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It was only in the final quarter of an hour that Stoner (Honda) usurped Lorenzo, before improving to a 1m38.780s with his very last lap of the day, putting him 0.173 seconds ahead of his predecessor as world champion.

Their team-mates were next up Honda’s Dani Pedrosa taking third and

Ben Spies putting his Yamaha fourth.

Valentino Rossi enjoyed a more encouraging final day, feeling that Ducati had started to get back on track after going off course with set-up at the previous Sepang test. The Italian was sixth, sandwiched between the Tech 3 Yamahas of Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso,

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while Nicky Hayden claimed eighth on the second Ducati.

Alvaro Bautista escaped a crash without injury to take ninth for Gresini Honda, with LCR Honda’s Stefan Bradl 10th.

Randy de Puniet again showed well on a CRT bike as he took his Aspar Aprilia to 13th - 1.8s off the overall pace and only half a second from the outright top 10.

The session was red-flagged near the end when Mattia Pasini crashed heavily.

The Speed Master rider was unhurt.

because we saw there was an improvement compared to last weekend. Now we need to understand what happened today in terms of his race pace and in terms of his performance.

“In my view the problem is that this car is quite difficult, not easy. It can be very good and it can also be quite difficult. We showed this today that in certain conditions you have to have a certain driving style and you can be very, very good, and in other conditions you can destroy the tyres.

“The priority for me and what I need to make sure is that Felipe has around him the protection of the team that tries to work hard with him.

“And on our side we need to make sure he’s confident to drive the car on the limit, without overdriving it, where the situation could be as bad as not being able to reach the limit.” Massa’s result means that he is yet to score a point this season and leaves him 19th in the championship - behind both Marussia drivers - based on best results so far.

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A Balinese local guard makes a call on a radio as Bali people celebrate the Silence Day in March 23, 2012. Shops were shuttered on March 23 and many tourists stayed inside their hotels as the Indonesian holiday island of Bali closed down for a day of peace and silence to mark the Hindu new year.

Nyepi, Bali can save 3,000 kiloliters of fuel

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Ferrari vows to protect Massa Ferrari needs to rally around Felipe Massa in order to lift his performances in future grands prix, according to team principal Stefano Domenicali. Massa finished only 15th in Malaysia on Sunday, more than 95 seconds adrift of his winning team-mate Fernando Alonso.

The result extended his streak without a Formula 1 podium to 23 races. With Ferrari Academy driver Sergio Perez who has already been linked with a race seat with the Italian team in 2013 - finishing second, the speculation surrounding Massa’s future has continued to grow.

But Domenicali refused to condemn his driver, instead insisting that it was up to the team to help re-establish the Brazilian’s confidence behind the wheel and to improve the F2012 car that he has to drive.

‘We need to stay close to Felipe in this moment,” he said. “It’s a difficult moment and we need to find a way for him to get confident in his car.

“We saw, for example, one step that was in the right direction in qualifying

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Casey Stoner of Australia and Repsol Honda leans into a curve during a MotoGP testing session in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, Friday, March 23, 2012. The first race of the season is on April 8 in Qatar.

Casey Stoner knocked Jorge Lorenzo off the top spot in the closing minutes of the final day of pre-season MotoGP testing at Jerez on Sunday. Yamaha rider Lorenzo had led the way for the majority of the day, which saw teams completing plenty of mileage to make up for the time lost to rain on Saturday.

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DENPASAR - Other than being able to save 270 MW of electricity worth IDR 4 billion, the celebration of Nyepi on Friday (Mar 23) was also able to reduce fuel consumption up to 3,000 kiloliters, where the average Premium fuel consumption in Bali was in the range of 2,300 kiloliters and diesel fuel was 700 kiloliters.

When contacted, the Area Sales Manager of the Pertamina Retail Fuel for Bali-NTB Region, Iin

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Nyepi was very good. Related to the plan of the fuel price hike effective April 1, 2012, Iin Hidalgo admitted that she could not ensure as her party was still awaiting the decision from the central government. Nevertheless, Pertamina in cooperation with police authority had taken reasonable precautions to avoid any act of speculators.

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Bali Governor vs Bali Post

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Febrian, said that before and after Nyepi the fuel demand was quite normal and did not cause an increas-

ing demand and long lines. According to her, the celebration of Nyepi in Bali at least could be exemplified where it caused a saving, even the fuel demand was in safe condition, and did not cause a shortage before the plan of the fuel price hike.

She acknowledged the role of Balinese people to maintain the security and awareness to use fuel properly before and after

Denpasar – After questioning and answering, the trial of Bali’s Governor Lawsuit against Bali Post continued on Monday, March 26, 2012 and it was entering new phase. After the trail officially opened by the panel of judges led by Amzer Simanjutak, the lawyers of Mangku Pastika, Simona-

hak and Ngastawa directly gave 19 evidences in front of the court.

From 19 evidences such as newspaper clipping and complete newspaper, four of them were still being postponed. For that reason, the judges give the opportunity to complete the evidences next week.

After the trial, Simonahak as the lawyer of the governor stated

that the evidences are highly connected to the case. “There are some newspapers that have the news about the governor and the customary village including Bali Post Newspaper,” he added.

Regarding the evidences given by the opponent, the lawyer of Bali Post, Suryatin Lijaya accompanied

by Agus Sujoko, said that it is not

complete yet. “So it means that they cannot give the original proof and we already plead the court that the evidences must be inspected thoroughly,” Suryatin said.

He also explained that they will respond to it. “We will respond to it. We don’t want to be considered to accept or admitted those evidences,” Suryatin said. (kmb)

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Thousands of clove trees topple Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Clove farmers at several villages in Buleleng are ascertained to suffer great losses in this year’s harvest season. This happens because thousands of their productive clove trees toppled as hit by high winds and heavy rains a few weeks ago. at all. The only thing to do is cutting down and clearing it from the plantation area,” said one of the farmers.

Similar disaster was also experienced by farmers at Lemukih village, Sawan subdistrict. A total of 300 blooming clove trees owned by farmers at Subak Manik Galih had toppled since the strong winds and heavy rains. A number of 150 clove trees at Subak Gunung Sari and 450 clove trees at Subak Uptiti Sari were reported to topple, too.

As a result, farmers lost income for a year because the cloves were the only source of income for families to meet their needs. “Actually, the flowers are very dense compared to those a year ago. As many trees have toppled, of course our next harvest will be down,” said Gede Ginarsa, a clove plantation owner at Lemukih.

When contacted separately, the Division Head of Plantation Services Nyoman Partayasa, with permission from the Head of Buleleng Forestry and Plantation Agency Komang Gede Yasa, said that after strong winds and heavy rains his party had received some reports on the falling clove trees from the extension field officers (PPL). From

the temporary report, the most falling clove trees happened at Umajero village, Busungbiu subdistrict (1,241) and they were all productive trees. Those clove trees belonged to 29 farmers. Similarly, the incident also occurred at Bengkel village, Busungbiu subdistrict where 52 clove trees toppled and they were ensured to face crop failure.

Other falling clove trees also came about at Galungan village, Sawan subdistrict where 100 trees toppled, while at Pegayaman and Pegadungan village, Sukasada subdistrict, was recorded a total of 1,000 falling clove trees. “Based on temporary data, the falling clove trees or breaking branches reached more than 2,000 trees and our staff is still collecting the data,” he said.

According to Komang Gede Yasa, so far there was no handling for the farmers suffering crop losses due to the falling clove trees. Nevertheless, the Buleleng Forestry and Plantation Agency would attempt to provide seedling assistance to alleviate the losses of farmers. “Having collected the data on the losses, we are trying to provide them with seedling assistance. Hopefully, the seedling assistance could slightly alleviate the losses of farmers,” he said. (kmb)

The Gunung Payung or Bukit Payung Temple is one of the Dang Kahyangan temples in Bali and Kahyangan Pangibeh temples. Gunung Payung is beautifully located on the coastal hill of the southern Bali, precisely at Kutuh customary village, South Kuta subdistrict, Badung Regency.

As perching on the edge of a solid barrier reef and having backdrop of stretching expanse of the sea, the Gunung Payung Temple has a magnificent view. The temple is a sacred place for the community of Kutuh village and the surrounding areas such as Kampial, Peminge and Ungasan customary village.

Gunung Payung Temple as a sanctum has a spring providing the needs of holy water. As a sanctum, it is also believed to exude holy light giving out sacred vibrations and enlightenment to devotees. Therefore, the community has a confidence in this energy of nature.

Supporting devotees of the Gunung Payung Temple are customary villagers of Kutuh. According to local belief, the temple poses the manifestation of Supreme God namely the Goddess Sri and Goddess Danu providing a source of life or prosperity for the Kutuh villagers in particular and the whole universe in general.

Gunung Payung Temple is closely related to the sacred journey of Dang Hyang Nirartha or Dang Hyang Dwi-

jendra. The Dharmayatra palm-leaf manuscript mentions that after coming to Uluwatu Danghyang Dwijendra provided suggestion to the surrounding community. Then, he resumed his journey eastward. As soon as arriving on a beautiful hilly area exuding a strong spiritual vibration, precisely in the southwest of Kutuh customary village, Dang Hyang Nirartha along with his entourage took a short break to unwind.

The arrival of maharishi was welcomed enthusiastically by the local community. They took the opportunity to meet him in person and ask religious directions and guidance. He was also willing to help people by putting up the stick of his umbrella. Due to spiritual power he possessed, a holy water suddenly spurted from the location where the stick of the umbrella was stuck. The water source is known as kubung suci by local communities and located in the innermost courtyard of the Gunung Payung Temple functioned as a holy headspring.

Before leaving the village to resume his pilgrimage, Dang Hyang Nirartha provided advice to local people to always keep the amrita water coming out from where he stuck the umbrella handle. Later on, the surrounding community established a temple at that location known as the Gunung Payung Temple. (BTN/kmb)

On Nyepi, 85 trucks stay overnight at Padangbai Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Padangbai Harbor, Karangasem, was still replete with trucks in queue reaching the T-junction of Padangbai because they were waiting for ferry service to Lembar. Meanwhile, the Chief of Padangbai Harbor Police (KP3), Dewa Ketut Nila Candra, with permission of the Karangasem Police Chief, Jefri Torunde, Sunday (Mar 25) said that on Pengerupukan and Nyepi of the Caka New Year 1934 on Friday (Mar 23) to Saturday (Mar 24) ran smoothly at the Padangbai customary village.

Though until the Nyepi Day 85 trucks were waiting to be ferried to Lembar, they were still unable to be conveyed so that they had to stay overnight at the parking lot of Padangbai Harbor. In the meantime, some of those drivers were dropped to Lembar for free by joining them with other vessel.

However, most of the drivers preferred to stay in the office of ASDP Padangbai, while some others stayed at the home of truck staff around Padangbai.

A long queue of trucks that could not be entirely ferried to Lembar up to Nyepi happened because the restricted number of vessels operated to serve the crossing service. Of the 11 existing vessels in operation, only two vessels had truck haulage up to 30 units, while the remaining smaller vessels had a carrying capacity up to 15 units of truck.

Chief Dewa Nila Candra said that to tighten the getaway from and to Padangbai Harbor becoming the easternmost of Bali’s entrance, his party constantly performed the examination of freights, people and vehicles. But so far, he said, his party did not find any indication related to criminal offenses, including terrorism. (013)

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Nadal, Murray advance in Miami

Gunung Payung Temple Headspring of Life and Fortune

The cloves tree that topple in Buleleng Regency

Information compiled in the field on Sunday (Mar 25) said that most of the falling clove trees had bloomed. In addition, many young plants also collapsed due to heavy rain accompanied with strong winds. As a result, farmers did not only lose money due to harvest failure in the next season, but the greater loss was that such prolific plants could not survive. Farmers should replant new ones and it would take them many years until they could produce.

A farmer at Unggahan village, Seririt subdistrict, said on Sunday that many clove trees toppled as hit by strong winds and heavy rains afflicting Buleleng. At this village, hundreds of blooming clove trees toppled. Stem of the tree was uprooted and partial roots no longer touched the ground, while some parts of the root remained to embed in the ground. Nevertheless, they were ascertained not to produce crops. Meanwhile, the growth of flowers would not take place normally, so they would surely fail to harvest crops. Besides, some clove trees also totally toppled as their trunk was not strong enough to shore up. “If the trunk has totally toppled like this, it cannot produce

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World number two Rafael Nadal cruised through to the last 16 at the Miami Masters, while fourth seeded Andy Murray advanced without even breaking sweat.

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Rafael Nadal was far too good on the night for Radek Stepanek, thrashing him 6-2, 6-2 at the Miami Masters.

Nadal continued his domination over Czech Radek Stepanek with a straight forward 6-2, 6-2 victory in a third round match on centre court.

Murray reached the fourth round by not hitting a ball when Canadian Milos Raonic withdrew with a right ankle injury.

Nadal, who is chasing his first Miami title, has now beaten Stepanek in all six contests dating back to their first meeting in 2004.

“I am just happy to be in the fourth round winning two matches with positive feeling and with comfortable results,” Nadal said.

“I will just try to keep doing well and try to keep improving a little bit the level.”

Nadal finished with three aces, won 74 percent of his first-serve points and saved both break point chances he faced in the 86 minute match.

Nadal advances to face Japan’s Kei Nishikori who breezed past Czech Lukas Rosol 6-4, 6-2 Sunday.

“He’s a fantastic player and will be a very difficult match for me,” Nadal said of Nishikori. “He has big talent to hit the ball very early, to play very aggressive.”

The 24-year-old Scot Murray will tackle French 13th seed Gilles

Durant outshines James as Thunder stifle Heat Reuters

Kevin Durant upstaged LeBron James to guide the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 103-87 win over the visiting Miami Heat on Sunday.

In a marquee match-up of two teams expected to challenge for the NBA title, Durant recorded 28 points, nine rebounds and eight assists for the Western Conference-leading Thunder (37-12).

Durant, being touted as a candidate for the MVP award, was at his best in the second quarter, shouldering the scoring burden as All Star Russell Westbrook sat on the bench mired in foul trouble. Durant scored 11 in the quarter and pushed the Thunder to an 11-point halftime advantage.

While Durant clearly got the better of fellow MVP candidate James, who finished with 17 points and seven assists, the Thunder’s Kendrick Perkins and Serge Ibaka provided enough defensive presence in the middle to stifle the Heat. Ibaka finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds and Perkins scored a season-

high 16 points.

“We did a good job of locking the paint up and forcing them to shoot contested shots,” Durant told reporters. “They’re a really good team, they do a lot of good things, we just played hard tonight.”

Miami’s Dwyane Wade scored a teamhigh 22 points and Chris Bosh added 18 but the Heat (35-12) were on the back foot for most of the game. The defeat ended their four-game win streak and leaves them 3.5games behind Eastern Conference-leading Chicago.

Miami made one last push to get back in the game in the fourth quarter with backto-back three-pointers from Shane Battier reducing the deficit to eight, but the Thunder answered with a 9-2 run to make the game safe. The Heat were sloppy in possession and had 21 turnovers for the game.

“Some of it was attack turnovers and some of it was careless turnovers,” James told reporters. “We started the game with a turnover and from there on we turned the ball over.”

Simon for a place in the quarterfinals of a tournament he won in 2009.

Highly-regarded Canadian 26th seed Raonic had already been forced to pull out of the doubles on Saturday where he and South African partner Kevin Anderson had managed just three games against Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimonjic.

The 21-year-old Raonic had been in a rich vein of form in 2012, winning titles in Chennai and San Jose and making the final in Memphis.

At Indian Wells last week, he was knocked out in the third round by eventual champion Roger Federer.

“The doctor in Spain doesn’t think it’s anything big. It probably just needs a couple days of rest and, with treatment, it should be OK in a week,” said Raonic.

“It’s frustrating, but you have to look at the big picture.”

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov recorded his first victory over a top 10 player when he beat seventh-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in two hours and 16 minutes.

Dimitrov saved five of seven break points to reach the fourth round of a Masters 1000 tournament for the first time.

The 20-year-old Dimitrov will

next face ninth-seeded Serb Janko Tipsarevic, who fired down 10 aces to get past 18th-seeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.

Tipsarevic leads Dimitrov 2-0 in their head-to-head series, with both meetings coming last year at Eastbourne and Washington.

On the women’s side, American wild card Venus Williams struggled to defeat Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) and top seed Victoria Azarenka powered past Heather Watson 6-0, 6-2 in third round matches on Sunday.

Williams advances to face former world number one Ana Ivanovic who beat 20th seeded Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 7-6 (7/2).

“I just kept coming back,” Williams said. “I tried not to let anything discourage me today. I kept thinking about how I really need this match and I need these points.”

Azarenka will square off against 16th seeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova for a spot in the quarterfinals.

In other women’s matches Sunday, French seventh seed Marion Bartoli defeated Simona Halep 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) and Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska crushed Silvia SolerEspinosa, of Spain 6-1, 6-2.

Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant shoots untouched against Miami during the fourth quarter of a NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Sunday, March 25, 2012. Oklahoma City won 103-87.

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Buffon, Del Piero lead Juve to win over Inter

Reuters Turin - Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon produced an inspired display and 37-year-old Alessandro Del Piero scored his fi rst Se rie A goal of the season as Juventus beat Inter Milan 2-0 on Sunday to maintain their Serie A title challenge. Del Piero, used sparingly by Juventus coach Antonio Conte recently, came off the bench to slot home the second goal from Arturo Vidal’s incisive pass after Martin Caceres had given them the lead just before the hour.

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Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon celebrates after his teammate Alessandro Del Piero scored against Inter Milan during their Serie A soccer match at the Juventus stadium in Turin March 25, 2012.

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It was his second goal in five days after he scored in their Italian Cup semi-final against AC Milan in which a 2-2 draw sent Juventus to the final 4-3 on aggregate.

Inter, now almost certain to miss out on the Champions League, had the better of the first half but were foiled by worldclass goalkeeping from Buffon. Claudio Ranieri’s team are ninth in the table with 41 points, 10 adrift of third-placed Lazio in the Champions League playoff spot. Juventus, still unbeaten in all competitions this season, have 59 points from 29 games, four behind leaders AC Milan who beat AS Roma 2-1 on Saturday. There are nine rounds of matches to play.

“Del Piero deserves everything, he has shown himself to be an outstanding professional, he has accepted this (substitute) role without causing a controversy and now he is being repaid,” Buffon told the Juventus website (www.juventus.com). “It’s a bitter defeat because it was a good, lively game against a Juventus side who deserve to be where they are,” said Inter coach Claudio

Ranieri.

“I’m very satisfied with the first hour of the game and extremely disappointed with the way we conceded the goal.” Lazio strengthened their grip on third place and a Champions League qualifying spot with a late win over Cagliari and Napoli squandered a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw at home to Catania.

Mobido Diakite struck in the 88th minute, heading in from Cristian Ledesma’s free kick, to give Lazio a 1-0 win over the Sardinians, leaving them with 51 points and a three-point cushion over Napoli and Udinese.

Blerim Dzemaili and Edinson Cavani scored in a seven-minute spell to put Napoli in command against Catania, only for Nicolas Spolli and Davide Lanzafame to reply following corners in the final 20 minutes.

Napoli, who reached the Champions League last 16 this season, were left on 48 points, level with Udinese who drew 1-1 at Palermo.

LITTLE CHANGE

There was little change at the bottom with a flurry of draws keeping Lecce, Novara and Cesena as firm favourites for the drop. Lecce, 18th in the 20-team table, have 27 points, five adrift of safety, after a goalless draw against Novara, who are three points and one place behind them.

Cesena are a further six adrift at the bottom after a 2-2 draw with 17th-placed Parma (32 points). Siena, who drew 1-1 at Chievo, and Fiorentina, held 2-2 at Genoa after Rodrigo Palacio scored an 89th-minute equaliser for the hosts, are both on 33 points.

Buffon pulled off at least four excellent saves to foil Inter in the first half. He produced a one-handed stop to deny Diego Milito at point-blank range, then brilliantly turned away Diego Forlan’s header. He foiled Milito again before saving a Dejan Stankovic volley with his legs.

Alessandro Matri wasted two good chances for Juventus while Mirko Vucinic just failed to make contact with Simone Pepe’s cross following a flowing move.

Juventus took control after Del Piero came on early in the 53rd minute. Four minutes later, Andrea Pirlo swung over a corner and Caceres, left completely unmarked, headed in.

Vucinic wasted an excellent chance in the 70th minute when he shot straight at Julio Cesar’s legs with only the Brazilian goalkeeper to beat.

But one minute later, the tireless Vidal threaded the ball through two defenders into the path of Del Piero who sent the ball beyond Julio Cesar with a first-time effort.

Chelsea are wish come true for Benfica

LISBON - Benfica coach Jorge Jesus got his wish when his side drew Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-finals but the hosts will need all their firepower to inflict damage on the wounded Premier League club in Tuesday’s first leg. Benfica face Chelsea after being held to a frustrating 0-0 draw at Olhanense which left them in second place in Portugal, one point behind leaders Porto.

“I haven’t changed my opinion, I am still happy to face Chelsea. All teams are strong, some more than others. Chelsea is performing a nice recovery, has a good team, but I still maintain my opinion,” coach Jesus said.

“I prefer to play against English teams, it is true that maybe we adapt ourselves better to the English.”

The Eagles played a major role in knocking Manchester United out of the tournament in the group phase, drawing twice against the Premier League champions. Coach Jorge Jesus left Pablo Aimar on the bench at the weekend and when he brought him on the Argentine got himself sent off.

At least the 32-year-old playmaker will be rested and looking to make amends on Tuesday when the hosts will rely on him to orchestrate their attacks and create chances

for goal machines Oscar Cardozo and Rodrigo. Cardozo is Benfica’s top scorer in the Champions League and championship.

At the back Brazil centre back Luisao will likely form a partnership with compatriot Jardel in the absence of Ezequiel Garay who is doubtful.

STALLED REVIVAL

Chelsea’s revival under interim coach Roberto Di Matteo has stalled in the last week with a 2-1 defeat at Manchester City on Wednesday and an uninspiring performance when they were second best in Saturday’s goalless draw against Tottenham Hotspur.

Di Matteo said after Saturday’s match that Chelsea would now probably have to win all of their eight remaining league matches to finish in the top four, but that looks as unlikely as their other possible route back into next season’s Champions League -- winning it this season.

If they should get past Benfica they will face either Barcelona or AC Milan in the semi-final with one from Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Olympique Marseille lurking in the final. Chelsea head to Lisbon with Di Matteo claiming the English FA and Premier League could be harming Chelsea’s Champions League chances by making them

play three days before European games.

Chelsea are facing seven matches in 20 days and, asked if Premier League teams should be allowed to play on Friday nights before European games, Di Matteo said: “Absolutely, yes. Because the other federations, they do tend to help their teams to be able to perform as good as possible in Europe. It just doesn’t seem to be happening in England.”

“The fixture list has to take into consideration the fact that teams are maybe qualifying in the FA Cup, going through, and in the Champions League, going through, and try to give them an equal possibility to win games. “Because there is no doubt in my mind that, on Wednesday, City had a slight advantage because they didn’t play on Sunday.”

Di Matteo also said Chelsea were in danger of becoming “victims” in Europe, with their FA Cup semi-final having been scheduled two or three days before a possible Champions League semi-final against Barcelona or AC Milan. Scott Minto, who played for both Chelsea and Benfica in his career said this week he expected Chelsea to beat Benfica, but they will be beaten if they underestimate them.

“If they under-estimate them in any way it’ll be a similar result to the one in Napoli

when they lost 3-1,” he told reporters this week. “If they do that, to ask them to reproduce the kind of second leg they produced against Napoli at Stamford Bridge will be difficult.”

It is somewhat ironic that if results had gone their way earlier, Chelsea would still be playing for Portuguese coach Andre Villas-Boas.

Last season his Porto side finished 21 points ahead of Benfica in the Portuguese title race which earned him his move to London, but after only eight months he was gone.

Di Matteo’s first four matches ended in wins, but after a defeat and a draw some of Chelsea’s old failings look to be returning although former Benfica players David Luiz and Ramires will be desperate to help Chelsea start winning again on their return to the club they helped to the 2010 title.

Chelsea’s Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and John Terry would also like to leave Lisbon happier than in Euro 2004 when they all scored penalties there when England were beaten 6-5 on spot-kicks by Portugal in the quarter-finals.

Lampard also scored a late extra-time equaliser for England after Rui Costa, now a Benfica director, had put Portugal 2-1 in front.

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Traffic of migrant backflow at Gilimanuk soars Negara (Bali Post)—

Thousands of regional migrants having gone home to Java since two days before the celebration of Nyepi had come back to Bali on Sunday (Mar 25) through the Gilimanuk Harbor.

From the observation on Sunday, every vessel berthing, both passenger and freighter vessel, was always replete with vehicles and passengers.

Even, up to Sunday afternoon the backflows of regional migrants from Java Island continued to move without interruption. Estimated, thousands of vehicles came into Bali on Sunday. Based on the data presented by the ASDP Gilimanuk before Nyepi, 8,000 motorcycles and thousands of cars were noted to leave Bali. These conditions made the officers performing the examination looked busy both in the Post I and Post of the identity card check. The number of personnel seemed to have been increased at a number of points to anticipate the boosting amount of people traveling

to Bali. In the post of identity card check, the officials seemed to frequently find people without identity card or violating the civil administration. Regional migrants having no guarantor were eventually repatriated.

The damaged road in front of the identity card checkpoint was often complained by the passing motorists. Not only drivers of car or box vehicle, but motorists also complained about the condition of the potholes. A wide and muddy pothole could interfere with the movement of cars and pedestrians passing through and presenting their identity card.

Headman of Gilimanuk, IGN Rai Budhi, admitted to have reported the problem repeatedly and now his party was still waiting for the road improvement. Indeed, status of the road remained unclear, which authority was responsible for maintaining it. Local village constantly expected the road could be repaired as soon as possible. (kmb26)

Swept away by flooding, Bedugul faces vegetable crisis Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Flash flooding striking the farm area of Baturiti some time ago still leaves a pain for residents. As swept away by flooding, the Baturiti area is now facing vegetable crisis. Price of all the commodities also soars sharply. This condition is triggered by the destruction of agricultural land around the lakeside. Moreover, the adverse weather still afflicts the region.

One of the farmers at Candikuning village, Made Suartana, 45, said that since swept away by flooding, the Baturiti area was directly hit by crisis of various types of vegetables. Many plantations were damaged and could not be harvested because of silted. “Almost all the farmers here cannot harvest. Now, we are hit by crisis of vegetables,” he said on Sunday (Mar 25). Other than flooding, the overflowing water of the lake also damaged the crops of local residents.

Lake water inundated the plants so that they could not grow normally. This condition made the price of all the vegetable commodities rose sharply. Suartana exemplified, the price of strawberry increased from IDR 15,000 to IDR 30,000 per kilogram, but it was very difficult to get it. If available, the quality was not as good as before.

Meanwhile, vegetables were also very expensive. Among them, the price of carrots ranged from IDR 3,000-5,000 per kilogram. Paprika for hotel consumption rose from IDR 40,00080,000 per kilogram. Cabbage that was usually easy to find, now turned scarce, too. Its price rose from IDR 800 to IDR 2,000 per kilogram. Flower of broccoli rose from IDR 20,000 to IDR 45,000 per kilogram, while the romana vegetables liked best by foreign tourists rose from IDR18,000 to IDR 40,000 per kilogram. “Though the price is high, farmers are still difficult because no one can harvest,” sighed the hamlet chief of Kembang Merta, Candikuning village.

Suartana added, after the flooding, farmers could not do their activities. Moreover, the overflowing water of the lake continued to inundate their plantation, and even it also inundated the road to plantation area. “Now, we can only see the damaged garden, nothing else,” he said. Farmers were still wary because the weather around Baturiti was still alarming. Virtually every day the rain swept the region. To make a living, some farmers attempted to clean up the vegetables that could still be saved, while the others only took care of cattle with sober grass. (kmb30)

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The Lukat Geni tradition

Unique tradition of Nyepi

Lukat Geni to neutralize negative power

NYEPI in Bali is not just celebrated by tightly performing the catur brata penyepian or four abstinences. Many people celebrated it with a series of Balinese traditions, chiefly on the Pengerupukan or one day before Nyepi. Aside from becoming the right moment for reflection and introspection to neutralize the inner bad qualities, Nyepi also neutralized the nature from the negative qualities. The Satria Kawan Palace, Paksebali, Dawan, Klungkung had a unique tradition known as Lukat Geni.

On Pengerupukan night, Thursday (Mar 22), the Satria Kawan Palace, Paksebali, looked different from the other customary villages in Bali. Apart from parading the ogoh-ogoh symbolizing bhuta kala (viciousness), it was also accompanied with a series of Lukat Geni tradition. This tradition has been implemented through generations since many years ago. Lukat Geni was a procession of the battle situation by means of fire kindled on dried coconut leaves used as the weapon. It involved several youths in pair from the local area. Such dried coconut leaves were used as weapon, where it was first tied and then lit. Afterward, it was slapped onto each opponent. Before the procession began, the priest of royal family temple of Satria Kawan Palace invoked the safety first for the smoothness of procession.

Participants and paraphernalia in use should be purified through a special ritual.

Since late afternoon, the youth gathered to take part in the Lukat Geni (flame wars) tradition. The whole community, young-old and

men-women thronged to witness the attraction from a closer distance. It was performed before the ogoh-ogoh parade. For the making of ogoh-ogoh, the youth of Satria Kawan should spend up to IDR 4.5 million and took them for nearly a month.

Before parading the ogoh-ogoh, participants of the Lukat Geni (the youth) looked to have beaten each other using the flames on a bundle of dried coconut leaves.

Such ‘mutual beating’ action was increasingly fierce as accompanied by the vigorous baleganjur gamelan music. However, they showed off no anger, no revenge. Despite using flames, no youth looked to get injured. They sincerely did it for a single purpose, namely eliminating the bad or negative qualities.

Considering the Lukat Geni tradition was basically held for cleaning up nature and neutralizing negative forces, so that they would not cause any disruption. “Besides, implementation of the Lukat Geni next year is expected to be better than the previous years,” said

the royal family temple priest of Satria Kawan Palace, Jero Mangku AA Oka. He said that Lukat Geni ritual had existed since ancient times.

Due to several factors, the tradition was abolished for some periods.

“However, since recent years, the ritual was re-implemented to neutralize and maintain the balance of nature,” he said without elaborating why the Lukat Geni ritual was once discontinued.

The tradition of neutralizing nature from negative forces was also carried out at Dawan customary village. However, the tradition was performed differently namely by sacrificing a cow or caru sapi. It was carried out coinciding with the implementation of usabha desa taking place on the Pengerupukan. The procession was held by parading the cow from Dalem Temple, going around the village and then going to Puseh and Bale Agung Temple.

Ultimately, it turned back to the end of the village and the selected cow was sacrificed or made into caru exorcism at cemetery of the Dawan customary village. (bal)

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SEOUL - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to pursue further nuclear arms cuts with Russia, saying the United States has more warheads than necessary, and issued stern warnings to North Korea and Iran in their nuclear standoffs with the West. Speaking ahead of a global nuclear security summit in Seoul, Obama held out the prospect of new reductions in the U.S. arsenal as he sought to rally world leaders for additional concrete steps against the threat of nuclear terrorism.

“We can already say with confidence that we have more nuclear weapons than we need,” Obama told students at South Korea’s Hankuk University.

He pledged a new arms-con-

trol push with incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin when they meet in May. But any further reductions would face stiff election-year opposition from Republicans in Congress who already accuse him of weakening America’s nuclear deterrent.

Obama laid out his latest strategy against the backdrop of continued nuclear defiance from North Korea and Iran, twin challenges that have clouded his overall nuclear agenda and the summit in Seoul.

He set expectations high in a 2009 speech in Prague when he declared it was time to seek “a world without nuclear weapons”.

He acknowledged at the time it was a long-term goal, but his high-flown oratory helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Agence France Presse

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Fellow protesters try to extinguish the fire as a Tibetan man, identified as Jampa Yeshi, is engulfed in flames after self-immolating at a protest in New Delhi, India, ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the country Monday, March 26, 2012.

Tibetan lights self on fire at anti-China protest Associated Press

NEW DELHI — A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a protest in the Indian capital Monday, just ahead of a visit

by China’s president and following self-immolations in the Himalayan region against Beijing’s rule.

REUTERS/Larry Downing

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) speaks to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a bilateral meeting before attending the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul March 26, 2012.

The protester apparently had doused himself with something highly flammable and was engulfed in flames when he ran past the podium where speakers were criticizing China and the visit by President Hu Jintao.

Fellow activists beat out the

flames with Tibetan flags and poured water onto him. He was on fire perhaps less than two minutes, but some of his clothing disintegrated and his skin was mottled with black, burned patches by the time he was driven to a hospital.

The man, identified as Jampa

Yeshi, sustained burns on 85 percent of his body and his condition was critical, a senior police officer said.

He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Protesters initially prevented police from taking him to the hospital, but officers eventually forcibly took him away. Yeshi, 27, escaped from Tibet in 2006 and had been living in New Delhi for the past two years, activists said. Hu is expected to arrive in India on Tuesday for a five-nation economic summit.

SKorea warns it might shoot down NKorean rocket

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — Seoul warned Monday that it might shoot down a North Korean rocket if it passes over South Korean territory, as worries about what Washington calls a longrange missile test overshadowed an international nuclear security summit.

Nearly 60 world leaders gathered Monday in Seoul to talk about ways to keep nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists. But North Korea has dominated attention in Northeast Asia since announcing earlier this month that it would send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket.

North Korea calls the launch part of its peaceful space program and says a new southerly flight path is

meant to avoid other countries; previous rockets have been fired over Japan. Washington and Seoul, however, say the multistage rocket is meant to test delivery systems for long-range missiles that could be mounted with nuclear weapons.

“We are studying measures such as tracking and shooting down (parts) of a North Korean missile in case they stray out of their normal trajectory” and violate South Korean territory, said Yoon Won-shik, a vice spokesman at the Defense Ministry.

“We cannot help viewing (the launch) as a very reckless, provocative act” that undermines peace on the Korean peninsula, he said.

The South Korean and U.S. militaries know that North Korea has moved the main body of the rocket into a

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Raisins and soy may ward off high blood pressure

Obama vows to pursue further nuclear cuts with Russia

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building at a site near the village of Tongchang-ri in North Phyongan province and that it is making preparations for a launch,Yoon said. He said the two allies’ militaries are closely monitoring the situation, but he didn’t elaborate on the North’s preparations.

The Tongchang-ri launch site is about 35 miles (50 kilometers) from the Chinese border city of Dandong.

Analysts describe it as a new, more sophisticated site that would allow the North to fire the rocket from the west coast to avoid sending it over other countries.

Sheets of music, recently identified as a composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, are presented during a press conference held by the research department of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, Friday, March 23, 2012.

Newly discovered Mozart piece performed Associated Press Writer

VIENNA — A piano work experts attribute to Mozart as a child prodigy was performed for the first time Friday since it was found last year after apparently being left in an attic for centuries. The lively 84-bar passage — marked “allegro molto,” or “very quick” — was played Friday on the composer’s piano in a room of his Salzburg home by virtuoso Florian Birsak.

The Mozarteum Salzburg Foundation, which staged the event, said the manuscript was found last summer as part of a 160-page book of handwritten piano music as the musty attic of a house in Tyrol was being cleared from centuries of detritus.

Part of a collection of notes from

a village music teacher, the book was dated 1780 — 24 years after Mozart was born — and the manuscript played Friday bore the name “Del Signore Giovane Wolfgango Mozart,” Italian for “Mr. Wolfgang Mozart Jr.” Musicologist Hildegard Hermann-Schneider, who traced the

composition to Mozart, said the fact that other pieces in the book were known works by Mozart’s father, Leopold, strengthened the case that the work was genuine. As well, Leopold Mozart often used “Wolfgango” when labeling works written by his young son, she said.

From the style of the composition, Hermann-Schneider attributed it to Mozart at around the age of 11.

The piece exhibits “a series of components that are found repeatedly in other Mozart piano works,” said the Mozarteum in a statement.

“Judging by the current level of knowledge, it thus has to be a genuine sonata phrase from Mozart.”

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Doug Wechsler, director of the Visual Resources for Ornithology, shows a tray of hummingbirds from Columbia in the collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences Friday, March 23, 2012 in Philadelphia.

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Soy crops ready for harvest in 2007. Eating raisins and soy appears to help ward off high blood pressure, a key risk factor in heart disease, according to two studies presented at a major US cardiology conference on Sunday.

Oldest US natural history museum offers rare peek Associated Press Writer

FILE - In this April 5, 2009 image made from KRT video, a rocket is lifted off from its launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Korea.

Eating raisins and soy appears to help ward off high blood pressure, a key risk factor in heart disease, according to two studies presented at a major US cardiology conference on Sunday. Munching on a handful of raisins three times a day helped people with slightly elevated blood pressure lower their numbers after several weeks, said one of the studies presented at the American College of Cardiology conference.

The randomized clinical trial -- believed to be the first formal measurement of raisins’ benefits on blood pressure -- involved 46 people with a condition known as pre-hypertension. That means their blood pressure ranged from 120 over 80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) to 139 millimeters of mercury over 89 mm Hg, or just higher than normal.

Compared to people who snacked on cookies or crackers, the raisin-eating group saw significant drops in blood pressure, in some cases lowering the top number, or

systolic pressure, by 10.2, or seven percent over the 12-week study.

Researchers are not sure exactly why the raisins work so well, but they think it may have to do with the high level of potassium in the shriveled, dried grapes.

“Raisins are packed with potassium, which is known to lower blood pressure,” said lead investigator Harold Bays, medical director of Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center.

“They are also a good source of antioxidant dietary fiber that may favorably alter the biochemistry of blood vessels, causing them to be less stiff, which in turn, may reduce blood pressure.” A handful of about 60 raisins contains a gram of fiber and 212 milligrams of potassium.

Raisins are often recommended as part of a high-fiber, low-fat diet to reduce blood pressure.

A second study on soy showed that daily intake of foods like tofu, peanuts and green tea helped lower blood pressure in more than 5,100 white and African American people aged 18-30.

Its 225,000 annual visitors may associate the nation’s oldest natural history museum solely with dioramas and dinosaurs, but behind the scenes there is groundbreaking research conducted by world-renowned scientists and an enviable collection of some 18 million specimens representing all manner of animal, vegetable and mineral.

In celebration of its bicentennial this year, the museum has finally decided that it’s OK to boast a little.

For what’s believed to be the first time in 200 years, curators will bring the public into the labyrinthine museum’s normally off-limits nooks and crannies for daily tours.

“This is a rare opportunity to get a firsthand look at some of the most stunning, and sometimes bizarre, creatures you’ve ever seen,” said Academy president and chief executive officer George Gephart Jr. “We can’t wait to open our doors and show off nature’s, and the Academy’s, wondrous bounty.”

The Academy will highlight a different part of its collection starting with minerals in April and ending with fossils in February 2013. Other months will focus on birds, fish, insects, mollusks, amphibians and reptiles, plants and mammals.

“We’ve done behind-the-scenes tours with school groups, and with donors and members, but not anything like this,” said Ned Gilmore, an

Academy collections manager.

Depending on the tour, visitors might see drawers filled with exotic colorful birds, cabinets holding polar bear skeletons, jars of preserved snakes, boxes of beautiful shells that when alive can kill a human, a wall of enormous elk skulls, a narwhal tusk and a mounted — and extinct — Caribbean Monk Seal.

An accompanying exhibition, “The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery,” puts dozens of the academy’s show-stopping treasures on public display — many for the first time — and highlights research that museum scientists are conducting worldwide on hot topics of climate change, biodiversity, water quality and invasive species.

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International

Genesis Awards honor “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Reuters

LOS ANGELES - “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” took top film honors at the Genesis Awards for examining the ethics of using chimpanzees in medical research.

The awards, which honor news and entertainment media for raising public awareness of animal issues, were held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.

The event will be presented as a one-hour special on Animal Planet on May 5.

The Sid Caesar Comedy Award went to “The Colbert Report” for the second consecutive year, this time for a satirical twist on the whaling issue and a Utah legislator’s proposal to kill feral dogs and cats. “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” was named outstanding talk show for an interview with Humane Society president and CEO Wayne Pacelle about dogfighting and puppy mills.

The Morgan Freeman-narrated IMAX documentary, ‘Born to Be Wild 3D” won the feature documentary honor for its look at people rehabilitating baby elephants and orangutans orphaned by poaching and habitat encroachment.

“Gordon Ramsay: Shark Bait” was named best TV documentary for its expose of shark-finning and “Animal Planet

Investigates: Captive Hunting Exposed” was named top reality series for its show about “hunting” tame animals trapped in fenced pens.

ABC’s “20/20” was honored in the TV newsmagazine category for exposing inhumane conditions at an egg factory farm; “NBC Nightly News” was recognized with the national news award for multiple issues, including the fate of horses used by smugglers to cross the border; while the morning news award went to NBC’s Jill Rappaport of “Today” for a series of reports on the dedicated rescuers of homeless pets.

“Dancing with the Stars” judge Carrie Ann Inaba opened the ceremony alongside Uggie, the show-stealing terrier from “The Artist.”

A general view of the hall during the Echo Music Awards ceremony Berlin March 22, 2012.

REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Adele beats Gaga to win big at German ECHO awards Reuters

BERLIN - Katy Perry, Sean Paul and Lana Del Ray dominated the stage of Germany’s annual ECHO Music Awards in Berlin, where Adele picked up two awards to add to her string of BRIT and Grammy wins. The British star scooped Album of the Year for “21”, as well as Best Female International Artist at Thursday evening’s event, fending off competition from Lady Gaga and the late soul singer Amy Winehouse.

German band Rammstein made wins on their home turf claiming Best Alternative Group and Best German Act Abroad.

The band teamed up with shock rocker Marilyn Manson to deliver a highly

charged performance on stage. British band Coldplay won Best International Group, while French star David Guetta picked up Best Club Performer.

Bruno Mars beat veteran crooner Chris de Burgh and James Morrison to win Best International Male Artist. Clad in a silver catsuit, Katy Perry paraded on stage with her hair died blue and scraped into a ponytail to perform her new single “Part of Me”.

Lana Del Ray sang “Video Games”, but went home empty-handed after Dutch jazz artist Caro Emerald won Best International Newcomer, and Gotye ft. Kimbra claimed Hit of the Year for their song “Somebody That I Used To Know”.

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Houston full autopsy report to offer more details Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston’s full autopsy report may offer more clues about whether the singer suffered a heart attack before her drowning death, officials said Friday.

The full report, which is expected to be released in a few weeks, may include test results and physical descriptions of the singer’s heart that will show whether she suffered a heart attack, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said.

The report is being compiled and Winter said he did not have access to its findings, which might show whether there were any obvious signs such as discoloration of her heart that would suggest Houston had a heart attack before slipping underwater in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 11.

Houston’s death has been ruled an accidental drowning, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. The report also will include detailed toxicology results that will show how much cocaine and its byproducts were in Houston’s system when she died. Coroner’s officials said Thursday that the results showed the singer used cocaine shortly before her death, and there were indications of chronic use.

Beverly Hills police detectives will use the full coroner’s report to complete their investigative file, which is not expected to be publicly released. The department has said there were no signs of foul play in connection with Houston’s death.

Houston’s death on the eve of the Grammy Awards stunned the music industry and fans worldwide. The singer had battled addiction for years, but friends and family have said she

appeared committed to making a comeback in the months before her death.

“We are saddened to learn of the toxicology results, although we are glad to now have closure,” Patricia Houston, the singer’s sisterin-law and manager, wrote in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday.

AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file

FILE - In this April 25, 2010 file photo, singer Whitney Houston performs at the o2 in London as part of her European tour.

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Waka di Ume Resort and Spa

A Sojourn to Witness Cultural Uniqueness of Ubud

Who does not know the Island of Gods or Bali? It’s the bijou island offering all the natural beauties and intriguing sublime cultures. People who never pay a visit can tell much about the island, let alone those knowing it just in a dream.

Bali is situated east of Java Island having access within easy reach, either by land, sea, or air.

With such an easy access, this island is then popularly chosen as a favorite tourist destination. Aside from several amazing beaches, Balinese culture can also be taken advantage as an endless tourist attraction because many temples retain very high cultural values. In addition, Bali is also delighted to offer natural attractions in the form of mountain and terraced rice fields resembling a verdant overlay of rug.

One of the convenient locations

situating among the rice field, jungle and mountainous gorges is Ubud. It is an appropriate sojourn and destination located in the region of Gianyar Regency. Here you can find a unique resort offering the indigenous Balinese concept highlighting the harmonious relationship of human to environment, fellow humans and the Creator, namely the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa. Many fascinating attractions can be encountered here, ranging from relishing the natural atmosphere up to learning the native cultures.

“Here, we also invite our guests to appreciate the natural environment, cultural and social life of the Ubud community,” said I Wayan Duartha, General Manager of the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa. With such various activities, many tourists were attracted to stay at Waka.

A variety of facilities have been provided to support the comfort and satisfaction of every single guest. Waka di Ume Resort and Spa established on November 5, 1995 has 18 rooms, consisting of 3-bedroom Wapa Villa with private pool, 2-bedroom Family Villa with private pool, Villa with Pool, Di Ume Suite, Terrace Villa and the smallest one is the Lanai Terrace.

Room rates of the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa ranges from USD 244 to USD 655. Such rates have included government tax, service and breakfast.

More interestingly, the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa lies very close to the natural and cultural attractions. Among others, they are monkey forest, art museums, Goa Gajah, Ceking rice terrace, Tirta Empul temple at Tampaksiring,

Tampaksiring Presidential Palace, and Petulu village becoming the native and convenient home to thousands of white egrets.

One day, if you want to make a visit to the island, especially

when would like to luxuriate in the countryside ambience with five star facilities, look no further and decide on the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa as your serene sojourn on the island.

Temple Ceremony

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Cast member James Franco poses at the premiere of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” at the Grauman’s Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California July 28, 2011.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Calendar Event for February March 18 through April 6, 2012 18 Mar Redite Umanis Merakih - Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin Lembongan - Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati Gianyar 21 Mar Buda Wage Merakih - Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Denpasar Selatan - Pura Natih Banjar Kalah Batubulan - Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu - Pura dalem Petitenget Kerobokan - Kuta - Pura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan - Gianyar - Pura Kubayan - Kepisah Pedungan Denpasar - Selatan - Pura Pasek gelgel Banjar Tanahpegat - Tabanan - Pr. Paibon Banjar Bengkel Sumerta - Denpasar - Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar - Pr. Panti Penyarikan Medahan - Sanding - Tampaksiring - Pr. Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken Kaba-kaba Tabanan.

27 Mar Anggar Kasih Tambir - Pura Dalem Puri Batuan Sukawati - Pura Dalem Kediri Silakarang - Singapadu - Pura dalem Desa Sukawati - Pura Dalem Desa Singakerta - Ubud - Pura dalem Lembeng Ketewel - Sukawati - Pura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan - Ubud - Pura Puseh ngukuhin Keramas - Gianyar.

- Pura Pemerajan Agung Ki Telabah Tuakilang - Tabanan - Pura Karang Buncing Blahbatuh - Pura Dalem Bubunan Seririt Buleleng - Pura Desa Badung Kota Denpasar - Merajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Turupinghe, Banjar, Buleleng - Pura Luwur Pedengenan Bedha Bongan - Tabanan - Mr. Dukuh Sebudi - Mr. Pasek Ngukuhin Keramas - Pura Pucak Payongan Lungsiakan - Desa Kedewatan - Pura Tanah Kilap Denpasar Selatan - Pura Selukat Desa Keramas - Blahbatuh - Gianyar - Pura Dalem Tampuagan Desa Peninjoan - Tembuku -

Bangli - Pura Waturenggong Desa Taro - Pura Dalem Bentuyung Ubud - Pura Puseh Ubud.

- Pura Dalem Peliatan Ubud.

28 Mar Buda Umanis Tambir - Pura Sari Bankar Titih Kapal 6 Apr Purnama Kedasa - Odalan Betara Turun Kabeh Besakih - Ngusaba di Pura Bukit Jati Bukit Jati - Bangli - Pura Batur Kalanganyar Bangli - Pura Masceti Pejeng Aji Tegalalang Tegalalang - Pura Dalem Tangsub Sukawati - Pura Penambangan Badung Denpasar - Ngusaba Pura Lempuyab Madia Pura Lempuyab Madia Karangasem - Ngusaba Pura Batur Bangli - Pura Desa Singakerta Ubud - Pura Pasek Gelgel Tagtag Kukuh Marga Tabanan - Pura Gaduh Ketapian Sumerta Denpasar - Pura Pasek Bendesa Batur Batur Tuak Ilang Tabanan - Pura Pasek Agung Tagtag Kelod Peguyangan Denpasar - Pura Agung Pasek Bendesa Tonja Denpasar - Pura Pasek Gelgel Angsri Baturiti - Pura Pasek Gelgel Bale Agung Subamia Subamia Beraban - Pura Dukuh Sari Belatung Bengkel Timpag Kerambitan - Pura Pusat Dukuh Sari Belatung Rendang Karangasem - Pura Pita Maha Palangkaraya Kalteng - Pura Canda Peraba Komplek Polri Jelambar Jelambar Jakarta Barat - Pura Agung Jagat Natha Kota Denpasar - Pura Pemerajan Agung Puri Petak Gianyar - Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung - Pura Puseh Desa Adat Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem - Pura Jagathita Karana Samarinda - Pura Penataran Agung Sriwijaya Palembang Sumatera Selatan - Pura Agung Girinatha Semarang

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

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

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

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

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

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Kenya, Zimbabwe ministers evacuated from Mali Agence France Presse

The Kenyan and Zimbabwean foreign ministers have been evacuated from Mali where they were stranded by the west African country’s military coup, Kenya’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.

The ministers and other government officials were flown to Lagos on a chartered flight late Saturday after the coup leader said he would guarantee their safe return.

“The government successfully managed to charter a flight to evacuate the minister after

REUTERS/Stringer

A firefighter inspects the national treasury building after parts of a wall fell off after a heavy quake in Santiago March 25, 2012.

Major quake rattles Chile but no serious damage Reuters

PARIS - France will bar radical Muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an Islamic conference next month as part of a crackdown after shootings by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.

Sarkozy, who has announced plans to punish those viewing Islamist Web sites and going abroad for indoctrination, said he would block the entry of some imams invited to a congress organized by the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF).

The UOIF, one of three Muslim federations in France, is regarded as close to Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. “I have clearly indicated that there certain people who have been invited to this congress who are not welcome on French soil,” Sarkozy told France Info radio.

He cited Sheikh Youssef al-

SANTIAGO - A major quake hit central Chile on Sunday, rattling buildings and temporarily triggering a coastal evacuation on fears of a tsunami, but there was no serious damage and big mines in the world’s top copper producer were operating normally.

Nyepi...

Residents in Chile’s capital, Santiago, fled their homes as the tremor rattled television sets, kitchen cabinets and tables, and a mayor in the town of Parral in south-central Chile told local radio a 74-year-old woman died of a heart attack due to the quake.

There were no reports of serious casualties.

The 7.1 magnitude quake struck 16 miles north- northwest of the town of Talca at a depth of 22 miles at 7:37 p.m. local time (5.47 p.m.

EDT), the U.S. Geological Survey said, revising down an initial magnitude of 7.2. The tremor struck 136 miles from Santiago, home to about a third of Chile’s population of 17.2 million people.

“The panic of residents in response to the government plan to raise the subsidized fuel price indeed only occurred outside Bali. In Bali, there is no fluctuation related to the plan. It means, Bali is safe, even the shortage of Premium fuel does not happen because we have been coordinating with police on duty at a number of gas stations, especially in an effort to prevent the repeated purchases leading to hoarding action,” she explained.

Apart from reducing air pollution, the Nyepi Day in the Caka New Year 1934 celebrated simultaneously by all the Hindus also gave saving to PLN, fuel and so on. Even, in the agenda entitled the United Na-

It was one of the strongest quakes to hit Chile since a massive 8.8 temblor devastated the southcentral region in early 2010, which triggered tsunamis, killed about 500 people and hammered roads and infrastructure.

The government lifted a preventive evacuation order just before midnight, after about 7,000 people were ordered to evacuate the Maule region’s coast due to signs the sea had retreated a bit, Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich said. No tsunami alert was issued.

“Fortunately, save for one person who died due to a heart problem, there are no fatalities and fortunately the country’s infrastructure, both public and private,

resisted the earthquake’s effects well,” President Sebastian Pinera told reporters in Seoul, South Korea, where he is on an Asian tour.

The government emergency agency, ONEMI, said two people were injured after the fake ceiling of a church in Santiago collapsed, and one person suffered injuries from a transit accident in the Biobio region.

Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter said later there could be up to 10 people lightly injured from the quake. Electricity supply was restored after short disruptions in some areas. With the memory of the February 2010 quake still seared in their memories, many Chileans were visibly shaken up.

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securing clearance from the Mali military authority in charge,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Kenya’s Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula and his Zimbabwean counterpart Simbarashe Mumbengegwi had attended an African Union peace and security meeting in Bamako when the soldiers seized power on Thursday and ordered the borders closed.

The 54-member AU condemned the coup and suspended Mali until it restores constitutional order.

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Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric based in Qatar who is one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim clerics in the Arab world and a household name in the Middle East due to regular appearances on the Al Jazeera news channel.

A former member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Qaradawi is independent of the group but remains close to it. Sarkozy said the situation was complicated because the imam holds a diplomatic passport and does not require a visa to enter France.

“I indicated to the Emir of Qatar himself that this person was not welcome on the territory of the French republic,” Sarkozy said. “He will not come.”

Qaradawi was denied a visa to visit Britain in 2008 on grounds of seeking to “justify acts of terrorist violence or disburse views that could foster inter-community violence”, a Home Office spokeswoman said at the time. tions Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the celebration of Nyepi was said to have been able to reduce fuel usage, save energy, reduce pollution and rest the earth.

Meanwhile, she also mentioned the target of Pertamina Bali during 2012 where some 80 percent of gas stations would be certified Pasti Pas (exact and certain) and on entering the third month of 2012 there were five other gas stations attaining the Pasti Pas certification. She was optimistic the target of 80 percent of the gas stations obtaining the Pasti Pas in 2012 could be realized. “Target of 80 percent of gas stations getting Pasti Pas in 2012 means there are 20 gas stations achieving the Pasti Pas certification. In reality, on entering the third month there had been 5 additional gas stations. (kmb28)

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German business confidence rises again

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(FILES) A combo of file photographs shows the logos on the tail of a Qantas jet (L) taken in Brisbane on July 10, 2011, an Eastern Airlines jet (C) taken in Beijing on November 9, 2007 and a JetStar jet (R) taken in Singapore on December 13, 2004.

Asia gets new budget airline eyeing Chinese flyers Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY - Australian flag carrier Qantas and China Eastern Airlines said on Monday they will launch a new Hong Kong-based budget airline next year aimed at cashing in on China’s booming aviation market.

The new low-cost Asian carrier, Jetstar Hong Kong, will fly short-haul routes, including in China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, the partners announced.

The move marks a major expansion of Jetstar, Qantas’s budget brand, which flies domestic Australian and Asian routes, and comes as the embattled carrier struggles to refocus on Asia, the world’s fast-growing aviation market.

“This is a unique opportunity to capitalise on the enormous potential of the Greater China market, where the penetration of low-cost carriers is less than five percent,” Jetstar’s Chief Executive Bruce Buchanan said.

“Jetstar’s fares will be 50 percent less than existing full-service carriers, which we’ve seen create new travel demand in our markets across Asia because it enables people to make more trips, more often.”

Qantas and China Eastern -- which will each have an equal stake in Jetstar Hong Kong -- told the Australian Stock Exchange that the new airline would have a maximum capitalisation of US$198 million.

Jetstar Hong Kong, which will be a pioneer in the China budget market, will launch in mid-2013 with a fleet of three Airbus A320s, but will increase that number to 18 by 2015, aiming for a 6.0-7.0 percent market share.

Shanghai-based China Eastern’s chairman Liu Shaoyong said the carrier was expected to be profitable by its third year

of operation.

“We believe there are huge opportunities in the Jetstar low fares model throughout Asia, including Greater China,” Liu said.

Greater China boasts a travel market of almost 300 million passengers a year, which is forecast to grow to 450 million by 2015 as middle class spending and travel surge in the vast nation, according to Qantas.

The announcement comes little more than a fortnight after Qantas’s Asian plans were dealt a blow when talks with Malaysian Airlines over a premium joint-venture Asian airline collapsed.

Qantas is instead moving to build on the successful business model of budget Jetstar, which has branded operations in Singapore, Vietnam and Japan, by boosting traffic through more affordable travel.

“We see tremendous potential for the Qantas Group in Asia,” Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said.

“We hope it’s the first of a whole series of partnerships that we can get involved in” in Asia, he added.

Qantas in August announced plans to establish a joint-venture in Asia as it repositions itself towards the region and seeks to turn around its loss-making international arm as the global industry struggles.

Talks with Malaysia and Singapore on a premium joint venture have lapsed but Joyce told AFP both options were still under consideration.

“We are still reviewing them but the

time is not right for both Singapore and Malaysia, so we are not going to do them in the short term,” he said.

Qantas’s Asia plans sparked a fierce domestic backlash when unveiled last year, with Australian unions concerned the move would see jobs sent abroad.

The ensuing acrimony between management and unions saw Joyce ground the entire Qantas fleet in October, stranding thousands of passengers at airports around the world and digging into the airline’s bottom line.

Last month Qantas announced it would slash at least 500 jobs and cut costs after an 83 percent slump in first-half net profits.

Jetstar Hong Kong’s base will give it a China springboard and a home in one of Asia’s key aviation hubs, through which around 40 million passengers pass each year.

“The number of Chinese people travelling internationally is growing at an incredible rate,” said John Lee, chief executive of the Tourism and Transport Forum, an Australian tourism lobby group, welcoming the announcement.

“An estimated 70 million Chinese travelled overseas in 2011 and that’s expected to grow to 110 million by the end of the decade as household incomes continue to rise.”

Qantas’s share price jumped 2.02 percent to end at Aus$1.765 after the announcement.

BERLIN — A closely-watched survey shows German business confidence is up for the fifth month in a row as Europe’s biggest economy continues to outperform much of the debt-hobbled continent.

The Ifo Institute reported Monday its confidence index rose to 109.8 points from 109.6 in February.

Economists had predicted a slightly lower rise to 109.7.

Germany’s economy, traditionally powered by exports but helped lately by increasingly strong domestic demand, has been a bright spot over the past couple of years.

However, even Germany’s not immune from the ripple effects of Europe’s debt crisis. Its economy contracted by 0.2 percent in last year’s fourth quarter though it grew by a solid 3 percent over 2011 as a whole.

BRICS eye creation of multilateral bank Reuters

BRASILIA - Major emerging market economies will look closer at creating a joint development bank to coordinate their financial power as the world economy falters, Brazilian Trade Minister Fernando Pimentel said on Friday.

Development banks of the so-called BRICS group of emerging economies plan to ink memorandums of understanding next week in India to work on the creation of a multilateral bank that could finance investments in those nations and abroad, Pimentel said.

Leaders of BRICS nations China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa will meet at a summit in India next week to discuss the world economy and closer coordination.

“Brazil is interested, we sympathize with the proposal,” Pimentel told foreign reporters in Brasilia. “This is a global tool that will allow for better coordination among the five most dynamic economies in the world.”

He said there were no operational details yet about the possible bank and that talks remained in the early stages.

For years the BRICS have demanded more influence on global financial institutions long controlled by the United States and Europe.

Developing nations are for the first time challenging the U.S.’s grip on the World Bank by backing candidates from emerging markets.

Still, most analysts expect the U.S. to remain in control of the global lender.

On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama nominated a Korean-American known for work fighting HIV/AIDS in impoverished countries to lead the World Bank.

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Tirtagangga Park is one of the tourist attractions located at Ababi Village, Abang Subdistrict. It is about 5 km north of Amlapura— the regency capital—built in 1948 by the King Anak Agung Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem.

Before the construction, the park was a large spring and local people called it embukan, meaning spring. The spring was then taken advantage by surrounding villages as a source of drinking water and sacred purification for Ida Bathara (deities). On that account, the spring was made sacred by the locals. From this spring, the King of Karangasem then got the idea to build a park because it was greatly supported by the cool air and later on was named Tirtagangga Park.

Just as the Sukasada Ujung Park, the Tirtagangga Park had a close attachment to the Karangasem Grand Palace.

In the area of Tirtagangga Park

sits several large ponds functioned as fish ponds and public bathing.

The water flowing through the large and small fountains then coming out of the mouth of the sculptures in the pool originates from the fountain.

Therefore, the water is cool and refreshing. Here, there are also fountains and tiered-lotus statues dividing it into two large ponds.

Today, the Tirtagangga Park has religious, social as well as entertainment function. Religiously, the spring at location is used as holy water by the surrounding community. In addition, it serves as a venue for organizing Deva Yajña ritual and pilgrimage.

Meanwhile, the Tirtagangga springs is socially used by local government as a source of clean water for the people of Karangasem.

Then, as entertainment, the Tirtagangga is managed and developed into one of the tourist objects and attractions that is much in demand as well as visited by tourists as a place of recreation.

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State budget increasingly comes under pressure Antara

This picture taken in Jakarta on February 15, 2012 shows a Garuda airline flying over the Sukarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta. Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia said on March 26 that annual net profits jumped by 56 percent last year thanks to a strong domestic market. Garuda is aiming to boost its competitiveness significantly by 2015 by nearly doubling its current fleet of 89 aircraft to 154.

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JAKARTA - The 2012 state budget will increasingly come under pressure from soaring fuel subsidy due to a rise in global crude price, an economist said.

“With the global crude price reaching US$126 a barrel, the fuel subsidy may soar to Rp238 trillion,” Ikhsan Modjo of Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, said on Sunday.

He expressed hope the House of Representatives (DPR)`s budgetary board which was discussing fuel oil policy with the government would be able to find the best solution to the soaring fuel subsidy.

At a working meeting with the Budgetary Board in the past couple of days, Finance Minister Agus Martowardoyo proposed a fuel subsidy of Rp138 trillion with the price of subsidized fuel oils increasing

Rp1,500 to Rp6,000 a liter effective April 1, 2012.

Members of the budgetary board were divided over the government`s proposal. The meeting to discuss the amount of fuel subsidy is expected to resume on Sunday evening.

If no agreement was reached at the meeting, the government`s proposal would be decided at a plenary meeting of the DPR scheduled for Thursday (March 29).

Ikhsan said with the assumed oil price of US$126 a barrel, the amount of fuel subsidy would soar

by Rp100 trillion.

Right now the economic price of fuel oil was Rp9,000 a liter or the burden of fuel subsidy reached Rp4,500 a barrel, he said.

“The oil price is predicted to continue to increase and hit a record high of US$160 a barrel, thus putting a further strain on the state budget,” he said.

RI, Hong Kong to cooperate in investigation of corruption assets

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HONG KONG - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the Indonesian government and the Hong Kong administration authority agreed to establish cooperation in the investigation of assets gained from corruption.

“For instance in case people wishing to place assets in Hong Kong, the local administration authority is ready to investigate it,” Yudhoyono said when meeting Indonesians in Hong Kong on Sunday.

President Yudhoyono had a meeting with the chief executive of the Hong Kong special administration Donald Tsang in which he wished for a cooperation in the investigation of assets allegedly gained from corruption.

Yudhoyono said the cooperation

in the eradication of corruption will make Indonesia cleaner. In this way Indonesia would have more human resources for development and economic improvement.

Besides having agreed to have the assets of the results of corruption investigated, Yudhoyono and Tsang

also agreed to foster relations in the eradication of transnational crime.

Then the two leaders also agreed to foster cooperation in other sectors, like manpower, tourism, and education.

In education, Yudhoyono hoped the number of Indonesian students studying in Hong Kong could be increased. He said only 50 Indonesian students are studying in Hong Kong. “It would also be necessary to establish cooperation with top universities in Hong Kong,” Yudhoyono added.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, left, leads Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono into Government House in Hong Kong Saturday, March 24, 2012. President Yudhoyono is on a two-day visit to Hong Kong, his last stop in China before heading to Seoul, South Korea.

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Pertamina ready to meet fuel price hike

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JAKARTA - PT Pertamina has been ready to meet the implementation of subsidized oil fuel price hike, its president director, Karen Agustiawan, said here on Monday.

“As many as 4,680 Pertamina filling stations across Indonesia have already made maximum preparation,” she said.

She said national stock of oil

fuels had been maintained at an average level enough to meet demand for 20 days.

The government and the House of Representatives (DPR) are still debating the 2012 revised budget that would determine whether or not the price of subsidized oil fuels would be raised.

Meanwhile demonstrations against the fuel price hike continued to take place in many parts of the country.

Karen said although demand had tended to rise national stock could still be maintained at a average level of meeting demand for 20 days.

“Pertamina as one of the business entities that distribute subsidized oil fuels is ready to carry out the government`s new subsidized fuel price policy as of April 1,” she said.

She said Pertamina`s infrastructure starting from transportation,

stockpiling, distribution and others have all been set in a stand-by mode.

To strengthen national energy resilience Karen said the state-owned oil and gas company has also been ready to make the government`s gasoline-to-natural gas conversion program for public transports successful.

Pertamina has even prepared more than Rp2 trillion to build around 118 compressed natural

gas filling stations (SPBG) to add to six SPBGs already operating now, she said.

She added Pertamina is also ready to develop its present gasoline stations (SPBU) to also provide vigas or liquefied gas for vehicles (LGV).

The number of its SPBUs that are currently serving vigas or LGV reaches 10 while 10 others are in the process of completing their facilities.

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Jatiluwih Customary Village Residents Preserve Subak in Concert

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Dozens of rubbish trucks damaged

Rubbish spills over road body Bali Post

DENPASAR - Within the past few days, the household rubbish looked to pile up in almost all the temporary dumpsters (TPS) and the existing rubbish depots in Denpasar area. This condition has occurred since the Nyepi feast day, but until now it has not been handled. Even, the piles of rubbish were getting worse as they overflowed onto the road body. Aside from being caused by the increasing volume of rubbish reaching 70 percent after the night of Pengerupukan, the piles of rubbish could not be transported to landfill as dozens of trucks belonging to the Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) were out of order. owned by DKP are also damaged,” he said.

As dozens of the rubbish trucks did not function, the DKP was forced to optimize the operations of the existing 10 trucks. Even, each unit of truck should haul the rubbish to the landfill back and forth up to eight times. On usual days, a truck only hauled rubbish maximally for two times. “Now, the truck should go back and forth transporting the rubbish to landfill up to eight times,” he said while asking the understanding of residents.

Dewa Gede Rai accompanying Anom Sayoga added that his party did not dare to ensure when the

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Dozens of trucks belonging to the Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) were out of order. The piles of rubbish were getting worse as they overflowed onto the road body because it could not be transported to the central dumpster that located in Suwung.

Such condition was justified by the Chief Secretary of DKP Denpasar, Dewa Anom Sayoga, accompanied by Spokesperson of the Denpasar Municipality, I Dewa Gede Rai, when asked for his confirmation on Sunday (Mar 25).

According to Anom Sayoga, the damage to dozens of rubbish truck was disturbing the fluency of rubbish transportation to landfill.

Of the 39 rubbish trucks owned by DKP, only 10 units could function.

“I hope the residents of Denpasar can understand this condition.

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piles of rubbish could be handled and the condition returned to normal as ever before. He affirmed that dozens of the damaged rubbish trucks had been sent to service station for a repair. “Hopefully, this condition could be overcome as soon as possible,” he said.

According to Dewa Gede Rai, the damage to 29 rubbish trucks was triggered by the unfavorable condition at Suwung landfill after the revitalization. Aside from narrow road access, the poor and muddy roads also caused the damage to the trucks such as broken suspension, brake malfunction, punctures and other damages. (kmb13)

Jatiluwih Customary Village, Penebel, Tabanan deserves to be a pilot project. Due to the innocence of citizens to implement the awigawig or customary regulation and convention, they successfully preserve the subak tradition. From this subak, the beautiful rice field can be preserved. As a result, the agricultural area at Jatiluwih draws the attention of the world. One of them is the UN cultural conservationist agencies, namely UNESCO. Indeed, there is no written regulation to preserve this tradition.

However, due to togetherness of the residents, the perarem or convention launched is quite effective to organize the peoples’ lives, especially in the preservation of agricultural land.

“The customary regulation here is quite effective to save the agricultural land whereas we have not set forth it in written document,” said the Chief of Jatiluwih Customary Village, Wayan Yasa.

There are a number of conventions adequately feared by local residents. For instance, if people do not grow plant according to the schedule of subak, they will be imposed with sanctions. Then, if people harvest before the implementation of ceremony will also be imposed with sanction. Another sanction will be charged to farmers who steal water and do not follow the water distribution system. As it pertains to customary matters, the sanction imposed is not in the form of money, but in the implementation of ceremony. Nevertheless, none of the farmers dare to go up against the rule. “This is the key to preservation of subak and farmland area here,” said Yasa. In every single activity of the subak, the chief of customary village was always involved, including in the rise of internal disputes of subak.

According to Yasa, many investors were interested in the farmland of Jatiluwih. However, several of

them quitted after seeing the local customary rules. On that account, investors were unable to build anything on the farmland of Jatiluwih.

“They could purchase the land, but cannot build anything,” he said.

The land area of subak at Jatiluwih reached about 300 hectares. Of this amount, almost the entire area was owned by local residents. Meanwhile, the rest belonged to customary villagers of Gunung Sari located next to it.

Customary villager of Jatiluwih amounting to 2,700 families was divided into five hamlets. The residents were mostly relying on their livelihood from subak activities at Jatiluwih. On that account, they were fighting to get special attention when Jatiluwih would actually become a part of UNESCO. Currently, Yasa said, his party still inventoried the land and other assets of subak. One of the particular concerns dreamed of was the taxfree facility for rice field and the construction of adequate irrigation channels. According to him, the irrigation played an important role in the preservation of subak. During this time, irrigation channels were often complained because they were not built properly.

Aside from performing an inventory of land, the customary officials were preparing customary draft to care for the preservation of the agricultural land. At Jatiluwih there were four groups of subak that were always keen to preserve the farmland. “Similarly, we do hope there are allocation of fund from tourism revenue and agricultural preservation. Therefore, the community will not feel to be taken advantage,” he said. Yasa ascertained that with the existing convention, the subak at Jatiluwih would remain to be well arranged.

Moreover, local farmers very much relied on their livelihood of the subak. (BTN/kmb)

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Jatiluwih Customary Village, Penebel, Tabanan deserves to be a pilot project. Due to the innocence of citizens to implement the awig-awig or customary regulation and convention, they successfully preserve the subak tradition.

Bosowa constructing hotels in Bali

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DENPASAR - The PT Bosowa Corporation is constructing two star-rated hotels in Makassar and Bali at a total cost of Rp400 billion, its owner said.

“The construction of the two hotels should be complete before their inauguration, which is scheduled for December 12, 2012,” Aksa Mahmud said here on Thursday.

The construction of the two hotels, Novotel Makassar Grand Shayla and Fave Aston in Bali, was started last year.

The company earned Rp100 billion from the hotel sector last

year, he said, adding that with the operation of two new hotels the figure would increase to Rp200 billion per year.

“We hope the hotels will be completed as soon as possible so we can help develop the MICE (meetings, incentives, conferencing and exhibitions) business in Makassar and Bali,” he noted.

The construction of Novotel Makassar Grand Shayla hotel cost over Rp200 billion, of which Rp137 billion came from bank loans and the rest from the company’s internal cash, he added.

“We don’t buy cement, sand

and so on because all these are taken from our companies so the construction costs can be kept low,” said Aksa, who is also a member of the Regional Representative Council (DPD).

Located at Jl. Jend Sudirman, the 12-storeyed Novotel Makassar Grand Shayla will have 356 rooms.

The hotel will be the third one owned by Bosowa.

Arsaflan, chief of state-owned Bank Bukopin’s branch in Makassar said he warmly appreciated the construction of Bosowa’s hotel business in cooperation with the bank.

Tomcat on the Prowl

A plague of rove beetles – nasty enough to be historically linked to ancient plagues of Biblical proportions – is sweeping slowly across Indonesia with a limited number of infestations now reported in Bali and Lombok.

The rove beetle - Paederus littoralis - carry a potent toxin containing pederin – an irritant said to be more potent than cobra venom. Discharged by the beetles automatically when they come in contact with human skin, victims develop painful itching and pussfilled wounds that are sometime misdiagnosed as herpes.

The beetles, known locally as “tomcats,” have a positive role to play devouring insects harmful to farm crops. While they do not prey

on humans, their toxic blood makes contact with human skin extremely painful. The threat to humans is made even more insidious when people make the common mistake of crushing the beetles, resulting in the spread of toxins via the insects’ blood.

The rove beetles can be mistaken for an ant, measuring less than 1 centimeter in length with a black body and red or orange thorax.

During nighttime hours the beetles are attracted to light.

Those unfortunate enough to be afflicted from contact with the rove beetle should seek medical attention, making caregivers aware of past contact with the insect. Normal remedies of powder, oils, salve and lotions are less-than-effective.

Treatments using hydrocortisone (1%), betamethasone and neomycin sulfate antibiotic, or acyclovir 5% have proven efficacy in treating irritations caused by the rove beetle.

Common offf-the-shelf insecticides are efective in eliminating swarms of rove bettles found in residential areas.

The rise in the rove beetle population is tied to climate change, the shrinking amount of agricultural land and raised levels of humidity.

The coming dry season is expected to bring an end to the current surge in tomcat infestations that are seeping across Java, with isolated encounters now reported in some areas of Bali and Lombok. In the mantime, keep an eye out for these bugs and keep a distance.

Fine Porridge Served on All Occasions Bubur Sumsum or Fine porridge is a traditional cake of Balinese Hindu community. This sweet porridge is the most preferred by children. It has elegant green color and a distinctive aroma. Natural green substance in use really makes this serving healthy and safe to be consumed. While, the main ingredients of this porridge consist of rice flour mixed with the extract of dracaena and screwpine leaf.

Dracaena leaf functions to give natural greenish color, while the screwpine will give delicious flavor and scenting aroma. This fine porridge is served on a small dish, and then sprinkled with grated coconut and palm sugar sauce.

Formerly, this porridge was served on a tekor or banana leaf package. Generally, it was served when villagers organized a social work such as grandiose religious ceremony and involved the hamlet community.

Meanwhile, when farmers transplanted their seedlings in the rice field, they would involve their group in a mutual assistance. Here, the members were also provided with such fine porridge. At that time, it was served with other traditional cakes and accompanied with coffee drink.

In Tabanan and other regions in Bali, the fine porridge serves as one of the ritual means used in celebrating the Tumpek Bubuh or ritual for cultivated plants. Along with the presentation of ritual, people will then smear the porridge on tree trunks as an expression of gratitude for the God’s grace.

Today, such fine porridge can be found in traditional markets, supermarkets and pastry shops. However, consumer should pay a great attention to the coloring agent in use as the improper one may harm the health.

In general, people are now reluctant to make it because they consider it difficult and complicated to serve.

How to make it? First of all, mix the rice flour with the extract of dracaena leaf and salt to taste. Afterward, stir them well and evenly. At the same time prepare some warm water filled with screwpine leaf. Then, the warm water is poured into the flour and stir again. When all the ingredients have mixed well, the porridge is now ready to serve. (BTN/015)

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Jatiluwih Customary Village Residents Preserve Subak in Concert

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Dozens of rubbish trucks damaged

Rubbish spills over road body Bali Post

DENPASAR - Within the past few days, the household rubbish looked to pile up in almost all the temporary dumpsters (TPS) and the existing rubbish depots in Denpasar area. This condition has occurred since the Nyepi feast day, but until now it has not been handled. Even, the piles of rubbish were getting worse as they overflowed onto the road body. Aside from being caused by the increasing volume of rubbish reaching 70 percent after the night of Pengerupukan, the piles of rubbish could not be transported to landfill as dozens of trucks belonging to the Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) were out of order. owned by DKP are also damaged,” he said.

As dozens of the rubbish trucks did not function, the DKP was forced to optimize the operations of the existing 10 trucks. Even, each unit of truck should haul the rubbish to the landfill back and forth up to eight times. On usual days, a truck only hauled rubbish maximally for two times. “Now, the truck should go back and forth transporting the rubbish to landfill up to eight times,” he said while asking the understanding of residents.

Dewa Gede Rai accompanying Anom Sayoga added that his party did not dare to ensure when the

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Dozens of trucks belonging to the Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) were out of order. The piles of rubbish were getting worse as they overflowed onto the road body because it could not be transported to the central dumpster that located in Suwung.

Such condition was justified by the Chief Secretary of DKP Denpasar, Dewa Anom Sayoga, accompanied by Spokesperson of the Denpasar Municipality, I Dewa Gede Rai, when asked for his confirmation on Sunday (Mar 25).

According to Anom Sayoga, the damage to dozens of rubbish truck was disturbing the fluency of rubbish transportation to landfill.

Of the 39 rubbish trucks owned by DKP, only 10 units could function.

“I hope the residents of Denpasar can understand this condition.

Other than the volume of rubbish, especially the rubbish of ogoh-ogoh soaring sharply, most of the trucks

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piles of rubbish could be handled and the condition returned to normal as ever before. He affirmed that dozens of the damaged rubbish trucks had been sent to service station for a repair. “Hopefully, this condition could be overcome as soon as possible,” he said.

According to Dewa Gede Rai, the damage to 29 rubbish trucks was triggered by the unfavorable condition at Suwung landfill after the revitalization. Aside from narrow road access, the poor and muddy roads also caused the damage to the trucks such as broken suspension, brake malfunction, punctures and other damages. (kmb13)

Jatiluwih Customary Village, Penebel, Tabanan deserves to be a pilot project. Due to the innocence of citizens to implement the awigawig or customary regulation and convention, they successfully preserve the subak tradition. From this subak, the beautiful rice field can be preserved. As a result, the agricultural area at Jatiluwih draws the attention of the world. One of them is the UN cultural conservationist agencies, namely UNESCO. Indeed, there is no written regulation to preserve this tradition.

However, due to togetherness of the residents, the perarem or convention launched is quite effective to organize the peoples’ lives, especially in the preservation of agricultural land.

“The customary regulation here is quite effective to save the agricultural land whereas we have not set forth it in written document,” said the Chief of Jatiluwih Customary Village, Wayan Yasa.

There are a number of conventions adequately feared by local residents. For instance, if people do not grow plant according to the schedule of subak, they will be imposed with sanctions. Then, if people harvest before the implementation of ceremony will also be imposed with sanction. Another sanction will be charged to farmers who steal water and do not follow the water distribution system. As it pertains to customary matters, the sanction imposed is not in the form of money, but in the implementation of ceremony. Nevertheless, none of the farmers dare to go up against the rule. “This is the key to preservation of subak and farmland area here,” said Yasa. In every single activity of the subak, the chief of customary village was always involved, including in the rise of internal disputes of subak.

According to Yasa, many investors were interested in the farmland of Jatiluwih. However, several of

them quitted after seeing the local customary rules. On that account, investors were unable to build anything on the farmland of Jatiluwih.

“They could purchase the land, but cannot build anything,” he said.

The land area of subak at Jatiluwih reached about 300 hectares. Of this amount, almost the entire area was owned by local residents. Meanwhile, the rest belonged to customary villagers of Gunung Sari located next to it.

Customary villager of Jatiluwih amounting to 2,700 families was divided into five hamlets. The residents were mostly relying on their livelihood from subak activities at Jatiluwih. On that account, they were fighting to get special attention when Jatiluwih would actually become a part of UNESCO. Currently, Yasa said, his party still inventoried the land and other assets of subak. One of the particular concerns dreamed of was the taxfree facility for rice field and the construction of adequate irrigation channels. According to him, the irrigation played an important role in the preservation of subak. During this time, irrigation channels were often complained because they were not built properly.

Aside from performing an inventory of land, the customary officials were preparing customary draft to care for the preservation of the agricultural land. At Jatiluwih there were four groups of subak that were always keen to preserve the farmland. “Similarly, we do hope there are allocation of fund from tourism revenue and agricultural preservation. Therefore, the community will not feel to be taken advantage,” he said. Yasa ascertained that with the existing convention, the subak at Jatiluwih would remain to be well arranged.

Moreover, local farmers very much relied on their livelihood of the subak. (BTN/kmb)

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Jatiluwih Customary Village, Penebel, Tabanan deserves to be a pilot project. Due to the innocence of citizens to implement the awig-awig or customary regulation and convention, they successfully preserve the subak tradition.

Bosowa constructing hotels in Bali

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DENPASAR - The PT Bosowa Corporation is constructing two star-rated hotels in Makassar and Bali at a total cost of Rp400 billion, its owner said.

“The construction of the two hotels should be complete before their inauguration, which is scheduled for December 12, 2012,” Aksa Mahmud said here on Thursday.

The construction of the two hotels, Novotel Makassar Grand Shayla and Fave Aston in Bali, was started last year.

The company earned Rp100 billion from the hotel sector last

year, he said, adding that with the operation of two new hotels the figure would increase to Rp200 billion per year.

“We hope the hotels will be completed as soon as possible so we can help develop the MICE (meetings, incentives, conferencing and exhibitions) business in Makassar and Bali,” he noted.

The construction of Novotel Makassar Grand Shayla hotel cost over Rp200 billion, of which Rp137 billion came from bank loans and the rest from the company’s internal cash, he added.

“We don’t buy cement, sand

and so on because all these are taken from our companies so the construction costs can be kept low,” said Aksa, who is also a member of the Regional Representative Council (DPD).

Located at Jl. Jend Sudirman, the 12-storeyed Novotel Makassar Grand Shayla will have 356 rooms.

The hotel will be the third one owned by Bosowa.

Arsaflan, chief of state-owned Bank Bukopin’s branch in Makassar said he warmly appreciated the construction of Bosowa’s hotel business in cooperation with the bank.

Tomcat on the Prowl

A plague of rove beetles – nasty enough to be historically linked to ancient plagues of Biblical proportions – is sweeping slowly across Indonesia with a limited number of infestations now reported in Bali and Lombok.

The rove beetle - Paederus littoralis - carry a potent toxin containing pederin – an irritant said to be more potent than cobra venom. Discharged by the beetles automatically when they come in contact with human skin, victims develop painful itching and pussfilled wounds that are sometime misdiagnosed as herpes.

The beetles, known locally as “tomcats,” have a positive role to play devouring insects harmful to farm crops. While they do not prey

on humans, their toxic blood makes contact with human skin extremely painful. The threat to humans is made even more insidious when people make the common mistake of crushing the beetles, resulting in the spread of toxins via the insects’ blood.

The rove beetles can be mistaken for an ant, measuring less than 1 centimeter in length with a black body and red or orange thorax.

During nighttime hours the beetles are attracted to light.

Those unfortunate enough to be afflicted from contact with the rove beetle should seek medical attention, making caregivers aware of past contact with the insect. Normal remedies of powder, oils, salve and lotions are less-than-effective.

Treatments using hydrocortisone (1%), betamethasone and neomycin sulfate antibiotic, or acyclovir 5% have proven efficacy in treating irritations caused by the rove beetle.

Common offf-the-shelf insecticides are efective in eliminating swarms of rove bettles found in residential areas.

The rise in the rove beetle population is tied to climate change, the shrinking amount of agricultural land and raised levels of humidity.

The coming dry season is expected to bring an end to the current surge in tomcat infestations that are seeping across Java, with isolated encounters now reported in some areas of Bali and Lombok. In the mantime, keep an eye out for these bugs and keep a distance.

Fine Porridge Served on All Occasions Bubur Sumsum or Fine porridge is a traditional cake of Balinese Hindu community. This sweet porridge is the most preferred by children. It has elegant green color and a distinctive aroma. Natural green substance in use really makes this serving healthy and safe to be consumed. While, the main ingredients of this porridge consist of rice flour mixed with the extract of dracaena and screwpine leaf.

Dracaena leaf functions to give natural greenish color, while the screwpine will give delicious flavor and scenting aroma. This fine porridge is served on a small dish, and then sprinkled with grated coconut and palm sugar sauce.

Formerly, this porridge was served on a tekor or banana leaf package. Generally, it was served when villagers organized a social work such as grandiose religious ceremony and involved the hamlet community.

Meanwhile, when farmers transplanted their seedlings in the rice field, they would involve their group in a mutual assistance. Here, the members were also provided with such fine porridge. At that time, it was served with other traditional cakes and accompanied with coffee drink.

In Tabanan and other regions in Bali, the fine porridge serves as one of the ritual means used in celebrating the Tumpek Bubuh or ritual for cultivated plants. Along with the presentation of ritual, people will then smear the porridge on tree trunks as an expression of gratitude for the God’s grace.

Today, such fine porridge can be found in traditional markets, supermarkets and pastry shops. However, consumer should pay a great attention to the coloring agent in use as the improper one may harm the health.

In general, people are now reluctant to make it because they consider it difficult and complicated to serve.

How to make it? First of all, mix the rice flour with the extract of dracaena leaf and salt to taste. Afterward, stir them well and evenly. At the same time prepare some warm water filled with screwpine leaf. Then, the warm water is poured into the flour and stir again. When all the ingredients have mixed well, the porridge is now ready to serve. (BTN/015)

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Tirtagangga Park is one of the tourist attractions located at Ababi Village, Abang Subdistrict. It is about 5 km north of Amlapura— the regency capital—built in 1948 by the King Anak Agung Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem.

Before the construction, the park was a large spring and local people called it embukan, meaning spring. The spring was then taken advantage by surrounding villages as a source of drinking water and sacred purification for Ida Bathara (deities). On that account, the spring was made sacred by the locals. From this spring, the King of Karangasem then got the idea to build a park because it was greatly supported by the cool air and later on was named Tirtagangga Park.

Just as the Sukasada Ujung Park, the Tirtagangga Park had a close attachment to the Karangasem Grand Palace.

In the area of Tirtagangga Park

sits several large ponds functioned as fish ponds and public bathing.

The water flowing through the large and small fountains then coming out of the mouth of the sculptures in the pool originates from the fountain.

Therefore, the water is cool and refreshing. Here, there are also fountains and tiered-lotus statues dividing it into two large ponds.

Today, the Tirtagangga Park has religious, social as well as entertainment function. Religiously, the spring at location is used as holy water by the surrounding community. In addition, it serves as a venue for organizing Deva Yajña ritual and pilgrimage.

Meanwhile, the Tirtagangga springs is socially used by local government as a source of clean water for the people of Karangasem.

Then, as entertainment, the Tirtagangga is managed and developed into one of the tourist objects and attractions that is much in demand as well as visited by tourists as a place of recreation.

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State budget increasingly comes under pressure Antara

This picture taken in Jakarta on February 15, 2012 shows a Garuda airline flying over the Sukarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta. Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia said on March 26 that annual net profits jumped by 56 percent last year thanks to a strong domestic market. Garuda is aiming to boost its competitiveness significantly by 2015 by nearly doubling its current fleet of 89 aircraft to 154.

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JAKARTA - The 2012 state budget will increasingly come under pressure from soaring fuel subsidy due to a rise in global crude price, an economist said.

“With the global crude price reaching US$126 a barrel, the fuel subsidy may soar to Rp238 trillion,” Ikhsan Modjo of Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, said on Sunday.

He expressed hope the House of Representatives (DPR)`s budgetary board which was discussing fuel oil policy with the government would be able to find the best solution to the soaring fuel subsidy.

At a working meeting with the Budgetary Board in the past couple of days, Finance Minister Agus Martowardoyo proposed a fuel subsidy of Rp138 trillion with the price of subsidized fuel oils increasing

Rp1,500 to Rp6,000 a liter effective April 1, 2012.

Members of the budgetary board were divided over the government`s proposal. The meeting to discuss the amount of fuel subsidy is expected to resume on Sunday evening.

If no agreement was reached at the meeting, the government`s proposal would be decided at a plenary meeting of the DPR scheduled for Thursday (March 29).

Ikhsan said with the assumed oil price of US$126 a barrel, the amount of fuel subsidy would soar

by Rp100 trillion.

Right now the economic price of fuel oil was Rp9,000 a liter or the burden of fuel subsidy reached Rp4,500 a barrel, he said.

“The oil price is predicted to continue to increase and hit a record high of US$160 a barrel, thus putting a further strain on the state budget,” he said.

RI, Hong Kong to cooperate in investigation of corruption assets

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HONG KONG - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the Indonesian government and the Hong Kong administration authority agreed to establish cooperation in the investigation of assets gained from corruption.

“For instance in case people wishing to place assets in Hong Kong, the local administration authority is ready to investigate it,” Yudhoyono said when meeting Indonesians in Hong Kong on Sunday.

President Yudhoyono had a meeting with the chief executive of the Hong Kong special administration Donald Tsang in which he wished for a cooperation in the investigation of assets allegedly gained from corruption.

Yudhoyono said the cooperation

in the eradication of corruption will make Indonesia cleaner. In this way Indonesia would have more human resources for development and economic improvement.

Besides having agreed to have the assets of the results of corruption investigated, Yudhoyono and Tsang

also agreed to foster relations in the eradication of transnational crime.

Then the two leaders also agreed to foster cooperation in other sectors, like manpower, tourism, and education.

In education, Yudhoyono hoped the number of Indonesian students studying in Hong Kong could be increased. He said only 50 Indonesian students are studying in Hong Kong. “It would also be necessary to establish cooperation with top universities in Hong Kong,” Yudhoyono added.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, left, leads Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono into Government House in Hong Kong Saturday, March 24, 2012. President Yudhoyono is on a two-day visit to Hong Kong, his last stop in China before heading to Seoul, South Korea.

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Pertamina ready to meet fuel price hike

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JAKARTA - PT Pertamina has been ready to meet the implementation of subsidized oil fuel price hike, its president director, Karen Agustiawan, said here on Monday.

“As many as 4,680 Pertamina filling stations across Indonesia have already made maximum preparation,” she said.

She said national stock of oil

fuels had been maintained at an average level enough to meet demand for 20 days.

The government and the House of Representatives (DPR) are still debating the 2012 revised budget that would determine whether or not the price of subsidized oil fuels would be raised.

Meanwhile demonstrations against the fuel price hike continued to take place in many parts of the country.

Karen said although demand had tended to rise national stock could still be maintained at a average level of meeting demand for 20 days.

“Pertamina as one of the business entities that distribute subsidized oil fuels is ready to carry out the government`s new subsidized fuel price policy as of April 1,” she said.

She said Pertamina`s infrastructure starting from transportation,

stockpiling, distribution and others have all been set in a stand-by mode.

To strengthen national energy resilience Karen said the state-owned oil and gas company has also been ready to make the government`s gasoline-to-natural gas conversion program for public transports successful.

Pertamina has even prepared more than Rp2 trillion to build around 118 compressed natural

gas filling stations (SPBG) to add to six SPBGs already operating now, she said.

She added Pertamina is also ready to develop its present gasoline stations (SPBU) to also provide vigas or liquefied gas for vehicles (LGV).

The number of its SPBUs that are currently serving vigas or LGV reaches 10 while 10 others are in the process of completing their facilities.

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Kenya, Zimbabwe ministers evacuated from Mali Agence France Presse

The Kenyan and Zimbabwean foreign ministers have been evacuated from Mali where they were stranded by the west African country’s military coup, Kenya’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.

The ministers and other government officials were flown to Lagos on a chartered flight late Saturday after the coup leader said he would guarantee their safe return.

“The government successfully managed to charter a flight to evacuate the minister after

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A firefighter inspects the national treasury building after parts of a wall fell off after a heavy quake in Santiago March 25, 2012.

Major quake rattles Chile but no serious damage Reuters

PARIS - France will bar radical Muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an Islamic conference next month as part of a crackdown after shootings by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.

Sarkozy, who has announced plans to punish those viewing Islamist Web sites and going abroad for indoctrination, said he would block the entry of some imams invited to a congress organized by the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF).

The UOIF, one of three Muslim federations in France, is regarded as close to Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. “I have clearly indicated that there certain people who have been invited to this congress who are not welcome on French soil,” Sarkozy told France Info radio.

He cited Sheikh Youssef al-

SANTIAGO - A major quake hit central Chile on Sunday, rattling buildings and temporarily triggering a coastal evacuation on fears of a tsunami, but there was no serious damage and big mines in the world’s top copper producer were operating normally.

Nyepi...

Residents in Chile’s capital, Santiago, fled their homes as the tremor rattled television sets, kitchen cabinets and tables, and a mayor in the town of Parral in south-central Chile told local radio a 74-year-old woman died of a heart attack due to the quake.

There were no reports of serious casualties.

The 7.1 magnitude quake struck 16 miles north- northwest of the town of Talca at a depth of 22 miles at 7:37 p.m. local time (5.47 p.m.

EDT), the U.S. Geological Survey said, revising down an initial magnitude of 7.2. The tremor struck 136 miles from Santiago, home to about a third of Chile’s population of 17.2 million people.

“The panic of residents in response to the government plan to raise the subsidized fuel price indeed only occurred outside Bali. In Bali, there is no fluctuation related to the plan. It means, Bali is safe, even the shortage of Premium fuel does not happen because we have been coordinating with police on duty at a number of gas stations, especially in an effort to prevent the repeated purchases leading to hoarding action,” she explained.

Apart from reducing air pollution, the Nyepi Day in the Caka New Year 1934 celebrated simultaneously by all the Hindus also gave saving to PLN, fuel and so on. Even, in the agenda entitled the United Na-

It was one of the strongest quakes to hit Chile since a massive 8.8 temblor devastated the southcentral region in early 2010, which triggered tsunamis, killed about 500 people and hammered roads and infrastructure.

The government lifted a preventive evacuation order just before midnight, after about 7,000 people were ordered to evacuate the Maule region’s coast due to signs the sea had retreated a bit, Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich said. No tsunami alert was issued.

“Fortunately, save for one person who died due to a heart problem, there are no fatalities and fortunately the country’s infrastructure, both public and private,

resisted the earthquake’s effects well,” President Sebastian Pinera told reporters in Seoul, South Korea, where he is on an Asian tour.

The government emergency agency, ONEMI, said two people were injured after the fake ceiling of a church in Santiago collapsed, and one person suffered injuries from a transit accident in the Biobio region.

Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter said later there could be up to 10 people lightly injured from the quake. Electricity supply was restored after short disruptions in some areas. With the memory of the February 2010 quake still seared in their memories, many Chileans were visibly shaken up.

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securing clearance from the Mali military authority in charge,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Kenya’s Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula and his Zimbabwean counterpart Simbarashe Mumbengegwi had attended an African Union peace and security meeting in Bamako when the soldiers seized power on Thursday and ordered the borders closed.

The 54-member AU condemned the coup and suspended Mali until it restores constitutional order.

Sarkozy to bar radical imams from entering France Reuters

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Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric based in Qatar who is one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim clerics in the Arab world and a household name in the Middle East due to regular appearances on the Al Jazeera news channel.

A former member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Qaradawi is independent of the group but remains close to it. Sarkozy said the situation was complicated because the imam holds a diplomatic passport and does not require a visa to enter France.

“I indicated to the Emir of Qatar himself that this person was not welcome on the territory of the French republic,” Sarkozy said. “He will not come.”

Qaradawi was denied a visa to visit Britain in 2008 on grounds of seeking to “justify acts of terrorist violence or disburse views that could foster inter-community violence”, a Home Office spokeswoman said at the time. tions Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the celebration of Nyepi was said to have been able to reduce fuel usage, save energy, reduce pollution and rest the earth.

Meanwhile, she also mentioned the target of Pertamina Bali during 2012 where some 80 percent of gas stations would be certified Pasti Pas (exact and certain) and on entering the third month of 2012 there were five other gas stations attaining the Pasti Pas certification. She was optimistic the target of 80 percent of the gas stations obtaining the Pasti Pas in 2012 could be realized. “Target of 80 percent of gas stations getting Pasti Pas in 2012 means there are 20 gas stations achieving the Pasti Pas certification. In reality, on entering the third month there had been 5 additional gas stations. (kmb28)

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German business confidence rises again

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(FILES) A combo of file photographs shows the logos on the tail of a Qantas jet (L) taken in Brisbane on July 10, 2011, an Eastern Airlines jet (C) taken in Beijing on November 9, 2007 and a JetStar jet (R) taken in Singapore on December 13, 2004.

Asia gets new budget airline eyeing Chinese flyers Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY - Australian flag carrier Qantas and China Eastern Airlines said on Monday they will launch a new Hong Kong-based budget airline next year aimed at cashing in on China’s booming aviation market.

The new low-cost Asian carrier, Jetstar Hong Kong, will fly short-haul routes, including in China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, the partners announced.

The move marks a major expansion of Jetstar, Qantas’s budget brand, which flies domestic Australian and Asian routes, and comes as the embattled carrier struggles to refocus on Asia, the world’s fast-growing aviation market.

“This is a unique opportunity to capitalise on the enormous potential of the Greater China market, where the penetration of low-cost carriers is less than five percent,” Jetstar’s Chief Executive Bruce Buchanan said.

“Jetstar’s fares will be 50 percent less than existing full-service carriers, which we’ve seen create new travel demand in our markets across Asia because it enables people to make more trips, more often.”

Qantas and China Eastern -- which will each have an equal stake in Jetstar Hong Kong -- told the Australian Stock Exchange that the new airline would have a maximum capitalisation of US$198 million.

Jetstar Hong Kong, which will be a pioneer in the China budget market, will launch in mid-2013 with a fleet of three Airbus A320s, but will increase that number to 18 by 2015, aiming for a 6.0-7.0 percent market share.

Shanghai-based China Eastern’s chairman Liu Shaoyong said the carrier was expected to be profitable by its third year

of operation.

“We believe there are huge opportunities in the Jetstar low fares model throughout Asia, including Greater China,” Liu said.

Greater China boasts a travel market of almost 300 million passengers a year, which is forecast to grow to 450 million by 2015 as middle class spending and travel surge in the vast nation, according to Qantas.

The announcement comes little more than a fortnight after Qantas’s Asian plans were dealt a blow when talks with Malaysian Airlines over a premium joint-venture Asian airline collapsed.

Qantas is instead moving to build on the successful business model of budget Jetstar, which has branded operations in Singapore, Vietnam and Japan, by boosting traffic through more affordable travel.

“We see tremendous potential for the Qantas Group in Asia,” Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said.

“We hope it’s the first of a whole series of partnerships that we can get involved in” in Asia, he added.

Qantas in August announced plans to establish a joint-venture in Asia as it repositions itself towards the region and seeks to turn around its loss-making international arm as the global industry struggles.

Talks with Malaysia and Singapore on a premium joint venture have lapsed but Joyce told AFP both options were still under consideration.

“We are still reviewing them but the

time is not right for both Singapore and Malaysia, so we are not going to do them in the short term,” he said.

Qantas’s Asia plans sparked a fierce domestic backlash when unveiled last year, with Australian unions concerned the move would see jobs sent abroad.

The ensuing acrimony between management and unions saw Joyce ground the entire Qantas fleet in October, stranding thousands of passengers at airports around the world and digging into the airline’s bottom line.

Last month Qantas announced it would slash at least 500 jobs and cut costs after an 83 percent slump in first-half net profits.

Jetstar Hong Kong’s base will give it a China springboard and a home in one of Asia’s key aviation hubs, through which around 40 million passengers pass each year.

“The number of Chinese people travelling internationally is growing at an incredible rate,” said John Lee, chief executive of the Tourism and Transport Forum, an Australian tourism lobby group, welcoming the announcement.

“An estimated 70 million Chinese travelled overseas in 2011 and that’s expected to grow to 110 million by the end of the decade as household incomes continue to rise.”

Qantas’s share price jumped 2.02 percent to end at Aus$1.765 after the announcement.

BERLIN — A closely-watched survey shows German business confidence is up for the fifth month in a row as Europe’s biggest economy continues to outperform much of the debt-hobbled continent.

The Ifo Institute reported Monday its confidence index rose to 109.8 points from 109.6 in February.

Economists had predicted a slightly lower rise to 109.7.

Germany’s economy, traditionally powered by exports but helped lately by increasingly strong domestic demand, has been a bright spot over the past couple of years.

However, even Germany’s not immune from the ripple effects of Europe’s debt crisis. Its economy contracted by 0.2 percent in last year’s fourth quarter though it grew by a solid 3 percent over 2011 as a whole.

BRICS eye creation of multilateral bank Reuters

BRASILIA - Major emerging market economies will look closer at creating a joint development bank to coordinate their financial power as the world economy falters, Brazilian Trade Minister Fernando Pimentel said on Friday.

Development banks of the so-called BRICS group of emerging economies plan to ink memorandums of understanding next week in India to work on the creation of a multilateral bank that could finance investments in those nations and abroad, Pimentel said.

Leaders of BRICS nations China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa will meet at a summit in India next week to discuss the world economy and closer coordination.

“Brazil is interested, we sympathize with the proposal,” Pimentel told foreign reporters in Brasilia. “This is a global tool that will allow for better coordination among the five most dynamic economies in the world.”

He said there were no operational details yet about the possible bank and that talks remained in the early stages.

For years the BRICS have demanded more influence on global financial institutions long controlled by the United States and Europe.

Developing nations are for the first time challenging the U.S.’s grip on the World Bank by backing candidates from emerging markets.

Still, most analysts expect the U.S. to remain in control of the global lender.

On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama nominated a Korean-American known for work fighting HIV/AIDS in impoverished countries to lead the World Bank.

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Genesis Awards honor “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Reuters

LOS ANGELES - “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” took top film honors at the Genesis Awards for examining the ethics of using chimpanzees in medical research.

The awards, which honor news and entertainment media for raising public awareness of animal issues, were held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.

The event will be presented as a one-hour special on Animal Planet on May 5.

The Sid Caesar Comedy Award went to “The Colbert Report” for the second consecutive year, this time for a satirical twist on the whaling issue and a Utah legislator’s proposal to kill feral dogs and cats. “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” was named outstanding talk show for an interview with Humane Society president and CEO Wayne Pacelle about dogfighting and puppy mills.

The Morgan Freeman-narrated IMAX documentary, ‘Born to Be Wild 3D” won the feature documentary honor for its look at people rehabilitating baby elephants and orangutans orphaned by poaching and habitat encroachment.

“Gordon Ramsay: Shark Bait” was named best TV documentary for its expose of shark-finning and “Animal Planet

Investigates: Captive Hunting Exposed” was named top reality series for its show about “hunting” tame animals trapped in fenced pens.

ABC’s “20/20” was honored in the TV newsmagazine category for exposing inhumane conditions at an egg factory farm; “NBC Nightly News” was recognized with the national news award for multiple issues, including the fate of horses used by smugglers to cross the border; while the morning news award went to NBC’s Jill Rappaport of “Today” for a series of reports on the dedicated rescuers of homeless pets.

“Dancing with the Stars” judge Carrie Ann Inaba opened the ceremony alongside Uggie, the show-stealing terrier from “The Artist.”

A general view of the hall during the Echo Music Awards ceremony Berlin March 22, 2012.

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Adele beats Gaga to win big at German ECHO awards Reuters

BERLIN - Katy Perry, Sean Paul and Lana Del Ray dominated the stage of Germany’s annual ECHO Music Awards in Berlin, where Adele picked up two awards to add to her string of BRIT and Grammy wins. The British star scooped Album of the Year for “21”, as well as Best Female International Artist at Thursday evening’s event, fending off competition from Lady Gaga and the late soul singer Amy Winehouse.

German band Rammstein made wins on their home turf claiming Best Alternative Group and Best German Act Abroad.

The band teamed up with shock rocker Marilyn Manson to deliver a highly

charged performance on stage. British band Coldplay won Best International Group, while French star David Guetta picked up Best Club Performer.

Bruno Mars beat veteran crooner Chris de Burgh and James Morrison to win Best International Male Artist. Clad in a silver catsuit, Katy Perry paraded on stage with her hair died blue and scraped into a ponytail to perform her new single “Part of Me”.

Lana Del Ray sang “Video Games”, but went home empty-handed after Dutch jazz artist Caro Emerald won Best International Newcomer, and Gotye ft. Kimbra claimed Hit of the Year for their song “Somebody That I Used To Know”.

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Houston full autopsy report to offer more details Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston’s full autopsy report may offer more clues about whether the singer suffered a heart attack before her drowning death, officials said Friday.

The full report, which is expected to be released in a few weeks, may include test results and physical descriptions of the singer’s heart that will show whether she suffered a heart attack, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said.

The report is being compiled and Winter said he did not have access to its findings, which might show whether there were any obvious signs such as discoloration of her heart that would suggest Houston had a heart attack before slipping underwater in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 11.

Houston’s death has been ruled an accidental drowning, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. The report also will include detailed toxicology results that will show how much cocaine and its byproducts were in Houston’s system when she died. Coroner’s officials said Thursday that the results showed the singer used cocaine shortly before her death, and there were indications of chronic use.

Beverly Hills police detectives will use the full coroner’s report to complete their investigative file, which is not expected to be publicly released. The department has said there were no signs of foul play in connection with Houston’s death.

Houston’s death on the eve of the Grammy Awards stunned the music industry and fans worldwide. The singer had battled addiction for years, but friends and family have said she

appeared committed to making a comeback in the months before her death.

“We are saddened to learn of the toxicology results, although we are glad to now have closure,” Patricia Houston, the singer’s sisterin-law and manager, wrote in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday.

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FILE - In this April 25, 2010 file photo, singer Whitney Houston performs at the o2 in London as part of her European tour.

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A Sojourn to Witness Cultural Uniqueness of Ubud

Who does not know the Island of Gods or Bali? It’s the bijou island offering all the natural beauties and intriguing sublime cultures. People who never pay a visit can tell much about the island, let alone those knowing it just in a dream.

Bali is situated east of Java Island having access within easy reach, either by land, sea, or air.

With such an easy access, this island is then popularly chosen as a favorite tourist destination. Aside from several amazing beaches, Balinese culture can also be taken advantage as an endless tourist attraction because many temples retain very high cultural values. In addition, Bali is also delighted to offer natural attractions in the form of mountain and terraced rice fields resembling a verdant overlay of rug.

One of the convenient locations

situating among the rice field, jungle and mountainous gorges is Ubud. It is an appropriate sojourn and destination located in the region of Gianyar Regency. Here you can find a unique resort offering the indigenous Balinese concept highlighting the harmonious relationship of human to environment, fellow humans and the Creator, namely the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa. Many fascinating attractions can be encountered here, ranging from relishing the natural atmosphere up to learning the native cultures.

“Here, we also invite our guests to appreciate the natural environment, cultural and social life of the Ubud community,” said I Wayan Duartha, General Manager of the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa. With such various activities, many tourists were attracted to stay at Waka.

A variety of facilities have been provided to support the comfort and satisfaction of every single guest. Waka di Ume Resort and Spa established on November 5, 1995 has 18 rooms, consisting of 3-bedroom Wapa Villa with private pool, 2-bedroom Family Villa with private pool, Villa with Pool, Di Ume Suite, Terrace Villa and the smallest one is the Lanai Terrace.

Room rates of the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa ranges from USD 244 to USD 655. Such rates have included government tax, service and breakfast.

More interestingly, the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa lies very close to the natural and cultural attractions. Among others, they are monkey forest, art museums, Goa Gajah, Ceking rice terrace, Tirta Empul temple at Tampaksiring,

Tampaksiring Presidential Palace, and Petulu village becoming the native and convenient home to thousands of white egrets.

One day, if you want to make a visit to the island, especially

when would like to luxuriate in the countryside ambience with five star facilities, look no further and decide on the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa as your serene sojourn on the island.

Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for February March 18 through April 6, 2012 18 Mar Redite Umanis Merakih - Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin Lembongan - Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati Gianyar 21 Mar Buda Wage Merakih - Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Denpasar Selatan - Pura Natih Banjar Kalah Batubulan - Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu - Pura dalem Petitenget Kerobokan - Kuta - Pura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan - Gianyar - Pura Kubayan - Kepisah Pedungan Denpasar - Selatan - Pura Pasek gelgel Banjar Tanahpegat - Tabanan - Pr. Paibon Banjar Bengkel Sumerta - Denpasar - Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar - Pr. Panti Penyarikan Medahan - Sanding - Tampaksiring - Pr. Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken Kaba-kaba Tabanan.

27 Mar Anggar Kasih Tambir - Pura Dalem Puri Batuan Sukawati - Pura Dalem Kediri Silakarang - Singapadu - Pura dalem Desa Sukawati - Pura Dalem Desa Singakerta - Ubud - Pura dalem Lembeng Ketewel - Sukawati - Pura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan - Ubud - Pura Puseh ngukuhin Keramas - Gianyar.

- Pura Pemerajan Agung Ki Telabah Tuakilang - Tabanan - Pura Karang Buncing Blahbatuh - Pura Dalem Bubunan Seririt Buleleng - Pura Desa Badung Kota Denpasar - Merajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Turupinghe, Banjar, Buleleng - Pura Luwur Pedengenan Bedha Bongan - Tabanan - Mr. Dukuh Sebudi - Mr. Pasek Ngukuhin Keramas - Pura Pucak Payongan Lungsiakan - Desa Kedewatan - Pura Tanah Kilap Denpasar Selatan - Pura Selukat Desa Keramas - Blahbatuh - Gianyar - Pura Dalem Tampuagan Desa Peninjoan - Tembuku -

Bangli - Pura Waturenggong Desa Taro - Pura Dalem Bentuyung Ubud - Pura Puseh Ubud.

- Pura Dalem Peliatan Ubud.

28 Mar Buda Umanis Tambir - Pura Sari Bankar Titih Kapal 6 Apr Purnama Kedasa - Odalan Betara Turun Kabeh Besakih - Ngusaba di Pura Bukit Jati Bukit Jati - Bangli - Pura Batur Kalanganyar Bangli - Pura Masceti Pejeng Aji Tegalalang Tegalalang - Pura Dalem Tangsub Sukawati - Pura Penambangan Badung Denpasar - Ngusaba Pura Lempuyab Madia Pura Lempuyab Madia Karangasem - Ngusaba Pura Batur Bangli - Pura Desa Singakerta Ubud - Pura Pasek Gelgel Tagtag Kukuh Marga Tabanan - Pura Gaduh Ketapian Sumerta Denpasar - Pura Pasek Bendesa Batur Batur Tuak Ilang Tabanan - Pura Pasek Agung Tagtag Kelod Peguyangan Denpasar - Pura Agung Pasek Bendesa Tonja Denpasar - Pura Pasek Gelgel Angsri Baturiti - Pura Pasek Gelgel Bale Agung Subamia Subamia Beraban - Pura Dukuh Sari Belatung Bengkel Timpag Kerambitan - Pura Pusat Dukuh Sari Belatung Rendang Karangasem - Pura Pita Maha Palangkaraya Kalteng - Pura Canda Peraba Komplek Polri Jelambar Jelambar Jakarta Barat - Pura Agung Jagat Natha Kota Denpasar - Pura Pemerajan Agung Puri Petak Gianyar - Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung - Pura Puseh Desa Adat Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem - Pura Jagathita Karana Samarinda - Pura Penataran Agung Sriwijaya Palembang Sumatera Selatan - Pura Agung Girinatha Semarang

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

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

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

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

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

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SEOUL - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to pursue further nuclear arms cuts with Russia, saying the United States has more warheads than necessary, and issued stern warnings to North Korea and Iran in their nuclear standoffs with the West. Speaking ahead of a global nuclear security summit in Seoul, Obama held out the prospect of new reductions in the U.S. arsenal as he sought to rally world leaders for additional concrete steps against the threat of nuclear terrorism.

“We can already say with confidence that we have more nuclear weapons than we need,” Obama told students at South Korea’s Hankuk University.

He pledged a new arms-con-

trol push with incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin when they meet in May. But any further reductions would face stiff election-year opposition from Republicans in Congress who already accuse him of weakening America’s nuclear deterrent.

Obama laid out his latest strategy against the backdrop of continued nuclear defiance from North Korea and Iran, twin challenges that have clouded his overall nuclear agenda and the summit in Seoul.

He set expectations high in a 2009 speech in Prague when he declared it was time to seek “a world without nuclear weapons”.

He acknowledged at the time it was a long-term goal, but his high-flown oratory helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Fellow protesters try to extinguish the fire as a Tibetan man, identified as Jampa Yeshi, is engulfed in flames after self-immolating at a protest in New Delhi, India, ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the country Monday, March 26, 2012.

Tibetan lights self on fire at anti-China protest Associated Press

NEW DELHI — A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a protest in the Indian capital Monday, just ahead of a visit

by China’s president and following self-immolations in the Himalayan region against Beijing’s rule.

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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) speaks to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a bilateral meeting before attending the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul March 26, 2012.

The protester apparently had doused himself with something highly flammable and was engulfed in flames when he ran past the podium where speakers were criticizing China and the visit by President Hu Jintao.

Fellow activists beat out the

flames with Tibetan flags and poured water onto him. He was on fire perhaps less than two minutes, but some of his clothing disintegrated and his skin was mottled with black, burned patches by the time he was driven to a hospital.

The man, identified as Jampa

Yeshi, sustained burns on 85 percent of his body and his condition was critical, a senior police officer said.

He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Protesters initially prevented police from taking him to the hospital, but officers eventually forcibly took him away. Yeshi, 27, escaped from Tibet in 2006 and had been living in New Delhi for the past two years, activists said. Hu is expected to arrive in India on Tuesday for a five-nation economic summit.

SKorea warns it might shoot down NKorean rocket

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — Seoul warned Monday that it might shoot down a North Korean rocket if it passes over South Korean territory, as worries about what Washington calls a longrange missile test overshadowed an international nuclear security summit.

Nearly 60 world leaders gathered Monday in Seoul to talk about ways to keep nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists. But North Korea has dominated attention in Northeast Asia since announcing earlier this month that it would send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket.

North Korea calls the launch part of its peaceful space program and says a new southerly flight path is

meant to avoid other countries; previous rockets have been fired over Japan. Washington and Seoul, however, say the multistage rocket is meant to test delivery systems for long-range missiles that could be mounted with nuclear weapons.

“We are studying measures such as tracking and shooting down (parts) of a North Korean missile in case they stray out of their normal trajectory” and violate South Korean territory, said Yoon Won-shik, a vice spokesman at the Defense Ministry.

“We cannot help viewing (the launch) as a very reckless, provocative act” that undermines peace on the Korean peninsula, he said.

The South Korean and U.S. militaries know that North Korea has moved the main body of the rocket into a

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Raisins and soy may ward off high blood pressure

Obama vows to pursue further nuclear cuts with Russia

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building at a site near the village of Tongchang-ri in North Phyongan province and that it is making preparations for a launch,Yoon said. He said the two allies’ militaries are closely monitoring the situation, but he didn’t elaborate on the North’s preparations.

The Tongchang-ri launch site is about 35 miles (50 kilometers) from the Chinese border city of Dandong.

Analysts describe it as a new, more sophisticated site that would allow the North to fire the rocket from the west coast to avoid sending it over other countries.

Sheets of music, recently identified as a composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, are presented during a press conference held by the research department of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, Friday, March 23, 2012.

Newly discovered Mozart piece performed Associated Press Writer

VIENNA — A piano work experts attribute to Mozart as a child prodigy was performed for the first time Friday since it was found last year after apparently being left in an attic for centuries. The lively 84-bar passage — marked “allegro molto,” or “very quick” — was played Friday on the composer’s piano in a room of his Salzburg home by virtuoso Florian Birsak.

The Mozarteum Salzburg Foundation, which staged the event, said the manuscript was found last summer as part of a 160-page book of handwritten piano music as the musty attic of a house in Tyrol was being cleared from centuries of detritus.

Part of a collection of notes from

a village music teacher, the book was dated 1780 — 24 years after Mozart was born — and the manuscript played Friday bore the name “Del Signore Giovane Wolfgango Mozart,” Italian for “Mr. Wolfgang Mozart Jr.” Musicologist Hildegard Hermann-Schneider, who traced the

composition to Mozart, said the fact that other pieces in the book were known works by Mozart’s father, Leopold, strengthened the case that the work was genuine. As well, Leopold Mozart often used “Wolfgango” when labeling works written by his young son, she said.

From the style of the composition, Hermann-Schneider attributed it to Mozart at around the age of 11.

The piece exhibits “a series of components that are found repeatedly in other Mozart piano works,” said the Mozarteum in a statement.

“Judging by the current level of knowledge, it thus has to be a genuine sonata phrase from Mozart.”

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Doug Wechsler, director of the Visual Resources for Ornithology, shows a tray of hummingbirds from Columbia in the collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences Friday, March 23, 2012 in Philadelphia.

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Soy crops ready for harvest in 2007. Eating raisins and soy appears to help ward off high blood pressure, a key risk factor in heart disease, according to two studies presented at a major US cardiology conference on Sunday.

Oldest US natural history museum offers rare peek Associated Press Writer

FILE - In this April 5, 2009 image made from KRT video, a rocket is lifted off from its launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Korea.

Eating raisins and soy appears to help ward off high blood pressure, a key risk factor in heart disease, according to two studies presented at a major US cardiology conference on Sunday. Munching on a handful of raisins three times a day helped people with slightly elevated blood pressure lower their numbers after several weeks, said one of the studies presented at the American College of Cardiology conference.

The randomized clinical trial -- believed to be the first formal measurement of raisins’ benefits on blood pressure -- involved 46 people with a condition known as pre-hypertension. That means their blood pressure ranged from 120 over 80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) to 139 millimeters of mercury over 89 mm Hg, or just higher than normal.

Compared to people who snacked on cookies or crackers, the raisin-eating group saw significant drops in blood pressure, in some cases lowering the top number, or

systolic pressure, by 10.2, or seven percent over the 12-week study.

Researchers are not sure exactly why the raisins work so well, but they think it may have to do with the high level of potassium in the shriveled, dried grapes.

“Raisins are packed with potassium, which is known to lower blood pressure,” said lead investigator Harold Bays, medical director of Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center.

“They are also a good source of antioxidant dietary fiber that may favorably alter the biochemistry of blood vessels, causing them to be less stiff, which in turn, may reduce blood pressure.” A handful of about 60 raisins contains a gram of fiber and 212 milligrams of potassium.

Raisins are often recommended as part of a high-fiber, low-fat diet to reduce blood pressure.

A second study on soy showed that daily intake of foods like tofu, peanuts and green tea helped lower blood pressure in more than 5,100 white and African American people aged 18-30.

Its 225,000 annual visitors may associate the nation’s oldest natural history museum solely with dioramas and dinosaurs, but behind the scenes there is groundbreaking research conducted by world-renowned scientists and an enviable collection of some 18 million specimens representing all manner of animal, vegetable and mineral.

In celebration of its bicentennial this year, the museum has finally decided that it’s OK to boast a little.

For what’s believed to be the first time in 200 years, curators will bring the public into the labyrinthine museum’s normally off-limits nooks and crannies for daily tours.

“This is a rare opportunity to get a firsthand look at some of the most stunning, and sometimes bizarre, creatures you’ve ever seen,” said Academy president and chief executive officer George Gephart Jr. “We can’t wait to open our doors and show off nature’s, and the Academy’s, wondrous bounty.”

The Academy will highlight a different part of its collection starting with minerals in April and ending with fossils in February 2013. Other months will focus on birds, fish, insects, mollusks, amphibians and reptiles, plants and mammals.

“We’ve done behind-the-scenes tours with school groups, and with donors and members, but not anything like this,” said Ned Gilmore, an

Academy collections manager.

Depending on the tour, visitors might see drawers filled with exotic colorful birds, cabinets holding polar bear skeletons, jars of preserved snakes, boxes of beautiful shells that when alive can kill a human, a wall of enormous elk skulls, a narwhal tusk and a mounted — and extinct — Caribbean Monk Seal.

An accompanying exhibition, “The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery,” puts dozens of the academy’s show-stopping treasures on public display — many for the first time — and highlights research that museum scientists are conducting worldwide on hot topics of climate change, biodiversity, water quality and invasive species.

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Buffon, Del Piero lead Juve to win over Inter

Reuters Turin - Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon produced an inspired display and 37-year-old Alessandro Del Piero scored his fi rst Se rie A goal of the season as Juventus beat Inter Milan 2-0 on Sunday to maintain their Serie A title challenge. Del Piero, used sparingly by Juventus coach Antonio Conte recently, came off the bench to slot home the second goal from Arturo Vidal’s incisive pass after Martin Caceres had given them the lead just before the hour.

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Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon celebrates after his teammate Alessandro Del Piero scored against Inter Milan during their Serie A soccer match at the Juventus stadium in Turin March 25, 2012.

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It was his second goal in five days after he scored in their Italian Cup semi-final against AC Milan in which a 2-2 draw sent Juventus to the final 4-3 on aggregate.

Inter, now almost certain to miss out on the Champions League, had the better of the first half but were foiled by worldclass goalkeeping from Buffon. Claudio Ranieri’s team are ninth in the table with 41 points, 10 adrift of third-placed Lazio in the Champions League playoff spot. Juventus, still unbeaten in all competitions this season, have 59 points from 29 games, four behind leaders AC Milan who beat AS Roma 2-1 on Saturday. There are nine rounds of matches to play.

“Del Piero deserves everything, he has shown himself to be an outstanding professional, he has accepted this (substitute) role without causing a controversy and now he is being repaid,” Buffon told the Juventus website (www.juventus.com). “It’s a bitter defeat because it was a good, lively game against a Juventus side who deserve to be where they are,” said Inter coach Claudio

Ranieri.

“I’m very satisfied with the first hour of the game and extremely disappointed with the way we conceded the goal.” Lazio strengthened their grip on third place and a Champions League qualifying spot with a late win over Cagliari and Napoli squandered a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw at home to Catania.

Mobido Diakite struck in the 88th minute, heading in from Cristian Ledesma’s free kick, to give Lazio a 1-0 win over the Sardinians, leaving them with 51 points and a three-point cushion over Napoli and Udinese.

Blerim Dzemaili and Edinson Cavani scored in a seven-minute spell to put Napoli in command against Catania, only for Nicolas Spolli and Davide Lanzafame to reply following corners in the final 20 minutes.

Napoli, who reached the Champions League last 16 this season, were left on 48 points, level with Udinese who drew 1-1 at Palermo.

LITTLE CHANGE

There was little change at the bottom with a flurry of draws keeping Lecce, Novara and Cesena as firm favourites for the drop. Lecce, 18th in the 20-team table, have 27 points, five adrift of safety, after a goalless draw against Novara, who are three points and one place behind them.

Cesena are a further six adrift at the bottom after a 2-2 draw with 17th-placed Parma (32 points). Siena, who drew 1-1 at Chievo, and Fiorentina, held 2-2 at Genoa after Rodrigo Palacio scored an 89th-minute equaliser for the hosts, are both on 33 points.

Buffon pulled off at least four excellent saves to foil Inter in the first half. He produced a one-handed stop to deny Diego Milito at point-blank range, then brilliantly turned away Diego Forlan’s header. He foiled Milito again before saving a Dejan Stankovic volley with his legs.

Alessandro Matri wasted two good chances for Juventus while Mirko Vucinic just failed to make contact with Simone Pepe’s cross following a flowing move.

Juventus took control after Del Piero came on early in the 53rd minute. Four minutes later, Andrea Pirlo swung over a corner and Caceres, left completely unmarked, headed in.

Vucinic wasted an excellent chance in the 70th minute when he shot straight at Julio Cesar’s legs with only the Brazilian goalkeeper to beat.

But one minute later, the tireless Vidal threaded the ball through two defenders into the path of Del Piero who sent the ball beyond Julio Cesar with a first-time effort.

Chelsea are wish come true for Benfica

LISBON - Benfica coach Jorge Jesus got his wish when his side drew Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-finals but the hosts will need all their firepower to inflict damage on the wounded Premier League club in Tuesday’s first leg. Benfica face Chelsea after being held to a frustrating 0-0 draw at Olhanense which left them in second place in Portugal, one point behind leaders Porto.

“I haven’t changed my opinion, I am still happy to face Chelsea. All teams are strong, some more than others. Chelsea is performing a nice recovery, has a good team, but I still maintain my opinion,” coach Jesus said.

“I prefer to play against English teams, it is true that maybe we adapt ourselves better to the English.”

The Eagles played a major role in knocking Manchester United out of the tournament in the group phase, drawing twice against the Premier League champions. Coach Jorge Jesus left Pablo Aimar on the bench at the weekend and when he brought him on the Argentine got himself sent off.

At least the 32-year-old playmaker will be rested and looking to make amends on Tuesday when the hosts will rely on him to orchestrate their attacks and create chances

for goal machines Oscar Cardozo and Rodrigo. Cardozo is Benfica’s top scorer in the Champions League and championship.

At the back Brazil centre back Luisao will likely form a partnership with compatriot Jardel in the absence of Ezequiel Garay who is doubtful.

STALLED REVIVAL

Chelsea’s revival under interim coach Roberto Di Matteo has stalled in the last week with a 2-1 defeat at Manchester City on Wednesday and an uninspiring performance when they were second best in Saturday’s goalless draw against Tottenham Hotspur.

Di Matteo said after Saturday’s match that Chelsea would now probably have to win all of their eight remaining league matches to finish in the top four, but that looks as unlikely as their other possible route back into next season’s Champions League -- winning it this season.

If they should get past Benfica they will face either Barcelona or AC Milan in the semi-final with one from Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Olympique Marseille lurking in the final. Chelsea head to Lisbon with Di Matteo claiming the English FA and Premier League could be harming Chelsea’s Champions League chances by making them

play three days before European games.

Chelsea are facing seven matches in 20 days and, asked if Premier League teams should be allowed to play on Friday nights before European games, Di Matteo said: “Absolutely, yes. Because the other federations, they do tend to help their teams to be able to perform as good as possible in Europe. It just doesn’t seem to be happening in England.”

“The fixture list has to take into consideration the fact that teams are maybe qualifying in the FA Cup, going through, and in the Champions League, going through, and try to give them an equal possibility to win games. “Because there is no doubt in my mind that, on Wednesday, City had a slight advantage because they didn’t play on Sunday.”

Di Matteo also said Chelsea were in danger of becoming “victims” in Europe, with their FA Cup semi-final having been scheduled two or three days before a possible Champions League semi-final against Barcelona or AC Milan. Scott Minto, who played for both Chelsea and Benfica in his career said this week he expected Chelsea to beat Benfica, but they will be beaten if they underestimate them.

“If they under-estimate them in any way it’ll be a similar result to the one in Napoli

when they lost 3-1,” he told reporters this week. “If they do that, to ask them to reproduce the kind of second leg they produced against Napoli at Stamford Bridge will be difficult.”

It is somewhat ironic that if results had gone their way earlier, Chelsea would still be playing for Portuguese coach Andre Villas-Boas.

Last season his Porto side finished 21 points ahead of Benfica in the Portuguese title race which earned him his move to London, but after only eight months he was gone.

Di Matteo’s first four matches ended in wins, but after a defeat and a draw some of Chelsea’s old failings look to be returning although former Benfica players David Luiz and Ramires will be desperate to help Chelsea start winning again on their return to the club they helped to the 2010 title.

Chelsea’s Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and John Terry would also like to leave Lisbon happier than in Euro 2004 when they all scored penalties there when England were beaten 6-5 on spot-kicks by Portugal in the quarter-finals.

Lampard also scored a late extra-time equaliser for England after Rui Costa, now a Benfica director, had put Portugal 2-1 in front.

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Traffic of migrant backflow at Gilimanuk soars Negara (Bali Post)—

Thousands of regional migrants having gone home to Java since two days before the celebration of Nyepi had come back to Bali on Sunday (Mar 25) through the Gilimanuk Harbor.

From the observation on Sunday, every vessel berthing, both passenger and freighter vessel, was always replete with vehicles and passengers.

Even, up to Sunday afternoon the backflows of regional migrants from Java Island continued to move without interruption. Estimated, thousands of vehicles came into Bali on Sunday. Based on the data presented by the ASDP Gilimanuk before Nyepi, 8,000 motorcycles and thousands of cars were noted to leave Bali. These conditions made the officers performing the examination looked busy both in the Post I and Post of the identity card check. The number of personnel seemed to have been increased at a number of points to anticipate the boosting amount of people traveling

to Bali. In the post of identity card check, the officials seemed to frequently find people without identity card or violating the civil administration. Regional migrants having no guarantor were eventually repatriated.

The damaged road in front of the identity card checkpoint was often complained by the passing motorists. Not only drivers of car or box vehicle, but motorists also complained about the condition of the potholes. A wide and muddy pothole could interfere with the movement of cars and pedestrians passing through and presenting their identity card.

Headman of Gilimanuk, IGN Rai Budhi, admitted to have reported the problem repeatedly and now his party was still waiting for the road improvement. Indeed, status of the road remained unclear, which authority was responsible for maintaining it. Local village constantly expected the road could be repaired as soon as possible. (kmb26)

Swept away by flooding, Bedugul faces vegetable crisis Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Flash flooding striking the farm area of Baturiti some time ago still leaves a pain for residents. As swept away by flooding, the Baturiti area is now facing vegetable crisis. Price of all the commodities also soars sharply. This condition is triggered by the destruction of agricultural land around the lakeside. Moreover, the adverse weather still afflicts the region.

One of the farmers at Candikuning village, Made Suartana, 45, said that since swept away by flooding, the Baturiti area was directly hit by crisis of various types of vegetables. Many plantations were damaged and could not be harvested because of silted. “Almost all the farmers here cannot harvest. Now, we are hit by crisis of vegetables,” he said on Sunday (Mar 25). Other than flooding, the overflowing water of the lake also damaged the crops of local residents.

Lake water inundated the plants so that they could not grow normally. This condition made the price of all the vegetable commodities rose sharply. Suartana exemplified, the price of strawberry increased from IDR 15,000 to IDR 30,000 per kilogram, but it was very difficult to get it. If available, the quality was not as good as before.

Meanwhile, vegetables were also very expensive. Among them, the price of carrots ranged from IDR 3,000-5,000 per kilogram. Paprika for hotel consumption rose from IDR 40,00080,000 per kilogram. Cabbage that was usually easy to find, now turned scarce, too. Its price rose from IDR 800 to IDR 2,000 per kilogram. Flower of broccoli rose from IDR 20,000 to IDR 45,000 per kilogram, while the romana vegetables liked best by foreign tourists rose from IDR18,000 to IDR 40,000 per kilogram. “Though the price is high, farmers are still difficult because no one can harvest,” sighed the hamlet chief of Kembang Merta, Candikuning village.

Suartana added, after the flooding, farmers could not do their activities. Moreover, the overflowing water of the lake continued to inundate their plantation, and even it also inundated the road to plantation area. “Now, we can only see the damaged garden, nothing else,” he said. Farmers were still wary because the weather around Baturiti was still alarming. Virtually every day the rain swept the region. To make a living, some farmers attempted to clean up the vegetables that could still be saved, while the others only took care of cattle with sober grass. (kmb30)

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The Lukat Geni tradition

Unique tradition of Nyepi

Lukat Geni to neutralize negative power

NYEPI in Bali is not just celebrated by tightly performing the catur brata penyepian or four abstinences. Many people celebrated it with a series of Balinese traditions, chiefly on the Pengerupukan or one day before Nyepi. Aside from becoming the right moment for reflection and introspection to neutralize the inner bad qualities, Nyepi also neutralized the nature from the negative qualities. The Satria Kawan Palace, Paksebali, Dawan, Klungkung had a unique tradition known as Lukat Geni.

On Pengerupukan night, Thursday (Mar 22), the Satria Kawan Palace, Paksebali, looked different from the other customary villages in Bali. Apart from parading the ogoh-ogoh symbolizing bhuta kala (viciousness), it was also accompanied with a series of Lukat Geni tradition. This tradition has been implemented through generations since many years ago. Lukat Geni was a procession of the battle situation by means of fire kindled on dried coconut leaves used as the weapon. It involved several youths in pair from the local area. Such dried coconut leaves were used as weapon, where it was first tied and then lit. Afterward, it was slapped onto each opponent. Before the procession began, the priest of royal family temple of Satria Kawan Palace invoked the safety first for the smoothness of procession.

Participants and paraphernalia in use should be purified through a special ritual.

Since late afternoon, the youth gathered to take part in the Lukat Geni (flame wars) tradition. The whole community, young-old and

men-women thronged to witness the attraction from a closer distance. It was performed before the ogoh-ogoh parade. For the making of ogoh-ogoh, the youth of Satria Kawan should spend up to IDR 4.5 million and took them for nearly a month.

Before parading the ogoh-ogoh, participants of the Lukat Geni (the youth) looked to have beaten each other using the flames on a bundle of dried coconut leaves.

Such ‘mutual beating’ action was increasingly fierce as accompanied by the vigorous baleganjur gamelan music. However, they showed off no anger, no revenge. Despite using flames, no youth looked to get injured. They sincerely did it for a single purpose, namely eliminating the bad or negative qualities.

Considering the Lukat Geni tradition was basically held for cleaning up nature and neutralizing negative forces, so that they would not cause any disruption. “Besides, implementation of the Lukat Geni next year is expected to be better than the previous years,” said

the royal family temple priest of Satria Kawan Palace, Jero Mangku AA Oka. He said that Lukat Geni ritual had existed since ancient times.

Due to several factors, the tradition was abolished for some periods.

“However, since recent years, the ritual was re-implemented to neutralize and maintain the balance of nature,” he said without elaborating why the Lukat Geni ritual was once discontinued.

The tradition of neutralizing nature from negative forces was also carried out at Dawan customary village. However, the tradition was performed differently namely by sacrificing a cow or caru sapi. It was carried out coinciding with the implementation of usabha desa taking place on the Pengerupukan. The procession was held by parading the cow from Dalem Temple, going around the village and then going to Puseh and Bale Agung Temple.

Ultimately, it turned back to the end of the village and the selected cow was sacrificed or made into caru exorcism at cemetery of the Dawan customary village. (bal)

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Thousands of clove trees topple Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Clove farmers at several villages in Buleleng are ascertained to suffer great losses in this year’s harvest season. This happens because thousands of their productive clove trees toppled as hit by high winds and heavy rains a few weeks ago. at all. The only thing to do is cutting down and clearing it from the plantation area,” said one of the farmers.

Similar disaster was also experienced by farmers at Lemukih village, Sawan subdistrict. A total of 300 blooming clove trees owned by farmers at Subak Manik Galih had toppled since the strong winds and heavy rains. A number of 150 clove trees at Subak Gunung Sari and 450 clove trees at Subak Uptiti Sari were reported to topple, too.

As a result, farmers lost income for a year because the cloves were the only source of income for families to meet their needs. “Actually, the flowers are very dense compared to those a year ago. As many trees have toppled, of course our next harvest will be down,” said Gede Ginarsa, a clove plantation owner at Lemukih.

When contacted separately, the Division Head of Plantation Services Nyoman Partayasa, with permission from the Head of Buleleng Forestry and Plantation Agency Komang Gede Yasa, said that after strong winds and heavy rains his party had received some reports on the falling clove trees from the extension field officers (PPL). From

the temporary report, the most falling clove trees happened at Umajero village, Busungbiu subdistrict (1,241) and they were all productive trees. Those clove trees belonged to 29 farmers. Similarly, the incident also occurred at Bengkel village, Busungbiu subdistrict where 52 clove trees toppled and they were ensured to face crop failure.

Other falling clove trees also came about at Galungan village, Sawan subdistrict where 100 trees toppled, while at Pegayaman and Pegadungan village, Sukasada subdistrict, was recorded a total of 1,000 falling clove trees. “Based on temporary data, the falling clove trees or breaking branches reached more than 2,000 trees and our staff is still collecting the data,” he said.

According to Komang Gede Yasa, so far there was no handling for the farmers suffering crop losses due to the falling clove trees. Nevertheless, the Buleleng Forestry and Plantation Agency would attempt to provide seedling assistance to alleviate the losses of farmers. “Having collected the data on the losses, we are trying to provide them with seedling assistance. Hopefully, the seedling assistance could slightly alleviate the losses of farmers,” he said. (kmb)

The Gunung Payung or Bukit Payung Temple is one of the Dang Kahyangan temples in Bali and Kahyangan Pangibeh temples. Gunung Payung is beautifully located on the coastal hill of the southern Bali, precisely at Kutuh customary village, South Kuta subdistrict, Badung Regency.

As perching on the edge of a solid barrier reef and having backdrop of stretching expanse of the sea, the Gunung Payung Temple has a magnificent view. The temple is a sacred place for the community of Kutuh village and the surrounding areas such as Kampial, Peminge and Ungasan customary village.

Gunung Payung Temple as a sanctum has a spring providing the needs of holy water. As a sanctum, it is also believed to exude holy light giving out sacred vibrations and enlightenment to devotees. Therefore, the community has a confidence in this energy of nature.

Supporting devotees of the Gunung Payung Temple are customary villagers of Kutuh. According to local belief, the temple poses the manifestation of Supreme God namely the Goddess Sri and Goddess Danu providing a source of life or prosperity for the Kutuh villagers in particular and the whole universe in general.

Gunung Payung Temple is closely related to the sacred journey of Dang Hyang Nirartha or Dang Hyang Dwi-

jendra. The Dharmayatra palm-leaf manuscript mentions that after coming to Uluwatu Danghyang Dwijendra provided suggestion to the surrounding community. Then, he resumed his journey eastward. As soon as arriving on a beautiful hilly area exuding a strong spiritual vibration, precisely in the southwest of Kutuh customary village, Dang Hyang Nirartha along with his entourage took a short break to unwind.

The arrival of maharishi was welcomed enthusiastically by the local community. They took the opportunity to meet him in person and ask religious directions and guidance. He was also willing to help people by putting up the stick of his umbrella. Due to spiritual power he possessed, a holy water suddenly spurted from the location where the stick of the umbrella was stuck. The water source is known as kubung suci by local communities and located in the innermost courtyard of the Gunung Payung Temple functioned as a holy headspring.

Before leaving the village to resume his pilgrimage, Dang Hyang Nirartha provided advice to local people to always keep the amrita water coming out from where he stuck the umbrella handle. Later on, the surrounding community established a temple at that location known as the Gunung Payung Temple. (BTN/kmb)

On Nyepi, 85 trucks stay overnight at Padangbai Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Padangbai Harbor, Karangasem, was still replete with trucks in queue reaching the T-junction of Padangbai because they were waiting for ferry service to Lembar. Meanwhile, the Chief of Padangbai Harbor Police (KP3), Dewa Ketut Nila Candra, with permission of the Karangasem Police Chief, Jefri Torunde, Sunday (Mar 25) said that on Pengerupukan and Nyepi of the Caka New Year 1934 on Friday (Mar 23) to Saturday (Mar 24) ran smoothly at the Padangbai customary village.

Though until the Nyepi Day 85 trucks were waiting to be ferried to Lembar, they were still unable to be conveyed so that they had to stay overnight at the parking lot of Padangbai Harbor. In the meantime, some of those drivers were dropped to Lembar for free by joining them with other vessel.

However, most of the drivers preferred to stay in the office of ASDP Padangbai, while some others stayed at the home of truck staff around Padangbai.

A long queue of trucks that could not be entirely ferried to Lembar up to Nyepi happened because the restricted number of vessels operated to serve the crossing service. Of the 11 existing vessels in operation, only two vessels had truck haulage up to 30 units, while the remaining smaller vessels had a carrying capacity up to 15 units of truck.

Chief Dewa Nila Candra said that to tighten the getaway from and to Padangbai Harbor becoming the easternmost of Bali’s entrance, his party constantly performed the examination of freights, people and vehicles. But so far, he said, his party did not find any indication related to criminal offenses, including terrorism. (013)

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The cloves tree that topple in Buleleng Regency

Information compiled in the field on Sunday (Mar 25) said that most of the falling clove trees had bloomed. In addition, many young plants also collapsed due to heavy rain accompanied with strong winds. As a result, farmers did not only lose money due to harvest failure in the next season, but the greater loss was that such prolific plants could not survive. Farmers should replant new ones and it would take them many years until they could produce.

A farmer at Unggahan village, Seririt subdistrict, said on Sunday that many clove trees toppled as hit by strong winds and heavy rains afflicting Buleleng. At this village, hundreds of blooming clove trees toppled. Stem of the tree was uprooted and partial roots no longer touched the ground, while some parts of the root remained to embed in the ground. Nevertheless, they were ascertained not to produce crops. Meanwhile, the growth of flowers would not take place normally, so they would surely fail to harvest crops. Besides, some clove trees also totally toppled as their trunk was not strong enough to shore up. “If the trunk has totally toppled like this, it cannot produce

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World number two Rafael Nadal cruised through to the last 16 at the Miami Masters, while fourth seeded Andy Murray advanced without even breaking sweat.

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Rafael Nadal was far too good on the night for Radek Stepanek, thrashing him 6-2, 6-2 at the Miami Masters.

Nadal continued his domination over Czech Radek Stepanek with a straight forward 6-2, 6-2 victory in a third round match on centre court.

Murray reached the fourth round by not hitting a ball when Canadian Milos Raonic withdrew with a right ankle injury.

Nadal, who is chasing his first Miami title, has now beaten Stepanek in all six contests dating back to their first meeting in 2004.

“I am just happy to be in the fourth round winning two matches with positive feeling and with comfortable results,” Nadal said.

“I will just try to keep doing well and try to keep improving a little bit the level.”

Nadal finished with three aces, won 74 percent of his first-serve points and saved both break point chances he faced in the 86 minute match.

Nadal advances to face Japan’s Kei Nishikori who breezed past Czech Lukas Rosol 6-4, 6-2 Sunday.

“He’s a fantastic player and will be a very difficult match for me,” Nadal said of Nishikori. “He has big talent to hit the ball very early, to play very aggressive.”

The 24-year-old Scot Murray will tackle French 13th seed Gilles

Durant outshines James as Thunder stifle Heat Reuters

Kevin Durant upstaged LeBron James to guide the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 103-87 win over the visiting Miami Heat on Sunday.

In a marquee match-up of two teams expected to challenge for the NBA title, Durant recorded 28 points, nine rebounds and eight assists for the Western Conference-leading Thunder (37-12).

Durant, being touted as a candidate for the MVP award, was at his best in the second quarter, shouldering the scoring burden as All Star Russell Westbrook sat on the bench mired in foul trouble. Durant scored 11 in the quarter and pushed the Thunder to an 11-point halftime advantage.

While Durant clearly got the better of fellow MVP candidate James, who finished with 17 points and seven assists, the Thunder’s Kendrick Perkins and Serge Ibaka provided enough defensive presence in the middle to stifle the Heat. Ibaka finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds and Perkins scored a season-

high 16 points.

“We did a good job of locking the paint up and forcing them to shoot contested shots,” Durant told reporters. “They’re a really good team, they do a lot of good things, we just played hard tonight.”

Miami’s Dwyane Wade scored a teamhigh 22 points and Chris Bosh added 18 but the Heat (35-12) were on the back foot for most of the game. The defeat ended their four-game win streak and leaves them 3.5games behind Eastern Conference-leading Chicago.

Miami made one last push to get back in the game in the fourth quarter with backto-back three-pointers from Shane Battier reducing the deficit to eight, but the Thunder answered with a 9-2 run to make the game safe. The Heat were sloppy in possession and had 21 turnovers for the game.

“Some of it was attack turnovers and some of it was careless turnovers,” James told reporters. “We started the game with a turnover and from there on we turned the ball over.”

Simon for a place in the quarterfinals of a tournament he won in 2009.

Highly-regarded Canadian 26th seed Raonic had already been forced to pull out of the doubles on Saturday where he and South African partner Kevin Anderson had managed just three games against Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimonjic.

The 21-year-old Raonic had been in a rich vein of form in 2012, winning titles in Chennai and San Jose and making the final in Memphis.

At Indian Wells last week, he was knocked out in the third round by eventual champion Roger Federer.

“The doctor in Spain doesn’t think it’s anything big. It probably just needs a couple days of rest and, with treatment, it should be OK in a week,” said Raonic.

“It’s frustrating, but you have to look at the big picture.”

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov recorded his first victory over a top 10 player when he beat seventh-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in two hours and 16 minutes.

Dimitrov saved five of seven break points to reach the fourth round of a Masters 1000 tournament for the first time.

The 20-year-old Dimitrov will

next face ninth-seeded Serb Janko Tipsarevic, who fired down 10 aces to get past 18th-seeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.

Tipsarevic leads Dimitrov 2-0 in their head-to-head series, with both meetings coming last year at Eastbourne and Washington.

On the women’s side, American wild card Venus Williams struggled to defeat Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) and top seed Victoria Azarenka powered past Heather Watson 6-0, 6-2 in third round matches on Sunday.

Williams advances to face former world number one Ana Ivanovic who beat 20th seeded Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 7-6 (7/2).

“I just kept coming back,” Williams said. “I tried not to let anything discourage me today. I kept thinking about how I really need this match and I need these points.”

Azarenka will square off against 16th seeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova for a spot in the quarterfinals.

In other women’s matches Sunday, French seventh seed Marion Bartoli defeated Simona Halep 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) and Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska crushed Silvia SolerEspinosa, of Spain 6-1, 6-2.

Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant shoots untouched against Miami during the fourth quarter of a NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Sunday, March 25, 2012. Oklahoma City won 103-87.

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It was only in the final quarter of an hour that Stoner (Honda) usurped Lorenzo, before improving to a 1m38.780s with his very last lap of the day, putting him 0.173 seconds ahead of his predecessor as world champion.

Their team-mates were next up Honda’s Dani Pedrosa taking third and

Ben Spies putting his Yamaha fourth.

Valentino Rossi enjoyed a more encouraging final day, feeling that Ducati had started to get back on track after going off course with set-up at the previous Sepang test. The Italian was sixth, sandwiched between the Tech 3 Yamahas of Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso,

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while Nicky Hayden claimed eighth on the second Ducati.

Alvaro Bautista escaped a crash without injury to take ninth for Gresini Honda, with LCR Honda’s Stefan Bradl 10th.

Randy de Puniet again showed well on a CRT bike as he took his Aspar Aprilia to 13th - 1.8s off the overall pace and only half a second from the outright top 10.

The session was red-flagged near the end when Mattia Pasini crashed heavily.

The Speed Master rider was unhurt.

because we saw there was an improvement compared to last weekend. Now we need to understand what happened today in terms of his race pace and in terms of his performance.

“In my view the problem is that this car is quite difficult, not easy. It can be very good and it can also be quite difficult. We showed this today that in certain conditions you have to have a certain driving style and you can be very, very good, and in other conditions you can destroy the tyres.

“The priority for me and what I need to make sure is that Felipe has around him the protection of the team that tries to work hard with him.

“And on our side we need to make sure he’s confident to drive the car on the limit, without overdriving it, where the situation could be as bad as not being able to reach the limit.” Massa’s result means that he is yet to score a point this season and leaves him 19th in the championship - behind both Marussia drivers - based on best results so far.

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A Balinese local guard makes a call on a radio as Bali people celebrate the Silence Day in March 23, 2012. Shops were shuttered on March 23 and many tourists stayed inside their hotels as the Indonesian holiday island of Bali closed down for a day of peace and silence to mark the Hindu new year.

Nyepi, Bali can save 3,000 kiloliters of fuel

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Ferrari vows to protect Massa Ferrari needs to rally around Felipe Massa in order to lift his performances in future grands prix, according to team principal Stefano Domenicali. Massa finished only 15th in Malaysia on Sunday, more than 95 seconds adrift of his winning team-mate Fernando Alonso.

The result extended his streak without a Formula 1 podium to 23 races. With Ferrari Academy driver Sergio Perez who has already been linked with a race seat with the Italian team in 2013 - finishing second, the speculation surrounding Massa’s future has continued to grow.

But Domenicali refused to condemn his driver, instead insisting that it was up to the team to help re-establish the Brazilian’s confidence behind the wheel and to improve the F2012 car that he has to drive.

‘We need to stay close to Felipe in this moment,” he said. “It’s a difficult moment and we need to find a way for him to get confident in his car.

“We saw, for example, one step that was in the right direction in qualifying

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Casey Stoner of Australia and Repsol Honda leans into a curve during a MotoGP testing session in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, Friday, March 23, 2012. The first race of the season is on April 8 in Qatar.

Casey Stoner knocked Jorge Lorenzo off the top spot in the closing minutes of the final day of pre-season MotoGP testing at Jerez on Sunday. Yamaha rider Lorenzo had led the way for the majority of the day, which saw teams completing plenty of mileage to make up for the time lost to rain on Saturday.

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DENPASAR - Other than being able to save 270 MW of electricity worth IDR 4 billion, the celebration of Nyepi on Friday (Mar 23) was also able to reduce fuel consumption up to 3,000 kiloliters, where the average Premium fuel consumption in Bali was in the range of 2,300 kiloliters and diesel fuel was 700 kiloliters.

When contacted, the Area Sales Manager of the Pertamina Retail Fuel for Bali-NTB Region, Iin

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Nyepi was very good. Related to the plan of the fuel price hike effective April 1, 2012, Iin Hidalgo admitted that she could not ensure as her party was still awaiting the decision from the central government. Nevertheless, Pertamina in cooperation with police authority had taken reasonable precautions to avoid any act of speculators.

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Evidences not complete yet, trial continue next week Bali Post

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Febrian, said that before and after Nyepi the fuel demand was quite normal and did not cause an increas-

ing demand and long lines. According to her, the celebration of Nyepi in Bali at least could be exemplified where it caused a saving, even the fuel demand was in safe condition, and did not cause a shortage before the plan of the fuel price hike.

She acknowledged the role of Balinese people to maintain the security and awareness to use fuel properly before and after

Denpasar – After questioning and answering, the trial of Bali’s Governor Lawsuit against Bali Post continued on Monday, March 26, 2012 and it was entering new phase. After the trail officially opened by the panel of judges led by Amzer Simanjutak, the lawyers of Mangku Pastika, Simona-

hak and Ngastawa directly gave 19 evidences in front of the court.

From 19 evidences such as newspaper clipping and complete newspaper, four of them were still being postponed. For that reason, the judges give the opportunity to complete the evidences next week.

After the trial, Simonahak as the lawyer of the governor stated

that the evidences are highly connected to the case. “There are some newspapers that have the news about the governor and the customary village including Bali Post Newspaper,” he added.

Regarding the evidences given by the opponent, the lawyer of Bali Post, Suryatin Lijaya accompanied

by Agus Sujoko, said that it is not

complete yet. “So it means that they cannot give the original proof and we already plead the court that the evidences must be inspected thoroughly,” Suryatin said.

He also explained that they will respond to it. “We will respond to it. We don’t want to be considered to accept or admitted those evidences,” Suryatin said. (kmb)