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‘Aquaman’ makes waves to stay atop N. American box office LOS ANGELES - “Aquaman” left other movies in its wake in North American box offices this weekend, taking in $31 million, final figures by industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Monday.

The DC super-hero film, in its third week out, has now taken in a global total of $941 million. That makes it the biggest Warner Bros. comic-book film since “The Dark Knight Rises” earned more than $1 billion in 2012, according to Variety’s entertainment news website.

Jason Momoa stars as the heavily tattooed half human/half-Atlantean hero who struggles against evil forces to gain control of the powerful Trident of Atlan. James Wan, known for horror films like “Saw,” directed.

In second place was new Sony thriller “Escape Room,” with $18.2 million for the three-day weekend -- a strong start for a film that cost just $9 million to produce.

Third place went to Disney’s family-friendly musical “Mary Poppins Returns,” at $15.9 million.

The sequel to the beloved 1964 film stars Emily Blunt in the title role and Lin-Manuel Miranda as a limber and lovable lamplighter.

In fourth was “Bumblebee,” from Paramount, at $13.2 million.

The prequel to the “Transformers” movies stars Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena.

Sony’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” dropped to the fifth spot, with a take of $13.1 million for its fourth week in theaters.

The film won a best animated picture award at the Golden Globes on Sunday, with director Peter Ramsay hailing the message of inclusivity behind the film.

“We were trying to make a movie that spoke to the idea that anyone could be behind the mask,” he said during his acceptance speech. (afp)

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Sam Elliott attends his hand and footprint ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre on January 07, 2019 in Hollywood, California.

Sam Elliott honored at Hollywood ceremony as Lady Gaga lends support

LOS ANGELES - Veteran actor Sam Elliott imprinted his hands and feet in cement on Hollywood Boulevard on Monday, as “A Star is Born” co-stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper shook off Golden Globes disappointment to join in honoring the 74-year-old’s long career.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 11, 2018, Jason Momoa arrives at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Aquaman” at the Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Known for his lanky physique, thick mustache and languid drawl, Elliott reflected on his life’s work and the joy of acting, telling reporters: “The people you work with, the community... and feeling like you’re doing something that makes a difference to somebody” made it all worthwhile.

“A Star is Born” may have struck out at the Golden Globes the night before, picking up just one trophy for best song, but Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were all smiles as they came to show their support for Elliott, who plays Cooper’s elder brother in the film.

Dressed in a striking sky-blue

trench coat, Gaga, 32, shared an Instagram story as she received a kiss on her forehead from Elliott.

“So excited to be here for Sam Elliott’s hand & footprint ceremony,” she wrote, adding a series of heart emojis.

The trio later shared a heartwarming embrace, as Cooper hailed the “iconic mark” Elliott had on films.

Elliott got his start with minor roles in late 60s Westerns such as “The Way West” (1967) and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” but it wasn’t until the 1980s that his career took off in a big way in the “Mask” and “Road House.”

He received the first of his two Golden Globe nomination for TV film “Conagher,” where he played the titular role and starred alongside his wife Katharine Ross.

Elliott also has two primetime Emmy nominations. His other notable works include “Gettysburg” and “The Big Lebowski,” and he is a regular on current Netflix series “The Ranch.”

While he wasn’t nominated at the Golden Globes, industry magazine Variety reported the actor seems poised to land his first Oscar nomination for what it called his “tender performance” in “A Star is Born.” (afp)

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Bombs found at Indonesian antigraft commission leaders’ houses

JAKARTA - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders Agus Rahardjo and Laode Syarif were the target of terror threats on Wednesday (Jan 9), with unknown assailants placing what appeared to be bombs at their houses.It was suspected that a Molotov cocktail exploded at Mr Laode’s house.

National Police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo confirmed the incident.

“We found evidence in the form of glass shards and trails of smoke, although we can’t confirm whether it was a Molotov cocktail or another type of bomb,” Brigadier-General

Dedi said.

According to a report obtained

by The Jakarta Post, a bomb squad officer discovered a black bag hanging on the fence of Mr Agus’s house in Bekasi, West Java, at around 5.30am on Wednesday.

The officer found material resembling components of a high explosive pipe bomb, such as a detonator, cable, nails and pipe.

The bomb squad immediately defused the suspected package.

At the same time, the remains of

a Molotov cocktail were found at Mr Laode’s house in Kalibata, South Jakarta.

The KPK deputy chairman claimed to have seen suspicious people near his house at around 1am through security cameras.

One of Mr Laode’s neighbours said she heard glass breaking at around 1am.

Brig-Gen Dedi said personnel from the Jakarta Police, the Nation-

al Police and the police’s Densus 88 counter-terrorism squad were investigating the case. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Quality, quantity and continuity maintained

Local products ensured to get absorbed

DENPASAR - There is no longer debate about the obligation to absorb local fruits because previously local fruits have been absorbed a lot at hotels and supermarkets. However, the market wants the continuity and quality of the local products to be maintained.

Deputy Chairman of the Central Executive Board of the Indonesia Hotel General Managers Association (IHGMA), I Made Ramia Adnyana, said that restaurants and hotels have long absorbed local agricultural products by buying products for the consumption of guests’ needs such as organic rice, vegetables, fruits, spices and chili products for kitchen needs.

The products are needed for breakfast, lunch and dinner at restaurants and hotels. In addition, fruit basket needs provided in each room when guests check in have also used local products. Likewise, special events such as weddings,

lunch or dinner and regular events have also taken advantage of local products.

Prior to the issuance of the Gubernatorial Regulation, more than 50 percent of local products were already absorbed by hotels and restaurants. With the issuance of the regulation, the percentage is expected to increase. Hotels and restaurants want the local fruit products with higher and fresh quality, good texture, natural color and flavor, non-rotten condition as well as affordable prices.

“As long as the quality, quantity and continuity are well maintained, I make sure that local agricultural products will be absorbed by hotels and restaurants,” he said. Of the approximately 41 types of local products, around 27 products have been absorbed by the tourism industry.

Operations Manager of Tiara Dewata Supermarket, R Novie Setio Utomo, said that more than 70 percent of local products have been absorbed in the Tiara Dewata Supermar-

Mangosteen, one of the locals fruits in Bali

DENPASAR - The Mobile Detective of Bali Police General Criminal Investigation Unit arrested the snatcher with the initials KR alias Dollar, 18, while hanging out on Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat, Denpasar, on Tuesday (Jan. 8). The suspect KR was arrested after mugging a French tourist named Djelloulo Kamel, 41, on Jalan Legian, precisely in front of the office of LPD Legian, Kuta.

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ket. Some rare local fruits are even available. “We almost have all local fruits including rare fruits, such as Java plum,” she said. However, the problem is when the season changes so that the fulfillment of the seasonal fruits is sometimes choked up.

According to her, local fruits will not lose competitiveness against imported fruits both domestic (inter-islands) and imported fruits, as long as the quality is good. With good quality, not only in demand, local fruits will have good prices. Sometimes local fruits are seasonal because they are not managed well so they do not have good quality. Local fruits also help in meeting ceremonial needs.

To be able to enter the modern market, there are no special conditions that apply. Hopefully, local fruit suppliers can make diversification. “So, one doesn’t become a supplier in one season only, while in the next season it no longer does.

We tend to come to some regions to look for farmer groups producing various types of products,” she said.

He hoped that local fruit suppliers will continue to fill up their showcase. According to her, the context of suppliers is not supplying at particular time only but at all times continuously. “For example, one season the supplier only sends sapodilla, while beyond the season, he does not send.

Actually, there are still other products whose quality needs to be maintained,” he said.

Other than continuity of supply, the market also wants quality. Moreover, it puts quality above price. In terms of economic perspective, if farmers harvest at the right time, the economic value will be higher than harvesting when they are not old enough. “For example, harvesting done by force as being in need of money is counterproductive to the market’s desire because the market now does not see prices but sees quality. So, no matter how much the price is as long as the quality is good, consumer will buy. Every time we are invited, we always convey market opportunities, quality issues chosen by the market, while price is number two,” he joked.

In terms of prices applied in the supermarket also follows the price set by the suppliers. Price is also influenced by supply and demand. “So, if farmers sell to us at expensive price, surely the price at the supermarket is also expensive because our margins are flat. If we now make 10 percent profit, tomorrow we might not take 20 percent,” he said.

In terms of availability, the Head of Bali Food Crops, Horticulture and Plantation Agency, I.B. Wisnuardhana, firmly responded to farmers as long as the users adjusted demand with the harvest season, especially for seasonal fruits. Non-seasonal products such as banana, papaya, melon, watermelon, rice and various vegetables can be prepared any time. “However, other seasonal fruits can only be provided in the season,” he said. (kmb42)

French tourist mugged in Kuta

eral Criminal Investigation Unit, Andi Fairan, said that in Bali the victim was staying at Loft Hotel Legian, Kuta. On Tuesday (Nov. 20) at 02:00, the victim who is a bank employee was walking from Seminyak, Kuta. Arriving at the scene, he was approached by the tattooed-man on left leg riding a motorcycle. Furthermore, the perpetrator immediately seized the mobile phone carried by the victim.

Since he resisted, the perpetrator kicked the victim and immediately ran away. As a result of the incident, the victim lost his iPhone XS Max worth IDR 30 million and this case was already reported to the Kuta Police Station.

Having been unrevealed for long time, finally this case got clarity after the Directorate of Bali Police General Criminal Investigation Unit intervened. As a result of the

investigation, the officer obtained information if the man called as Dollar from Karangasem is a snatcher operating in Kuta.

“The officer had an investigation to the home village of the perpetrator at Medahan, Karangasem.

Unfortunately, Dollar was found not at his home,” he said.

After that, police got information if the perpetrator was on Jalan Kusuma Bangsa Gang Melasti,

West Denpasar. After checking the location, the results were nil. Finally, on Tuesday (Jan. 8) at 00:30, the officers arrested the perpetrator on Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat.

When interrogated, the perpetrators claimed to have mugged a victim on Jalan Legian. “This case is still being developed. Possibly, the perpetrator also took action elsewhere,” said Commissioner Andi. (kmb36)

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How to stop teen vaping? Make e-cigs harder to get

CALIFORNIA - Teen vaping has hit “epidemic” levels, according to federal health officials, with rates up by 78 percent over the last year alone. But strict laws on selling vape products to underage kids can reduce the number of teens who try e-cigarettes, according to research published Monday.

Teens living in cities or towns that more strictly policed retail sales of tobacco products were a third less likely to try cigarettes or e-cigarettes as those living in areas with more lax regulation, the team at the University of Southern California found. And they were half as likely to become regular users of tobacco, including e-cigarettes.

It supports what tobacco control advocates have been saying for years: strong laws, with equally strong enforcement, work to reduce tobacco use.

“It’s actually not at all surprising,” said Dr. Harold Farber, a pediatric lung expert at Texas Children’s Hospital, who was not involved in the study.

“If you have good laws and you enforce those laws to keep tobacco out of the hands of kids, fewer kids will get hold of tobacco,” Farber told NBC News.

“If you have ineffective and loose laws, and no enforcement, then kids will get hold of tobacco.”

The study comes with a caveat. Specialty vape shops are often not regulated at the same level as other tobacco retailers, and that could provide a loophole. So could online sales. “The increase of poorly regulated e-cigarette Internet vendors, a relatively new way for minors to obtain tobacco products illegally at the time of data collection, may limit the future impact of tobacco retail licensing as a regulatory tool,” the team wrote in their report, published in the journal Pediatrics.

A team led by Dr. Rob McConnell, a specialist is preventative medicine and children’s health at USC, used an ongoing survey of students in southern California, asking more than 2,000 about whether they had tried vaping or smoking and then following up a year and a half later.

They also graded the communities where the teens lived on what kinds of laws and enforcement they had to limit tobacco sales. Four out of the 14 jurisdictions got an “A” rating based on American Lung Association criteria, meaning they required retailers to pay annual license fees to pay for regular compliance checks.

These jurisdictions also used fines or revoked licenses to punish retailers who sold to underaged kids.

The rest of the communities all got “D” or “F” ratings, meaning they did not do much to stop retailers from selling tobacco products to teens.

Teens living in “A” grade communities were twothirds as likely to have tried any tobacco product, including vaping, over the next year and a half and those living in the poorly regulated communities.

They were 50 percent as likely to be current smokers or vapers, the team reported.

Other policies, such as smoke-free housing rules or bans on outdoor smoking had no effect on teen use, the researchers noted.

“Kids know who the retailers are who will sell to them,” Farber said.

The licensing fees are key, because they mean the regulation pays for itself, so it doesn’t cost the community anything extra to have good anti-tobacco regulations, he said.

“Raising the age for sale has been well-documented to work,” Farber added. “Raising the age for sale to 21, combined with enforcement, decreases youth smoking and is a very, very important initiative.” (net)

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Teen vaping has hit “epidemic” levels, according to federal health officials, with rates up by 78 percent over the last year alone.

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After serving 23.7m passengers in 2018

Ngurah Rai Airport targets 24.7 passengers in 2019

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Men are more likely to die of brain cancer than women and a new study helps explain why. Glioblastoma tumors are fundamentally different in men and women, the researchers found.

Study explains sex differences in brain cancer

WASHINGTON - Men are more likely to die of brain cancer than women and a new study helps explain why. Glioblastoma tumors are fundamentally different in men and women, the researchers found.

Different processes drive glioblastoma tumors in men and women, and they respond differently to treatment, Dr. Josh Rubin of Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues showed. They believe the same may be true for other tumors, too, and say cancer researchers may need to go back to the drawing board when evaluating treatments for men versus women.

“We found that standard therapy is more effective in female compared with male patients with glioblastoma,” they wrote in their report, published in Science Translational Medicine.

Even more surprising: hormones have little to do with these differences.

Glioblastomas are a rare subtype of brain tumor. According to the American Cancer Society, just under 24,000 people were diagnosed with any kind of malignant brain tumor in 2018, including close to 14,000 men and 10,000 women.

The survival rate for glioblastoma is low: 19 percent of adults aged up to 44 will live five years or more after a glioblastoma diagnosis, and only 5 percent for those over 55 will live that long.

While the outlook is poor for both men and women with glioblastoma, women live a little longer after treatment, which usually involves surgery, radiation and then chemotherapy, usually with a drug called temozolomide.

Rubin has been interested in sex differences in cancer rates and in how people are helped by cancer therapy. In previous research, Rubin’s team has shown it’s easier to transform a male cell into a tumor cell.

“It’s been recognized for many years that, overall, males tend to die more frequently and faster of their cancer than females do,” Rubin told NBC News. According to the American Cancer Society’s 2018 estimates, 856,000 men and 879,000 women were diagnosed with cancer and 323,000 men died of cancer, versus 286,000 women.

Rubin took a closer look at glioblastoma patients, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and data from a large cancer database. They homed in on 63 patients getting standard care for glioblastoma and found that women were helped more by standard treatment than men were.

“The males did not respond as well, and we wanted to understand why, so we looked at the underlying genetics of patients’ tumors,” Rubin said. They used the Cancer Genome Atlas, where details of the genetics of various tumors are stored for research.

“We observed tremendous genetic sex differences in the tumors of glioblastoma patients that correlated with survival,” said Jingqin “Rosy” Luo, who worked on the study.

They found 10 different glioblastoma groups — five in men, and five in women. One subtype for each sex, different for men and women, tended to be easier to treat.

Females with that subtype lived an average of three years, compared to just over a year for those with the other four types. For men, those with the “good” subtype lived about 18 months, compared to about a year for the others.

This is an argument for what’s called personalized therapy, which involved DNA tests of a patient’s tumor to determine the best course of treatment. But the findings also show that sex is an important and separate consideration, Rubin said. (net)

MANGUPURA — Throughout 2018, PT Angkasa Pura I Ngurah Rai already served 23.7 million passengers. This number has increased compared to 2017 only amounting to 21 million.

Meanwhile, during the holidays of Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019 or for eighteen days of the Monitoring Post from December 20, 2018 to Monday (Jan. 7), there were 1,243,215 passengers and 8,284 airplanes arriving and departing the Bali Island through the Ngurah Rai Airport.

According to Yanus Suprayogi, General Manager of Ngurah Rai International Airport, in the same period of 2017-2018, a total of 991,540 passengers and 7,070 flights were served. “When compared to the achievements in the period of 2017-2018, there is a percentage increase of 18.5 percent and 11 percent respectively for the number of passengers and the number of incoming and outgoing aircrafts. This is the achievement for all of us. I am optimistic that in the coming year, the number of passengers and flights served will increase,” said Yanus after the closing of the commander post of Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019 on Monday (Jan. 7).

Based on the increase in the data, his management targeted 24.7 million passengers for 2019. With the remaining high enthusiasm of tourists to visit Bali, the challenge for his management in the future is how the relatively small condition of the airport can provide a sense of comfort desired by passengers.

For this reason, PT Angkasa Pura I of Ngurah Rai International Airport in the near future will begin the process of building a 400-meter runway extension to accommodate the high demand from airlines wishing to use larger-bodied aircraft. “We are still working on the extension of the runway, but we have to conduct an analysis study on the environmental impact (EIA) or the AMDAL first,” he said.

He revealed, the extension would soon be carried out while waiting for a number of planning processes including the EIA to be completed and conducting intensive and comprehensive dissemination to the community. Previously, the dissemination had been carried out, especially to stakeholders at villages around the airport that had given a green light to reclaim the waters on the west side of the airport.

The extension of the 400-meter runway will increase the runway length to a total of 3,400 meters so that it can accommodate more large-bodied aircrafts including the Boeing 777 and Airbus A-380. The land reclamation or reclamation process includes a total of 107 hectares of land for the extension of the runway including the current land for the construction of a 35-hectare apron being worked on and an 8-hectare apron that was previously completed. However, Yanus has not confirmed the amount of the budget to be allocated because it is currently being calculated by Angkasa Pura I as the airport operator. (kmb23)

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Abrasion on the coast of Pebuahan at Banyubiru village, Negara, is now getting worse.

Jembrana govt tests geotextile tube at Pebuahan

NEGARA - Abrasion on the coast of Pebuahan at Banyubiru village, Negara, is now getting worse. Dozens of houses and tatami-style food stalls have been destroyed in recent years.

Actually, Jembrana district government has proposed for several times to central government but until now there has been no treatment.

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Throughout 2018, PT Angkasa Pura I Ngurah Rai already served 23.7 million passengers. This number has increased compared to 2017 only amounting to 21 million.

Moreover, recently the Indonesian House of Representatives had time to come down and check. But the progress and follow-up are not known. For handling, local residents tried to take simple measure because abrasion has now eroded the road. An inch away from people’s homes can be even affected.

Jembrana district government has also installed four geotextile tubes for four months at four abrasion-prone points on Pebuahan Beach, Banyubiru village.

Unfortunately, the tool installation is only limited to testing and the district government itself, based on information, does not make additions and there is no plan to hold the tool. “Well, the seriousness of district government should be questioned in this matter. In other countries, this tool is quite good for preventing abrasion but why isn’t this step done? If it is limited to trial, it is not serious,” said Umar, a youth of Banyubiru on Monday (Jan. 7).

Division Head of Water Resources at the Jembrana Public Works Agency (PUPRPKP), Wayan Widnyana, when asked for his confirmation said that his agency indeed installed the geotextile tube. “We got it from a sponsor facilitated by coastal agency based in Musi Buleleng. So, there is no plan to add equipment and no plan to procure the equipment,” he said.

Installation of the tool is assessed to indicate positive results. The tool functions to collect sand to the coast and aims to prevent coastal abrasion. Widnyana added the installation testing of the four geotextile tubes with a length of 20 meters and a width of 2.2 meters from the coastline since a few months ago has helped capture a lot of sand on the coast.

He hoped the installation of geotextile tube can function more maximally. Besides, it can be an alternative solution to dealing with abrasion. All this time, the beach revetments often use armor costing expensive and damages the environment because it requires large stones and is difficult to obtain.

With this tool, he is optimistic to get a solution, especially seeing the sand stranded, and there is a stretch of sand. Widnyana hoped the community will take care of the installed geotextile tube so that it is well maintained and effective. (kmb)

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Ring River project gets flooded

MANGUPURA - The ring river project in the Badung Civic Center is soaked by floods due to the high flow of water from upstream. The river built around the civic center also drew the attention of the legislators in the Badung House of Representatives because it flooded the road to the parliament building.

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The ring river project in the Badung Civic Center is soaked by floods due to the high flow of water from upstream.

Chairperson of the Badung House of Representatives, Putu Parwata, said the projects in the workmanship process by the Public Works and Spatial Planning (PUPR) Agency must get a concern of partners. Every heavy rain, the roads and parks in the artificial river channel are submerged by floods and the rainwater inundates the road to the Badung Parliament Building.

“During the rain for several times, the road to the parliament building was flooded, so we asked the relevant agencies in this case the Public Works and Housing Agency (PUPR) to review the implementation of the river project,” said Putu Parwata on Monday (Jan. 7).

This politician from Dalung, North Kuta, asked the Public Works Agency to make improvements. Sometimes, the river water flowing to the Subak Kwanji is unstable especially during the rainy season.

“We hope the ring river project will not become a disaster because the study is wrong, so improvements must be made immediately. Formerly, it was the irrigation channel of Subak Kwanji whose water discharge could go up and down,” he explained.

Separately, the Head of the Badung Public Works and Housing Agency, Ida Bagus Surya Suamba, denied if the ring river project in the civic center area was wrongly constructed. The overflow of water in the artificial river happened due to the trial process. Based on the results of trial process, there would be some

improvements.

“That’s a trial. After getting the results of this trial, there are indeed several improvements related to the water flow. And this morning (Monday), we have evaluated. Similarly, the partners have stated their readiness to make improvements,” he explained.

According to him, his agency will improve the level of elevation or the height of incoming water flow. Before the project scheduled to be completed on January 15, it will return to be tested.

“There are several disposal gates in the upstream area which will be channeled to the drainage channels around the civic center area, so that when it rains it will not get flooded,” he said.

Regarding the construction of the project, his agency still provides time allowance because the project’s payment system has not been paid off. “The time (of project completion) has been in accordance with the provisions. Since the government cannot pay, it is given a 15day extension. Obviously, the partners are not penalized,” he concluded.

As is known, the Badung Public Works and Housing Agency is building an artificial river in the local civic center area.

The river built in front of the Badung parliament building costs a budget of IDR 5,471,419,000. This arrangement will later become an artificial river whose water flows in the Badung civic center area.

Previously, this project was targeted to be completed by the end of 2018. (kmb27)

Claimed to be tortured at Jimbaran

Tourist slapping immigration officer charged a year in prison

DENPASAR - A British tourist, the defendant Auj-E Taqaddas charged for slapping the immigration officer at Ngurah Rai Airport on Monday (Jan. 7) was eventually demanded with imprisonment for one year.

Public prosecutor, Nyoman Triarta Kurniawan, from Badung Public Prosecutor’s Office, stated the defendant is found guilty of violating the provisions of Article 212 of the Criminal Code. The defendant went up against officials that were carrying out their duties. For this demand, the defendant through his interpreter claimed to be going up against the prosecutors’ demands.

Before the prosecutor read out the charges, the trial chaired by the panel of judges Esthar Oktavi on Monday afternoon already conducted an examination against the defendant. This British woman even stated that the slapping committed has been appropriate for im-

migration officer at the airport.

As revealed at the trial, Auj-E Taqaddas who was questioned as a defendant said that the video of the immigration officer circulating in the public had been set up.

“It’s not the original video,” said Auj-E Taqaddas in English before the panel of judges. The defendant said the immigration officer is unprofessional.

The panel of judges then asked why to commit the slapping? “Because I asked repeatedly (about the passport being detained and not allowed to leave Indonesia), the immigration officer did not answer it.

On the contrary, I was even laughed at and the officer took a video,” answered Auj-E Taqaddas.

She added that since the immigration officer was unprofessional, she did it (slapping). “He deserved it. After slapping, I repeatedly asked for my passport, but was not given,” continued the defendant.

Through her interpreter, this British woman also asked the panel of judges whether the immigration officer is natural to commit a torture in this country. “I was also tortured at the Jimbaran Immigration Office, I asked the panel of judges whether this is reasonable in Indonesia,” the defendant asked.

The panel of judges did not want to comment and if the defendant did feel tortured, there is a law in force in Indonesia.

“Please make a report to police station,” suggested the judge. The defendant even said that she had brought IDR 42 million to the immigration office, but why she is not allowed to leave Indonesia. The defendant also asked the panel of judges not to trust witnesses from the immigration office. Meanwhile, the trial will be resumed next week to hear the defendant’s response to the one-year prison sentence. (kmb37)

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Before the prosecutor read out the charges, the trial chaired by the panel of judges Esthar Oktavi on Monday afternoon already conducted an examination against the defendant.

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Suspect packages sent to diplomatic missions in Australia

MELBOURNE - Suspicious packages were sent to more than a dozen foreign embassies and consulates in major Australian cities on Wednesday in a seemingly orchestrated but scattershot campaign.

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Victoria Police forensic officers remove a bag from the Italian consulate in Melbourne on January 9, 2019.

Emergency services raced to a string of diplomatic facilities which had received packages containing suspected hazardous material, all within the space of a few hours.

There was no obvious pattern to countries targeted, with consulates of the United States, China, Italy, India, Japan and New Zealand suffering scares.

The packages were not believed to be dangerous, but police, fire crews and forensic teams were urged to use breathing apparatus as they documented and doubleor triple-bagged the materials for further testing.

Victoria Police said there was no threat to the public: “At this time we believe the matter is targeted and not impacting the general community.”

Most of the sites -- also including locations near the Spanish, Swiss, Egyptian and Pakistani consulates -- were evacuated as

a precaution but have since been declared safe.

A British High Commission spokesperson said its consulate general in Melbourne had been targeted, but “all our staff are safe and accounted for”.

The US consulate in the city said it had also received a “suspicious” package, which a spokesperson said was handled in coordination with police and the fire service.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs said it had sent a note to all diplomatic missions in the capital on Tuesday, “alerting them to the possibility of suspicious packages being delivered by mail”.

That warning was triggered after three earlier incidents at offices in Sydney and Canberra.

Local media on Monday reported that the Argentine consulate in Sydney had received a package containing white powder. It did not test positive for toxins. (afp)

Singapore eco-tourism plan sparks squawks of protest SINGAPORE - Singapore is creating a vast eco-tourism zone in a bid to bring in more visitors, but environmentalists fear the development will damage natural habitats and are already blaming it for a series of animal deaths.

While it may be best known as a financial hub with scores of high-rise buildings, tropical Singapore is still home to patches of rainforest and an array of wildlife, from monkeys to pangolins -- also known as scaly anteaters.

In one green corner of the city sits a zoo and two sister attractions -- a night safari and river safari -- that have long been big draws for foreign and local visitors.

Now jungle is being cleared in the same area to make way for a bird park, a rainforest park and a 400-room resort, to create a green tourism hub it is hoped will eventually attract millions of visitors a year.

But the project in the Mandai district has ruffled the feathers of environmentalists.

They believe that rather than promote biodiversity, it is too imposing for the area, will destroy forest habitats and they say insufficient safeguards were put in place before work began -- leading to animals being killed on roads.

The row has highlighted concerns about rapid development in space-starved Singapore, and worries that some of the country’s more wild and green corners are being lost only to be replaced with something more artificial.

“I think you are getting your priorities wrong if you are replacing natural heritage with captive breeding,” Subaraj Rajathurai, a veteran wildlife consultant, told AFP. With the new development, it appears that “making money was more of a priority than finding the balance and preserving biodiversity”, he added.

- Roadkill worries But Mandai Park Holdings, which is overseeing the project through its development arm, insists work is being carried out sensitively and will bring improvements.

The district, which sits next to a protected nature reserve and has been earmarked for development for years, is mostly abandoned villages and farmland that have been swallowed by the surrounding jungle.

Work is already well under way in an area that is home to animals including flying lemurs and deer, with construction cranes looming over hillsides stripped bare of jungle.

A major focus of concern has been the animal deaths on the main road leading up to the zoo as forest is cleared.

Several deer, a critically endangered pangolin and a leopard cat are among animals to have perished after straying in front of vehicles, according to environmentalists.

Subaraj blamed the deaths on a lack of protective measures, pointing in particular to a failure to put up temporary barriers around the road quickly enough.

“It’s crazy -- it would have been so easy to avoid that happening,” he said.

But Mandai Park Holdings insists it is doing everything it can to prevent animal deaths on the roads.

Barriers have now been put up along much of the road, as well as a rope bridge for monkeys to cross above the traffic and road signs warning motorists about animals in the area.

A permanent bridge covered in shrubs

and trees to allow animals to cross the road, which divides two major parts of the development, will be ready later this year.

“We have been working with the nature community, really from the word go, to work out what we should do to actually protect animals and keep them off the roads,” Mike Barclay, Mandai Park Holdings CEO, a former senior airline executive, told AFP. “Is it perfect? No. But we are doing everything that we can to mitigate.” (afp)

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This picture taken on January 2, 2019 shows the skyline of the financial business district in Singapore.

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BUSINESS US service firms grew at slower pace in December

WASHINGTON - U.S. service firms grew in December at the slowest pace in five months, a possible indication that various headwinds from turbulent markets to trade tensions could be having an impact on economic activity.

The Institute for Supply Management, which is composed of purchasing managers, reported Monday that its service index fell to 57.6 percent last month, down from a November reading of 60.7 percent. It was the lowest reading since the index stood at 55.7 percent in July. Any reading above 50 signals growth. So even with the December decline, the index shows that service industries, where most Americans work, has been expanding for 107 consecutive months.

The fall in the services index was led by a big drop in the component that tracks business activity.

Other components such as the key new orders index actually rose in December. While the employment component did decline, it was only a modest fall and stood in contrast to Friday’s jobs report which showed the economy created a sizable 312,000 jobs during the month.

The report showed that 16 service industries reported growth in December and only one — mining — reported a decline.

Still, economists said the slow-

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In this Nov. 9, 2018, file photo a Walmart associate stocks a shelf at a Walmart Supercenter in Houston. On Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, the Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, issues its index of non-manufacturing activity for December. down in activity in services could be a signal that the economy will slow in 2019 after a strong performance in 2018.

“Virtually everyone is expecting

growth to slow this year, but how much and how far the slowdown takes us is still anyone’s guess,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank

in New York.

The weaker reading on the service economy followed a report last week that the ISM index for manufacturing slowed to the

slowest pace in more than two years, with some manufacturers complaining about the impact of President Donald Trump’s trade policies. (ap)

Global natural disasters wreak $160 bn damage in 2018: Munich Re

Natural disasters including wildfires, hurricanes and tsunamis inflicted $160 billion of damage and claimed 10,400 lives in 2018, German reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday.

The financial toll was far below the $350 billion recorded the previous year in a record hurricane season, the firm said in its annual reckoning, but above the 30-year average of $140 billion.

As with the previous year the United States suffered the heaviest losses from disasters globally, with its second record wildfire season in a row. But it was given some respite from damaging storms, with the hurricanes hitting the country in

2018 inflicting far less destruction than in 2017.

Wildfires dealt $24 billion of damage in California, while Hurricanes Florence and Michael accounted for a combined $30 billion.

Just one blaze known as the “Camp Fire” killed 86 people and caused losses of $16.5 billion in early November as it tore through the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

As losses from wildfires have grown in step with increasingly frequent hot and dry summers, “many scientists see a link between these developments and advancing climate change,” said Ernst Rauch, Munich Re’s head of climate and geosciences.

What’s more, “burgeoning settlements in areas close to forests at risk from wildfire” mean that “casualties and losses are immense,” he added. Munich Re board member Torsten Jeworrek warned that “action is urgently needed on building codes and land use” to limit wildfire losses.

Looking to the human cost of catastrophes, the financial firm said the deadliest event was a September 28 tsunami that hit the Indonesian city of Palu, killing 2,100 people.

Munich Re highlighted that 2018’s natural disaster death toll was far below the 53,000 average for the previous 30 years. “From

a global perspective, measures to protect human life are starting to take effect,” the Bavarian company said.

Worldwide, the firm pointed to an unusual hurricane season last year as “named tropical storms in all northern-hemisphere ocean basins outnumbered the long-term average”.

Category-five “super typhoon” Mangkhut, also known as Ompong, killed 100 people when it struck the Philippines in September.

Jebi, just one of seven typhoons to strike Japan, dealt $12.5 billion in damage.

Beyond the hurricanes, a second tsunami that struck the Indonesian

islands of Sumatra and Java in December killed “at least” 400. The tidal wave went undetected by early warning systems as it was caused by an underwater landslide rather than an earthquake.

Meanwhile Japan suffered a further $9 billion in damage from two earthquakes.

Europe was spared dramatic one-off disasters in 2018, but a long summer drought inflicted around $3.9 billion in direct losses to arable and livestock farmers and slowed economies as rivers ebbed too low to be used for freight traffic.

The dry summer also contributed to violent wildfires in Scandinavia. (afp)

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Makincang-Kincung Tradition at Taro Village

There is always something unique in Bali. The Makincang-Kincung tradition was held in the area of ??Puseh Temple of Patas hamlet, Taro, Tegallalang, on Saturday night (Oct. 27). The annual tradition coinciding with the pujawali or temple festival in Puseh Bale Agung Temple was held as a reflection or description of the hard work performed by the local community to achieve prosperity.

Secretary of Patas customary village, I Ketut Wija, explained that in implementing the tradition, the participants are coming from the local customary village youth. The procession was begun by walking around the specially made penjor with more than 10 meters in height. The initial process of this ceremony was preceded by local customary apparatus.

After making a circular movement around the penjor, all the participants have to work hard and try to climb the penjor in order to get the sampian penjor festoon as a symbol of fertility.

According to Wija, there are about eight series of the ceremonies performed before all the participants compete in order to be able to climb to the end between the penjor’s wing boundaries.

I Wayan Buda, one of the participants of the Makincang-kincung, admitted to struggle among the temptations of his friends with the slippery penjor bamboo pole to finally reach the top and get a sampian penjor festoon. “It is quite hard to climb as having to compete against all the friends and the bamboo pole is also very slippery,” he said with a rushing breath due to exhaustion.

Nevertheless, he claimed to be proud of being able to climb up and get a symbol of welfare in the form of sampian penjor. “I’m very happy to be able to participate in this ceremony,” he said. (kmb)

Catfish Pepes in Complete Seasoning and Torch Ginger

Make a try to taste fried catfish.

Wow… it is remarkably delicious!

Similarly, you can taste catfish pepes (wrapped in banana leaf) with complete seasoning. Of course, it

must be different. Catfish pepes coming with Balinese complete seasoning is indeed unable to be prepared by all people. This means the catfish pepes having excellent

taste with natural ingredients without preservatives.

Mak Ade is one of the rural chefs who always makes catfish pepes with torch ginger every day. This old and single woman from Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Tabanan, indeed has expertise in preparing menus especially the traditional ones. Her cooking is famous for its delicacy, so that local villagers always purchase it.

Well, among the menus on sale, the catfish pepes with torch ginger is frequently purchased as can be consumed by children, teenagers to old people. In the afternoon, after coming home from cultivating paddy fields, village farmers will drop in to buy catfish pepes as a side dish for dinner. Sometimes, people have also arrived before her stall is opened. The side dish will be served as side dish for lunch in

paddy fields.

Children also like this kind of menu. However, they must eat carefully because the flesh still contains few bones. Catfish will be better to be consumed when accompanied with vegetable with grated coconut seasoning and cassava chips.

Catfish pepes prepared by Mak Ade offers very distinctive taste. On that account, she opens her food stalls in the morning and afternoon for breakfast and dinner.

When preparing this catfish pepes, Mak Ade uses giant catfish, torch ginger, Balinese complete seasoning and banana leaf to wrap it. The complete seasoning covers turmeric, galangal, aromatic ginger, ginger, garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne pepper, lemongrass, candlenut, pepper, coriander and salt.

First of all, prepare complete seasoning by chopping turmeric,

galangal, ginger, and aromatic ginger. Then, grind garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne and lemongrass. Similarly, grind the candlenut, pepper, and coriander. All the seasonings are ground to be getting smooth. Please add salt to taste.

Similarly, cut thin the torch ginger and bruise to be smoother. Cleanse the catfish and then cut into pieces according to taste.

The finely grounded seasoning is put into the basin, put the slices of catfish flesh and mix them together well with the seasoning. Add bay leaves to create a distinctive flavor. Further, wrapped the batter of catfish flesh and the seasoning lengthways following the line of leaves and attach with bamboo pin (tooth pick). After that, steam it until cooked. Roast to taste fine and delicious. Now, it is ready to serve. (kmb)

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Poland worried Ukrainian workers could choose Germany

WARSAW - Already desperately short of workers, Polish businesses are worried that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on whom they have come to rely may be tempted by higher wages further west as neighbouring Germany opens its doors.

“The panic is affecting mainly businesses in the farming and construction sectors relying on Ukrainian workers,” Krzysztof Inglot, head of the Personnel Service employment agency, told AFP. “People are often illegally employed in these sectors and these workers will go to Germany,” said Inglot, whose agency recruited 9,000 Ukrainians on behalf of Polish employers.

“But for those who are legally employed in Poland, there will be less incentive to move given the higher cost of living in Germany,” he added.

With many working for a few months and then going home, it is difficult to pin down exactly how many Ukrainians work in Poland, but cautious estimates suggest more than a million.

They fill a yawning labour gap that emerged when some two million Poles sought better-paid jobs in western Europe, mainly

Britain and Germany, after their country joined the EU in 2004.

Poland’s Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers (ZPP) first sounded the alarm about a possible fresh labour exodus in November when it got wind of German moves to open the job market of the EU’s largest economy to non-EU nationals.

Eagerly anticipated by German business groups, the draft legislation aims to attract from abroad skilled vocational workers with German language skills and promises them eased visa procedures and reduced red tape.

Those looking jobs such as cooks, metallurgy workers or IT technicians would be allowed to come for six months to try and find employment, provided they can financially support themselves.

The Bundestag is expected to consider the legislation later this year.

Official statistics show that around 140,000 Ukrainians currently work in Germany, although the real number is likely higher as those who have obtained Polish visas can cross into Germany, where salaries can be up to three times higher depending on the type of job. (afp)

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A photo shows hundreds of houses part of the Sarot Group’s Burj Al Babas project on December 15, 2018 close to the town centre of Mudurnu in the Bolu northwestern region.

Building boom turning to bust as Turkey’s economy slows

MUDUMU - Deep in a provincial region of northwestern Turkey, it looks like a mirage -- hundreds of luxury houses built in neat rows, their pointed towers somewhere between French chateau and Disney castle.

Meant to provide luxurious accommodations for foreign buyers, the houses are however standing empty in what is anything but a fairytale for their investors.

The ambitious development has been hit by regional turmoil as well as the slump in the Turkish construction industry -- a key sector -- as the country’s economy heads towards what could be a hard landing in an intensifying downturn.

After a long period of solid growth, Turkey’s economy contracted 1.1 percent in the third quarter, and many economists expect it will enter into reces-

sion this year.

The country has been hit by high inflation and a currency crisis in August. The lira lost 28 percent of its value against the dollar in 2018 and markets are still unconvinced by the readiness of the government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to tackle underlying economic issues.

The villas close to the town centre of Mudurnu in the Bolu region are intended to resemble European architecture and are part of the Sarot Group’s Burj Al Babas project.

But the development of 732 villas and a shopping centre -- which began in 2014 -- is now in limbo as Sarot Group has sought bankruptcy protection.

It is one of hundreds of Turkish companies that have done so as they seek cover from creditors and to restructure their debts. (afp)

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Already desperately short of workers, Polish businesses are worried that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on whom they have come to rely may be tempted by higher wages further west as neighbouring Germany opens its doors.

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Megawati sheds tears when talking about her promise to Soerkarno

JAKARTA - Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) chair Megawati Soekarnoputri shed tears when talking about her promise to her father, Soekarno, during the change from Old Order to Soeharto`s New Order in Indonesia.

Megawati conveyed the story in front of 100 PDIP cadres during a dialogue entitled “Megawati tells a story” here on Monday.

One of the participants, Camelia, asked about Megawati`s dreams.

Megawati replied that she had many dreams, some of which had already been realized, while many had still not materialized.

She highlighted the Dutch colonization in Indonesia for 350 years. “I ask historians to give explanations about the Dutch colonization. From this background, there are people who try to encourage the nation`s division,” she stated.

She stated that people often forgot the struggle of national heroes. “When I visited the graveyard with my children and grandchildren, I asked my children and

grandchildren to spread flowers on tomb of the unknown hero.

Then, they asked me, why? I said the unknown heroes had sacrificed themselves for Indonesian independence. Whoever he is, you have to give honor,” Megawati explained.

During the New Order regime, she noted that the regime had made some efforts to erase the memory of Soekarno`s services.

Megawati asserted that Soekarno was a freedom fighter who was able to unite the entire archipelago with its diverse communities into one in the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI).

“When Soekarno was overthrown by the New Order regime, I told my father, one day, you will come back again,” Megawati revealed with tears in her eyes.

“It is just a little more,” Megawati added, pressing her thumb and index finger.

The dialogue was also attended

by Secretary General of PDIP Hasto Kristiyanto and others. (ant)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has agreed to allocate Rp15 trillion in budget fund for disaster anticipation and mitigation in the 2019 state budget.

“Last year, we spent more than Rp7 trillion (on disaster mitigation). The budget fund did not merely go to the BNPB (National Disaster Mitigation Board). We increased the expenditure in the form of on-call fund,” Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati stated after a plenary cabinet meeting themed “Programs and Activities in 2019” at the State Palace here on Monday.

She noted that the on-call fund will be made available if the BNPB deems it necessary to take emergency action.

The government also plans to form pooling fund, through which it pools fund from each region for disaster mitigation

efforts, she explained.

To carry out disaster mitigation programs, the government has also learned from the Philippines, which is frequently affected by typhoons, and Latin American countries, which are often struck by earthquakes, she revealed.

The pooling fund scheme will be prepared to deal with losses due to natural disasters, she added.

The government begins to prepare disaster insurance mechanism by setting aside Rp1 trillion worth of pooling fund to speed up the recovery of the affected areas.

The fund can be disbursed by taking into account the extent of natural disasters, including the number of victims and the amount of material losses. (ant)

Jabodetabek`s traffic congestion Government allocates Rp15 trillion inflicts Rp65 trillion for disaster fund in losses: Jokowi

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JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has stated that traffic congestion in and around Jakarta has inflicted some Rp65 trillion in losses per year.

“I only imagine the calculation I have received from Bappenas (the National Development Planning Agency). Every year, we lose about Rp65 trillion due to traffic congestion in Jabodetabek (Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi),” he stated in a limited meeting at the Presidential Office here on Tuesday.

The lost money, if allocated for development projects, could be used to develop alternative transportation modes in and around Jakarta, he noted.

Moreover, if the money is accumulated for at least five years, it could be used to develop light rail transit (LRT) and mass rapid transit (MRT) systems, he added.

“If we spent it on goods, it could become LRT and MRT. In a period of five years, it could become goods,” he remarked. He stated that the traffic congestion cannot be left unheeded in future.

“It is unlikely for us to continue it. We must have the

guts to begin designing (transport system) in such way that everything can be settled soon. We can spend Rp65 trillion on goods instead of polluting the city,” he explained.

Also present at the meeting were Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Puan Maharani, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto, Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Communication and Informatics Minister Rudiantara, and Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo.

The others were Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono, Manpower Minister Hanif Dzakiri, Chief of Presidential Staff Moeldoko, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani, National Development Planning Minister/Bappenas Chief Bambang Brodjonegoro, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi, State Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno, and National Police Chief General Tito Karnavian. (afp)

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Trick serve gives Tomic advantage over Kyrgios

MELBOURNE - Bernard Tomic won the battle of Australia’s tennis bad boys with a comical trick serve through his legs at the Kooyong Classic Wednesday, as he and opponent Nick Kyrgios both talked up their chances at the Australian Open.

Kerta Gosa Hall of Justice Cultural and Historical Attraction in East Bali

BANGLI - Kerta Gosa, also spelled Kertha Gosa and known locally as ‘Taman Gili Kerta Gosa’, is an historical landmark in Semarapura, the main town of the Klungkung regency in East Bali.

Kerta Gosa forms part of the Puri Semarapura royal palace complex and features two main structures – a grand hall or the namesake Bale Kerta Gosa with ceilings filled with Kamasan or wayang-style paintings, and the Bale Kambang ‘floating’ hall or pavillion that’s surrounded by a moat. The Kerta Gosa complex dates back to 1686 when it was commissioned by Dewa Agung Jambe, then ruler of the Klungkung kingdom. Kerta Gosa has undergone a series of restorations in the past (the latest was in 2014) and is one of Bali’s most important historical sites. Even though it is a national heritage site, Kerta Gosa is open for the public.

Taman Gili Kerta Gosa features spacious and open halls inside a

walled compound. Unique and traditional Balinese architecture can be seen throughout the gates, walls and main structures, and the main distinctive highlight of Kerta Gosa are the painted ceilings in the halls. These paintings feature a technique often described as Kamasan style. Kamasan itself is a village in Klungkung that has

become renowned for its typical style of paintings of wayang or traditional Balinese shadow puppetry figures. Kamasan paintings generally take inspiration from notable Hindu epics such as the Ramayana or the Mahabharata.

Kamasan style can also be found in temples. The paintings that adorn the ceilings of the Kerta Gosa halls

were made on textile, yet a series of restoration projects carried out in 1930 had the pieces repainted onto plasterboards. The paintings depict spiritual teachings and guidance. When studied in detail, each of the pieces tells a different tale, one section may be of karma and reincarnation, and others of each phase of the human life from birth to death and the path to Nirvana.

The Bale Kambang is surrounded by a moat. The paintings on its ceilings depict the tales from an old Javanese Sutasoma epic, with Prince Sutasoma as its protagonist.

Both sides of the bridges towards this ‘floating hall’ are adorned by guardian statues that depict characters from the epic and all surround a moat filled with lotuses. The hall structures served as a main place for the royal family to conduct important rituals and rites of passage.

It also served as a court during the Dutch occupancy in Klungkung from 1908 to 1942.

Good to Know During the battle against the Dutch military expedition that came to be known as the Puputan Klungkung fight to the death which occurred on 28 April 1908, the last ruler, Dewa Agung Jambe, and his followers died. The accounts of the battle are inscribed at the Puputan Klungkung monument which can be seen at the intersection from the north-eastern hall. The raised position of the hall also provides a vantage point over the monument.

After the defeat, the inner courtyards of the Semarapura palace were destroyed. The remaining structures were these Kerta Gosa halls, with the Bale Kambang floating hall and the Taman Gili gardens. A museum displaying Klungkung’s history is within walking distance to the west of the Kerta Gosa complex and is also an included stopover on visits to the site. (IBP/net)

The world number 83’s goodnatured 6-3, 6-4 victory over his longtime friend Kyrgios ended with a flourish when he sent down the sneaky serve, while bouncing another ball, on match point.

It caught the relaxed Kyrgios completely off guard, and left him laughing and shaking his head.

The collegial battle between the two showmen, who have both struggled with motivational difficulties, was a crowd pleaser and they were happy afterwards to talk up their chances at the opening Grand Slam of the year next week.

“We’ve both made deep runs at the Open,” said Kyrgios, pointing to his 2015 quarter-final and Tomic’s three fourth rounds.

“It’s looking good for Australia, we have a lot of players, all playing with different style, but looking strong.” As for his own chances at his home Slam, Kyrgios had limited advice.

“I guess it’s not doing what I’ve

been doing,” said a player who quit the 2018 season in October with an elbow injury and then played basketball and worked with his charity in the off-season.

“Maybe when I reach the second week of a major, I just play better.

I have to raise my game and play better at the end of the day.

“I’ve been doing all the right things for next week, ticked all the boxes, got the body right.

“I feel like a veteran at this stage, I just need to make sure the body is right.” Like Kyrgios, now ranked 51, Tomic has fallen in and out of love with the sport.

A year ago, he could not even qualify for Melbourne Park, advising media after a loss that he could be found “counting my millions.”

That bad attitude lasted through his aborted three-day run in the South African jungle in an Aussie celebrity survival series a month later. Chastened somewhat, Tomic began to rebuild his game last season, winning his first title since

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Bernard Tomic of Australia hits a forehand return to compatriot Nick Kyrgios during their match on the second day of the Kooyong Classic tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 9, 2019.

2015 at Chengdu last September and he appears to be carrying that momentum forward.

“I’m just doing what I need to do. My attitude to tennis is the same

SEOUL - South Korea’s double Olympic short track gold medallist Shim Suk-hee has accused her former coach -- already convicted and jailed for repeatedly beating her over many years -- of sexual as-

sault, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Shim filed her complaint against Cho Jae-beom to police last month, on the same day she testified at his appeal against a 10-month jail sentence for physically assaulting

her.

Aged 21, the elite athlete has four Olympic medals to her name, including relay golds at both Sochi 2014 and on home ice at last year’s Pyeongchang Games.

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He added: “I know this Australian Open is going to be big as well … and I can do a lot better than I’ve done in the past.” (afp)

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whether I won or lose,” he said.

“My target is to make another Grand Slam quarter-final, maybe even a semi. I need to be healthy to have a good year. I’m okay now

South Korea’s double Olympic short track gold medallist Shim Suk-hee.

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Shim told police that her coach sexually violated her from the age of 17 until last January, a month before the Olympics, her lawyer said.

“This is a grave crime that our society should not overlook,” Im Sang-hyeok told AFP. Some of the incidents took place at government-managed sports training centres, he added, demonstrating how vulnerable sports players can be to loopholes in the state management system.

South Korea is a regional sporting power and regularly in the top 10 medal table places at the summer and winter Olympics.

But in an already intensely competitive society, winning is everything in its sports community -- where coaches hold immense sway over athletes’ careers, and physical and verbal abuse are known to be rife.

In addition, the country remains socially conservative and female sex crime victims can face public shaming.

Shim “kept it all to herself” until recently, lawyer Im said of the sexual assault allegations, “in fear of the potential stigma she could face as a woman and impact

on her family as well as reprisals

by Cho”.

She “mustered up the courage” to reveal the case in hope of preventing other athletes suffering similar fates, he added.

In response to Shim’s accusations, South Korean authorities on Wednesday promised to strengthen sporting penalties for sexual offenders.

Lifetime sport bans -- currently applied to offenders convicted of rape or sexual assault -- will be extended to those who commit sexual harassment, said vice sports minister Roh Tae-kang.

Cho has admitted to beating athletes “to improve their performance”, but denies the sexual assault accusation, according to South Korean broadcaster SBS. Shim did not mention the issue at his appeal hearing at the request of police, her lawyer said.

She told the court that his physical violence began when she was seven and “kept escalating” as she grew older. On one occasion, she thought she “could die here” as he kicked and punched her, she said, breaking down in tears.

A ruling in the assault appeal is expected on January 14. (afp)

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Higuain needs to knuckle down, warns AC Milan sporting director

AC Milan striker Gonzalo Higuain needs to knuckle down and start working, sporting director Leonardo said on Tuesday, amid reports linking the unsettled Argentine international with Chelsea. Higuain, 31, joined Milan on a season-long loan from Juventus in July following the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo in Turin but has struggled to settle at the San Siro.

The former Napoli player ended his two-month goal-scoring drought before the winter break with the winner against SPAL, bringing his tally to six goals in 15 Serie A games -- below his rate at his previous clubs.

“A goal can change things, but if he is to continue here, he needs to take on responsibility,” warned Leonardo.

“He had a tough moment, he has to put it behind him and get to work.” Milan

have an option to buy Higuain who has also been linked with a possible move to join former Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri at Chelsea.

“There’s no point following rumours and gossip,” said Leonardo.

“He is here right now. Seeing as he is here, he needs to get down and actually do something for this team.” AC Milan have crashed out of the Europa League and dropped

to fifth in Serie A. Brazilian Leonardo also confirmed there have been no formal offers for Italian forward Fabio Borini or Croatian midfielder Alen Halilovic who have been linked to Chinese club Shenzhen and Turkish outfit Besiktas respectively. Leonardo was speaking during the presentation of new Brazilian signing Lucas Paqueta, who arrived from

Flamengo on a four-and-a-half year deal worth 35 million euros ($40m, £31.56m). “Milan is the right place for me,” said Paqueta, describing himself as “a technical player with a good physique”.

The 21-year-old could make his debut in the Italian Cup against Sampdoria on Saturday or next week’s Italian Super Cup match against Juventus.

Lyon dumped out of French League Cup by Strasbourg Lyon suffered a surprise exit from the French League Cup on Tuesday as Bruno Genesio’s side were beaten 2-1 at home by Strasbourg in the quarter-finals. The hosts, who sit third in the Ligue 1 table behind runaway leaders Paris Saint-Germain and Lille, fell behind to an early Ludovic Ajorque spot-kick.

Nabil Fekir wasted an opportunity to level on the stroke of half-

time, blazing a penalty over the crossbar after he had been tripped in the area, but Bertrand Traore latched onto Memphis Depay’s flick to power home a 49th-minute equaliser.

Strasbourg responded quickly, though, as Ivorian defender Lamine Kone headed in his second goal in as many games after netting against Nice in their last league match before the winter break.

“It’s a big disappointment because we were focusing a lot on this competition, which we wanted to go all the way in,” said Genesio.

PSG resume their bid for a sixth straight League Cup title with a home last-eight tie with Guingamp on Wednesday, while Thierry Henry’s struggling Monaco welcome Rennes to the principality. (afp)

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Tottenham Hotspur’s English striker Harry Kane (2L) shoots from the penalty spot to score his team’s first goal during the English League Cup semi-final first-leg football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium in London, on January 8, 2019.

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Inter Milan fans wearing their side’s jerseys (C) wait in the tribunes prior to the Italian Serie A football match Empoli vs Inter Milan on December 29, 2018 a the Carlo-Castellani stadium in Empoli.

Pochettino ‘unhappy’ to beat Chelsea with VAR penalty

Tottenham Hotspur head coach Mauricio Pochettino said he was “unhappy” to see his side beat Chelsea 1-0 in the first leg of their English League Cup semi-final via a disputed penalty awarded by VAR. Harry Kane scored the only goal of the all-London tie at Wembley after 26 minutes with a spot-kick given when referee Michael Oliver called on video technology.

Chelsea were convinced Kane had been offside before racing into the box, where he was brought down by Kepa Arrizabalaga as the Blues goalkeeper came hurtling off his line. It took more than 90 seconds for VAR to confirm Kane had indeed been onside before match referee Oliver awarded a penalty.

“I don’t like the VAR,” Pochettino told Sky Sports. “Today we get the benefit of it but after watching the World Cup and another league like La Liga I see that nobody is happy from day one that they started to use it.” “To get the benefit is nice but I am unhappy to win the game like this,” the Argentinian

added.

- ‘Nobody is happy’ -

“I prefer the technology but in a different way. Being clear, I am pro technology because you cannot stop evolution but we are waiting so long, it is not clear what are the rules. “We all have to agree, the players, the coaching staff, I watch every week La Liga and nobody is happy, the big clubs and the small clubs.

“That is a good example for us.

We have six months to improve the system and there is a lot of work

to do.” Meanwhile, Chelsea boss Maurizio insisted a Blues video showed Kane in an offside position and also questioned why VAR was now being used in League Cup ties but not in the Premier League.

“A few minutes ago I watched the video from our camera. It was offside. Our camera was in line with Harry Kane,” Sarri said.

“Offside with the head, the knee.

Offside. It was really important the linesman carried on running, he had a big impact on our defenders.

“I don’t think English referees are able to use the system. If you

are not sure with the system, you have to follow the ball and at the end of the action decide... “I think they (football officials) have to study the system. It’s very strange in the Premier League there isn’t VAR and in the Carabao (League) Cup there is the system. It’s very strange for us, the players and referees.” Kane, however, had no such qualms over the penalty award.

“I played to the whistle and nicked it round the keeper, it was a clear penalty. VAR is there for a reason and they got it right,” said the England forward. (afp)

Inter Milan accept two-match San Siro closure for racist chants

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Lyon’s Dutch forward Memphis Depay dives as he attempts to score a goal during the French League Cup quarter final football match Olympique between Lyonnais (OL) and Racing Club de Strasbourg, at The Parc Olympique Lyonnais stadium in Decines-Charpieu, central-eastern France on January 8, 2019.

Inter Milan will not appeal their two-match stadium closure imposed after racist chanting directed towards Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly, the Serie A club confirmed on Tuesday. Inter were ordered to play two domestic matches behind closed doors for the abuse of Koulibaly during their Serie A clash on December 26.

The club said they would not appeal the Lega Serie A decision, and have asked the Italian football federation if they can invite local schoolchildren to the match against

Sassuolo on January 19. The stadium will be closed for Sunday’s Italian Cup tie against Benevento.

Koulibaly was subjected to monkey noises from the crowd several times during Inter’s 1-0 win, leading Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti to ask for the match to be halted three times, without success.

There were also violent clashes before the game during which an Inter supporter was killed after being hit by a car. Inter will also have to play another game with their North Stand closed. (afp)

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Higuain needs to knuckle down, warns AC Milan sporting director

AC Milan striker Gonzalo Higuain needs to knuckle down and start working, sporting director Leonardo said on Tuesday, amid reports linking the unsettled Argentine international with Chelsea. Higuain, 31, joined Milan on a season-long loan from Juventus in July following the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo in Turin but has struggled to settle at the San Siro.

The former Napoli player ended his two-month goal-scoring drought before the winter break with the winner against SPAL, bringing his tally to six goals in 15 Serie A games -- below his rate at his previous clubs.

“A goal can change things, but if he is to continue here, he needs to take on responsibility,” warned Leonardo.

“He had a tough moment, he has to put it behind him and get to work.” Milan

have an option to buy Higuain who has also been linked with a possible move to join former Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri at Chelsea.

“There’s no point following rumours and gossip,” said Leonardo.

“He is here right now. Seeing as he is here, he needs to get down and actually do something for this team.” AC Milan have crashed out of the Europa League and dropped

to fifth in Serie A. Brazilian Leonardo also confirmed there have been no formal offers for Italian forward Fabio Borini or Croatian midfielder Alen Halilovic who have been linked to Chinese club Shenzhen and Turkish outfit Besiktas respectively. Leonardo was speaking during the presentation of new Brazilian signing Lucas Paqueta, who arrived from

Flamengo on a four-and-a-half year deal worth 35 million euros ($40m, £31.56m). “Milan is the right place for me,” said Paqueta, describing himself as “a technical player with a good physique”.

The 21-year-old could make his debut in the Italian Cup against Sampdoria on Saturday or next week’s Italian Super Cup match against Juventus.

Lyon dumped out of French League Cup by Strasbourg Lyon suffered a surprise exit from the French League Cup on Tuesday as Bruno Genesio’s side were beaten 2-1 at home by Strasbourg in the quarter-finals. The hosts, who sit third in the Ligue 1 table behind runaway leaders Paris Saint-Germain and Lille, fell behind to an early Ludovic Ajorque spot-kick.

Nabil Fekir wasted an opportunity to level on the stroke of half-

time, blazing a penalty over the crossbar after he had been tripped in the area, but Bertrand Traore latched onto Memphis Depay’s flick to power home a 49th-minute equaliser.

Strasbourg responded quickly, though, as Ivorian defender Lamine Kone headed in his second goal in as many games after netting against Nice in their last league match before the winter break.

“It’s a big disappointment because we were focusing a lot on this competition, which we wanted to go all the way in,” said Genesio.

PSG resume their bid for a sixth straight League Cup title with a home last-eight tie with Guingamp on Wednesday, while Thierry Henry’s struggling Monaco welcome Rennes to the principality. (afp)

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Tottenham Hotspur’s English striker Harry Kane (2L) shoots from the penalty spot to score his team’s first goal during the English League Cup semi-final first-leg football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium in London, on January 8, 2019.

Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP

Inter Milan fans wearing their side’s jerseys (C) wait in the tribunes prior to the Italian Serie A football match Empoli vs Inter Milan on December 29, 2018 a the Carlo-Castellani stadium in Empoli.

Pochettino ‘unhappy’ to beat Chelsea with VAR penalty

Tottenham Hotspur head coach Mauricio Pochettino said he was “unhappy” to see his side beat Chelsea 1-0 in the first leg of their English League Cup semi-final via a disputed penalty awarded by VAR. Harry Kane scored the only goal of the all-London tie at Wembley after 26 minutes with a spot-kick given when referee Michael Oliver called on video technology.

Chelsea were convinced Kane had been offside before racing into the box, where he was brought down by Kepa Arrizabalaga as the Blues goalkeeper came hurtling off his line. It took more than 90 seconds for VAR to confirm Kane had indeed been onside before match referee Oliver awarded a penalty.

“I don’t like the VAR,” Pochettino told Sky Sports. “Today we get the benefit of it but after watching the World Cup and another league like La Liga I see that nobody is happy from day one that they started to use it.” “To get the benefit is nice but I am unhappy to win the game like this,” the Argentinian

added.

- ‘Nobody is happy’ -

“I prefer the technology but in a different way. Being clear, I am pro technology because you cannot stop evolution but we are waiting so long, it is not clear what are the rules. “We all have to agree, the players, the coaching staff, I watch every week La Liga and nobody is happy, the big clubs and the small clubs.

“That is a good example for us.

We have six months to improve the system and there is a lot of work

to do.” Meanwhile, Chelsea boss Maurizio insisted a Blues video showed Kane in an offside position and also questioned why VAR was now being used in League Cup ties but not in the Premier League.

“A few minutes ago I watched the video from our camera. It was offside. Our camera was in line with Harry Kane,” Sarri said.

“Offside with the head, the knee.

Offside. It was really important the linesman carried on running, he had a big impact on our defenders.

“I don’t think English referees are able to use the system. If you

are not sure with the system, you have to follow the ball and at the end of the action decide... “I think they (football officials) have to study the system. It’s very strange in the Premier League there isn’t VAR and in the Carabao (League) Cup there is the system. It’s very strange for us, the players and referees.” Kane, however, had no such qualms over the penalty award.

“I played to the whistle and nicked it round the keeper, it was a clear penalty. VAR is there for a reason and they got it right,” said the England forward. (afp)

Inter Milan accept two-match San Siro closure for racist chants

JEFF PACHOUD / AFP

Lyon’s Dutch forward Memphis Depay dives as he attempts to score a goal during the French League Cup quarter final football match Olympique between Lyonnais (OL) and Racing Club de Strasbourg, at The Parc Olympique Lyonnais stadium in Decines-Charpieu, central-eastern France on January 8, 2019.

Inter Milan will not appeal their two-match stadium closure imposed after racist chanting directed towards Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly, the Serie A club confirmed on Tuesday. Inter were ordered to play two domestic matches behind closed doors for the abuse of Koulibaly during their Serie A clash on December 26.

The club said they would not appeal the Lega Serie A decision, and have asked the Italian football federation if they can invite local schoolchildren to the match against

Sassuolo on January 19. The stadium will be closed for Sunday’s Italian Cup tie against Benevento.

Koulibaly was subjected to monkey noises from the crowd several times during Inter’s 1-0 win, leading Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti to ask for the match to be halted three times, without success.

There were also violent clashes before the game during which an Inter supporter was killed after being hit by a car. Inter will also have to play another game with their North Stand closed. (afp)

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Trick serve gives Tomic advantage over Kyrgios

MELBOURNE - Bernard Tomic won the battle of Australia’s tennis bad boys with a comical trick serve through his legs at the Kooyong Classic Wednesday, as he and opponent Nick Kyrgios both talked up their chances at the Australian Open.

Kerta Gosa Hall of Justice Cultural and Historical Attraction in East Bali

BANGLI - Kerta Gosa, also spelled Kertha Gosa and known locally as ‘Taman Gili Kerta Gosa’, is an historical landmark in Semarapura, the main town of the Klungkung regency in East Bali.

Kerta Gosa forms part of the Puri Semarapura royal palace complex and features two main structures – a grand hall or the namesake Bale Kerta Gosa with ceilings filled with Kamasan or wayang-style paintings, and the Bale Kambang ‘floating’ hall or pavillion that’s surrounded by a moat. The Kerta Gosa complex dates back to 1686 when it was commissioned by Dewa Agung Jambe, then ruler of the Klungkung kingdom. Kerta Gosa has undergone a series of restorations in the past (the latest was in 2014) and is one of Bali’s most important historical sites. Even though it is a national heritage site, Kerta Gosa is open for the public.

Taman Gili Kerta Gosa features spacious and open halls inside a

walled compound. Unique and traditional Balinese architecture can be seen throughout the gates, walls and main structures, and the main distinctive highlight of Kerta Gosa are the painted ceilings in the halls. These paintings feature a technique often described as Kamasan style. Kamasan itself is a village in Klungkung that has

become renowned for its typical style of paintings of wayang or traditional Balinese shadow puppetry figures. Kamasan paintings generally take inspiration from notable Hindu epics such as the Ramayana or the Mahabharata.

Kamasan style can also be found in temples. The paintings that adorn the ceilings of the Kerta Gosa halls

were made on textile, yet a series of restoration projects carried out in 1930 had the pieces repainted onto plasterboards. The paintings depict spiritual teachings and guidance. When studied in detail, each of the pieces tells a different tale, one section may be of karma and reincarnation, and others of each phase of the human life from birth to death and the path to Nirvana.

The Bale Kambang is surrounded by a moat. The paintings on its ceilings depict the tales from an old Javanese Sutasoma epic, with Prince Sutasoma as its protagonist.

Both sides of the bridges towards this ‘floating hall’ are adorned by guardian statues that depict characters from the epic and all surround a moat filled with lotuses. The hall structures served as a main place for the royal family to conduct important rituals and rites of passage.

It also served as a court during the Dutch occupancy in Klungkung from 1908 to 1942.

Good to Know During the battle against the Dutch military expedition that came to be known as the Puputan Klungkung fight to the death which occurred on 28 April 1908, the last ruler, Dewa Agung Jambe, and his followers died. The accounts of the battle are inscribed at the Puputan Klungkung monument which can be seen at the intersection from the north-eastern hall. The raised position of the hall also provides a vantage point over the monument.

After the defeat, the inner courtyards of the Semarapura palace were destroyed. The remaining structures were these Kerta Gosa halls, with the Bale Kambang floating hall and the Taman Gili gardens. A museum displaying Klungkung’s history is within walking distance to the west of the Kerta Gosa complex and is also an included stopover on visits to the site. (IBP/net)

The world number 83’s goodnatured 6-3, 6-4 victory over his longtime friend Kyrgios ended with a flourish when he sent down the sneaky serve, while bouncing another ball, on match point.

It caught the relaxed Kyrgios completely off guard, and left him laughing and shaking his head.

The collegial battle between the two showmen, who have both struggled with motivational difficulties, was a crowd pleaser and they were happy afterwards to talk up their chances at the opening Grand Slam of the year next week.

“We’ve both made deep runs at the Open,” said Kyrgios, pointing to his 2015 quarter-final and Tomic’s three fourth rounds.

“It’s looking good for Australia, we have a lot of players, all playing with different style, but looking strong.” As for his own chances at his home Slam, Kyrgios had limited advice.

“I guess it’s not doing what I’ve

been doing,” said a player who quit the 2018 season in October with an elbow injury and then played basketball and worked with his charity in the off-season.

“Maybe when I reach the second week of a major, I just play better.

I have to raise my game and play better at the end of the day.

“I’ve been doing all the right things for next week, ticked all the boxes, got the body right.

“I feel like a veteran at this stage, I just need to make sure the body is right.” Like Kyrgios, now ranked 51, Tomic has fallen in and out of love with the sport.

A year ago, he could not even qualify for Melbourne Park, advising media after a loss that he could be found “counting my millions.”

That bad attitude lasted through his aborted three-day run in the South African jungle in an Aussie celebrity survival series a month later. Chastened somewhat, Tomic began to rebuild his game last season, winning his first title since

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Bernard Tomic of Australia hits a forehand return to compatriot Nick Kyrgios during their match on the second day of the Kooyong Classic tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 9, 2019.

2015 at Chengdu last September and he appears to be carrying that momentum forward.

“I’m just doing what I need to do. My attitude to tennis is the same

SEOUL - South Korea’s double Olympic short track gold medallist Shim Suk-hee has accused her former coach -- already convicted and jailed for repeatedly beating her over many years -- of sexual as-

sault, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Shim filed her complaint against Cho Jae-beom to police last month, on the same day she testified at his appeal against a 10-month jail sentence for physically assaulting

her.

Aged 21, the elite athlete has four Olympic medals to her name, including relay golds at both Sochi 2014 and on home ice at last year’s Pyeongchang Games.

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He added: “I know this Australian Open is going to be big as well … and I can do a lot better than I’ve done in the past.” (afp)

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whether I won or lose,” he said.

“My target is to make another Grand Slam quarter-final, maybe even a semi. I need to be healthy to have a good year. I’m okay now

South Korea’s double Olympic short track gold medallist Shim Suk-hee.

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Shim told police that her coach sexually violated her from the age of 17 until last January, a month before the Olympics, her lawyer said.

“This is a grave crime that our society should not overlook,” Im Sang-hyeok told AFP. Some of the incidents took place at government-managed sports training centres, he added, demonstrating how vulnerable sports players can be to loopholes in the state management system.

South Korea is a regional sporting power and regularly in the top 10 medal table places at the summer and winter Olympics.

But in an already intensely competitive society, winning is everything in its sports community -- where coaches hold immense sway over athletes’ careers, and physical and verbal abuse are known to be rife.

In addition, the country remains socially conservative and female sex crime victims can face public shaming.

Shim “kept it all to herself” until recently, lawyer Im said of the sexual assault allegations, “in fear of the potential stigma she could face as a woman and impact

on her family as well as reprisals

by Cho”.

She “mustered up the courage” to reveal the case in hope of preventing other athletes suffering similar fates, he added.

In response to Shim’s accusations, South Korean authorities on Wednesday promised to strengthen sporting penalties for sexual offenders.

Lifetime sport bans -- currently applied to offenders convicted of rape or sexual assault -- will be extended to those who commit sexual harassment, said vice sports minister Roh Tae-kang.

Cho has admitted to beating athletes “to improve their performance”, but denies the sexual assault accusation, according to South Korean broadcaster SBS. Shim did not mention the issue at his appeal hearing at the request of police, her lawyer said.

She told the court that his physical violence began when she was seven and “kept escalating” as she grew older. On one occasion, she thought she “could die here” as he kicked and punched her, she said, breaking down in tears.

A ruling in the assault appeal is expected on January 14. (afp)

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Poland worried Ukrainian workers could choose Germany

WARSAW - Already desperately short of workers, Polish businesses are worried that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on whom they have come to rely may be tempted by higher wages further west as neighbouring Germany opens its doors.

“The panic is affecting mainly businesses in the farming and construction sectors relying on Ukrainian workers,” Krzysztof Inglot, head of the Personnel Service employment agency, told AFP. “People are often illegally employed in these sectors and these workers will go to Germany,” said Inglot, whose agency recruited 9,000 Ukrainians on behalf of Polish employers.

“But for those who are legally employed in Poland, there will be less incentive to move given the higher cost of living in Germany,” he added.

With many working for a few months and then going home, it is difficult to pin down exactly how many Ukrainians work in Poland, but cautious estimates suggest more than a million.

They fill a yawning labour gap that emerged when some two million Poles sought better-paid jobs in western Europe, mainly

Britain and Germany, after their country joined the EU in 2004.

Poland’s Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers (ZPP) first sounded the alarm about a possible fresh labour exodus in November when it got wind of German moves to open the job market of the EU’s largest economy to non-EU nationals.

Eagerly anticipated by German business groups, the draft legislation aims to attract from abroad skilled vocational workers with German language skills and promises them eased visa procedures and reduced red tape.

Those looking jobs such as cooks, metallurgy workers or IT technicians would be allowed to come for six months to try and find employment, provided they can financially support themselves.

The Bundestag is expected to consider the legislation later this year.

Official statistics show that around 140,000 Ukrainians currently work in Germany, although the real number is likely higher as those who have obtained Polish visas can cross into Germany, where salaries can be up to three times higher depending on the type of job. (afp)

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A photo shows hundreds of houses part of the Sarot Group’s Burj Al Babas project on December 15, 2018 close to the town centre of Mudurnu in the Bolu northwestern region.

Building boom turning to bust as Turkey’s economy slows

MUDUMU - Deep in a provincial region of northwestern Turkey, it looks like a mirage -- hundreds of luxury houses built in neat rows, their pointed towers somewhere between French chateau and Disney castle.

Meant to provide luxurious accommodations for foreign buyers, the houses are however standing empty in what is anything but a fairytale for their investors.

The ambitious development has been hit by regional turmoil as well as the slump in the Turkish construction industry -- a key sector -- as the country’s economy heads towards what could be a hard landing in an intensifying downturn.

After a long period of solid growth, Turkey’s economy contracted 1.1 percent in the third quarter, and many economists expect it will enter into reces-

sion this year.

The country has been hit by high inflation and a currency crisis in August. The lira lost 28 percent of its value against the dollar in 2018 and markets are still unconvinced by the readiness of the government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to tackle underlying economic issues.

The villas close to the town centre of Mudurnu in the Bolu region are intended to resemble European architecture and are part of the Sarot Group’s Burj Al Babas project.

But the development of 732 villas and a shopping centre -- which began in 2014 -- is now in limbo as Sarot Group has sought bankruptcy protection.

It is one of hundreds of Turkish companies that have done so as they seek cover from creditors and to restructure their debts. (afp)

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Already desperately short of workers, Polish businesses are worried that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on whom they have come to rely may be tempted by higher wages further west as neighbouring Germany opens its doors.

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Megawati sheds tears when talking about her promise to Soerkarno

JAKARTA - Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) chair Megawati Soekarnoputri shed tears when talking about her promise to her father, Soekarno, during the change from Old Order to Soeharto`s New Order in Indonesia.

Megawati conveyed the story in front of 100 PDIP cadres during a dialogue entitled “Megawati tells a story” here on Monday.

One of the participants, Camelia, asked about Megawati`s dreams.

Megawati replied that she had many dreams, some of which had already been realized, while many had still not materialized.

She highlighted the Dutch colonization in Indonesia for 350 years. “I ask historians to give explanations about the Dutch colonization. From this background, there are people who try to encourage the nation`s division,” she stated.

She stated that people often forgot the struggle of national heroes. “When I visited the graveyard with my children and grandchildren, I asked my children and

grandchildren to spread flowers on tomb of the unknown hero.

Then, they asked me, why? I said the unknown heroes had sacrificed themselves for Indonesian independence. Whoever he is, you have to give honor,” Megawati explained.

During the New Order regime, she noted that the regime had made some efforts to erase the memory of Soekarno`s services.

Megawati asserted that Soekarno was a freedom fighter who was able to unite the entire archipelago with its diverse communities into one in the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI).

“When Soekarno was overthrown by the New Order regime, I told my father, one day, you will come back again,” Megawati revealed with tears in her eyes.

“It is just a little more,” Megawati added, pressing her thumb and index finger.

The dialogue was also attended

by Secretary General of PDIP Hasto Kristiyanto and others. (ant)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has agreed to allocate Rp15 trillion in budget fund for disaster anticipation and mitigation in the 2019 state budget.

“Last year, we spent more than Rp7 trillion (on disaster mitigation). The budget fund did not merely go to the BNPB (National Disaster Mitigation Board). We increased the expenditure in the form of on-call fund,” Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati stated after a plenary cabinet meeting themed “Programs and Activities in 2019” at the State Palace here on Monday.

She noted that the on-call fund will be made available if the BNPB deems it necessary to take emergency action.

The government also plans to form pooling fund, through which it pools fund from each region for disaster mitigation

efforts, she explained.

To carry out disaster mitigation programs, the government has also learned from the Philippines, which is frequently affected by typhoons, and Latin American countries, which are often struck by earthquakes, she revealed.

The pooling fund scheme will be prepared to deal with losses due to natural disasters, she added.

The government begins to prepare disaster insurance mechanism by setting aside Rp1 trillion worth of pooling fund to speed up the recovery of the affected areas.

The fund can be disbursed by taking into account the extent of natural disasters, including the number of victims and the amount of material losses. (ant)

Jabodetabek`s traffic congestion Government allocates Rp15 trillion inflicts Rp65 trillion for disaster fund in losses: Jokowi

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JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has stated that traffic congestion in and around Jakarta has inflicted some Rp65 trillion in losses per year.

“I only imagine the calculation I have received from Bappenas (the National Development Planning Agency). Every year, we lose about Rp65 trillion due to traffic congestion in Jabodetabek (Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi),” he stated in a limited meeting at the Presidential Office here on Tuesday.

The lost money, if allocated for development projects, could be used to develop alternative transportation modes in and around Jakarta, he noted.

Moreover, if the money is accumulated for at least five years, it could be used to develop light rail transit (LRT) and mass rapid transit (MRT) systems, he added.

“If we spent it on goods, it could become LRT and MRT. In a period of five years, it could become goods,” he remarked. He stated that the traffic congestion cannot be left unheeded in future.

“It is unlikely for us to continue it. We must have the

guts to begin designing (transport system) in such way that everything can be settled soon. We can spend Rp65 trillion on goods instead of polluting the city,” he explained.

Also present at the meeting were Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Puan Maharani, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto, Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Communication and Informatics Minister Rudiantara, and Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo.

The others were Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono, Manpower Minister Hanif Dzakiri, Chief of Presidential Staff Moeldoko, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani, National Development Planning Minister/Bappenas Chief Bambang Brodjonegoro, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi, State Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno, and National Police Chief General Tito Karnavian. (afp)

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BUSINESS US service firms grew at slower pace in December

WASHINGTON - U.S. service firms grew in December at the slowest pace in five months, a possible indication that various headwinds from turbulent markets to trade tensions could be having an impact on economic activity.

The Institute for Supply Management, which is composed of purchasing managers, reported Monday that its service index fell to 57.6 percent last month, down from a November reading of 60.7 percent. It was the lowest reading since the index stood at 55.7 percent in July. Any reading above 50 signals growth. So even with the December decline, the index shows that service industries, where most Americans work, has been expanding for 107 consecutive months.

The fall in the services index was led by a big drop in the component that tracks business activity.

Other components such as the key new orders index actually rose in December. While the employment component did decline, it was only a modest fall and stood in contrast to Friday’s jobs report which showed the economy created a sizable 312,000 jobs during the month.

The report showed that 16 service industries reported growth in December and only one — mining — reported a decline.

Still, economists said the slow-

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In this Nov. 9, 2018, file photo a Walmart associate stocks a shelf at a Walmart Supercenter in Houston. On Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, the Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, issues its index of non-manufacturing activity for December. down in activity in services could be a signal that the economy will slow in 2019 after a strong performance in 2018.

“Virtually everyone is expecting

growth to slow this year, but how much and how far the slowdown takes us is still anyone’s guess,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank

in New York.

The weaker reading on the service economy followed a report last week that the ISM index for manufacturing slowed to the

slowest pace in more than two years, with some manufacturers complaining about the impact of President Donald Trump’s trade policies. (ap)

Global natural disasters wreak $160 bn damage in 2018: Munich Re

Natural disasters including wildfires, hurricanes and tsunamis inflicted $160 billion of damage and claimed 10,400 lives in 2018, German reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday.

The financial toll was far below the $350 billion recorded the previous year in a record hurricane season, the firm said in its annual reckoning, but above the 30-year average of $140 billion.

As with the previous year the United States suffered the heaviest losses from disasters globally, with its second record wildfire season in a row. But it was given some respite from damaging storms, with the hurricanes hitting the country in

2018 inflicting far less destruction than in 2017.

Wildfires dealt $24 billion of damage in California, while Hurricanes Florence and Michael accounted for a combined $30 billion.

Just one blaze known as the “Camp Fire” killed 86 people and caused losses of $16.5 billion in early November as it tore through the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

As losses from wildfires have grown in step with increasingly frequent hot and dry summers, “many scientists see a link between these developments and advancing climate change,” said Ernst Rauch, Munich Re’s head of climate and geosciences.

What’s more, “burgeoning settlements in areas close to forests at risk from wildfire” mean that “casualties and losses are immense,” he added. Munich Re board member Torsten Jeworrek warned that “action is urgently needed on building codes and land use” to limit wildfire losses.

Looking to the human cost of catastrophes, the financial firm said the deadliest event was a September 28 tsunami that hit the Indonesian city of Palu, killing 2,100 people.

Munich Re highlighted that 2018’s natural disaster death toll was far below the 53,000 average for the previous 30 years. “From

a global perspective, measures to protect human life are starting to take effect,” the Bavarian company said.

Worldwide, the firm pointed to an unusual hurricane season last year as “named tropical storms in all northern-hemisphere ocean basins outnumbered the long-term average”.

Category-five “super typhoon” Mangkhut, also known as Ompong, killed 100 people when it struck the Philippines in September.

Jebi, just one of seven typhoons to strike Japan, dealt $12.5 billion in damage.

Beyond the hurricanes, a second tsunami that struck the Indonesian

islands of Sumatra and Java in December killed “at least” 400. The tidal wave went undetected by early warning systems as it was caused by an underwater landslide rather than an earthquake.

Meanwhile Japan suffered a further $9 billion in damage from two earthquakes.

Europe was spared dramatic one-off disasters in 2018, but a long summer drought inflicted around $3.9 billion in direct losses to arable and livestock farmers and slowed economies as rivers ebbed too low to be used for freight traffic.

The dry summer also contributed to violent wildfires in Scandinavia. (afp)

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Makincang-Kincung Tradition at Taro Village

There is always something unique in Bali. The Makincang-Kincung tradition was held in the area of ??Puseh Temple of Patas hamlet, Taro, Tegallalang, on Saturday night (Oct. 27). The annual tradition coinciding with the pujawali or temple festival in Puseh Bale Agung Temple was held as a reflection or description of the hard work performed by the local community to achieve prosperity.

Secretary of Patas customary village, I Ketut Wija, explained that in implementing the tradition, the participants are coming from the local customary village youth. The procession was begun by walking around the specially made penjor with more than 10 meters in height. The initial process of this ceremony was preceded by local customary apparatus.

After making a circular movement around the penjor, all the participants have to work hard and try to climb the penjor in order to get the sampian penjor festoon as a symbol of fertility.

According to Wija, there are about eight series of the ceremonies performed before all the participants compete in order to be able to climb to the end between the penjor’s wing boundaries.

I Wayan Buda, one of the participants of the Makincang-kincung, admitted to struggle among the temptations of his friends with the slippery penjor bamboo pole to finally reach the top and get a sampian penjor festoon. “It is quite hard to climb as having to compete against all the friends and the bamboo pole is also very slippery,” he said with a rushing breath due to exhaustion.

Nevertheless, he claimed to be proud of being able to climb up and get a symbol of welfare in the form of sampian penjor. “I’m very happy to be able to participate in this ceremony,” he said. (kmb)

Catfish Pepes in Complete Seasoning and Torch Ginger

Make a try to taste fried catfish.

Wow… it is remarkably delicious!

Similarly, you can taste catfish pepes (wrapped in banana leaf) with complete seasoning. Of course, it

must be different. Catfish pepes coming with Balinese complete seasoning is indeed unable to be prepared by all people. This means the catfish pepes having excellent

taste with natural ingredients without preservatives.

Mak Ade is one of the rural chefs who always makes catfish pepes with torch ginger every day. This old and single woman from Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Tabanan, indeed has expertise in preparing menus especially the traditional ones. Her cooking is famous for its delicacy, so that local villagers always purchase it.

Well, among the menus on sale, the catfish pepes with torch ginger is frequently purchased as can be consumed by children, teenagers to old people. In the afternoon, after coming home from cultivating paddy fields, village farmers will drop in to buy catfish pepes as a side dish for dinner. Sometimes, people have also arrived before her stall is opened. The side dish will be served as side dish for lunch in

paddy fields.

Children also like this kind of menu. However, they must eat carefully because the flesh still contains few bones. Catfish will be better to be consumed when accompanied with vegetable with grated coconut seasoning and cassava chips.

Catfish pepes prepared by Mak Ade offers very distinctive taste. On that account, she opens her food stalls in the morning and afternoon for breakfast and dinner.

When preparing this catfish pepes, Mak Ade uses giant catfish, torch ginger, Balinese complete seasoning and banana leaf to wrap it. The complete seasoning covers turmeric, galangal, aromatic ginger, ginger, garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne pepper, lemongrass, candlenut, pepper, coriander and salt.

First of all, prepare complete seasoning by chopping turmeric,

galangal, ginger, and aromatic ginger. Then, grind garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne and lemongrass. Similarly, grind the candlenut, pepper, and coriander. All the seasonings are ground to be getting smooth. Please add salt to taste.

Similarly, cut thin the torch ginger and bruise to be smoother. Cleanse the catfish and then cut into pieces according to taste.

The finely grounded seasoning is put into the basin, put the slices of catfish flesh and mix them together well with the seasoning. Add bay leaves to create a distinctive flavor. Further, wrapped the batter of catfish flesh and the seasoning lengthways following the line of leaves and attach with bamboo pin (tooth pick). After that, steam it until cooked. Roast to taste fine and delicious. Now, it is ready to serve. (kmb)

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Ring River project gets flooded

MANGUPURA - The ring river project in the Badung Civic Center is soaked by floods due to the high flow of water from upstream. The river built around the civic center also drew the attention of the legislators in the Badung House of Representatives because it flooded the road to the parliament building.

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The ring river project in the Badung Civic Center is soaked by floods due to the high flow of water from upstream.

Chairperson of the Badung House of Representatives, Putu Parwata, said the projects in the workmanship process by the Public Works and Spatial Planning (PUPR) Agency must get a concern of partners. Every heavy rain, the roads and parks in the artificial river channel are submerged by floods and the rainwater inundates the road to the Badung Parliament Building.

“During the rain for several times, the road to the parliament building was flooded, so we asked the relevant agencies in this case the Public Works and Housing Agency (PUPR) to review the implementation of the river project,” said Putu Parwata on Monday (Jan. 7).

This politician from Dalung, North Kuta, asked the Public Works Agency to make improvements. Sometimes, the river water flowing to the Subak Kwanji is unstable especially during the rainy season.

“We hope the ring river project will not become a disaster because the study is wrong, so improvements must be made immediately. Formerly, it was the irrigation channel of Subak Kwanji whose water discharge could go up and down,” he explained.

Separately, the Head of the Badung Public Works and Housing Agency, Ida Bagus Surya Suamba, denied if the ring river project in the civic center area was wrongly constructed. The overflow of water in the artificial river happened due to the trial process. Based on the results of trial process, there would be some

improvements.

“That’s a trial. After getting the results of this trial, there are indeed several improvements related to the water flow. And this morning (Monday), we have evaluated. Similarly, the partners have stated their readiness to make improvements,” he explained.

According to him, his agency will improve the level of elevation or the height of incoming water flow. Before the project scheduled to be completed on January 15, it will return to be tested.

“There are several disposal gates in the upstream area which will be channeled to the drainage channels around the civic center area, so that when it rains it will not get flooded,” he said.

Regarding the construction of the project, his agency still provides time allowance because the project’s payment system has not been paid off. “The time (of project completion) has been in accordance with the provisions. Since the government cannot pay, it is given a 15day extension. Obviously, the partners are not penalized,” he concluded.

As is known, the Badung Public Works and Housing Agency is building an artificial river in the local civic center area.

The river built in front of the Badung parliament building costs a budget of IDR 5,471,419,000. This arrangement will later become an artificial river whose water flows in the Badung civic center area.

Previously, this project was targeted to be completed by the end of 2018. (kmb27)

Claimed to be tortured at Jimbaran

Tourist slapping immigration officer charged a year in prison

DENPASAR - A British tourist, the defendant Auj-E Taqaddas charged for slapping the immigration officer at Ngurah Rai Airport on Monday (Jan. 7) was eventually demanded with imprisonment for one year.

Public prosecutor, Nyoman Triarta Kurniawan, from Badung Public Prosecutor’s Office, stated the defendant is found guilty of violating the provisions of Article 212 of the Criminal Code. The defendant went up against officials that were carrying out their duties. For this demand, the defendant through his interpreter claimed to be going up against the prosecutors’ demands.

Before the prosecutor read out the charges, the trial chaired by the panel of judges Esthar Oktavi on Monday afternoon already conducted an examination against the defendant. This British woman even stated that the slapping committed has been appropriate for im-

migration officer at the airport.

As revealed at the trial, Auj-E Taqaddas who was questioned as a defendant said that the video of the immigration officer circulating in the public had been set up.

“It’s not the original video,” said Auj-E Taqaddas in English before the panel of judges. The defendant said the immigration officer is unprofessional.

The panel of judges then asked why to commit the slapping? “Because I asked repeatedly (about the passport being detained and not allowed to leave Indonesia), the immigration officer did not answer it.

On the contrary, I was even laughed at and the officer took a video,” answered Auj-E Taqaddas.

She added that since the immigration officer was unprofessional, she did it (slapping). “He deserved it. After slapping, I repeatedly asked for my passport, but was not given,” continued the defendant.

Through her interpreter, this British woman also asked the panel of judges whether the immigration officer is natural to commit a torture in this country. “I was also tortured at the Jimbaran Immigration Office, I asked the panel of judges whether this is reasonable in Indonesia,” the defendant asked.

The panel of judges did not want to comment and if the defendant did feel tortured, there is a law in force in Indonesia.

“Please make a report to police station,” suggested the judge. The defendant even said that she had brought IDR 42 million to the immigration office, but why she is not allowed to leave Indonesia. The defendant also asked the panel of judges not to trust witnesses from the immigration office. Meanwhile, the trial will be resumed next week to hear the defendant’s response to the one-year prison sentence. (kmb37)

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Before the prosecutor read out the charges, the trial chaired by the panel of judges Esthar Oktavi on Monday afternoon already conducted an examination against the defendant.

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Suspect packages sent to diplomatic missions in Australia

MELBOURNE - Suspicious packages were sent to more than a dozen foreign embassies and consulates in major Australian cities on Wednesday in a seemingly orchestrated but scattershot campaign.

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Victoria Police forensic officers remove a bag from the Italian consulate in Melbourne on January 9, 2019.

Emergency services raced to a string of diplomatic facilities which had received packages containing suspected hazardous material, all within the space of a few hours.

There was no obvious pattern to countries targeted, with consulates of the United States, China, Italy, India, Japan and New Zealand suffering scares.

The packages were not believed to be dangerous, but police, fire crews and forensic teams were urged to use breathing apparatus as they documented and doubleor triple-bagged the materials for further testing.

Victoria Police said there was no threat to the public: “At this time we believe the matter is targeted and not impacting the general community.”

Most of the sites -- also including locations near the Spanish, Swiss, Egyptian and Pakistani consulates -- were evacuated as

a precaution but have since been declared safe.

A British High Commission spokesperson said its consulate general in Melbourne had been targeted, but “all our staff are safe and accounted for”.

The US consulate in the city said it had also received a “suspicious” package, which a spokesperson said was handled in coordination with police and the fire service.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs said it had sent a note to all diplomatic missions in the capital on Tuesday, “alerting them to the possibility of suspicious packages being delivered by mail”.

That warning was triggered after three earlier incidents at offices in Sydney and Canberra.

Local media on Monday reported that the Argentine consulate in Sydney had received a package containing white powder. It did not test positive for toxins. (afp)

Singapore eco-tourism plan sparks squawks of protest SINGAPORE - Singapore is creating a vast eco-tourism zone in a bid to bring in more visitors, but environmentalists fear the development will damage natural habitats and are already blaming it for a series of animal deaths.

While it may be best known as a financial hub with scores of high-rise buildings, tropical Singapore is still home to patches of rainforest and an array of wildlife, from monkeys to pangolins -- also known as scaly anteaters.

In one green corner of the city sits a zoo and two sister attractions -- a night safari and river safari -- that have long been big draws for foreign and local visitors.

Now jungle is being cleared in the same area to make way for a bird park, a rainforest park and a 400-room resort, to create a green tourism hub it is hoped will eventually attract millions of visitors a year.

But the project in the Mandai district has ruffled the feathers of environmentalists.

They believe that rather than promote biodiversity, it is too imposing for the area, will destroy forest habitats and they say insufficient safeguards were put in place before work began -- leading to animals being killed on roads.

The row has highlighted concerns about rapid development in space-starved Singapore, and worries that some of the country’s more wild and green corners are being lost only to be replaced with something more artificial.

“I think you are getting your priorities wrong if you are replacing natural heritage with captive breeding,” Subaraj Rajathurai, a veteran wildlife consultant, told AFP. With the new development, it appears that “making money was more of a priority than finding the balance and preserving biodiversity”, he added.

- Roadkill worries But Mandai Park Holdings, which is overseeing the project through its development arm, insists work is being carried out sensitively and will bring improvements.

The district, which sits next to a protected nature reserve and has been earmarked for development for years, is mostly abandoned villages and farmland that have been swallowed by the surrounding jungle.

Work is already well under way in an area that is home to animals including flying lemurs and deer, with construction cranes looming over hillsides stripped bare of jungle.

A major focus of concern has been the animal deaths on the main road leading up to the zoo as forest is cleared.

Several deer, a critically endangered pangolin and a leopard cat are among animals to have perished after straying in front of vehicles, according to environmentalists.

Subaraj blamed the deaths on a lack of protective measures, pointing in particular to a failure to put up temporary barriers around the road quickly enough.

“It’s crazy -- it would have been so easy to avoid that happening,” he said.

But Mandai Park Holdings insists it is doing everything it can to prevent animal deaths on the roads.

Barriers have now been put up along much of the road, as well as a rope bridge for monkeys to cross above the traffic and road signs warning motorists about animals in the area.

A permanent bridge covered in shrubs

and trees to allow animals to cross the road, which divides two major parts of the development, will be ready later this year.

“We have been working with the nature community, really from the word go, to work out what we should do to actually protect animals and keep them off the roads,” Mike Barclay, Mandai Park Holdings CEO, a former senior airline executive, told AFP. “Is it perfect? No. But we are doing everything that we can to mitigate.” (afp)

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This picture taken on January 2, 2019 shows the skyline of the financial business district in Singapore.

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How to stop teen vaping? Make e-cigs harder to get

CALIFORNIA - Teen vaping has hit “epidemic” levels, according to federal health officials, with rates up by 78 percent over the last year alone. But strict laws on selling vape products to underage kids can reduce the number of teens who try e-cigarettes, according to research published Monday.

Teens living in cities or towns that more strictly policed retail sales of tobacco products were a third less likely to try cigarettes or e-cigarettes as those living in areas with more lax regulation, the team at the University of Southern California found. And they were half as likely to become regular users of tobacco, including e-cigarettes.

It supports what tobacco control advocates have been saying for years: strong laws, with equally strong enforcement, work to reduce tobacco use.

“It’s actually not at all surprising,” said Dr. Harold Farber, a pediatric lung expert at Texas Children’s Hospital, who was not involved in the study.

“If you have good laws and you enforce those laws to keep tobacco out of the hands of kids, fewer kids will get hold of tobacco,” Farber told NBC News.

“If you have ineffective and loose laws, and no enforcement, then kids will get hold of tobacco.”

The study comes with a caveat. Specialty vape shops are often not regulated at the same level as other tobacco retailers, and that could provide a loophole. So could online sales. “The increase of poorly regulated e-cigarette Internet vendors, a relatively new way for minors to obtain tobacco products illegally at the time of data collection, may limit the future impact of tobacco retail licensing as a regulatory tool,” the team wrote in their report, published in the journal Pediatrics.

A team led by Dr. Rob McConnell, a specialist is preventative medicine and children’s health at USC, used an ongoing survey of students in southern California, asking more than 2,000 about whether they had tried vaping or smoking and then following up a year and a half later.

They also graded the communities where the teens lived on what kinds of laws and enforcement they had to limit tobacco sales. Four out of the 14 jurisdictions got an “A” rating based on American Lung Association criteria, meaning they required retailers to pay annual license fees to pay for regular compliance checks.

These jurisdictions also used fines or revoked licenses to punish retailers who sold to underaged kids.

The rest of the communities all got “D” or “F” ratings, meaning they did not do much to stop retailers from selling tobacco products to teens.

Teens living in “A” grade communities were twothirds as likely to have tried any tobacco product, including vaping, over the next year and a half and those living in the poorly regulated communities.

They were 50 percent as likely to be current smokers or vapers, the team reported.

Other policies, such as smoke-free housing rules or bans on outdoor smoking had no effect on teen use, the researchers noted.

“Kids know who the retailers are who will sell to them,” Farber said.

The licensing fees are key, because they mean the regulation pays for itself, so it doesn’t cost the community anything extra to have good anti-tobacco regulations, he said.

“Raising the age for sale has been well-documented to work,” Farber added. “Raising the age for sale to 21, combined with enforcement, decreases youth smoking and is a very, very important initiative.” (net)

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Teen vaping has hit “epidemic” levels, according to federal health officials, with rates up by 78 percent over the last year alone.

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After serving 23.7m passengers in 2018

Ngurah Rai Airport targets 24.7 passengers in 2019

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Men are more likely to die of brain cancer than women and a new study helps explain why. Glioblastoma tumors are fundamentally different in men and women, the researchers found.

Study explains sex differences in brain cancer

WASHINGTON - Men are more likely to die of brain cancer than women and a new study helps explain why. Glioblastoma tumors are fundamentally different in men and women, the researchers found.

Different processes drive glioblastoma tumors in men and women, and they respond differently to treatment, Dr. Josh Rubin of Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues showed. They believe the same may be true for other tumors, too, and say cancer researchers may need to go back to the drawing board when evaluating treatments for men versus women.

“We found that standard therapy is more effective in female compared with male patients with glioblastoma,” they wrote in their report, published in Science Translational Medicine.

Even more surprising: hormones have little to do with these differences.

Glioblastomas are a rare subtype of brain tumor. According to the American Cancer Society, just under 24,000 people were diagnosed with any kind of malignant brain tumor in 2018, including close to 14,000 men and 10,000 women.

The survival rate for glioblastoma is low: 19 percent of adults aged up to 44 will live five years or more after a glioblastoma diagnosis, and only 5 percent for those over 55 will live that long.

While the outlook is poor for both men and women with glioblastoma, women live a little longer after treatment, which usually involves surgery, radiation and then chemotherapy, usually with a drug called temozolomide.

Rubin has been interested in sex differences in cancer rates and in how people are helped by cancer therapy. In previous research, Rubin’s team has shown it’s easier to transform a male cell into a tumor cell.

“It’s been recognized for many years that, overall, males tend to die more frequently and faster of their cancer than females do,” Rubin told NBC News. According to the American Cancer Society’s 2018 estimates, 856,000 men and 879,000 women were diagnosed with cancer and 323,000 men died of cancer, versus 286,000 women.

Rubin took a closer look at glioblastoma patients, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and data from a large cancer database. They homed in on 63 patients getting standard care for glioblastoma and found that women were helped more by standard treatment than men were.

“The males did not respond as well, and we wanted to understand why, so we looked at the underlying genetics of patients’ tumors,” Rubin said. They used the Cancer Genome Atlas, where details of the genetics of various tumors are stored for research.

“We observed tremendous genetic sex differences in the tumors of glioblastoma patients that correlated with survival,” said Jingqin “Rosy” Luo, who worked on the study.

They found 10 different glioblastoma groups — five in men, and five in women. One subtype for each sex, different for men and women, tended to be easier to treat.

Females with that subtype lived an average of three years, compared to just over a year for those with the other four types. For men, those with the “good” subtype lived about 18 months, compared to about a year for the others.

This is an argument for what’s called personalized therapy, which involved DNA tests of a patient’s tumor to determine the best course of treatment. But the findings also show that sex is an important and separate consideration, Rubin said. (net)

MANGUPURA — Throughout 2018, PT Angkasa Pura I Ngurah Rai already served 23.7 million passengers. This number has increased compared to 2017 only amounting to 21 million.

Meanwhile, during the holidays of Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019 or for eighteen days of the Monitoring Post from December 20, 2018 to Monday (Jan. 7), there were 1,243,215 passengers and 8,284 airplanes arriving and departing the Bali Island through the Ngurah Rai Airport.

According to Yanus Suprayogi, General Manager of Ngurah Rai International Airport, in the same period of 2017-2018, a total of 991,540 passengers and 7,070 flights were served. “When compared to the achievements in the period of 2017-2018, there is a percentage increase of 18.5 percent and 11 percent respectively for the number of passengers and the number of incoming and outgoing aircrafts. This is the achievement for all of us. I am optimistic that in the coming year, the number of passengers and flights served will increase,” said Yanus after the closing of the commander post of Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019 on Monday (Jan. 7).

Based on the increase in the data, his management targeted 24.7 million passengers for 2019. With the remaining high enthusiasm of tourists to visit Bali, the challenge for his management in the future is how the relatively small condition of the airport can provide a sense of comfort desired by passengers.

For this reason, PT Angkasa Pura I of Ngurah Rai International Airport in the near future will begin the process of building a 400-meter runway extension to accommodate the high demand from airlines wishing to use larger-bodied aircraft. “We are still working on the extension of the runway, but we have to conduct an analysis study on the environmental impact (EIA) or the AMDAL first,” he said.

He revealed, the extension would soon be carried out while waiting for a number of planning processes including the EIA to be completed and conducting intensive and comprehensive dissemination to the community. Previously, the dissemination had been carried out, especially to stakeholders at villages around the airport that had given a green light to reclaim the waters on the west side of the airport.

The extension of the 400-meter runway will increase the runway length to a total of 3,400 meters so that it can accommodate more large-bodied aircrafts including the Boeing 777 and Airbus A-380. The land reclamation or reclamation process includes a total of 107 hectares of land for the extension of the runway including the current land for the construction of a 35-hectare apron being worked on and an 8-hectare apron that was previously completed. However, Yanus has not confirmed the amount of the budget to be allocated because it is currently being calculated by Angkasa Pura I as the airport operator. (kmb23)

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Abrasion on the coast of Pebuahan at Banyubiru village, Negara, is now getting worse.

Jembrana govt tests geotextile tube at Pebuahan

NEGARA - Abrasion on the coast of Pebuahan at Banyubiru village, Negara, is now getting worse. Dozens of houses and tatami-style food stalls have been destroyed in recent years.

Actually, Jembrana district government has proposed for several times to central government but until now there has been no treatment.

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Throughout 2018, PT Angkasa Pura I Ngurah Rai already served 23.7 million passengers. This number has increased compared to 2017 only amounting to 21 million.

Moreover, recently the Indonesian House of Representatives had time to come down and check. But the progress and follow-up are not known. For handling, local residents tried to take simple measure because abrasion has now eroded the road. An inch away from people’s homes can be even affected.

Jembrana district government has also installed four geotextile tubes for four months at four abrasion-prone points on Pebuahan Beach, Banyubiru village.

Unfortunately, the tool installation is only limited to testing and the district government itself, based on information, does not make additions and there is no plan to hold the tool. “Well, the seriousness of district government should be questioned in this matter. In other countries, this tool is quite good for preventing abrasion but why isn’t this step done? If it is limited to trial, it is not serious,” said Umar, a youth of Banyubiru on Monday (Jan. 7).

Division Head of Water Resources at the Jembrana Public Works Agency (PUPRPKP), Wayan Widnyana, when asked for his confirmation said that his agency indeed installed the geotextile tube. “We got it from a sponsor facilitated by coastal agency based in Musi Buleleng. So, there is no plan to add equipment and no plan to procure the equipment,” he said.

Installation of the tool is assessed to indicate positive results. The tool functions to collect sand to the coast and aims to prevent coastal abrasion. Widnyana added the installation testing of the four geotextile tubes with a length of 20 meters and a width of 2.2 meters from the coastline since a few months ago has helped capture a lot of sand on the coast.

He hoped the installation of geotextile tube can function more maximally. Besides, it can be an alternative solution to dealing with abrasion. All this time, the beach revetments often use armor costing expensive and damages the environment because it requires large stones and is difficult to obtain.

With this tool, he is optimistic to get a solution, especially seeing the sand stranded, and there is a stretch of sand. Widnyana hoped the community will take care of the installed geotextile tube so that it is well maintained and effective. (kmb)

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Quality, quantity and continuity maintained

Local products ensured to get absorbed

DENPASAR - There is no longer debate about the obligation to absorb local fruits because previously local fruits have been absorbed a lot at hotels and supermarkets. However, the market wants the continuity and quality of the local products to be maintained.

Deputy Chairman of the Central Executive Board of the Indonesia Hotel General Managers Association (IHGMA), I Made Ramia Adnyana, said that restaurants and hotels have long absorbed local agricultural products by buying products for the consumption of guests’ needs such as organic rice, vegetables, fruits, spices and chili products for kitchen needs.

The products are needed for breakfast, lunch and dinner at restaurants and hotels. In addition, fruit basket needs provided in each room when guests check in have also used local products. Likewise, special events such as weddings,

lunch or dinner and regular events have also taken advantage of local products.

Prior to the issuance of the Gubernatorial Regulation, more than 50 percent of local products were already absorbed by hotels and restaurants. With the issuance of the regulation, the percentage is expected to increase. Hotels and restaurants want the local fruit products with higher and fresh quality, good texture, natural color and flavor, non-rotten condition as well as affordable prices.

“As long as the quality, quantity and continuity are well maintained, I make sure that local agricultural products will be absorbed by hotels and restaurants,” he said. Of the approximately 41 types of local products, around 27 products have been absorbed by the tourism industry.

Operations Manager of Tiara Dewata Supermarket, R Novie Setio Utomo, said that more than 70 percent of local products have been absorbed in the Tiara Dewata Supermar-

Mangosteen, one of the locals fruits in Bali

DENPASAR - The Mobile Detective of Bali Police General Criminal Investigation Unit arrested the snatcher with the initials KR alias Dollar, 18, while hanging out on Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat, Denpasar, on Tuesday (Jan. 8). The suspect KR was arrested after mugging a French tourist named Djelloulo Kamel, 41, on Jalan Legian, precisely in front of the office of LPD Legian, Kuta.

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ket. Some rare local fruits are even available. “We almost have all local fruits including rare fruits, such as Java plum,” she said. However, the problem is when the season changes so that the fulfillment of the seasonal fruits is sometimes choked up.

According to her, local fruits will not lose competitiveness against imported fruits both domestic (inter-islands) and imported fruits, as long as the quality is good. With good quality, not only in demand, local fruits will have good prices. Sometimes local fruits are seasonal because they are not managed well so they do not have good quality. Local fruits also help in meeting ceremonial needs.

To be able to enter the modern market, there are no special conditions that apply. Hopefully, local fruit suppliers can make diversification. “So, one doesn’t become a supplier in one season only, while in the next season it no longer does.

We tend to come to some regions to look for farmer groups producing various types of products,” she said.

He hoped that local fruit suppliers will continue to fill up their showcase. According to her, the context of suppliers is not supplying at particular time only but at all times continuously. “For example, one season the supplier only sends sapodilla, while beyond the season, he does not send.

Actually, there are still other products whose quality needs to be maintained,” he said.

Other than continuity of supply, the market also wants quality. Moreover, it puts quality above price. In terms of economic perspective, if farmers harvest at the right time, the economic value will be higher than harvesting when they are not old enough. “For example, harvesting done by force as being in need of money is counterproductive to the market’s desire because the market now does not see prices but sees quality. So, no matter how much the price is as long as the quality is good, consumer will buy. Every time we are invited, we always convey market opportunities, quality issues chosen by the market, while price is number two,” he joked.

In terms of prices applied in the supermarket also follows the price set by the suppliers. Price is also influenced by supply and demand. “So, if farmers sell to us at expensive price, surely the price at the supermarket is also expensive because our margins are flat. If we now make 10 percent profit, tomorrow we might not take 20 percent,” he said.

In terms of availability, the Head of Bali Food Crops, Horticulture and Plantation Agency, I.B. Wisnuardhana, firmly responded to farmers as long as the users adjusted demand with the harvest season, especially for seasonal fruits. Non-seasonal products such as banana, papaya, melon, watermelon, rice and various vegetables can be prepared any time. “However, other seasonal fruits can only be provided in the season,” he said. (kmb42)

French tourist mugged in Kuta

eral Criminal Investigation Unit, Andi Fairan, said that in Bali the victim was staying at Loft Hotel Legian, Kuta. On Tuesday (Nov. 20) at 02:00, the victim who is a bank employee was walking from Seminyak, Kuta. Arriving at the scene, he was approached by the tattooed-man on left leg riding a motorcycle. Furthermore, the perpetrator immediately seized the mobile phone carried by the victim.

Since he resisted, the perpetrator kicked the victim and immediately ran away. As a result of the incident, the victim lost his iPhone XS Max worth IDR 30 million and this case was already reported to the Kuta Police Station.

Having been unrevealed for long time, finally this case got clarity after the Directorate of Bali Police General Criminal Investigation Unit intervened. As a result of the

investigation, the officer obtained information if the man called as Dollar from Karangasem is a snatcher operating in Kuta.

“The officer had an investigation to the home village of the perpetrator at Medahan, Karangasem.

Unfortunately, Dollar was found not at his home,” he said.

After that, police got information if the perpetrator was on Jalan Kusuma Bangsa Gang Melasti,

West Denpasar. After checking the location, the results were nil. Finally, on Tuesday (Jan. 8) at 00:30, the officers arrested the perpetrator on Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat.

When interrogated, the perpetrators claimed to have mugged a victim on Jalan Legian. “This case is still being developed. Possibly, the perpetrator also took action elsewhere,” said Commissioner Andi. (kmb36)

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‘Aquaman’ makes waves to stay atop N. American box office LOS ANGELES - “Aquaman” left other movies in its wake in North American box offices this weekend, taking in $31 million, final figures by industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Monday.

The DC super-hero film, in its third week out, has now taken in a global total of $941 million. That makes it the biggest Warner Bros. comic-book film since “The Dark Knight Rises” earned more than $1 billion in 2012, according to Variety’s entertainment news website.

Jason Momoa stars as the heavily tattooed half human/half-Atlantean hero who struggles against evil forces to gain control of the powerful Trident of Atlan. James Wan, known for horror films like “Saw,” directed.

In second place was new Sony thriller “Escape Room,” with $18.2 million for the three-day weekend -- a strong start for a film that cost just $9 million to produce.

Third place went to Disney’s family-friendly musical “Mary Poppins Returns,” at $15.9 million.

The sequel to the beloved 1964 film stars Emily Blunt in the title role and Lin-Manuel Miranda as a limber and lovable lamplighter.

In fourth was “Bumblebee,” from Paramount, at $13.2 million.

The prequel to the “Transformers” movies stars Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena.

Sony’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” dropped to the fifth spot, with a take of $13.1 million for its fourth week in theaters.

The film won a best animated picture award at the Golden Globes on Sunday, with director Peter Ramsay hailing the message of inclusivity behind the film.

“We were trying to make a movie that spoke to the idea that anyone could be behind the mask,” he said during his acceptance speech. (afp)

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Sam Elliott attends his hand and footprint ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre on January 07, 2019 in Hollywood, California.

Sam Elliott honored at Hollywood ceremony as Lady Gaga lends support

LOS ANGELES - Veteran actor Sam Elliott imprinted his hands and feet in cement on Hollywood Boulevard on Monday, as “A Star is Born” co-stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper shook off Golden Globes disappointment to join in honoring the 74-year-old’s long career.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 11, 2018, Jason Momoa arrives at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Aquaman” at the Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Known for his lanky physique, thick mustache and languid drawl, Elliott reflected on his life’s work and the joy of acting, telling reporters: “The people you work with, the community... and feeling like you’re doing something that makes a difference to somebody” made it all worthwhile.

“A Star is Born” may have struck out at the Golden Globes the night before, picking up just one trophy for best song, but Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were all smiles as they came to show their support for Elliott, who plays Cooper’s elder brother in the film.

Dressed in a striking sky-blue

trench coat, Gaga, 32, shared an Instagram story as she received a kiss on her forehead from Elliott.

“So excited to be here for Sam Elliott’s hand & footprint ceremony,” she wrote, adding a series of heart emojis.

The trio later shared a heartwarming embrace, as Cooper hailed the “iconic mark” Elliott had on films.

Elliott got his start with minor roles in late 60s Westerns such as “The Way West” (1967) and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” but it wasn’t until the 1980s that his career took off in a big way in the “Mask” and “Road House.”

He received the first of his two Golden Globe nomination for TV film “Conagher,” where he played the titular role and starred alongside his wife Katharine Ross.

Elliott also has two primetime Emmy nominations. His other notable works include “Gettysburg” and “The Big Lebowski,” and he is a regular on current Netflix series “The Ranch.”

While he wasn’t nominated at the Golden Globes, industry magazine Variety reported the actor seems poised to land his first Oscar nomination for what it called his “tender performance” in “A Star is Born.” (afp)

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Bombs found at Indonesian antigraft commission leaders’ houses

JAKARTA - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders Agus Rahardjo and Laode Syarif were the target of terror threats on Wednesday (Jan 9), with unknown assailants placing what appeared to be bombs at their houses.It was suspected that a Molotov cocktail exploded at Mr Laode’s house.

National Police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo confirmed the incident.

“We found evidence in the form of glass shards and trails of smoke, although we can’t confirm whether it was a Molotov cocktail or another type of bomb,” Brigadier-General

Dedi said.

According to a report obtained

by The Jakarta Post, a bomb squad officer discovered a black bag hanging on the fence of Mr Agus’s house in Bekasi, West Java, at around 5.30am on Wednesday.

The officer found material resembling components of a high explosive pipe bomb, such as a detonator, cable, nails and pipe.

The bomb squad immediately defused the suspected package.

At the same time, the remains of

a Molotov cocktail were found at Mr Laode’s house in Kalibata, South Jakarta.

The KPK deputy chairman claimed to have seen suspicious people near his house at around 1am through security cameras.

One of Mr Laode’s neighbours said she heard glass breaking at around 1am.

Brig-Gen Dedi said personnel from the Jakarta Police, the Nation-

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