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Gaga, Missy Elliott in tears after getting Billboard honors

Director J.J. Abrams, second right, and actors, from left, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver, right, pose for a group photo during a press conference of their latest film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at a hotel in Urayasu, near Tokyo Friday, Dec. 11, 2015.

Hollywood preps for ‘Star Wars’ world premiere

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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is preparing for what could be the largest movie premiere in its history on Monday night when the hugely anticipated “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is screened for VIP audiences in three separate theaters amid tight security.

At one of the Hollywood Boulevard location — the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre, where the first “Star Wars” premiered in 1977 — fans are already camped out this weekend, eagerly awaiting their turn when the film opens for regular folks next Friday.

One fan, Lavonne Dominguez, wasn’t interested in simply buying a ticket online to see the movie in her local movie theater. She and several friends who drove up from Orange County wanted an out-of-this-world experience.

“I need to see it in an epic place with people who are just as excited about ‘Star Wars’ as me,” said Dominguez, 32, who was among about 150 devotees in line at the Chinese on Friday, occasionally ducking under awnings to avoid a passing shower.

Several fans began holding court outside the theatre last weekend.

Many of them previously lined up at the same location to be among the first to see the “Star Wars” prequel films, beginning in 1999.

This time, the theater operator is allowing them to camp out on top of the theater’s famous celebrity handand footprints, instead of along the sidewalk out front.

The fans must log at least 24 hours in line to gain entry to the theater’s first public showing of the film, but those who spend more time in line will earn preferential seat selection.

“If I didn’t have to go to work, I probably would be here the whole time,” said Dominguez.

It’s unclear just where the group will be when Lucasfilm’s latest “Star Wars” installment has its worldwide

premiere on Monday night.

The star-studded event is expected to be one of the largest — and most secretive — Hollywood premieres ever. On Friday, dozens of workers were busily erecting a mammoth opaque tent lining four blocks of Hollywood oulevard.

Inside the partially built structure, curious tourists snapped photos of lighting equipment while security personnel drove around in carts with “The Force Awakens” logo on them.

Lucasfilm-owner Disney declined to comment or provide details about the premiere, but it’s expected to take over the TCL Chinese Theatre, as well as the nearby El Capitan Theatre and the adjacent Dolby Theatre, home of the Oscars.

An invitation sent to members of the media Friday afternoon requested that they withhold from spoiling the film after seeing it for the first time Monday night and dress in “’Star Wars’” chic” attire to the event. (ap)

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NEW YORK — Lady Gaga and Missy Elliott were in tears Friday as they discussed the struggles they faced in their careers at an event honoring women in the music industry.

Gaga was named Billboard’s woman of the year, while Elliott — who has largely stayed out of the spotlight in recent years, save for a surprise Super Bowl appearance, but returned last month with a new single — was dubbed innovator of the year.

Loretta Lynn, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Lana Del Rey, girl group Fifth Harmony, pop singer Tori Kelly and country singer Kelsea Ballerini were also honored at the event, along with 50 female music executives.

The Billboard Women In Music event, which included guests like Alicia Keys, Paul Rudd, Martina McBride and Jussie Smollett from “Empire,” will air Dec. 18 on Lifetime. (ap)

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Bangli’s traditional markets in dire condition

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The slogan “CLIMATESIGN” is projected on the Eiffel Tower as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. France presented what it called a “final draft” of an unprecedented deal to slow global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the levels that nature can absorb, and urged negotiators from nearly 200 nations to approve it Saturday.

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TRADITIONAL markets are still a source of comfort for consumers looking to supply themselves with their daily necessities such as food and other household items.

This comfort however is sometimes put in jeopardy when the condition of the location and general sanitation are left unattended.

Many of the traditional markets run by the government of Bangli bear witness to the lack of comfort that can be experienced when the environment of markets is not taken care of. Kidul Market for example is currently in a state that is not so different than a garbage dump (TPA). Kidul market is located in the town of Bangli, just south of Denpasar Palace, and can be reached by taking Jalan Merdeka from Gianyar.

Upon arriving at this market, the first sign of chaos is the parking area that is completely disorganized with merchants spilling out in a haphazard manner.

The entrance way into the market is even worse with garbage strewn about and vendors apparently oblivious to the unpleasant atmosphere. In the north of the market there is still the burned debris of a shop that went up in flames three years ago, which obviously gives a very bad impression.

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Euphoria as landmark Paris climate deal adopted

LE BOURGET, France - Cheering envoys from 195 nations on Saturday approved a historic accord in Paris to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ended nearly a fortnight of gruelling UN negotiations on the outskirts of Paris with the bang of a gavel, marking consensus among the ministers, who stood for several minutes to clap and shout their joy, with some shedding tears of relief.

“I see the room, I see the reaction is positive, I hear no objection. The Paris climate accord is adopted,” declared Fabius, the president of the talks.

The post-2020 Paris Agreement ends decades-long rows between rich and poor nations over how to

carry out what will be a multi-trillion-dollar campaign to cap global warming and cope with the impact of a shifting climate.

With 2015 forecast to be the hottest year on record, world leaders and scientists had said the accord was vital for capping rising temperatures and averting the most calamitous effects of climate change.

Without urgent action, they warned, mankind faced increas-

ingly severe droughts, floods and storms, and rising seas that would engulf islands and coastal areas populated by hundreds of millions of people.

“The Paris agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis,” US President Barack Obama said.

“We came together around the strong agreement the world needed.

We met the moment.”

German Chancellor Angela

Merkel added: “Paris will always be connected with this historic turning point in climate policy.”

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From page 1 All around the market there are piles of garbage that exude a pungent door and become slimy when it rains. Not a few consumers hold their noses as they shop.

This is just the condition on the outskirts of the market. As one enters the first floor of Kidul market, there is the combined stench of fish, meat and garbage.

Ceramic tiles that were once white have become blackened with grime and surprisingly none of the merchants seem to pay any attention to the conditions of their environment, busy as they are trying to sell their goods.

In the eastern part of the market, trash cans have been set up, but these are apparently seldom used, as trash is piled up randomly. If the condition of this an other traditional markets is not dramatically improved, compet-

ing against modern markets will remain a fantasy.

Head of the Bangli Urban Planning Agency, Ida Ayu Yudi Sutha, said that her agency has cooperated with the market three times to haul away piles of garbage, and that the merchants have been given guidance about how to maintain the sanction of the market. Unfortunately, so far people’s behaviour has not changed. “We have given them coaching. But they seem unable to change,” she said.

Sutha also explained that the Industry and Trade Agency has been cooperating with the market officers so that the problem of waste management can be addressed properly. According to Sutha, the merchants need to be given more guidance about how to maintain sanitation at the market. Previously, the poor sanitation at Kidul Market was blamed for the district of Bangli’s failure to win the Adupura Trophy. (sos)

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All around the Bangli market there are piles of garbage that exude a pungent door and become slimy when it rains. Not a few consumers hold their noses as they shop.

Modern chain stores

Moratorium planned for certain areas

THE GIANYAR House of Representatives’ recommendation to address the issue of the increase in the number of big chain stores is finally getting the attention of the government. The government of Gianyar plans to suspend the issuance of permits for big chain stores in 2016.

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The government of Gianyar plans to suspend the issuance of permits for big chain stores in 2016. There are currently a total of 115 modern chain stores in Gianyar.

However, the moratorium will only be applied in certain areas. Head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, said that a regent regulation has in fact already set forth guidelines concerning the establishment of such businesses in Ginayar with quotas set for each subdistrict. There are currently a total of 115 modern chain stores in Gianyar.

The quotas set for each subdistrict are determined based on such factors as the population of the subdistrict, per capita income, and a number of other aspects.

“So, it is different in each subdistrict. For example Ubud and Payangan, clearly have different needs,” he said.

Calling for a moratorium is a tricky matter, explained Suamba, because basically, according to a presidential instruction, the government is not allowed to to restrict the establishment of ‘modern stores’. “The presidential instruction hints that we cannot limit the number of stores, we can only regulate the matter,” he said. Nevertheless, because so many such stores have been popping up there is clearly a need to give attention to the situation. Suamba added that the regent

of Gianyar has commissioned a discussion on the matter of modern chain stores and the empowerment of traditional markets.

Altough he did not explain in detail, Sumaba did say that the moratorium will not be applied across the board but rather will be applied in subdistricts who have exceeded their quota of modern chain stores. In addition, traditional markets will be empowered so that they can compete with the modern chain stores.

The head if the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency added that the issue of the proliferation of modern chain stores requires that the general public be educated about how to provide practical services that are increasing in demand by our communities. A few communities have already started to make their shops more attractive and are giving more attention to sanitation and hygiene.

“If the store is dirty and messy, this will have a negative impact on sales, because today’s consumers demand cleanliness. Shop owners need to become aware of these demands and do what is needed to take advantage of existing opportunities,” said Suamba. (kmb25)

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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NUSA DUA - The 8th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) ended on Friday with the issuance of a Chair’s Statement, which in essence, encourages the creation of good governance to support democracy in each participating country.

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This June 2015 photo shows tourists trekking through the jungles of Mondulkiri Province, located in eastern Cambodia. The Mondulkiri Project aims to act as a sanctuary for elephants that previously worked for timber companies or as attractions in the tourists hub of Siem Reap. The project also seeks to give the local indigenous population jobs and curtail logging in the area.

Elephants get love and care in Cambodia, with tourists’ help SEN MORONOM, Cambodia — The trip to the hills of eastern Cambodia had all the makings of a luxurious getaway: delicious fresh fruit fed by hand, a dip in a refreshingly cold watering hole and a relaxing massage.

This June 2015 photo shows two of the elderly elephants that are part of the Mondulkiri Project in Mondulkiri Province in eastern Cambodia.

But tourist wasn’t receiving these amenities. Elderly elephants were. And tourists paying for the privilege of doting on them.

At the Mondulkiri Project, it’s not the people who call the shots, but the elephants. Visitors from all over the world come here for the chance to interact with the behemoth creatures by washing them, feeding them, playing with them and, of course, getting selfies with them. One thing that doesn’t happen: riding on the animals’ backs.

Named for Cambodia’s most sparsely populated province, the Mondulkiri Project aims to act as a sanctuary for elephants that previously worked for timber companies or as attractions in the tourist hub of

DALLAS — American Airlines says it will start selling “premium economy” service on international flights, with leather seats, entertainment systems and meals.

The seats will cost more than coach but less than business class, although American isn’t stating prices.

American, the world’s largest airline, said Wednesday that it will launch the service late next year

American’s Main Cabin Extra seats, which are economy seats with more legroom. They will be walled off from both business class ahead and the main cabin behind.

“We had a large set of customers that wanted something that was greater than the main-cabin experience but not all the way to business class,” Andrew Nocella, American’s chief marketing officer,

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Siem Reap, home to the Angkor Wat site. The Mondulkiri Project also seeks to give the local indigenous population, called the Bunong, opportunities for jobs and help in curtailing logging and promoting forest conservation.

The Mondulkiri Project began in 2013, founded by the Tree family, who are not members of the Bunong community but who support the Bunongs with revenue from the Mondulkiri Project. The Tree family offers trekking along with the elephant experiences, and they run Tree Lodge, a bare-bones but comfortable set of bungalows with magnificent views of the Cambodian countryside.

Tourists, both solo and group

travelers, in cleaning and feeding the elephants. They also got an indepth explanation of the project, its goals and why preserving the area is important.

Then came the fun part: getting up close and personal with the gigantic mammals. The elephants spend all their time in a protected area of the forest, with local guides watching over them. The elephants were friendly, hungry and eager to interact.

For the humans, there was a lunch of rice, vegetables, meat and iced coffee. Then an Englishspeaking Bunong guide led on an easy trek through the lush jungles as we headed to a chilly watering hole to wash one of the creatures.

More photo opportunity than actual cleansing, the elephant seemed to enjoy getting his back scratched and didn’t mind the picture-taking. (ap)

AA to sell ‘premium-economy’ seats on international flights with 21 seats on some planes. It seeks to stand out from U.S. rivals and compete with foreign airlines that already offer premium-economy seating.

American says customers will get wider seats — they won’t lie flat like those in business class — a personal entertainment system, meal service, alcohol, and priority check-in and boarding. They will be a step up from

said in an interview.

Nocella declined to give prices but said fares might be similar to those charged by American’s partners, British Airways and Japan Airlines, for similar seats.

On a half-dozen randomly selected January round trips between New York and London, BA this week was often charging more than $1,500 for premium economy, between $700 and $800 for the

cheapest coach seats, and about $5,700 for business class.

American will begin premium economy service in late 2016 when it begins receiving Boeing 787-9 jets that won’t have a first-class cabin. The service will expand to Airbus A350s that arrive in 2017, and American plans to retrofit other wide-body planes including the Boeing 777 fleet by 2018. (ap)

“There should be cooperation between governments and people to develop democratization, and the BDF plays an important role in exchanging experiences in applying practical democracy and cooperation,” Indonesian Deputy Foreign Minister A.M. Fachir stated in his closing address at the BDF at Nusa Dua, Bali, on Friday.

During the two-day meeting attended by representatives from 89 participating countries and three international organizations, Fachir highlighted the importance of three issues that are relevant to the theme of the forum “Democracy and Effective Public Governance.”

Firstly, good governance needs sustainable investment in human resources to implement policies and institutional reforms, he noted.

Secondly, governments need to adopt an open approach and cooperate with various stakeholders to improve public governance.

Thirdly, the media and civil society must increase their role as government partners by assisting the latter in supervision efforts.

“Our public interest in creating good governance must at least cover transparency and accountability, while at the same time increasing public participation,” he affirmed.

In his closing statement, Fachir called for active participation of various countries and organizations to cooperate with the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) as the executive body of the BDF. Since early this year, the IPD has carried out 13 concrete activities to promote democracy including those in Egypt, Fiji, Myanmar, Tunisia, Libya, Palestine, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. (ant)

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The 8th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) ended on Friday with the issuance of a Chair’s Statement, which in essence, encourages the creation of good governance to support democracy in each participating country.

Infrastructure bank needs three guarantees

NUSA DUA - The government is urged to give a guarantee in the form of protection for Indonesian Infrastructure Bank from being declared bankrupt unless it is ruled by the law.

Chief Executive of PT. Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI), a state owned company to be the embryo of the Indonesian Banking Development Agency (LPPI), Emma Sri Martini said the protection from the bankruptcy pressure is important for the operational sustainability and credibility of the LPPI. LPPI, expected to be opera-

tional in 2017, has a function to serve as an infrastructure bank in Indonesia.

“That (the guarantee) will increase the level of convenience of rating agencies to give good rating for LPPI,” Emma said on Friday.

Currently, the finance ministry, SMI and the Commission XI of the Parliament are discussing a draft law on LPPI. With good rating from international rating agencies, LPPI financing with bonds would be given good price, Emma said.

Emma raised the proposal in a

“bankruptcy remote” scheme. She plans to come up with two other proposals to the Working Committee for LPPI Draft Law at the Parliament.

The second guarantee to be proposed by Emma is accommodation of capital for LPPI in the state budget. As for capital guarantee, the stipulation could be used as adopted for the Indonesia Export Financing Agency (LPEI), she said.

“In the event of the equity capital of LPEI is less than Rp4 trillion, the government is required to inject more fund. That is a guarantee. LPPI

asks for the same treatment with different parameters,” she said.

The third guarantee is a tax incentive for LPPI to reduce the cost of fund, Emma said, adding tax incentive could be given for instrument issued by LPPI when seeking fund in financial market.

She said tax incentive could also be given in the form of corporate income tax exemption or cut. “The government, therefore, does not have to inject fund through capital participation (PMN) to LPPI,” she added.

Emma said the process of SMI

transformation into LPPI is continuing. In 2016, SMI hopes to increase its financing commitments to Rp24 trillion cumulatively.

She said SMI is seeking an additional fund of Rp14.5 trillion to increase in financing capacity in 2016.

The additional fund could be through issuance of mid term bonds --Medium Term Notes -MTN, and loans from banks. In 2016, SMI sets a target for funding commitment at Rp12 trillion for infrastructure projects, which are dominated by the electricity, transport, oil and gas sectors. (ant)

Indonesia to host international conference on Jerusalem

NUSA DUA - Indonesia will host a two-day international conference on Jerusalem held by the United Nation Committee on Palestine (CEIRPP) to start on Monday in Jakarta.

The delegates will discuss the status of Jerusalem and cooperation to resolve the Palestinian conflicts, Multilateral Director General at the Foreign Ministry Hasan Kleib said on Friday.

Hasan said Jerusalem is a complicated, sensitive and difficult issue as it is recognized as a capital city by both Palestine and Israel.

It is also a holy city for both Islam, Christians and Jews, that it often triggers religious conflicts, he said. “While awaiting decision on the status of Jerusalem, what we need to think over is how to live peacefully side by side

between the followers of each faith,” Hasan.

The delegations from 25 member countries of CEIRPP and observers from 24 countries will also discuss illegal Jew settlements in Jerusalem that would change the demography and reduce the Palestinian territory.

Through the conference, called International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem , Indonesia

wants to raise the Palestinian issue which has been out of the spotlight by other issues such as conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq and the ISIS threat.

Indonesia will also call on Palestine to continue seeking internal reconciliation.

Now Gaza and the West Bank have yet to reach reconciliation, which is needed to form an independent country, he said.

Foreign Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi said the conference shows the Indonesian strong commitment to continuing support for an independent Palestine.

Indonesia will seek talks with countries not yet recognizing independent Palestine and offer cooperation in the form of capacity building that Palestine could assume the position as fully independent country. (ant)

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Ketapang-Gilimanuk vessels undergo seaworthiness inspections

Mock mass shooting in Texas is met by counter-demonstrators

NEGARA - A number of vessels serving the crossing of GilimanukKetapang recently underwent seaworthiness inspections. Two teams from Ketapang and Gilimanuk were deployed to check 15 vessels each - primarily those vessels that serve passengers. Harbor unit team (UPP) checked the vessel engines, as well as the completeness of safety devices such as life jackets, lifeboats, navigation tools, and fire extinguishers.

Chief of the UPP Gilimanuk, Nyoman Wirawan Daelon, said that based on Shipping Notification No.182 dated November 30, 2015, the UPP is monitoring safety and conducting vessel seaworthiness inspections ahead of Christmas and New Year.

In addition to inspecting the safety of the vessels, they are also checking shipping documents. Daelon added that only after a vessel has been declared to be in compliance with the requirements for seaworthiness, will they be allowed to serve the crossing of the Bali straight.

Any vessel found to be in violation of these requirements will not be allowed to do so. According to Daelon, safety is the prime requirement for shipping services and added that even though the UPP authorities know that that the vessels that serve this crossing are generally fully sea-worthy, it is essential to conduct regular inspection to ensure passenger safety. (kmb26)

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Saudi women vote at a polling center during municipal elections, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Saudi women are heading to polling stations across the kingdom on Saturday, both as voters and candidates for the first time in this landmark election.

The Sarcofagus, one of the items exhibited in the museum.

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Archeological Museum of Gilimanuk renovated but funding still needed

NEGARA - The Gilimanuk Archaeological Museum was recently renovated and a number of fossils and other archaeological findings are stored in the three-story building. The museum looks much cleaner than before with both the roof and the floor having been replaced, and visitors have already started coming to the see the wonders stored here. However, the new building in front of the main museum has yet to be worked on due to lack of budget and so no new object have been put on display yet.

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The sidewalk project in Padang Luwih is not finished until now. It is very dangerous for the pedestrian and make the city look unorganized.

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In fact, the Gilimanuk archeological site is spread out across 20 hectares scattered throughout several hamlets in Gilimanuk village, five hectares are located around the museum and have now been surrounded by a compound wall. The remainder of the site is located in residential area.

Museum attendants, IGB Ketut Ari Susila, said that many fossils have been discovered in residential areas around the museum. He added that most of the hundred of fossils belonging to the Mongoloid race are found within the area of the Museum on the edge of Gilimanuk Bay. “The fossils discovered here date from 195 BC to 425 AD so they represent people that are considered modern, and many of them were wearing

jewellery such as stone necklaces and bracelets and pieces of broken glass have also been found,” he explained.

They were hunting with bronze knives and clay cooking tools which also indicates that they were ‘modern’.

Recently some local residents were digging a hole to burry garbage, when they came across a some pottery about a meter deep into the ground. The clay pot it turned out, contained animal bones.

“Many more archaeological objects are still regularly found by residents, including a sarcophagus at the entrance,” he said.

The rock sarcophagus has patterned carvings on it. Susila explained that at that time, every dead person was put into sarcophagus

in a flexed legs position with both hands placed in front of the solar plexus, imitating the fetoel position inside the mother’s womb, representing the rebirth that comes with death. Because so many objects are still being found, the entire areas has been declared ‘vulnerable to excavation’. Under the dirt-floored building for example, a fossil casting was discovered, but it was left in the ground until the new building is ready. The museum is waiting for funding to develop a new showroom.

Since the renovations to the main building have been completed, elementary and high school students have been invited to visit Gilimanuk Archaeological Museum and areas around the museum are also used for education purposes. (kmb26)

Saudi women vote for the first time, testing boundaries

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Women across Saudi Arabia marked a historic milestone on Saturday, both voting and running as candidates in government elections for the first time, but just outside polling stations they waited for male drivers — a reminder of the limitations still firmly in place.

The landmark election for local council seats was not expected to immediately advance the status of women in Saudi Arabia, who are still not permitted to drive, but it seen as a chance for them to make their voices heard as citizens.

“We are making history. I just made history,” said candidate Karima Bokhary, 50, after casting her ballot at a polling station in the capital Riyadh.

Bokhary was one of 979 women candidates vying for a seat on the country’s municipal councils, the only government body in which Saudi citizens can elect their representatives. An additional 5,968 male candidates were running in the election. There is no quota on the number of female council members. Results were expected to be reported on Sunday.

More than 130,000 women registered to vote, compared to 1.35 million men. The General Election Commission estimated there are at least 5 million eligible voters out of a population of 20 million, but the

figure could be much higher.

At a polling center in Riyadh, Shara Al-Qahtani, a 50-year-old mother of eight, wearing a loose black dress known as an abaya that all women must wear in public and a traditional veil covering her face and hair, said women being allowed to vote “is good for people and good for society ... Women are partners of men.” Najla Khaled, a 24 year-old English literature major, described voting “as a huge step for women in Saudi.”

Though women make up just 10 percent of registered voters, the right to simply cast a ballot sends a wider message to society, she said.

“If you look back at the history of women (in Islam), there are so many strong women,” she said.

“The Prophet (Muhammad) worked for his wife Khadija. The prophet’s wife was his boss technically.”

The election tested just how far the kingdom’s conservatives were willing to bend while bringing to the fore more liberal voices ad-

vocating for greater freedoms and reforms.

In line with Saudi Arabia’s strict gender segregation rules, men and women cast ballots at separate polling stations. During the campaign period, female candidates could not directly address male voters and had to either present their platforms from behind a partition, relying on projectors and microphones, or through male supporters and relatives presenting for them.

The candidates were vying for about 2,100 council seats. An additional 1,050 seats are appointed with approval from King Salman, who could use his powers to appoint female candidates who don’t win outright. The candidates serve fouryear terms that begin on Jan. 1.

While the municipal councils do not have legislative powers, they oversee a range of community issues, such as budgets for maintaining and improving public facilities.

All major decision-making powers rest solely in the hands of King Salman and the all-male Cabinet of ministers.

The first local council election since the 1960s to be held in Saudi Arabia was in 2005 and the second in 2011, with only men taking part. (ap)

AUSTIN, Texas — About a dozen gun rights activists staged a mock mass shooting Saturday near the University of Texas, only to be outnumbered by counter-demonstrators who waved sex toys and tried to drown them out with chants.

The groups Come and Take It Texas and Don’tcomply.com initially wanted to hold their event on campus but were told by school officials they would be charged with criminal trespassing. Several members openly carried real assault-style rifles.

The groups then slipped away to another location and “shot” six people with cardboard guns. Victims were outlined with chalk to show where they fell.

After publicizing their event for nearly a week, organizers said they purposely avoided the crowds and media gathered to cover the event to prove that a shooter can strike anywhere and anytime.

“In real (shooting) events like this, you don’t know when they’re going to happen, you don’t know where they’re going to happen ... we purposely did it that way,” said Jason Orsek, vice president of both gun groups.

The campus is home to one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. Charles Whitman killed 16 people in 1966, shooting dozens of people from a perch atop the central clock tower.

“It’s tasteless,” Robert Oxford, a graduate student and member of the group Gun-Free UT, said of the mock mass shooting.

The Texas legislature this year voted to allow concealed handguns on college campuses, although public universities can establish gun-free zones. Plans under consideration for the Austin campus would prohibit firearms in dorms but allow them in classrooms.(ap)

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Gun rights activist Phil Newsome, right, carries a gun and flags as he takes part in a march near the University of Texas, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015, in Austin, Texas. The group is planning a mock mass shooting near the campus.

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Fed expected to hike rates amid nagging worries

WASHINGTON - After a long buildup that stirred waves of turbulence in global markets, the Federal Reserve finally is expected to end its seven-year crisis stance with an interest rate increase on Wednesday.

Most bets are that the Fed will increase the benchmark federal funds rate for the first time in nearly a decade, signaling confidence in US economic growth even as the rest of the world sags.

A move has been well-flagged for months now by Fed Chair Janet Yellen and others on her team.

About 97 percent of economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal expect the increase.

Yellen made clear at the beginning of this month that she believes that longstanding arguments against an increase -- inflation is absent and the jobs market still shows weakness -- will dissolve through next year.

“I anticipate continued economic growth at a moderate pace that will be sufficient to generate additional increases in employment, further reductions in the remaining margins of labor market slack, and a

rise in inflation to our two percent objective,” she said in a December 2 speech.

If the Fed waits too long, she added pointedly, “we would likely end up having to tighten policy relatively abruptly to keep the economy from significantly overshooting both of our goals.”

That speech “was really intended to tell the market that, yes, they are planning to raise rates at the next meeting,” said Stephen Oliner of the American Enterprise Institute.

The Fed’s policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee, meets on Tuesday and Wednesday

to weigh raising the fed funds rate, a short-term peg for interbank lending which influences rates throughout the financial system, from 0-0.25 percent to an expected 0.25-0.50 percent.

The rate was pulled down to zero in an unprecedented series of very sharp cuts in 2008 as the economy sank into a deep recession.

It has not budged since then, as the climb back to firm growth has been much slower than expected.

But the result of the Fed’s ultraeasy money policy has been to flood the US and global economies with trillions of cheap dollars that some

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An American drowns in swimming pool

GIANYAR - An American tourist was found floating dead in the pool of a villa belonging to I Wayan Warsa in Sala hamlet, Pejeng, Tampaksiring, on Friday morning (Dec. 11). The sudden death of 60 year old Brillian William O’Reilly, shocked local people.

The deceased did not have any history of disease or illness and according to the police’s preliminary investigation, there were no signs of violence.

Based on information gathered, the last time that the victim was seen alive was on December 10th

at 15:30, when villa employee, I Wayan Kartika, saw Mr. O’Reilly sitting on the porch - their were no signs of anything suspicious. “(Brillian William O’Reilly—Ed) had been staying here for almost a year and there was no indication that he suffered any illness.

critics worry will spark uncontrollable inflation and new asset bubbles.

Neither has happened. But Yellen, stiffly opposed to a rate increase over her first 18 months as Fed chair, has turned more in favor recently, even has some of her FOMC colleagues have remained unconvinced.

Media reports have depicted her working behind the scenes in recent months to build consensus behind a rate hike. In her speech, she conceded that she is “looking forward to” the day she can begin raising rates. (afp)

I last saw him last on Thursday afternoon, he was sitting alone and I asked for permission to go home to attend a ceremony,” said I Wayan Kartika when interrogated by police.

This villa employee from Tarukan hamlet, Pejeng returned to the villa on Friday morning, around 08:00 and looked frantically around for the the deceased. He was shocked to finally find his employer lying dead in the pool. “I was very surprised, I saw that he had drowned as he was

not moving. Since I did not dare to lift the body from the pool alone, I contacted the owner of the villa, I Wayan Warsa,” said Kartika.

After receiving the call from Kartika about the sudden death of his guest, Karsa immediately reported the incident to the Tampaksiring Police. After making identifying the body, the police stated that there were no signs of violence on the victim’s body. “Examination by the identification team found no signs of violence. By the pool

Nusa Penida holds Tawur Gentuh ritual

Mandara Giri Semeru Agung Temple

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Initiated in 1963, Inaugurated in 1992

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Trader Thomas Kay, center, works with colleagues at their booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015.

309.54 points, or 1.8 percent, to 17,265.21.

The Nasdaq composite declined 111.71 points, or 2.2 percent, to 4,933.47.

In Europe, Germany’s DAX lost 2.4 percent, Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 2.2 percent

and France’s CAC 40 shed 1.8 percent.

Investors were also rattled by trouble in a risky corner of the credit markets where bonds from heavily indebted companies are traded. Their prices have fallen sharply as

investors fear the companies that issued the bonds might default. A fund that tracks the bonds, the iShares iBoxx USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, has dropped nearly 4 percent in five days. (ap)

Mandara Giri Semeru Agung TempleMandara Giri Semeru Agung Temple is a universal temple located at Senduro village, Senduro, Lumajang, East Java. Although the temple has now been established in the east slope of Mount Semeru, not many people know the rigorous struggle of a number of prominent Hindu figures in Bali in pursuing the construction of the temple since 1963.

Ultimately, it can be established and inaugurated in 1992.

Tjokorda Artha Ardana Sukawati, a Balinese figure who participated in fighting for the establishment of the temple, said that the temple construction on Mount Semeru was begun by the implementation of holy water invocation from Bali directly to Patirtan Watu Kelosot at the foot of Mount Semeru. It was held during the Ekadasa Rudra grandiose ceremony at Besakih Temple in March 1963. The activity of invoking holy water to Watu Kelosot was re-done in 1979 with regard to convening of the Ekadasa Rudra ceremony at Besakih Temple.

After that time, the tradition of invoking holy water to Watu Kelosot for other universal temples in Bali when making grandiose ceremony was begun. The area of Mount Semeru with its Watu Kelosot sacred springs is increasingly recognized, especially when organizing grandiose ceremony. High priests

or sulinggih always performs ngaskara to Mount Semeru, pleading before Hyang Shiva Pasupati believed to abide on the peak of Mount Semeru.

“The idea on the construction of this temple has been emerging from the senior figures of Bali in 1963. Originally, the idea was inspired that we have many temples in Bali. Well, when praying we always give notice to Hyang Shiva Pasupati abiding on Mount Semeru. But when our senior figures going there, there is no temple or shrines to venerate Ida Batara of Mount Semeru,” he explained.

With such condition, the leaders of Bali in the 1970s began moving to fight for the establishment of the temple. They included Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati, some senior figures of Pemecutan Palace and other figures. The struggle for the temple construction was also based on Hindu literature references like the Nagarakrtagama as well as historical references that refer to the Mount Semeru as a sacred area during ancient Java.

“Initially, the location permit proposed was rejected by local government. Finally the late Jero Mangku Sarja directed the establishment of Padma shrine to his own land on Mount Semeru spreading across the area of 800 square meters, and it becomes the loca-

side there was apple juice, water, cigarettes and ulcer medication. So, there is no allegation of criminality,” said Chief of Tampaksiring Police, Made Uder.

Uder added that from the results of examination by the health team, the victim that had been living in Bali for almost a year, allegedly died eight hours before being discovered by I Wayan Kartika.

“The US Embassy in Jakarta has been contacted,” he concluded. (kmb35)

Extreme weather

The ceremony held in Semeru Agung Temple

A rout in crude oil prices hammers the stock market

NEW YORK — A slump in oil prices sparked a global sell-off in financial markets on Friday with losses spreading from Asia to Europe to the U.S., where stocks fell sharply to cap their worst week since the summer.

The selling was broad, with all 10 sectors of the Standard and Poor’s 500 index ending down. Fearful investors put their money in government bonds, especially U.S. Treasurys.

Another measure of anxiety, the so-called Vix index, jumped. It is now up 70 percent in just five days.

Investors worry the sharp fall in the price of oil and other commodities is a sign of weakness in the global economy, especially China, and that will cut into profits at big energy producers and suppliers of raw materials as well as other companies.

“We’re stockpiling commodities and demand is not picking up,” said Tim Courtney, chief investment officer of Exencial Wealth Advisors. “It’s kind of a depressing market.”

Energy shares, already decimated this year, fell 3.4 percent on Friday. Southwestern Energy plunged 14 percent. Freeport McMoRan, a mining giant, dropped 6 percent.

The trouble began with a report from the International Energy Agency that said the oversupply in oil would persist until late next year even as demand continues to weaken. Benchmark U.S. crude plunged $1.14, or 3 percent, to close at $35.62 a barrel in New York. It has been falling for 1 ½ years and is now at its lowest level since early 2009.

By the end of the day, the S&P 500 index had lost 39.86 points, or 1.9 percent, to 2,012.37. It was down 3.8 percent for the week, its worst showing since August.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost

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tion of the current temple,” he said.

Process of the temple construction did not take place smoothly. It happened because it was hampered by licensing problem and difficulties of sending raw materials to the temple. Until 1989 the temple construction could continue. Now, the physical building of the Mandara Giri Semeru Agung Temple has been established on an area of two hectares, completed with split gates at the outermost courtyard and arched gates in the middle courtyard. On the east side is built the ashram of sulinggih, chamber pavilion to store ritual paraphernalia and two units of pagibungan and kitchen. On the southern side stands a spacious wantilan hall.

Officiated over by eight high priests, it was held the Pamelaspas Alit and Mapulang Dasar Sarwa Sekar ritual for the first time on March 8, 1992. Then, it was resumed in June-July 1992 with the ceremony in the form of Pamungkah Agung, Ngenteg Linggih and Pujawali.

Furthermore, through the Decree No.07/ Kep./V/PHDI/1992, the central office of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) named the temple ‘Pura Mandara Giri Semeru Agung’ with the status as kahyangan jagat or universal temple, a sanctum to adore God with devotees of all the Hindus in Indonesia. (kmb)

SEMARAPURA - The Tawur Gentuh ritual was held by the Dalem Setra Batunungul customary village, centered at the local Dalem Temple and coincided with the sixth new moon (Tilem) of the Balinese calendar, or Thursday (Dec. 10). The ritual was held in relation to the hot weather that has been afflicting Nusa Penida. There has been the odd sprinkle of rain but in Batununggul and surrounding areas it has not rained at all for many months.

The ritual was attended by subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, I Gusti Agung Gede Putra Mahajaya and others. Chief of Dalem Setra Batununggul customary village, I Dewa Ketut Tayanegara, when met at the local Pura Dalem on Friday (Dec. 11) said that the Tawur Gentuh ritual was commenced with bathara tirta turun kabeh from Sad Kahyangan Nusa Penida and 18 trinity temples. “This ritual is held every year having been inherited from the ancestors and is meant to invoke God so that this extreme weather condition can quickly go by. People are waiting anxiously for the rain to cool down the temperature,” said Dewa Tayanegara.

Tayanegara explained that the peak of the ritual took place on Thursday, and that the closing was held on Sunday (Dec. 13). The ritual is also intended to maintain the harmony of nature between the microcosm and macrocosm so that it can provide a calm atmosphere for the community and the universe,” he added.

According to Putra Mahajaya, the current weather conditions are very extreme. “The heat of the day goes on onto the night and is very disturbing.

Hopefully, through this ritual it can rain and a sense of calm can return to the community of Nusa Penida,” he said. (dwa)

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French far right faces test in regional election runoff

PARIS — Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Front was the frontrunner heading into the decisive second round of French regional elections Sunday, and now it’s up to voters whether to hand the once-pariah party an unprecedented political victory.

Le Pen is riding high after extremist attacks and Europe’s migrant crisis, and the party came out on top in six of France’s 13 newly drawn regions a week ago. But polls suggest it may fail to translate that into wins in the second round.

The once-powerful Socialist Party, which currently controls all but one of France’s regions, came in a poor third place in the first round and pulled out of key races in hopes of keeping the National Front from gaining power. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party came in a strong second, and looks set to make substantial gains in Sunday’s runoff.

Winning control of any region would be unprecedented and a big

boost for the National Front — and especially for Le Pen’s hopes for the presidency in 2017.

Le Pen cast her ballot in the Northern city of Hennin-Beaumont on Sunday, while Socialist President Francois Hollande voted in a polling station in his stronghold of Tulle in central France.

Le Pen and her niece enjoyed a strong lead in races they are running in northern France and the region that includes Provence and the French Riviera.

But Le Pen faces a tough secondround race against conservative former Labor Minister Xavier Bertrand in the northern region of Nord-Pas de Calais-Picardie, and her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen faces a similar challenge in the

southern region of Provence-AlpesCote d’Azur against conservative Nice Mayor Claude Estrosi.

The electoral campaign has been especially bitter. Le Pen called Bertrand “the minister of unemployment.” He said she is “the candidate of permanent confrontation.”

The nearly 50 percent of people who failed to cast ballots in the Dec. 6 first round could hold the key to the outcome of the final round. All parties have been trying to lure them in.

The Socialist prime minister, Manuel Valls, has used scare tactics. He denounced the National Front, in an interview with France Inter radio, as a “scam” that “fools the French.”

The outcome in the Paris region, now controlled by the left, remains unclear. Valerie Pecresse, a minister under former conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy is in a tight race against Socialist speaker of the house Claude Bartolone. (ap)

AP Photo/Michel Spingler

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In this Dec. 12, 2015 picture German police cross a street as they secure the area during clashes with left-wing protesters in Leipzig, Germany.

69 police officers injured in clashes in eastern Germany

BERLIN — Leipzig police say 69 officers have been injured in clashes with rioting leftwing protesters and that they had to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse the group.

Some 50 police cars were also damaged in the riots Saturday evening, which started after hundreds of leftwing activists demonstrated against a rally by far-right protesters in the eastern

German city of Leipzig earlier in the day.

Police said Sunday they temporarily detained 23 people after the leftist rioters threw stones at police, erected street blocks and burned down garbage cans. The protesters also demolished store front windows and two bus stops.

It was not immediately clear how many protesters were injured in the clashes. (ap)

Euphoria ...

are also aggressively pursuing nuclear power, which does not emit greenhouse gases.

The Paris accord sets a target of limiting warming of the planet to “well below” 2.0 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) compared with the Industrial Revolution, while aiming for an even more ambitious goal of 1.5C. To do so, emissions of greenhouse gases will need to peak “as soon as possible”, followed by rapid reductions, the agreement states.

The world has already warmed by almost 1C, which has caused major problems in dry developing countries, according to scientists. (afp)

The crux of the fight entails slashing or eliminating the use of coal, oil and gas for energy, which has largely powered prosperity since the Industrial Revolution.

The burning of those fossil fuels releases invisible greenhouse gases, which cause the planet to warm and disrupt Earth’s delicate climate system.

Ending the vicious circle requires a switch to cleaner sources, such as solar and wind, and improving energy efficiency. Some nations

Fire at Russian mental patients’ home kills 23, injures 23

MOSCOW — A fire swept through a Russian home for people with mental illnesses, killing 23 patients and injuring another 23, the emergency services said Sunday.

The remaining 24 patients were safely evacuated, including some who had to be carried out of the building, and the four medical personnel working at the home were unhurt, they said.

Similar fires at two other institutions for psychiatric patients in Russia took the lives of 75 people in

2013, leading to calls for stricter enforcement of fire safety standards.

Investigators have not yet determined the cause of this weekend’s fire, which broke out late Saturday in Alferovka, a village in the Voronezh region about 600 kilometers (350 miles) south of Moscow. The fire in the one-story brick building was extinguished shortly after 3 a.m.

(0000 GMT) Sunday.

The fire started in a section of the home dedicated to patients who were unable to walk, emergency services

official Igor Kobzev said on Russian state television. He said 39 of the patients in the home could not walk.

All of the patients at the Novokhopersky Neuropsychiatric Home were men and those who died were aged between 46 and 78, according to a list released by the emergency services. Those who were evacuated were placed in a nearby home for elderly and disabled people.

Russia has a poor fire safety record with about 12,000 fire deaths reported in 2012. By comparison,

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A torn poster of French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen is seen in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Le Pen is in the race for the presidency of the French northern region. The second round of the regional elections will take place Sunday.

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the U.S., with a population roughly double Russia’s, recorded around 3,000 fire deaths in 2011.

In April 2013, a small psychiatric hospital in a town outside of Moscow burned down, killing 38 people; only two patients and one nurse survived. The health minister said half of the patients were given sedatives at night, but insisted they were not tied to their beds and were not given any medication that would leave them unconscious and unable to escape. Much of the

blame was placed on firefighters, who took an hour to arrive.

In September 2013, a fire at a home for psychiatric patients in the Novgorod region northwest of Moscow killed 37 people. Investigators said the fire was caused inadvertently by a patient who was smoking, but the chief doctor insisted the fire was deliberately set.

A 2006 fire at a drug treatment facility in Moscow with barred windows and locked doors killed 45. (ap)

SURABAYA - East Java Governor Soekarwo has asked the provincial and district natural disaster mitigation boards (BPBD) to continue monitoring Mount Bromo which is showing signs of increased activity. “I have asked the acting chief of the East Java Provincial BPBD, Sudarmawan, to keep monitoring it and report latest developments,” he said on Saturday.

The BPBD has distributed thousands of masks among local residents, officers and tourists, he said.

Earlier, the head of Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation of the Mount Bromo Observatory Post, Ahmad Subhan, said the tremor activities of the 2,329-m high volcano were still high, yet its status remains at Alert 3.

According to seismic data recorded by the Mount Bromo observatory post, the volcano produced a tremor of a maximum amplitude of 3-22 mm, well below the dominant amplitude of 5 mm.

The National Disaster Mitigation Board (BNPB) said earlier in the day that it has completed a contingency plan to anticipate the

possible eruption of Mount Bromo in East Java.

Head of the Information and Data Center and Public Relations Service of BNPB Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the contingency plan includes preparing evacuation camps and personnel to help residents in case of eruption.

The contingency plan also involves many parties including military personnel, police officers and agencies in the district, he said.

Subhan called on the local people and tourists not to carry out activities within a radius of 2.5 km for fear that thick sulfuric ash may disrupt respiratory system and minor eruption may suddenly occur in the crater. (ant)

ANTARA FOTO/Ari Bowo Sucipto

The tremor activities of Mt. Bromo were still high, yet its status remains at Alert 3. East Java Governor Soekarwo has asked the provincial and district natural disaster mitigation boards (BPBD) to continue monitoring Bromo which is showing signs of increased activity.

Indonesian energy minister bemoans bad luck

JAKARTA - It’s not always easy being a reformist minister in Indonesia, as Sudirman Said, the country’s energy minister, made plain in remarks on Friday.

Soon after he took office in October 2014, President Joko Widodo put Said in charge of cleaning up the crooked energy sector. Now the minister seems rather jaded by his job.

“There was no minister as un-

lucky as me,” Said told an anticorruption hearing in the city of Bandung, according to a media statement posted on the energy ministry’s website.

“There were no other ministries where the minister is in prison, the secretary-general is in prison, the head of the oil and gas regulator is in prison and several members of the (parliament) energy commission

are in prison.”

Soon after he took office, Said launched a major shakeup of the graft-tainted ministry, requiring all top directors to re-apply for their jobs.

The minister recently went public with recordings of a conversation in which parliament speaker Setya Novanto allegedly tried to extort shares in the local unit of

Freeport McMoRan Inc , which operates one of the world’s biggest copper and gold mines in eastern Indonesia.

Indonesia, an archipelago of some 250 million people rich in resources, is routinely ranked by watchdog Transparency International as one of the world’s most corrupt countries.

Said’s predecessor, Jero Wacik,

stepped down in September 2014 after being named a suspect in a case involving extortion and kickbacks worth about $841,000.

A few months before that, the former head of Indonesia’s energy regulator, SKKMigas, was jailed for seven years for taking more than $1 million in bribes from the owner of a Singapore-based oil company. (rtr)

As garbage mountains rise, Indonesian capital faces waste crisis

BEKASI - Sifting through a mountain of garbage with her bare hands, a thick cloth wrapped around her face to keep out the stench, Patimah recalled her early days scavenging at a dump on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital the size of 120 football fields.

“I vomited back then,” she told AFP while wading through kneedeep waste, swatting away flies as she hunted for plastic bottles amid food scraps and soiled clothing.

But now Patimah, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said the smell no longer bothers her: “I am used to it.”

The same cannot be said for people living nearby, who are increasingly angry at the odours

wafting from the tip, placing it at the centre of a row that highlights the challenge for Jakarta and other developing cities in dealing with their waste.

Virtually all rubbish from Jakarta –- a sprawling city of about 10 million with a booming middle class –- is dumped an hour’s drive away at Bantar Gebang, in the city of Bekasi, where towering mountains of trash have risen skyward as the capital grows bigger and wealthier.

The absence of a citywide recycling scheme, and limited public awareness of “going green”, means the tip –- already one of the world’s largest –- is growing by an estimated 6,500 tonnes per day.

The job of sorting through the mountains of untreated waste falls to a 6,000-strong army of trash pickers, including many young children, who dodge heavy machinery and exposure to disease to eke out a living from the city’s filth.

As he wandered around searching for toys and paper as trucks tipped reeking waste nearby, 11year-old Agung said his father was a trash picker while his mother sorted plastic at one of the many shanty towns that have grown up around the dumpsite.

“I come here after school,” he told AFP, as a friend hauled a bamboo basket carrying cans and plastic bottles on his back.

At the dump’s only school –- it

also has a dedicated mosque, salon and many shops selling food and cool drinks –- principal Nasrudin fretted over his students, most of whom suffer skin infections, bronchial problems and intestinal worms from working on the tip.

“I am very, very worried about the safety of the children working around such heavy machinery,” he said, speaking from the school’s newly-built second floor, where the giant trash heaps are visible from classrooms.

“They are still small children, and they are not psychologically or physically ready for such work.”

In the 20 years Nasrudin has worked at the school, enrolment has soared as the first garbage mountain

was joined by a second, then a third and fourth.

As the tip expanded, so did the shanty towns around it, with whole families relocating to scour for anything to sell on, including plastic, glass and aluminium.

Crouched among maggot-ridden earth outside his squalid shack, his hands black with filth, Paino said he tilled a rice field until drought forced him and his young family to find work elsewhere.

“Essentially, we had to make a living,” he said.

“Who knows, maybe we’ll make more than we did working in the rice fields,” he told AFP, adding he earned about 75,000 rupiah ($5) every day. (afp)

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Warriors streak ends with 108-95 loss to Bucks

MILWAUKEE — Golden State’s record winning streak to start the season ended at 24 games when the Warriors were beaten 108-95 at Milwaukee on Saturday.

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By and large, they use it to cleanse their face or refresh the body.

At particular time, the shower located near the temple is crowded with local residents because they

perform a melasti procession, a series of deva yajna ceremony held by the Hindus community in Bali.

If you want to capture an amazing picture, you should come in the afternoon or evening.

This happens because the waterfall overlooks the west, so that it will be difficult to get an interesting photograph in the morning as disrupted by sunlight. To reach the waterfall from parking lot, you should go down some 150 stairs.

Afterward, go along the banks of the Petanu River.

Desak Putri and Dewa Putra Raditya, the attendants in charge of the ticket counter, said the Tegenungan Waterfall was frequently visited by many tourists. Within a day, the tourist reached some 100 people originating from different countries.

While in the holiday season, the object managed by the Tegenungan Village was overwhelmed by local tourists.

Their 28-game streak, counting the final four games of last season, also came to a halt, ending the Warriors’ quest to reach the longest winning sequence in NBA history, which remains 33 by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1971-72.

Elsewhere, San Antonio put in a superb defensive performance in the first half to set up a big win at Atlanta, Boston ended Charlotte’s winning streak in a result that tightened the fight at the top of the Atlantic and Southeast divisions, while Detroit extended its home winning streak to five by defeating Indiana.

Milwaukee, bottom of the Central Division, was an unlikely candidate to end Golden State’s winning run, but got an all-round effort from the team, led by 28 points from Greg Monroe.

It also helped that the Warriors, perhaps fighting fatigue after needing two overtimes to win at Boston on Friday, were cold from 3-point range. They usually make 13 a night, but were just 6 of 26 from behind the arc in the final game of

a seven-game road trip.

A miserly San Antonio gave up only 25 Atlanta points in the first half to lay the foundation for a 10378 win at the Hawks.

Kawhi Leonard scored 22 points for the Spurs, who led 47-25 at halftime. The Hawks’ total was the lowest for any team in any half this season, according to STATS. The previous low was Houston’s 26 second-half points on Nov. 1 at Miami. Manu Ginobili had 17 points for San Antonio, which has won six of seven.

Paul Millsap led Atlanta with 22 points, including 17 in the third quarter. No other Hawks player scored in double figures.

Boston snapped Charlotte’s fourgame winning streak with a 98-93 road win, moving within one game of Atlantic leader Toronto.

Avery Bradley scored 23 points and Isaiah Thomas added 21 points and 13 assists for the Celtics, who responded well after the doubleovertime loss to Golden State on Friday.

The Hornets had a chance to tie

the game late but Nicolas Batum’s 30-foot jumper off a side inbounds play with 6.6 seconds remaining missed everything, and Evan Turner put away the game with a layup.

Batum’s 21 points led the Hornets, whose lead in the Central was trimmed to one game ahead of Miami and Atlanta. Detroit’s Reggie Jackson had 21 points as the Pistons beat Indiana 118-96. Ersan Ilyasova added 20 points for the Pistons, who had six players score in double figures.

George Hill led the Pacers with 14 points. Paul George finished with 13 on 4-of-16 shooting, missing all four of his 3-point attempts.

Washington ended a run of 11 straight losses to Dallas by winning 114-111 at the Mavericks.

Otto Porter scored a career-high 28 points and John Wall had 26 points and 16 assists for the Wizards, who beat the Mavericks for the first time since 2009.

Porter more than picked up the slack for the injured Bradley Beal, scoring 17 points during Washington’s 39-point third quarter as the Wizards built a 21-point lead.

Wesley Matthews led the Mavericks with 28 points, including six 3-pointers. (ap)

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UAE Royals’ Roger Federer of Switzerland hits a return to Indian Aces’ Rafael Nadal of Spain during their men’s doubles match in the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) in New Delhi, India, December 12, 2015. s

BERNE - Switzerland’s two greatest tennis players will join forces at next year’s Rio Olympics when Roger Federer and Martina Hingis play together in the mixed doubles. “Roll back the years with @mhingis. Really excited to be playing mixed doubles with you 15 years later at the Rio games,” the 34-year-old Federer said on Twitter.

He last played alongside his fellow Swiss at the Hopman Cup in 2001.

Seventeen-times grand slam champion Federer, a year younger than Hingis who came out of retirement for a second time in 2013 and won the women’s doubles at this year’s Wimbledon and U.S. Open, claimed Olympic gold for his country in 2008 when he partnered Stanislas Wawrinka in Beijing.

Hingis, winner of five grand slam singles titles but never an Olympic medal, and India’s Sania Mirza are currently the top-ranked women’s doubles pairing.

“I looked up to her when I was younger,

I thought she was the most unbelievable talent,” Federer told the BBC. “She’s almost my age and she was winning grand slams while I was still at the national tennis centre and I couldn’t believe how good she was.”

World number three Federer will try to juggle his schedule next year to give himself a shot at winning the Olympic singles gold, the one notable title missing in his illustrious career.

He reached the final in London in 2012 but was beaten by Briton Andy Murray.

“I’ve always said the Olympics is very important to me,” Federer added. “Every Olympic Games has been a super-amazing experience, an eye-opener, a great learning curve for me.

“Seeing other athletes, getting inspired and motivated, carrying the flag is such a proud moment in my career and my life as a person. To have done that twice for Switzerland, in Athens and Beijing, was incredible.” (rtr)

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Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic celebrates scoring a goal.

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Barcelona relinquishes late lead, draws 2-2 with D

BARCELONA — Barcelona missed a chance to temporarily increase its Spanish league lead when it conceded two late goals and drew with Deportivo La Coruna 2-2 at home on Saturday.

Lionel Messi opened the scoring with a curling free kick before halftime, and set up Ivan Rakitic’s powerful strike from outside the area after an hour. Then Deportivo striker Lucas Perez scored, and set up the equalizer by Alex Bergantinos after a late counterattack to shock the crowd at the Camp Nou. The result extended Barcelona’s winless streak to three matches, and gave rivals Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid - which play their games on Sunday - precious chances to make up ground in the 15th round.

Barcelona has a three-point lead over Atletico Madrid, which plays Athletic Bilbao. Real Madrid, which plays at fifth-place Villarreal, was five points behind Barcelona. Deportivo, unbeaten in six games and with only one away loss this season, was sixth.

“We had everything under control until the 30-minute mark of the second half,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. “Deportivo had a brave strategy, and it worked

out for them. It isn’t the result that we deserved but it shows that we have to be plugged in for all 90 minutes.”

It was Barcelona’s last game before traveling to Japan for the Club World Cup. Its semifinal will be on Thursday against either America of Mexico or Guangzhou Evergrande of China. Barcelona is chasing its third club world title after 2009 and 2011.

Enrique decided not to rest his regular starters, with Neymar being the only absentee because of a groin injury that is also likely to keep him sidelined at the Club World Cup. Neymar has six of Barcelona’s last 14 league goals, and remains the competition topscorer with 14.

Barcelona dominated from the start but had difficulties getting past the Deportivo defense until Messi broke the deadlock with a remarkable free kick. Lux stretched his left arm but could not get close to the ball as it curled over the wall and into the top corner.

The foul happened when Luis

Suarez was brought down just outside the area. Suarez, who scored in his previous eight games, had a goal disallowed for offside in the second half.

Messi set up Rakitic with a quick pass at the top of the area, but Deportivo found a way to get back into the game after Barcelona squandered good chances, especially through Suarez and substitute Munir El Haddadi.

Perez had a goal disallowed because of offside in the 75th, but two minutes later he found the net from inside the area after being left unmarked by the Barcelona defense. The equalizer came in a fast counterattack after Perez controlled the ball near midfield and sent a perfect through ball to Bergantinos, who shot into the far corner. “We just didn’t put away the game,” Rakitic said.

Deportivo earned a 2-2 draw at Barcelona late last season, also after trailing by two goals and also with a goal by Perez. The result at the time was crucial to help the team escape relegation.

“I’ll keep having great memories of playing at the Camp Nou,” Perez said. “The reaction of our team after going down 2-0 today was incredible.” (ap)

PARIS — Defending champion Spain begins its quest for a third straight European Championship title against the Czech Republic, while host France also escaped with a relatively unthreatening group in Saturday’s draw and opens Euro 2016 against Romania on June 10.

World Cup winner Germany will also be content with the draw, although Italy wasn’t so lucky and neither was England. Spain’s other opponents in Group D are Turkey and Croatia, while coach Didier Deschamps’ France also takes on newcomer Albania and Switzerland in Group A. Although Spain is the only team to have won the competition consecutively, and won nine out of 10 games in qualifying, coach Vicente del Bosque remains cautious. “It’s going to be very difficult for us,” he said.

Germany faces Robert Lewandowski’s Poland, Ukraine and Northern Ireland in Group C, while England has its work cut out against local rival Wales and Russia in Group B, which also contains Slovakia.

“We have a rather balanced group ... which we have to win,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. “We’re favorites in the group and we want to win it.” Loew’s confidence was echoed by former midfielder Lothar Matthaeus, who captained West Germany to the World Cup title in 1990.

“There are trickier groups,” he said. “German football fans can look forward to the second round.”

But Germany’s defense will need to be wary of Lewandowski, the top scorer in qualifying with 13 goals, who has been in rampant form for Bayern Munich.

Italy will not be relishing Group E much, which contains a top-ranked Belgian side — featuring Chelsea’s Eden Hazard and Manchester City’s Vincent Kompany — Sweden, led by Paris Saint-Germain star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and a rejuvenated Ireland.

“Belgium are a great team with outstanding players,” Italy coach Antonio Conte said, while Belgium coach Marc Wilmots was equally wary, saying “it’s the most difficult opponents we could have.” Sweden vs.

Belgium looks like a mouth-watering final match in that group.

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo will be confident of adding to his record 26 goals in Euros, including qualifiers, in a Group F featuring Iceland and Hungary, but Austria was unbeaten in qualifying and poses a strong threat.

In September, with Bayern Munich’s David Alaba playing in a more attacking midfield role, Austria won 4-1 away to Sweden in a performance full of speed and menace. “(Austria) qualified directly from their group, eliminating the Netherlands in the process, which says a lot about their potential,” Portugal coach Fernando Santos said. “Austria is also a team that has been improving lately and has great players, like David Alaba, Christian Fuchs and Marko Arnautovic. They finished their group on a high and we will have to be careful with them.”

England will first play Russia in Marseille on June 11 and there is likely to be a heavy security presence after serious outbreaks of fan violence there when England played Tunisia during the 1998 World Cup. “Russia and Slovakia will be interesting. I have not come across either of those two teams in my international management before,” England coach Roy Hodgson said. “There will be plenty of research between now and June and we can find out as much as we can before the campaign. Wales are very well organised, have a team spirit and very strong spine.”

Wales’ hopes of progressing rest largely with Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale, who scored seven goals in qualifying.

The European Championship has 24 teams for the first time, and will feature a new second round that includes the best four third-place finishers.

France will be confident of winning its group, having beating Switzerland 5-2 in the group stages at last year’s World Cup in Brazil.

Karim Benzema starred in that match, but could well miss the tournament after being indefinitely suspended from the national team.

He has been charged with conspiracy to blackmail in a case involving France teammate Mathieu Valbuena — who also scored against the Swiss — and Benzema is suspended pending the outcome of his case. (ap)

Leader Inter moves 4 points clear with 4-0 win at Udinese

MILAN — Mauro Icardi hit back at his critics with two goals as Inter Milan moved provisionally four points clear in the Serie A by comfortably beating Udinese 4-0 on Saturday.

The Inter captain and Stevan Jovetic both took advantage of howlers in the Udinese defense to put Inter 2-0 up at halftime.

Icardi, the league’s joint top goalscorer last season and criticized this season for lack of form, doubled his tally late on before Marcelo Brozovic added to Udinese’s embarrassment with a stunning strike.

“Scoring is his (Icardi’s) job,” Inter coach Roberto Mancini said. “We were never worried about him, because at the end he will score goals. It’s normal that forwards go through dry spells, but tonight he played very well, as did Jovetic: They’re beginning to understand each other and that’s a good sign.”

Inter moved four points clear of Fiorentina, which visits Juventus on Sunday. Third-place Napoli hosts Roma the same day, with four of the top five sides playing each other. “Who will I support tomorrow? It won’t change much, it’s too early,” Mancini added. “All the teams will continue to fight for the title.”

Earlier, Bologna continued its resurgence under former Italy coach Roberto Donadoni as it snatched a 1-0 win at fellow relegation struggler Genoa. Sassuolo’s match against Torino was postponed because of fog.

Bologna, which has picked up 13 points in six matches under Donadoni, moved five points clear of the relegation zone.

Genoa has lost three successive matches and fell to 17th spot, two points off the bottom three, after it was leapfrogged

by Palermo following the Sicilian side’s 4-1 win over 18th-place Frosinone. Udinese had early chances before gifting Inter the lead in the 23rd minute.

Icardi intercepted a woeful Bruno Fernandes

backpass and rounded Maurizio Domizzi before racing through one-on-one and slotting past Udinese goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis. Udinese could have leveled before Domizzi gave away the ball to Jovetic, who sprinted forward and placed a cheeky chip over Karnezis.

Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic continued to preserve his side’s lead, and there was worse to come from Udinese seven minutes from time as Francesco Lodi’s awful backpass sent Icardi clear to score his second.

Brozovic capped a great result for Inter three minutes later, curling a magnificent effort into the far top right corner from the edge of the penalty area. “It’s a pity because we had a great game, especially in the first half,” Udinese coach Stefano Colantuono said. “But if you don’t score it becomes more difficult against teams like Inter, and then you pay for some lapses of concentration.

“But we controlled the game in the first half, they were defending, and shot at goal on our misplaced backpasses.”

In Genoa, visiting goalkeeper Antonio Mirante made key saves and Luca Rossettini headed in a corner to claim the winner deep in stoppage time as the home side was made to pay for its profligacy and ill-discipline.

Genoa substitute Diego Perotti was sent off 10 minutes from time for elbowing Amadou Diawara. It was Genoa’s eighth red card in 16 matches. Diawara also got a red card for comments to the referee after Bologna scored.

Edoardo Goldaniga and Franco Vazquez fired Palermo 2-0 up within the opening 17 minutes, which also saw the home side hit the woodwork twice.

Paolo Sammarco got Frosinone back into the game shortly after, but Aleksandar Trajkovski netted his first Serie A goal on the hour to restore Palermo’s two-goal advantage and Alberto Gilardino headed in the fourth from a rebound late on.

It could have been worse for Frosinone as defender Leonardo Blanchard was shown a second yellow and a red card just before halftime but the referee discussed it with his assistant and changed his mind, deciding that the foul was from teammate Mirko Gori on Uros Djurdjevic, who then fell on Blanchard.

It was a first win for Palermo coach Davide Ballardini since he replaced Giuseppe Iachini a month ago. (ap)

Inter’s Mauro Icardi reacts after scoring, during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Inter Milan at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015.

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Manchester Unite manager Louis van Gaal, centre, and assistant manager Ryan Giggs, second right, look across the pitch after a missed chance by Bournemouth during the English Premier League soccer match between Bournemouth and Manchester United at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, England, Saturday Dec. 12, 2015.

United stunned by Bournemouth to pile pressure on Van Gaal

MANCHESTER, England — First it was criticism of Manchester United’s playing style.

Then came the team’s limp exit at the Champions League group stage. On Saturday, it was a loss to tiny Bournemouth in one of the Premier League’s biggest-ever mismatches.

The problems are stacking up for under-pressure United manager Louis van Gaal in his second season in charge of England’s biggest club. United — depleted by a wretched run of injuries to senior players — conceded directly from a corner in the second minute on its way to a humbling 2-1 loss at Bournemouth, the latest shock result in a season of surprises in the Premier League.

Earlier Saturday, Manchester City had needed a huge deflected goal just to get a 2-1 home win over Swansea, which is without a manager and on one of the worst run of results in the league. City went top on goal difference, for one day at least.

Bournemouth’s first season in the top flight is starting to get better and better. The little coastal club that almost dropped out of the country’s professional leagues six years ago beat Chelsea 1-0 away last weekend for what ranked as the biggest win in its 116-year history.

Saturday’s win may just top the result at Stamford Bridge

— although some will say it’s no shock, given United’s recent struggles and its extensive injury list. But that won’t stop a deluge of criticism toward Van Gaal.

“It’s a matter of belief, if you believe in the manager or not,” said the Dutchman, who said Friday that United had to get used to no longer being one of Europe’s superpowers after its elimination from the Champions League this week.

In front of 11,500 fans in Bournemouth’s cramped and atmospheric Vitality Stadium, United went behind when Junior Stanislas’ curling corner kick sailed directly into the far corner.

Marouane Fellaini equalized but more embarrassment for United at a 54th-minute corner handed Bournemouth victory, with Josh King finding himself in lots of space to turn in a shot from a pre-planned corner routine.

“For us, it’s a brilliant week,” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said. This time six years ago, Bournemouth lost 5-0 to Morecambe in a fourthtier match. For all its worries, United is still very much in the title race and only three points behind City, which is still failing to convince.

Yaya Toure’s shot in the second minute of injury time struck young substitute Kelechi Iheanacho and looped into the net as City escaped with a win from

an unconvincing display against Swansea at Etihad Stadium.

Swansea couldn’t have picked a much tougher game following the firing of Garry Monk on Thursday, but looked set to leave with a point after Bafetimbi Gomis equalized in the 90th minute. Wilfried Bony, who left Swansea for 25 million pounds ($38 million) in January, put City in front with a 26thminute header.

“We really didn’t play well in the game,” said City manager Manuel Pellegrini, who blamed the lackluster performance on a comedown after the team finished top of its Champions League group in midweek.

City, however, finds itself top — at least until Arsenal, which started the weekend in second place and a point ahead of City, plays Aston Villa on Sunday.

Leicester looks to retain its surprise lead by beating Chelsea on Monday.

Elsewhere, Romelu Lukaku scored for the sixth league game in a row for Everton in a 1-1 draw at Norwich and another in-form striker, Odion Ighalo, grabbed Watford’s winner in a 1-0 victory at Sunderland. It was Ighalo’s 10th goal of the season, while Lukaku has 12.

Crystal Palace beat Southampton 1-0 thanks to France midfielder Yohan Cabaye’s firsthalf goal, while West Ham and Stoke drew 0-0. (ap)

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Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic celebrates scoring a goal.

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Barcelona relinquishes late lead, draws 2-2 with D

BARCELONA — Barcelona missed a chance to temporarily increase its Spanish league lead when it conceded two late goals and drew with Deportivo La Coruna 2-2 at home on Saturday.

Lionel Messi opened the scoring with a curling free kick before halftime, and set up Ivan Rakitic’s powerful strike from outside the area after an hour. Then Deportivo striker Lucas Perez scored, and set up the equalizer by Alex Bergantinos after a late counterattack to shock the crowd at the Camp Nou. The result extended Barcelona’s winless streak to three matches, and gave rivals Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid - which play their games on Sunday - precious chances to make up ground in the 15th round.

Barcelona has a three-point lead over Atletico Madrid, which plays Athletic Bilbao. Real Madrid, which plays at fifth-place Villarreal, was five points behind Barcelona. Deportivo, unbeaten in six games and with only one away loss this season, was sixth.

“We had everything under control until the 30-minute mark of the second half,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. “Deportivo had a brave strategy, and it worked

out for them. It isn’t the result that we deserved but it shows that we have to be plugged in for all 90 minutes.”

It was Barcelona’s last game before traveling to Japan for the Club World Cup. Its semifinal will be on Thursday against either America of Mexico or Guangzhou Evergrande of China. Barcelona is chasing its third club world title after 2009 and 2011.

Enrique decided not to rest his regular starters, with Neymar being the only absentee because of a groin injury that is also likely to keep him sidelined at the Club World Cup. Neymar has six of Barcelona’s last 14 league goals, and remains the competition topscorer with 14.

Barcelona dominated from the start but had difficulties getting past the Deportivo defense until Messi broke the deadlock with a remarkable free kick. Lux stretched his left arm but could not get close to the ball as it curled over the wall and into the top corner.

The foul happened when Luis

Suarez was brought down just outside the area. Suarez, who scored in his previous eight games, had a goal disallowed for offside in the second half.

Messi set up Rakitic with a quick pass at the top of the area, but Deportivo found a way to get back into the game after Barcelona squandered good chances, especially through Suarez and substitute Munir El Haddadi.

Perez had a goal disallowed because of offside in the 75th, but two minutes later he found the net from inside the area after being left unmarked by the Barcelona defense. The equalizer came in a fast counterattack after Perez controlled the ball near midfield and sent a perfect through ball to Bergantinos, who shot into the far corner. “We just didn’t put away the game,” Rakitic said.

Deportivo earned a 2-2 draw at Barcelona late last season, also after trailing by two goals and also with a goal by Perez. The result at the time was crucial to help the team escape relegation.

“I’ll keep having great memories of playing at the Camp Nou,” Perez said. “The reaction of our team after going down 2-0 today was incredible.” (ap)

PARIS — Defending champion Spain begins its quest for a third straight European Championship title against the Czech Republic, while host France also escaped with a relatively unthreatening group in Saturday’s draw and opens Euro 2016 against Romania on June 10.

World Cup winner Germany will also be content with the draw, although Italy wasn’t so lucky and neither was England. Spain’s other opponents in Group D are Turkey and Croatia, while coach Didier Deschamps’ France also takes on newcomer Albania and Switzerland in Group A. Although Spain is the only team to have won the competition consecutively, and won nine out of 10 games in qualifying, coach Vicente del Bosque remains cautious. “It’s going to be very difficult for us,” he said.

Germany faces Robert Lewandowski’s Poland, Ukraine and Northern Ireland in Group C, while England has its work cut out against local rival Wales and Russia in Group B, which also contains Slovakia.

“We have a rather balanced group ... which we have to win,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. “We’re favorites in the group and we want to win it.” Loew’s confidence was echoed by former midfielder Lothar Matthaeus, who captained West Germany to the World Cup title in 1990.

“There are trickier groups,” he said. “German football fans can look forward to the second round.”

But Germany’s defense will need to be wary of Lewandowski, the top scorer in qualifying with 13 goals, who has been in rampant form for Bayern Munich.

Italy will not be relishing Group E much, which contains a top-ranked Belgian side — featuring Chelsea’s Eden Hazard and Manchester City’s Vincent Kompany — Sweden, led by Paris Saint-Germain star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and a rejuvenated Ireland.

“Belgium are a great team with outstanding players,” Italy coach Antonio Conte said, while Belgium coach Marc Wilmots was equally wary, saying “it’s the most difficult opponents we could have.” Sweden vs.

Belgium looks like a mouth-watering final match in that group.

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo will be confident of adding to his record 26 goals in Euros, including qualifiers, in a Group F featuring Iceland and Hungary, but Austria was unbeaten in qualifying and poses a strong threat.

In September, with Bayern Munich’s David Alaba playing in a more attacking midfield role, Austria won 4-1 away to Sweden in a performance full of speed and menace. “(Austria) qualified directly from their group, eliminating the Netherlands in the process, which says a lot about their potential,” Portugal coach Fernando Santos said. “Austria is also a team that has been improving lately and has great players, like David Alaba, Christian Fuchs and Marko Arnautovic. They finished their group on a high and we will have to be careful with them.”

England will first play Russia in Marseille on June 11 and there is likely to be a heavy security presence after serious outbreaks of fan violence there when England played Tunisia during the 1998 World Cup. “Russia and Slovakia will be interesting. I have not come across either of those two teams in my international management before,” England coach Roy Hodgson said. “There will be plenty of research between now and June and we can find out as much as we can before the campaign. Wales are very well organised, have a team spirit and very strong spine.”

Wales’ hopes of progressing rest largely with Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale, who scored seven goals in qualifying.

The European Championship has 24 teams for the first time, and will feature a new second round that includes the best four third-place finishers.

France will be confident of winning its group, having beating Switzerland 5-2 in the group stages at last year’s World Cup in Brazil.

Karim Benzema starred in that match, but could well miss the tournament after being indefinitely suspended from the national team.

He has been charged with conspiracy to blackmail in a case involving France teammate Mathieu Valbuena — who also scored against the Swiss — and Benzema is suspended pending the outcome of his case. (ap)

Leader Inter moves 4 points clear with 4-0 win at Udinese

MILAN — Mauro Icardi hit back at his critics with two goals as Inter Milan moved provisionally four points clear in the Serie A by comfortably beating Udinese 4-0 on Saturday.

The Inter captain and Stevan Jovetic both took advantage of howlers in the Udinese defense to put Inter 2-0 up at halftime.

Icardi, the league’s joint top goalscorer last season and criticized this season for lack of form, doubled his tally late on before Marcelo Brozovic added to Udinese’s embarrassment with a stunning strike.

“Scoring is his (Icardi’s) job,” Inter coach Roberto Mancini said. “We were never worried about him, because at the end he will score goals. It’s normal that forwards go through dry spells, but tonight he played very well, as did Jovetic: They’re beginning to understand each other and that’s a good sign.”

Inter moved four points clear of Fiorentina, which visits Juventus on Sunday. Third-place Napoli hosts Roma the same day, with four of the top five sides playing each other. “Who will I support tomorrow? It won’t change much, it’s too early,” Mancini added. “All the teams will continue to fight for the title.”

Earlier, Bologna continued its resurgence under former Italy coach Roberto Donadoni as it snatched a 1-0 win at fellow relegation struggler Genoa. Sassuolo’s match against Torino was postponed because of fog.

Bologna, which has picked up 13 points in six matches under Donadoni, moved five points clear of the relegation zone.

Genoa has lost three successive matches and fell to 17th spot, two points off the bottom three, after it was leapfrogged

by Palermo following the Sicilian side’s 4-1 win over 18th-place Frosinone. Udinese had early chances before gifting Inter the lead in the 23rd minute.

Icardi intercepted a woeful Bruno Fernandes

backpass and rounded Maurizio Domizzi before racing through one-on-one and slotting past Udinese goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis. Udinese could have leveled before Domizzi gave away the ball to Jovetic, who sprinted forward and placed a cheeky chip over Karnezis.

Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic continued to preserve his side’s lead, and there was worse to come from Udinese seven minutes from time as Francesco Lodi’s awful backpass sent Icardi clear to score his second.

Brozovic capped a great result for Inter three minutes later, curling a magnificent effort into the far top right corner from the edge of the penalty area. “It’s a pity because we had a great game, especially in the first half,” Udinese coach Stefano Colantuono said. “But if you don’t score it becomes more difficult against teams like Inter, and then you pay for some lapses of concentration.

“But we controlled the game in the first half, they were defending, and shot at goal on our misplaced backpasses.”

In Genoa, visiting goalkeeper Antonio Mirante made key saves and Luca Rossettini headed in a corner to claim the winner deep in stoppage time as the home side was made to pay for its profligacy and ill-discipline.

Genoa substitute Diego Perotti was sent off 10 minutes from time for elbowing Amadou Diawara. It was Genoa’s eighth red card in 16 matches. Diawara also got a red card for comments to the referee after Bologna scored.

Edoardo Goldaniga and Franco Vazquez fired Palermo 2-0 up within the opening 17 minutes, which also saw the home side hit the woodwork twice.

Paolo Sammarco got Frosinone back into the game shortly after, but Aleksandar Trajkovski netted his first Serie A goal on the hour to restore Palermo’s two-goal advantage and Alberto Gilardino headed in the fourth from a rebound late on.

It could have been worse for Frosinone as defender Leonardo Blanchard was shown a second yellow and a red card just before halftime but the referee discussed it with his assistant and changed his mind, deciding that the foul was from teammate Mirko Gori on Uros Djurdjevic, who then fell on Blanchard.

It was a first win for Palermo coach Davide Ballardini since he replaced Giuseppe Iachini a month ago. (ap)

Inter’s Mauro Icardi reacts after scoring, during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Inter Milan at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015.

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Manchester Unite manager Louis van Gaal, centre, and assistant manager Ryan Giggs, second right, look across the pitch after a missed chance by Bournemouth during the English Premier League soccer match between Bournemouth and Manchester United at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, England, Saturday Dec. 12, 2015.

United stunned by Bournemouth to pile pressure on Van Gaal

MANCHESTER, England — First it was criticism of Manchester United’s playing style.

Then came the team’s limp exit at the Champions League group stage. On Saturday, it was a loss to tiny Bournemouth in one of the Premier League’s biggest-ever mismatches.

The problems are stacking up for under-pressure United manager Louis van Gaal in his second season in charge of England’s biggest club. United — depleted by a wretched run of injuries to senior players — conceded directly from a corner in the second minute on its way to a humbling 2-1 loss at Bournemouth, the latest shock result in a season of surprises in the Premier League.

Earlier Saturday, Manchester City had needed a huge deflected goal just to get a 2-1 home win over Swansea, which is without a manager and on one of the worst run of results in the league. City went top on goal difference, for one day at least.

Bournemouth’s first season in the top flight is starting to get better and better. The little coastal club that almost dropped out of the country’s professional leagues six years ago beat Chelsea 1-0 away last weekend for what ranked as the biggest win in its 116-year history.

Saturday’s win may just top the result at Stamford Bridge

— although some will say it’s no shock, given United’s recent struggles and its extensive injury list. But that won’t stop a deluge of criticism toward Van Gaal.

“It’s a matter of belief, if you believe in the manager or not,” said the Dutchman, who said Friday that United had to get used to no longer being one of Europe’s superpowers after its elimination from the Champions League this week.

In front of 11,500 fans in Bournemouth’s cramped and atmospheric Vitality Stadium, United went behind when Junior Stanislas’ curling corner kick sailed directly into the far corner.

Marouane Fellaini equalized but more embarrassment for United at a 54th-minute corner handed Bournemouth victory, with Josh King finding himself in lots of space to turn in a shot from a pre-planned corner routine.

“For us, it’s a brilliant week,” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said. This time six years ago, Bournemouth lost 5-0 to Morecambe in a fourthtier match. For all its worries, United is still very much in the title race and only three points behind City, which is still failing to convince.

Yaya Toure’s shot in the second minute of injury time struck young substitute Kelechi Iheanacho and looped into the net as City escaped with a win from

an unconvincing display against Swansea at Etihad Stadium.

Swansea couldn’t have picked a much tougher game following the firing of Garry Monk on Thursday, but looked set to leave with a point after Bafetimbi Gomis equalized in the 90th minute. Wilfried Bony, who left Swansea for 25 million pounds ($38 million) in January, put City in front with a 26thminute header.

“We really didn’t play well in the game,” said City manager Manuel Pellegrini, who blamed the lackluster performance on a comedown after the team finished top of its Champions League group in midweek.

City, however, finds itself top — at least until Arsenal, which started the weekend in second place and a point ahead of City, plays Aston Villa on Sunday.

Leicester looks to retain its surprise lead by beating Chelsea on Monday.

Elsewhere, Romelu Lukaku scored for the sixth league game in a row for Everton in a 1-1 draw at Norwich and another in-form striker, Odion Ighalo, grabbed Watford’s winner in a 1-0 victory at Sunderland. It was Ighalo’s 10th goal of the season, while Lukaku has 12.

Crystal Palace beat Southampton 1-0 thanks to France midfielder Yohan Cabaye’s firsthalf goal, while West Ham and Stoke drew 0-0. (ap)

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Warriors streak ends with 108-95 loss to Bucks

MILWAUKEE — Golden State’s record winning streak to start the season ended at 24 games when the Warriors were beaten 108-95 at Milwaukee on Saturday.

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Desak Putri and Dewa Putra Raditya, the attendants in charge of the ticket counter, said the Tegenungan Waterfall was frequently visited by many tourists. Within a day, the tourist reached some 100 people originating from different countries.

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Their 28-game streak, counting the final four games of last season, also came to a halt, ending the Warriors’ quest to reach the longest winning sequence in NBA history, which remains 33 by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1971-72.

Elsewhere, San Antonio put in a superb defensive performance in the first half to set up a big win at Atlanta, Boston ended Charlotte’s winning streak in a result that tightened the fight at the top of the Atlantic and Southeast divisions, while Detroit extended its home winning streak to five by defeating Indiana.

Milwaukee, bottom of the Central Division, was an unlikely candidate to end Golden State’s winning run, but got an all-round effort from the team, led by 28 points from Greg Monroe.

It also helped that the Warriors, perhaps fighting fatigue after needing two overtimes to win at Boston on Friday, were cold from 3-point range. They usually make 13 a night, but were just 6 of 26 from behind the arc in the final game of

a seven-game road trip.

A miserly San Antonio gave up only 25 Atlanta points in the first half to lay the foundation for a 10378 win at the Hawks.

Kawhi Leonard scored 22 points for the Spurs, who led 47-25 at halftime. The Hawks’ total was the lowest for any team in any half this season, according to STATS. The previous low was Houston’s 26 second-half points on Nov. 1 at Miami. Manu Ginobili had 17 points for San Antonio, which has won six of seven.

Paul Millsap led Atlanta with 22 points, including 17 in the third quarter. No other Hawks player scored in double figures.

Boston snapped Charlotte’s fourgame winning streak with a 98-93 road win, moving within one game of Atlantic leader Toronto.

Avery Bradley scored 23 points and Isaiah Thomas added 21 points and 13 assists for the Celtics, who responded well after the doubleovertime loss to Golden State on Friday.

The Hornets had a chance to tie

the game late but Nicolas Batum’s 30-foot jumper off a side inbounds play with 6.6 seconds remaining missed everything, and Evan Turner put away the game with a layup.

Batum’s 21 points led the Hornets, whose lead in the Central was trimmed to one game ahead of Miami and Atlanta. Detroit’s Reggie Jackson had 21 points as the Pistons beat Indiana 118-96. Ersan Ilyasova added 20 points for the Pistons, who had six players score in double figures.

George Hill led the Pacers with 14 points. Paul George finished with 13 on 4-of-16 shooting, missing all four of his 3-point attempts.

Washington ended a run of 11 straight losses to Dallas by winning 114-111 at the Mavericks.

Otto Porter scored a career-high 28 points and John Wall had 26 points and 16 assists for the Wizards, who beat the Mavericks for the first time since 2009.

Porter more than picked up the slack for the injured Bradley Beal, scoring 17 points during Washington’s 39-point third quarter as the Wizards built a 21-point lead.

Wesley Matthews led the Mavericks with 28 points, including six 3-pointers. (ap)

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Milwaukee Bucks’ Michael Carter-Williams (5) dunks over Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015, in Milwaukee. The Bucks won 108-95.

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UAE Royals’ Roger Federer of Switzerland hits a return to Indian Aces’ Rafael Nadal of Spain during their men’s doubles match in the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) in New Delhi, India, December 12, 2015. s

BERNE - Switzerland’s two greatest tennis players will join forces at next year’s Rio Olympics when Roger Federer and Martina Hingis play together in the mixed doubles. “Roll back the years with @mhingis. Really excited to be playing mixed doubles with you 15 years later at the Rio games,” the 34-year-old Federer said on Twitter.

He last played alongside his fellow Swiss at the Hopman Cup in 2001.

Seventeen-times grand slam champion Federer, a year younger than Hingis who came out of retirement for a second time in 2013 and won the women’s doubles at this year’s Wimbledon and U.S. Open, claimed Olympic gold for his country in 2008 when he partnered Stanislas Wawrinka in Beijing.

Hingis, winner of five grand slam singles titles but never an Olympic medal, and India’s Sania Mirza are currently the top-ranked women’s doubles pairing.

“I looked up to her when I was younger,

I thought she was the most unbelievable talent,” Federer told the BBC. “She’s almost my age and she was winning grand slams while I was still at the national tennis centre and I couldn’t believe how good she was.”

World number three Federer will try to juggle his schedule next year to give himself a shot at winning the Olympic singles gold, the one notable title missing in his illustrious career.

He reached the final in London in 2012 but was beaten by Briton Andy Murray.

“I’ve always said the Olympics is very important to me,” Federer added. “Every Olympic Games has been a super-amazing experience, an eye-opener, a great learning curve for me.

“Seeing other athletes, getting inspired and motivated, carrying the flag is such a proud moment in my career and my life as a person. To have done that twice for Switzerland, in Athens and Beijing, was incredible.” (rtr)

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French far right faces test in regional election runoff

PARIS — Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Front was the frontrunner heading into the decisive second round of French regional elections Sunday, and now it’s up to voters whether to hand the once-pariah party an unprecedented political victory.

Le Pen is riding high after extremist attacks and Europe’s migrant crisis, and the party came out on top in six of France’s 13 newly drawn regions a week ago. But polls suggest it may fail to translate that into wins in the second round.

The once-powerful Socialist Party, which currently controls all but one of France’s regions, came in a poor third place in the first round and pulled out of key races in hopes of keeping the National Front from gaining power. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party came in a strong second, and looks set to make substantial gains in Sunday’s runoff.

Winning control of any region would be unprecedented and a big

boost for the National Front — and especially for Le Pen’s hopes for the presidency in 2017.

Le Pen cast her ballot in the Northern city of Hennin-Beaumont on Sunday, while Socialist President Francois Hollande voted in a polling station in his stronghold of Tulle in central France.

Le Pen and her niece enjoyed a strong lead in races they are running in northern France and the region that includes Provence and the French Riviera.

But Le Pen faces a tough secondround race against conservative former Labor Minister Xavier Bertrand in the northern region of Nord-Pas de Calais-Picardie, and her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen faces a similar challenge in the

southern region of Provence-AlpesCote d’Azur against conservative Nice Mayor Claude Estrosi.

The electoral campaign has been especially bitter. Le Pen called Bertrand “the minister of unemployment.” He said she is “the candidate of permanent confrontation.”

The nearly 50 percent of people who failed to cast ballots in the Dec. 6 first round could hold the key to the outcome of the final round. All parties have been trying to lure them in.

The Socialist prime minister, Manuel Valls, has used scare tactics. He denounced the National Front, in an interview with France Inter radio, as a “scam” that “fools the French.”

The outcome in the Paris region, now controlled by the left, remains unclear. Valerie Pecresse, a minister under former conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy is in a tight race against Socialist speaker of the house Claude Bartolone. (ap)

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In this Dec. 12, 2015 picture German police cross a street as they secure the area during clashes with left-wing protesters in Leipzig, Germany.

69 police officers injured in clashes in eastern Germany

BERLIN — Leipzig police say 69 officers have been injured in clashes with rioting leftwing protesters and that they had to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse the group.

Some 50 police cars were also damaged in the riots Saturday evening, which started after hundreds of leftwing activists demonstrated against a rally by far-right protesters in the eastern

German city of Leipzig earlier in the day.

Police said Sunday they temporarily detained 23 people after the leftist rioters threw stones at police, erected street blocks and burned down garbage cans. The protesters also demolished store front windows and two bus stops.

It was not immediately clear how many protesters were injured in the clashes. (ap)

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are also aggressively pursuing nuclear power, which does not emit greenhouse gases.

The Paris accord sets a target of limiting warming of the planet to “well below” 2.0 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) compared with the Industrial Revolution, while aiming for an even more ambitious goal of 1.5C. To do so, emissions of greenhouse gases will need to peak “as soon as possible”, followed by rapid reductions, the agreement states.

The world has already warmed by almost 1C, which has caused major problems in dry developing countries, according to scientists. (afp)

The crux of the fight entails slashing or eliminating the use of coal, oil and gas for energy, which has largely powered prosperity since the Industrial Revolution.

The burning of those fossil fuels releases invisible greenhouse gases, which cause the planet to warm and disrupt Earth’s delicate climate system.

Ending the vicious circle requires a switch to cleaner sources, such as solar and wind, and improving energy efficiency. Some nations

Fire at Russian mental patients’ home kills 23, injures 23

MOSCOW — A fire swept through a Russian home for people with mental illnesses, killing 23 patients and injuring another 23, the emergency services said Sunday.

The remaining 24 patients were safely evacuated, including some who had to be carried out of the building, and the four medical personnel working at the home were unhurt, they said.

Similar fires at two other institutions for psychiatric patients in Russia took the lives of 75 people in

2013, leading to calls for stricter enforcement of fire safety standards.

Investigators have not yet determined the cause of this weekend’s fire, which broke out late Saturday in Alferovka, a village in the Voronezh region about 600 kilometers (350 miles) south of Moscow. The fire in the one-story brick building was extinguished shortly after 3 a.m.

(0000 GMT) Sunday.

The fire started in a section of the home dedicated to patients who were unable to walk, emergency services

official Igor Kobzev said on Russian state television. He said 39 of the patients in the home could not walk.

All of the patients at the Novokhopersky Neuropsychiatric Home were men and those who died were aged between 46 and 78, according to a list released by the emergency services. Those who were evacuated were placed in a nearby home for elderly and disabled people.

Russia has a poor fire safety record with about 12,000 fire deaths reported in 2012. By comparison,

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A torn poster of French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen is seen in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Le Pen is in the race for the presidency of the French northern region. The second round of the regional elections will take place Sunday.

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the U.S., with a population roughly double Russia’s, recorded around 3,000 fire deaths in 2011.

In April 2013, a small psychiatric hospital in a town outside of Moscow burned down, killing 38 people; only two patients and one nurse survived. The health minister said half of the patients were given sedatives at night, but insisted they were not tied to their beds and were not given any medication that would leave them unconscious and unable to escape. Much of the

blame was placed on firefighters, who took an hour to arrive.

In September 2013, a fire at a home for psychiatric patients in the Novgorod region northwest of Moscow killed 37 people. Investigators said the fire was caused inadvertently by a patient who was smoking, but the chief doctor insisted the fire was deliberately set.

A 2006 fire at a drug treatment facility in Moscow with barred windows and locked doors killed 45. (ap)

SURABAYA - East Java Governor Soekarwo has asked the provincial and district natural disaster mitigation boards (BPBD) to continue monitoring Mount Bromo which is showing signs of increased activity. “I have asked the acting chief of the East Java Provincial BPBD, Sudarmawan, to keep monitoring it and report latest developments,” he said on Saturday.

The BPBD has distributed thousands of masks among local residents, officers and tourists, he said.

Earlier, the head of Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation of the Mount Bromo Observatory Post, Ahmad Subhan, said the tremor activities of the 2,329-m high volcano were still high, yet its status remains at Alert 3.

According to seismic data recorded by the Mount Bromo observatory post, the volcano produced a tremor of a maximum amplitude of 3-22 mm, well below the dominant amplitude of 5 mm.

The National Disaster Mitigation Board (BNPB) said earlier in the day that it has completed a contingency plan to anticipate the

possible eruption of Mount Bromo in East Java.

Head of the Information and Data Center and Public Relations Service of BNPB Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the contingency plan includes preparing evacuation camps and personnel to help residents in case of eruption.

The contingency plan also involves many parties including military personnel, police officers and agencies in the district, he said.

Subhan called on the local people and tourists not to carry out activities within a radius of 2.5 km for fear that thick sulfuric ash may disrupt respiratory system and minor eruption may suddenly occur in the crater. (ant)

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The tremor activities of Mt. Bromo were still high, yet its status remains at Alert 3. East Java Governor Soekarwo has asked the provincial and district natural disaster mitigation boards (BPBD) to continue monitoring Bromo which is showing signs of increased activity.

Indonesian energy minister bemoans bad luck

JAKARTA - It’s not always easy being a reformist minister in Indonesia, as Sudirman Said, the country’s energy minister, made plain in remarks on Friday.

Soon after he took office in October 2014, President Joko Widodo put Said in charge of cleaning up the crooked energy sector. Now the minister seems rather jaded by his job.

“There was no minister as un-

lucky as me,” Said told an anticorruption hearing in the city of Bandung, according to a media statement posted on the energy ministry’s website.

“There were no other ministries where the minister is in prison, the secretary-general is in prison, the head of the oil and gas regulator is in prison and several members of the (parliament) energy commission

are in prison.”

Soon after he took office, Said launched a major shakeup of the graft-tainted ministry, requiring all top directors to re-apply for their jobs.

The minister recently went public with recordings of a conversation in which parliament speaker Setya Novanto allegedly tried to extort shares in the local unit of

Freeport McMoRan Inc , which operates one of the world’s biggest copper and gold mines in eastern Indonesia.

Indonesia, an archipelago of some 250 million people rich in resources, is routinely ranked by watchdog Transparency International as one of the world’s most corrupt countries.

Said’s predecessor, Jero Wacik,

stepped down in September 2014 after being named a suspect in a case involving extortion and kickbacks worth about $841,000.

A few months before that, the former head of Indonesia’s energy regulator, SKKMigas, was jailed for seven years for taking more than $1 million in bribes from the owner of a Singapore-based oil company. (rtr)

As garbage mountains rise, Indonesian capital faces waste crisis

BEKASI - Sifting through a mountain of garbage with her bare hands, a thick cloth wrapped around her face to keep out the stench, Patimah recalled her early days scavenging at a dump on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital the size of 120 football fields.

“I vomited back then,” she told AFP while wading through kneedeep waste, swatting away flies as she hunted for plastic bottles amid food scraps and soiled clothing.

But now Patimah, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said the smell no longer bothers her: “I am used to it.”

The same cannot be said for people living nearby, who are increasingly angry at the odours

wafting from the tip, placing it at the centre of a row that highlights the challenge for Jakarta and other developing cities in dealing with their waste.

Virtually all rubbish from Jakarta –- a sprawling city of about 10 million with a booming middle class –- is dumped an hour’s drive away at Bantar Gebang, in the city of Bekasi, where towering mountains of trash have risen skyward as the capital grows bigger and wealthier.

The absence of a citywide recycling scheme, and limited public awareness of “going green”, means the tip –- already one of the world’s largest –- is growing by an estimated 6,500 tonnes per day.

The job of sorting through the mountains of untreated waste falls to a 6,000-strong army of trash pickers, including many young children, who dodge heavy machinery and exposure to disease to eke out a living from the city’s filth.

As he wandered around searching for toys and paper as trucks tipped reeking waste nearby, 11year-old Agung said his father was a trash picker while his mother sorted plastic at one of the many shanty towns that have grown up around the dumpsite.

“I come here after school,” he told AFP, as a friend hauled a bamboo basket carrying cans and plastic bottles on his back.

At the dump’s only school –- it

also has a dedicated mosque, salon and many shops selling food and cool drinks –- principal Nasrudin fretted over his students, most of whom suffer skin infections, bronchial problems and intestinal worms from working on the tip.

“I am very, very worried about the safety of the children working around such heavy machinery,” he said, speaking from the school’s newly-built second floor, where the giant trash heaps are visible from classrooms.

“They are still small children, and they are not psychologically or physically ready for such work.”

In the 20 years Nasrudin has worked at the school, enrolment has soared as the first garbage mountain

was joined by a second, then a third and fourth.

As the tip expanded, so did the shanty towns around it, with whole families relocating to scour for anything to sell on, including plastic, glass and aluminium.

Crouched among maggot-ridden earth outside his squalid shack, his hands black with filth, Paino said he tilled a rice field until drought forced him and his young family to find work elsewhere.

“Essentially, we had to make a living,” he said.

“Who knows, maybe we’ll make more than we did working in the rice fields,” he told AFP, adding he earned about 75,000 rupiah ($5) every day. (afp)

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Fed expected to hike rates amid nagging worries

WASHINGTON - After a long buildup that stirred waves of turbulence in global markets, the Federal Reserve finally is expected to end its seven-year crisis stance with an interest rate increase on Wednesday.

Most bets are that the Fed will increase the benchmark federal funds rate for the first time in nearly a decade, signaling confidence in US economic growth even as the rest of the world sags.

A move has been well-flagged for months now by Fed Chair Janet Yellen and others on her team.

About 97 percent of economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal expect the increase.

Yellen made clear at the beginning of this month that she believes that longstanding arguments against an increase -- inflation is absent and the jobs market still shows weakness -- will dissolve through next year.

“I anticipate continued economic growth at a moderate pace that will be sufficient to generate additional increases in employment, further reductions in the remaining margins of labor market slack, and a

rise in inflation to our two percent objective,” she said in a December 2 speech.

If the Fed waits too long, she added pointedly, “we would likely end up having to tighten policy relatively abruptly to keep the economy from significantly overshooting both of our goals.”

That speech “was really intended to tell the market that, yes, they are planning to raise rates at the next meeting,” said Stephen Oliner of the American Enterprise Institute.

The Fed’s policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee, meets on Tuesday and Wednesday

to weigh raising the fed funds rate, a short-term peg for interbank lending which influences rates throughout the financial system, from 0-0.25 percent to an expected 0.25-0.50 percent.

The rate was pulled down to zero in an unprecedented series of very sharp cuts in 2008 as the economy sank into a deep recession.

It has not budged since then, as the climb back to firm growth has been much slower than expected.

But the result of the Fed’s ultraeasy money policy has been to flood the US and global economies with trillions of cheap dollars that some

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GIANYAR - An American tourist was found floating dead in the pool of a villa belonging to I Wayan Warsa in Sala hamlet, Pejeng, Tampaksiring, on Friday morning (Dec. 11). The sudden death of 60 year old Brillian William O’Reilly, shocked local people.

The deceased did not have any history of disease or illness and according to the police’s preliminary investigation, there were no signs of violence.

Based on information gathered, the last time that the victim was seen alive was on December 10th

at 15:30, when villa employee, I Wayan Kartika, saw Mr. O’Reilly sitting on the porch - their were no signs of anything suspicious. “(Brillian William O’Reilly—Ed) had been staying here for almost a year and there was no indication that he suffered any illness.

critics worry will spark uncontrollable inflation and new asset bubbles.

Neither has happened. But Yellen, stiffly opposed to a rate increase over her first 18 months as Fed chair, has turned more in favor recently, even has some of her FOMC colleagues have remained unconvinced.

Media reports have depicted her working behind the scenes in recent months to build consensus behind a rate hike. In her speech, she conceded that she is “looking forward to” the day she can begin raising rates. (afp)

I last saw him last on Thursday afternoon, he was sitting alone and I asked for permission to go home to attend a ceremony,” said I Wayan Kartika when interrogated by police.

This villa employee from Tarukan hamlet, Pejeng returned to the villa on Friday morning, around 08:00 and looked frantically around for the the deceased. He was shocked to finally find his employer lying dead in the pool. “I was very surprised, I saw that he had drowned as he was

not moving. Since I did not dare to lift the body from the pool alone, I contacted the owner of the villa, I Wayan Warsa,” said Kartika.

After receiving the call from Kartika about the sudden death of his guest, Karsa immediately reported the incident to the Tampaksiring Police. After making identifying the body, the police stated that there were no signs of violence on the victim’s body. “Examination by the identification team found no signs of violence. By the pool

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Trader Thomas Kay, center, works with colleagues at their booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015.

309.54 points, or 1.8 percent, to 17,265.21.

The Nasdaq composite declined 111.71 points, or 2.2 percent, to 4,933.47.

In Europe, Germany’s DAX lost 2.4 percent, Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 2.2 percent

and France’s CAC 40 shed 1.8 percent.

Investors were also rattled by trouble in a risky corner of the credit markets where bonds from heavily indebted companies are traded. Their prices have fallen sharply as

investors fear the companies that issued the bonds might default. A fund that tracks the bonds, the iShares iBoxx USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, has dropped nearly 4 percent in five days. (ap)

Mandara Giri Semeru Agung TempleMandara Giri Semeru Agung Temple is a universal temple located at Senduro village, Senduro, Lumajang, East Java. Although the temple has now been established in the east slope of Mount Semeru, not many people know the rigorous struggle of a number of prominent Hindu figures in Bali in pursuing the construction of the temple since 1963.

Ultimately, it can be established and inaugurated in 1992.

Tjokorda Artha Ardana Sukawati, a Balinese figure who participated in fighting for the establishment of the temple, said that the temple construction on Mount Semeru was begun by the implementation of holy water invocation from Bali directly to Patirtan Watu Kelosot at the foot of Mount Semeru. It was held during the Ekadasa Rudra grandiose ceremony at Besakih Temple in March 1963. The activity of invoking holy water to Watu Kelosot was re-done in 1979 with regard to convening of the Ekadasa Rudra ceremony at Besakih Temple.

After that time, the tradition of invoking holy water to Watu Kelosot for other universal temples in Bali when making grandiose ceremony was begun. The area of Mount Semeru with its Watu Kelosot sacred springs is increasingly recognized, especially when organizing grandiose ceremony. High priests

or sulinggih always performs ngaskara to Mount Semeru, pleading before Hyang Shiva Pasupati believed to abide on the peak of Mount Semeru.

“The idea on the construction of this temple has been emerging from the senior figures of Bali in 1963. Originally, the idea was inspired that we have many temples in Bali. Well, when praying we always give notice to Hyang Shiva Pasupati abiding on Mount Semeru. But when our senior figures going there, there is no temple or shrines to venerate Ida Batara of Mount Semeru,” he explained.

With such condition, the leaders of Bali in the 1970s began moving to fight for the establishment of the temple. They included Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati, some senior figures of Pemecutan Palace and other figures. The struggle for the temple construction was also based on Hindu literature references like the Nagarakrtagama as well as historical references that refer to the Mount Semeru as a sacred area during ancient Java.

“Initially, the location permit proposed was rejected by local government. Finally the late Jero Mangku Sarja directed the establishment of Padma shrine to his own land on Mount Semeru spreading across the area of 800 square meters, and it becomes the loca-

side there was apple juice, water, cigarettes and ulcer medication. So, there is no allegation of criminality,” said Chief of Tampaksiring Police, Made Uder.

Uder added that from the results of examination by the health team, the victim that had been living in Bali for almost a year, allegedly died eight hours before being discovered by I Wayan Kartika.

“The US Embassy in Jakarta has been contacted,” he concluded. (kmb35)

Extreme weather

The ceremony held in Semeru Agung Temple

A rout in crude oil prices hammers the stock market

NEW YORK — A slump in oil prices sparked a global sell-off in financial markets on Friday with losses spreading from Asia to Europe to the U.S., where stocks fell sharply to cap their worst week since the summer.

The selling was broad, with all 10 sectors of the Standard and Poor’s 500 index ending down. Fearful investors put their money in government bonds, especially U.S. Treasurys.

Another measure of anxiety, the so-called Vix index, jumped. It is now up 70 percent in just five days.

Investors worry the sharp fall in the price of oil and other commodities is a sign of weakness in the global economy, especially China, and that will cut into profits at big energy producers and suppliers of raw materials as well as other companies.

“We’re stockpiling commodities and demand is not picking up,” said Tim Courtney, chief investment officer of Exencial Wealth Advisors. “It’s kind of a depressing market.”

Energy shares, already decimated this year, fell 3.4 percent on Friday. Southwestern Energy plunged 14 percent. Freeport McMoRan, a mining giant, dropped 6 percent.

The trouble began with a report from the International Energy Agency that said the oversupply in oil would persist until late next year even as demand continues to weaken. Benchmark U.S. crude plunged $1.14, or 3 percent, to close at $35.62 a barrel in New York. It has been falling for 1 ½ years and is now at its lowest level since early 2009.

By the end of the day, the S&P 500 index had lost 39.86 points, or 1.9 percent, to 2,012.37. It was down 3.8 percent for the week, its worst showing since August.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost

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tion of the current temple,” he said.

Process of the temple construction did not take place smoothly. It happened because it was hampered by licensing problem and difficulties of sending raw materials to the temple. Until 1989 the temple construction could continue. Now, the physical building of the Mandara Giri Semeru Agung Temple has been established on an area of two hectares, completed with split gates at the outermost courtyard and arched gates in the middle courtyard. On the east side is built the ashram of sulinggih, chamber pavilion to store ritual paraphernalia and two units of pagibungan and kitchen. On the southern side stands a spacious wantilan hall.

Officiated over by eight high priests, it was held the Pamelaspas Alit and Mapulang Dasar Sarwa Sekar ritual for the first time on March 8, 1992. Then, it was resumed in June-July 1992 with the ceremony in the form of Pamungkah Agung, Ngenteg Linggih and Pujawali.

Furthermore, through the Decree No.07/ Kep./V/PHDI/1992, the central office of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) named the temple ‘Pura Mandara Giri Semeru Agung’ with the status as kahyangan jagat or universal temple, a sanctum to adore God with devotees of all the Hindus in Indonesia. (kmb)

SEMARAPURA - The Tawur Gentuh ritual was held by the Dalem Setra Batunungul customary village, centered at the local Dalem Temple and coincided with the sixth new moon (Tilem) of the Balinese calendar, or Thursday (Dec. 10). The ritual was held in relation to the hot weather that has been afflicting Nusa Penida. There has been the odd sprinkle of rain but in Batununggul and surrounding areas it has not rained at all for many months.

The ritual was attended by subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, I Gusti Agung Gede Putra Mahajaya and others. Chief of Dalem Setra Batununggul customary village, I Dewa Ketut Tayanegara, when met at the local Pura Dalem on Friday (Dec. 11) said that the Tawur Gentuh ritual was commenced with bathara tirta turun kabeh from Sad Kahyangan Nusa Penida and 18 trinity temples. “This ritual is held every year having been inherited from the ancestors and is meant to invoke God so that this extreme weather condition can quickly go by. People are waiting anxiously for the rain to cool down the temperature,” said Dewa Tayanegara.

Tayanegara explained that the peak of the ritual took place on Thursday, and that the closing was held on Sunday (Dec. 13). The ritual is also intended to maintain the harmony of nature between the microcosm and macrocosm so that it can provide a calm atmosphere for the community and the universe,” he added.

According to Putra Mahajaya, the current weather conditions are very extreme. “The heat of the day goes on onto the night and is very disturbing.

Hopefully, through this ritual it can rain and a sense of calm can return to the community of Nusa Penida,” he said. (dwa)

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Ketapang-Gilimanuk vessels undergo seaworthiness inspections

Mock mass shooting in Texas is met by counter-demonstrators

NEGARA - A number of vessels serving the crossing of GilimanukKetapang recently underwent seaworthiness inspections. Two teams from Ketapang and Gilimanuk were deployed to check 15 vessels each - primarily those vessels that serve passengers. Harbor unit team (UPP) checked the vessel engines, as well as the completeness of safety devices such as life jackets, lifeboats, navigation tools, and fire extinguishers.

Chief of the UPP Gilimanuk, Nyoman Wirawan Daelon, said that based on Shipping Notification No.182 dated November 30, 2015, the UPP is monitoring safety and conducting vessel seaworthiness inspections ahead of Christmas and New Year.

In addition to inspecting the safety of the vessels, they are also checking shipping documents. Daelon added that only after a vessel has been declared to be in compliance with the requirements for seaworthiness, will they be allowed to serve the crossing of the Bali straight.

Any vessel found to be in violation of these requirements will not be allowed to do so. According to Daelon, safety is the prime requirement for shipping services and added that even though the UPP authorities know that that the vessels that serve this crossing are generally fully sea-worthy, it is essential to conduct regular inspection to ensure passenger safety. (kmb26)

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Saudi women vote at a polling center during municipal elections, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Saudi women are heading to polling stations across the kingdom on Saturday, both as voters and candidates for the first time in this landmark election.

The Sarcofagus, one of the items exhibited in the museum.

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Archeological Museum of Gilimanuk renovated but funding still needed

NEGARA - The Gilimanuk Archaeological Museum was recently renovated and a number of fossils and other archaeological findings are stored in the three-story building. The museum looks much cleaner than before with both the roof and the floor having been replaced, and visitors have already started coming to the see the wonders stored here. However, the new building in front of the main museum has yet to be worked on due to lack of budget and so no new object have been put on display yet.

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The sidewalk project in Padang Luwih is not finished until now. It is very dangerous for the pedestrian and make the city look unorganized.

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In fact, the Gilimanuk archeological site is spread out across 20 hectares scattered throughout several hamlets in Gilimanuk village, five hectares are located around the museum and have now been surrounded by a compound wall. The remainder of the site is located in residential area.

Museum attendants, IGB Ketut Ari Susila, said that many fossils have been discovered in residential areas around the museum. He added that most of the hundred of fossils belonging to the Mongoloid race are found within the area of the Museum on the edge of Gilimanuk Bay. “The fossils discovered here date from 195 BC to 425 AD so they represent people that are considered modern, and many of them were wearing

jewellery such as stone necklaces and bracelets and pieces of broken glass have also been found,” he explained.

They were hunting with bronze knives and clay cooking tools which also indicates that they were ‘modern’.

Recently some local residents were digging a hole to burry garbage, when they came across a some pottery about a meter deep into the ground. The clay pot it turned out, contained animal bones.

“Many more archaeological objects are still regularly found by residents, including a sarcophagus at the entrance,” he said.

The rock sarcophagus has patterned carvings on it. Susila explained that at that time, every dead person was put into sarcophagus

in a flexed legs position with both hands placed in front of the solar plexus, imitating the fetoel position inside the mother’s womb, representing the rebirth that comes with death. Because so many objects are still being found, the entire areas has been declared ‘vulnerable to excavation’. Under the dirt-floored building for example, a fossil casting was discovered, but it was left in the ground until the new building is ready. The museum is waiting for funding to develop a new showroom.

Since the renovations to the main building have been completed, elementary and high school students have been invited to visit Gilimanuk Archaeological Museum and areas around the museum are also used for education purposes. (kmb26)

Saudi women vote for the first time, testing boundaries

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Women across Saudi Arabia marked a historic milestone on Saturday, both voting and running as candidates in government elections for the first time, but just outside polling stations they waited for male drivers — a reminder of the limitations still firmly in place.

The landmark election for local council seats was not expected to immediately advance the status of women in Saudi Arabia, who are still not permitted to drive, but it seen as a chance for them to make their voices heard as citizens.

“We are making history. I just made history,” said candidate Karima Bokhary, 50, after casting her ballot at a polling station in the capital Riyadh.

Bokhary was one of 979 women candidates vying for a seat on the country’s municipal councils, the only government body in which Saudi citizens can elect their representatives. An additional 5,968 male candidates were running in the election. There is no quota on the number of female council members. Results were expected to be reported on Sunday.

More than 130,000 women registered to vote, compared to 1.35 million men. The General Election Commission estimated there are at least 5 million eligible voters out of a population of 20 million, but the

figure could be much higher.

At a polling center in Riyadh, Shara Al-Qahtani, a 50-year-old mother of eight, wearing a loose black dress known as an abaya that all women must wear in public and a traditional veil covering her face and hair, said women being allowed to vote “is good for people and good for society ... Women are partners of men.” Najla Khaled, a 24 year-old English literature major, described voting “as a huge step for women in Saudi.”

Though women make up just 10 percent of registered voters, the right to simply cast a ballot sends a wider message to society, she said.

“If you look back at the history of women (in Islam), there are so many strong women,” she said.

“The Prophet (Muhammad) worked for his wife Khadija. The prophet’s wife was his boss technically.”

The election tested just how far the kingdom’s conservatives were willing to bend while bringing to the fore more liberal voices ad-

vocating for greater freedoms and reforms.

In line with Saudi Arabia’s strict gender segregation rules, men and women cast ballots at separate polling stations. During the campaign period, female candidates could not directly address male voters and had to either present their platforms from behind a partition, relying on projectors and microphones, or through male supporters and relatives presenting for them.

The candidates were vying for about 2,100 council seats. An additional 1,050 seats are appointed with approval from King Salman, who could use his powers to appoint female candidates who don’t win outright. The candidates serve fouryear terms that begin on Jan. 1.

While the municipal councils do not have legislative powers, they oversee a range of community issues, such as budgets for maintaining and improving public facilities.

All major decision-making powers rest solely in the hands of King Salman and the all-male Cabinet of ministers.

The first local council election since the 1960s to be held in Saudi Arabia was in 2005 and the second in 2011, with only men taking part. (ap)

AUSTIN, Texas — About a dozen gun rights activists staged a mock mass shooting Saturday near the University of Texas, only to be outnumbered by counter-demonstrators who waved sex toys and tried to drown them out with chants.

The groups Come and Take It Texas and Don’tcomply.com initially wanted to hold their event on campus but were told by school officials they would be charged with criminal trespassing. Several members openly carried real assault-style rifles.

The groups then slipped away to another location and “shot” six people with cardboard guns. Victims were outlined with chalk to show where they fell.

After publicizing their event for nearly a week, organizers said they purposely avoided the crowds and media gathered to cover the event to prove that a shooter can strike anywhere and anytime.

“In real (shooting) events like this, you don’t know when they’re going to happen, you don’t know where they’re going to happen ... we purposely did it that way,” said Jason Orsek, vice president of both gun groups.

The campus is home to one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. Charles Whitman killed 16 people in 1966, shooting dozens of people from a perch atop the central clock tower.

“It’s tasteless,” Robert Oxford, a graduate student and member of the group Gun-Free UT, said of the mock mass shooting.

The Texas legislature this year voted to allow concealed handguns on college campuses, although public universities can establish gun-free zones. Plans under consideration for the Austin campus would prohibit firearms in dorms but allow them in classrooms.(ap)

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Gun rights activist Phil Newsome, right, carries a gun and flags as he takes part in a march near the University of Texas, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015, in Austin, Texas. The group is planning a mock mass shooting near the campus.

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NUSA DUA - The 8th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) ended on Friday with the issuance of a Chair’s Statement, which in essence, encourages the creation of good governance to support democracy in each participating country.

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This June 2015 photo shows tourists trekking through the jungles of Mondulkiri Province, located in eastern Cambodia. The Mondulkiri Project aims to act as a sanctuary for elephants that previously worked for timber companies or as attractions in the tourists hub of Siem Reap. The project also seeks to give the local indigenous population jobs and curtail logging in the area.

Elephants get love and care in Cambodia, with tourists’ help SEN MORONOM, Cambodia — The trip to the hills of eastern Cambodia had all the makings of a luxurious getaway: delicious fresh fruit fed by hand, a dip in a refreshingly cold watering hole and a relaxing massage.

This June 2015 photo shows two of the elderly elephants that are part of the Mondulkiri Project in Mondulkiri Province in eastern Cambodia.

But tourist wasn’t receiving these amenities. Elderly elephants were. And tourists paying for the privilege of doting on them.

At the Mondulkiri Project, it’s not the people who call the shots, but the elephants. Visitors from all over the world come here for the chance to interact with the behemoth creatures by washing them, feeding them, playing with them and, of course, getting selfies with them. One thing that doesn’t happen: riding on the animals’ backs.

Named for Cambodia’s most sparsely populated province, the Mondulkiri Project aims to act as a sanctuary for elephants that previously worked for timber companies or as attractions in the tourist hub of

DALLAS — American Airlines says it will start selling “premium economy” service on international flights, with leather seats, entertainment systems and meals.

The seats will cost more than coach but less than business class, although American isn’t stating prices.

American, the world’s largest airline, said Wednesday that it will launch the service late next year

American’s Main Cabin Extra seats, which are economy seats with more legroom. They will be walled off from both business class ahead and the main cabin behind.

“We had a large set of customers that wanted something that was greater than the main-cabin experience but not all the way to business class,” Andrew Nocella, American’s chief marketing officer,

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Siem Reap, home to the Angkor Wat site. The Mondulkiri Project also seeks to give the local indigenous population, called the Bunong, opportunities for jobs and help in curtailing logging and promoting forest conservation.

The Mondulkiri Project began in 2013, founded by the Tree family, who are not members of the Bunong community but who support the Bunongs with revenue from the Mondulkiri Project. The Tree family offers trekking along with the elephant experiences, and they run Tree Lodge, a bare-bones but comfortable set of bungalows with magnificent views of the Cambodian countryside.

Tourists, both solo and group

travelers, in cleaning and feeding the elephants. They also got an indepth explanation of the project, its goals and why preserving the area is important.

Then came the fun part: getting up close and personal with the gigantic mammals. The elephants spend all their time in a protected area of the forest, with local guides watching over them. The elephants were friendly, hungry and eager to interact.

For the humans, there was a lunch of rice, vegetables, meat and iced coffee. Then an Englishspeaking Bunong guide led on an easy trek through the lush jungles as we headed to a chilly watering hole to wash one of the creatures.

More photo opportunity than actual cleansing, the elephant seemed to enjoy getting his back scratched and didn’t mind the picture-taking. (ap)

AA to sell ‘premium-economy’ seats on international flights with 21 seats on some planes. It seeks to stand out from U.S. rivals and compete with foreign airlines that already offer premium-economy seating.

American says customers will get wider seats — they won’t lie flat like those in business class — a personal entertainment system, meal service, alcohol, and priority check-in and boarding. They will be a step up from

said in an interview.

Nocella declined to give prices but said fares might be similar to those charged by American’s partners, British Airways and Japan Airlines, for similar seats.

On a half-dozen randomly selected January round trips between New York and London, BA this week was often charging more than $1,500 for premium economy, between $700 and $800 for the

cheapest coach seats, and about $5,700 for business class.

American will begin premium economy service in late 2016 when it begins receiving Boeing 787-9 jets that won’t have a first-class cabin. The service will expand to Airbus A350s that arrive in 2017, and American plans to retrofit other wide-body planes including the Boeing 777 fleet by 2018. (ap)

“There should be cooperation between governments and people to develop democratization, and the BDF plays an important role in exchanging experiences in applying practical democracy and cooperation,” Indonesian Deputy Foreign Minister A.M. Fachir stated in his closing address at the BDF at Nusa Dua, Bali, on Friday.

During the two-day meeting attended by representatives from 89 participating countries and three international organizations, Fachir highlighted the importance of three issues that are relevant to the theme of the forum “Democracy and Effective Public Governance.”

Firstly, good governance needs sustainable investment in human resources to implement policies and institutional reforms, he noted.

Secondly, governments need to adopt an open approach and cooperate with various stakeholders to improve public governance.

Thirdly, the media and civil society must increase their role as government partners by assisting the latter in supervision efforts.

“Our public interest in creating good governance must at least cover transparency and accountability, while at the same time increasing public participation,” he affirmed.

In his closing statement, Fachir called for active participation of various countries and organizations to cooperate with the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) as the executive body of the BDF. Since early this year, the IPD has carried out 13 concrete activities to promote democracy including those in Egypt, Fiji, Myanmar, Tunisia, Libya, Palestine, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. (ant)

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The 8th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) ended on Friday with the issuance of a Chair’s Statement, which in essence, encourages the creation of good governance to support democracy in each participating country.

Infrastructure bank needs three guarantees

NUSA DUA - The government is urged to give a guarantee in the form of protection for Indonesian Infrastructure Bank from being declared bankrupt unless it is ruled by the law.

Chief Executive of PT. Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI), a state owned company to be the embryo of the Indonesian Banking Development Agency (LPPI), Emma Sri Martini said the protection from the bankruptcy pressure is important for the operational sustainability and credibility of the LPPI. LPPI, expected to be opera-

tional in 2017, has a function to serve as an infrastructure bank in Indonesia.

“That (the guarantee) will increase the level of convenience of rating agencies to give good rating for LPPI,” Emma said on Friday.

Currently, the finance ministry, SMI and the Commission XI of the Parliament are discussing a draft law on LPPI. With good rating from international rating agencies, LPPI financing with bonds would be given good price, Emma said.

Emma raised the proposal in a

“bankruptcy remote” scheme. She plans to come up with two other proposals to the Working Committee for LPPI Draft Law at the Parliament.

The second guarantee to be proposed by Emma is accommodation of capital for LPPI in the state budget. As for capital guarantee, the stipulation could be used as adopted for the Indonesia Export Financing Agency (LPEI), she said.

“In the event of the equity capital of LPEI is less than Rp4 trillion, the government is required to inject more fund. That is a guarantee. LPPI

asks for the same treatment with different parameters,” she said.

The third guarantee is a tax incentive for LPPI to reduce the cost of fund, Emma said, adding tax incentive could be given for instrument issued by LPPI when seeking fund in financial market.

She said tax incentive could also be given in the form of corporate income tax exemption or cut. “The government, therefore, does not have to inject fund through capital participation (PMN) to LPPI,” she added.

Emma said the process of SMI

transformation into LPPI is continuing. In 2016, SMI hopes to increase its financing commitments to Rp24 trillion cumulatively.

She said SMI is seeking an additional fund of Rp14.5 trillion to increase in financing capacity in 2016.

The additional fund could be through issuance of mid term bonds --Medium Term Notes -MTN, and loans from banks. In 2016, SMI sets a target for funding commitment at Rp12 trillion for infrastructure projects, which are dominated by the electricity, transport, oil and gas sectors. (ant)

Indonesia to host international conference on Jerusalem

NUSA DUA - Indonesia will host a two-day international conference on Jerusalem held by the United Nation Committee on Palestine (CEIRPP) to start on Monday in Jakarta.

The delegates will discuss the status of Jerusalem and cooperation to resolve the Palestinian conflicts, Multilateral Director General at the Foreign Ministry Hasan Kleib said on Friday.

Hasan said Jerusalem is a complicated, sensitive and difficult issue as it is recognized as a capital city by both Palestine and Israel.

It is also a holy city for both Islam, Christians and Jews, that it often triggers religious conflicts, he said. “While awaiting decision on the status of Jerusalem, what we need to think over is how to live peacefully side by side

between the followers of each faith,” Hasan.

The delegations from 25 member countries of CEIRPP and observers from 24 countries will also discuss illegal Jew settlements in Jerusalem that would change the demography and reduce the Palestinian territory.

Through the conference, called International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem , Indonesia

wants to raise the Palestinian issue which has been out of the spotlight by other issues such as conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq and the ISIS threat.

Indonesia will also call on Palestine to continue seeking internal reconciliation.

Now Gaza and the West Bank have yet to reach reconciliation, which is needed to form an independent country, he said.

Foreign Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi said the conference shows the Indonesian strong commitment to continuing support for an independent Palestine.

Indonesia will seek talks with countries not yet recognizing independent Palestine and offer cooperation in the form of capacity building that Palestine could assume the position as fully independent country. (ant)

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From page 1 All around the market there are piles of garbage that exude a pungent door and become slimy when it rains. Not a few consumers hold their noses as they shop.

This is just the condition on the outskirts of the market. As one enters the first floor of Kidul market, there is the combined stench of fish, meat and garbage.

Ceramic tiles that were once white have become blackened with grime and surprisingly none of the merchants seem to pay any attention to the conditions of their environment, busy as they are trying to sell their goods.

In the eastern part of the market, trash cans have been set up, but these are apparently seldom used, as trash is piled up randomly. If the condition of this an other traditional markets is not dramatically improved, compet-

ing against modern markets will remain a fantasy.

Head of the Bangli Urban Planning Agency, Ida Ayu Yudi Sutha, said that her agency has cooperated with the market three times to haul away piles of garbage, and that the merchants have been given guidance about how to maintain the sanction of the market. Unfortunately, so far people’s behaviour has not changed. “We have given them coaching. But they seem unable to change,” she said.

Sutha also explained that the Industry and Trade Agency has been cooperating with the market officers so that the problem of waste management can be addressed properly. According to Sutha, the merchants need to be given more guidance about how to maintain sanitation at the market. Previously, the poor sanitation at Kidul Market was blamed for the district of Bangli’s failure to win the Adupura Trophy. (sos)

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All around the Bangli market there are piles of garbage that exude a pungent door and become slimy when it rains. Not a few consumers hold their noses as they shop.

Modern chain stores

Moratorium planned for certain areas

THE GIANYAR House of Representatives’ recommendation to address the issue of the increase in the number of big chain stores is finally getting the attention of the government. The government of Gianyar plans to suspend the issuance of permits for big chain stores in 2016.

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The government of Gianyar plans to suspend the issuance of permits for big chain stores in 2016. There are currently a total of 115 modern chain stores in Gianyar.

However, the moratorium will only be applied in certain areas. Head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, said that a regent regulation has in fact already set forth guidelines concerning the establishment of such businesses in Ginayar with quotas set for each subdistrict. There are currently a total of 115 modern chain stores in Gianyar.

The quotas set for each subdistrict are determined based on such factors as the population of the subdistrict, per capita income, and a number of other aspects.

“So, it is different in each subdistrict. For example Ubud and Payangan, clearly have different needs,” he said.

Calling for a moratorium is a tricky matter, explained Suamba, because basically, according to a presidential instruction, the government is not allowed to to restrict the establishment of ‘modern stores’. “The presidential instruction hints that we cannot limit the number of stores, we can only regulate the matter,” he said. Nevertheless, because so many such stores have been popping up there is clearly a need to give attention to the situation. Suamba added that the regent

of Gianyar has commissioned a discussion on the matter of modern chain stores and the empowerment of traditional markets.

Altough he did not explain in detail, Sumaba did say that the moratorium will not be applied across the board but rather will be applied in subdistricts who have exceeded their quota of modern chain stores. In addition, traditional markets will be empowered so that they can compete with the modern chain stores.

The head if the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency added that the issue of the proliferation of modern chain stores requires that the general public be educated about how to provide practical services that are increasing in demand by our communities. A few communities have already started to make their shops more attractive and are giving more attention to sanitation and hygiene.

“If the store is dirty and messy, this will have a negative impact on sales, because today’s consumers demand cleanliness. Shop owners need to become aware of these demands and do what is needed to take advantage of existing opportunities,” said Suamba. (kmb25)

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Gaga, Missy Elliott in tears after getting Billboard honors

Director J.J. Abrams, second right, and actors, from left, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver, right, pose for a group photo during a press conference of their latest film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at a hotel in Urayasu, near Tokyo Friday, Dec. 11, 2015.

Hollywood preps for ‘Star Wars’ world premiere

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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is preparing for what could be the largest movie premiere in its history on Monday night when the hugely anticipated “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is screened for VIP audiences in three separate theaters amid tight security.

At one of the Hollywood Boulevard location — the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre, where the first “Star Wars” premiered in 1977 — fans are already camped out this weekend, eagerly awaiting their turn when the film opens for regular folks next Friday.

One fan, Lavonne Dominguez, wasn’t interested in simply buying a ticket online to see the movie in her local movie theater. She and several friends who drove up from Orange County wanted an out-of-this-world experience.

“I need to see it in an epic place with people who are just as excited about ‘Star Wars’ as me,” said Dominguez, 32, who was among about 150 devotees in line at the Chinese on Friday, occasionally ducking under awnings to avoid a passing shower.

Several fans began holding court outside the theatre last weekend.

Many of them previously lined up at the same location to be among the first to see the “Star Wars” prequel films, beginning in 1999.

This time, the theater operator is allowing them to camp out on top of the theater’s famous celebrity handand footprints, instead of along the sidewalk out front.

The fans must log at least 24 hours in line to gain entry to the theater’s first public showing of the film, but those who spend more time in line will earn preferential seat selection.

“If I didn’t have to go to work, I probably would be here the whole time,” said Dominguez.

It’s unclear just where the group will be when Lucasfilm’s latest “Star Wars” installment has its worldwide

premiere on Monday night.

The star-studded event is expected to be one of the largest — and most secretive — Hollywood premieres ever. On Friday, dozens of workers were busily erecting a mammoth opaque tent lining four blocks of Hollywood oulevard.

Inside the partially built structure, curious tourists snapped photos of lighting equipment while security personnel drove around in carts with “The Force Awakens” logo on them.

Lucasfilm-owner Disney declined to comment or provide details about the premiere, but it’s expected to take over the TCL Chinese Theatre, as well as the nearby El Capitan Theatre and the adjacent Dolby Theatre, home of the Oscars.

An invitation sent to members of the media Friday afternoon requested that they withhold from spoiling the film after seeing it for the first time Monday night and dress in “’Star Wars’” chic” attire to the event. (ap)

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NEW YORK — Lady Gaga and Missy Elliott were in tears Friday as they discussed the struggles they faced in their careers at an event honoring women in the music industry.

Gaga was named Billboard’s woman of the year, while Elliott — who has largely stayed out of the spotlight in recent years, save for a surprise Super Bowl appearance, but returned last month with a new single — was dubbed innovator of the year.

Loretta Lynn, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Lana Del Rey, girl group Fifth Harmony, pop singer Tori Kelly and country singer Kelsea Ballerini were also honored at the event, along with 50 female music executives.

The Billboard Women In Music event, which included guests like Alicia Keys, Paul Rudd, Martina McBride and Jussie Smollett from “Empire,” will air Dec. 18 on Lifetime. (ap)

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Bangli’s traditional markets in dire condition

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The slogan “CLIMATESIGN” is projected on the Eiffel Tower as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. France presented what it called a “final draft” of an unprecedented deal to slow global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the levels that nature can absorb, and urged negotiators from nearly 200 nations to approve it Saturday.

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TRADITIONAL markets are still a source of comfort for consumers looking to supply themselves with their daily necessities such as food and other household items.

This comfort however is sometimes put in jeopardy when the condition of the location and general sanitation are left unattended.

Many of the traditional markets run by the government of Bangli bear witness to the lack of comfort that can be experienced when the environment of markets is not taken care of. Kidul Market for example is currently in a state that is not so different than a garbage dump (TPA). Kidul market is located in the town of Bangli, just south of Denpasar Palace, and can be reached by taking Jalan Merdeka from Gianyar.

Upon arriving at this market, the first sign of chaos is the parking area that is completely disorganized with merchants spilling out in a haphazard manner.

The entrance way into the market is even worse with garbage strewn about and vendors apparently oblivious to the unpleasant atmosphere. In the north of the market there is still the burned debris of a shop that went up in flames three years ago, which obviously gives a very bad impression.

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Euphoria as landmark Paris climate deal adopted

LE BOURGET, France - Cheering envoys from 195 nations on Saturday approved a historic accord in Paris to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ended nearly a fortnight of gruelling UN negotiations on the outskirts of Paris with the bang of a gavel, marking consensus among the ministers, who stood for several minutes to clap and shout their joy, with some shedding tears of relief.

“I see the room, I see the reaction is positive, I hear no objection. The Paris climate accord is adopted,” declared Fabius, the president of the talks.

The post-2020 Paris Agreement ends decades-long rows between rich and poor nations over how to

carry out what will be a multi-trillion-dollar campaign to cap global warming and cope with the impact of a shifting climate.

With 2015 forecast to be the hottest year on record, world leaders and scientists had said the accord was vital for capping rising temperatures and averting the most calamitous effects of climate change.

Without urgent action, they warned, mankind faced increas-

ingly severe droughts, floods and storms, and rising seas that would engulf islands and coastal areas populated by hundreds of millions of people.

“The Paris agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis,” US President Barack Obama said.

“We came together around the strong agreement the world needed.

We met the moment.”

German Chancellor Angela

Merkel added: “Paris will always be connected with this historic turning point in climate policy.”

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