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Naomi Watts resplendent in feathers

‘American Idol’ crowns 14th season champion

LOS ANGELES — Nick Fradiani is the latest winner of “American Idol.”

The 29-year-old rocker of Guilford, Connecticut, bested soulful 22-year-old vocalist Clark Beckham of White House, Tennessee, to win the 14th edition of the Fox talent competition.

“This is amazing,” he told “Idol” host Ryan Seacrest. “This is the best day of my life.”

Fradiani joins such champions as Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Phillip Phillips and Kris Allen, as well one more winner to be determined next year. Fox announced earlier this week that the next season would be the last for “Idol.”

Before he was revealed as the winner on Wednesday, Fradiani dueted with singersongwriter Andy Grammer.

“I can’t even think right now,” Fradiani said after Seacrest informed him that he received the most viewer votes — without revealing the exact number cast.

Fradiani’s win came on the strength of his renditions Tuesday of Matchbox 20’s “Bright Lights,” Jason Mraz’s “I Won’t Give Up” and “Beautiful Life,” intended as his first single.

Beckham sang Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind,” Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine”

and “Champion.”

The two-hour extravaganza kicked off with Fradiani and Beckham joining Fall Out Boy on their song “Centuries.”

The series’ penultimate finale also resurrected Chic, Ricky Martin, NKOTB, Michael McDonald and Steven Tyler for performances, as well as judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. The once-blockbuster singing contest, which hit a peak of 30.3 million viewers in 2005, is now averaging 9.15 million viewers per episode, according to the Nielsen company.

Lopez, Urban and Connick Jr. are due back at the judges’ table for next year’s 15th and final “Idol” outing. Beckham had a few words of advice for those looking to become the last-ever “Idol.”

“You have to be good at lot of different things,” he said. “It’s not just singing a song.” (afp)

CANNES — Feathers helped the Cannes Film Festival take flight on the opening-night red carpet.

Naomi Watts, who appears in Gus van Sant’s festival entry “The Sea of Trees,” wore a powder blue gown from Elie Saab Couture’s spring-summer 2015 collection, its top festooned with sequins and pearls above a flowing feathered skirt.

Not to be outdone, Julianne Moore wore a silk gauze column dress by Georgio Armani Prive, adorned with aqua and black Swarovski embroidery and paired with a black feathered top.

The flame-haired actress, who won Cannes’ bestactress prize last year for “Maps to the Stars,” offset the look with bold emerald earrings.

Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Sienna Miller also walked the Riviera red carpet ahead of Wednesday’s gala screening of Emmanuelle Bercot’s “Standing Tall.” (ap)

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Save Bali from ‘black investors’

DENPASAR - The fact that Bali is ranked third as a paradise for money laundering, particularly corruption money but for proceeds of other crimes too, is a slap on the face to the island of gut Gods and tarnishes Bali world image. The image of Bali as a place that is rich in religious and cultural activities, is marred by the ‘black investments’ of illicit money. “Bali is being being destroyed by irresponsible investors. We have to save Bali from ‘black’ investors,” said a member of Commission I of the Bali House, Nyoman Tirtawan.

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Carrie Underwood leads nominations for CMT Music Awards

NEW YORK — Carrie Underwood is the top contender for the 2015 CMT Music Awards with five nominations. CMT announced Wednesday that Underwood scored two nominations for video of the year with the Grammy-winning “Something in the Water” and “Somethin’ Bad,” her duet with Miranda Lambert.

Underwood also earned two nominations for female video of the year with “Something in the Water” and “Little Toy Guns.”

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Tirtawan acknowledged that there is a pattern of investments in Bali that could be called very haphazard and unorganized and that does not take into consideration the holistic philosophy of Pawongan (social aspects), Palemahan (environmental aspects) and Parhyangan (spiritual aspects), particularly in Southern Bali.

Despite a moratorium having been decreed on the construction of new tourist accommodations such as new hotels and villas, these continue to be easily established in South- ern Bali.

Many of them also violate

other rules such as annexing coastal borders on building without a permit. The establishment of new hotels and villas is also alleged to be an easy target for ‘black investors’ to launder the proceeds of crimes such as corruption. “Property, land and tourist accommodation have become the sector of choice for commenting money laundering. Moreover, this practice is enabled by our weak rules and regulations regarding investment,” said the NasDem politician from Buleleng.

He added that investment in Bali today only increases ‘speculation, commercial gain and prestige.’ As a result, the tak-

su or divine vibration of Bali is currently fading through exploitation and the island is reaching a threshold that threatens to render Bali into a place that is no longer eco-friendly, but instead filled with traffic jams, urban filth, centers of economic inequality, drugs, crime, money laundering, ‘black investments’ and other negative forces. “If they are allowed to continue like this, Bali can be destroyed by illicit and disruptive businesses ranging from money laundering, prostitution to the sale of illicit drugs that are accumulating in Bali,” said Tirtawan, while reminding the leaders of Bali to think clearly about overcoming the problem of money laundering.

“We must work together to formulate measures and find solutions that prevent and detect the practice of money laundering and snare the culprits. There must be firm action on the part of the government, rule of law regarding clear investment, so as to prevent any more money crime derived money from being laundered in Bali,” he said.

Member of Commission III of the Bali House, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana, also admitted to be concerned about the widespread practice of money laundering in Bali by corrupters. They primary modus operand for money laundering is the purchasing of assets such as land and houses as well as building hotels. According to Adnyana, by building a hotel, the proceeds of crime are more easily hidden by the corrupters.

So, it is no wonder that so many investors are competing to build new hotels as there is a possibility of money laundering.

To Balinese people, there is a big question mark as to why so many new hotels are being built, with very large investments, even though occupancy rates are in the mid to low range.

“So, the construction of new hotels is targeted by money launderers who are not looking at making a profit, but rather at ways of hiding the proceeds of crimes”.

Currently they are competing to sell hotel rooms at cheaper rates, clearly profits are not high,” said the PDI-P politician from Buleleng.

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Twelve videos are nominated for video of the year. Contenders include Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean.

Lady Antebellum and Kenny Chesney, also video of the year nominees, have four nominations each.

The CMT Music Awards will air live on June 10 from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Tickets go on sale Saturday and voting starts Wednesday. (ap)

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Motorist passed a property project in Kuta area. Despite a moratorium having been decreed on the construction of new tourist accommodations such as new hotels and villas, these continue to be easily established in Southern Bali. Many of them also violate other rules such as annexing coastal borders on building without a permit.

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Kusamba Beach

Three salt farms collapse from abrasion

SEMARAPURA - Abrasion in coastal areas of Klungkung is increasingly severe. Abrasion does not only occur in coastal areas of Tegal Besar, Banjarangkan, but has also begun to expand to the coastal areas of Kusamba Beach, Dawan. Three salt drying sites located on Karangdadi Beach, Kusamba, East of the PPI project, have collapsed from abrasion, as reported by the headman of Kusamba, Ketut Winastra on Thursday.

at the dormant PPI project. The breakwater is meant to prevent waves from crashing directly onto the shore line, but what ends up happening is the these waves end up eroding the beaches in the vicinity. “Probably, the breakwater is to blame, because the sever abrasion has only been occurring recently” he said.

Responding to the abrasion

of Karangdadi Beach, Winastra hope that the government will pay attention. Especially because the problem has affected the development of salt farms at Kusamba. If things continue like this, the salt farmers will have nowhere to dry their salt.

“Well, we hope the government will do something, such as create an embarkment, for example,”

he said.

Similar opinions were also expected by salt farmers, Dewa Ketut Candra. Previously, he had hoped that the government would anticipate the abrasion of Karangdadi Beach. Hints have now gotten worse, and if nothing is done, the location where 37 salt farmers dry out their salt, will be eroded by crashing waves

as we have seen with the abrasion that has already occurred. In addition, he hopes that the government can help to market the salt of Kusamba. So far, the stock of salt produced by farmers here has yet to be sold and is sitting in their huts. “If there is no saltdrying location left at Kusamba, where else we can produce salt?” queried Candra. (kmb)

AMLAPURA - The village authorities of Seraya, Karangasem, are trying to reduce the incidence of juvenile mortality cause by traffic accidents and/or alcohol. Acting headman of Seraya Tengah, Made Samudera One said on Thursday during a village competion, that one of the approaches being taken is to promote road safety.

Another approach being taken is to encourage the general public and

youth in particular to avoid drinking alcoholic beverages. Samudera said that even though the rate of juvenile mortality caused by traffic accidents sand alcohol is fairly low, it is important to anticipate possible problems in the future. It is certainly worth while trying to get the numbers down to zero.

The younger generation is the hope of the future. On that account, they must be protected and avenues

must be pursued to help prevent them from dying in vain. He added that to deter youth from engaging in negative and detrimental behaviours such as reckless speeding and drunkeness, the importance of training and employment opportunities are being presented to them through weaving crafts and other positive activities such as sports.

His village administration, said Samudera, in the presence of the

Deputy Regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana, who attended the village competition, has providing toilets for the public. Assistance in the form of 100 toilets was provided through the village fund allocation (ADD). This assistance was granted in order to create a healthier living conditions for people in the area. Until recently there has been very little awareness about the importance of using

toilets, both for hygiene as well as for the environment. Samudra said that many villagers in the area and particularly in the in the three hamlets of Taman, Kayu Wit and Kecagbalung, which are known to be barren, still face great challenges in accessing clean water. To resolve the problem, the government will be facilitating access by supplying water tank that can provide water for these area. (013)

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Harris Bukit Jimbaran appoints new GM

JIMBARAN - Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran is delighted to announce the appointment of I Made Yadnya as the new General Manager. Assuming office on 8 May 2015, Yadnya is ready to contribute his expertise and commitment to bring the property forward.

Yadnya succeeds I Made Bagus Pariyatna, SE, CHA, who was the second General Manager and oversaw the successful hotel’s achievement in maintaining customer satisfaction, saving energy and Gold Medal in Tri Hita Karana Award.

A seasoned hotelier whose passion for the industry sprouted from his interest in customer service, Yadnya has numerous years of experience in various hospitality disciplines, spanning from Finance to Operations.

He started his career in Finance before advancing to Front Office. He has proved his quality as General Manager in a number of properties including

According to Winastra, the abrasion that is occurring on Karangdadi Beach has become quite alarming. According to Winastra, as a result of the collapse of the three salt drying locations that belong to Ketut Kuturan, Ketut Polos and Mangku Ngenteg, these three salt farmers have been forced to change their profession and now work as construction laborers.

Other than eroding the salt farms, the abrasion, also threatens a site used for the disposal of ritual paraphernalia during cremation ceremonies and other rituals. Winastra also revealed that the abrasion on Karangdadi Beach has started encroaching on private land owned by local residents. In 2012, said Winastra, the land was 125 meters away from the beach but is now just 60 meters away.

Winastra himself suspects that the severe abrasion that is occurreing on Karangdadi Beach is due to the presence of the breakwater

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Jatra Boutique Hotel, Aston Tuban Inn, Kuta Central Park Hotel and Ramada Encore Bali Seminyak. Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran is Yadnya’s first ever Tauzia’s property to manage.

As General Manager, Yadnya will bring his vast experience to develop the business. He will also ensure that Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran stays at the top of customer’s heart.

“The market today is very competitive. However, I believe with understanding to our today customer behaviour and consistent effort to deliver quality service, we will achieve our aims,” said Yadnya.

Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran – Bali,

located on the top of Ungasan Hill, South Bali with incredible views over the famous Jimbaran Bay and Indian Ocean. Consisting of 245 rooms and suites with complete facilities, HARRIS Hotel Bukit Jimbaran is an ideal place for business and leisure. The strategic location is only 15-minute away from Ngurah Rai International Airport, 10minute to Uluwatu Temple, Dreamland Beach, Pandawa Beach, New Kuta Water Park & Golf Course and 2-minute to Garuda Wisnu Kencana. The hotel also offers a free shuttle to the famous Pandawa Beach so you can enjoy a full day of refreshing excursion on a white-sand beach with crystal-blue water.

Balinese Temple Ceremony The location where the salt farms were before abrasion hit Kusamba Beach

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Seraya village improving dire conditions

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

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

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

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

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

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Kim Kardashian launches fashion line in Brazil REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

self-styled ‘queen of selfies’, rarely missing an opportunity to keep fans up to date with her every move via social media.

Kardashian’s ubiquitous presence in the media recently moved Time magazine to dub her one of the world’s 100 most influential people. She already co-owns a fashion boutique, DASH, with sisters Kourtney and Khloe.

Her Brazilian collection includes a range of kneelength skirts, dresses, sandals and various models of crop tops -- a signature stomach-baring style statement by the poster woman for those with a fuller figure.

The 20-strong collection will be sold for between $9 and $65 in C&A stores across Brazil as Kardashian targets a 200 millionstrong market.

Kardashian arrived over the weekend in Sao Paulo and Sunday posted a picture to Instagram showing 2,000 white roses which West had sent to her hotel suite for Mothers Day. Monday saw her offer a little advice, meanwhile, on how to take the perfect ‘selfie.’

“The lighting is everything.” (afp)

rope,” he said, himself dressed in fashionable jeans and black down jacket. “This is international.”

Behind Min, customers and porters squeeze between doubleparked vans as they head in and out of shops with flashing signs and, at times, whimsical names like: “Glam Couture”, “Bisou’s Project,” “La Bottine Souriante” (“The Smiling Bootee”) and “Miss Baby Hot Bottom”.

When the new Fashion Center -- expected to generate more jobs -- officially opened at the end of March, it became the largest market of its kind in Europe, overtaking a similar one at Duesseldorf in Germany.

“Aubervilliers has become one of the most important places for business and exchange with China in all of Europe,” said the town’s mayor, Pascal Beaudet. “So we needed to organise accordingly and that’s what we did.”

“For those who work in the garment industry, Aubervilliers is indispensable,” said Gaetan Le Gorre, 37, keeping one eye on workers loading his van with a cargo of jeans bought from a local wholesaler.

Le Gorre, from the Brittany region in northwest France, sells clothes in street markets and comes “at least once a week” to stock up in what he calls “ready-to-wear Chinatown”.

“I pick clothes out, I barter.

Here you have everything at hand, but you need to know your way around.”

Hundreds of wholesalers offer an endless choice of textiles, colours and patterns in this vast district between the Paris beltway and the national sports stadium, Stade de France -- where France won the 1998 football World Cup. “Behind every shop, there’s a

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GIANYAR - Rapid development of souvenir markets posing one of the competitors for traders at Sukawati art market in Gianyar becomes a concern of the county government. As planned, the county government will make revitalization to the current market having been in poor condition. To realize the plan, local government has proposed the budget worth IDR 78 billion to the Ministry of Commerce.

Chinese turn Paris suburb into Europe’s biggest fashion market

AUBERVILLIERS, France - The rows of upmarket sedans look out of place parked in the working-class Paris suburb but this is Aubervilliers, Europe’s made-inChina clothing capital where traders recently opened the continent’s biggest garment centre.

A vast range of clothing is on offer in this town on the northern edge of the French capital where generations of Chinese have settled -- and some made fortunes.

Canny shoppers can pick up a smart ready-to-wear suit for 40 euros ($46) in a central store or a pack of cheap socks in the supermarket, while a stall-holder on the street offers sneakers.

“Here, you can find anything at almost any price,” said Min, a labourer who came from China six years ago, as he pushed a cart laden with boxes and bags for delivery to a wholesaler.

“People come from all over Eu-

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Sukawati art market needs revitalizing

SAO PAULO - Famously curvy reality show star Kim Kardashian launched a new line of clothing in Brazil on Monday, saying she hoped to win over women in a land where voluptuousness is often celebrated.

Kardashian said at an event in Sao Paulo that her “simple and sexy” range of clothing aimed to reflect her own tastes and comprised clothes she would wear herself.

“I wanted to show the Brazilian woman and her curves,” the star of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” said as she unveiled the Kim Kardashian West collection for retail chain C&A, which has a strong presence in Brazil.

“Back in the States we have different opinions, different styles, and this was all me, so I could do whatever I wanted. I just went with everything I felt that I would really wear,” said Kardashian.

Kardashian said she had worked hard to create a “simple and sexy” elastic range which can “adapt to any body type.”

“Lately I haven’t been using so many patterns. So I wanted something that was not so bright in colors. There is black and white and I thought it was really cool,” Kardashian explained.

The 34-year-old, mother of a daughter, North, with rapper husband Kanye West and the stepdaughter of decathlon Olympic champion Bruce Jenner, is the

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whole team,” said Pascal, a young Frenchman of Chinese origin who did not give his last name and recently took over his parents’ store. “We turn to French fashion designers to satisfy a Western clientele.”

The pioneers had actually arrived in France years earlier, said Richard Beraha, a specialist on the Chinese community in the Paris region. At first they had no papers but found work, acquired legal status and gradually earned enough to go into the wholesale business.

One of them, Hsueh Sheng Wang, has built a clothing empire and amassed such a fortune in his late 40s that he has become known as “the king of Aubervilliers”.

He owns dozens of shops in the town but made a bigger name in 2011 when he bought a large share in the northern French port of Le Havre, the country’s hub for ocean-borne trade with Asia.

Wang and seven fellow investors of Chinese origin are behind the new Fashion Center, now Europe’s biggest wholesale textile market with 310 shops in 55,000 square metres (592,000 square feet) in the heart of Aubervilliers.

The Center aims to to draw buyers from across Europe and make the textile import-export trade more efficient by consolidating business in one location, said Wang who sees the project as beneficial for the French economy.

The Fashion Center will create “about 2,000 jobs... and not only for Chinese people,” said Victor Hu, 47, one of Wang’s partners who traded in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion for a suit and tie after a spell in the service entitled him to French citizenship.

“We have made a small path,” Wang smiled. “The new generation will build a highway.”

The Sukawati art market is one of the tourism icons owned by Gianyar County. By that way, the concern with the future of the market accommodating the creative art products of the community can compete amid the development of shops selling similar products.

“We propose the budget of IDR 78 billion to central government.

Hopefully, it can be realized,” said the Regent of Gianyar, Anak Agung Gde Agung Bharata on Tuesday.

Revitalization of the Sukawati art market becomes one of his concentrations in leading Gianyar. In the near future, he will perform a feasibility study. “Implementation of the feasibility study is estimated to cost up to IDR 2 billion,” he said.

As temporary illustration, the Sukawati art market will be made into a market that will not only offer various handicraft products. In the near future, his party will make a concept of entertainment such as the performance of Balinese dance as well as various social and cultural activities of Bali at the market. It is similar with the concept applied by the market in Thailand. His party will even take some of the parties to Thailand for a comparative study. “With the concept, travelers may take morning or afternoon tour first, while at night they will visit the Sukawati market. Perhaps, the implementation is like this,” he explained.

If the revitalization can genuinely be realized, the traders will also be relocated temporarily. The regent said that his party has taken it into account with local village. In the process, various aspects need to be discussed further carefully, including the parking space which is currently becoming a problem at the Sukawati art market.

Related to the revitalization plan to the art market, the team of experts of the Gianyar County, Gianyar House and some businessmen directly expressed their opinion when the Committee III of the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia (DPD RI) made a visit to Gianyar County last Monday.

Revitalization of the art market is very necessary so that the market will not lose competitiveness in the face of the development of souvenir markets that has been increasingly mushrooming. (kmb16)

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Rapid development of souvenir markets posing one of the competitors for traders at Sukawati art market in Gianyar becomes a concern of the county government. As planned, the county government will make revitalization to the current market having been in poor condition.

Economic slowdown

Bali government denies that delayed budget is the cause DENPASAR - The provincial government denies that Bali’s economic slowdown is caused by delays in the disbursal of the regional budget. This rebuttal was submitted by the first assistant to the provincial government of Bali, Dewa Putu Eka Wijaya Wardana, in Denpasar, on Tuesday (May 12). According to Dewa Eka, the factor main factors contributing to Bali’s economic slowdown are related to politics and the global economy.

“We’re all still counting, especially after the rise and fall of fuel prices, so the economy is slightly stagnant,” he said. Dewa Eka added that the disbursement of the regional budget will not necessarily directly translate into projects. There are stages that need to gone through in the disbursement process, which makes it seem slow.

“If for example, we were to violate any rules concerning the budgetary funds, we would be faced with the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). So far, no tender has been approved as each program has its own steps that need to be taken.

So, these delays are not influencing (the economic slowdown of Bali—Ed),” he said.

Meanwhile, member of Commission III of the Bali House, I Wayan Adnyana, suggested that the local government accelerate the implementation of infrastructural development and government programs as layer out in the Regional Bylaw for the regional budget. Referring to previous experience, the government generally starts construction projects in June, but the central government is now asking that projects start

in January.

“In other words, because, as is so often the case, projects require a lengthly planning process and time for auction, despite aiming for January, they will end up happening in June. This is based on past experiences,” he added.

Adnyana added that infrastructural development should give priority to roads. Other than helping to resolving congestion problems, road access is also an important of spreading development evenly. That way development will not only be focused on Southern Bali. The other counties also need to be developed so that Bali’s economy can be revived.

As for the Chairman of Commission II of the Bali House, I Ketut Suwandhi, he suggested that local governments, especially at the county level, should fa-

cilitate the licensing process and investment opportunities, while still taking into consideration the carrying capacity of Bali.

“We should not compound the economic challenges, let alone contribute to them as this will only make investors restless.

As long as investment projects meet applicable provisions, licenses should be issued immediately. Without investment, the economy does not work,” he explained.

This Golkar Party politician also considers that the slow economic growth in Bali is due to the declining quality of travelers coming to Bali. According to Suwandhi, there is indeed an increase in the number of travelers, but in terms of quality there has been a sharp decrease, chiefly in the matter of tourist money spent shopping in Bali. (kmb32)

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Hundreds of high school students collect uniforms

Malaysia turns away 800 boat people; Thailand spots 3rd boat

NEGARA - The Jembrana Education Agency appealed to high school and vocation school (SMA/SMK) students not to make any convoy on the street right on graduation day. A number of high schools do a variety of ways, where one of them is collecting uniforms before graduation to avoid graffiti on uniform on the graduation day.

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The students in Jembrana hand in their uniform before graduation

Approximately 261 students of the SMAN 2 Negara, Tuesday (May 12), for instance, attended the school farewell by wearing customary attires.

Besides, they were required to bring along their uniforms to be collected by school student’s organization (OSIS). The effort pioneered by the OSIS was also accompanied with a pledge made by the XII grade students.

After reading out the pledge, all the students collected their uniforms. The student pledge carries that they will not draw graffiti and speed recklessly in the streets after the graduation announcement. The Division Head of the Secondary Education, Dewa Putu Wardana Astawa, said the school effort to anticipate graffiti is worth imitating. The agency also appealed to high schools not to come down or head for the streets after the graduation announcement.

Principal of the SMAN 2 Negara, Wayan Sudiarta, said that other than being intended for social activities it is also meant to anticipate excessive expression of the graduation and prevent the students from coming down to the street. According to him, a total of 261 students participated in collecting school uniforms. In addition to be submitted to poor lower grade students, the used uniforms will be handed over to orphanage. “It is also meant to anticipate so that their uniforms will not be drawn with graffiti while graduation,” explained Sudiarta.

The OSIS Chief, I Nengah Nitinanda Yadnya, said that such an action expresses the concern of the students as well as accustoms them so that they change the habit of coming down to the streets after graduation announcement. The students also make coordination with the Police Traffic Unit to participate in escorting the students so as not to violate traffic rules in the streets. (kmb26)

Mr Bob’s murder trial

Victim’s wife escapes from deadly charge, hitmen sentenced to 15 years

DENPASAR - Verification in the murder trial of foreign citizen, Robert Kevin Ellis aka Mr. Bob, the defendant victim’s wife, Noor Aini alias Nur Ellis and her hitmen Urbanus Yoh Ghoghi alias Ur and Yohanes Saerokodu alias Yonis alias Deni, were sentenced to 15 years in prison, Tuesday (May 12). Nur Ellis touted as the mastermind of the murder escaped from death penalty as mentioned in the indictment of the judge based on the Article 340 of the Criminal Code, where she must be maximally sentenced with death

penalty. It happened because the prosecutor Dipa Umbara and Raka Arimbawa charged Nur Ellis equal to her hitmen, namely 15 years.

In a separate file, the prosecutor Arimbawa initially read out the charges to the defendant Urbanus and Yohanes. In the charges read out in front of the panel of judges led by A.A. Anom Wirakanta, the prosecutor declared that the two defendants were proved legally and convincingly guilty of committing a criminal act together as the persons who committed, participated

in committing, and or intentionally or with prior planning, eliminated the other’s life.

Over their acts, both defendants were charged and threatened under article 340 of Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 (1) in the primary charge.

“The punishment charged to them is respectively 15 years in prison, with reduction over the period of detention of the defendants,” charged the prosecutor.

Before reading out the charges, the prosecutor read out first a number of considerations regard-

ing the things that incriminated due to the deeds of the defendant causing fatalities, namely death.

On the other hand, the consideration relieving the defendants is that they have never been punished, behaved politely and cooperative in every trial, regretted their acts and promised not to repeat it again and they are still young. Over the charges, the defendants through their legal counsel, Edy Hartaka, will defend in the trial next week.

In the meantime, Noor Ellis undergoing a separate trial has been

crying from the beginning. The trial on Tuesday got the attention from foreign media. When the prosecutor read out the charges, Nur Ellis who is the wife of Mr. Bob was looking down. Then, when the prosecutor charged her with 15 years in prison, her cry was getting louder. Moreover, when making coordination with her legal team, Nyoman Wisnu et al., Nur Ellis was crying again.

And when asked by the judge, she finally handed over to her legal counsel. Her legal team said that they will defend next week. (kmb37)

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo, Thursday, May 14, 2015. Japan’s Cabinet endorsed a set of defense bills Thursday that would allow the country’s military to go beyond its self-defense stance and play a greater role internationally, a plan that has split public opinion.

Japan’s Cabinet endorses bills to allow greater defense role

TOKYO — Japan’s Cabinet endorsed a set of defense bills Thursday that would allow the country’s military to operate under a broader definition of self-defense and play a greater role internationally, a plan that has split public opinion.

Hundreds of people rallied outside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s office calling the bills “war legislation” that turn Japan toward militarism. They say the move would tarnish nearly 70 years of efforts by Japan to regain international trust and identity as a pacifist nation.

Abe, in a bid to win public understanding, said in a nationally televised news conference that the country’s military needs to be able to do more to protect the country and contribute to international peacekeeping. “We cannot look away from this severe situation,” he said. “Right now, we don’t have the (legal) instruments necessary to eliminate the danger even when our lives are in clear danger.”

The bills, whose titles include phrases such as “peace and security” and “international peace support,” will be taken up by parliament next.

After its defeat in World War II, Japan renounced war under the U.S.-drafted constitution that essentially limits the use of force to self-defense. Abe and his government say that a strict interpretation of that limit leaves Japan vulnerable as China asserts itself in the region.

The bills would remove geographic restrictions on where the military can operate. Another change would allow Japan to de-

fend its allies, not just itself. The government says they are needed to bring domestic law in line with Abe’s national security policy.

The legislation would also enhance the U.S.-Japan security alliance, but Abe denied opponents’ fears that it would increase the chance of Japan being drawn into a U.S.-led war. China raised concern about the move, citing wartime history.

“We hope Japan makes actual efforts in absorbing historical lessons, adhering to peaceful development, and making positive and constructive contributions to a peaceful and stable development in a region shared by all the Asian countries,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. Media polls show public opinion divided.

“I was born right after the war, but during this time Japan was able to gain prosperity and trust from the world because of our peace constitution,” said Taeko Otaki, a 68-year-old homemaker at the rally outside Abe’s office.

Koichi Nakano, an international politics professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, says the changes are problematic because they would allow the prime minister and a handful of leaders to make crucial decisions, such as dispatching troops overseas, without due process.

“I think it is possible that Japanese diplomatic power may be enhanced by this but also there are people who are worried that Japan’s peace brand, the image of Japan as a pacifist country, is going to be damaged,” he said. (ap)

LANGKAWI, Malaysia — Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis abandoned at sea by human traffickers had nowhere to go Thursday as Malaysia turned away two boats crammed with migrants, and Thailand kept at bay a large vessel with hundreds of hungry people. “What do you expect us to do?” Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Jafaar said. “We have been very nice to the people who broke into our border. We have treated them humanely but they cannot be flooding our shores like this.”

“We have to send the right message that they are not welcome here,” he told The Associated Press.

Four days earlier, about 1,000 refugees landed on the shores of Langkawi, a popular resort island in northern Malaysia near Thailand.

Another 600 have arrived surreptitiously in Indonesia.

Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha also made it clear that his government does not have resources to host refugees. “If we take them all in, then anyone who wants to come will come freely. I am asking if Thailand will be able to take care of them all. Where will the budget come from?,” Prayuth said. “No one wants them. Everyone wants a transit country like us to take responsibility. Is it fair?” he said.

Southeast Asia, which for years tried to quietly ignore the plight of Myanmar’s 1.3 million Rohingya, finds itself caught in a spiraling humanitarian crisis that in many ways it helped create. In the last three years, more than 120,000 members of the Muslim minority, who are intensely persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, have boarded ships to flee to other countries, paying huge sums of money to human traffickers.

But faced with a crackdown by

security forces of various countries, the smugglers have abandoned the ships, leaving an estimated 6,000 refugees to fend for themselves, according to reliable aid workers and human rights groups. “This is a grave humanitarian crisis demanding an immediate response,” said Matthew Smith, executive director of nonprofit human rights group Fortify Rights. “Lives are on the line.”

Despite appeals by the U.N. and aid groups, no government in the region — Thai, Indonesian or Malaysian — appears willing to take the refugees, fearing that accepting a few would result in an unstoppable flow of poor, uneducated migrants.

Wan Junaidi said about 500 people on board a boat found Wednesday off the coast of northern Penang state were given provisions and then sent on their way. Another boat carrying about 300 migrants was turned away near Langkawi island overnight, according to two Malaysian officials who declined to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press.

Meanwhile, Thai authorities also spotted a boat with migrants near Lipe island in Satun province on the sea border between Thailand

and Malaysia. They have been given food and water, Capt. Chayut Navespootikorn, a senior naval official, told the AP. “To bring them into our country is not our policy,” he said. “If they need fuel or food to go on (to a third country) we would help them with it.”

Malaysia, which is not a signatory of international conventions on refugees, is host to more than 150,000 refugees and asylum seekers, the majority whom are from Myanmar. More than 45,000 of them are Rohingya, according to the U.N. refugee agency, many more than almost any other country.

But because they have no legal status, job opportunities are limited.

They also have little or no access to basic services like education and health care, and are vulnerable to arrests and deportation. A small number are resettled to third countries.

Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch Asia accused Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia of playing “a three-way game of human ping pong.” At the same time, the three countries and others in Southeast Asia have for years bowed to the wishes of Myanmar at regional conferences, avoiding all di\scussions of state-sponsored discrimination against the Rohingya. (ap)

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Maritime police officers near a boat which carried migrants in Langkawi, Malaysia, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Hundreds of migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers in Southeast Asia have reached land and relative safety in the past two days.

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BUSINESS Greek leader holds government meeting as recession returns

ATHENS — Greece’s prime minister was holding his second ministerial meeting in as many the retirement age.

He said an agreement with days Wednesday, when official data confirmed the cash-strapped country is back in recession creditors should respect the governamid concern over much-delayed bailout talks with creditors.

Alexis Tsipras has said his radical left-led government has done as much as it can to strike a deal to get more bailout loans, insisting the ball is now in the court of the creditors.

At stake is a 7.2 billion euro ($8 billion) rescue loan installment, and failure to reach an agreement could lead Greece to default on its obligations within weeks — triggering a chain of events that could force the country to leave the euro.

The head of Greece’s GSEE umbrella private sector union, Yiannis Panagopoulos, said the country’s drop back into recession, at the most crucial point of the bailout talks, highlights the need for a swift agreement “so that Greece can remain in the euro.”

Official flash estimates showed that the economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the first three months compared with the previous quarter.

Following the 0.4 percent contrac-

tion in the last quarter of 2014, the country is now technically back in recession less than a year after it emerged from a downturn as severe as the Great Depression.

Panagopoulos told The Associated Press that any deal with creditors must safeguard “fundamental social issues,” which were “trampled underfoot” by previous austerity measures that included income cuts, tax hikes, scrapping of job protections and increases to

ment’s promises to restore labor rights and fight new pension cuts, but admits he is not optimistic.

“Our creditors have toughened their positions,” he said, adding that time was lost — and goodwill squandered — with negotiations “on terms and names,” instead of how to restart growth.

He said a deal is better than nothing.

“Otherwise we will no longer be talking about recession but rather a total collapse that will have terrify-

ing repercussions on all of Greek society,” Panagopoulos said.

Eurobank analyst Platon Monokroussos said the economic downturn in the first quarter was less severe than expected, and forecasts slight growth for the year as a whole.

The finance ministry said Wednesday that the JanuaryApril budget deficit was about a sixth the size expected, at 500 million euros, while — excluding debt servicing costs — there was a surplus of over 2 billion euros, much better than the 290 million euro target. (ap)

Sharp announces $1.86 billion loss, plans thousands of job cuts

TOKYO - Japanese electronics giant Sharp on Thursday said it was cutting thousands of jobs in a fresh turnaround plan to keep it afloat as the struggling firm posted a bigger-than-expected $1.86 billion annual loss.

The 222 billion yen net loss -- much bigger

than an earlier 30 billion yen forecast -- came as Sharp said it would cut about 10 percent of its 49,000-strong global workforce, including 3,500 jobs in Japan.

The firm said it hoped to swing to an 80 billion yen operating profit in the current fiscal year, but it did not give a net profit

forecast.

The embattled Aquos-brand maker said it would sell the building that houses its Osaka headquarters to raise cash, roll out unspecified pay cuts, and launch a drastic capital reduction plan to wipe away huge losses.

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Sharp Corp Chief Executive Kozo Takahashi speaks during a news conference in Tokyo May 14, 2015. Japan’s lossmaking Sharp Corp said it had secured a $1.7 billion bailout from banks, its second major rescue in three years, after its smartphone display business came under intense pricing pressure from Asian rivals.

Sharp -- a major Apple supplier and leader in screens for smartphones and tablets -- also said it would issue 200 billion yen worth of new shares with no voting rights to Mizuho Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ as part of its bid to repair a badly damaged balance sheet.

“Our company is facing an extremely difficult situation,” president Kozo Takahashi told reporters.

“By implementing these structural reforms, we believe we can see a concrete path toward recovery.”

Sales in the last fiscal year fell 4.8 percent 2.78 trillion yen, Sharp said.

On Monday, the company lost more than a quarter of its market value following reports that it was planning a drastic capital reduction and the sale of preferred shares, spooking investors who worried about their holdings being diluted.

The stock lost 0.99 percent to close at 200.0 yen on Thursday in Tokyo, before its results were released.

Sharp, like rivals Sony and Panasonic, has been working to move past years of gaping deficits, partly caused by steep losses in its television unit, which has been hammered by competition from lower-cost rivals particularly in South Korea and Taiwan.

The trio have launched huge restructuring plans with Panasonic emerging as the leader as it focuses less on consumer products and more on goods sold to other businesses.

Last month, Panasonic said that its annual profit soared 49 percent, crediting its lesserknown auto parts unit and lower costs.

Sony, by contrast, booked a $1.1 billion annual loss, but said it expects to swing back to profitability in the current fiscal year as it emerges from a painful corporate makeover. (afp)

This vegetable is very close to the peasant life in rural areas. Aside from being easy to get the ingredient, the making is also easy. Simply prepare the seasoning comprising the garlic, chili, large chili, tomato, shrimp paste, lime and salt to taste, you will get a delicious Plecing Gonda vegetable.

Process of the making is not too complicated.

Ingredient of gonad stalk should be boiled until cooked, or to taste, then, all seasoning ingredients are cleaned and finely ground on stone mortar or the like. Stir fry the seasoning, except for the lime. Well, mix the boiled gonad with the seasoning prepared. To give a typical flavor in the serving, do not forget to give grated lime.

Gonda plant is closely related to the farmer’s life in Bali, As a matter of fact, it grows as weeds, but farmers in Bali then take advantage of it as a daily vegetable.

Gonda is planted among the paddy plants so it does not require a large area. After twenty to twenty-five days old, it is ready to harvest. This green plant does not need severe maintenance by spraying it with chemicals, By doing so, it will be free from insecticide and safe to consume.

Farmers who have completed their work in rice field will usually come home with some bunches of gonda stalk. It is then processed as above, then enjoyed together with family in the evening cheerfully.

Gonda is not only suitable for common rice but also can accompany other dishes such as chicken.

Gonda lover said that they fond of the vegetables because it can be made into many kind of foods.

It is delicious and filled with nutrition. Holidays in Bali feels incomplete if not accompanied by a culinary tour, tourists could try different types of foods that are only available in Bali.

Bali is not only unique in natural beauty, art, culture and hospitality, but the Balinese also has typical food is on this island, tiom luxury to simple, from international cuisine to traditional Balinese cuisine. Bali has many unique dishes that could become the attraction for tourists who come to the island. Lt could become an alternative for the tourists who are looking for different side of Bali. If the government could promote the dishes properly, it could give good impact on the development of tourism in Bali. The government could develop culinary tourism where it is promoting the food or event restaurants throughout the island. (kmb)

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Jembrana tourism’s iconic Jegog

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NEGARA - Jegog music is synonymous with Jembrana. This traditional bamboo musical art form was first created and evolved during colonial period and seems to reflect the turmoil felt by society at that time.

This oversized gamelan instrument has a sticking appearance and generates a distinctive sound that echoes the spirit of resistance and the love of competition.

The jegog came into its full glory in the 1990’s and to this day, nearly every village in Jembarana (with the exeption of of Peuatan subdistrict) has at least one if not several jogog troupes.

According to the Jembrana Education Agency 2012 data there are at least 100 jegog troupes in Jembrana, 76 of which perform regularly.

“Jegog performances tend to be more commercial that other musical forms supported by villages sich as gong kebyar for example. Jegog troupes survive by getting paid for their perrformances, without such opportunities the troupes would go bankrupt and stop playing,” said Section Head of the Cultural Preservation and Development Departemen, I Putu N. Sutardi.

The government of Jembrana is very supportive of this unique musical art of Jembrana and often provides opportunities for the troupes to perform at various

events in Jembrana and also by providing funds for buying bamboo when needed.

Nevertheless some troupes still struggle to survive for even though they may get requests to perform, the payments offered are often far less that what they should be. Because the instruments are so large, they are hard to transport and in the case of competitiions (mebarung), there is a good chance that the instruments will become damged or broken.

To this day, many communities show great enthusiasm towards the art jegog.

This gamelan instrument made from bamboo has a distinctive character of sound and can be adapted to any kinds of music. Based on a number of sources, jegog emerged around 1912 at Sebual hamlet, Dangin Tukadaya village and was pioneered by Kiang Geliduh. Originally, this bamboo instrument was used to call people to assemble or to work

together. Eventually it developed into a full-blown gamelan set used in performing arts to entertain.

From its humble beginnings as a sort of gong to call people together, the art of jegog music has consistently changing with the times. Beginning with the simple form tunes played on jegog when it was first developing in the 1920’s to the “standards” established in the 1940’s. jegog continued to change. In the 1960’s jegog was used in political campaigns and in the 1980’s jegog further developed, following the musical compositions of gong kebyar and then to accompany the pendet dance. In the 1990’s even more creative compostitions were created geared more at accompanying other dances and such innovations continue to this day with jegog music incorporating world music and jazz elements. (kmb)

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FILE - This Sept. 22, 1993 file photo shows the wreckage of the Amtrak Sunset Limited train north of Mobile, Ala. A barge hit a railroad bridge and minutes later the train hit the bent tracks and plunged into the bayou, killing 47 people.

Amtrak train in deadly wreck was speeding, but why?

PHILADELPHIA — Investigators don’t yet know why an Amtrak passenger train was moving at more than twice the allowed speed when it ran off the rails on a sharp curve and killed at least seven people, and the train’s engineer has so far refused to speak to police. It was the deadliest U.S. train accident in nearly seven years. Tuesday night’s derailment happened along the country’s busiest rail corridor between Washington and Boston, where the national passenger railway carries 11.6 million passengers a year.

Amtrak suspended all service until further notice along the Philadelphiato-New York stretch of as investigators examine the wreckage and the tracks and gather evidence. The shutdown has forced thousands of people to find other ways to travel.

Despite pressure from Congress and safety regulators, Amtrak had not installed along that section of track a technology that uses GPS, wireless radio and computers to prevent trains from going over the speed limit. The train was moving at 106 mph (170 kph) before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to just 50 mph (80 kph), federal investigators said Wednesday.

The train’s engineer applied the emergency brakes moments before the crash but slowed the train to only 102 mph (164 kph) by the time the locomotive’s black box stopped recording data, said Robert Sumwalt,

of the National Transportation Safety Board. The speed limit just before the bend is 80 mph (128 kph), he said.

Most of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor is equipped with what is called positive train control. “Based on what we know right now, we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred,” Sumwalt said.

The engineer, whose name was not released, refused to give a statement to law enforcement and had a lawyer, police said. Sumwalt said federal accident investigators want to talk to him but will give him a day or two to recover from the shock of the accident. Mayor Michael Nutter said there was “no way in the world” the engineer should have been going that fast into the curve. “Clearly he was reckless and irresponsible in his actions,” Nutter told CNN. More than 200 people aboard the

Washington-to-New York train were injured in the wreck, which happened in a decayed industrial neighborhood late Tuesday. Passengers crawled out the windows of the toppled rail cars in the darkness and emerged dazed and bloody, many of them with broken bones and burns.

The dead included an Associated Press employee, a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, a Wells Fargo executive, a college administrator and the CEO of an educational startup.

Nutter said some people were unaccounted for but cautioned that some passengers listed on the Amtrak manifest might not have boarded the train, while others might not have checked in with authorities. He said rescuers expanded the search area and were using dogs to look for victims in case someone was thrown from the wreckage. (ap)

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UNESCO to investigate pirate treasure hunt in Madagascar ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — The United Nations is sending experts to Madagascar to assess a claim by underwater explorers that they had found treasure and the wreck of a ship belonging to the pirate known as Captain Kidd, a U.N. official said.

Ulrike Guerin, a specialist in underwater heritage for the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, said Thursday that experts will examine artefacts at the site where American explorer Barry Clifford had been operating. The team is expected to arrive in Madagascar by the end of June, she said.

UNESCO is also concerned that Clifford’s group may have damaged the site, alleging the explorers did not have an archaeologist with proper qualifications with them and did not present a proper plan to Madagascar’s authorities before they started diving.

October Films, the Londonbased production company that was filming Clifford’s work in Madagascar for television, said in a statement that a detailed plan had been submitted to the government before diving and that a respected marine archaeologist was on hand

at all times to supervise the exploration. It said artefacts discovered

by Clifford were handed over to the government and that the expedition is funding the restoration of a local museum and a small laboratory to preserve the artefacts.

Last week, Clifford said he found a silver bar that he believes belonged to William Kidd, who raided ships in the late 17th century and was executed in London in 1701. Clifford presented the bar to Madagascar’s president, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, in a ceremony on the country’s Sainte Marie island. The island, a hideout for pirates when Kidd was active, offered safe harbors and was close to maritime trading routes Last year, Clifford said he found the wreck of the Santa Maria, the lost flagship from Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the Western Hemisphere, during a search off the coast of Haiti. UNESCO visited the site and said there was no way the wreck could be the Santa Maria because nails and pins they found there were made of a copper alloy, indicating the wreck was a more recent ship. (ap)

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From page 1 Increasingly prevalent money laundering practices in Bali will certainly have various negative implications. Firstly, in terms of the physical space of Bali, there is bound to be more chaos as ‘black investors’ will target productive lands and paddy fields to be used to develop villa properties and others. Innapropriate use of land will become more severe.. “Our society is very easily tempted to sell their land especially when lured by inflated prices. Many people do not care whether their land is purchased with legal or illegal money such as that gained through corruption,” said Kariyasa.

Secondly, after competing to sell their land to the highest bidder, Balinese people will tend to become consumptive. They can then run out of money by engaging in or negative things such as gambling, getting drunk at cafés and general reckless spending. “If this happens, it will be hard for Balinese people to be independent let alone self sufficient, and they will become spectatorsin the midst of a swift currents of investment on the island and in the long run they may get evicted from own their native land,” he added. Thirdly, the image of Bali in the eyes of

the international community will definitely be damaged.

To prevent the destruction of Bali -as a result of this money laundering, the government must take decisive action and draft clearer and more selective investment rules, said Kariyasa,.

The government must not allow all the seizing of land by unclear investors, the destruction of the environment and the degradation of local customs to afflict Bali.

Ideally the rules of investment in Bali should focus on transparency, requiring investors and the source of money to be clearly identified, with details regarding the management of the investment and so on. For this to happen, the Regional Investment Agency (BPMD) has an important role to play in filtering the incoming investments.

“The issue of money laundering should get serious attention from the provincial government and county/municipal governments as well. Any incoming investment must be strictly filtered, so that not all and any kinds of investments are accepted on the pretext that the investors have money and they can invest anywhere,” he concluded. (wid)

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INDONESIA Indonesia extends landmark logging moratorium

JAKARTA - Indonesia has extended a landmark moratorium aimed at preserving the archipelago’s vast swathes of tropical rainforest, but environmentalists said Thursday the logging ban did not go far enough.

Large tracts of the country are covered in trees, including some of the world’s most biodiverse rainforest that is home to endangered animals such as orangutans, tigers and elephants.

But huge swathes have been chopped down by palm oil, mining and timber companies in Southeast Asia’s top economy, which has become the world’s third-biggest carbon emitter as a result.

In 2011 Indonesia signed a two-year moratorium, which bans new logging permits for primary or virgin forest -- defined as forest not logged in recent history, as well as peatlands which store large quantities of carbon.

The scheme was created with help from Norway, which has pledged to pay out up to $1 billion to the government to preserve rainforests, depending on

Indonesia opens hearing on French death row inmate’s appeal

JAKARTA — An Indonesian court on Wednesday began hearing a last-minute appeal by a French death-row inmate who is challenging the president’s refusal to grant him clemency.

Sergei Areski Atlaoui was to have been executed with other drug convicts on April 29, but his second appeal to the Jakarta Administrative Court delayed his execution.

A court in April dismissed his first appeal of President Joko Widodo’s rejection of clemency when it ruled that clemency is the prerogative of the president.

On Wednesday, presiding Judge Ujang Abdullah read out the appeal in which Atlaoui’s lawyers claimed that the reasons for the first ruling were contradictory. They also claimed that the criteria of the judicial action in the first ruling were inappropriate.

The hearing was adjourned until next week when the lawyers will submit evidence and present testimony from legal experts.

French President Francois Hollande has warned Indonesia that the execution of a Frenchman for drug crimes will damage ties between the two countries.

Two weeks ago, Indonesian firing squads executed seven foreign men and one Indonesian convicted of drug crimes, drawing wide international condemnation. Atlaoui and a Filipino woman Mary Jane Veloso were scheduled to be executed with them but were excluded because of the Frenchman’s appeal and the arrest of Veloso’s alleged drug boss in the Philippines. (ap)

progress.

It protects an area of around 43 million hectares (106 million acres), according to environmental group the World Resources Institute.

The logging ban had already been extended once in 2013 to 2015, and President Joko Widodo on Wednesday signed a further two-year extension, telling reporters: “We need to protect our

forests.”

However environmental groups criticised the moratorium, saying that it still allowed deforestation for projects deemed in the national interest.

Infrastructure projects -- which Widodo is pushing in order to boost slowing economic growth -- and crop plantations are among those excluded from the ban.

“One of the biggest loopholes in the current policy is the clause that allows key strategic national priorities to be excluded,” said Nirarta Samadhi, from the World

Resources Institute.

Activists have also pressed the government to strengthen the moratorium to include other types of forest.

“Strengthening forests protection is urgent,” said Greenpeace Indonesia forests campaigner Teguh Surya. “President Joko Widodo has failed to listen to public demands to protect our remaining forests and peatlands.”

The forestry minister said discussions were under way about strengthening the moratorium. (afp)

Migrants in Indonesia could spend months in Aceh camps

KUALA CANGKOI, Indonesia Nearly 600 boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh stranded in northwest Indonesia were moved to a larger shelter Wednesday, where migrant groups expect they could spend months before having their claims processed.

The 582 migrants, including many ethnic Muslim Rohingya, had been housed in an overcrowded sports centre in Lhoksukon, a town in North Aceh, since they arrived by boat at the weekend.

But as facilities at the cramped centre reached breaking point, with few toilets and poor ventilation, local authorities began transferring migrants by bus Wednesday afternoon to a larger complex at Kuala Cangkoi, a fishing town on the north coast.

The site, comprising three large buildings and equipped with a small mosque, had been inspected by Indonesian officials and staff from the International Organization for Migration.

“It was something that was built after the tsunami and it ended up not being used after,” the International Organization for Migration’s Steve Hamilton told AFP, referring to the devastating natural disaster that devastated Aceh province in 2004.

Officials have begun the long process of verifying the identities of the migrants, with queues stretching back as photos are taken and personal details recorded.

The nearly 600 who arrived in Aceh were just a fraction of the 2,000 boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh, including many Rohingya, who were rescued or swum to shore in Malaysia and Indonesia since the weekend.

The spate of arrivals comes as Thailand,

a key stop on a Southeast Asian peoplesmuggling route, cracks down following the discovery of mass graves that has laid bare the extent of the thriving trade.

Boatloads have arrived off Aceh in the past, typically after becoming lost or running out of fuel.

Hamilton said with detention centres

full across Indonesia, it was likely this latest wave of migrants would have to wait for their claims to be processed in Aceh.

“These people could be there six, seven, eight, nine months before they get transferred somewhere else,” he said.

“There’s nowhere to transfer them.” (afp)

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An ethnic Rohingya boy carries a plate in his hands as he walks past migrants queuing up for their meals during breakfast time at a temporary shelter in Lapang, Aceh province, Indonesia, Thursday, May 14, 2015.

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Eka Karya Botanical Garden

TABANAN - Eka Karya Bali Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden located in Tabanan County, Bali. It is the first botanical garden founded by the Indonesian government on July 15, 1959. Its operation is managed by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), while the organizational structure

and development is under the Center for Plant Conservation of Bogor Botanical Garden. At first the Eka Karya Bali Botanical is only intended for conifers.

Along with the development and change of status as well as a broad region, the botanical garden perched on the altitude of 1,250-

1,450 meters above sea level is now becoming an ex-situ conservation area for plants of tropical mountains of eastern Indonesia. Originally, the Botanical Garden only spread across 50 hectares, but today it has been expanded to 157.5

hectares. It has several collections of plants grouped based on their kinship. In addition to their collection, the types of plant are also pursued for research and development.

Some of the existing collections include the orchids, cactus, fern, bamboo, moss collection, begonia, ritual plant, medicinal plants, aquatic plants and palm.

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Murray runs rings around Chardy to advance in Rome

ROME - Andy Murray is more afraid of losing his wedding ring than a tennis match these days but that did not stop him from storming to a 10th successive win on clay at the Rome Masters on Wednesday.

Fresh from winning back-to-back titles in Munich and Madrid, Murray was once seen sporting his wedding ring tied around his shoelaces as he beat France’s Jeremy Chardy 6-4 6-3.

“I won’t lose it if it’s tied to my shoelace,” Murray told Sky Sport Italia. “As soon as the match is over I put it back on. “If I’d keep it in my bag I’d have lost it already. Murray, who married Kim Sears last month, faced two break points in the sixth game of the opening set as Chardy tried to create another early upset after knocking out Roger Federer in the same round here 12 months ago.

But Murray held on to breeze through the rest of the match by outfoxing Chardy with his touch, powerful serve and backhand dropshots. “I felt a little tired at the start but my condition got better as the match went on,” added Murray, who had never won a claycourt title until his recent golden run. “I’m a little surprised with my clay results.

I hope to keep it up (my form) until Roland Garros.”

Murray will play Belgian David Goffin in the next round, after he

saved three match points against Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before coming through 6-2 4-6 7-5.

Second seed Federer did not face a single break point in a comfortable 7-6(3) 6-4 victory over Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas and will now play giant South African Kevin Anderson in the third round.

Seven-time Rome champion Rafa Nadal, who is still searching for his best form this season, swatted aside Turkish qualifier Marsel Ilhan 6-2 6-0.

That set up a third-round clash against big-serving American John Isner, who progressed following a 7-6(6) 6-4 win against Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer. “It’s going to be very difficult,” Nadal said. “I hope to continue progressing.”

In the women’s event, former world number one Victoria Azarenka had trouble closing out the match against fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki and needed five match points before edging past the Dane for the third time this year 6-2 7-6(2).

Second seed Simona Halep crushed American Alison Riske 6-3 6-0, while seventh seed Ana Ivanovic fell to Russia’s Daria Gavrilova after a three-hour battle. The former French Open champion saved seven match points but eventually fell 5-7 7-6(2) 7-6(7). (rtr)

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Atlanta Hawks center Al Horford reacts after hitting the game winning shot to beat the Washington Wizards 82-81 in their Eastern Conference Semifinals game 5 on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Atlanta. At left is teammate Kyle Korver.

Horford’s late follow gives Hawks 82-81 win over Wizards

ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Al Horford swooped in to snatch an offensive rebound and dropped in a shot from right under the basket with 1.9 seconds remaining to give the Hawks an 82-81 victory over Washington on Wednesday and a 3-2 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals. Golden State also took a 3-2 series lead, but in more comfortable style, as the Warriors beat Memphis 98-78.

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Andy Murray of Britain reacts on winning a point against Jeremy Chardy of France during their second round match at the Rome Open tennis tournament in Rome, Italy, May 13, 2015.

Atlanta went more than 7 minutes in the fourth quarter without making a basket, then ripped off 14 straight points to take the lead.

Then there was another sudden shift as Atlanta went cold again, and it looked as though Washington’s Paul Pierce had doomed Atlanta for the second time in the series. Having already made a buzzer-beating winner in Game 3, he got open in the corner and swished a 3-pointer with 8.3 seconds left, putting the Wizards up 81-80.

Pierce taunted the Hawks bench and home crowd on his way back down the court before bowling over teammate John Wall, who was playing for the first time since Game 1 after fracturing several bones in his left hand. Wall didn’t mind, throwing up his hands in celebration.

The Wizards were on the verge of heading home with a chance to wrap up the series.

Atlanta had one more chance.

The Hawks gave the ball to backup point guard Dennis Schroder, who ignited a fourth-quarter rally and stayed in the game at the suggestion of All-Star Jeff Teague, who watched the closing minutes from the bench.

Schroder drove down the lane and put up a shot, which was swatted off the backboard by Wall. But Horford yanked the ball away from Nene, who tumbled to the court, leaving the Hawks center all alone under the basket. Horford, who had 23 points and 11 rebounds, put it the easy shot on a night when both teams struggled offensively.

“I wasn’t supposed to be involved in the play at all,” Horford said.

“When I saw the ball go up, I just ran in there.”

The Wizards threw up a wild shot from halfcourt that didn’t come close as the horn sounded. The sellout crowd nearly stormed the court, held back by security while

the Hawks celebrated. Horford screamed and pumped his fists, having put the Hawks one victory away from advancing to the third round of the playoffs for the first time since the team moved to Atlanta from St. Louis in 1968.

About 10 minutes after the Wizards lost, there was more heartbreak for D.C. sports fans. The Capitals were eliminated from the NHL playoffs with a Game 7 overtime loss to the New York Rangers.

At least the Wizards still have a chance. Game 6 is Friday night in Washington. “These guys are fighting. I love it,” Washington coach Randy Wittman said. “They made one more play than us.”

Wall, who fractured several bones in his left hand in the series opener and missed the next three games, wound up with 15 points, seven assists and four steals. Bradley Beal led the Wizards with 23 points. (ap)

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Juventus draws 1-1 with Real Madrid to reach CL final

Everton’s Baines has ankle surgery, out of Euro qualifier

MADRID — Juventus came back from a goal down to draw 1-1 with Real Madrid on Wednesday and line up a Champions League final against Barcelona with a 3-2 victory on aggregate. Former Madrid striker Alvaro Morata scored the priceless equalizer for Juventus against his old club in the 57th minute at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

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Juventus’ Alvaro Morata applauds supporters at the end of the Champions League second leg semifinal soccer match between Real Madrid and Juventus, at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Wednesday, May 13, 2015.

The match ended in a 1-1 draw and Juventus advances to the final on a 3-2 aggregate.

Madrid was trailing 2-1 after last week’s first leg in Turin and the defending champions looked to have turned the contest around in the 23rd minute when Cristiano Ronaldo scored a penalty to give his side a 1-0 lead. But Morata’s goal from close range meant there will be no all-Spanish final in Berlin on June 6, and Juventus gets a chance to life the trophy for a third time.

“This doesn’t end here,” Morata said. “We want to create history.” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri paid tribute to his matchwinner and the rest of the team. “Alvaro has grown physically, mentally and tactically,” he said. “I’m proud, this is an extraordinary squad. They’ve outdone themselves.” For Madrid, the pursuit of an 11th European Cup title ended at its own stadium after an impressive run of form.

“It’s hard,” Madrid defender Sergio Ramos said. “The team fought but we have to say goodbye. We thought we had done enough with the goal, but we let it slip and paid the price. Their goal hit our team’s morale hard.”

Madrid began attacking right from the start, with Gareth Bale heading over the crossbar of Gianluigi Buffon’s goal from a Marcelo assist in the very first minute and Karim Benzema failing to find the target five minutes later. Benzema was picked for the sole striker position even though the France international only recently began full training with the rest

of the squad following an injury. Ronaldo fared no better minutes later with a dipping free kick that Buffon tipped over the bar.

Although Madrid was enjoying plenty of possession, its midfielders found it difficult to threaten a composed Juventus defense. The deadlock ended though when Giorgio Chiellini brought down James Rodriguez with a clumsy challenge in the area and Ronaldo converted the resulting penalty for his 10th Champions League goal of the season.

The Portugal star nearly created a second goal seven minutes later when he raced into the left side of the area on the break, only for his chipped pass across the face of the goalmouth to be intercepted. Further shots from Benzema and Ronaldo either flew wide of the target or were saved by a Buffon on impressive form, while Rodriguez was given a yellow card for diving in the box after contact with Arturo Vidal in the last minute before the break.

Both sides had half-chances after the re-start, but Morata made no mistake with his opportunity in the 57th. Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas punched out a cross from Andrea Pirlo, Vidal lofted the ball back into the area and Paul Pogba, just outside the six-yard box, out-jumped Ramos to head the ball to the unmarked Morata. The 22-year-old Spaniard calmly beat Casillas with a left-footed shot on the bounce.

Morata, who was with Madrid from 20082014, did not celebrate - repeating his reaction after scoring in the first leg. “It’s a strange sensa-

tion,” Morata said. “I’m moved because it was an important goal, but it’s a difficult situation for me.”

Madrid has a buy-back clause on the player and club president Florentino Perez had wanted to include a sub-clause saying the Spain forward couldn’t play against his old club. That move was rejected by UEFA and Juventus.

As the minutes passed, Madrid kept pushing forward in search of an equalizer and Bale missed a good chance to double Madrid’s tally, only for the forward to shoot just wide from Marcelo’s cross in the 62nd minute.

Javier Hernandez came on for Benzema and soon sent a shot over the bar in the 68th, while Bale headed over the top minutes later, summing up a frustrating night for both the Welshman and his side.

“I think Gareth had the greater chances of scoring with a header, so I kept him in there,” said a somber-looking Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti. “I don’t give myself grades, but I’d give myself a 10 because I put in a lot of time and I like what I do.”

For Juventus, the result puts the club on course for a treble, having already secured the Serie A title and a place in the Italian Cup final in Rome against Lazio. Originally scheduled for June 7, the domestic final was moved to May 20 after Juventus sealed its place in the Champions League decider. Its rival in Berlin next month, Lionel Messi’s Barcelona, is also on course for a treble. (ap)

From Europa League to possible relegation for Hull MANCHESTER, England — Hull started the season competing in Europe for the first time in its history, and could end it by dropping out of the English Premier League.

The offseason last year was full of optimism for the northeast club, which spent freely in the summer transfer window and was buoyant after qualifying for the Europa League through reaching the FA Cup final.

However, the side managed by former Manchester United defender Steve Bruce has struggled to meet rising expectations

and fell into the bottom three last weekend. Hull has two games to escape relegation — and its chances are bleak.

Hull is third from bottom, above already-relegated Burnley and Queens Park Rangers, and two points from safety with games remaining away to Tottenham and at home to Manchester United.

“We have got a mountain to climb,” said Bruce, who last summer broke the club’s transfer record to sign Uruguay striker Abel Hernandez and also brought in Hatem Ben Arfa, Mohamed Diame and Gaston Ramirez — big names for a club the size of Hull — to bolster the squad for a season in Europe.

That didn’t work out, though — Hull didn’t even progress past the Europa League qualifiers.

Of the four other teams battling to avoid the drop, Leicester, Aston Villa and Sunderland have started to pick up form and victories. Leicester, for example, has won six of its last seven matches to climb off last place and move three points clear of trouble.

Newcastle, which is fourth to last, is the side most likely to get dragged down if Hull can earn an unlikely win in its final games. Newcastle visits QPR on Saturday and finishes at home to mid-table West Ham. (ap)

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LONDON - Everton left back Leighton Baines has had ankle surgery and will be out of action until pre-season, ruling him out of England’s European Championship qualifier against Slovenia next month.

“We had Leighton’s ankle checked. He has had surgery. It was straight-forward. He will be out until the start of pre-season,” Everton boss Roberto Martinez said at a news

conference on Thursday. “We have found the solution. His time out will now allow him to be refreshed.”

Baines, who started in England’s 4-0 win over Lithuania in March, was injured during Everton’s defeat

by Sunderland last weekend.

Everton, who are away to West Ham United on Saturday, are 11th in the Premier League but have an outside chance of qualifying for the Europa League through UEFA’s

Fair Play system and Martinez, unlike some managers, would welcome it.

“I would welcome whatever comes our way. If it is earlier rounds in the Europa League, it would be a great opportunity and a good challenge for the youngsters to be involved in the early rounds,” Martinez said. “It would be a chance to show the good work we are doing behind the scenes.” (ap)

MADRID — A Spanish court has suspended a strike called by the soccer players’ union, allowing the final two rounds of the season to go forward.

Spain’s National Court announced

its decision on Thursday, ruling in favor of the league’s request to temporarily suspend the strike.

The players’ union said it would strike from Saturday in protest of a proposed government law to regulate

television revenues. The strike was backed by the Spanish federation.

Barcelona leads Real Madrid by four points and can clinch the league title with a win at Atletico Madrid on Sunday. (ap)

MADRID - Real Madrid paid more than 200 million euros ($227.76 million) to assemble their forward line of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema but the attacking trio failed them again in Wednesday’s Champions League exit to Juventus. Ronaldo did manage to score from the penalty spot to give holders Real a 23rd-minute lead in the semi-final, second leg at the Bernabeu but faded out of the match in the second half, while Benzema and especially Bale missed a string of chances.

It was left to a Real reject to make the decisive contribution, their former striker Alvaro Morata, who joined Juve for 20 million euros in the close season, netting in the 57th minute to send the Italians through 3-2 on aggregate to face Barcelona in next month’s final. Morata’s goal ended Real’s dream of a record-extending 11th European crown and they are almost certain to end the season without winning one of the three major trophies.

Dumped out of the King’s Cup by Atletico Madrid in January, they are four points behind La Liga leaders Barca with two games left and the Catalans can make sure of a fifth title in seven years with a win at Atletico on Sunday.

After a successful first season in Spain following his record move from Tottenham Hotspur, Bale has been under scrutiny amid Real’s recent struggles, with many fans blaming him for the club’s woes.

He won applause for testing Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon with a powerful long-range effort in the first half on Wednesday but later fluffed at least two opportunities, including a header from Ronaldo’s lofted cross that he put over the crossbar.

“I couldn’t quite get over the ball which was disappointing but it’s one of them things that happens in football and you move on,” Bale told Sky Sports. “As long as I keep trying usually one goes in but unfortunately it didn’t tonight,” added

the Wales winger.

“There’s been some ups and downs (this season) but I feel personally I’ve played well. “I haven’t scored as many important chances as I would like but I think my general play has been good.

“I think my finishing has been a bit rusty this year and it’s something to work on for next year. “What don’t kill you makes you stronger and I’ll learn from this season a lot and take it into next season and have a good season.” (rtr)

Court suspends strike in Spanish league

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United States’ Alex Morgan, left, and her mother Pam walk onto the field during the announcements before the start of the match against Ireland in a exhibition soccer match Sunday, May 10, 2015, in San Jose, Calif. United States’ players and their mother’s were celebrating Mother’s Day.

4 years between World Cups has been a whirlwind for Morgan

Alex Morgan was a bright-eyed Cal grad for her first World Cup back in 2011 and instantly became a star. Now she’s a savvy vet, handling her fame with aplomb as she prepares for her World Cup sequel.

Morgan’s star rose quickly following her performance in Germany four years ago, when as the youngest player on the U.S. World Cup team she became a super sub with a goal and an assist in the final match against Japan. She has since become one of the most recognized players on the U.S. team. She’s a spokeswoman for ChapStick and she’s on boxes of Cocoa Pebbles.

She has appeared in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition twice and she has even been animated for “The Simpsons.”

But she really just wants to play soccer. “I don’t get wrapped up in that because I don’t want to dwell on something like a commercial or doing something off the field,” she said recently. “I don’t want to dwell on something like that too long. I don’t want to think, ‘Wow that’s really cool, that’s me.’ Once I start to think like that, then I’ve changed my focus from what I do on the field to what I do off the field.”

The past four years have been a whirlwind for the 24-year-old striker. She became the first American

player with both a goal and an assist in a final during the United States’ loss to Japan in the World Cup and was fully established as a starter by the next summer when the London Olympics rolled around.

She scored a dramatic extratime game-winner in a semifinal against Canada that sent the U.S. into the final match against Japan in London and an eventual Olympic gold medal.

While her ascent may appear quick, Morgan believes it was just part of her career’s progression.

“I’ve had a couple of injuries in between the Olympics and now, but I feel like for me, it’s almost been building blocks, it’s never been like I’ve been thrown into something all of the sudden,” she said. “I feel like I’ve had a good amount of time to prepare and realize what I’ve been getting into.”

Morgan was considered a rising star even before Germany. She was the leading scorer in each of her four years at California from 2007-10, and she even graduated a semester early with a degree in political economy. Her 45 career goals tie her for third on Cal’s alltime list. She grabbed international attention in 2008 when she scored the winning goal for the U.S. in the U-20 World Cup final against North Korea. (ap)

Real forwards flop as holders exit Champions League

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Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale looks dejected after a missed chance

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Juventus draws 1-1 with Real Madrid to reach CL final

Everton’s Baines has ankle surgery, out of Euro qualifier

MADRID — Juventus came back from a goal down to draw 1-1 with Real Madrid on Wednesday and line up a Champions League final against Barcelona with a 3-2 victory on aggregate. Former Madrid striker Alvaro Morata scored the priceless equalizer for Juventus against his old club in the 57th minute at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

Juventus’ Alvaro Morata applauds supporters at the end of the Champions League second leg semifinal soccer match between Real Madrid and Juventus, at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Wednesday, May 13, 2015.

The match ended in a 1-1 draw and Juventus advances to the final on a 3-2 aggregate.

Madrid was trailing 2-1 after last week’s first leg in Turin and the defending champions looked to have turned the contest around in the 23rd minute when Cristiano Ronaldo scored a penalty to give his side a 1-0 lead. But Morata’s goal from close range meant there will be no all-Spanish final in Berlin on June 6, and Juventus gets a chance to life the trophy for a third time.

“This doesn’t end here,” Morata said. “We want to create history.” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri paid tribute to his matchwinner and the rest of the team. “Alvaro has grown physically, mentally and tactically,” he said. “I’m proud, this is an extraordinary squad. They’ve outdone themselves.” For Madrid, the pursuit of an 11th European Cup title ended at its own stadium after an impressive run of form.

“It’s hard,” Madrid defender Sergio Ramos said. “The team fought but we have to say goodbye. We thought we had done enough with the goal, but we let it slip and paid the price. Their goal hit our team’s morale hard.”

Madrid began attacking right from the start, with Gareth Bale heading over the crossbar of Gianluigi Buffon’s goal from a Marcelo assist in the very first minute and Karim Benzema failing to find the target five minutes later. Benzema was picked for the sole striker position even though the France international only recently began full training with the rest

of the squad following an injury. Ronaldo fared no better minutes later with a dipping free kick that Buffon tipped over the bar.

Although Madrid was enjoying plenty of possession, its midfielders found it difficult to threaten a composed Juventus defense. The deadlock ended though when Giorgio Chiellini brought down James Rodriguez with a clumsy challenge in the area and Ronaldo converted the resulting penalty for his 10th Champions League goal of the season.

The Portugal star nearly created a second goal seven minutes later when he raced into the left side of the area on the break, only for his chipped pass across the face of the goalmouth to be intercepted. Further shots from Benzema and Ronaldo either flew wide of the target or were saved by a Buffon on impressive form, while Rodriguez was given a yellow card for diving in the box after contact with Arturo Vidal in the last minute before the break.

Both sides had half-chances after the re-start, but Morata made no mistake with his opportunity in the 57th. Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas punched out a cross from Andrea Pirlo, Vidal lofted the ball back into the area and Paul Pogba, just outside the six-yard box, out-jumped Ramos to head the ball to the unmarked Morata. The 22-year-old Spaniard calmly beat Casillas with a left-footed shot on the bounce.

Morata, who was with Madrid from 20082014, did not celebrate - repeating his reaction after scoring in the first leg. “It’s a strange sensa-

tion,” Morata said. “I’m moved because it was an important goal, but it’s a difficult situation for me.”

Madrid has a buy-back clause on the player and club president Florentino Perez had wanted to include a sub-clause saying the Spain forward couldn’t play against his old club. That move was rejected by UEFA and Juventus.

As the minutes passed, Madrid kept pushing forward in search of an equalizer and Bale missed a good chance to double Madrid’s tally, only for the forward to shoot just wide from Marcelo’s cross in the 62nd minute.

Javier Hernandez came on for Benzema and soon sent a shot over the bar in the 68th, while Bale headed over the top minutes later, summing up a frustrating night for both the Welshman and his side.

“I think Gareth had the greater chances of scoring with a header, so I kept him in there,” said a somber-looking Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti. “I don’t give myself grades, but I’d give myself a 10 because I put in a lot of time and I like what I do.”

For Juventus, the result puts the club on course for a treble, having already secured the Serie A title and a place in the Italian Cup final in Rome against Lazio. Originally scheduled for June 7, the domestic final was moved to May 20 after Juventus sealed its place in the Champions League decider. Its rival in Berlin next month, Lionel Messi’s Barcelona, is also on course for a treble. (ap)

From Europa League to possible relegation for Hull MANCHESTER, England — Hull started the season competing in Europe for the first time in its history, and could end it by dropping out of the English Premier League.

The offseason last year was full of optimism for the northeast club, which spent freely in the summer transfer window and was buoyant after qualifying for the Europa League through reaching the FA Cup final.

However, the side managed by former Manchester United defender Steve Bruce has struggled to meet rising expectations

and fell into the bottom three last weekend. Hull has two games to escape relegation — and its chances are bleak.

Hull is third from bottom, above already-relegated Burnley and Queens Park Rangers, and two points from safety with games remaining away to Tottenham and at home to Manchester United.

“We have got a mountain to climb,” said Bruce, who last summer broke the club’s transfer record to sign Uruguay striker Abel Hernandez and also brought in Hatem Ben Arfa, Mohamed Diame and Gaston Ramirez — big names for a club the size of Hull — to bolster the squad for a season in Europe.

That didn’t work out, though — Hull didn’t even progress past the Europa League qualifiers.

Of the four other teams battling to avoid the drop, Leicester, Aston Villa and Sunderland have started to pick up form and victories. Leicester, for example, has won six of its last seven matches to climb off last place and move three points clear of trouble.

Newcastle, which is fourth to last, is the side most likely to get dragged down if Hull can earn an unlikely win in its final games. Newcastle visits QPR on Saturday and finishes at home to mid-table West Ham. (ap)

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LONDON - Everton left back Leighton Baines has had ankle surgery and will be out of action until pre-season, ruling him out of England’s European Championship qualifier against Slovenia next month.

“We had Leighton’s ankle checked. He has had surgery. It was straight-forward. He will be out until the start of pre-season,” Everton boss Roberto Martinez said at a news

conference on Thursday. “We have found the solution. His time out will now allow him to be refreshed.”

Baines, who started in England’s 4-0 win over Lithuania in March, was injured during Everton’s defeat

by Sunderland last weekend.

Everton, who are away to West Ham United on Saturday, are 11th in the Premier League but have an outside chance of qualifying for the Europa League through UEFA’s

Fair Play system and Martinez, unlike some managers, would welcome it.

“I would welcome whatever comes our way. If it is earlier rounds in the Europa League, it would be a great opportunity and a good challenge for the youngsters to be involved in the early rounds,” Martinez said. “It would be a chance to show the good work we are doing behind the scenes.” (ap)

MADRID — A Spanish court has suspended a strike called by the soccer players’ union, allowing the final two rounds of the season to go forward.

Spain’s National Court announced

its decision on Thursday, ruling in favor of the league’s request to temporarily suspend the strike.

The players’ union said it would strike from Saturday in protest of a proposed government law to regulate

television revenues. The strike was backed by the Spanish federation.

Barcelona leads Real Madrid by four points and can clinch the league title with a win at Atletico Madrid on Sunday. (ap)

MADRID - Real Madrid paid more than 200 million euros ($227.76 million) to assemble their forward line of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema but the attacking trio failed them again in Wednesday’s Champions League exit to Juventus. Ronaldo did manage to score from the penalty spot to give holders Real a 23rd-minute lead in the semi-final, second leg at the Bernabeu but faded out of the match in the second half, while Benzema and especially Bale missed a string of chances.

It was left to a Real reject to make the decisive contribution, their former striker Alvaro Morata, who joined Juve for 20 million euros in the close season, netting in the 57th minute to send the Italians through 3-2 on aggregate to face Barcelona in next month’s final. Morata’s goal ended Real’s dream of a record-extending 11th European crown and they are almost certain to end the season without winning one of the three major trophies.

Dumped out of the King’s Cup by Atletico Madrid in January, they are four points behind La Liga leaders Barca with two games left and the Catalans can make sure of a fifth title in seven years with a win at Atletico on Sunday.

After a successful first season in Spain following his record move from Tottenham Hotspur, Bale has been under scrutiny amid Real’s recent struggles, with many fans blaming him for the club’s woes.

He won applause for testing Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon with a powerful long-range effort in the first half on Wednesday but later fluffed at least two opportunities, including a header from Ronaldo’s lofted cross that he put over the crossbar.

“I couldn’t quite get over the ball which was disappointing but it’s one of them things that happens in football and you move on,” Bale told Sky Sports. “As long as I keep trying usually one goes in but unfortunately it didn’t tonight,” added

the Wales winger.

“There’s been some ups and downs (this season) but I feel personally I’ve played well. “I haven’t scored as many important chances as I would like but I think my general play has been good.

“I think my finishing has been a bit rusty this year and it’s something to work on for next year. “What don’t kill you makes you stronger and I’ll learn from this season a lot and take it into next season and have a good season.” (rtr)

Court suspends strike in Spanish league

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United States’ Alex Morgan, left, and her mother Pam walk onto the field during the announcements before the start of the match against Ireland in a exhibition soccer match Sunday, May 10, 2015, in San Jose, Calif. United States’ players and their mother’s were celebrating Mother’s Day.

4 years between World Cups has been a whirlwind for Morgan

Alex Morgan was a bright-eyed Cal grad for her first World Cup back in 2011 and instantly became a star. Now she’s a savvy vet, handling her fame with aplomb as she prepares for her World Cup sequel.

Morgan’s star rose quickly following her performance in Germany four years ago, when as the youngest player on the U.S. World Cup team she became a super sub with a goal and an assist in the final match against Japan. She has since become one of the most recognized players on the U.S. team. She’s a spokeswoman for ChapStick and she’s on boxes of Cocoa Pebbles.

She has appeared in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition twice and she has even been animated for “The Simpsons.”

But she really just wants to play soccer. “I don’t get wrapped up in that because I don’t want to dwell on something like a commercial or doing something off the field,” she said recently. “I don’t want to dwell on something like that too long. I don’t want to think, ‘Wow that’s really cool, that’s me.’ Once I start to think like that, then I’ve changed my focus from what I do on the field to what I do off the field.”

The past four years have been a whirlwind for the 24-year-old striker. She became the first American

player with both a goal and an assist in a final during the United States’ loss to Japan in the World Cup and was fully established as a starter by the next summer when the London Olympics rolled around.

She scored a dramatic extratime game-winner in a semifinal against Canada that sent the U.S. into the final match against Japan in London and an eventual Olympic gold medal.

While her ascent may appear quick, Morgan believes it was just part of her career’s progression.

“I’ve had a couple of injuries in between the Olympics and now, but I feel like for me, it’s almost been building blocks, it’s never been like I’ve been thrown into something all of the sudden,” she said. “I feel like I’ve had a good amount of time to prepare and realize what I’ve been getting into.”

Morgan was considered a rising star even before Germany. She was the leading scorer in each of her four years at California from 2007-10, and she even graduated a semester early with a degree in political economy. Her 45 career goals tie her for third on Cal’s alltime list. She grabbed international attention in 2008 when she scored the winning goal for the U.S. in the U-20 World Cup final against North Korea. (ap)

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Eka Karya Botanical Garden

TABANAN - Eka Karya Bali Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden located in Tabanan County, Bali. It is the first botanical garden founded by the Indonesian government on July 15, 1959. Its operation is managed by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), while the organizational structure

and development is under the Center for Plant Conservation of Bogor Botanical Garden. At first the Eka Karya Bali Botanical is only intended for conifers.

Along with the development and change of status as well as a broad region, the botanical garden perched on the altitude of 1,250-

1,450 meters above sea level is now becoming an ex-situ conservation area for plants of tropical mountains of eastern Indonesia. Originally, the Botanical Garden only spread across 50 hectares, but today it has been expanded to 157.5

hectares. It has several collections of plants grouped based on their kinship. In addition to their collection, the types of plant are also pursued for research and development.

Some of the existing collections include the orchids, cactus, fern, bamboo, moss collection, begonia, ritual plant, medicinal plants, aquatic plants and palm.

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Murray runs rings around Chardy to advance in Rome

ROME - Andy Murray is more afraid of losing his wedding ring than a tennis match these days but that did not stop him from storming to a 10th successive win on clay at the Rome Masters on Wednesday.

Fresh from winning back-to-back titles in Munich and Madrid, Murray was once seen sporting his wedding ring tied around his shoelaces as he beat France’s Jeremy Chardy 6-4 6-3.

“I won’t lose it if it’s tied to my shoelace,” Murray told Sky Sport Italia. “As soon as the match is over I put it back on. “If I’d keep it in my bag I’d have lost it already. Murray, who married Kim Sears last month, faced two break points in the sixth game of the opening set as Chardy tried to create another early upset after knocking out Roger Federer in the same round here 12 months ago.

But Murray held on to breeze through the rest of the match by outfoxing Chardy with his touch, powerful serve and backhand dropshots. “I felt a little tired at the start but my condition got better as the match went on,” added Murray, who had never won a claycourt title until his recent golden run. “I’m a little surprised with my clay results.

I hope to keep it up (my form) until Roland Garros.”

Murray will play Belgian David Goffin in the next round, after he

saved three match points against Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before coming through 6-2 4-6 7-5.

Second seed Federer did not face a single break point in a comfortable 7-6(3) 6-4 victory over Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas and will now play giant South African Kevin Anderson in the third round.

Seven-time Rome champion Rafa Nadal, who is still searching for his best form this season, swatted aside Turkish qualifier Marsel Ilhan 6-2 6-0.

That set up a third-round clash against big-serving American John Isner, who progressed following a 7-6(6) 6-4 win against Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer. “It’s going to be very difficult,” Nadal said. “I hope to continue progressing.”

In the women’s event, former world number one Victoria Azarenka had trouble closing out the match against fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki and needed five match points before edging past the Dane for the third time this year 6-2 7-6(2).

Second seed Simona Halep crushed American Alison Riske 6-3 6-0, while seventh seed Ana Ivanovic fell to Russia’s Daria Gavrilova after a three-hour battle. The former French Open champion saved seven match points but eventually fell 5-7 7-6(2) 7-6(7). (rtr)

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Atlanta Hawks center Al Horford reacts after hitting the game winning shot to beat the Washington Wizards 82-81 in their Eastern Conference Semifinals game 5 on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Atlanta. At left is teammate Kyle Korver.

Horford’s late follow gives Hawks 82-81 win over Wizards

ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Al Horford swooped in to snatch an offensive rebound and dropped in a shot from right under the basket with 1.9 seconds remaining to give the Hawks an 82-81 victory over Washington on Wednesday and a 3-2 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals. Golden State also took a 3-2 series lead, but in more comfortable style, as the Warriors beat Memphis 98-78.

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Andy Murray of Britain reacts on winning a point against Jeremy Chardy of France during their second round match at the Rome Open tennis tournament in Rome, Italy, May 13, 2015.

Atlanta went more than 7 minutes in the fourth quarter without making a basket, then ripped off 14 straight points to take the lead.

Then there was another sudden shift as Atlanta went cold again, and it looked as though Washington’s Paul Pierce had doomed Atlanta for the second time in the series. Having already made a buzzer-beating winner in Game 3, he got open in the corner and swished a 3-pointer with 8.3 seconds left, putting the Wizards up 81-80.

Pierce taunted the Hawks bench and home crowd on his way back down the court before bowling over teammate John Wall, who was playing for the first time since Game 1 after fracturing several bones in his left hand. Wall didn’t mind, throwing up his hands in celebration.

The Wizards were on the verge of heading home with a chance to wrap up the series.

Atlanta had one more chance.

The Hawks gave the ball to backup point guard Dennis Schroder, who ignited a fourth-quarter rally and stayed in the game at the suggestion of All-Star Jeff Teague, who watched the closing minutes from the bench.

Schroder drove down the lane and put up a shot, which was swatted off the backboard by Wall. But Horford yanked the ball away from Nene, who tumbled to the court, leaving the Hawks center all alone under the basket. Horford, who had 23 points and 11 rebounds, put it the easy shot on a night when both teams struggled offensively.

“I wasn’t supposed to be involved in the play at all,” Horford said.

“When I saw the ball go up, I just ran in there.”

The Wizards threw up a wild shot from halfcourt that didn’t come close as the horn sounded. The sellout crowd nearly stormed the court, held back by security while

the Hawks celebrated. Horford screamed and pumped his fists, having put the Hawks one victory away from advancing to the third round of the playoffs for the first time since the team moved to Atlanta from St. Louis in 1968.

About 10 minutes after the Wizards lost, there was more heartbreak for D.C. sports fans. The Capitals were eliminated from the NHL playoffs with a Game 7 overtime loss to the New York Rangers.

At least the Wizards still have a chance. Game 6 is Friday night in Washington. “These guys are fighting. I love it,” Washington coach Randy Wittman said. “They made one more play than us.”

Wall, who fractured several bones in his left hand in the series opener and missed the next three games, wound up with 15 points, seven assists and four steals. Bradley Beal led the Wizards with 23 points. (ap)

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FILE - This Sept. 22, 1993 file photo shows the wreckage of the Amtrak Sunset Limited train north of Mobile, Ala. A barge hit a railroad bridge and minutes later the train hit the bent tracks and plunged into the bayou, killing 47 people.

Amtrak train in deadly wreck was speeding, but why?

PHILADELPHIA — Investigators don’t yet know why an Amtrak passenger train was moving at more than twice the allowed speed when it ran off the rails on a sharp curve and killed at least seven people, and the train’s engineer has so far refused to speak to police. It was the deadliest U.S. train accident in nearly seven years. Tuesday night’s derailment happened along the country’s busiest rail corridor between Washington and Boston, where the national passenger railway carries 11.6 million passengers a year.

Amtrak suspended all service until further notice along the Philadelphiato-New York stretch of as investigators examine the wreckage and the tracks and gather evidence. The shutdown has forced thousands of people to find other ways to travel.

Despite pressure from Congress and safety regulators, Amtrak had not installed along that section of track a technology that uses GPS, wireless radio and computers to prevent trains from going over the speed limit. The train was moving at 106 mph (170 kph) before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to just 50 mph (80 kph), federal investigators said Wednesday.

The train’s engineer applied the emergency brakes moments before the crash but slowed the train to only 102 mph (164 kph) by the time the locomotive’s black box stopped recording data, said Robert Sumwalt,

of the National Transportation Safety Board. The speed limit just before the bend is 80 mph (128 kph), he said.

Most of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor is equipped with what is called positive train control. “Based on what we know right now, we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred,” Sumwalt said.

The engineer, whose name was not released, refused to give a statement to law enforcement and had a lawyer, police said. Sumwalt said federal accident investigators want to talk to him but will give him a day or two to recover from the shock of the accident. Mayor Michael Nutter said there was “no way in the world” the engineer should have been going that fast into the curve. “Clearly he was reckless and irresponsible in his actions,” Nutter told CNN. More than 200 people aboard the

Washington-to-New York train were injured in the wreck, which happened in a decayed industrial neighborhood late Tuesday. Passengers crawled out the windows of the toppled rail cars in the darkness and emerged dazed and bloody, many of them with broken bones and burns.

The dead included an Associated Press employee, a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, a Wells Fargo executive, a college administrator and the CEO of an educational startup.

Nutter said some people were unaccounted for but cautioned that some passengers listed on the Amtrak manifest might not have boarded the train, while others might not have checked in with authorities. He said rescuers expanded the search area and were using dogs to look for victims in case someone was thrown from the wreckage. (ap)

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UNESCO to investigate pirate treasure hunt in Madagascar ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — The United Nations is sending experts to Madagascar to assess a claim by underwater explorers that they had found treasure and the wreck of a ship belonging to the pirate known as Captain Kidd, a U.N. official said.

Ulrike Guerin, a specialist in underwater heritage for the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, said Thursday that experts will examine artefacts at the site where American explorer Barry Clifford had been operating. The team is expected to arrive in Madagascar by the end of June, she said.

UNESCO is also concerned that Clifford’s group may have damaged the site, alleging the explorers did not have an archaeologist with proper qualifications with them and did not present a proper plan to Madagascar’s authorities before they started diving.

October Films, the Londonbased production company that was filming Clifford’s work in Madagascar for television, said in a statement that a detailed plan had been submitted to the government before diving and that a respected marine archaeologist was on hand

at all times to supervise the exploration. It said artefacts discovered

by Clifford were handed over to the government and that the expedition is funding the restoration of a local museum and a small laboratory to preserve the artefacts.

Last week, Clifford said he found a silver bar that he believes belonged to William Kidd, who raided ships in the late 17th century and was executed in London in 1701. Clifford presented the bar to Madagascar’s president, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, in a ceremony on the country’s Sainte Marie island. The island, a hideout for pirates when Kidd was active, offered safe harbors and was close to maritime trading routes Last year, Clifford said he found the wreck of the Santa Maria, the lost flagship from Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the Western Hemisphere, during a search off the coast of Haiti. UNESCO visited the site and said there was no way the wreck could be the Santa Maria because nails and pins they found there were made of a copper alloy, indicating the wreck was a more recent ship. (ap)

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From page 1 Increasingly prevalent money laundering practices in Bali will certainly have various negative implications. Firstly, in terms of the physical space of Bali, there is bound to be more chaos as ‘black investors’ will target productive lands and paddy fields to be used to develop villa properties and others. Innapropriate use of land will become more severe.. “Our society is very easily tempted to sell their land especially when lured by inflated prices. Many people do not care whether their land is purchased with legal or illegal money such as that gained through corruption,” said Kariyasa.

Secondly, after competing to sell their land to the highest bidder, Balinese people will tend to become consumptive. They can then run out of money by engaging in or negative things such as gambling, getting drunk at cafés and general reckless spending. “If this happens, it will be hard for Balinese people to be independent let alone self sufficient, and they will become spectatorsin the midst of a swift currents of investment on the island and in the long run they may get evicted from own their native land,” he added. Thirdly, the image of Bali in the eyes of

the international community will definitely be damaged.

To prevent the destruction of Bali -as a result of this money laundering, the government must take decisive action and draft clearer and more selective investment rules, said Kariyasa,.

The government must not allow all the seizing of land by unclear investors, the destruction of the environment and the degradation of local customs to afflict Bali.

Ideally the rules of investment in Bali should focus on transparency, requiring investors and the source of money to be clearly identified, with details regarding the management of the investment and so on. For this to happen, the Regional Investment Agency (BPMD) has an important role to play in filtering the incoming investments.

“The issue of money laundering should get serious attention from the provincial government and county/municipal governments as well. Any incoming investment must be strictly filtered, so that not all and any kinds of investments are accepted on the pretext that the investors have money and they can invest anywhere,” he concluded. (wid)

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INDONESIA Indonesia extends landmark logging moratorium

JAKARTA - Indonesia has extended a landmark moratorium aimed at preserving the archipelago’s vast swathes of tropical rainforest, but environmentalists said Thursday the logging ban did not go far enough.

Large tracts of the country are covered in trees, including some of the world’s most biodiverse rainforest that is home to endangered animals such as orangutans, tigers and elephants.

But huge swathes have been chopped down by palm oil, mining and timber companies in Southeast Asia’s top economy, which has become the world’s third-biggest carbon emitter as a result.

In 2011 Indonesia signed a two-year moratorium, which bans new logging permits for primary or virgin forest -- defined as forest not logged in recent history, as well as peatlands which store large quantities of carbon.

The scheme was created with help from Norway, which has pledged to pay out up to $1 billion to the government to preserve rainforests, depending on

Indonesia opens hearing on French death row inmate’s appeal

JAKARTA — An Indonesian court on Wednesday began hearing a last-minute appeal by a French death-row inmate who is challenging the president’s refusal to grant him clemency.

Sergei Areski Atlaoui was to have been executed with other drug convicts on April 29, but his second appeal to the Jakarta Administrative Court delayed his execution.

A court in April dismissed his first appeal of President Joko Widodo’s rejection of clemency when it ruled that clemency is the prerogative of the president.

On Wednesday, presiding Judge Ujang Abdullah read out the appeal in which Atlaoui’s lawyers claimed that the reasons for the first ruling were contradictory. They also claimed that the criteria of the judicial action in the first ruling were inappropriate.

The hearing was adjourned until next week when the lawyers will submit evidence and present testimony from legal experts.

French President Francois Hollande has warned Indonesia that the execution of a Frenchman for drug crimes will damage ties between the two countries.

Two weeks ago, Indonesian firing squads executed seven foreign men and one Indonesian convicted of drug crimes, drawing wide international condemnation. Atlaoui and a Filipino woman Mary Jane Veloso were scheduled to be executed with them but were excluded because of the Frenchman’s appeal and the arrest of Veloso’s alleged drug boss in the Philippines. (ap)

progress.

It protects an area of around 43 million hectares (106 million acres), according to environmental group the World Resources Institute.

The logging ban had already been extended once in 2013 to 2015, and President Joko Widodo on Wednesday signed a further two-year extension, telling reporters: “We need to protect our

forests.”

However environmental groups criticised the moratorium, saying that it still allowed deforestation for projects deemed in the national interest.

Infrastructure projects -- which Widodo is pushing in order to boost slowing economic growth -- and crop plantations are among those excluded from the ban.

“One of the biggest loopholes in the current policy is the clause that allows key strategic national priorities to be excluded,” said Nirarta Samadhi, from the World

Resources Institute.

Activists have also pressed the government to strengthen the moratorium to include other types of forest.

“Strengthening forests protection is urgent,” said Greenpeace Indonesia forests campaigner Teguh Surya. “President Joko Widodo has failed to listen to public demands to protect our remaining forests and peatlands.”

The forestry minister said discussions were under way about strengthening the moratorium. (afp)

Migrants in Indonesia could spend months in Aceh camps

KUALA CANGKOI, Indonesia Nearly 600 boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh stranded in northwest Indonesia were moved to a larger shelter Wednesday, where migrant groups expect they could spend months before having their claims processed.

The 582 migrants, including many ethnic Muslim Rohingya, had been housed in an overcrowded sports centre in Lhoksukon, a town in North Aceh, since they arrived by boat at the weekend.

But as facilities at the cramped centre reached breaking point, with few toilets and poor ventilation, local authorities began transferring migrants by bus Wednesday afternoon to a larger complex at Kuala Cangkoi, a fishing town on the north coast.

The site, comprising three large buildings and equipped with a small mosque, had been inspected by Indonesian officials and staff from the International Organization for Migration.

“It was something that was built after the tsunami and it ended up not being used after,” the International Organization for Migration’s Steve Hamilton told AFP, referring to the devastating natural disaster that devastated Aceh province in 2004.

Officials have begun the long process of verifying the identities of the migrants, with queues stretching back as photos are taken and personal details recorded.

The nearly 600 who arrived in Aceh were just a fraction of the 2,000 boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh, including many Rohingya, who were rescued or swum to shore in Malaysia and Indonesia since the weekend.

The spate of arrivals comes as Thailand,

a key stop on a Southeast Asian peoplesmuggling route, cracks down following the discovery of mass graves that has laid bare the extent of the thriving trade.

Boatloads have arrived off Aceh in the past, typically after becoming lost or running out of fuel.

Hamilton said with detention centres

full across Indonesia, it was likely this latest wave of migrants would have to wait for their claims to be processed in Aceh.

“These people could be there six, seven, eight, nine months before they get transferred somewhere else,” he said.

“There’s nowhere to transfer them.” (afp)

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An ethnic Rohingya boy carries a plate in his hands as he walks past migrants queuing up for their meals during breakfast time at a temporary shelter in Lapang, Aceh province, Indonesia, Thursday, May 14, 2015.

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BUSINESS Greek leader holds government meeting as recession returns

ATHENS — Greece’s prime minister was holding his second ministerial meeting in as many the retirement age.

He said an agreement with days Wednesday, when official data confirmed the cash-strapped country is back in recession creditors should respect the governamid concern over much-delayed bailout talks with creditors.

Alexis Tsipras has said his radical left-led government has done as much as it can to strike a deal to get more bailout loans, insisting the ball is now in the court of the creditors.

At stake is a 7.2 billion euro ($8 billion) rescue loan installment, and failure to reach an agreement could lead Greece to default on its obligations within weeks — triggering a chain of events that could force the country to leave the euro.

The head of Greece’s GSEE umbrella private sector union, Yiannis Panagopoulos, said the country’s drop back into recession, at the most crucial point of the bailout talks, highlights the need for a swift agreement “so that Greece can remain in the euro.”

Official flash estimates showed that the economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the first three months compared with the previous quarter.

Following the 0.4 percent contrac-

tion in the last quarter of 2014, the country is now technically back in recession less than a year after it emerged from a downturn as severe as the Great Depression.

Panagopoulos told The Associated Press that any deal with creditors must safeguard “fundamental social issues,” which were “trampled underfoot” by previous austerity measures that included income cuts, tax hikes, scrapping of job protections and increases to

ment’s promises to restore labor rights and fight new pension cuts, but admits he is not optimistic.

“Our creditors have toughened their positions,” he said, adding that time was lost — and goodwill squandered — with negotiations “on terms and names,” instead of how to restart growth.

He said a deal is better than nothing.

“Otherwise we will no longer be talking about recession but rather a total collapse that will have terrify-

ing repercussions on all of Greek society,” Panagopoulos said.

Eurobank analyst Platon Monokroussos said the economic downturn in the first quarter was less severe than expected, and forecasts slight growth for the year as a whole.

The finance ministry said Wednesday that the JanuaryApril budget deficit was about a sixth the size expected, at 500 million euros, while — excluding debt servicing costs — there was a surplus of over 2 billion euros, much better than the 290 million euro target. (ap)

Sharp announces $1.86 billion loss, plans thousands of job cuts

TOKYO - Japanese electronics giant Sharp on Thursday said it was cutting thousands of jobs in a fresh turnaround plan to keep it afloat as the struggling firm posted a bigger-than-expected $1.86 billion annual loss.

The 222 billion yen net loss -- much bigger

than an earlier 30 billion yen forecast -- came as Sharp said it would cut about 10 percent of its 49,000-strong global workforce, including 3,500 jobs in Japan.

The firm said it hoped to swing to an 80 billion yen operating profit in the current fiscal year, but it did not give a net profit

forecast.

The embattled Aquos-brand maker said it would sell the building that houses its Osaka headquarters to raise cash, roll out unspecified pay cuts, and launch a drastic capital reduction plan to wipe away huge losses.

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Sharp Corp Chief Executive Kozo Takahashi speaks during a news conference in Tokyo May 14, 2015. Japan’s lossmaking Sharp Corp said it had secured a $1.7 billion bailout from banks, its second major rescue in three years, after its smartphone display business came under intense pricing pressure from Asian rivals.

Sharp -- a major Apple supplier and leader in screens for smartphones and tablets -- also said it would issue 200 billion yen worth of new shares with no voting rights to Mizuho Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ as part of its bid to repair a badly damaged balance sheet.

“Our company is facing an extremely difficult situation,” president Kozo Takahashi told reporters.

“By implementing these structural reforms, we believe we can see a concrete path toward recovery.”

Sales in the last fiscal year fell 4.8 percent 2.78 trillion yen, Sharp said.

On Monday, the company lost more than a quarter of its market value following reports that it was planning a drastic capital reduction and the sale of preferred shares, spooking investors who worried about their holdings being diluted.

The stock lost 0.99 percent to close at 200.0 yen on Thursday in Tokyo, before its results were released.

Sharp, like rivals Sony and Panasonic, has been working to move past years of gaping deficits, partly caused by steep losses in its television unit, which has been hammered by competition from lower-cost rivals particularly in South Korea and Taiwan.

The trio have launched huge restructuring plans with Panasonic emerging as the leader as it focuses less on consumer products and more on goods sold to other businesses.

Last month, Panasonic said that its annual profit soared 49 percent, crediting its lesserknown auto parts unit and lower costs.

Sony, by contrast, booked a $1.1 billion annual loss, but said it expects to swing back to profitability in the current fiscal year as it emerges from a painful corporate makeover. (afp)

This vegetable is very close to the peasant life in rural areas. Aside from being easy to get the ingredient, the making is also easy. Simply prepare the seasoning comprising the garlic, chili, large chili, tomato, shrimp paste, lime and salt to taste, you will get a delicious Plecing Gonda vegetable.

Process of the making is not too complicated.

Ingredient of gonad stalk should be boiled until cooked, or to taste, then, all seasoning ingredients are cleaned and finely ground on stone mortar or the like. Stir fry the seasoning, except for the lime. Well, mix the boiled gonad with the seasoning prepared. To give a typical flavor in the serving, do not forget to give grated lime.

Gonda plant is closely related to the farmer’s life in Bali, As a matter of fact, it grows as weeds, but farmers in Bali then take advantage of it as a daily vegetable.

Gonda is planted among the paddy plants so it does not require a large area. After twenty to twenty-five days old, it is ready to harvest. This green plant does not need severe maintenance by spraying it with chemicals, By doing so, it will be free from insecticide and safe to consume.

Farmers who have completed their work in rice field will usually come home with some bunches of gonda stalk. It is then processed as above, then enjoyed together with family in the evening cheerfully.

Gonda is not only suitable for common rice but also can accompany other dishes such as chicken.

Gonda lover said that they fond of the vegetables because it can be made into many kind of foods.

It is delicious and filled with nutrition. Holidays in Bali feels incomplete if not accompanied by a culinary tour, tourists could try different types of foods that are only available in Bali.

Bali is not only unique in natural beauty, art, culture and hospitality, but the Balinese also has typical food is on this island, tiom luxury to simple, from international cuisine to traditional Balinese cuisine. Bali has many unique dishes that could become the attraction for tourists who come to the island. Lt could become an alternative for the tourists who are looking for different side of Bali. If the government could promote the dishes properly, it could give good impact on the development of tourism in Bali. The government could develop culinary tourism where it is promoting the food or event restaurants throughout the island. (kmb)

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Jembrana tourism’s iconic Jegog

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NEGARA - Jegog music is synonymous with Jembrana. This traditional bamboo musical art form was first created and evolved during colonial period and seems to reflect the turmoil felt by society at that time.

This oversized gamelan instrument has a sticking appearance and generates a distinctive sound that echoes the spirit of resistance and the love of competition.

The jegog came into its full glory in the 1990’s and to this day, nearly every village in Jembarana (with the exeption of of Peuatan subdistrict) has at least one if not several jogog troupes.

According to the Jembrana Education Agency 2012 data there are at least 100 jegog troupes in Jembrana, 76 of which perform regularly.

“Jegog performances tend to be more commercial that other musical forms supported by villages sich as gong kebyar for example. Jegog troupes survive by getting paid for their perrformances, without such opportunities the troupes would go bankrupt and stop playing,” said Section Head of the Cultural Preservation and Development Departemen, I Putu N. Sutardi.

The government of Jembrana is very supportive of this unique musical art of Jembrana and often provides opportunities for the troupes to perform at various

events in Jembrana and also by providing funds for buying bamboo when needed.

Nevertheless some troupes still struggle to survive for even though they may get requests to perform, the payments offered are often far less that what they should be. Because the instruments are so large, they are hard to transport and in the case of competitiions (mebarung), there is a good chance that the instruments will become damged or broken.

To this day, many communities show great enthusiasm towards the art jegog.

This gamelan instrument made from bamboo has a distinctive character of sound and can be adapted to any kinds of music. Based on a number of sources, jegog emerged around 1912 at Sebual hamlet, Dangin Tukadaya village and was pioneered by Kiang Geliduh. Originally, this bamboo instrument was used to call people to assemble or to work

together. Eventually it developed into a full-blown gamelan set used in performing arts to entertain.

From its humble beginnings as a sort of gong to call people together, the art of jegog music has consistently changing with the times. Beginning with the simple form tunes played on jegog when it was first developing in the 1920’s to the “standards” established in the 1940’s. jegog continued to change. In the 1960’s jegog was used in political campaigns and in the 1980’s jegog further developed, following the musical compositions of gong kebyar and then to accompany the pendet dance. In the 1990’s even more creative compostitions were created geared more at accompanying other dances and such innovations continue to this day with jegog music incorporating world music and jazz elements. (kmb)

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Hundreds of high school students collect uniforms

Malaysia turns away 800 boat people; Thailand spots 3rd boat

NEGARA - The Jembrana Education Agency appealed to high school and vocation school (SMA/SMK) students not to make any convoy on the street right on graduation day. A number of high schools do a variety of ways, where one of them is collecting uniforms before graduation to avoid graffiti on uniform on the graduation day.

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The students in Jembrana hand in their uniform before graduation

Approximately 261 students of the SMAN 2 Negara, Tuesday (May 12), for instance, attended the school farewell by wearing customary attires.

Besides, they were required to bring along their uniforms to be collected by school student’s organization (OSIS). The effort pioneered by the OSIS was also accompanied with a pledge made by the XII grade students.

After reading out the pledge, all the students collected their uniforms. The student pledge carries that they will not draw graffiti and speed recklessly in the streets after the graduation announcement. The Division Head of the Secondary Education, Dewa Putu Wardana Astawa, said the school effort to anticipate graffiti is worth imitating. The agency also appealed to high schools not to come down or head for the streets after the graduation announcement.

Principal of the SMAN 2 Negara, Wayan Sudiarta, said that other than being intended for social activities it is also meant to anticipate excessive expression of the graduation and prevent the students from coming down to the street. According to him, a total of 261 students participated in collecting school uniforms. In addition to be submitted to poor lower grade students, the used uniforms will be handed over to orphanage. “It is also meant to anticipate so that their uniforms will not be drawn with graffiti while graduation,” explained Sudiarta.

The OSIS Chief, I Nengah Nitinanda Yadnya, said that such an action expresses the concern of the students as well as accustoms them so that they change the habit of coming down to the streets after graduation announcement. The students also make coordination with the Police Traffic Unit to participate in escorting the students so as not to violate traffic rules in the streets. (kmb26)

Mr Bob’s murder trial

Victim’s wife escapes from deadly charge, hitmen sentenced to 15 years

DENPASAR - Verification in the murder trial of foreign citizen, Robert Kevin Ellis aka Mr. Bob, the defendant victim’s wife, Noor Aini alias Nur Ellis and her hitmen Urbanus Yoh Ghoghi alias Ur and Yohanes Saerokodu alias Yonis alias Deni, were sentenced to 15 years in prison, Tuesday (May 12). Nur Ellis touted as the mastermind of the murder escaped from death penalty as mentioned in the indictment of the judge based on the Article 340 of the Criminal Code, where she must be maximally sentenced with death

penalty. It happened because the prosecutor Dipa Umbara and Raka Arimbawa charged Nur Ellis equal to her hitmen, namely 15 years.

In a separate file, the prosecutor Arimbawa initially read out the charges to the defendant Urbanus and Yohanes. In the charges read out in front of the panel of judges led by A.A. Anom Wirakanta, the prosecutor declared that the two defendants were proved legally and convincingly guilty of committing a criminal act together as the persons who committed, participated

in committing, and or intentionally or with prior planning, eliminated the other’s life.

Over their acts, both defendants were charged and threatened under article 340 of Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 (1) in the primary charge.

“The punishment charged to them is respectively 15 years in prison, with reduction over the period of detention of the defendants,” charged the prosecutor.

Before reading out the charges, the prosecutor read out first a number of considerations regard-

ing the things that incriminated due to the deeds of the defendant causing fatalities, namely death.

On the other hand, the consideration relieving the defendants is that they have never been punished, behaved politely and cooperative in every trial, regretted their acts and promised not to repeat it again and they are still young. Over the charges, the defendants through their legal counsel, Edy Hartaka, will defend in the trial next week.

In the meantime, Noor Ellis undergoing a separate trial has been

crying from the beginning. The trial on Tuesday got the attention from foreign media. When the prosecutor read out the charges, Nur Ellis who is the wife of Mr. Bob was looking down. Then, when the prosecutor charged her with 15 years in prison, her cry was getting louder. Moreover, when making coordination with her legal team, Nyoman Wisnu et al., Nur Ellis was crying again.

And when asked by the judge, she finally handed over to her legal counsel. Her legal team said that they will defend next week. (kmb37)

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo, Thursday, May 14, 2015. Japan’s Cabinet endorsed a set of defense bills Thursday that would allow the country’s military to go beyond its self-defense stance and play a greater role internationally, a plan that has split public opinion.

Japan’s Cabinet endorses bills to allow greater defense role

TOKYO — Japan’s Cabinet endorsed a set of defense bills Thursday that would allow the country’s military to operate under a broader definition of self-defense and play a greater role internationally, a plan that has split public opinion.

Hundreds of people rallied outside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s office calling the bills “war legislation” that turn Japan toward militarism. They say the move would tarnish nearly 70 years of efforts by Japan to regain international trust and identity as a pacifist nation.

Abe, in a bid to win public understanding, said in a nationally televised news conference that the country’s military needs to be able to do more to protect the country and contribute to international peacekeeping. “We cannot look away from this severe situation,” he said. “Right now, we don’t have the (legal) instruments necessary to eliminate the danger even when our lives are in clear danger.”

The bills, whose titles include phrases such as “peace and security” and “international peace support,” will be taken up by parliament next.

After its defeat in World War II, Japan renounced war under the U.S.-drafted constitution that essentially limits the use of force to self-defense. Abe and his government say that a strict interpretation of that limit leaves Japan vulnerable as China asserts itself in the region.

The bills would remove geographic restrictions on where the military can operate. Another change would allow Japan to de-

fend its allies, not just itself. The government says they are needed to bring domestic law in line with Abe’s national security policy.

The legislation would also enhance the U.S.-Japan security alliance, but Abe denied opponents’ fears that it would increase the chance of Japan being drawn into a U.S.-led war. China raised concern about the move, citing wartime history.

“We hope Japan makes actual efforts in absorbing historical lessons, adhering to peaceful development, and making positive and constructive contributions to a peaceful and stable development in a region shared by all the Asian countries,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. Media polls show public opinion divided.

“I was born right after the war, but during this time Japan was able to gain prosperity and trust from the world because of our peace constitution,” said Taeko Otaki, a 68-year-old homemaker at the rally outside Abe’s office.

Koichi Nakano, an international politics professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, says the changes are problematic because they would allow the prime minister and a handful of leaders to make crucial decisions, such as dispatching troops overseas, without due process.

“I think it is possible that Japanese diplomatic power may be enhanced by this but also there are people who are worried that Japan’s peace brand, the image of Japan as a pacifist country, is going to be damaged,” he said. (ap)

LANGKAWI, Malaysia — Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis abandoned at sea by human traffickers had nowhere to go Thursday as Malaysia turned away two boats crammed with migrants, and Thailand kept at bay a large vessel with hundreds of hungry people. “What do you expect us to do?” Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Jafaar said. “We have been very nice to the people who broke into our border. We have treated them humanely but they cannot be flooding our shores like this.”

“We have to send the right message that they are not welcome here,” he told The Associated Press.

Four days earlier, about 1,000 refugees landed on the shores of Langkawi, a popular resort island in northern Malaysia near Thailand.

Another 600 have arrived surreptitiously in Indonesia.

Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha also made it clear that his government does not have resources to host refugees. “If we take them all in, then anyone who wants to come will come freely. I am asking if Thailand will be able to take care of them all. Where will the budget come from?,” Prayuth said. “No one wants them. Everyone wants a transit country like us to take responsibility. Is it fair?” he said.

Southeast Asia, which for years tried to quietly ignore the plight of Myanmar’s 1.3 million Rohingya, finds itself caught in a spiraling humanitarian crisis that in many ways it helped create. In the last three years, more than 120,000 members of the Muslim minority, who are intensely persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, have boarded ships to flee to other countries, paying huge sums of money to human traffickers.

But faced with a crackdown by

security forces of various countries, the smugglers have abandoned the ships, leaving an estimated 6,000 refugees to fend for themselves, according to reliable aid workers and human rights groups. “This is a grave humanitarian crisis demanding an immediate response,” said Matthew Smith, executive director of nonprofit human rights group Fortify Rights. “Lives are on the line.”

Despite appeals by the U.N. and aid groups, no government in the region — Thai, Indonesian or Malaysian — appears willing to take the refugees, fearing that accepting a few would result in an unstoppable flow of poor, uneducated migrants.

Wan Junaidi said about 500 people on board a boat found Wednesday off the coast of northern Penang state were given provisions and then sent on their way. Another boat carrying about 300 migrants was turned away near Langkawi island overnight, according to two Malaysian officials who declined to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press.

Meanwhile, Thai authorities also spotted a boat with migrants near Lipe island in Satun province on the sea border between Thailand

and Malaysia. They have been given food and water, Capt. Chayut Navespootikorn, a senior naval official, told the AP. “To bring them into our country is not our policy,” he said. “If they need fuel or food to go on (to a third country) we would help them with it.”

Malaysia, which is not a signatory of international conventions on refugees, is host to more than 150,000 refugees and asylum seekers, the majority whom are from Myanmar. More than 45,000 of them are Rohingya, according to the U.N. refugee agency, many more than almost any other country.

But because they have no legal status, job opportunities are limited.

They also have little or no access to basic services like education and health care, and are vulnerable to arrests and deportation. A small number are resettled to third countries.

Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch Asia accused Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia of playing “a three-way game of human ping pong.” At the same time, the three countries and others in Southeast Asia have for years bowed to the wishes of Myanmar at regional conferences, avoiding all di\scussions of state-sponsored discrimination against the Rohingya. (ap)

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Maritime police officers near a boat which carried migrants in Langkawi, Malaysia, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Hundreds of migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers in Southeast Asia have reached land and relative safety in the past two days.

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Kim Kardashian launches fashion line in Brazil REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

self-styled ‘queen of selfies’, rarely missing an opportunity to keep fans up to date with her every move via social media.

Kardashian’s ubiquitous presence in the media recently moved Time magazine to dub her one of the world’s 100 most influential people. She already co-owns a fashion boutique, DASH, with sisters Kourtney and Khloe.

Her Brazilian collection includes a range of kneelength skirts, dresses, sandals and various models of crop tops -- a signature stomach-baring style statement by the poster woman for those with a fuller figure.

The 20-strong collection will be sold for between $9 and $65 in C&A stores across Brazil as Kardashian targets a 200 millionstrong market.

Kardashian arrived over the weekend in Sao Paulo and Sunday posted a picture to Instagram showing 2,000 white roses which West had sent to her hotel suite for Mothers Day. Monday saw her offer a little advice, meanwhile, on how to take the perfect ‘selfie.’

“The lighting is everything.” (afp)

rope,” he said, himself dressed in fashionable jeans and black down jacket. “This is international.”

Behind Min, customers and porters squeeze between doubleparked vans as they head in and out of shops with flashing signs and, at times, whimsical names like: “Glam Couture”, “Bisou’s Project,” “La Bottine Souriante” (“The Smiling Bootee”) and “Miss Baby Hot Bottom”.

When the new Fashion Center -- expected to generate more jobs -- officially opened at the end of March, it became the largest market of its kind in Europe, overtaking a similar one at Duesseldorf in Germany.

“Aubervilliers has become one of the most important places for business and exchange with China in all of Europe,” said the town’s mayor, Pascal Beaudet. “So we needed to organise accordingly and that’s what we did.”

“For those who work in the garment industry, Aubervilliers is indispensable,” said Gaetan Le Gorre, 37, keeping one eye on workers loading his van with a cargo of jeans bought from a local wholesaler.

Le Gorre, from the Brittany region in northwest France, sells clothes in street markets and comes “at least once a week” to stock up in what he calls “ready-to-wear Chinatown”.

“I pick clothes out, I barter.

Here you have everything at hand, but you need to know your way around.”

Hundreds of wholesalers offer an endless choice of textiles, colours and patterns in this vast district between the Paris beltway and the national sports stadium, Stade de France -- where France won the 1998 football World Cup. “Behind every shop, there’s a

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GIANYAR - Rapid development of souvenir markets posing one of the competitors for traders at Sukawati art market in Gianyar becomes a concern of the county government. As planned, the county government will make revitalization to the current market having been in poor condition. To realize the plan, local government has proposed the budget worth IDR 78 billion to the Ministry of Commerce.

Chinese turn Paris suburb into Europe’s biggest fashion market

AUBERVILLIERS, France - The rows of upmarket sedans look out of place parked in the working-class Paris suburb but this is Aubervilliers, Europe’s made-inChina clothing capital where traders recently opened the continent’s biggest garment centre.

A vast range of clothing is on offer in this town on the northern edge of the French capital where generations of Chinese have settled -- and some made fortunes.

Canny shoppers can pick up a smart ready-to-wear suit for 40 euros ($46) in a central store or a pack of cheap socks in the supermarket, while a stall-holder on the street offers sneakers.

“Here, you can find anything at almost any price,” said Min, a labourer who came from China six years ago, as he pushed a cart laden with boxes and bags for delivery to a wholesaler.

“People come from all over Eu-

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Sukawati art market needs revitalizing

SAO PAULO - Famously curvy reality show star Kim Kardashian launched a new line of clothing in Brazil on Monday, saying she hoped to win over women in a land where voluptuousness is often celebrated.

Kardashian said at an event in Sao Paulo that her “simple and sexy” range of clothing aimed to reflect her own tastes and comprised clothes she would wear herself.

“I wanted to show the Brazilian woman and her curves,” the star of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” said as she unveiled the Kim Kardashian West collection for retail chain C&A, which has a strong presence in Brazil.

“Back in the States we have different opinions, different styles, and this was all me, so I could do whatever I wanted. I just went with everything I felt that I would really wear,” said Kardashian.

Kardashian said she had worked hard to create a “simple and sexy” elastic range which can “adapt to any body type.”

“Lately I haven’t been using so many patterns. So I wanted something that was not so bright in colors. There is black and white and I thought it was really cool,” Kardashian explained.

The 34-year-old, mother of a daughter, North, with rapper husband Kanye West and the stepdaughter of decathlon Olympic champion Bruce Jenner, is the

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whole team,” said Pascal, a young Frenchman of Chinese origin who did not give his last name and recently took over his parents’ store. “We turn to French fashion designers to satisfy a Western clientele.”

The pioneers had actually arrived in France years earlier, said Richard Beraha, a specialist on the Chinese community in the Paris region. At first they had no papers but found work, acquired legal status and gradually earned enough to go into the wholesale business.

One of them, Hsueh Sheng Wang, has built a clothing empire and amassed such a fortune in his late 40s that he has become known as “the king of Aubervilliers”.

He owns dozens of shops in the town but made a bigger name in 2011 when he bought a large share in the northern French port of Le Havre, the country’s hub for ocean-borne trade with Asia.

Wang and seven fellow investors of Chinese origin are behind the new Fashion Center, now Europe’s biggest wholesale textile market with 310 shops in 55,000 square metres (592,000 square feet) in the heart of Aubervilliers.

The Center aims to to draw buyers from across Europe and make the textile import-export trade more efficient by consolidating business in one location, said Wang who sees the project as beneficial for the French economy.

The Fashion Center will create “about 2,000 jobs... and not only for Chinese people,” said Victor Hu, 47, one of Wang’s partners who traded in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion for a suit and tie after a spell in the service entitled him to French citizenship.

“We have made a small path,” Wang smiled. “The new generation will build a highway.”

The Sukawati art market is one of the tourism icons owned by Gianyar County. By that way, the concern with the future of the market accommodating the creative art products of the community can compete amid the development of shops selling similar products.

“We propose the budget of IDR 78 billion to central government.

Hopefully, it can be realized,” said the Regent of Gianyar, Anak Agung Gde Agung Bharata on Tuesday.

Revitalization of the Sukawati art market becomes one of his concentrations in leading Gianyar. In the near future, he will perform a feasibility study. “Implementation of the feasibility study is estimated to cost up to IDR 2 billion,” he said.

As temporary illustration, the Sukawati art market will be made into a market that will not only offer various handicraft products. In the near future, his party will make a concept of entertainment such as the performance of Balinese dance as well as various social and cultural activities of Bali at the market. It is similar with the concept applied by the market in Thailand. His party will even take some of the parties to Thailand for a comparative study. “With the concept, travelers may take morning or afternoon tour first, while at night they will visit the Sukawati market. Perhaps, the implementation is like this,” he explained.

If the revitalization can genuinely be realized, the traders will also be relocated temporarily. The regent said that his party has taken it into account with local village. In the process, various aspects need to be discussed further carefully, including the parking space which is currently becoming a problem at the Sukawati art market.

Related to the revitalization plan to the art market, the team of experts of the Gianyar County, Gianyar House and some businessmen directly expressed their opinion when the Committee III of the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia (DPD RI) made a visit to Gianyar County last Monday.

Revitalization of the art market is very necessary so that the market will not lose competitiveness in the face of the development of souvenir markets that has been increasingly mushrooming. (kmb16)

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Rapid development of souvenir markets posing one of the competitors for traders at Sukawati art market in Gianyar becomes a concern of the county government. As planned, the county government will make revitalization to the current market having been in poor condition.

Economic slowdown

Bali government denies that delayed budget is the cause DENPASAR - The provincial government denies that Bali’s economic slowdown is caused by delays in the disbursal of the regional budget. This rebuttal was submitted by the first assistant to the provincial government of Bali, Dewa Putu Eka Wijaya Wardana, in Denpasar, on Tuesday (May 12). According to Dewa Eka, the factor main factors contributing to Bali’s economic slowdown are related to politics and the global economy.

“We’re all still counting, especially after the rise and fall of fuel prices, so the economy is slightly stagnant,” he said. Dewa Eka added that the disbursement of the regional budget will not necessarily directly translate into projects. There are stages that need to gone through in the disbursement process, which makes it seem slow.

“If for example, we were to violate any rules concerning the budgetary funds, we would be faced with the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). So far, no tender has been approved as each program has its own steps that need to be taken.

So, these delays are not influencing (the economic slowdown of Bali—Ed),” he said.

Meanwhile, member of Commission III of the Bali House, I Wayan Adnyana, suggested that the local government accelerate the implementation of infrastructural development and government programs as layer out in the Regional Bylaw for the regional budget. Referring to previous experience, the government generally starts construction projects in June, but the central government is now asking that projects start

in January.

“In other words, because, as is so often the case, projects require a lengthly planning process and time for auction, despite aiming for January, they will end up happening in June. This is based on past experiences,” he added.

Adnyana added that infrastructural development should give priority to roads. Other than helping to resolving congestion problems, road access is also an important of spreading development evenly. That way development will not only be focused on Southern Bali. The other counties also need to be developed so that Bali’s economy can be revived.

As for the Chairman of Commission II of the Bali House, I Ketut Suwandhi, he suggested that local governments, especially at the county level, should fa-

cilitate the licensing process and investment opportunities, while still taking into consideration the carrying capacity of Bali.

“We should not compound the economic challenges, let alone contribute to them as this will only make investors restless.

As long as investment projects meet applicable provisions, licenses should be issued immediately. Without investment, the economy does not work,” he explained.

This Golkar Party politician also considers that the slow economic growth in Bali is due to the declining quality of travelers coming to Bali. According to Suwandhi, there is indeed an increase in the number of travelers, but in terms of quality there has been a sharp decrease, chiefly in the matter of tourist money spent shopping in Bali. (kmb32)

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Kusamba Beach

Three salt farms collapse from abrasion

SEMARAPURA - Abrasion in coastal areas of Klungkung is increasingly severe. Abrasion does not only occur in coastal areas of Tegal Besar, Banjarangkan, but has also begun to expand to the coastal areas of Kusamba Beach, Dawan. Three salt drying sites located on Karangdadi Beach, Kusamba, East of the PPI project, have collapsed from abrasion, as reported by the headman of Kusamba, Ketut Winastra on Thursday.

at the dormant PPI project. The breakwater is meant to prevent waves from crashing directly onto the shore line, but what ends up happening is the these waves end up eroding the beaches in the vicinity. “Probably, the breakwater is to blame, because the sever abrasion has only been occurring recently” he said.

Responding to the abrasion

of Karangdadi Beach, Winastra hope that the government will pay attention. Especially because the problem has affected the development of salt farms at Kusamba. If things continue like this, the salt farmers will have nowhere to dry their salt.

“Well, we hope the government will do something, such as create an embarkment, for example,”

he said.

Similar opinions were also expected by salt farmers, Dewa Ketut Candra. Previously, he had hoped that the government would anticipate the abrasion of Karangdadi Beach. Hints have now gotten worse, and if nothing is done, the location where 37 salt farmers dry out their salt, will be eroded by crashing waves

as we have seen with the abrasion that has already occurred. In addition, he hopes that the government can help to market the salt of Kusamba. So far, the stock of salt produced by farmers here has yet to be sold and is sitting in their huts. “If there is no saltdrying location left at Kusamba, where else we can produce salt?” queried Candra. (kmb)

AMLAPURA - The village authorities of Seraya, Karangasem, are trying to reduce the incidence of juvenile mortality cause by traffic accidents and/or alcohol. Acting headman of Seraya Tengah, Made Samudera One said on Thursday during a village competion, that one of the approaches being taken is to promote road safety.

Another approach being taken is to encourage the general public and

youth in particular to avoid drinking alcoholic beverages. Samudera said that even though the rate of juvenile mortality caused by traffic accidents sand alcohol is fairly low, it is important to anticipate possible problems in the future. It is certainly worth while trying to get the numbers down to zero.

The younger generation is the hope of the future. On that account, they must be protected and avenues

must be pursued to help prevent them from dying in vain. He added that to deter youth from engaging in negative and detrimental behaviours such as reckless speeding and drunkeness, the importance of training and employment opportunities are being presented to them through weaving crafts and other positive activities such as sports.

His village administration, said Samudera, in the presence of the

Deputy Regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana, who attended the village competition, has providing toilets for the public. Assistance in the form of 100 toilets was provided through the village fund allocation (ADD). This assistance was granted in order to create a healthier living conditions for people in the area. Until recently there has been very little awareness about the importance of using

toilets, both for hygiene as well as for the environment. Samudra said that many villagers in the area and particularly in the in the three hamlets of Taman, Kayu Wit and Kecagbalung, which are known to be barren, still face great challenges in accessing clean water. To resolve the problem, the government will be facilitating access by supplying water tank that can provide water for these area. (013)

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Harris Bukit Jimbaran appoints new GM

JIMBARAN - Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran is delighted to announce the appointment of I Made Yadnya as the new General Manager. Assuming office on 8 May 2015, Yadnya is ready to contribute his expertise and commitment to bring the property forward.

Yadnya succeeds I Made Bagus Pariyatna, SE, CHA, who was the second General Manager and oversaw the successful hotel’s achievement in maintaining customer satisfaction, saving energy and Gold Medal in Tri Hita Karana Award.

A seasoned hotelier whose passion for the industry sprouted from his interest in customer service, Yadnya has numerous years of experience in various hospitality disciplines, spanning from Finance to Operations.

He started his career in Finance before advancing to Front Office. He has proved his quality as General Manager in a number of properties including

According to Winastra, the abrasion that is occurring on Karangdadi Beach has become quite alarming. According to Winastra, as a result of the collapse of the three salt drying locations that belong to Ketut Kuturan, Ketut Polos and Mangku Ngenteg, these three salt farmers have been forced to change their profession and now work as construction laborers.

Other than eroding the salt farms, the abrasion, also threatens a site used for the disposal of ritual paraphernalia during cremation ceremonies and other rituals. Winastra also revealed that the abrasion on Karangdadi Beach has started encroaching on private land owned by local residents. In 2012, said Winastra, the land was 125 meters away from the beach but is now just 60 meters away.

Winastra himself suspects that the severe abrasion that is occurreing on Karangdadi Beach is due to the presence of the breakwater

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Jatra Boutique Hotel, Aston Tuban Inn, Kuta Central Park Hotel and Ramada Encore Bali Seminyak. Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran is Yadnya’s first ever Tauzia’s property to manage.

As General Manager, Yadnya will bring his vast experience to develop the business. He will also ensure that Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran stays at the top of customer’s heart.

“The market today is very competitive. However, I believe with understanding to our today customer behaviour and consistent effort to deliver quality service, we will achieve our aims,” said Yadnya.

Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran – Bali,

located on the top of Ungasan Hill, South Bali with incredible views over the famous Jimbaran Bay and Indian Ocean. Consisting of 245 rooms and suites with complete facilities, HARRIS Hotel Bukit Jimbaran is an ideal place for business and leisure. The strategic location is only 15-minute away from Ngurah Rai International Airport, 10minute to Uluwatu Temple, Dreamland Beach, Pandawa Beach, New Kuta Water Park & Golf Course and 2-minute to Garuda Wisnu Kencana. The hotel also offers a free shuttle to the famous Pandawa Beach so you can enjoy a full day of refreshing excursion on a white-sand beach with crystal-blue water.

Balinese Temple Ceremony The location where the salt farms were before abrasion hit Kusamba Beach

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Seraya village improving dire conditions

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

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

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

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

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

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‘American Idol’ crowns 14th season champion

LOS ANGELES — Nick Fradiani is the latest winner of “American Idol.”

The 29-year-old rocker of Guilford, Connecticut, bested soulful 22-year-old vocalist Clark Beckham of White House, Tennessee, to win the 14th edition of the Fox talent competition.

“This is amazing,” he told “Idol” host Ryan Seacrest. “This is the best day of my life.”

Fradiani joins such champions as Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Phillip Phillips and Kris Allen, as well one more winner to be determined next year. Fox announced earlier this week that the next season would be the last for “Idol.”

Before he was revealed as the winner on Wednesday, Fradiani dueted with singersongwriter Andy Grammer.

“I can’t even think right now,” Fradiani said after Seacrest informed him that he received the most viewer votes — without revealing the exact number cast.

Fradiani’s win came on the strength of his renditions Tuesday of Matchbox 20’s “Bright Lights,” Jason Mraz’s “I Won’t Give Up” and “Beautiful Life,” intended as his first single.

Beckham sang Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind,” Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine”

and “Champion.”

The two-hour extravaganza kicked off with Fradiani and Beckham joining Fall Out Boy on their song “Centuries.”

The series’ penultimate finale also resurrected Chic, Ricky Martin, NKOTB, Michael McDonald and Steven Tyler for performances, as well as judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. The once-blockbuster singing contest, which hit a peak of 30.3 million viewers in 2005, is now averaging 9.15 million viewers per episode, according to the Nielsen company.

Lopez, Urban and Connick Jr. are due back at the judges’ table for next year’s 15th and final “Idol” outing. Beckham had a few words of advice for those looking to become the last-ever “Idol.”

“You have to be good at lot of different things,” he said. “It’s not just singing a song.” (afp)

CANNES — Feathers helped the Cannes Film Festival take flight on the opening-night red carpet.

Naomi Watts, who appears in Gus van Sant’s festival entry “The Sea of Trees,” wore a powder blue gown from Elie Saab Couture’s spring-summer 2015 collection, its top festooned with sequins and pearls above a flowing feathered skirt.

Not to be outdone, Julianne Moore wore a silk gauze column dress by Georgio Armani Prive, adorned with aqua and black Swarovski embroidery and paired with a black feathered top.

The flame-haired actress, who won Cannes’ bestactress prize last year for “Maps to the Stars,” offset the look with bold emerald earrings.

Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Sienna Miller also walked the Riviera red carpet ahead of Wednesday’s gala screening of Emmanuelle Bercot’s “Standing Tall.” (ap)

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Save Bali from ‘black investors’

DENPASAR - The fact that Bali is ranked third as a paradise for money laundering, particularly corruption money but for proceeds of other crimes too, is a slap on the face to the island of gut Gods and tarnishes Bali world image. The image of Bali as a place that is rich in religious and cultural activities, is marred by the ‘black investments’ of illicit money. “Bali is being being destroyed by irresponsible investors. We have to save Bali from ‘black’ investors,” said a member of Commission I of the Bali House, Nyoman Tirtawan.

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Carrie Underwood leads nominations for CMT Music Awards

NEW YORK — Carrie Underwood is the top contender for the 2015 CMT Music Awards with five nominations. CMT announced Wednesday that Underwood scored two nominations for video of the year with the Grammy-winning “Something in the Water” and “Somethin’ Bad,” her duet with Miranda Lambert.

Underwood also earned two nominations for female video of the year with “Something in the Water” and “Little Toy Guns.”

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Tirtawan acknowledged that there is a pattern of investments in Bali that could be called very haphazard and unorganized and that does not take into consideration the holistic philosophy of Pawongan (social aspects), Palemahan (environmental aspects) and Parhyangan (spiritual aspects), particularly in Southern Bali.

Despite a moratorium having been decreed on the construction of new tourist accommodations such as new hotels and villas, these continue to be easily established in South- ern Bali.

Many of them also violate

other rules such as annexing coastal borders on building without a permit. The establishment of new hotels and villas is also alleged to be an easy target for ‘black investors’ to launder the proceeds of crimes such as corruption. “Property, land and tourist accommodation have become the sector of choice for commenting money laundering. Moreover, this practice is enabled by our weak rules and regulations regarding investment,” said the NasDem politician from Buleleng.

He added that investment in Bali today only increases ‘speculation, commercial gain and prestige.’ As a result, the tak-

su or divine vibration of Bali is currently fading through exploitation and the island is reaching a threshold that threatens to render Bali into a place that is no longer eco-friendly, but instead filled with traffic jams, urban filth, centers of economic inequality, drugs, crime, money laundering, ‘black investments’ and other negative forces. “If they are allowed to continue like this, Bali can be destroyed by illicit and disruptive businesses ranging from money laundering, prostitution to the sale of illicit drugs that are accumulating in Bali,” said Tirtawan, while reminding the leaders of Bali to think clearly about overcoming the problem of money laundering.

“We must work together to formulate measures and find solutions that prevent and detect the practice of money laundering and snare the culprits. There must be firm action on the part of the government, rule of law regarding clear investment, so as to prevent any more money crime derived money from being laundered in Bali,” he said.

Member of Commission III of the Bali House, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana, also admitted to be concerned about the widespread practice of money laundering in Bali by corrupters. They primary modus operand for money laundering is the purchasing of assets such as land and houses as well as building hotels. According to Adnyana, by building a hotel, the proceeds of crime are more easily hidden by the corrupters.

So, it is no wonder that so many investors are competing to build new hotels as there is a possibility of money laundering.

To Balinese people, there is a big question mark as to why so many new hotels are being built, with very large investments, even though occupancy rates are in the mid to low range.

“So, the construction of new hotels is targeted by money launderers who are not looking at making a profit, but rather at ways of hiding the proceeds of crimes”.

Currently they are competing to sell hotel rooms at cheaper rates, clearly profits are not high,” said the PDI-P politician from Buleleng.

News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

Twelve videos are nominated for video of the year. Contenders include Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean.

Lady Antebellum and Kenny Chesney, also video of the year nominees, have four nominations each.

The CMT Music Awards will air live on June 10 from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Tickets go on sale Saturday and voting starts Wednesday. (ap)

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Motorist passed a property project in Kuta area. Despite a moratorium having been decreed on the construction of new tourist accommodations such as new hotels and villas, these continue to be easily established in Southern Bali. Many of them also violate other rules such as annexing coastal borders on building without a permit.