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people, some trying to take photos of the famous family. With her father’s arm around her, Willow remained attentive to her mother’s testimony and often whispered to her father. At least 30 minutes into the hearing, Will wrapped his gray blazer around Willow. The actress called for an extension of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which provides funding to combat trafficking and help trafficking victims. The act also created a task force, chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, which coordinates among federal agencies to implement policies against human trafficking. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., pledged to try to gather bipartisan congressional support to further fund the act. The State Department estimates that at least 14,500 people are trafficked to the U.S. annually.
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To develop MICE, Bali needs to establish a convention bureau
WASHINGTON — Actress and activist Jada Pinkett Smith urged Congress on Tuesday to step up the fight against human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. The actress testified during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that she plans to launch a campaign to raise awareness and spur action against human trafficking and slavery. She said the “old monster” of slavery “is still with us,” almost 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves in the U.S. “Fighting slavery doesn’t cost a lot of money. The costs of allowing it to exist in our nation and abroad are much higher,” the actress said. “It robs us of the thing we value most, our freedom.” She said the issue was brought to her attention by her daughter Willow, 11, who sat nearby with actor Will Smith, Pinkett Smith’s husband and Willow’s father. The Smiths all wore blazers over Tshirts that read, “Free Slaves.” The hearing room was filled mostly with young
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Jada Pinkett Smith testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing on “The Next Ten Years in the Fight Against Human Trafficking: Attacking the Problem with the Right Tools” on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, July 17, 2012.
DENPASAR - The development of Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Exhibition (MICE) tourism in Indonesia, especially in Bali, should be followed by promotion. Director of MICE Development and Special Interest Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Rizki Handayani, said that to develop MICE tourism, in terms of promotion, Bali needed to have an independent agency or the convention bureau.
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Charlie Sheen ‘genuinely interested’ in ‘Idol’ gig Associated Press Writer
FILE - This June 3, 2012 file photo shows actor Charlie Sheen at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles.
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NEW YORK — Could Charlie Sheen be a judge on “American Idol”? The actor says he’s game. In an interview Tuesday on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, Sheen said “Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe publicly threw his name out there as a possible judge and the idea piqued people’s interest — including his own. “It seems so out of the blue that it almost made perfect sense. I thought this could be a lot of fun,” he said. “Seriously ... I’m genuinely interested. It’s so different, it could be radical.” Sheen also told Jay Leno Monday night on “The Tonight Show” that his two demands would be that FX and his “Anger Management” team “would have to be into it” and there would need to be a charitable component to him taking the job. He may not have music experience, but neither did Ellen DeGeneres before she was named a judge for season 9. She left the show after just one season. Last week, both Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler announced they would not be returning for the show’s 12th season. Other names that have been kicked around as possible replacements include Mariah Carey and former “Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert.
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“This agency will conduct the promotion. It will get in touch with corporate decision makers and organizations related to MICE. It is an independent agency but financially supported by the government,” said Rizki Handayani in Denpasar. She said that a number of countries such as Thailand and Singapore had been implementing such an effort. Similarly, Jakarta had established an independent agency called the Jakarta Convention Bureau. “In terms of MICE facilities and infrastructure, Bali has been good. Potential buildings for MICE tourism have been widely established. However, Bali remains to face a constraint in the matter of access and it should improve the destinations,” she said. According to her, the development of MICE in Bali should not stop at that point. The perpetrators of MICE should be able to constantly fill in the opportunity so that the facilities could be taken advantage sustainably. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali, IB Ngurah Wijaya, said that Bali was necessary to have a convention bureau. At the same time, all the stakeholders having an interest in the MICE tourism wanted the formation of the bureau. “If the agency has been established, the MICE industry in Bali will not perform the promotion separately.
People gather in Bali International Convention Center (BICC), one of convention centers in Bali Island. The development of Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Exhibition (MICE) tourism in Indonesia, especially in Bali, should be followed by promotion. Director of MICE Development and Special Interest Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Rizki Handayani, said that to develop MICE tourism, in terms of promotion, Bali needed to have an independent agency or the convention bureau. Continued on page 6
Indonesia announces new bank ownership rules
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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s central bank Wednesday announced new regulations limiting bank ownership to 40 percent. The new rules limit ownership of new acquisitions by financial institutions to 40 percent, non-financial institutions to 30 percent and families or individuals to 20
percent, said Mulya Effendi Siregar, an executive director at Bank Indonesia (BI), the country’s central bank. “The ownership of commercial bank shares will apply to foreign and domestic banks to improve the health of banks,” he said. The bank said on its website that under new rules, financial institutions can own more than 40 percent of a domestic com-
mercial bank only under specific criteria and approval from BI. BI said the rules went into effect on July 13, and that state-owned banks and banks undergoing recovery are exempt. The bank said in April it would issue new ownership regulations after DBS Group of Singapore made a $7.3 billion bid to acquire Bank Danamon Indonesia, the nation’s fifth-
largest bank. BI declined to approve that deal, saying it would have to wait until new rules on foreign ownership are in place. It was unclear immediately following the announcement whether the new rules would permit the takeover or not. The new rules replace regulations that allowed local and foreign investors to own up to 99 percent of Indonesian banks.