksandar Kolarov injured.

Lorenzo Pellegrini sent a free-kick over for Nzonzi to get the opener with Empoli proving wasteful. Ismael Bennacer rattled the woodwork for the hosts after the break with Francesco Caputo blazing a penalty over the crossbar on 58 minutes after

Mourinho reveals board backing after United’s stunning win over Newcastle Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho revealed he had received a text message of support from the English giants’ board ahead of his team’s thrilling 3-2 win over Newcastle at Old Trafford on Saturday.

Speculation over Mourinho’s position mounted before kick-off following United’s poor start to the season and, with his team trailing 2-0 inside 10 minutes, the Portuguese boss looked like he could be on his way out.

But Alexis Sanchez capped United’s incredible second-half comeback when he rose to meet Ashley Young’s cross and head in the winning goal in the final minute of the game.

Afterwards Mourinho admitted he needed an unofficial ‘vote of confidence’ from a board member, believed to be executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, before the game to know he could discount a newspaper report that he would be sacked this weekend, regardless of the result against Premier League strugglers Newcastle.

“The ones that read the papers, that are connected with social media, they thought maybe I had gone,” said Mourinho. “If I hadn’t had an SMS from my board not to read (the papers) I would have been convinced

too,” he added.

But 10 minutes into the visit of lowly Newcastle perhaps even Woodward was re-thinking his position.

The visitors’ goals resulted from appalling defending from a United side that has looked weak in that department all season, both coming from Newcastle throw-ins which would have been dealt with by an organised defence.

In the seventh minute, Ayoze Perez played a routine through-ball inside full-back Young and Kenedy easily beat him, for skill and pace, before finishing ruthlessly.

Barely three minutes later, it was Jonjo Shelvey who collected a throwin, his cross beating Eric Bailly’s half-hearted attempt to clear and landing at the feet of Yoshinori Muto who evaded Young before turning to beat David De Gea. Mourinho, who had sent Juan Mata on after just 19 minutes, sprinted down the tunnel at half-time and made further changes, bringing on Marouane Fellaini and playing Paul Pogba in a deeper role to have him see more of the ball.

- ‘Not about me’ But Pogba’s early shot was only parried by Martin Dubravka, the

ball falling to Nemanja Matic who somehow cleared the open goal from six yards with a miss which summed up United’s woes.

Mourinho’s men, however, got back into the game with 20 minutes left when, after Anthony Martial was tripped on the edge of the box, Mata planted a magnificent free-kick past the Newcastle wall and into the corner of the net.

The comeback continued six minutes later when Martial received a header from Pogba, played a one-two with his French team mate featuring a clever Pogba back-heel, before scoring with a precise finish from 15 yards.

Sanchez’s winner also saw United supporters, who had been muted in their backing for Mourinho to that point, sing his name out loud around Old Trafford.

“I’m amazed by that but I don’t want that,” he said. “If I could tell them please don’t do it, I would say that.”

The former Chelsea manager added: “I think this is not about me, it is about the football club, the club they love and about the club we represent with all the honour and dignity but I’m amazed by that. “At half-time we were losing 2-0 and the fans were magnificent to the team.”(afp)

a Cengiz Under handball.

But Dzeko grabbed the second, collecting a Stephan El Shaarawy through ball to fire into the roof of the net.

Roma have now won their last four games over Frosinone, Lazio, Viktoria Plzen and Empoli, for a total of 14 goals with just one conceded. But Di Francesco insisted there was room for improvement.

“We made a few too many mistakes and tended to switch off at times. That’s why I changed the system in the second half.”(afp) AS Rome’s Bosnian forward Edin Dzeko (R) reacts next to Viktoria Plzen’s Slovak goalkeeper Matus Kozacik during the UEFA Champions League group G football match between AS Roma and FC Viktoria Plzen on October 2, 2018 at the Olympic stadium in Rome.

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Lopetegui dismisses uncertain future after Madrid hit 33-year drought

Julen Lopetegui insisted it is too early to be questioning his future despite Real Madrid suffering a shock defeat by Alaves on Saturday to make it four games without a victory.

It is four games without a goal too for the European champions, their longest scoring drought since 1985, as Manu Garcia headed home in the 95th minute to send the Mendizorrotza Stadium wild.

It is the first time they have beaten Madrid at home in 87 years.

Alaves fans ran onto the pitch to celebrate their stunning 1-0 win and the chants continued long after the final whistle.

For Real, this was another body blow and to make matters worse, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema, their chief attacking threats, were both forced off injured. Bale had missed the Champions League loss to CSKA Moscow on Tuesday with a groin strain.

It means Barcelona can go three points clear if they win their game in hand against Valencia on Sunday while Alaves’ excellent start to the season continues. They move up to third, level on points with Real.

Lopetegui had been asked on Friday if he felt under pressure at the club he left Spain for on the eve of the World Cup and the question was put to him again after the match here. “It interests you but is not a question that concerns me,” Lopetegui said.

“We know what the life of a coach is, especially at Real Madrid, but we also know it is October and you have to keep perspective and stay calm.”

Captain Sergio Ramos was more emphatic. “It’s other people who make those decisions but it’s never good to have a change of coach,” he said. “It would be crazy.”

Talk of change feels premature but it will increase if Madrid fail to find fluency soon and, in particular, if Barca pull away. The Clasico at the Camp Nou looms at the end of the month. “We are disappointed,” Lopetegui added. “In the end, defeat is a harsh punishment.”

- Courtois at fault Thibaut Courtois took over from Keylor Navas in goal and was at fault for Alaves’ winner. The Bel-

ANDER GILLENEA / AFP

gian edged out but failed to claim a cross, leaving Garcia to head into any empty net. Supporters behind that goal had unfurled three banners during the match that read: ‘A club is not made great by its titles but by its people’.

Some of the 19,000 fans here might have seen their team beat Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu in 2000, but not at home. It was 1931 when that last happened.

There was a UEFA Cup final too in 2001, which they lost to Gerard Houllier’s Liverpool, but recent years have been tough, with three seasons spent in the third tier.

Alaves climbed their way back up and reached the final of the Copa del Rey in 2017. But for drama, this will be hard to beat.

“I feel very proud,” Garcia said.

“It is the most beautiful day of my sporting life.” Bale had been passed fit to start while Luka Modric and Ramos returned after being rested against CSKA. Ramos clattered Jonathan Calleri early on and then elbowed the Alaves striker in the face. The referee deemed it accidental but Calleri responded with a clip on the defender’s leg.

Bale span in behind and backheeled to Benzema, who teed up Dani Ceballos to shoot. Benzema had a header volleyed off the line

by Victor Laguardia.

But Alaves grew into the half and it took Raphael Varane’s diving header to prevent Ibai Gomez from tapping in at the back post.

Benzema was replaced at half-time

by Mariano Diaz, who instantly looked more dangerous.

The rain came down and the whistles grew louder as Madrid dominated the ball but their opponents could have won it sooner when Jony sprinted clear, only to drag his finish wide.

Bale trudged off and another Alaves chance arrived in injury time. Courtois came for the cross but failed to gather and Ruben Sobrino sent the ball to the back post.

Garcia was perfectly placed.(afp)

Real Madrid’s Spanish-Dominican forward Mariano jumps during the Spanish league football match between Deportivo Alaves and Real Madrid CF at the Mendizorroza stadium in Vitoria on October 6, 2018.

Nzonzi, Dzeko score as resurgent Roma move third in Serie A Steven Nzonzi and Edin Dzeko scored in either half as resurgent Roma won their fourth consecutive game to move third in Serie A with a 2-0 win over promoted Empoli in Tuscany on Saturday.

Eusebio Di Francesco’s side had slumped to ninth after a fourgame winless streak, but jumped into the top three with a win over second-from-bottom Empoli.

French World Cup winner Nzonzi headed in his first goal for Roma since his move from Sevilla in the 36th minute, with

Bosnian ace Dzeko following his midweek Champions League hat-trick against Viktoria Plzen by wrapping up the points five minutes from time.

Roma are now ten points behind leaders Juventus -- who have a maximum 24 points after eight games -- and one point adrift of Carlo Ancelotti’s Napoli who host Sassuolo on Sunday.

The main thing is we’re back winning,” said Dzeko.

“It wasn’t an easy period but we worked our way through it, we have now won four games in

a row heading into the international break and we have fixed things a bit.”

Teenage defender Luca Pellegrini got his first Roma start, with midfielder Javier Pastore and centre-back Aleksandar Kolarov injured.

Lorenzo Pellegrini sent a free-kick over for Nzonzi to get the opener with Empoli proving wasteful. Ismael Bennacer rattled the woodwork for the hosts after the break with Francesco Caputo blazing a penalty over the crossbar on 58 minutes after

Mourinho reveals board backing after United’s stunning win over Newcastle Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho revealed he had received a text message of support from the English giants’ board ahead of his team’s thrilling 3-2 win over Newcastle at Old Trafford on Saturday.

Speculation over Mourinho’s position mounted before kick-off following United’s poor start to the season and, with his team trailing 2-0 inside 10 minutes, the Portuguese boss looked like he could be on his way out.

But Alexis Sanchez capped United’s incredible second-half comeback when he rose to meet Ashley Young’s cross and head in the winning goal in the final minute of the game.

Afterwards Mourinho admitted he needed an unofficial ‘vote of confidence’ from a board member, believed to be executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, before the game to know he could discount a newspaper report that he would be sacked this weekend, regardless of the result against Premier League strugglers Newcastle.

“The ones that read the papers, that are connected with social media, they thought maybe I had gone,” said Mourinho. “If I hadn’t had an SMS from my board not to read (the papers) I would have been convinced

too,” he added.

But 10 minutes into the visit of lowly Newcastle perhaps even Woodward was re-thinking his position.

The visitors’ goals resulted from appalling defending from a United side that has looked weak in that department all season, both coming from Newcastle throw-ins which would have been dealt with by an organised defence.

In the seventh minute, Ayoze Perez played a routine through-ball inside full-back Young and Kenedy easily beat him, for skill and pace, before finishing ruthlessly.

Barely three minutes later, it was Jonjo Shelvey who collected a throwin, his cross beating Eric Bailly’s half-hearted attempt to clear and landing at the feet of Yoshinori Muto who evaded Young before turning to beat David De Gea. Mourinho, who had sent Juan Mata on after just 19 minutes, sprinted down the tunnel at half-time and made further changes, bringing on Marouane Fellaini and playing Paul Pogba in a deeper role to have him see more of the ball.

- ‘Not about me’ But Pogba’s early shot was only parried by Martin Dubravka, the

ball falling to Nemanja Matic who somehow cleared the open goal from six yards with a miss which summed up United’s woes.

Mourinho’s men, however, got back into the game with 20 minutes left when, after Anthony Martial was tripped on the edge of the box, Mata planted a magnificent free-kick past the Newcastle wall and into the corner of the net.

The comeback continued six minutes later when Martial received a header from Pogba, played a one-two with his French team mate featuring a clever Pogba back-heel, before scoring with a precise finish from 15 yards.

Sanchez’s winner also saw United supporters, who had been muted in their backing for Mourinho to that point, sing his name out loud around Old Trafford.

“I’m amazed by that but I don’t want that,” he said. “If I could tell them please don’t do it, I would say that.”

The former Chelsea manager added: “I think this is not about me, it is about the football club, the club they love and about the club we represent with all the honour and dignity but I’m amazed by that. “At half-time we were losing 2-0 and the fans were magnificent to the team.”(afp)

a Cengiz Under handball.

But Dzeko grabbed the second, collecting a Stephan El Shaarawy through ball to fire into the roof of the net.

Roma have now won their last four games over Frosinone, Lazio, Viktoria Plzen and Empoli, for a total of 14 goals with just one conceded. But Di Francesco insisted there was room for improvement.

“We made a few too many mistakes and tended to switch off at times. That’s why I changed the system in the second half.”(afp) AS Rome’s Bosnian forward Edin Dzeko (R) reacts next to Viktoria Plzen’s Slovak goalkeeper Matus Kozacik during the UEFA Champions League group G football match between AS Roma and FC Viktoria Plzen on October 2, 2018 at the Olympic stadium in Rome.

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Marquez wins inaugural Thai MotoGP thriller

Ubud Royal Palace (Puri Saren Ubud) A Royal Palace and Cultural Repository in Ubud

UBUD - The Ubud Royal Palace is one of the most prominent places in Ubud, as it is smack-dab on the main Jalan Raya Ubud road and intersection. The palace can also be regarded as the focal landmark of Ubud. The Ubud palace was built during the lordship of the late Ida Tjokorda Putu Kandel (1800-1823), and is well-kept by his successive heirs. A visit to the Puri Saren is on many of the itineraries to the Ubud area. It has well-preserved Balinese architecture and charming garden settings, and is best known among lovers of Balinese arts as one of the main sites to view dramatic evening dance performances.

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Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates his victory with teammates in the pits at the conclusion of the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on October 7, 2018.

Hamilton romps to Japan win to close on world title

BURIRAM - Marc Marquez won a thrilling inaugural Thailand MotoGP Sunday to extend his lead in the championship to 77 points as he goes in pursuit of a fifth premier class title.

Spain’s Marquez edged out Italy’s Andrea Dovizioso at the end of a breathtaking last-lap duel after the pair had swapped the lead several times over the closing stages of a pulsating battle.

Honda rider Marquez finished the race in 39min 55.722 sec, just 0.115sec ahead of Dovizioso’s Ducati with Maverick Vinales on a Yamaha third as just 0.270sec separated the top three.

The 25-year-old reigning champion started from pole but lost the lead early on to both Valentino Rossi and then Dovizioso.

But the Spaniard fought back towards the end of the 26-lap race as he and Dovizioso went wheel-to-wheel up front in a battle that had the fans on their feet and screaming.

Marquez took the chequered flag after overtaking Dovizioso on the final bend to secure victory by the slimmest of margins.

“I tried to give everything, I forget the championship, I forget all these things,” Marquez said afterwards.

“The last five laps were very very nice for the Thai fans.”

Dovizioso was pleased with the result but said it was “bad to lose the victory on the last turn for sure”.

Marquez now has 271 points, 77 ahead of Dovizioso with a maximum of 100 available in the final four races of season, making him a

strong favourite to retain his title.

Marquez also made history over the weekend as he became the first rider to climb out of Q1 to claim pole position, the 50th of his stunning career.

The Spaniard delighted his supporters, who sought out pictures with him and wore caps with his number 93.

Thailand’s first MotoGP is being held in the rural town of Buriram in the northeast, about a five-hour drive from the capital Bangkok.

Buriram has seen explosive growth through investment in football and racing sports, and expectations for the event were high.

Thousands of hotel rooms and jobs have been created through a football stadium and the 2014 Chang International Circuit, the only Formula One grade track in the country.

The town has a population of about 30,000 but more than double that have turned out to see the debut spectacle, which attracted fans from all over the country and abroad. But attendees missed out on seeing star Jorge Lorenzo, who had to pull out of the race after a crash injured his wrist in practice.

The maiden MotoGP had a local twist as the country’s famous food was being sold by vendors alongside a popular exhibition of Muay Thai, a traditional martial art.Both Dovizioso and Marquez praised the energy and excitement of supporters.

“In Europe the fans have to learn from the Thai fans,” Dovizioso said, while Marquez described the atmosphere as akin to a party. (afp)

SUZUKA - A rampant Lewis Hamilton led a Mercedes one-two at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday to move to the brink of a fifth Formula One world title.

The Briton dominated at Suzuka after starting on pole, stretching his lead over Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to 67 points with just four races left as the German’s hopes were dashed by a collision with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

Valtteri Bottas held off Verstappen to take second almost 13 seconds behind Hamilton in a breathless 53-lap race at the fast-flowing Japanese circuit.

“Woo-hoo! I love you guys!”

Hamilton screamed over team radio after his sixth win in the last seven races.

“I hope you guys are not getting bored of this -- because I’m definitely not.”

Vettel realistically needed to win to keep alive his fading title hopes but, despite making up four places in a frantic start after starting on the fourth row, spun off on lap eight in a shower of sparks after a risky

lunge on Verstappen.

The German, who began from eighth in qualifying, survived the scrape but found himself back in 19th and could only finish sixth, dealing a hammer blow to his slim title hopes. Hamilton will retain his world title if he wins the next race at Austin and Vettel fails to finish second.

“It’s a great one-two for Mercedes and a true showing of the strength in depth we have,” said the Briton after his fifth Japan victory and ninth of the season.

- ‘Unleash the beast’ “I can’t wait to unleash this beast in Austin,” he added, pointing at his car. “We’ve gone from strength to strength this year as a team but I’m taking it one step at a time.”

Daniel Ricciardo finished fourth for Red Bull after starting way back in 15th with Kimi Raikkonen fifth

after Ferrari opted not to switch his position with Vettel for the sake of two extra points.

Vettel was left wondering what might have been after a ruining an electric start with an ill-advised attempt to duck inside Verstappen at turn 13.

“In that corner you can’t overtake,” shrugged the Dutchman, who had earlier received a five-second penalty for nudging Raikkonen off the track.

“I even gave him space but he under-steered into my car.”

Red Bull boss Christian Horner put it even more bluntly when asked to assess Vettel’s rush of blood.

“It was a bit late and obviously opportunistic,” he said. “You know with Max, he’s never going to give an inch and it’s cost Sebastian dear today. That’s probably the end of his championship.” (afp)

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Repsol Honda Team’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez celebrates on the track after winning the MotoGP race of the inaugural Thailand Grand Prix at Buriram International Circuit on October 7, 2018.

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Honduras zoo struggles to replace the drug money that built it

SANTA CRUZ - An imposingly tall giraffe, powerful African lions and proud Bengal tigers are among the many highlights of a zoo -- created by wealthy drug traffickers -- that is like a Garden of Eden in the green mountains of Honduras.

But the Joya Grande animal park is now languishing because of a shortage of funds.

The zoo was allegedly modeled after the Hacienda Napoles -the vast estate of the late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar -- by a violent Honduran cartel known as the Cachiros, which was sanctioned by the United States in 2013.

“The eco-park was very profitable, it was new, we had a lot of investment, but now we lack the capital that the owners had” since their arrests, biologist and zoo manager Maria Diaz told AFP. Diaz, who is Guatemalan, is desperately hoping for government economic assistance to keep the park going.

Four months of demonstrations against the re-election last November of President Juan Orlando Hernandez blocked the main access road to the zoo, sharply curtailing the number of visitors.

The facility sits atop a hill 150 kilometers (95 miles) north of the capital city Tegucigalpa. A sign formed of white stones set on a grassy hillside welcomes tourists with the words “Great Jewel Zoo.” The giraffe stretches out its neck to greet visitors, while zebras leisurely munch on hay in a nearby corral. Further down a steep slope are enclosures for deer, camels and big, pig-like tapirs -- including a newborn -- as well as the pools in which hippos wallow.

Next come cages and enclosures containing powerful members of the cat family -- African lions, Bengal tigers, jaguars and pumas -- followed by bison, llamas, wildebeest, ostriches, peacocks and other exotic animals.

Visitors can rent water bicycles, ride horses or enjoy the zoo’s cafeterias, pools and restaurants, as well as the 15 cabins for tourists -- who are sorely lacking.

Honduras’s Office of Seized Assets (OABI) confiscated the facility from the drug cartel in April 2014, at which point the biologist Diaz -- who had been in charge of caring for the animals -- managed to obtain a government concession to operate the place for $7,400 a month. (afp)

IMF...

From page 1 After sounding the alarm in recent years about threats to the global economy, Lagarde said last week “some of those risks have begun to materialize” and “there are signs that global growth has plateaued.”

The rise in trade barriers is slowing trade, and dampening investment and manufacturing as uncertainty increases, she said.

And she repeated the warning about rising debt levels which “reached an all-time high of $182 trillion -- almost 60 percent higher than in 2007.” That creates concerns for emerging market economies which will come under increased pressure as the US central bank raises interest rates, while investors are likely to pull out of those markets seeking higher returns.

Argentina and Turkey already have been hit by headwinds, seeing their currencies collapse and

forcing Buenos Aires to go the IMF for help.

The fund recently increased support for Argentina by $7 billion to $57 billion in exchange for tough economic policy reforms, although the loan has not yet been approved by the IMF board.

But Economist Monica de Bolle of the Peterson Institute for International Economics said Brazil also was likely to see market turbulence next year and South Africa is vulnerable as well.

“This is not going to end well,” de Bolle said of the emerging market outlook. There could be broader repercussions in the event China’s economic engine slows sharply amid the trade confrontation.

Group of 20 finance ministers also are due to meet in Bali on the sidelines of the IMF meeting to discuss topics such as US sanctions against Iran or taxes on digital giants. This will the last meeting prior to the leaders’ summit in Buenos Aires at the end of November. (afp)

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Christians seek solace in prayer after Indonesia disasters

PALU — Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, hoping for answers to the double tragedy that inflicted deep trauma on their community.

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In this file photo taken on September 14, 2018 Vermont Democratic gubernatorial challenger Christine Hallquist posing for a photo after a debate with Vermont Governor Phil Scott at the Tunbridge World’s Fair in Tunbridge, Vermont.

Transgender Vermont grandparent hopes to make US history

BURLINGTON - When Christine Hallquist first told her children she wanted to run for governor, they were angry. When she told her former board of directors, they thought it was a joke.

Now, the Vermont grandparent is on the cusp of making history as America’s first transgender governor -- if she beats Republican incumbent Phil Scott in the November 6 midterm elections.

Before the race, 62-year-old Hallquist was best known in her bucolic home state for leading the charge toward renewable energy, and as a pioneering American CEO who transitioned on the job.

Until 2015, she was officially Dave, father of three and husband of Pat. Today, she is Christine, still living with Pat, and convinced that she can pull off an upset victory against a moderate and fairly popular Republican in a largely blue state whose most famous politician is Senator Bernie Sanders, a selfdescribed Democratic Socialist.

Jumping into state-wide politics has been a breeze compared to the life-altering events of her transition and its impact on her family, documented by her son in the 2016 film “Denial.”

“This is definitely not the hardest thing I ever did,” Hallquist tells

AFP, sitting in a demure skirt and jacket at the Democratic Party’s cramped campaign headquarters in the lake-side city of Burlington.

“In 2014, I had cancer, I was sure I was going to die,” she says.

“When it came to transitioning, it was harder than facing my own death... So once you cross that threshold and I’m sitting here today, I’m just enjoying.”

- ‘Despot’ Crisscrossing the state, Hallquist is campaigning hard. But politics was never her goal in life. Instead, her passion was trying to solve climate change as CEO of a Vermont electricity cooperative.

Donald Trump’s 2016 election, she says, “changed everything.”

Having run an incendiary campaign, in office the president has sought to erode transgender rights, including an attempted military ban, roll back environmental protections and orchestrated a crackdown on immigration.

Neither has peaceful, rural Vermont, home to just 624,000 people, been cocooned from growing intol-

erance. White supremacist flyers, as well as racist and Nazi graffiti, have been reported.

Hallquist says it was hearing four Muslim girls perform slam poetry about being harassed, that made her decide to run, determined to counter a president she accuses of eroding American values.

“We have a despot,” she says, “doing all the classic things that an autocratic leader in a banana republic would do.”

Polls are few and far between in Vermont, so there is little objective data about her chances against Scott, who if defeated would become the state’s first incumbent governor ousted since 1962.

Hallquist trailed Scott 42-50 percent, with a margin of error of 4.86 percent, in a survey released by the Democratic Party on October 1.

The Republican holds a modest fundraising lead and after only two years on the job, some critics are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, not all of them particularly energized about Hallquist. (afp)

Indonesia’s disaster agency said Sunday that the death toll had climbed to 1,763, with more than 5,000 feared missing. Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said officials were trying to confirm the number still missing in several villages obliterated when the quake caused loose soil to liquefy, sucking houses into deep mud and burying occupants.

Protestants, Catholics and Charismatics make up about 10 percent of the population of Palu, where neighborhoods and miles of coastline were obliterated by the Sept. 28 quake and tsunami.

At least 200 people including soldiers filled the grey pews of the Protestant Manunggal church in Palu for the second of three services planned Sunday.

They sang as a young girl in a black and white dress with a red bow danced in the aisle, prayed and listened to a 30-minute sermon from the priest, Lucky Malonda. A woman in the front pew wept.

Min Kapala, a 49-year-old teacher, said she came to the city of more than 25 churches from an outlying area because her usual house of worship was destroyed and liquefaction moved a different piece of ground to its location.

“I’m here at this particular church

because my own church is no more; it’s leveled, and on its location there’s a corn plant,” she said. “That was very strange to me.”

Outside the church, Malonda said the intensity of the disaster had taken even scientists by surprise and called it the will of God. Two people from his congregation were missing, he said.

“This is for sure part of godly intervention, not outside the power of almighty God, that can’t be predicted or planned for by anything,” he said.

Malonda said religious leaders are discussing holding inter-faith prayers but nothing has been agreed yet.

Central Sulawesi, of which Palu is the capital, has a history of violent conflict between Muslims and Christians, though tensions have calmed in the past decade.

As searchers continued to dig through rubble Sunday, central Sulawesi governor Loki Djanggola said local officials were meeting religious groups and families of victims to seek their consent to turn neighborhoods wiped out by liquefaction into mass graves.

He said on local television that survivors in the outlying villages in Petobo, Balaroa and Jono Oge could be relocated and monuments be built

in the areas, which now look like wastelands, to remember the victims interred there.

Hundreds of bodies are believed buried in deep mud in these areas, but officials have said it is not safe for heavy equipment to operate there and also they fear the risk of the spread of disease from decomposed bodies.

While grappling with immediate relief needs, the government is also mapping out plans to help more than 70,000 people, including tens of thousands of children, who have been displaced by the disasters to rebuild their lives.

Social welfare officials have set up nurseries in makeshift tents as stopgap to keep children safe and help them heal from the trauma.

Local television showed children coloring in one such tent in Palu and staff using puppets to minister to affected kids.

Market vendors have resumed business and roadside restaurants were open in Palu but long lines of cars and motorcycles still snarled out of gas stations.

In the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, volunteers walked around thoroughfares empty of cars collecting donations for earthquake victims during the weekly car free morning in the city center.(ap)

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Christians listen to the priest inside a church at the earthquake and tsunami-hit town of Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018. Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, hoping for answers to the double tragedy that inflicted deep trauma on their community.

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Marina Silva, presidential candidate of the Sustainability Network Party, gestures to the audience before a live, televised presidential debate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. Brazil will hold general elections on Oct. 7.

A glance at economic proposals of Brazil’s top candidates

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilians will go to the polls Sunday at a time when the economy is only slowly recovering from a prolonged recession and more than 13 million people remain out of work.

Here is a look at the main economic issues at stake: PENSION REFORM President Michel Temer had hoped to pare back Brazil’s generous pension system to lower the country’s deficit, but his proposal to raise the retirement age led to nationwide protests and ended up flailing in Congress.

Economists agree the next president will have to tackle this issue.

Far-right congressman and pollleader Jair Bolsonaro has proposed allowing workers to pay into individual retirement accounts. If employers decide to use such a system, they would be allowed to decrease employee benefits.

Workers’Party candidate Fernando Haddad, who is in second place, has rejected the idea of cutting pension

benefits and says that he would reduce the deficit by growing the economy and creating more formal contracts for workers.

Center-left candidate Ciro Gomes and Sustainability Party candidate Marina Silva both favor a sort of individual retirement account system.

Center-right candidate Geraldo Alckmin says he will create a single pension system for everyone and establish a more rigid minimum retirement age.

TAX REFORM High tax rates and convoluted bureaucratic processes have made Brazil a hard place to do business, according to a World Bank report that ranked the South American nation 184 out of 190 countries under the rubric of ‘Paying Taxes.’

Bolsonaro has vowed to cut taxes and rejected his own financial adviser’s suggestion of a tax on financial transactions.

Haddad plans to fund social programs and eliminate income taxes for the poorest by increasing rates for the super-rich. The leftist has also proposed gradually replacing other taxes with a value-added tax.

Gomes proposes taxing the rich to invest in education and social programs, while Silva says she’d avoid the need to raise taxes by curbing public spending and combatting corruption.

Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party also wants to replace many taxes with a value-added tax.

LABOR LAWS Last year, Congress loosened Brazil’s strict labor laws, allowing for more flexible working hours and optional contributions to unions.

Bolsonaro plans to let employees entering the labor market decide between following the new labor laws or negotiating their own contracts.

Both Haddad and Gomes have denounced the labor reform as an attack on workers’ rights and want to replace it with more labor-friendly legislation.

Silva told Globo News she would largely maintain the labor reform but scratch “draconian” measures like forcing pregnant or breast-feeding employees to work in potentially unsanitary conditions.

Alckmin has said he will “not repeal any of the labor reform’s key measures.”

PRIVATIZATION Some say that many of Brazil’s 149 state-owned companies should be privatized, arguing they are inefficient and subject to corruption, as shown by a multi-billion dollar kickback scheme centered on Petrobras. Others worry

about too much foreign involvement in Brazil’s most strategic industries.

Bolsonaro has said he wants to privatize many state-owned companies, but would exempt the banks Caixa Economica and Banco do Brasil.

Haddad plans to limit privatizations, saying state companies are vital for the country’s development.

Gomes’ economic adviser said his party would consider privatizing about half of state-controlled companies while keeping Petrobras, Banco do Brasil and the electricity company Eletrobras in state hands.

Silva wants to keep Petrobras, Banco do Brasil and Caixa Economica public, and would analyze the benefits of privatizing other companies.

Alckmin has said he doesn’t trust the state to run businesses and wants to sell many to make the economy more efficient. However, he says he would not privatize Petrobras and Banco do Brasil.(ap)

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Tipat Bantal War Tools, Symbol of Male and Female

Tradition of tipat and bantal war organized at Kapal customary village is a unique tradition because the participating people will perform activities of mutual throwing by using tipat and bantal posing one of the favorite foods for the community of Bali.

It is an expression of gratitude to God for the blessing extended in the form of abundance of fertility in the environment. However, since it is a tradition and ritual, of course, this kind of tipat-bantal war will begin with a procession of presenting oblations and so forth before implemented.

The temple priest Jero Nyoman Lidriani said that preparation ceremony will be preceded by banten pejati, byakaonan and pangulapan.

After being presented, it will be followed by Hindu people or Kapal.

After completing the presentation of offerings, it is resumed with joint prayers and matimpugan.

It is commenced with jejatonan for 3 times in front of the bale agung temple or middle courtyard of the temple. Executor of the jejatonan itself is not arbitrary namely temple priest and village officials.

Sometimes, it is followed by government officials such as the regent

usually presented every 2 years.

After that, it is carried out in outermost courtyard by many people in accordance with norms.

“Formerly, it was only carried out in front of the bale agung pavilion. Since the current pilgrims are consisting of more people the pavilion is worried to get damaged.

Thus, the activities are continued in the outermost temple courtyard and only the jejatonan is still held in the bale agung,” he said.

Furthermore, he said that before starting matimpugan, all the pilgrims put soda offerings pursuant to their affordability and must contain tipat sirikan (rice bag) and six pieces of bantal fresh cake. The

rice bag is placed in the temple while the bantal can be brought back home.

Similar opinion was conveyed

by I Ketut Sudarsana where the rice bag is incised transverse in the middle as a symbol of female genital or Pradhana while the bantal snack itself is a symbol of male genital or Purusa. Encounter of both elements will produce or bring up the seeds of life. In this case, it symbolizes the emergence and fertility for the seeds of food sources of society.

Besides, both entities symbolize the sea and mountains.

In the procession held at the outermost courtyard of the local temple, all the pilgrims that will

throw rice bag are positioned in the south because it is a symbol of male or sea while in the north is the area of ??the pitch throwing group as the symbol of Purusa or mountains believed to be in the north. Then, even though there is impression of throwing each other to each participant, it will be attempted that tipat and bantal will hit each other in the air because it is the most important point of the tradition.

“After finishes, it is ended with a joint prayer while for the remnants scattered will be collected and then distributed to residents and made into fertilizer for their respective paddy field. It is believed to increase fertility,” he added. (kmb)

“Wrap” Wanna Taste It?

Our Head Chef Wijang Wibi Herdoko & Mike from Mr Sausage has added a new menu as a compliment on your selection in Food Truck. Names “Wrap” It’s wrapped in Tortillas with large size.

Our menu is probably better known as Burrito by American society.

Consists of “Sober Wrap and Drunk Wrap”. This menu has a different variant, Sober Wrap presents vegetarian food with a choice of fresh vegetables, avocado, red beans, bean sprouts, salsa and other complimentary additions. While Drunk Wrap presents a selection of minced beef and chicken fillet.

“We make and select items for our new menu to

provide continuity in food choices” Chef Wijang said. In addition to the Jumbo Hot Dogs and Burgers we have, I hope our Sober & Drunk Wrap can be an option to accompany your night in Legian.

If you are interesting and want to try our new menus, please come to Height Bar & Restaurant at J4 Hotels Legian on the 5th floor. You can feel the sensation of eating on the roof with pool and city views. Or order via our Food Truck which will be present every afternoon at 5 until dawn. Also available on the “Go-Food” Food Delivery service by entering “Height Bar & Restaurant” in the application’s search field. (r)

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Story on Palu’s refugees at Gilimanuk

her children were in the house. She wanted to say Maghrib prayers.

However, she did not have time to do it as the earthquake happened.

At first, she stayed inside the house.

After the shakes stopped, she and her children went out to the field and had time to return home to lock the doors.

Then, the aftershocks were very loud. The second earthquake caused the reservoir near the Petobo housing complex to burst and the water mixed with mud rose into the housing that caused the housing to collapse.

According to him, the Petobo housing is underneath the housing they occupied. His housing complex was not exposed to mud. Then, they lived in quite safe refugee camp.

However, they could only stay in refugee camp for three days. Food and clean water are said to have run thin while the aids had not yet arrived.

Besides, the stench of corpses buried in debris have not been evacuated and become even more intense.

Heryadi was worried about the health of his children starting to decline. The land at the location is said to still frequently shake and they are worried if it collapses.

Seeing his children’s declining health condition, Heryadi who is worried then decided to evacuate to Gilimanuk with his family. He departed with a logistics truck coming back after transporting assistance to Mamuju. After an overnight in Mamuju, he then headed for Makassar and took a flight to Bali.

They arrived at Gilimanuk on Friday night. Heryadi, a civil servant from the Central Sulawesi Forestry Service, admitted to still want to immediately return to Palu so that he can work and the school of his first child remaining in grade IV of elementary school can continue. (kmb)

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One of the surviving families fled to his family’s home at Gilimanuk.

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Sayonara Tsukiji! Exodus as relocation of Tokyo’s famed fish market begins

Evacuating because of child health NEGARA - The earthquake and tsunami disaster in Palu, Central Sulawesi, kept profound sorrow not only to the people of Palu but also the people of Indonesia in general.

Survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in Palu are now doing various ways to survive.

One of the surviving families fled to his family’s home at Gilimanuk. Heryadi took his wife, Hariati Tanaiyo, and two children Jarwali, 10, and Aufar, 3, to take refuge at the house of Jirah Sujati, which is also chief of Asih neighborhood at Gang IV, Gilimanuk.

To journalists, Heryadi stated on Saturday (Oct. 6) that when the disasters happened, he was participating in the training while his wife and children were at home at Griya Petobo. According to him, the first earthquake was remarkably felt and the plafond of the building where he got training fell down.

Being worried about his family, he then left the training center to go home by his motorbike. From the training center to the home is around 5 km. When heading for his home, he had to lift his motorbike because the road was severely damaged by the earthquake.

According to him, the road was like a folded paper. To go to his home located about five kilometers away from his training center was not easy because the road was severely damaged by the earthquake.

When arriving home, he found his house had fallen apart and the wall was broken. “At first, I thought my wife and children went to the beach to join the celebration of Palu City Anniversary. However, after finding them surviving in the field at first I was very worried,” he said.

Hariati also told that when first earthquake hit the region she and

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TOKYO - Hundreds of fishmongers on forklifts and trucks rose before dawn in Tokyo to join a mammoth exodus of vendors as the world-famous Tsukiji market relocates to a new site.

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Teaching Balinese language, especially to the younger generation, has a great challenge today.

Great challenge to teach Balinese language for young generation

DENPASAR - The issuance of the gubernatorial rules and instructions regarding the use of Balinese scripts, Balinese language, and Balinese traditional attires are positively appreciated

by Balinese language instructors. Real implementation of this regulation has long been awaited in the community. Moreover, teaching Balinese language, especially to the younger generation, has a great challenge today.

“We are very grateful and appreciate to the gubernatorial regulation because we have also been mapping out the signboard so far and calling for Balinese days. However, it did not get many responds because there is no regulation,” said Coordinator of Balinese Language Extension, I Nyoman Suka Ardiyasa, when confirmed on Saturday (Oct. 6).

According to Suka, the issuance of the regulations such as the Regional Regulation, the Gubernatorial Regulation to Gubernatorial Instruction is like a tit for tat. Balinese language instructor will also be facilitated in inviting the community to love and preserve Balinese language by disseminating the regulation. When talking about cultural preservation, Balinese language as the root is indeed very important to be preserved.

“With this policy, Balinese people inevitably are forced to return to love Balinese scripts, for example, by changing their house number with Balinese characters. Then, we are able to teach children Balinese language, including at the agency

level,” he explained.

Suka added that Balinese language instructor is ready to attend if problems arise from the implementation of the existing regulations. For example, there are those who do not understand about Balinese language, the government can call the Balinese instructor to share knowledge about it. So far, the great challenges faced are teaching Balinese language among young people.

“All this time, we find difficulties among the younger generation and children. As for the elementary school children, we can still provide coaching. The problem is our difficulty to approach teenager,” he explained.

Suka explained that elementary students are more easily coached because they must be participating in study groups formed by the Balinese language instructors. Meanwhile, teenagers are just commonly interested in installing Bali Simbar font or knowing how to read Balinese script on smartphone. For the remaining, the extension workers are quite difficult to get in touch more

youngsters in teaching the Balinese language. At some hamlets, the meeting of Sekaa Taruna or customary youth club supposed to speak Balinese language even agrees to speak Indonesian because no one can speak Balinese language.

“Indeed such problem cannot be generalized, but some of our findings are like that. There is a very good process of how they learn Balinese. This is indeed our challenge other than each village is only filled with one instructor. So, it is rather difficult to conduct guidance to all villages,” he explained.

Nevertheless, Suka continued that Balinese language instructors are still trying to provide input for the government regarding the next policy. As it is now, the extension officers are currently distributing questionnaires to find out the position of Balinese language in relation to the use of the Balinese language.

Likewise, it involves the field of Balinese script and literature. As scheduled, the data about this matter are targeted to have been completed in December. (kmb32)

In small vehicles and the market’s famed “turret trucks” -- one-man flatbeds with a barrelshaped steering column at the front -- they drove out of the Tsukiji site one last time, headed for Toyosu, the market’s new home.

The main bridge out from the market was closed to traffic for the move, with security guards in place to wave along the leaving wholesalers who drove in orderly lines between safety cones topped with flashing red and green lights.

Hundreds of the 900 businesses that once handled 480 kinds of seafood worth $14 million daily -- as well as 270 types of fruits and vegetables -- are relocating.

A total of 2,600 turret trucks and forklifts will drive about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 miles) from Tsukiji to the new site over a period of five days, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government.

The move began a day after the last tuna auction at the market, a pre-dawn ritual for Tokyo’s food world that also once drew crowds of tourists hoping for one of just 120 spots to watch.

The 83-year-old market’s move has been in the works for decades, prompted by its rundown state, but it has been a lengthy and controversial process, hindered by pollution rows and construction delays.

The discovery of soil contamination at Toyosu, formerly home to a gas plant, sparked safety fears about the new site and forced local authorities to spend millions of

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A fishmonger cleans his shop at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on October 7, 2018, the first day of relocation to the new Toyosu market following Tsukiji’s final tuna auction on October 6. dollars to clean up the area.

After experts declared Toyosu safe, the Tokyo governor took the final decision to move the market there in late 2017, ending years of delays.

But while the new site promises state-ofthe-art refrigeration and will keep gawping tourists away from the business of the market in a gallery behind glass, the move has still

left a bitter taste for some.

“I feel nostalgic as Tsukiji has been my home ground for 15 years. We are sad to lose the Tsukiji brand,” vegetable wholesaler Tsukasa Kujirai told AFP on Saturday.

Opened in 1935, Tsukiji was for many years known only to its vendors and the food industry, but it gained international reknown in recent decades and its tuna auctions even

hit the headlines, with one fish going for a record $1.8 million at the market’s New Year’s auction in 2013.

The highest bidder at Saturday’s final auction paid 4.4 million yen ($38,700) for a bluefin tuna weighing 162 kilograms (357 pounds) caught off Aomori, northern Japan.

Toyosu will officially throw open its doors on October 11. (afp)

JERUSALEM - The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial Sunday for allegedly using state funds to fraudulently pay for hundreds of meals, part of a list of legal troubles facing the family.

The start of Sara Netanyahu’s trial will be the latest chapter in a saga intensely scrutinised in Israel, but dismissed by the Netanyahus as another “absurd” attempt to discredit them.

The premier himself faces possible charges in separate corruption investigations, leading to speculation that he will eventually be forced to step down.

Sara Netanyahu was charged with fraud and breach of trust in June.

Prosecutors accuse her of misusing state funds to pay for catered meals costing $100,000 (85,000 euros) by falsely declaring there were no cooks available at the premier’s TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP official residence.

From 2010 to 2013, she, her family and Sara Netanyahu (2nd R), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, watches her husband address the 73rd General Assembly of the United Na- guests received “fraudulently from the state hundreds of prepared meals”, the indictment tions in New York September 27, 2018.

read. According to the charge sheet, the meals were ordered from a variety of well-known Jerusalem businesses, including an Italian restaurant, a Middle Eastern grill joint and a sushi establishment.

The trial, which could run for months, opens in the Jerusalem magistrates court at 1:30 PM (1030 GMT) with a hearing on whether it should be overseen by a panel of three judges instead of one due to the case’s “public sensitivity”.

It was due to start in July but was postponed for reasons that were not made public.

Sara Netanyahu, 59 and a high-profile presence at her husband’s side throughout his long tenure, has denied any wrongdoing.

“For the first time in history, charges are being pressed against a leader’s wife over noodles and take-away containers from six to seven years ago,” a statement from her lawyers said Sunday.

The meals were ordered “against Sara Netanyahu’s will”, it said. (afp)

Israel PM’s wife goes on trial in delivery meals case

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Experiencing the light fantastic at the Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, Finland

HELSINKI - The newly opened Amos Rex museum in Helsinki is a subterranean wonderland with exhibitions designed to stir the senses through light and sound. The newly opened self-proclaimed “museum for all”, Amos Rex museum, in Helsinki‘s landscaped Lasipalatsi Square, forms part of a large-scale cultural space that includes a cinema, an artistic workshop and an education space.

The 6,230 square meter building is almost entirely underground, and bubbles into the public sphere through a series of concrete domes that are decorated in funky geometric patterns.

The five domes, which double as a sloping playground, are topped with skylights made of steel and glass.

Inside, the museum feels classically Scandinavian, with crisp, white space and plenty of light.

However this all changes as you make your way downstairs to the museum’s Massless exhibition.

Experiencing the light fantastic The subterranean Massless

exhibition is the brainchild of international digital art collective, teamLab, and consists of a series of interactive 3D installations. Black fabric covers almost every inch of exhibition space in order to provide a dark enough backdrop to display the colourful projections.

The first room, titled “Black Waves”, is inspired by Japanese paintings and features a series of lines which mimic the continuous movement of waves as they roll and crash against each other. The waves seem completely three dimensional, and have a mesmerising quality that is amplified by the ac-

companying sound effects.

In the next room: “Graffiti Nature: Lost, Immersed and Reborn” visitors are presented with an interactive ecosystem of plants and animals that bloom, swim, jump and fly through the room in a riot of colour. Whales swim and twirl on the floor, frogs hop along the walls and butterflies flit amongst the flowers.

Visitors can add animals into the landscape by scanning their coloured-in drawings into the system. The circle of life is visible for all to see, as flowers bloom and die and animals catch and eat their

prey. It’s mesmerising.

In contrast to the dazzling colours of “Graffiti Nature”, the next room we wandered into was a vast space called the “Vortex of Light Particles”. Inspired by the movement of water, the installation features a series of flowing blue particles that flow towards the skylight, creating a kind of virtual vortex. Hidden at the back of the room is a black curtain that leads to the final light installation entitled “Crows…”

The seemingly innocuous room is suddenly filled with light and sound as a flock of crows soar around the room, creating a euphoric and somewhat dizzying sensation. The crows crash into each other and transform into colourful flowers. The music ends, and the room falls into darkness.

The installation is rendered in real

time by a computer programme, and is therefore in constant change.

Fact File Opening hours: The Amos Rex Museum is open every day from 11am except Tuesday, when it is closed. Bookings can be made by phone on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, between 1pm and 4pm.

Price: General admission costs €18 per person. Students under 30 can purchase tickets for just €5. Getting there: Helsinki is a very walkable city and you can reach the museum from most places on foot. The address is Amos Rex, Mannerheimintie 2224, 00100, Helsinki. Flying there: Finnair offer direct flights to Helsinki from all over the world, including the UK, USA and East Asia. From London Heathrow start at £91 each way. (IBP/net)

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Tourists visit drops 8.10 percent in high season DENPASAR — Foreign tourist arrivals decreased by 8.10 percent in August 2018 when compared to July 2018 (month to month). By year of year, foreign tourists visiting Bali also experienced a decline of 4.67 percent. The markets experiencing the decline were China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, et cetera.

Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Adi Nugroho, said that foreign tourist visits in August 2018 amounted to 573,766 people. “Up to July, the foreign tourist visits always

exceeded the number of previous years although the visit in January was low because of the eruption of Mount Agung,” he said.

After the tourist visit has recovered since March 2018, it has

always surpassed the previous year setting new records. However, in August 2018, the number of visits dropped to lower than the previous year.

Adi Nugroho suspected the

By year of year, foreign tourists visiting Bali experienced a decline of 4.67 percent.

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decline happened due to the influence of the earthquake happening in Lombok and impacting to Bali. In addition, the foreign tourists are alleged to turn to other tourist destinations. In August 2017, total foreign tourist visits reached 4.5 million and by the end of 2017 amounted to 5.7 million. Meanwhile, until August 2018, foreign tourists visit has reached 4.91 million, so that by the end of 2018 it is expected to reach more than 5.7 million.

By their nationality, Chinese tourists still occupy the first position with the highest number of visits, namely 155,761 in August 2017 and increased to 136,424 in August 2018. In the meantime, foreign tourists from Australia increased from 3.95 percent (yoy).

The decline of Chinese tourists, according to Adi, is very likely to be influenced by China’s economic downturn so that it had an impact on the purchasing power of Chinese people. It is also coupled with the Lombok disaster in August. Besides, this decline is inseparable from the factor of transition to another destination. “So, if there is interference in other destinations, they are likely to influence the intention to visit Bali,” he said.

All of these factors are considered to have affected the decline of foreign tourists, especially Chinese tourists having always occupied the highest position of foreign tourist arrival who come to Bali. However, to find out the

exact cause and percentage, it is needed further research.

In addition to Chinese tourists, Japanese tourists also experienced similar decline. “Japanese tourists are relatively stable.

But, we must compete to grab with other destinations because we can lock Japanese fanatic tourists. By and large, they are also selective about the services and attractiveness of the destinations as comparison of Bali,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the tourist visit from Australia, United Kingdom and France experienced an increase, where Australian tourists occupied the second highest position, the United Kingdom as the fourth and France as the fifth. “United Kingdom and France usually do not enter the top five,” he said.

Deputy Chairman I of the Central Executive Board of Indonesia Hotel General Manager Association (IHGMA), I Made Ramia Adnyana, said that July and August usually belong to high season. “August should be the highest visit because of holiday season,” he concluded.

He admitted to never be worried about business in July and August because hotels in Bali are always fully occupied. According to him, this decline needed to be analyzed. “Maybe last year there was a large group or MICE in July and August. Meanwhile, this year it is purely filled with leisure Free Independent Traveler (FIT),” he concluded. (kmb42)

When visiting Tabanan

District Police ready to secure IMF-World Bank delegates TABANAN — The International Monetary Fund and World Bank (IMF-WB) Annual Meeting will take place in Nusa Dua on October 8-14. The delegates and their extended families are scheduled to visit a number of tourist objects.

One of them is Tanah Lot in Tabanan. To make sure their safety during the visit to Tanah Lot and the possibility to visit a number of other tourist objects such as Ulundanu Beratan and Jatiluwih, Tabanan Police ranks held regional security readiness on Wednesday (Oct. 3) in the Alit Saputra Square, Tabanan, led by Chief of Tabanan Police, Made Sinar Subawa.

Before around 200 joint personnel of the National Police

(Polri), the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the Transportation Agency, Sinar Subawa confirmed to his personnel to carry out their duties as well as possible. According to him, the IMF meeting is a history because Indonesia will possibly return to have the opportunity to host in the next 300 years. On that account, the implementation of security must be carried out with a sense of responsibility.

“The regional taskforce is assigned to ensure the security of the route and location of the activity. Hopefully, all members can really understand and know their position and what to do,” he said.

Security is also carried out at

tourist objects to be visited by the delegates, other than Tanah Lot. Sinar Subawa added they will give special attention to Ulundanu Beratan and Jatiluwih tourist object, especially Jatiluwih having become the UNESCO’s heritage.

“I’m confident there are delegates that know and wish to see them right away. For security, we are assisted by the military ranks, Transportation Agency and security officers of each attraction,” he explained.

In addition to the readiness of personnel, the police chief on that occasion also checked the supporting facilities of the tasks such as motorcycle, cars and other equipment. (kmb28)

Tabanan Police ranks held regional security readiness.

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DENPASAR —The Faculty of Humanities (FIB) of Udayana University (Unud) prepared 25 students to take part in the IMF-WB Annual Meeting. The students are prepared as companions of journalists from all over the world.

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Dr. Ni Luh Sutjiati Beratha, stated that preparation of the companion to journalist is cooperation between PT. Telkom and Udayana University through MoU, while at the faculty level is made a memorandum of agreement (MoA). “We are asked to recruit a number of students that will be in charge of the media center. They will get in touch with a number of journalists from all over the world,” she stated on Thursday (Oct. 4).

They are looking for students who have free time and are be able to become or participate as interpreters or as journalist companion. The selected students are those who are preparing their undergraduate final project.

“Of course, we do not involve the students of semester 5 because they are still attending college and their lectures are ongoing. So, we decided with the coordinator of the study program to look for those who are finishing their thesis,” she explained.

The participating students have been trained in advance for about two weeks or a week before the event they have been really ready. (kmb42)

Mixed menus for IMF-WB delegates

DENPASAR —The IMF-WB delegates will be presented with mixed menus consisting of the Western, Asian and Indonesian food. To prepare the food, the hotels will not only prepare local ingredients but also imported ones.

Chairman of the Bali Hotel Association (BHA), Ricky Putra, said the food supplies for the delegates are dominated by local products and supported by several imported products such as beef, mutton, and several types of wines. Later the delegates will be presented with mixed menus consisting of the Western, Asian and Indonesian food.

Chairman of the Association of Horticultural Businessmen (Aspehorti), I Wayan Sugiarta, said that he and other members have got accustomed to supplying fruits, vegetables and flowers to hotels, especially hotels in the ITDC area. Related to the IMF-WB Meeting, the supply volume to the hotels will be doubled In a series of the implementation of IMF-WB, he must supply one ton of commodities each day. His supplies include fruits and vegetables for four hotels in the ITDC area. “So, this increase is normal because we are used to supplying to hotels. We usually increase the volume, so that our suppliers just need to increase the amount. Since there are high season and events at hotels, we are accustomed to preparing it,” said Sugiarta on Friday (Oct. 5).

Recently, he and the hotels held a meeting related to the delivery of supplies during the IMF-WB 2018 event. Deliveries are made at 22:00 and the last ones are at 5:00. In addition to fruits and vegetables for the needs of the IMF-WB, the Aspehorti also prepares orchid and marigold for room decoration and meeting venues.

Aspehorti members getting involved as horticultural suppliers in a series of the IMF-WB 2018 comprise 5 flower suppliers as well as 4 vegetable and fruit suppliers. “Other than Aspehorti members, there are also other suppliers belonging to non-members of the Aspehorti, supplying the need for the IMFWB event,” he said. More than 90 percent of the horticultural supplies to hotels in Bali come from local Bali and Indonesia. He directly got supplies from farmer groups. When facing any shortages, it will be taken from the Anyar Sari Central Market. Vegetables are taken from Bedugul, Kembang Merta, Luwus and Mengwi Market. “We don’t have farmers in the farms, so finally we take it from the market. It’s easy for us to send even though the volume increases.

Central market is the last alternative,” he said.

Bali cannot fulfill its own needs. Pineapple, for instance, is not cultivated in Bali and 90 percent of papaya is brought in from outside Bali, 60 percent of watermelons and melons from Java as well. Meanwhile, 40 percent is met from farmers in Jembrana, 70 percent of bananas are supplied from outside Bali, 50 percent of dragon fruit from Bali and 50 percent others from outside Bali. The fruits available in Bali are grapefruit, snakefruit, passion fruit and mangosteen.

A total of 15 farmers from all over Bali supplies fruits and vegetables to him. All the fruits are supplied to the needs of IMF-WB 2018. “If taking from Balinese farmers, the fruits are usually fresher and cheaper than those from outside Bali,” he added. (kmb42)

Export to the United States declines

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DENPASAR —In August 2018, the exports of Bali fell 4.93 percent compared to July 2018.

The highest decline in exports was to Hong Kong and the United States respectively amounting to 19.10 percent and 18.02 percent.

Head of the Bali Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Adi Nugroho, said the decline in exports is considered to happen due to the strengthening of dollar. The exports in 2018 up to April follow the previous year’s export pattern. However, in May and June the export fell sharply, but in July and August it rose again.

“Hopefully, it will rise again. If it can be achieved, this proves that Bali’s exporters are able to take advantage of the situation when the US dollar strengthens,” he said during the release of the Official Gazette of Statistics (BRS) in early October.

Dropped exports were also accompanied by falling imports.

Bali’s imports in August 2018 fell 23.52 percent. The highest decline of imports was from Hong Kong and the United States. Decrease in imported goods happened to watches, bells and parts, articles of leather, essential oils, cosmetics

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and fragrances.

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) of Bali, A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, stated the moment of the United States and Chinese trade war must be taken advantage

by Indonesia. The commodities having been exported by China to the United States can be replaced

by Indonesia.

“The decline in exports from Bali to the United States should not happen because Indonesia has the potential to be a substitute for China. We just need to list what commodities are imported from China, and then we supply it to the United States as we are not subjected to trade warfare. The government must be smart to take this opportunity,” he explained.

In addition, the decline in exports to the United States also happened because Bali’s entrepreneurs are still waiting and seeing.

The US is also suspected of stopping consumption from overseas.

Commodities from Bangladesh and Vietnam began to enter Europe and the United States taking over the position of Indonesian market.

“Why should we be defeated by products from Bangladesh? Jeans from Bangladesh enter the United States and Europe,” he explained.

Indonesia, according to him, can take export opportunities to the United States but had not yet seen the opportunities. In addition, Indonesia, especially Bali, tends to be silent when the economic situation is uncertain.

Nevertheless, totally the exports of Bali indeed declined.

However, the exports to Arabia are said to increase. In particular, after the visit of the King of Saudi Arabia to Bali, the exports showed an increase, especially furniture and wooden products because in Arabia there are no wood and carvers. (kmb42)

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In this file photo taken on August 11, 2014 A minature Oscars statue and an “I will miss you” note is seen at Robin Williams’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is seen in Hollywood, California.

Robin Williams memorabilia fetches $6.1 million in NY NEW YORK - Art, film memorabilia and personal effects owned by the late actor Robin Williams and his wife fetched $6.1 million at auction in New York on Thursday, four years after his death, Sotheby’s said.

The Oscar-winner, movie veteran, stand-up comedian and television star was one of Hollywood’s most popular entertainers whose death in August 2014 triggered an outpouring of emotion the world over.

More than 2,000 fans and collectors from across the globe registered to bid for some 300 works owned by Williams and his second wife, film producer and philanthropist Marsha Garces Williams, Sotheby’s said.

The most expensive lot was Swiss artist Adolf Wolfli’s “Der San Salvathor” that sold for $795,000, the auction house said.

Stand-out items included a watercolor from the movie “Good Will Hunting” that sold for $90,000 and street artist Banksy’s “Happy Choppers” from 2006 that fetched

$735,000.

Williams won an Oscar in 1998 for “Good Will Hunting.”

The watercolor, painted by the film’s director Gus Van Sant and inscribed to Williams, was displayed in the office of his therapist character Sean Maguire.

Forty-five watches from Williams’ personal collection sold for a combined total of $445,000, including his watch from “Dead Poets Society” (1989) that went for $32,500, the auction house said.

The entire sale fetched $6.1 million, smashing pre-sale estimates of $4.6 million with 95 percent of all lots sold. Among the organizations to benefit are The Juilliard School in New York, where a permanent scholarship in Williams’s name will be set up, the Wounded Warrior Project and the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

A father of three, he was known for high-energy, rapid-fire improvisation and clowning, and starred in hit films such as “Good Morning, Vietnam” and “Mrs Doubtfire.” (afp)

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MUMBAI - The Indian actress whose public allegations of sexual harassment by a Bollywood star is sparking a string of similar #MeToo claims has filed a formal complaint, police told AFP Sunday.

Former Miss Universe contestant Tanushree Dutta first alleged in 2008 that multi-award-winning Nana Patekar behaved inappropriately towards her during the making of a romantic comedy the same year.

No action was taken at the time against Patekar and she made no formal complaint.

But emboldened by the global #MeToo campaign -- where women have shared accounts of harassment or assault -- Dutta repeated the allegations in a recent interview and on Saturday went to the police to officially report the 2008 sexual harrassment claims.

“Dutta visited the police station last night and submitted a written complaint,” Shailesh Pasalwar, a Mumbai police inspector, told AFP. “We are investigating the case but right now, it is not an FIR (First Information Report, or a formal investigation) but a written complaint about harassment incident,” he added.

She also alleged in the interview that filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri had behaved inappropriately towards her during the shooting of the 2005 movie “Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets”.

The actress said in a statement last week that she had received legal

notices from both Patekar and Agnihotri, who deny her accusations.

Dutta said she had also received “violent threats” from the fringe, far-right nationalist group Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and has been hounded by a “smear campaign” on social media since reiterating her claims against the pair.

“This is the age-old saga of survivors in our nation,” she said.

India has yet to witness its own version of the #MeToo movement that rocked Hollywood last year, but Dutta has received the backing of several high-profile stars including Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar and Sonam Kapoor.

Other actresses have however begun to speak out about an issue almost never discussed in Indian media.

I n December, star S w a r a Bhaskar said she had been harassed by an unnamed director early in her career. (afp) In this file photo taken on May 04, 2013, Indian Bollywood ctress Tanushree Dutta poses for a photo during an event for the Mandate Model Hunt contest in Mumbai.

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Residents and rescuers walk in front of a washed out passenger ferry in Wani, Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi on October 7, 2018, following the September 28 earthquake and tsunami. Aid poured into disaster-ravaged Palu after days of delays as efforts ramped up to reach 200,000 people in desperate need following a deadly quake-tsunami in the Indonesian city.

IMF gathers in quake-battered Indonesia to focus on global economic tremors

Rising protectionism, vulnerable emerging markets and record debt levels: The IMF holds its annual meeting this week in earthquake-stricken Indonesia, as it shines a light on tremors in the global economy.

Finance ministers and central bankers from 180 nations will be among 32,000 attendees in Bali for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which takes place every three years outside of Washington. The gathering will be held from Tuesday to Sunday.

The resort island of Bali is 1,125 kilometers (700 miles) from Palu, the city on Sulawesi that wracked by an

earthquake and tsunami on September 28 that left more than 1,500 dead and 1,000 missing.

Despite the distance, security is a major concern for Indonesian organizers. Bali experienced a series of volcanic eruptions over the summer, while the neighboring island of Lombok was struck by a string of deadly earthquakes.

If there is an earthquake, Jakarta

recommends participants stay in the conference center, which, like many hotels in Bali, is built to withstand such seismic events. In case of tsunami risk, attendees would be evacuated to a nearby building.

But the focus of the meeting is averting economic rather than natural disasters. The trade war launched by US President Donald Trump against China, along with disputes with allies like the European Union, Mexico and Canada, is a key source of concern.

The dispute caused a proliferation of protectionist measures in recent months that is weighing more and

more on international trade.

- Risks materialize Trump has imposed tariffs on $250 billion of annual imports from China, to try to pressure Beijing to change trade policies he calls unfair, including theft of American technology. Beijing countered by imposing punitive duties on $110 billion of US products. Washington also has imposed steep tariffs on steel, aluminum, washing machines and solar panels, drawing retaliation from Canada, Mexico, China and others.

Like the OECD, which lowered

its economic growth forecast for the world economy to 3.7 percent for 2018, IMF chief Christine Lagarde signaled the fund would cut the outlook which in July stood at 3.9 percent.

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