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Kanye West denies being ‘stumped’ over Donald Trump question LOS ANGELES - Kanye West has denied being “stumped” when asked what made him think Donald Trump cares about black people.

The rapper, who paused when asked the question on US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier this week, said he simply “wasn’t given a chance to answer”.

Kimmel challenged him over separated immigrant families, asking: “You’ve so famously and so powerfully said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people,’ it makes me wonder what makes you think that Donald Trump does, or any people at all?”

West considered the question, sitting silently without answering before the programme cut to an advert break.

But the 41-year-old said he was “hit” with a commercial break before being able to deliver his answer.

West did not respond to the question when the show resumed.

He wrote on Twitter: “On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue. I’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait.

“I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question.

“The question was so important I took time to think. And then I was hit with the let’s go to commercial break.

“That interview showed strong personalities with different opinions having a civil conversation.” (net)

(L-R) Michael J Fox, Thomas Wilson, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson.

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CALIFORNIA - The cast of Back To The Future have reunited at a fan convention amid speculation there could be a fourth film.

Michael J Fox and his co-stars got together again, 33 years after making the first movie, at the Fan Expo Boston convention.

Lea Thompson, who played his mother, shared the picture, and said: “Four old friends get back from the future.”

Christopher Lloyd, who starred as inventor Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown, also shared the photo, with the comment: “This was special.”

Thomas Wilson, best known as being villain Biff, said: “Wow. This just happened.”

The cast were part of a panel discussion as to whether the four of them would return for another Back To The Future film.

Wilson joked: “Basically, I think America is saying, ‘Come on they’ve wrecked every other franchise with bad sequels, why not this one? C’mon, we would watch it until it sucks.’”

Fox, now 57, said Bob Gale, the franchise’s cocreator, has become its “gatekeeper”.

Gale and director Robert Zemeckis have previously said another film is unlikely.

The first film came out in 1985, with sequels in 1989 and 1990.

In October 2015, Lloyd reprised his role for a special short film which marked the franchise’s 30th anniversary, and also the date to which Marty McFly and his girlfriend Jennifer travel back to in the 1985 and 1989 films. (net)

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Indonesian men carry the body of a victim of last week’s earthquake past a damaged building during a funeral in Gangga, Lombok Island, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. Hundreds of people were killed while nearly 400,000 people are left homeless or displaced after the powerful earthquake rocked the popular tourist island on Aug. 5.

Death toll from quake that hit Indonesian island passes 430

JAKARTA - The death toll from the earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok a week ago has passed 430 and the government is estimating economic losses will exceed several hundred million dollars.

The national disaster agency said Monday the Aug. 5 quake killed 436 people, most of whom died in collapsing buildings.

It said damage to homes, infrastructure and other property is at least 5 trillion rupiah ($342 million), calling that a temporary figure that will rise as more assessments are made. The agency said rebuilding will cost hundreds of

millions of dollars.

The magnitude 7.0 quake flattened thousands of homes and according to the disaster agency’s latest estimate has displaced about 350,000 people.

“The damage and losses are very large,” said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

“When all data has been collected later, the amount will be

greater. It needs trillions of rupiah (hundreds of millions of dollars) for rehabilitation and reconstruction. It will take time to restore community life and economic development,” he said.

Nugroho said damaged roads were hindering access to isolated mountainous areas and helicopters had been deployed by the disaster agency, the military and the search

and rescue agency to distribute aid.

Lombok, a popular but less developed tourist destination than neighboring Bali, was hit by three strong quakes in little over a week and has endured more than 500 aftershocks.

A July 29 quake killed 16 people. An aftershock measuring magnitude 5.9 on Thursday caused panic, more damage and more than two dozen injuries.

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volca-

noes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. (ap) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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In support of IMF-WB Annual Meeting

Replacement of street lights speeded up

Travelers admire Balinese cuisine

There are many things that tourism businesses can do to accelerate the process of recovery of tourism in Bali. Peak tourist season (JULY-August) is being taken advantage of to restore the confidence of tourists that Bali is secure and safe in a number of different ways. Several places in Candidasa, Karangasem for example are offering Balinese cooking classes to tourists.

July and August are indeed busy months for tourism in Karangasem but after the earthquake in Lombok, many tourists cancelled their trips to the Bali;s neighbouring island and instead chose to visit Karangasem.

Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Karangasem Chapter, I Wayan Kariasa, recently said that most of the foreign tourists who choose to visit Karangasem are from Europe (Netherlands, Germany, France and England).

In Ahsyana Candidasa many tourists have been enthusiastic about learning about Balinese cuisine and happily take part in collecting the ingredients, preparing the dishes and enjoying the typical flavours of these dishes.

Tourists here learn to make everything from twisted satay, chicken tum (minced meat with spice wrapped in banana leaf and then steamed), lawar (cooked

minced meat mixed with chopped or thinly sliced vegetable ingredients), fried spring rolls, banana fritter to tipat cantok (rice paddies served with assorted vegetable in peanut sauce), all of which are popular dishes in Karangasem.

Le-Zat Beach Restaurant located in the same place as Ashyana Candidsa offers such cooking classes that are especially popular with Dutch tourists who tend to be familiar with Balinese food back home.

Currently many European countries have Asian restaurants including Balinese food. “Tourists like to learn to cook here and bring home cook books. Sometimes they will develop this into a business in their own country”, said Kariasa.

Two cooking class participants named Rita and Mario, explained that they like the fact that Balinese food has its own unique flavour and also enjoy leanring about the

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particualr methodes for preparing the fresh ingredients. Whiel hoidayign for a few days in Bali, they thought they would learn a bit about Baliense cuisine after enjoy the beautiful landscape. “Learning to prepare Balinese dishes was a top priority during their trip to Bali, so we should not consider this trivial. We at Le-Zat Beach Restaurant offered them a cooking class that would meet their expectations”, said Kariasa.

Tourism in Karangasem, he added has been much better in 2018 that at the end of 2017.

Chairman of PHRI Karangasem, I Wayan Tama, has previously stated that during the eruptions of Mount Agung between September and November 2017, hotel occupancy rates in the area dropped to less than 10 percent. Many hotel had to close and other laid off many of their employees.

Although Mount Agung has not entirely subsided ints volcanic activity, Tama is quite optimistic that tourist visits and hotel occupancy rates have gone up dramatically during this high season when occupancy rates are expected to remain around 60 percent until September. (kmb31)

MANGUPURA — The replacement of street lights (LPJ) along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua, continues to be accelerated in support of the implementation of the IMF-WB Annual Meeting this October.

As seen on Sunday (Aug. 12), a number of workers were busy replacement street lights on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Jimbaran.

When contacted on Sunday (Aug. 12), Spokesperson for Binamarga Badung, Sang Nyoman Oka Permana, said that 51.5 percent of the street lights along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai have already been replaced. Badung;s district government’s Public Works and Housing Agency (PUPR) plans to replace street lighting at 600 points along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, from Jimbaran to Nusa Dua. “At present, 308 street lights have been replaced along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai - or 51.5 percent. Not all the lights that have been installed however have been turned on to maximum as they are still waiting for the PLN connection”, he said adding that street lights are also beeing

replaced at 10 other locations.

They plan to make repairs to street lights in Kuta, South Kuta and North Kuta and Petang.

The replacement of the lights, he said started on June 21 and is targeted for completion on December 18th, 2018, however the section of road along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai should be completed before the IMF Annual meeting.

“Lights are being replaced at 600 points but priority is bing given to lights along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai. It is targeted to be completed before the IMF Meeting”, he said.

The new lights along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai will affixed to existing lamp posts which are still on good condition. Lighting along Jalan Pratama and Jalan Siligita will include new poles and where there are no lamp posts, the lights will be installed on PLN poles.

Unlike the previous lighting that relied on solar cells, the new lights will be LED and rely on electricity as the cost of maintaining solar cells is more than for maintaining electrical lighting, he explained. (kmb23)

Unmanaged, dozens of market kiosks left damaged BANGLI — Condition of the Amerta Gunung Sari Market or currently better known to the public as the Yangapi Market in Tembuku is increasingly alarming. The market built by the government in the 1990s is now neglected and dirty. In addition to the slums filled with trash, the conditions of dozens of stalls are also increasingly apprehensive because of severe damage in some parts of the building.

As seen on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 12), a lot of damage occurs in the stalls on the southern side of the market. The kiosks mostly look empty and are no longer occupied by merchants. In addition to the many parts of the roof are broken, the damage also occurs in the rolling door. Moreover, a number of kiosks seem to no longer have rolling door.

When confirmed related to the matter, the Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, Nengah Sudibya, said his agency cannot make improvements to the kiosks because of constrained assets. He said the land and market stalls are the assets owned by the provincial government. Meanwhile, some shop houses are private property. Bangli district government in the market only built the market stalls in the form of wantilan hall. At present, the stalls are still used by approximately 80 merchants. “If it does not belong to our assets, we cannot maintain it,” he explained.

Sudibya said for the handling of these assets, the Regional Finance, Revenue and Assets Agency (BKPAD) had already made coordination with the provincial government to get the right of borrowing it. However, provincial government still does not allow it. (kmb40)

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Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa, Bali announces appointments of Senior Sales Manager and Marketing Communications Manager Jamal Hussain, General Manager of Nusa Dua Beach & Spa is pleased to announce the appointments of Senior Sales Manager, Ms. Henny Selviyanti and Marketing & Communications Manager, Ms. Tri Widiyastuti.

Henny was previously with an international chain hotel also in Bali and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Tourism Management from STIMI Handayani, Denpasar.

Widya is an experienced Bali hotelier having worked 14 years in the hospitality industry. With her strong background experience and media relations, Widya is keen to keep the public well informed about activities and developments as well as raise the profile of Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa, Bali.

About Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa

The Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa is the pioneer of luxury accommodation within the Nusa Dua area. This 5-star diamond resort, has been welcoming kings, queens, presidents and other dignitaries since its grand opening. Nestled within beautifully landscaped gardens, the resort, with its 382 guestrooms and suites, features all the elegance of a Balinese palace, while offering modern amenities. The Nusa Dua Spa is designed to highlight its rich Balinese tradition with a variety of indigenous treatments. Dining at Nusa Dua Hotel & Spa is an epicurean journey with a choice of five restaurants and four bars under the close watch of an award-winning culinary team. For more information, please visit www. nusaduahotel.com.

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A newly approved drug could be a boon for treating malaria

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The sun’s journey through the galaxy may build a wall of hydrogen near the edge of the solar system. The New Horizons spacecraft may have seen evidence of just such a wall.

New Horizons may have seen a glow at the solar system’s edge

The New Horizons spacecraft has spotted an ultraviolet glow that seems to emanate from near the edge of the solar system.

That glow may come from a long-sought wall of hydrogen that represents where the sun’s influence wanes, the New Horizons team reports online August 7 in Geophysical Research Letters.

“We’re seeing the threshold between being in the solar neighborhood and being in the galaxy,” says team member Leslie Young of the Southwest Research Institute, based in Boulder, Colo.

Even before New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, the spacecraft was scanning the sky with its ultraviolet telescope to look for signs of the hydrogen wall. As the sun moves through the galaxy, it produces a constant stream of charged particles called the solar wind, which inflates a bubble around the solar system called the heliosphere. Just beyond the edge of that bubble, around 100 times farther from the sun than the Earth, uncharged hydrogen atoms in

interstellar space should slow when they collide with solar wind particles. That build-up of hydrogen, or wall, should scatter ultraviolet light in a distinctive way.

The two Voyager spacecraft saw signs of such light scattering 30 years ago. One of those craft has since exited the heliosphere and punched into interstellar space .

New Horizons is the first spacecraft in a position to double-check the Voyagers’ observations. It scanned the ultraviolet sky seven times from 2007 to 2017, space scientist Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and colleagues report.

As the spacecraft travelled, it saw

the ultraviolet light change in a way that supports the decades-old observations. All three spacecraft saw more ultraviolet light farther from the sun than expected if there is no wall. But the team cautions that the light could also be from an unknown source farther away in the galaxy.

“It’s really exciting if these data are able to distinguish the hydrogen wall,” says space scientist David McComas of Princeton University, who was not involved in the new work. That could help figure out the shape and variability of the solar system’s boundary.

After New Horizons flies past the outer solar system object Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day 2019, the spacecraft will continue to look for the wall about twice each year until the mission’s end, hopefully 10 to 15 years from now, Gladstone says. (net)

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DARWIN - The first new treatment in 60 years for a particularly stubborn kind of malaria is raising hopes that it might help eradicate the disease, even though the treatment can cause a dangerous side effect.

Called tafenoquine, the drug targets the parasite that causes relapsing malaria. Plasmodium vivax infects an estimated 8.5 million people, mainly in Asia and Latin America. Each time infected people have a malaria relapse, the parasite returns to their bloodstream, allowing them to transmit the infection if a mosquito bites them again. Tafenoquine was approved as a treatment in July by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is under consideration as a preventative medication, too.

“This is a game changer because we’ve really been struggling with eliminating [P.] vivax,” says malaria physician Ric Price from the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia.

The FDA’s action is expected to spur other countries where relapsing malaria is more prevalent to approve the drug as well.

Companies are also working to develop speedy, low-cost tests that can identify people with a genetic deficiency who may risk getting a kind of anemia from the new drug. This test is essential for putting the drug to use in rural areas where rates of both P. vivax and this deficiency can be high.

Like its deadlier cousin P. falciparum, P. vivax is spread by the Anopheles mosquito and causes chills, a cyclical fever and joint aches (SN: 3/18/17, p. 10). Unlike P. falciparum, once inside the body, P. vivax can stay dormant in the liver for weeks or months before flaring up again and again.

Tafenoquine (which will be marketed in the United States as Krintafel) is designed to prevent these relapses. It is similar to an older drug called primaquine, but it is taken in a single dose, instead of daily for two weeks. In clinical trials, one 600-milligram dose of tafenoquine, paired with acute malaria medication chloroquine, prevented 92 percent of malaria relapses — similar to primaquine’s efficacy.

With its single dose, patients prescribed tafenoquine are more likely than those on primaquine to complete the treatment, preventing more relapses and problems with drug resistance.

But tafenoquine’s biggest selling point, its long-lasting single dose, is also a weakness. Both primaquine and tafenoquine can cause a dangerous side effect in people with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, or G6PD, deficiency, an abnormality on the X chromosome that affects 400 million people worldwide. When people who have G6PD deficiency take these medications, they are at a higher risk for hemolytic anemia, the destruction of red blood cells. (net)

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This Anopheles albimanus mosquito is one of several species that can transmit the recurring form of malaria. A new drug could help stem such relapses.

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Ubud Village Jazz Festival

A match made in heaven

The Ubud Village Jazz Festival, which took place from August 10-11 drew to a close on Saturday under the gentle sprinkle of rain and camaraderie of fellow jazz lovers from all over Indonesia and indeed the world.

The truly exceptional line-up of top class musicians who graced the three open air stages of the festival joined together for the closing performance in a swinging jam that had much of the audience on their feet and many under raincoats distributed by the festival organisers.

The two day festival paid great homage to the genre of jazz with show after show of amazingly talented acts from as far away as California and as close as Ubud, in a seamless steam of sonic celebration. As Benny Green of the Benny Green trio explained:”Jazz is a genre of music that was born out of the experience of African Americans at a time when they were given little respect. Jazz is celebratory music as it marks the first time that their culture was shown real appreciation. We try to honour this heritage as best we can by listening carefully to the masters who came before us and giving our heart to expressing this style of music as honestly as we can”.

All who saw their performance on Saturday night would likely agree that they did an exceptionally fine job at showing both tremendous musical mastery as well as joyful exuberance that allowed jazz experts and novices alike to soak in the beauty of the music.

The Benny Green trio who play festivals all over the world also expressed their deep felt appreciation for the peace they felt during their visit in Bali, saying that the beautiful surroundings and kind people here allowed them to truly relax and refresh themselves so that they could really deeply enjoy playing for the audience at this festival that was “amazingly well organized”.

They were not alone in successfully transmitting the spirit of jazz to the audience in a heartfelt manner. In fact each performance provided it’s own unique opportunity for the audience to revel at the deep happiness that every musician shared demonstrating their countless hour of dedication to their craft, allowing them all to share this talent with the crowds who all came away smiling.

Although Arma –serving as the venue for the two day festival called on a rain stopping expert to hold back the showers of the pregnant clouds above, the first night of the festival did end an hour early as the clouds finally broke with a considerable downpour soaking the grounds.

The downpour however provided an opportunity for the kind of intimacy that jazz music calls for, as the audience was invited to take shelter on the small padi stage as the band

played on. “It was amazing to be all gathered together like that. I could really feel the power of the music resonating in my body- really an unforgettable experience”, said one tourist from Guadeloupe, who added that she was deeply impressed with the high quality of every show that she saw that night. “I can’t believe how many super talented musicians are part of this festival, I am really very impressed”.

The design of the festival grounds also lent itself well to great enjoyment all around with a range of different areas to relax and take in the music.

Along with the many booths selling excellent local foods, crafts and beverages, all the stages were decorated with local, organic materials utilizing traditional technics combined with innovative style providing a soothing atmosphere in which to take in the powerful music.

Gede Sayur of Junjungan Ubud’s Luden House community was in charge of providing the materials and creating the décor according to festival organisers’ master design.

Although a renowned fine artist in his own right , Sayur beamed with joy as he explained why he was so pleased to take part in the decorating of the festival grounds. “I love to use the natural materials found in our immediate environment –we got those dried banana leaves from the ground in the woods near my home and wove them together the same way we do when we make sun shelters for temple ceremonies – but here we used them to decorate the booths. The stage designs were more innovative but still using natural materials. I feel proud to share our local traditions with this international audience. It is great to exchange ideas and technics with others – the same way that the musicians here are doing, but let us not forget to show what we have that is special”, said Sayur.

When asked why Luden House is so dedicated to maintaining and sharing traditional nature-based know how with the younger generation Sayur replied simply: ”because -like this music, it is just so enjoyable”.

It is this spirit of sharing the joy of delving deeply into intricate and sometimes complex technics in a way that can then be shared with others in an easy and heartwarming manner that was clearly at the root of this festival. Although jazz music was powerfully was born out of African American culture and continues to be nurtured by the people of this lineage, it has also spread to the far reaches of the world. Despite living a world away in an entirely different context, Balinese musicians have clearly felt into the spirit of jazz and found something they resonate with and expressed their own passion for this genre with tremendous mastery.

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The success of the Ubud Village Jazz Festival is certainly due in great part to the passion and dedication of the organizers who have maintained a high quality over the six years that the yearly festival has been held.

Another contributing factor to the success of this two day festival is of course the strikingly talented line-up of musicians who are all dedicated to exploring and expressing the genre of jazz with technical mastery but also heartfelt passion. Ubud as the location of the festival is also to thank for the truly pleasing experience for which the festival has become known.

This small village is not only home to an astonishing array of arts but is also a place known for maintaining some of the same guiding principles as jazz music. Just as jazz as a genre remains firmly rooted in specific musical forms yet swings with ever-new iterations, so too does Ubud maintain its traditions while allowing great diversity. Freedom of expression coupled with attention to detail and to the whole and the joyful celebration of life in all it’s forms for which Ubud is known also resonates with the spirit of jazz as a genre that indeed celebrates diversity.

It is perhaps no wonder therefor that the Ubud Village Jazz Festival continues thrive and grow more popular from year to year. Who knows what wonders next year holds for this remarkably pleasant and compelling festival.

The design of the festival grounds also lent itself well to great enjoyment all around with a range of different areas to relax and take in the music.

Along with the many booths selling excellent local foods, crafts and beverages, all the stages were decorated with local, organic materials utilizing

traditional technics combined with innovative style providing a soothing atmosphere in which to take in the powerful music.

Gede Sayur of Junjungan Ubud’s Luden House community was in charge of providing the materials and creating the décor according to festival organisers’ master design.

Although a renowned fine artist in his own right , Sayur beamed with joy as he explained why he was so pleased to take part in the decorating of the festival grounds. “I love to use the natural materials found in our immediate environment –we got those dried banana leaves from the ground in the woods near my home and wove them together the same way we do when we make sun shelters for temple ceremonies – but here we used them to decorate the booths. The stage designs were more innovative but still using natural materials. I feel proud to share our local traditions with this international audience. It is great to exchange ideas and technics with others – the same way that the musicians here are doing, but let us not forget to show what we have that is special”, said Sayur.

When asked why Luden House is so dedicated to maintaining and sharing traditional nature-based know how with the younger generation Sayur replied simply: ”because -like this music, it is just so enjoyable”.

It is this spirit of sharing the joy of delving deeply into intricate and sometimes complex technics in a way that can then be shared with others in an easy and heartwarming manner that was clearly at the root of this festival. Although jazz music was powerfully was born out of African American culture and continues to be nurtured by the people of this lineage,

it has also spread to the far reaches of the world. Despite living a world away in an entirely different context, Balinese musicians have clearly felt into the spirit of jazz and found something they resonate with and expressed their own passion for this genre with tremendous mastery.

The success of the Ubud Village Jazz Festival is certainly due in great part to the passion and dedication of the organizers who have maintained a high quality over the six years that the yearly festival has been held.

Another contributing factor to the success of this two day festival is of course the strikingly talented line-up of musicians who are all dedicated to exploring and expressing the genre of jazz with technical mastery but also heartfelt passion. Ubud as the location of the festival is also to thank for the truly pleasing experience for which the festival has become known.

This small village is not only home to an astonishing array of arts but is also a place known for maintaining some of the same guiding principles as jazz music. Just as jazz as a genre remains firmly rooted in specific musical forms yet swings with ever-new iterations, so too does Ubud maintain its traditions while allowing great diversity. Freedom of expression coupled with attention to detail and to the whole and the joyful celebration of life in all it’s forms for which Ubud is known also resonates with the spirit of jazz as a genre that indeed celebrates diversity.

It is perhaps no wonder therefor that the Ubud Village Jazz Festival continues thrive and grow more popular from year to year. Who knows what wonders next year holds for this remarkably pleasant and compelling festival.(kmb)

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In Nusa Penida

Results of renewable energy application less maximal

SEMARAPURA - Nusa Penida Islands, Klungkung, does not only hold the status of National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN), but also the location for renewable energy research. This is already underway, such as the solar energy and ocean current power plants. However, the results have not been maximized.

Head of the Planning, Research and Development Agency (Baperlitbang) of Klungkung, I Wayan Wasta, said the renewable electricity with wind and solar energy is still being used by Sekartaji villagers but the number is small. “The results have not been maximal. The wind power plant located on Puncak Mundi, Klumpu village is also the same and so as the ocean current power plant,” he said.

It is estimated to happen due to less supporting location. Chiefly the wind power seems necessary to be reviewed by central government as the builder. “The assets are still owned by the central government.

So, the authority to review lies in the central government,” he said.

According to Wasta, the application of renewable energy in The Blue Paradise Islands is quite appropriate because the territory is separated from the mainland.

Head of Research and Development Division of the Klungkung Planning, Research and Development Agency, Ketut Kusmayadi, explained that electricity production in the archipelago only amounts to 5.6 MW, sourced from Kutampi, Nusa Penida and Jungutbatu village, Nusa Lembongan. According to the analysis, the demand in 2020 reaches 7 MW and 10 MW in 2025. “The need tends to increase,” he said.

To fulfill it, a master plan has been prepared. Electricity supply will be carried out with renewable energy. Another alternative is the IBP/kmb construction of a Mini Gas Power Plant (PLTGM). “The direction is indeed the development of renewable energy,” he concluded. Nusa Penida Islands, Klungkung, does not only hold the status of National Tourism Strategic Area (kmb45) (KSPN), but also the location for renewable energy research.

Lombok earthquake does not affect Tanah Lot tourist visit

THOUGH the earthquake shook West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) and Bali some time ago, it did not dampen tourists’ interest in spending holidays in Bali. This can be seen from the number of tourist visits to Tanah

Lot attraction remaining stable after the earthquake.

From the latest data on Friday (Aug. 10), tourist visits reached 9,173 people consisting of 1,924 domestic tourists and 7,249 foreign

visitors. Meanwhile, the visit to Tanah Lot in July reached 111,335 domestic tourists and 159,371 foreign tourists. In total, the tourist visits reached 270,706 people. “The visit remains stable. On average, it reaches

9,000s each day. Hopefully, there will be no influence as there will be a festival in the near future,” said Operations Manager of Tanah Lot attraction, Ketut Toya Adnyana, on Sunday (Aug. 12).

Although it has no impact on the number of tourist visits, the management still applies security measures such as closing a number of accesses to the beach. This measure is meant to anticipate in the event of a major wave or anticipation of post-earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 in Lombok, NTB. “To prevent undesirable things, we close a number of accesses to the beach if the weather does not permit. We get information about weather conditions from the National Weather Service (BMKG) of Denpasar,” he said.

In addition to closing the pathways to the beach when the weather is not supportive, the management also assigns all the lifeguard personnel to conduct surveillance in the coastal areas.

Toya continued that after the earthquake in Lombok until now there has been no transition of tourists from Lombok to Bali, especially the Tanah Lot tourist attraction. He said that until now the number of tourist visits to Tanah Lot is still dominated by foreign tourists or a portion of 70 percent of foreign tourists, while the remaining 30 percent are domestic tourists. (kmb24)

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Fish fry: Japan heatwave threatens famed tuna auction

TOKYO - Fishmongers at Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji tuna auction are feeling the heat as the ageing market’s air conditioners struggle to keep up with a heatwave blanketing the country.

The dilapidated market is due to close later this year, and will relocate to a new, modern site.

But in the meantime wholesalers have been forced to take measures including keeping their pricey produce in cool trucks until moments before auction.

“We can’t replace the ageing air conditioners as we’re relocating very soon, and it’s been so hot that it’s hard to get the temperature down,” an official at the market told AFP. The auction space is usually kept at 15 degrees Celsius to keep the treasured tuna cool, but an “unprecedented” heatwave meant the mercury hit as high as 20 degrees in July, the official said.

To keep their fish fresh, wholesalers are keeping the shutters in the auction warehouse sealed, leaving tuna inside cool trucks until shortly before auction and covering fish with tarps as soon as they are sold.

“Wholesalers are doing their best to keep the tuna from thawing,” the official said.

After more than 80 years in operation, Tsukiji is scheduled to move to Toyosu, the site of a former gas plant, on October 11.

The current site is the world’s biggest fish market and a popular tourist attraction in an area packed with restaurants and shops.

Plans to move the market have been in the works for years, and the relocation was originally scheduled for 2016.

But myriad delays have set back the timeline, including the discovery of soil contamination at Toyosu.

Tsukiji opened in 1935 and is famed for its predawn tuna auctions, with one fish going for more than $320,000 at the market’s final New Year’s auction last year.

Japan has been struggling with a nationwide heatwave that killed 119 people and hospitalised nearly 50,000 others last month. (afp)

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The effects of heat haze is seen in this photograph as pedestrians cross a street during a heatwave in Tokyo on August 2, 2018.

S. Korean woman given rare jail term for spycam crime

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Female protesters call for South Korea’s government to crack down on widespread spycam porn crimes during a rally in Seoul on July 7, 2018.

SEOUL - A South Korean court on Monday slapped a woman with a rare jail term for secretly photographing a male nude model, in a case that sparked controversy over double standards.

High-tech South Korea has been battling a growing epidemic of socalled “molka” or spycam videos, which largely involve men secretly filming women in schools, offices, trains, toilets, changing rooms and on the street.

Spycam crimes reported to police surged from around 1,100 in 2010 to more than 6,500 last year, and many offenders share or sell photos and videos online.

According to official statistics about 98 percent of offenders are men -- ranging from school teachers and college professors to church pastors and police officers -- while more than 80 percent of victims

are women.

But in the latest case the woman in her 20s -- also a nude model -- was sentenced to 10 months in prison for taking a picture of her male counterpart at a Seoul art college and sharing it on the internet in May. She was arrested days later and paraded in front of television cameras while police raided her home to search for evidence -- described by many activists as an uncharacteristically swift and aggressive response. Patriarchal values are deeply ingrained in South Korea despite its economic and technological advances.

State data shows only 8.7 percent of high-tech peeping Toms are jailed on their first conviction, with most only fined or receiving suspended terms, seen by many as a slap on the wrist.

“The whole response by the

police to this rare case in which a victim is male is truly unprecedented,” said Seo Seung-hui, head of the Korea Cyber Sexual Violence civic group.

“We rarely saw them act so quickly for countless cases in which victims were female,” she told AFP. The case of the model -- who has not been named -- was a catalyst for a recent series of mass women’s rallies in Seoul, at which protestors accused the police and court of treating male victims and offenders more favourably than women.

Smartphones sold in the South are required to make a loud shutter noise when taking pictures, but many offenders use special apps that mute the sound, or turn to hightech spy cameras hidden inside eye glasses, lighters, watches, car keys and even neckties. (afp)

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BUSINESS Turkey’s president: US waging “economic war” against Turkey

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Masaiban, Simplest Sacrifice in Hindu

ISTANBUL - Turkey’s president on Saturday blamed the country’s economic downturn on the United States and other nations that he claims are waging “war” against his country.

Speaking in the northeastern province of Rize, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that dollars, euros and gold were now “the bullets, cannonballs and missiles of the economic war being waged against our country.”

Erdogan promised supporters that Turkey was taking the necessary precautions to protect its economy but added “the most important thing is breaking the hands firing these weapons.”

Turkey was hit by a financial shockwave this week as its currency nosedived over concerns about the government’s economic policies and a trade dispute with the United States.

The lira tumbled 14 percent Friday, to 6.51 per dollar, a massive move for a currency that will make Turkish residents poorer and further erode international investors’ confidence in the country. The currency drop is particularly painful for Turkey because it finances a lot of its economic growth with foreign money.

The currency’s drop — 41 percent so far this year — is a gauge of fear over a country coming to terms with years of high debt, international concern over Erdogan’s push to amass power, and a souring in relations with allies like the U.S. In an opinion piece published in The New York Times on Friday, Erdogan criticized the tensions

with the U.S., saying a “failure to reverse this trend of unilateralism and disrespect will require us to start looking for new friends and allies.”

Among the issues, Turkey has arrested an American pastor and put him on trial for espionage and terror-related charges linked to a failed coup attempt in the country two years ago. The pastor has proclaimed his innocence.

The U.S. responded by slapping sanctions on Turkey and threatening more. The sides held talks in Washington this week but failed to resolve the spat.

President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted that he had authorized the doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey.

He said the tariffs on aluminum imports would be increased to 20 percent and those on steel to 50 percent as the Turkish lira “slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar!”

“Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!” he wrote.

The United States is the biggest destination for Turkish steel exports, with 11 percent of the Turkish export volume. The lira fell further after Trump’s tweet.

Turkey later said Erdogan had held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss economic ties. It did not disclose details, but the move suggests Turkey might gravitate fur-

Offering saiban oblation or frequently known as mebanten nasi/ngejot is one of the traditions carried out by Hindu society, especially in Bali, done after cooking. It is also known as Yadnya Sesa, denoting the simplest offering that must be executed every day by the Hindus.

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters in his Black Sea hometown, Rize, Turkey, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018. The banner in the background reads “Long live fully independent Republic of Turkey.” ther from its NATO allies toward cooperation with Russia, whose relations with the West are at their lowest point since the Cold War. Turkey’s woes have been aggravated by investor worries about the economic policies of Erdogan, who won a new term in office in June with sweeping

new powers.

Erdogan has been putting pressure on Turkey’s central bank to not raise interest rates in order to keep fueling economic growth. He claims higher rates lead to higher inflation — the opposite of what standard economic theory says.

Independent analysts argue the

central bank should instead raise rates to tame inflation and support the currency.

Amid the dispute, foreign investors could be spooked and try to pull their money out, reinforcing the currency drop and potentially leading to financial instability. (ap)

Turkey to outline ‘new economic model’ as currency slides

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkey’s government says it will outline a “new economic model” on Friday as the national currency hit another record low amid concerns about the president’s policies and an ongoing dispute with the U.S. The lira, which has fallen about 30 percent since the start of the year, dropped to another low of 5.47 against the dollar on Thursday.

The slide followed news that high level meetings in Washington between U.S. and Turkish officials over a detained American pastor concluded without an apparent

resolution. The pastor’s detention led to Washington imposing punitive sanctions on two Turkish Cabinet ministers and warning of possible additional measures.

That added to existing concerns about the independence of the central bank. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants the bank to keep rates low to support economic growth, but independent economists say it should be free to raise rates to rein in inflation.

Turkey finances a lot of its economic growth with foreign investment, making it particularly

vulnerable to a slide in the currency. A weaker currency weakens returns for those foreign investors, who could pull their money out — reinforcing the currency drop and potentially leading to financial instability.

In such a case, Turkey could either seek financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund or decide to put limits on money outflows from the country.

Because IMF help comes with policies prescriptions, analysts say that Erdogan could be more inclined to try to control money flows.

Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak, who is Erdogan’s son-in-law, will present the outlines of a new economic model on Friday, his ministry said Thursday.

The ministry said it expects inflation, currently nearly 16 percent, to return to single digits and that the current account deficit would be lowered from the current 5.5 percent of GDP to 4 percent. It did not explain how it would achieve that.

Wednesday’s talks between Turkish and U.S. officials addressed the case of Pastor Andrew Brunson as well as the sanctions,

aiming to end the sharp rift between the NATO allies.

Brunson is on trial on espionage and terror-related charges related to a failed 2016 coup attempt, which he and the U.S. government adamantly deny. Washington has repeatedly demanded Brunson’s release.

Erdogan has previously linked Brunson’s return to the U.S. to the extradition of the cleric Turkey’s government holds responsible for the failed 2016 coup. The cleric denies orchestrating the coup attempt. (ap)

Masaiban as the simplest yadnya or sacrifice is often performed after cooking or before having meals. That’s how it should be. It means that people should offer food respectfully after completing the cooking activities.

“Masaiban is one of the easiest sacrifices to be implemented. It does not cost much, but must be undertaken every day. In Hinduism, it is believed that human beings after getting prosperous life from nature must be returned to nature again because nature is the source of our prosperity,” said Jero Mangku I Komang Nurata, a priest of clan temple in Besakih region.

In addition, the masaiban is also meant as an expression of devotion, gratitude for God’s fortune. As is known, yadnya ceremony serves as an intermediary between human beings and deities in order to get peace of mind. The saiban as we often see in the community is usually in the form of labaan containing rice, salt or vegetables placed on banana leaves.

Since belonging to the simplest form of sacrifice, there is no necessity in expressing the contents of the banten.

Rice and salt only are okay.

The most complete yadnya sésa is usually accompanied with canang sari, incense (as witness), and sprinkled with holy water or tirta. It can also be presented without other means because it is back to the essence namely yadnya sesa is a simple yadnya.

There are five places to offer saiban oblation namely Pertiwi (land), in front of the entrance gate into the house compound or in the home yard; Apah (water), placed in the well or at water meter of municipal waterworks; Teja (fire), placed in kitchen, cooking place; Bayu, at the place of storing rice; while Akasa, placed in the shrine, wooden platform and other places.

In addition, the Manawa Dharmasastra states that location where devotees usually put the saiban offerings are family temple, kitchen, water, shaving stone, mortar and brooms. These places are said to be the place of people doing Himsa Karma

every day. Therefore, the places must get the offerings.

“In harmony with the progress of time, all the properties owned are also offered with the saiban offerings such as motorcycles, TVs and cars considering that it is not only natures that can help people achieve prosperity. The equipment also greatly helps people achieve worldly prosperity.”

Jero Mangku added that talking about nature is the same as talking about this whole universe, including all of His creation. In other words, offering sacrifice to nature is the same as offering to all the creations of God like the bhuta-bhuti.

He reminded that such yadnya sesa should be implemented every day.

For Hindu community that has not implemented this yadnya should start it immediately. He assessed that people’s awareness in implementing yadnya sesa is still considered lacking. In addition, something considered trivial and simple can bring in catastrophe or cause problems in the future. (kmb)

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Sweet and Mellow Taste of Jaje Cerorot

The Hindu community in Bali which always preserves its ancestral culture has various unique and delicious traditional cakes or jaje. There is jaje purely the result of creative process of the community, while the others are the result of acculturation with other regional cultures or even that of other countries. Whatever the cake is, it remains to be preserved amidst of Balinese society until now. Even, its existence is always associated with ceremonial activities and Hindu ritual on the Island of the Gods.

For example, one of them is jaje cerorot. Optionally, it is often named the jaje blukbuk, usually served when the Hindu community is carrying out a wedding ceremony in the process of proposing. Jaje cerorot is accompanied with a pillow-like cake.

In Bali, this cake belongs to snack made from local (Balinese) rice flour combined with brown sugar and salt. On that account, it has a brownish red color. Cerorot is shaped with young coconut leaf wrap resembling a cone. For children, this cake is often referred to as the trumpet cake because the wrap is like a trumpet.

There is a special technique for eating this cake. If people do not know, they will open the pin (bamboo pin to button the wrap) and then eat the soft and creamy cake. For those who already know the technique of eating it will push on the tip at the lower end of the young coconut leaf pointing to the top, so that the content of the cake appears. Just press and adjust how long we are able to chew it. If you eat a little, then push it a little too, and if you can eat at once, then push it full. Once again, to take out the content fully, push the pointed end of the wrapper so that the content comes out. There is no need to open the curd of the wrap when eating the cake.

Lately, this cake is usually used for refreshment served for guests to accompany the drinks like coffee or tea. It is usually easy to get as widely sold in traditional markets and cake shops. Unlike before, if there was no wedding ceremony, this was not made.

Unfortunately, this sweet tasting cake can only last for one day.

The ingredients used to make the jaje cerorot are local rice, brown sugar and salt (to taste). First of all, the rice is washed clean, and then soaked overnight. After that, resume and make it into flour. In the past, the making of flour in the traditional way was pounded with pestle in the mortar. Then, sieve the flour.

This traditionally made flour makes the cake taste better when compared to flour made by factory.

Brown sugar is then liquefied with hot water and then filtered as well. Next, add flour into the cold brown sugar liquid with the addition of enough salt. To prepare the wrap, make the packaging from young coconut leaf. Remove the stick of the leaf, fold at one of the ends and then twist circularly resembling a cone. After the coconut leaf wrap has been made, the mixture is poured into the wrapper. Be careful, do not let it be full because when steamed it can melt and fall.

Finally, steam them until cooked (for approximately 20 minutes). To check whether the cake is already cooked, insert a palm stick into the steamed dough. If the dough is not sticky when being pulled, it means the cake is already cooked. If it has been cooked, take out the cake and it is ready to be served. (kmb)

Ritual Meaning Behind Mesuryak Tradition

Celebration of Kuningan Day at Bongan Gede Hamlet, Bongan, Tabanan, returned to be accompanied with mesuryak tradition on Saturday (Jun. 9). It took place lively.

The procession began around 09:00 until 11:00 local time marked with prayers at each resident’s house compound. After that, it was resumed with worship at village trinity temples and the merajan (family temple).

This worship is meant to invoke salvation to God as well as the ancestors believed to be at home during the celebration of Galungan until Kuningan. The mesuryak is then proceeded to bring all the ritual paraphernalia such as the offerings, including the one symbol-

izing the Raja Dewata (ancestors) to the front gate of each house compound.

Furthermore, temple priests or the elders chanted the prayers closed with mesuryak procession.

Each family provided provisions in the form of coins and banknotes.

The money was thrown into the air and then grabbed by residents.

Girls and boys scrambled for the money. From the observation, every Kuningan Day, about tens of millions of rupiahs are dedicated by the citizens of Bongan Gede hamlet for the mesuryak tradition.

Chief of Bongan Gede customary village, I Nyoman Parwata, said the tradition of mesuryak is passed down through generations at his

hamlet. “Mesuryak aims to deliver the ancestral spirits back to heaven after coming down and participate in the celebration of Galungan with their descendants.

After ten days, precisely on Kuningan feast, we accompany our ancestors back to heaven. We escort them with happiness while cheering (mesuryak) and throwing money into the air. Then, it is scrambled by many people,” he said.

The amount of money used in the mesuryak varies depending on the economic capacity of the citizens. This tradition has existed for generations and remains to be organized every six months (210 days) coinciding with Kuningan Day. (kmb)

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Mozambique’s child marriage and teen pregnancy rates are among the highest in the world, a driving factor in the population explosion in this poverty-plagued southern African nation.

Teen pregnancy epidemic eeds Mozambique’s population boom MURRUPELANE - In the tiny maternity ward in Murrupelane, two 16-year-old mothers breast-feed their babies, both born that morning.

Mozambique’s child marriage and teen pregnancy rates are among the highest in the world, a driving factor in the population explosion in this poverty-plagued southern African nation.

After emerging from a brutal war in 1992, the former Portuguese colony saw its population swell 40 percent in the two decades to 2017, reaching 29 million today.

“My parents really wanted me to get married,” says Julia Afonso, one of the girls who has just given birth in Murrupelane, a village in the north.

In a tiny voice, she says her family received 1,500 meticals ($21, 22 euros) as a dowry.

Around half of Mozambique’s women -- 48.2 percent -- marry before they turn 18, according to UN children’s agency UNICEF. Of girls aged between 15 and 19, 46.4 percent are either pregnant or have already become mothers.

These early marriages and pregnancies “are impoverishing the community,” says Murrupelane village chief Wazir Abacar.

Young parents “cannot feed their children, and the mums leave school,” he said. As a result, 58 percent of Mozambican women are illiterate.

- Pregnant at 12 -

Ema Nelmane, now 13, gave into the advances of a man she met in the market who offered her 200 meticals (three euros) for her virginity.

“She saw a chance to get the same shoes her friends were wearing,” her grandmother said, by way of explanation.

When she fell pregnant, Ema was flabbergasted.

“I didn’t know you could get pregnant by making love,” she said, breast-feeding seven-month-old Ismail in the clay yard outside her grandmother’s home.

Ema was plunged prematurely into the world of adults.

“I can’t go out and play with my friends anymore,” she said.

As in other developing countries, teenagers in Mozambique often fall pregnant “through lack of education”, said demographer Carlos Arnaldo.

“Parents see in these births a guarantee that they’ll be looked after when they get old.”

Until recently, Mozambique’s government did little to tackle demographic problems.

But the mounting costs of the population boom have forced a change of thinking.

- Contraception drive -

“The economic consequences for the government are that it has to

build hospitals and schools,” said Pascoa Wate, head of maternal and child health at the health ministry.

“In spite of government spending, people don’t have access to them.”

In a bid to curb the population explosion, Mozambique’s government is in the process of changing the law to allow marriage only at 18, rather than at 16 with parental consent.

“We know that the practice of early marriage is rooted in deeplyseated cultural values and social norms that prioritise fertility,” said Youth Minister Nyeleti Mondlane.

With UN support, Mozambique has also been waging a contraception awareness campaign since 2016.

Only a quarter of women currently have access to contraception, according to a national health survey.

In the shadow of a mango tree in the northern village of Namissica, a dozen women crowd around a table to watch a nurse demonstrate how to use different contraception, with the help of a wooden model penis and a plastic vagina.

If their husbands are “not cooperative”, nurse Fatima da Silva Cobre advises women to opt for a birth control implant.

“He won’t know you’re using it,” she says.

The women ask anxious questions: could the implant fall out?

Won’t it make them infertile?

One by one, the nurse debunks the myths. (afp)

International

Children among 39 civilians dead in Syria arms depot blast: monitor

SARMADA - An explosion at a weapons depot that toppled buildings in a rebel-held town of northwest Syria killed at least 39 civilians including a dozen children Sunday, a monitor said.

An AFP correspondent at the site in Sarmada in Idlib province near the Turkish border said the explosion of unknown origin caused the collapse of two buildings.

Rescue workers used bulldozers to remove rubble and extract trapped people from the flattened buildings, the correspondent said.

A civil defence source told AFP that rescue workers had pulled out “five people who were still alive”.

But the death toll rose as more bodies were retrieved from the rubble, according to Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.

Three Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) members were also killed, apart from the 39 civilians, he said.

“The explosion occurred in a weapons depot in a residential building in Sarmada,” said the head of the Britain-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.

But the cause of the blast was “not yet clear”, Abdel Rahman added.

He said most of those killed were family members of fighters from HTS, an alliance led by jihadists from Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate, who had been displaced to the area from the central province of Homs.

A rescue worker carried the motionless body of a small child from the wreckage to an ambulance, the AFP correspondent said.

White Helmet rescue workers attempted to lift part of a floor of one of the buildings with a tall crane, as three young boys watched on in silence, perched on a rock.

Behind mounds of rubble, the facade of a building was scorched black, due to a fire after the blast. (afp)

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Lights out for Indonesia’s LRT just days before Asian Games

Indonesia is investigating a series of malfunctions that have plagued its first light rapid transit (LRT) system just days out from the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, the transport ministry said Monday.

The LRT in the city Palembang -- which is co-hosting the Games with Jakarta -- needs to be operating smoothly as thousands of athletes, officials and visitors arrive this week for the start of the world’s biggest multi-sport event behind the Olympics.

Indonesia has set aside worries about terrorism, street crime, venue completion and Jakarta’s notorious traffic, saying it is ready to roll for the August 18-September 2 Games.

But officials on Monday were forced to acknowledge a series of “shortcomings” with the LRT, seen as key to avoiding traffic snarls in Palembang on Sumatra island.

A short circuit knocked out power to a portion of the transit system Sunday, halting trains and forcing passengers to disembark between two stations.

Just days earlier passengers had to endure long delays due to signals interference, which caused the temporary suspension of services, local media reported.

“The government will immediately evaluate the whole operation of the South Sumatra LRT,” said Zulfikri, director general of railways at the transportation ministry. “(We) hope this evaluation will provide a solution that will improve the overall operation of the LRT,” added the official, who like many Indonesians has only one name.

Jakarta and Palembang will host about 11,000 athletes and 5,000 officials from 45 Asian countries for the Games.

Indonesia had less time to prepare than most host countries after it only agreed four years ago to host the games when Vietnam pulled out.(afp)

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[FILES] This file photo taken on July 13, 2018 shows Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (2nd L) and high-ranking officials sitting inside a light rail transit (LRT) rail car at Jakabaring station in Palembang, in South Sumatra province, as they innaugurate the line ahead of the coming Asian Games. Indonesia is investigating a series of malfunctions that have plagued its first light rapid transit (LRT) system just days out from the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, the transport ministry said on August 13, 2018.

Prabowo Subianto, Uno arrive President receives credentials at hospital for health check from eight ambassadors

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A tractor clears the rubble of destroyed buildings on August 12, 2018 following an explosion at an arms depot in a residential area in Syria’s northern Idlib province city of Sarmada in which dozens of people were reportedly killed.

JAKARTA- Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, vice presidential candidate Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno arrived at Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital, Central Jakarta, on Monday morning for medical checkup.

Prabowo Subianto arrived at 6:42 a.m. local time, while Sandiaga Uno at 7:05 a.m. They were both greeted by Arief Budiman, head of the Election Commission (KPU), upon arrival in the hospital.

In response to the press` questions, Prabowo said he just rested at his home in Hambalang, Bogor (West Java Province), and watched television a day prior the medical exam.

Meanwhile, Sandiaga Uno

said: “Alhamdulillah (Thank God), I am fasting and Insha Allah (God Willing) it will run smoothly. Please pray for us.” On Sunday, incumbent Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and his running mate, Ma`ruf Amin also underwent medical exams at the same hospital.

Indonesia will hold simultaneous presidential and legislative elections on April 17, 2019.

In the presidential elections next year, Prabowo Subianto-Uno pair will challenge Jokowi-Amin in a re-run of the 2014 presidential race.

Seeking a second term, Jokowi has picked a prominent cleric as his running mate, while Subianto has chosen Uno, vice governor of Jakarta and successful young businessman.(ant)

JAKARTA - Eight Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors “Resident Designate” and “NonResident Designate” to the Republic of Indonesia from eight countries presented their credentials to President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the Merdeka Palace here on Monday.

President Jokowi welcomed and directly led the ceremony of the handover of credentials from the ambassadors from eight countries to Indonesia.

At the start of the event, State Protocol Chief Andri Hadi reported and introduced the eight ambassadors to President Jokowi.

“Honorable president, please allow us to present eight extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors

from friendly countries to submit their credentials,” Hadi noted.

The eight ambassadors include Resident Ambassador Designate of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Indonesia Ulugbek Rozukulov, Resident Ambassador Designate Royal Thai to Indonesia Songphoi Sukchan, Resident Ambassador Designate of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Indonesia Pham Vinh Quang, and Resident Ambassador Designate of the Republic of Armenia to Indonesia Dziunik Aghajanian.

The others were Resident Ambassador Designate of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Indonesia Abdul Salik Khan, Non-Resident Ambassador Designate of the Republic of the Philippines to

Indonesia Lee Hiong Tan Wae, Non-Resident Ambassador Designate of the Guyana Cooperative Republic to Indonesia domiciled in New Delhi in India David Goldwin Pollard, and Non-Resident Ambassador Designate of the Republic of Burundi to the Republic of Indonesia based in New Delhi, India, Stella Budiriganya.

After the ceremony to hand over the credentials, President Jokowi invited the ambassadors for a discussion on the porch behind Merdeka Palace during a Veranda Talk session.

On the occasion, President Jokowi was accompanied by Foreign Minister Retno L. P. Marsudi.(ant)

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Upscale Beachside Dining and Nightlife in Seminyak SEMINYAK - Ku De Ta Bali is one of Bali’s most prominent hotspots, often considered the trendsetter for upscale nightlife and beach dining venues in Seminyak, which eventually inspired other similar enterprises all over the island. The black-clad staff and the unique layout features a main restaurant area, a dedicated bar, a centrepiece lawn bordering the beachfront where all special events take place, and a special private loft for secluded VIP-style moments. All combine to give this one-stop dining and chillout spot its island- and nationwide reputation. Ku De Ta Bali continues to appeal to the Bali international dining and nightlife scene with its lively setup in a gorgeous beachside setting with ‘French bistro-esque’ features and many different favourite cosy corners to discover. Ku De Ta is also home to Mejekawi, a modern restaurant offering locally-

influenced haute cuisine.

Besides Chef Davenport’s vast array of international selections in which he also incorporates the latest approaches in food preparations, such as ‘sous vide’ low-temperature cooking, Ku De Ta Bali is best known for its lounge-style large parasol-shaded beachfront-bordering lawn and area, host to various private and international scale fashion shows, splurges, as well as community and charity events. Ku De Ta’s main restaurant features a modern and minimalist approach to architecture, with clean lines and uninterrupted flow of energy from the coast to the lawn and gardens as well as throughout the dining areas.

Various separate dining sections coexist within such as a Tree Bar featuring playful shades and textures reminiscent of a tropical forest setting, a highceilinged Wantilan pavilion roof with a spacious canopy under which guests dine by candlelight in the evenings or

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in a semi-formal atmosphere for long brunches by day, or a more intimate extension of the main dining room – the pergola.

Another extension is Fidel’s, a place to meet, be seen and rendezvous with friends on the expansive leather couches. Sexion 9 is an open-style feasting hall; the lawn and the day beds on the beachfront is where all the excitement and scheduled events take place while a dedicated sunset box is positioned to provide the perfect vantage point to appreciate the sun going down. Ku De Ta Bali has its own in-house international DJ team who compile its own series of compilation albums. It has also teamed up with local English-language radio dedicated to lounge and chill-out music, with its own FM airwaves and internet live streaming KDT Radio, reaching a world audience. (net)

MANILA - A Philippines bid to have Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guard Jordan Clarkson play for their Asian Games team has been dashed after the National Basketball Association refused to release him.

Clarkson, who appeared off the bench in two 2018 NBA finals games against repeat champions Golden State Warriors, was included by the basketball-crazy Asian nation in their squad last week as they tried to get his paperwork done on time.

However Clarkson, who has never played for the Philippines, and the Philippine federation (SBP) said Monday they have been informed that the NBA would not release him for the Asiad.

“To my Filipino Brothers and Sisters, I am terribly disappointed to say that I have not received the required consent to participate in the upcoming Asian Games with our National Team,” he said on his official Facebook page.

“Despite this, my desire and ambition to play with my countrymen in the future remains resolute and I am adamant that this dream will come true! Stout Heart!” added the 26-year-old, whose maternal grandmother came from the Philippines.

“Of course, very disappointed,” Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) president Al Panlilio told AFP in a text message.

“But knowing our team under coach Yeng (Guiao), we will fight and play h a r d . We h a v e always been resilient,” Panlilio added.

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SYDNEY - Usain Bolt might be a superstar athlete but the fastest man ever won’t be getting special treatment when he arrives in Australia in his bid to become a professional footballer.

Australia’s Central Coast Mariners have agreed to help the eight-time Olympic champion achieve his long-held dream, letting him train with the club indefinitely in his pursuit of a playing contract.

He is due to arrive in Gosford, 75 kilometres (47 miles) north of Sydney, on his own this weekend and has made just one demand -- that his hire car is black.

“Colour of choice, apparently,” Mariners chief executive Shaun Mielekamp told the Sydney Daily Telegraph Monday. “So black it is.”

Asked if there had been other demands, he said: “No, there’s only that one.

“We’ve had no requests for private bodyguards, personal masseurs, chauf-

feurs. Nothing about providing bottled water from France, either,” he added.

And his hire car won’t be top of the range either. Instead, he will make do with one of the Hyundais the club is provided with each year as part of a sponsorship deal.

Asked how Team Bolt would fit inside anything but a stretch limo, Mielekamp told the newspaper: “There isn’t any entourage.

“It’s only Bolt and his manager, and the latter is already here. So when Usain arrives at Sydney airport this weekend, he will be travelling alone.

“And when he drives, it will be in a Hyundai like everyone else at the club.”

Despite the Jamaican’s no-frills approach, managing his presence will be a tougher proposition with extra security guards on hand for any public appearances and club training sessions moved to a larger venue to cater for demand.

“The one thing we’ve been really

firm on is that Usain, while trialling for a contract, be treated the same as any player,” said Mielekamp.

“Obviously, we understand the realities of having somebody of his profile.

But (when it comes to football) there will be no advantages.

“And that’s what Bolt wants -- this is about his football journey. He’s coming here for the right reasons.”

Bolt dominated sprinting since taking double individual gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He went on to win a further six Olympic golds and pick up 11 world titles. (afp) This file photo taken on March 23, 2018 shows retired Jamaican Olympic and World champion sprinter Usain Bolt taking part in a training session of German Bundesliga football team Dortmund in Dortmund.

SBP executive director Renauld Barrios told AFP the Asian Games was not included in the NBA’s agreement with world governing body FIBA that allows NBA players to take part in the Olympics, the FIBA World Cup and continental cup competitions.

A 2014 second-round draftee of the Washington Wizards, Clarkson has an NBA career average of 14.1 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists, most of them during a spell at the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Philippines had originally withdrawn from the Asiad men’s basketball tournament after seeing 10 of their first-team players and two coaches hit with suspensions and fines after an on-court brawl with Australia at a World Cup qualifier last month.

However the federation hastily assembled a team from scratch, naming Clarkson in the 12-man roster last week, after being prevailed upon by a senior aide to president Rodrigo Duterte to change their decision.

Winners of four Asiad basketball golds, but none after 1962, the Philippines are in the tough Group D with one of the gold medal favourites, China. Their opening game is against Kazakhstan on August 16. (afp)

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Neymar scores early goal as PSG starts season with 3-0 win

AP Photo/Michael Probst

Munich players celebrate with the trophy after a soccer Supercup match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich In Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, Aug.12, 2018.

Kovac’s Bayern routs Frankfurt 5-0 in German curtain raiser

FRANKFURT — Robert Lewandowski scored a hat trick as Bayern Munich won the German Super Cup on Sunday with a 5-0 rout of Eintracht Frankfurt in an impressive start for new coach Niko Kovac.

The Poland striker, who had a disappointing World Cup, effectively ended the game against Kovac’s former team with two goals in five minutes midway through the first half. Lewandowski completed his hat trick early in the second, before substitute Kingsley Coman claimed the fourth and set up Thiago Alcantara for the fifth.

Kovac was back at the club he saved from relegation after taking over in 2016 and led to successive German Cup finals.

He won the cup at the second attempt in his final game at Frankfurt in May to deny his future club Bayern the double.

Frankfurt fans gave the 46-year-old Kovac a respectful reception on his return.(ap)

PARIS — Neymar took just 10 minutes to score defending champion Paris Saint-Germain’s first goal of the season, and teen striker Timothy Weah netted the first of his French league career, in a 3-0 home win against Caen on Sunday.

On the same pitch where he broke his foot against Marseille six months ago, Neymar ran onto a pass from midfielder Christopher Nkunku and coolly slotted the ball past goalkeeper Brice Samba and into the bottom left corner.

Samba was at fault for the goal after botching a clearance and instead passing straight to Nkunku.

The visitors almost equalized moments later but veteran Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon made a smart stop from striker Malik Tchokounte’s volley.

But after another mistake, when Caen lost the ball in midfield, winger Angel Di Maria broke down the right and set up midfielder Adrien Rabiot for a tap-in in the 35th.

Buffon saved again, this time near halftime, and smiled after preventing a headed own-goal from PSG captain Thiago Silva.

It was a comfortable first league game in charge for PSG coach

Thomas Tuchel — who replaced Unai Emery — and he chose to rest several players. They included forward Kylian Mbappe, who helped France win the World Cup, and Belgium right back Thomas Meunier.

Tuchel picked three 19-year-olds in his side, underlining his reputation from his time as a coach in Germany , where he fast-tracked players from the youth academy at Mainz.

Neymar, making his first appearance since Brazil’s World Cup quarterfinal defeat to Belgium, had a quiet game after his goal and was replaced 10 minutes from time by the 18-year-old Weah.

Samba made another glaring mistake near the end, gifting another goal after failing to properly clear a back pass. Weah, who is the son of Liberia President and former PSG striker George Weah, gleefully stroked the ball home.

Monaco, Lyon and Marseille also clinched victories — meaning the top four from last season all won their opening games — and Marseille leads on goal difference from PSG after beating Toulouse 4-0 on Friday.

DEPAY DELIVERS Memphis Depay expertly

curled in a free kick as Lyon beat Amiens 2-0 at home.

With 15 minutes remaining, the Netherlands forward whipped the ball from the left into the top right corner to seal a comfortable victory after winger Bertrand Traore scored with a neat run and finish in the 24th minute.

Depay scored 19 league goals last season, finishing it strongly to put himself in the frame for a move to a bigger club. The former Manchester United player recently said that, although he feels happy at Lyon, he is open to a move before the summer transfer window closes at the end of August.

Also Sunday, Strasbourg won 2-0 at Bordeaux.

Strasbourg played most of the game with an extra player after Brazilian defender Pablo was sent off in the 13th minute for pulling back forward Ludovic Ajorque as he ran through on goal.

The Alsace side made the pressure count in the 68th through a goal from midfielder Ibrahima Sissoko, and striker Nuno Da Costa struck 10 minutes later.(ap)

Brazil great Ronaldo hopes to leave hospital on Monday Brazil soccer great Ronaldo said on Sunday that he has been hospitalized in Ibiza since Friday because of flu. The 41-year-old Ronaldo, a three-time FIFA World Player of the Year, said on social media that “everything is under control now” and that he expects to return home on Monday.

Ronaldo won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002, the striker scoring eight goals at the tournament to take the Golden Boot. He spends much of his time in Spain, where he played briefly at Barcelona and at Real Madrid between 2002 and 2007.

He retired from football in 2011 at Brazil’s Corinthians.

Ronaldo owns a football marketing agency in Brazil and occasionally works as a pundit at TV Globo.

Caca Ferrari, a spokesman for the former player, told The Associated Press that Ronaldo’s tweets in Portuguese and Spanish will be his only public comments on his admission to hospital.

Ferrari denied media reports that claimed Ronaldo was first admitted to an intensive care unit in Spain and then moved to another hospital. He confirmed the Brazilian was on vacation.

Brazil’s UOL Esporte website said Ronaldo was first admitted at Ibiza’s Can Misses hospital and later transferred to the Policlinica Nuestra Senora del Rosario.

Neither hospital replied to requests for comment from the AP.(ap)

AP Photo/Michel Euler

PSG’s Neymar, center, challenge for the ball with Caen’s Stef Peeters, left, during their League One soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Caen at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018.

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Rooney inspires DC United to last-gasp win A moment of magic from Wayne Rooney fired DC United to a last-gasp 3-2 victory over Orlando in Major League Soccer on Sunday. The two sides had appeared to be heading for a 2-2 draw at Audi Field as Orlando broke out following a United corner in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

With United goalkeeper David Ousted stranded upfield, Orlando’s Will Johnson advanced past halfway with an empty net ahead of him.

But a superb last-ditch tackle from Rooney upended Ousted, and the former England and Manchester United star then launched a long ball into the area met by Luciano Acosta, who nodded home the winner.

Argentinian striker Acosta’s goal completed a hat-trick and

gave United a vital three points as they attempt to move off the bottom of the Eastern Conference. United remain rooted to the foot of the standings however with 21 points from 20 games.

United have several games in hand over the teams above them however, and could yet conceivably mount a charge towards the playoffs in the closing months of the season.

Rooney had also been instrumental in setting up Acosta’s first goal of the game in stoppage time at the end of the first half.

Rooney, England and Manchester United’s all-time record goalscorer, confirmed his move to MLS in June after a season with Everton in the Premier League.(afp)

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Neymar scores early goal as PSG starts season with 3-0 win

AP Photo/Michael Probst

Munich players celebrate with the trophy after a soccer Supercup match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich In Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, Aug.12, 2018.

Kovac’s Bayern routs Frankfurt 5-0 in German curtain raiser

FRANKFURT — Robert Lewandowski scored a hat trick as Bayern Munich won the German Super Cup on Sunday with a 5-0 rout of Eintracht Frankfurt in an impressive start for new coach Niko Kovac.

The Poland striker, who had a disappointing World Cup, effectively ended the game against Kovac’s former team with two goals in five minutes midway through the first half. Lewandowski completed his hat trick early in the second, before substitute Kingsley Coman claimed the fourth and set up Thiago Alcantara for the fifth.

Kovac was back at the club he saved from relegation after taking over in 2016 and led to successive German Cup finals.

He won the cup at the second attempt in his final game at Frankfurt in May to deny his future club Bayern the double.

Frankfurt fans gave the 46-year-old Kovac a respectful reception on his return.(ap)

PARIS — Neymar took just 10 minutes to score defending champion Paris Saint-Germain’s first goal of the season, and teen striker Timothy Weah netted the first of his French league career, in a 3-0 home win against Caen on Sunday.

On the same pitch where he broke his foot against Marseille six months ago, Neymar ran onto a pass from midfielder Christopher Nkunku and coolly slotted the ball past goalkeeper Brice Samba and into the bottom left corner.

Samba was at fault for the goal after botching a clearance and instead passing straight to Nkunku.

The visitors almost equalized moments later but veteran Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon made a smart stop from striker Malik Tchokounte’s volley.

But after another mistake, when Caen lost the ball in midfield, winger Angel Di Maria broke down the right and set up midfielder Adrien Rabiot for a tap-in in the 35th.

Buffon saved again, this time near halftime, and smiled after preventing a headed own-goal from PSG captain Thiago Silva.

It was a comfortable first league game in charge for PSG coach

Thomas Tuchel — who replaced Unai Emery — and he chose to rest several players. They included forward Kylian Mbappe, who helped France win the World Cup, and Belgium right back Thomas Meunier.

Tuchel picked three 19-year-olds in his side, underlining his reputation from his time as a coach in Germany , where he fast-tracked players from the youth academy at Mainz.

Neymar, making his first appearance since Brazil’s World Cup quarterfinal defeat to Belgium, had a quiet game after his goal and was replaced 10 minutes from time by the 18-year-old Weah.

Samba made another glaring mistake near the end, gifting another goal after failing to properly clear a back pass. Weah, who is the son of Liberia President and former PSG striker George Weah, gleefully stroked the ball home.

Monaco, Lyon and Marseille also clinched victories — meaning the top four from last season all won their opening games — and Marseille leads on goal difference from PSG after beating Toulouse 4-0 on Friday.

DEPAY DELIVERS Memphis Depay expertly

curled in a free kick as Lyon beat Amiens 2-0 at home.

With 15 minutes remaining, the Netherlands forward whipped the ball from the left into the top right corner to seal a comfortable victory after winger Bertrand Traore scored with a neat run and finish in the 24th minute.

Depay scored 19 league goals last season, finishing it strongly to put himself in the frame for a move to a bigger club. The former Manchester United player recently said that, although he feels happy at Lyon, he is open to a move before the summer transfer window closes at the end of August.

Also Sunday, Strasbourg won 2-0 at Bordeaux.

Strasbourg played most of the game with an extra player after Brazilian defender Pablo was sent off in the 13th minute for pulling back forward Ludovic Ajorque as he ran through on goal.

The Alsace side made the pressure count in the 68th through a goal from midfielder Ibrahima Sissoko, and striker Nuno Da Costa struck 10 minutes later.(ap)

Brazil great Ronaldo hopes to leave hospital on Monday Brazil soccer great Ronaldo said on Sunday that he has been hospitalized in Ibiza since Friday because of flu. The 41-year-old Ronaldo, a three-time FIFA World Player of the Year, said on social media that “everything is under control now” and that he expects to return home on Monday.

Ronaldo won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002, the striker scoring eight goals at the tournament to take the Golden Boot. He spends much of his time in Spain, where he played briefly at Barcelona and at Real Madrid between 2002 and 2007.

He retired from football in 2011 at Brazil’s Corinthians.

Ronaldo owns a football marketing agency in Brazil and occasionally works as a pundit at TV Globo.

Caca Ferrari, a spokesman for the former player, told The Associated Press that Ronaldo’s tweets in Portuguese and Spanish will be his only public comments on his admission to hospital.

Ferrari denied media reports that claimed Ronaldo was first admitted to an intensive care unit in Spain and then moved to another hospital. He confirmed the Brazilian was on vacation.

Brazil’s UOL Esporte website said Ronaldo was first admitted at Ibiza’s Can Misses hospital and later transferred to the Policlinica Nuestra Senora del Rosario.

Neither hospital replied to requests for comment from the AP.(ap)

AP Photo/Michel Euler

PSG’s Neymar, center, challenge for the ball with Caen’s Stef Peeters, left, during their League One soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Caen at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018.

9

Rooney inspires DC United to last-gasp win A moment of magic from Wayne Rooney fired DC United to a last-gasp 3-2 victory over Orlando in Major League Soccer on Sunday. The two sides had appeared to be heading for a 2-2 draw at Audi Field as Orlando broke out following a United corner in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

With United goalkeeper David Ousted stranded upfield, Orlando’s Will Johnson advanced past halfway with an empty net ahead of him.

But a superb last-ditch tackle from Rooney upended Ousted, and the former England and Manchester United star then launched a long ball into the area met by Luciano Acosta, who nodded home the winner.

Argentinian striker Acosta’s goal completed a hat-trick and

gave United a vital three points as they attempt to move off the bottom of the Eastern Conference. United remain rooted to the foot of the standings however with 21 points from 20 games.

United have several games in hand over the teams above them however, and could yet conceivably mount a charge towards the playoffs in the closing months of the season.

Rooney had also been instrumental in setting up Acosta’s first goal of the game in stoppage time at the end of the first half.

Rooney, England and Manchester United’s all-time record goalscorer, confirmed his move to MLS in June after a season with Everton in the Premier League.(afp)

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NBA dashes Philippines’ Jordan dream at Asiad

Upscale Beachside Dining and Nightlife in Seminyak SEMINYAK - Ku De Ta Bali is one of Bali’s most prominent hotspots, often considered the trendsetter for upscale nightlife and beach dining venues in Seminyak, which eventually inspired other similar enterprises all over the island. The black-clad staff and the unique layout features a main restaurant area, a dedicated bar, a centrepiece lawn bordering the beachfront where all special events take place, and a special private loft for secluded VIP-style moments. All combine to give this one-stop dining and chillout spot its island- and nationwide reputation. Ku De Ta Bali continues to appeal to the Bali international dining and nightlife scene with its lively setup in a gorgeous beachside setting with ‘French bistro-esque’ features and many different favourite cosy corners to discover. Ku De Ta is also home to Mejekawi, a modern restaurant offering locally-

influenced haute cuisine.

Besides Chef Davenport’s vast array of international selections in which he also incorporates the latest approaches in food preparations, such as ‘sous vide’ low-temperature cooking, Ku De Ta Bali is best known for its lounge-style large parasol-shaded beachfront-bordering lawn and area, host to various private and international scale fashion shows, splurges, as well as community and charity events. Ku De Ta’s main restaurant features a modern and minimalist approach to architecture, with clean lines and uninterrupted flow of energy from the coast to the lawn and gardens as well as throughout the dining areas.

Various separate dining sections coexist within such as a Tree Bar featuring playful shades and textures reminiscent of a tropical forest setting, a highceilinged Wantilan pavilion roof with a spacious canopy under which guests dine by candlelight in the evenings or

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in a semi-formal atmosphere for long brunches by day, or a more intimate extension of the main dining room – the pergola.

Another extension is Fidel’s, a place to meet, be seen and rendezvous with friends on the expansive leather couches. Sexion 9 is an open-style feasting hall; the lawn and the day beds on the beachfront is where all the excitement and scheduled events take place while a dedicated sunset box is positioned to provide the perfect vantage point to appreciate the sun going down. Ku De Ta Bali has its own in-house international DJ team who compile its own series of compilation albums. It has also teamed up with local English-language radio dedicated to lounge and chill-out music, with its own FM airwaves and internet live streaming KDT Radio, reaching a world audience. (net)

MANILA - A Philippines bid to have Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guard Jordan Clarkson play for their Asian Games team has been dashed after the National Basketball Association refused to release him.

Clarkson, who appeared off the bench in two 2018 NBA finals games against repeat champions Golden State Warriors, was included by the basketball-crazy Asian nation in their squad last week as they tried to get his paperwork done on time.

However Clarkson, who has never played for the Philippines, and the Philippine federation (SBP) said Monday they have been informed that the NBA would not release him for the Asiad.

“To my Filipino Brothers and Sisters, I am terribly disappointed to say that I have not received the required consent to participate in the upcoming Asian Games with our National Team,” he said on his official Facebook page.

“Despite this, my desire and ambition to play with my countrymen in the future remains resolute and I am adamant that this dream will come true! Stout Heart!” added the 26-year-old, whose maternal grandmother came from the Philippines.

“Of course, very disappointed,” Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) president Al Panlilio told AFP in a text message.

“But knowing our team under coach Yeng (Guiao), we will fight and play h a r d . We h a v e always been resilient,” Panlilio added.

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SYDNEY - Usain Bolt might be a superstar athlete but the fastest man ever won’t be getting special treatment when he arrives in Australia in his bid to become a professional footballer.

Australia’s Central Coast Mariners have agreed to help the eight-time Olympic champion achieve his long-held dream, letting him train with the club indefinitely in his pursuit of a playing contract.

He is due to arrive in Gosford, 75 kilometres (47 miles) north of Sydney, on his own this weekend and has made just one demand -- that his hire car is black.

“Colour of choice, apparently,” Mariners chief executive Shaun Mielekamp told the Sydney Daily Telegraph Monday. “So black it is.”

Asked if there had been other demands, he said: “No, there’s only that one.

“We’ve had no requests for private bodyguards, personal masseurs, chauf-

feurs. Nothing about providing bottled water from France, either,” he added.

And his hire car won’t be top of the range either. Instead, he will make do with one of the Hyundais the club is provided with each year as part of a sponsorship deal.

Asked how Team Bolt would fit inside anything but a stretch limo, Mielekamp told the newspaper: “There isn’t any entourage.

“It’s only Bolt and his manager, and the latter is already here. So when Usain arrives at Sydney airport this weekend, he will be travelling alone.

“And when he drives, it will be in a Hyundai like everyone else at the club.”

Despite the Jamaican’s no-frills approach, managing his presence will be a tougher proposition with extra security guards on hand for any public appearances and club training sessions moved to a larger venue to cater for demand.

“The one thing we’ve been really

firm on is that Usain, while trialling for a contract, be treated the same as any player,” said Mielekamp.

“Obviously, we understand the realities of having somebody of his profile.

But (when it comes to football) there will be no advantages.

“And that’s what Bolt wants -- this is about his football journey. He’s coming here for the right reasons.”

Bolt dominated sprinting since taking double individual gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He went on to win a further six Olympic golds and pick up 11 world titles. (afp) This file photo taken on March 23, 2018 shows retired Jamaican Olympic and World champion sprinter Usain Bolt taking part in a training session of German Bundesliga football team Dortmund in Dortmund.

SBP executive director Renauld Barrios told AFP the Asian Games was not included in the NBA’s agreement with world governing body FIBA that allows NBA players to take part in the Olympics, the FIBA World Cup and continental cup competitions.

A 2014 second-round draftee of the Washington Wizards, Clarkson has an NBA career average of 14.1 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists, most of them during a spell at the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Philippines had originally withdrawn from the Asiad men’s basketball tournament after seeing 10 of their first-team players and two coaches hit with suspensions and fines after an on-court brawl with Australia at a World Cup qualifier last month.

However the federation hastily assembled a team from scratch, naming Clarkson in the 12-man roster last week, after being prevailed upon by a senior aide to president Rodrigo Duterte to change their decision.

Winners of four Asiad basketball golds, but none after 1962, the Philippines are in the tough Group D with one of the gold medal favourites, China. Their opening game is against Kazakhstan on August 16. (afp)

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Mozambique’s child marriage and teen pregnancy rates are among the highest in the world, a driving factor in the population explosion in this poverty-plagued southern African nation.

Teen pregnancy epidemic eeds Mozambique’s population boom MURRUPELANE - In the tiny maternity ward in Murrupelane, two 16-year-old mothers breast-feed their babies, both born that morning.

Mozambique’s child marriage and teen pregnancy rates are among the highest in the world, a driving factor in the population explosion in this poverty-plagued southern African nation.

After emerging from a brutal war in 1992, the former Portuguese colony saw its population swell 40 percent in the two decades to 2017, reaching 29 million today.

“My parents really wanted me to get married,” says Julia Afonso, one of the girls who has just given birth in Murrupelane, a village in the north.

In a tiny voice, she says her family received 1,500 meticals ($21, 22 euros) as a dowry.

Around half of Mozambique’s women -- 48.2 percent -- marry before they turn 18, according to UN children’s agency UNICEF. Of girls aged between 15 and 19, 46.4 percent are either pregnant or have already become mothers.

These early marriages and pregnancies “are impoverishing the community,” says Murrupelane village chief Wazir Abacar.

Young parents “cannot feed their children, and the mums leave school,” he said. As a result, 58 percent of Mozambican women are illiterate.

- Pregnant at 12 -

Ema Nelmane, now 13, gave into the advances of a man she met in the market who offered her 200 meticals (three euros) for her virginity.

“She saw a chance to get the same shoes her friends were wearing,” her grandmother said, by way of explanation.

When she fell pregnant, Ema was flabbergasted.

“I didn’t know you could get pregnant by making love,” she said, breast-feeding seven-month-old Ismail in the clay yard outside her grandmother’s home.

Ema was plunged prematurely into the world of adults.

“I can’t go out and play with my friends anymore,” she said.

As in other developing countries, teenagers in Mozambique often fall pregnant “through lack of education”, said demographer Carlos Arnaldo.

“Parents see in these births a guarantee that they’ll be looked after when they get old.”

Until recently, Mozambique’s government did little to tackle demographic problems.

But the mounting costs of the population boom have forced a change of thinking.

- Contraception drive -

“The economic consequences for the government are that it has to

build hospitals and schools,” said Pascoa Wate, head of maternal and child health at the health ministry.

“In spite of government spending, people don’t have access to them.”

In a bid to curb the population explosion, Mozambique’s government is in the process of changing the law to allow marriage only at 18, rather than at 16 with parental consent.

“We know that the practice of early marriage is rooted in deeplyseated cultural values and social norms that prioritise fertility,” said Youth Minister Nyeleti Mondlane.

With UN support, Mozambique has also been waging a contraception awareness campaign since 2016.

Only a quarter of women currently have access to contraception, according to a national health survey.

In the shadow of a mango tree in the northern village of Namissica, a dozen women crowd around a table to watch a nurse demonstrate how to use different contraception, with the help of a wooden model penis and a plastic vagina.

If their husbands are “not cooperative”, nurse Fatima da Silva Cobre advises women to opt for a birth control implant.

“He won’t know you’re using it,” she says.

The women ask anxious questions: could the implant fall out?

Won’t it make them infertile?

One by one, the nurse debunks the myths. (afp)

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Children among 39 civilians dead in Syria arms depot blast: monitor

SARMADA - An explosion at a weapons depot that toppled buildings in a rebel-held town of northwest Syria killed at least 39 civilians including a dozen children Sunday, a monitor said.

An AFP correspondent at the site in Sarmada in Idlib province near the Turkish border said the explosion of unknown origin caused the collapse of two buildings.

Rescue workers used bulldozers to remove rubble and extract trapped people from the flattened buildings, the correspondent said.

A civil defence source told AFP that rescue workers had pulled out “five people who were still alive”.

But the death toll rose as more bodies were retrieved from the rubble, according to Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.

Three Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) members were also killed, apart from the 39 civilians, he said.

“The explosion occurred in a weapons depot in a residential building in Sarmada,” said the head of the Britain-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.

But the cause of the blast was “not yet clear”, Abdel Rahman added.

He said most of those killed were family members of fighters from HTS, an alliance led by jihadists from Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate, who had been displaced to the area from the central province of Homs.

A rescue worker carried the motionless body of a small child from the wreckage to an ambulance, the AFP correspondent said.

White Helmet rescue workers attempted to lift part of a floor of one of the buildings with a tall crane, as three young boys watched on in silence, perched on a rock.

Behind mounds of rubble, the facade of a building was scorched black, due to a fire after the blast. (afp)

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Lights out for Indonesia’s LRT just days before Asian Games

Indonesia is investigating a series of malfunctions that have plagued its first light rapid transit (LRT) system just days out from the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, the transport ministry said Monday.

The LRT in the city Palembang -- which is co-hosting the Games with Jakarta -- needs to be operating smoothly as thousands of athletes, officials and visitors arrive this week for the start of the world’s biggest multi-sport event behind the Olympics.

Indonesia has set aside worries about terrorism, street crime, venue completion and Jakarta’s notorious traffic, saying it is ready to roll for the August 18-September 2 Games.

But officials on Monday were forced to acknowledge a series of “shortcomings” with the LRT, seen as key to avoiding traffic snarls in Palembang on Sumatra island.

A short circuit knocked out power to a portion of the transit system Sunday, halting trains and forcing passengers to disembark between two stations.

Just days earlier passengers had to endure long delays due to signals interference, which caused the temporary suspension of services, local media reported.

“The government will immediately evaluate the whole operation of the South Sumatra LRT,” said Zulfikri, director general of railways at the transportation ministry. “(We) hope this evaluation will provide a solution that will improve the overall operation of the LRT,” added the official, who like many Indonesians has only one name.

Jakarta and Palembang will host about 11,000 athletes and 5,000 officials from 45 Asian countries for the Games.

Indonesia had less time to prepare than most host countries after it only agreed four years ago to host the games when Vietnam pulled out.(afp)

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[FILES] This file photo taken on July 13, 2018 shows Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (2nd L) and high-ranking officials sitting inside a light rail transit (LRT) rail car at Jakabaring station in Palembang, in South Sumatra province, as they innaugurate the line ahead of the coming Asian Games. Indonesia is investigating a series of malfunctions that have plagued its first light rapid transit (LRT) system just days out from the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, the transport ministry said on August 13, 2018.

Prabowo Subianto, Uno arrive President receives credentials at hospital for health check from eight ambassadors

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A tractor clears the rubble of destroyed buildings on August 12, 2018 following an explosion at an arms depot in a residential area in Syria’s northern Idlib province city of Sarmada in which dozens of people were reportedly killed.

JAKARTA- Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, vice presidential candidate Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno arrived at Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital, Central Jakarta, on Monday morning for medical checkup.

Prabowo Subianto arrived at 6:42 a.m. local time, while Sandiaga Uno at 7:05 a.m. They were both greeted by Arief Budiman, head of the Election Commission (KPU), upon arrival in the hospital.

In response to the press` questions, Prabowo said he just rested at his home in Hambalang, Bogor (West Java Province), and watched television a day prior the medical exam.

Meanwhile, Sandiaga Uno

said: “Alhamdulillah (Thank God), I am fasting and Insha Allah (God Willing) it will run smoothly. Please pray for us.” On Sunday, incumbent Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and his running mate, Ma`ruf Amin also underwent medical exams at the same hospital.

Indonesia will hold simultaneous presidential and legislative elections on April 17, 2019.

In the presidential elections next year, Prabowo Subianto-Uno pair will challenge Jokowi-Amin in a re-run of the 2014 presidential race.

Seeking a second term, Jokowi has picked a prominent cleric as his running mate, while Subianto has chosen Uno, vice governor of Jakarta and successful young businessman.(ant)

JAKARTA - Eight Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors “Resident Designate” and “NonResident Designate” to the Republic of Indonesia from eight countries presented their credentials to President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the Merdeka Palace here on Monday.

President Jokowi welcomed and directly led the ceremony of the handover of credentials from the ambassadors from eight countries to Indonesia.

At the start of the event, State Protocol Chief Andri Hadi reported and introduced the eight ambassadors to President Jokowi.

“Honorable president, please allow us to present eight extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors

from friendly countries to submit their credentials,” Hadi noted.

The eight ambassadors include Resident Ambassador Designate of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Indonesia Ulugbek Rozukulov, Resident Ambassador Designate Royal Thai to Indonesia Songphoi Sukchan, Resident Ambassador Designate of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Indonesia Pham Vinh Quang, and Resident Ambassador Designate of the Republic of Armenia to Indonesia Dziunik Aghajanian.

The others were Resident Ambassador Designate of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Indonesia Abdul Salik Khan, Non-Resident Ambassador Designate of the Republic of the Philippines to

Indonesia Lee Hiong Tan Wae, Non-Resident Ambassador Designate of the Guyana Cooperative Republic to Indonesia domiciled in New Delhi in India David Goldwin Pollard, and Non-Resident Ambassador Designate of the Republic of Burundi to the Republic of Indonesia based in New Delhi, India, Stella Budiriganya.

After the ceremony to hand over the credentials, President Jokowi invited the ambassadors for a discussion on the porch behind Merdeka Palace during a Veranda Talk session.

On the occasion, President Jokowi was accompanied by Foreign Minister Retno L. P. Marsudi.(ant)

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BUSINESS Turkey’s president: US waging “economic war” against Turkey

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Masaiban, Simplest Sacrifice in Hindu

ISTANBUL - Turkey’s president on Saturday blamed the country’s economic downturn on the United States and other nations that he claims are waging “war” against his country.

Speaking in the northeastern province of Rize, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that dollars, euros and gold were now “the bullets, cannonballs and missiles of the economic war being waged against our country.”

Erdogan promised supporters that Turkey was taking the necessary precautions to protect its economy but added “the most important thing is breaking the hands firing these weapons.”

Turkey was hit by a financial shockwave this week as its currency nosedived over concerns about the government’s economic policies and a trade dispute with the United States.

The lira tumbled 14 percent Friday, to 6.51 per dollar, a massive move for a currency that will make Turkish residents poorer and further erode international investors’ confidence in the country. The currency drop is particularly painful for Turkey because it finances a lot of its economic growth with foreign money.

The currency’s drop — 41 percent so far this year — is a gauge of fear over a country coming to terms with years of high debt, international concern over Erdogan’s push to amass power, and a souring in relations with allies like the U.S. In an opinion piece published in The New York Times on Friday, Erdogan criticized the tensions

with the U.S., saying a “failure to reverse this trend of unilateralism and disrespect will require us to start looking for new friends and allies.”

Among the issues, Turkey has arrested an American pastor and put him on trial for espionage and terror-related charges linked to a failed coup attempt in the country two years ago. The pastor has proclaimed his innocence.

The U.S. responded by slapping sanctions on Turkey and threatening more. The sides held talks in Washington this week but failed to resolve the spat.

President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted that he had authorized the doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey.

He said the tariffs on aluminum imports would be increased to 20 percent and those on steel to 50 percent as the Turkish lira “slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar!”

“Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!” he wrote.

The United States is the biggest destination for Turkish steel exports, with 11 percent of the Turkish export volume. The lira fell further after Trump’s tweet.

Turkey later said Erdogan had held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss economic ties. It did not disclose details, but the move suggests Turkey might gravitate fur-

Offering saiban oblation or frequently known as mebanten nasi/ngejot is one of the traditions carried out by Hindu society, especially in Bali, done after cooking. It is also known as Yadnya Sesa, denoting the simplest offering that must be executed every day by the Hindus.

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters in his Black Sea hometown, Rize, Turkey, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018. The banner in the background reads “Long live fully independent Republic of Turkey.” ther from its NATO allies toward cooperation with Russia, whose relations with the West are at their lowest point since the Cold War. Turkey’s woes have been aggravated by investor worries about the economic policies of Erdogan, who won a new term in office in June with sweeping

new powers.

Erdogan has been putting pressure on Turkey’s central bank to not raise interest rates in order to keep fueling economic growth. He claims higher rates lead to higher inflation — the opposite of what standard economic theory says.

Independent analysts argue the

central bank should instead raise rates to tame inflation and support the currency.

Amid the dispute, foreign investors could be spooked and try to pull their money out, reinforcing the currency drop and potentially leading to financial instability. (ap)

Turkey to outline ‘new economic model’ as currency slides

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkey’s government says it will outline a “new economic model” on Friday as the national currency hit another record low amid concerns about the president’s policies and an ongoing dispute with the U.S. The lira, which has fallen about 30 percent since the start of the year, dropped to another low of 5.47 against the dollar on Thursday.

The slide followed news that high level meetings in Washington between U.S. and Turkish officials over a detained American pastor concluded without an apparent

resolution. The pastor’s detention led to Washington imposing punitive sanctions on two Turkish Cabinet ministers and warning of possible additional measures.

That added to existing concerns about the independence of the central bank. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants the bank to keep rates low to support economic growth, but independent economists say it should be free to raise rates to rein in inflation.

Turkey finances a lot of its economic growth with foreign investment, making it particularly

vulnerable to a slide in the currency. A weaker currency weakens returns for those foreign investors, who could pull their money out — reinforcing the currency drop and potentially leading to financial instability.

In such a case, Turkey could either seek financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund or decide to put limits on money outflows from the country.

Because IMF help comes with policies prescriptions, analysts say that Erdogan could be more inclined to try to control money flows.

Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak, who is Erdogan’s son-in-law, will present the outlines of a new economic model on Friday, his ministry said Thursday.

The ministry said it expects inflation, currently nearly 16 percent, to return to single digits and that the current account deficit would be lowered from the current 5.5 percent of GDP to 4 percent. It did not explain how it would achieve that.

Wednesday’s talks between Turkish and U.S. officials addressed the case of Pastor Andrew Brunson as well as the sanctions,

aiming to end the sharp rift between the NATO allies.

Brunson is on trial on espionage and terror-related charges related to a failed 2016 coup attempt, which he and the U.S. government adamantly deny. Washington has repeatedly demanded Brunson’s release.

Erdogan has previously linked Brunson’s return to the U.S. to the extradition of the cleric Turkey’s government holds responsible for the failed 2016 coup. The cleric denies orchestrating the coup attempt. (ap)

Masaiban as the simplest yadnya or sacrifice is often performed after cooking or before having meals. That’s how it should be. It means that people should offer food respectfully after completing the cooking activities.

“Masaiban is one of the easiest sacrifices to be implemented. It does not cost much, but must be undertaken every day. In Hinduism, it is believed that human beings after getting prosperous life from nature must be returned to nature again because nature is the source of our prosperity,” said Jero Mangku I Komang Nurata, a priest of clan temple in Besakih region.

In addition, the masaiban is also meant as an expression of devotion, gratitude for God’s fortune. As is known, yadnya ceremony serves as an intermediary between human beings and deities in order to get peace of mind. The saiban as we often see in the community is usually in the form of labaan containing rice, salt or vegetables placed on banana leaves.

Since belonging to the simplest form of sacrifice, there is no necessity in expressing the contents of the banten.

Rice and salt only are okay.

The most complete yadnya sésa is usually accompanied with canang sari, incense (as witness), and sprinkled with holy water or tirta. It can also be presented without other means because it is back to the essence namely yadnya sesa is a simple yadnya.

There are five places to offer saiban oblation namely Pertiwi (land), in front of the entrance gate into the house compound or in the home yard; Apah (water), placed in the well or at water meter of municipal waterworks; Teja (fire), placed in kitchen, cooking place; Bayu, at the place of storing rice; while Akasa, placed in the shrine, wooden platform and other places.

In addition, the Manawa Dharmasastra states that location where devotees usually put the saiban offerings are family temple, kitchen, water, shaving stone, mortar and brooms. These places are said to be the place of people doing Himsa Karma

every day. Therefore, the places must get the offerings.

“In harmony with the progress of time, all the properties owned are also offered with the saiban offerings such as motorcycles, TVs and cars considering that it is not only natures that can help people achieve prosperity. The equipment also greatly helps people achieve worldly prosperity.”

Jero Mangku added that talking about nature is the same as talking about this whole universe, including all of His creation. In other words, offering sacrifice to nature is the same as offering to all the creations of God like the bhuta-bhuti.

He reminded that such yadnya sesa should be implemented every day.

For Hindu community that has not implemented this yadnya should start it immediately. He assessed that people’s awareness in implementing yadnya sesa is still considered lacking. In addition, something considered trivial and simple can bring in catastrophe or cause problems in the future. (kmb)

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Sweet and Mellow Taste of Jaje Cerorot

The Hindu community in Bali which always preserves its ancestral culture has various unique and delicious traditional cakes or jaje. There is jaje purely the result of creative process of the community, while the others are the result of acculturation with other regional cultures or even that of other countries. Whatever the cake is, it remains to be preserved amidst of Balinese society until now. Even, its existence is always associated with ceremonial activities and Hindu ritual on the Island of the Gods.

For example, one of them is jaje cerorot. Optionally, it is often named the jaje blukbuk, usually served when the Hindu community is carrying out a wedding ceremony in the process of proposing. Jaje cerorot is accompanied with a pillow-like cake.

In Bali, this cake belongs to snack made from local (Balinese) rice flour combined with brown sugar and salt. On that account, it has a brownish red color. Cerorot is shaped with young coconut leaf wrap resembling a cone. For children, this cake is often referred to as the trumpet cake because the wrap is like a trumpet.

There is a special technique for eating this cake. If people do not know, they will open the pin (bamboo pin to button the wrap) and then eat the soft and creamy cake. For those who already know the technique of eating it will push on the tip at the lower end of the young coconut leaf pointing to the top, so that the content of the cake appears. Just press and adjust how long we are able to chew it. If you eat a little, then push it a little too, and if you can eat at once, then push it full. Once again, to take out the content fully, push the pointed end of the wrapper so that the content comes out. There is no need to open the curd of the wrap when eating the cake.

Lately, this cake is usually used for refreshment served for guests to accompany the drinks like coffee or tea. It is usually easy to get as widely sold in traditional markets and cake shops. Unlike before, if there was no wedding ceremony, this was not made.

Unfortunately, this sweet tasting cake can only last for one day.

The ingredients used to make the jaje cerorot are local rice, brown sugar and salt (to taste). First of all, the rice is washed clean, and then soaked overnight. After that, resume and make it into flour. In the past, the making of flour in the traditional way was pounded with pestle in the mortar. Then, sieve the flour.

This traditionally made flour makes the cake taste better when compared to flour made by factory.

Brown sugar is then liquefied with hot water and then filtered as well. Next, add flour into the cold brown sugar liquid with the addition of enough salt. To prepare the wrap, make the packaging from young coconut leaf. Remove the stick of the leaf, fold at one of the ends and then twist circularly resembling a cone. After the coconut leaf wrap has been made, the mixture is poured into the wrapper. Be careful, do not let it be full because when steamed it can melt and fall.

Finally, steam them until cooked (for approximately 20 minutes). To check whether the cake is already cooked, insert a palm stick into the steamed dough. If the dough is not sticky when being pulled, it means the cake is already cooked. If it has been cooked, take out the cake and it is ready to be served. (kmb)

Ritual Meaning Behind Mesuryak Tradition

Celebration of Kuningan Day at Bongan Gede Hamlet, Bongan, Tabanan, returned to be accompanied with mesuryak tradition on Saturday (Jun. 9). It took place lively.

The procession began around 09:00 until 11:00 local time marked with prayers at each resident’s house compound. After that, it was resumed with worship at village trinity temples and the merajan (family temple).

This worship is meant to invoke salvation to God as well as the ancestors believed to be at home during the celebration of Galungan until Kuningan. The mesuryak is then proceeded to bring all the ritual paraphernalia such as the offerings, including the one symbol-

izing the Raja Dewata (ancestors) to the front gate of each house compound.

Furthermore, temple priests or the elders chanted the prayers closed with mesuryak procession.

Each family provided provisions in the form of coins and banknotes.

The money was thrown into the air and then grabbed by residents.

Girls and boys scrambled for the money. From the observation, every Kuningan Day, about tens of millions of rupiahs are dedicated by the citizens of Bongan Gede hamlet for the mesuryak tradition.

Chief of Bongan Gede customary village, I Nyoman Parwata, said the tradition of mesuryak is passed down through generations at his

hamlet. “Mesuryak aims to deliver the ancestral spirits back to heaven after coming down and participate in the celebration of Galungan with their descendants.

After ten days, precisely on Kuningan feast, we accompany our ancestors back to heaven. We escort them with happiness while cheering (mesuryak) and throwing money into the air. Then, it is scrambled by many people,” he said.

The amount of money used in the mesuryak varies depending on the economic capacity of the citizens. This tradition has existed for generations and remains to be organized every six months (210 days) coinciding with Kuningan Day. (kmb)

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In Nusa Penida

Results of renewable energy application less maximal

SEMARAPURA - Nusa Penida Islands, Klungkung, does not only hold the status of National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN), but also the location for renewable energy research. This is already underway, such as the solar energy and ocean current power plants. However, the results have not been maximized.

Head of the Planning, Research and Development Agency (Baperlitbang) of Klungkung, I Wayan Wasta, said the renewable electricity with wind and solar energy is still being used by Sekartaji villagers but the number is small. “The results have not been maximal. The wind power plant located on Puncak Mundi, Klumpu village is also the same and so as the ocean current power plant,” he said.

It is estimated to happen due to less supporting location. Chiefly the wind power seems necessary to be reviewed by central government as the builder. “The assets are still owned by the central government.

So, the authority to review lies in the central government,” he said.

According to Wasta, the application of renewable energy in The Blue Paradise Islands is quite appropriate because the territory is separated from the mainland.

Head of Research and Development Division of the Klungkung Planning, Research and Development Agency, Ketut Kusmayadi, explained that electricity production in the archipelago only amounts to 5.6 MW, sourced from Kutampi, Nusa Penida and Jungutbatu village, Nusa Lembongan. According to the analysis, the demand in 2020 reaches 7 MW and 10 MW in 2025. “The need tends to increase,” he said.

To fulfill it, a master plan has been prepared. Electricity supply will be carried out with renewable energy. Another alternative is the IBP/kmb construction of a Mini Gas Power Plant (PLTGM). “The direction is indeed the development of renewable energy,” he concluded. Nusa Penida Islands, Klungkung, does not only hold the status of National Tourism Strategic Area (kmb45) (KSPN), but also the location for renewable energy research.

Lombok earthquake does not affect Tanah Lot tourist visit

THOUGH the earthquake shook West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) and Bali some time ago, it did not dampen tourists’ interest in spending holidays in Bali. This can be seen from the number of tourist visits to Tanah

Lot attraction remaining stable after the earthquake.

From the latest data on Friday (Aug. 10), tourist visits reached 9,173 people consisting of 1,924 domestic tourists and 7,249 foreign

visitors. Meanwhile, the visit to Tanah Lot in July reached 111,335 domestic tourists and 159,371 foreign tourists. In total, the tourist visits reached 270,706 people. “The visit remains stable. On average, it reaches

9,000s each day. Hopefully, there will be no influence as there will be a festival in the near future,” said Operations Manager of Tanah Lot attraction, Ketut Toya Adnyana, on Sunday (Aug. 12).

Although it has no impact on the number of tourist visits, the management still applies security measures such as closing a number of accesses to the beach. This measure is meant to anticipate in the event of a major wave or anticipation of post-earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 in Lombok, NTB. “To prevent undesirable things, we close a number of accesses to the beach if the weather does not permit. We get information about weather conditions from the National Weather Service (BMKG) of Denpasar,” he said.

In addition to closing the pathways to the beach when the weather is not supportive, the management also assigns all the lifeguard personnel to conduct surveillance in the coastal areas.

Toya continued that after the earthquake in Lombok until now there has been no transition of tourists from Lombok to Bali, especially the Tanah Lot tourist attraction. He said that until now the number of tourist visits to Tanah Lot is still dominated by foreign tourists or a portion of 70 percent of foreign tourists, while the remaining 30 percent are domestic tourists. (kmb24)

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Fish fry: Japan heatwave threatens famed tuna auction

TOKYO - Fishmongers at Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji tuna auction are feeling the heat as the ageing market’s air conditioners struggle to keep up with a heatwave blanketing the country.

The dilapidated market is due to close later this year, and will relocate to a new, modern site.

But in the meantime wholesalers have been forced to take measures including keeping their pricey produce in cool trucks until moments before auction.

“We can’t replace the ageing air conditioners as we’re relocating very soon, and it’s been so hot that it’s hard to get the temperature down,” an official at the market told AFP. The auction space is usually kept at 15 degrees Celsius to keep the treasured tuna cool, but an “unprecedented” heatwave meant the mercury hit as high as 20 degrees in July, the official said.

To keep their fish fresh, wholesalers are keeping the shutters in the auction warehouse sealed, leaving tuna inside cool trucks until shortly before auction and covering fish with tarps as soon as they are sold.

“Wholesalers are doing their best to keep the tuna from thawing,” the official said.

After more than 80 years in operation, Tsukiji is scheduled to move to Toyosu, the site of a former gas plant, on October 11.

The current site is the world’s biggest fish market and a popular tourist attraction in an area packed with restaurants and shops.

Plans to move the market have been in the works for years, and the relocation was originally scheduled for 2016.

But myriad delays have set back the timeline, including the discovery of soil contamination at Toyosu.

Tsukiji opened in 1935 and is famed for its predawn tuna auctions, with one fish going for more than $320,000 at the market’s final New Year’s auction last year.

Japan has been struggling with a nationwide heatwave that killed 119 people and hospitalised nearly 50,000 others last month. (afp)

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The effects of heat haze is seen in this photograph as pedestrians cross a street during a heatwave in Tokyo on August 2, 2018.

S. Korean woman given rare jail term for spycam crime

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Female protesters call for South Korea’s government to crack down on widespread spycam porn crimes during a rally in Seoul on July 7, 2018.

SEOUL - A South Korean court on Monday slapped a woman with a rare jail term for secretly photographing a male nude model, in a case that sparked controversy over double standards.

High-tech South Korea has been battling a growing epidemic of socalled “molka” or spycam videos, which largely involve men secretly filming women in schools, offices, trains, toilets, changing rooms and on the street.

Spycam crimes reported to police surged from around 1,100 in 2010 to more than 6,500 last year, and many offenders share or sell photos and videos online.

According to official statistics about 98 percent of offenders are men -- ranging from school teachers and college professors to church pastors and police officers -- while more than 80 percent of victims

are women.

But in the latest case the woman in her 20s -- also a nude model -- was sentenced to 10 months in prison for taking a picture of her male counterpart at a Seoul art college and sharing it on the internet in May. She was arrested days later and paraded in front of television cameras while police raided her home to search for evidence -- described by many activists as an uncharacteristically swift and aggressive response. Patriarchal values are deeply ingrained in South Korea despite its economic and technological advances.

State data shows only 8.7 percent of high-tech peeping Toms are jailed on their first conviction, with most only fined or receiving suspended terms, seen by many as a slap on the wrist.

“The whole response by the

police to this rare case in which a victim is male is truly unprecedented,” said Seo Seung-hui, head of the Korea Cyber Sexual Violence civic group.

“We rarely saw them act so quickly for countless cases in which victims were female,” she told AFP. The case of the model -- who has not been named -- was a catalyst for a recent series of mass women’s rallies in Seoul, at which protestors accused the police and court of treating male victims and offenders more favourably than women.

Smartphones sold in the South are required to make a loud shutter noise when taking pictures, but many offenders use special apps that mute the sound, or turn to hightech spy cameras hidden inside eye glasses, lighters, watches, car keys and even neckties. (afp)

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A newly approved drug could be a boon for treating malaria

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The sun’s journey through the galaxy may build a wall of hydrogen near the edge of the solar system. The New Horizons spacecraft may have seen evidence of just such a wall.

New Horizons may have seen a glow at the solar system’s edge

The New Horizons spacecraft has spotted an ultraviolet glow that seems to emanate from near the edge of the solar system.

That glow may come from a long-sought wall of hydrogen that represents where the sun’s influence wanes, the New Horizons team reports online August 7 in Geophysical Research Letters.

“We’re seeing the threshold between being in the solar neighborhood and being in the galaxy,” says team member Leslie Young of the Southwest Research Institute, based in Boulder, Colo.

Even before New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, the spacecraft was scanning the sky with its ultraviolet telescope to look for signs of the hydrogen wall. As the sun moves through the galaxy, it produces a constant stream of charged particles called the solar wind, which inflates a bubble around the solar system called the heliosphere. Just beyond the edge of that bubble, around 100 times farther from the sun than the Earth, uncharged hydrogen atoms in

interstellar space should slow when they collide with solar wind particles. That build-up of hydrogen, or wall, should scatter ultraviolet light in a distinctive way.

The two Voyager spacecraft saw signs of such light scattering 30 years ago. One of those craft has since exited the heliosphere and punched into interstellar space .

New Horizons is the first spacecraft in a position to double-check the Voyagers’ observations. It scanned the ultraviolet sky seven times from 2007 to 2017, space scientist Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and colleagues report.

As the spacecraft travelled, it saw

the ultraviolet light change in a way that supports the decades-old observations. All three spacecraft saw more ultraviolet light farther from the sun than expected if there is no wall. But the team cautions that the light could also be from an unknown source farther away in the galaxy.

“It’s really exciting if these data are able to distinguish the hydrogen wall,” says space scientist David McComas of Princeton University, who was not involved in the new work. That could help figure out the shape and variability of the solar system’s boundary.

After New Horizons flies past the outer solar system object Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day 2019, the spacecraft will continue to look for the wall about twice each year until the mission’s end, hopefully 10 to 15 years from now, Gladstone says. (net)

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DARWIN - The first new treatment in 60 years for a particularly stubborn kind of malaria is raising hopes that it might help eradicate the disease, even though the treatment can cause a dangerous side effect.

Called tafenoquine, the drug targets the parasite that causes relapsing malaria. Plasmodium vivax infects an estimated 8.5 million people, mainly in Asia and Latin America. Each time infected people have a malaria relapse, the parasite returns to their bloodstream, allowing them to transmit the infection if a mosquito bites them again. Tafenoquine was approved as a treatment in July by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is under consideration as a preventative medication, too.

“This is a game changer because we’ve really been struggling with eliminating [P.] vivax,” says malaria physician Ric Price from the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia.

The FDA’s action is expected to spur other countries where relapsing malaria is more prevalent to approve the drug as well.

Companies are also working to develop speedy, low-cost tests that can identify people with a genetic deficiency who may risk getting a kind of anemia from the new drug. This test is essential for putting the drug to use in rural areas where rates of both P. vivax and this deficiency can be high.

Like its deadlier cousin P. falciparum, P. vivax is spread by the Anopheles mosquito and causes chills, a cyclical fever and joint aches (SN: 3/18/17, p. 10). Unlike P. falciparum, once inside the body, P. vivax can stay dormant in the liver for weeks or months before flaring up again and again.

Tafenoquine (which will be marketed in the United States as Krintafel) is designed to prevent these relapses. It is similar to an older drug called primaquine, but it is taken in a single dose, instead of daily for two weeks. In clinical trials, one 600-milligram dose of tafenoquine, paired with acute malaria medication chloroquine, prevented 92 percent of malaria relapses — similar to primaquine’s efficacy.

With its single dose, patients prescribed tafenoquine are more likely than those on primaquine to complete the treatment, preventing more relapses and problems with drug resistance.

But tafenoquine’s biggest selling point, its long-lasting single dose, is also a weakness. Both primaquine and tafenoquine can cause a dangerous side effect in people with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, or G6PD, deficiency, an abnormality on the X chromosome that affects 400 million people worldwide. When people who have G6PD deficiency take these medications, they are at a higher risk for hemolytic anemia, the destruction of red blood cells. (net)

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This Anopheles albimanus mosquito is one of several species that can transmit the recurring form of malaria. A new drug could help stem such relapses.

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Ubud Village Jazz Festival

A match made in heaven

The Ubud Village Jazz Festival, which took place from August 10-11 drew to a close on Saturday under the gentle sprinkle of rain and camaraderie of fellow jazz lovers from all over Indonesia and indeed the world.

The truly exceptional line-up of top class musicians who graced the three open air stages of the festival joined together for the closing performance in a swinging jam that had much of the audience on their feet and many under raincoats distributed by the festival organisers.

The two day festival paid great homage to the genre of jazz with show after show of amazingly talented acts from as far away as California and as close as Ubud, in a seamless steam of sonic celebration. As Benny Green of the Benny Green trio explained:”Jazz is a genre of music that was born out of the experience of African Americans at a time when they were given little respect. Jazz is celebratory music as it marks the first time that their culture was shown real appreciation. We try to honour this heritage as best we can by listening carefully to the masters who came before us and giving our heart to expressing this style of music as honestly as we can”.

All who saw their performance on Saturday night would likely agree that they did an exceptionally fine job at showing both tremendous musical mastery as well as joyful exuberance that allowed jazz experts and novices alike to soak in the beauty of the music.

The Benny Green trio who play festivals all over the world also expressed their deep felt appreciation for the peace they felt during their visit in Bali, saying that the beautiful surroundings and kind people here allowed them to truly relax and refresh themselves so that they could really deeply enjoy playing for the audience at this festival that was “amazingly well organized”.

They were not alone in successfully transmitting the spirit of jazz to the audience in a heartfelt manner. In fact each performance provided it’s own unique opportunity for the audience to revel at the deep happiness that every musician shared demonstrating their countless hour of dedication to their craft, allowing them all to share this talent with the crowds who all came away smiling.

Although Arma –serving as the venue for the two day festival called on a rain stopping expert to hold back the showers of the pregnant clouds above, the first night of the festival did end an hour early as the clouds finally broke with a considerable downpour soaking the grounds.

The downpour however provided an opportunity for the kind of intimacy that jazz music calls for, as the audience was invited to take shelter on the small padi stage as the band

played on. “It was amazing to be all gathered together like that. I could really feel the power of the music resonating in my body- really an unforgettable experience”, said one tourist from Guadeloupe, who added that she was deeply impressed with the high quality of every show that she saw that night. “I can’t believe how many super talented musicians are part of this festival, I am really very impressed”.

The design of the festival grounds also lent itself well to great enjoyment all around with a range of different areas to relax and take in the music.

Along with the many booths selling excellent local foods, crafts and beverages, all the stages were decorated with local, organic materials utilizing traditional technics combined with innovative style providing a soothing atmosphere in which to take in the powerful music.

Gede Sayur of Junjungan Ubud’s Luden House community was in charge of providing the materials and creating the décor according to festival organisers’ master design.

Although a renowned fine artist in his own right , Sayur beamed with joy as he explained why he was so pleased to take part in the decorating of the festival grounds. “I love to use the natural materials found in our immediate environment –we got those dried banana leaves from the ground in the woods near my home and wove them together the same way we do when we make sun shelters for temple ceremonies – but here we used them to decorate the booths. The stage designs were more innovative but still using natural materials. I feel proud to share our local traditions with this international audience. It is great to exchange ideas and technics with others – the same way that the musicians here are doing, but let us not forget to show what we have that is special”, said Sayur.

When asked why Luden House is so dedicated to maintaining and sharing traditional nature-based know how with the younger generation Sayur replied simply: ”because -like this music, it is just so enjoyable”.

It is this spirit of sharing the joy of delving deeply into intricate and sometimes complex technics in a way that can then be shared with others in an easy and heartwarming manner that was clearly at the root of this festival. Although jazz music was powerfully was born out of African American culture and continues to be nurtured by the people of this lineage, it has also spread to the far reaches of the world. Despite living a world away in an entirely different context, Balinese musicians have clearly felt into the spirit of jazz and found something they resonate with and expressed their own passion for this genre with tremendous mastery.

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The success of the Ubud Village Jazz Festival is certainly due in great part to the passion and dedication of the organizers who have maintained a high quality over the six years that the yearly festival has been held.

Another contributing factor to the success of this two day festival is of course the strikingly talented line-up of musicians who are all dedicated to exploring and expressing the genre of jazz with technical mastery but also heartfelt passion. Ubud as the location of the festival is also to thank for the truly pleasing experience for which the festival has become known.

This small village is not only home to an astonishing array of arts but is also a place known for maintaining some of the same guiding principles as jazz music. Just as jazz as a genre remains firmly rooted in specific musical forms yet swings with ever-new iterations, so too does Ubud maintain its traditions while allowing great diversity. Freedom of expression coupled with attention to detail and to the whole and the joyful celebration of life in all it’s forms for which Ubud is known also resonates with the spirit of jazz as a genre that indeed celebrates diversity.

It is perhaps no wonder therefor that the Ubud Village Jazz Festival continues thrive and grow more popular from year to year. Who knows what wonders next year holds for this remarkably pleasant and compelling festival.

The design of the festival grounds also lent itself well to great enjoyment all around with a range of different areas to relax and take in the music.

Along with the many booths selling excellent local foods, crafts and beverages, all the stages were decorated with local, organic materials utilizing

traditional technics combined with innovative style providing a soothing atmosphere in which to take in the powerful music.

Gede Sayur of Junjungan Ubud’s Luden House community was in charge of providing the materials and creating the décor according to festival organisers’ master design.

Although a renowned fine artist in his own right , Sayur beamed with joy as he explained why he was so pleased to take part in the decorating of the festival grounds. “I love to use the natural materials found in our immediate environment –we got those dried banana leaves from the ground in the woods near my home and wove them together the same way we do when we make sun shelters for temple ceremonies – but here we used them to decorate the booths. The stage designs were more innovative but still using natural materials. I feel proud to share our local traditions with this international audience. It is great to exchange ideas and technics with others – the same way that the musicians here are doing, but let us not forget to show what we have that is special”, said Sayur.

When asked why Luden House is so dedicated to maintaining and sharing traditional nature-based know how with the younger generation Sayur replied simply: ”because -like this music, it is just so enjoyable”.

It is this spirit of sharing the joy of delving deeply into intricate and sometimes complex technics in a way that can then be shared with others in an easy and heartwarming manner that was clearly at the root of this festival. Although jazz music was powerfully was born out of African American culture and continues to be nurtured by the people of this lineage,

it has also spread to the far reaches of the world. Despite living a world away in an entirely different context, Balinese musicians have clearly felt into the spirit of jazz and found something they resonate with and expressed their own passion for this genre with tremendous mastery.

The success of the Ubud Village Jazz Festival is certainly due in great part to the passion and dedication of the organizers who have maintained a high quality over the six years that the yearly festival has been held.

Another contributing factor to the success of this two day festival is of course the strikingly talented line-up of musicians who are all dedicated to exploring and expressing the genre of jazz with technical mastery but also heartfelt passion. Ubud as the location of the festival is also to thank for the truly pleasing experience for which the festival has become known.

This small village is not only home to an astonishing array of arts but is also a place known for maintaining some of the same guiding principles as jazz music. Just as jazz as a genre remains firmly rooted in specific musical forms yet swings with ever-new iterations, so too does Ubud maintain its traditions while allowing great diversity. Freedom of expression coupled with attention to detail and to the whole and the joyful celebration of life in all it’s forms for which Ubud is known also resonates with the spirit of jazz as a genre that indeed celebrates diversity.

It is perhaps no wonder therefor that the Ubud Village Jazz Festival continues thrive and grow more popular from year to year. Who knows what wonders next year holds for this remarkably pleasant and compelling festival.(kmb)

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In support of IMF-WB Annual Meeting

Replacement of street lights speeded up

Travelers admire Balinese cuisine

There are many things that tourism businesses can do to accelerate the process of recovery of tourism in Bali. Peak tourist season (JULY-August) is being taken advantage of to restore the confidence of tourists that Bali is secure and safe in a number of different ways. Several places in Candidasa, Karangasem for example are offering Balinese cooking classes to tourists.

July and August are indeed busy months for tourism in Karangasem but after the earthquake in Lombok, many tourists cancelled their trips to the Bali;s neighbouring island and instead chose to visit Karangasem.

Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Karangasem Chapter, I Wayan Kariasa, recently said that most of the foreign tourists who choose to visit Karangasem are from Europe (Netherlands, Germany, France and England).

In Ahsyana Candidasa many tourists have been enthusiastic about learning about Balinese cuisine and happily take part in collecting the ingredients, preparing the dishes and enjoying the typical flavours of these dishes.

Tourists here learn to make everything from twisted satay, chicken tum (minced meat with spice wrapped in banana leaf and then steamed), lawar (cooked

minced meat mixed with chopped or thinly sliced vegetable ingredients), fried spring rolls, banana fritter to tipat cantok (rice paddies served with assorted vegetable in peanut sauce), all of which are popular dishes in Karangasem.

Le-Zat Beach Restaurant located in the same place as Ashyana Candidsa offers such cooking classes that are especially popular with Dutch tourists who tend to be familiar with Balinese food back home.

Currently many European countries have Asian restaurants including Balinese food. “Tourists like to learn to cook here and bring home cook books. Sometimes they will develop this into a business in their own country”, said Kariasa.

Two cooking class participants named Rita and Mario, explained that they like the fact that Balinese food has its own unique flavour and also enjoy leanring about the

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particualr methodes for preparing the fresh ingredients. Whiel hoidayign for a few days in Bali, they thought they would learn a bit about Baliense cuisine after enjoy the beautiful landscape. “Learning to prepare Balinese dishes was a top priority during their trip to Bali, so we should not consider this trivial. We at Le-Zat Beach Restaurant offered them a cooking class that would meet their expectations”, said Kariasa.

Tourism in Karangasem, he added has been much better in 2018 that at the end of 2017.

Chairman of PHRI Karangasem, I Wayan Tama, has previously stated that during the eruptions of Mount Agung between September and November 2017, hotel occupancy rates in the area dropped to less than 10 percent. Many hotel had to close and other laid off many of their employees.

Although Mount Agung has not entirely subsided ints volcanic activity, Tama is quite optimistic that tourist visits and hotel occupancy rates have gone up dramatically during this high season when occupancy rates are expected to remain around 60 percent until September. (kmb31)

MANGUPURA — The replacement of street lights (LPJ) along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua, continues to be accelerated in support of the implementation of the IMF-WB Annual Meeting this October.

As seen on Sunday (Aug. 12), a number of workers were busy replacement street lights on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Jimbaran.

When contacted on Sunday (Aug. 12), Spokesperson for Binamarga Badung, Sang Nyoman Oka Permana, said that 51.5 percent of the street lights along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai have already been replaced. Badung;s district government’s Public Works and Housing Agency (PUPR) plans to replace street lighting at 600 points along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, from Jimbaran to Nusa Dua. “At present, 308 street lights have been replaced along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai - or 51.5 percent. Not all the lights that have been installed however have been turned on to maximum as they are still waiting for the PLN connection”, he said adding that street lights are also beeing

replaced at 10 other locations.

They plan to make repairs to street lights in Kuta, South Kuta and North Kuta and Petang.

The replacement of the lights, he said started on June 21 and is targeted for completion on December 18th, 2018, however the section of road along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai should be completed before the IMF Annual meeting.

“Lights are being replaced at 600 points but priority is bing given to lights along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai. It is targeted to be completed before the IMF Meeting”, he said.

The new lights along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai will affixed to existing lamp posts which are still on good condition. Lighting along Jalan Pratama and Jalan Siligita will include new poles and where there are no lamp posts, the lights will be installed on PLN poles.

Unlike the previous lighting that relied on solar cells, the new lights will be LED and rely on electricity as the cost of maintaining solar cells is more than for maintaining electrical lighting, he explained. (kmb23)

Unmanaged, dozens of market kiosks left damaged BANGLI — Condition of the Amerta Gunung Sari Market or currently better known to the public as the Yangapi Market in Tembuku is increasingly alarming. The market built by the government in the 1990s is now neglected and dirty. In addition to the slums filled with trash, the conditions of dozens of stalls are also increasingly apprehensive because of severe damage in some parts of the building.

As seen on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 12), a lot of damage occurs in the stalls on the southern side of the market. The kiosks mostly look empty and are no longer occupied by merchants. In addition to the many parts of the roof are broken, the damage also occurs in the rolling door. Moreover, a number of kiosks seem to no longer have rolling door.

When confirmed related to the matter, the Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, Nengah Sudibya, said his agency cannot make improvements to the kiosks because of constrained assets. He said the land and market stalls are the assets owned by the provincial government. Meanwhile, some shop houses are private property. Bangli district government in the market only built the market stalls in the form of wantilan hall. At present, the stalls are still used by approximately 80 merchants. “If it does not belong to our assets, we cannot maintain it,” he explained.

Sudibya said for the handling of these assets, the Regional Finance, Revenue and Assets Agency (BKPAD) had already made coordination with the provincial government to get the right of borrowing it. However, provincial government still does not allow it. (kmb40)

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Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa, Bali announces appointments of Senior Sales Manager and Marketing Communications Manager Jamal Hussain, General Manager of Nusa Dua Beach & Spa is pleased to announce the appointments of Senior Sales Manager, Ms. Henny Selviyanti and Marketing & Communications Manager, Ms. Tri Widiyastuti.

Henny was previously with an international chain hotel also in Bali and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Tourism Management from STIMI Handayani, Denpasar.

Widya is an experienced Bali hotelier having worked 14 years in the hospitality industry. With her strong background experience and media relations, Widya is keen to keep the public well informed about activities and developments as well as raise the profile of Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa, Bali.

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Kanye West denies being ‘stumped’ over Donald Trump question LOS ANGELES - Kanye West has denied being “stumped” when asked what made him think Donald Trump cares about black people.

The rapper, who paused when asked the question on US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier this week, said he simply “wasn’t given a chance to answer”.

Kimmel challenged him over separated immigrant families, asking: “You’ve so famously and so powerfully said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people,’ it makes me wonder what makes you think that Donald Trump does, or any people at all?”

West considered the question, sitting silently without answering before the programme cut to an advert break.

But the 41-year-old said he was “hit” with a commercial break before being able to deliver his answer.

West did not respond to the question when the show resumed.

He wrote on Twitter: “On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue. I’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait.

“I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question.

“The question was so important I took time to think. And then I was hit with the let’s go to commercial break.

“That interview showed strong personalities with different opinions having a civil conversation.” (net)

(L-R) Michael J Fox, Thomas Wilson, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson.

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CALIFORNIA - The cast of Back To The Future have reunited at a fan convention amid speculation there could be a fourth film.

Michael J Fox and his co-stars got together again, 33 years after making the first movie, at the Fan Expo Boston convention.

Lea Thompson, who played his mother, shared the picture, and said: “Four old friends get back from the future.”

Christopher Lloyd, who starred as inventor Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown, also shared the photo, with the comment: “This was special.”

Thomas Wilson, best known as being villain Biff, said: “Wow. This just happened.”

The cast were part of a panel discussion as to whether the four of them would return for another Back To The Future film.

Wilson joked: “Basically, I think America is saying, ‘Come on they’ve wrecked every other franchise with bad sequels, why not this one? C’mon, we would watch it until it sucks.’”

Fox, now 57, said Bob Gale, the franchise’s cocreator, has become its “gatekeeper”.

Gale and director Robert Zemeckis have previously said another film is unlikely.

The first film came out in 1985, with sequels in 1989 and 1990.

In October 2015, Lloyd reprised his role for a special short film which marked the franchise’s 30th anniversary, and also the date to which Marty McFly and his girlfriend Jennifer travel back to in the 1985 and 1989 films. (net)

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Indonesian men carry the body of a victim of last week’s earthquake past a damaged building during a funeral in Gangga, Lombok Island, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. Hundreds of people were killed while nearly 400,000 people are left homeless or displaced after the powerful earthquake rocked the popular tourist island on Aug. 5.

Death toll from quake that hit Indonesian island passes 430

JAKARTA - The death toll from the earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok a week ago has passed 430 and the government is estimating economic losses will exceed several hundred million dollars.

The national disaster agency said Monday the Aug. 5 quake killed 436 people, most of whom died in collapsing buildings.

It said damage to homes, infrastructure and other property is at least 5 trillion rupiah ($342 million), calling that a temporary figure that will rise as more assessments are made. The agency said rebuilding will cost hundreds of

millions of dollars.

The magnitude 7.0 quake flattened thousands of homes and according to the disaster agency’s latest estimate has displaced about 350,000 people.

“The damage and losses are very large,” said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

“When all data has been collected later, the amount will be

greater. It needs trillions of rupiah (hundreds of millions of dollars) for rehabilitation and reconstruction. It will take time to restore community life and economic development,” he said.

Nugroho said damaged roads were hindering access to isolated mountainous areas and helicopters had been deployed by the disaster agency, the military and the search

and rescue agency to distribute aid.

Lombok, a popular but less developed tourist destination than neighboring Bali, was hit by three strong quakes in little over a week and has endured more than 500 aftershocks.

A July 29 quake killed 16 people. An aftershock measuring magnitude 5.9 on Thursday caused panic, more damage and more than two dozen injuries.

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volca-

noes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. (ap) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.