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It’s not me: S. Korean female stars rush to deny K-pop sex videos SEOUL - Female K-pop stars and actors have rushed to issue denials that they appear in sex videos secretly shot by male singers, illustrating women’s fears about victim-blaming and stigma in the face of South Korea’s enduring conservative social values. In three days no fewer than five male K-pop singers, including mega star Seungri, have been identified as recipients of illicit videos made by singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young of sexual acts with women, taken without their consent. Three are being investigated by police, while four have announced their retirements or quit their bands. There has been widespread online speculation on the victims’ identities. At least four women have issued separate statements denying they appear in the videos, with actor Oh Cho-hee saying on her Instagram account that the rumours were “really not true”. “I can’t tell you how many calls I’ve received since this morning,” she added. Most of their agents -- including two of the biggest managers in Kpop, SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment -- said they would take legal action against further online rumours that “significantly ruin their reputation and image”. Scholars and activists say the fact that being identified as a victim of sexrelated offences is seen as a threat to a woman’s status shows the enduring presence of traditional values and the tendency to blame victims in the South. “In an ideal world, women wouldn’t worry about getting their reputation ruined for matters like these,” said women’s rights activist Kang Min-jin. “And for the K-pop agencies, they are worried about getting their reputation ruined because
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Baby reunited with dad as Indonesia flood death toll hits 79
they think about female singers as their products. They are worried that their products will no longer be marketable.” (afp)
A baby trapped under rubble after flash flooding destroyed his home in Indonesia has been reunited with his father after the disaster killed the rest of their family, officials said Monday, as the death toll hit 79. The five-month old was plucked Sunday from debris inside a house where his mother and siblings were found dead in the hard-hit town of Sentani. The tot has since been returned to his surviving father. “We took the baby to the hospital and had him treated,” Papua military spokesman Muhammad Aidi told AFP. “He was in stable condition and has been released. The father was distressed but happy to be reunited with his baby.” The news came as Indonesia’s disaster agency raised the official death toll from 58 on Sunday, with more than three dozen people still missing. Indonesia’s military took up the grim task of putting the corpses of mud-caked victims into body bags, after flash floods and landslides ripped through the area. Scores have been injured in the disaster, triggered by torrential rain on Saturday. “The death toll could still go up,” said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. Rescuers battled mud, rocks and fallen trees in the hunt for survivors, as medical personnel treated the wounded in makeshift tents. “People need food, blankets, clean clothes and clean water,” Nugroho said.
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Singer iLe
NEW YORK - A rising Puerto Rican star who struck a chord with a song lambasting US oppression of her homeland is back with a provocative track tackling rape culture and society’s machismo. The singer iLe (pronounced EEELay) -- whose career kicked off as a singer for her brothers’ renowned reggaeton rap band Calle 13 -- imbues the traditional Latin bolero style that’s often reserved for romance yet with dark, poignant lyrics, calling attention to sensitive issues she says society prefers to ignore. Speaking in New York ahead of her performance at the festival “Migrations: The Making of America” -- put on by the acclaimed Carnegie Hall -- the edgy balladeer said news of the sexual assault and murder of a Puerto Rican woman inspired her to pen the vulnerable “Temes,” which unravels the emotional after-
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math of a rape. It’s “a song trying to portray so many things that we go through as women that are very unfortunate,” iLe, real name Ileana Cabra, told AFP of the song, whose title translates in English to “You’re Afraid.” “It’s a struggle that I can’t believe that we’re still going through -- but it’s important to talk about,” she said. “My best way of speaking about it is through music.” The 29-year-old singer who began performing with her superstar brothers as a teenager has since stepped into her own, winning a
Grammy for her debut solo album “Ilevitable” that saw her riff on Latin standards. Now she’s repurposing her oldschool sultry voice to take on contemporary affairs, first with 2018’s “Odio” (“Hate”), which unpacks the colonial relationship between the US and Puerto Rico, and now with the striking “Temes.” The disturbing-yet-dreamlike video for the song opens with the shoes of a man leaving a room as a woman, played by iLe, slowly composes herself, pulling up her underwear and removing ropes from her neck and wrists to reveal raw wounds. (afp)
- State of emergency In Doyo, one of the most affected areas, a housing complex was littered with huge rocks believed to have rolled down from a nearby mountain, while sediment and waste were piled up on the pavement. The military said 5,700 people have been evacuated from the hard-hit area. “We have over 1,000 personnel searching for more victims,” Aidi said. Disaster-prone Indonesia has issued a 14-day state of emergency in response to the floods. Papua shares a border with independent Papua New Guinea on an island just north of Australia. Flooding is common in Indonesia, especially during the rainy season which runs from October to April. In January, floods and landslides killed at least 70 people on Sulawesi island, while earlier this month hundreds in West Java province were forced to evacuate when torrential rains triggered severe flooding.
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This handout picture taken and released by the Indonesian Military on March 17, 2019 shows soldiers carrying a casualty on a stretcher in Sentani following flash floods in the area. Flash floods in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province have killed at least 50 people, an official said on March 17, as rescuers battled mud, rocks and fallen trees in the hunt for survivors.
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As one of the local wisdoms
Tumpek Kandang ritual at Uluwatu becomes additional attraction
MANGUPURA - Celebration of Tumpek Uye or Tumpek Kandang, on Saturday (Mar. 16) at forest and the certainly the presence the tourist attraction outside the Uluwatu Temple became an attraction for tourists. Gebogan of monkey,” he said. Similar comment was conveyed by or fruit offerings presented for a herd of monkeys became a spectacle to visiting tourists. Other Operations Manager of tourist object than becoming a tourist attraction, this local wisdom can be an attraction for tourism promotion. Chief of Pecatu customary village, I Made Sumerta, saw the enthusiasm of tourists coming to witness the ceremony. Possibly, it will be performed a dance as an additional attraction. “This ceremony can also be an additional attraction at the venue since this kind of procession is something rare for domestic and foreign tourists,” he said amid the ceremony of Tumpek Kandang in the Uluwatu area. According to him, the ceremony is an expression of gratitude so the existence of the monkey population
can live side by side with humans or visitors in the Uluwatu tourist attraction in accordance with the concept of Tri Hita Karana. This activity is regularly carried out every six months in the Balinese calendar (210 days). “This reflects the implementation of the Tri Hita Karana concept, respect for nature and its contents, one of which is the monkey,” he said. All this time, Sumerta said the monkeys in the Uluwatu area had been contributing positively to the completeness of tourist object
in the Uluwatu area. Surely, this can become a differentiator from other tourist objects because it is a supporting capacity for welfare at Pecatu village. “The tourist attraction of the Uluwatu Temple outermost courtyard can be said to be a fairly complete tourist attraction, and exceeds that of others. Moreover, Uluwatu tourist object is often referred to as the Five Wonderful Beauties at Uluwatu because visitors can see natural panorama, sunset, temple, kecak a cappella,
in the outermost area of Uluwatu Temple, Wayan Wijana. The Tumpek Kandang activity carried out every six months is an activity implementing the concept of Tri Hita Karana. He admitted that such activities also attract tourists to make a visit to the tourist attraction. In the future, he intended to make a package and design the Tumpek Kandang ceremony in a more attractive look for visitors. Hopefully, the tradition of celebrating Tumpek Kandang can increase tourist visits to Uluwatu. From the existing data,
the number of visits during 2017 was 2.2 million foreign tourists, while in 2018 increased to 2.6 million foreign tourists. “In 2019, we are targeting to attract 2.7-3 million tourists,” he assured. At present, said Wijana, the monkey population in Uluwatu area reaches 350 heads. Moreover, all of them have got good treatments because the existence of monkeys becomes one of the attractions in addition to the temples and natural panorama. “Every six months we provide vaccinations and treatments. Besides, we also give fodder three times a day. So we do hope this monkey can remain in Uluwatu region as an attraction,” he hoped. (kmb23)
Officers thwart thousands of birds smuggled via Padangbai Harbor
AMLAPURA - Quarantine officers foiled the efforts to smuggle birds to Bali through Padangbai Harbor, Manggis, Karangasem, on Saturday (Mar. 16). The birds were carried by a man from Lombok. The birds were secured because they were not equipped with a quarantine certificate from the area of origin. Coordinator of Padangbai Quar-
antine Office, Nyoman Ludra, said that after securing the birds, together with the quarantine officers he made coordination with the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), Indonesian Naval officers and the Padangbai Harbor Police (KSKP) to detain the man bringing along the birds. “Surely the thousands of birds cannot enter
Bali because they are not equipped with quarantine certificate from the area of origin and this violates the Law No. 16/1992 and Government Regulation No. 82/2000,” he said. Ludra added the birds cannot be released in Bali because it is not in accordance with their natural habitat. Based on the results of coordination carried out with quarantine
officers, the birds must be rejected in order that they stay alive, but their habitat is not here. “Thousands of the safekeeping birds consist of 250 heads of lemon-bellied white-eye, 250 heads of black-naped Oriole, 50 heads of long-tailed shrike, 50 heads of thick-billed white-eye, 750 heads of Ploceus, 100 heads of Chestnut-
backed Scimitar-babbler and 50 heads of chestnut-backed thrush packed in 109 boxes. Furthermore, he said, his office makes cooperation with the officers from the Quarantine Office to continuously work and prevent the spread of HPHK as well as maximally save the natural resources in Indonesia. (kmb41)
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Geneticists push for a 5-year global ban on gene-edited babies
BERLIN - Eighteen researchers, including two CRISPR pioneers, are calling for a temporary ban on creating gene-edited babies. “We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that is, changing heritable DNA (in sperm, eggs or embryos) to make genetically modified children,” the statement’s cosigners, who come from seven countries, wrote in the March 14 Nature. Among the document’s signatories are CRISPR pioneers Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University and Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin. The proposed moratorium would last about five years to give time for public education and debate about experiments. The delay would buy time for scientists to further test and refine CRISPR/Cas9 and other gene-editing tools to make them safer. The moratorium would also be voluntary, with each country pledging individually not to allow clinical trials for creating gene-edited children. Countries would make independent decisions on how long such a ban should last. Gene editing of embryos, eggs and sperm would still be allowed for research purposes, but those then couldn’t be implanted in a woman’s uterus to establish pregnancy. Researchers could still use CRISPR/Cas9 and other gene editors to treat genetic diseases in adults and children, provided that any changes to those people’s DNA couldn’t be passed on to the next generation. If those provisions seem familiar, they are. Some researchers and ethicists have previously called making gene-edited babies “irresponsible.” A 2017 report commissioned by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine, as well as two international conferences on human genome editing in 2015 and 2018, concluded that heritable gene editing is not ready for clinical use and should wait until the technology matures and there is public consensus on allowing it. The big difference between those statements and the new call is the word “moratorium,” says bioethicist Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin– Madison Law School. “In which case there is no real daylight, only a dictionary, between the authors of the Nature essay and the reports and summit statements made to date.” Still, those previous admonitions didn’t stop Chinese scientist Jiankui He from editing DNA in embryos that resulted in the birth of two baby girls last year (SN Online: 11/28/18). Another woman was reportedly pregnant with a gene-edited baby at the time of He’s announcement in November. Other researchers knew about He’s plans and didn’t stop him. “Given that both conferences declared as irresponsible this kind of experiment, but in fact, it went ahead, says that we needed a little bit more than just clucking at the end of things,” says molecular geneticist Paul Berg of Stanford University School of Medicine. “We needed to say a little bit more and actually call for a moratorium.” Berg, who helped author the proposal, admits the new call is mostly a matter of semantics, but argues that the word choice does matter. “If everyone is saying it would be irresponsible to do it, then why not be explicit and say it should not be done?” he says. Heads of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., and the Royal Society of Science in London published letters in support of the idea in the same issue of Nature. Other scientists say they support the proposed moratorium, but aren’t sure it will stop rogue scientists from copying He’s actions. There’s no harm in using the word “moratorium,” says Stephan Guttinger, a philosopher of biology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. But “I don’t think someone will say, ‘oh, someone said moratorium, I really can’t do that now.’” Russ Altman, a bioengineer and geneticist at Stanford University, says it may be easier now to get a moratorium to stick after He’s breach. “It will be harder to find a harbor of safety” for researchers who violate the ban, Altman says. “Now a ban will have a bigger weight of scientific credibility, and would be more likely to be obeyed.” A moratorium, if countries agree to it, would have “the force of moral authority,” even if it doesn’t have legal weight, Altman says. (net)
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Scientists have said that editing DNA in eggs, sperm or embryos to make babies with altered genes is neither safe nor acceptable. But that hasn’t stopped it from happening.
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Start to arrange access
Pejeng Kangin develops Gana Waterfall
GIANYAR - Pejeng Kangin village, Tampaksiring, has now started to develop the potential of Gana Waterfall. This endeavor is done by arranging the road access to the object. So far, there is no access to the object location.
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The skull of an ancient female hunter-gatherer from Romania (left) lacks a slight overbite seen in the 2,500-year-old skull of an adult male from Greek civilization (right).
The rise of farming altered our bite and changed how people talk
ZURICH - Humankind’s gift of gab is not set in stone, and farming could help to explain why. Over the last 6,000 years or so, farming societies increasingly have substituted processed dairy and grain products for tougher-to-chew game meat and wild plants common in huntergatherer diets. Switching to those diets of softer, processed foods altered people’s jaw structure over time, rendering certain sounds like “f” and “v” easier to utter, and changing languages worldwide, scientists contend. People who regularly chew tough foods such as game meat experience a jaw shift that removes a slight overbite from childhood. But individuals who grow up eating softer foods retain that overbite into adulthood, say comparative linguist Damián Blasi of the University of Zurich and his colleagues. Computer simulations suggest that adults with an overbite are better able to produce certain sounds that require touching the lower lip to the upper teeth, the researchers report in the March 15 Science. Linguists classify those speech sounds, found in about half of the world’s languages, as labiodentals. And when Blasi and his team reconstructed language change over time among Indo-European tongues, currently spoken from Iceland to India, the researchers found that the likelihood of using labiodentals in those languages rose substantially over the past 6,000 to 7,000 years. That was especially true when foods such as milled grains and dairy products started appearing. “Labiodental sounds emerged recently in our species, and appear more frequently in populations with long traditions of eating soft
foods,” Blasi said at a March 12 telephone news conference. Yale University linguist Claire Bowern, who did not participate in the new study, agrees. If certain sounds become easier to pronounce, the odds of those sounds appearing in words increases. But changes in how words are actually spoken still may not happen, Bowern says. So evidence of labiodentals’ rapid incorporation into many languages comes as a surprise, she says. Linguists traditionally have thought that humans have always been capable of making all sounds used in the roughly 7,000 languages still spoken today. Crucial elements of speech anatomy, such as a larynx, or voice box, positioned low in the neck, evolved in now-extinct Homo species by 500,000 years ago. Homo sapiens thus emerged around 300,000 years ago biologically prepared to talk. Then in 1985, linguist Charles Hockett argued that hunter-gatherer languages virtually never include labiodental sounds. That’s because by young adulthood, heavy tooth wear from intense chewing of tough foods triggers dental changes that move the upper teeth directly on top of the lower teeth, he con-
tended. A resulting “edge-to-edge” tooth arrangement makes it harder to form labiodental sounds, Hockett reasoned. If true, his proposal meant that the introduction of soft foods in farming societies should have safeguarded overbites and raised the likelihood that spoken languages would include labiodentals. The new study’s computer simulations support Hockett’s idea. They show that a transition from an edge-to-edge bite to a slight overbite makes it substantially easier to utter labiodental sounds. What’s more, a statistical analysis of languages and lifestyles for more than 2,400 populations around the world found that, on average, hunter-gatherers use about one labiodental sound in their speech for every four spoken by people in societies that produce and process food. A closer examination of hunter-gatherer languages in Greenland, southern Africa and Australia found few instances of labiodental sounds. Historical records indicate that words with labiodental sounds were borrowed during contacts with people from industrialized nations, the researchers say. (net)
Headman of Pejeng Kangin, I Gede Purniadi, explained that his village indeed has beautiful objects that are not inferior to waterfalls elsewhere. The pristine waterfall is located near the Gana Temple at local village. “This waterfall is perched near Gana Temple, so it is named Gana Waterfall,” he said when met some time ago. He explained the water flow of the waterfall sources from the Bukit Empelan of Pejeng, namely the tributary of Tukad Pakerisan’s river flow. Even though it is believed to be a good object to take selfie, so far there is no direct access to this location. “Unfortunately, we have no road access to the location yet,” he said. Even though having owned no proper access, the headman and other residents are optimistic to initiate the waterfall as a tourist attraction. “There is an entrance
access along about 400 meters from the parking lot belonging to village temple’s property. But no access is available to get to the waterfall,” explained Gede Purniadi. Although there is no access yet, local residents have started to clean up the location by walking along the existing paths and cliffs. He carried out cleanup in the area of the waterfall from drifted wooden twigs. Likewise, plastic waste under the waterfall is taken up. “By and large, we do mutual assistance on Fridays, along with extra work on Wednesdays. Here is our measure in making people aware of waste, and we are embarrassed later after getting the predicate as tourism village but plastic waste remains scattered,” he concluded. He also revealed the budget needed to build road access to the Gana Waterfall is estimated
to reach around IDR 250 million. It is used for the making of pathway of 1.5 meters wide and 400 meters long. Aside from having a waterfall tourism potential, the headman of Pejeng Kangin added if the village also has other potentials like the Kerobokan Cliff Temple, trekking and cycling paths in paddy fields with a track length of about 10 kilometers. “Tourism potential we have owned. However, we need to further develop human resource potential and the budget,” he added. Currently, he is seriously promoting the tourist objects at his village. He claimed to have also established a tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) because the local village is going to develop the potential it has. Moreover, the eight hamlets have the spread of plantation and rice fields. “Pokdarwis has been established,” he concluded. (kmb35)
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Pejeng Kangin village, Tampaksiring, has now started to develop the potential of Gana Waterfall.
To be a country of service
Indonesia should grow bigger
An economic observer, Faisal Basri. DENPASAR - Indonesia has become a service country. It is no longer relying on the results of export commodities, mining, agriculture, industry et cetera. This is based on data from the last five years showing off the higher growth of service sector than other sectors. This year, Indonesia’s economic growth is expected to be lower than last year’s 5.17 percent. This year is estimated to grow by 5 percent. An economic observer, Faisal
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Basri, in the Bali Business Round Table held by BPR Lestari on Saturday (Mar. 16) revealed that Indonesia has become a service country. The spearhead of Indonesia’s economic growth is service. Of the 14 service sectors, 11 of them experienced growth above the average. Meanwhile, Bali has already boosted this service sector. “Bali is not a large industrial country. Bali has chosen its identity as a service province where 79 percent
of Bali’s economy is driven by the service sector,” he said. The biggest service sector is accommodation, food and beverage. So, if wishing to develop industry in Bali, it must be related to industries producing goods needed by the locomotive of the tourism service industry. Food, beverage and craft industries to be developed must not stand alone but be in conjunction with other service industries. In addition to accommodation, food and beverage, the large sector in Bali is construction services, meaning that Bali continues to build. Other developing service sectors are transportation and warehousing. National industrial growth fell, but Bali rose 10 percent. Another developing sector in Bali is the large and small trade. “So, please build an industry related to the locomotive of the tourism service industry. It is the industry that does not depend on Java, but builds its own strength,” he explained. China’s economic conditions are predicted to grow 6.2 percent this year, the lowest in the last 17 years.
Meanwhile, most exports of Indonesia are targeted to China. Due to retardation of Chinese economic growth, the exports to China have been seen to slowdown in January to February. Commodity prices are not as good as last year. The declining trend of commodity prices is experienced by oil palm and coal. It has an impact on Bali as seen in the reduction in domestic tourist visit to Bali. Indonesia’s economic was said to be growing ‘silently’ at around 5 percent. Nevertheless, he dismissed if Indonesia’s economic growth is said to be stagnant. “The Indonesia’s economy is not stagnant or facing recession because if it stagnates, the unemployment rate will rise. But now it even goes down,” he said. Bali’s economic growth itself is above the national level, and the inflation is also low. National inflation is 3 percent, while Bali’s is just 1 percent. Bali’s income rises, spending uses the rupiah, a slight increase in price and the fastest increase
in welfare. On that account, the unemployment in Bali is low and the quality of life is good. “This is worth emulating by other provinces. Moreover, Bali does not have a similarity in its proximity to the national economy. Bali is like a country of its own. If there is anything with the national economy, Bali will not get affected because the economic structure is different,” he said. The long-term trend in economic growth of Indonesia still shows a decline. The moment of growth is said to have arrived, but more energies are needed to grow higher. “If only 5 percent, the future will be miserable. We cannot grow 5 percent, but we have to grow even higher,” he said. To be able to grow even higher, Indonesia’s energy growth must be strengthened. Within the past five years, it was not from industry, agriculture and mining, even though Freeport whose shares had been dominantly owned by Indonesian, but the growing high sector is the service industry. (kmb42)
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Preparations for Bhatara Turun Kabeh at Padangan
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Deer hunting welcomed by gamelan and dance
TABANAN - There is something unique in a series of Bhatara Turun Kabeh ritual at Puseh Temple of Padangan customary village, Pupuan. In the preparation for the grandiose ritual, there is a tradition of hunting deer in Subak Abian Batu Cepaka, Padangan village on Sunday afternoon (Mar. 17). More uniquely, the catch was welcomed by baleganjur gamelan and dance. The deer meat will later be used to complement the offerings presented at the peak of ritual on the full moon or Buda Wage Menail on Wednesday (Mar. 20). Regarding the tradition of the deer hunting, a member of the Kerta Desa of Padangan customary village, I Wayan Wardita, explained the deer meat is just presented on certain rituals such as Bhatara Turun Kabeh and Negtegan. If unable to get a deer, local residents will replace it with duck meat. But continued Wardita, the strong desire of village residents to get a deer to be presented to local deity at Padangan customary village is very high. This activity has become a tradition. Moreover, the deer populations in the northern Pupuan subdistrict, especially Padangan, Munduktemu, and Batungsel are pretty much. It is supported by the geographical location of Pupuan village, a mountainous area adjacent to Mount Batukaru. The deer coming down from the mountain to people’s gardens usually looks for food. Frequently, it damages the plants, such as snakefruit orchards. Sometimes, the deer also comes into people’s house. “At this time is the snakefruit season, so the deer is usually hunting for it. People usually hunt for
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SINGAPORE - A Singaporean couple was on Monday jailed for abusing a Myanmar maid after the pair force-fed her with a funnel, made her eat her own vomit and threatened to kill her family if she reported the maltreatment.
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In the preparation for the grandiose ritual, there is a tradition of hunting deer in Subak Abian Batu Cepaka, Padangan village. deer of medium size,” said Wardita. For hunting deer, people did not take a long time. Prior to departing, they said prayer to ask for blessing and safety at Puseh Temple of Padangan customary village as well as at the temple of Subak Abian Batu Cepaka, Padangan village. After that, dozens of Padangan villagers do hunting. They carried a net with a length of about 15 meters to be spread out to the area used as a place to trap deer. After that, a targeted deer was directed to the location of
the net or commonly known as jaragin. “Just within 1.5 hours after setting up the net and the jaragin process, we have managed to get a deer,” said Wardita. Wardita who is also headman of Padangan continued that after the deer is caught by trapping in the net, it is immediately carried by villagers. As expression of excitement, the deer captured is welcomed with gamelan music. Moreover, when female villagers are preparing rituals at Puseh Temple, the deer carried by male villagers was welcome with a
dance. “Welcome with a gamelan and dance is an expression of great joy because their hunting is paid off,” he explained. He explained the deer will be slaughtered and the meat is used to supplement the ritual paraphernalia. Meanwhile, the deer’s head will be used to perform kincang-kincung dance after the ritual procession or Umanis of the ritual on Thursday (Mar. 21). “We will present this as an expression of gratitude to deities at Padangan customary village,” he said. (kmb28)
District govt changes access to Sangeh attraction
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Access to Sangeh tourist object, Abiansemal, will be changed.
MANGUPURA - Access to Sangeh tourist object, Abiansemal, will be changed. This arrangement is made in order that the destination coming with the beauty of nature and monkey population becomes more representative. Head of the Badung Tourism Office, I Made Badra, confirmed the arrangement project plan. This bureaucrat from Kuta stated the priority of development is directed at arranging access to the tourist object surrounded by the nutmeg forest. “We are targeting the construction can be completed by the end of the year with financing through the Badung parent budget 2019. Right now, it is being auctioned,” said Made Badra, on Sunday (Mar. 17). On the website of the Electronic Procurement Service (LPSE) of Badung district there is a package of Goods or Services Grants delivered to third parties or communities for
the arrangement of Sangeh Nutmeg Forest Arrangement. The package is valued at IDR 7.1 billion with a self-estimated price (HPS) of IDR 7,069,060,799.71. “At the moment, the project is entering the auction stage at the LPSE Badung. When it (the auction—Ed) has been accomplished, the construction will be commenced immediately,” he said firmly. When confirmed separately, Operations Manager of Sangeh attraction, Made Sumohon, explained the object will make the entrance gate to the east of the object, so that it can be seen from the highway. “The main gate is planned to be made to the east, precisely next to the Lanang-Wadon nutmeg tree. Other than the gate, a lobby and ticket booth is also built,” he explained. According to him, the tourist attraction thronged by many foreign
and domestic tourists is less visible from the highway. Therefore, the local government takes the initiative to re-arrange. “It is less visible from the roadside. So, it gives impression that our tourist attraction is lonely. Besides, it is to facilitate tourist access,” he explained. Aside from entry access, later all merchants will be relocated to the parking area of the object, so as not to be scattered. However, this will be worked on gradually. Currently, it will be focusing on access issues. “In the east, there are a number of merchants. Now, all of them will be moved to the parking area, so that it looks more organized,” he explained. As is known, to reach the Sangeh tourist object, visitors must pass through the entrance to the west of the object. Actually, the object can be reached from the main road because it sits right on the edge of the main road. (kmb27)
In a case described by Singapore prosecutors as “arguably one of the worst of its kind” in the city-state, the married couple -- who were sentenced two years ago over the abuse of another maid -- beat and kicked their helper and made her clean the house in her underwear. Moe Moe Than, 32, was also given little food, limited use of the toilet and faced threats that her parents in Myanmar would be killed if she reported the abuse, court documents showed. District Judge Olivia Low on Monday sentenced the woman, Chia Yun Ling, to 47 months in prison and ordered her to pay a fine. Her husband, Tay Wee Kiat, a former information technology manager, was jailed for 24 months. They were ordered to pay compensation to the maid. Their mistreatment of Than during her employment of nearly a year in 2012 was detailed in more than 20 charges. “In the present case, the accused persons had systematically and persistently abused Moe Moe Than both physically and psychologically throughout the period of her employment,” state prosecutors told the court. One charge said Chia, a former senior sales manager, force-fed the maid a mixture of rice and sugar through a funnel after the helper told her she did not have enough food
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Singapore has taken a tough stand against maid abuse to protect some 250,000 domestic workers from other parts of Asia who work in the affluent nation for higher salaries. to eat. This caused the victim to choke and she ran to the toilet to throw up, the charge said. Chia followed, scolded and slapped the maid, and instructed her to throw up into a plastic bag “and thereafter (made) to eat her
own vomit,” the charge added. The same couple were in March 2017 sentenced to jail terms for abusing their Indonesian maid -- the husband for two years and four months and the wife for two months. They have yet to serve those sentences. Singapore has taken a tough stand against
maid abuse to protect some 250,000 domestic workers from other parts of Asia who work in the affluent nation for higher salaries. In February, a Singaporean salon manager and her husband were imprisoned for forcing their maid to pour hot water on herself, leaving her with burn marks and blisters. (afp)
Dead whale in Philippines had 40 kg of plastic in stomach
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The picture is a representation of a dead whale from ingestion of plastic created by Greenpeace Philippines.starving whale with 40 kilos (88 pounds) of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen.
MANILA - starving whale with 40 kilos (88 pounds) of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen. Environmental groups have tagged the Philippines as one of the world’s biggest ocean polluters due to its reliance on single-use plastic. That sort of pollution, which is also widespread in other southeast Asian nations, regularly kills wildlife like whales and turtles that ingest the waste. In the latest case, a Cuvier’s beaked whale died on Saturday in the southern province of Compostela Valley where it was stranded a day earlier, the government’s regional fisheries bureau said. The agency and an environmental group performed a necropsy on the animal and found about 40 kilo-
grams of plastic, including grocery bags and rice sacks. The animal died from starvation and was unable to eat because of the trash filling its stomach, said Darrell Blatchley, director of D’ Bone Collector Museum Inc., which helped conduct the examination. “It’s very disgusting and heartbreaking,” he told AFP. “We’ve done necropsies on 61 dolphins and whales in the last 10 years and this is one of the biggest (amounts of plastic) we’ve seen.” The 15.4-foot (4.7-metre) long whale was stranded in Mabini town on Friday where local officials and fishermen tried to release it, only for the creature to return to shallow water, said the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. “It could not swim on its own, emaciated and weak,” regional bureau director Fatma Idris told
AFP. “(The) animal was dehydrated. On the second day it struggled and vomited blood.” The death comes just weeks after the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternative released a report on the “shocking” amount of single-use plastic in the Philippines, including nearly 60 billion sachets a year. The Philippines has strict laws on garbage disposal but environmentalists say these are poorly implemented. The problem also plagues the archipelago’s neighbours, with a sperm whale dying in Indonesia last year with nearly six kilograms of plastic waste discovered in its stomach. In Thailand, a whale also died last year after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags. A green turtle, a protected species, suffered the same fate there in 2018. (afp)
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BUSINESS US fintech giant FIS acquires payment firm Worldpay
US financial technology giant FIS will acquire British payment processing company Worldpay for an estimated $43 billion (38 billion euros), the two firms said Monday, creating an international payments powerhouse. The announcement was billed as a merger but will see FIS shareholders take a 53 percent stake in the combined group, while Worldpay
investors will have 47 percent. When the deal is finalised in the second half of 2019, the company will retain the name FIS, the firms said in a joint statement. mIt will be based at the Jacksonville, Florida headquarters of FIS, previously known as Fidelity National Information Services. Seven of the company’s 12
board members will be from FIS, with the other five from Worldpay. Gary Norcross, chairman, president and CEO of FIS, will take the helm of the company. “Scale matters in our rapidly changing industry,” Norcross said in the statement. “Upon closing later this year, our two powerhouse organisa-
tions will combine forces to offer a customer-driven combination of scale, global presence and the industry’s broadest range of global financial solutions.” Worldpay CEO Charles Drucker, who will become vice chairman, said the merger would lead to “new scale and capabilities that will truly differentiate the company
globally”. Worldpay processes more than 40 billion transactions a year across 146 countries in more than 120 currencies. The two companies had combined sales of $12.3 billion last year, and they forecast growth of six to nine percent through 2021. (afp)
Germany’s Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank to hold talks on merger
BERLIN - Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank, and domestic rival Commerzbank have decided to open talks on a possible merger, the lenders said Sunday in an announcement that followed months of speculation about such a combination.
Commerzbank said in a one-sentence statement that the banks “have agreed today to start discussions with an open outcome on a potential merger.” Deutsche Bank said its management board had decided to “review strategic options” and added that that there was no certainty of any transaction emerging. It said “in this context, we confirm that we are engaging in discussions with Commerzbank.” A merger would combine two banks that had more than 133,000 full-time employees between them at the end of last year and have had troubles in recent years. Merger talk has been greeted by a degree of skepticism since both banks are busy overhauling their own businesses, raising the question of how they would integrate a new partner. However, there has been persistent speculation over recent months that the two lenders, with apparent encouragement from the German government, would explore a possible combination. Germany’s Finance Ministry has said that the country needs strong banks but hasn’t commented on reports that it favors and was even pushing for a merger. The Economy Ministry recently has talked of the importance of national and European “champions” that can compete on the world business scene, naming Deutsche Bank as an existing one. Deutsche Bank has been engaged in a drawn-out restructuring and cost-cutting effort in an attempt to return to steady profits and put years of legal problems behind it. In 2018, it made its first full-year profit in three years, though it reported a loss for the fourth quarter. Commerzbank, which received govern-
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Candi Tebing Tegallinggah, Glory Traces of Past Community
Suppose the Dutch archaeologist did not do excavation in the Tegallinggah area, Bedulu, Blahbatuh sub-district, Gianyar, of course we will not enjoy its beauty these days. Well, this archaeologist from Tulip country, Kisjman, conducted an investigation by digging in a small building located in the cliff of Pakerisan River.
The building is carved on a cliff wall and only considered as an entrance gate by the local community. However, from the excavation it is known there are stairs leading up inside. On each of the cliffs separated by the river, a complete temple is found with several different niches. The right gate has a larger shape. But unfortunately, nowadays the gate is only in ruins. Two temples seem to have been carved on a courtyard behind the gate, while the left arch has a half-finished monastery. Construction of the monastery is estimated to have not been completed because of an earthquake it had to be stopped. Seven niches with three phalli were also found in the temple. The lingam depicts the three main deities in Hinduism known as trinity, namely Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. Meanwhile, the existing niche is estimated to be a place of hermitage in order to get closer to God. Until now, the Tegallinggah community considers this region to possess magical powers.
Shower water in this place is taken advantage as holy water for religious ceremonies. Not infrequently, it is also used for drinking water. This place is often visited by spiritual enthusiasts for yoga as very ideal for this
purpose. Gianyar district government is seriously repairing this place, starting by building stairs to the cultural heritage estimated to be built in the eleventh century. Also there is a bridge that connects the
right and left cliffs. Thus, this place is really worth visiting, not only by those who like history but also the millennial for taking selfie. From Denpasar, it’s around 45 minutes’ drive while from the
tourist area of ??Ubud is around 25 minutes. The government also built a parking lot as well as a representative toilet. The cliff temple does indeed imply the greatness and nobility of the culture of the Balinese people of the past. (kmb)
Rai Suryawijaya: Badung Has Potent Quality Tourism Strategies
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File-Picture taken March 11, 2019 shows the head offices of Deutsche Bank, left, and Commerzbank, right. ment aid during the financial crisis, also has been restructuring. The German government still has a stake of some 15 percent in the company. In a message to Deutsche Bank employees, CEO Christian Sewing said the bank has “to assess how we want to play a part in shaping” consolidation of the German and European banking sector. “What is also important to me is that we will only pursue options that make economic sense,” he wrote.
On the chances of a deal emerging, he wrote: “Experience has shown that there may be a lot of potential economic and technical factors that could hinder or prevent such a step.” The talks “will take a while, because for us thoroughness comes before speed,” said Deutsche Bank’s head of communications, Joerg Eigendorf. Deutsche Bank has a market value of some 16 billion euros ($18.1 billion), while Commerzbank weighs in at about 9 billion
euros. The prospect of a merger got a strong thumbs-down from the ver.di service workers’ union, which cited a potential risk to tens of thousands of jobs. Union official Jan Duscheck argued that a merger would open up new risks and problems without resolving the old ones — “without added value being visible from a possible merger for the companies themselves, for consumers, for the economy, let alone for employees.” (ap)
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Synergy of stakeholders, government and community’s support are three things making development tourism developed. Tourism business is quite vulnerable. Any small shocks will result in prominent impacts, like the decrease in tourist visit. “Then, it is necessary to work hard and thoroughly to do synergy and strategy in the face of globalism,” said Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Badung Chapter, IGN Rai Suryawijaya, in the Chapter Meeting and Seminar in Kertha Gosana Room, Badung Civic Center, Friday (Feb. 2). Rai Suryawijaya added that without government support will be very lacking because tourism gave taxes to people through hotel and restaurant taxes or PHR. Tourism sector is even able to absorb labor
as evidenced after the leadership of the Badung Regent, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, where the unemployment rate continues to decline. His prominent strategy is quality tourism by improving safety, good harmony and security. “We appreciate to the regent of Badung who always facilitates and supports the tourism sector denoting the leading sector,” he said. District government also applies connection and combines the potential of North Badung, Central Badung and South Badung. For example, the government organizes an event in each region by featuring the local genius of the region. Meanwhile, to create quality human resources (HR), it sends workers abroad. Nevertheless, there are still challenges that need a solution, namely the complaint
about traffic congestion, haunting plastic waste, cultural degradation, natural disasters, and electrical energy sources that must be independent, land conversion that needs a solution and reduction in water clean. “The ultimate strategy is the synergy between government, society and industry,” he said. Therefore, Chapter Meeting and Seminar of the PHRI Badung with the theme “Synergy and Harmony, Quality Tourism Development in Badung” is intended to lead to quality tourism development through programs and collaboration with the government. In this event, proposals and suggestions will be taken to provincial and national work meetings. In essence, this event is to turn challenges into the opportunities,” he concluded. (kmb)
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NZ pledges gun control as mosque ‘gunman’ sacks lawyer
CHRISTCHURCH - New Zealand will tighten gun laws in the wake of its worst modern-day massacre, the government said Monday, as it emerged that the white supremacist accused of carrying out the killings at two mosques will represent himself in court. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her coalition was unified on the need to reduce the availability of the kind of weapons used by Brenton Tarrant as he went room to room shooting Muslims gathered for Friday prayers. “We have made a decision as a cabinet, we are unified,” she said, flanked by her coalition partner and deputy prime minister, Winston Peters. Peters, whose New Zealand First party has previously opposed changes, said he backed the prime minister fully. “The reality is that after one pm on Friday our world changed forever, and so will our laws,” he said. Ardern, the youthful premier who has become the face of the nation’s tragedy, said there would be an inquiry into the horrifying attack, as questions swirl over whether intelligence agencies should have spotted warning signs. The role of social media has also come under the spotlight, after the gunman livestreamed his rampage on Facebook. A teenager, whose name cannot be published, appeared in court Monday charged with distributing that footage. Meanwhile, police launched a probe into a bomb hoax that forced an hourslong closure of the airport in Dunedin on Sunday, where Tarrant lived. Grief continued to wash across the nation Monday, with New Zealanders of all stripes gathering to express revulsion over the killings -- and a unified front against racial hatred. Family and friends outside Al Noor mosque -- the scene of the largest massacre -- held a sunset prayer session, with their mournful cries echoing through a park as locals looked on. “It just happened to be the time of our evening prayer. Anywhere you are, you can just pray anywhere,” Saiyad Raza, who had travelled from Auckland to bury his cousin who died in the shootings, told AFP. Earlier, a Maori cleansing ceremony was performed at the mosque, bringing together indigenous Kiwis, Muslim leaders and local officials. Dozens of students then paid their respects, with many coming together for a haka -- a traditional Maori ceremonial dance that has been performed by groups across New Zealand in the wake of killings. And in Auckland, students at Orewa College gathered to form a heart and the message “Kia Kaha” -- “stay strong” in Maori. (afp)
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People pay their respects at a memorial site at the Botanical garden in Christchurch on March 18, 2019, three days after a shooting incident at two mosques in the city that claimed the lives of 50 Muslim worshippers.
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From page 1 Meanwhile, three people were killed -- including two Malaysian tourists -- and some 182 were injured after an earthquake Sunday triggered a landslide on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, next to Bali. The 5.5-magnitude quake is thought to have caused the landslide at the Tiu Kelep waterfall in the north of the island. Lombok was rocked by several earthquakes last summer, killing more than 500 people and leaving over
150,000 homeless. Last September, the country was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi island which killed around 2,200 people. The Southeast Asian archipelago of some 17,000 islands is one of the most disaster-prone nations on Earth, straddling the Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates collide. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common. (afp)
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Boeing crashes cast spotlight on US aviation regulator
NEW YORK - Was the United States complacent in its certification of the Boeing 737 MAX? That’s a question everyone is asking after Addis Ababa said flight recorded data showed “clear similarities” between last week’s Ethiopian Airlines crash and that of Indonesia’s Lion Air five months earlier.
- Boeing employees at the helm The US Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) is in the line of fire because it authorizes the commissioning of airplanes. But for the past decade, it has outsourced the mission, entrusting
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A grounded American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 is seen parked at Miami International Airport on March 14, 2019 in Miami, Florida. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded the entire United States Boeing 737 Max fleet.
In service since May 2017, the 737 MAX 8, one of several variants of the 737 MAX, has now experienced two deadly tragedies, a scenario that is unprecedented for a new aircraft. The March 10 crash, south-east of the Ethiopian capital, claimed 157 lives, on top of the 189 who died when the Lion Air flight plunged into the Java Sea in October 2018. Investigations are ongoing but early evidence has pointed to a problem with the flight stabilization system designed to prevent stalling, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS. Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said Sunday that a study of the flight data recorder retrieved from the Ethiopian plane had shown “clear similarities” to that of the Lion Air flight. While it may take months for definitive conclusions, experts are asking why the MCAS was green lit despite objections by American pilots who had voiced concerns with the system.
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the task to airplane manufacturers themselves and to external experts. Under this new program, known as the Organization Designation Authorization (ODA), employees of Boeing accredited by the FAA assist the regulator in approving the aircraft of their employer (from design, production, flight tests, maintenance and other systems) as well as signing off on the training procedures of pilots on new planes. The trend has accelerated due to budget cuts and the increasing volume of air travel, industry sources told AFP. In the case of the 737 MAX, Boeing expressed a case of urgency because of its mediumhaul competition with the Airbus A320Neo that launched shortly before, the sources said. The original safety analysis that Boeing delivered to the FAA had “several crucial flaws”, according to a report in the Seattle Times on Sunday. There were also strong differences of opinion between FAA staff in Seattle, where Boeing planes are built, and in the Washington D.C. headquarters, a government source told AFP. The agency defended itself Sunday, telling AFP in an email: “The 737 MAX certification program followed the FAA’s standard certification process.” Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s CEO, said Sunday the company
was finalizing a software update to the MCAS. Industry sources indicated to AFP it would be ready in about 10 days. - Public hearings? Peter DeFazio, chairman of the House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is planning to launch an investigation into the 737 MAX’s certification, Congressional sources said, adding that public hearings have not been ruled out. “The FAA’s credibility is really on the line here, as is Boeing’s. And, the global system of aircraft certification reciprocity is at risk too,” said Richard Aboulafia, an aeronautical analyst at Teal Group. Following the Lion Air crash, the FAA asked Boeing to modify its flight manuals and pilot training so they could recognize and respond to unexpected maneuvers initiated by the MCAS. Pilots had notably underlined the need for information and training beyond what had initially been provided. The 737 MAX was certified as a variant program of the its predecessor, the 737 Next Generation, despite major differences in the engine and the MCAS, according to documents available on the FAA’s website. In a nutshell, the plane was not examined in its entirety. (afp)
Indonesia summons Australian envoy over senator’s Christchurch remarks
Indonesia summoned Canberra’s ambassador Monday after an Australian senator blamed last week’s mosque attacks by a white supremacist in New Zealand on immigration. Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi said she had called ambassador Gary Quinlan to her office to convey the Muslim majority country’s “strong condemnation” of Queensland Senator Fraser Anning’s controversial comments. The 50 Muslims killed in Friday’s massacre in Christchurch included one Indonesian, while another was seriously injured. “Ambassador Quinlan conveyed his reassurance that the statement made by Senator Anning does not reflect the position and sentiments of the government and the people of Australia,” Marsudi wrote on her official Twitter account. She added: “Indonesia strongly condemns this act of terrorism which has no place in New Zealand or anywhere else in this world.” On Friday, Anning said in a statement the attack in the southern New Zealand city was the result of Muslim immigration into the country. Anning’s remarks drew condemnation from across the political spectrum in Australia. Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the comments as “appalling” and “ugly” with “no place in Australia”, as he announced a bipartisan motion of censure would be launched. Former PM Kevin Rudd dubbed Anning a “racist and a fascist”, and encouraged Australians to sign a petition calling for him to be booted out of parliament. On Saturday, Anning -- elected in 2017 by a fluke of Australia’s proportional voting system, having received only 19 first preference votes -- had to be restrained after punching a teenager who threw an egg at him in protest over his comments.(afp)
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In this Feb. 21, 2019, photo, people ride on a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) during a trial run in Jakarta, Indonesia. Commuting in the gridlocked Indonesian capital will for some involve less frustration, sweat and fumes when its first subway line opens later this month. The 10-mile system running south from Jakarta’s downtown is the first phase of a development that if fully realized will plant a cross-shaped network of stations in the teeming city of 30 million people.
Subway first step in easing Indonesian capital’s carmageddon
JAKARTA — Commuting in Indonesia’s gridlocked capital will for some involve less frustration, sweat and fumes when its first subway line opens later this month. The line is the latest of infrastructure improvements nationwide that officials hope will help the giant but laggard nation catch up with its neighbors. The 16-kilometer system running south from Jakarta’s downtown is the first phase of a development that if fully realized will plant a cross-shaped network of stations on the teeming city of 30 million people. A $2.4 billion elevated rail network linking Jakarta and its satellite cities is also taking shape, with the first stage expected to begin operating in April. Congestion has relentlessly worsened in the past decade as car ownership rose, squeezing more and more vehicles onto Jakarta’s unchanging road network. Average peak hour speed has “significantly decreased” to 10 kilometers an hour, according to the transport ministry. It often can take two or more hours to move 5 kilometers in pockets of the city. Annual losses from congestion are forecast to reach $6.5 billion
by next year. Without better public transport an even greater carmageddon is facing Jakarta as rising incomes transform the owners of its 18 million motorbikes into car owners. But it likely will take several years for mass rapid transit to make a dent in the congestion. About 1.4 million people commute into central Jakarta on work days. The initial subway line aims to carry only about 130,000 people a day by the end of this year. “We need more lines, continuing to the north, we need the east-west line, we need the loop line. By that time we can be talking about a significant impact of this metro to the traffic congestion of Jakarta,” MRT Jakarta president William Sabandar said in an interview. “But this is great momentum already. What I’m expecting now is that this can be the momentum to promote the use of public transport in Jakarta,” he said. He said the subway to the north of the city should start operating in
2024 and the east to west line could be ready by 2026 if work begins next year as planned. The city’s middle classes look with envy at the clean efficiency of cities like Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Singapore or the rapidly expanding commuter rail network in Bangkok and are keen to see progress on transport. “It’s very comfortable and I think I’ll always use it,” said oil company employee Anthon Pasaribu after joining the thousands of Jakartans who’ve taken the subway on trial runs. “The average temperature outside is 30 degrees but as soon as we get inside the temperature changes to 23-24 degrees. So it’s very comfortable and we’re not sweating at all. If we’re going for lunch it’s very comfortable,” he said. Jakarta also faces far more fundamental problems that are only slowly being addressed. Prone to flooding and rapidly sinking due to uncontrolled ground water extraction, Jakarta is the archetypical Asian megacity groaning under the weight of its dysfunction. Middle class office workers live in upmarket
oasis neighborhoods that strive to become Jakarta’s center but ultimately add to its problems. Behind the modern facade of gleaming office towers that line the major thoroughfare, revamped for last year’s Asian Games, are tightly packed neighborhoods that lack sewage or waste water treatment. Only 4 percent of Jakarta’s waste water is treated, according to the government, causing massive pollution to rivers and contaminating the ground water that supplies that city. Regina Synthia, who works at an international NGO, said she spends about a third of her income on taxis and buses. Since she lives near the last station in the new subway line, she hopes that will drop dramatically. Getting to central Jakarta for meetings is a stressful and time-consuming endeavor. But her employer is moving its offices to a location near a downtown subway station. That will mean most of its workers can commute that way to work. “With this MRT maybe it can change our paradigm,” she said. Going downtown for meetings, “we’re not afraid anymore.”(ap)
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Thiem rallies to deny Federer sixth ATP Indian Wells Masters title
INDIAN WELLS - Dominic Thiem denied Roger Federer a record sixth Indian Wells title, beating the Swiss great 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 on Sunday to claim his first ATP Masters 1000 crown.
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BADUNG - As a matter of fact, Bindu Village is not promoted to be a tourism village by the Badung Regency Government. Nevertheless, the village located in Central Badung is thronged by tourists because of its unique nature and
charm of the beautiful village. There are always tourists having a promenade to see the activities of local community, traditional houses and get involved in farming activity every day. This village is like a cultural oasis in the region
of Central Badung. Geographically, the village is adjacent to Ubud area and retains many famous artists, so it never lacks of the art performances. In the field of drama gong (traditional theater), it has some famous artists like I Wayan Lodra (as viceroy) and Gangsar or known as Mungkreg serving as the amusing clown-servant. Meanwhile, other arts consist of also cak a cappella, palegongan and mask dance. With such a great potential, Bindu Village is now developing into a new destination better known as tourism village. The Sedang Royal Palace in the village remains to preserve its natural splendor. On that account, it could draw several tourists to visit the village. “The Sedang Royal Palace has now become a tourist destination in the Central Badung, which of course has a mission to maintain the cultural traditions at
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Dominic Thiem of Austria celebrates after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in the men’s singles final on day fourteen of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 17, 2019 in Indian Wells, California. the village,” said Ngurah Oka Ardana, one of the family members of Sedang Royal Palace. Furthermore, said Oka, the royal palace had been re-focused on the uniqueness at hand. Authenticity of the architectural style remained to be preserved. Even, it was highly favored by tourists. In addition, the existing arts and culture were well maintained, too. “Please have a look at, we have re-arranged several art shows, such as cak a cappella, legong, including
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teaching Balinese dance to children of Bindu Village,” explained the owner of Furama Villas & Spa. Oka added that every tourist who had meals in the royal palace would get exceptional experience. Within the envelopment of ethnic atmosphere, the strains of traditional music instruments, such as rindik, were always presented. We strive to awaken and promote the artistic spirits at the village which has engendered a number of creative artists, he observed. (IBP/net)
The 25-year-old Austrian, ranked eighth in the world, had fallen in two prior Masters finals, both in Madrid. But he rallied for a third career win over Federer in five meetings, his first over the Swiss on hard courts. “It feels just unreal what happened in this 10 days,” Thiem said. “I came from a really bad form in all categories, and now I’m the champion of Indian Wells. “It feels not real at all,” added Thiem, the first Austrian to win a masters 1000 title since Thomas Muster at Miami in 1997. Thiem earned the crucial break in the 11th game of the final set, connecting on two sharply angled passing winners off of Federer drop shots to give himself a break point which he converted with a stinging forehand winner. “He stayed cool under pressure there,” Federer said. “When he got up to the ball, stayed calm, made the shot.” Thiem sealed the match after two hours and two minutes when Federer’s backhand found the net and will now return to a career-high ranking of fourth in the world, bumping Federer down to fifth. It was the second year in a row that Federer was denied in the Indian Wells final. In 2018 he missed out on three championship points as he fell to Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro in the title match. Federer, fresh off a remarkable 100th career title in Dubai, remains tied with Novak Djokovic for the most Indian Wells victories with five. Thiem claimed his 12th career title -- as he noted at the trophy ceremony when he acknowledged Federer. “I think it’s not my right to congratulate you, you have 88 more titles than me,” Thiem told Federer as he accepted the trophy, calling it a privilege to play against the 37-year-old superstar. (afp)
Alarm as Japan’s ‘Ice Prince’ Hanyu skips worlds practice
SAITAMA - Japan’s “Ice Prince” Yuzuru Hanyu skipped training Monday ahead of this week’s world figure skating championships, triggering fresh fitness fears over the Olympic champion. The 24-year-old, who retained his Olympic title last year after an injury-hit build-up, opted against an early morning practice in Saitama as he continues to recover from strained ankle ligaments that sidelined him for December’s Japanese nationals. Hanyu’s coach Brian Orser insisted he was “very confident” the two-time world champion would be fit, guaranteeing a fresh wave of “Yuzu-Mania” from the skater’s legions of adoring female fans who shower him with stuffed Winnie the Pooh bears after his performances. But with Hanyu struggling, American Nathan Chen arguably starts as a slight favourite to defend his world title, despite having to balance his studies at Yale university. “I’m really glad I gave myself
a shot to attempt both,” said the 19-year-old, who landed a record six quad jumps in a programme at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games in winning the free skate, though still finished outside the medals. “My skating has been going well too, so I can’t complain. The worlds is a whole other ballgame.” Hanyu’s arrival in South Korea last year was also shrouded in mystery after he twisted his ankle just weeks before the Olympics. The snake-hipped superstar has been training in secrecy once more in the run-up to the world championships in Saitama, where he captured his first world title in 2014 a month after winning gold at the Sochi Olympics. Hanyu needed painkilling shots in Pyeongchang, where he became the first man to capture back-toback Olympic figure skating gold medals in 66 years. - PM’s crushed tangerine His gutsy performance broke the internet, while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted he
had got so excited watching on television he almost squashed a tangerine to a pulp. Meanwhile, fellow Japanese Shoma Uno, who took silver behind Hanyu at the 2018 Olympics, also skipped practice on Monday -- to the disappointment of more than 200 waiting press. Few would bet against Hanyu should he recover, but Chen and Uno -- who swept to gold at the recent Four Continents meet with a record-breaking free skate -- will push him close. The host nation will be hoping teenage sensation Rika Kihira can replicate her form during a remarkable senior debut season as she seeks to become the first Japanese women’s world champion since Mao Asada in 2014. Kihira stormed to victory in both her grand prix events, the Grand Prix Final and the Four Continents, and the 16-year-old promised to put on a show for the home fans. Olympic champion Alina Zagitova will be her biggest threat as the Russian tries to atone for a fifth-
place finish at last year’s worlds. “It’s my first world championships and there will be a few nerves skating at this big Saitama rink,” Kihira told reporters. “But I’m happy to be able to skate in Japan and will look to
execute two solid skates with no mistakes.” France will look to plunder gold in the pairs through Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres, with Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron favourites in the ice dance. (afp)
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Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan hopes a recent injury won’t prevent his hopes of winning back-to-back Olympic figure skating golds.
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Liverpool survive Fulham scare to go top of Premier League
Liverpool usurped Manchester City to take top spot in the Premier League but needed a James Milner penalty nine minutes from time to see off lowly Fulham 2-1 at Craven Cottage on Sunday. The on-form Sadio Mane put the visitors in front midway through the first half, but a rare defensive mix-up between Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker allowed Ryan Babel to give his former club a huge scare 16 minutes from time. Fulham’s awful defending all season is the reason they are heading back to the Championship after just one season back in the top flight, and the hosts gave Jurgen Klopp’s men a much-needed gift when goalkeeper Sergio Rico bundled over Mane and Milner secured all three points from the spot. Liverpool now hold a two-point lead over City, but the champions have a game in hand. “Average game, sensational result,” said Klopp of his side’s performance. “City don’t look like they will drop a lot of points, so we have to win and win and win. That’s our job to do.” Liverpool completed a clean sweep of four English sides into the quarterfinals of the Champions League with a highly impressive 3-1 win at Bayern Munich on Wednesday. But they nearly suffered a very costly European hangover against a Fulham side still 13 points adrift of safety. “We had to run a lot in a week where we ran a lot,” added Klopp to justify an at times lacklustre display at such a pivotal stage of the season. Most of the visitors’ attacking threat came down their left side through Mane and the Senegalese proved the source of the breakthrough on 26 minutes. Mane scored twice in Munich in midweek and took his hot streak to 11 goals in 11 games with a simple finish after exchanging passes with Roberto Firmino.
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Ronaldo rested as Juventus lose, Inter go third with Milan derby win
Genoa’s Macedonian forward Goran Pandev (R) celebrates after scoring during the Italian Serie A football Match Genoa vs Juventus on March 17, 2019 at the
Cristiano Ronaldo was rested and Juventus crashed to their first Serie A defeat of the season at Genoa on Sunday following their Champions League heroics, as Inter won a fiery Milan derby clash 3-2 to move into third ahead of city rivals AC Milan. Ronaldo had fired Juventus into the European quarter-finals with a comeback victory over Atletico Madrid last Tuesday. Without him the team slumped to a 2-0 defeat but still remain comfortably on track for an eighth consecutive league title. Juventus’s lead was cut to 15 points by Napoli who got back winning, prevailing 4-2 against Udinese after goalkeeper David Ospina collapsed on the pitch after suffering a head injury. The on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper was later given the all clear following a CT scan at a Naples hospital. Juventus had won 24 of their 27 previous matches in Serie A this season with three draws, including a 1-1 stalemate against Genoa in Turin. “It’s not a tragedy, but I’m sorry because we wanted to remain unbeaten,”
said Allegri. “You can’t play all the games at your maximum. The Champions League match certainly weighed heavy.” It was the first league defeat for Allegri’s side since April 2018 against Napoli, and first away since losing at Sampdoria in November 2017. - ‘Time to unplug’ The Italian champions had already been beaten this season by Atalanta in the Coppa Italia and lost in the Champions League to Young Boys in the group stage and Atletico Madrid in the last-16 first leg. “The defeat could do us good, because maybe we thought we already had the league in our pockets and instead we still have to get five victories,” continued Allegri.
“Much like the Coppa Italia defeat to Atalanta, we picked the right game to lose, because it’s just before the break for international duty, so we have time to unplug and rest.” Ex-Juventus midfielder Stefano Sturaro, 26, playing his first game after ten months out with a tendon injury, scored just two minutes after coming off the bench. Another substitute Goran Pandev sealed victory for Geno with ten minutes to go. “I’m happy for him (Sturaro), because he suffered a lot and today he changed the game,” said Allegri. Napoli, meanwhile, rallied after letting a two-goal lead slip just before Ospina’s frightening collapse. The Colombian international had collided with Udinese striker Ignacio Pussetto minutes into the game, before collapsing just before half-time.
“Fortunately it’s nothing serious, he’s conscious, they did a CT scan that is negative, he’ll remain under observation tonight,” said coach Carlo Ancelotti. Amin Younes curled in his first Serie A goal after 17 minutes, with Jose Callejon connecting with a Dries Mertens cross for the second on 26 minutes. But Kevin Lasagna and Seko Fofana got two past Ospina in a sixminute spell after the half-hour mark as the Colombian looked out-of-sorts after his fourth-minute collision. Alex Meret replaced Ospina with Napoli pulling ahead when Arkadiusz Milik headed in a Callejon corner on 57 minutes, with Mertens sealing the three points on 69 minutes. - Inter edge derby Amid drama and tension at the San Siro, Inter Milan overtook AC Milan to consolidate their hopes of a Champions League return next season, ending Gennaro Gattuso’s unbeaten run
going back to December 22. AC Milan have not played in the Champions League since 2014. Matias Vecino found a way through after just three minutes at the San Siro, days after his team’s Europa League exit. Stefan de Vrij added the second on 51 minutes and Lautaro Martinez slotted in the third from the penalty spot. For Milan, Tiemoue Bakayoko headed in after 57 minutes with Mateo Musacchio reacting quickly to finish off a rebound (71). Inter had won the reverse fixture thanks to ex-captain Mauro Icardi’s late winner but the Argentine has not played in over a month amid a contract dispute. Luciano Spalletti’s side are now two points ahead of Milan. Roma, are fifth, four points adrift of the Champions League places after a 2-1 defeat to SPAL, with Lazio two points behind in sixth after beating Parma 4-1. Atalanta are equal on points with Lazio after being held 1-1 by bottom club Chievo.(afp)
- No excuses Liverpool started the second half with greater intent to try and put the game to bed. Andy Robertson was the provider as Georginio Wijnaldum headed a good opportunity over at the far post before Rico was called into action to deny Van Dijk. However, as a torrential rain shower swept over the banks of the Thames to make playing conditions hazardous, Liverpool’s slender lead proved a dangerous one. Floyd Ayite was rightly flagged offside as he headed a deflected shot past Alisson before the Brazilian number one got down well to save from Andre Zambo Anguissa. Mane was inches away from securing the points and doubling his tally for the day with a deft header from a corner that clipped the top of the crossbar. Disaster seemed to have struck for Liverpool when Van Dijk’s header back towards Alisson didn’t have enough purchase and Babel stepped in with the break of the ball to tap into an empty net. “I am not giving excuses. I should have handled it better,” admitted Van Dijk. However, the league leaders showed why they are in the running to end a 29-year title drought to get a vital three points with the help of some erratic goalkeeping from Rico. “I saw the reaction of my players and I’m really pleased with that,” added Klopp. “After the equaliser we were much clearer than before the equaliser.” Mohamed Salah’s goal drought continued as the Egyptian has scored just once now in his last 10 games, but it was his shot that(afp)
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Liverpool’s Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk controls the ball during the English Premier League football match between Fulham and Liverpool at Craven Cottage in London on March 17, 2019.
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Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates scoring the opening goal during the Spanish league football match between Real Betis and FC Barcelona at the Benito Villamarin stadium in Seville on March 17, 2019.
Fantastic Messi hat-trick blows away Betis
Even the Real Betis fans were applauding by the end as Lionel Messi scored another spectacular hat-trick to fire Barcelona to a 4-1 victory on Sunday and leave them with one hand on the La Liga trophy. Messi’s treble, his second in a month in Seville, fourth of the season and 51st of his career, moves Barca 10 points clear of Atletico Madrid with 10 games left to play, a gap surely too big to close. “We had a great opportunity to increase the gap on Atletico,” Messi said. “We had to take it tonight.” Luis Suarez, whose superb flick set up Messi’s second, scored his own brilliant goal after a scintillating solo run but it was ultimately reduced to a footnote, in what
became another night all about his Argentinian partner. The only blot was the sight of Suarez limping off late on, with what coach Ernesto Valverde suspected was a “bad sprain” to his ankle. Messi now has 29 league goals this season, 39 in all competitions, and together with Suarez’s 18 their joint-total of 47 is more than all but two of the other teams in the division. A simple finish from Suarez’s exquisite assist came between a free-kick perfectly planted into the top corner and a bending lob that grazed the crossbar and dropped in. The Betis fans left at the Benito Villamarin, and most of them were, felt compelled to stand and
applaud. “I don’t remember the opposition cheering me for a goal, I am very grateful,” Messi said. This was supposed to be one of the more awkward tests in Barcelona’s run-in, which includes Atletico Madrid at home and fifthplaced Alaves away. All the rest of their opponents currently sit 10th or lower. But regardless of the fixtures, Barca seem to be saving their best for the home straight, which bodes badly for Manchester United, whom they face in the Champions League quarter-finals next month. Already in the final of the Copa del Rey, where Barca will return to this stadium to face Valencia in May, a treble is certainly not beyond the realms of possibility.(afp)
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Liverpool survive Fulham scare to go top of Premier League
Liverpool usurped Manchester City to take top spot in the Premier League but needed a James Milner penalty nine minutes from time to see off lowly Fulham 2-1 at Craven Cottage on Sunday. The on-form Sadio Mane put the visitors in front midway through the first half, but a rare defensive mix-up between Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker allowed Ryan Babel to give his former club a huge scare 16 minutes from time. Fulham’s awful defending all season is the reason they are heading back to the Championship after just one season back in the top flight, and the hosts gave Jurgen Klopp’s men a much-needed gift when goalkeeper Sergio Rico bundled over Mane and Milner secured all three points from the spot. Liverpool now hold a two-point lead over City, but the champions have a game in hand. “Average game, sensational result,” said Klopp of his side’s performance. “City don’t look like they will drop a lot of points, so we have to win and win and win. That’s our job to do.” Liverpool completed a clean sweep of four English sides into the quarterfinals of the Champions League with a highly impressive 3-1 win at Bayern Munich on Wednesday. But they nearly suffered a very costly European hangover against a Fulham side still 13 points adrift of safety. “We had to run a lot in a week where we ran a lot,” added Klopp to justify an at times lacklustre display at such a pivotal stage of the season. Most of the visitors’ attacking threat came down their left side through Mane and the Senegalese proved the source of the breakthrough on 26 minutes. Mane scored twice in Munich in midweek and took his hot streak to 11 goals in 11 games with a simple finish after exchanging passes with Roberto Firmino.
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Ronaldo rested as Juventus lose, Inter go third with Milan derby win
Genoa’s Macedonian forward Goran Pandev (R) celebrates after scoring during the Italian Serie A football Match Genoa vs Juventus on March 17, 2019 at the
Cristiano Ronaldo was rested and Juventus crashed to their first Serie A defeat of the season at Genoa on Sunday following their Champions League heroics, as Inter won a fiery Milan derby clash 3-2 to move into third ahead of city rivals AC Milan. Ronaldo had fired Juventus into the European quarter-finals with a comeback victory over Atletico Madrid last Tuesday. Without him the team slumped to a 2-0 defeat but still remain comfortably on track for an eighth consecutive league title. Juventus’s lead was cut to 15 points by Napoli who got back winning, prevailing 4-2 against Udinese after goalkeeper David Ospina collapsed on the pitch after suffering a head injury. The on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper was later given the all clear following a CT scan at a Naples hospital. Juventus had won 24 of their 27 previous matches in Serie A this season with three draws, including a 1-1 stalemate against Genoa in Turin. “It’s not a tragedy, but I’m sorry because we wanted to remain unbeaten,”
said Allegri. “You can’t play all the games at your maximum. The Champions League match certainly weighed heavy.” It was the first league defeat for Allegri’s side since April 2018 against Napoli, and first away since losing at Sampdoria in November 2017. - ‘Time to unplug’ The Italian champions had already been beaten this season by Atalanta in the Coppa Italia and lost in the Champions League to Young Boys in the group stage and Atletico Madrid in the last-16 first leg. “The defeat could do us good, because maybe we thought we already had the league in our pockets and instead we still have to get five victories,” continued Allegri.
“Much like the Coppa Italia defeat to Atalanta, we picked the right game to lose, because it’s just before the break for international duty, so we have time to unplug and rest.” Ex-Juventus midfielder Stefano Sturaro, 26, playing his first game after ten months out with a tendon injury, scored just two minutes after coming off the bench. Another substitute Goran Pandev sealed victory for Geno with ten minutes to go. “I’m happy for him (Sturaro), because he suffered a lot and today he changed the game,” said Allegri. Napoli, meanwhile, rallied after letting a two-goal lead slip just before Ospina’s frightening collapse. The Colombian international had collided with Udinese striker Ignacio Pussetto minutes into the game, before collapsing just before half-time.
“Fortunately it’s nothing serious, he’s conscious, they did a CT scan that is negative, he’ll remain under observation tonight,” said coach Carlo Ancelotti. Amin Younes curled in his first Serie A goal after 17 minutes, with Jose Callejon connecting with a Dries Mertens cross for the second on 26 minutes. But Kevin Lasagna and Seko Fofana got two past Ospina in a sixminute spell after the half-hour mark as the Colombian looked out-of-sorts after his fourth-minute collision. Alex Meret replaced Ospina with Napoli pulling ahead when Arkadiusz Milik headed in a Callejon corner on 57 minutes, with Mertens sealing the three points on 69 minutes. - Inter edge derby Amid drama and tension at the San Siro, Inter Milan overtook AC Milan to consolidate their hopes of a Champions League return next season, ending Gennaro Gattuso’s unbeaten run
going back to December 22. AC Milan have not played in the Champions League since 2014. Matias Vecino found a way through after just three minutes at the San Siro, days after his team’s Europa League exit. Stefan de Vrij added the second on 51 minutes and Lautaro Martinez slotted in the third from the penalty spot. For Milan, Tiemoue Bakayoko headed in after 57 minutes with Mateo Musacchio reacting quickly to finish off a rebound (71). Inter had won the reverse fixture thanks to ex-captain Mauro Icardi’s late winner but the Argentine has not played in over a month amid a contract dispute. Luciano Spalletti’s side are now two points ahead of Milan. Roma, are fifth, four points adrift of the Champions League places after a 2-1 defeat to SPAL, with Lazio two points behind in sixth after beating Parma 4-1. Atalanta are equal on points with Lazio after being held 1-1 by bottom club Chievo.(afp)
- No excuses Liverpool started the second half with greater intent to try and put the game to bed. Andy Robertson was the provider as Georginio Wijnaldum headed a good opportunity over at the far post before Rico was called into action to deny Van Dijk. However, as a torrential rain shower swept over the banks of the Thames to make playing conditions hazardous, Liverpool’s slender lead proved a dangerous one. Floyd Ayite was rightly flagged offside as he headed a deflected shot past Alisson before the Brazilian number one got down well to save from Andre Zambo Anguissa. Mane was inches away from securing the points and doubling his tally for the day with a deft header from a corner that clipped the top of the crossbar. Disaster seemed to have struck for Liverpool when Van Dijk’s header back towards Alisson didn’t have enough purchase and Babel stepped in with the break of the ball to tap into an empty net. “I am not giving excuses. I should have handled it better,” admitted Van Dijk. However, the league leaders showed why they are in the running to end a 29-year title drought to get a vital three points with the help of some erratic goalkeeping from Rico. “I saw the reaction of my players and I’m really pleased with that,” added Klopp. “After the equaliser we were much clearer than before the equaliser.” Mohamed Salah’s goal drought continued as the Egyptian has scored just once now in his last 10 games, but it was his shot that(afp)
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Liverpool’s Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk controls the ball during the English Premier League football match between Fulham and Liverpool at Craven Cottage in London on March 17, 2019.
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Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates scoring the opening goal during the Spanish league football match between Real Betis and FC Barcelona at the Benito Villamarin stadium in Seville on March 17, 2019.
Fantastic Messi hat-trick blows away Betis
Even the Real Betis fans were applauding by the end as Lionel Messi scored another spectacular hat-trick to fire Barcelona to a 4-1 victory on Sunday and leave them with one hand on the La Liga trophy. Messi’s treble, his second in a month in Seville, fourth of the season and 51st of his career, moves Barca 10 points clear of Atletico Madrid with 10 games left to play, a gap surely too big to close. “We had a great opportunity to increase the gap on Atletico,” Messi said. “We had to take it tonight.” Luis Suarez, whose superb flick set up Messi’s second, scored his own brilliant goal after a scintillating solo run but it was ultimately reduced to a footnote, in what
became another night all about his Argentinian partner. The only blot was the sight of Suarez limping off late on, with what coach Ernesto Valverde suspected was a “bad sprain” to his ankle. Messi now has 29 league goals this season, 39 in all competitions, and together with Suarez’s 18 their joint-total of 47 is more than all but two of the other teams in the division. A simple finish from Suarez’s exquisite assist came between a free-kick perfectly planted into the top corner and a bending lob that grazed the crossbar and dropped in. The Betis fans left at the Benito Villamarin, and most of them were, felt compelled to stand and
applaud. “I don’t remember the opposition cheering me for a goal, I am very grateful,” Messi said. This was supposed to be one of the more awkward tests in Barcelona’s run-in, which includes Atletico Madrid at home and fifthplaced Alaves away. All the rest of their opponents currently sit 10th or lower. But regardless of the fixtures, Barca seem to be saving their best for the home straight, which bodes badly for Manchester United, whom they face in the Champions League quarter-finals next month. Already in the final of the Copa del Rey, where Barca will return to this stadium to face Valencia in May, a treble is certainly not beyond the realms of possibility.(afp)
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Thiem rallies to deny Federer sixth ATP Indian Wells Masters title
INDIAN WELLS - Dominic Thiem denied Roger Federer a record sixth Indian Wells title, beating the Swiss great 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 on Sunday to claim his first ATP Masters 1000 crown.
Bindu Village
BADUNG - As a matter of fact, Bindu Village is not promoted to be a tourism village by the Badung Regency Government. Nevertheless, the village located in Central Badung is thronged by tourists because of its unique nature and
charm of the beautiful village. There are always tourists having a promenade to see the activities of local community, traditional houses and get involved in farming activity every day. This village is like a cultural oasis in the region
of Central Badung. Geographically, the village is adjacent to Ubud area and retains many famous artists, so it never lacks of the art performances. In the field of drama gong (traditional theater), it has some famous artists like I Wayan Lodra (as viceroy) and Gangsar or known as Mungkreg serving as the amusing clown-servant. Meanwhile, other arts consist of also cak a cappella, palegongan and mask dance. With such a great potential, Bindu Village is now developing into a new destination better known as tourism village. The Sedang Royal Palace in the village remains to preserve its natural splendor. On that account, it could draw several tourists to visit the village. “The Sedang Royal Palace has now become a tourist destination in the Central Badung, which of course has a mission to maintain the cultural traditions at
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Dominic Thiem of Austria celebrates after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in the men’s singles final on day fourteen of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 17, 2019 in Indian Wells, California. the village,” said Ngurah Oka Ardana, one of the family members of Sedang Royal Palace. Furthermore, said Oka, the royal palace had been re-focused on the uniqueness at hand. Authenticity of the architectural style remained to be preserved. Even, it was highly favored by tourists. In addition, the existing arts and culture were well maintained, too. “Please have a look at, we have re-arranged several art shows, such as cak a cappella, legong, including
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teaching Balinese dance to children of Bindu Village,” explained the owner of Furama Villas & Spa. Oka added that every tourist who had meals in the royal palace would get exceptional experience. Within the envelopment of ethnic atmosphere, the strains of traditional music instruments, such as rindik, were always presented. We strive to awaken and promote the artistic spirits at the village which has engendered a number of creative artists, he observed. (IBP/net)
The 25-year-old Austrian, ranked eighth in the world, had fallen in two prior Masters finals, both in Madrid. But he rallied for a third career win over Federer in five meetings, his first over the Swiss on hard courts. “It feels just unreal what happened in this 10 days,” Thiem said. “I came from a really bad form in all categories, and now I’m the champion of Indian Wells. “It feels not real at all,” added Thiem, the first Austrian to win a masters 1000 title since Thomas Muster at Miami in 1997. Thiem earned the crucial break in the 11th game of the final set, connecting on two sharply angled passing winners off of Federer drop shots to give himself a break point which he converted with a stinging forehand winner. “He stayed cool under pressure there,” Federer said. “When he got up to the ball, stayed calm, made the shot.” Thiem sealed the match after two hours and two minutes when Federer’s backhand found the net and will now return to a career-high ranking of fourth in the world, bumping Federer down to fifth. It was the second year in a row that Federer was denied in the Indian Wells final. In 2018 he missed out on three championship points as he fell to Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro in the title match. Federer, fresh off a remarkable 100th career title in Dubai, remains tied with Novak Djokovic for the most Indian Wells victories with five. Thiem claimed his 12th career title -- as he noted at the trophy ceremony when he acknowledged Federer. “I think it’s not my right to congratulate you, you have 88 more titles than me,” Thiem told Federer as he accepted the trophy, calling it a privilege to play against the 37-year-old superstar. (afp)
Alarm as Japan’s ‘Ice Prince’ Hanyu skips worlds practice
SAITAMA - Japan’s “Ice Prince” Yuzuru Hanyu skipped training Monday ahead of this week’s world figure skating championships, triggering fresh fitness fears over the Olympic champion. The 24-year-old, who retained his Olympic title last year after an injury-hit build-up, opted against an early morning practice in Saitama as he continues to recover from strained ankle ligaments that sidelined him for December’s Japanese nationals. Hanyu’s coach Brian Orser insisted he was “very confident” the two-time world champion would be fit, guaranteeing a fresh wave of “Yuzu-Mania” from the skater’s legions of adoring female fans who shower him with stuffed Winnie the Pooh bears after his performances. But with Hanyu struggling, American Nathan Chen arguably starts as a slight favourite to defend his world title, despite having to balance his studies at Yale university. “I’m really glad I gave myself
a shot to attempt both,” said the 19-year-old, who landed a record six quad jumps in a programme at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games in winning the free skate, though still finished outside the medals. “My skating has been going well too, so I can’t complain. The worlds is a whole other ballgame.” Hanyu’s arrival in South Korea last year was also shrouded in mystery after he twisted his ankle just weeks before the Olympics. The snake-hipped superstar has been training in secrecy once more in the run-up to the world championships in Saitama, where he captured his first world title in 2014 a month after winning gold at the Sochi Olympics. Hanyu needed painkilling shots in Pyeongchang, where he became the first man to capture back-toback Olympic figure skating gold medals in 66 years. - PM’s crushed tangerine His gutsy performance broke the internet, while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted he
had got so excited watching on television he almost squashed a tangerine to a pulp. Meanwhile, fellow Japanese Shoma Uno, who took silver behind Hanyu at the 2018 Olympics, also skipped practice on Monday -- to the disappointment of more than 200 waiting press. Few would bet against Hanyu should he recover, but Chen and Uno -- who swept to gold at the recent Four Continents meet with a record-breaking free skate -- will push him close. The host nation will be hoping teenage sensation Rika Kihira can replicate her form during a remarkable senior debut season as she seeks to become the first Japanese women’s world champion since Mao Asada in 2014. Kihira stormed to victory in both her grand prix events, the Grand Prix Final and the Four Continents, and the 16-year-old promised to put on a show for the home fans. Olympic champion Alina Zagitova will be her biggest threat as the Russian tries to atone for a fifth-
place finish at last year’s worlds. “It’s my first world championships and there will be a few nerves skating at this big Saitama rink,” Kihira told reporters. “But I’m happy to be able to skate in Japan and will look to
execute two solid skates with no mistakes.” France will look to plunder gold in the pairs through Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres, with Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron favourites in the ice dance. (afp)
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Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan hopes a recent injury won’t prevent his hopes of winning back-to-back Olympic figure skating golds.
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NZ pledges gun control as mosque ‘gunman’ sacks lawyer
CHRISTCHURCH - New Zealand will tighten gun laws in the wake of its worst modern-day massacre, the government said Monday, as it emerged that the white supremacist accused of carrying out the killings at two mosques will represent himself in court. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her coalition was unified on the need to reduce the availability of the kind of weapons used by Brenton Tarrant as he went room to room shooting Muslims gathered for Friday prayers. “We have made a decision as a cabinet, we are unified,” she said, flanked by her coalition partner and deputy prime minister, Winston Peters. Peters, whose New Zealand First party has previously opposed changes, said he backed the prime minister fully. “The reality is that after one pm on Friday our world changed forever, and so will our laws,” he said. Ardern, the youthful premier who has become the face of the nation’s tragedy, said there would be an inquiry into the horrifying attack, as questions swirl over whether intelligence agencies should have spotted warning signs. The role of social media has also come under the spotlight, after the gunman livestreamed his rampage on Facebook. A teenager, whose name cannot be published, appeared in court Monday charged with distributing that footage. Meanwhile, police launched a probe into a bomb hoax that forced an hourslong closure of the airport in Dunedin on Sunday, where Tarrant lived. Grief continued to wash across the nation Monday, with New Zealanders of all stripes gathering to express revulsion over the killings -- and a unified front against racial hatred. Family and friends outside Al Noor mosque -- the scene of the largest massacre -- held a sunset prayer session, with their mournful cries echoing through a park as locals looked on. “It just happened to be the time of our evening prayer. Anywhere you are, you can just pray anywhere,” Saiyad Raza, who had travelled from Auckland to bury his cousin who died in the shootings, told AFP. Earlier, a Maori cleansing ceremony was performed at the mosque, bringing together indigenous Kiwis, Muslim leaders and local officials. Dozens of students then paid their respects, with many coming together for a haka -- a traditional Maori ceremonial dance that has been performed by groups across New Zealand in the wake of killings. And in Auckland, students at Orewa College gathered to form a heart and the message “Kia Kaha” -- “stay strong” in Maori. (afp)
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People pay their respects at a memorial site at the Botanical garden in Christchurch on March 18, 2019, three days after a shooting incident at two mosques in the city that claimed the lives of 50 Muslim worshippers.
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From page 1 Meanwhile, three people were killed -- including two Malaysian tourists -- and some 182 were injured after an earthquake Sunday triggered a landslide on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, next to Bali. The 5.5-magnitude quake is thought to have caused the landslide at the Tiu Kelep waterfall in the north of the island. Lombok was rocked by several earthquakes last summer, killing more than 500 people and leaving over
150,000 homeless. Last September, the country was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi island which killed around 2,200 people. The Southeast Asian archipelago of some 17,000 islands is one of the most disaster-prone nations on Earth, straddling the Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates collide. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common. (afp)
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Boeing crashes cast spotlight on US aviation regulator
NEW YORK - Was the United States complacent in its certification of the Boeing 737 MAX? That’s a question everyone is asking after Addis Ababa said flight recorded data showed “clear similarities” between last week’s Ethiopian Airlines crash and that of Indonesia’s Lion Air five months earlier.
- Boeing employees at the helm The US Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) is in the line of fire because it authorizes the commissioning of airplanes. But for the past decade, it has outsourced the mission, entrusting
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A grounded American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 is seen parked at Miami International Airport on March 14, 2019 in Miami, Florida. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded the entire United States Boeing 737 Max fleet.
In service since May 2017, the 737 MAX 8, one of several variants of the 737 MAX, has now experienced two deadly tragedies, a scenario that is unprecedented for a new aircraft. The March 10 crash, south-east of the Ethiopian capital, claimed 157 lives, on top of the 189 who died when the Lion Air flight plunged into the Java Sea in October 2018. Investigations are ongoing but early evidence has pointed to a problem with the flight stabilization system designed to prevent stalling, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS. Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said Sunday that a study of the flight data recorder retrieved from the Ethiopian plane had shown “clear similarities” to that of the Lion Air flight. While it may take months for definitive conclusions, experts are asking why the MCAS was green lit despite objections by American pilots who had voiced concerns with the system.
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the task to airplane manufacturers themselves and to external experts. Under this new program, known as the Organization Designation Authorization (ODA), employees of Boeing accredited by the FAA assist the regulator in approving the aircraft of their employer (from design, production, flight tests, maintenance and other systems) as well as signing off on the training procedures of pilots on new planes. The trend has accelerated due to budget cuts and the increasing volume of air travel, industry sources told AFP. In the case of the 737 MAX, Boeing expressed a case of urgency because of its mediumhaul competition with the Airbus A320Neo that launched shortly before, the sources said. The original safety analysis that Boeing delivered to the FAA had “several crucial flaws”, according to a report in the Seattle Times on Sunday. There were also strong differences of opinion between FAA staff in Seattle, where Boeing planes are built, and in the Washington D.C. headquarters, a government source told AFP. The agency defended itself Sunday, telling AFP in an email: “The 737 MAX certification program followed the FAA’s standard certification process.” Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s CEO, said Sunday the company
was finalizing a software update to the MCAS. Industry sources indicated to AFP it would be ready in about 10 days. - Public hearings? Peter DeFazio, chairman of the House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is planning to launch an investigation into the 737 MAX’s certification, Congressional sources said, adding that public hearings have not been ruled out. “The FAA’s credibility is really on the line here, as is Boeing’s. And, the global system of aircraft certification reciprocity is at risk too,” said Richard Aboulafia, an aeronautical analyst at Teal Group. Following the Lion Air crash, the FAA asked Boeing to modify its flight manuals and pilot training so they could recognize and respond to unexpected maneuvers initiated by the MCAS. Pilots had notably underlined the need for information and training beyond what had initially been provided. The 737 MAX was certified as a variant program of the its predecessor, the 737 Next Generation, despite major differences in the engine and the MCAS, according to documents available on the FAA’s website. In a nutshell, the plane was not examined in its entirety. (afp)
Indonesia summons Australian envoy over senator’s Christchurch remarks
Indonesia summoned Canberra’s ambassador Monday after an Australian senator blamed last week’s mosque attacks by a white supremacist in New Zealand on immigration. Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi said she had called ambassador Gary Quinlan to her office to convey the Muslim majority country’s “strong condemnation” of Queensland Senator Fraser Anning’s controversial comments. The 50 Muslims killed in Friday’s massacre in Christchurch included one Indonesian, while another was seriously injured. “Ambassador Quinlan conveyed his reassurance that the statement made by Senator Anning does not reflect the position and sentiments of the government and the people of Australia,” Marsudi wrote on her official Twitter account. She added: “Indonesia strongly condemns this act of terrorism which has no place in New Zealand or anywhere else in this world.” On Friday, Anning said in a statement the attack in the southern New Zealand city was the result of Muslim immigration into the country. Anning’s remarks drew condemnation from across the political spectrum in Australia. Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the comments as “appalling” and “ugly” with “no place in Australia”, as he announced a bipartisan motion of censure would be launched. Former PM Kevin Rudd dubbed Anning a “racist and a fascist”, and encouraged Australians to sign a petition calling for him to be booted out of parliament. On Saturday, Anning -- elected in 2017 by a fluke of Australia’s proportional voting system, having received only 19 first preference votes -- had to be restrained after punching a teenager who threw an egg at him in protest over his comments.(afp)
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In this Feb. 21, 2019, photo, people ride on a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) during a trial run in Jakarta, Indonesia. Commuting in the gridlocked Indonesian capital will for some involve less frustration, sweat and fumes when its first subway line opens later this month. The 10-mile system running south from Jakarta’s downtown is the first phase of a development that if fully realized will plant a cross-shaped network of stations in the teeming city of 30 million people.
Subway first step in easing Indonesian capital’s carmageddon
JAKARTA — Commuting in Indonesia’s gridlocked capital will for some involve less frustration, sweat and fumes when its first subway line opens later this month. The line is the latest of infrastructure improvements nationwide that officials hope will help the giant but laggard nation catch up with its neighbors. The 16-kilometer system running south from Jakarta’s downtown is the first phase of a development that if fully realized will plant a cross-shaped network of stations on the teeming city of 30 million people. A $2.4 billion elevated rail network linking Jakarta and its satellite cities is also taking shape, with the first stage expected to begin operating in April. Congestion has relentlessly worsened in the past decade as car ownership rose, squeezing more and more vehicles onto Jakarta’s unchanging road network. Average peak hour speed has “significantly decreased” to 10 kilometers an hour, according to the transport ministry. It often can take two or more hours to move 5 kilometers in pockets of the city. Annual losses from congestion are forecast to reach $6.5 billion
by next year. Without better public transport an even greater carmageddon is facing Jakarta as rising incomes transform the owners of its 18 million motorbikes into car owners. But it likely will take several years for mass rapid transit to make a dent in the congestion. About 1.4 million people commute into central Jakarta on work days. The initial subway line aims to carry only about 130,000 people a day by the end of this year. “We need more lines, continuing to the north, we need the east-west line, we need the loop line. By that time we can be talking about a significant impact of this metro to the traffic congestion of Jakarta,” MRT Jakarta president William Sabandar said in an interview. “But this is great momentum already. What I’m expecting now is that this can be the momentum to promote the use of public transport in Jakarta,” he said. He said the subway to the north of the city should start operating in
2024 and the east to west line could be ready by 2026 if work begins next year as planned. The city’s middle classes look with envy at the clean efficiency of cities like Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Singapore or the rapidly expanding commuter rail network in Bangkok and are keen to see progress on transport. “It’s very comfortable and I think I’ll always use it,” said oil company employee Anthon Pasaribu after joining the thousands of Jakartans who’ve taken the subway on trial runs. “The average temperature outside is 30 degrees but as soon as we get inside the temperature changes to 23-24 degrees. So it’s very comfortable and we’re not sweating at all. If we’re going for lunch it’s very comfortable,” he said. Jakarta also faces far more fundamental problems that are only slowly being addressed. Prone to flooding and rapidly sinking due to uncontrolled ground water extraction, Jakarta is the archetypical Asian megacity groaning under the weight of its dysfunction. Middle class office workers live in upmarket
oasis neighborhoods that strive to become Jakarta’s center but ultimately add to its problems. Behind the modern facade of gleaming office towers that line the major thoroughfare, revamped for last year’s Asian Games, are tightly packed neighborhoods that lack sewage or waste water treatment. Only 4 percent of Jakarta’s waste water is treated, according to the government, causing massive pollution to rivers and contaminating the ground water that supplies that city. Regina Synthia, who works at an international NGO, said she spends about a third of her income on taxis and buses. Since she lives near the last station in the new subway line, she hopes that will drop dramatically. Getting to central Jakarta for meetings is a stressful and time-consuming endeavor. But her employer is moving its offices to a location near a downtown subway station. That will mean most of its workers can commute that way to work. “With this MRT maybe it can change our paradigm,” she said. Going downtown for meetings, “we’re not afraid anymore.”(ap)
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BUSINESS US fintech giant FIS acquires payment firm Worldpay
US financial technology giant FIS will acquire British payment processing company Worldpay for an estimated $43 billion (38 billion euros), the two firms said Monday, creating an international payments powerhouse. The announcement was billed as a merger but will see FIS shareholders take a 53 percent stake in the combined group, while Worldpay
investors will have 47 percent. When the deal is finalised in the second half of 2019, the company will retain the name FIS, the firms said in a joint statement. mIt will be based at the Jacksonville, Florida headquarters of FIS, previously known as Fidelity National Information Services. Seven of the company’s 12
board members will be from FIS, with the other five from Worldpay. Gary Norcross, chairman, president and CEO of FIS, will take the helm of the company. “Scale matters in our rapidly changing industry,” Norcross said in the statement. “Upon closing later this year, our two powerhouse organisa-
tions will combine forces to offer a customer-driven combination of scale, global presence and the industry’s broadest range of global financial solutions.” Worldpay CEO Charles Drucker, who will become vice chairman, said the merger would lead to “new scale and capabilities that will truly differentiate the company
globally”. Worldpay processes more than 40 billion transactions a year across 146 countries in more than 120 currencies. The two companies had combined sales of $12.3 billion last year, and they forecast growth of six to nine percent through 2021. (afp)
Germany’s Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank to hold talks on merger
BERLIN - Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank, and domestic rival Commerzbank have decided to open talks on a possible merger, the lenders said Sunday in an announcement that followed months of speculation about such a combination.
Commerzbank said in a one-sentence statement that the banks “have agreed today to start discussions with an open outcome on a potential merger.” Deutsche Bank said its management board had decided to “review strategic options” and added that that there was no certainty of any transaction emerging. It said “in this context, we confirm that we are engaging in discussions with Commerzbank.” A merger would combine two banks that had more than 133,000 full-time employees between them at the end of last year and have had troubles in recent years. Merger talk has been greeted by a degree of skepticism since both banks are busy overhauling their own businesses, raising the question of how they would integrate a new partner. However, there has been persistent speculation over recent months that the two lenders, with apparent encouragement from the German government, would explore a possible combination. Germany’s Finance Ministry has said that the country needs strong banks but hasn’t commented on reports that it favors and was even pushing for a merger. The Economy Ministry recently has talked of the importance of national and European “champions” that can compete on the world business scene, naming Deutsche Bank as an existing one. Deutsche Bank has been engaged in a drawn-out restructuring and cost-cutting effort in an attempt to return to steady profits and put years of legal problems behind it. In 2018, it made its first full-year profit in three years, though it reported a loss for the fourth quarter. Commerzbank, which received govern-
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Candi Tebing Tegallinggah, Glory Traces of Past Community
Suppose the Dutch archaeologist did not do excavation in the Tegallinggah area, Bedulu, Blahbatuh sub-district, Gianyar, of course we will not enjoy its beauty these days. Well, this archaeologist from Tulip country, Kisjman, conducted an investigation by digging in a small building located in the cliff of Pakerisan River.
The building is carved on a cliff wall and only considered as an entrance gate by the local community. However, from the excavation it is known there are stairs leading up inside. On each of the cliffs separated by the river, a complete temple is found with several different niches. The right gate has a larger shape. But unfortunately, nowadays the gate is only in ruins. Two temples seem to have been carved on a courtyard behind the gate, while the left arch has a half-finished monastery. Construction of the monastery is estimated to have not been completed because of an earthquake it had to be stopped. Seven niches with three phalli were also found in the temple. The lingam depicts the three main deities in Hinduism known as trinity, namely Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. Meanwhile, the existing niche is estimated to be a place of hermitage in order to get closer to God. Until now, the Tegallinggah community considers this region to possess magical powers.
Shower water in this place is taken advantage as holy water for religious ceremonies. Not infrequently, it is also used for drinking water. This place is often visited by spiritual enthusiasts for yoga as very ideal for this
purpose. Gianyar district government is seriously repairing this place, starting by building stairs to the cultural heritage estimated to be built in the eleventh century. Also there is a bridge that connects the
right and left cliffs. Thus, this place is really worth visiting, not only by those who like history but also the millennial for taking selfie. From Denpasar, it’s around 45 minutes’ drive while from the
tourist area of ??Ubud is around 25 minutes. The government also built a parking lot as well as a representative toilet. The cliff temple does indeed imply the greatness and nobility of the culture of the Balinese people of the past. (kmb)
Rai Suryawijaya: Badung Has Potent Quality Tourism Strategies
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File-Picture taken March 11, 2019 shows the head offices of Deutsche Bank, left, and Commerzbank, right. ment aid during the financial crisis, also has been restructuring. The German government still has a stake of some 15 percent in the company. In a message to Deutsche Bank employees, CEO Christian Sewing said the bank has “to assess how we want to play a part in shaping” consolidation of the German and European banking sector. “What is also important to me is that we will only pursue options that make economic sense,” he wrote.
On the chances of a deal emerging, he wrote: “Experience has shown that there may be a lot of potential economic and technical factors that could hinder or prevent such a step.” The talks “will take a while, because for us thoroughness comes before speed,” said Deutsche Bank’s head of communications, Joerg Eigendorf. Deutsche Bank has a market value of some 16 billion euros ($18.1 billion), while Commerzbank weighs in at about 9 billion
euros. The prospect of a merger got a strong thumbs-down from the ver.di service workers’ union, which cited a potential risk to tens of thousands of jobs. Union official Jan Duscheck argued that a merger would open up new risks and problems without resolving the old ones — “without added value being visible from a possible merger for the companies themselves, for consumers, for the economy, let alone for employees.” (ap)
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Synergy of stakeholders, government and community’s support are three things making development tourism developed. Tourism business is quite vulnerable. Any small shocks will result in prominent impacts, like the decrease in tourist visit. “Then, it is necessary to work hard and thoroughly to do synergy and strategy in the face of globalism,” said Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Badung Chapter, IGN Rai Suryawijaya, in the Chapter Meeting and Seminar in Kertha Gosana Room, Badung Civic Center, Friday (Feb. 2). Rai Suryawijaya added that without government support will be very lacking because tourism gave taxes to people through hotel and restaurant taxes or PHR. Tourism sector is even able to absorb labor
as evidenced after the leadership of the Badung Regent, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, where the unemployment rate continues to decline. His prominent strategy is quality tourism by improving safety, good harmony and security. “We appreciate to the regent of Badung who always facilitates and supports the tourism sector denoting the leading sector,” he said. District government also applies connection and combines the potential of North Badung, Central Badung and South Badung. For example, the government organizes an event in each region by featuring the local genius of the region. Meanwhile, to create quality human resources (HR), it sends workers abroad. Nevertheless, there are still challenges that need a solution, namely the complaint
about traffic congestion, haunting plastic waste, cultural degradation, natural disasters, and electrical energy sources that must be independent, land conversion that needs a solution and reduction in water clean. “The ultimate strategy is the synergy between government, society and industry,” he said. Therefore, Chapter Meeting and Seminar of the PHRI Badung with the theme “Synergy and Harmony, Quality Tourism Development in Badung” is intended to lead to quality tourism development through programs and collaboration with the government. In this event, proposals and suggestions will be taken to provincial and national work meetings. In essence, this event is to turn challenges into the opportunities,” he concluded. (kmb)
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Preparations for Bhatara Turun Kabeh at Padangan
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Deer hunting welcomed by gamelan and dance
TABANAN - There is something unique in a series of Bhatara Turun Kabeh ritual at Puseh Temple of Padangan customary village, Pupuan. In the preparation for the grandiose ritual, there is a tradition of hunting deer in Subak Abian Batu Cepaka, Padangan village on Sunday afternoon (Mar. 17). More uniquely, the catch was welcomed by baleganjur gamelan and dance. The deer meat will later be used to complement the offerings presented at the peak of ritual on the full moon or Buda Wage Menail on Wednesday (Mar. 20). Regarding the tradition of the deer hunting, a member of the Kerta Desa of Padangan customary village, I Wayan Wardita, explained the deer meat is just presented on certain rituals such as Bhatara Turun Kabeh and Negtegan. If unable to get a deer, local residents will replace it with duck meat. But continued Wardita, the strong desire of village residents to get a deer to be presented to local deity at Padangan customary village is very high. This activity has become a tradition. Moreover, the deer populations in the northern Pupuan subdistrict, especially Padangan, Munduktemu, and Batungsel are pretty much. It is supported by the geographical location of Pupuan village, a mountainous area adjacent to Mount Batukaru. The deer coming down from the mountain to people’s gardens usually looks for food. Frequently, it damages the plants, such as snakefruit orchards. Sometimes, the deer also comes into people’s house. “At this time is the snakefruit season, so the deer is usually hunting for it. People usually hunt for
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SINGAPORE - A Singaporean couple was on Monday jailed for abusing a Myanmar maid after the pair force-fed her with a funnel, made her eat her own vomit and threatened to kill her family if she reported the maltreatment.
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In the preparation for the grandiose ritual, there is a tradition of hunting deer in Subak Abian Batu Cepaka, Padangan village. deer of medium size,” said Wardita. For hunting deer, people did not take a long time. Prior to departing, they said prayer to ask for blessing and safety at Puseh Temple of Padangan customary village as well as at the temple of Subak Abian Batu Cepaka, Padangan village. After that, dozens of Padangan villagers do hunting. They carried a net with a length of about 15 meters to be spread out to the area used as a place to trap deer. After that, a targeted deer was directed to the location of
the net or commonly known as jaragin. “Just within 1.5 hours after setting up the net and the jaragin process, we have managed to get a deer,” said Wardita. Wardita who is also headman of Padangan continued that after the deer is caught by trapping in the net, it is immediately carried by villagers. As expression of excitement, the deer captured is welcomed with gamelan music. Moreover, when female villagers are preparing rituals at Puseh Temple, the deer carried by male villagers was welcome with a
dance. “Welcome with a gamelan and dance is an expression of great joy because their hunting is paid off,” he explained. He explained the deer will be slaughtered and the meat is used to supplement the ritual paraphernalia. Meanwhile, the deer’s head will be used to perform kincang-kincung dance after the ritual procession or Umanis of the ritual on Thursday (Mar. 21). “We will present this as an expression of gratitude to deities at Padangan customary village,” he said. (kmb28)
District govt changes access to Sangeh attraction
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Access to Sangeh tourist object, Abiansemal, will be changed.
MANGUPURA - Access to Sangeh tourist object, Abiansemal, will be changed. This arrangement is made in order that the destination coming with the beauty of nature and monkey population becomes more representative. Head of the Badung Tourism Office, I Made Badra, confirmed the arrangement project plan. This bureaucrat from Kuta stated the priority of development is directed at arranging access to the tourist object surrounded by the nutmeg forest. “We are targeting the construction can be completed by the end of the year with financing through the Badung parent budget 2019. Right now, it is being auctioned,” said Made Badra, on Sunday (Mar. 17). On the website of the Electronic Procurement Service (LPSE) of Badung district there is a package of Goods or Services Grants delivered to third parties or communities for
the arrangement of Sangeh Nutmeg Forest Arrangement. The package is valued at IDR 7.1 billion with a self-estimated price (HPS) of IDR 7,069,060,799.71. “At the moment, the project is entering the auction stage at the LPSE Badung. When it (the auction—Ed) has been accomplished, the construction will be commenced immediately,” he said firmly. When confirmed separately, Operations Manager of Sangeh attraction, Made Sumohon, explained the object will make the entrance gate to the east of the object, so that it can be seen from the highway. “The main gate is planned to be made to the east, precisely next to the Lanang-Wadon nutmeg tree. Other than the gate, a lobby and ticket booth is also built,” he explained. According to him, the tourist attraction thronged by many foreign
and domestic tourists is less visible from the highway. Therefore, the local government takes the initiative to re-arrange. “It is less visible from the roadside. So, it gives impression that our tourist attraction is lonely. Besides, it is to facilitate tourist access,” he explained. Aside from entry access, later all merchants will be relocated to the parking area of the object, so as not to be scattered. However, this will be worked on gradually. Currently, it will be focusing on access issues. “In the east, there are a number of merchants. Now, all of them will be moved to the parking area, so that it looks more organized,” he explained. As is known, to reach the Sangeh tourist object, visitors must pass through the entrance to the west of the object. Actually, the object can be reached from the main road because it sits right on the edge of the main road. (kmb27)
In a case described by Singapore prosecutors as “arguably one of the worst of its kind” in the city-state, the married couple -- who were sentenced two years ago over the abuse of another maid -- beat and kicked their helper and made her clean the house in her underwear. Moe Moe Than, 32, was also given little food, limited use of the toilet and faced threats that her parents in Myanmar would be killed if she reported the abuse, court documents showed. District Judge Olivia Low on Monday sentenced the woman, Chia Yun Ling, to 47 months in prison and ordered her to pay a fine. Her husband, Tay Wee Kiat, a former information technology manager, was jailed for 24 months. They were ordered to pay compensation to the maid. Their mistreatment of Than during her employment of nearly a year in 2012 was detailed in more than 20 charges. “In the present case, the accused persons had systematically and persistently abused Moe Moe Than both physically and psychologically throughout the period of her employment,” state prosecutors told the court. One charge said Chia, a former senior sales manager, force-fed the maid a mixture of rice and sugar through a funnel after the helper told her she did not have enough food
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Singapore has taken a tough stand against maid abuse to protect some 250,000 domestic workers from other parts of Asia who work in the affluent nation for higher salaries. to eat. This caused the victim to choke and she ran to the toilet to throw up, the charge said. Chia followed, scolded and slapped the maid, and instructed her to throw up into a plastic bag “and thereafter (made) to eat her
own vomit,” the charge added. The same couple were in March 2017 sentenced to jail terms for abusing their Indonesian maid -- the husband for two years and four months and the wife for two months. They have yet to serve those sentences. Singapore has taken a tough stand against
maid abuse to protect some 250,000 domestic workers from other parts of Asia who work in the affluent nation for higher salaries. In February, a Singaporean salon manager and her husband were imprisoned for forcing their maid to pour hot water on herself, leaving her with burn marks and blisters. (afp)
Dead whale in Philippines had 40 kg of plastic in stomach
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The picture is a representation of a dead whale from ingestion of plastic created by Greenpeace Philippines.starving whale with 40 kilos (88 pounds) of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen.
MANILA - starving whale with 40 kilos (88 pounds) of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen. Environmental groups have tagged the Philippines as one of the world’s biggest ocean polluters due to its reliance on single-use plastic. That sort of pollution, which is also widespread in other southeast Asian nations, regularly kills wildlife like whales and turtles that ingest the waste. In the latest case, a Cuvier’s beaked whale died on Saturday in the southern province of Compostela Valley where it was stranded a day earlier, the government’s regional fisheries bureau said. The agency and an environmental group performed a necropsy on the animal and found about 40 kilo-
grams of plastic, including grocery bags and rice sacks. The animal died from starvation and was unable to eat because of the trash filling its stomach, said Darrell Blatchley, director of D’ Bone Collector Museum Inc., which helped conduct the examination. “It’s very disgusting and heartbreaking,” he told AFP. “We’ve done necropsies on 61 dolphins and whales in the last 10 years and this is one of the biggest (amounts of plastic) we’ve seen.” The 15.4-foot (4.7-metre) long whale was stranded in Mabini town on Friday where local officials and fishermen tried to release it, only for the creature to return to shallow water, said the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. “It could not swim on its own, emaciated and weak,” regional bureau director Fatma Idris told
AFP. “(The) animal was dehydrated. On the second day it struggled and vomited blood.” The death comes just weeks after the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternative released a report on the “shocking” amount of single-use plastic in the Philippines, including nearly 60 billion sachets a year. The Philippines has strict laws on garbage disposal but environmentalists say these are poorly implemented. The problem also plagues the archipelago’s neighbours, with a sperm whale dying in Indonesia last year with nearly six kilograms of plastic waste discovered in its stomach. In Thailand, a whale also died last year after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags. A green turtle, a protected species, suffered the same fate there in 2018. (afp)
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Geneticists push for a 5-year global ban on gene-edited babies
BERLIN - Eighteen researchers, including two CRISPR pioneers, are calling for a temporary ban on creating gene-edited babies. “We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that is, changing heritable DNA (in sperm, eggs or embryos) to make genetically modified children,” the statement’s cosigners, who come from seven countries, wrote in the March 14 Nature. Among the document’s signatories are CRISPR pioneers Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University and Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin. The proposed moratorium would last about five years to give time for public education and debate about experiments. The delay would buy time for scientists to further test and refine CRISPR/Cas9 and other gene-editing tools to make them safer. The moratorium would also be voluntary, with each country pledging individually not to allow clinical trials for creating gene-edited children. Countries would make independent decisions on how long such a ban should last. Gene editing of embryos, eggs and sperm would still be allowed for research purposes, but those then couldn’t be implanted in a woman’s uterus to establish pregnancy. Researchers could still use CRISPR/Cas9 and other gene editors to treat genetic diseases in adults and children, provided that any changes to those people’s DNA couldn’t be passed on to the next generation. If those provisions seem familiar, they are. Some researchers and ethicists have previously called making gene-edited babies “irresponsible.” A 2017 report commissioned by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine, as well as two international conferences on human genome editing in 2015 and 2018, concluded that heritable gene editing is not ready for clinical use and should wait until the technology matures and there is public consensus on allowing it. The big difference between those statements and the new call is the word “moratorium,” says bioethicist Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin– Madison Law School. “In which case there is no real daylight, only a dictionary, between the authors of the Nature essay and the reports and summit statements made to date.” Still, those previous admonitions didn’t stop Chinese scientist Jiankui He from editing DNA in embryos that resulted in the birth of two baby girls last year (SN Online: 11/28/18). Another woman was reportedly pregnant with a gene-edited baby at the time of He’s announcement in November. Other researchers knew about He’s plans and didn’t stop him. “Given that both conferences declared as irresponsible this kind of experiment, but in fact, it went ahead, says that we needed a little bit more than just clucking at the end of things,” says molecular geneticist Paul Berg of Stanford University School of Medicine. “We needed to say a little bit more and actually call for a moratorium.” Berg, who helped author the proposal, admits the new call is mostly a matter of semantics, but argues that the word choice does matter. “If everyone is saying it would be irresponsible to do it, then why not be explicit and say it should not be done?” he says. Heads of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., and the Royal Society of Science in London published letters in support of the idea in the same issue of Nature. Other scientists say they support the proposed moratorium, but aren’t sure it will stop rogue scientists from copying He’s actions. There’s no harm in using the word “moratorium,” says Stephan Guttinger, a philosopher of biology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. But “I don’t think someone will say, ‘oh, someone said moratorium, I really can’t do that now.’” Russ Altman, a bioengineer and geneticist at Stanford University, says it may be easier now to get a moratorium to stick after He’s breach. “It will be harder to find a harbor of safety” for researchers who violate the ban, Altman says. “Now a ban will have a bigger weight of scientific credibility, and would be more likely to be obeyed.” A moratorium, if countries agree to it, would have “the force of moral authority,” even if it doesn’t have legal weight, Altman says. (net)
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Scientists have said that editing DNA in eggs, sperm or embryos to make babies with altered genes is neither safe nor acceptable. But that hasn’t stopped it from happening.
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Pejeng Kangin develops Gana Waterfall
GIANYAR - Pejeng Kangin village, Tampaksiring, has now started to develop the potential of Gana Waterfall. This endeavor is done by arranging the road access to the object. So far, there is no access to the object location.
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The skull of an ancient female hunter-gatherer from Romania (left) lacks a slight overbite seen in the 2,500-year-old skull of an adult male from Greek civilization (right).
The rise of farming altered our bite and changed how people talk
ZURICH - Humankind’s gift of gab is not set in stone, and farming could help to explain why. Over the last 6,000 years or so, farming societies increasingly have substituted processed dairy and grain products for tougher-to-chew game meat and wild plants common in huntergatherer diets. Switching to those diets of softer, processed foods altered people’s jaw structure over time, rendering certain sounds like “f” and “v” easier to utter, and changing languages worldwide, scientists contend. People who regularly chew tough foods such as game meat experience a jaw shift that removes a slight overbite from childhood. But individuals who grow up eating softer foods retain that overbite into adulthood, say comparative linguist Damián Blasi of the University of Zurich and his colleagues. Computer simulations suggest that adults with an overbite are better able to produce certain sounds that require touching the lower lip to the upper teeth, the researchers report in the March 15 Science. Linguists classify those speech sounds, found in about half of the world’s languages, as labiodentals. And when Blasi and his team reconstructed language change over time among Indo-European tongues, currently spoken from Iceland to India, the researchers found that the likelihood of using labiodentals in those languages rose substantially over the past 6,000 to 7,000 years. That was especially true when foods such as milled grains and dairy products started appearing. “Labiodental sounds emerged recently in our species, and appear more frequently in populations with long traditions of eating soft
foods,” Blasi said at a March 12 telephone news conference. Yale University linguist Claire Bowern, who did not participate in the new study, agrees. If certain sounds become easier to pronounce, the odds of those sounds appearing in words increases. But changes in how words are actually spoken still may not happen, Bowern says. So evidence of labiodentals’ rapid incorporation into many languages comes as a surprise, she says. Linguists traditionally have thought that humans have always been capable of making all sounds used in the roughly 7,000 languages still spoken today. Crucial elements of speech anatomy, such as a larynx, or voice box, positioned low in the neck, evolved in now-extinct Homo species by 500,000 years ago. Homo sapiens thus emerged around 300,000 years ago biologically prepared to talk. Then in 1985, linguist Charles Hockett argued that hunter-gatherer languages virtually never include labiodental sounds. That’s because by young adulthood, heavy tooth wear from intense chewing of tough foods triggers dental changes that move the upper teeth directly on top of the lower teeth, he con-
tended. A resulting “edge-to-edge” tooth arrangement makes it harder to form labiodental sounds, Hockett reasoned. If true, his proposal meant that the introduction of soft foods in farming societies should have safeguarded overbites and raised the likelihood that spoken languages would include labiodentals. The new study’s computer simulations support Hockett’s idea. They show that a transition from an edge-to-edge bite to a slight overbite makes it substantially easier to utter labiodental sounds. What’s more, a statistical analysis of languages and lifestyles for more than 2,400 populations around the world found that, on average, hunter-gatherers use about one labiodental sound in their speech for every four spoken by people in societies that produce and process food. A closer examination of hunter-gatherer languages in Greenland, southern Africa and Australia found few instances of labiodental sounds. Historical records indicate that words with labiodental sounds were borrowed during contacts with people from industrialized nations, the researchers say. (net)
Headman of Pejeng Kangin, I Gede Purniadi, explained that his village indeed has beautiful objects that are not inferior to waterfalls elsewhere. The pristine waterfall is located near the Gana Temple at local village. “This waterfall is perched near Gana Temple, so it is named Gana Waterfall,” he said when met some time ago. He explained the water flow of the waterfall sources from the Bukit Empelan of Pejeng, namely the tributary of Tukad Pakerisan’s river flow. Even though it is believed to be a good object to take selfie, so far there is no direct access to this location. “Unfortunately, we have no road access to the location yet,” he said. Even though having owned no proper access, the headman and other residents are optimistic to initiate the waterfall as a tourist attraction. “There is an entrance
access along about 400 meters from the parking lot belonging to village temple’s property. But no access is available to get to the waterfall,” explained Gede Purniadi. Although there is no access yet, local residents have started to clean up the location by walking along the existing paths and cliffs. He carried out cleanup in the area of the waterfall from drifted wooden twigs. Likewise, plastic waste under the waterfall is taken up. “By and large, we do mutual assistance on Fridays, along with extra work on Wednesdays. Here is our measure in making people aware of waste, and we are embarrassed later after getting the predicate as tourism village but plastic waste remains scattered,” he concluded. He also revealed the budget needed to build road access to the Gana Waterfall is estimated
to reach around IDR 250 million. It is used for the making of pathway of 1.5 meters wide and 400 meters long. Aside from having a waterfall tourism potential, the headman of Pejeng Kangin added if the village also has other potentials like the Kerobokan Cliff Temple, trekking and cycling paths in paddy fields with a track length of about 10 kilometers. “Tourism potential we have owned. However, we need to further develop human resource potential and the budget,” he added. Currently, he is seriously promoting the tourist objects at his village. He claimed to have also established a tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) because the local village is going to develop the potential it has. Moreover, the eight hamlets have the spread of plantation and rice fields. “Pokdarwis has been established,” he concluded. (kmb35)
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Pejeng Kangin village, Tampaksiring, has now started to develop the potential of Gana Waterfall.
To be a country of service
Indonesia should grow bigger
An economic observer, Faisal Basri. DENPASAR - Indonesia has become a service country. It is no longer relying on the results of export commodities, mining, agriculture, industry et cetera. This is based on data from the last five years showing off the higher growth of service sector than other sectors. This year, Indonesia’s economic growth is expected to be lower than last year’s 5.17 percent. This year is estimated to grow by 5 percent. An economic observer, Faisal
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Basri, in the Bali Business Round Table held by BPR Lestari on Saturday (Mar. 16) revealed that Indonesia has become a service country. The spearhead of Indonesia’s economic growth is service. Of the 14 service sectors, 11 of them experienced growth above the average. Meanwhile, Bali has already boosted this service sector. “Bali is not a large industrial country. Bali has chosen its identity as a service province where 79 percent
of Bali’s economy is driven by the service sector,” he said. The biggest service sector is accommodation, food and beverage. So, if wishing to develop industry in Bali, it must be related to industries producing goods needed by the locomotive of the tourism service industry. Food, beverage and craft industries to be developed must not stand alone but be in conjunction with other service industries. In addition to accommodation, food and beverage, the large sector in Bali is construction services, meaning that Bali continues to build. Other developing service sectors are transportation and warehousing. National industrial growth fell, but Bali rose 10 percent. Another developing sector in Bali is the large and small trade. “So, please build an industry related to the locomotive of the tourism service industry. It is the industry that does not depend on Java, but builds its own strength,” he explained. China’s economic conditions are predicted to grow 6.2 percent this year, the lowest in the last 17 years.
Meanwhile, most exports of Indonesia are targeted to China. Due to retardation of Chinese economic growth, the exports to China have been seen to slowdown in January to February. Commodity prices are not as good as last year. The declining trend of commodity prices is experienced by oil palm and coal. It has an impact on Bali as seen in the reduction in domestic tourist visit to Bali. Indonesia’s economic was said to be growing ‘silently’ at around 5 percent. Nevertheless, he dismissed if Indonesia’s economic growth is said to be stagnant. “The Indonesia’s economy is not stagnant or facing recession because if it stagnates, the unemployment rate will rise. But now it even goes down,” he said. Bali’s economic growth itself is above the national level, and the inflation is also low. National inflation is 3 percent, while Bali’s is just 1 percent. Bali’s income rises, spending uses the rupiah, a slight increase in price and the fastest increase
in welfare. On that account, the unemployment in Bali is low and the quality of life is good. “This is worth emulating by other provinces. Moreover, Bali does not have a similarity in its proximity to the national economy. Bali is like a country of its own. If there is anything with the national economy, Bali will not get affected because the economic structure is different,” he said. The long-term trend in economic growth of Indonesia still shows a decline. The moment of growth is said to have arrived, but more energies are needed to grow higher. “If only 5 percent, the future will be miserable. We cannot grow 5 percent, but we have to grow even higher,” he said. To be able to grow even higher, Indonesia’s energy growth must be strengthened. Within the past five years, it was not from industry, agriculture and mining, even though Freeport whose shares had been dominantly owned by Indonesian, but the growing high sector is the service industry. (kmb42)
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Tumpek Kandang ritual at Uluwatu becomes additional attraction
MANGUPURA - Celebration of Tumpek Uye or Tumpek Kandang, on Saturday (Mar. 16) at forest and the certainly the presence the tourist attraction outside the Uluwatu Temple became an attraction for tourists. Gebogan of monkey,” he said. Similar comment was conveyed by or fruit offerings presented for a herd of monkeys became a spectacle to visiting tourists. Other Operations Manager of tourist object than becoming a tourist attraction, this local wisdom can be an attraction for tourism promotion. Chief of Pecatu customary village, I Made Sumerta, saw the enthusiasm of tourists coming to witness the ceremony. Possibly, it will be performed a dance as an additional attraction. “This ceremony can also be an additional attraction at the venue since this kind of procession is something rare for domestic and foreign tourists,” he said amid the ceremony of Tumpek Kandang in the Uluwatu area. According to him, the ceremony is an expression of gratitude so the existence of the monkey population
can live side by side with humans or visitors in the Uluwatu tourist attraction in accordance with the concept of Tri Hita Karana. This activity is regularly carried out every six months in the Balinese calendar (210 days). “This reflects the implementation of the Tri Hita Karana concept, respect for nature and its contents, one of which is the monkey,” he said. All this time, Sumerta said the monkeys in the Uluwatu area had been contributing positively to the completeness of tourist object
in the Uluwatu area. Surely, this can become a differentiator from other tourist objects because it is a supporting capacity for welfare at Pecatu village. “The tourist attraction of the Uluwatu Temple outermost courtyard can be said to be a fairly complete tourist attraction, and exceeds that of others. Moreover, Uluwatu tourist object is often referred to as the Five Wonderful Beauties at Uluwatu because visitors can see natural panorama, sunset, temple, kecak a cappella,
in the outermost area of Uluwatu Temple, Wayan Wijana. The Tumpek Kandang activity carried out every six months is an activity implementing the concept of Tri Hita Karana. He admitted that such activities also attract tourists to make a visit to the tourist attraction. In the future, he intended to make a package and design the Tumpek Kandang ceremony in a more attractive look for visitors. Hopefully, the tradition of celebrating Tumpek Kandang can increase tourist visits to Uluwatu. From the existing data,
the number of visits during 2017 was 2.2 million foreign tourists, while in 2018 increased to 2.6 million foreign tourists. “In 2019, we are targeting to attract 2.7-3 million tourists,” he assured. At present, said Wijana, the monkey population in Uluwatu area reaches 350 heads. Moreover, all of them have got good treatments because the existence of monkeys becomes one of the attractions in addition to the temples and natural panorama. “Every six months we provide vaccinations and treatments. Besides, we also give fodder three times a day. So we do hope this monkey can remain in Uluwatu region as an attraction,” he hoped. (kmb23)
Officers thwart thousands of birds smuggled via Padangbai Harbor
AMLAPURA - Quarantine officers foiled the efforts to smuggle birds to Bali through Padangbai Harbor, Manggis, Karangasem, on Saturday (Mar. 16). The birds were carried by a man from Lombok. The birds were secured because they were not equipped with a quarantine certificate from the area of origin. Coordinator of Padangbai Quar-
antine Office, Nyoman Ludra, said that after securing the birds, together with the quarantine officers he made coordination with the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), Indonesian Naval officers and the Padangbai Harbor Police (KSKP) to detain the man bringing along the birds. “Surely the thousands of birds cannot enter
Bali because they are not equipped with quarantine certificate from the area of origin and this violates the Law No. 16/1992 and Government Regulation No. 82/2000,” he said. Ludra added the birds cannot be released in Bali because it is not in accordance with their natural habitat. Based on the results of coordination carried out with quarantine
officers, the birds must be rejected in order that they stay alive, but their habitat is not here. “Thousands of the safekeeping birds consist of 250 heads of lemon-bellied white-eye, 250 heads of black-naped Oriole, 50 heads of long-tailed shrike, 50 heads of thick-billed white-eye, 750 heads of Ploceus, 100 heads of Chestnut-
backed Scimitar-babbler and 50 heads of chestnut-backed thrush packed in 109 boxes. Furthermore, he said, his office makes cooperation with the officers from the Quarantine Office to continuously work and prevent the spread of HPHK as well as maximally save the natural resources in Indonesia. (kmb41)
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It’s not me: S. Korean female stars rush to deny K-pop sex videos SEOUL - Female K-pop stars and actors have rushed to issue denials that they appear in sex videos secretly shot by male singers, illustrating women’s fears about victim-blaming and stigma in the face of South Korea’s enduring conservative social values. In three days no fewer than five male K-pop singers, including mega star Seungri, have been identified as recipients of illicit videos made by singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young of sexual acts with women, taken without their consent. Three are being investigated by police, while four have announced their retirements or quit their bands. There has been widespread online speculation on the victims’ identities. At least four women have issued separate statements denying they appear in the videos, with actor Oh Cho-hee saying on her Instagram account that the rumours were “really not true”. “I can’t tell you how many calls I’ve received since this morning,” she added. Most of their agents -- including two of the biggest managers in Kpop, SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment -- said they would take legal action against further online rumours that “significantly ruin their reputation and image”. Scholars and activists say the fact that being identified as a victim of sexrelated offences is seen as a threat to a woman’s status shows the enduring presence of traditional values and the tendency to blame victims in the South. “In an ideal world, women wouldn’t worry about getting their reputation ruined for matters like these,” said women’s rights activist Kang Min-jin. “And for the K-pop agencies, they are worried about getting their reputation ruined because
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Baby reunited with dad as Indonesia flood death toll hits 79
they think about female singers as their products. They are worried that their products will no longer be marketable.” (afp)
A baby trapped under rubble after flash flooding destroyed his home in Indonesia has been reunited with his father after the disaster killed the rest of their family, officials said Monday, as the death toll hit 79. The five-month old was plucked Sunday from debris inside a house where his mother and siblings were found dead in the hard-hit town of Sentani. The tot has since been returned to his surviving father. “We took the baby to the hospital and had him treated,” Papua military spokesman Muhammad Aidi told AFP. “He was in stable condition and has been released. The father was distressed but happy to be reunited with his baby.” The news came as Indonesia’s disaster agency raised the official death toll from 58 on Sunday, with more than three dozen people still missing. Indonesia’s military took up the grim task of putting the corpses of mud-caked victims into body bags, after flash floods and landslides ripped through the area. Scores have been injured in the disaster, triggered by torrential rain on Saturday. “The death toll could still go up,” said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. Rescuers battled mud, rocks and fallen trees in the hunt for survivors, as medical personnel treated the wounded in makeshift tents. “People need food, blankets, clean clothes and clean water,” Nugroho said.
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Singer iLe
NEW YORK - A rising Puerto Rican star who struck a chord with a song lambasting US oppression of her homeland is back with a provocative track tackling rape culture and society’s machismo. The singer iLe (pronounced EEELay) -- whose career kicked off as a singer for her brothers’ renowned reggaeton rap band Calle 13 -- imbues the traditional Latin bolero style that’s often reserved for romance yet with dark, poignant lyrics, calling attention to sensitive issues she says society prefers to ignore. Speaking in New York ahead of her performance at the festival “Migrations: The Making of America” -- put on by the acclaimed Carnegie Hall -- the edgy balladeer said news of the sexual assault and murder of a Puerto Rican woman inspired her to pen the vulnerable “Temes,” which unravels the emotional after-
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math of a rape. It’s “a song trying to portray so many things that we go through as women that are very unfortunate,” iLe, real name Ileana Cabra, told AFP of the song, whose title translates in English to “You’re Afraid.” “It’s a struggle that I can’t believe that we’re still going through -- but it’s important to talk about,” she said. “My best way of speaking about it is through music.” The 29-year-old singer who began performing with her superstar brothers as a teenager has since stepped into her own, winning a
Grammy for her debut solo album “Ilevitable” that saw her riff on Latin standards. Now she’s repurposing her oldschool sultry voice to take on contemporary affairs, first with 2018’s “Odio” (“Hate”), which unpacks the colonial relationship between the US and Puerto Rico, and now with the striking “Temes.” The disturbing-yet-dreamlike video for the song opens with the shoes of a man leaving a room as a woman, played by iLe, slowly composes herself, pulling up her underwear and removing ropes from her neck and wrists to reveal raw wounds. (afp)
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This handout picture taken and released by the Indonesian Military on March 17, 2019 shows soldiers carrying a casualty on a stretcher in Sentani following flash floods in the area. Flash floods in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province have killed at least 50 people, an official said on March 17, as rescuers battled mud, rocks and fallen trees in the hunt for survivors.
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