Edisi 10 February 2017 | Internasional Bali Post

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

16 Pages Number 31 9th year

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

Price: Rp 3.000,-

Friday, February 10, 2017 e-mail: info_ibp@balipost.co.id online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com.

Friday, February 10, 2017

A supporter of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise impersonates the new president, with a sign behind him that reads in Creole “Energy plus encouragement plus movement plus work” during Moise’s inauguration in Port-auPrince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Cast members (L-R) Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz and ReeseWitherspoon pose at the premiere of the HBO television series “Big Little Lies” in Los Angeles, California U.S., February 7, 2017.

Witherspoon, Kidman debut female-centric ‘Big Little Lies’

LOS ANGELES - Two of film’s biggest names, Nicole Kidman and ReeseWitherspoon, have come together on screen to champion female empowerment in HBO’s “Big Little Lies.” The Oscarwinning actresses both star in and executive-produce the seven-part limited TV series, based on the 2014 novel of the same name, after seeing the opportunity to put diverse women on the screen.

“It’s powerful, you know, when you actually connect with women and reflect back to them their lives and they see themselves on film,” Witherspoon, 40, told Reuters at the show’s Hollywood premiere this

week. Kidman, 49, currently Oscarnominated for “Lion,” said she was “committed” to supporting female talent and young actors.

“It’s a lovely place in the world right now to be able to throw whatever

power, whatever support I can be behind that,” she said. “Big Little Lies,” debuting on HBO on Sunday, sees Witherspoon, Kidman and Shailene Woodley playing three mothers and also stars Zoe Kravitz, Laura Dern, Adam Scott and Alexander Skarsgard.

Set in the tranquil California seaside town of Monterey, the series explores society’s myth of perfection and the contradictions that exist beneath the idealized facade of marriage, sex, parenting and friendship. (rtr)

You can find International Bali Post at: 1 Kuta Beach Club Jl. Bakung Sari Kuta 2 Wen Dys Kuta the Coffe Bear Jl. Pantai Kuta 3 Seminyak Paradiso Bali Hotel Jl. Camplung Tanduk 4 Ramayana Resort&Spa Jl. Bakung Sari Kuta 5 The Lokha Legian Resort&Spa Jl. Padma Legian Kuta 6 66 Corner Live Sport Emtertaiment Jl. Doble Six/Werkudara 23 7 Leghawa Grill Jl. D.Tamblingan No. 51 8 Retno Barr dan Restoran Jl. D.Tamblingan No.126 A Sanur 9 Elkomedor Jl. D.Tamblingan 140 10 Malaika Scret Jl. D.Poso No 68 11 Snack Shack Jl. D.Poso No. 50D 12 Warung Lokal Jl. D.Poso No. 39 13 Cokro Cafee Jl. D.Poso Sanur 14 T.J.Bar Jl. D.Poso Sanur 15 J & N Kebab Jl. D.Poso Sanur 16 Goanna Bar Jl. D.Poso Sanur 17 Batu Jimbar Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur

18 Ramayana Cafee Jl. D.Tamblingan 19 Smirnof Cafee Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 20 Legwa Hotel Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 21 Nu Laser Cafee Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 22 Ganesa Book Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 23 All For Daiving Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 24 Barocca Jl.Petitenget 17 DKerobokan 25 Lantern Jl.Petitenget 17E Kerobokan 26 Shearlock Jl.Petitenget 17C Kerobokan Klod 27 Cafe Degan Jl.Petitenget 9 Kerobokan Klod 28 Kopi Made Jl. Raya Puputan No. 106 Dps 29 Dimsum Manan Jl. Raya Niti Mandala Renon No 148 30 Furama Jl. Raya Niti Mandala No. 148 Renon 31 Warung Subah Renon Jl. Mohamad Yamin No.18 32 Ayam Betutu khas Gilimanuk Jl. Merdeka No.88 Renon 33 Bali Bakery Jl. Hayam Wuruk 184 Denpasar

Jovenel Moise sworn in as Haiti’s new president

AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Jovenel Moise was sworn in Tuesday as Haiti’s president for the next five years after a bruising twoyear election cycle, inheriting a chronically struggling economy and a deeply divided society.

The 48-year-old entrepreneur took the oath of office in a Parliament chamber packed with Haitian lawmakers and foreign dignitaries from countries including the U.S., Venezuela and France. He smiled slightly as the Senate leader slipped Haiti’s red and blue presidential sash over his left shoulder.

In his inaugural address during the day of prayer and platitudes, Moise gave a rough outline of his government’s priorities and pledged to bring “real improvements” to the economically strapped nation, particularly the long-neglected countryside.

He urged unity and promised to strengthen institutions, fight corruption and bring more investments and jobs to one of the least developed nations in the world.

“We can change Haiti if we work together,” Moise said to applause on the grounds of what used to be the national palace, which was one of many buildings obliterated during a devastating earthquake that hit outside the capital in January 2010.

There’s little expectation among citizens that Moise’s new government can overcome Haiti’s deep problems of poverty and economic

malaise in the next five years, but he does have a majority in Parliament and some are hopeful the businessman-turned-politician will make steady advances.

“What we still really need in this country are the basics: working hospitals, better schools and security. I think it can be done,” said Maxime Cantave, owner of a car wash and propane business in the Port-auPrince district of Delmas 48.

Continued to page 6 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.

2

Bali News

Friday, February 10, 2017

International

Crime on the rise

Entrepreneurs asked to install CCTV directed to surroundings RESPONDING to criminal acts occurred in the area of Kuta such as the incidents targeting stores and ATMs some time ago, all employers are required to install CCTV. Installation of the CCTV is hoped to be directed to the surrounding areas, especially in the area of tourism.

This measure is necessary because many travelers and people are on vacation in the tourist areas of Bali.

This was submitted by Chief of Denpasar Police, Hadi Purnomo, on Tuesday (Feb. 7). No doubt, this CCTV much helps police authority to uncover the suspected perpetrators of a crime. He appreciated to the efforts of the Regent of Badung, Nyoman Giri Prasta, who will install CCTV across the Badung tourist area. Hopefully, the overall installation plan could be realized.

He emphasized the CCTV cameras are meant to facilitate case disclosure in the event of criminal acts and to prevent criminal acts. However, the measure must also

be certainly supported with regular patrols.

“When there is a criminal act, of course it can be immediately given attention by patrol officers on duty,” he said.

Hadi Purnomo stressed that CCTV installation is actually the obligation of employers if they want their regions to be secure and well monitored. Unfortunately, it is back to the awareness of the employers to install CCTV directed to the surroundings.

“Hopefully, the chief of customary village could also appeal to the employers to install

CCTV directed to their surroundings,” he hoped. (edi)

IBP/file

For tourism’s sake

Trial of traffic changes intensified

MANGUPURA - Pros and cons related to the traffic change plan are getting stronger. However, police authority increasingly intensifies the trial of traffic change that will last until next October 28. Evaluation is conducted every day to finalize the plan.

“This program is for the sake of Bali, especially tourism. When traffic jam is getting more severe and travelers are reluctant to Bali, what should we do?” affirmed Deputy Director of Bali Police Traffic Affairs, Bonaparte, on Wednesday (Feb. 8).

Bonaparte straightforwardly said to make introspection in response to some complaints of business premises in Kuta that are getting quiet of visitors and longer travel time for drivers when transferring guests to Ngurah Rai Airport. When wishing to transfer guests to the airport, the time must be adjusted in such a way so as not to arrive late. In the meantime, entrepreneurs in Kuta have to prepare the land of parking space for their customers.

“In the past, they could park on

road side, but today they cannot. It is one of the causes of traffic congestion. For example, if asked to return to Jakarta I will be so lazy due to traffic congestion, so I’d rather be asked to go to Medan,” he said.

Bonaparte reiterated that the traffic change program is not for the benefit of national police, but for Balinese communities and travelers. He did not want the Bali tourism will drop due to traffic problems. If this condition persists, tourist visit to Kuta will continue to decline. “If travelers are reluctant

to visit Bali due to traffic congestion, who will incur losses? We implement this program for the sake of Bali. Regent of Badung has agreed,” said the former chief of Batubara police, North Sumatra.

Meanwhile, Chief of Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs, Heri Supriawan, said that Kuta people are not accustomed because the trial has just been enforced for a week.

In addition, the traffic engineering efforts are continuously carried out to unravel the accumulation of vehicles at some points.

“Later on, they will get accustomed to. When traffic runs smoothly, Balinese people and travelers will become comfortable to make a visit to Kuta,” he said.

As reported, the trial of traffic changes in Kuta essentially does not have problems. However, the accumulation of vehicles at Temacun intersection (Jalan Patih Jelantik-Jalan Raya Kuta-Jalan Blambangan) needs to be evaluated. Such condition will be found out a solution to break down the vehicle accumulation. (kmb36)

Bali govt wants to charge levies on waste management

DENPASAR - Governor of Bali has responded to the faction general perspective related to the levies of waste management in the regional bylaw draft (Ranperda) on public service levies. He said that local government will not directly charge these levies to the process or to the people.

However, the levies will be charged to downstream sector or the waste management. The management will be undertaken in cooperation with private sector being assessed. The current problem is that dozens of investors applying for the cooperation remain to keep silent and never continue to manage the regional Suwung landfill.

Head of the Bali Environmental Agency, Gede Suarjana, said on Wednesday (Feb. 8) that actually there are 40 investors interested in managing the waste at Suwung landfill. However, until now there has been no significant progress because none of them make fea-

sibility study. So far, the investors just presented their respective prefeasibility study.

“There has been no follow-up.

The reason is related to tapping fee and whether the company has money or not. It needs an investment of IDR1.3 trillion. It is said to take a long time for research because they have to learn the type of waste in Bali, composition and what percent it can produce electricity,” he said.

Suarjana added that Suwung finally remains to become an open dumping are or the waste is just dumped as such even though the liquid waste has been made its own processing. In the meantime, some waste is collected by scavengers. However, the piles of waste still cannot be blocked and will become higher.

“Large number of waste piles will produce huge methane. This affects the quality of the air. One of the impacts is triggering the greenhouse effect,” he explained.

Within a day, continued Suarjana, the waste brought to Suwung landfill reaches 1,000 to 1,200 tons.

On great feast days, the incoming waste can even reach 1,500 tons.

As solutions to overcome the waste piles, there must be an agency or entity managing the waste at Suwung landfill.

On the other hand, the new development on the discussion of the regional bylaw draft (Ranperda) about the public service levies raises new possibilities. The levies for the waste management could be canceled because the land area of Suwung landfill is not the asset of Bali government, but the land with use right from the ministry of forestry.

“Levies of the waste are imposed for the taking from households.

After that, the waste is brought to temporary disposal site and from here the waste is transported to landfill in a single package. In this regional bylaw draft, we just collect

from the landfill. It is allowed to collect at the landfill as long as the land is owned by provincial government and there is a management agency (at Suwung landfill-Ed).

But in reality, it is not the asset of provincial government, but that of the ministry of forestry,” said Chairman of the Special Committee of the regional bylaw draft on public service levies of the Bali House of Representatives, I Ketut Suwandhi.

The reason, added Suwandhi, makes the collection of levy at the Suwung landfill cannot be justified.

It is also in accordance with the results of consultation of the Special Committee to the Director General of Regional Finance of Ministry of the Home Affairs, except there has been a management agency at the landfill. Previously, PT NOEI managed the waste at the Suwung landfill but the agreement has been terminated by the government of Sarbagita (Denpasar, Badung,

Activities

International

Gianyar and Tabanan) because of default. In the meantime, the Suwung landfill is managed by Denpasar municipality and a technical unit. The waste is brought by the Bali Public Works and Spatial Planning.

“Alternative one, the waste levy has been canceled. Alternative two, it is allowed to collect levies to private sector disposing of waste at the landfill such as hotel or group, but not to the government of Sarbagita.

So, the result of levy collection is getting smaller,” he explained.

Suwandhi added whether to choose alternative one or two will be decided on Thursday (Feb. 9).

The special committee is going to invite relevant agency leadership such as legal bureau and human rights at the regional secretariat of Bali province, Bali forestry agency, Bali environment agency, Bali revenue service and Bali public works and spatial planning that has the waste management unit. (kmb32)

 Founder : K.Nadha,  General Manager :Palgunadi Chief Editor: Gugiek Savindra  Editors:Agus Toni, Daniel Fajry, Mawa, Sueca, Sugiartha, Yudi Winanto Denpasar: Dira Arsana, Giriana Saputra, Subrata, Sumatika, Asmara Putra. Bangli: Suasrina, Buleleng: Dewa kusuma, Gianyar: Manik Astajaya, Karangasem: Budana, Klungkung: Dewa Farendra. Jakarta: Nikson, Hardianto, Ade Irawan. NTB: Agus Talino, Izzul Khairi, Raka Akriyani. Surabaya: Bambang Wilianto.  Office: Jalan Kepundung 67 A Denpasar 80232. Telephone (0361)225764, Facsimile: 227418, P.O.Box: 3010 Denpasar 80001. Bali Post Jakarta, Advertizing: Jl.Palmerah Barat 21F. Telp 021-5357602, Facsimile: 021-5357605 Jakarta Pusat. NTB: Jalam Bangau No. 15 Cakranegara Telp. (0370) 639543, Facsimile: (0370) 628257. Publisher: PT Bali Post

Friday, February 10, 2017

15

Timeless Classics at The Kopi Pot

Into its 27th year with a staunch following amongst its guests, the highly popular Kopi Pot Restaurant leaves no wonder as to why its customers keep coming back for more.

Continuously serving up fresh, home-style cooked fare for a whole generation, the dining establishment has been building a keen following and hardy fan base since it first made its appearance in Kuta in 1990.

Jl. Legian, Kuta, Kabupaten Badung, Bali, Indonesia | Phone: +62 361 752614 | www.kopipot.com It is the sister restaurant of the

Kuta institution, Poppies, of Poppies Cottage fame, that was the original landmark on a dusty palm tree road that once led to the beautiful Kuta Beach when it first opened 41 long years ago.

Street side in bustling Jalan Legian – a vibrant street with a lovely mixture of tourists, expatriates, and locals going about their business - Kopi Pot is a perfect spot for enjoying people watching at all hours of the day and night, while also featuring a more subdued garden area for those desiring some

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

Every Saturday 9AM-2PM OrganIc Farmer’s Market Pizza Bagus (Jl. Pengosekan), Ubud EVERY SUNDAY Soul to soul spirituall dialogue Anand Ashram, Ubud Jl Sri Wedari KM 3 Mantra chanting 6-6:30pm Navaraha Arati 6:30-6:45pm Meditation, Satsang and celebration 6:45-8:30pm www.ubudashram.org SUNDAY MARKETS 10AM 1PM Sunday Market at Batu Jimbar Jl. Danau Tablingan , Sanur 10AM-4PM The Sands Beach Club and Restaurant Sunday MArket Jl. Danau Tamblingan, No 27, Sanur 9:30AM-1PM Sunday Market @ Warung Sopa Jl. Sugriwas no36, Padang Tegal, Ubud 9AM-2PM Samadi Sunday Market Jalan. Padang Linjong 39, Canggu, 9AM-2PM Wednesday and Sunday Ubud Organik Market Jl. Raya Pengosekan across from Zens Hotel Tebesaya, Ubud 12PM-10PM Sunday Food Festival & Bazaar Byrdhouse Beach Club, Sanur 10AM-6PM, Mercure,last sunday of every month, jl. ,Mertasari, Sanur, fashion food and and kids activities The Coffee Spot, Jalan Peigenet 888X,Seminyak, last Sunday of every month, garage sale clothing, books, and hand-made jewellery

peace in the shade.

Upstairs on the terrace, the peaceful, lush surroundings create a relaxed space for added privacy.

Breakfasts are well-served from here, a very good value, and ex-

tremely popular with those heading out for a surf or coming back from a long day at the beach. Open from 8am until Midnight, The Kopi Pot is within walking distance to most places in Kuta. Throw in a good

free wifi connection on top of the wonderful fresh fare at excellent value for your money, and you can be certain your visit to Kopi Pot will convert you into one of their raving fans…

14

Friday, February 10, 2017

Fashion

International

Bali News

International

Friday, February 10, 2017

3

To anticipate terrorism

Karangasem Marine Police patrol at East Bali entrance

Tommy Hilfiger, Gigi Hadid unveil collection on famed LA beach

LOS ANGELES - American designer Tommy Hilfiger and model Gigi Hadid presented their latest collaboration - “TOMMYxGIGI” at a show on Venice Beach in Los Angeles. The famous promenade was overtaken by ‘Tommyworld’ a temporary theme park with roller

skaters, skate boarders, acoustic musicians and fire-breathing performers.

The show reflected Hilfiger’s move to a runway-style format similar to Victoria’s Secret. It also allows consumers to buy items from the collection immediately

rather than wait several months, Hilfiger said. “It’s listening to the consumer and the consumer wants immediate gratification. They want to buy now, wear now,” he said before the show. The idea to move the show from New York to Los Angeles was inspired by Hadid, a

California native.

“This particular collection is inspired by southern California and Gigi Hadid, who collaborated with me, is a southern Californian girl who has that sense of style and that sporty, outdoorsy, cool, casual attitude,”

Hilfiger said. The show itself, which was attended by pop star Lady Gaga, saw many of the red, white, black and blues expected from Hilfiger’s brand but also included patchwork designs seen as Hadid’s contribution to the collection. (rtr)

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File

In this March 31, 2015, file photo, Heather Mack, left, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, of Chicago, are handcuffed as they arrive at a courtroom during their trial in Bali, Indonesia.

Mack, who was imprisoned in Indonesia for the 2014 killing of her mother, says in videos posted on YouTube that she acted alone and her boyfriend at the time, Schaefer, only helped her cover it up because she threatened him.

US woman retracts claim boyfriend innocent in Bali killing

BALI — An American woman imprisoned in Indonesia for killing her mother has retracted statements made in YouTube videos that her boyfriend, also convicted in the same case, was innocent.

A statement released by Heather Mack and her lawyer Yulius Benyamin Seran on Wednesday said the assertions in the videos were false and recorded under pressure.

The statement said Mack, 21, was reading words written by her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer.

In a series of three videos posted last week, Mack says that Schaefer was trying to protect her when he confessed to striking her 62-year-old mother, Sheila von Weise-Mack, in the head with a metal fruit bowl.

Mack’s statement said the video was uploaded to YouTube by someone who deliberately created an account in her name.

Bali prison warden Tonny Nainggolan said authorities were investigating who recorded and uploaded the videos. He said neither Mack nor Schaefer had admitted to producing or uploading the videos and blamed each other.

The couple was convicted in April 2015 of premeditated murder, which carries a maximum penalty of death. Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison while Mack, who gave birth during the trial, received a 10-year prison sentence.

Von Wiese-Mack was the widow of highly regarded jazz and classical composer James L. Mack, who died in 2006 at the age of 76.

Schaefer testified at his trial that von Wiese-Mack was angry when she learned about her daughter’s pregnancy and tried to strangle him, prompting him to strike her with a metal fruit bowl.

In the videos, Mack said she plotted to kill her mother herself because Schaefer refused to help find someone who would kill her mother for $50,000.

“After that I got this new savage idea in my head that I wanted to kill her in a hotel room because she killed my father in a hotel room,” she said. “We were going to Bali, then I began to plot.”

Mack, the composer, died in a hotel room in Athens, Greece, after suffering a pulmonary embolism, according to his Chicago Tribune obituary.

Prosecutors said the two discussed killing von Weise-Mack in text messages, but in the videos Mack said that she took Schaefer’s phone when he was asleep and sent text messages to her own phone.

“Tommy’s an innocent man,” said Mack. She said that he only helped her stuff the body in a suitcase and clean up the murder scene because she threatened to tell police that he committed the crime. (ap)

AMLAPURA - Marine Police Unit of Karangasem Police intensifies the security effort at the entrance to East Bali. It is a follow up of the information received from police authority in Lombok after the arrest of suspected terrorists in Lombok. Marine police continue to patrol at the entrance of East Bali in the waters around Padangbai and the tracks of traditional harbors in Karangasem on Tuesday (Feb. 7).

As a result, no suspicious things were found in some ships inspected.

Chief of Marine Police at Karangasem Police, I Made Wartama, said that his patrol involves dozens of personnel carried out in turns from the morning.

Securing endeavor in this sea area should be tightened to anticipate the act of terrorism that can enter Bali through Padangbai Harbor as well as the coastline in Karangasem. Quite a lot of coastlines in Karangasem can be functioned as illegal entrance. “A few days ago, there was information on the arrest of terrorists in Lombok. We need to anticipate the sea area, so as not to get missed and other suspected terrorists can escape to Bali,” he said.

During the marine patrol, there are several ships immediately inspected by the officers. One of them is the

Rajawali ship with the skipper Budhi from Semarang, Central Java. However, nothing suspicious was found after inspecting the ship whether its luggage, ship’s men or administrative feasibility. “So far, the conditions in Karangasem waters are still safe. We will continue to raise awareness to provide security,” he said.

In addition to anticipating the movement of radical terrorism, increasing patrol activities at sea are also functioned to anticipate mass movement related to Islamic mass organization that is going to take action on February 11. His institution has made sure that after making patrol for a few days, there seems nothing too obtrusive related to condition of the East Bali entrance.

The activities in Karangasem waters are dominated by crossing from Lembar to Padangbai, Padangbai to Gili Trawangan and Padangbai to Nusa Penida. “In addition, we are also monitoring the situation in the middle of the sea, whether it is safe for fishermen to catch fish or not. If it is indeed safe, we can inform directly to fishermen,” he said.

Wartama confirmed that pursuant to the instructions of Chief of Karangasem Police, Sugeng Sudarso, the patrol will continue to be carried out on a regular basis. It is meant to continuously ensure the condition of security in the mid of the sea of Karangasem territory. (kmb31)

IBP/file

Marine Police Unit of Karangasem Police intensifies the security effort at the entrance to East Bali.

4

Bali News

Friday, February 10, 2017

International

Plastic waste piles up on Kedonganan Beach

MANGUPURA - Plastic waste blown by the wind increasingly accumulates at the verge of Kedonganan Beach, Kuta. This onslaught of marine debris is getting worse so that reaches hundreds of tons each day.

Head of the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency (DLHK), Putu Eka Merthawan, justified the condition. Moreover, the piles of marine debris on the white sandy beach are considered to be the most severe this week.

“The condition within the past three days is getting worse. A great deal of plastic waste is scattered, and the thickness even reaches 50 cm and spreads to long area,” said Eka Merthawan on Wednesday (Feb. 8).

According to him, the condition has been reported to the Regent of Badung, Nyoman Giri Prasta. “We have reported this condition to the regent. So far, we have also been working to fully cope with the waste onslaught,” he said.

He assigned a team consisting of 200 personnel assisted by two units of loaders and five garbage trucks. “Our team has taken action from 07:00. Hopefully, this extreme weather will immediately end,” he concluded.

He said the total waste transported by the DLHK from November 11, 2016 to February 7, 2017 reached 4,050 tons collected from

eight beaches in the western coastal area of Badung. Such number continues to increase, and it is even predicted to penetrate 5,000 tons by the end of February 2017.

In the future, his agency will attempt to provide quick services as long as all the heavy equipment needs can be met. “We need three loaders per location, two suction machines, and two garbage trucks per location with 15 personnel,” he detailed.

With the addition of heavy equipment and personnel, Eka Merthawan is optimistic no more accumulation of waste will occur along the beaches in Badung. “The collection and loading will be handled by different personnel. Similarly, the trucks used are special to transport marine debris, not regular trucks commonly functioned to provide services on the road,” he said.

Proposal to increase the number of heavy equipment to handle marine debris along the beaches in Badung received a positive response from district government. Regent of Badung, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, claimed to have conducted a study related to the addition of facilities and infrastructure in order to overcome the problem of marine debris.

“We’ve been doing a movement, study and the purchase of facilities. Hopefully, any waste problems in the future could be immediately handled,” said Giri Prasta, recently.

This PDI-P politician admitted that lately

IBP/kmb27

This onslaught of marine debris is getting worse so that reaches hundreds of tons each day. almost all beaches across Badung are raided by marine debris. Moreover, the marine debris has become annual phenomenon.

“The problem of marine debris overwhelming the beaches across Badung is still going on. However, we have already made a movement to handle it,” he said.

According to him, the marine debris is a natural disaster because it comes from all

fronts, and ultimately ends up on all beaches throughout Badung. Aside from Badung, the other coastal areas are also frequently besieged by such marine debris.

“This marine debris comes from all fronts.

Moreover, the ocean is larger than mainland.

Surely, we will perform a research to find out how we can handle and find out the sources of the marine debris,” he added. (kmb27)

Klungkung Palace offers royal tourism

In 2018, IMF and Proposed to show replicas of royal objects World Bank hold annual meeting in Bali SEMARAPURA - Klungkung Grand Palace is one of the heritages of Klungkung kingdom after Puputan Klungkung war. Here is where Ida Dalem Semaraputra as senior figure of Klungkung Grand Palace lives. This palace is one of the objects that will be offered in the city tour package initiated by the Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta.

Though having been launched last April 29, the support of Klungkung government to attract travelers to visit Klungkung Grand Palace is still minimal. As monitoring of Bali Post at the palace located in the north of Puputan Klungkung Square on Wednesday (Feb. 8), there was no change in the residence of Ida Dalem.

There is only a weaver denoting a contract worker seconded by the Head of the Klungkung Tourism Office. She will demonstrate the weaving process that has been becoming a tradition at the Klungkung Grand Palace.

The wife of Ida Dalem Semaraputra, Cokorda Istri Mas

Pemecutan, conveyed that even though not many activities are held at Klungkung Grand Palace, there are always travelers making their time to visit the palace. “Every day, some travelers make a visit here while looking around,” she said.

Unlike many other kingdoms having many heritages, according to her many royal heritages are not in place. Other than those stored in the Jakarta Museum, there are some individuals that also keep the royal heritages.

To look back at the kingdom in Klungkung as well as educate travelers, she hoped that all Klungkung royal heritages can be displayed at Klungkung Grand Palace in the form of replicas. By this way, she hoped that Klungkung people and travelers will make a visit to the palace so that they can find out the items formerly used by Klungkung royal family.

The first son of Ida Dalem Semaraputra, Cokorda Gede Agung Semara, 34, stated that he strongly supports the desire of the Klungkung government that

will make the Klungkung Grand Palace into a tourist attraction in Semarapura town. He hoped the palace is able to educate travelers about the history of the Klungkung kingdom.

Related to the small number of tourist visit to Klungkung Grand Palace, the Head of the Klungkung Tourism Office, Wayan Sujana, delivered that the whole city tour package has been opened including the monument, grand palace, cultural hall, museum, grand exit, floating pavilion, Kertagosa court of justice and the Klungkung art market. “However, the package brought by guests only includes Kertagosa, floating pavilion, grand exit and museum, so the palace and cultural hall cannot have been visited,” he explained.

He hoped that by organizing the city tour package on regular basis, travel agencies can bring travelers to the entire objects on offer. “We always cooperate with ASITA Bali to follow up on it. We offer convenient, beautiful, safe and friendly package,” he concluded. (dwa)

MANGUPURA - Annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in 2018 will be held in Bali. Implementation of this event to be attended by officials from both world institutions is planned to be organized for three days in October. Communication Director of Bank Indonesia, Peter Jacob, amid the preliminary meeting of the activities at the Grand Hyatt Nusa Dua explained on Tuesday (Feb. 7) there will be many issues to be discussed ranging from regular agenda to global economic trends ahead of the meeting.

He explained that Indonesia is one of the countries that proposed to host this annual event. Bali was then chosen as the meeting venue because it is eligible to hold such international scale event. “It is a great honor for Indonesia and Bali because it could become the host of these international meetings,” he said.

As estimated, both meetings will be attended by 15,000 participants of the two world institutions. Peter also explained that various issues on the world’s economy, including macroeconomic policy, as well as specific hot issues among the member countries will be discussed in the meeting. Currently, there are 189 member countries of the IMF and the World Bank. “This annual event is regularly held outside the United States every three years. Later on, the meeting participants will discuss about all matters related to economic policy, especially concerning the macro-economic policy,” he explained. As the host, he said, Indonesia has the chance to feature a number of issues into the topic in the three-day meeting. However, he is still unable to explain the issues that will become the subject matter in the meeting held next year. (kmb18)

Friday, February 10, 2017

International

13

More than 1,000 feared killed in Myanmar army crackdown on Rohingya

COX’S BAZAR - More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported. The officials, from two separate UN agencies working in Bangladesh, where nearly 70,000Rohingya have fled in recent months, said they were concerned the outside world had not fully grasped the severity of the crisis unfolding in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

“The talk until now has been of hundreds of deaths. This is probably an underestimation we could be looking at thousands,” said one of the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. Both officials, in separate interviews, cited the weight of testimony gathered by their agencies from refugees over the past four months for concluding the death toll likely exceeded 1,000. Myanmar’s presidential spokesman, Zaw Htay, said the latest reports from military commanders were that fewer than 100 people have been killed in a counterinsurgency operation againstRohingya militants who attacked police border posts in October. Asked about the UN officials’ comments that the dead could number more than 1,000, he said: “Their number is much greater than our figure. We have to check on the ground.” About 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims live in apartheid-like conditions in northwestern Myanmar, where they are denied citizenship. Many in Buddhist-majority Myanmar regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

In addition to the information the two UN officials gave Reuters, a report released by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday gave

REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Rohingya refugee children walk in the morning at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 4, 2017. accounts of mass killings and gang rapes by troops in northwestern Myanmar in recent months, which it said probably constituted crimes against humanity. The government led

by Aung San Suu Kyi said last week it would investigate the allegations in the report. It has previously denied almost all accusations of

killings, rapes and arson.

But mounting evidence of atrocities by the army puts Suu Kyi, who has no control over the armed forces under a constitution written by the previous military government, in a difficult position, Myanmar-based diplomats say. The Nobel peace prize winner has been

criticised in the West for her silence on the issue, undermining the goodwill she built up as a democracy champion under years of junta rule and threatening international support. Challenging the generals, however, could put Myanmar’s democratic transition at risk. (rtr)

Manila shanty town fires leave more than 15,000 homeless

MANILA - Residents of two Manila slums picked through the rubble of their gutted homes on Thursday after fires swept through parts of the Philippine capital this week, leaving more than 15,000 people homeless.

More than 750 families lost their homes in the shanty town of Malabon after a fire burned for six hours on Wednesday night, officials said.

Edna Purios said the fire spread so quickly her family fled without their belongings.

Purios, who lived with six of her children and three grandchildren, said the local government REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY should help the community rebuild.

Residents search for their belongings and valuables in the rubble “Our only wish is to get some help with repairof their destroyed houses after a fire engulfed hundreds of shan- ing our house because we have nowhere to sleep,” ties at a community of informal settlers in Catmon, Malabon city, she told Reuters Television.

There were no injuries reported in Malabon, metro Manila, Philippines February 9, 2017.

fire investigator Alvino Torres said.

Seven people were hurt on Tuesday night when a fire raged for 10 hours in the shanty town of Tondo near the city’s docks.

About 15,000 people were left homeless and were temporarily sheltered in evacuation centres, and their belongings, like television sets, washing machines and clothes were left on a major road, blocking trucks hauling containers at the port.

Only a week ago a worker was killed and more than 100 injured in a fire at factory south of the capital.

Fires are common in factories and shanty towns in Manila, one of the most populated cities in the world. In 2015, 74 workers were killed when they were trapped in a slipper factory north of the capital. (rtr)

12

International

Friday, February 10, 2017

BUSINESS Banks take bigger role in Latin America fight against tax evasion

BUENOS AIRES/SAO PAULO - When Argentina launched a tax amnesty program last year to bring billions of dollars back into the country, it found support from an unlikely corner: the banks whose clients had stashed money abroad. President Mauricio Macri had no shortage of motivation to initiate the amnesty plan. Some $400 billion in undeclared funds was being held outside Argentina, the economy was in recession and the government badly needed to boost revenues.

He offered residents until the end of March to declare assets and pay a fine to avoid prosecution for tax evasion. But there was an added incentive - one that marked a break with the past and had nothing to do with how the policy was designed.

This time wealthy Argentines with offshore accounts at two of the world’s largest private wealth managers, JPMorgan Chase & Co and UBS AG, began receiving letters from the banks asking for proof they had declared their assets to tax authorities, three people with knowledge of the situation said.

By year’s end, Argentines had declared $97.8 billion, and are expected to declare much more by the March deadline. That surpassed initial analyst estimates of $60 billion and dwarfed the $2.6 billion declared in the 2013-2015 amnesty program.

“You can only explain this with some help from banks,” said Buenos Aires tax lawyer Eduardo Aguilera of RCTZZ Abogados. He said he had clients who received letters from JPMorgan and UBS as well as other clients who had been encouraged to participate through more informal conversations with bankers at Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co. The banks declined to comment.

It is unclear how much of the tally can be attributed to the involvement of the banks.

But more than a half dozen people involved in amnesty programs - including lawyers and accountants - said the banks were instrumental in the effort. They described similar actions by the banks in recent amnesty programs run by Brazil and Chile.

Those efforts mark a turnaround from banks’ more passive approaches toward earlier tax amnesty programs, and reflect a growing sensitivity to stricter regulations and perceptions they could be abetting tax evasion.

“They have decided to stop helping clients to hide money,” said Miami-based lawyer Martin Litwak, founder of Litwak & Partners, which has advised clients participating in tax amnesties across the region and had Argentine clients who received letters from JPMorgan and UBS. He said the letters from banks ask clients to

REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/File Photo

A customer selects oranges at a street market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 6, 2016. confirm that their assets are declared, sometimes requiring certification from an accountant or lawyer, and for permission to exchange information regarding their account with authorities. “The banks play a fundamental role.

If the banks are not involved, there’s nothing the government can do or say to convince people to participate,” Litwak said.

FAMILY PANIC The shifting dynamics around amnesty programs can be attributed to two equally powerful forces: stricter rulemaking and public outrage.

Across Latin America, many wealthy residents have long resented paying high taxes for what they considered to be substandard public hospitals and poor public education.

Then there was the government corruption, the potential for hyperinflation and fears their savings could be confiscated.

All that could be avoided by stashing money in offshore accounts, set up by banks and out of reach of their home country’s tax collectors. Tax amnesty programs launched by cash-strapped governments to draw back the funds generated little enthusiasm.

“We had other tax amnesties, but this time there’s a much broader transparency frame-

work in the world,” said Humberto Bertazza, a partner at Buenos Aires accounting firm Bertazza Nicolini Corti & Asociados.

Government crackdowns on tax evasion began in the aftermath of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis. The United States passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act in 2010, requiring foreign financial institutions to share information on U.S. citizens with overseas accounts with the U.S. government.

Brazil, Chile and Colombia signed on in 2014, and have reciprocity agreements in which U.S. authorities send those governments information on their citizens’ assets in the United States. Argentina has taken steps to follow.

Latin American countries reached additional agreements to share information with one another - and with traditional tax havens like Switzerland, under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Then came the Panama Papers, a massive leak of offshore financial data. The revelations in the documents, released last year, exacerbated public outrage over the extent to which the rich and powerful masked their wealth through hidden accounts. The previous year, Brazil had been rocked by

revelations that 6,000 Brazilians held secret accounts at HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private banking unit.

“I convinced several of my clients just by saying, ‘They’re going to like you more back where your bank is located when you send them proof that you got into the amnesty,’” Aguilera said.

When Brazil launched its amnesty program last year, wealth management executives at UBS, Pictet Group AG and Credit Suisse Group were instructed to tell clients to declare their secret accounts and join the country’s amnesty program, three people with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters.

Some banks went further. Clients who wanted to remain outside the program in Brazil were told in some cases to move their money to another bank, one of the people familiar with the tax amnesty said.

“Our lawyer and our family’s banker basically told us to disclose every single offshore asset we have, and they said so in a way that panicked the entire family,” said a Sao Paulo-based client of UBS Private Bank in Switzerland, who asked for anonymity to speak about the issue. “It cost us dearly but now we understand why the pressure was big on us to do this.”(rtr)

Bali News

International

Friday, February 10, 2017

Taman Mumbul as Spiritual Tourist Attraction in Badung

5

Realizing Taman Mumbul as a spiritual tourist destination in Badung is a very smart idea. In addition to keeping the village asset, it can also bring in economic benefits for local community. Just imagine, every day there are always guests coming to make a visit. Moreover, they also come on auspicious days, like Kliwon, full moon, new moon and Banyupinaruh.

Taman Mumbul is a sacred place sanctified by the Sangeh and surrounding communities. It has a big pond like a lake with clear water.

The water sources from 11 major springs and dozens of small springs around the lake. Aside from being functioned as source of clean water for people’s daily life, the lake water is also used to irrigate paddy fields of Subak Sangeh spreading across the area of 200 hectares.

Chief of Sangeh customary village, Ida Bagus Dipayana, said that Taman Mumbul can be divided into three areas, namely the innermost, middle and outermost courtyard.

The innermost courtyard hosts several temples such as the Ulunsuwi, Taman Beji, Segara Kelebutan, Ratu Gede, Taman Mumbul, Ratu Niang and Bebaturan to worship wong samar (supernatural beings). “All the temples have their own function, but in essence they are functioned to maintain the nature and safety of Sangeh people,” he said.

Ulunsuwi Temple is located in the northern most venerated by members of Subak Sangeh. On particular days, subak members perform a ceremony as an expression of gratitude to God for the

graces bestowed. In the southern part sits the Taman Beji Temple with three fountains as destination of melasti (physical and psychical purification) procession. Remaining in the region, there is Segara Kelebutan Temple in the form of three-tiered meru shrine located in the middle of the pond.

In the south of the pond precisely under a banyan tree sits the representative temple of Taman Ayun. This temple was established when making the pond that was never finished. Its levees were always broken. Seeing this condition, the royal figure of Mengwi was invited to come. After that, the levees of the lake became very strong, so that it was then made a shrine to worship the deities of Taman Ayun.

Meanwhile, the Ratu Gede Temple is used to venerate the guardian in the psychical ream of the pond.

The middle courtyard of the Taman Mumbul Temple is located in the east of the area. This temple is venerated by the Brahmana hamlet. There is also a Pengelukatan Temple marked by eleven fountains. Here, the residents do self-purificatory rite (melukat) physically and psychically ac-

companied by the presentation of the offerings. Sangeh community believes that Ratu Niang abides at this temple.

Then, the southernmost shrine is bebaturan (menhir) used to worship wong samar (supernatural beings). “Therefore, we always urge visitors to always prioritize ethics as the region the Taman Mumbul area is rich in objects and sacred places,” he said. This ar-

rangement, explained I.B. Dipa, is meant to make the place attractive and comfortable to be visited. The arrangement workmanship started in 2016. Thankfully, it can be operated in late 2016. Arrangement of the area was funded by assistance of Badung government and village treasury. “The assistance of Badung government is worth IDR 4 billion and village treasury approximately amounted to IDR 500 million,”

he said.

In the meantime, the outermost courtyard located at southernmost area (after the Pengelukatan Temple) will be made into water attraction equipped with a pool of children and adult. Various types of water tourist attractions will be created as children playground.

“Hopefully, the water attraction could be realized in 2018,” he hoped. (kmb)

Titi Banda Statue Denpasar City has a more magnificent and monumental icon. After the quite amazing Sewaka Dharma Building as a public service center at Lumintang Denpasar has a magnificent and exotic building becoming the pride of the people in Denpasar, namely the Titi Banda Statue.

The grandiosely standing statue can be enjoyed by wider community at a very strategic location at the entrance to the city of Denpasar from the east. The statue was deliberately built in the median of the intersection of Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra and Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai because it was at strategic location.

The Titi Banda Statue told stories about the Ramayana epic, namely the character Rama who built the Titi Banda Bridge in the middle of the sea with the help of monkey troops that would pick up Sita abducted in Lanka. Titi Banda told about Rama, as the main character who would pick up her wife from the hands of Ravana in Lanka. Rama accompanied by his monkey troops consisting of 18 heads, where five of whom were chief of the monkey. Statue of Rama became the main one in the middle of the building.(kmb)

6

Friday, February 10, 2017

W

RLD

Trump blasts retailer Nordstrom, raising new concern on business ties

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump blasted department store chain Nordstrom Inc on Wednesday for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line, prompting critics to accuse him of misusing public office to benefit his family’s sprawling business empire. After Trump’s highly unusual move to use a White House platform to intervene in a commercial matter involving his daughter, Nordstrom reiterated that its action last week was based on declining sales of the Ivanka Trump products.

But White House spokesman Sean Spicer characterized the move as a “direct attack” on the president’s policies. “My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person - always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!” Trump wrote on Wednesday on both his personal and official presidential Twitter accounts. Ethics officials who served past Republican and Democratic administrations said Trump’s tweet was both unprecedented for a president and troublesome.

“This is misuse of public office for private gains,” Richard Painter, who served as Republican President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer, said in an email to Reuters. “And it is abuse of power because the official

REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

A Nordstrom department store is shown at a shopping center in San Diego, California September 10, 2014.

Jovenel...

From page 1

Nearby, Charles Bichotte agreed but said he’d wait and see if Moise was sincere with his various vows.

“We’ve heard so many pledges from our presidents but here we are, still struggling,” said the houseplant vendor.

Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born politics professor at the University of Virginia, described the many challenges facing Moise as “herculean.”

“He has to revive domestic production, increase foreign and local investments, rebuild the moribund agricultural sector, create a sense of national solidarity, and generate a sorely lacking political stability,” he

message is clear - Nordstrom is persona non grata with the administration.” Norman Eisen, an ethics adviser to Democratic President Barack Obama, noted that several states have unfair competition laws, including California where Nordstrom operates many stores. The tweet, he said, could spark lawsuits if the company’s brand was being injured by an unfair attack.

The wealthy New York real estate developer who became president on Jan. 20 has declined to sell off his businesses despite demands from critics that he do so to avoid thorny conflicts of interest. Trump on Jan. 11 said he would maintain ownership of his global business empire but hand off control to his two oldest sons during his presidency. Trump’s web of international companies remains a bit opaque since he has refused to release his tax returns, which experts have said would provide a clearer view of his business interests.

Ethics experts have said Trump’s arrangement does little to address potential conflicts because he would still know what assets he owned, such as Trump-branded golf courses and hotels, and his family would continue to profit from them. Ivanka Trump ran a clothing and jewelry business bearing her name, in addition to other work for the Trump Organization, before saying she would resign when her father was sworn in as president. Her father’s various contentious actions and comments have prompted boycott efforts by critics and have driven some consumers away from Trump family businesses. During a White House press briefing, Spicer painted Nordstrom’s action as an attack on the president’s daughter.

“For someone to take out their concern with his policies on a family member of his is just not acceptable. And the president has every right as a father to stand up to them,” Spicer said. A spokeswoman for the Ivanka Trump brand declined to comment. On Tuesday, First lady Melania Trump filed a $150 million defamation lawsuit accusing the Daily Mail British tabloid of damaging her brand by falsely reporting she had worked as an escort. The lawsuit said the article ruined a “unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” for the first lady but her lawyer said she “has no intention of using her position for profit.” (rtr)

said, adding that all this will have to be achieved amid diminishing international assistance.

But Fatton suggested that Moise might actually benefit from citizens’ low expectations of political leaders following many years of broken promises and failed policies.

“If he manages to deliver a modicum of change he may restore a sense of hope for the future,” he said.

The Tuesday inauguration was the concluding step in Haiti’s return to constitutional rule a year after exPresident Michel Martelly left office without an elected successor in place amid waves of opposition protests and a political stalemate suspending elections. A caretaker government was quickly created to fill the void and

pave the way for elections.

While Moise won a Nov. 20 election redo with a dominating 55 percent of the votes cast, his critics suggest he did not gain a mandate as barely 20 percent of the electorate bothered to go to the polls. The results withstood challenges by three of his closest rivals.

That election victory came more than a year after Moise topped an initial vote in 2015 that was eventually thrown out amid suspicions of fraud.

Senate leader Youri Latortue, who led the swearing-in ceremony Tuesday and leads a party allied with Moise’s Tet Kale faction, told the new president that lawmakers were “ready to cooperate with you for the benefit of the country.”

International

International

Friday, February 10, 2017

Indonesian-bound boat capsizes off Sabah, 13 feared drowned REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at the State Department in Washington, U.S. February 8, 2017.

Canada foreign minister will oppose U.S. border tariffs WASHINGTON - Canada opposes the idea of the United States imposing new border tariffs and would respond to any such move, the country’s foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, said on Wednesday after her first meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Tillerson’s meeting with Freeland, and a separate meeting with Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, at the State Department touched on the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Donald Trump wants to renegotiate. Speaking to reporters afterwards, Freeland said she made clear in the meeting with Tillerson that Canada would oppose the idea of border tariffs on Canadian goods in upcoming NAFTA talks.

“If such an idea were ever to come into being, Canada would respond appropriately,” she told reporters on a conference call, stressing that Ottawa did not yet know what the U.S. opening position would be. Both Canada and Mexico send the bulk of their exports to the United States and could be crippled by major changes to NAFTA, which Trump has called “a disaster.” Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said that Videgaray discussed migration and security issues in his meetings with Tillerson and U.S. Secretary of

Homeland Security John Kelly.

Both Tillerson and Videgaray said they would keep working on solutions to their public “differences,” it added.

Videgaray also told Kelly that the human rights of Mexicans in the United States was important, the statement said. After their hour-long meeting, Videgaray told reporters that Tillerson had said he would visit Mexico in the coming weeks, according to a Mexican Foreign Ministry official.

The State Department did not provide a readout of either of the meetings, which occurred in Tillerson’s first full week in his new post.

Trump made free trade deals a major target during his campaign for the presidency. He says NAFTA, formally signed in 1994, has harmed American workers.

The pact was aimed at removing tariff barriers between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Canada is trying to persuade the new administration and senior politicians that its especially close ties with the United States mean the country should be spared protectionist measures. “In making the case for how balanced and mutually beneficial our economic relationship was, I really felt I was pushing on an open door with everyone I spoke to,” Freeland said. (rtr)

A businessman from northern Haiti, Moise had never run for office until he was hand-picked in 2015 to be the Tet Kale party candidate by Martelly.

Some critics viewed Moise’s ascent with suspicion, suggesting Martelly was using him as a proxy.

Moise dismissed the criticism in an interview last year with The Associated Press, saying Martelly will still be a valued adviser but he is his own man. During his Tuesday speech, he thanked Martelly for choosing him as the Tet Kale candidate.

Moise comes to office with an unresolved judicial investigation hanging over him. Late last month, a Haitian judge questioned Moise about a confidential report leaked during

campaigning that suggests he might have laundered money and received special treatment to get loans in years before he ran for the country’s highest political office.

Moise asserts all of his business dealings have been above board.

He has blamed rivals for trying to “create instability” in the deeply divided nation with a long history of political tumult and damage his reputation before his swearing-in ceremony.

The judicial examination into Moise is ongoing and it is unclear when it will be resolved. Moise asserted Tuesday that the “justice system will never be used for political persecution” under his administration. (ap)

KUALA LUMPUR - A boat ferrying around 15 people from Malaysia to Indonesia capsized in rough seas off the port of Tawau in Sabah province, Malaysia, with only two survivors found so far, said Malaysian maritime authorities.

The two survivors, a husband and wife, said the incident occurred on Tuesday night, but locals only reported it to the Malaysian maritime agency a day later.

The Malaysian Maritime

Enforcement Agency said in a statement late on Wednesday that it had launched a search and rescue operation, but that the 24 hour delay in being notified would make the search difficult.

“It is feared that 13 victims including the skipper and a baby has drowned. Search and rescue efforts will be continued to find any survivors,” said maritime territory director Mohd Zubil Mat Som. (rtr)

11

Indonesia military accepts Australian apology for insult

JAKARTA — The Indonesian military has accepted an apology from Australia’s army chief over a purported insult to Indonesia’s state ideology that caused a spat between the two countries.

An Indonesian military statement released late Wednesday after Australian army chief Lt. Gen. Angus Campbell met with Indonesian military head Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said the Australian Defense Force would sanction personnel involved in the incident. It quoted Campbell as saying the sanctions would affect the careers of those penalized.

Indonesia’s military partially suspended cooperation with its Australian counterparts in early January.

The rift developed after an Indonesian military officer raised concerns in November about teaching materials for army language training at a special forces facility in western Australia.

Indonesian media reported that Pancasila, the state ideology based on five principles including a unitary state and belief in one God, was renamed “Pancagila,” in effect calling it crazy in Indonesian, in laminated training materials.

Referring to the incident, Nurmantyo said in the

statement that Indonesians have died to defend Pancasila. “Especially for the soldiers, it is very sensitive and it hurts us,” he said.

The neighboring nations, though close partners in areas such as trade and counterterrorism, have long had a turbulent relationship.

Tensions have repeatedly flared over Australia’s policy of turning back boats to Indonesia that are carrying asylum seekers from other countries. Indonesia’s use of the death penalty, which Australia opposes, has also strained ties, particularly in 2015 when Indonesia executed two Australians for drug crimes.

In 1999, the relationship suffered one of its most serious blows after Australia led a U.N. military force into the former Indonesian province of East Timor following a bloody independence ballot.

Nurmantyo said the results of Australia’s investigation into the Pancasila incident would be discussed with the defense and foreign ministers and then reported to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

In January, Nurmantyo announced all military cooperation with Australia had been suspended but a day later, the top Indonesian security minister said the suspension applied only to language training. (ap)

Indonesian Military Information Centre/Handout via REUTERS

Australia’s army chief Lieutenant General Angus Campbell (C) meets with Indonesia’s armed forces chief General Gatot Nurmantyo (R) in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 8, 2017. Picture taken February 8, 2017.

10

Destination

Friday, February 10, 2017

International

Sharapova handed Madrid Open wildcard

Singsing Waterfall SINGARAJA - Singsing Waterfall is one of North Bali’s hidden treasures, which is a great option for nature lovers and those with a penchant for adventure while staying around Lovina Beach or the capital of Singaraja. The waterfall is located up in the forested hills of the Cempaga village in Banjar, some 50km west of the town hub and main beach resort areas. Reaching the site requires a 20-minute trek on foot, starting at the rural neighbourhood and along a moderate forest trail. Its name roughly translates to ‘daybreak waterfall’. Although not very high or large when compared to other popular waterfalls found throughout Bali’s central highlands, the whole site of Singsing Waterfall offers a pleasant respite. Best time to go is during the wet season (October through April), when the waterfall pours into a rocky pool.

Moreover, a narrow trail over the waterfall leads to a spacious upper creek with lava stone pools that you can also soak in.

When the dry season takes over, Singsing waterfall may erratically reduce to trickles. Its upper creek however, still offers a unique setting with its pools with dark and smooth textured cliff faces on both sides. Birdsong and nature sounds against the drops and trickles of the pools add to the soothing ambiance of this hidden sanctuary. Back at the starting point are local ‘warung’ food stalls selling cold drinks and snacks. (IBP/net)

BADUNG - Kedonganan Fish Market, referred to locally as ‘Pasar Ikan Tradisional Kedonganan’ and often inaccurately as ‘Jimbaran Fish Market’ due to its close proximity to the famous seafood dining bay, is Bali’s main seaside marketplace where fishing boats land daily and haul off their fresh catches. Just south of the market and boat landing area are the rows of Kedonganan village’s own cluster of seafood restaurants, which source most of their fresh local items here. Most of the popular cooking classes and guest activities of hotels around Bali’s southern beach resort area include tours to Kedonganan Fish Market as part of their packages. Here, you’ll be able to witness fishermen unloading their nets full of sardines, larger catches such as mahi-mahi being

B.BP.821.02.17.0000318

Craft company@Mas-Ubud, need: HRD Mgr,Sourching staff,please send your application latter to email:dharmas@indo.net.id tlp.0361976179

B.BP.004.02.17.0000493

Looking for Garment Assistant, Excel,Internet,Email to: diahriniputu@yahoo.com

B.BP.001.02.17.0000764

Need Sales&Mktg,Marcom,Enggenr ing,Gardenr,Waiter/ss,send cv to Samasama Rest ND,HP.0812384 1129 E:wira@samasamabali.com

B.BP.101.02.17.0000800

Renown DMC in Sanur is Looking for experienced person for product/Fit department in Charge for a la carte quotations/ account handling.Interesting Candidate Please Kindly send your application to:sales@gova cation-indonesia.com

B.BP.001.02.17.0000771

Friday, February 10, 2017

The five-time grand slam winner has been given a wildcard for the event, which begins on May 5.

BARCELONA - Former world number one Maria Sharapova has been invited to play at the Madrid Open in May, which takes place less than two weeks after her 15month doping ban expires, tournament organisers said on Wednesday.

Kedonganan Fish Market

SPG for Jewelry Shop.Kuta: 0811 3866 371,Sanur/Ubud: 0811 3866 372

International

International business is looking for a PA with perfect English&University graduate,need to have experience in construction &handling workers.Computer programs to know,AutoCad, Sketchup,Office.The best with a Architectural background.We pay well & travel opportunity. office@paradise-realty.ltd.com

B.BP.001.02.17.0000808

Villa in Seminyak Need Night HK& Security Call:085738135199

B.BP.001.02.17.0000664

weighed for auction, and shrimps, crabs, lobster and a huge variety of other sea harvests displayed in rows of ice containers, ready for retail bargain or wholesale.

Getting to Kedonganan Fish Market is a breeze – follow Jimbaran’s main Jalan Uluwatu road to its northern end, or go along Jalan Segara Madu south of the Ngurah Rai International Airport. Kedonganan Fish Market also adjoins a morning village market mainly serving the local Kedonganan community, with stalls selling fresh groceries and daily necessities, where you can discover a wealth of tropical herbs, spices, fruits and vegetables that locals use in their home cooking.

The market opens right after the break of dawn, and the bustling scene continues throughout the day, with countless pick-up trucks

with boxes ready to ship out their fresh seafood to hotels and restaurants, while local fishing boats land and unload their catches, greeted by smaller vendors on the sand.

The boats don’t necessarily catch their fish in the adjacent waters, but often from neighbouring Java, Sulawesi and Bali’s own coastal waters of Kusamba and Amed on the other side of the island. It’s a great alternative to shopping at the supermarket, especially if you’re considering making good use of your in-villa kitchenette by cooking up your own tuna or red snapper steak. You can even arrange with the chef for a small and private barbecue party with your own bought selections. There’s a huge range of fish available daily, and you can hone your bargaining skills at the same time. (IBP/net)

Place Your Add Here

It is for Job Vacancy, Property, Selling or Buying Please contact Gugiek : 08123840500 Eka : 081338519538

The five-time grand slam winner has been given a wildcard for the event, which begins on May 5. It is scheduled to be her second comeback tournament after her suspension for doping, with the Russian set to return to action at the Stuttgart Grand Prix in April. “Sharapova requested an invitation to play... (She) is one of the best players of the last 15 years and also a past winner of our tournament,” said event director Manolo Santana.

“In Madrid she always plays well and I’m sure she will come back to the courts highly motivated and hoping to do well.” Following a positive test for the drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open, the Russian was suspended for two years by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cut the ban by nine months last October, allowing her to return from April 26.

Her case divided opinion in the sport. The Florida-based Sharapova, who turns 30 on April 19, had called the ITF’s original ruling “unfairly harsh” because she had not intentionally violated anti-doping rules.

Meldonium was only added to the World Anti-Doping Agency list of banned substances at the start of 2016 after mounting evidence it boosted blood flow and enhanced performance. CAS cut Sharapova’s suspension but said she “bore some degree of fault” by relying on agent Max Eisenbud to check the banned list for changes and failing to ensure he had done so. (rtr)

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports

Tiger Woods lines up a putt on the 1st green during the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines Municipal Golf Course.

I will never feel great again, says Woods

LOS ANGELES - Former world number one Tiger Woods has accepted that he will “never feel great” again after suffering a number of back and knee injuries in recent years.

The 14-times major champion returned to action in December following a 15-month layoff but was forced to pull out of the Dubai Desert Classic last week after the first round due to a back spasm.

“There were a lot of times I didn’t think I was going to make it back. It was tough, it was more than brutal,” Woods told Dubai magazine Vision. The 41-year-old American has racked up 79 PGA Tour victories in his career but has not won a major championship since 2008. “There have been plenty of times when I thought I would never play the game again at the elite level,” Woods, ranked 674th in the world, said. “It was tough, it was more than brutal. There were times I needed help just to get out of bed.

“I feel good, not great. I don’t think I will ever feel great because it’s three back surgeries, four knee operations,” he added.

Woods is hoping to play in the U.S. Masters in April, the first major of the year. “I’m always going to be a little bit sore. As long as I can function, I’m fine with that,” he said. (rtr)

8

Friday, February 10, 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017

Sp rt

Juventus see off Crotone to go seven points clear

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

Alaves’ team members celebrate after their victory against Celta during the Spanish Copa del Rey semifinal, second leg soccer match between Alaves and Celta, at Mendizorroza stadium, in Vitoria, northern Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Alaves won the match 1-0 and will play the Copa del Rey final against FC Barcelona.

Alaves beats Celta in Copa, reaches 2nd final in its history

MADRID — Alaves matched the greatest feat in the Spanish club’s history by reaching the final of a major competition after defeating Celta Vigo 1-0 in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday.

Following a 0-0 draw in the first leg in Vigo, midfielder Edgar Mendez scored an 82nd-minute winner to give the Basque Country club a surprise spot in the May 27 final against two-time defending champion Barcelona, which edged Atletico Madrid 3-2 on aggregate on Tuesday. “We made history today,” Alaves captain Manu Garcia said. “And in the final in May we will seek glory.”

Alaves stunned Barcelona with a 2-1 win at Camp Nou in the third round of Spanish league matches earlier this season, and the teams will meet again in the league on Saturday.

Alaves’ only previous final was a 5-4 loss after extra time in a thriller against Liverpool in the 2001 UEFA Cup, the competition now known as the Europa League.

Founded in 1921, Alaves was promoted to the top flight of the Spanish league this season after 10 years in the lower divisions, including four in the third tier.

“Not even in our greatest dreams did we imagine something like this,” Alaves midfielder Kiko Femenia said. “But we deserved it after all that we have done until now.” A fourtime runner-up in the Copa, Celta was trying to return to the final for the first time since 2001. It entered the semifinals boosted by a victory over Real Madrid in the quarterfinals.

“We had our chances but we couldn’t capitalize on them,” Celta coach Eduardo Berizzo said. “We know that these games are decided by details and you pay when you make a

mistake. We are disappointed. This loss hurts, but we have to move on.”

Mendez netted the winner only three minutes after coming off the bench. He picked up the ball outside the area and cleared three Celta defenders before hitting a shot over goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez as he charged from his line at Mendizorroza Stadium in northern Spain.

Alaves dominated possession throughout the game and had most of the scoring opportunities, while Celta threatened only a few times on counterattacks. The venue of the final still hasn’t been set, but it’s likely to be held in Madrid.

Alaves had tried to postpone Wednesday’s match because Celta got to rest last weekend as its league game against Madrid had to be called off due to bad weather.(ap)

Spurs must end Anfield jinx to put pressure on Chelsea

LONDON - If Tottenham Hotspur are to keep up the chase of Premier League leaders Chelsea they must find a cure for their Anfield jinx and pile on the misery for fading Liverpool on Saturday.

Victory in the late kickoff

9

would see Spurs cut Chelsea’s lead to six points before the Blues travel on Sunday to face a Burnley side who are proving formidable at home this season. Tottenham have lost five and drawn three of their last eight league matches

Action Images via Reuters / Paul Childs

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino

with Liverpool.

The last time they returned from Anfield with three points was in 2011 and before that it was way back in 1993.

With Liverpool’s title ambitions effectively over after they picked up only three points from the last 15 available it could be the perfect time for Spurs to improve that record.

Conversely, it could be just the kind of fixture Liverpool need to remedy a malaise which has turned up the heat on manager Juergen Klopp for the first time since he took over in 2015.

While the perception, until recently, was that Liverpool have moved forward under the German coach, his record after 54 league games is identical to that of his predecessor Brendan Rodgers -- won 26, drawn 16, lost 12.

“In a few days we have an opportunity to play football and we can show then that we are ready for all the other games, because it’s Tottenham, who are a top team,” former Borussia Dortmund

coach Klopp said after a 2-0 defeat

by Hull City last weekend that left them fifth, 13 points behind Chelsea.

BEST DEFENCE

Spurs have the best defensive record in the league with only 16 goals conceded but will be without two key components of their backline on Saturday with central defender Jan Vertonghen (ankle) and left back Danny Rose (knee) still injured.

Chelsea will be wary of a trip to Burnley who have gathered 28 of their 29 points this season at Turf Moor.

“We believe we can beat Chelsea. Our home form has been unbelievable,” Burnley’s former Manchester United defender Michael Keane said. “They are in for a tough game.”

Liverpool are not the only side whose title challenge has collapsed.

Arsenal’s consecutive defeats by Watford and Chelsea have left them down in fourth and the fans grumbling.

Manager Arsene Wenger, the focus for much of the angst, will again be in the stands when his side host Hull in Saturday’s early game as he completes a four-match touchline ban.

Manchester United, unbeaten in 15 straight league games, have seen their hopes of muscling into the top four frustrated by three draws in four matches, although they host Watford buoyed by last weekend’s 3-0 win at champions Leicester City.

Third-placed Manchester City, three spots and four points above United, travel to fading Bournemouth on Monday.

Leicester face a huge match at fellow strugglers Swansea City on Sunday having fallen within a point of the bottom three.

Manager Claudio Ranieri received the backing of the Midlands club’s owners this week, but a fifth defeat in a row, especially against a side also battling near the bottom, would raise the prospect of relegation a year after a fairytale title triumph. (ap)

ROME - Juventus extended their advantage at the top of Serie A to seven points after goals from Mario Mandzukic and Gonzalo Higuain secured a 2-0 win at struggling Crotone on Wednesday.

Nine-man AC Milan ended their four-game losing streak with a lastgasp 1-0 win at Bologna as Mario Pasalic struck an 89th-minute winner to take them up to seventh on 40 points.

Crotone headed into the match against Juve nine points adrift of safety but they defended resolutely until Mandzukic fired home in the 60th minute after goalkeeper Alex Cordaz parried Kwadwo Asamoah’s header into his path.

With the hosts’ resolve broken, Higuain added a second 14 minutes later when he finished past Cordaz after being found by a delightful

threaded pass by Tomas Rincon, making his first league start for Juve, as Massimiliano Allegri’s side made the most of their game in hand.

“We did well to stay patient,” Juve defender Leonardo Bonucci told the club’s website (www.juventus.com). “These three points are crucial in our attempts to bag a sixth straight Scudetto.”

The win took Juventus up to

57 points and re-established the champions’ seven-point lead over AS Roma who thumped Fiorentina 4-0 on Tuesday. Napoli could close the gap to six points if they beat Genoa at home on Friday.

“Roma and Napoli are playing well,” Allegri added. “But we just have to concentrate on what we need to do. “Tonight, for example,

we didn’t concede and that’s a positive for sure.”

Milan played the final half hour of a scrappy game against Bologna with nine men following the dismissals of Gabriel Paletta and Juraj Kucka, but nabbed all three points when Pasalic met Gerard Deulofeu’s cross from point-blank range. (rtr)

China’s Shenhua apologise after failing to make Champions League

SHANGHAI - China’s highspending Shanghai Greenland Shenhua FC, spearheaded by expensive new signing Carlos Tevez, have apologised to fans after being dumped out of Asia’s top club competition by Australian side Brisbane Roar. Shenhua, managed

by Uruguayan Gus Poyet and who also have Nigeria striker Obafemi Martins on their books, were beaten 2-0 in chilly conditions in Shanghai in their Asian Champions League final qualifying round clash on Wednesday.

“For the shame of today’s result, we offer a sincere apology to all those fans who braved the bitter cold to come to the stadium and support Shenhua,” the club said in a statement on its official microblog.

“The players all did their best, and we longed to win as much as you did, but sometimes soccer can just be this cruel.”

Shanghai Shenhua finished fourth in the Chinese Super League last season, 16 points behind champions Guangzhou Evergrande.

Amid of flurry of high-profile transfers by Chinese clubs, Shenhua bought Tevez from Boca Juniors in December for a reported 84 million euros ($89.76 million) and made the 32-year-old the sport’s highest paid player with a reported salary of $753,000 per week.

Tevez’s arrival in Shanghai came hot on the heels of Brazilian midfielder Oscar joining local rivals Shanghai SIPG from Chelsea in a deal believed to be worth 60 million euros.

G r aziano P elle, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Jackson Martinez are all recent arrivals in China, while Shanghai SIPG manager Andre Villas-Boas is also on a lucrative contract since replacing former England boss Sven GoranEriksson. With the backing of soccer fan President Xi Jinping, China has been on a spending spree on players, clubs and overseas assets over the last two years, raising hopes that domestic clubs and the national team could benefit.

However, the influx of marquee players into China and huge transfer fees has divided opinion, as well as prompting Chinese soccer authorities to tighten rules and stop

clubs “burning money” on foreign talent at the expense of homegrown players.

China’s national team coach stepped down in October last year after defeats to Uzbekistan and wartorn Syria left their bid to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in tatters.

Shenhua’s fans vented their anger at the loss.

“It would be better to spend this huge money on stellar coaches than huge annual salaries for these players,” said one fan in a post on Sina Weibo. “The season hasn’t even started yet and we’re out of the Asian Champions League. The crowd is already losing hope.” (rtr)

REUTERS/Stringer

Shanghai Shenhua’s Carlos Tevez reacts to a referee during the AFC Champions League 2017 play-off match between Shanghai Shenhua and Brisbane Roar in Shanghai, China, February 8, 2017. Picture taken February 8, 2017.

REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

Juventus’ Mario Mandzukic reacts after scoring against Crotone.

8

Friday, February 10, 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017

Sp rt

Juventus see off Crotone to go seven points clear

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

Alaves’ team members celebrate after their victory against Celta during the Spanish Copa del Rey semifinal, second leg soccer match between Alaves and Celta, at Mendizorroza stadium, in Vitoria, northern Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Alaves won the match 1-0 and will play the Copa del Rey final against FC Barcelona.

Alaves beats Celta in Copa, reaches 2nd final in its history

MADRID — Alaves matched the greatest feat in the Spanish club’s history by reaching the final of a major competition after defeating Celta Vigo 1-0 in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday.

Following a 0-0 draw in the first leg in Vigo, midfielder Edgar Mendez scored an 82nd-minute winner to give the Basque Country club a surprise spot in the May 27 final against two-time defending champion Barcelona, which edged Atletico Madrid 3-2 on aggregate on Tuesday. “We made history today,” Alaves captain Manu Garcia said. “And in the final in May we will seek glory.”

Alaves stunned Barcelona with a 2-1 win at Camp Nou in the third round of Spanish league matches earlier this season, and the teams will meet again in the league on Saturday.

Alaves’ only previous final was a 5-4 loss after extra time in a thriller against Liverpool in the 2001 UEFA Cup, the competition now known as the Europa League.

Founded in 1921, Alaves was promoted to the top flight of the Spanish league this season after 10 years in the lower divisions, including four in the third tier.

“Not even in our greatest dreams did we imagine something like this,” Alaves midfielder Kiko Femenia said. “But we deserved it after all that we have done until now.” A fourtime runner-up in the Copa, Celta was trying to return to the final for the first time since 2001. It entered the semifinals boosted by a victory over Real Madrid in the quarterfinals.

“We had our chances but we couldn’t capitalize on them,” Celta coach Eduardo Berizzo said. “We know that these games are decided by details and you pay when you make a

mistake. We are disappointed. This loss hurts, but we have to move on.”

Mendez netted the winner only three minutes after coming off the bench. He picked up the ball outside the area and cleared three Celta defenders before hitting a shot over goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez as he charged from his line at Mendizorroza Stadium in northern Spain.

Alaves dominated possession throughout the game and had most of the scoring opportunities, while Celta threatened only a few times on counterattacks. The venue of the final still hasn’t been set, but it’s likely to be held in Madrid.

Alaves had tried to postpone Wednesday’s match because Celta got to rest last weekend as its league game against Madrid had to be called off due to bad weather.(ap)

Spurs must end Anfield jinx to put pressure on Chelsea

LONDON - If Tottenham Hotspur are to keep up the chase of Premier League leaders Chelsea they must find a cure for their Anfield jinx and pile on the misery for fading Liverpool on Saturday.

Victory in the late kickoff

9

would see Spurs cut Chelsea’s lead to six points before the Blues travel on Sunday to face a Burnley side who are proving formidable at home this season. Tottenham have lost five and drawn three of their last eight league matches

Action Images via Reuters / Paul Childs

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino

with Liverpool.

The last time they returned from Anfield with three points was in 2011 and before that it was way back in 1993.

With Liverpool’s title ambitions effectively over after they picked up only three points from the last 15 available it could be the perfect time for Spurs to improve that record.

Conversely, it could be just the kind of fixture Liverpool need to remedy a malaise which has turned up the heat on manager Juergen Klopp for the first time since he took over in 2015.

While the perception, until recently, was that Liverpool have moved forward under the German coach, his record after 54 league games is identical to that of his predecessor Brendan Rodgers -- won 26, drawn 16, lost 12.

“In a few days we have an opportunity to play football and we can show then that we are ready for all the other games, because it’s Tottenham, who are a top team,” former Borussia Dortmund

coach Klopp said after a 2-0 defeat

by Hull City last weekend that left them fifth, 13 points behind Chelsea.

BEST DEFENCE

Spurs have the best defensive record in the league with only 16 goals conceded but will be without two key components of their backline on Saturday with central defender Jan Vertonghen (ankle) and left back Danny Rose (knee) still injured.

Chelsea will be wary of a trip to Burnley who have gathered 28 of their 29 points this season at Turf Moor.

“We believe we can beat Chelsea. Our home form has been unbelievable,” Burnley’s former Manchester United defender Michael Keane said. “They are in for a tough game.”

Liverpool are not the only side whose title challenge has collapsed.

Arsenal’s consecutive defeats by Watford and Chelsea have left them down in fourth and the fans grumbling.

Manager Arsene Wenger, the focus for much of the angst, will again be in the stands when his side host Hull in Saturday’s early game as he completes a four-match touchline ban.

Manchester United, unbeaten in 15 straight league games, have seen their hopes of muscling into the top four frustrated by three draws in four matches, although they host Watford buoyed by last weekend’s 3-0 win at champions Leicester City.

Third-placed Manchester City, three spots and four points above United, travel to fading Bournemouth on Monday.

Leicester face a huge match at fellow strugglers Swansea City on Sunday having fallen within a point of the bottom three.

Manager Claudio Ranieri received the backing of the Midlands club’s owners this week, but a fifth defeat in a row, especially against a side also battling near the bottom, would raise the prospect of relegation a year after a fairytale title triumph. (ap)

ROME - Juventus extended their advantage at the top of Serie A to seven points after goals from Mario Mandzukic and Gonzalo Higuain secured a 2-0 win at struggling Crotone on Wednesday.

Nine-man AC Milan ended their four-game losing streak with a lastgasp 1-0 win at Bologna as Mario Pasalic struck an 89th-minute winner to take them up to seventh on 40 points.

Crotone headed into the match against Juve nine points adrift of safety but they defended resolutely until Mandzukic fired home in the 60th minute after goalkeeper Alex Cordaz parried Kwadwo Asamoah’s header into his path.

With the hosts’ resolve broken, Higuain added a second 14 minutes later when he finished past Cordaz after being found by a delightful

threaded pass by Tomas Rincon, making his first league start for Juve, as Massimiliano Allegri’s side made the most of their game in hand.

“We did well to stay patient,” Juve defender Leonardo Bonucci told the club’s website (www.juventus.com). “These three points are crucial in our attempts to bag a sixth straight Scudetto.”

The win took Juventus up to

57 points and re-established the champions’ seven-point lead over AS Roma who thumped Fiorentina 4-0 on Tuesday. Napoli could close the gap to six points if they beat Genoa at home on Friday.

“Roma and Napoli are playing well,” Allegri added. “But we just have to concentrate on what we need to do. “Tonight, for example,

we didn’t concede and that’s a positive for sure.”

Milan played the final half hour of a scrappy game against Bologna with nine men following the dismissals of Gabriel Paletta and Juraj Kucka, but nabbed all three points when Pasalic met Gerard Deulofeu’s cross from point-blank range. (rtr)

China’s Shenhua apologise after failing to make Champions League

SHANGHAI - China’s highspending Shanghai Greenland Shenhua FC, spearheaded by expensive new signing Carlos Tevez, have apologised to fans after being dumped out of Asia’s top club competition by Australian side Brisbane Roar. Shenhua, managed

by Uruguayan Gus Poyet and who also have Nigeria striker Obafemi Martins on their books, were beaten 2-0 in chilly conditions in Shanghai in their Asian Champions League final qualifying round clash on Wednesday.

“For the shame of today’s result, we offer a sincere apology to all those fans who braved the bitter cold to come to the stadium and support Shenhua,” the club said in a statement on its official microblog.

“The players all did their best, and we longed to win as much as you did, but sometimes soccer can just be this cruel.”

Shanghai Shenhua finished fourth in the Chinese Super League last season, 16 points behind champions Guangzhou Evergrande.

Amid of flurry of high-profile transfers by Chinese clubs, Shenhua bought Tevez from Boca Juniors in December for a reported 84 million euros ($89.76 million) and made the 32-year-old the sport’s highest paid player with a reported salary of $753,000 per week.

Tevez’s arrival in Shanghai came hot on the heels of Brazilian midfielder Oscar joining local rivals Shanghai SIPG from Chelsea in a deal believed to be worth 60 million euros.

G r aziano P elle, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Jackson Martinez are all recent arrivals in China, while Shanghai SIPG manager Andre Villas-Boas is also on a lucrative contract since replacing former England boss Sven GoranEriksson. With the backing of soccer fan President Xi Jinping, China has been on a spending spree on players, clubs and overseas assets over the last two years, raising hopes that domestic clubs and the national team could benefit.

However, the influx of marquee players into China and huge transfer fees has divided opinion, as well as prompting Chinese soccer authorities to tighten rules and stop

clubs “burning money” on foreign talent at the expense of homegrown players.

China’s national team coach stepped down in October last year after defeats to Uzbekistan and wartorn Syria left their bid to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in tatters.

Shenhua’s fans vented their anger at the loss.

“It would be better to spend this huge money on stellar coaches than huge annual salaries for these players,” said one fan in a post on Sina Weibo. “The season hasn’t even started yet and we’re out of the Asian Champions League. The crowd is already losing hope.” (rtr)

REUTERS/Stringer

Shanghai Shenhua’s Carlos Tevez reacts to a referee during the AFC Champions League 2017 play-off match between Shanghai Shenhua and Brisbane Roar in Shanghai, China, February 8, 2017. Picture taken February 8, 2017.

REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

Juventus’ Mario Mandzukic reacts after scoring against Crotone.

10

Destination

Friday, February 10, 2017

International

Sharapova handed Madrid Open wildcard

Singsing Waterfall SINGARAJA - Singsing Waterfall is one of North Bali’s hidden treasures, which is a great option for nature lovers and those with a penchant for adventure while staying around Lovina Beach or the capital of Singaraja. The waterfall is located up in the forested hills of the Cempaga village in Banjar, some 50km west of the town hub and main beach resort areas. Reaching the site requires a 20-minute trek on foot, starting at the rural neighbourhood and along a moderate forest trail. Its name roughly translates to ‘daybreak waterfall’. Although not very high or large when compared to other popular waterfalls found throughout Bali’s central highlands, the whole site of Singsing Waterfall offers a pleasant respite. Best time to go is during the wet season (October through April), when the waterfall pours into a rocky pool.

Moreover, a narrow trail over the waterfall leads to a spacious upper creek with lava stone pools that you can also soak in.

When the dry season takes over, Singsing waterfall may erratically reduce to trickles. Its upper creek however, still offers a unique setting with its pools with dark and smooth textured cliff faces on both sides. Birdsong and nature sounds against the drops and trickles of the pools add to the soothing ambiance of this hidden sanctuary. Back at the starting point are local ‘warung’ food stalls selling cold drinks and snacks. (IBP/net)

BADUNG - Kedonganan Fish Market, referred to locally as ‘Pasar Ikan Tradisional Kedonganan’ and often inaccurately as ‘Jimbaran Fish Market’ due to its close proximity to the famous seafood dining bay, is Bali’s main seaside marketplace where fishing boats land daily and haul off their fresh catches. Just south of the market and boat landing area are the rows of Kedonganan village’s own cluster of seafood restaurants, which source most of their fresh local items here. Most of the popular cooking classes and guest activities of hotels around Bali’s southern beach resort area include tours to Kedonganan Fish Market as part of their packages. Here, you’ll be able to witness fishermen unloading their nets full of sardines, larger catches such as mahi-mahi being

B.BP.821.02.17.0000318

Craft company@Mas-Ubud, need: HRD Mgr,Sourching staff,please send your application latter to email:dharmas@indo.net.id tlp.0361976179

B.BP.004.02.17.0000493

Looking for Garment Assistant, Excel,Internet,Email to: diahriniputu@yahoo.com

B.BP.001.02.17.0000764

Need Sales&Mktg,Marcom,Enggenr ing,Gardenr,Waiter/ss,send cv to Samasama Rest ND,HP.0812384 1129 E:wira@samasamabali.com

B.BP.101.02.17.0000800

Renown DMC in Sanur is Looking for experienced person for product/Fit department in Charge for a la carte quotations/ account handling.Interesting Candidate Please Kindly send your application to:sales@gova cation-indonesia.com

B.BP.001.02.17.0000771

Friday, February 10, 2017

The five-time grand slam winner has been given a wildcard for the event, which begins on May 5.

BARCELONA - Former world number one Maria Sharapova has been invited to play at the Madrid Open in May, which takes place less than two weeks after her 15month doping ban expires, tournament organisers said on Wednesday.

Kedonganan Fish Market

SPG for Jewelry Shop.Kuta: 0811 3866 371,Sanur/Ubud: 0811 3866 372

International

International business is looking for a PA with perfect English&University graduate,need to have experience in construction &handling workers.Computer programs to know,AutoCad, Sketchup,Office.The best with a Architectural background.We pay well & travel opportunity. office@paradise-realty.ltd.com

B.BP.001.02.17.0000808

Villa in Seminyak Need Night HK& Security Call:085738135199

B.BP.001.02.17.0000664

weighed for auction, and shrimps, crabs, lobster and a huge variety of other sea harvests displayed in rows of ice containers, ready for retail bargain or wholesale.

Getting to Kedonganan Fish Market is a breeze – follow Jimbaran’s main Jalan Uluwatu road to its northern end, or go along Jalan Segara Madu south of the Ngurah Rai International Airport. Kedonganan Fish Market also adjoins a morning village market mainly serving the local Kedonganan community, with stalls selling fresh groceries and daily necessities, where you can discover a wealth of tropical herbs, spices, fruits and vegetables that locals use in their home cooking.

The market opens right after the break of dawn, and the bustling scene continues throughout the day, with countless pick-up trucks

with boxes ready to ship out their fresh seafood to hotels and restaurants, while local fishing boats land and unload their catches, greeted by smaller vendors on the sand.

The boats don’t necessarily catch their fish in the adjacent waters, but often from neighbouring Java, Sulawesi and Bali’s own coastal waters of Kusamba and Amed on the other side of the island. It’s a great alternative to shopping at the supermarket, especially if you’re considering making good use of your in-villa kitchenette by cooking up your own tuna or red snapper steak. You can even arrange with the chef for a small and private barbecue party with your own bought selections. There’s a huge range of fish available daily, and you can hone your bargaining skills at the same time. (IBP/net)

Place Your Add Here

It is for Job Vacancy, Property, Selling or Buying Please contact Gugiek : 08123840500 Eka : 081338519538

The five-time grand slam winner has been given a wildcard for the event, which begins on May 5. It is scheduled to be her second comeback tournament after her suspension for doping, with the Russian set to return to action at the Stuttgart Grand Prix in April. “Sharapova requested an invitation to play... (She) is one of the best players of the last 15 years and also a past winner of our tournament,” said event director Manolo Santana.

“In Madrid she always plays well and I’m sure she will come back to the courts highly motivated and hoping to do well.” Following a positive test for the drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open, the Russian was suspended for two years by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cut the ban by nine months last October, allowing her to return from April 26.

Her case divided opinion in the sport. The Florida-based Sharapova, who turns 30 on April 19, had called the ITF’s original ruling “unfairly harsh” because she had not intentionally violated anti-doping rules.

Meldonium was only added to the World Anti-Doping Agency list of banned substances at the start of 2016 after mounting evidence it boosted blood flow and enhanced performance. CAS cut Sharapova’s suspension but said she “bore some degree of fault” by relying on agent Max Eisenbud to check the banned list for changes and failing to ensure he had done so. (rtr)

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports

Tiger Woods lines up a putt on the 1st green during the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines Municipal Golf Course.

I will never feel great again, says Woods

LOS ANGELES - Former world number one Tiger Woods has accepted that he will “never feel great” again after suffering a number of back and knee injuries in recent years.

The 14-times major champion returned to action in December following a 15-month layoff but was forced to pull out of the Dubai Desert Classic last week after the first round due to a back spasm.

“There were a lot of times I didn’t think I was going to make it back. It was tough, it was more than brutal,” Woods told Dubai magazine Vision. The 41-year-old American has racked up 79 PGA Tour victories in his career but has not won a major championship since 2008. “There have been plenty of times when I thought I would never play the game again at the elite level,” Woods, ranked 674th in the world, said. “It was tough, it was more than brutal. There were times I needed help just to get out of bed.

“I feel good, not great. I don’t think I will ever feel great because it’s three back surgeries, four knee operations,” he added.

Woods is hoping to play in the U.S. Masters in April, the first major of the year. “I’m always going to be a little bit sore. As long as I can function, I’m fine with that,” he said. (rtr)

6

Friday, February 10, 2017

W

RLD

Trump blasts retailer Nordstrom, raising new concern on business ties

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump blasted department store chain Nordstrom Inc on Wednesday for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line, prompting critics to accuse him of misusing public office to benefit his family’s sprawling business empire. After Trump’s highly unusual move to use a White House platform to intervene in a commercial matter involving his daughter, Nordstrom reiterated that its action last week was based on declining sales of the Ivanka Trump products.

But White House spokesman Sean Spicer characterized the move as a “direct attack” on the president’s policies. “My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person - always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!” Trump wrote on Wednesday on both his personal and official presidential Twitter accounts. Ethics officials who served past Republican and Democratic administrations said Trump’s tweet was both unprecedented for a president and troublesome.

“This is misuse of public office for private gains,” Richard Painter, who served as Republican President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer, said in an email to Reuters. “And it is abuse of power because the official

REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

A Nordstrom department store is shown at a shopping center in San Diego, California September 10, 2014.

Jovenel...

From page 1

Nearby, Charles Bichotte agreed but said he’d wait and see if Moise was sincere with his various vows.

“We’ve heard so many pledges from our presidents but here we are, still struggling,” said the houseplant vendor.

Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born politics professor at the University of Virginia, described the many challenges facing Moise as “herculean.”

“He has to revive domestic production, increase foreign and local investments, rebuild the moribund agricultural sector, create a sense of national solidarity, and generate a sorely lacking political stability,” he

message is clear - Nordstrom is persona non grata with the administration.” Norman Eisen, an ethics adviser to Democratic President Barack Obama, noted that several states have unfair competition laws, including California where Nordstrom operates many stores. The tweet, he said, could spark lawsuits if the company’s brand was being injured by an unfair attack.

The wealthy New York real estate developer who became president on Jan. 20 has declined to sell off his businesses despite demands from critics that he do so to avoid thorny conflicts of interest. Trump on Jan. 11 said he would maintain ownership of his global business empire but hand off control to his two oldest sons during his presidency. Trump’s web of international companies remains a bit opaque since he has refused to release his tax returns, which experts have said would provide a clearer view of his business interests.

Ethics experts have said Trump’s arrangement does little to address potential conflicts because he would still know what assets he owned, such as Trump-branded golf courses and hotels, and his family would continue to profit from them. Ivanka Trump ran a clothing and jewelry business bearing her name, in addition to other work for the Trump Organization, before saying she would resign when her father was sworn in as president. Her father’s various contentious actions and comments have prompted boycott efforts by critics and have driven some consumers away from Trump family businesses. During a White House press briefing, Spicer painted Nordstrom’s action as an attack on the president’s daughter.

“For someone to take out their concern with his policies on a family member of his is just not acceptable. And the president has every right as a father to stand up to them,” Spicer said. A spokeswoman for the Ivanka Trump brand declined to comment. On Tuesday, First lady Melania Trump filed a $150 million defamation lawsuit accusing the Daily Mail British tabloid of damaging her brand by falsely reporting she had worked as an escort. The lawsuit said the article ruined a “unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” for the first lady but her lawyer said she “has no intention of using her position for profit.” (rtr)

said, adding that all this will have to be achieved amid diminishing international assistance.

But Fatton suggested that Moise might actually benefit from citizens’ low expectations of political leaders following many years of broken promises and failed policies.

“If he manages to deliver a modicum of change he may restore a sense of hope for the future,” he said.

The Tuesday inauguration was the concluding step in Haiti’s return to constitutional rule a year after exPresident Michel Martelly left office without an elected successor in place amid waves of opposition protests and a political stalemate suspending elections. A caretaker government was quickly created to fill the void and

pave the way for elections.

While Moise won a Nov. 20 election redo with a dominating 55 percent of the votes cast, his critics suggest he did not gain a mandate as barely 20 percent of the electorate bothered to go to the polls. The results withstood challenges by three of his closest rivals.

That election victory came more than a year after Moise topped an initial vote in 2015 that was eventually thrown out amid suspicions of fraud.

Senate leader Youri Latortue, who led the swearing-in ceremony Tuesday and leads a party allied with Moise’s Tet Kale faction, told the new president that lawmakers were “ready to cooperate with you for the benefit of the country.”

International

International

Friday, February 10, 2017

Indonesian-bound boat capsizes off Sabah, 13 feared drowned REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at the State Department in Washington, U.S. February 8, 2017.

Canada foreign minister will oppose U.S. border tariffs WASHINGTON - Canada opposes the idea of the United States imposing new border tariffs and would respond to any such move, the country’s foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, said on Wednesday after her first meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Tillerson’s meeting with Freeland, and a separate meeting with Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, at the State Department touched on the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Donald Trump wants to renegotiate. Speaking to reporters afterwards, Freeland said she made clear in the meeting with Tillerson that Canada would oppose the idea of border tariffs on Canadian goods in upcoming NAFTA talks.

“If such an idea were ever to come into being, Canada would respond appropriately,” she told reporters on a conference call, stressing that Ottawa did not yet know what the U.S. opening position would be. Both Canada and Mexico send the bulk of their exports to the United States and could be crippled by major changes to NAFTA, which Trump has called “a disaster.” Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said that Videgaray discussed migration and security issues in his meetings with Tillerson and U.S. Secretary of

Homeland Security John Kelly.

Both Tillerson and Videgaray said they would keep working on solutions to their public “differences,” it added.

Videgaray also told Kelly that the human rights of Mexicans in the United States was important, the statement said. After their hour-long meeting, Videgaray told reporters that Tillerson had said he would visit Mexico in the coming weeks, according to a Mexican Foreign Ministry official.

The State Department did not provide a readout of either of the meetings, which occurred in Tillerson’s first full week in his new post.

Trump made free trade deals a major target during his campaign for the presidency. He says NAFTA, formally signed in 1994, has harmed American workers.

The pact was aimed at removing tariff barriers between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Canada is trying to persuade the new administration and senior politicians that its especially close ties with the United States mean the country should be spared protectionist measures. “In making the case for how balanced and mutually beneficial our economic relationship was, I really felt I was pushing on an open door with everyone I spoke to,” Freeland said. (rtr)

A businessman from northern Haiti, Moise had never run for office until he was hand-picked in 2015 to be the Tet Kale party candidate by Martelly.

Some critics viewed Moise’s ascent with suspicion, suggesting Martelly was using him as a proxy.

Moise dismissed the criticism in an interview last year with The Associated Press, saying Martelly will still be a valued adviser but he is his own man. During his Tuesday speech, he thanked Martelly for choosing him as the Tet Kale candidate.

Moise comes to office with an unresolved judicial investigation hanging over him. Late last month, a Haitian judge questioned Moise about a confidential report leaked during

campaigning that suggests he might have laundered money and received special treatment to get loans in years before he ran for the country’s highest political office.

Moise asserts all of his business dealings have been above board.

He has blamed rivals for trying to “create instability” in the deeply divided nation with a long history of political tumult and damage his reputation before his swearing-in ceremony.

The judicial examination into Moise is ongoing and it is unclear when it will be resolved. Moise asserted Tuesday that the “justice system will never be used for political persecution” under his administration. (ap)

KUALA LUMPUR - A boat ferrying around 15 people from Malaysia to Indonesia capsized in rough seas off the port of Tawau in Sabah province, Malaysia, with only two survivors found so far, said Malaysian maritime authorities.

The two survivors, a husband and wife, said the incident occurred on Tuesday night, but locals only reported it to the Malaysian maritime agency a day later.

The Malaysian Maritime

Enforcement Agency said in a statement late on Wednesday that it had launched a search and rescue operation, but that the 24 hour delay in being notified would make the search difficult.

“It is feared that 13 victims including the skipper and a baby has drowned. Search and rescue efforts will be continued to find any survivors,” said maritime territory director Mohd Zubil Mat Som. (rtr)

11

Indonesia military accepts Australian apology for insult

JAKARTA — The Indonesian military has accepted an apology from Australia’s army chief over a purported insult to Indonesia’s state ideology that caused a spat between the two countries.

An Indonesian military statement released late Wednesday after Australian army chief Lt. Gen. Angus Campbell met with Indonesian military head Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said the Australian Defense Force would sanction personnel involved in the incident. It quoted Campbell as saying the sanctions would affect the careers of those penalized.

Indonesia’s military partially suspended cooperation with its Australian counterparts in early January.

The rift developed after an Indonesian military officer raised concerns in November about teaching materials for army language training at a special forces facility in western Australia.

Indonesian media reported that Pancasila, the state ideology based on five principles including a unitary state and belief in one God, was renamed “Pancagila,” in effect calling it crazy in Indonesian, in laminated training materials.

Referring to the incident, Nurmantyo said in the

statement that Indonesians have died to defend Pancasila. “Especially for the soldiers, it is very sensitive and it hurts us,” he said.

The neighboring nations, though close partners in areas such as trade and counterterrorism, have long had a turbulent relationship.

Tensions have repeatedly flared over Australia’s policy of turning back boats to Indonesia that are carrying asylum seekers from other countries. Indonesia’s use of the death penalty, which Australia opposes, has also strained ties, particularly in 2015 when Indonesia executed two Australians for drug crimes.

In 1999, the relationship suffered one of its most serious blows after Australia led a U.N. military force into the former Indonesian province of East Timor following a bloody independence ballot.

Nurmantyo said the results of Australia’s investigation into the Pancasila incident would be discussed with the defense and foreign ministers and then reported to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

In January, Nurmantyo announced all military cooperation with Australia had been suspended but a day later, the top Indonesian security minister said the suspension applied only to language training. (ap)

Indonesian Military Information Centre/Handout via REUTERS

Australia’s army chief Lieutenant General Angus Campbell (C) meets with Indonesia’s armed forces chief General Gatot Nurmantyo (R) in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 8, 2017. Picture taken February 8, 2017.

12

International

Friday, February 10, 2017

BUSINESS Banks take bigger role in Latin America fight against tax evasion

BUENOS AIRES/SAO PAULO - When Argentina launched a tax amnesty program last year to bring billions of dollars back into the country, it found support from an unlikely corner: the banks whose clients had stashed money abroad. President Mauricio Macri had no shortage of motivation to initiate the amnesty plan. Some $400 billion in undeclared funds was being held outside Argentina, the economy was in recession and the government badly needed to boost revenues.

He offered residents until the end of March to declare assets and pay a fine to avoid prosecution for tax evasion. But there was an added incentive - one that marked a break with the past and had nothing to do with how the policy was designed.

This time wealthy Argentines with offshore accounts at two of the world’s largest private wealth managers, JPMorgan Chase & Co and UBS AG, began receiving letters from the banks asking for proof they had declared their assets to tax authorities, three people with knowledge of the situation said.

By year’s end, Argentines had declared $97.8 billion, and are expected to declare much more by the March deadline. That surpassed initial analyst estimates of $60 billion and dwarfed the $2.6 billion declared in the 2013-2015 amnesty program.

“You can only explain this with some help from banks,” said Buenos Aires tax lawyer Eduardo Aguilera of RCTZZ Abogados. He said he had clients who received letters from JPMorgan and UBS as well as other clients who had been encouraged to participate through more informal conversations with bankers at Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co. The banks declined to comment.

It is unclear how much of the tally can be attributed to the involvement of the banks.

But more than a half dozen people involved in amnesty programs - including lawyers and accountants - said the banks were instrumental in the effort. They described similar actions by the banks in recent amnesty programs run by Brazil and Chile.

Those efforts mark a turnaround from banks’ more passive approaches toward earlier tax amnesty programs, and reflect a growing sensitivity to stricter regulations and perceptions they could be abetting tax evasion.

“They have decided to stop helping clients to hide money,” said Miami-based lawyer Martin Litwak, founder of Litwak & Partners, which has advised clients participating in tax amnesties across the region and had Argentine clients who received letters from JPMorgan and UBS. He said the letters from banks ask clients to

REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/File Photo

A customer selects oranges at a street market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 6, 2016. confirm that their assets are declared, sometimes requiring certification from an accountant or lawyer, and for permission to exchange information regarding their account with authorities. “The banks play a fundamental role.

If the banks are not involved, there’s nothing the government can do or say to convince people to participate,” Litwak said.

FAMILY PANIC The shifting dynamics around amnesty programs can be attributed to two equally powerful forces: stricter rulemaking and public outrage.

Across Latin America, many wealthy residents have long resented paying high taxes for what they considered to be substandard public hospitals and poor public education.

Then there was the government corruption, the potential for hyperinflation and fears their savings could be confiscated.

All that could be avoided by stashing money in offshore accounts, set up by banks and out of reach of their home country’s tax collectors. Tax amnesty programs launched by cash-strapped governments to draw back the funds generated little enthusiasm.

“We had other tax amnesties, but this time there’s a much broader transparency frame-

work in the world,” said Humberto Bertazza, a partner at Buenos Aires accounting firm Bertazza Nicolini Corti & Asociados.

Government crackdowns on tax evasion began in the aftermath of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis. The United States passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act in 2010, requiring foreign financial institutions to share information on U.S. citizens with overseas accounts with the U.S. government.

Brazil, Chile and Colombia signed on in 2014, and have reciprocity agreements in which U.S. authorities send those governments information on their citizens’ assets in the United States. Argentina has taken steps to follow.

Latin American countries reached additional agreements to share information with one another - and with traditional tax havens like Switzerland, under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Then came the Panama Papers, a massive leak of offshore financial data. The revelations in the documents, released last year, exacerbated public outrage over the extent to which the rich and powerful masked their wealth through hidden accounts. The previous year, Brazil had been rocked by

revelations that 6,000 Brazilians held secret accounts at HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private banking unit.

“I convinced several of my clients just by saying, ‘They’re going to like you more back where your bank is located when you send them proof that you got into the amnesty,’” Aguilera said.

When Brazil launched its amnesty program last year, wealth management executives at UBS, Pictet Group AG and Credit Suisse Group were instructed to tell clients to declare their secret accounts and join the country’s amnesty program, three people with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters.

Some banks went further. Clients who wanted to remain outside the program in Brazil were told in some cases to move their money to another bank, one of the people familiar with the tax amnesty said.

“Our lawyer and our family’s banker basically told us to disclose every single offshore asset we have, and they said so in a way that panicked the entire family,” said a Sao Paulo-based client of UBS Private Bank in Switzerland, who asked for anonymity to speak about the issue. “It cost us dearly but now we understand why the pressure was big on us to do this.”(rtr)

Bali News

International

Friday, February 10, 2017

Taman Mumbul as Spiritual Tourist Attraction in Badung

5

Realizing Taman Mumbul as a spiritual tourist destination in Badung is a very smart idea. In addition to keeping the village asset, it can also bring in economic benefits for local community. Just imagine, every day there are always guests coming to make a visit. Moreover, they also come on auspicious days, like Kliwon, full moon, new moon and Banyupinaruh.

Taman Mumbul is a sacred place sanctified by the Sangeh and surrounding communities. It has a big pond like a lake with clear water.

The water sources from 11 major springs and dozens of small springs around the lake. Aside from being functioned as source of clean water for people’s daily life, the lake water is also used to irrigate paddy fields of Subak Sangeh spreading across the area of 200 hectares.

Chief of Sangeh customary village, Ida Bagus Dipayana, said that Taman Mumbul can be divided into three areas, namely the innermost, middle and outermost courtyard.

The innermost courtyard hosts several temples such as the Ulunsuwi, Taman Beji, Segara Kelebutan, Ratu Gede, Taman Mumbul, Ratu Niang and Bebaturan to worship wong samar (supernatural beings). “All the temples have their own function, but in essence they are functioned to maintain the nature and safety of Sangeh people,” he said.

Ulunsuwi Temple is located in the northern most venerated by members of Subak Sangeh. On particular days, subak members perform a ceremony as an expression of gratitude to God for the

graces bestowed. In the southern part sits the Taman Beji Temple with three fountains as destination of melasti (physical and psychical purification) procession. Remaining in the region, there is Segara Kelebutan Temple in the form of three-tiered meru shrine located in the middle of the pond.

In the south of the pond precisely under a banyan tree sits the representative temple of Taman Ayun. This temple was established when making the pond that was never finished. Its levees were always broken. Seeing this condition, the royal figure of Mengwi was invited to come. After that, the levees of the lake became very strong, so that it was then made a shrine to worship the deities of Taman Ayun.

Meanwhile, the Ratu Gede Temple is used to venerate the guardian in the psychical ream of the pond.

The middle courtyard of the Taman Mumbul Temple is located in the east of the area. This temple is venerated by the Brahmana hamlet. There is also a Pengelukatan Temple marked by eleven fountains. Here, the residents do self-purificatory rite (melukat) physically and psychically ac-

companied by the presentation of the offerings. Sangeh community believes that Ratu Niang abides at this temple.

Then, the southernmost shrine is bebaturan (menhir) used to worship wong samar (supernatural beings). “Therefore, we always urge visitors to always prioritize ethics as the region the Taman Mumbul area is rich in objects and sacred places,” he said. This ar-

rangement, explained I.B. Dipa, is meant to make the place attractive and comfortable to be visited. The arrangement workmanship started in 2016. Thankfully, it can be operated in late 2016. Arrangement of the area was funded by assistance of Badung government and village treasury. “The assistance of Badung government is worth IDR 4 billion and village treasury approximately amounted to IDR 500 million,”

he said.

In the meantime, the outermost courtyard located at southernmost area (after the Pengelukatan Temple) will be made into water attraction equipped with a pool of children and adult. Various types of water tourist attractions will be created as children playground.

“Hopefully, the water attraction could be realized in 2018,” he hoped. (kmb)

Titi Banda Statue Denpasar City has a more magnificent and monumental icon. After the quite amazing Sewaka Dharma Building as a public service center at Lumintang Denpasar has a magnificent and exotic building becoming the pride of the people in Denpasar, namely the Titi Banda Statue.

The grandiosely standing statue can be enjoyed by wider community at a very strategic location at the entrance to the city of Denpasar from the east. The statue was deliberately built in the median of the intersection of Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra and Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai because it was at strategic location.

The Titi Banda Statue told stories about the Ramayana epic, namely the character Rama who built the Titi Banda Bridge in the middle of the sea with the help of monkey troops that would pick up Sita abducted in Lanka. Titi Banda told about Rama, as the main character who would pick up her wife from the hands of Ravana in Lanka. Rama accompanied by his monkey troops consisting of 18 heads, where five of whom were chief of the monkey. Statue of Rama became the main one in the middle of the building.(kmb)

4

Bali News

Friday, February 10, 2017

International

Plastic waste piles up on Kedonganan Beach

MANGUPURA - Plastic waste blown by the wind increasingly accumulates at the verge of Kedonganan Beach, Kuta. This onslaught of marine debris is getting worse so that reaches hundreds of tons each day.

Head of the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency (DLHK), Putu Eka Merthawan, justified the condition. Moreover, the piles of marine debris on the white sandy beach are considered to be the most severe this week.

“The condition within the past three days is getting worse. A great deal of plastic waste is scattered, and the thickness even reaches 50 cm and spreads to long area,” said Eka Merthawan on Wednesday (Feb. 8).

According to him, the condition has been reported to the Regent of Badung, Nyoman Giri Prasta. “We have reported this condition to the regent. So far, we have also been working to fully cope with the waste onslaught,” he said.

He assigned a team consisting of 200 personnel assisted by two units of loaders and five garbage trucks. “Our team has taken action from 07:00. Hopefully, this extreme weather will immediately end,” he concluded.

He said the total waste transported by the DLHK from November 11, 2016 to February 7, 2017 reached 4,050 tons collected from

eight beaches in the western coastal area of Badung. Such number continues to increase, and it is even predicted to penetrate 5,000 tons by the end of February 2017.

In the future, his agency will attempt to provide quick services as long as all the heavy equipment needs can be met. “We need three loaders per location, two suction machines, and two garbage trucks per location with 15 personnel,” he detailed.

With the addition of heavy equipment and personnel, Eka Merthawan is optimistic no more accumulation of waste will occur along the beaches in Badung. “The collection and loading will be handled by different personnel. Similarly, the trucks used are special to transport marine debris, not regular trucks commonly functioned to provide services on the road,” he said.

Proposal to increase the number of heavy equipment to handle marine debris along the beaches in Badung received a positive response from district government. Regent of Badung, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, claimed to have conducted a study related to the addition of facilities and infrastructure in order to overcome the problem of marine debris.

“We’ve been doing a movement, study and the purchase of facilities. Hopefully, any waste problems in the future could be immediately handled,” said Giri Prasta, recently.

This PDI-P politician admitted that lately

IBP/kmb27

This onslaught of marine debris is getting worse so that reaches hundreds of tons each day. almost all beaches across Badung are raided by marine debris. Moreover, the marine debris has become annual phenomenon.

“The problem of marine debris overwhelming the beaches across Badung is still going on. However, we have already made a movement to handle it,” he said.

According to him, the marine debris is a natural disaster because it comes from all

fronts, and ultimately ends up on all beaches throughout Badung. Aside from Badung, the other coastal areas are also frequently besieged by such marine debris.

“This marine debris comes from all fronts.

Moreover, the ocean is larger than mainland.

Surely, we will perform a research to find out how we can handle and find out the sources of the marine debris,” he added. (kmb27)

Klungkung Palace offers royal tourism

In 2018, IMF and Proposed to show replicas of royal objects World Bank hold annual meeting in Bali SEMARAPURA - Klungkung Grand Palace is one of the heritages of Klungkung kingdom after Puputan Klungkung war. Here is where Ida Dalem Semaraputra as senior figure of Klungkung Grand Palace lives. This palace is one of the objects that will be offered in the city tour package initiated by the Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta.

Though having been launched last April 29, the support of Klungkung government to attract travelers to visit Klungkung Grand Palace is still minimal. As monitoring of Bali Post at the palace located in the north of Puputan Klungkung Square on Wednesday (Feb. 8), there was no change in the residence of Ida Dalem.

There is only a weaver denoting a contract worker seconded by the Head of the Klungkung Tourism Office. She will demonstrate the weaving process that has been becoming a tradition at the Klungkung Grand Palace.

The wife of Ida Dalem Semaraputra, Cokorda Istri Mas

Pemecutan, conveyed that even though not many activities are held at Klungkung Grand Palace, there are always travelers making their time to visit the palace. “Every day, some travelers make a visit here while looking around,” she said.

Unlike many other kingdoms having many heritages, according to her many royal heritages are not in place. Other than those stored in the Jakarta Museum, there are some individuals that also keep the royal heritages.

To look back at the kingdom in Klungkung as well as educate travelers, she hoped that all Klungkung royal heritages can be displayed at Klungkung Grand Palace in the form of replicas. By this way, she hoped that Klungkung people and travelers will make a visit to the palace so that they can find out the items formerly used by Klungkung royal family.

The first son of Ida Dalem Semaraputra, Cokorda Gede Agung Semara, 34, stated that he strongly supports the desire of the Klungkung government that

will make the Klungkung Grand Palace into a tourist attraction in Semarapura town. He hoped the palace is able to educate travelers about the history of the Klungkung kingdom.

Related to the small number of tourist visit to Klungkung Grand Palace, the Head of the Klungkung Tourism Office, Wayan Sujana, delivered that the whole city tour package has been opened including the monument, grand palace, cultural hall, museum, grand exit, floating pavilion, Kertagosa court of justice and the Klungkung art market. “However, the package brought by guests only includes Kertagosa, floating pavilion, grand exit and museum, so the palace and cultural hall cannot have been visited,” he explained.

He hoped that by organizing the city tour package on regular basis, travel agencies can bring travelers to the entire objects on offer. “We always cooperate with ASITA Bali to follow up on it. We offer convenient, beautiful, safe and friendly package,” he concluded. (dwa)

MANGUPURA - Annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in 2018 will be held in Bali. Implementation of this event to be attended by officials from both world institutions is planned to be organized for three days in October. Communication Director of Bank Indonesia, Peter Jacob, amid the preliminary meeting of the activities at the Grand Hyatt Nusa Dua explained on Tuesday (Feb. 7) there will be many issues to be discussed ranging from regular agenda to global economic trends ahead of the meeting.

He explained that Indonesia is one of the countries that proposed to host this annual event. Bali was then chosen as the meeting venue because it is eligible to hold such international scale event. “It is a great honor for Indonesia and Bali because it could become the host of these international meetings,” he said.

As estimated, both meetings will be attended by 15,000 participants of the two world institutions. Peter also explained that various issues on the world’s economy, including macroeconomic policy, as well as specific hot issues among the member countries will be discussed in the meeting. Currently, there are 189 member countries of the IMF and the World Bank. “This annual event is regularly held outside the United States every three years. Later on, the meeting participants will discuss about all matters related to economic policy, especially concerning the macro-economic policy,” he explained. As the host, he said, Indonesia has the chance to feature a number of issues into the topic in the three-day meeting. However, he is still unable to explain the issues that will become the subject matter in the meeting held next year. (kmb18)

Friday, February 10, 2017

International

13

More than 1,000 feared killed in Myanmar army crackdown on Rohingya

COX’S BAZAR - More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported. The officials, from two separate UN agencies working in Bangladesh, where nearly 70,000Rohingya have fled in recent months, said they were concerned the outside world had not fully grasped the severity of the crisis unfolding in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

“The talk until now has been of hundreds of deaths. This is probably an underestimation we could be looking at thousands,” said one of the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. Both officials, in separate interviews, cited the weight of testimony gathered by their agencies from refugees over the past four months for concluding the death toll likely exceeded 1,000. Myanmar’s presidential spokesman, Zaw Htay, said the latest reports from military commanders were that fewer than 100 people have been killed in a counterinsurgency operation againstRohingya militants who attacked police border posts in October. Asked about the UN officials’ comments that the dead could number more than 1,000, he said: “Their number is much greater than our figure. We have to check on the ground.” About 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims live in apartheid-like conditions in northwestern Myanmar, where they are denied citizenship. Many in Buddhist-majority Myanmar regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

In addition to the information the two UN officials gave Reuters, a report released by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday gave

REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Rohingya refugee children walk in the morning at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 4, 2017. accounts of mass killings and gang rapes by troops in northwestern Myanmar in recent months, which it said probably constituted crimes against humanity. The government led

by Aung San Suu Kyi said last week it would investigate the allegations in the report. It has previously denied almost all accusations of

killings, rapes and arson.

But mounting evidence of atrocities by the army puts Suu Kyi, who has no control over the armed forces under a constitution written by the previous military government, in a difficult position, Myanmar-based diplomats say. The Nobel peace prize winner has been

criticised in the West for her silence on the issue, undermining the goodwill she built up as a democracy champion under years of junta rule and threatening international support. Challenging the generals, however, could put Myanmar’s democratic transition at risk. (rtr)

Manila shanty town fires leave more than 15,000 homeless

MANILA - Residents of two Manila slums picked through the rubble of their gutted homes on Thursday after fires swept through parts of the Philippine capital this week, leaving more than 15,000 people homeless.

More than 750 families lost their homes in the shanty town of Malabon after a fire burned for six hours on Wednesday night, officials said.

Edna Purios said the fire spread so quickly her family fled without their belongings.

Purios, who lived with six of her children and three grandchildren, said the local government REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY should help the community rebuild.

Residents search for their belongings and valuables in the rubble “Our only wish is to get some help with repairof their destroyed houses after a fire engulfed hundreds of shan- ing our house because we have nowhere to sleep,” ties at a community of informal settlers in Catmon, Malabon city, she told Reuters Television.

There were no injuries reported in Malabon, metro Manila, Philippines February 9, 2017.

fire investigator Alvino Torres said.

Seven people were hurt on Tuesday night when a fire raged for 10 hours in the shanty town of Tondo near the city’s docks.

About 15,000 people were left homeless and were temporarily sheltered in evacuation centres, and their belongings, like television sets, washing machines and clothes were left on a major road, blocking trucks hauling containers at the port.

Only a week ago a worker was killed and more than 100 injured in a fire at factory south of the capital.

Fires are common in factories and shanty towns in Manila, one of the most populated cities in the world. In 2015, 74 workers were killed when they were trapped in a slipper factory north of the capital. (rtr)

14

Friday, February 10, 2017

Fashion

International

Bali News

International

Friday, February 10, 2017

3

To anticipate terrorism

Karangasem Marine Police patrol at East Bali entrance

Tommy Hilfiger, Gigi Hadid unveil collection on famed LA beach

LOS ANGELES - American designer Tommy Hilfiger and model Gigi Hadid presented their latest collaboration - “TOMMYxGIGI” at a show on Venice Beach in Los Angeles. The famous promenade was overtaken by ‘Tommyworld’ a temporary theme park with roller

skaters, skate boarders, acoustic musicians and fire-breathing performers.

The show reflected Hilfiger’s move to a runway-style format similar to Victoria’s Secret. It also allows consumers to buy items from the collection immediately

rather than wait several months, Hilfiger said. “It’s listening to the consumer and the consumer wants immediate gratification. They want to buy now, wear now,” he said before the show. The idea to move the show from New York to Los Angeles was inspired by Hadid, a

California native.

“This particular collection is inspired by southern California and Gigi Hadid, who collaborated with me, is a southern Californian girl who has that sense of style and that sporty, outdoorsy, cool, casual attitude,”

Hilfiger said. The show itself, which was attended by pop star Lady Gaga, saw many of the red, white, black and blues expected from Hilfiger’s brand but also included patchwork designs seen as Hadid’s contribution to the collection. (rtr)

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File

In this March 31, 2015, file photo, Heather Mack, left, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, of Chicago, are handcuffed as they arrive at a courtroom during their trial in Bali, Indonesia.

Mack, who was imprisoned in Indonesia for the 2014 killing of her mother, says in videos posted on YouTube that she acted alone and her boyfriend at the time, Schaefer, only helped her cover it up because she threatened him.

US woman retracts claim boyfriend innocent in Bali killing

BALI — An American woman imprisoned in Indonesia for killing her mother has retracted statements made in YouTube videos that her boyfriend, also convicted in the same case, was innocent.

A statement released by Heather Mack and her lawyer Yulius Benyamin Seran on Wednesday said the assertions in the videos were false and recorded under pressure.

The statement said Mack, 21, was reading words written by her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer.

In a series of three videos posted last week, Mack says that Schaefer was trying to protect her when he confessed to striking her 62-year-old mother, Sheila von Weise-Mack, in the head with a metal fruit bowl.

Mack’s statement said the video was uploaded to YouTube by someone who deliberately created an account in her name.

Bali prison warden Tonny Nainggolan said authorities were investigating who recorded and uploaded the videos. He said neither Mack nor Schaefer had admitted to producing or uploading the videos and blamed each other.

The couple was convicted in April 2015 of premeditated murder, which carries a maximum penalty of death. Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison while Mack, who gave birth during the trial, received a 10-year prison sentence.

Von Wiese-Mack was the widow of highly regarded jazz and classical composer James L. Mack, who died in 2006 at the age of 76.

Schaefer testified at his trial that von Wiese-Mack was angry when she learned about her daughter’s pregnancy and tried to strangle him, prompting him to strike her with a metal fruit bowl.

In the videos, Mack said she plotted to kill her mother herself because Schaefer refused to help find someone who would kill her mother for $50,000.

“After that I got this new savage idea in my head that I wanted to kill her in a hotel room because she killed my father in a hotel room,” she said. “We were going to Bali, then I began to plot.”

Mack, the composer, died in a hotel room in Athens, Greece, after suffering a pulmonary embolism, according to his Chicago Tribune obituary.

Prosecutors said the two discussed killing von Weise-Mack in text messages, but in the videos Mack said that she took Schaefer’s phone when he was asleep and sent text messages to her own phone.

“Tommy’s an innocent man,” said Mack. She said that he only helped her stuff the body in a suitcase and clean up the murder scene because she threatened to tell police that he committed the crime. (ap)

AMLAPURA - Marine Police Unit of Karangasem Police intensifies the security effort at the entrance to East Bali. It is a follow up of the information received from police authority in Lombok after the arrest of suspected terrorists in Lombok. Marine police continue to patrol at the entrance of East Bali in the waters around Padangbai and the tracks of traditional harbors in Karangasem on Tuesday (Feb. 7).

As a result, no suspicious things were found in some ships inspected.

Chief of Marine Police at Karangasem Police, I Made Wartama, said that his patrol involves dozens of personnel carried out in turns from the morning.

Securing endeavor in this sea area should be tightened to anticipate the act of terrorism that can enter Bali through Padangbai Harbor as well as the coastline in Karangasem. Quite a lot of coastlines in Karangasem can be functioned as illegal entrance. “A few days ago, there was information on the arrest of terrorists in Lombok. We need to anticipate the sea area, so as not to get missed and other suspected terrorists can escape to Bali,” he said.

During the marine patrol, there are several ships immediately inspected by the officers. One of them is the

Rajawali ship with the skipper Budhi from Semarang, Central Java. However, nothing suspicious was found after inspecting the ship whether its luggage, ship’s men or administrative feasibility. “So far, the conditions in Karangasem waters are still safe. We will continue to raise awareness to provide security,” he said.

In addition to anticipating the movement of radical terrorism, increasing patrol activities at sea are also functioned to anticipate mass movement related to Islamic mass organization that is going to take action on February 11. His institution has made sure that after making patrol for a few days, there seems nothing too obtrusive related to condition of the East Bali entrance.

The activities in Karangasem waters are dominated by crossing from Lembar to Padangbai, Padangbai to Gili Trawangan and Padangbai to Nusa Penida. “In addition, we are also monitoring the situation in the middle of the sea, whether it is safe for fishermen to catch fish or not. If it is indeed safe, we can inform directly to fishermen,” he said.

Wartama confirmed that pursuant to the instructions of Chief of Karangasem Police, Sugeng Sudarso, the patrol will continue to be carried out on a regular basis. It is meant to continuously ensure the condition of security in the mid of the sea of Karangasem territory. (kmb31)

IBP/file

Marine Police Unit of Karangasem Police intensifies the security effort at the entrance to East Bali.

2

Bali News

Friday, February 10, 2017

International

Crime on the rise

Entrepreneurs asked to install CCTV directed to surroundings RESPONDING to criminal acts occurred in the area of Kuta such as the incidents targeting stores and ATMs some time ago, all employers are required to install CCTV. Installation of the CCTV is hoped to be directed to the surrounding areas, especially in the area of tourism.

This measure is necessary because many travelers and people are on vacation in the tourist areas of Bali.

This was submitted by Chief of Denpasar Police, Hadi Purnomo, on Tuesday (Feb. 7). No doubt, this CCTV much helps police authority to uncover the suspected perpetrators of a crime. He appreciated to the efforts of the Regent of Badung, Nyoman Giri Prasta, who will install CCTV across the Badung tourist area. Hopefully, the overall installation plan could be realized.

He emphasized the CCTV cameras are meant to facilitate case disclosure in the event of criminal acts and to prevent criminal acts. However, the measure must also

be certainly supported with regular patrols.

“When there is a criminal act, of course it can be immediately given attention by patrol officers on duty,” he said.

Hadi Purnomo stressed that CCTV installation is actually the obligation of employers if they want their regions to be secure and well monitored. Unfortunately, it is back to the awareness of the employers to install CCTV directed to the surroundings.

“Hopefully, the chief of customary village could also appeal to the employers to install

CCTV directed to their surroundings,” he hoped. (edi)

IBP/file

For tourism’s sake

Trial of traffic changes intensified

MANGUPURA - Pros and cons related to the traffic change plan are getting stronger. However, police authority increasingly intensifies the trial of traffic change that will last until next October 28. Evaluation is conducted every day to finalize the plan.

“This program is for the sake of Bali, especially tourism. When traffic jam is getting more severe and travelers are reluctant to Bali, what should we do?” affirmed Deputy Director of Bali Police Traffic Affairs, Bonaparte, on Wednesday (Feb. 8).

Bonaparte straightforwardly said to make introspection in response to some complaints of business premises in Kuta that are getting quiet of visitors and longer travel time for drivers when transferring guests to Ngurah Rai Airport. When wishing to transfer guests to the airport, the time must be adjusted in such a way so as not to arrive late. In the meantime, entrepreneurs in Kuta have to prepare the land of parking space for their customers.

“In the past, they could park on

road side, but today they cannot. It is one of the causes of traffic congestion. For example, if asked to return to Jakarta I will be so lazy due to traffic congestion, so I’d rather be asked to go to Medan,” he said.

Bonaparte reiterated that the traffic change program is not for the benefit of national police, but for Balinese communities and travelers. He did not want the Bali tourism will drop due to traffic problems. If this condition persists, tourist visit to Kuta will continue to decline. “If travelers are reluctant

to visit Bali due to traffic congestion, who will incur losses? We implement this program for the sake of Bali. Regent of Badung has agreed,” said the former chief of Batubara police, North Sumatra.

Meanwhile, Chief of Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs, Heri Supriawan, said that Kuta people are not accustomed because the trial has just been enforced for a week.

In addition, the traffic engineering efforts are continuously carried out to unravel the accumulation of vehicles at some points.

“Later on, they will get accustomed to. When traffic runs smoothly, Balinese people and travelers will become comfortable to make a visit to Kuta,” he said.

As reported, the trial of traffic changes in Kuta essentially does not have problems. However, the accumulation of vehicles at Temacun intersection (Jalan Patih Jelantik-Jalan Raya Kuta-Jalan Blambangan) needs to be evaluated. Such condition will be found out a solution to break down the vehicle accumulation. (kmb36)

Bali govt wants to charge levies on waste management

DENPASAR - Governor of Bali has responded to the faction general perspective related to the levies of waste management in the regional bylaw draft (Ranperda) on public service levies. He said that local government will not directly charge these levies to the process or to the people.

However, the levies will be charged to downstream sector or the waste management. The management will be undertaken in cooperation with private sector being assessed. The current problem is that dozens of investors applying for the cooperation remain to keep silent and never continue to manage the regional Suwung landfill.

Head of the Bali Environmental Agency, Gede Suarjana, said on Wednesday (Feb. 8) that actually there are 40 investors interested in managing the waste at Suwung landfill. However, until now there has been no significant progress because none of them make fea-

sibility study. So far, the investors just presented their respective prefeasibility study.

“There has been no follow-up.

The reason is related to tapping fee and whether the company has money or not. It needs an investment of IDR1.3 trillion. It is said to take a long time for research because they have to learn the type of waste in Bali, composition and what percent it can produce electricity,” he said.

Suarjana added that Suwung finally remains to become an open dumping are or the waste is just dumped as such even though the liquid waste has been made its own processing. In the meantime, some waste is collected by scavengers. However, the piles of waste still cannot be blocked and will become higher.

“Large number of waste piles will produce huge methane. This affects the quality of the air. One of the impacts is triggering the greenhouse effect,” he explained.

Within a day, continued Suarjana, the waste brought to Suwung landfill reaches 1,000 to 1,200 tons.

On great feast days, the incoming waste can even reach 1,500 tons.

As solutions to overcome the waste piles, there must be an agency or entity managing the waste at Suwung landfill.

On the other hand, the new development on the discussion of the regional bylaw draft (Ranperda) about the public service levies raises new possibilities. The levies for the waste management could be canceled because the land area of Suwung landfill is not the asset of Bali government, but the land with use right from the ministry of forestry.

“Levies of the waste are imposed for the taking from households.

After that, the waste is brought to temporary disposal site and from here the waste is transported to landfill in a single package. In this regional bylaw draft, we just collect

from the landfill. It is allowed to collect at the landfill as long as the land is owned by provincial government and there is a management agency (at Suwung landfill-Ed).

But in reality, it is not the asset of provincial government, but that of the ministry of forestry,” said Chairman of the Special Committee of the regional bylaw draft on public service levies of the Bali House of Representatives, I Ketut Suwandhi.

The reason, added Suwandhi, makes the collection of levy at the Suwung landfill cannot be justified.

It is also in accordance with the results of consultation of the Special Committee to the Director General of Regional Finance of Ministry of the Home Affairs, except there has been a management agency at the landfill. Previously, PT NOEI managed the waste at the Suwung landfill but the agreement has been terminated by the government of Sarbagita (Denpasar, Badung,

Activities

International

Gianyar and Tabanan) because of default. In the meantime, the Suwung landfill is managed by Denpasar municipality and a technical unit. The waste is brought by the Bali Public Works and Spatial Planning.

“Alternative one, the waste levy has been canceled. Alternative two, it is allowed to collect levies to private sector disposing of waste at the landfill such as hotel or group, but not to the government of Sarbagita.

So, the result of levy collection is getting smaller,” he explained.

Suwandhi added whether to choose alternative one or two will be decided on Thursday (Feb. 9).

The special committee is going to invite relevant agency leadership such as legal bureau and human rights at the regional secretariat of Bali province, Bali forestry agency, Bali environment agency, Bali revenue service and Bali public works and spatial planning that has the waste management unit. (kmb32)

 Founder : K.Nadha,  General Manager :Palgunadi Chief Editor: Gugiek Savindra  Editors:Agus Toni, Daniel Fajry, Mawa, Sueca, Sugiartha, Yudi Winanto Denpasar: Dira Arsana, Giriana Saputra, Subrata, Sumatika, Asmara Putra. Bangli: Suasrina, Buleleng: Dewa kusuma, Gianyar: Manik Astajaya, Karangasem: Budana, Klungkung: Dewa Farendra. Jakarta: Nikson, Hardianto, Ade Irawan. NTB: Agus Talino, Izzul Khairi, Raka Akriyani. Surabaya: Bambang Wilianto.  Office: Jalan Kepundung 67 A Denpasar 80232. Telephone (0361)225764, Facsimile: 227418, P.O.Box: 3010 Denpasar 80001. Bali Post Jakarta, Advertizing: Jl.Palmerah Barat 21F. Telp 021-5357602, Facsimile: 021-5357605 Jakarta Pusat. NTB: Jalam Bangau No. 15 Cakranegara Telp. (0370) 639543, Facsimile: (0370) 628257. Publisher: PT Bali Post

Friday, February 10, 2017

15

Timeless Classics at The Kopi Pot

Into its 27th year with a staunch following amongst its guests, the highly popular Kopi Pot Restaurant leaves no wonder as to why its customers keep coming back for more.

Continuously serving up fresh, home-style cooked fare for a whole generation, the dining establishment has been building a keen following and hardy fan base since it first made its appearance in Kuta in 1990.

Jl. Legian, Kuta, Kabupaten Badung, Bali, Indonesia | Phone: +62 361 752614 | www.kopipot.com It is the sister restaurant of the

Kuta institution, Poppies, of Poppies Cottage fame, that was the original landmark on a dusty palm tree road that once led to the beautiful Kuta Beach when it first opened 41 long years ago.

Street side in bustling Jalan Legian – a vibrant street with a lovely mixture of tourists, expatriates, and locals going about their business - Kopi Pot is a perfect spot for enjoying people watching at all hours of the day and night, while also featuring a more subdued garden area for those desiring some

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

Every Saturday 9AM-2PM OrganIc Farmer’s Market Pizza Bagus (Jl. Pengosekan), Ubud EVERY SUNDAY Soul to soul spirituall dialogue Anand Ashram, Ubud Jl Sri Wedari KM 3 Mantra chanting 6-6:30pm Navaraha Arati 6:30-6:45pm Meditation, Satsang and celebration 6:45-8:30pm www.ubudashram.org SUNDAY MARKETS 10AM 1PM Sunday Market at Batu Jimbar Jl. Danau Tablingan , Sanur 10AM-4PM The Sands Beach Club and Restaurant Sunday MArket Jl. Danau Tamblingan, No 27, Sanur 9:30AM-1PM Sunday Market @ Warung Sopa Jl. Sugriwas no36, Padang Tegal, Ubud 9AM-2PM Samadi Sunday Market Jalan. Padang Linjong 39, Canggu, 9AM-2PM Wednesday and Sunday Ubud Organik Market Jl. Raya Pengosekan across from Zens Hotel Tebesaya, Ubud 12PM-10PM Sunday Food Festival & Bazaar Byrdhouse Beach Club, Sanur 10AM-6PM, Mercure,last sunday of every month, jl. ,Mertasari, Sanur, fashion food and and kids activities The Coffee Spot, Jalan Peigenet 888X,Seminyak, last Sunday of every month, garage sale clothing, books, and hand-made jewellery

peace in the shade.

Upstairs on the terrace, the peaceful, lush surroundings create a relaxed space for added privacy.

Breakfasts are well-served from here, a very good value, and ex-

tremely popular with those heading out for a surf or coming back from a long day at the beach. Open from 8am until Midnight, The Kopi Pot is within walking distance to most places in Kuta. Throw in a good

free wifi connection on top of the wonderful fresh fare at excellent value for your money, and you can be certain your visit to Kopi Pot will convert you into one of their raving fans…

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

16 Pages Number 31 9th year

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

Price: Rp 3.000,-

Friday, February 10, 2017 e-mail: info_ibp@balipost.co.id online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com.

Friday, February 10, 2017

A supporter of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise impersonates the new president, with a sign behind him that reads in Creole “Energy plus encouragement plus movement plus work” during Moise’s inauguration in Port-auPrince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Cast members (L-R) Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz and ReeseWitherspoon pose at the premiere of the HBO television series “Big Little Lies” in Los Angeles, California U.S., February 7, 2017.

Witherspoon, Kidman debut female-centric ‘Big Little Lies’

LOS ANGELES - Two of film’s biggest names, Nicole Kidman and ReeseWitherspoon, have come together on screen to champion female empowerment in HBO’s “Big Little Lies.” The Oscarwinning actresses both star in and executive-produce the seven-part limited TV series, based on the 2014 novel of the same name, after seeing the opportunity to put diverse women on the screen.

“It’s powerful, you know, when you actually connect with women and reflect back to them their lives and they see themselves on film,” Witherspoon, 40, told Reuters at the show’s Hollywood premiere this

week. Kidman, 49, currently Oscarnominated for “Lion,” said she was “committed” to supporting female talent and young actors.

“It’s a lovely place in the world right now to be able to throw whatever

power, whatever support I can be behind that,” she said. “Big Little Lies,” debuting on HBO on Sunday, sees Witherspoon, Kidman and Shailene Woodley playing three mothers and also stars Zoe Kravitz, Laura Dern, Adam Scott and Alexander Skarsgard.

Set in the tranquil California seaside town of Monterey, the series explores society’s myth of perfection and the contradictions that exist beneath the idealized facade of marriage, sex, parenting and friendship. (rtr)

You can find International Bali Post at: 1 Kuta Beach Club Jl. Bakung Sari Kuta 2 Wen Dys Kuta the Coffe Bear Jl. Pantai Kuta 3 Seminyak Paradiso Bali Hotel Jl. Camplung Tanduk 4 Ramayana Resort&Spa Jl. Bakung Sari Kuta 5 The Lokha Legian Resort&Spa Jl. Padma Legian Kuta 6 66 Corner Live Sport Emtertaiment Jl. Doble Six/Werkudara 23 7 Leghawa Grill Jl. D.Tamblingan No. 51 8 Retno Barr dan Restoran Jl. D.Tamblingan No.126 A Sanur 9 Elkomedor Jl. D.Tamblingan 140 10 Malaika Scret Jl. D.Poso No 68 11 Snack Shack Jl. D.Poso No. 50D 12 Warung Lokal Jl. D.Poso No. 39 13 Cokro Cafee Jl. D.Poso Sanur 14 T.J.Bar Jl. D.Poso Sanur 15 J & N Kebab Jl. D.Poso Sanur 16 Goanna Bar Jl. D.Poso Sanur 17 Batu Jimbar Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur

18 Ramayana Cafee Jl. D.Tamblingan 19 Smirnof Cafee Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 20 Legwa Hotel Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 21 Nu Laser Cafee Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 22 Ganesa Book Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 23 All For Daiving Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 24 Barocca Jl.Petitenget 17 DKerobokan 25 Lantern Jl.Petitenget 17E Kerobokan 26 Shearlock Jl.Petitenget 17C Kerobokan Klod 27 Cafe Degan Jl.Petitenget 9 Kerobokan Klod 28 Kopi Made Jl. Raya Puputan No. 106 Dps 29 Dimsum Manan Jl. Raya Niti Mandala Renon No 148 30 Furama Jl. Raya Niti Mandala No. 148 Renon 31 Warung Subah Renon Jl. Mohamad Yamin No.18 32 Ayam Betutu khas Gilimanuk Jl. Merdeka No.88 Renon 33 Bali Bakery Jl. Hayam Wuruk 184 Denpasar

Jovenel Moise sworn in as Haiti’s new president

AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Jovenel Moise was sworn in Tuesday as Haiti’s president for the next five years after a bruising twoyear election cycle, inheriting a chronically struggling economy and a deeply divided society.

The 48-year-old entrepreneur took the oath of office in a Parliament chamber packed with Haitian lawmakers and foreign dignitaries from countries including the U.S., Venezuela and France. He smiled slightly as the Senate leader slipped Haiti’s red and blue presidential sash over his left shoulder.

In his inaugural address during the day of prayer and platitudes, Moise gave a rough outline of his government’s priorities and pledged to bring “real improvements” to the economically strapped nation, particularly the long-neglected countryside.

He urged unity and promised to strengthen institutions, fight corruption and bring more investments and jobs to one of the least developed nations in the world.

“We can change Haiti if we work together,” Moise said to applause on the grounds of what used to be the national palace, which was one of many buildings obliterated during a devastating earthquake that hit outside the capital in January 2010.

There’s little expectation among citizens that Moise’s new government can overcome Haiti’s deep problems of poverty and economic

malaise in the next five years, but he does have a majority in Parliament and some are hopeful the businessman-turned-politician will make steady advances.

“What we still really need in this country are the basics: working hospitals, better schools and security. I think it can be done,” said Maxime Cantave, owner of a car wash and propane business in the Port-auPrince district of Delmas 48.

Continued to page 6 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.