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Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested outside New York City museum

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NEW YORK — Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly got into an altercation with another man outside a New York City museum where he has been chanting “He will not divide us” in front of a live camera since Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Police said LaBeouf pulled the scarf of an unidentified 25-year-old man outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, scratching his face in the process. They said he also pushed the man, who refused medical attention.

LaBeouf has spent the first few days of Trump’s presidency swaying, dancing and repeating the phrase “He will not divide us” in front of

a live camera outside the museum.

The livestream is for a participatory public art project LaBeouf and two collaborators intend to have running 24 hours a day for the next four years.

The camera went live the morning of the inauguration, along with a website inviting the public to show up and participate. LeBeouf has been a frequent, though not constant presence.

Technically, the project from LaBeouf and his performance art partners isn’t about opposition to Trump, LaBeouf told The Associated Press in an interview conducted on Monday in front of the livestream camera.

“We’re anti-division out here.

Everyone’s invited,” LaBeouf said.

“I’m just saying, ‘Be nice to each other.’”

It’s not immediately known what led to the alleged altercation Thursday morning.

LaBeouf faces a misdemeanor assault charge. It’s unclear if he has an attorney who can comment. (ap)

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Japanese doll-maker Kyugetsu Inc’s dolls depicting U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, as part of a traditional set of Japanese ornamental hina dolls used in Japan to celebrate Girls’ Day, are pictured at the company’s main shop in Tokyo, Japan, January 26, 2017.

Trump’s call for probe of voter fraud sparks backlash

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would seek an investigation into what he believes was voter fraud in last November’s election, despite an overwhelming consensus among state officials, election experts, and politicians that it is rare in the United States.

The announcement drew rebukes from both Republicans and Democrats who said the Republican president’s unsubstantiated claims of large-scale fraud could undermine voting rights efforts as well as confidence in the new U.S. chief executive.

In the Nov. 8 election, Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million

ballots. Irked by that large figure, he has blamed voter fraud without citing evidence.

“I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and....even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time),” Trump said on Twitter.

“Depending on results, we will

strengthen up voting procedures!”

In an interview with ABC News, Trump said none of the illegal votes would have been cast for him.

“They would all be for the other side,” he said.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer later told a news briefing that the probe would not focus on only the 2016 election.

Three Democratic congressmen demanded proof of such fraud and sent a letter to election officials and attorneys general in all 50 U.S. states seeking examples of cases of fraud in November’s vote.

Many of the state officials did

not need prompting with election officers in several states rejecting Trump’s claims immediately.

“Easy to vote, hard to cheat #Ohio,” Ohio’s Republican secretary of state, Jon Husted, said in a Twitter post rebutting Trump’s claim that 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants voted against him.

“That’s impossible,” Democratic Secretary of State Alex Padilla of California said on CNN. There is no history of widespread voter fraud in U.S. elections.

Leading Republicans, including the top Republican in Congress, House

of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, have rejected the claims.

Ryan, however, said in an interview Wednesday with MSNBC that if Trump believes there is widespread fraud “the right thing is to get an investigation to get the facts.”

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Pagerwesi feast

Lively atmosphere of food offerings at cemetery increasingly fades

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The path passes through three hills namely the Mandaean, Tangkib Putih and Bukit Mas Hill that showcase natural landscapes of paddy fields and Mount Agung.

Boosted into tourism village

Paksebali prepares trekking path on hill areas

SEMARAPURA - Even though not becoming a priority of tourism village in Klungkung, in fact, Paksebali is the only village having been ready to bear such a name. In addition to having re-designed the Unda River area, Paksebali now begins to explore agro tourism by creating a trekking path on hills. Due to lack of facilities, Paksebali village, Dawan, must spend enough money to provide adequate facilities.

Headman of Paksebali, I Putu Ariadi, conveyed that he with the village community of Paksebali begins to open trekking path in the hills of local village. The path passes through three hills namely the Mandaean, Tangkib Putih and Bukit Mas Hill that showcase natural landscapes of paddy fields and Mount Agung.

Besides, visitors will be able to see the view of the ocean along with the Island of Nusa Penida. Trekking that passes the hills also crosses pristine river.

According to Putu Ariadi, to open the trekking path it takes him for weeks considering that the pathway is

rarely passed through by the public and covered with shrubs. After opening the trekking path, Paksebali village plans to set up a rest area in the form of gazebo for travelers participating in the trekking.

The presence of trekking at Paksebali hills will strengthen the position of the village into tourism village. Aside from trekking path, his village has arranged the area of Unda River into water attraction. With the village fund worth IDR 300 million, the Paksebali village builds a restaurant that will be managed by village-owned enterprise (BUMDes) of Paksebali.

With the existence of the restaurant, he hoped that rafting entrepreneurs can re-use the area as the finish line in the whitewater rafting adventure. In addition, the village has made cooperation with travel agencies to take advantage of the restaurant such as the lunch venue for travelers visiting Klungkung.

Additionally, he hoped the support of the government of Klungkung to promote the tourist attraction and take advantage of the restaurant as the venue of meeting activities held by the government. (dwa)

SINGARAJA - Pagerwesi feast in Buleleng, especially in urban areas, is celebrated festively. People do not just say prayers at clan temple and universal temple. However, they also put food offerings at cemetery. Along with the changing times, is there any change as well to the tradition?

Hindu devotees in Buleleng town that celebrated Pagerwesi feast have already looked busy from early morning. Coinciding with the rising sun, they have conducted prayers. Hectic atmosphere is similar to the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan. Besides, the feast falling every six months (210 days) looks so different from the other areas.

Devotees do not only put offerings at their clan temple and universal temple, but there is also a tradition having been carried from generation to generation in the form of putting offerings for the deceased family. It is carried out at cemetery.

Presenting food offerings or munjung is followed by all members of the family. The offerings brought as usual are put over the grave looking in a neat row with a variety of sizes and accompanied with the worship procession. When the procession is over, post-offerings are completely taken back home. Partial offerings are immediately enjoyed at cemetery. It is time where the families

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One of the residents, Made Suciastra, said that food offerings have been regularly practiced since he was a child. This tradition is not only performed on Pagerwesi, but also on Galungan and Kuningan.

For sure, he does not understand what it signifies. “I do not know what it exactly means. We’ve inherited the tradition like this. At least, it is also a part of effort to maintain relationship. We must remember both the living and dead ones,” he said when met at Buleleng cemetery on Wednesday (Jan. 25).

In the 1980s, continued this middle-aged man, presentation of food offerings is usually done starting at 04:00. At that time, the atmosphere is very pronounced. Both the adult and children also joined the procession at the cemetery. In addition to the offerings, they also brought candles and fireworks. However, when entering the era of the 1990s to the present, such an atmosphere starts to fade.

“Since then, no longer people are lighting candles. People just put the offerings. The atmosphere is no longer festive as ever before,” he said.

He added that in the past this tradition took place before saying prayers at clan temple and universal temple but now it is reversed.

“Today, it is held at home first and then come here. It usually takes up to nine,” he said. (sos)

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Presenting food offerings or munjung is followed by all members of the family. The offerings brought as usual are put over the grave looking in a neat row with a variety of sizes and accompanied with the worship procession.

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Bali tourism growth increases

MANGUPURA - Bali tourism growth in general continues to increase, especially ahead of the Lunar New Year. So, the hotel room occupancy rate has begun to increase chiefly the hotels located on the beach.

Valentino showcases ethereal haute couture collection in Paris

PARIS - Valentino designer Pierpaolo Piccioli showcased his debut solo haute couture collection in Paris on Wednesday, presenting an ethereal spring/summer 2017 line.

It is the first time Piccioli has designed the haute couture collection

on his own, after his former creative partner Maria Grazia Chiuri became Dior’s first female creative director.

Chiuri debuted her Dior haute couture line in Paris on Monday.

The simple and delicate Valentino collection by Piccioli included

a rose, ruffled chiffon dress with a deep neckline and a mint long sleeve gown which gave an Olympian feel.

Dreamy column dresses in straight, classical forms evoked a fairytale world with gentle, spring

colors of ivory, pastel pink and clay-green.

Billowing floor-length gowns embellished with flowers and sequins transformed the models into goddesses as they strolled along the catwalk to music composed by

French film composer Alexandre Desplat.

Valentino’s show took place on the penultimate day of Paris Haute Couture Week, with the curtains drawing on the event on Thursday. (rtr)

I Putu Gede Suastawa

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Narcotic case in Bali, BNNP Bali rehabilitates 974 people

AMLAPURA - Narcotic still becomes a big threat to Bali. Data of the Bali Provincial National Narcotic Agency (BNNP) indicate that throughout the year 2016, there were 974 people that should follow narcotic rehabilitation because they get involved in it. They mostly come from private sector, unemployment and self-employed people. However, there are also pupils, college students and housewives.

Head of the BNNP Bali, I Putu Gede Suastawa, said on Tuesday (Jan. 24) that the total number of people following the rehabilitation signifies that the war against the hazards of narcotic should not recede. In a note of the BNNP Bali, the data of rehabilitation in 2016 in terms of profession show that 510 people or 52.36 percent are from private sector, the unemployed (222 people) or 22.79 percent and the self-employed (156 people) or 16.02 percent.

There are also pupil (21), college students (17), merchants (14), farmers (8), police (6), civil servant (5), artists (5), fishermen (4), retired people (3) and housewives (3). As the mapping out by the BNNP Bali, the entry of narcotic passes several entrances such as the crossing of Gilimanuk Harbor, Celukan Bawang, Ngurah Rai Airport, Benoa Harbor, Sanur Beach, Nusa Penida, Padangbai Harbor and several traditional ports in Karangasem such as at Tulamben, Amed and a couple of coastlines in

Kubu subdistrict.

In the past year, the drug cases occurred evenly throughout the district and municipal in Bali. Data as of September 2016 showed that the highest drug case was uncovered in Denpasar with 198 cases, followed

by Buleleng (35), Jembrana (32), Gianyar (31), Badung (27), Bangli (18), Klungkung (14), Tabanan (12) and Karangasem (7).

“The data of the case is small, but do not necessarily mean there are no drugs. It precisely happens because disclosure effort is not serious enough. Actually, it can reach more than this,” he said.

Seeing the urgency of the problem on drug abuse, then his agency is very encouraging to immediately form BNNK in Karangasem. Thus, the handling will be more intensive in the field. Besides, the most worrying thing for the BNNP Bali is the trend of drug cases among the students. Therefore, to face this situation, Suastawa hoped the P4GN integrated curriculum program can provide significant influences on the students.

This program was launched in June 2016 coinciding with the International Day against Drugs.

At junior high school level, the curriculum is inserted into the subjects like religion, social sciences, Bahasa Indonesia, civics as well as physical and sport education. Then, at the level of high school it is inserted into civics, history, Bahasa Indonesian and physical and sport education. (kmb31)

Advisor to central executive of the Indonesian Hotel General Manager Association (IHGMA), Dr. Gusti Kade Sutawa, said that although the regional occupancy in general is about 50 percent, the hotels directly facing the beach surely become a priority for tourists to stay,” he said on Tuesday (Jan. 24).

But according to him, a lot of things need to be considered, especially for Bali. First of all, the infrastructures connecting South Bali to East, West and North Bali should be arranged, so that tourism is not only concentrated in South Bali. “Now, we’ve been faced with traffic congestion down here,” he said.

Secondly, the waste management having been often at issue must get a solution from the government and the parliament. In addition, the blueprint of Bali tourism should be made clear for the sustainability of Bali tourism ahead. “Thus, our grandchildren later on will inherit a sustainable tourism, not sporadically, not build here and there without a good plan,” he said.

Bali needs to emulate other countries. Although Bali is an island, it is inappropriate to be compared to

a country, but Bali needs to learn, for example, from Malaysia. “Malaysia is a small country, but it has regional planning for the next 50 years. There has been a picture of Malaysia how it will look like and it was made by an Indonesian,” he said.

According to him, Bali has the capacity for that, so that what is needed is good will and political will of the government so that the experts or stakeholders can give their contribution to promote Bali tourism.

Indeed, recently the foreign tourist visit showed an increase, especially Chinese tourists. Unfortunately, the hotel revenue received is not comparable to the number of foreign tourist arrivals that make the room rate cheap. Cheap price happens in line with the law of economics, the laws of the market.

“Now, we are oversupply due to many hotel rooms.

When compared to the room rate in 1980s in the range of USD 200-USD 300, now we can even get IDR 300,000. Indeed, it directs to quality,” he explained.

On that account, the government should control the growth of hotels in Bali. “There should not be too many rooms and there should be research on accommodation supply. We may not let the oversupply of hotel room happen as it currently does,” he added.

If it can be controlled through hotel moratorium, then in the upcoming 5 to 10 years, room rates will increase and traffic congestion can be reduced. (kmb42)

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The blueprint of Bali tourism should be made clear for the sustainability of Bali tourism ahead.

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Investors in Bali grow nearly double in 2016

SEATTLE - Politicians in New York, Seattle and other “sanctuary cities” that protect immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally declared Wednesday they won’t be intimidated by a move by President Donald Trump to cut off millions in federal funding to such communities.

Penglipuran village

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Rain, tourist visit to Penglipuran slumps

BANGLI - High-intensity rainfall flushing Bangli did not only affect the agricultural sector but also the tourism sector.

Due to the recent rains, the tourist visit to one of the attractions in Bangli, namely Penglipuran village, shows a decline.

Operations manager of Penglipuran tourist attraction, I Nengah Moneng, said on Wednesday (Jan. 25) that persistent heavy rains in Bangli and surrounding areas in recent weeks have caused the tourist visits to Penglipuran village to decrease. However, the decline is not very significant.

“The decline in tourist visit is certain. However, I did not know

the percentage for sure because I have not checked it yet. Clearly, there is a decrease but not too significant,” explained Nengah Moneng.

Moneng added the declining tourist visits happened to domestic travelers, primarily of Balinese teenagers. The visit of foreign tourist is relatively normal, although there is a decline of one to two people. “The most visible decline

is in the Bali local tourist visit. By and large, teenagers will make a visit in hot weather. Since it rained recently, the tourist visit declined slightly,” he said.

He said that tourist visit will usually return to normal after feast holiday. He said that possibly after Ciwaratri feast the tourist visits will be back to normal. “Normally, after Ciwaratri more visitors will usually come. Hopefully, the weather also supports so that tourist visit will constantly increase. The number of tourist visit will determine our revenue,” added Nengah Moneng. (kmb41)

Many cities vowed legal action, arguing that the threatened punishment would be unconstitutional. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh promised to let immigrants who feel threatened by the administration’s actions take shelter in City Hall if necessary. “This city will not be bullied by this administration,” Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said, adding that he instructed city departments to rework their budgets to prepare for the possibility that federal dollars could be lost. “We believe we have the rule of law and the courts on our side.”

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called Trump’s executive orders on immigration mean-spirited and unnecessary.

California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat, tweeted: “See you in court.” In New York, Trump’s hometown, city officials said the administration’s action could take away over $150 million in law enforcement funding mainly for counterterrorism efforts, protecting international missions and dignitaries and, arguably, safeguarding Trump Tower, city officials said.

“Here in New York City and in cities across this nation, this order could in fact undermine public safety,” Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference Wednesday evening â?? a concern echoed by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser.

While there is no formal definition of the term “sanctuary city,” it generally refers to jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials.

In some cases, these cities tell

police not to inquire about the immigration status of those they encounter, or they decline requests from immigration officials to keep defendants in custody while they await deportation.

Others say they do cooperate with such “detainer” requests as long as they’re backed by court-issued warrants, but won’t allow local officers to enforce federal immigration law.

Advocates say such noncooperation policies protect people who may not have exhausted their rights to apply for U.S. residency. They also say that crime victims and witnesses are more likely to cooperate with police if they are not afraid of being deported.

“We’re not going to sacrifice any of our folks here in Providence,” said Jorge Elorza, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. “My job is to represent every single resident in the city of Providence, and we will continue to do that.”

Supporters of a crackdown on sanctuary cities point to cases like the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle in 2015 on a San Francisco pier. A man who had been previously deported and had been released by local law enforcement was charged in her death.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the Trump administration is going to “strip federal grant money from the sanctuary states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants.”

Trump signed an executive order that appeared more limited than that.

It referred to withholding Justice Department and Homeland Security

Residents of Pemuteran protest flood by diving action diving, Putu Sudarimbawa, revealed that flood problem in the area has been going on for years. It became concerns on the sustainability of tourism sector that has now been sufficiently developed. “This (diving—Ed) symbolizes our disappointment to the government. From the past, this flood has not been successfully handled,” he growled.

The protest action is not the first time but has been for the umpteenth time. However, it is carried out differently. The flood, he said, started around 16:00, shortly after the pouring rain in the mountain areas.

Head of the Buleleng Public Works and Spatial Planning (PUPR), Ketut Suparta Wijaya, stated that to respond

to the issue, local government has been coordinating with provincial and central government. As planned, in the long term in the mountain area will be made a waterway in addition to a new river channel with the length of 1.5 kilometers that will include a dam to hold sand and rocks. “Location of the dam is being discussed,” he explained. (kmb45)

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Protesters hold signs as they listen to speakers at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation’s immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting “sanctuary cities.” funds from only those jurisdictions that bar local officials from communicating with federal authorities about someone’s immigration status. Peter L. Markowitz, a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York, said such an attempt to cut off funding would face strong legal challenges.

“The Constitution prohibits the president from defunding jurisdictions that won’t do his bidding,” Markowitz said. “There’s nothing in federal law

that requires localities or states to participate in federal immigration enforcement. Second, the Constitution grants Congress â?? not the president â?? the power to determine how federal dollars are spent.”

In California, local law enforcement officials are barred from holding immigrants arrested on lesser crimes for deportation purposes.

More than 100 immigration rights advocates crowded on the steps of

San Francisco City Hall, holding signs that said “Undocumented & Unafraid” and “Don’t let hate Trump our values.”

“When we know that there is a violation of human rights here, this is where we excel,” San Francisco Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer said to cheers. “This is where we lead the nation and we say, ‘We will not back down and we will stand up for what we believe is right.’”(ap)

Extremist gunmen storm hotel in Somali capital, 11 killed

Incomplete handling

SINGARAJA- A number of residents of Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, did diving action on Wednesday (Jan. 25).

They did not do it at sea, but at some points of flood that recently become an unresolved problems. The action is a protest against the slow handling by local government.

One of the residents who joined in the

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Indonesia still attractive for investment site

DENPASAR - The growth of investors in Bali during the period of 2015 to 2016 increased from 1,379 to 2,571. The number of account-based investors (SRE) in Bali in 2015 reached 7,651, and then in 2016 rose to 10,138. “So, in 2016 it showed almost double growth from a year earlier,” said I Gusti Agung Alit Nityaryana, Head of IDX Denpasar Representative Office on Tuesday (Jan. 24).

In terms of the number of investors or individual (SID), considering that an individual can have more than one stock accounts, it also increased from 6,484 in 2015 to 8,078 in 2016. Thus, it indicated the growth of 2,015 new investors. When compared to other regions in Indonesia, the number of investors in Bali is ranked third after Java and Medan.

“By tendency of age, the investors in Bali are aged 41 to100 years amounting to 4,760, while those aged 18-25 years amount to 1,769 and then those aged of 26-30 years amount to 1,221,” he explained.

By profession, the investors consist of employees of private sector followed by students and businessmen.

He said that one’s interest to buy shares of a company much depends on the movement of stock prices. Movement of the stock prices is influenced by quality of the company, condition of the country and global conditions.

“Some years ago, there was one of the factors causing the decline in the stock price. For example, the price of coal dropped because the purchasing power of China is low. Due to the price drop, automatically the stock prices fall. The stock price falls due to the potential profit slumps. Imagine the cost of production is constant but the selling price downs. It means the profit increasingly drops in the long run. Automatically, more and more people want to sell their shares than to buy shares because pursuant to the law of the market says that when more and more people are selling than buying the stock price will go down,” he explained.

Head of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) for Bali-Nusra Region, Zulmi, said that OJK or the Stock Exchange and security traders have regularly disseminated to the public including all the campuses. “Moreover, there have been seven exchange galleries at campuses that can be used by students and the community to learn to invest,” he said.

With such dissemination, according to him, it is quite effective to make people invest in the capital market. The stock market has already started to become a potential alternative for people to invest.

Nevertheless, until now the investors of capital market are still dominated by foreign players with a ratio of about 60:40. It happens because Indonesia’s capital market is very attractive and much in demand. It has good prospects both in terms of business sector and very attractive return. In 2017, The Fed is predicted to raise interest rates, so that the investors are feared to flee to the United States.

According to him, The Fed raising the feed fund rate (FFR) is expected not to significantly impact the investment in Indonesia.

“On that account, the investment climate in Indonesia is still more attractive, including easiness to invest that is continuously opened,” he said optimistically. (kmb42)

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AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh

Somalis walk near the destroyed hotel and cars in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Jan 25, 2017. Gunmen from Somalia’s violent Islamic extremist rebels fought their way into a hotel in the Somali capital after a suicide car bomb exploded at its gates, a police officer said Wednesday.

MOGADISHU — At least 11 were killed and 50 injured Wednesday as Somali security forces ended a siege by extremist fighters who stormed a hotel in the capital, police said.

Four al-Shabab attackers were also killed in the attack on Dayah hotel, which is often frequented by government officials, said Capt.

Mohamed Hussein, a senior police officer. The death toll may rise, he said.

Survivors described chaotic scenes in which hotel residents hid under beds and others jumped out of

windows of the four-story building to escape the attackers.

“They kicked down room doors and at some point posed themselves as rescue teams by telling those inside to come out (only) to kill them,” said Hassan Nur, a traditional Somali elder. He said two well-known clan elders were among those killed.

The assault on the hotel started when a suicide car bomb exploded at its gates. A second explosion soon followed.

Dozens of people, including lawmakers, were thought to have been staying at the hotel at the time of the

morning attack, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein. A nearby shopping center caught fire and dozens of people helped save goods from the flames.

Somalia’s homegrown Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack via its online radio, Andalus, saying its fighters succeeded in entering the hotel.

Al-Shabab frequently targets hotels and other public places often visited by government officials and foreigners. Al-Qaida’s East African affiliate is fighting to impose a strict version of Islam in this Horn of Africa nation.(ap)

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International

BUSINESS China’s 2016 industrial profits rise most in 3 years on commodities recovery

UNDERLYING WEAKNESS The NBS said a narrower loss for the mining sector, and stronger profit growth in equipment and high-tech manufacturing contributed to the overall 2016 earnings turnaround. But part of the reason for the strong numbers last year was simply due to a weak base of comparison from the previous

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People carry surfboards during the last sunset of 2016 at Kuta beach on Bali island, Indonesia, December 31, 2016.

Timbrah Village Melasti, Presenting Oblations to Lord Varuna

FILE PHOTO - Apartments are pictured from a plane on the outskirts of Beijing January 8, 2016. year and the foundation for further improvement in the industrial sector was not stable, the stats bureau added.

“Average profit growth over the last two years has not kept up with output growth,” NBS said in a statement. “An unreasonable demand structure, difficulties collecting funds and high costs are a drag on corporate profits.”

Indeed, the amount of time it took companies to collect payment rose to 36.5 days in 2016, while the increase in accounts receivables accelerated to 9.6 percent. The efficiency of production also fell, with companies having to invest more to generate the same amount of revenue as in the past.

The stats bureau said the slower profit growth in December was due to volatility in oil prices and adjustments by some firms to their product structure. Profits for firms

which make computers and other electronic equipment fell 10.5 percent in December, after rising 45.4 percent in November, possibly due to fewer new product launches at the end of the year.

China’s state firms fared worse than the broader industrial sector, with profits at government-owned firms rising only 1.7 percent in 2016, the Ministry of Finance said earlier on Thursday. Total profits at state firms stood at 2.3 trillion yuan for the year, while revenue rose 2.6 percent to 45.9 trillion yuan.

China increasingly relied on its lumbering and often inefficient state firms to generate economic growth last year as private investment cooled.

State firms’ total liabilities rose 10 percent year-on-year to 87 trillion yuan at the end of December.

For industrial firms overall, liabilities rose 5.6 percent in 2016.

COMMODITY PRICES RALLY China’s producer prices surged the most in more than five years in December, bolstered by a monthslong rally in prices of coal and raw materials and contributing to a reflationary pulse felt across the global manufacturing sector. Government efforts to force bloated “smokestack” industries to shut excess and inefficient capacity also helped feed the rally by reducing supply.

But some analysts worry the strong price gains may have been fueled by growing speculation in China’s commodity futures markets, adding to the risk of asset bubbles in the economy which the central bank has vowed to prevent in 2017.

Chinese futures prices for steel reinforcing bars used in construction have risen more than 10 percent so far this month, on top of a gain of more than 60 percent in 2016.

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TACKLING DEBT China’s economy expanded 6.7 percent in 2016, roughly in the middle of the government’s target range, but it faces increasing uncertainties in 2017, with a housing frenzy showing signs of cooling and the impact of previous stimulus measures expected to fade. Still, the stronger cash flow will in theory give China’s big state industrial champions more room to tackle their debt burdens.

Chinese firms as a group owe some $18 trillion, equivalent to about 169 percent of gross domestic product, according to the most recent figures from the Bank for International Settlements. Most of it is held by state-owned firms.

China’s industrial output is likely to grow around 6 percent in 2017, similar to the pace seen in 2016, a state-run newspaper quoted Chinese industry minister Miao Wei as saying in December.(rtr)

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Ngibing Joged Bungbung at Tanah Lot

On releasing the year 2016 and welcoming the New Year 2017, the management of Tanah Lot tourist attractions organized an open house activity. The event lasting for three days (Dec. 30-31, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017) specifically involved the driver, guide and tour leader. “This activity aims to provide appreciation and express gratitude for the cooperation of stakeholders in order to contribute positively to Tanah Lot tourist attraction,” said Operations Manager Toya Adnyana.

BEIJING - Profits for China’s industrial firms rose the most in three years in 2016 as a construction boom fueled a rally in prices of building materials from steel to cement, giving companies more flexibility to start chipping away at a mountain of debt.

Strong profit growth of 8.5 percent last year suggests there may be a solid pick-up in industrial investment in 2017, though many analysts still expect China’s overall economic growth to cool to around 6.5 percent this year from 6.7 percent in 2016. Industrial profits fell 2.3 percent in 2015.

Profits in December rose 2.3 percent from a year earlier to 844.4 billion yuan ($122.76 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday, slowing sharply from growth of 14.5 percent in November. But the earnings recovery remained uneven across the industrial sector, with coal miners and processors such as steel mills and oil refiners continuing to see sharper gains than other firms.

Profits in the coal mining sector surged 223.6 percent in 2016, while those for iron and steel production and processing companies rose 232.3 percent. Baoshan Iron and Steel (Baosteel) said last week that it expected its net profit to rise 770 percent in 2016 from a year earlier.

Baosteel Group is taking over rival Wuhan Steel to create the world’s second-largest steelmaker, in the government’s biggest effort yet to consolidate its fragmented steel industry. China’s stock market investors have cashed in on the industrial revival. An index tracking the industrial sector has risen around 22 percent since June 2016 and reached a 10-1/2-month high in November.

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Local residents dressed in customary attire made for a special atmosphere on the road that leads to Pasir Putih Beach in Bugbug Villlage, Karangasem.

The people of Timbrah Village walked to the beach popularly known as ‘Virgin Beach’ as part of a series of melasti pralingga rituals in which representatives of deities are ceremonially cleansed in salt water before the implementation of the Aci Usaba Sumbu ceremony.

From early morning until about noon, one kilometer of coastline

was crowded with worshippers and some foreigners on vacation.

The damaged roads of Perasai Village had to be passed as each family carried their offerings of rice patties, chicken and seafood. The offerings were being brought to the sea and offered to Lord Baruna with prayers for safety and peace fro the universe.

One after the other, people gave their prayers and presented their offereings on the eastern coastline, they took a rest in the shade of the thousands of coconut trees that line the beach. This beach, that is

normally quite empty, was suddenly filled with people on what looked like a large communal picnic. This sort of sight is quite common anytime Balinese Hindus perform melasti processions. “The atmosphere is a bit like a holiday” said one of devotees named Ni Luh Putu Widnyani.

However unlike most other villages in Bali that perform their melasti, rites in one fell swoop with villagers bringing their own offerings and sanctified effigies being carried in the same procession – whether to the beach, river lake or other source of water, Timbrah villagers bring their own offerings first while the sanctified village temple effigies are carried later at around 2PM. READ Sanghyang Jaran Held Back after 50 Years at Penataran Sasih So sometimes residents of this old village will return home right after giving their offerings to Lord Baruna, so that they can do the devotional work of carrying the effigies to the ocean, while others simply wait at the beach until the effigies arrive. The riutal procession is composed of carriers from each clan temple and prabagus, taksu, pragaluh, prawayah, terunateruni. Pasir Putih Beach is thus filled with reseidents of Timbrah customary village from morning through til the evening. (kmb)

Open house provides various types of special traditional food served to the shareholders. Besides, it also graced with dance performance like Joged Bumbung at 17:00 in front of the office of the operation management. “This performance is expected to entertain visitors while enjoying the New Year holidays at Tanah Lot. Tour guide, domestic and foreign travelers even joined the dance (ngibing),” said Toya Adnyana proudly.

Since day seven before the New Year, the incoming travelers to Tanah Lot have started soaring as coincide with school holidays.

Thousands of the travelers came from various cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Makassar. From the afternoon until evening, from viewing post on a cliff top of ??Tanah Lot Beach could be seen that travelers used

various types of cameras and video cameras to capture the sunset moments.

Tanah Lot tourist attraction remains to become prominent destination for travelers to spend the remaining times of 2016 and welcome the New Year 2017.

During holiday season, visitors to Tanah Lot continue to abound.

Festive atmosphere happened when the sun set and thousands of visitors, as if being commanded, immediately applauded in unison.

READ Joged Pingit The sun went down into west horizon and became an immeasurably exotic scenery. “The sunset view is so pretty this afternoon, the highlight of the round was clearly visible although its central part is slightly covered in cloud,” commented a visitor when capturing the moment of the sun back into the dusk. (kmb)

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg ‘reconsidering’ land sale actions against Hawaiians

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he is reconsidering efforts to force the sale of land tracts belonging to native Hawaiians that fall within a large estate he bought on the island of Kauai, after facing harsh criticism.

Zuckerberg filed what are known as quiet title actions to secure parcels of land within his seafront property on the island of Kauai. The quiet title system is used to establish ownership of land where inheritance has occurred over generations and lacks formal documentation, and to force sale.

“Based on feedback from the local community, we are reconsidering the quiet title process and discussing how to move forward,” Zuckerberg said in a statement on Tuesday night.

“We want to make sure we are following a process that protects the interests of property owners, respects the traditions of native Hawaiians, and preserves the environment,” he added.

Hawaii state representative Kaniela Ing, who in response to the controversy introduced a bill mandating mediation in such actions involving native Hawaiians

and likened Zuckerberg’s plans to those of sugar barons who took land from native Hawaiians in the 1800s, said he was heartened by the news.

“I mahalo Mr. Zuckerberg for his words of aloha and willingness to talk,” Ing said in a statement on Wednesday. He then urged the social media executive to drop the legal actions, support a local legal organization, and “join us at the table to restart a positive dialog as mutual stewards of land and culture.”

Zuckerberg’s statement comes just days after he posted on his Facebook an explanation of his Hawaii plans, as news of the actions drew headlines and anger.

He said in the post the estate is made up of several properties and while he worked with majority owners of the tracts to reach a fair deal, he had filed the actions to identify all the partial owners. He said the tracts could be split between hundreds of descendants.

“For most of these folks, they will now receive money for something they never even knew they had.

No one will be forced off the land,” he wrote.

Forbes reported that Zuckerberg paid close to $100 million for the 700 acres (283 hectares) on the secluded north shores of Kauai in 2014. (rtr)

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Indonesia to communicate with Sudan over arms smuggling issue

JAKARTA - Indonesias foreign minister Retno Marsudi said here on Wednesday that she would communicate with her Sudanese counterpart Ibrahim Ghandour to discuss allegations of arms smuggling by Indonesian peacekeeping force.

Russian strongwoman drags two 18-tonne tram cars

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Russian strongwoman Oksana Kosheleva dragged two 18-tonne tram cars full of passengers along a short track in sub-zero Siberia in her latest public power stunt.

The 33-year-old’s show of strength, which required six months of training, took place on Monday in her home town of Irkutsk, where temperatures dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius (-4F).

“I had some (doubts) because of the cold. We were promised minus 11,” she told reporters after pulling the cars approximately 5 metres.

Kosheleva had dragged a one-

car tram and a helicopter in previous power performances, but this was her first winter pulling attempt.

Wrapped up in warm clothing and wearing a harness, Kosheleva crawled along a ladder placed along the tram tracks. She was roared on by spectators while her coached slapped her back in encouragement.

A former contestant in the Russia’s strongest woman event, Kosheleva said that she has now set her sights on pulling a passenger airliner. (rtr)

“We have already communicated with the Sudanese ambassador in Jakarta. But still, I would like to communicate with the Sudanese foreign minister,” she said after attending a limited cabinet meeting

led by President Joko Widodo on the issue.

Retno stated that Indonesia has seen dissonance in the case. Hence, it will soon send a legal team to Sudan to deal with it.

He denied that Indonesian peacekeeping force Formed Police Unit/ FPU III had attempted to smuggle arms and ammunition through Al Fashir airport.

He said the 10 suitcases containing various kinds of guns and ammunition did not belong to the police force that had just concluded its duty in Sudan. (ant)

“At this stage, I cannot make any conclusions. But based on the information that we have received, there has been dissonance that needs to be verified,” she added.

Retno confirmed that she would keep communicating with the UN office in New York, the Indonesian embassy in Khartoum and the city administration of Al Fashir airport where the incident took place.

She remarked that the government hoped that the legal team could immediately reach Al Fashir airport after receiving permits from the US office and the Sudanese government.

Indonesia Police chief General Tito Karnavian said the team was expected to leave on Wednesday evening to provide legal aid and to coordinate with the Sudanese government and the UN office.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi

LANGKAT - The Langkat district police in North Sumatra province has shot a suspected drug dealer on his leg as he resisted arrest.

“The police was forced to shoot the suspect as he attempted to flee when they tried to arrest him,” chief of the district polices drug unit, Adjunct Commissioner Supriyadi Yantoto, said on Wednesday.

The police later arrested the suspected drug dealer, identified by

his initials as MUL, and seized 105 grams of crystal meth from him.

“The suspect was arrested by police officers when he was riding a Suzuki Escudo jeep with police plate number BK 1452 AL. The police officers tried to stop the car in Tanjung Beringin market IV in Hinai sub-district,” he added.

“The crystal meth was wrapped in large and medium plastic bags,” he noted.

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Police shoot suspected drug dealer in n Sumatra

“If found guilty, the suspect could be sentenced to up to 20 years in jail in accordance with article 114 (2) sub-article 112 (2) of Law No. 35/2009,” he stated.

During the questioning, the suspect admitted that he was planning to send the crystal meth to a buyer in Pangkalan Brandan area. “The police officers shot the suspect on his left leg as he resisted arrest,” he added. (ant)

Government to spend Rp20 trillion in 2017 for high-speed internet AAP/Brendan Esposito/via REUTERS

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A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken March 22, 2016.

Trump’s call...

From page 1

Trump won the state-by-state Electoral College tally that decides the presidency, but the historic popular vote gap and allegations of Russian meddling in the election on his behalf have led some to say his victory was not legitimate.

NO EVIDENCE

Trump’s announcement that he will seek an investigation appeared to be prompted by a White House news briefing on Tuesday in which Spicer confirmed that the president continued to believe millions of illegal immigrants voted in the election.

Spicer initially said there was no

investigation planned but changed tack after persistent questioning, saying “maybe we will ... anything is possible.”

Federal investigations of voter fraud are rare. A five-year probe initiated by Republican President George W. Bush’s administration turned up no evidence of voter fraud and ended in resignations and more investigations

Traditionally dressed Aboriginal performers participate in a smoking ceremony on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour as part of Australia Day celebrations in Sydney, Australia, January 26, 2017. for the Department of Justice which enforces federal voting rights laws.

“Republicans have used claims of widespread voter fraud to discriminate and restrict access to the ballot box for years,” said Democratic U.S. Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina.

Trump’s attorney general nominee, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, has

been criticized for his record on voting rights and race relations. A voter fraud case he prosecuted as a U.S. attorney in his home state of Alabama helped derail his confirmation as a federal judge in 1986.

Voting rights experts at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice urged Sessions to heed lessons of the past. (rtr)

KENDARI - The government will spend Rp20 trillion (US$1.5 billion) in 2017 to develop a highspeed internet network in districts that have yet to get access to the service, Communication and Information Minister Rudiantara stated.

“The government has targeted that all districts and cities in Indonesia would have a network using undersea cables to power the internet by the end of 2019,” Rudiantara remarked at a seminar here on Wednesday.

The minister revealed that the

districts of Buton, Central Buton, South Buton, Muna, West Muna, and North Buton in Southeast Sulawesi will be able to enjoy highspeed internet services.

The minister noted that development of the network can be accelerated through support of the local government to facilitate land release.

“I have ordered the contractors who won the tender to prioritize utilizing local workforce in the project except for the expert staff that would be the authority of the respective company,” he stated.

The nationwide high-speed in-

ternet access initiative is being implemented for the period between 2014 and 2019. The program aims to boost economic competitiveness throughout the archipelago. The 2014-2019 Indonesia Broadband Plan requires a total funding of Rp278 trillion ($23.2 billion), 10 percent of which will be covered by the state budget.

The seminar was attended by Southeast Sulawesi Governor Nur Alam, communication expert of the Padjajaran University Prof. Dr Engkus Kuswarno, and Head of the Communication Science Association Dr Heri Budianto. (ant)

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International

Sebela Beach, new tourist destination in Nusa Penida

SEMARAPURA - The beauty of Nusa Penida islands continues to draw the attention. It offers diverse natural scenery such as the magnificence of the beach. Now, a new pristine object emerges with a lovely attraction namely Sebela Beach at Karang hamlet, Pejukutan.

Sebela Beach located adjacent to Atuh Beach is about 19 kilometers from the subdistrict town. This coastal cliff and slightly sandy beach is made into a fishing object by local people. All this time, this beach is only known by local residents. However, since the road access has been improved, Sebela Beach begins to be thronged by foreign and local travelers.

A local resident, I Nyoman Sudiarman, said that Sebela Beach is an interesting object with the charm of unspoiled nature. Previously, the road access remained to become a constraint when visiting this destination. But now it can be reached directly by motorcycle.

The beach with distinctively

not too high expanse of cliff is more visited by fishing hobbyists.

They mostly come from Denpasar, Tabanan and surrounding areas.

Sudiarman hoped the road can be paved as soon as possible in order to provide comfort for visitors heading for the Sebela Beach.

The area of Atuh Beach is often called the Raja Lima (literally, the king of five) denoting a prime choice in the area of East Nusa Penida so that it has an impact on Sebela Beach as a complement to enjoy the attraction of beautiful natural graces on the islands of Nusa Penida.

A visitor, Dewa Ayu Embas Saraswati, said that the hidden destinations are now being hunted amid the saturation to the existing tourist attractions in Bali.

Moreover, the Sebela Beach looks like a perfectly-combined natural attraction where visitors can see sunrise, the stretch of cliff and Mount Rinjani in Lombok. “This is my first visit here. In fact, it is quite beautiful,” she said. (kmb)

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International

Nadal ready to take one more step back to top

MELBOURNE - Rafa Nadal’s path to his Australian Open semi-final against Grigor Dimitrov on Friday has taught the 30-year-old Spaniard one thing -he’s still got it.

After being bundled out in the first round by compatriot Fernando Verdasco last year, Nadal has reached his fifth semi-final at Melbourne Park in a remarkable turnaround for the 14times grand slam winner.

A barren 2016 saw him fail to reach at least one grand slam final for the first time since 2004 and while he won Olympic doubles gold at the Rio Games a troubling wrist injury forced him to call time on his season in early October.

“Very happy that after a lot of work, to be in this round again,” Nadal told reporters. “Is special thing for me, especially here in Australia.

“So, just excited about be back in final rounds of the most important events. You know, I am here to try to make this. Is always difficult, but I (fought) and I worked hard to try to make that happen.”

Hard work has been central to the latter part of Nadal’s career, particularly as knee and wrist injuries forced him to miss large chunks of recent seasons.

Questions were being raised as to whether he still had the physicality and game to match the likes of Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stan Warwinka and the evergreen Roger Federer, as well as the new generation coming through.

The last three rounds at Melbourne Park have answered those questions decisively as Nadal beat 24th seed Alexander Zverev in five sets, sixth seed Gael Monfils in four, then outclassed third seed Milos Raonic in the

quarter-finals.

“Is a good news. Especially winning against difficult players, Monfils, Zverev and now Raonic. I think all of them are top players,” he added. “I think it’s getting tougher now.

I think now there is really a new very good generation. So that’s very important for me because that means that I am competitive and playing well.”

STRAIGHTER PRIORITIES Next up is Dimitrov. Once tipped as the young player most likely to challenge the established order, the Bulgarian has struggled to live up to those expectations and was hindered by off-court distractions.

Friday will mark just his second grand slam semi-final but the 25-year-old feels that under new coach Daniel Vallverdu he now has the mental strength and attitude to match the game that prompted those expectations.

“I have straighter priorities right now. I know what I want from myself as soon as I come to a tournament,” he said. “I come on the court. I’m just happy to try to find a way, even if things are not going my way.” Things have indeed gone his way this year.

Dimitrov is on a winning run of 10 matches that earned him the Brisbane International title and has taken him to the last four at the Australian Open.

However, he knows that means little when he steps on court against Nadal, who has won seven of their eight previous encounters.

“In order to win a slam, there’s no shortcut,” the 15th seed added. “If you think about it, when have you seen an easy semi-final or something like that? “You got to work for it. I have to fight, I have to be ready.”(rtr)

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Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates winning his Men’s singles quarter-final match against Canada’s Milos Raonic.

Thomas shoots Celtics past Rockets with another late surge

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Isaiah Thomas (4) complains to a referee during the fourth quarter against the Utah Jazz at TD Garden.

Isaiah Thomas worked his fourth-quarter magic again Wednesday night, leading Boston to a 120-109 victory over the Houston Rockets that ended the Celtics’ three-game losing streak. Thomas scored 11 consecutive Boston points in the fourth quarter as the Celtics (27-18) came back from 11 points down in the first half and won going away at the end.

With several members of the New England Patriots sitting courtside, Thomas, leading the NBA in fourth-quarter scoring (10 points per game coming in), put on a show with 13 points and five assists to win his unofficial duel with fellow MVP candidate James Harden.

Harden was called for a flagrant-1 foul for flailing his left hand out and hitting and cutting Boston’s Jonas Jerebko. That led to Jerebko hitting two free throws for the personal foul before Thomas hit the pair for the flagrant to put Boston ahead to stay, triggering a 13-2 run.

Thomas, notching his 29th straight 20-point game, added nine assists and five rebounds in the win.

Harden finished with 30 points, 12 assists and six rebounds but turned the ball over seven times and was 3 of 15 from the floor before hitting three late baskets that didn’t matter. He was 2 of 11 from

3-point range.

Jae Crowder, who played the majority of the defense on Harden with Avery Bradley out, had 23 points, 10 rebounds and four assists, and Al Horford scored 20 and added nine assists in the win.

The Rockets (34-15) absorbed their sixth loss in nine games.

They now have only their second two-game losing streak of the season. Ryan Anderson scored 19 points and Sam Dekker came off the bench to contribute 15 points in the defeat.

The Rockets led by as many as 11 points in a first half that saw the Celtics guilty of 19 personal and three technical fouls.(rtr)

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Sp rt Brazil beat Colombia in Chapecoense benefit game

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil beat Colombia 1-0 in a benefit match for the families of those killed in the Chapecoense air disaster but Wednesday’s game in Rio de Janeiro was marred by a disappointing turnout.

Only 18,695 people were in the 45,000 capacity Nilton Santos stadium for what was billed as ‘The Friendship Game.’ Some fans of club side Botafogo also booed Willian Arao, who left for rivals Flamengo last year.

The game, played less than two months after the tragedy, was another emotional night for players and fans.

Only six of the 77 people on board the Lamia flight carrying the Chapecoense team to Colombia for their Copa Sudamericana final survived the crash on Nov. 28. Four of the survivors were Brazilians, three players and a radio commentator, and all four were introduced to fans before the game.

One of them, goalkeeper Jackson Follmann, was in a wheelchair after having part of his leg amputated as a result of the crash. The other two players, Neto and Alan Ruschel, have returned to training and hope to play again later this year. Brazilian midfieler Diego

said he had been honoured to play in the match.

“This was more than a game, I had the chance to be with Follmann and Neto, they are heroes,” he said.

“They are heroes and anything we can do to help them then we’ll be there.” The players, along with commentator Rafael Henzel, received commemorative plates before the game and stood with the teams as they sang the national anthems.

Henzel then commentated on part of the game for O Globo, the television company that helped organise the game.

Globo, Brazil’s biggest media company, said sponsors would guarantee at least 3.8 million reais ($1.2 million) to the families of those affected by the crash.

The game was played with only home based players from both sides, meaning the likes of Barcelona’s Neymar and Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez were not present.

Palmeiras striker Dudu got the only goal of the game two minutes into the second half when he headed home from close range after Fagner’s cross rebounded to him. Brazil won the match to record their seventh consecutive victory under coach Tite. (rtr)

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Jackson Follmann, Alan Ruschel and Neto are honored before a friendly match between Brazil and Colombia.

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Southampton beats Liverpool, reaches League Cup final

LIVERPOOL — Liverpool’s season is in danger of unraveling after Juergen Klopp’s team missed out on a place in the English League Cup final following a 1-0 loss to Southampton at Anfield on Wednesday.

Substitute Shane Long scored on the counterattack in injury time to seal a 2-0 aggregate win in the semifinals for Southampton, which reached the final of English football’s second-tier cup competition for a second time.

Manchester United, which leads Hull 2-0 after the first leg of the other semifinal, is the likely opponent at the showpiece at Wem-

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Celta Vigo’s goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez celebrates after team’s second goal.

Stuttering Real Madrid under scrutiny after Cup exit

BARCELONA - Real Madrid have come crashing back down to earth in recent weeks after a euphoric 2016 and must now cope with a long injury list as they try to limit the fallout from Wednesday’s King’s Cup exit when they host Real Sociedad this weekend.

The European champions are still in pole position to win a first league title since 2012, leading nearest challengers Sevilla by a point and third-placed Barcelona by two with a game in hand on both teams.

Their 2-2 Cup draw at Celta Vigo, which saw them exit the competition 4-3 on aggregate, exposed weaknesses in Zinedine Zidane’s side, who set a Spanish record of 40 games unbeaten in all competitions earlier this month.

There are a number of parallels with Real’s current predicament and the New Year slump they experienced two years ago with Carlo Ancelotti at the helm. A 22-game winning streak came to an end in January 2015 and that was swiftly followed by elimination from the Cup by Atletico Madrid while injuries also piled up.

Injuries forced Zidane to play midfielder Casemiro at the heart of defence against Celta and while Raphael Varane is set to return to face Sociedad, he will still be without Marcelo, Pepe, Dani Carvajal, Luka Modric, James Rodriguez and

Gareth Bale.

Zidane appeared reluctant to address their weaknesses against Celta, however, such as a glaring lack of organisation towards the end of the first half when they went behind to Danilo’s own goal.

The sight of captain Sergio Ramos remonstrating with his team mates suggested the defence needed more support.

“After playing how we did I have little to reproach my players for,” Zidane told reporters on Wednesday.

“When you play badly or don’t deserve to go through it’s different but we can’t blame anyone, we put in a serious performance and showed character, it’s just a shame we couldn’t get what we wanted.

“We haven’t been able to put our chances away recently but we’re going to turn that around. If we keep working hard we’re going to solve this. I can’t say what’s been happening recently, but I’m not angry or worried. This is football.”

Real’s resolve will be put to the test against Real Sociedad, who are fifth in the standings, level on points with Atletico Madrid in fourth, and beat Celta 1-0 in their last outing.

Champions Barcelona visit Real Betis in Sunday’s early game, while Sevilla take on Espanyol away from home searching for a sixth straight league win.(ap)

bley Stadium next month. For Liverpool, though, the chances of silverware this season are diminishing by the week.

On Saturday, the Reds’ title hopes in the Premier League took a huge hit with a 3-2 loss at home to Swansea, which dropped them to fourth in the standings and 10 points behind first-place Chelsea. A loss to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday — when Klopp is set to play a weakened team — and Liverpool may have to wait another season to win a trophy.

In 2017, Liverpool has won just one of seven games — and that

was an FA Cup replay at fourth-tier Plymouth.

“If we would doubt the way we are after these little, little problems we have now, it would be a really strange thing,” Klopp said. “We don’t have the points or results that we want, but we know what we want to do. Tonight it didn’t happen, but it was a really good performance.” Having said that, Klopp accepted that Southampton was the deserved winner.

Leading 1-0 after a dominant display in the first leg two weeks ago, Southampton came to Anfield with problems in central defense following Jose Fonte’s recent de-

Marseille signs left back Patrice Evra from Juventus MARSEILLE — Marseille has signed veteran left back Patrice Evra from Italian champion Juventus, the French club’s first significant signing under its new ownership. Marseille said on its website Wednesday that Evra had signed an 18-month deal, giving no further details. He was in the final six months of his contract in Italy.

The 35-year-old Evra won two

league titles with Juventus after eight years with Manchester United, but he started only three league games this season.

Evra, who has 81 caps for France, returns to the French league after 11 years away. He played for Monaco from 2002-2006 before joining United, helping Monaco reach the Champions League final in 2004.

Marseille, which is in seventh

place in the French league, was bought last October by American businessman Frank McCourt - the former owner of baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers.

Evra’s experience will prove useful for a shaky defense that has leaked in the past two league games, losing 4-1 at home to Monaco and 3-1 away to Lyon.

Marseille is at home to Montpellier on Friday. (ap)

AP Photo/Claude Paris, FILE

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, July 6, 2016, France’s Patrice Evra, during a training session at the Centre Robert Louis Dreyfus, in Marseille, southern France, during the Euro 2016 championships.

parture to West Ham and an injury to star player Virgil van Dijk.

A makeshift partnership of youngster Jack Stephens and Maya Yoshida was thrown together and the pair excelled in bitterly cold conditions, stifling the Premier League’s most prolific attack. The 22-year-old Stephens particularly stood out on only his fourth start for the club, reading the game well and looking assured in possession in the biggest game of his career.

When Liverpool did force openings, Daniel Sturridge twice volleyed over from close range and Philippe Coutinho — on the day he signed a new long-term contract — miskicked on the volley.

Then, moments after substitute Divock Origi was denied a penalty following an attempted tackle by Stephens, Southampton broke downfield through Josh Sims, who played in Long at the end of a 70yard run. Long took one touch and buried his shot past Loris Karius from an angle, right in front of the visiting fans.

There was no way back for Liverpool and Southampton could

look forward to playing in its first cup final since 2003 — when it lost in the FA Cup to Arsenal at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

The Saints lost the 1979 League Cup final to Nottingham Forest and have only one major trophy to their name, the 1976 FA Cup after beating Manchester United.

“Now we go to Wembley,” Southampton manager Claude Puel said, “not just to participate, but to win this cup.”

Southampton has beaten Premier League opponents — Crystal Palace, Sunderland, Arsenal and now Liverpool — in every round so far, without conceding a goal.

Progress might be even more satisfying for the south-coast team because it has acted as a virtual feeder club to Liverpool in recent seasons with the likes of Nathaniel Clyne, Adam Lallana, Sadio Mane, Dejan Lovren and Rickie Lambert making the journey from St. Mary’s Stadium to Anfield. Lovren and Lallana started on Wednesday.

Liverpool missed out on the chance to win the League Cup for a recordextending ninth time. (ap)

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Friday, January 27, 2017

Sp rt Brazil beat Colombia in Chapecoense benefit game

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil beat Colombia 1-0 in a benefit match for the families of those killed in the Chapecoense air disaster but Wednesday’s game in Rio de Janeiro was marred by a disappointing turnout.

Only 18,695 people were in the 45,000 capacity Nilton Santos stadium for what was billed as ‘The Friendship Game.’ Some fans of club side Botafogo also booed Willian Arao, who left for rivals Flamengo last year.

The game, played less than two months after the tragedy, was another emotional night for players and fans.

Only six of the 77 people on board the Lamia flight carrying the Chapecoense team to Colombia for their Copa Sudamericana final survived the crash on Nov. 28. Four of the survivors were Brazilians, three players and a radio commentator, and all four were introduced to fans before the game.

One of them, goalkeeper Jackson Follmann, was in a wheelchair after having part of his leg amputated as a result of the crash. The other two players, Neto and Alan Ruschel, have returned to training and hope to play again later this year. Brazilian midfieler Diego

said he had been honoured to play in the match.

“This was more than a game, I had the chance to be with Follmann and Neto, they are heroes,” he said.

“They are heroes and anything we can do to help them then we’ll be there.” The players, along with commentator Rafael Henzel, received commemorative plates before the game and stood with the teams as they sang the national anthems.

Henzel then commentated on part of the game for O Globo, the television company that helped organise the game.

Globo, Brazil’s biggest media company, said sponsors would guarantee at least 3.8 million reais ($1.2 million) to the families of those affected by the crash.

The game was played with only home based players from both sides, meaning the likes of Barcelona’s Neymar and Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez were not present.

Palmeiras striker Dudu got the only goal of the game two minutes into the second half when he headed home from close range after Fagner’s cross rebounded to him. Brazil won the match to record their seventh consecutive victory under coach Tite. (rtr)

REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Jackson Follmann, Alan Ruschel and Neto are honored before a friendly match between Brazil and Colombia.

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Southampton beats Liverpool, reaches League Cup final

LIVERPOOL — Liverpool’s season is in danger of unraveling after Juergen Klopp’s team missed out on a place in the English League Cup final following a 1-0 loss to Southampton at Anfield on Wednesday.

Substitute Shane Long scored on the counterattack in injury time to seal a 2-0 aggregate win in the semifinals for Southampton, which reached the final of English football’s second-tier cup competition for a second time.

Manchester United, which leads Hull 2-0 after the first leg of the other semifinal, is the likely opponent at the showpiece at Wem-

REUTERS/Miguel Vidal

Celta Vigo’s goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez celebrates after team’s second goal.

Stuttering Real Madrid under scrutiny after Cup exit

BARCELONA - Real Madrid have come crashing back down to earth in recent weeks after a euphoric 2016 and must now cope with a long injury list as they try to limit the fallout from Wednesday’s King’s Cup exit when they host Real Sociedad this weekend.

The European champions are still in pole position to win a first league title since 2012, leading nearest challengers Sevilla by a point and third-placed Barcelona by two with a game in hand on both teams.

Their 2-2 Cup draw at Celta Vigo, which saw them exit the competition 4-3 on aggregate, exposed weaknesses in Zinedine Zidane’s side, who set a Spanish record of 40 games unbeaten in all competitions earlier this month.

There are a number of parallels with Real’s current predicament and the New Year slump they experienced two years ago with Carlo Ancelotti at the helm. A 22-game winning streak came to an end in January 2015 and that was swiftly followed by elimination from the Cup by Atletico Madrid while injuries also piled up.

Injuries forced Zidane to play midfielder Casemiro at the heart of defence against Celta and while Raphael Varane is set to return to face Sociedad, he will still be without Marcelo, Pepe, Dani Carvajal, Luka Modric, James Rodriguez and

Gareth Bale.

Zidane appeared reluctant to address their weaknesses against Celta, however, such as a glaring lack of organisation towards the end of the first half when they went behind to Danilo’s own goal.

The sight of captain Sergio Ramos remonstrating with his team mates suggested the defence needed more support.

“After playing how we did I have little to reproach my players for,” Zidane told reporters on Wednesday.

“When you play badly or don’t deserve to go through it’s different but we can’t blame anyone, we put in a serious performance and showed character, it’s just a shame we couldn’t get what we wanted.

“We haven’t been able to put our chances away recently but we’re going to turn that around. If we keep working hard we’re going to solve this. I can’t say what’s been happening recently, but I’m not angry or worried. This is football.”

Real’s resolve will be put to the test against Real Sociedad, who are fifth in the standings, level on points with Atletico Madrid in fourth, and beat Celta 1-0 in their last outing.

Champions Barcelona visit Real Betis in Sunday’s early game, while Sevilla take on Espanyol away from home searching for a sixth straight league win.(ap)

bley Stadium next month. For Liverpool, though, the chances of silverware this season are diminishing by the week.

On Saturday, the Reds’ title hopes in the Premier League took a huge hit with a 3-2 loss at home to Swansea, which dropped them to fourth in the standings and 10 points behind first-place Chelsea. A loss to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday — when Klopp is set to play a weakened team — and Liverpool may have to wait another season to win a trophy.

In 2017, Liverpool has won just one of seven games — and that

was an FA Cup replay at fourth-tier Plymouth.

“If we would doubt the way we are after these little, little problems we have now, it would be a really strange thing,” Klopp said. “We don’t have the points or results that we want, but we know what we want to do. Tonight it didn’t happen, but it was a really good performance.” Having said that, Klopp accepted that Southampton was the deserved winner.

Leading 1-0 after a dominant display in the first leg two weeks ago, Southampton came to Anfield with problems in central defense following Jose Fonte’s recent de-

Marseille signs left back Patrice Evra from Juventus MARSEILLE — Marseille has signed veteran left back Patrice Evra from Italian champion Juventus, the French club’s first significant signing under its new ownership. Marseille said on its website Wednesday that Evra had signed an 18-month deal, giving no further details. He was in the final six months of his contract in Italy.

The 35-year-old Evra won two

league titles with Juventus after eight years with Manchester United, but he started only three league games this season.

Evra, who has 81 caps for France, returns to the French league after 11 years away. He played for Monaco from 2002-2006 before joining United, helping Monaco reach the Champions League final in 2004.

Marseille, which is in seventh

place in the French league, was bought last October by American businessman Frank McCourt - the former owner of baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers.

Evra’s experience will prove useful for a shaky defense that has leaked in the past two league games, losing 4-1 at home to Monaco and 3-1 away to Lyon.

Marseille is at home to Montpellier on Friday. (ap)

AP Photo/Claude Paris, FILE

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, July 6, 2016, France’s Patrice Evra, during a training session at the Centre Robert Louis Dreyfus, in Marseille, southern France, during the Euro 2016 championships.

parture to West Ham and an injury to star player Virgil van Dijk.

A makeshift partnership of youngster Jack Stephens and Maya Yoshida was thrown together and the pair excelled in bitterly cold conditions, stifling the Premier League’s most prolific attack. The 22-year-old Stephens particularly stood out on only his fourth start for the club, reading the game well and looking assured in possession in the biggest game of his career.

When Liverpool did force openings, Daniel Sturridge twice volleyed over from close range and Philippe Coutinho — on the day he signed a new long-term contract — miskicked on the volley.

Then, moments after substitute Divock Origi was denied a penalty following an attempted tackle by Stephens, Southampton broke downfield through Josh Sims, who played in Long at the end of a 70yard run. Long took one touch and buried his shot past Loris Karius from an angle, right in front of the visiting fans.

There was no way back for Liverpool and Southampton could

look forward to playing in its first cup final since 2003 — when it lost in the FA Cup to Arsenal at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

The Saints lost the 1979 League Cup final to Nottingham Forest and have only one major trophy to their name, the 1976 FA Cup after beating Manchester United.

“Now we go to Wembley,” Southampton manager Claude Puel said, “not just to participate, but to win this cup.”

Southampton has beaten Premier League opponents — Crystal Palace, Sunderland, Arsenal and now Liverpool — in every round so far, without conceding a goal.

Progress might be even more satisfying for the south-coast team because it has acted as a virtual feeder club to Liverpool in recent seasons with the likes of Nathaniel Clyne, Adam Lallana, Sadio Mane, Dejan Lovren and Rickie Lambert making the journey from St. Mary’s Stadium to Anfield. Lovren and Lallana started on Wednesday.

Liverpool missed out on the chance to win the League Cup for a recordextending ninth time. (ap)

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Destination

Friday, January 27, 2017

International

Sebela Beach, new tourist destination in Nusa Penida

SEMARAPURA - The beauty of Nusa Penida islands continues to draw the attention. It offers diverse natural scenery such as the magnificence of the beach. Now, a new pristine object emerges with a lovely attraction namely Sebela Beach at Karang hamlet, Pejukutan.

Sebela Beach located adjacent to Atuh Beach is about 19 kilometers from the subdistrict town. This coastal cliff and slightly sandy beach is made into a fishing object by local people. All this time, this beach is only known by local residents. However, since the road access has been improved, Sebela Beach begins to be thronged by foreign and local travelers.

A local resident, I Nyoman Sudiarman, said that Sebela Beach is an interesting object with the charm of unspoiled nature. Previously, the road access remained to become a constraint when visiting this destination. But now it can be reached directly by motorcycle.

The beach with distinctively

not too high expanse of cliff is more visited by fishing hobbyists.

They mostly come from Denpasar, Tabanan and surrounding areas.

Sudiarman hoped the road can be paved as soon as possible in order to provide comfort for visitors heading for the Sebela Beach.

The area of Atuh Beach is often called the Raja Lima (literally, the king of five) denoting a prime choice in the area of East Nusa Penida so that it has an impact on Sebela Beach as a complement to enjoy the attraction of beautiful natural graces on the islands of Nusa Penida.

A visitor, Dewa Ayu Embas Saraswati, said that the hidden destinations are now being hunted amid the saturation to the existing tourist attractions in Bali.

Moreover, the Sebela Beach looks like a perfectly-combined natural attraction where visitors can see sunrise, the stretch of cliff and Mount Rinjani in Lombok. “This is my first visit here. In fact, it is quite beautiful,” she said. (kmb)

Friday, January 27, 2017

International

Nadal ready to take one more step back to top

MELBOURNE - Rafa Nadal’s path to his Australian Open semi-final against Grigor Dimitrov on Friday has taught the 30-year-old Spaniard one thing -he’s still got it.

After being bundled out in the first round by compatriot Fernando Verdasco last year, Nadal has reached his fifth semi-final at Melbourne Park in a remarkable turnaround for the 14times grand slam winner.

A barren 2016 saw him fail to reach at least one grand slam final for the first time since 2004 and while he won Olympic doubles gold at the Rio Games a troubling wrist injury forced him to call time on his season in early October.

“Very happy that after a lot of work, to be in this round again,” Nadal told reporters. “Is special thing for me, especially here in Australia.

“So, just excited about be back in final rounds of the most important events. You know, I am here to try to make this. Is always difficult, but I (fought) and I worked hard to try to make that happen.”

Hard work has been central to the latter part of Nadal’s career, particularly as knee and wrist injuries forced him to miss large chunks of recent seasons.

Questions were being raised as to whether he still had the physicality and game to match the likes of Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stan Warwinka and the evergreen Roger Federer, as well as the new generation coming through.

The last three rounds at Melbourne Park have answered those questions decisively as Nadal beat 24th seed Alexander Zverev in five sets, sixth seed Gael Monfils in four, then outclassed third seed Milos Raonic in the

quarter-finals.

“Is a good news. Especially winning against difficult players, Monfils, Zverev and now Raonic. I think all of them are top players,” he added. “I think it’s getting tougher now.

I think now there is really a new very good generation. So that’s very important for me because that means that I am competitive and playing well.”

STRAIGHTER PRIORITIES Next up is Dimitrov. Once tipped as the young player most likely to challenge the established order, the Bulgarian has struggled to live up to those expectations and was hindered by off-court distractions.

Friday will mark just his second grand slam semi-final but the 25-year-old feels that under new coach Daniel Vallverdu he now has the mental strength and attitude to match the game that prompted those expectations.

“I have straighter priorities right now. I know what I want from myself as soon as I come to a tournament,” he said. “I come on the court. I’m just happy to try to find a way, even if things are not going my way.” Things have indeed gone his way this year.

Dimitrov is on a winning run of 10 matches that earned him the Brisbane International title and has taken him to the last four at the Australian Open.

However, he knows that means little when he steps on court against Nadal, who has won seven of their eight previous encounters.

“In order to win a slam, there’s no shortcut,” the 15th seed added. “If you think about it, when have you seen an easy semi-final or something like that? “You got to work for it. I have to fight, I have to be ready.”(rtr)

REUTERS/Edgar Su

Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates winning his Men’s singles quarter-final match against Canada’s Milos Raonic.

Thomas shoots Celtics past Rockets with another late surge

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Isaiah Thomas (4) complains to a referee during the fourth quarter against the Utah Jazz at TD Garden.

Isaiah Thomas worked his fourth-quarter magic again Wednesday night, leading Boston to a 120-109 victory over the Houston Rockets that ended the Celtics’ three-game losing streak. Thomas scored 11 consecutive Boston points in the fourth quarter as the Celtics (27-18) came back from 11 points down in the first half and won going away at the end.

With several members of the New England Patriots sitting courtside, Thomas, leading the NBA in fourth-quarter scoring (10 points per game coming in), put on a show with 13 points and five assists to win his unofficial duel with fellow MVP candidate James Harden.

Harden was called for a flagrant-1 foul for flailing his left hand out and hitting and cutting Boston’s Jonas Jerebko. That led to Jerebko hitting two free throws for the personal foul before Thomas hit the pair for the flagrant to put Boston ahead to stay, triggering a 13-2 run.

Thomas, notching his 29th straight 20-point game, added nine assists and five rebounds in the win.

Harden finished with 30 points, 12 assists and six rebounds but turned the ball over seven times and was 3 of 15 from the floor before hitting three late baskets that didn’t matter. He was 2 of 11 from

3-point range.

Jae Crowder, who played the majority of the defense on Harden with Avery Bradley out, had 23 points, 10 rebounds and four assists, and Al Horford scored 20 and added nine assists in the win.

The Rockets (34-15) absorbed their sixth loss in nine games.

They now have only their second two-game losing streak of the season. Ryan Anderson scored 19 points and Sam Dekker came off the bench to contribute 15 points in the defeat.

The Rockets led by as many as 11 points in a first half that saw the Celtics guilty of 19 personal and three technical fouls.(rtr)

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International

RLD

Facebook’s Zuckerberg ‘reconsidering’ land sale actions against Hawaiians

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he is reconsidering efforts to force the sale of land tracts belonging to native Hawaiians that fall within a large estate he bought on the island of Kauai, after facing harsh criticism.

Zuckerberg filed what are known as quiet title actions to secure parcels of land within his seafront property on the island of Kauai. The quiet title system is used to establish ownership of land where inheritance has occurred over generations and lacks formal documentation, and to force sale.

“Based on feedback from the local community, we are reconsidering the quiet title process and discussing how to move forward,” Zuckerberg said in a statement on Tuesday night.

“We want to make sure we are following a process that protects the interests of property owners, respects the traditions of native Hawaiians, and preserves the environment,” he added.

Hawaii state representative Kaniela Ing, who in response to the controversy introduced a bill mandating mediation in such actions involving native Hawaiians

and likened Zuckerberg’s plans to those of sugar barons who took land from native Hawaiians in the 1800s, said he was heartened by the news.

“I mahalo Mr. Zuckerberg for his words of aloha and willingness to talk,” Ing said in a statement on Wednesday. He then urged the social media executive to drop the legal actions, support a local legal organization, and “join us at the table to restart a positive dialog as mutual stewards of land and culture.”

Zuckerberg’s statement comes just days after he posted on his Facebook an explanation of his Hawaii plans, as news of the actions drew headlines and anger.

He said in the post the estate is made up of several properties and while he worked with majority owners of the tracts to reach a fair deal, he had filed the actions to identify all the partial owners. He said the tracts could be split between hundreds of descendants.

“For most of these folks, they will now receive money for something they never even knew they had.

No one will be forced off the land,” he wrote.

Forbes reported that Zuckerberg paid close to $100 million for the 700 acres (283 hectares) on the secluded north shores of Kauai in 2014. (rtr)

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Indonesia to communicate with Sudan over arms smuggling issue

JAKARTA - Indonesias foreign minister Retno Marsudi said here on Wednesday that she would communicate with her Sudanese counterpart Ibrahim Ghandour to discuss allegations of arms smuggling by Indonesian peacekeeping force.

Russian strongwoman drags two 18-tonne tram cars

IBP/net

Russian strongwoman Oksana Kosheleva dragged two 18-tonne tram cars full of passengers along a short track in sub-zero Siberia in her latest public power stunt.

The 33-year-old’s show of strength, which required six months of training, took place on Monday in her home town of Irkutsk, where temperatures dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius (-4F).

“I had some (doubts) because of the cold. We were promised minus 11,” she told reporters after pulling the cars approximately 5 metres.

Kosheleva had dragged a one-

car tram and a helicopter in previous power performances, but this was her first winter pulling attempt.

Wrapped up in warm clothing and wearing a harness, Kosheleva crawled along a ladder placed along the tram tracks. She was roared on by spectators while her coached slapped her back in encouragement.

A former contestant in the Russia’s strongest woman event, Kosheleva said that she has now set her sights on pulling a passenger airliner. (rtr)

“We have already communicated with the Sudanese ambassador in Jakarta. But still, I would like to communicate with the Sudanese foreign minister,” she said after attending a limited cabinet meeting

led by President Joko Widodo on the issue.

Retno stated that Indonesia has seen dissonance in the case. Hence, it will soon send a legal team to Sudan to deal with it.

He denied that Indonesian peacekeeping force Formed Police Unit/ FPU III had attempted to smuggle arms and ammunition through Al Fashir airport.

He said the 10 suitcases containing various kinds of guns and ammunition did not belong to the police force that had just concluded its duty in Sudan. (ant)

“At this stage, I cannot make any conclusions. But based on the information that we have received, there has been dissonance that needs to be verified,” she added.

Retno confirmed that she would keep communicating with the UN office in New York, the Indonesian embassy in Khartoum and the city administration of Al Fashir airport where the incident took place.

She remarked that the government hoped that the legal team could immediately reach Al Fashir airport after receiving permits from the US office and the Sudanese government.

Indonesia Police chief General Tito Karnavian said the team was expected to leave on Wednesday evening to provide legal aid and to coordinate with the Sudanese government and the UN office.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi

LANGKAT - The Langkat district police in North Sumatra province has shot a suspected drug dealer on his leg as he resisted arrest.

“The police was forced to shoot the suspect as he attempted to flee when they tried to arrest him,” chief of the district polices drug unit, Adjunct Commissioner Supriyadi Yantoto, said on Wednesday.

The police later arrested the suspected drug dealer, identified by

his initials as MUL, and seized 105 grams of crystal meth from him.

“The suspect was arrested by police officers when he was riding a Suzuki Escudo jeep with police plate number BK 1452 AL. The police officers tried to stop the car in Tanjung Beringin market IV in Hinai sub-district,” he added.

“The crystal meth was wrapped in large and medium plastic bags,” he noted.

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Police shoot suspected drug dealer in n Sumatra

“If found guilty, the suspect could be sentenced to up to 20 years in jail in accordance with article 114 (2) sub-article 112 (2) of Law No. 35/2009,” he stated.

During the questioning, the suspect admitted that he was planning to send the crystal meth to a buyer in Pangkalan Brandan area. “The police officers shot the suspect on his left leg as he resisted arrest,” he added. (ant)

Government to spend Rp20 trillion in 2017 for high-speed internet AAP/Brendan Esposito/via REUTERS

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A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken March 22, 2016.

Trump’s call...

From page 1

Trump won the state-by-state Electoral College tally that decides the presidency, but the historic popular vote gap and allegations of Russian meddling in the election on his behalf have led some to say his victory was not legitimate.

NO EVIDENCE

Trump’s announcement that he will seek an investigation appeared to be prompted by a White House news briefing on Tuesday in which Spicer confirmed that the president continued to believe millions of illegal immigrants voted in the election.

Spicer initially said there was no

investigation planned but changed tack after persistent questioning, saying “maybe we will ... anything is possible.”

Federal investigations of voter fraud are rare. A five-year probe initiated by Republican President George W. Bush’s administration turned up no evidence of voter fraud and ended in resignations and more investigations

Traditionally dressed Aboriginal performers participate in a smoking ceremony on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour as part of Australia Day celebrations in Sydney, Australia, January 26, 2017. for the Department of Justice which enforces federal voting rights laws.

“Republicans have used claims of widespread voter fraud to discriminate and restrict access to the ballot box for years,” said Democratic U.S. Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina.

Trump’s attorney general nominee, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, has

been criticized for his record on voting rights and race relations. A voter fraud case he prosecuted as a U.S. attorney in his home state of Alabama helped derail his confirmation as a federal judge in 1986.

Voting rights experts at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice urged Sessions to heed lessons of the past. (rtr)

KENDARI - The government will spend Rp20 trillion (US$1.5 billion) in 2017 to develop a highspeed internet network in districts that have yet to get access to the service, Communication and Information Minister Rudiantara stated.

“The government has targeted that all districts and cities in Indonesia would have a network using undersea cables to power the internet by the end of 2019,” Rudiantara remarked at a seminar here on Wednesday.

The minister revealed that the

districts of Buton, Central Buton, South Buton, Muna, West Muna, and North Buton in Southeast Sulawesi will be able to enjoy highspeed internet services.

The minister noted that development of the network can be accelerated through support of the local government to facilitate land release.

“I have ordered the contractors who won the tender to prioritize utilizing local workforce in the project except for the expert staff that would be the authority of the respective company,” he stated.

The nationwide high-speed in-

ternet access initiative is being implemented for the period between 2014 and 2019. The program aims to boost economic competitiveness throughout the archipelago. The 2014-2019 Indonesia Broadband Plan requires a total funding of Rp278 trillion ($23.2 billion), 10 percent of which will be covered by the state budget.

The seminar was attended by Southeast Sulawesi Governor Nur Alam, communication expert of the Padjajaran University Prof. Dr Engkus Kuswarno, and Head of the Communication Science Association Dr Heri Budianto. (ant)

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BUSINESS China’s 2016 industrial profits rise most in 3 years on commodities recovery

UNDERLYING WEAKNESS The NBS said a narrower loss for the mining sector, and stronger profit growth in equipment and high-tech manufacturing contributed to the overall 2016 earnings turnaround. But part of the reason for the strong numbers last year was simply due to a weak base of comparison from the previous

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People carry surfboards during the last sunset of 2016 at Kuta beach on Bali island, Indonesia, December 31, 2016.

Timbrah Village Melasti, Presenting Oblations to Lord Varuna

FILE PHOTO - Apartments are pictured from a plane on the outskirts of Beijing January 8, 2016. year and the foundation for further improvement in the industrial sector was not stable, the stats bureau added.

“Average profit growth over the last two years has not kept up with output growth,” NBS said in a statement. “An unreasonable demand structure, difficulties collecting funds and high costs are a drag on corporate profits.”

Indeed, the amount of time it took companies to collect payment rose to 36.5 days in 2016, while the increase in accounts receivables accelerated to 9.6 percent. The efficiency of production also fell, with companies having to invest more to generate the same amount of revenue as in the past.

The stats bureau said the slower profit growth in December was due to volatility in oil prices and adjustments by some firms to their product structure. Profits for firms

which make computers and other electronic equipment fell 10.5 percent in December, after rising 45.4 percent in November, possibly due to fewer new product launches at the end of the year.

China’s state firms fared worse than the broader industrial sector, with profits at government-owned firms rising only 1.7 percent in 2016, the Ministry of Finance said earlier on Thursday. Total profits at state firms stood at 2.3 trillion yuan for the year, while revenue rose 2.6 percent to 45.9 trillion yuan.

China increasingly relied on its lumbering and often inefficient state firms to generate economic growth last year as private investment cooled.

State firms’ total liabilities rose 10 percent year-on-year to 87 trillion yuan at the end of December.

For industrial firms overall, liabilities rose 5.6 percent in 2016.

COMMODITY PRICES RALLY China’s producer prices surged the most in more than five years in December, bolstered by a monthslong rally in prices of coal and raw materials and contributing to a reflationary pulse felt across the global manufacturing sector. Government efforts to force bloated “smokestack” industries to shut excess and inefficient capacity also helped feed the rally by reducing supply.

But some analysts worry the strong price gains may have been fueled by growing speculation in China’s commodity futures markets, adding to the risk of asset bubbles in the economy which the central bank has vowed to prevent in 2017.

Chinese futures prices for steel reinforcing bars used in construction have risen more than 10 percent so far this month, on top of a gain of more than 60 percent in 2016.

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TACKLING DEBT China’s economy expanded 6.7 percent in 2016, roughly in the middle of the government’s target range, but it faces increasing uncertainties in 2017, with a housing frenzy showing signs of cooling and the impact of previous stimulus measures expected to fade. Still, the stronger cash flow will in theory give China’s big state industrial champions more room to tackle their debt burdens.

Chinese firms as a group owe some $18 trillion, equivalent to about 169 percent of gross domestic product, according to the most recent figures from the Bank for International Settlements. Most of it is held by state-owned firms.

China’s industrial output is likely to grow around 6 percent in 2017, similar to the pace seen in 2016, a state-run newspaper quoted Chinese industry minister Miao Wei as saying in December.(rtr)

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Ngibing Joged Bungbung at Tanah Lot

On releasing the year 2016 and welcoming the New Year 2017, the management of Tanah Lot tourist attractions organized an open house activity. The event lasting for three days (Dec. 30-31, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017) specifically involved the driver, guide and tour leader. “This activity aims to provide appreciation and express gratitude for the cooperation of stakeholders in order to contribute positively to Tanah Lot tourist attraction,” said Operations Manager Toya Adnyana.

BEIJING - Profits for China’s industrial firms rose the most in three years in 2016 as a construction boom fueled a rally in prices of building materials from steel to cement, giving companies more flexibility to start chipping away at a mountain of debt.

Strong profit growth of 8.5 percent last year suggests there may be a solid pick-up in industrial investment in 2017, though many analysts still expect China’s overall economic growth to cool to around 6.5 percent this year from 6.7 percent in 2016. Industrial profits fell 2.3 percent in 2015.

Profits in December rose 2.3 percent from a year earlier to 844.4 billion yuan ($122.76 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday, slowing sharply from growth of 14.5 percent in November. But the earnings recovery remained uneven across the industrial sector, with coal miners and processors such as steel mills and oil refiners continuing to see sharper gains than other firms.

Profits in the coal mining sector surged 223.6 percent in 2016, while those for iron and steel production and processing companies rose 232.3 percent. Baoshan Iron and Steel (Baosteel) said last week that it expected its net profit to rise 770 percent in 2016 from a year earlier.

Baosteel Group is taking over rival Wuhan Steel to create the world’s second-largest steelmaker, in the government’s biggest effort yet to consolidate its fragmented steel industry. China’s stock market investors have cashed in on the industrial revival. An index tracking the industrial sector has risen around 22 percent since June 2016 and reached a 10-1/2-month high in November.

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Local residents dressed in customary attire made for a special atmosphere on the road that leads to Pasir Putih Beach in Bugbug Villlage, Karangasem.

The people of Timbrah Village walked to the beach popularly known as ‘Virgin Beach’ as part of a series of melasti pralingga rituals in which representatives of deities are ceremonially cleansed in salt water before the implementation of the Aci Usaba Sumbu ceremony.

From early morning until about noon, one kilometer of coastline

was crowded with worshippers and some foreigners on vacation.

The damaged roads of Perasai Village had to be passed as each family carried their offerings of rice patties, chicken and seafood. The offerings were being brought to the sea and offered to Lord Baruna with prayers for safety and peace fro the universe.

One after the other, people gave their prayers and presented their offereings on the eastern coastline, they took a rest in the shade of the thousands of coconut trees that line the beach. This beach, that is

normally quite empty, was suddenly filled with people on what looked like a large communal picnic. This sort of sight is quite common anytime Balinese Hindus perform melasti processions. “The atmosphere is a bit like a holiday” said one of devotees named Ni Luh Putu Widnyani.

However unlike most other villages in Bali that perform their melasti, rites in one fell swoop with villagers bringing their own offerings and sanctified effigies being carried in the same procession – whether to the beach, river lake or other source of water, Timbrah villagers bring their own offerings first while the sanctified village temple effigies are carried later at around 2PM. READ Sanghyang Jaran Held Back after 50 Years at Penataran Sasih So sometimes residents of this old village will return home right after giving their offerings to Lord Baruna, so that they can do the devotional work of carrying the effigies to the ocean, while others simply wait at the beach until the effigies arrive. The riutal procession is composed of carriers from each clan temple and prabagus, taksu, pragaluh, prawayah, terunateruni. Pasir Putih Beach is thus filled with reseidents of Timbrah customary village from morning through til the evening. (kmb)

Open house provides various types of special traditional food served to the shareholders. Besides, it also graced with dance performance like Joged Bumbung at 17:00 in front of the office of the operation management. “This performance is expected to entertain visitors while enjoying the New Year holidays at Tanah Lot. Tour guide, domestic and foreign travelers even joined the dance (ngibing),” said Toya Adnyana proudly.

Since day seven before the New Year, the incoming travelers to Tanah Lot have started soaring as coincide with school holidays.

Thousands of the travelers came from various cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Makassar. From the afternoon until evening, from viewing post on a cliff top of ??Tanah Lot Beach could be seen that travelers used

various types of cameras and video cameras to capture the sunset moments.

Tanah Lot tourist attraction remains to become prominent destination for travelers to spend the remaining times of 2016 and welcome the New Year 2017.

During holiday season, visitors to Tanah Lot continue to abound.

Festive atmosphere happened when the sun set and thousands of visitors, as if being commanded, immediately applauded in unison.

READ Joged Pingit The sun went down into west horizon and became an immeasurably exotic scenery. “The sunset view is so pretty this afternoon, the highlight of the round was clearly visible although its central part is slightly covered in cloud,” commented a visitor when capturing the moment of the sun back into the dusk. (kmb)

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Investors in Bali grow nearly double in 2016

SEATTLE - Politicians in New York, Seattle and other “sanctuary cities” that protect immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally declared Wednesday they won’t be intimidated by a move by President Donald Trump to cut off millions in federal funding to such communities.

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Rain, tourist visit to Penglipuran slumps

BANGLI - High-intensity rainfall flushing Bangli did not only affect the agricultural sector but also the tourism sector.

Due to the recent rains, the tourist visit to one of the attractions in Bangli, namely Penglipuran village, shows a decline.

Operations manager of Penglipuran tourist attraction, I Nengah Moneng, said on Wednesday (Jan. 25) that persistent heavy rains in Bangli and surrounding areas in recent weeks have caused the tourist visits to Penglipuran village to decrease. However, the decline is not very significant.

“The decline in tourist visit is certain. However, I did not know

the percentage for sure because I have not checked it yet. Clearly, there is a decrease but not too significant,” explained Nengah Moneng.

Moneng added the declining tourist visits happened to domestic travelers, primarily of Balinese teenagers. The visit of foreign tourist is relatively normal, although there is a decline of one to two people. “The most visible decline

is in the Bali local tourist visit. By and large, teenagers will make a visit in hot weather. Since it rained recently, the tourist visit declined slightly,” he said.

He said that tourist visit will usually return to normal after feast holiday. He said that possibly after Ciwaratri feast the tourist visits will be back to normal. “Normally, after Ciwaratri more visitors will usually come. Hopefully, the weather also supports so that tourist visit will constantly increase. The number of tourist visit will determine our revenue,” added Nengah Moneng. (kmb41)

Many cities vowed legal action, arguing that the threatened punishment would be unconstitutional. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh promised to let immigrants who feel threatened by the administration’s actions take shelter in City Hall if necessary. “This city will not be bullied by this administration,” Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said, adding that he instructed city departments to rework their budgets to prepare for the possibility that federal dollars could be lost. “We believe we have the rule of law and the courts on our side.”

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called Trump’s executive orders on immigration mean-spirited and unnecessary.

California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat, tweeted: “See you in court.” In New York, Trump’s hometown, city officials said the administration’s action could take away over $150 million in law enforcement funding mainly for counterterrorism efforts, protecting international missions and dignitaries and, arguably, safeguarding Trump Tower, city officials said.

“Here in New York City and in cities across this nation, this order could in fact undermine public safety,” Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference Wednesday evening â?? a concern echoed by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser.

While there is no formal definition of the term “sanctuary city,” it generally refers to jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials.

In some cases, these cities tell

police not to inquire about the immigration status of those they encounter, or they decline requests from immigration officials to keep defendants in custody while they await deportation.

Others say they do cooperate with such “detainer” requests as long as they’re backed by court-issued warrants, but won’t allow local officers to enforce federal immigration law.

Advocates say such noncooperation policies protect people who may not have exhausted their rights to apply for U.S. residency. They also say that crime victims and witnesses are more likely to cooperate with police if they are not afraid of being deported.

“We’re not going to sacrifice any of our folks here in Providence,” said Jorge Elorza, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. “My job is to represent every single resident in the city of Providence, and we will continue to do that.”

Supporters of a crackdown on sanctuary cities point to cases like the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle in 2015 on a San Francisco pier. A man who had been previously deported and had been released by local law enforcement was charged in her death.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the Trump administration is going to “strip federal grant money from the sanctuary states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants.”

Trump signed an executive order that appeared more limited than that.

It referred to withholding Justice Department and Homeland Security

Residents of Pemuteran protest flood by diving action diving, Putu Sudarimbawa, revealed that flood problem in the area has been going on for years. It became concerns on the sustainability of tourism sector that has now been sufficiently developed. “This (diving—Ed) symbolizes our disappointment to the government. From the past, this flood has not been successfully handled,” he growled.

The protest action is not the first time but has been for the umpteenth time. However, it is carried out differently. The flood, he said, started around 16:00, shortly after the pouring rain in the mountain areas.

Head of the Buleleng Public Works and Spatial Planning (PUPR), Ketut Suparta Wijaya, stated that to respond

to the issue, local government has been coordinating with provincial and central government. As planned, in the long term in the mountain area will be made a waterway in addition to a new river channel with the length of 1.5 kilometers that will include a dam to hold sand and rocks. “Location of the dam is being discussed,” he explained. (kmb45)

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Protesters hold signs as they listen to speakers at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation’s immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting “sanctuary cities.” funds from only those jurisdictions that bar local officials from communicating with federal authorities about someone’s immigration status. Peter L. Markowitz, a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York, said such an attempt to cut off funding would face strong legal challenges.

“The Constitution prohibits the president from defunding jurisdictions that won’t do his bidding,” Markowitz said. “There’s nothing in federal law

that requires localities or states to participate in federal immigration enforcement. Second, the Constitution grants Congress â?? not the president â?? the power to determine how federal dollars are spent.”

In California, local law enforcement officials are barred from holding immigrants arrested on lesser crimes for deportation purposes.

More than 100 immigration rights advocates crowded on the steps of

San Francisco City Hall, holding signs that said “Undocumented & Unafraid” and “Don’t let hate Trump our values.”

“When we know that there is a violation of human rights here, this is where we excel,” San Francisco Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer said to cheers. “This is where we lead the nation and we say, ‘We will not back down and we will stand up for what we believe is right.’”(ap)

Extremist gunmen storm hotel in Somali capital, 11 killed

Incomplete handling

SINGARAJA- A number of residents of Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, did diving action on Wednesday (Jan. 25).

They did not do it at sea, but at some points of flood that recently become an unresolved problems. The action is a protest against the slow handling by local government.

One of the residents who joined in the

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Indonesia still attractive for investment site

DENPASAR - The growth of investors in Bali during the period of 2015 to 2016 increased from 1,379 to 2,571. The number of account-based investors (SRE) in Bali in 2015 reached 7,651, and then in 2016 rose to 10,138. “So, in 2016 it showed almost double growth from a year earlier,” said I Gusti Agung Alit Nityaryana, Head of IDX Denpasar Representative Office on Tuesday (Jan. 24).

In terms of the number of investors or individual (SID), considering that an individual can have more than one stock accounts, it also increased from 6,484 in 2015 to 8,078 in 2016. Thus, it indicated the growth of 2,015 new investors. When compared to other regions in Indonesia, the number of investors in Bali is ranked third after Java and Medan.

“By tendency of age, the investors in Bali are aged 41 to100 years amounting to 4,760, while those aged 18-25 years amount to 1,769 and then those aged of 26-30 years amount to 1,221,” he explained.

By profession, the investors consist of employees of private sector followed by students and businessmen.

He said that one’s interest to buy shares of a company much depends on the movement of stock prices. Movement of the stock prices is influenced by quality of the company, condition of the country and global conditions.

“Some years ago, there was one of the factors causing the decline in the stock price. For example, the price of coal dropped because the purchasing power of China is low. Due to the price drop, automatically the stock prices fall. The stock price falls due to the potential profit slumps. Imagine the cost of production is constant but the selling price downs. It means the profit increasingly drops in the long run. Automatically, more and more people want to sell their shares than to buy shares because pursuant to the law of the market says that when more and more people are selling than buying the stock price will go down,” he explained.

Head of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) for Bali-Nusra Region, Zulmi, said that OJK or the Stock Exchange and security traders have regularly disseminated to the public including all the campuses. “Moreover, there have been seven exchange galleries at campuses that can be used by students and the community to learn to invest,” he said.

With such dissemination, according to him, it is quite effective to make people invest in the capital market. The stock market has already started to become a potential alternative for people to invest.

Nevertheless, until now the investors of capital market are still dominated by foreign players with a ratio of about 60:40. It happens because Indonesia’s capital market is very attractive and much in demand. It has good prospects both in terms of business sector and very attractive return. In 2017, The Fed is predicted to raise interest rates, so that the investors are feared to flee to the United States.

According to him, The Fed raising the feed fund rate (FFR) is expected not to significantly impact the investment in Indonesia.

“On that account, the investment climate in Indonesia is still more attractive, including easiness to invest that is continuously opened,” he said optimistically. (kmb42)

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Somalis walk near the destroyed hotel and cars in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Jan 25, 2017. Gunmen from Somalia’s violent Islamic extremist rebels fought their way into a hotel in the Somali capital after a suicide car bomb exploded at its gates, a police officer said Wednesday.

MOGADISHU — At least 11 were killed and 50 injured Wednesday as Somali security forces ended a siege by extremist fighters who stormed a hotel in the capital, police said.

Four al-Shabab attackers were also killed in the attack on Dayah hotel, which is often frequented by government officials, said Capt.

Mohamed Hussein, a senior police officer. The death toll may rise, he said.

Survivors described chaotic scenes in which hotel residents hid under beds and others jumped out of

windows of the four-story building to escape the attackers.

“They kicked down room doors and at some point posed themselves as rescue teams by telling those inside to come out (only) to kill them,” said Hassan Nur, a traditional Somali elder. He said two well-known clan elders were among those killed.

The assault on the hotel started when a suicide car bomb exploded at its gates. A second explosion soon followed.

Dozens of people, including lawmakers, were thought to have been staying at the hotel at the time of the

morning attack, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein. A nearby shopping center caught fire and dozens of people helped save goods from the flames.

Somalia’s homegrown Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack via its online radio, Andalus, saying its fighters succeeded in entering the hotel.

Al-Shabab frequently targets hotels and other public places often visited by government officials and foreigners. Al-Qaida’s East African affiliate is fighting to impose a strict version of Islam in this Horn of Africa nation.(ap)

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MANGUPURA - Bali tourism growth in general continues to increase, especially ahead of the Lunar New Year. So, the hotel room occupancy rate has begun to increase chiefly the hotels located on the beach.

Valentino showcases ethereal haute couture collection in Paris

PARIS - Valentino designer Pierpaolo Piccioli showcased his debut solo haute couture collection in Paris on Wednesday, presenting an ethereal spring/summer 2017 line.

It is the first time Piccioli has designed the haute couture collection

on his own, after his former creative partner Maria Grazia Chiuri became Dior’s first female creative director.

Chiuri debuted her Dior haute couture line in Paris on Monday.

The simple and delicate Valentino collection by Piccioli included

a rose, ruffled chiffon dress with a deep neckline and a mint long sleeve gown which gave an Olympian feel.

Dreamy column dresses in straight, classical forms evoked a fairytale world with gentle, spring

colors of ivory, pastel pink and clay-green.

Billowing floor-length gowns embellished with flowers and sequins transformed the models into goddesses as they strolled along the catwalk to music composed by

French film composer Alexandre Desplat.

Valentino’s show took place on the penultimate day of Paris Haute Couture Week, with the curtains drawing on the event on Thursday. (rtr)

I Putu Gede Suastawa

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Narcotic case in Bali, BNNP Bali rehabilitates 974 people

AMLAPURA - Narcotic still becomes a big threat to Bali. Data of the Bali Provincial National Narcotic Agency (BNNP) indicate that throughout the year 2016, there were 974 people that should follow narcotic rehabilitation because they get involved in it. They mostly come from private sector, unemployment and self-employed people. However, there are also pupils, college students and housewives.

Head of the BNNP Bali, I Putu Gede Suastawa, said on Tuesday (Jan. 24) that the total number of people following the rehabilitation signifies that the war against the hazards of narcotic should not recede. In a note of the BNNP Bali, the data of rehabilitation in 2016 in terms of profession show that 510 people or 52.36 percent are from private sector, the unemployed (222 people) or 22.79 percent and the self-employed (156 people) or 16.02 percent.

There are also pupil (21), college students (17), merchants (14), farmers (8), police (6), civil servant (5), artists (5), fishermen (4), retired people (3) and housewives (3). As the mapping out by the BNNP Bali, the entry of narcotic passes several entrances such as the crossing of Gilimanuk Harbor, Celukan Bawang, Ngurah Rai Airport, Benoa Harbor, Sanur Beach, Nusa Penida, Padangbai Harbor and several traditional ports in Karangasem such as at Tulamben, Amed and a couple of coastlines in

Kubu subdistrict.

In the past year, the drug cases occurred evenly throughout the district and municipal in Bali. Data as of September 2016 showed that the highest drug case was uncovered in Denpasar with 198 cases, followed

by Buleleng (35), Jembrana (32), Gianyar (31), Badung (27), Bangli (18), Klungkung (14), Tabanan (12) and Karangasem (7).

“The data of the case is small, but do not necessarily mean there are no drugs. It precisely happens because disclosure effort is not serious enough. Actually, it can reach more than this,” he said.

Seeing the urgency of the problem on drug abuse, then his agency is very encouraging to immediately form BNNK in Karangasem. Thus, the handling will be more intensive in the field. Besides, the most worrying thing for the BNNP Bali is the trend of drug cases among the students. Therefore, to face this situation, Suastawa hoped the P4GN integrated curriculum program can provide significant influences on the students.

This program was launched in June 2016 coinciding with the International Day against Drugs.

At junior high school level, the curriculum is inserted into the subjects like religion, social sciences, Bahasa Indonesia, civics as well as physical and sport education. Then, at the level of high school it is inserted into civics, history, Bahasa Indonesian and physical and sport education. (kmb31)

Advisor to central executive of the Indonesian Hotel General Manager Association (IHGMA), Dr. Gusti Kade Sutawa, said that although the regional occupancy in general is about 50 percent, the hotels directly facing the beach surely become a priority for tourists to stay,” he said on Tuesday (Jan. 24).

But according to him, a lot of things need to be considered, especially for Bali. First of all, the infrastructures connecting South Bali to East, West and North Bali should be arranged, so that tourism is not only concentrated in South Bali. “Now, we’ve been faced with traffic congestion down here,” he said.

Secondly, the waste management having been often at issue must get a solution from the government and the parliament. In addition, the blueprint of Bali tourism should be made clear for the sustainability of Bali tourism ahead. “Thus, our grandchildren later on will inherit a sustainable tourism, not sporadically, not build here and there without a good plan,” he said.

Bali needs to emulate other countries. Although Bali is an island, it is inappropriate to be compared to

a country, but Bali needs to learn, for example, from Malaysia. “Malaysia is a small country, but it has regional planning for the next 50 years. There has been a picture of Malaysia how it will look like and it was made by an Indonesian,” he said.

According to him, Bali has the capacity for that, so that what is needed is good will and political will of the government so that the experts or stakeholders can give their contribution to promote Bali tourism.

Indeed, recently the foreign tourist visit showed an increase, especially Chinese tourists. Unfortunately, the hotel revenue received is not comparable to the number of foreign tourist arrivals that make the room rate cheap. Cheap price happens in line with the law of economics, the laws of the market.

“Now, we are oversupply due to many hotel rooms.

When compared to the room rate in 1980s in the range of USD 200-USD 300, now we can even get IDR 300,000. Indeed, it directs to quality,” he explained.

On that account, the government should control the growth of hotels in Bali. “There should not be too many rooms and there should be research on accommodation supply. We may not let the oversupply of hotel room happen as it currently does,” he added.

If it can be controlled through hotel moratorium, then in the upcoming 5 to 10 years, room rates will increase and traffic congestion can be reduced. (kmb42)

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The blueprint of Bali tourism should be made clear for the sustainability of Bali tourism ahead.

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Lively atmosphere of food offerings at cemetery increasingly fades

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The path passes through three hills namely the Mandaean, Tangkib Putih and Bukit Mas Hill that showcase natural landscapes of paddy fields and Mount Agung.

Boosted into tourism village

Paksebali prepares trekking path on hill areas

SEMARAPURA - Even though not becoming a priority of tourism village in Klungkung, in fact, Paksebali is the only village having been ready to bear such a name. In addition to having re-designed the Unda River area, Paksebali now begins to explore agro tourism by creating a trekking path on hills. Due to lack of facilities, Paksebali village, Dawan, must spend enough money to provide adequate facilities.

Headman of Paksebali, I Putu Ariadi, conveyed that he with the village community of Paksebali begins to open trekking path in the hills of local village. The path passes through three hills namely the Mandaean, Tangkib Putih and Bukit Mas Hill that showcase natural landscapes of paddy fields and Mount Agung.

Besides, visitors will be able to see the view of the ocean along with the Island of Nusa Penida. Trekking that passes the hills also crosses pristine river.

According to Putu Ariadi, to open the trekking path it takes him for weeks considering that the pathway is

rarely passed through by the public and covered with shrubs. After opening the trekking path, Paksebali village plans to set up a rest area in the form of gazebo for travelers participating in the trekking.

The presence of trekking at Paksebali hills will strengthen the position of the village into tourism village. Aside from trekking path, his village has arranged the area of Unda River into water attraction. With the village fund worth IDR 300 million, the Paksebali village builds a restaurant that will be managed by village-owned enterprise (BUMDes) of Paksebali.

With the existence of the restaurant, he hoped that rafting entrepreneurs can re-use the area as the finish line in the whitewater rafting adventure. In addition, the village has made cooperation with travel agencies to take advantage of the restaurant such as the lunch venue for travelers visiting Klungkung.

Additionally, he hoped the support of the government of Klungkung to promote the tourist attraction and take advantage of the restaurant as the venue of meeting activities held by the government. (dwa)

SINGARAJA - Pagerwesi feast in Buleleng, especially in urban areas, is celebrated festively. People do not just say prayers at clan temple and universal temple. However, they also put food offerings at cemetery. Along with the changing times, is there any change as well to the tradition?

Hindu devotees in Buleleng town that celebrated Pagerwesi feast have already looked busy from early morning. Coinciding with the rising sun, they have conducted prayers. Hectic atmosphere is similar to the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan. Besides, the feast falling every six months (210 days) looks so different from the other areas.

Devotees do not only put offerings at their clan temple and universal temple, but there is also a tradition having been carried from generation to generation in the form of putting offerings for the deceased family. It is carried out at cemetery.

Presenting food offerings or munjung is followed by all members of the family. The offerings brought as usual are put over the grave looking in a neat row with a variety of sizes and accompanied with the worship procession. When the procession is over, post-offerings are completely taken back home. Partial offerings are immediately enjoyed at cemetery. It is time where the families

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One of the residents, Made Suciastra, said that food offerings have been regularly practiced since he was a child. This tradition is not only performed on Pagerwesi, but also on Galungan and Kuningan.

For sure, he does not understand what it signifies. “I do not know what it exactly means. We’ve inherited the tradition like this. At least, it is also a part of effort to maintain relationship. We must remember both the living and dead ones,” he said when met at Buleleng cemetery on Wednesday (Jan. 25).

In the 1980s, continued this middle-aged man, presentation of food offerings is usually done starting at 04:00. At that time, the atmosphere is very pronounced. Both the adult and children also joined the procession at the cemetery. In addition to the offerings, they also brought candles and fireworks. However, when entering the era of the 1990s to the present, such an atmosphere starts to fade.

“Since then, no longer people are lighting candles. People just put the offerings. The atmosphere is no longer festive as ever before,” he said.

He added that in the past this tradition took place before saying prayers at clan temple and universal temple but now it is reversed.

“Today, it is held at home first and then come here. It usually takes up to nine,” he said. (sos)

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Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested outside New York City museum

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NEW YORK — Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly got into an altercation with another man outside a New York City museum where he has been chanting “He will not divide us” in front of a live camera since Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Police said LaBeouf pulled the scarf of an unidentified 25-year-old man outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, scratching his face in the process. They said he also pushed the man, who refused medical attention.

LaBeouf has spent the first few days of Trump’s presidency swaying, dancing and repeating the phrase “He will not divide us” in front of

a live camera outside the museum.

The livestream is for a participatory public art project LaBeouf and two collaborators intend to have running 24 hours a day for the next four years.

The camera went live the morning of the inauguration, along with a website inviting the public to show up and participate. LeBeouf has been a frequent, though not constant presence.

Technically, the project from LaBeouf and his performance art partners isn’t about opposition to Trump, LaBeouf told The Associated Press in an interview conducted on Monday in front of the livestream camera.

“We’re anti-division out here.

Everyone’s invited,” LaBeouf said.

“I’m just saying, ‘Be nice to each other.’”

It’s not immediately known what led to the alleged altercation Thursday morning.

LaBeouf faces a misdemeanor assault charge. It’s unclear if he has an attorney who can comment. (ap)

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Japanese doll-maker Kyugetsu Inc’s dolls depicting U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, as part of a traditional set of Japanese ornamental hina dolls used in Japan to celebrate Girls’ Day, are pictured at the company’s main shop in Tokyo, Japan, January 26, 2017.

Trump’s call for probe of voter fraud sparks backlash

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would seek an investigation into what he believes was voter fraud in last November’s election, despite an overwhelming consensus among state officials, election experts, and politicians that it is rare in the United States.

The announcement drew rebukes from both Republicans and Democrats who said the Republican president’s unsubstantiated claims of large-scale fraud could undermine voting rights efforts as well as confidence in the new U.S. chief executive.

In the Nov. 8 election, Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million

ballots. Irked by that large figure, he has blamed voter fraud without citing evidence.

“I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and....even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time),” Trump said on Twitter.

“Depending on results, we will

strengthen up voting procedures!”

In an interview with ABC News, Trump said none of the illegal votes would have been cast for him.

“They would all be for the other side,” he said.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer later told a news briefing that the probe would not focus on only the 2016 election.

Three Democratic congressmen demanded proof of such fraud and sent a letter to election officials and attorneys general in all 50 U.S. states seeking examples of cases of fraud in November’s vote.

Many of the state officials did

not need prompting with election officers in several states rejecting Trump’s claims immediately.

“Easy to vote, hard to cheat #Ohio,” Ohio’s Republican secretary of state, Jon Husted, said in a Twitter post rebutting Trump’s claim that 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants voted against him.

“That’s impossible,” Democratic Secretary of State Alex Padilla of California said on CNN. There is no history of widespread voter fraud in U.S. elections.

Leading Republicans, including the top Republican in Congress, House

of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, have rejected the claims.

Ryan, however, said in an interview Wednesday with MSNBC that if Trump believes there is widespread fraud “the right thing is to get an investigation to get the facts.”

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