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Duo of rapper Wale, Jerry Seinfeld land at No.1 with album

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Charlie Cox arrives at Marvel’s Daredevil on Thursday, April 2, 2015 in Los Angeles.

‘Daredevil’ brings Marvel comic punch to Netflix

WASHINGTON - From the pages of a comic book that first came out in the Sixties comes the latest superhero to score a comeback on American television.

“Marvel’s Daredevil” is the first of five Netflix original series to be rolled out by under a groundbreaking deal with Marvel Comics.

Debuting on Friday, it stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a young, blind lawyer who morphs into a baton-wielding masked vigilante after dark.

Blessed with extrasensory powers, Murdock -- alias Daredevil, “the man without fear” -- embarks on a lone quest for justice in New York’s mean streets.

Netflix is releasing all 13 episodes of “Daredevil” on Friday, giving its 60 million US and foreign subscribers a binge-viewing option for the weekend.

The A-list heroes of The Avengers franchise have already become a multi-million dollar Hollywood phenomenon, now television executives are trawling Marvel’s vast back catalog for less iconic but still fondly remembered characters.

Plans call for Netflix to roll out three addi-

tional series in the coming months, each pivoting around another Marvel character -- Jessica “Jewel” Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.

Ultimately, the superheroes will all come together as an dynamic crime-fighting foursome in a yet-to-be-name mini-series for the expanding video-on-demand service.

Shows adapted from comic books have been a highlight of the current US television season, from the Batman prequel “Gotham” on Fox to “The Flash” on The CW network.

On ABC, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” and “Marvel’s Agent Carter” each pull more than seven million viewers, Entertainment Weekly reports.

The Walt Disney Company owns both ABC and Marvel Comics, whose superhero roster includes Spider-Man, Thor and Captain America.

“Daredevil” first appeared in print in April 1964, co-created by Stan Lee, the American comic book icon who also conceived Hulk, Thor and Spider-Man. (afp)

ATLANTA — Wale always wanted to feature Jerry Seinfeld in his music, but didn’t know how to reach the superstar actorcomedian, who initially knew nothing about the rapper.

But then the Grammy-nominated performer met Seinfeld’s wife, a Wale fan and hip-hop enthusiast.

“She’s a big hip-hop fan and of my music,” Wale said of Jessica Seinfeld, a cookbook author and philanthropist who Wale said has many friends in the hip-hop industry, including Jay Z. “She was the middle man on a lot of things because Jerry is super busy. He’s not an easy person to reach. But she was able to put it all together.”

Sure, some would call Wale and Seinfeld an odd couple. But when they met, Wale said, they instantly clicked.

The duo spent two years working together and Wale calls their chemistry “natural.”

Now, the rapper is eager for listeners to hear the finish product, “The Album About Nothing,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week and dethroned Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly.”

“I liked his outlook on certain things. He’s super smart,” Wale said of Seinfeld. “He’s a wise person that I can learn a lot from and knows about the entertainment business.”

Seinfeld isn’t rapping on the album. Instead, he is what Wale calls the album’s “narrator,” offering his insightful commentary

on each track to bring clarity to the rapper’s lyrics.

“He laid the foundation of most of the songs, so in the concept of the album, he’s the other voice,” Wale said.

The album also includes dialogue from the epic “Seinfeld” series, much like Wale’s previous mixtapes, “Mixtape About Nothing” and “More About Nothing.”

Wale, whose hits include “Lotus Flower Bomb” and “Bad,” also tackles serious topics on his fourth album: He opens up about his former girlfriend’s miscarriage and his cousin’s death. The performer, 31, said he fell into depression and turned to drugs following those hardships.

“That was a tough period for me. It was a struggle for me after those incidents. Everything almost happened at once,” Wale said.

Wale said he was also unhappy with the direction of his career, believing he wasn’t getting the same respect as his competitors like Lamar, Drake and J. Cole. He said reading negative comments on social media about his music and character disturbed him, though he didn’t let it completely dominate his thoughts.

“I know I’m in good company,” he said.

“Each of them has told me my work was incredible. ... It’s frustrating sometimes when people let things outside my music dictate their feelings about me. But at the end of the day, the respect of my peers is all that matters.” (ap)

Kim Kardashian comes to Armenia

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YEREVAN, Armenia — American television star Kim Kardashian has arrived in the capital of her ancestral Armenia for a visit expected to draw attention to the centennial of the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians.

Armenia formally marks the killings by Ottoman Turks on April 24. Armenia calls the killings a genocide, a view widely supported by scholars, but Turkey vehemently rejects the term, maintaining that the figure is inflated and that many people on both sides died.

Kardashian is expected to visit the vast complex in Yerevan, the capital, that commemorates the victims.

A large crowd of journalists witnessed her arrival at the capital’s airport on Wednesday.

Kardashian’s ancestors emigrated to the United States in the late 19th Century. (ap)

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PDI-P Denpasar expected to voice rejection of “Benoa Reclamation” in congress

DENPASAR - Cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) doubling as a member of the House of Representatives of the RI, Nyoman Damantra, believed that the the rejection of the Benoa Bay reclamation project, as expressed by the people of Bali, would be on the agenda of things to bediscussed by the PDI-P’s Congress IV when the congress opened on Thursday (Apr. 9). He also hoped that the PDI-P Denpasar who had previously rejected the Benoa Reclamation would continue to voice their opinion.

“The PDI-P Denpasar as representatives of the cadres, sympathizers and other component of society who have voiced a mass opposition to the reclamation project, should be sensitive about dealing with public opinion within the Bali House and continue to voice hand struggle for the mass rejection of the project during the congressional forum,” said Damantra.

According to the statutes and bylaws, congress is the highest level governmental forum and combines the results of all other forums from all levels of the government down to the hamlet level. These forums are part of a process carried out to prepare the party program based on material that speaks of regional aspirations for the congressional

forum.

County branches of the PDI-P from all over Indonesia, representing the aspirations of all strata of the party in the counties and municipalities serve to voice the aspirations of their respective regions. Any major issues expressed by the people need to be addressed by the parties, such

as for example the mass rejection of the Benoa Bay Reclamation Project. Damantra said that any attempt to distort

such opinions by omission in the congressional forum or otherwise will have adverse effects on the party’s ability to have their policy’s inacted in the different regions due to the dissolution of good political relations that such distortions would cause.

If the congress rejects the policy of Benoa Bay reclamation, said Damantra, it will become a final decision for the party cadres in the executive and legislative to promote the aspirations of the Balinese people. The decision of congress can also become the basis for requesting that President Jokowi as an officer of the PDI-P party to immediately revoke Presidential Decree No. 51/2014 legalizing the reclamation.

“If the party congress decides to support the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation it will be obligatory for President Jokowi as party cadre to revoke Presidential Regulation No. 51/2014 and cancel the government policy which allows for the reclamation at Benoa Bay,” said Damantra.

According to Damantra, Presidential Regulation No. 51/2014 is proof

that the government, with its mandate to look into environmental issues, is only examining the physical aspects and has failed to provide recognition and respect for existing traditions and cultures that constitute a part of the local knowledge of Bali that calls for the spirit of harmonizing human relationship to natural and spiritual realm through the Tri Hita Karana concept.

Not to mention the economic aspects of Bali that would be affected through development expansion through land conversion such as reclamation which causes the acceleration of investment growth that marginalizases Balinese people by deceasing their competitiveness.

Balinese community leader and economic and government analyst, Wiraguna Bagoes Oka, very much deplored the statement of the Chairman of the PDI-P Bali Wayan Koster who said that reclamation is no longer the responsibility of the PDI-P. “It is a reckless, surprising and alarming statement. Additinally the statement goes against the values of the PDI-P, known as the party of the poor,” said Wiraguna.

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A boat with a flag written “rejection of reclamation plan at Benoa Bay”, parked in Sanur Beach near the PDIP Congress venue on Thursday (9/4). Cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) doubling as a member of the House of Representatives of the RI, Nyoman Damantra, believed that the the rejection of the Benoa Bay reclamation project, as expressed by the people of Bali, would be on the PDIP Congress’ agenda.

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Head of Gianyar Agriculture and Plantation Agency, Gusti Ayu Dewi Hariani.

The Gianyar Agriculture Agency continues to give dissemination related to the potential and tools facilitating the work of farmers in the fields. It aims to stimulate the interest of young people in agriculture. In keeping with the development of modern era, the interest of young people declines in agriculture whereas it has great and open potential in the future.

It requires technological innovations to attract them so that the agricultural problems, where one of which is land conversion, at least can be controlled. (kmb16)

On strike, dozens of cargo ships crowded Gilimanuk Harbor

NEGARA - The crossing service of freight vehicles at Gilimanuk on Wednesday (Apr. 8) was disrupted following the strike carried out by ship companies at Ketapang Harbor, Banyuwangi.

Such an action was triggered by the decision of the Director General of Land Transportation on the ban for the use of LCT ship as crossing transport.

Based on information, at least 14 freighters (LCT) belonging to nine companies chose not to serve the crossings from the morning.

Although the ASDP authority has anticipated by directing trucks and passenger cars to cargo ship, in the afternoon more and more freight vehicles queue in parking area of LCM pier of Gilimanuk.

A number of drivers claimed they usually do not queue for long time to get into the ship. At the

LCM dock was only served by three passenger ships. To give announcement, the port authority installed a banner of notification regarding the non-operation of LCT ship.

A number of drivers hoped the harbor authority to provide more ships to serve the crossings at LCM pier. Most freight vehicles are also urged by the time limit to deliver their freight to respective destination.

Operations Manager of the ASDP Gilimanuk, Wahyudi Susianto, told reporters on Wednesday (Apr. 8) that a total of 14 LCT ships are on strike following the Decision of the Director General of Land Transportation.

According to him, the new rules for LCT ship will be effective in May. However, due to protesting, a number of LCT ship companies

chose not to operate. Based on information, the strike will last until unspecified time.

In the letter made by the LCT companies, they requested to be allowed to operate until 2017.

Harbor authority alerted three passengers ships that can anchor at cargo pier to serve the crossing of cargo ship and the passenger ship can also help load trucks with the freight less than 20 tons.

It is predicted there will be an accumulation of freight vehicles until night with the reduction of freighter.

Responding to the protest, the Jembrana Police alerted his personnel at Gilimanuk Harbor for the security. Jembrana Police is also backed up by Bali Police Mobile Brigade and the Indonesian Military for the security. (kmb26)

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LEGIAN - On the road to Loft Legian’s 2nd Anniversary, there were series of events and activities that all lead to the main celebration that fell on March 30, 2015.

The journey began on the 12th and 13th of March with outing to Waterbom for all the team members. The outing was divided into two different days so not to mess the working schedule up but still without leaving anyone behind.

This event will be followed by visit to nursing home by Head of Departments and Back Office staffs on March 28th.

GIANYAR - The government of Gianyar has not maximally prevented the farmland conversion. Through the years, the agricultural land conversion in Gianyar constantly increases. Within a year, the land conversion reaches 131 hectares. It is four times higher than the previous land conversion where in 2013 reaching a total of 28 hectares. issued by the board poses a reference and basis for land agency to give permission over the land or land aspect, from productive land to dry land. Responding to the promise to make coordination and address the issues a year ago, so far there is no realization.

Land conversion still occurs on the basis of the acquisition from the spatial plan information (ITR) and land aspect from the national land agency (BPN).

On the other hand, the agricultural sector in Gianyar is experiencing various problems. One of them is the land conversion. But amid the many problems faced, the rice production of Gianyar remains secure, explained the

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Within a year, farmland conversion reaches 131 hectares

Farmland conversion mostly occurs mostly to independent housing developers penetrating Gianyar County. Similarly, the license ‘closeout’ of land conversion from wetlands to dry land is quite easy to do. Information on spatial plan of the Gianyar Development Planning Board (Bappeda) is also inseparable from the farmland conversion occurred all this time.

Previously, the Head of Gianyar Development Planning Board, Made Wisnu Wijaya, dismissed if the land conversion poses a result of the provision of spatial information by the Development Planning Board. Wisnu even argued that the spatial information

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The food seller is complaining regarding the increasing price of LPG

Price of 12-kg LPG expensive, turnover of food traders down 50 percent BANGLI - The impact of price increase of the 12-kg LPG occurred since April 1, 2015 reaching IDR 8,000 per tube began to be felt by a number of food vendors in Bangli County. This increase makes traders dither and their turnover fell by 50 percent.

One of the food stall owners at LC Subak Aya Bangli, Ni Made Ermi, said on Wednesday (Apr. 8) that the increase in the price of LPG has significant impact on her business due to the increasing production costs. “Food stall owners must have felt the price increase of the 12-kg LPG. Like it or not, I have to spend more on production cost,” she said.

She added that since the soaring price of LPG her turnover plummeted up to 50 percent. She also recalled that lonely buyers and high production cost sometimes give her no benefit and she almost loses. On the other hand, to poise the expenses, she also very seldom raises the price of food. “If the food price is increased, customers will possibly leave me,” she said.

She said that so far she still holds out to use the 12-kg LPG. “When using the 3-kg tube, it forces us to often change.

Finally, I hold out to use the 12-kg tube,” she said.

Similar opinion was expressed by another trader living at the LC Subak Aya, Dayu Swandewi. The increase in the price of 12-kg LPG 12 made herself switch to

the use of the subsidized 3-kg tube. The cost spent to buy this small-sized gas tube is much cheaper when compared to the 12 kg-LPG. In addition, the use of 3-kg LPG is intended to avoid the decrease in turnover. “I was forced to switch to the 3 kg-LPG because the price of 12-kg LPG is expensive,” she said. She also added that the price hike of non-subsidized LPG has significant impact because the operating cost increases.

According to her, even though the price of LPG has increased, she has no plan to raise the price of food and reduce the portion. “At the low price we have lacked of buyers, let alone the price of food is increased, it will be getting lonelier,” she added. Swandewi explained that raising the selling price of food is not easy. It does not only consider the price hike of LPG, but also the selling environment.

According to her, if she raises the price of meal, her customers will move to other food stalls offering cheaper price. “I am still selling as usual and do not dare to raise prices as long as I can still earn profits,” she said.

Similar thing is also experienced by a trader living around the Captain Mudita Square, Mrs. Putu. She told that since using the 12-kg LPG, she often loses money because the money runs out to buy gas. Seeing the circumstances, she immediately switched to the use of 3-kg LPG. (kmb45)

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On March 30th, there was general cleaning in the morning as part of the preparation for the celebration on the same day at 5 PM. The celebration was filled with the cake cutting event and the award for best employee as well as performances from each departments of Loft Legian. Other staffs from Loft Legian’s sister units also attended this event.

“All these events leading to the main celebration on March 30th is all about what matter the most for Loft Legian, the staffs,” said Budhiratmanu,

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the Group Business Manager of Loft Legian Hotel. There is no Loft Legian without the staffs and this journey to the anniversary celebration is one ways for Loft Legian to express their gratitude and appreciation toward the staffs.

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Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Bali needs international promotion

Undeniably, Bali has become the most favorite tourist destination in the world.

Nevertheless, its natural beauty and unique culture still need promoting. “Bali still needs to be promoted. However, the method and form must be packaged differently, so that the uniqueness of Bali can be revealed,” said hotel practitioner I Ketut Iriana.

International event, added Iriana, was very required by Bali at this time. By that way, the Paradise Island would not only be based on tourist destination and culture, but also referred to as the venue of international events. For example, there were international kite festival, miss world, sports events and many others.

“The arrival of international athlete like Ronaldo as Mangrove Ambassador can serve as promotional medium, aside from preserving the environment,” he said.

Bali becoming the destination of international events, explained Iriana, would give double impacts. Other than inviting tourists to watch, they would also spend holiday to see the uniqueness of Bali.

“The more international events held in Bali, the more double impacts will be obtained,” said the man having the hobby of biking.

Iriana then said that as the central venue of international events, Bali should be supported with adequate facilities. They were starting from road facilities, trash cans, security and convenience as well as quality accommodation. “It’s unnecessary to build hotels everywhere,” he explained.

According to the man from Singaraja, the construction of hotels and villas in Bali had been sufficient, even in one area had been very crowded. “Rather than continuing to build hotels, it is much better to improve the existing hotels in terms of their quality and amenities,” he added. (kmb)

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NYC’s Easter Parade brings out creative hats

NEW YORK — The bonnets were out on Fifth Avenue for the annual Easter Parade — outlandish 21st century headpieces that were hardly bonnets, featuring everything from bunnies and butterflies to grassy, egg-dotted lawns and even a tall ship on the high seas.

And the parade is hardly a parade. Instead, while Easter Sunday Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan at the altar, the avenue was milling with people decked out in homemade costumes that seem to get zanier each year.

The crowd included Christians, Jews, Hindus, agnostics, atheists and others who felt like strolling around Manhattan on a sunny spring day, including hundreds of tourists.

“It’s all about versatility,” said Mary Anna Smith, a New York custom milliner whose business card reads “The Tipsy Topper.”

The 2015 Easter Parade bore little resemblance to the first one, which started in the 1880s as a strolling display of what prosperous New Yorkers wore to Fifth Avenue churches. In recent decades, the street gathering has morphed into a sort of costume circus — including pet dogs.

Smith wore a “hat” she fashioned from an elaborate kite and some fluffy white stuff into a bright blue sailing ship floating on sea foam.

“It’s about sailing to new heights,” said Smith.

She also created headpieces for two friends, one topped with a massive butterfly and another with a tropical umbrella dripping with felt balls and anchored to a bird’s nest, then to human hair.

Just feet from the parade, the trio was tending to last-minute finishing touches, adding bobby pins to make sure the contraptions didn’t topple.

“It’s Easter and I didn’t want to be too garish,” said Smith’s friend, Kristen Lee Sergeant, a Manhattan jazz singer in a simple green dress. “But then again, I do have a huge butterfly on my head!”

For their first Easter Parade, the Maxwell family wore costumes themed on the 1984 American scencei-fiction comedy film “Ghostbusters,” which has nothing to do with the Easter theme of Jesus’ resurrection.

“We put all these parts together off of eBay and different other sites,” said Ronald Maxwell, a Manhattan computer consultant who strapped a huge, menacing looking “proton pack” to his back, with pink and white bunny ears

on his head.

Wife Hilary Maxwell, a dog walker, wore a Ghostbusters-style dress she bought from an online uniform supplier. And their 12year-old son, William Maxwell, donned a full-body, greenish pantsuit that totally concealed his head.

Carmen, a 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) Chihuahua, was not happy with her getup.

“She didn’t love this one because it’s kind of heavy, and she won’t walk in it. But if I carry her, she’s fine,” said owner Melissa Mejias.

A consultant to the city’s De-

partment of Education, Mejias dabbles in dog attire.

She used a dog-size pattern to sew Carmen’s coat from one of her old shirts, adorning it with a flowery headband plus a necklace purchased from a company that makes accessories for tweens.

And to make sure Carmen didn’t run off into the elbow-to-elbow crowd, Mejias kept her on a bejeweled leash.

As for Mejias, she wore her mother-in-law’s old Easter hat to the parade, a dark red velvet one she’d pulled out of a closet.

“I’m carrying on that tradition,” said Mejias. (ap)

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Pata Luna Llano poses as she takes part in the Easter Parade along New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Counterfeit money circulating in Bali reaches 1,447 sheets

DENPASAR - Representatives of the Office of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Bali Province discovered 1,447 sheets of counterfeit money circulating in Bali. For the same periode last year time last year they only found 1,155 sheets. “A full 81 percent or 1, 290 sheets of the counterfeit cash was found in Denpasar while 8 percent or 111 sheets were found in Badung County, and Tabanan County had 6 percent or 31 sheets,” said Dewi Setyowati.

The counterfeit money, said the Chief Representative Office of the Bank Indonesia for Bali, D ew i S e ty o w a ti , w a s f o u n d thanks to reports from the public.

“The amounts of counterfeit money being discovered means that the public is getting better at creating credible rupiah. It is also clear that many people are reluc-

tant to report counterfeit money to central bank authorities,” she explained.

For the good of the common interest, the bank is asking the public to report cases even if they are just suspected cases to the Office of the Bank of Indonesia, or any bank or even the nearest police station., so that the cash can be analyzed for authenticity.

“According to procedure, counterfeit money delivered to the central bank or other banks, will not be reimbursed or exchanged for genuine money,” she said.

To avoid being duped by counterfeit money, the Bank of Indonesia always encourages people to use non-cash payment methods such as debit card, credit card and e-money. This also will encourage more effective financial transaction. (kmb27)

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Chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri has reminded President Joko Widodo to adhere to the constitution. Megawati stated while delivering a political speech at the opening of the fourth congress of the PDIP on Thursday.

Megawati reminds President to adhere to constitution

DENPASAR - Chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri has reminded President Joko Widodo to adhere to the constitution. “Fulfill campaign promises because it is a sacred bond with the people,” Megawati stated while delivering a political speech at the opening of the fourth congress of the PDIP on Thursday.

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Markus Kelle poses for photographs as he takes part in the Easter Parade along New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Davey Mitchell poses for photographs as he takes part in the Easter Parade along New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Stephanie Woram, right, along with two of her sisters pose for photographs as they take part in the Easter Parade along New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Lisa DiBello makes her way along New York’s Fifth Avenue as she takes part in the Easter Parade on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

A staff of a bank counted rupiah banknotes. Representatives of the Office of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Bali Province discovered 1,447 sheets of counterfeit money circulating in Bali. For the same periode last year time last year they only found 1,155 sheets.

The congress was attended

by President Joko Widodo, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Zulkifli Hasan, People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Oesman Sapta Odang, Chairman of the National Democrat Party (Nasdem) Surya Paloh, Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar, Chairman of Hanura Party Wiranto, Indonesian Justice and Unity Party (PKPI) Chairman Soetiyoso, and Chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) Muhammad Romahurmuziy.

With regard to its constitutional duties, Megawati said that the PDIP was playing its part by reminding the national leaders about their duty to protect the country and its people.

Protecting the nation includes preventing campaigns by terror networks that have been waging war against humanity, Megawati noted.

“Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a serious problem, and it needs to be addressed,” she af-

firmed.

According to Megawati, ISIS has been acting on behalf of the state and has even recruited Indonesian citizens.

The fifth president of the Republic of Indonesia asserted that the government must eradicate all forms of radicalism and terrorism.

“The PDIP firmly rejects all forms of radicalism and terrorism as Indonesia is a sovereign country with a tradition of a tolerant society,” she emphasized.

Megawati remarked that Indonesia will combat and prevent the spread of ISIS ideology in the country.

“Indonesia must uphold its cultural values and should develop as a diverse nation,” she added.

President attended the opening ceremony of the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) national congress in Bali on Thursday.

The president arrived at 10:30 a.m. local time at the Inna Grand Bali Beach Hotel, which was the venue for the opening ceremony of the congress. (ant)

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On handling infectious diseases

No isolation room, patients evacuated

AMLAPURA - The absences of isolation rooms in Karangasem Hospital means that patients are forced out of their rooms to make room for patients with diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/ AIDS and rabies so that these diseases are not spread to others.

The Development Division Head of Karangasem Hospital, I Nengah Widia Sari, admitted that because there is no isolation room for the hospitalization of patients with

hazardous communicable diseases “we put the patients with infectious diseases in the rooms, while other patients are removed to avoid transmission” he explained.

For this reason, plans are on the table for the construction of two isolation rooms with three beds per room. “We will also add 6 beds to the internal disease room known

as the Mawar room which will be made larger as part of the renovations. as well. Presently patients are often treated in the hallway.

We will build these rooms and renovate the other room this year, with the Special Allocation Fund (DAK) from the central government,” he said.

Despite not having an isolation room, Karangasem Hospital does its best to treat patients with infectious disease. When they are unable to do so according to required procedures, patients are reffered to Sanglah Hospital. They hope to complete renovations by December. (dwa)

Subak Museum back up to snuff

TABANAN - The appearance of Subak Museum is no longer shabby.

Thanks to renovations that were made in 2012 with the help of the Ministry of Education and Culture and continued in 2014, the traditional Balinese rice farmers houses and the rest of the museum are now in excellent condition.

Director of the Subak Museum, Ida Ayu Ratna Pawitrani, said on Wednesday (Apr. 8) that the museum revitalization program was funded IDR 1 billion by the state budget With this initial funding the inside of the museum was repaired and renovated as were the displays.

“Since this revitalization program was considered to be the primary fac-

tor in boosting the number of tourist visits, we then proposed stage two of the revitalization program,” she said.

After the renovations, there was an increase of tourist visits to the museum so the central government disbursed another DR 2 billion in 2014. The assistance worth IDR 2 billion was subsequently used to renovate the outdoor portion of the museum, including the miniature subak irrigation network as well as the traditional Balinese farmer’s houses. The paddy field has also been equipped with a subak meeting hall from which travellers can enjoy the view. “The hall was created to attract tourists” she said.

Pawitrani explained that after

the renovations many foreign and domestic travelers visited the Subak Museum. Data on tourist visit within the past five years indicatea consistent increase, although it is still dominated by visits from domestic travelers. In 2013, 4,433 people visited, while in 2014 the number of visitors increased to 4,627 people. “They are mostly school children from around Bali and college students,” she said.

On the site of the museum, there are 250 pieces of old farm equipment, ranging from hoes to rice processing equipment. She said that the Subak Museum is the only one in Bali having and opened in 1981, and has been managed by Tabanan County

since 1994. The museum covers 6.28 hectares, of land with an additional 1.3 hectares of paddy fields.

Once the revitalization project is completed, management of the museum will team up with schools to introduce the history and collections of the museum through a program called the ‘museum goes to school.’ Students will be introduced to subak through the screening of a film followed by a discussion on the museum and subak. “As planned, we are going to target junior and high school students, but it is still difficult to reach elementary schools.

Actually, we have been meaning to conduct this program for over a year, but since we have been busy with

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renovations, we will only start this year,” she concluded.

Head of the Tabanan Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, very much welcomes the ‘museum goes to school’ program which he says is a good way to provide information and understanding for younger generation about the importance of the subak irrigation system for agriculture in Tabanan. Moreover, Tabanan is famous as the rice granary of Bali.

“This way travellers will also be able to learn about Bali’ s rice field irrigation system in the museum before tseeing actual rice paddies like the ones in Jatiluwih,” he said. (kmb28)

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Iran’s Rouhani: Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen a ‘mistake’

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s president on Thursday warned Saudi Arabia and its allies that their airstrikes’ campaign in Yemen is a “mistake” and called for a halt to the strikes targeting the Iran-backed Shiite rebels who have seized much of the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.

For two weeks now, the Saudi-led coalition has failed to stop the power grab by the Houthi rebels, whose advance has forced President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the country. Both Tehran and the rebels deny that Iran is arming them. The airstrikes against the Houthis and their allies, including loyalists of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have also failed to stop the rebels’ advance on Aden, Yemen’s secondlargest city, which was declared a provisional capital by Hadi before he fled to Saudi Arabia.

In his speech in Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged for a ceasefire in Yemen to allow for broad-based talks on resolving the crisis.

“To the countries in the region, I say, let’s adopt the spirit of brotherhood, let’s respect each other and other nations. A nation does not give in through bombing,” said Rouhani. “Do not kill innocent

children. Let’s think about an end to the war, about ceasefire and humanitarian assistance to the suffering people of Yemen.”

He said a campaign of airstrikes and bombardment is “wrong,” citing examples of Syria and Iraq, where a U.S.-led coalition is targeting Islamic State militants. “You will learn, not later but soon, that you are making a mistake in Yemen, too,” Rouhani said, without naming any particular country.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks Thursday in Islamabad with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in an effort to push for Yemen peace talks.

Zarif, who arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday, has said that Iran is ready to facilitate peace talks that would lead to a broad-based government in Yemen.

“We need to work together in order to put an end to the crisis in Yemen,” Zarif said. “We need to find a political solution in Yemen, a comprehensive political solution leading an inclusive government through Yemeni dialogue.” Zarif’s visit comes as Pakistan’s parliament is debating whether to contribute forces to the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen. (ap)

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Japan’s Emperor Akihito, third right, and Empress Michiko, second right, receive salutes from U.S. soldiers as they visit a memorial for American victims on Pelelilu island in Palau Thursday, April 9, 2015.

Japan’s emperor prays at WWII battleground on Pacific island

TOKYO — The emperor of Japan visited a remote Pacific island Thursday to pray for thousands of Japanese and American soldiers who died during the World War II battle of Peleliu.

Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a joint press conference with Pakistan’s Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 8, 2015.

Emperor Akihito and his wife Empress Michiko laid bouquets of white chrysanthemum flowers in front of a seaside memorial for Japanese victims after arriving by helicopter on Peleliu island in the western Pacific nation of Palau. The couple then turned to the sea and offered a moment of silence toward a nearby island where many others also died. They later prayed at a separate memorial for Americans.

“Our thoughts go out to all those who went to the battlefields to defend their countries, never to return home,” Akihito said in a statement before his flight to Palau on Wednesday. “We must never forget that those beautiful islands in the Pacific Ocean have such a tragic history.” Akihito, who is 81, was 11 years old at the end of the war. His father, Hirohito, was emperor at the time.

Peleliu is one of several islands where Japanese soldiers fought to the death during the final year of

BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister has invited his counterparts from Russia, Ukraine and France to Berlin Monday to discuss implementation of the peace agreement brokered

guest house in Berlin.

The conflict between Russiabacked rebels and government troops in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 6,000 lives. The German and

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the war. The three-month battle of Peleliu, which started in September 1944, left about 10,000 Japanese and 1,700 Americans dead. One Japanese survivor, 95-year-old Kiyokazu Tsuchida, travelled to the island for the imperial visit.

“Of the 34 survivors, sadly I’m the only one who made it back here,” he said Wednesday in an interview from the island with Japanese broadcaster NHK. After a moment of silence at a separate, private memorial, he added: “My perished fellow soldiers must be all delighted to see the emperor.” The visit by the emperor highlights the slow-moving search for the remains of missing Japanese soldiers.

Only half of the 2.4 million Japanese who died overseas have been recovered. Of those, about 300,000 are believed to be lost at sea and unrecoverable.

Officials cite a lack of documentation and geographical and politi-

cal reasons for the delay. In recent years, veterans groups and relatives of the dead have pressured the government to do more, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised stepped-up efforts.

In Palau, half of the estimated 16,200 war-dead are still unaccounted for more than 60 years after the search began in 1953, according to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Six sets of remains were excavated during the latest search last month.

Palau, which lies about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the Philippines, was ruled by Japan for about 30 years after World War I. The emperor’s visit in the 70th anniversary year of the war’s end follows a visit to Saipan, another World War II battlefield in the Pacific, in 2005, the 60th anniversary year. He also prayed for Japanese and U.S. war-dead in Iwo Jima in 1994. (ap)

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in Minsk, Belarus in February.

The Foreign Ministry said Thursday that Foreign Minister FrankWalter Steinmeier called the meeting for Monday evening at a government

French leaders brokered a cease-fire deal in Minsk in an effort to stem the bloodshed, and hostilities have subsided although differences remain on the way forward.

France’s Foreign Ministry said Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius believes that “some progress” has been achieved on the ground despite cease-fire violations. (ap)

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Dollar firms on lingering hopes for June rate hike

MANGUPURA - The development of the tourism sector in Badung has negative impacts on the agricultural sector. Mych of the arable land of Badung is now being ‘planted’ with concrete in the form of buildings, as it is considered more profitable than farming. Within the past five years, 47 hectares of land have been converted from agricultural usage to building developments.

The government of Badung does not deny this reality.

TOKYO - The dollar firmed Thursday after the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting showed a split over the timing of an interest-rate increase, keeping chances of a June hike lingering.

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A woman passes by an advertisement showing a bank’s interest rates in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 12, 2015.

in New York.

“There seems to be serious talk of a June increase, so there was some dollar buying amid the hawkish tone,” he told Bloomberg News.

National Australia Bank said markets were none the wiser on the timing for the US rate rise.

“In short, there’s a wide divergence of views within the Fed, no consensus on lift-off timing,” it said in a note.

“The final arbiter will be the data, recent data argued for delayed rate lift-off. A June 18 rate lift-off is now being priced as quite a slim chance,” it said.

The euro was mixed on Thursday, buying $1.0769 and 129.55 yen against $1.0780 and 129.52 yen in US trade, after data from Germany showed factory orders fell again in February in the eurozone’s biggest economy. (afp)

South Korea central bank French socialists slashes 2015 growth forecast announce measures to

SEOUL - South Korea’s central bank on Thursday slashed its 2015 economic growth forecast for the second time this year and predicted annual inflation would drop below the 1.0 percent mark.

The monthly monetary meeting of the Bank of Korea (BOK) also left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for April, following a surprise 25 basis point reduction the previous month.

The downward revision of the growth outlook reflected concerns that the economy is suffering from slow demand and lack of business and consumer confidence.

The forecast had already been

lowered in January from 3.9 percent to 3.4 percent, but the BOK said Thursday it was now estimating growth for the year at 3.1 percent.

It also said annual inflation was likely to come in at just 0.9 percent, compared to the bank’s earlier forecast of 1.9 percent.

The South Korean economy has shown little signs of improvement since the BOK began lowering interest rates last year.

The cut in March reduced the benchmark rate to a record low of 1.75 percent, deepening fears of deflation that could hammer an overgrown property market.

Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in March from a year earlier -- the slowest pace for 16 years -while the exports that drive Asia’s fourth-largest economy have fallen in every month this year.

Economic growth in the fourth quarter of last year was the slowest since 2009.

Low interest rates are very much the trend across the Asia-Pacific region.

In recent months China and India have both made two reductions, while Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand have also been forced to ease monetary policy. (afp)

boost ailing economy

PARIS — France’s government has pledged measures to boost the country’s stagnant economy, including an income tax cut and tax breaks to companies that invest in industry.

Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls outlined the government’s plans to combat unemployment and encourage growth during a speech Wednesday in Paris.

He said that companies that invest in “industrial equipment” in

the next year will have access to 2.5 billion euro ($2.7 billion) in fiscal bonuses over the next five years, and that a project had been approved to invest 3.2 billion euros ($3.5 billion) to upgrade the freeways.

Valls also said the income tax rate would be trimmed by an unspecified amount in a bid to stimulate purchasing power in 9 million households and encourage growth in the eurozone’s second largest economy. (ap)

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The dollar bought 120.30 yen in Tokyo trade, up from 120.14 yen in New York late Wednesday.

According to the minutes of the March 17-18 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, “several participants” thought conditions were right for a June hike in the federal funds rate, which has been stuck near zero since late 2008.

Others deemed the economy would not be able to weather a rise until later in the year, while “a couple” said liftoff would remain unlikely until 2016.

Differences of views within the Fed countered an earlier market conviction that a June hike was now off the table.

“The FOMC minutes show there were a few supporters for a June rate hike,” said Naohiro Nomoto, an associate for currency trading at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

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PT. Standardpen Industries which is a national company, each year always put out new products to meet the needs of consumers. Standardpen this year released its newest product; Standard NX7, that have attributes with the world’s first innovative technology.

Deputy Regent of Badung, I Made Sudiana, said that on average of about 4 hectares of land have been converted to concrete over the last five years but this number is far below the 101 hectares that were converted between 2002 and 2005.

“We are opening up new agricultural land at Subak Pangsut Sari, Belok Sidan village, Petang subdistrict. IThe local community is independently almost 8 km of pipeline to bring water to and from the region,” said Made Sudiana.

The opening of this new agricultural land means that the total

area of Paddy fields in Badung will reach 9,984 hectares. “The government has done a very good job of preventing rampant land conversion but they haven’t managed to stop it entirely,” he said.

According to Sudiana, every effort has been made to counteract mass land conversions, but there are still some areas being affected, particularly in tourists areas which are seeing the rapid expansion of concrete spaces. “We have a pretty good grasp of the situation and even though we are not preventing 100 percent of conversions, things are better than they were a few years ago,” he said.

Sudiana admitted that the tourism sector is more promising economically than agriculture is. Nonetheless Badung needs to come up with a detailed spatial plan (RDTR) that regulates future land usage,” he said.

He asserted that, in the future, the government will not tolerate construction projects that build on agricultural land. Land that is built on will have to conform to the spatial plan. “The problem is that developments frequently violate the rules and regulations-it is the task of the government to enforce these rules and regulations,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Latest innovation pen launched in Bali DENPASAR - PT. Standardpen Industries which is a national company, each year always put out new products to meet the needs of consumers. Standardpen this year released its newest product; Standard NX7, that have attributes with the world’s first innovative technology. This product was launched on Wednesday (8/4) at Art Centre Denpasar.

According to Marketing Manager of PT. Standardpen Industries, Niken Mahanani, this pen has jumbo refill up to 35 percent larger than pen refill in general. Enhanced with soft hybrid ink that is a mix between H2O gel ink and oil gels, make writing smoother.

Standard NX7 also comes with a ZF-Ring (Zero Flex Ring) that made from TPR (Thermo Plastic Rubber) which can reduce the shock and damage of the pen point, so when it drop, pen will not jammed and remains smooth to write. To complete its merits, Standard NX7 equip with eyeball pen that called Zircon Ball, which have corrosion resistant.

Niken explained Standardpen always committed to producing quality products with innovative technology, even the first in the world. “In accordance with our target market which is student, Standard NX7 design with colorful body like candy color, which is in accordance with the character of young people, who are cheerful and trendy. For that we are carrying the tagline “Super Smooooooth and Stylish” that represent the essence of Standard NX7 product itself,” she explained.

Added Niken, pens Standard is the original brand of stationery products that produced in Indonesia For nearly 45 years, Standardpen always pay attention to the quality of each pen in order to produce writing experience that is super smooth and dense, thus making the users, especially school children will not be tired when writing pages and pages of notes. “PT. Standardpen Industries is committed to providing quality domestic products to meet the needs of every customer both at home and abroad,” she added. (kmb18)

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The development of the tourism sector in Badung has negative impacts on the agricultural sector. Mych of the arable land of Badung is now being ‘planted’ with concrete in the form of buildings, as it is considered more profitable than farming.

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Employees, teachers and workers demonstrate against austerity, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday April 9, 2015, during a nationwide day of protests and strikes over an array of grievances against the government.

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Cybercrime fighting group takes down Beebone botnet LONDON — A new group of international cybercrime fighters claimed one of its first kills Thursday, pulling the plug on malicious servers that hijacked at least 12,000 machines, most of them in the United States. The elimination of the Beebone botnet is an early success chalked up by the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce, a coordination body created last year by the FBI, Britain’s National Crime Agency, Europol and host of other international law enforcement agencies.

It’s also an illustration of the lengths many hackers go to defeat investigators. Beebone’s masters deployed shape-shifting software that updated itself up to 19 times a day. “From a techie’s perspective, they made it as difficult as they possibly could for us,” said Europol advisor Raj Samani, who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday, only an hour after authorities wrested the last rogue server from the criminals’ control.

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criminals or security agencies use to spread malicious software, empty bank accounts and launch attacks.

Beebone was modest by botnet standards, but Samani — the chief technology officer of Intel Security’s Europe, Middle East and Africa division — said it was state-of-the-art. Beebone relied on a pair of malicious programs that re-downloaded each other, an insurance policy should one of them be removed. Regular tweaks to the software’s code made it difficult for experts to blacklist the programs.

“In terms of size this is obviously small, but in terms of sophistication . we’re talking about an investment by the criminals,” he said.

The move is a big step for the Cybercrime Action Taskforce, set up in September in a bid to go after top-level Internet crime. A host of security groups — including Intel Security, Kaspersky and Shadowserver — provided assistance.

Europol would not name any of the victims of the botnet. Europol’s Paul Gillen said there had not yet been any arrests. (ap)

JAKARTA - An Indonesian man hitched a high-stakes ride to the country’s capital by clinging to the landing gear of a commercial plane, officials said Wednesday.

21-year-old Mario Steven Ambarita sneaked onto the tarmac at an airport in Sumatra on Tuesday before clambering aboard the Boeing jet’s landing gear, air transport ministry director general Suprasetyo said.

The stowaway then sat there for the hour-long flight to the international airport just outside Jakarta, where he was discovered upon landing.

“He really put his safety in danger as the plane flew as high as 34,000 feet (10,350 metres), where the oxygen is very thin and temperatures are below zero degrees Celsius (32 Fahrenheit),” Suprasetyo said.

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Raj Samani, chief technology officer of Intel Security’s Europe, Middle East and Africa division speaks on his cell phone after giving an internet security conference in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, April 9, 2015.

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Thousands of protesters, blowing whistles and waving union banners, were marching in Paris in support of the catch-all movement of private and public sector workers. The movement was likely to increase pressure on the already-unpopular Socialist government of President Francois Hollande.

The demonstrations and strikes in the protest-friendly country follow recent complaints by groups as diverse as doctors and notaries against recent government reforms, and on top of ongoing strikes by French air traffic controllers and workers at the state radio.

The air traffic controllers were holding the second half of a twoday strike, which led to the can-

As a political party they represent the public and must be independent, credible and reliable take the side of the interests of the community. Koster as party leader from Bali has dismayed many people who find his statement about the reclamation no longer being the concern of the PDI-P, deplorable.

Obviously such a statement ignores and harms the basic values of political science wherein truth and conscience dictate that political representatives should act in accordance with the demands of the public. In this case the growing demands of the Balinese public that refuses the reclamation of Benoa Bay project. “Party leaders who attend the PDI-P congress must be

partially to register discontent against a government reform plan that reduces workplace protections coveted by many employees.

The CGT’s Web site laid out 10 of its reasons for employees to stay off the job — such as to end wage stagnation for state workers, demand equal pay for women and men, defend the state-supported health care system and battle the government’s so-called “Macron Law” bill that would reduce workplace protections coveted by many French employees.

A spokeswoman for the Eiffel Tower said many employees of the famed Paris landmark took part in solidarity with the overall movement. (ap)

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Ambarita admitted to authorities he’d been planning the daring adventure for a year, staking out the airport in advance.

Local reports suggested the man was desperate to visit his birthplace Jakarta.

Suprasetyo said the unexpected passenger still managed to walk when the plane landed, but was staggering and had a bleeding ear.

“But his condition is now fine,” Suprasetyo said.

The man is still being questioned, and could face a one-year jail term if charged with putting the Garuda flight in danger.

The transport ministry has sanctioned local airport authorities for negligence and promised to improve security across the archipelago to prevent similar incidents in the future. (afp)

Indonesia forms team to probe fishing slavery allegations

PARIS — The Eiffel Tower closed, many school kids across France had no classes and air traffic controllers were staying off work Thursday in a nationwide day of protests and strikes to air an array of grievances against the government. cellation of half of flights in and out of France on Thursday. Their walkout, in part over plans to raise their maximum retirement age to 59, was expected to resume in each of the next two weeks. Many European carriers were avoiding French airspace.

Radio France, the state-backed broadcaster, was entering the third week of its walkout to protest budget cuts — and many of its employees were expected to be carrying banners at the Paris protest. The powerful CGT union was among those urging Radio France staffers to join in the march.

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In terms of purely economic aspects, the reclamation projects runs a very high risk of adversely affecting Bali ‘s tourism dependant economy by scaring away quality or classy travellers who love Bali for its culture and people, with the type of mass-tourism that destroys nature -as exemplified in the reclamation project. Bali tourism has great potential to grow considerably by developing its agro-based cultural tourism, the creative arts and well-being or spiritual tourism, not modern tourism with the reclamation that will destroy the nature of Bali. (kmb29)

An explosion in the centre of the Indonesian capital Jakarta injured four people on Wednesday, one of them seriously, police said. They declined to say whether a bomb caused the explosion but said dozens of packages containing nails and “suspicious” black powder were found nearby.

Four injured in explosion near Tanah Abang

JAKARTA - An explosion in the centre of the Indonesian capital Jakarta injured four people on Wednesday, one of them seriously, police said. They declined to say whether a bomb caused the explosion but said dozens of packages containing nails and “suspicious” black powder were found nearby.

The blast occurred in the early afternoon in a densely populated residential area near Tanah Abang.

One man suffered serious burns from the blast and wounds from flying nails, while three others were slightly hurt.

Jakarta police chief Unggung Cahyono said officers found nearly 50 bags near the blast zone containing items deemed “suspicious”.

“It’s like a firecracker, containing suspicious black powder, nails and stones,” he told broadcaster TV One.

“It is possible that at the time of assembling, there might be a technical error which caused the explosion.”

However the police chief said a bomb normally required a timer and a detonator, neither of which were discovered at the scene, though police were still investigating all options.

The three slightly injured men are expected to be questioned soon, he added.

A crude chlorine bomb failed to detonate properly in a Jakarta

shopping mall in February. Policed later linked it to Indonesian militants believed to have returned from fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria.

Indonesia has waged a crackdown on terror groups for more than 15 years. There have been deadly attacks on Western and other targets, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.

The crackdown has been credited with weakening key networks. (afp)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has announced it will form a special team to investigate allegations of slavery in the fishing industry, as officials prepare to return hundreds of foreign crewmen to their homelands.

The head of the fisheries ministry’s illegal fishing task force, Mas Achmad Santosa, said several fishermen had claimed that an Indonesian company, which employed more than 1,000 foreigners from several Southeast Asian nations, engaged in slavery and torture in the remote east of the country.

The issue was a priority when President Joko Widodo chaired a cabinet meeting late Tuesday, with fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti declaring afterwards Indonesia must show it is serious about tackling the problem and stamping out illegal fishing.

“We must solve this. It should never happen again, because it is embarrassing for Indonesia,” she said, announcing plans for the special team.

The International Organization for Migration has estimated up to 4,000 fishermen may be stranded in remote parts of Indonesia, mostly dumped by illicit fishing operators.

It believes the large majority of those working in the illegal fishing industry in Indonesia are victims of

trafficking.

Fishermen from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand are among those said to have been forced to trawl Indonesia’s bountiful fishing grounds.

Santosa told AFP that more than 350 mainly Myanmarese fishermen were transferred at the weekend from Benjina island, off the coast of West Papua province, for their safety.

There were fears they could face a backlash after speaking out about their treatment, he added.

The government has said it will return these men to their homelands.

A dozen Thai workers have also been taken to the port city of Ambon in Indonesia’s east for health and identity checks by Thai officials, before being sent home later this week.

Santosa said there was a “strong indication” that Indonesian firm Pusaka Benjina Resources, the company at the centre of allegations of mistreatment and slavery, was a shell company brokering permits for Thai fishing operators.

“The real operators of the fishing business here are Thai companies,” he said.

The Widodo administration has taken a hardline approach to illegal fishing, seizing and scuttling unlicensed vessels. (afp)

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Marine Sports are the exciting and fun seawater activities with great challenge for everyone who joins this sport. It offers variety of marine post activities from motorize until the manual

one. It is one of the great seawater adventures in Bali giving the fantastic experience from every activity like Jet Ski, Banana Boat, Fly Fish, Snorkeling, Parasailing, Diving, Fishing, Glass Bottom

Boat and Turtle Island Tour. The Marine Sport Packages are also available with attractive choice of sport activities and competitive prices.

Blue sea water without wave

is the best venue for water sport activities. Bali own the beautiful place with the long white sandy beach located in Tanjung Benoa as a marine sport center. It is located right in the Bali’s Peninsula, south

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Spurs hot streak continues with win over SW rival Rockets

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio stretched its streak of double-digit victories to nine with a 110-98 win against Houston on Wednesday, leaving the top three teams in the NBA’s Southwest Division separated by just half a game as the regular season enters its last week. The defending champion Spurs moved onto the tail of Houston and also Memphis, which drew level with the Rockets atop the division by inflicting New Orleans’ heaviest defeat of the season.

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In the Eastern Conference, No.1 playoff seed Atlanta had a narrow win over a Brooklyn team that still has its postseason hopes in the balance, and Cleveland secured both the Central Division title and No.2 seed in the conference by defeating Milwaukee.

San Antonio’s Tony Parker scored 27 points and Kawhi Leonard added 20 for the Spurs who overcame a slow start to lead by as much as 22 points before easing up.

Jason Terry led Houston with 22 points, while the Rockets got only three points from James Harden over the final three quarters. The Rockets and the Spurs meet again on Friday in a game that will be a key to determining the Southwest title. Memphis pulled even with Houston by routing New Orleans 110-74.

Zach Randolph had 15 points and 13 rebounds while Jeff Green and Marc Gasol also each had 15 points for the Grizzlies, who rediscovered their best form after a rocky patch.

Anthony Davis scored 12 points for the Pelicans, who dropped back into a tie with Oklahoma City for the Western Conference’s final playoff spot.

Atlanta completed a season sweep of Brooklyn by winning 114-111 at the Nets, with Al Horford making the go-ahead basket on a dunk with 19 seconds remaining. Playing without injured All-Star Paul Millsap and further undermanned after Pero Antic and Thabo Sefolosha were arrested early Wednesday at the scene of a nightclub stabbing and didn’t play, the Hawks recovered after blowing a 12-point, fourth-quarter lead.

Horford scored 24 points and Mike Scott had 20 points for Atlanta, which won its third straight. Brook Lopez had 26 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets, who are level with Boston in seventh and eighth in the East.

Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving scored 27 points to lead the Cavaliers to a 10499 victory over Milwaukee to clinch the Central. LeBron James scored 21 points with nine rebounds and eight assists for the Cavs, including 10 points in the fourth quarter.

Michael Carter-Williams scored

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All eyes on McIlroy and Woods as the Masters gets underway

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Two players seemingly headed in opposite directions are hogging all the headlines going into this year’s Masters. Rory McIlroy is trying to complete the career Grand Slam. Tiger Woods is looking to play 72 holes in a regular PGA Tour event for only the second time in the past year.

But let’s not forget the other potential contenders, a lengthy list led by defending champion Bubba Watson. “I feel like I have a shot around here,” said Watson, who has won two of the past three Masters and can become only the fourth player to win back-to-back titles.

“It doesn’t mean I’m going to do it. But I’m going to try to compete at a high level, and hopefully on Sunday we have that chance on the back nine.” The Masters is set to begin shortly after sunrise Thursday with ceremonial tee shots by Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. Then, it gets serious.

McIlroy is the clear favorite, having won the last two majors of 2014 (the British Open and the PGA Championship) to leave the Masters as the only big title missing from his resume.

At age 25, he has a shot at joining Nicklaus, Woods, Player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen in the exclusive club. “Golf is a very fickle game,” McIlroy said. “You don’t take anything for granted.”

If he needs proof of that, all McIlroy has to do is remember what happened at this very place four years ago. He had a four-shot lead in the Masters, ready to be crowned the next big thing in golf, when he shot 80 in the final round. McIlroy

handled the collapse with remarkable poise, insisting he would learn from his mistakes. Two months later, he set scoring records while winning the U.S. Open at Congressional for his first major title.

“A lot of that win has to do with what happened at Augusta,” he said. While the expectations are higher than ever for McIlroy, they’ve never been lower for Woods. He is competing for the first time since Feb. 5, when he walked off the course at Torrey Pines to work on a game that made him look more like a weekend duffer than a 14-time major champion.

Woods has shown much improvement in three days of practice, including nine holes he played Wednesday with Ben Crenshaw and Jordan Spieth. Then again, no one — not even Woods — is sure how he’ll play when the shots actually count.

“I’m excited to be back, to be back playing at this level,” he said. “I feel like my game is finally ready to compete at this level, the highest level.”

Even at different ends of the spectrum, McIlroy and Woods have dominated the talk so much this week that a large group of contenders has largely been ignored.

There’s Watson, trying to join Nicklaus, Woods and Nick Faldo as the only Masters champions to defend their titles. There’s Adam Scott, back to the long putter he used to win in 2013.

There’s Spieth, who might be the hottest player on the PGA Tour, having won, finished second, and lost in a playoff in his past three starts. (ap)

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San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili, of Argentina, celebrates a 3-point basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets, Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in San Antonio. San Antonio won 110-98.

30 points for the Bucks, who are sixth in the East standings but yet to clinch a playoff berth. Dallas eliminated Phoenix for playoff contention by beating the Suns 107-104, with Dirk Nowitzki scoring 19 points, including the go-ahead basket and a key 3-pointer in the fourth quarter.

Phoenix will miss the postseason for the fifth straight season, while

the Mavericks were locked into the seventh seed in the West when New Orleans lost at Memphis. Tyson Chandler had 12 points and 23 rebounds, two off his season high, for Dallas while Gerald Green had a season-high 30 points to lead the Suns. Toronto ended a run of sixstraight losses against Charlotte by beating the Hornets 92-74.(ap)

AP Photo/Darron Cummings

Rory McIlroy, right, of Northern Ireland, watches with Niall Horan from the band One Direction during the Par 3 contest at the Masters golf tournament Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in Augusta, Ga.

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Lazio beats Napoli 1-0 to advance to Italian Cup final

NAPLES, Italy — A late goal from substitute Senad Lulic gave Lazio a 1-0 victory over Napoli on Wednesday and a place in the Italian Cup final against Juventus. Lazio advanced 2-1 on aggregate and will seek its third title in the last seven years in the June 7 final at its home stadium.

Europa League spots. Earlier, last-place Parma beat Udinese 1-0 in a Serie A match that was postponed from February, when crisis-hit Parma was unable to provide basic stadium services like lighting and security.

Silvestre Varela scored in the 70th with a long shot that appeared to be an attempt at a cross, surprising Udinese goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis. The victory marks a brief run of good results for Parma, which held Inter Milan to a 1-1 draw at the San Siro on Saturday.

The closest either side came to scoring in the first half at the San Paolo stadium came when Napoli’s Manolo Gabbiadini hit the post with a free kick in the 29th.

On the hour mark, Klose argued for a penalty following contact

in the area and then Gonzalo Higuain wasted a chance at the other end when he couldn’t get a shot off with only the goalkeeper to beat.

In the 76th, Napoli goalkeeper Mariano Andujar did well to save a header from Lulic. A minute later, Napoli captain Marek Hamsik sent a shot just wide from long distance.

Anderson, the Brazil midfielder who has developed into Lazio’s most dangerous player, then burst past several defenders before providing the cross for Lulic’s

Gabon chosen as host of 2017 African Cup _ again

The African Cup of Nations will return to familiar territory in 2017 after Gabon was chosen as host Wednesday to replace Libya, sending the tournament back to the country that co-hosted it just three years ago.

Gabon defeated bids from Algeria and Ghana in a vote by the Confederation of African Football’s executive committee in Cairo.

Gabon follows the lead of 2012 hosting partner and neighbor Equatorial Guinea, which stood in at short notice to stage this year’s tournament in January and February. That happened after Morocco was removed because of a dispute over Ebola.

Gabon now also gets to put on the 16-team African soccer championship on its own because Libya withdrew from 2017 duties citing security concerns. Two venues — the capital Libreville and the eastern city of Franceville

— hosted games in Gabon’s shared 2012 tournament. The Central African country will need another two stadiums to meet the minimum criteria of four, and says it is planning to have stadiums ready in Port-Gentil and the northern town of Oyem by the middle of next year.

War-torn Libya was initially scheduled to host back in 2013 but swapped with South Africa in the hope that it would be ready by 2017. It conceded last August that it wouldn’t be, with ongoing violence following the 2011 overthrow and killing of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Gabon’s selection means five straight African Cups will be in Central or West Africa, with the three after 2017 already decided. Cameroon will host in 2019, Ivory Coast in 2021 and Guinea in 2023.

The Algerian bid’s failure will also

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United primed to resume Manchester top-dog role LONDON - Manchester United, buoyed by five successive Premier League victories, head into Sunday’s derby against Manchester City a place and a point above their rivals and believing they are poised to restore red ascendancy in the city. Champions City have won the last four league meetings against United, including a 1-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium in November, but their hopes of retaining the title have faded.

They have dropped down to fourth after four wins in 11 league games and trail leaders Chelsea by nine points.

United, meanwhile, have put their early season struggles behind them to climb to third, eight points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool in the race for Champions League qualification.

“It was another Manchester United

goal. Lulic, a Bosnia international, preserved the lead when he cleared a shot from Lorenzo I n s i g n e o ff t h e line in the 88th. (ap)

revive talk of an anti-North African bias within Africa’s top soccer body, which has been led by Cameroon’s Issa Hayatou since 1988.

Rifts between North African nations and Hayatou’s CAF emerged around this year’s African Cup, with Morocco and Tunisia both taking CAF to sport’s highest court. Egypt was also among the original contenders to host 2017 but withdrew, saying it would support its fellow North African bid from Algeria.

Samir Lamari, head of sports at Algeria’s Liberte newspaper, said he was surprised at Algeria’s failure and returning the tournament to Gabon “flies in the face of the principle of rotation.”

However, North African hosts have been problematic for CAF in recent years after Libya first asked for a change for 2013. (ap)

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain, left, jumps for the ball with Lazio’s Mauricio during their Italian Cup semifinal soccer match at the San Paolo stadium in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, April 8, 2015.

(last November), I believe,” United boss Louis van Gaal told reporters after Saturday’s 3-1 win against Aston Villa. “That was more in the start of the process and now we are in the end of the process. “Now we have developed the team. I think also the confidence of our players is very high at the moment.

“This next game is the decisive game... you have to win these kinds of matches.” City arrive at Old Trafford on the back of a 2-1 defeat by Crystal Palace but captain Vincent Kompany believes form counts for nothing in a derby. “It doesn’t matter what place you are in the league, it’s a derby,” Kompany said after the Palace loss.

“If anything, it’s a good moment to go into a derby. “I guess the momentum is a little bit with our neighbours at the moment, but it’s the perfect place for us to go and try to rectify what

we’ve had.”

Chelsea, who need 16 points from their remaining eight games to win the title for the first time since 2010, travel to relegation-threatened west London rivals Queens Park Rangers on Sunday. “I’ve never played at QPR as a Chelsea manager,” Jose Mourinho told the club’s website (www.chelseafc.com). “But I know history and I know that for QPR to play against Chelsea is a special match.

“The most difficult job is the job of the others that come from behind, because... if they draw one game, they are in trouble. They have to win every game.” Second-placed Arsenal, who have won 10 out of 11 league matches, travel to struggling Burnley on Saturday, while fifth-placed Liverpool will be aiming to close the gap on the top four with victory over Newcastle United at Anfield on Monday. (rtr)

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo reacts after a referee’s call during their Spanish first division soccer match against Rayo Vallecano at Vallecas stadium in Madrid April 8, 2015.

Ronaldo reaches 300 Ibrahimovic scores 3 as PSG goals for Real in Rayo win beats Saint-Etienne 4-1

AP Photo/Ciro Fusco, Ansa

In the 79th minute, Lulic was left unmarked to steer home a cross from Felipe Anderson from inside the box. Napoli argued in vain that Lazio forward Miroslav Klose was offside at the start of the move. Juventus overcame a first-leg deficit with a 3-0 win at Fiorentina on Tuesday.

Lazio is also performing well in Serie A, where it has won seven straight matches and is challenging city rival Roma for second place. “Juventus is definitely the strongest squad in Italy, but if we keep playing like this it will be a match,” Lulic said.

For Napoli, it was another disappointing result after a poor run in the league that has seen the southern club drop to sixth place and out of the Champions and

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Croatia to play Italy without fans as punishment for racism NYON, Switzerland — UEFA has ordered Croatia to play its next European Championship qualifier in a closed stadium as punishment for racism by its supporters and other misconduct.

UEFA says its disciplinary body also found Croatia’s fans guilty of setting off fireworks and throwing missiles in the Euro 2016 qualifier against Norway in Zagreb last month.

As well as being forced to play the June 12 game against Italy without any fans, the Croatian Football Association was fined 50,000 euros ($53,900). Croatia has a two-point lead over Italy at the top of Group H. (ap)

PARIS — Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat trick as Paris SaintGermain thrashed Saint-Etienne 4-1 to reach the French Cup final on Wednesday. Ibrahimovic took his PSG career tally to 102 goals since joining three years ago, and Argentina winger Ezequiel Lavezzi added the other goal as the capital side advanced to meet Auxerre in the final.

PSG took the lead in the 21st minute from the penalty spot after right back Francois Clerc brought down Lavezzi and Ibrahimovic sent goalkeeper Stephane Ruffier the wrong way. Saint-Etienne winger Romain Hamouma equalized four minutes later, heading in fellow winger Yohan Mollo’s left-wing cross.

But Saint-Etienne missed the chance to take the lead shortly after when former PSG striker Mevlut Erding shot straight at goalkeeper Nicolas Douchez — with Hamouma left unmarked and screaming for the ball. PSG regained the lead in the 60th minute when Lavezzi headed in Javier Pastore’s superb cross from the right.

Ibrahimovic’s second goal, which came In the 81st, was the Swedish striker at his best. He ran onto a pass down the left side of the penalty area, fooled Ruffier with a body swerve, then ran around him to collect the ball and smacked it into the net.

After hitting the post, he completed his second PSG hat-trick in three games — and second hat trick of the season against Saint-Etienne — with a clinical low shot that crept inside the

right post past Ruffier’s despairing dive. Ibrahimovic has now scored 10 goals in his last six games for club and country, including eight in four for PSG. It could be the last Ibrahimovic treat for a while. On Thursday he faces a different opponent: the French league’s disciplinary commission. He faces up to a four-game ban for an expletive-laced rant at officials following a defeat to Bordeaux last month.

“It’s tough but we were vulner-

able and we missed too many easy chances,” Saint-Etienne captain Loic Perrin said. “It’s not normal to lose 4-1.

We know they’re a good team but we should do better than that.”

League leader PSG, which is one point ahead of Lyon in the title race, remains on course for a unique quadruple, and plays Bastia in the League Cup on Sunday before facing Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions league quarterfinals four days later. (ap)

AP Photo/Claude Paris

Paris Saint Germain’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, top, challenges for the ball with Marseille’s French defender Jeremy Morel, during the League One soccer match between Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France, Sunday, April 5, 2015.

MADRID - Cristiano Ronald headed his 300th goal for Real Madrid in a laboured 2-0 La Liga victory at neighbours Rayo Vallecano on Wednesday that kept the gap on leaders Barcelona down to four points.

Fresh from thrashing Granada 9-1, when Ronaldo hit five, the European champions needed a win at Rayo’s Vallecas stadium after Barca strolled to a 4-0 home victory over Almeria to open a seven-point advantage over their arch-rivals.

In-form Luis Suarez scored twice and Lionel Messi ended a three-game goal drought, with Marc Bartra also getting on the scoresheet at the Nou Camp.

Real struggled to exert any control over lowly Rayo and missed a host of chances before Ronaldo netted his 37th La Liga goal of the campaign with a header from Dani Carvajal’s cross.

The prolific Portugal forward, five clear of Messi at the top of the scoring chart, is the third player after Raul (323) and Alfredo Di Stefano (307) to reach 300 goals for Real, but has needed only 288 matches, compared with Raul’s 741 and Di Stefano’s 396.

Ronaldo had earlier been booked for a dive in the penalty area and will be suspended for the La Liga game at home to Eibar on Saturday.

James Rodriguez made it 2-0 with a sharp finish from Ronaldo’s layoff to lift Real to 70 points, five ahead of third-placed champions Atletico Madrid, who won 2-0 at

home to Real Sociedad on Tuesday.

“We tried to pressure them with more intensity high up the pitch but in the first half we were not convincing,” Real coach Carlo Ancelotti told a news conference.

“In the second, we were more complete, we played well and we deserved to win,” added the Italian.

After edging to a 1-0 win at Celta Vigo on Sunday, Barca dominated Almeria at the Nou Camp to record their 20th victory in 22 matches this year in all competitions.

Messi, who had not scored since his double against Eibar three weeks ago, made it 1-0 in the 33rd minute when he skipped in from the right wing and whipped a left-foot effort inside the far post.

Almeria, who are third from bottom, defended doggedly but conceded again when Suarez netted an almost identical goal 10 minutes into the second half.

Centre back Bartra added a third when he nodded in a Xavi corner with 15 minutes left and Pedro set up Suarez to make it 4-0 in stoppage-time.

“We know that if we don’t stay focused in the league we will not get the three points,” Suarez said in an interview with Spanish television.

With eight league games left, Barca have a chance of repeating 2009’s historic treble under Pep Guardiola, the only time a Spanish side has won the domestic league and Cup and Champions League in the same season. (rtr)

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Lazio beats Napoli 1-0 to advance to Italian Cup final

NAPLES, Italy — A late goal from substitute Senad Lulic gave Lazio a 1-0 victory over Napoli on Wednesday and a place in the Italian Cup final against Juventus. Lazio advanced 2-1 on aggregate and will seek its third title in the last seven years in the June 7 final at its home stadium.

Europa League spots. Earlier, last-place Parma beat Udinese 1-0 in a Serie A match that was postponed from February, when crisis-hit Parma was unable to provide basic stadium services like lighting and security.

Silvestre Varela scored in the 70th with a long shot that appeared to be an attempt at a cross, surprising Udinese goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis. The victory marks a brief run of good results for Parma, which held Inter Milan to a 1-1 draw at the San Siro on Saturday.

The closest either side came to scoring in the first half at the San Paolo stadium came when Napoli’s Manolo Gabbiadini hit the post with a free kick in the 29th.

On the hour mark, Klose argued for a penalty following contact

in the area and then Gonzalo Higuain wasted a chance at the other end when he couldn’t get a shot off with only the goalkeeper to beat.

In the 76th, Napoli goalkeeper Mariano Andujar did well to save a header from Lulic. A minute later, Napoli captain Marek Hamsik sent a shot just wide from long distance.

Anderson, the Brazil midfielder who has developed into Lazio’s most dangerous player, then burst past several defenders before providing the cross for Lulic’s

Gabon chosen as host of 2017 African Cup _ again

The African Cup of Nations will return to familiar territory in 2017 after Gabon was chosen as host Wednesday to replace Libya, sending the tournament back to the country that co-hosted it just three years ago.

Gabon defeated bids from Algeria and Ghana in a vote by the Confederation of African Football’s executive committee in Cairo.

Gabon follows the lead of 2012 hosting partner and neighbor Equatorial Guinea, which stood in at short notice to stage this year’s tournament in January and February. That happened after Morocco was removed because of a dispute over Ebola.

Gabon now also gets to put on the 16-team African soccer championship on its own because Libya withdrew from 2017 duties citing security concerns. Two venues — the capital Libreville and the eastern city of Franceville

— hosted games in Gabon’s shared 2012 tournament. The Central African country will need another two stadiums to meet the minimum criteria of four, and says it is planning to have stadiums ready in Port-Gentil and the northern town of Oyem by the middle of next year.

War-torn Libya was initially scheduled to host back in 2013 but swapped with South Africa in the hope that it would be ready by 2017. It conceded last August that it wouldn’t be, with ongoing violence following the 2011 overthrow and killing of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Gabon’s selection means five straight African Cups will be in Central or West Africa, with the three after 2017 already decided. Cameroon will host in 2019, Ivory Coast in 2021 and Guinea in 2023.

The Algerian bid’s failure will also

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United primed to resume Manchester top-dog role LONDON - Manchester United, buoyed by five successive Premier League victories, head into Sunday’s derby against Manchester City a place and a point above their rivals and believing they are poised to restore red ascendancy in the city. Champions City have won the last four league meetings against United, including a 1-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium in November, but their hopes of retaining the title have faded.

They have dropped down to fourth after four wins in 11 league games and trail leaders Chelsea by nine points.

United, meanwhile, have put their early season struggles behind them to climb to third, eight points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool in the race for Champions League qualification.

“It was another Manchester United

goal. Lulic, a Bosnia international, preserved the lead when he cleared a shot from Lorenzo I n s i g n e o ff t h e line in the 88th. (ap)

revive talk of an anti-North African bias within Africa’s top soccer body, which has been led by Cameroon’s Issa Hayatou since 1988.

Rifts between North African nations and Hayatou’s CAF emerged around this year’s African Cup, with Morocco and Tunisia both taking CAF to sport’s highest court. Egypt was also among the original contenders to host 2017 but withdrew, saying it would support its fellow North African bid from Algeria.

Samir Lamari, head of sports at Algeria’s Liberte newspaper, said he was surprised at Algeria’s failure and returning the tournament to Gabon “flies in the face of the principle of rotation.”

However, North African hosts have been problematic for CAF in recent years after Libya first asked for a change for 2013. (ap)

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain, left, jumps for the ball with Lazio’s Mauricio during their Italian Cup semifinal soccer match at the San Paolo stadium in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, April 8, 2015.

(last November), I believe,” United boss Louis van Gaal told reporters after Saturday’s 3-1 win against Aston Villa. “That was more in the start of the process and now we are in the end of the process. “Now we have developed the team. I think also the confidence of our players is very high at the moment.

“This next game is the decisive game... you have to win these kinds of matches.” City arrive at Old Trafford on the back of a 2-1 defeat by Crystal Palace but captain Vincent Kompany believes form counts for nothing in a derby. “It doesn’t matter what place you are in the league, it’s a derby,” Kompany said after the Palace loss.

“If anything, it’s a good moment to go into a derby. “I guess the momentum is a little bit with our neighbours at the moment, but it’s the perfect place for us to go and try to rectify what

we’ve had.”

Chelsea, who need 16 points from their remaining eight games to win the title for the first time since 2010, travel to relegation-threatened west London rivals Queens Park Rangers on Sunday. “I’ve never played at QPR as a Chelsea manager,” Jose Mourinho told the club’s website (www.chelseafc.com). “But I know history and I know that for QPR to play against Chelsea is a special match.

“The most difficult job is the job of the others that come from behind, because... if they draw one game, they are in trouble. They have to win every game.” Second-placed Arsenal, who have won 10 out of 11 league matches, travel to struggling Burnley on Saturday, while fifth-placed Liverpool will be aiming to close the gap on the top four with victory over Newcastle United at Anfield on Monday. (rtr)

REUTERS/Sergio Perez

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo reacts after a referee’s call during their Spanish first division soccer match against Rayo Vallecano at Vallecas stadium in Madrid April 8, 2015.

Ronaldo reaches 300 Ibrahimovic scores 3 as PSG goals for Real in Rayo win beats Saint-Etienne 4-1

AP Photo/Ciro Fusco, Ansa

In the 79th minute, Lulic was left unmarked to steer home a cross from Felipe Anderson from inside the box. Napoli argued in vain that Lazio forward Miroslav Klose was offside at the start of the move. Juventus overcame a first-leg deficit with a 3-0 win at Fiorentina on Tuesday.

Lazio is also performing well in Serie A, where it has won seven straight matches and is challenging city rival Roma for second place. “Juventus is definitely the strongest squad in Italy, but if we keep playing like this it will be a match,” Lulic said.

For Napoli, it was another disappointing result after a poor run in the league that has seen the southern club drop to sixth place and out of the Champions and

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Croatia to play Italy without fans as punishment for racism NYON, Switzerland — UEFA has ordered Croatia to play its next European Championship qualifier in a closed stadium as punishment for racism by its supporters and other misconduct.

UEFA says its disciplinary body also found Croatia’s fans guilty of setting off fireworks and throwing missiles in the Euro 2016 qualifier against Norway in Zagreb last month.

As well as being forced to play the June 12 game against Italy without any fans, the Croatian Football Association was fined 50,000 euros ($53,900). Croatia has a two-point lead over Italy at the top of Group H. (ap)

PARIS — Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat trick as Paris SaintGermain thrashed Saint-Etienne 4-1 to reach the French Cup final on Wednesday. Ibrahimovic took his PSG career tally to 102 goals since joining three years ago, and Argentina winger Ezequiel Lavezzi added the other goal as the capital side advanced to meet Auxerre in the final.

PSG took the lead in the 21st minute from the penalty spot after right back Francois Clerc brought down Lavezzi and Ibrahimovic sent goalkeeper Stephane Ruffier the wrong way. Saint-Etienne winger Romain Hamouma equalized four minutes later, heading in fellow winger Yohan Mollo’s left-wing cross.

But Saint-Etienne missed the chance to take the lead shortly after when former PSG striker Mevlut Erding shot straight at goalkeeper Nicolas Douchez — with Hamouma left unmarked and screaming for the ball. PSG regained the lead in the 60th minute when Lavezzi headed in Javier Pastore’s superb cross from the right.

Ibrahimovic’s second goal, which came In the 81st, was the Swedish striker at his best. He ran onto a pass down the left side of the penalty area, fooled Ruffier with a body swerve, then ran around him to collect the ball and smacked it into the net.

After hitting the post, he completed his second PSG hat-trick in three games — and second hat trick of the season against Saint-Etienne — with a clinical low shot that crept inside the

right post past Ruffier’s despairing dive. Ibrahimovic has now scored 10 goals in his last six games for club and country, including eight in four for PSG. It could be the last Ibrahimovic treat for a while. On Thursday he faces a different opponent: the French league’s disciplinary commission. He faces up to a four-game ban for an expletive-laced rant at officials following a defeat to Bordeaux last month.

“It’s tough but we were vulner-

able and we missed too many easy chances,” Saint-Etienne captain Loic Perrin said. “It’s not normal to lose 4-1.

We know they’re a good team but we should do better than that.”

League leader PSG, which is one point ahead of Lyon in the title race, remains on course for a unique quadruple, and plays Bastia in the League Cup on Sunday before facing Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions league quarterfinals four days later. (ap)

AP Photo/Claude Paris

Paris Saint Germain’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, top, challenges for the ball with Marseille’s French defender Jeremy Morel, during the League One soccer match between Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France, Sunday, April 5, 2015.

MADRID - Cristiano Ronald headed his 300th goal for Real Madrid in a laboured 2-0 La Liga victory at neighbours Rayo Vallecano on Wednesday that kept the gap on leaders Barcelona down to four points.

Fresh from thrashing Granada 9-1, when Ronaldo hit five, the European champions needed a win at Rayo’s Vallecas stadium after Barca strolled to a 4-0 home victory over Almeria to open a seven-point advantage over their arch-rivals.

In-form Luis Suarez scored twice and Lionel Messi ended a three-game goal drought, with Marc Bartra also getting on the scoresheet at the Nou Camp.

Real struggled to exert any control over lowly Rayo and missed a host of chances before Ronaldo netted his 37th La Liga goal of the campaign with a header from Dani Carvajal’s cross.

The prolific Portugal forward, five clear of Messi at the top of the scoring chart, is the third player after Raul (323) and Alfredo Di Stefano (307) to reach 300 goals for Real, but has needed only 288 matches, compared with Raul’s 741 and Di Stefano’s 396.

Ronaldo had earlier been booked for a dive in the penalty area and will be suspended for the La Liga game at home to Eibar on Saturday.

James Rodriguez made it 2-0 with a sharp finish from Ronaldo’s layoff to lift Real to 70 points, five ahead of third-placed champions Atletico Madrid, who won 2-0 at

home to Real Sociedad on Tuesday.

“We tried to pressure them with more intensity high up the pitch but in the first half we were not convincing,” Real coach Carlo Ancelotti told a news conference.

“In the second, we were more complete, we played well and we deserved to win,” added the Italian.

After edging to a 1-0 win at Celta Vigo on Sunday, Barca dominated Almeria at the Nou Camp to record their 20th victory in 22 matches this year in all competitions.

Messi, who had not scored since his double against Eibar three weeks ago, made it 1-0 in the 33rd minute when he skipped in from the right wing and whipped a left-foot effort inside the far post.

Almeria, who are third from bottom, defended doggedly but conceded again when Suarez netted an almost identical goal 10 minutes into the second half.

Centre back Bartra added a third when he nodded in a Xavi corner with 15 minutes left and Pedro set up Suarez to make it 4-0 in stoppage-time.

“We know that if we don’t stay focused in the league we will not get the three points,” Suarez said in an interview with Spanish television.

With eight league games left, Barca have a chance of repeating 2009’s historic treble under Pep Guardiola, the only time a Spanish side has won the domestic league and Cup and Champions League in the same season. (rtr)

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Spurs hot streak continues with win over SW rival Rockets

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio stretched its streak of double-digit victories to nine with a 110-98 win against Houston on Wednesday, leaving the top three teams in the NBA’s Southwest Division separated by just half a game as the regular season enters its last week. The defending champion Spurs moved onto the tail of Houston and also Memphis, which drew level with the Rockets atop the division by inflicting New Orleans’ heaviest defeat of the season.

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In the Eastern Conference, No.1 playoff seed Atlanta had a narrow win over a Brooklyn team that still has its postseason hopes in the balance, and Cleveland secured both the Central Division title and No.2 seed in the conference by defeating Milwaukee.

San Antonio’s Tony Parker scored 27 points and Kawhi Leonard added 20 for the Spurs who overcame a slow start to lead by as much as 22 points before easing up.

Jason Terry led Houston with 22 points, while the Rockets got only three points from James Harden over the final three quarters. The Rockets and the Spurs meet again on Friday in a game that will be a key to determining the Southwest title. Memphis pulled even with Houston by routing New Orleans 110-74.

Zach Randolph had 15 points and 13 rebounds while Jeff Green and Marc Gasol also each had 15 points for the Grizzlies, who rediscovered their best form after a rocky patch.

Anthony Davis scored 12 points for the Pelicans, who dropped back into a tie with Oklahoma City for the Western Conference’s final playoff spot.

Atlanta completed a season sweep of Brooklyn by winning 114-111 at the Nets, with Al Horford making the go-ahead basket on a dunk with 19 seconds remaining. Playing without injured All-Star Paul Millsap and further undermanned after Pero Antic and Thabo Sefolosha were arrested early Wednesday at the scene of a nightclub stabbing and didn’t play, the Hawks recovered after blowing a 12-point, fourth-quarter lead.

Horford scored 24 points and Mike Scott had 20 points for Atlanta, which won its third straight. Brook Lopez had 26 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets, who are level with Boston in seventh and eighth in the East.

Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving scored 27 points to lead the Cavaliers to a 10499 victory over Milwaukee to clinch the Central. LeBron James scored 21 points with nine rebounds and eight assists for the Cavs, including 10 points in the fourth quarter.

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All eyes on McIlroy and Woods as the Masters gets underway

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Two players seemingly headed in opposite directions are hogging all the headlines going into this year’s Masters. Rory McIlroy is trying to complete the career Grand Slam. Tiger Woods is looking to play 72 holes in a regular PGA Tour event for only the second time in the past year.

But let’s not forget the other potential contenders, a lengthy list led by defending champion Bubba Watson. “I feel like I have a shot around here,” said Watson, who has won two of the past three Masters and can become only the fourth player to win back-to-back titles.

“It doesn’t mean I’m going to do it. But I’m going to try to compete at a high level, and hopefully on Sunday we have that chance on the back nine.” The Masters is set to begin shortly after sunrise Thursday with ceremonial tee shots by Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. Then, it gets serious.

McIlroy is the clear favorite, having won the last two majors of 2014 (the British Open and the PGA Championship) to leave the Masters as the only big title missing from his resume.

At age 25, he has a shot at joining Nicklaus, Woods, Player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen in the exclusive club. “Golf is a very fickle game,” McIlroy said. “You don’t take anything for granted.”

If he needs proof of that, all McIlroy has to do is remember what happened at this very place four years ago. He had a four-shot lead in the Masters, ready to be crowned the next big thing in golf, when he shot 80 in the final round. McIlroy

handled the collapse with remarkable poise, insisting he would learn from his mistakes. Two months later, he set scoring records while winning the U.S. Open at Congressional for his first major title.

“A lot of that win has to do with what happened at Augusta,” he said. While the expectations are higher than ever for McIlroy, they’ve never been lower for Woods. He is competing for the first time since Feb. 5, when he walked off the course at Torrey Pines to work on a game that made him look more like a weekend duffer than a 14-time major champion.

Woods has shown much improvement in three days of practice, including nine holes he played Wednesday with Ben Crenshaw and Jordan Spieth. Then again, no one — not even Woods — is sure how he’ll play when the shots actually count.

“I’m excited to be back, to be back playing at this level,” he said. “I feel like my game is finally ready to compete at this level, the highest level.”

Even at different ends of the spectrum, McIlroy and Woods have dominated the talk so much this week that a large group of contenders has largely been ignored.

There’s Watson, trying to join Nicklaus, Woods and Nick Faldo as the only Masters champions to defend their titles. There’s Adam Scott, back to the long putter he used to win in 2013.

There’s Spieth, who might be the hottest player on the PGA Tour, having won, finished second, and lost in a playoff in his past three starts. (ap)

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San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili, of Argentina, celebrates a 3-point basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets, Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in San Antonio. San Antonio won 110-98.

30 points for the Bucks, who are sixth in the East standings but yet to clinch a playoff berth. Dallas eliminated Phoenix for playoff contention by beating the Suns 107-104, with Dirk Nowitzki scoring 19 points, including the go-ahead basket and a key 3-pointer in the fourth quarter.

Phoenix will miss the postseason for the fifth straight season, while

the Mavericks were locked into the seventh seed in the West when New Orleans lost at Memphis. Tyson Chandler had 12 points and 23 rebounds, two off his season high, for Dallas while Gerald Green had a season-high 30 points to lead the Suns. Toronto ended a run of sixstraight losses against Charlotte by beating the Hornets 92-74.(ap)

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Rory McIlroy, right, of Northern Ireland, watches with Niall Horan from the band One Direction during the Par 3 contest at the Masters golf tournament Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in Augusta, Ga.

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Employees, teachers and workers demonstrate against austerity, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday April 9, 2015, during a nationwide day of protests and strikes over an array of grievances against the government.

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Cybercrime fighting group takes down Beebone botnet LONDON — A new group of international cybercrime fighters claimed one of its first kills Thursday, pulling the plug on malicious servers that hijacked at least 12,000 machines, most of them in the United States. The elimination of the Beebone botnet is an early success chalked up by the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce, a coordination body created last year by the FBI, Britain’s National Crime Agency, Europol and host of other international law enforcement agencies.

It’s also an illustration of the lengths many hackers go to defeat investigators. Beebone’s masters deployed shape-shifting software that updated itself up to 19 times a day. “From a techie’s perspective, they made it as difficult as they possibly could for us,” said Europol advisor Raj Samani, who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday, only an hour after authorities wrested the last rogue server from the criminals’ control.

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criminals or security agencies use to spread malicious software, empty bank accounts and launch attacks.

Beebone was modest by botnet standards, but Samani — the chief technology officer of Intel Security’s Europe, Middle East and Africa division — said it was state-of-the-art. Beebone relied on a pair of malicious programs that re-downloaded each other, an insurance policy should one of them be removed. Regular tweaks to the software’s code made it difficult for experts to blacklist the programs.

“In terms of size this is obviously small, but in terms of sophistication . we’re talking about an investment by the criminals,” he said.

The move is a big step for the Cybercrime Action Taskforce, set up in September in a bid to go after top-level Internet crime. A host of security groups — including Intel Security, Kaspersky and Shadowserver — provided assistance.

Europol would not name any of the victims of the botnet. Europol’s Paul Gillen said there had not yet been any arrests. (ap)

JAKARTA - An Indonesian man hitched a high-stakes ride to the country’s capital by clinging to the landing gear of a commercial plane, officials said Wednesday.

21-year-old Mario Steven Ambarita sneaked onto the tarmac at an airport in Sumatra on Tuesday before clambering aboard the Boeing jet’s landing gear, air transport ministry director general Suprasetyo said.

The stowaway then sat there for the hour-long flight to the international airport just outside Jakarta, where he was discovered upon landing.

“He really put his safety in danger as the plane flew as high as 34,000 feet (10,350 metres), where the oxygen is very thin and temperatures are below zero degrees Celsius (32 Fahrenheit),” Suprasetyo said.

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Raj Samani, chief technology officer of Intel Security’s Europe, Middle East and Africa division speaks on his cell phone after giving an internet security conference in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, April 9, 2015.

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Thousands of protesters, blowing whistles and waving union banners, were marching in Paris in support of the catch-all movement of private and public sector workers. The movement was likely to increase pressure on the already-unpopular Socialist government of President Francois Hollande.

The demonstrations and strikes in the protest-friendly country follow recent complaints by groups as diverse as doctors and notaries against recent government reforms, and on top of ongoing strikes by French air traffic controllers and workers at the state radio.

The air traffic controllers were holding the second half of a twoday strike, which led to the can-

As a political party they represent the public and must be independent, credible and reliable take the side of the interests of the community. Koster as party leader from Bali has dismayed many people who find his statement about the reclamation no longer being the concern of the PDI-P, deplorable.

Obviously such a statement ignores and harms the basic values of political science wherein truth and conscience dictate that political representatives should act in accordance with the demands of the public. In this case the growing demands of the Balinese public that refuses the reclamation of Benoa Bay project. “Party leaders who attend the PDI-P congress must be

partially to register discontent against a government reform plan that reduces workplace protections coveted by many employees.

The CGT’s Web site laid out 10 of its reasons for employees to stay off the job — such as to end wage stagnation for state workers, demand equal pay for women and men, defend the state-supported health care system and battle the government’s so-called “Macron Law” bill that would reduce workplace protections coveted by many French employees.

A spokeswoman for the Eiffel Tower said many employees of the famed Paris landmark took part in solidarity with the overall movement. (ap)

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Ambarita admitted to authorities he’d been planning the daring adventure for a year, staking out the airport in advance.

Local reports suggested the man was desperate to visit his birthplace Jakarta.

Suprasetyo said the unexpected passenger still managed to walk when the plane landed, but was staggering and had a bleeding ear.

“But his condition is now fine,” Suprasetyo said.

The man is still being questioned, and could face a one-year jail term if charged with putting the Garuda flight in danger.

The transport ministry has sanctioned local airport authorities for negligence and promised to improve security across the archipelago to prevent similar incidents in the future. (afp)

Indonesia forms team to probe fishing slavery allegations

PARIS — The Eiffel Tower closed, many school kids across France had no classes and air traffic controllers were staying off work Thursday in a nationwide day of protests and strikes to air an array of grievances against the government. cellation of half of flights in and out of France on Thursday. Their walkout, in part over plans to raise their maximum retirement age to 59, was expected to resume in each of the next two weeks. Many European carriers were avoiding French airspace.

Radio France, the state-backed broadcaster, was entering the third week of its walkout to protest budget cuts — and many of its employees were expected to be carrying banners at the Paris protest. The powerful CGT union was among those urging Radio France staffers to join in the march.

Railway workers, health care providers, teachers and energy sector personnel and others honored Thursday’s general strike,

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In terms of purely economic aspects, the reclamation projects runs a very high risk of adversely affecting Bali ‘s tourism dependant economy by scaring away quality or classy travellers who love Bali for its culture and people, with the type of mass-tourism that destroys nature -as exemplified in the reclamation project. Bali tourism has great potential to grow considerably by developing its agro-based cultural tourism, the creative arts and well-being or spiritual tourism, not modern tourism with the reclamation that will destroy the nature of Bali. (kmb29)

An explosion in the centre of the Indonesian capital Jakarta injured four people on Wednesday, one of them seriously, police said. They declined to say whether a bomb caused the explosion but said dozens of packages containing nails and “suspicious” black powder were found nearby.

Four injured in explosion near Tanah Abang

JAKARTA - An explosion in the centre of the Indonesian capital Jakarta injured four people on Wednesday, one of them seriously, police said. They declined to say whether a bomb caused the explosion but said dozens of packages containing nails and “suspicious” black powder were found nearby.

The blast occurred in the early afternoon in a densely populated residential area near Tanah Abang.

One man suffered serious burns from the blast and wounds from flying nails, while three others were slightly hurt.

Jakarta police chief Unggung Cahyono said officers found nearly 50 bags near the blast zone containing items deemed “suspicious”.

“It’s like a firecracker, containing suspicious black powder, nails and stones,” he told broadcaster TV One.

“It is possible that at the time of assembling, there might be a technical error which caused the explosion.”

However the police chief said a bomb normally required a timer and a detonator, neither of which were discovered at the scene, though police were still investigating all options.

The three slightly injured men are expected to be questioned soon, he added.

A crude chlorine bomb failed to detonate properly in a Jakarta

shopping mall in February. Policed later linked it to Indonesian militants believed to have returned from fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria.

Indonesia has waged a crackdown on terror groups for more than 15 years. There have been deadly attacks on Western and other targets, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.

The crackdown has been credited with weakening key networks. (afp)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has announced it will form a special team to investigate allegations of slavery in the fishing industry, as officials prepare to return hundreds of foreign crewmen to their homelands.

The head of the fisheries ministry’s illegal fishing task force, Mas Achmad Santosa, said several fishermen had claimed that an Indonesian company, which employed more than 1,000 foreigners from several Southeast Asian nations, engaged in slavery and torture in the remote east of the country.

The issue was a priority when President Joko Widodo chaired a cabinet meeting late Tuesday, with fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti declaring afterwards Indonesia must show it is serious about tackling the problem and stamping out illegal fishing.

“We must solve this. It should never happen again, because it is embarrassing for Indonesia,” she said, announcing plans for the special team.

The International Organization for Migration has estimated up to 4,000 fishermen may be stranded in remote parts of Indonesia, mostly dumped by illicit fishing operators.

It believes the large majority of those working in the illegal fishing industry in Indonesia are victims of

trafficking.

Fishermen from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand are among those said to have been forced to trawl Indonesia’s bountiful fishing grounds.

Santosa told AFP that more than 350 mainly Myanmarese fishermen were transferred at the weekend from Benjina island, off the coast of West Papua province, for their safety.

There were fears they could face a backlash after speaking out about their treatment, he added.

The government has said it will return these men to their homelands.

A dozen Thai workers have also been taken to the port city of Ambon in Indonesia’s east for health and identity checks by Thai officials, before being sent home later this week.

Santosa said there was a “strong indication” that Indonesian firm Pusaka Benjina Resources, the company at the centre of allegations of mistreatment and slavery, was a shell company brokering permits for Thai fishing operators.

“The real operators of the fishing business here are Thai companies,” he said.

The Widodo administration has taken a hardline approach to illegal fishing, seizing and scuttling unlicensed vessels. (afp)

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Dollar firms on lingering hopes for June rate hike

MANGUPURA - The development of the tourism sector in Badung has negative impacts on the agricultural sector. Mych of the arable land of Badung is now being ‘planted’ with concrete in the form of buildings, as it is considered more profitable than farming. Within the past five years, 47 hectares of land have been converted from agricultural usage to building developments.

The government of Badung does not deny this reality.

TOKYO - The dollar firmed Thursday after the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting showed a split over the timing of an interest-rate increase, keeping chances of a June hike lingering.

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A woman passes by an advertisement showing a bank’s interest rates in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 12, 2015.

in New York.

“There seems to be serious talk of a June increase, so there was some dollar buying amid the hawkish tone,” he told Bloomberg News.

National Australia Bank said markets were none the wiser on the timing for the US rate rise.

“In short, there’s a wide divergence of views within the Fed, no consensus on lift-off timing,” it said in a note.

“The final arbiter will be the data, recent data argued for delayed rate lift-off. A June 18 rate lift-off is now being priced as quite a slim chance,” it said.

The euro was mixed on Thursday, buying $1.0769 and 129.55 yen against $1.0780 and 129.52 yen in US trade, after data from Germany showed factory orders fell again in February in the eurozone’s biggest economy. (afp)

South Korea central bank French socialists slashes 2015 growth forecast announce measures to

SEOUL - South Korea’s central bank on Thursday slashed its 2015 economic growth forecast for the second time this year and predicted annual inflation would drop below the 1.0 percent mark.

The monthly monetary meeting of the Bank of Korea (BOK) also left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for April, following a surprise 25 basis point reduction the previous month.

The downward revision of the growth outlook reflected concerns that the economy is suffering from slow demand and lack of business and consumer confidence.

The forecast had already been

lowered in January from 3.9 percent to 3.4 percent, but the BOK said Thursday it was now estimating growth for the year at 3.1 percent.

It also said annual inflation was likely to come in at just 0.9 percent, compared to the bank’s earlier forecast of 1.9 percent.

The South Korean economy has shown little signs of improvement since the BOK began lowering interest rates last year.

The cut in March reduced the benchmark rate to a record low of 1.75 percent, deepening fears of deflation that could hammer an overgrown property market.

Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in March from a year earlier -- the slowest pace for 16 years -while the exports that drive Asia’s fourth-largest economy have fallen in every month this year.

Economic growth in the fourth quarter of last year was the slowest since 2009.

Low interest rates are very much the trend across the Asia-Pacific region.

In recent months China and India have both made two reductions, while Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand have also been forced to ease monetary policy. (afp)

boost ailing economy

PARIS — France’s government has pledged measures to boost the country’s stagnant economy, including an income tax cut and tax breaks to companies that invest in industry.

Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls outlined the government’s plans to combat unemployment and encourage growth during a speech Wednesday in Paris.

He said that companies that invest in “industrial equipment” in

the next year will have access to 2.5 billion euro ($2.7 billion) in fiscal bonuses over the next five years, and that a project had been approved to invest 3.2 billion euros ($3.5 billion) to upgrade the freeways.

Valls also said the income tax rate would be trimmed by an unspecified amount in a bid to stimulate purchasing power in 9 million households and encourage growth in the eurozone’s second largest economy. (ap)

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The dollar bought 120.30 yen in Tokyo trade, up from 120.14 yen in New York late Wednesday.

According to the minutes of the March 17-18 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, “several participants” thought conditions were right for a June hike in the federal funds rate, which has been stuck near zero since late 2008.

Others deemed the economy would not be able to weather a rise until later in the year, while “a couple” said liftoff would remain unlikely until 2016.

Differences of views within the Fed countered an earlier market conviction that a June hike was now off the table.

“The FOMC minutes show there were a few supporters for a June rate hike,” said Naohiro Nomoto, an associate for currency trading at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

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PT. Standardpen Industries which is a national company, each year always put out new products to meet the needs of consumers. Standardpen this year released its newest product; Standard NX7, that have attributes with the world’s first innovative technology.

Deputy Regent of Badung, I Made Sudiana, said that on average of about 4 hectares of land have been converted to concrete over the last five years but this number is far below the 101 hectares that were converted between 2002 and 2005.

“We are opening up new agricultural land at Subak Pangsut Sari, Belok Sidan village, Petang subdistrict. IThe local community is independently almost 8 km of pipeline to bring water to and from the region,” said Made Sudiana.

The opening of this new agricultural land means that the total

area of Paddy fields in Badung will reach 9,984 hectares. “The government has done a very good job of preventing rampant land conversion but they haven’t managed to stop it entirely,” he said.

According to Sudiana, every effort has been made to counteract mass land conversions, but there are still some areas being affected, particularly in tourists areas which are seeing the rapid expansion of concrete spaces. “We have a pretty good grasp of the situation and even though we are not preventing 100 percent of conversions, things are better than they were a few years ago,” he said.

Sudiana admitted that the tourism sector is more promising economically than agriculture is. Nonetheless Badung needs to come up with a detailed spatial plan (RDTR) that regulates future land usage,” he said.

He asserted that, in the future, the government will not tolerate construction projects that build on agricultural land. Land that is built on will have to conform to the spatial plan. “The problem is that developments frequently violate the rules and regulations-it is the task of the government to enforce these rules and regulations,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Latest innovation pen launched in Bali DENPASAR - PT. Standardpen Industries which is a national company, each year always put out new products to meet the needs of consumers. Standardpen this year released its newest product; Standard NX7, that have attributes with the world’s first innovative technology. This product was launched on Wednesday (8/4) at Art Centre Denpasar.

According to Marketing Manager of PT. Standardpen Industries, Niken Mahanani, this pen has jumbo refill up to 35 percent larger than pen refill in general. Enhanced with soft hybrid ink that is a mix between H2O gel ink and oil gels, make writing smoother.

Standard NX7 also comes with a ZF-Ring (Zero Flex Ring) that made from TPR (Thermo Plastic Rubber) which can reduce the shock and damage of the pen point, so when it drop, pen will not jammed and remains smooth to write. To complete its merits, Standard NX7 equip with eyeball pen that called Zircon Ball, which have corrosion resistant.

Niken explained Standardpen always committed to producing quality products with innovative technology, even the first in the world. “In accordance with our target market which is student, Standard NX7 design with colorful body like candy color, which is in accordance with the character of young people, who are cheerful and trendy. For that we are carrying the tagline “Super Smooooooth and Stylish” that represent the essence of Standard NX7 product itself,” she explained.

Added Niken, pens Standard is the original brand of stationery products that produced in Indonesia For nearly 45 years, Standardpen always pay attention to the quality of each pen in order to produce writing experience that is super smooth and dense, thus making the users, especially school children will not be tired when writing pages and pages of notes. “PT. Standardpen Industries is committed to providing quality domestic products to meet the needs of every customer both at home and abroad,” she added. (kmb18)

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The development of the tourism sector in Badung has negative impacts on the agricultural sector. Mych of the arable land of Badung is now being ‘planted’ with concrete in the form of buildings, as it is considered more profitable than farming.

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On handling infectious diseases

No isolation room, patients evacuated

AMLAPURA - The absences of isolation rooms in Karangasem Hospital means that patients are forced out of their rooms to make room for patients with diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/ AIDS and rabies so that these diseases are not spread to others.

The Development Division Head of Karangasem Hospital, I Nengah Widia Sari, admitted that because there is no isolation room for the hospitalization of patients with

hazardous communicable diseases “we put the patients with infectious diseases in the rooms, while other patients are removed to avoid transmission” he explained.

For this reason, plans are on the table for the construction of two isolation rooms with three beds per room. “We will also add 6 beds to the internal disease room known

as the Mawar room which will be made larger as part of the renovations. as well. Presently patients are often treated in the hallway.

We will build these rooms and renovate the other room this year, with the Special Allocation Fund (DAK) from the central government,” he said.

Despite not having an isolation room, Karangasem Hospital does its best to treat patients with infectious disease. When they are unable to do so according to required procedures, patients are reffered to Sanglah Hospital. They hope to complete renovations by December. (dwa)

Subak Museum back up to snuff

TABANAN - The appearance of Subak Museum is no longer shabby.

Thanks to renovations that were made in 2012 with the help of the Ministry of Education and Culture and continued in 2014, the traditional Balinese rice farmers houses and the rest of the museum are now in excellent condition.

Director of the Subak Museum, Ida Ayu Ratna Pawitrani, said on Wednesday (Apr. 8) that the museum revitalization program was funded IDR 1 billion by the state budget With this initial funding the inside of the museum was repaired and renovated as were the displays.

“Since this revitalization program was considered to be the primary fac-

tor in boosting the number of tourist visits, we then proposed stage two of the revitalization program,” she said.

After the renovations, there was an increase of tourist visits to the museum so the central government disbursed another DR 2 billion in 2014. The assistance worth IDR 2 billion was subsequently used to renovate the outdoor portion of the museum, including the miniature subak irrigation network as well as the traditional Balinese farmer’s houses. The paddy field has also been equipped with a subak meeting hall from which travellers can enjoy the view. “The hall was created to attract tourists” she said.

Pawitrani explained that after

the renovations many foreign and domestic travelers visited the Subak Museum. Data on tourist visit within the past five years indicatea consistent increase, although it is still dominated by visits from domestic travelers. In 2013, 4,433 people visited, while in 2014 the number of visitors increased to 4,627 people. “They are mostly school children from around Bali and college students,” she said.

On the site of the museum, there are 250 pieces of old farm equipment, ranging from hoes to rice processing equipment. She said that the Subak Museum is the only one in Bali having and opened in 1981, and has been managed by Tabanan County

since 1994. The museum covers 6.28 hectares, of land with an additional 1.3 hectares of paddy fields.

Once the revitalization project is completed, management of the museum will team up with schools to introduce the history and collections of the museum through a program called the ‘museum goes to school.’ Students will be introduced to subak through the screening of a film followed by a discussion on the museum and subak. “As planned, we are going to target junior and high school students, but it is still difficult to reach elementary schools.

Actually, we have been meaning to conduct this program for over a year, but since we have been busy with

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renovations, we will only start this year,” she concluded.

Head of the Tabanan Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, very much welcomes the ‘museum goes to school’ program which he says is a good way to provide information and understanding for younger generation about the importance of the subak irrigation system for agriculture in Tabanan. Moreover, Tabanan is famous as the rice granary of Bali.

“This way travellers will also be able to learn about Bali’ s rice field irrigation system in the museum before tseeing actual rice paddies like the ones in Jatiluwih,” he said. (kmb28)

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Iran’s Rouhani: Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen a ‘mistake’

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s president on Thursday warned Saudi Arabia and its allies that their airstrikes’ campaign in Yemen is a “mistake” and called for a halt to the strikes targeting the Iran-backed Shiite rebels who have seized much of the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.

For two weeks now, the Saudi-led coalition has failed to stop the power grab by the Houthi rebels, whose advance has forced President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the country. Both Tehran and the rebels deny that Iran is arming them. The airstrikes against the Houthis and their allies, including loyalists of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have also failed to stop the rebels’ advance on Aden, Yemen’s secondlargest city, which was declared a provisional capital by Hadi before he fled to Saudi Arabia.

In his speech in Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged for a ceasefire in Yemen to allow for broad-based talks on resolving the crisis.

“To the countries in the region, I say, let’s adopt the spirit of brotherhood, let’s respect each other and other nations. A nation does not give in through bombing,” said Rouhani. “Do not kill innocent

children. Let’s think about an end to the war, about ceasefire and humanitarian assistance to the suffering people of Yemen.”

He said a campaign of airstrikes and bombardment is “wrong,” citing examples of Syria and Iraq, where a U.S.-led coalition is targeting Islamic State militants. “You will learn, not later but soon, that you are making a mistake in Yemen, too,” Rouhani said, without naming any particular country.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks Thursday in Islamabad with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in an effort to push for Yemen peace talks.

Zarif, who arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday, has said that Iran is ready to facilitate peace talks that would lead to a broad-based government in Yemen.

“We need to work together in order to put an end to the crisis in Yemen,” Zarif said. “We need to find a political solution in Yemen, a comprehensive political solution leading an inclusive government through Yemeni dialogue.” Zarif’s visit comes as Pakistan’s parliament is debating whether to contribute forces to the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen. (ap)

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Japan’s Emperor Akihito, third right, and Empress Michiko, second right, receive salutes from U.S. soldiers as they visit a memorial for American victims on Pelelilu island in Palau Thursday, April 9, 2015.

Japan’s emperor prays at WWII battleground on Pacific island

TOKYO — The emperor of Japan visited a remote Pacific island Thursday to pray for thousands of Japanese and American soldiers who died during the World War II battle of Peleliu.

Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a joint press conference with Pakistan’s Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 8, 2015.

Emperor Akihito and his wife Empress Michiko laid bouquets of white chrysanthemum flowers in front of a seaside memorial for Japanese victims after arriving by helicopter on Peleliu island in the western Pacific nation of Palau. The couple then turned to the sea and offered a moment of silence toward a nearby island where many others also died. They later prayed at a separate memorial for Americans.

“Our thoughts go out to all those who went to the battlefields to defend their countries, never to return home,” Akihito said in a statement before his flight to Palau on Wednesday. “We must never forget that those beautiful islands in the Pacific Ocean have such a tragic history.” Akihito, who is 81, was 11 years old at the end of the war. His father, Hirohito, was emperor at the time.

Peleliu is one of several islands where Japanese soldiers fought to the death during the final year of

BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister has invited his counterparts from Russia, Ukraine and France to Berlin Monday to discuss implementation of the peace agreement brokered

guest house in Berlin.

The conflict between Russiabacked rebels and government troops in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 6,000 lives. The German and

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the war. The three-month battle of Peleliu, which started in September 1944, left about 10,000 Japanese and 1,700 Americans dead. One Japanese survivor, 95-year-old Kiyokazu Tsuchida, travelled to the island for the imperial visit.

“Of the 34 survivors, sadly I’m the only one who made it back here,” he said Wednesday in an interview from the island with Japanese broadcaster NHK. After a moment of silence at a separate, private memorial, he added: “My perished fellow soldiers must be all delighted to see the emperor.” The visit by the emperor highlights the slow-moving search for the remains of missing Japanese soldiers.

Only half of the 2.4 million Japanese who died overseas have been recovered. Of those, about 300,000 are believed to be lost at sea and unrecoverable.

Officials cite a lack of documentation and geographical and politi-

cal reasons for the delay. In recent years, veterans groups and relatives of the dead have pressured the government to do more, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised stepped-up efforts.

In Palau, half of the estimated 16,200 war-dead are still unaccounted for more than 60 years after the search began in 1953, according to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Six sets of remains were excavated during the latest search last month.

Palau, which lies about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the Philippines, was ruled by Japan for about 30 years after World War I. The emperor’s visit in the 70th anniversary year of the war’s end follows a visit to Saipan, another World War II battlefield in the Pacific, in 2005, the 60th anniversary year. He also prayed for Japanese and U.S. war-dead in Iwo Jima in 1994. (ap)

4 foreign ministers to discuss Ukraine in Berlin Monday

The farm house in Subak Museum Tabanan

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in Minsk, Belarus in February.

The Foreign Ministry said Thursday that Foreign Minister FrankWalter Steinmeier called the meeting for Monday evening at a government

French leaders brokered a cease-fire deal in Minsk in an effort to stem the bloodshed, and hostilities have subsided although differences remain on the way forward.

France’s Foreign Ministry said Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius believes that “some progress” has been achieved on the ground despite cease-fire violations. (ap)

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NYC’s Easter Parade brings out creative hats

NEW YORK — The bonnets were out on Fifth Avenue for the annual Easter Parade — outlandish 21st century headpieces that were hardly bonnets, featuring everything from bunnies and butterflies to grassy, egg-dotted lawns and even a tall ship on the high seas.

And the parade is hardly a parade. Instead, while Easter Sunday Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan at the altar, the avenue was milling with people decked out in homemade costumes that seem to get zanier each year.

The crowd included Christians, Jews, Hindus, agnostics, atheists and others who felt like strolling around Manhattan on a sunny spring day, including hundreds of tourists.

“It’s all about versatility,” said Mary Anna Smith, a New York custom milliner whose business card reads “The Tipsy Topper.”

The 2015 Easter Parade bore little resemblance to the first one, which started in the 1880s as a strolling display of what prosperous New Yorkers wore to Fifth Avenue churches. In recent decades, the street gathering has morphed into a sort of costume circus — including pet dogs.

Smith wore a “hat” she fashioned from an elaborate kite and some fluffy white stuff into a bright blue sailing ship floating on sea foam.

“It’s about sailing to new heights,” said Smith.

She also created headpieces for two friends, one topped with a massive butterfly and another with a tropical umbrella dripping with felt balls and anchored to a bird’s nest, then to human hair.

Just feet from the parade, the trio was tending to last-minute finishing touches, adding bobby pins to make sure the contraptions didn’t topple.

“It’s Easter and I didn’t want to be too garish,” said Smith’s friend, Kristen Lee Sergeant, a Manhattan jazz singer in a simple green dress. “But then again, I do have a huge butterfly on my head!”

For their first Easter Parade, the Maxwell family wore costumes themed on the 1984 American scencei-fiction comedy film “Ghostbusters,” which has nothing to do with the Easter theme of Jesus’ resurrection.

“We put all these parts together off of eBay and different other sites,” said Ronald Maxwell, a Manhattan computer consultant who strapped a huge, menacing looking “proton pack” to his back, with pink and white bunny ears

on his head.

Wife Hilary Maxwell, a dog walker, wore a Ghostbusters-style dress she bought from an online uniform supplier. And their 12year-old son, William Maxwell, donned a full-body, greenish pantsuit that totally concealed his head.

Carmen, a 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) Chihuahua, was not happy with her getup.

“She didn’t love this one because it’s kind of heavy, and she won’t walk in it. But if I carry her, she’s fine,” said owner Melissa Mejias.

A consultant to the city’s De-

partment of Education, Mejias dabbles in dog attire.

She used a dog-size pattern to sew Carmen’s coat from one of her old shirts, adorning it with a flowery headband plus a necklace purchased from a company that makes accessories for tweens.

And to make sure Carmen didn’t run off into the elbow-to-elbow crowd, Mejias kept her on a bejeweled leash.

As for Mejias, she wore her mother-in-law’s old Easter hat to the parade, a dark red velvet one she’d pulled out of a closet.

“I’m carrying on that tradition,” said Mejias. (ap)

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Pata Luna Llano poses as she takes part in the Easter Parade along New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Counterfeit money circulating in Bali reaches 1,447 sheets

DENPASAR - Representatives of the Office of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Bali Province discovered 1,447 sheets of counterfeit money circulating in Bali. For the same periode last year time last year they only found 1,155 sheets. “A full 81 percent or 1, 290 sheets of the counterfeit cash was found in Denpasar while 8 percent or 111 sheets were found in Badung County, and Tabanan County had 6 percent or 31 sheets,” said Dewi Setyowati.

The counterfeit money, said the Chief Representative Office of the Bank Indonesia for Bali, D ew i S e ty o w a ti , w a s f o u n d thanks to reports from the public.

“The amounts of counterfeit money being discovered means that the public is getting better at creating credible rupiah. It is also clear that many people are reluc-

tant to report counterfeit money to central bank authorities,” she explained.

For the good of the common interest, the bank is asking the public to report cases even if they are just suspected cases to the Office of the Bank of Indonesia, or any bank or even the nearest police station., so that the cash can be analyzed for authenticity.

“According to procedure, counterfeit money delivered to the central bank or other banks, will not be reimbursed or exchanged for genuine money,” she said.

To avoid being duped by counterfeit money, the Bank of Indonesia always encourages people to use non-cash payment methods such as debit card, credit card and e-money. This also will encourage more effective financial transaction. (kmb27)

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Chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri has reminded President Joko Widodo to adhere to the constitution. Megawati stated while delivering a political speech at the opening of the fourth congress of the PDIP on Thursday.

Megawati reminds President to adhere to constitution

DENPASAR - Chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri has reminded President Joko Widodo to adhere to the constitution. “Fulfill campaign promises because it is a sacred bond with the people,” Megawati stated while delivering a political speech at the opening of the fourth congress of the PDIP on Thursday.

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Markus Kelle poses for photographs as he takes part in the Easter Parade along New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Davey Mitchell poses for photographs as he takes part in the Easter Parade along New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Stephanie Woram, right, along with two of her sisters pose for photographs as they take part in the Easter Parade along New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Lisa DiBello makes her way along New York’s Fifth Avenue as she takes part in the Easter Parade on Sunday, April 5, 2015.

A staff of a bank counted rupiah banknotes. Representatives of the Office of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Bali Province discovered 1,447 sheets of counterfeit money circulating in Bali. For the same periode last year time last year they only found 1,155 sheets.

The congress was attended

by President Joko Widodo, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Zulkifli Hasan, People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Oesman Sapta Odang, Chairman of the National Democrat Party (Nasdem) Surya Paloh, Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar, Chairman of Hanura Party Wiranto, Indonesian Justice and Unity Party (PKPI) Chairman Soetiyoso, and Chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) Muhammad Romahurmuziy.

With regard to its constitutional duties, Megawati said that the PDIP was playing its part by reminding the national leaders about their duty to protect the country and its people.

Protecting the nation includes preventing campaigns by terror networks that have been waging war against humanity, Megawati noted.

“Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a serious problem, and it needs to be addressed,” she af-

firmed.

According to Megawati, ISIS has been acting on behalf of the state and has even recruited Indonesian citizens.

The fifth president of the Republic of Indonesia asserted that the government must eradicate all forms of radicalism and terrorism.

“The PDIP firmly rejects all forms of radicalism and terrorism as Indonesia is a sovereign country with a tradition of a tolerant society,” she emphasized.

Megawati remarked that Indonesia will combat and prevent the spread of ISIS ideology in the country.

“Indonesia must uphold its cultural values and should develop as a diverse nation,” she added.

President attended the opening ceremony of the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) national congress in Bali on Thursday.

The president arrived at 10:30 a.m. local time at the Inna Grand Bali Beach Hotel, which was the venue for the opening ceremony of the congress. (ant)

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Head of Gianyar Agriculture and Plantation Agency, Gusti Ayu Dewi Hariani.

The Gianyar Agriculture Agency continues to give dissemination related to the potential and tools facilitating the work of farmers in the fields. It aims to stimulate the interest of young people in agriculture. In keeping with the development of modern era, the interest of young people declines in agriculture whereas it has great and open potential in the future.

It requires technological innovations to attract them so that the agricultural problems, where one of which is land conversion, at least can be controlled. (kmb16)

On strike, dozens of cargo ships crowded Gilimanuk Harbor

NEGARA - The crossing service of freight vehicles at Gilimanuk on Wednesday (Apr. 8) was disrupted following the strike carried out by ship companies at Ketapang Harbor, Banyuwangi.

Such an action was triggered by the decision of the Director General of Land Transportation on the ban for the use of LCT ship as crossing transport.

Based on information, at least 14 freighters (LCT) belonging to nine companies chose not to serve the crossings from the morning.

Although the ASDP authority has anticipated by directing trucks and passenger cars to cargo ship, in the afternoon more and more freight vehicles queue in parking area of LCM pier of Gilimanuk.

A number of drivers claimed they usually do not queue for long time to get into the ship. At the

LCM dock was only served by three passenger ships. To give announcement, the port authority installed a banner of notification regarding the non-operation of LCT ship.

A number of drivers hoped the harbor authority to provide more ships to serve the crossings at LCM pier. Most freight vehicles are also urged by the time limit to deliver their freight to respective destination.

Operations Manager of the ASDP Gilimanuk, Wahyudi Susianto, told reporters on Wednesday (Apr. 8) that a total of 14 LCT ships are on strike following the Decision of the Director General of Land Transportation.

According to him, the new rules for LCT ship will be effective in May. However, due to protesting, a number of LCT ship companies

chose not to operate. Based on information, the strike will last until unspecified time.

In the letter made by the LCT companies, they requested to be allowed to operate until 2017.

Harbor authority alerted three passengers ships that can anchor at cargo pier to serve the crossing of cargo ship and the passenger ship can also help load trucks with the freight less than 20 tons.

It is predicted there will be an accumulation of freight vehicles until night with the reduction of freighter.

Responding to the protest, the Jembrana Police alerted his personnel at Gilimanuk Harbor for the security. Jembrana Police is also backed up by Bali Police Mobile Brigade and the Indonesian Military for the security. (kmb26)

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LEGIAN - On the road to Loft Legian’s 2nd Anniversary, there were series of events and activities that all lead to the main celebration that fell on March 30, 2015.

The journey began on the 12th and 13th of March with outing to Waterbom for all the team members. The outing was divided into two different days so not to mess the working schedule up but still without leaving anyone behind.

This event will be followed by visit to nursing home by Head of Departments and Back Office staffs on March 28th.

GIANYAR - The government of Gianyar has not maximally prevented the farmland conversion. Through the years, the agricultural land conversion in Gianyar constantly increases. Within a year, the land conversion reaches 131 hectares. It is four times higher than the previous land conversion where in 2013 reaching a total of 28 hectares. issued by the board poses a reference and basis for land agency to give permission over the land or land aspect, from productive land to dry land. Responding to the promise to make coordination and address the issues a year ago, so far there is no realization.

Land conversion still occurs on the basis of the acquisition from the spatial plan information (ITR) and land aspect from the national land agency (BPN).

On the other hand, the agricultural sector in Gianyar is experiencing various problems. One of them is the land conversion. But amid the many problems faced, the rice production of Gianyar remains secure, explained the

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Within a year, farmland conversion reaches 131 hectares

Farmland conversion mostly occurs mostly to independent housing developers penetrating Gianyar County. Similarly, the license ‘closeout’ of land conversion from wetlands to dry land is quite easy to do. Information on spatial plan of the Gianyar Development Planning Board (Bappeda) is also inseparable from the farmland conversion occurred all this time.

Previously, the Head of Gianyar Development Planning Board, Made Wisnu Wijaya, dismissed if the land conversion poses a result of the provision of spatial information by the Development Planning Board. Wisnu even argued that the spatial information

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The food seller is complaining regarding the increasing price of LPG

Price of 12-kg LPG expensive, turnover of food traders down 50 percent BANGLI - The impact of price increase of the 12-kg LPG occurred since April 1, 2015 reaching IDR 8,000 per tube began to be felt by a number of food vendors in Bangli County. This increase makes traders dither and their turnover fell by 50 percent.

One of the food stall owners at LC Subak Aya Bangli, Ni Made Ermi, said on Wednesday (Apr. 8) that the increase in the price of LPG has significant impact on her business due to the increasing production costs. “Food stall owners must have felt the price increase of the 12-kg LPG. Like it or not, I have to spend more on production cost,” she said.

She added that since the soaring price of LPG her turnover plummeted up to 50 percent. She also recalled that lonely buyers and high production cost sometimes give her no benefit and she almost loses. On the other hand, to poise the expenses, she also very seldom raises the price of food. “If the food price is increased, customers will possibly leave me,” she said.

She said that so far she still holds out to use the 12-kg LPG. “When using the 3-kg tube, it forces us to often change.

Finally, I hold out to use the 12-kg tube,” she said.

Similar opinion was expressed by another trader living at the LC Subak Aya, Dayu Swandewi. The increase in the price of 12-kg LPG 12 made herself switch to

the use of the subsidized 3-kg tube. The cost spent to buy this small-sized gas tube is much cheaper when compared to the 12 kg-LPG. In addition, the use of 3-kg LPG is intended to avoid the decrease in turnover. “I was forced to switch to the 3 kg-LPG because the price of 12-kg LPG is expensive,” she said. She also added that the price hike of non-subsidized LPG has significant impact because the operating cost increases.

According to her, even though the price of LPG has increased, she has no plan to raise the price of food and reduce the portion. “At the low price we have lacked of buyers, let alone the price of food is increased, it will be getting lonelier,” she added. Swandewi explained that raising the selling price of food is not easy. It does not only consider the price hike of LPG, but also the selling environment.

According to her, if she raises the price of meal, her customers will move to other food stalls offering cheaper price. “I am still selling as usual and do not dare to raise prices as long as I can still earn profits,” she said.

Similar thing is also experienced by a trader living around the Captain Mudita Square, Mrs. Putu. She told that since using the 12-kg LPG, she often loses money because the money runs out to buy gas. Seeing the circumstances, she immediately switched to the use of 3-kg LPG. (kmb45)

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On March 30th, there was general cleaning in the morning as part of the preparation for the celebration on the same day at 5 PM. The celebration was filled with the cake cutting event and the award for best employee as well as performances from each departments of Loft Legian. Other staffs from Loft Legian’s sister units also attended this event.

“All these events leading to the main celebration on March 30th is all about what matter the most for Loft Legian, the staffs,” said Budhiratmanu,

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the Group Business Manager of Loft Legian Hotel. There is no Loft Legian without the staffs and this journey to the anniversary celebration is one ways for Loft Legian to express their gratitude and appreciation toward the staffs.

As for you, party-goers, who want

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Bali needs international promotion

Undeniably, Bali has become the most favorite tourist destination in the world.

Nevertheless, its natural beauty and unique culture still need promoting. “Bali still needs to be promoted. However, the method and form must be packaged differently, so that the uniqueness of Bali can be revealed,” said hotel practitioner I Ketut Iriana.

International event, added Iriana, was very required by Bali at this time. By that way, the Paradise Island would not only be based on tourist destination and culture, but also referred to as the venue of international events. For example, there were international kite festival, miss world, sports events and many others.

“The arrival of international athlete like Ronaldo as Mangrove Ambassador can serve as promotional medium, aside from preserving the environment,” he said.

Bali becoming the destination of international events, explained Iriana, would give double impacts. Other than inviting tourists to watch, they would also spend holiday to see the uniqueness of Bali.

“The more international events held in Bali, the more double impacts will be obtained,” said the man having the hobby of biking.

Iriana then said that as the central venue of international events, Bali should be supported with adequate facilities. They were starting from road facilities, trash cans, security and convenience as well as quality accommodation. “It’s unnecessary to build hotels everywhere,” he explained.

According to the man from Singaraja, the construction of hotels and villas in Bali had been sufficient, even in one area had been very crowded. “Rather than continuing to build hotels, it is much better to improve the existing hotels in terms of their quality and amenities,” he added. (kmb)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Charlie Cox arrives at Marvel’s Daredevil on Thursday, April 2, 2015 in Los Angeles.

‘Daredevil’ brings Marvel comic punch to Netflix

WASHINGTON - From the pages of a comic book that first came out in the Sixties comes the latest superhero to score a comeback on American television.

“Marvel’s Daredevil” is the first of five Netflix original series to be rolled out by under a groundbreaking deal with Marvel Comics.

Debuting on Friday, it stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a young, blind lawyer who morphs into a baton-wielding masked vigilante after dark.

Blessed with extrasensory powers, Murdock -- alias Daredevil, “the man without fear” -- embarks on a lone quest for justice in New York’s mean streets.

Netflix is releasing all 13 episodes of “Daredevil” on Friday, giving its 60 million US and foreign subscribers a binge-viewing option for the weekend.

The A-list heroes of The Avengers franchise have already become a multi-million dollar Hollywood phenomenon, now television executives are trawling Marvel’s vast back catalog for less iconic but still fondly remembered characters.

Plans call for Netflix to roll out three addi-

tional series in the coming months, each pivoting around another Marvel character -- Jessica “Jewel” Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.

Ultimately, the superheroes will all come together as an dynamic crime-fighting foursome in a yet-to-be-name mini-series for the expanding video-on-demand service.

Shows adapted from comic books have been a highlight of the current US television season, from the Batman prequel “Gotham” on Fox to “The Flash” on The CW network.

On ABC, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” and “Marvel’s Agent Carter” each pull more than seven million viewers, Entertainment Weekly reports.

The Walt Disney Company owns both ABC and Marvel Comics, whose superhero roster includes Spider-Man, Thor and Captain America.

“Daredevil” first appeared in print in April 1964, co-created by Stan Lee, the American comic book icon who also conceived Hulk, Thor and Spider-Man. (afp)

ATLANTA — Wale always wanted to feature Jerry Seinfeld in his music, but didn’t know how to reach the superstar actorcomedian, who initially knew nothing about the rapper.

But then the Grammy-nominated performer met Seinfeld’s wife, a Wale fan and hip-hop enthusiast.

“She’s a big hip-hop fan and of my music,” Wale said of Jessica Seinfeld, a cookbook author and philanthropist who Wale said has many friends in the hip-hop industry, including Jay Z. “She was the middle man on a lot of things because Jerry is super busy. He’s not an easy person to reach. But she was able to put it all together.”

Sure, some would call Wale and Seinfeld an odd couple. But when they met, Wale said, they instantly clicked.

The duo spent two years working together and Wale calls their chemistry “natural.”

Now, the rapper is eager for listeners to hear the finish product, “The Album About Nothing,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week and dethroned Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly.”

“I liked his outlook on certain things. He’s super smart,” Wale said of Seinfeld. “He’s a wise person that I can learn a lot from and knows about the entertainment business.”

Seinfeld isn’t rapping on the album. Instead, he is what Wale calls the album’s “narrator,” offering his insightful commentary

on each track to bring clarity to the rapper’s lyrics.

“He laid the foundation of most of the songs, so in the concept of the album, he’s the other voice,” Wale said.

The album also includes dialogue from the epic “Seinfeld” series, much like Wale’s previous mixtapes, “Mixtape About Nothing” and “More About Nothing.”

Wale, whose hits include “Lotus Flower Bomb” and “Bad,” also tackles serious topics on his fourth album: He opens up about his former girlfriend’s miscarriage and his cousin’s death. The performer, 31, said he fell into depression and turned to drugs following those hardships.

“That was a tough period for me. It was a struggle for me after those incidents. Everything almost happened at once,” Wale said.

Wale said he was also unhappy with the direction of his career, believing he wasn’t getting the same respect as his competitors like Lamar, Drake and J. Cole. He said reading negative comments on social media about his music and character disturbed him, though he didn’t let it completely dominate his thoughts.

“I know I’m in good company,” he said.

“Each of them has told me my work was incredible. ... It’s frustrating sometimes when people let things outside my music dictate their feelings about me. But at the end of the day, the respect of my peers is all that matters.” (ap)

Kim Kardashian comes to Armenia

AP Photo/Hrant Khachatryan, PAN Photo

YEREVAN, Armenia — American television star Kim Kardashian has arrived in the capital of her ancestral Armenia for a visit expected to draw attention to the centennial of the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians.

Armenia formally marks the killings by Ottoman Turks on April 24. Armenia calls the killings a genocide, a view widely supported by scholars, but Turkey vehemently rejects the term, maintaining that the figure is inflated and that many people on both sides died.

Kardashian is expected to visit the vast complex in Yerevan, the capital, that commemorates the victims.

A large crowd of journalists witnessed her arrival at the capital’s airport on Wednesday.

Kardashian’s ancestors emigrated to the United States in the late 19th Century. (ap)

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PDI-P Denpasar expected to voice rejection of “Benoa Reclamation” in congress

DENPASAR - Cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) doubling as a member of the House of Representatives of the RI, Nyoman Damantra, believed that the the rejection of the Benoa Bay reclamation project, as expressed by the people of Bali, would be on the agenda of things to bediscussed by the PDI-P’s Congress IV when the congress opened on Thursday (Apr. 9). He also hoped that the PDI-P Denpasar who had previously rejected the Benoa Reclamation would continue to voice their opinion.

“The PDI-P Denpasar as representatives of the cadres, sympathizers and other component of society who have voiced a mass opposition to the reclamation project, should be sensitive about dealing with public opinion within the Bali House and continue to voice hand struggle for the mass rejection of the project during the congressional forum,” said Damantra.

According to the statutes and bylaws, congress is the highest level governmental forum and combines the results of all other forums from all levels of the government down to the hamlet level. These forums are part of a process carried out to prepare the party program based on material that speaks of regional aspirations for the congressional

forum.

County branches of the PDI-P from all over Indonesia, representing the aspirations of all strata of the party in the counties and municipalities serve to voice the aspirations of their respective regions. Any major issues expressed by the people need to be addressed by the parties, such

as for example the mass rejection of the Benoa Bay Reclamation Project. Damantra said that any attempt to distort

such opinions by omission in the congressional forum or otherwise will have adverse effects on the party’s ability to have their policy’s inacted in the different regions due to the dissolution of good political relations that such distortions would cause.

If the congress rejects the policy of Benoa Bay reclamation, said Damantra, it will become a final decision for the party cadres in the executive and legislative to promote the aspirations of the Balinese people. The decision of congress can also become the basis for requesting that President Jokowi as an officer of the PDI-P party to immediately revoke Presidential Decree No. 51/2014 legalizing the reclamation.

“If the party congress decides to support the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation it will be obligatory for President Jokowi as party cadre to revoke Presidential Regulation No. 51/2014 and cancel the government policy which allows for the reclamation at Benoa Bay,” said Damantra.

According to Damantra, Presidential Regulation No. 51/2014 is proof

that the government, with its mandate to look into environmental issues, is only examining the physical aspects and has failed to provide recognition and respect for existing traditions and cultures that constitute a part of the local knowledge of Bali that calls for the spirit of harmonizing human relationship to natural and spiritual realm through the Tri Hita Karana concept.

Not to mention the economic aspects of Bali that would be affected through development expansion through land conversion such as reclamation which causes the acceleration of investment growth that marginalizases Balinese people by deceasing their competitiveness.

Balinese community leader and economic and government analyst, Wiraguna Bagoes Oka, very much deplored the statement of the Chairman of the PDI-P Bali Wayan Koster who said that reclamation is no longer the responsibility of the PDI-P. “It is a reckless, surprising and alarming statement. Additinally the statement goes against the values of the PDI-P, known as the party of the poor,” said Wiraguna.

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A boat with a flag written “rejection of reclamation plan at Benoa Bay”, parked in Sanur Beach near the PDIP Congress venue on Thursday (9/4). Cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) doubling as a member of the House of Representatives of the RI, Nyoman Damantra, believed that the the rejection of the Benoa Bay reclamation project, as expressed by the people of Bali, would be on the PDIP Congress’ agenda.