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Tyler Perry’s ‘Boo 2!’

Tops Downbeat Weekend With $21.7 Million

LOS ANGELES - Tyler Perry has prevented a disaster at the box office with the opening of Lionsgate’s comedy sequel “Boo 2! A Madea Halloween” scaring up a solid $21.7 million at 2,388 North American locations. That was pretty much the limit of good news at the nation’s multiplexes, where moviegoers gave limited support to a quartet of new arrivals -- weather-disaster title “Geostorm,” firefighter hero tale “Only the Brave,” murder mystery “The Snowman” and faith-based drama “Same Kind of Different as Me.” “Boo 2! A Madea Halloween,” which received an A- CinemaScore, is finishing in line with expectations and about 25% behind original “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” which won its opening weekend last year. The sequel, set at a haunted campground, is directed and written by Perry, who also stars in his ninth iteration as the tough-talking Madea.

Warner Bros.’ “Geostorm,” starring Gerard Butler, is finishing a distant second place with about $13.3 million at 3,246 venues -- at the top end of modest forecasts but a major disappointment given the film’s estimated $100 million budget, financed by Warner Bros. and Skydance Media.

Movieigoers gave “Geostorm” a B- CinemaScore. The timing of the release, with hurricanes hitting hard in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico over the past two months, probably dampened enthusiam.

On the international side, “Geostorm” took in $36.4 million at 13,000 screens with first-place finishes in 36 territories to lift its international total to $49 million. South Korea and Russia were the strongest new markets.

Black Label Media’s “Only the Brave,” distributed by Sony, is heading for fifth place with $6 million at 2,577 sites, finishing behind Universal’s second weekend of “Happy Death Day” at $9.4 million and Warner’s third weekend of “Blade Runner 2049” at about $7.4 millon. “Only the Brave,” is based on the story of the 19 Arizona firefighters who died in the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, has received stellar critical support with a 90% “fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. STXfilms’ second weekend of Jackie Chan actioner “The Foreigner” will land in sixth with about $5.6 million, ahead of Universal’s “The Snowman,” which is finishing far below forecasts with $3.4 million at 1,812 venues. “The Snowman,” produced by Working Title, is in a tie with New Line’s seventh weekend of horror blockbuster “It,” which will win up with a total of $320 million domestically after 45 days. (rtr)

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Justin Timberlake performs during the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas on October 21, 2017, in Austin, Texas.

Justin Timberlake to headline Super Bowl halftime show

LOS ANGELES - Grammy Award-winning pop singer Justin Timberlake will headline the Super Bowl halftime show in February, 14 years after a “wardrobe malfunction” overshadowed his last gig at the championship game, the NFL said on Sunday.

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“Boo 2! A Madea Halloween,” which received an A- CinemaScore, is finishing in line with expectations and about 25% behind original “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” which won its opening weekend last year.

This will mark Timberlake’s third time on the halftime stage, giving the “Can’t Stop The Feeling” singer the distinction of having the most appearances by an individual entertainer, the National Football League said in a statement.

The 10-times Grammy winner last performed at the Super Bowl in 2004 when he infamously ripped off part of Janet Jackson’s garment during their halftime show in Houston and briefly bared her breast.

The incident coined the phrase

“wardrobe malfunction” The Super Bowl is the mostwatched event on U.S. television, drawing more than 100 million viewers. Previous halftime headliners include Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars and Madonna. (rtr)

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Indonesian military Chief Gatot Nurmantyo gesture as talks to reporters in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 5, 2017.

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Despite apology, Indonesia asks why U.S. blocked military chief’s travel

JAKARTA - Indonesia on Monday said it had made “urgent” requests for an explanation why the United States barred its military chief from travelling to the U.S., as anger simmered in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country over the diplomatic incident. Armed forces commander General Gatot Nurmantyo was stopped on Saturday from boarding an Emirates flight to the U.S., despite having a visa and an official invitation to a conference from his counterpart, the chairman of the U.S joint chiefs of staff, General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. Foreign minister Retno Marsudi said she had accepted an official apology from the deputy U.S. ambassador in Jakarta, but still awaited a detailed explanation.

“We conveyed that we still await clarification, an explanation why this happened,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told reporters after meeting the U.S. envoy.

“There is a sense of urgency to this that we have conveyed to them,” she said, adding that U.S. officials were “trying to coordinate

with relevant authorities in the U.S. to find out what really happened.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis apologized for the incident to his Indonesian counterpart Ryamizard Ryacudu on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting in the Philippines, and the two were photographed shaking hands. “I can confirm that he did a pull-aside with the Indonesian minister and expressed regret and apologized for the inconvenience,” Captain Jeff Davis, a spokesman for Mattis, told Reuters.

In a statement, the U.S. embassy in Jakarta said, “This issue has been resolved. There is no restriction on General Gatot’s travel and we look forward to welcoming (him) to the United States.” However, it was not immediately clear whether Nurmantyo, who has made official visits to the U.S. before, would attend the conference as scheduled on Monday and Tuesday. Some Indonesians reacted indignantly to the incident, putting up banners around the capital calling for the U.S. ambassador to be expelled and

for Americans to be “sent home”.

Former Indonesian ambassador to the United States Dino Patti Djalal called for a stronger government reaction.

“The government should not be asking for a clarification, but rather conveying a protest to the U.S. side,” he said on social network Twitter. Indonesia generally enjoys good ties with the United States. But relations have sometimes been strained over American resource companies operating in Indonesia or alleged rights abuses involving Indonesia’s military.

Nurmantyo has frequently courted controversy in Indonesia over what analysts perceive to be his political ambitions. He has been accused of whipping up nationalist sentiment by promoting the

notion that Indonesia is besieged by “proxy wars” waged by foreign states looking to undermine the country.

This month, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said the armed forces should stay out of politics and ensure their loyalty was only to the state and the government - a statement many believed referred to Nurmantyo’s actions. Nurmantyo is due to retire next March and many expect him to run for vice president or even president in 2019.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Some refugees to return home on Galungan

BANGLI —A number of Mount Agung refugees that have been occupying the Kubu Bangli refugee camps are hoping the condition of Mount Agung currently in warning status can return to normal. So, they can go to their respective home. Moreover, in the near future, especially Hindu refugees will celebrate Galungan holiday.

One of the refugees at the Kubu refugee camp, Bangli, Komang Sukreni, said on Sunday (Oct. 22) that she and her family have occupied the Kubu refugee camp since almost last month.

During her stay in the evacuation, there is not much activity she used to do as done at her home. “We’re saturated, but we do not know what do,” said the refugee from Besakih Kawan, Rendang.

She really hoped the condition of Mount Agung could return to normal. So, she and other refugees can immediately return to their respective home, do regular activities and celebrate the upcoming Galungan on Wednesday (Nov. 1).

Sukreni admitted that she is going to go home on Galungan for saying prayers. Although Galungan remains a week to go, this young housewife until now has not started to make any means of ceremony at all. As planned, the ritual paraphernalia will be made at the evacuation post a few days before Galungan. “If not evacuating, we usually have started making ritual paraphernalia,” she said.

In addition to Sukreni, another refugee is Nengah Kersa who also revealed that he plans to return home in Besakih to pray during the Galungan holiday. Probably, the prayers will only be done at home. He will not do it to temples as he did in the previous Galungan festivities. “By and large, other than at home we also say prayers to clan temple, village trinity temples including other temples in the area of Besakih,” he explained.

Kersa admitted that he plans to go home with his family in the morning and return to the evacuation in the afternoon. He will come home with all the children if there is no one taking care of his children in the refugee camp. “If there is no officer on duty here, maybe we will take them home,” he added. (kmb40)

One of The Most Magnificent Mountain in Bali

Located on the most eastern side of the Island of Bali, Mount Agung is the highest mountain on Bali and is held sacred by the population. Bali’s mother temple, Pura Besakih, is located high up the mountain slope. The volcano is 51 km away from Ubud, 76 km away from the popular Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Uluwatu, Kuta, Legian, Seminyak and other popular tourist destinations; and is also away from its capital city of Denpasar, so that tourists visiting the other parts of Bali SHOULD NOT be affected should the mountain erupt.

The government is preparing nine airports to redirect airplanes heading to I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport on the resort island of Bali, should the airport be closed in the event of a Mount Agung eruption. The nine airports are Juanda Airport in Surabaya, Blimbingsari Airport in Banyuwangi, Adi Sumarmo Airport in Surakarta, Lombok Airport in West Nusa Tenggara, Komodo Airport Labuan Bajo, Hassanudin Airport in Makassar and Sepinggan Airport in Balikpapan, Sam Ratulangi Airport in Manado and Pattimura Airport in Ambon.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency also has stated that residents and visitors should not be within a 9 km (5.6 Miles) radius and within a 12 km (7.5 Miles) to the North, North-East, SouthEast, and South/South-West of the mountain. So therefore, when you think about your next holiday, think about making friends with the people of Bali. And if you are traveling to and from the island during this time, we do advise you to confirm your travel arrangements directly with your Airlines Company or Travel Agent before heading to the airport.

Thank you so much for your endless support and thank you again for choosing Bali as your leisure holiday destination and we are looking forward to welcoming you and trust that now is the time to come and safely experience one of nature’s most incredible wonders.

Activities

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A Spectacular Line-Up This Autumn for the Great November Feast

EVERY MONDAY Movie Monday19:00-21:00 Genius Cafe- Home to the entrepreneur Beach CLub Mertasari Beach (Next to Mercure), Sanur EVERY TUESDAY Ecstatic contact dance: Transformative journey Paradiso Ubud, Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud 100k includes dinner

The refugees play volley ball in the refugee point.

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To eliminate saturation

Residents kill time by playing volleyball in refuge

AMLAPURA —Various ways are taken by refugees to eliminate saturation in refugee camps as what has been done by young and old people in evacuation at the Agriculture Office at Rendang village, Karangasem. To release saturation after evacuating for a month, they do sport activities by playing volleyball.

O n e o f t h e r e f u g e e s p a rticipating in playing volleyball, Mangku Kariasa, said on Sunday (Oct. 22) that, incidentally Kesimpar hamlet, Besakih, has a volleyball and net. So, he and other young people took the initiative to bring along the ball to the evacuation site. Moreover, he said that in the refuge there is field facility to play volleyball.

So, he along with other refugees eventually takes advantage of the field.

“Since incidentally there are

a ball, net as well as a field, we finally invite the young people in the refugee camp to play volleyball, rather than the ball and the net kept at all, so it is better to be used,” he said.

He said the volleyball game is done to eliminate saturation during in evacuation. He does not know how long they will be in the refugee camp. Therefore, their free time is filled with such activity even though it does not make money. However, the exercise will be able to main-

tain body health and avoid the attack of disease. According to him, the most important is how to enjoy the days with comfort while in the evacuation.

“We started playing volleyball about a week ago before that we did not have any activity.

Now, we play every day and it is never quiet. We start playing from the afternoon. Sometimes the play lasts until the night because this location is equipped with lighting,” said Kariasa. (kmb41)

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Feast up this fall during the Great November Feast: a highly anticipated, fully packed month of festivals, promotions and events that will feature some of the best food and drink Hong Kong has to offer. Tourists are in for a treat as many venues across the city will showcase one-off menus and titillating tipples especially for the occasion.

Crabalicious, a month-long celebration of the crustaceous creature. Participating restaurants like Michelin-starred restaurants Akrame, Ye Shanghai and more will offer a crab-based set menu during the whole of November. The seasonal hairy crab will also be making an appearance on some of the menus.

Sparkling Sunset @ Harbour City, a wine- and crab-pairing package offered between 5-8pm Thursdays and Fridays, and 3-8pm on weekends from 26 October - 12 November at the new Ocean Terminal Deck. For

HK $100, customers can enjoy a “Sparkle and Shine” party set that entitles them to three glasses of sparkling wine paired with three crab snacks, all while admiring the glorious sunset.

Lan Kwai Fong Carnival, a lively annual outdoor bash hosted in one of Hong Kong’s most bustling party districts. This year, the theme is Japanese, meaning everything will have a touch of Nipponese influence. Set aside 11-12 November for the twoday affair, which promises to be the largest street party in Hong Kong.

Great Wines of the World 2017, an international wine exhibition in collaboration with wine critic James Suckling. Held at the Four Seasons Hotel this 3 November, the ticketed event will feature high-ranking wines from China, Argentina, Thailand, France and more.

For more event information,

please visit http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/eventsfestivals/highlight-events/greatnovember-feast.jsp. The Great November Feast will be opened by the annual Wine & Dine Festival on 26-29 October. This year, the festival is bigger and better than all previous editions, with 400-plus booths touting delicacies from Hong Kong and across the globe.

There’s the FeedMe lane featuring dishes by some of the city’s trendiest restaurants, including Bo Innovation, Chili Fagara and Lai Bun Fu. Then there’s the Robert Parker Wine Advocate Pavilion highlighting offthe-beaten-path wines from around the world. Meanwhile, The Concept Store will be a hit for style-conscious customers keen to get their hands on the designers’ kitchen gadget. And that’s just a small glimpse into the Festival!

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Science

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International

‘Save the dung beetle!’

Global science chief says biodiversity vital Asia in March 2018.

They will also issue a report on land degradation and restoration in 2018, and a global summary of biodiversity in 2019, he said.

Man-made threats to nature include pollution, the clearance of forests to make way for farms and cities, invasive species in new habitats and rising temperatures caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

Watson said people often think of charismatic species - such as lions, polar bears or orang-utans - when they consider threats to the natural world. He said the reports would put a far wider spotlight on how ecosystems work.

And he said that less wellknown creatures, such as worms or insects, are vital by helping to

cycle nutrients in the soil.

“Some of the most important species aren’t very charismatic like the dung beetle in the African plains,” Watson said.

“If you tell people ‘We need to save the dung beetle’ I think one’s going to get a pretty jaundiced look,” he said.

IPBES issued its first report last year, showing that bees and other pollinators are at risk from pesticides and disease.

It estimated that $235 billion to $577 billion of annual world food production at market prices, from coffee in Brazil to apples in China, depends on pollinators.

The IPBES reports would gauge the risks to natural systems, ranging from coral reefs to cloud forests. (rtr)

MANGUPURA — A theft case occurred at Villa Suliac on Jalan Bhisma, Legian, Kuta, last Thursday (Oct. 19). The victims are six foreigners from Australia namely Jane Michelle Aboud, Morgan Kyene, Nicholas Joseph Anderson, Liam Garrardth Eborne Aboud, Renata Pusi and Daniel John Anderson. The culprit is no other than the villa staff, Putu Dedy Artawan, 24, and was arrested on Friday (Oct. 20). The losses are estimated to reach thousands of Australian dollars.

According to a source on Sunday (Oct. 22), the theft case was reported to Kuta police by Jane Michelle. After receiving the report on the incident, the operation team led by Putu Budiartama came down to crime scene on Friday (Oct. 20) at 09:00. As the information obtained from the management, police officers focused on investigating the housekeeping staff of the villa. “Police finally arrested the culprit, Dedy Artawan, at Villa Aramanis on Jalan Plawa, Gang Beji, Kuta.

Villa Aramanis is under the same management as the Villa Suliac,” said the source asking for anonymity.

When interrogated, the culprit from Tabanan claimed to take the money belonging to Villa Suliac guests (victims) during the morning shift. The culprit admitted to have taken the money of the victims in three different safety boxes in the rooms, namely room #01, #02 and #03. All the three rooms are opened by using master key held by housekeeping. In the meantime, the safety box keys are quietly taken from the room box of Villa Suliac staff.

However, the culprit claimed to be only managed to take as much as AUD 1,900 with denomination of AUD 50 amounting to 38 banknotes from the three safety boxes. After successfully taking the money, he worked as usual. In the evening, the stolen money was stored in his belt bag. On the next day, the money was brought home and hidden in the ventilation hole of the bathroom door at his boarding house.

Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, accompanied by Criminal Investigation Unit Chief, Putu Budiartama, when asked for his confirmation justified the disclosure of the theft case. Currently, the culprit has been detained and the evidence has been secured. (kmb36) REUTERS/Joe Skipper

A remodeled version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the launcher first mission since a June failure in Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 21, 2015. The rocket carried a payload of eleven satellites owned by Orbcomm, a New Jersey-based communications company. The first stage returned to land following launch.

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Residents of Kesimpar hamlet started to feel saturation during the evacuation.

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Happy and unhappy stories of evacuees at Rendang refuge

RESIDENTS living in disaster-prone areas (KRB) have evacuated to a safer place for nearly a month. For instance, residents of Kesimpar hamlet, Besakih, evacuate to Refugee Post in Rendang Agriculture Office. They started to feel saturation during the evacuation. To eliminate saturation, a number of refugees are reckless to return home just for doing agricultural activities, working and see their house after being left to flee.

SpaceX, Spacecom to launch new satellites after explosion last year

Two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung on gravel.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Villa staff steals money of six foreign guests

OSLO - Governments should extend the protection of nature far beyond iconic creatures such as tigers and elephants to species including worms and beetles that are vital to human prosperity, the chair of a global scientific project said on Thursday.

“We are trying to ... put biodiversity and ecosystems on the same level - as an environmental, economic, social, security issue - as climate change,” Robert Watson told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“Biodiversity is absolutely central to human well-being” as the source of everything from food to medicines, said Watson, chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

More than 550 IPBES experts from more than 100 nations, in the most comprehensive review to date, will issue regional reports about the state of nature in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Europe and Central

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JERUSALEM - Israel’s Space Communications has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch two communication satellites into orbit, after a prior attempt ended in disaster.

The explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket last year at Cape Canaveral in Florida dealt a major blow to the Israeli satellite operator. But Space Communications said on Wednesday the first new satellite, Amos-17, would be sent into orbit in 2019 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at no extra cost.

Spacecom said it had agreed to pay SpaceX up to $62 million to launch a second satellite, Amos-8, a year later.

The agreements are welcome news for Spacecom after a couple of years of setbacks beyond the SpaceX explosion. In 2015 it lost contact with one of its satellites and earlier this year its controlling shareholder became the target of a securities investigation.

Amos-17, bought from Boeing Satellite Systems International for $161 million, is aimed at expanding and strengthening Spacecom’s coverage of growing satellite service markets in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

Launch is scheduled for the second quarter of 2019 and it is set to operate for 19 years.

The Amos-8 launch is expected for the second half of 2020. (rtr) Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara

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A refugee from Kesimpar hamlet, Besakih, that evacuating in agriculture office refuge in Rendang, Ni Nyoman Karmiani, revealed that she has been evacuated after the announcement of warning status of Mount Agung on September 22. During her refuge, she already felt saturated.

Moreover, to eliminate her boredom all this time in the refugee camp, she does a casual work to pick marigold near her home. “I go home almost every day to recheck the condition of the house. Overall I work as a marigold picker. I go home at 07:00 to work until 11:00, and at 15:00 return to the refugee camp,” she said.

When coming home, she indeed feels comfort because she remembers when the condition was still safe when being at home. “I had time to think after returning home I will leave the home. It’s pity to leave the home,” she said.

Karmiani revealed that she

had never slept at her home since September 22. When returning home, she only cleans up the home yard having begun to be overgrown with grass after being left to refuge. She was desperate not to sleep as home because she does not want to break the rules of government. “I do not want to bother the officers. When asked to evacuate, well … I will follow the government. Most importantly, to me and other refugees is to survive if the mountain erupts,” she said.

He explained that many ups and downs are experienced when living in the refugee camp.

Well, the help given was never a problem. Similarly, the toilet and water facilities have no obstacles. Her sadness is the boredom because there is no activity in the evacuation during the day.

“When claimed to be happy, it’s unhappy, when claimed to be unhappy, it’s happy. It is between happy and unhappy,” she said.

In the meantime, another refu-

gee, Ni Ketut Alit, revealed that she sometimes goes home just to see the home after being left to evacuate. “If there is someone taking to return home, I will go.

Otherwise, we will remain to stay at this location,” she said.

She said there is no activity worked on in the refugee camp.

In the age of approaching the eighties she can only be silent in the refuge. “I can no longer work, maximally just eat and sleep here,” she said.

The officers in charge of logistic matter in Rendang subdistrict post, I Wayan Sudiarta, said on Tuesday (Oct. 20) that the number of refugees at the Yadnya Market in Rendang village near the post reached 1,184 people.

“In the refugee camps, both in the agriculture office and Yadnya Market near the post are indeed occupied by the largest number of refugees. Smaller number is at the village of Menange, Nongan and Pesaban,” said Sudiarta. (nan)

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Returning Rohingya may lose land, crops under Myanmar plans

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), attends a news conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 23, 2017.

Since last week, Penginuman Beach in Gilimanuk has been flooded with marine debris.

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Gilimanuk Beach flooded with marine debris Scavengers reap many timbers

NEGARA - Since last week, Penginuman Beach in Gilimanuk has been flooded with marine debris. As seen on Sunday (Oct. 22), piles of trash along 2 km looks to piled up. According to coastal residents, marine debris also pollutes the beach along Gilimanuk.

The garbage on Penginuman Beach mostly consists of wood and plastic bottle of used mineral water and sandals.

Grandma Waini, Makwek, Grandma Mira and Senidi met when picking up wood and plastic trash scattered on the beach admit-

ted that since this week they got many firewood. “We have collected adequate timber and we sell for IDR 5,000 per bundle. On average,

we get IDR 20,000 per day. There is still a lot we have not collected due to the heat of the sun,” said Grandma Waini. She said that she could survive from scavenging.

In the meantime, Agus, a resident of Gilimanuk, said the pile of marine debris occurs every year. “If

there is a flood in the sea, we must get marine debris,” he explained.

On the other hand, according to Uut, another resident, there must be a movement to clean up garbage on the beach, let alone Gilimanuk is now being promoted as a tourist area. (kmb)

Illiteracy rate in Bangli reaches 8,100 people

Nyoman Suteja

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BANGLI — Illiteracy rate in Bangli district is relatively high. According to the latest data owned by the Bangli Education Agency, illiteracy rate in Bangli reaches 8,100 people. To reduce the number, the agency has been implementing illiteracy eradication program in accordance with the directive given by central government.

Head of the Bangli Education Agency, Nyoman Suteja, accompanied by Division Head of Pre-school Education Development and Non-Formal Education, Ketut Wakil, when met recently said the illiteracy data reaching 8,100 people are the data as of December 2016. They are obtained from the village profile. He cannot determine whether the data are in accordance with the reality in the field at this time. To that end, he claimed to have been updating the data.

To eradicate the illiteracy, he has been implementing illiteracy eradication program in accordance with the directives of central government program consisting of basic literacy and independent business literacy. Basic literacy is an initial program targeting people aged over 16 years that cannot read, write and count. This program is held for three months at community learning center (PKBM).

In the meantime, the independent business literacy program is a continuation program of basic literacy. Just as the basic literacy program, the independent business literacy is also implemented for three months in the PKBM. People having undergone the basic literacy program will be given a certificate of literacy and advanced certificate if they take advanced program. “After having advanced literacy certificate, they will be entitled to partici-

pate in package A program being equal to elementary school,” he explained.

He added this year central government gives the quota of basic literacy program for 500 people and independent business literacy program for 300 people. According to him, the number is quite limited.

He hoped that in 2018 the basic literacy and independent business literacy program provided by central government can increase. “For next year, we want to target 1,000 people,” he explained.

In addition to implementing basic literacy and independent business literacy program from central government, to accelerate illiteracy eradication efforts in Bangli, the Education Agency also plans to create a similar program in 2018. Such illiteracy rate is expected to be thoroughly eliminated in accordance with the target of 2021. (kmb40)

Japan’s Abe to push pacifist constitution reform after strong election win

TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, buoyed by a huge election win for lawmakers who favour revising Japan’s post-war, pacifist constitution, signalled a push towards his long-held goal on Monday but will need to convince a divided public to succeed.

Parties in favour of amending the U.S.-drafted charter won nearly 80 percent of the seats in Sunday’s lower house election, media counts showed. That left the small, new Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) as the biggest group opposed to Abe’s proposed changes.

Formed by liberal members of the Democratic Party, which imploded before the election and no longer exists in the lower house, the CDPJ won 55 seats, a final count by public broadcaster NHK shows. That is a fraction of the ruling bloc’s two-thirds majority of 313 seats in the 465-member chamber.

Abe said he wanted to get other parties on board, including Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s new conservative Party of Hope, and was not insisting on a target of changing the constitution by 2020 that he floated this year.

“We won a two-thirds majority as the ruling bloc, but it is necessary to strive to form a wide-ranging

agreement among the ruling bloc and opposition (to revise the constitution),” Abe told a news conference on Monday.

“And then we aim to win the understanding of the people, so that we can gain a majority in a referendum,” Abe said. He stopped short of claiming to have won a mandate for amending the constitution in Sunday’s election.

TRADITIONAL VALUES Amending the charter’s pacifist Article 9 would be hugely symbolic for Japan. Supporters see it as the foundation of post-war democracy but many conservatives view it as a humiliating imposition after Japan’s defeat in 1945.

It would also be a victory for Abe, whose conservative agenda of restoring traditional values, stressing obligations to the state over individual rights and loosening constraints on the military, centres on revising the constitution.

“Mr. Abe is trying to create a

legacy. His first legacy project was to get the economy out of deflation,” said Jesper Koll, head of equities fund WisdomTree Japan.

“The second legacy is to change the constitution,” he said. “You can debate whether he has a mandate but what will make or break him ... is the constitutional issue.”

Any revision of the constitution requires support from two-thirds of the members of both chambers of parliament and a majority in a public referendum, with no minimum quorum.

“I think that debate in parliament will begin,” said Zentaro Kamei, a senior researcher at think tank PHP Institute and a former lawmaker of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

“But the reason given for this snap election was Abe’s proposal to change what sales tax hike revenues would be used for. If he starts talking about the constitution, people will say, ‘You didn’t ask me that’,” Kamei said. (rtr)

SITTWE - Rohingya Muslims who return to Myanmar after fleeing to Bangladesh are unlikely to be able to reclaim their land, and may find their crops have been harvested and sold by the government, according to officials and plans seen

by Reuters.

Nearly 600,000 Rohingya have crossed the border since Aug. 25, when coordinated Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts sparked a ferocious counteroffensive by the Myanmar army.

The United Nations says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since late August amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.

Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has no control over the military, has pledged that anyone sheltering in Bangladesh who can prove they were Myanmar residents can return.

Reuters has interviewed six Myanmar officials involved with repatriation and resettlement plans.

While the plans are not yet finalised, their comments reflect the government’s thinking on how Suu Kyi’s repatriation pledge will be implemented.

Jamil Ahmed, who spoke to Reuters at a refugee camp in Bangladesh, is one of many Rohingya who hope to go back.

Describing how he fled his home in northern Rakhine state in late August, Ahmed said one of the few things he grabbed was a stack of papers - land contracts and receipts - that might prove ownership of the fields and crops he was leaving behind.

“I didn’t carry any ornaments or jewels,” said the 35-year-old. “I’ve only got these documents. In Myanmar, you need to present documents to prove everything.”

The stack of papers, browning and torn at the edges, may not be enough, however, to regain the land in Kyauk Pan Du village, where he grew potatoes, chilli plants, almonds and rice.

“It depends on them. There is no land ownership for those who don’t have citizenship,” said Kyaw Lwin, agriculture minister in Rakhine state, when asked in an interview whether refugees who returned to Myanmar could reclaim land and crops.

Despite his land holdings, Myanmar does not recognise Ahmed as a citizen. Nearly all the more than 1 million Rohingya who lived in Myanmar before the recent exodus are stateless, despite many tracing their families in the country for generations.

Officials have made plans to harvest, and possibly sell, thousands of acres of crops left behind by the fleeing Rohingya, according to state government documents reviewed

by Reuters.

Myanmar also intends to settle most refugees who return to Rakhine state in new “model villages”, rather than on the land they previously occupied, an approach criticised in the past by the United Nations as effectively creating permanent camps.

The government has not asked for help from any international agencies, who are calling for any repatriation to be voluntary and to the refugees’ place of origin. (rtr)

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Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 16, 2017.

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In Liberian slum, residents demand change from next president

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MONROVIA - Crammed into tumble-down shacks on a sandspit that the Atlantic Ocean is steadily devouring, the residents of Liberia’s most notorious slum have one common desire: an end to their daily struggle with dire poverty.

Next month, when the 75,000 inhabitants of the capital Monrovia’s West Point neighbourhood decide who should be the next leader of Africa’s oldest republic, an ex-soccer star or the current vice president, they will not be nostalgic.

“The last president didn’t give any help to the common people - no improvement, no development,” said Ishmael Campbell, a 26-year-old fisherman born and raised in the shantytown. “We need a president who will be there for us.”

While the world has feted President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, for keeping the peace after a prolonged civil war, those living in West Point take a dimmer view of her 12-year tenure.

Like most in West Point, Campbell lives in a shack along one of the labyrinthine back alleys where houses are packed so close that residents must squeeze through shoulder-wide paths choked by rotting fish and sewage.

On Johnson Sirleaf’s watch, an Ebola epidemic saw them placed under quarantine, hemmed in by barbed wire and soldiers who opened fire on protesters challenging the order. Then a global commodities crash dashed the country’s hopes of mining riches.

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Euro zone bond yields fall as Abe win reinforces ultraeasy BOJ policy LONDON - Euro zone borrowing costs fell on Monday as a big win for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc in a national election gave the green light for a continuation of Japan’s hyper-easy monetary policy.

It’s a reassuring sign for world bond markets as they brace for the European Central Bank to this week signal that it will take baby steps away from an ultraeasy monetary policy stance that has long underpinned bond yields.

The ECB on Thursday is expected to announce a cut in its monthly bond purchases, twinned with a lengthy extension of stimulus and a commitment to keep rates low for many years to come.

Sunday’s election results in Japan have comforted investors that monetary policy in the world’s third biggest economy will remain in ultra-easy mode for some time.

“There was bit of a tail risk that if Abe emerged from the election weaker, there would be a weaker mandate for QE (quantitative easing) in Japan,” said Peter Chatwell, head of euro rates strategy at Mizuho.

“Now there’s a renewed mandate for QE, which means a weaker yen and stronger JGB prices. It also has a significant spillover for other developed markets.”

Japanese government bond (JGB) yield erased an early rise as Abe’s election win reinforced a view his reflationist economic policies will remain in place.

The yield on the 10-year JGB initially rose to 0.080 percent, matching a 10-week high hit earlier this month, but it slipped back to 0.070 percent, flat on the day.

That set the tone for trade in European bond markets, with most 10-year bond yields down 1-2 basis points.

In Germany -- the euro zone’s benchmark bond issuer -- 10-year bond yields fell 2 bps to 0.43 percent, pulling back from roughly one-week highs at 0.46 percent.

There was a slight underperformance by Spanish bonds after Madrid at the weekend said it would take the unprecedented step of firing the Catalonia government, in a last bid to thwart the region’s push for independence and to calm fears of turmoil in the euro zone’s fourth biggest economy.

Two wealthy regions of northern Italy meanwhile voted overwhelmingly on Sunday for greater autonomy in referendums that could further fan regional tensions in Europe.

The premium investors demand for holding Spanish 10-year bonds over top-rated German peers was at 123 bps, compared with around 121 bps on Friday.(rtr)

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The economy quadrupled in size, thanks in large part to the fact that peace prevailed, but Johnson Sirleaf was criticised for failing to curb corruption.

The two candidates through to the Nov. 7 runoff election, George Weah, a former FIFA world player of the year, and Vice President Joseph Boakai, must persuade struggling voters across the West African nation that they can make a difference.

Though representing the ruling party, Boakai has presented himself as the candidate for change, playing up his humble beginnings in a bid to distance himself from the tinted-windows government elite despised by the poor.

Neither he nor Johnson Sirleaf are seen as corrupt, but Boakai has been nicknamed “sleepy Joe” for falling asleep at public functions and few are buying his message in West Point. “He doesn’t care about us, he just cares about himself,” Campbell said.

“PROBLEMS ARE TOO BIG” West Point, where jobs are few and many residents spend the hot afternoons playing checkers or fixing fishing lines in the shade, is a Weah stronghold.

“The youth are on the streets, but they want to work,” said Eugene Nyuti, 35.

“George Weah is going to empower the

youth.”

Weah is a senator and has been goodwill ambassador for UNICEF; many Liberians call him “the ambassador”.

His policies are vague, although he says he wants to improve the country’s roads, and critics say he lacks political experience, but he won a clear lead in the first round of the election, with 38 percent of the vote to Boakai’s 28 percent.

West Point’s problems are echoed to varying degrees across Liberia, which has relied heavily on international donor support since the end of the war in 2003.

The state-run Liberia Electricity Corporation struggles to generate enough revenue to erect more power lines. Thousands across Monrovia illegally connect to the grid with crude wires.

Still, West Point stands out. Asked about their most desperate need, residents point to the rubbish-strewn ocean that laps at their homes. Old sand bags and tyres have not stopped the problem. Houses regularly slide into the sea.

Towards evening as Joseph Myame, 25, watched fishermen roll their wooden canoes onto the beach, he too is praying for a Weah victory. “Maybe he can make a bit of a difference. But whoever wins, the problems are too big.”(rtr)

Terteran and Gebug Ende

Two of Karangasem’s distinctive cultural traditions; Terteran and Gebug Ende (fire dance and rain dance) will soon be named as official cultural heritages. After the administrative requirements were met, the Ministry of Education and Culture assured that they qualified as cultural heritages. The next step in the process is to have a team from the central government verify these cultural heritage traditions.

Division Head of Arts for the Karangasem Culture and Tourism Agency Ni Made Suradnyani explained that a proposal to have these distinctive Karangasem traditions recognised as national cultural heritages was submited to the central government in January 2016 and that the tradions from Seraya Village and Jasri Village, were finally accepted. The verification process will take place next June.

Other than Terteran of Jasri village and Gebug Ende of Seraya village, said Suradnyani, the Bali Culture Office also recommended the Usaba Aci Sumbu of Timbrah

village that involves thousands of roasted suckling pigs being presented as holy offerings. However, the recommendation failed to qualify at the national level because the administrative requirements were not complete. The Karangasem Culture an Tourism Agence will be improving the shortcomings of the application through the Bali Cultural Preservation Agency.

This unique culture of Timbrah customary village will be proposed again to the central government through the recommendation of the Bali government along with the Geret Pandan tradition of Tenganan

Loving a homeland does not only have something to do with the bravery to struggle for the place where human was born. In a humbler way, loving the homeland can be realized by not forgetting the homeland itself as performed by the artists from Penyabangan hamlet, Kerta, Payangan, Gianyar.

In the 1960s, at the local hamlet was established a Joged bumbung art troupe with single dancer. They staged from one hamlet to another or ngelawang to entertain the public. Until one day, a member of the art troupe was bullied psychically when making a performance outside the Penyabangan hamlet. The dancers and gamelan players were suddenly stiff and unable to do any activities, including dancing and playing their gamelan instrument.

“However, suddenly there was a miracle in the form of rays coming down and embedding in the headdress of the joged dancer. Finally, the gamelan players and dancers could instantly move again. Spectators were stunned at the time,” said chief of Kerta customary village, Made Witarjana, when accompanying the Joged Pingit art troupe of Penyabangan hamlet in the performance at the Bali Arts Festival 2016, Friday (Jun. 24).

Witarjana believed that the miracle came because the troupe members always ask for approval to the Dalem Pingit Temple at local hamlet prior to making performance. Since that incident, the single joged dancer has been getting popular as joged pingit. Furthermore, the joged pingit was only performed at certain times because the pingit here means sacred. The original headdress of the joged pingit has even been put in a shrine at the Dalem Temple.

Nevertheless, the joged pingit can still be staged for entertainment.

However, the headdress used by the dancer is a duplicate of the original one. Before making performance, the audience of the BAF was also invited to see the procession of picking up the Dalem Deity on stage.

“Necessarily each joged performance should indeed begin with a ritual. First of all, we present a pejati offerings to ask for permission to deity that the headdress of the joged will be staged like this time (BAF—Ed) or when performing as sacred dance. It is meant to plead so as to be allowed to perform, given divine vibration and safety for the dancers, gamelan players and general public,” he said.

According to Witarjana, the performance of joged as sacred dance must be danced by a woman who has never been menstruating yet.

As for entertainment purposes, it can be performed by female dancers having passed their puberty. The dancers have to master some dances as well as mask dance, barong dance, sisya dance, patih dance and rangda dance. “Joged pingit tends to present storyline, not pengibingan (co-dancing),” he said. (kmb)

Pegeringsingan and Usaba Dangsil of Bungaya village. The latter two traditions are still being studied and documented in preparation for the proposal.

Determination of the cultural property of Karangasem is necessary to avoid any claims to them that may be commited by other regions or countries.. Lately, cultural claim cases used to support tourism promotion of particular regions or countries are increasingly common. In addition, such recognistion is also importtant in order to ensure cultural preservation, so that hese traditions do not disspaear over the next ten years.(kmb)

Wow … Luscious Duck with Spices Awaits You

Used to enjoying duck menus?

Once upon a time, try to taste luscious duck menu served in local rich spices. This is indeed a traditional menu, but when processed modernly it feels very tasty and delicious. Spiced duck menu also offers distinctive taste, so that it is in great demand among the communities including domestic and foreign tourists. This spiced duck

becomes prominent menu of Bebek Sungai Ubud Restaurant located on Jalan Raya Campuhan 888, Ubud.

This duck menu is really tasty, as if the bone was also nice to be chewed. The meat does not feel fishy ??because it is a genuine Balinese duck. Moreover, it is processed with selected spices cultivated by farmers at villages in mountainous area. Similarly, the process applies the original

Balinese-style cooking methods.

In the preparation, it does not use artificial seasonings. When ordering, it will not be too long prepared because it is handled by professional chef. A package of spiced duck has included rice, organic flavored vegetables, crackers and three types of chili. Its preparation process does not take too long, so consumers do not get bored to wait.

The duck menu in Bali is very special because it is usually served to a saint, like sulinggih (Brahmin priest). It is also an offering to God Almighty equipped with sacred banten oblations. In Bebek Sungai Ubud Restaurant, this original Balinese food makes the ambience cool because the menu and all the facilities are still natural.

This restaurant offers the con-

cept of the original Balinese arrangement. There are crops, such as padi sigih (rice stalk), conical hat, coconut, pestle and mortar used to pound rice supporting the atmosphere. There is a river concept characterized with the presence of rocks, water and others. Other menus are roasted duck, favorite Bebek Sungai and crispy duck. (kmb)

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Italy’s biggest container port Gioia Tauro is seen from a helicopter in the southern Italian region of Calabria, November 8, 2012.

Italian regions vote in favour of autonomy in shadow of Catalonia crisis

MILAN - Two wealthy regions of northern Italy voted overwhelmingly on Sunday for greater autonomy in referendums that could fan regional tensions in Europe at a time when Spain is striving to prevent Catalonia from breaking away.

Millions of people in Lombardy and Veneto, both run by the once openly secessionist Lega Nord party, voted more than 90 percent for “yes”, according to preliminary results released just before midnight (2200 GMT). Ballots closed at 2100 GMT. The party called the referendums to secure a mandate to negotiate a better financial arrangement with Rome, an ambition that mirrors Catalonia’s goal to claw back taxes from Madrid.

The preliminary turnout in Lombardy was above 40 percent, Lombardy President Roberto Maroni told

journalists when announcing preliminary results. In Veneto, it reached 57 percent.

“We can now write a new page: The regions that ask for more power will get it,” Maroni told journalists in Milan. “I am talking for example about the power to discuss about tax proceeds that normally go to Rome ... this is the first step in a path towards big reforms,” he added.

Unlike Catalonia’s Oct. 1 independence referendum, which Spain had declared unlawful, the Italian votes were held in line with the constitution.

But they are not binding on Rome.

Lombardy, home to financial hub Milan, accounts for about 20 percent of Italy’s economy, which is in turn the euro zone’s third largest. Veneto, which includes the tourist magnet Venice, accounts for 10 percent.

In both regions, many people complain their taxes are wasted by the central government, accusing Rome of delivering low-quality public services and diverting money to the poor south.

“Lombardy and Veneto have two efficient administrations and public

services work well, much better than in other Italian regions ... this is why I think it is worth asking for greater autonomy,” said Massimo Piscetta, 49, who voted outside Milan.

Lega Nord was established in the 1990s to campaign for an independent state of “Padania”, stretching across Italy’s north, from around Lombardy in the west to Venice in the east.

It no longer campaigns for secession and its top leadership is trying to broaden its appeal beyond the north ahead of national elections expected early next year - a goal that could be undermined if the referendums rekindle north-south tensions.

Lega’s political opponents say the votes were a waste of time and money,

given that the constitution allows regions to enter into negotiations at any time with Rome to take on more functions from the centre.

Political experts say neither region is likely to succeed in wresting much money away from the central government without causing problems for regions in Italy’s poor south.

Giovanni Orsina, history professor at Rome’s Luiss-Guido Carli University, said before the referendums that a strong “yes” vote could deepen the old north-south divide that dates back to before Italian unification in the 19th century. “Once you open up the issue of what the northern regions pay, then I expect a backlash in southern Italy,” he said.(rtr)

Now talk nice: EU script to help May settle Brexit bill

BRUSSELS - Diplomatic theatrics at last week’s Brussels summit revealed how European Union leaders will coax Theresa May over the next two months into parting with tens of billions of euros in return for a postBrexit trade deal.

The British prime minister gave away nothing hardliners in her Conservative cabinet can beat her with.

She stuck to earlier vague concessions about honouring commitments and insisting a “Brexit bill”, which the EU reckons at around 60 billion euros ($70 billion), must be part of a package deal on what Britain’s relationship with the EU will be once it leaves in March 2019.

Sticking to their own script, the other 27 states gave May until the next regular summit in eight weeks to improve an offer officials estimate

at about 20 billion euros if she wants them to start discussing future trade ties. Miss that deadline and, the EU says, time will be running out for any deal.

Yet between the lines of wellrehearsed arguments that have hit “deadlock” in the view of the EU negotiator, the outlines of a political fix are emerging. It may create leeway to get round an impasse that is in neither side’s interest and which has left businesses fearing the legal limbo of a messy divorce.

In essence, the 27 need to trust May that Britain will pay much more than is on the table but understand her difficulties in naming a figure by December, which could spark revolt at home and derail the process. In return, they seem likely to let slip more hints of what kind of future relationship she

might secure.

The EU position is “solid”, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni told reporters after the talks, but also “flexible”.

It was unrealistic, he said, to expect May to sell a precise demand for money in December. Equally, she could not expect the EU to negotiate a future trade deal without knowing roughly what outstanding items Britain would pay for. But defining those items could, Gentiloni said, be done “in the most politically manageable way possible for our British friends”.

Even the roughest of definitions will let commentators work out numbers. But as a senior diplomat from another major EU power put it: “We don’t want to go public with a bald figure. If it’s on the front page of The Sun, the whole process is dead.” (rtr)

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Police investigate shooting incident near Freeport TIMIKA - The police is investigating a shooting incident of an operational car of PT Freeport Indonesia in Tembagapura, 67.5 mile point, on Saturday morning.

The joint team of security personnel of police and Indonesian Military was on the lookout for the armed crime group, the Head of Timika Resort Police, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Victor Dean Mackbon stated here on Saturday.

“The shooting damaged the front window and right front door of the car,” Mackbon noted. The security officers found a bullet projectile in the area, he added. “We will investigate the evidence and the type of weapon used,” Mackbon remarked.

The incident occurred when a car driven

by Jamil Lampung down the hill was shot at. Additionally, another car, driven by Joe Hatch, was also shot on the left side.

Jamil continued to drive his car to Tembagapura hospital to get medical treatment. According to police, Hatch was not injured.(ant)

Jokowi to accompany Qatari Emir for diving in Raja Ampat CIREBON - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has vowed to accompany Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for a diving expedition in the waters of Raja Ampat, Papua.

“Insha Allah (God Willing), I will accompany him for diving in Raja Ampat, but at least, it should be for a week and not just for one or two days. Sheikh Tamim said Yes, I will look for the time, but the most important aspect is to not forget to invest in Indonesia,” President Jokowi said here, Friday.

The Qatari Emir is on a visit to Indonesia and had met President Jokowi at the Bogor Palace on Wednesday (Oct 18). “(I had told him), Sheikh Tamim, please come, as 250 million Indonesian people are awaiting your visit, and yesterday, he came to Bogor. I then introduced Bali Island to him, and since he likes diving, I showed him (pictures of) Raja Ampat,” the president noted.

According to Jokowi, the Qatari Emir praised the beauty of Raja Ampat and promised to revisit Indonesia. To this end, President Jokowi has vowed to take him to Raja Ampat for diving.

Qatar has planned to send a large team to hold discussions on investment in the fields of infrastructure and tourism in Indonesia, according to the head of state.(ant)

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Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold’s mine workers share a moment with security personnel as they walk at Grasberg mine area in Tembagapura, Indonesia Papua province, August 14, 2013.

Six police wounded, one killed in shootings near Indonesia’s Freeport mine

JAKARTA - Six police were wounded and one killed in shootings that police alleged on Monday were carried out by a separatist group that aims to disrupt operations at the Grasberg copper and gold mine in Indonesia’s eastern-most province of Papua. Four of the shootings took place on Monday, while police were already investigating incidents that occurred over the weekend, including the fatal shooting of an officer in Timika on Sunday afternoon.

The armed group police say is behind the shootings has up to 30 “separatist” members led by a man named Sabinus Waker. The group has carried out earlier shootings in the mine area as well, Papua Police spokesman Suryadi Diaz told Reuters. “It’s clear they want to disrupt operations at Freeport,” Diaz said.

Diaz said the group is “demanding justice” from the local unit of Freeport-Mc-

MoRan Inc, which operates the Grasberg mine, although it was not clear what that might entail. “Freeport is rich (and) has a big company. The population are poor,” Diaz said. It was not immediately possible to contact Waker, and it is not known if the group that police say is led by him has a spokesman or other representative.

A spokesman for Freeport’s Indonesian unit said the recent shootings have

had no impact on output from Grasberg, the world’s second-biggest copper mine, but he declined to comment further. Proindependence rebels in Papua have waged a low-level conflict for decades, raising major concerns over security at Grasberg.

Between 2009 and 2015, shootings within the mine project area killed 20 people and wounded 59.

To protect workers and infrastructure, Freeport contributed $21 million toward government-provided security in 2015.

Freeport has been grappling with labour problems at Grasberg and a lengthy dispute with Indonesia over rights to the giant mine that has cost both sides hundreds of millions of dollars.(rtr)

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Gebug Ende, from Karangasem to Buleleng, a dance to invoke rain

SINGARAJA - Various unique and interesting traditions can be found in North Bali. One of them is a tradition characterized by vivacious heroism remaining to exist in the community until these days. The ‘War of Rattan’ or better known as gebug ende can be found at Patas village, Gerokgak subdistrict. Actually, this tradition comes from the lava land (nickname of Karangasem, precisely from Seraya village).

By and large, this tradition is played when dry season arrives. At that time, people of Seraya have a religious cultural tradition to beg for rain. This tradition is played by two men, where the player hits each other with a rattan whip of two meters long. It is accompanied with a piece of shield with a diameter of 60 cm made of dry cowhide tied to wooden frame. Other than the players, in the arena of the game

there are also two people serving as referee or pakembar.

Even though their body is hit by rattan, they are still happy and dance with joy. Meanwhile, the sound of the baleganjur gamelan music is played as a companion to heat up the atmosphere of “the war.” At the same time, the audience keeps cheering to give support to the one on one fight.

This gebug ende attraction is generally performed on the sidelines of breaks in the fields at noon or evening. It is commonly held prior to the planting season in the field.

A coach of gebug ende for children Wayan Nadi said that during dry season the tradition is held to appeal to God in order to bring down a rain. “This tradition is habitually held during dry seasons. If the rain late long in the season, gebug ende will be held. Originally this tradi-

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tion comes from the Seraya village, Karangasem,” he said.

A senior figure of Patas village, Ketut Koroh, said that if one of the players bleeds due to the blow of rattan stick, there is a possibility to rain. In short, according to the belief of Seraya people, the gebug game is held at this village to appeal to God for rain for the sake of agricultural purposes.

Apparently this tradition is not just to beg for rain. “If something

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bad happens, this gebug tradition can be held. For example, there is uncontrollable pest attack, this gebug is the repellent. After holding the gebug, by degrees the bad things will disappear and be back to normal as before. Whatever bad things are, if neutralized by this gebug game then it will certainly be destroyed. It is according to public belief,” he said.

This attraction usually takes place in public places by inviting

opponents at the village. Gebug game is played by two small children, adults and parents. Amid the current advancement of technology, the gebug tradition having existed in the Bali Aga era is already almost extinct. So, we as the heir of the culture should duly boast and preserve its existence.

It is the cultural journey of Gebug Ende from lava land to Panji Sakti land (the nickname of Buleleng district). (kmb)

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Hamilton wins U.S. GP but made to wait for title

AUSTIN - Mercedes won the Formula One constructors’ title for the fourth year in a row on Sunday but Lewis Hamilton was made to wait despite cruising to a U.S. Grand Prix victory at one of his favourite circuits.

Hamilton, presented with the winner’s trophy by former U.S. president Bill Clinton, now looks sure to finish off the job and become Britain’s first four times world champion in Mexico next weekend.

The Mercedes driver’s fifth victory in six years at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas extended his lead over Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who finished second, to 66 points.

There are a maximum of 75 points still to be won from the three races remaining.

“I love this track, I think this track is now my favourite to be honest,” said Hamilton, interviewed by Usain Bolt on the podium and joining the Olympic sprint champion’s signature victory pose.

“A big congratulations to the team. They work so hard back at the factory and here.”

The victory was the 62nd of Hamilton’s career and his ninth of

the season.

Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen took third, despite finishing fourth at the flag, after Red Bull’s Max Verstappen -- who had passed the Finn with a great overtaking move -- was hit with a five second post-race penalty that dropped him to fourth.

“It is an appalling decision. They have robbed all of the fans here,” raged Red Bull principal Christian Horner as Verstappen left the prepodium room.

“It was a great grand prix and they have screwed it up.”

Hamilton had started on pole position, waved away for the formation lap by Bolt after an extended pre-race presentation reflecting the sport’s new U.S. ownership and desire to jazz things up.

Celebrity boxing title fight announcer Michael Buffer gave his long and resonant call of ‘Let’s get ready to rumble’, after announcing the drivers to the crowd one by one,

and the battle was on.

But it was Vettel who struck the first blow from second place on the grid, beating Hamilton into the first corner as the Briton moved across and squeezed him as tight as he could without making contact.

Six laps later and Hamilton was back in front and this time he stayed there.

“At the start it was looking good, we got past Lewis, but we had to realise we couldn’t go at his pace,” said Vettel.

“We were then in no-man’s land and were not quite sure. We decided to pit again, with a fresh set of tyres, and it was a bit more exciting but overall it was not the result we needed.”

The German dropped down to fourth after his second stop but passed Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas with five laps to go and team mate Raikkonen obligingly let him pass.

Bottas finished fifth with French driver Esteban Ocon sixth for Force India and Carlos Sainz, on his Renault debut after leaving Toro Rosso, seventh. (rtr)

AUSTIN - Usain Bolt says he is serious about starting up a soccer career now he has retired from sprinting -- and believes he could even be good enough to play for Jamaica.

The 31-year-old eight-time Olympic gold medallist, currently recovering from a hamstring injury, accepted there might be some scepticism but said it had always been his boyhood dream.

“For me it’s a personal goal. I don’t care what people really think about it. I’m not going to lie to myself. I’m not going to be stupid,” the Jamaican told reporters at the U.S. Formula One Grand Prix.

He was speaking before world champion Lewis Hamilton drove him around the Circuit of the Americas in a Mercedes AMG sportscar, sending the car sliding into corners and ending with tyre-smoking spins.

“If I feel I can’t do it, I’m going to say ‘you know what, forget this’.

I’m not trying to embarrass myself. But if I go out there and feel I can do this then I will give it a try. It’s a dream and another chapter of my life,” said Bolt.

“If you have a dream that you always wanted to do, why not try and see where it will go.”

The world’s fastest man has been sponsored by Puma since he was 15 and the German sportswear company has a stake in Borussia Dortmund.

Bolt, who retired from athletics after August’s world championships in London, has been invited to spend a week training with the Bundesliga club and he plans to take it up.

“It’s just my hamstring is keeping me back right now. In two weeks I can start training again and get back into some shape. Then I can really explore the situation,” he said.

“They say the invitation is always open so it’s all about me getting over my injury and then getting into shape. Then I can do the trials and see what level I’m at.”

A keen Manchester United fan, Bolt doubted manager Jose Mourinho would be on the phone any time soon but said he had spoken to the club’s former manager Alex Ferguson about his dream.

“He said ‘Alright, get into shape and I’ll see where that goes’,” said the sprinter.

Jamaica, who failed to qualify for next year’s World Cup finals, are currently 59th in the world rankings, leaving Bolt to also muse: “I think I can make the Jamaica team easily. I wouldn’t say they are that good at this point.”

Bolt, who suffered the injury in his final race, the world championships 4 x 100 metres relay final, again ruled out any athletics comeback, saying he missed the laughs and banter but not the training and he was intending to start a family.

“I’m waiting to see if my football career will go anywhere but I definitely want to work with the IAAF in ways to promote the sport and help keep it on the level on which I left it,” he added. “Being a coach? No. Definitely not.”

Asked about the current state of athletics and doping scandals that have seen Russian athletes barred from competition, the Jamaican felt the sport was climbing back out of the gutter. (rtr)

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Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica checks out the car of Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton (44) of Great Britain before the start of the United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas.

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Madrid’s young guns shine as Benzema and Ronaldo struggle MADRID - Real Madrid’s high-profile ‘BBC’ forward line has come in for criticism this season and while some of their team mates have defended the old guard, the club’s new generation are doing the heavy lifting for Zinedine Zidane’s team. That was again the case on Sunday as Madrid beat Eibar 3-0, with Karim Benzema dropped to the bench for 21-year-old Marco Asensio, who forced an own goal and scored Real’s second, while in-form playmaker Isco, 25, dominated in midfield.

Gareth Bale is still out injured and Real’s all-time top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo struggled to get involved in the game up front but, thanks to the contributions of Asensio and fellow Spain international Isco, it did not matter. Benzema bore the brunt of the criticism after being panned for his display against Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League on Tuesday, but the France forward at least set up Madrid’s third goal, finished by Marcelo.

“If I talk about my team mates, I will defend them to the death.

Benzema is a cracking (player), just like the rest of them,” Marcelo told Movistar after the game. Madrid have been linked in Spanish and British media with a move for Spurs’ England striker Harry Kane, who scored twice in the Premeir League on Sunday, to replace the Frenchman.

“Harry Kane scores again. Thankfully Zidane thinks Benzema is the best so they won’t be interested in poaching him,” wrote former Tottenham and Barcelona forward Gary Lineker on Twitter after Kane helped Spurs thrash Liverpool 4-1 at Wembley. But Zidane defended Benzema while team mates Marcelo and midfielder Dani Ceballos heaped praise on the Frenchman.

“Karim is the best striker in the world, people are very wrong about him. There are few players of his level,” said Ceballos, who did not like the whistles aimed at his team mate by fans at the Santiago Bernabeu. “It’s the time to stick our neck out for Benzema, he’s the player that helps the team play best. The whistles are unfair. We have Cristiano, the best number seven and the best player in the world.”

Zidane told a news conference: “Lineker can have an opinion, it’s normal, but I don’t think Benzema is over-rated. I enjoy watching Benzema play.” While the ‘BBC’ have been supported off the pitch, on it they have also been carried by their team mates at times, with Isco and Asensio dragging Madrid up to third on Sunday, back within five points of La Liga leaders Barca.

The tireless Isco helped Madrid control the game throughout and he crossed for Asensio’s volley in the 28th minute, which doubled Madrid’s lead after Paulo Oliveira’s own goal. Asensio, meanwhile, offered magical touches which delighted the Bernabeu and showed that even if the ‘BBC’s’ troubles continue, Madrid’s newest hope is ready to help chip in with goals - he is the club’s top scorer in La Liga with three.(rtr)

REUTERS/Juan Medina

Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio celebrates scoring their second goal with Isco

Tiny Benevento’s Serie A dream turns sour

MILAN - Little-known Benevento’s rise to Serie A was one of the most remarkable stories in Italian football but their dream has turned into a nightmare after losing their first nine games in the top flight. A 3-0 home defeat by Fiorentina on Sunday meant that Benevento set an unwanted record for the longest losing run at the start of a season, overtaking Venezia’s previous mark of eight matches dating back to 1949-50.

The team from the southern region of Campania have scored only two goals those nine games, while conceding 22. To add to their woes, captain Fabio Lucioni tested positive for a banned substance in September and faces a ban of upto four years. Lucioni

denies any wrongdoing.

Coach Marco Baroni was confident his side, who play in distinctive yellow shirts with red stripes, could get out of their rut.

“We need to continue believing,” said Baroni, the hero of last term’s Serie B campaign. Italian

media has reported his job is under threat.

“Even against Fiorentina, we gave ourselves something to build on. After they scored, we were the more dangerous team and hit the post, but when they struck again early in the second half, all of our

REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Kane scores twice as Tottenham crush Liverpool

Tottenham’s Harry Kane celebrates scoring their first goal with Serge Aurier

LONDON - Tottenham Hotspur brutally exposed Liverpool’s defensive frailties as Harry Kane plundered two more goals in his side’s 4-1 romp at Wembley on Sunday. In front of 80,827 fans, the biggest ever Premier League attendance, Kane took his league tally to eight for the season with the first and fourth goals in a clinical Spurs display.

Son Heung-min and Dele Alli were also on target for the impressive hosts, who led 3-1 at the break after a breathless first half, while Mohamed Salah’s reply had briefly given Juergen Klopp’s Liverpool side hope.

Tottenham’s fourth consecutive victory, and first in the Premier League against Liverpool for five years, put them level on 20 points with second-placed Manchester United and five behind rampant leaders Manchester City.Liverpool dropped to ninth on 13 points and have conceded 16 goals -- their highest total after nine games since 1964.

“The whole game the whole result was all our fault -- Tottenham were good, they needed to be good, but we made it much too easy for them,” said Klopp, who reacted by hauling off hapless defender Dejan Lovren after 31 minutes.

Both sides were buoyed by superb midweek results in the Champions League with Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham team fresh from a 1-1 draw away to European champions Real

Madrid and Liverpool having scored seven goals at Maribor.

POROUS REARGUARD It was the home side who began in razor-sharp fashion in front of watching Argentina great Diego Maradona though, albeit aided by a porous Liverpool rearguard.

In the fourth minute, Spurs defender Kieran Trippier played Kane into acres of space and the England striker cleverly dinked the ball around goalkeeper Simon Mignolet with his right foot before guiding a shot home with his left.

Tottenham were two goals up inside 12 minutes, this time Lovren inexplicably failed to cut out Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris’s long throw to allow Kane to advance and calmly square for Son to stroke the ball home left-footed. Liverpool’s defence parted again to allow Son in on goal soon afterwards but his fierce effort struck the crossbar.

Tottenham’s defence dozed off in the 24th minute, enabling Salah to get

between them and latch on to Jordan Henderson’s pass. With Lloris slow to narrow the angle, the Egyptian scuffed his shot in off the post.

The visitors then began to enjoy the lion’s share of possession but their defence continued to creak and Lovren was replaced by Alex OxladeChamberlain. It made little difference though as Spurs took advantage of more woeful defending in first-half stoppage time. Christian Eriksen floated in a free kick which Joel Matip could only head tamely straight to Alli who volleyed past Mignolet from inside the area.

In the 56th minute, Mignolet flapped at Trippier’s inswinging free kick, Jan Vertonghen’s shot was cleared off the line by Roberto Firmino but it fell to the lurking Kane who steadied himself before drilling into the corner. There was no way back for Liverpool, although Lloris did have to pull off an incredible one-handed save to push Philippe Coutinho’s powerful effort against the bar and later blocked a Salah shot with his legs.(rtr)

UEFA fines for Celtic, PSG, Basel UEFA has fined Celtic and Paris St Germain for crowd trouble after last month’s Champions League game between the teams, European soccer ’s governing body said on Monday.

UEFA’s Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body fined Celtic 10,000 euros ($11,700) for field invasion after a supporter ran

on to the pitch and attempted to kick PSG striker Kylian Mbappe during their 5-0 home loss in the Group B opener.

The supporter ran towards the French forward as the Scottish side prepared to kick off after the third goal, before being caught by stewards and escorted from the pitch.

PSG were fined 5,000 euros ($5,900) for acts of damage after visiting supporters broke seats at Celtic Park.

Meanwhile, Swiss side Basel have been fined 12,000 euros ($14,000) after supporters set off fireworks in their Group A game against Manchester United at Old Trafford last month.(rtr)

problems came back.”

Benevento visit Cagliari on Wednesday, with the Sardinians also struggling after losing seven of their first nine games. They then face much tougher games against Lazio and Juventus.

Benevento was re-founded in 2005 after the original club, which had existed since 1929, folded. After starting in the fourth tier in 2007-08, the new Benevento reached Serie B for the first time last season where they finished fifth and won promotion through the play-offs.

But like Carpi and Frosinone before them, they have struggled to make an impact in the top flight.

Benevento made more than 15 new signings during the close season in their bid to be competitive, although around half of those were on loan and none cost more than 3 million euros ($3.52 million).

Moulding them into a competitive team has proved a challenge

especially as a number of the new recruits arrived at the end of August with the league already under way.

Verona and SPAL, promoted alongside Benevento, are also struggling and Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis has led growing calls to cut the number of teams in the top flight from the current 20 to 18 or even sixteen.

Benevento president Oreste Vigorito argued, however, that the real problem lies in the distribution of revenue from the sale of television rights, which is based partly on the popularity and past record of the respective clubs.

“It’s much easier to have a football club in the big cities with this unfair distribution of revenues,” he said.

“The way the revenue is divided creates different standards within the same division of the league. We shouldn’t try to cure the cancer by cutting off the leg.”(rtr)

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Madrid’s young guns shine as Benzema and Ronaldo struggle MADRID - Real Madrid’s high-profile ‘BBC’ forward line has come in for criticism this season and while some of their team mates have defended the old guard, the club’s new generation are doing the heavy lifting for Zinedine Zidane’s team. That was again the case on Sunday as Madrid beat Eibar 3-0, with Karim Benzema dropped to the bench for 21-year-old Marco Asensio, who forced an own goal and scored Real’s second, while in-form playmaker Isco, 25, dominated in midfield.

Gareth Bale is still out injured and Real’s all-time top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo struggled to get involved in the game up front but, thanks to the contributions of Asensio and fellow Spain international Isco, it did not matter. Benzema bore the brunt of the criticism after being panned for his display against Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League on Tuesday, but the France forward at least set up Madrid’s third goal, finished by Marcelo.

“If I talk about my team mates, I will defend them to the death.

Benzema is a cracking (player), just like the rest of them,” Marcelo told Movistar after the game. Madrid have been linked in Spanish and British media with a move for Spurs’ England striker Harry Kane, who scored twice in the Premeir League on Sunday, to replace the Frenchman.

“Harry Kane scores again. Thankfully Zidane thinks Benzema is the best so they won’t be interested in poaching him,” wrote former Tottenham and Barcelona forward Gary Lineker on Twitter after Kane helped Spurs thrash Liverpool 4-1 at Wembley. But Zidane defended Benzema while team mates Marcelo and midfielder Dani Ceballos heaped praise on the Frenchman.

“Karim is the best striker in the world, people are very wrong about him. There are few players of his level,” said Ceballos, who did not like the whistles aimed at his team mate by fans at the Santiago Bernabeu. “It’s the time to stick our neck out for Benzema, he’s the player that helps the team play best. The whistles are unfair. We have Cristiano, the best number seven and the best player in the world.”

Zidane told a news conference: “Lineker can have an opinion, it’s normal, but I don’t think Benzema is over-rated. I enjoy watching Benzema play.” While the ‘BBC’ have been supported off the pitch, on it they have also been carried by their team mates at times, with Isco and Asensio dragging Madrid up to third on Sunday, back within five points of La Liga leaders Barca.

The tireless Isco helped Madrid control the game throughout and he crossed for Asensio’s volley in the 28th minute, which doubled Madrid’s lead after Paulo Oliveira’s own goal. Asensio, meanwhile, offered magical touches which delighted the Bernabeu and showed that even if the ‘BBC’s’ troubles continue, Madrid’s newest hope is ready to help chip in with goals - he is the club’s top scorer in La Liga with three.(rtr)

REUTERS/Juan Medina

Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio celebrates scoring their second goal with Isco

Tiny Benevento’s Serie A dream turns sour

MILAN - Little-known Benevento’s rise to Serie A was one of the most remarkable stories in Italian football but their dream has turned into a nightmare after losing their first nine games in the top flight. A 3-0 home defeat by Fiorentina on Sunday meant that Benevento set an unwanted record for the longest losing run at the start of a season, overtaking Venezia’s previous mark of eight matches dating back to 1949-50.

The team from the southern region of Campania have scored only two goals those nine games, while conceding 22. To add to their woes, captain Fabio Lucioni tested positive for a banned substance in September and faces a ban of upto four years. Lucioni

denies any wrongdoing.

Coach Marco Baroni was confident his side, who play in distinctive yellow shirts with red stripes, could get out of their rut.

“We need to continue believing,” said Baroni, the hero of last term’s Serie B campaign. Italian

media has reported his job is under threat.

“Even against Fiorentina, we gave ourselves something to build on. After they scored, we were the more dangerous team and hit the post, but when they struck again early in the second half, all of our

REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Kane scores twice as Tottenham crush Liverpool

Tottenham’s Harry Kane celebrates scoring their first goal with Serge Aurier

LONDON - Tottenham Hotspur brutally exposed Liverpool’s defensive frailties as Harry Kane plundered two more goals in his side’s 4-1 romp at Wembley on Sunday. In front of 80,827 fans, the biggest ever Premier League attendance, Kane took his league tally to eight for the season with the first and fourth goals in a clinical Spurs display.

Son Heung-min and Dele Alli were also on target for the impressive hosts, who led 3-1 at the break after a breathless first half, while Mohamed Salah’s reply had briefly given Juergen Klopp’s Liverpool side hope.

Tottenham’s fourth consecutive victory, and first in the Premier League against Liverpool for five years, put them level on 20 points with second-placed Manchester United and five behind rampant leaders Manchester City.Liverpool dropped to ninth on 13 points and have conceded 16 goals -- their highest total after nine games since 1964.

“The whole game the whole result was all our fault -- Tottenham were good, they needed to be good, but we made it much too easy for them,” said Klopp, who reacted by hauling off hapless defender Dejan Lovren after 31 minutes.

Both sides were buoyed by superb midweek results in the Champions League with Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham team fresh from a 1-1 draw away to European champions Real

Madrid and Liverpool having scored seven goals at Maribor.

POROUS REARGUARD It was the home side who began in razor-sharp fashion in front of watching Argentina great Diego Maradona though, albeit aided by a porous Liverpool rearguard.

In the fourth minute, Spurs defender Kieran Trippier played Kane into acres of space and the England striker cleverly dinked the ball around goalkeeper Simon Mignolet with his right foot before guiding a shot home with his left.

Tottenham were two goals up inside 12 minutes, this time Lovren inexplicably failed to cut out Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris’s long throw to allow Kane to advance and calmly square for Son to stroke the ball home left-footed. Liverpool’s defence parted again to allow Son in on goal soon afterwards but his fierce effort struck the crossbar.

Tottenham’s defence dozed off in the 24th minute, enabling Salah to get

between them and latch on to Jordan Henderson’s pass. With Lloris slow to narrow the angle, the Egyptian scuffed his shot in off the post.

The visitors then began to enjoy the lion’s share of possession but their defence continued to creak and Lovren was replaced by Alex OxladeChamberlain. It made little difference though as Spurs took advantage of more woeful defending in first-half stoppage time. Christian Eriksen floated in a free kick which Joel Matip could only head tamely straight to Alli who volleyed past Mignolet from inside the area.

In the 56th minute, Mignolet flapped at Trippier’s inswinging free kick, Jan Vertonghen’s shot was cleared off the line by Roberto Firmino but it fell to the lurking Kane who steadied himself before drilling into the corner. There was no way back for Liverpool, although Lloris did have to pull off an incredible one-handed save to push Philippe Coutinho’s powerful effort against the bar and later blocked a Salah shot with his legs.(rtr)

UEFA fines for Celtic, PSG, Basel UEFA has fined Celtic and Paris St Germain for crowd trouble after last month’s Champions League game between the teams, European soccer ’s governing body said on Monday.

UEFA’s Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body fined Celtic 10,000 euros ($11,700) for field invasion after a supporter ran

on to the pitch and attempted to kick PSG striker Kylian Mbappe during their 5-0 home loss in the Group B opener.

The supporter ran towards the French forward as the Scottish side prepared to kick off after the third goal, before being caught by stewards and escorted from the pitch.

PSG were fined 5,000 euros ($5,900) for acts of damage after visiting supporters broke seats at Celtic Park.

Meanwhile, Swiss side Basel have been fined 12,000 euros ($14,000) after supporters set off fireworks in their Group A game against Manchester United at Old Trafford last month.(rtr)

problems came back.”

Benevento visit Cagliari on Wednesday, with the Sardinians also struggling after losing seven of their first nine games. They then face much tougher games against Lazio and Juventus.

Benevento was re-founded in 2005 after the original club, which had existed since 1929, folded. After starting in the fourth tier in 2007-08, the new Benevento reached Serie B for the first time last season where they finished fifth and won promotion through the play-offs.

But like Carpi and Frosinone before them, they have struggled to make an impact in the top flight.

Benevento made more than 15 new signings during the close season in their bid to be competitive, although around half of those were on loan and none cost more than 3 million euros ($3.52 million).

Moulding them into a competitive team has proved a challenge

especially as a number of the new recruits arrived at the end of August with the league already under way.

Verona and SPAL, promoted alongside Benevento, are also struggling and Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis has led growing calls to cut the number of teams in the top flight from the current 20 to 18 or even sixteen.

Benevento president Oreste Vigorito argued, however, that the real problem lies in the distribution of revenue from the sale of television rights, which is based partly on the popularity and past record of the respective clubs.

“It’s much easier to have a football club in the big cities with this unfair distribution of revenues,” he said.

“The way the revenue is divided creates different standards within the same division of the league. We shouldn’t try to cure the cancer by cutting off the leg.”(rtr)

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Gebug Ende, from Karangasem to Buleleng, a dance to invoke rain

SINGARAJA - Various unique and interesting traditions can be found in North Bali. One of them is a tradition characterized by vivacious heroism remaining to exist in the community until these days. The ‘War of Rattan’ or better known as gebug ende can be found at Patas village, Gerokgak subdistrict. Actually, this tradition comes from the lava land (nickname of Karangasem, precisely from Seraya village).

By and large, this tradition is played when dry season arrives. At that time, people of Seraya have a religious cultural tradition to beg for rain. This tradition is played by two men, where the player hits each other with a rattan whip of two meters long. It is accompanied with a piece of shield with a diameter of 60 cm made of dry cowhide tied to wooden frame. Other than the players, in the arena of the game

there are also two people serving as referee or pakembar.

Even though their body is hit by rattan, they are still happy and dance with joy. Meanwhile, the sound of the baleganjur gamelan music is played as a companion to heat up the atmosphere of “the war.” At the same time, the audience keeps cheering to give support to the one on one fight.

This gebug ende attraction is generally performed on the sidelines of breaks in the fields at noon or evening. It is commonly held prior to the planting season in the field.

A coach of gebug ende for children Wayan Nadi said that during dry season the tradition is held to appeal to God in order to bring down a rain. “This tradition is habitually held during dry seasons. If the rain late long in the season, gebug ende will be held. Originally this tradi-

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton (44) of Great Britain celebrates winning the United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas.

tion comes from the Seraya village, Karangasem,” he said.

A senior figure of Patas village, Ketut Koroh, said that if one of the players bleeds due to the blow of rattan stick, there is a possibility to rain. In short, according to the belief of Seraya people, the gebug game is held at this village to appeal to God for rain for the sake of agricultural purposes.

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bad happens, this gebug tradition can be held. For example, there is uncontrollable pest attack, this gebug is the repellent. After holding the gebug, by degrees the bad things will disappear and be back to normal as before. Whatever bad things are, if neutralized by this gebug game then it will certainly be destroyed. It is according to public belief,” he said.

This attraction usually takes place in public places by inviting

opponents at the village. Gebug game is played by two small children, adults and parents. Amid the current advancement of technology, the gebug tradition having existed in the Bali Aga era is already almost extinct. So, we as the heir of the culture should duly boast and preserve its existence.

It is the cultural journey of Gebug Ende from lava land to Panji Sakti land (the nickname of Buleleng district). (kmb)

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Hamilton wins U.S. GP but made to wait for title

AUSTIN - Mercedes won the Formula One constructors’ title for the fourth year in a row on Sunday but Lewis Hamilton was made to wait despite cruising to a U.S. Grand Prix victory at one of his favourite circuits.

Hamilton, presented with the winner’s trophy by former U.S. president Bill Clinton, now looks sure to finish off the job and become Britain’s first four times world champion in Mexico next weekend.

The Mercedes driver’s fifth victory in six years at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas extended his lead over Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who finished second, to 66 points.

There are a maximum of 75 points still to be won from the three races remaining.

“I love this track, I think this track is now my favourite to be honest,” said Hamilton, interviewed by Usain Bolt on the podium and joining the Olympic sprint champion’s signature victory pose.

“A big congratulations to the team. They work so hard back at the factory and here.”

The victory was the 62nd of Hamilton’s career and his ninth of

the season.

Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen took third, despite finishing fourth at the flag, after Red Bull’s Max Verstappen -- who had passed the Finn with a great overtaking move -- was hit with a five second post-race penalty that dropped him to fourth.

“It is an appalling decision. They have robbed all of the fans here,” raged Red Bull principal Christian Horner as Verstappen left the prepodium room.

“It was a great grand prix and they have screwed it up.”

Hamilton had started on pole position, waved away for the formation lap by Bolt after an extended pre-race presentation reflecting the sport’s new U.S. ownership and desire to jazz things up.

Celebrity boxing title fight announcer Michael Buffer gave his long and resonant call of ‘Let’s get ready to rumble’, after announcing the drivers to the crowd one by one,

and the battle was on.

But it was Vettel who struck the first blow from second place on the grid, beating Hamilton into the first corner as the Briton moved across and squeezed him as tight as he could without making contact.

Six laps later and Hamilton was back in front and this time he stayed there.

“At the start it was looking good, we got past Lewis, but we had to realise we couldn’t go at his pace,” said Vettel.

“We were then in no-man’s land and were not quite sure. We decided to pit again, with a fresh set of tyres, and it was a bit more exciting but overall it was not the result we needed.”

The German dropped down to fourth after his second stop but passed Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas with five laps to go and team mate Raikkonen obligingly let him pass.

Bottas finished fifth with French driver Esteban Ocon sixth for Force India and Carlos Sainz, on his Renault debut after leaving Toro Rosso, seventh. (rtr)

AUSTIN - Usain Bolt says he is serious about starting up a soccer career now he has retired from sprinting -- and believes he could even be good enough to play for Jamaica.

The 31-year-old eight-time Olympic gold medallist, currently recovering from a hamstring injury, accepted there might be some scepticism but said it had always been his boyhood dream.

“For me it’s a personal goal. I don’t care what people really think about it. I’m not going to lie to myself. I’m not going to be stupid,” the Jamaican told reporters at the U.S. Formula One Grand Prix.

He was speaking before world champion Lewis Hamilton drove him around the Circuit of the Americas in a Mercedes AMG sportscar, sending the car sliding into corners and ending with tyre-smoking spins.

“If I feel I can’t do it, I’m going to say ‘you know what, forget this’.

I’m not trying to embarrass myself. But if I go out there and feel I can do this then I will give it a try. It’s a dream and another chapter of my life,” said Bolt.

“If you have a dream that you always wanted to do, why not try and see where it will go.”

The world’s fastest man has been sponsored by Puma since he was 15 and the German sportswear company has a stake in Borussia Dortmund.

Bolt, who retired from athletics after August’s world championships in London, has been invited to spend a week training with the Bundesliga club and he plans to take it up.

“It’s just my hamstring is keeping me back right now. In two weeks I can start training again and get back into some shape. Then I can really explore the situation,” he said.

“They say the invitation is always open so it’s all about me getting over my injury and then getting into shape. Then I can do the trials and see what level I’m at.”

A keen Manchester United fan, Bolt doubted manager Jose Mourinho would be on the phone any time soon but said he had spoken to the club’s former manager Alex Ferguson about his dream.

“He said ‘Alright, get into shape and I’ll see where that goes’,” said the sprinter.

Jamaica, who failed to qualify for next year’s World Cup finals, are currently 59th in the world rankings, leaving Bolt to also muse: “I think I can make the Jamaica team easily. I wouldn’t say they are that good at this point.”

Bolt, who suffered the injury in his final race, the world championships 4 x 100 metres relay final, again ruled out any athletics comeback, saying he missed the laughs and banter but not the training and he was intending to start a family.

“I’m waiting to see if my football career will go anywhere but I definitely want to work with the IAAF in ways to promote the sport and help keep it on the level on which I left it,” he added. “Being a coach? No. Definitely not.”

Asked about the current state of athletics and doping scandals that have seen Russian athletes barred from competition, the Jamaican felt the sport was climbing back out of the gutter. (rtr)

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Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica checks out the car of Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton (44) of Great Britain before the start of the United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas.

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Italy’s biggest container port Gioia Tauro is seen from a helicopter in the southern Italian region of Calabria, November 8, 2012.

Italian regions vote in favour of autonomy in shadow of Catalonia crisis

MILAN - Two wealthy regions of northern Italy voted overwhelmingly on Sunday for greater autonomy in referendums that could fan regional tensions in Europe at a time when Spain is striving to prevent Catalonia from breaking away.

Millions of people in Lombardy and Veneto, both run by the once openly secessionist Lega Nord party, voted more than 90 percent for “yes”, according to preliminary results released just before midnight (2200 GMT). Ballots closed at 2100 GMT. The party called the referendums to secure a mandate to negotiate a better financial arrangement with Rome, an ambition that mirrors Catalonia’s goal to claw back taxes from Madrid.

The preliminary turnout in Lombardy was above 40 percent, Lombardy President Roberto Maroni told

journalists when announcing preliminary results. In Veneto, it reached 57 percent.

“We can now write a new page: The regions that ask for more power will get it,” Maroni told journalists in Milan. “I am talking for example about the power to discuss about tax proceeds that normally go to Rome ... this is the first step in a path towards big reforms,” he added.

Unlike Catalonia’s Oct. 1 independence referendum, which Spain had declared unlawful, the Italian votes were held in line with the constitution.

But they are not binding on Rome.

Lombardy, home to financial hub Milan, accounts for about 20 percent of Italy’s economy, which is in turn the euro zone’s third largest. Veneto, which includes the tourist magnet Venice, accounts for 10 percent.

In both regions, many people complain their taxes are wasted by the central government, accusing Rome of delivering low-quality public services and diverting money to the poor south.

“Lombardy and Veneto have two efficient administrations and public

services work well, much better than in other Italian regions ... this is why I think it is worth asking for greater autonomy,” said Massimo Piscetta, 49, who voted outside Milan.

Lega Nord was established in the 1990s to campaign for an independent state of “Padania”, stretching across Italy’s north, from around Lombardy in the west to Venice in the east.

It no longer campaigns for secession and its top leadership is trying to broaden its appeal beyond the north ahead of national elections expected early next year - a goal that could be undermined if the referendums rekindle north-south tensions.

Lega’s political opponents say the votes were a waste of time and money,

given that the constitution allows regions to enter into negotiations at any time with Rome to take on more functions from the centre.

Political experts say neither region is likely to succeed in wresting much money away from the central government without causing problems for regions in Italy’s poor south.

Giovanni Orsina, history professor at Rome’s Luiss-Guido Carli University, said before the referendums that a strong “yes” vote could deepen the old north-south divide that dates back to before Italian unification in the 19th century. “Once you open up the issue of what the northern regions pay, then I expect a backlash in southern Italy,” he said.(rtr)

Now talk nice: EU script to help May settle Brexit bill

BRUSSELS - Diplomatic theatrics at last week’s Brussels summit revealed how European Union leaders will coax Theresa May over the next two months into parting with tens of billions of euros in return for a postBrexit trade deal.

The British prime minister gave away nothing hardliners in her Conservative cabinet can beat her with.

She stuck to earlier vague concessions about honouring commitments and insisting a “Brexit bill”, which the EU reckons at around 60 billion euros ($70 billion), must be part of a package deal on what Britain’s relationship with the EU will be once it leaves in March 2019.

Sticking to their own script, the other 27 states gave May until the next regular summit in eight weeks to improve an offer officials estimate

at about 20 billion euros if she wants them to start discussing future trade ties. Miss that deadline and, the EU says, time will be running out for any deal.

Yet between the lines of wellrehearsed arguments that have hit “deadlock” in the view of the EU negotiator, the outlines of a political fix are emerging. It may create leeway to get round an impasse that is in neither side’s interest and which has left businesses fearing the legal limbo of a messy divorce.

In essence, the 27 need to trust May that Britain will pay much more than is on the table but understand her difficulties in naming a figure by December, which could spark revolt at home and derail the process. In return, they seem likely to let slip more hints of what kind of future relationship she

might secure.

The EU position is “solid”, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni told reporters after the talks, but also “flexible”.

It was unrealistic, he said, to expect May to sell a precise demand for money in December. Equally, she could not expect the EU to negotiate a future trade deal without knowing roughly what outstanding items Britain would pay for. But defining those items could, Gentiloni said, be done “in the most politically manageable way possible for our British friends”.

Even the roughest of definitions will let commentators work out numbers. But as a senior diplomat from another major EU power put it: “We don’t want to go public with a bald figure. If it’s on the front page of The Sun, the whole process is dead.” (rtr)

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and British Prime Minister Theresa May take part in an EU summit in Brussels, Belgium, October 20, 2017.

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Police investigate shooting incident near Freeport TIMIKA - The police is investigating a shooting incident of an operational car of PT Freeport Indonesia in Tembagapura, 67.5 mile point, on Saturday morning.

The joint team of security personnel of police and Indonesian Military was on the lookout for the armed crime group, the Head of Timika Resort Police, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Victor Dean Mackbon stated here on Saturday.

“The shooting damaged the front window and right front door of the car,” Mackbon noted. The security officers found a bullet projectile in the area, he added. “We will investigate the evidence and the type of weapon used,” Mackbon remarked.

The incident occurred when a car driven

by Jamil Lampung down the hill was shot at. Additionally, another car, driven by Joe Hatch, was also shot on the left side.

Jamil continued to drive his car to Tembagapura hospital to get medical treatment. According to police, Hatch was not injured.(ant)

Jokowi to accompany Qatari Emir for diving in Raja Ampat CIREBON - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has vowed to accompany Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for a diving expedition in the waters of Raja Ampat, Papua.

“Insha Allah (God Willing), I will accompany him for diving in Raja Ampat, but at least, it should be for a week and not just for one or two days. Sheikh Tamim said Yes, I will look for the time, but the most important aspect is to not forget to invest in Indonesia,” President Jokowi said here, Friday.

The Qatari Emir is on a visit to Indonesia and had met President Jokowi at the Bogor Palace on Wednesday (Oct 18). “(I had told him), Sheikh Tamim, please come, as 250 million Indonesian people are awaiting your visit, and yesterday, he came to Bogor. I then introduced Bali Island to him, and since he likes diving, I showed him (pictures of) Raja Ampat,” the president noted.

According to Jokowi, the Qatari Emir praised the beauty of Raja Ampat and promised to revisit Indonesia. To this end, President Jokowi has vowed to take him to Raja Ampat for diving.

Qatar has planned to send a large team to hold discussions on investment in the fields of infrastructure and tourism in Indonesia, according to the head of state.(ant)

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Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold’s mine workers share a moment with security personnel as they walk at Grasberg mine area in Tembagapura, Indonesia Papua province, August 14, 2013.

Six police wounded, one killed in shootings near Indonesia’s Freeport mine

JAKARTA - Six police were wounded and one killed in shootings that police alleged on Monday were carried out by a separatist group that aims to disrupt operations at the Grasberg copper and gold mine in Indonesia’s eastern-most province of Papua. Four of the shootings took place on Monday, while police were already investigating incidents that occurred over the weekend, including the fatal shooting of an officer in Timika on Sunday afternoon.

The armed group police say is behind the shootings has up to 30 “separatist” members led by a man named Sabinus Waker. The group has carried out earlier shootings in the mine area as well, Papua Police spokesman Suryadi Diaz told Reuters. “It’s clear they want to disrupt operations at Freeport,” Diaz said.

Diaz said the group is “demanding justice” from the local unit of Freeport-Mc-

MoRan Inc, which operates the Grasberg mine, although it was not clear what that might entail. “Freeport is rich (and) has a big company. The population are poor,” Diaz said. It was not immediately possible to contact Waker, and it is not known if the group that police say is led by him has a spokesman or other representative.

A spokesman for Freeport’s Indonesian unit said the recent shootings have

had no impact on output from Grasberg, the world’s second-biggest copper mine, but he declined to comment further. Proindependence rebels in Papua have waged a low-level conflict for decades, raising major concerns over security at Grasberg.

Between 2009 and 2015, shootings within the mine project area killed 20 people and wounded 59.

To protect workers and infrastructure, Freeport contributed $21 million toward government-provided security in 2015.

Freeport has been grappling with labour problems at Grasberg and a lengthy dispute with Indonesia over rights to the giant mine that has cost both sides hundreds of millions of dollars.(rtr)

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In Liberian slum, residents demand change from next president

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MONROVIA - Crammed into tumble-down shacks on a sandspit that the Atlantic Ocean is steadily devouring, the residents of Liberia’s most notorious slum have one common desire: an end to their daily struggle with dire poverty.

Next month, when the 75,000 inhabitants of the capital Monrovia’s West Point neighbourhood decide who should be the next leader of Africa’s oldest republic, an ex-soccer star or the current vice president, they will not be nostalgic.

“The last president didn’t give any help to the common people - no improvement, no development,” said Ishmael Campbell, a 26-year-old fisherman born and raised in the shantytown. “We need a president who will be there for us.”

While the world has feted President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, for keeping the peace after a prolonged civil war, those living in West Point take a dimmer view of her 12-year tenure.

Like most in West Point, Campbell lives in a shack along one of the labyrinthine back alleys where houses are packed so close that residents must squeeze through shoulder-wide paths choked by rotting fish and sewage.

On Johnson Sirleaf’s watch, an Ebola epidemic saw them placed under quarantine, hemmed in by barbed wire and soldiers who opened fire on protesters challenging the order. Then a global commodities crash dashed the country’s hopes of mining riches.

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Euro zone bond yields fall as Abe win reinforces ultraeasy BOJ policy LONDON - Euro zone borrowing costs fell on Monday as a big win for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc in a national election gave the green light for a continuation of Japan’s hyper-easy monetary policy.

It’s a reassuring sign for world bond markets as they brace for the European Central Bank to this week signal that it will take baby steps away from an ultraeasy monetary policy stance that has long underpinned bond yields.

The ECB on Thursday is expected to announce a cut in its monthly bond purchases, twinned with a lengthy extension of stimulus and a commitment to keep rates low for many years to come.

Sunday’s election results in Japan have comforted investors that monetary policy in the world’s third biggest economy will remain in ultra-easy mode for some time.

“There was bit of a tail risk that if Abe emerged from the election weaker, there would be a weaker mandate for QE (quantitative easing) in Japan,” said Peter Chatwell, head of euro rates strategy at Mizuho.

“Now there’s a renewed mandate for QE, which means a weaker yen and stronger JGB prices. It also has a significant spillover for other developed markets.”

Japanese government bond (JGB) yield erased an early rise as Abe’s election win reinforced a view his reflationist economic policies will remain in place.

The yield on the 10-year JGB initially rose to 0.080 percent, matching a 10-week high hit earlier this month, but it slipped back to 0.070 percent, flat on the day.

That set the tone for trade in European bond markets, with most 10-year bond yields down 1-2 basis points.

In Germany -- the euro zone’s benchmark bond issuer -- 10-year bond yields fell 2 bps to 0.43 percent, pulling back from roughly one-week highs at 0.46 percent.

There was a slight underperformance by Spanish bonds after Madrid at the weekend said it would take the unprecedented step of firing the Catalonia government, in a last bid to thwart the region’s push for independence and to calm fears of turmoil in the euro zone’s fourth biggest economy.

Two wealthy regions of northern Italy meanwhile voted overwhelmingly on Sunday for greater autonomy in referendums that could further fan regional tensions in Europe.

The premium investors demand for holding Spanish 10-year bonds over top-rated German peers was at 123 bps, compared with around 121 bps on Friday.(rtr)

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The economy quadrupled in size, thanks in large part to the fact that peace prevailed, but Johnson Sirleaf was criticised for failing to curb corruption.

The two candidates through to the Nov. 7 runoff election, George Weah, a former FIFA world player of the year, and Vice President Joseph Boakai, must persuade struggling voters across the West African nation that they can make a difference.

Though representing the ruling party, Boakai has presented himself as the candidate for change, playing up his humble beginnings in a bid to distance himself from the tinted-windows government elite despised by the poor.

Neither he nor Johnson Sirleaf are seen as corrupt, but Boakai has been nicknamed “sleepy Joe” for falling asleep at public functions and few are buying his message in West Point. “He doesn’t care about us, he just cares about himself,” Campbell said.

“PROBLEMS ARE TOO BIG” West Point, where jobs are few and many residents spend the hot afternoons playing checkers or fixing fishing lines in the shade, is a Weah stronghold.

“The youth are on the streets, but they want to work,” said Eugene Nyuti, 35.

“George Weah is going to empower the

youth.”

Weah is a senator and has been goodwill ambassador for UNICEF; many Liberians call him “the ambassador”.

His policies are vague, although he says he wants to improve the country’s roads, and critics say he lacks political experience, but he won a clear lead in the first round of the election, with 38 percent of the vote to Boakai’s 28 percent.

West Point’s problems are echoed to varying degrees across Liberia, which has relied heavily on international donor support since the end of the war in 2003.

The state-run Liberia Electricity Corporation struggles to generate enough revenue to erect more power lines. Thousands across Monrovia illegally connect to the grid with crude wires.

Still, West Point stands out. Asked about their most desperate need, residents point to the rubbish-strewn ocean that laps at their homes. Old sand bags and tyres have not stopped the problem. Houses regularly slide into the sea.

Towards evening as Joseph Myame, 25, watched fishermen roll their wooden canoes onto the beach, he too is praying for a Weah victory. “Maybe he can make a bit of a difference. But whoever wins, the problems are too big.”(rtr)

Terteran and Gebug Ende

Two of Karangasem’s distinctive cultural traditions; Terteran and Gebug Ende (fire dance and rain dance) will soon be named as official cultural heritages. After the administrative requirements were met, the Ministry of Education and Culture assured that they qualified as cultural heritages. The next step in the process is to have a team from the central government verify these cultural heritage traditions.

Division Head of Arts for the Karangasem Culture and Tourism Agency Ni Made Suradnyani explained that a proposal to have these distinctive Karangasem traditions recognised as national cultural heritages was submited to the central government in January 2016 and that the tradions from Seraya Village and Jasri Village, were finally accepted. The verification process will take place next June.

Other than Terteran of Jasri village and Gebug Ende of Seraya village, said Suradnyani, the Bali Culture Office also recommended the Usaba Aci Sumbu of Timbrah

village that involves thousands of roasted suckling pigs being presented as holy offerings. However, the recommendation failed to qualify at the national level because the administrative requirements were not complete. The Karangasem Culture an Tourism Agence will be improving the shortcomings of the application through the Bali Cultural Preservation Agency.

This unique culture of Timbrah customary village will be proposed again to the central government through the recommendation of the Bali government along with the Geret Pandan tradition of Tenganan

Loving a homeland does not only have something to do with the bravery to struggle for the place where human was born. In a humbler way, loving the homeland can be realized by not forgetting the homeland itself as performed by the artists from Penyabangan hamlet, Kerta, Payangan, Gianyar.

In the 1960s, at the local hamlet was established a Joged bumbung art troupe with single dancer. They staged from one hamlet to another or ngelawang to entertain the public. Until one day, a member of the art troupe was bullied psychically when making a performance outside the Penyabangan hamlet. The dancers and gamelan players were suddenly stiff and unable to do any activities, including dancing and playing their gamelan instrument.

“However, suddenly there was a miracle in the form of rays coming down and embedding in the headdress of the joged dancer. Finally, the gamelan players and dancers could instantly move again. Spectators were stunned at the time,” said chief of Kerta customary village, Made Witarjana, when accompanying the Joged Pingit art troupe of Penyabangan hamlet in the performance at the Bali Arts Festival 2016, Friday (Jun. 24).

Witarjana believed that the miracle came because the troupe members always ask for approval to the Dalem Pingit Temple at local hamlet prior to making performance. Since that incident, the single joged dancer has been getting popular as joged pingit. Furthermore, the joged pingit was only performed at certain times because the pingit here means sacred. The original headdress of the joged pingit has even been put in a shrine at the Dalem Temple.

Nevertheless, the joged pingit can still be staged for entertainment.

However, the headdress used by the dancer is a duplicate of the original one. Before making performance, the audience of the BAF was also invited to see the procession of picking up the Dalem Deity on stage.

“Necessarily each joged performance should indeed begin with a ritual. First of all, we present a pejati offerings to ask for permission to deity that the headdress of the joged will be staged like this time (BAF—Ed) or when performing as sacred dance. It is meant to plead so as to be allowed to perform, given divine vibration and safety for the dancers, gamelan players and general public,” he said.

According to Witarjana, the performance of joged as sacred dance must be danced by a woman who has never been menstruating yet.

As for entertainment purposes, it can be performed by female dancers having passed their puberty. The dancers have to master some dances as well as mask dance, barong dance, sisya dance, patih dance and rangda dance. “Joged pingit tends to present storyline, not pengibingan (co-dancing),” he said. (kmb)

Pegeringsingan and Usaba Dangsil of Bungaya village. The latter two traditions are still being studied and documented in preparation for the proposal.

Determination of the cultural property of Karangasem is necessary to avoid any claims to them that may be commited by other regions or countries.. Lately, cultural claim cases used to support tourism promotion of particular regions or countries are increasingly common. In addition, such recognistion is also importtant in order to ensure cultural preservation, so that hese traditions do not disspaear over the next ten years.(kmb)

Wow … Luscious Duck with Spices Awaits You

Used to enjoying duck menus?

Once upon a time, try to taste luscious duck menu served in local rich spices. This is indeed a traditional menu, but when processed modernly it feels very tasty and delicious. Spiced duck menu also offers distinctive taste, so that it is in great demand among the communities including domestic and foreign tourists. This spiced duck

becomes prominent menu of Bebek Sungai Ubud Restaurant located on Jalan Raya Campuhan 888, Ubud.

This duck menu is really tasty, as if the bone was also nice to be chewed. The meat does not feel fishy ??because it is a genuine Balinese duck. Moreover, it is processed with selected spices cultivated by farmers at villages in mountainous area. Similarly, the process applies the original

Balinese-style cooking methods.

In the preparation, it does not use artificial seasonings. When ordering, it will not be too long prepared because it is handled by professional chef. A package of spiced duck has included rice, organic flavored vegetables, crackers and three types of chili. Its preparation process does not take too long, so consumers do not get bored to wait.

The duck menu in Bali is very special because it is usually served to a saint, like sulinggih (Brahmin priest). It is also an offering to God Almighty equipped with sacred banten oblations. In Bebek Sungai Ubud Restaurant, this original Balinese food makes the ambience cool because the menu and all the facilities are still natural.

This restaurant offers the con-

cept of the original Balinese arrangement. There are crops, such as padi sigih (rice stalk), conical hat, coconut, pestle and mortar used to pound rice supporting the atmosphere. There is a river concept characterized with the presence of rocks, water and others. Other menus are roasted duck, favorite Bebek Sungai and crispy duck. (kmb)

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Returning Rohingya may lose land, crops under Myanmar plans

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), attends a news conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 23, 2017.

Since last week, Penginuman Beach in Gilimanuk has been flooded with marine debris.

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Gilimanuk Beach flooded with marine debris Scavengers reap many timbers

NEGARA - Since last week, Penginuman Beach in Gilimanuk has been flooded with marine debris. As seen on Sunday (Oct. 22), piles of trash along 2 km looks to piled up. According to coastal residents, marine debris also pollutes the beach along Gilimanuk.

The garbage on Penginuman Beach mostly consists of wood and plastic bottle of used mineral water and sandals.

Grandma Waini, Makwek, Grandma Mira and Senidi met when picking up wood and plastic trash scattered on the beach admit-

ted that since this week they got many firewood. “We have collected adequate timber and we sell for IDR 5,000 per bundle. On average,

we get IDR 20,000 per day. There is still a lot we have not collected due to the heat of the sun,” said Grandma Waini. She said that she could survive from scavenging.

In the meantime, Agus, a resident of Gilimanuk, said the pile of marine debris occurs every year. “If

there is a flood in the sea, we must get marine debris,” he explained.

On the other hand, according to Uut, another resident, there must be a movement to clean up garbage on the beach, let alone Gilimanuk is now being promoted as a tourist area. (kmb)

Illiteracy rate in Bangli reaches 8,100 people

Nyoman Suteja

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BANGLI — Illiteracy rate in Bangli district is relatively high. According to the latest data owned by the Bangli Education Agency, illiteracy rate in Bangli reaches 8,100 people. To reduce the number, the agency has been implementing illiteracy eradication program in accordance with the directive given by central government.

Head of the Bangli Education Agency, Nyoman Suteja, accompanied by Division Head of Pre-school Education Development and Non-Formal Education, Ketut Wakil, when met recently said the illiteracy data reaching 8,100 people are the data as of December 2016. They are obtained from the village profile. He cannot determine whether the data are in accordance with the reality in the field at this time. To that end, he claimed to have been updating the data.

To eradicate the illiteracy, he has been implementing illiteracy eradication program in accordance with the directives of central government program consisting of basic literacy and independent business literacy. Basic literacy is an initial program targeting people aged over 16 years that cannot read, write and count. This program is held for three months at community learning center (PKBM).

In the meantime, the independent business literacy program is a continuation program of basic literacy. Just as the basic literacy program, the independent business literacy is also implemented for three months in the PKBM. People having undergone the basic literacy program will be given a certificate of literacy and advanced certificate if they take advanced program. “After having advanced literacy certificate, they will be entitled to partici-

pate in package A program being equal to elementary school,” he explained.

He added this year central government gives the quota of basic literacy program for 500 people and independent business literacy program for 300 people. According to him, the number is quite limited.

He hoped that in 2018 the basic literacy and independent business literacy program provided by central government can increase. “For next year, we want to target 1,000 people,” he explained.

In addition to implementing basic literacy and independent business literacy program from central government, to accelerate illiteracy eradication efforts in Bangli, the Education Agency also plans to create a similar program in 2018. Such illiteracy rate is expected to be thoroughly eliminated in accordance with the target of 2021. (kmb40)

Japan’s Abe to push pacifist constitution reform after strong election win

TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, buoyed by a huge election win for lawmakers who favour revising Japan’s post-war, pacifist constitution, signalled a push towards his long-held goal on Monday but will need to convince a divided public to succeed.

Parties in favour of amending the U.S.-drafted charter won nearly 80 percent of the seats in Sunday’s lower house election, media counts showed. That left the small, new Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) as the biggest group opposed to Abe’s proposed changes.

Formed by liberal members of the Democratic Party, which imploded before the election and no longer exists in the lower house, the CDPJ won 55 seats, a final count by public broadcaster NHK shows. That is a fraction of the ruling bloc’s two-thirds majority of 313 seats in the 465-member chamber.

Abe said he wanted to get other parties on board, including Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s new conservative Party of Hope, and was not insisting on a target of changing the constitution by 2020 that he floated this year.

“We won a two-thirds majority as the ruling bloc, but it is necessary to strive to form a wide-ranging

agreement among the ruling bloc and opposition (to revise the constitution),” Abe told a news conference on Monday.

“And then we aim to win the understanding of the people, so that we can gain a majority in a referendum,” Abe said. He stopped short of claiming to have won a mandate for amending the constitution in Sunday’s election.

TRADITIONAL VALUES Amending the charter’s pacifist Article 9 would be hugely symbolic for Japan. Supporters see it as the foundation of post-war democracy but many conservatives view it as a humiliating imposition after Japan’s defeat in 1945.

It would also be a victory for Abe, whose conservative agenda of restoring traditional values, stressing obligations to the state over individual rights and loosening constraints on the military, centres on revising the constitution.

“Mr. Abe is trying to create a

legacy. His first legacy project was to get the economy out of deflation,” said Jesper Koll, head of equities fund WisdomTree Japan.

“The second legacy is to change the constitution,” he said. “You can debate whether he has a mandate but what will make or break him ... is the constitutional issue.”

Any revision of the constitution requires support from two-thirds of the members of both chambers of parliament and a majority in a public referendum, with no minimum quorum.

“I think that debate in parliament will begin,” said Zentaro Kamei, a senior researcher at think tank PHP Institute and a former lawmaker of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

“But the reason given for this snap election was Abe’s proposal to change what sales tax hike revenues would be used for. If he starts talking about the constitution, people will say, ‘You didn’t ask me that’,” Kamei said. (rtr)

SITTWE - Rohingya Muslims who return to Myanmar after fleeing to Bangladesh are unlikely to be able to reclaim their land, and may find their crops have been harvested and sold by the government, according to officials and plans seen

by Reuters.

Nearly 600,000 Rohingya have crossed the border since Aug. 25, when coordinated Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts sparked a ferocious counteroffensive by the Myanmar army.

The United Nations says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since late August amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.

Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has no control over the military, has pledged that anyone sheltering in Bangladesh who can prove they were Myanmar residents can return.

Reuters has interviewed six Myanmar officials involved with repatriation and resettlement plans.

While the plans are not yet finalised, their comments reflect the government’s thinking on how Suu Kyi’s repatriation pledge will be implemented.

Jamil Ahmed, who spoke to Reuters at a refugee camp in Bangladesh, is one of many Rohingya who hope to go back.

Describing how he fled his home in northern Rakhine state in late August, Ahmed said one of the few things he grabbed was a stack of papers - land contracts and receipts - that might prove ownership of the fields and crops he was leaving behind.

“I didn’t carry any ornaments or jewels,” said the 35-year-old. “I’ve only got these documents. In Myanmar, you need to present documents to prove everything.”

The stack of papers, browning and torn at the edges, may not be enough, however, to regain the land in Kyauk Pan Du village, where he grew potatoes, chilli plants, almonds and rice.

“It depends on them. There is no land ownership for those who don’t have citizenship,” said Kyaw Lwin, agriculture minister in Rakhine state, when asked in an interview whether refugees who returned to Myanmar could reclaim land and crops.

Despite his land holdings, Myanmar does not recognise Ahmed as a citizen. Nearly all the more than 1 million Rohingya who lived in Myanmar before the recent exodus are stateless, despite many tracing their families in the country for generations.

Officials have made plans to harvest, and possibly sell, thousands of acres of crops left behind by the fleeing Rohingya, according to state government documents reviewed

by Reuters.

Myanmar also intends to settle most refugees who return to Rakhine state in new “model villages”, rather than on the land they previously occupied, an approach criticised in the past by the United Nations as effectively creating permanent camps.

The government has not asked for help from any international agencies, who are calling for any repatriation to be voluntary and to the refugees’ place of origin. (rtr)

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Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 16, 2017.

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‘Save the dung beetle!’

Global science chief says biodiversity vital Asia in March 2018.

They will also issue a report on land degradation and restoration in 2018, and a global summary of biodiversity in 2019, he said.

Man-made threats to nature include pollution, the clearance of forests to make way for farms and cities, invasive species in new habitats and rising temperatures caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

Watson said people often think of charismatic species - such as lions, polar bears or orang-utans - when they consider threats to the natural world. He said the reports would put a far wider spotlight on how ecosystems work.

And he said that less wellknown creatures, such as worms or insects, are vital by helping to

cycle nutrients in the soil.

“Some of the most important species aren’t very charismatic like the dung beetle in the African plains,” Watson said.

“If you tell people ‘We need to save the dung beetle’ I think one’s going to get a pretty jaundiced look,” he said.

IPBES issued its first report last year, showing that bees and other pollinators are at risk from pesticides and disease.

It estimated that $235 billion to $577 billion of annual world food production at market prices, from coffee in Brazil to apples in China, depends on pollinators.

The IPBES reports would gauge the risks to natural systems, ranging from coral reefs to cloud forests. (rtr)

MANGUPURA — A theft case occurred at Villa Suliac on Jalan Bhisma, Legian, Kuta, last Thursday (Oct. 19). The victims are six foreigners from Australia namely Jane Michelle Aboud, Morgan Kyene, Nicholas Joseph Anderson, Liam Garrardth Eborne Aboud, Renata Pusi and Daniel John Anderson. The culprit is no other than the villa staff, Putu Dedy Artawan, 24, and was arrested on Friday (Oct. 20). The losses are estimated to reach thousands of Australian dollars.

According to a source on Sunday (Oct. 22), the theft case was reported to Kuta police by Jane Michelle. After receiving the report on the incident, the operation team led by Putu Budiartama came down to crime scene on Friday (Oct. 20) at 09:00. As the information obtained from the management, police officers focused on investigating the housekeeping staff of the villa. “Police finally arrested the culprit, Dedy Artawan, at Villa Aramanis on Jalan Plawa, Gang Beji, Kuta.

Villa Aramanis is under the same management as the Villa Suliac,” said the source asking for anonymity.

When interrogated, the culprit from Tabanan claimed to take the money belonging to Villa Suliac guests (victims) during the morning shift. The culprit admitted to have taken the money of the victims in three different safety boxes in the rooms, namely room #01, #02 and #03. All the three rooms are opened by using master key held by housekeeping. In the meantime, the safety box keys are quietly taken from the room box of Villa Suliac staff.

However, the culprit claimed to be only managed to take as much as AUD 1,900 with denomination of AUD 50 amounting to 38 banknotes from the three safety boxes. After successfully taking the money, he worked as usual. In the evening, the stolen money was stored in his belt bag. On the next day, the money was brought home and hidden in the ventilation hole of the bathroom door at his boarding house.

Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, accompanied by Criminal Investigation Unit Chief, Putu Budiartama, when asked for his confirmation justified the disclosure of the theft case. Currently, the culprit has been detained and the evidence has been secured. (kmb36) REUTERS/Joe Skipper

A remodeled version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the launcher first mission since a June failure in Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 21, 2015. The rocket carried a payload of eleven satellites owned by Orbcomm, a New Jersey-based communications company. The first stage returned to land following launch.

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Residents of Kesimpar hamlet started to feel saturation during the evacuation.

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Happy and unhappy stories of evacuees at Rendang refuge

RESIDENTS living in disaster-prone areas (KRB) have evacuated to a safer place for nearly a month. For instance, residents of Kesimpar hamlet, Besakih, evacuate to Refugee Post in Rendang Agriculture Office. They started to feel saturation during the evacuation. To eliminate saturation, a number of refugees are reckless to return home just for doing agricultural activities, working and see their house after being left to flee.

SpaceX, Spacecom to launch new satellites after explosion last year

Two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung on gravel.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Villa staff steals money of six foreign guests

OSLO - Governments should extend the protection of nature far beyond iconic creatures such as tigers and elephants to species including worms and beetles that are vital to human prosperity, the chair of a global scientific project said on Thursday.

“We are trying to ... put biodiversity and ecosystems on the same level - as an environmental, economic, social, security issue - as climate change,” Robert Watson told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“Biodiversity is absolutely central to human well-being” as the source of everything from food to medicines, said Watson, chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

More than 550 IPBES experts from more than 100 nations, in the most comprehensive review to date, will issue regional reports about the state of nature in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Europe and Central

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JERUSALEM - Israel’s Space Communications has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch two communication satellites into orbit, after a prior attempt ended in disaster.

The explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket last year at Cape Canaveral in Florida dealt a major blow to the Israeli satellite operator. But Space Communications said on Wednesday the first new satellite, Amos-17, would be sent into orbit in 2019 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at no extra cost.

Spacecom said it had agreed to pay SpaceX up to $62 million to launch a second satellite, Amos-8, a year later.

The agreements are welcome news for Spacecom after a couple of years of setbacks beyond the SpaceX explosion. In 2015 it lost contact with one of its satellites and earlier this year its controlling shareholder became the target of a securities investigation.

Amos-17, bought from Boeing Satellite Systems International for $161 million, is aimed at expanding and strengthening Spacecom’s coverage of growing satellite service markets in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

Launch is scheduled for the second quarter of 2019 and it is set to operate for 19 years.

The Amos-8 launch is expected for the second half of 2020. (rtr) Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara

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A refugee from Kesimpar hamlet, Besakih, that evacuating in agriculture office refuge in Rendang, Ni Nyoman Karmiani, revealed that she has been evacuated after the announcement of warning status of Mount Agung on September 22. During her refuge, she already felt saturated.

Moreover, to eliminate her boredom all this time in the refugee camp, she does a casual work to pick marigold near her home. “I go home almost every day to recheck the condition of the house. Overall I work as a marigold picker. I go home at 07:00 to work until 11:00, and at 15:00 return to the refugee camp,” she said.

When coming home, she indeed feels comfort because she remembers when the condition was still safe when being at home. “I had time to think after returning home I will leave the home. It’s pity to leave the home,” she said.

Karmiani revealed that she

had never slept at her home since September 22. When returning home, she only cleans up the home yard having begun to be overgrown with grass after being left to refuge. She was desperate not to sleep as home because she does not want to break the rules of government. “I do not want to bother the officers. When asked to evacuate, well … I will follow the government. Most importantly, to me and other refugees is to survive if the mountain erupts,” she said.

He explained that many ups and downs are experienced when living in the refugee camp.

Well, the help given was never a problem. Similarly, the toilet and water facilities have no obstacles. Her sadness is the boredom because there is no activity in the evacuation during the day.

“When claimed to be happy, it’s unhappy, when claimed to be unhappy, it’s happy. It is between happy and unhappy,” she said.

In the meantime, another refu-

gee, Ni Ketut Alit, revealed that she sometimes goes home just to see the home after being left to evacuate. “If there is someone taking to return home, I will go.

Otherwise, we will remain to stay at this location,” she said.

She said there is no activity worked on in the refugee camp.

In the age of approaching the eighties she can only be silent in the refuge. “I can no longer work, maximally just eat and sleep here,” she said.

The officers in charge of logistic matter in Rendang subdistrict post, I Wayan Sudiarta, said on Tuesday (Oct. 20) that the number of refugees at the Yadnya Market in Rendang village near the post reached 1,184 people.

“In the refugee camps, both in the agriculture office and Yadnya Market near the post are indeed occupied by the largest number of refugees. Smaller number is at the village of Menange, Nongan and Pesaban,” said Sudiarta. (nan)

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Some refugees to return home on Galungan

BANGLI —A number of Mount Agung refugees that have been occupying the Kubu Bangli refugee camps are hoping the condition of Mount Agung currently in warning status can return to normal. So, they can go to their respective home. Moreover, in the near future, especially Hindu refugees will celebrate Galungan holiday.

One of the refugees at the Kubu refugee camp, Bangli, Komang Sukreni, said on Sunday (Oct. 22) that she and her family have occupied the Kubu refugee camp since almost last month.

During her stay in the evacuation, there is not much activity she used to do as done at her home. “We’re saturated, but we do not know what do,” said the refugee from Besakih Kawan, Rendang.

She really hoped the condition of Mount Agung could return to normal. So, she and other refugees can immediately return to their respective home, do regular activities and celebrate the upcoming Galungan on Wednesday (Nov. 1).

Sukreni admitted that she is going to go home on Galungan for saying prayers. Although Galungan remains a week to go, this young housewife until now has not started to make any means of ceremony at all. As planned, the ritual paraphernalia will be made at the evacuation post a few days before Galungan. “If not evacuating, we usually have started making ritual paraphernalia,” she said.

In addition to Sukreni, another refugee is Nengah Kersa who also revealed that he plans to return home in Besakih to pray during the Galungan holiday. Probably, the prayers will only be done at home. He will not do it to temples as he did in the previous Galungan festivities. “By and large, other than at home we also say prayers to clan temple, village trinity temples including other temples in the area of Besakih,” he explained.

Kersa admitted that he plans to go home with his family in the morning and return to the evacuation in the afternoon. He will come home with all the children if there is no one taking care of his children in the refugee camp. “If there is no officer on duty here, maybe we will take them home,” he added. (kmb40)

One of The Most Magnificent Mountain in Bali

Located on the most eastern side of the Island of Bali, Mount Agung is the highest mountain on Bali and is held sacred by the population. Bali’s mother temple, Pura Besakih, is located high up the mountain slope. The volcano is 51 km away from Ubud, 76 km away from the popular Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Uluwatu, Kuta, Legian, Seminyak and other popular tourist destinations; and is also away from its capital city of Denpasar, so that tourists visiting the other parts of Bali SHOULD NOT be affected should the mountain erupt.

The government is preparing nine airports to redirect airplanes heading to I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport on the resort island of Bali, should the airport be closed in the event of a Mount Agung eruption. The nine airports are Juanda Airport in Surabaya, Blimbingsari Airport in Banyuwangi, Adi Sumarmo Airport in Surakarta, Lombok Airport in West Nusa Tenggara, Komodo Airport Labuan Bajo, Hassanudin Airport in Makassar and Sepinggan Airport in Balikpapan, Sam Ratulangi Airport in Manado and Pattimura Airport in Ambon.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency also has stated that residents and visitors should not be within a 9 km (5.6 Miles) radius and within a 12 km (7.5 Miles) to the North, North-East, SouthEast, and South/South-West of the mountain. So therefore, when you think about your next holiday, think about making friends with the people of Bali. And if you are traveling to and from the island during this time, we do advise you to confirm your travel arrangements directly with your Airlines Company or Travel Agent before heading to the airport.

Thank you so much for your endless support and thank you again for choosing Bali as your leisure holiday destination and we are looking forward to welcoming you and trust that now is the time to come and safely experience one of nature’s most incredible wonders.

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A Spectacular Line-Up This Autumn for the Great November Feast

EVERY MONDAY Movie Monday19:00-21:00 Genius Cafe- Home to the entrepreneur Beach CLub Mertasari Beach (Next to Mercure), Sanur EVERY TUESDAY Ecstatic contact dance: Transformative journey Paradiso Ubud, Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud 100k includes dinner

The refugees play volley ball in the refugee point.

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To eliminate saturation

Residents kill time by playing volleyball in refuge

AMLAPURA —Various ways are taken by refugees to eliminate saturation in refugee camps as what has been done by young and old people in evacuation at the Agriculture Office at Rendang village, Karangasem. To release saturation after evacuating for a month, they do sport activities by playing volleyball.

O n e o f t h e r e f u g e e s p a rticipating in playing volleyball, Mangku Kariasa, said on Sunday (Oct. 22) that, incidentally Kesimpar hamlet, Besakih, has a volleyball and net. So, he and other young people took the initiative to bring along the ball to the evacuation site. Moreover, he said that in the refuge there is field facility to play volleyball.

So, he along with other refugees eventually takes advantage of the field.

“Since incidentally there are

a ball, net as well as a field, we finally invite the young people in the refugee camp to play volleyball, rather than the ball and the net kept at all, so it is better to be used,” he said.

He said the volleyball game is done to eliminate saturation during in evacuation. He does not know how long they will be in the refugee camp. Therefore, their free time is filled with such activity even though it does not make money. However, the exercise will be able to main-

tain body health and avoid the attack of disease. According to him, the most important is how to enjoy the days with comfort while in the evacuation.

“We started playing volleyball about a week ago before that we did not have any activity.

Now, we play every day and it is never quiet. We start playing from the afternoon. Sometimes the play lasts until the night because this location is equipped with lighting,” said Kariasa. (kmb41)

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EVERY WEDNESDAY DEep Dive Dance Guided improvised movement 19:00-21:00 Paradiso Ubud Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud 100k EVERY THURSDAY African Drums with Catur SAng Klang Wijaya 16:00-18:00 Experience the healing power of drumming, all levels welcome

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Feast up this fall during the Great November Feast: a highly anticipated, fully packed month of festivals, promotions and events that will feature some of the best food and drink Hong Kong has to offer. Tourists are in for a treat as many venues across the city will showcase one-off menus and titillating tipples especially for the occasion.

Crabalicious, a month-long celebration of the crustaceous creature. Participating restaurants like Michelin-starred restaurants Akrame, Ye Shanghai and more will offer a crab-based set menu during the whole of November. The seasonal hairy crab will also be making an appearance on some of the menus.

Sparkling Sunset @ Harbour City, a wine- and crab-pairing package offered between 5-8pm Thursdays and Fridays, and 3-8pm on weekends from 26 October - 12 November at the new Ocean Terminal Deck. For

HK $100, customers can enjoy a “Sparkle and Shine” party set that entitles them to three glasses of sparkling wine paired with three crab snacks, all while admiring the glorious sunset.

Lan Kwai Fong Carnival, a lively annual outdoor bash hosted in one of Hong Kong’s most bustling party districts. This year, the theme is Japanese, meaning everything will have a touch of Nipponese influence. Set aside 11-12 November for the twoday affair, which promises to be the largest street party in Hong Kong.

Great Wines of the World 2017, an international wine exhibition in collaboration with wine critic James Suckling. Held at the Four Seasons Hotel this 3 November, the ticketed event will feature high-ranking wines from China, Argentina, Thailand, France and more.

For more event information,

please visit http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/eventsfestivals/highlight-events/greatnovember-feast.jsp. The Great November Feast will be opened by the annual Wine & Dine Festival on 26-29 October. This year, the festival is bigger and better than all previous editions, with 400-plus booths touting delicacies from Hong Kong and across the globe.

There’s the FeedMe lane featuring dishes by some of the city’s trendiest restaurants, including Bo Innovation, Chili Fagara and Lai Bun Fu. Then there’s the Robert Parker Wine Advocate Pavilion highlighting offthe-beaten-path wines from around the world. Meanwhile, The Concept Store will be a hit for style-conscious customers keen to get their hands on the designers’ kitchen gadget. And that’s just a small glimpse into the Festival!

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Madrid’s young guns shine as Benzema and Ronaldo struggle MADRID - Real Madrid’s high-profile ‘BBC’ forward line has come in for criticism this season and while some of their team mates have defended the old guard, the club’s new generation are doing the heavy lifting for Zinedine Zidane’s team. That was again the case on Sunday as Madrid beat Eibar 3-0, with Karim Benzema dropped to the bench for 21-year-old Marco Asensio, who forced an own goal and scored Real’s second, while in-form playmaker Isco, 25, dominated in midfield.

Gareth Bale is still out injured and Real’s all-time top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo struggled to get involved in the game up front but, thanks to the contributions of Asensio and fellow Spain international Isco, it did not matter. Benzema bore the brunt of the criticism after being panned for his display against Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League on Tuesday, but the France forward at least set up Madrid’s third goal, finished by Marcelo.

“If I talk about my team mates, I will defend them to the death.

Benzema is a cracking (player), just like the rest of them,” Marcelo told Movistar after the game. Madrid have been linked in Spanish and British media with a move for Spurs’ England striker Harry Kane, who scored twice in the Premeir League on Sunday, to replace the Frenchman.

“Harry Kane scores again. Thankfully Zidane thinks Benzema is the best so they won’t be interested in poaching him,” wrote former Tottenham and Barcelona forward Gary Lineker on Twitter after Kane helped Spurs thrash Liverpool 4-1 at Wembley. But Zidane defended Benzema while team mates Marcelo and midfielder Dani Ceballos heaped praise on the Frenchman.

“Karim is the best striker in the world, people are very wrong about him. There are few players of his level,” said Ceballos, who did not like the whistles aimed at his team mate by fans at the Santiago Bernabeu. “It’s the time to stick our neck out for Benzema, he’s the player that helps the team play best. The whistles are unfair. We have Cristiano, the best number seven and the best player in the world.”

Zidane told a news conference: “Lineker can have an opinion, it’s normal, but I don’t think Benzema is over-rated. I enjoy watching Benzema play.” While the ‘BBC’ have been supported off the pitch, on it they have also been carried by their team mates at times, with Isco and Asensio dragging Madrid up to third on Sunday, back within five points of La Liga leaders Barca.

The tireless Isco helped Madrid control the game throughout and he crossed for Asensio’s volley in the 28th minute, which doubled Madrid’s lead after Paulo Oliveira’s own goal. Asensio, meanwhile, offered magical touches which delighted the Bernabeu and showed that even if the ‘BBC’s’ troubles continue, Madrid’s newest hope is ready to help chip in with goals - he is the club’s top scorer in La Liga with three.(rtr)

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Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio celebrates scoring their second goal with Isco

Tiny Benevento’s Serie A dream turns sour

MILAN - Little-known Benevento’s rise to Serie A was one of the most remarkable stories in Italian football but their dream has turned into a nightmare after losing their first nine games in the top flight. A 3-0 home defeat by Fiorentina on Sunday meant that Benevento set an unwanted record for the longest losing run at the start of a season, overtaking Venezia’s previous mark of eight matches dating back to 1949-50.

The team from the southern region of Campania have scored only two goals those nine games, while conceding 22. To add to their woes, captain Fabio Lucioni tested positive for a banned substance in September and faces a ban of upto four years. Lucioni

denies any wrongdoing.

Coach Marco Baroni was confident his side, who play in distinctive yellow shirts with red stripes, could get out of their rut.

“We need to continue believing,” said Baroni, the hero of last term’s Serie B campaign. Italian

media has reported his job is under threat.

“Even against Fiorentina, we gave ourselves something to build on. After they scored, we were the more dangerous team and hit the post, but when they struck again early in the second half, all of our

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Kane scores twice as Tottenham crush Liverpool

Tottenham’s Harry Kane celebrates scoring their first goal with Serge Aurier

LONDON - Tottenham Hotspur brutally exposed Liverpool’s defensive frailties as Harry Kane plundered two more goals in his side’s 4-1 romp at Wembley on Sunday. In front of 80,827 fans, the biggest ever Premier League attendance, Kane took his league tally to eight for the season with the first and fourth goals in a clinical Spurs display.

Son Heung-min and Dele Alli were also on target for the impressive hosts, who led 3-1 at the break after a breathless first half, while Mohamed Salah’s reply had briefly given Juergen Klopp’s Liverpool side hope.

Tottenham’s fourth consecutive victory, and first in the Premier League against Liverpool for five years, put them level on 20 points with second-placed Manchester United and five behind rampant leaders Manchester City.Liverpool dropped to ninth on 13 points and have conceded 16 goals -- their highest total after nine games since 1964.

“The whole game the whole result was all our fault -- Tottenham were good, they needed to be good, but we made it much too easy for them,” said Klopp, who reacted by hauling off hapless defender Dejan Lovren after 31 minutes.

Both sides were buoyed by superb midweek results in the Champions League with Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham team fresh from a 1-1 draw away to European champions Real

Madrid and Liverpool having scored seven goals at Maribor.

POROUS REARGUARD It was the home side who began in razor-sharp fashion in front of watching Argentina great Diego Maradona though, albeit aided by a porous Liverpool rearguard.

In the fourth minute, Spurs defender Kieran Trippier played Kane into acres of space and the England striker cleverly dinked the ball around goalkeeper Simon Mignolet with his right foot before guiding a shot home with his left.

Tottenham were two goals up inside 12 minutes, this time Lovren inexplicably failed to cut out Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris’s long throw to allow Kane to advance and calmly square for Son to stroke the ball home left-footed. Liverpool’s defence parted again to allow Son in on goal soon afterwards but his fierce effort struck the crossbar.

Tottenham’s defence dozed off in the 24th minute, enabling Salah to get

between them and latch on to Jordan Henderson’s pass. With Lloris slow to narrow the angle, the Egyptian scuffed his shot in off the post.

The visitors then began to enjoy the lion’s share of possession but their defence continued to creak and Lovren was replaced by Alex OxladeChamberlain. It made little difference though as Spurs took advantage of more woeful defending in first-half stoppage time. Christian Eriksen floated in a free kick which Joel Matip could only head tamely straight to Alli who volleyed past Mignolet from inside the area.

In the 56th minute, Mignolet flapped at Trippier’s inswinging free kick, Jan Vertonghen’s shot was cleared off the line by Roberto Firmino but it fell to the lurking Kane who steadied himself before drilling into the corner. There was no way back for Liverpool, although Lloris did have to pull off an incredible one-handed save to push Philippe Coutinho’s powerful effort against the bar and later blocked a Salah shot with his legs.(rtr)

UEFA fines for Celtic, PSG, Basel UEFA has fined Celtic and Paris St Germain for crowd trouble after last month’s Champions League game between the teams, European soccer ’s governing body said on Monday.

UEFA’s Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body fined Celtic 10,000 euros ($11,700) for field invasion after a supporter ran

on to the pitch and attempted to kick PSG striker Kylian Mbappe during their 5-0 home loss in the Group B opener.

The supporter ran towards the French forward as the Scottish side prepared to kick off after the third goal, before being caught by stewards and escorted from the pitch.

PSG were fined 5,000 euros ($5,900) for acts of damage after visiting supporters broke seats at Celtic Park.

Meanwhile, Swiss side Basel have been fined 12,000 euros ($14,000) after supporters set off fireworks in their Group A game against Manchester United at Old Trafford last month.(rtr)

problems came back.”

Benevento visit Cagliari on Wednesday, with the Sardinians also struggling after losing seven of their first nine games. They then face much tougher games against Lazio and Juventus.

Benevento was re-founded in 2005 after the original club, which had existed since 1929, folded. After starting in the fourth tier in 2007-08, the new Benevento reached Serie B for the first time last season where they finished fifth and won promotion through the play-offs.

But like Carpi and Frosinone before them, they have struggled to make an impact in the top flight.

Benevento made more than 15 new signings during the close season in their bid to be competitive, although around half of those were on loan and none cost more than 3 million euros ($3.52 million).

Moulding them into a competitive team has proved a challenge

especially as a number of the new recruits arrived at the end of August with the league already under way.

Verona and SPAL, promoted alongside Benevento, are also struggling and Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis has led growing calls to cut the number of teams in the top flight from the current 20 to 18 or even sixteen.

Benevento president Oreste Vigorito argued, however, that the real problem lies in the distribution of revenue from the sale of television rights, which is based partly on the popularity and past record of the respective clubs.

“It’s much easier to have a football club in the big cities with this unfair distribution of revenues,” he said.

“The way the revenue is divided creates different standards within the same division of the league. We shouldn’t try to cure the cancer by cutting off the leg.”(rtr)