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David Lynch walks back Trump praise: ‘You are causing suffering’

LOS ANGELES - David Lynch accused President Donald Trump on Tuesday of “causing suffering and division” as the filmmaker clarified what looked like a glowing endorsement days earlier.

Lynch shocked liberal Hollywood when he told The Guardian newspaper in an interview published Saturday that Trump could go down as one of the greatest presidents in US history. He now claims he was taken out of context when his comments were picked up by other outlets.

“Unfortunately, if you continue as you have been, you will not have a chance to go down in history as a great president,” the “Twin Peaks” auteur, regarded as one of the greatest American filmmakers of his generation, said in a Facebook post.

“This would be very sad it seems for you -- and for the country.

You are causing suffering and division.”

Lynch told The Guardian that Trump could “could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history” because he had delivered a badly-needed shakeup of Washington politics.

The 72-year-old director of “Mulholland Drive” and “Wild at Heart” said he was undecided on whether Trump was doing a good job, but thought the Republican tycoon had opened up a space for other outsiders.

Trump promptly retweeted a Breitbart article on Lynch’s comments headlined, “Director David Lynch: Trump ‘Could Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents in History.’”

“I wish you and I could sit down and have a talk,” Lynch posted on Facebook, addressing the president directly.

“This quote which has traveled around was taken a bit out of context and would need some explaining.”

Lynch urged Trump to “turn the ship around... toward a bright future for all.”

“You can unite the country. Your soul will sing. Under great loving leadership, no one loses -- everybody wins,” he added.

“It’s something I hope you think about and take to heart. All you need to do is treat all the people as you would like to be treated.” (afp)

Unofficial counts

Regional Indonesia polls favoring President Widodo

DEPOK - Unofficial counts in Indonesia’s regional elections on Wednesday put candidates favoring President Joko Widodo ahead in three provinces on Java island, home to more than half of the population of the world’s thirdlargest democracy. But candidates backed by the opposition fared better than expected in the elections, which is an important pointer for national parliamentary and presidential races in 2019.

Rebel Wilson

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Rebel Wilson ordered to pay back $3 mn plus interest

SYDNEY - Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson was ordered to return almost $3.1 million with interest to an Australian publisher Wednesday after a defamation payout was slashed on appeal.

The “Pitch Perfect” star was awarded Aus$4.5 million ($3.3 million) in damages against Bauer Media last September over articles claiming she lied about her age and background to further her career.

It was the largest defamation win in Australian legal history and Bauer appealed, arguing the size of the settlement set a dangerous precedent and there were errors of law in the judgement.

The Victorian Court of Appeal agreed and cut the payout to just Aus$600,000 earlier this month in a decision the actress called “absolutely flippant”.

Bauer had already handed over the money and the Court of Appeal on Wednesday ordered Wilson to repay nearly Aus$4.2 million, including costs and more than Aus$60,000 in interest.

The star did not dispute that the money needed to be returned, but argued the interest should be charged at the prevailing Reserve Bank cash rate of 1.5 percent, rather than the two percent sought by Bauer.

The appeal court disagreed and ordered interest be paid at the higher rate.

Wilson vowed after the initial judgement to give any payout to

charity and the Australian film industry. It is not clear whether she has already done so.

She had claimed a series of articles in Woman’s Day, Australian Women’s Weekly and OK Magazine in 2015 had portrayed her as a serial liar and damaged her reputation.

The Sydney-born actress told the trial she was sacked from DreamWorks animated feature films “Trolls” and “Kung Fu Panda 3” following the stories.

But the Court of Appeal said there was no basis for her to receive financial damages for the potential loss of roles. (afp)

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Some hardline Islamic leaders have publicly called for the ousting of Widodo, who has pledged to protect Indonesia’s tradition of pluralism and moderate Islam in the officially secular country. Widodo is expected to run again for the presidency in 2019, against retired general Prabowo Subianto, who was narrowly defeated in the last presidential vote in 2014.

Political analysts said the mixed results meant Widodo, who has mostly enjoyed high approval ratings, may face a tougher fight next year than expected. “This is likely to be a wake-up call for Jokowi that he can’t be too confident and has to be more aware of people’s sentiments,” said Keith Loveard of Concord Consulting Indonesia, referring to the president by his nickname.

On Wednesday, elections were held for 171 city mayors, regents, and provincial governors across the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country. The regional election results will help underpin support for presidential candidates since local-level leaders are often best placed to mobilize voters. Presidential candidates need to be declared by Aug. 10.

The extent of Islamist influence on voters will be closely watched after a bitterly fought contest for the Jakarta governorship last year exposed deep religious and ethnic rifts.

In West Java province, a conservative area with a population of 47 million, Ridwan Kamil, a 46-year-old, U.S.-educated architect, had won 33 percent of the vote, inching ahead of rivals, according to quick counts, based on unofficial tallies of a sample of votes. Kamil, the former mayor of Indonesia’s third-largest city of Bandung, has won praise for his progressive approach to governance, but was opposed by hardline Islamist groups questioning his Islamic credentials. Kamil has not explicitly voiced support for Widodo.

BALI In Bali, the quick count from several

survey agencies place the candidates number 1, I Wayan Koster and Cok Ace is leading from the second

candidates Rai Mantra and Sudikerta. Giri Prasta, the head of committee of Koster Ace said that he is very happy that his candidates is leading, even it is still not official yet. “We believe that the result will be like this. Koster and Ace maybe lose in Denpasar but we are very certain they will win in other regencies in Bali,” he stated.

HIGH ALERT Indonesia is on high alert after a series of suicide attacks in Surabaya city killed

30 people last month, in the deadliest militant Islamist attacks in more than a decade. Last week, one of Indonesia’s highest-profile Islamic State supporters was sentenced to death for his involvement in a series of earlier attacks, and experts have warned of a risk of retaliation by supporters.

There have been no reports of unrest and police declared as false rumors on social media of voter intimidation in some parts of the country with sizeable ethnic Chinese communities. At some voting stations in Java and on the resort island of Bali there was a festive feel, with polling booths decked out in a World Cup theme and election officials dressed in soccer jerseys.

More than 160 million people are registered to vote. Some voters complained that religious had figured too prominently in the election, and candidates should have focused more on bread-and-butter issues. “Politics cloaked with religion is very obvious here,” said Arma Putra, 26, an unemployed resident of Bekasi town in West Java.(kmb)

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Trash Hero in BAF XL

Encourages awareness of visitors to manage waste

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The residents of Duda Timur is still using the damage bridge from the ruption of Mount Agung

Mount Agung still active, residents traumatized

AMLAPURA - Residents living at the foot of Mount Agung used to raise cattle, pigs, ducks and others. However, after all livestock were sold cheaply to evacuate, they are now reluctant to pursue it again. Until now, they are still traumatized. Moreover, the activity of Mount Agung has not been normal.

This was conveyed by headman of North Duda, Wayan Darmadi, when met at his village, not long ago. Local people are running out of capital to start the same business again. The option being tried right now is only share cropping cattle owned by people from other region. However, they do not dare to raise it in large number. “In the past, I raised tens of cows, but now only one,” said Darmadi.

Currently, the local people choose to find other alternatives, such as being laborer and merchant. In addition, today the local community remains to be

haunted by anxiety. Besides, it often rains lately. Affected communities around the Panti River groove amount to 48 families. They have no choice but to live in their house. They are still aware this is quite dangerous as the situation of Mount Agung has not returned to normal. Moreover, there are some elderly people. They are still appealed to move immediately, if there is a heavy rain.

The Panti River groove, North Duda village, has already been dredged. This makes the road access from West Geriana to East Geriana get disconnected.

Since last lava flood until last Sunday, local people still use the bamboo bridge. Darmadi claimed to have proposed to local government in order to immediately build a bridge. However, the local government through the subdistrict head, said Darmadi, has not been able to confirm it. He said the local government still waits for the situation of Mount Agung to be really back to normal. (kmb31)

DENPASAR - There is something different in the arena of this year’s Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XL. Particularly it is related to participation of Trash Hero Indonesia in a dominant yellow color stand.

The presence of Trash Hero brings a special mission, namely arousing public awareness or BAF visitors to manage their own garbage, mainly plastic waste remaining a scourge on the Island of the Gods.

“In my opinion, it requires a direct touch like the officers greeting and inviting them to recognize more closely with cultural approach,” said Chief of Trash Hero Indonesia, Wayan Aksara, when confirmed on Tuesday (Jun. 26).

According to Aksara, the appeals by just installing banners are not enough to arouse public awareness. Actually, it even generates new pollution in terms of visual if the number of banners is too many.

No wonder there always appears volunteers in yellow shirt picking up garbage in the area of ??the Art Center. Actually, they are not janitors. Visitors are also reminded to throw garbage in its place.

“Incidentally, this year’s garbage facility is more adequate with a periodic transportation system by the officers. We also walk around to places untouched by the officers. After going around, we can get a sack of plastic garbage,” he

explained.

This real action, continued Aksara, is expected to inspire visitors as well as educate them. So far, the public response has been positive.

When a visitor throws garbage away and is reminded by volunteers, they immediately apologize and put it where it should be. On that account, he is sure to make a change from this small participation even though being inadequate in just one BAF, but at least until the next three years. “To this date, the condition of Denpasar Art Center is relatively cleaner than last year,” he explained.

Aksara added that Trash Hero is an international non-profit community headquartered in Switzerland. This community entered into Indonesia around 2015. Today, there have been 25 chapters. Of that amount, half of them are in Bali. Trash Hero in Bali brings the concept of ngayah or devotional work to the motherland. The volunteers routinely come down directly to clean up garbage, especially handling untreated plastic waste or those discarded not in place.

“We move every day. As evidence, the Trash Hero volunteers continue to grow and participation continues to grow as well. When we do periodically, it will give an education indirectly,” he said. (kmb32)

Possessing 15 ecstasies, a Malaysia man sent to trial

DENPASAR - Alleged to have possessed 15 ecstasy pills (MDMA), a student from Malaysia, Mohammad Eryfan Bin Jamalludin, 23, was tried in the Denpasar District Court on Monday (Jun. 25).

The evidence presented by the public prosecutor has a weight of 4.10 grams net. As stated by prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara before the panel of judges chaired

by Esthar Oktavi, the capture of the defendant originated from his departure from Kuala Lumpur Airport to Denpasar using Batik Air on Sunday (Mar. 4).

At Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, the defendant headed to the international arrival terminal. When arriving the luggage check point, the

customs officers saw suspicious movement of the defendant. Furthermore, the officer conducted an X-ray examination against the defendant’s luggage. After that, the defendant was escorted to the room for further in-depth examination against his body and luggage.

At that time, the officers found a number of evidence in the form of a plastic clip containing 15 tablets of MDMA type narcotics weighing 4.10 grams. The ecstasies were found in gray pants. The defendant is now facing severe punishment, and the prosecutor charged the defendant with Article 113 paragraph 1 or Article 112 paragraph 1 or Article 127 paragraph 1 of Law No. 35/2009 on Narcotics. (kmb37)

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Calendar of Events Thursday June 28 8PM-10PM Full Moon Sugi Journey with Cosmic Ornament and Tebo Aumbara Bali LIfe Studio Jl Subak Uma Petulu Ubud 3PM-6PM Ouled out with Bla Bla Bla The Orchard Bar & Restaurant Jalan Nakula, Gg Baik no 99x Denpasar 6PM-2Am De MAria Galleria presents Kiss Kiss the Second Date Da Maria Bali Jalan Petietenget no 170 Denpasar 6PM-9PM Es Part 14:Ocean pLastic where does it come from? with Olivier Pouillon Genius Cafe- Home to the Entrepreneur Beach Club Mertasari Beach Sanur 5:30PM-6:30PM One Breah!

Dojo Bali Jalan Batu Meja Canggu, Mengwi 6OM-9PM Sufi Sacred Sound and movement with Shervin Boloorian

New Brunch Menu at Frestro & Bar

Frestro & Bar’s Executive Chef Gerry Nainggolan welcomes summer this year with a brand new Brunch Menu featuring various tantalizing selections that are meant to nourish.

A must-try is the brunch signature sandwich, Avocado Cured Salmon, carefully slow-cooked

for 24-hours using homemade cured salmon and caviar.

Another favourite is the Homemade Mushroom Ravioli, the Chef’s signature pasta made using homemade ingredients and the best Mango Cheesecake made using sweet and fresh local mangoes that will melt in your

mouth.

The new Brunch Menu at Frestro & Bar that’s located on Petitenget Street, Seminyak Bali, will be available every day from 12 noon until 5pm.HOME Welcome to Frestro - a artisan gourmet cuisine restaurant in Bali and bar for every one con-

cept in the heart of Seminyak, Petitenget. We serve the finest international cuisine, crafted with passion, presented with flair and infused with the soul of Bali, so come and celebrate all that is great and good about food and drink with us on the island of the gods.

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Modified polio vaccine helps fight deadly brain tumors

BCG vaccine

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Can a cheap and widely available TB vaccine help diabetics?

MASSACHUSETTS - There’s more evidence that a vaccine used to fight tuberculosis for 100 years might help people with diabetes.

Researchers said Monday that a few diabetics who got the vaccine had much better control of their blood sugar after eight years than people who did not get it.

It’s a small study and many experts are skeptical about it. But if the results hold up in more people over time, it could point to a cheap and easy way to help keep people with type-1 diabetes healthy.

The team at Massachusetts General Hospital has been testing the bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, used to prevent tuberculosis and to treat some forms of bladder cancer.

Tests in animals had indicated that it might help fight the immune system mistakes that cause type-1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes. It’s caused when the body mistakenly destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin, forcing patients to carefully monitor their blood sugar for life and to inject insulin as needed.

This team in the lab of Dr. Denise Faustman has been following 282 people, including 52 diabetics who got the vaccine.

Three years after they got two doses of BCG, six of the diabetes patients had near-normal levels of blood sugar and had lower average blood sugar levels than those who got placebo shots, the team reported in the journal npj Vaccines. These effects have lasted, so far, for five years.

“We still have to use insulin, but we’re finally able to get to the nearly normal range,” Faustman said.

“Nobody’s been able to do that before.”

It takes three years for the vaccine’s benefits to kick in, and people need two doses, a month apart, to benefit, the team found. But after that, the patients did not receive any more extra treatment.

They researchers will also present their findings to a meeting of the American Diabetes Association in Orlando.

The vaccine does not appear to work in the way the research team initially thought it would. It does not cause the damaged pancreatic cells to regenerate, they found.

Instead, it appears to change the way the body metabolizes sugar. And it appears to do so safely, they said.

“BCG treatment does not carry the risk of hypoglycemia as is the case for intense insulin therapy,” they wrote.

The research has been controversial from the beginning and diabetes experts are reluctant to say much about it.

“If a simple and safe BCG vaccination could improve glucose control in Type-1 diabetes it would be a major advance. Unfortunately this study does not give any strong evidence to say this is the case,” said Andrew Hattersley of the University of Exeter Medical School in Britain.

The patients also continued their normal self-care, watching their blood sugar levels and giving themselves insulin as needed.

“This could be something that happened by chance because people were a bit more diligent or leaner or more compliant with diet,” said Dr. Adrian Vella, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic. (net)

NEW ENGLAND - A modified version of the polio vaccine, infused straight into aggressive brain tumors, helped some patients live for years longer than they normally would have, doctors reported Tuesday.

It’s no miracle cure — only about 20 percent of patients with gliomas were helped — but some are alive six years later, the team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It’s a hopeful enough finding to move forward and test the vaccine in more people, the team at the Duke University School of Medicine said.

“It’s very unusual, almost unprecedented to get this kind of long-term survival,” neurologist Dr. Darell Bigner, who led the study team, told NBC News.

The Duke team tested 61 glioma patients over five years.

They all had grade IV gliomas, a group of brain tumors that includes glioblastoma.

These patients have a “dismal” diagnosis, the Duke team wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine. “There is currently no effective therapy.”

Standard treatment of brain tumors includes surgery if the tumor is somewhere reachable; chemotherapy; and radiation.

But if the tumor is aggressive, it’s usually fatal.

“These are people who failed everything,” Bigner said.

“Virtually all patients, no matter what you treat them with, are dead within in two years.”

About a third of all brain tumors are gliomas, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. About 80,000 people a year are diagnosed with a brain tumor, and about 24,000 of those are malignant. “The average survival rate for all malignant brain tumor patients is only 34.7 percent,” the group says.

But there’s evidence that some viruses can home in on tumors and kill them. It’s not clear why, but viruses can also make tumors more visible to the immune system.

The team at Duke worked with the National Cancer Institute to design and manufacture a modified version of polio vaccine virus.

Polio viruses are attracted to nerve cells — that’s why they cause paralysis.

The medical team used polio viruses already weakened and altered for use in polio vaccines, and genetically engineered them to carry parts of a common cold virus, called a rhinovirus, known to be attracted to glioma cells.

They infused various doses into the tumors of the 61 glioma patients.

“We inject the virus directly into brain tumors and it kills all the tumor cells it comes in contact with,” Bigner said. “The most important thing is, it sets up a secondary immune response and really destroys the distant tumor cells.” (net)

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A modified version of the polio vaccine, infused straight into aggressive brain tumors, helped some patients live for years longer than they normally would have.

The meeting at the office of South Kuta sub-district head on Tuesday (Jun. 26) discussed a problem arising due to limited parking space.

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Parking remains problematic at Tanjung Benoa

MANGUPURA - A number of large buses since the past few days chose parking in Laguna Square area and the road section in front of it. As a result, the road in the area became congested. This condition led to complaints from local figures and residents.

To that end, the South Kuta subdistrict head held a meeting with the headman of Tanjung Benoa as well as the Tanjung Benoa and Benoa village to find a solution. The meeting at the office of South Kuta sub-district head on Tuesday (Jun. 26) discussed a problem arising due to limited parking space.

South Kuta subdistrict head, Made Widiana, when met

after the meeting stated the meeting agreed to borrow the parking building at Tanjung Benoa. In principle, the land owner has allowed to utilize the land for the Tanjung Benoa community. Though administratively there has been no handover, it is considered urgent to resolve the congestion problem at Tanjung Benoa.

“The parking lot at Tanjung Benoa, especially during high season, definitely becomes a problem in harmony with the more visit to the marine tourism area. To that end, this parking problem requires a solution in the future,” he said.

Currently, said Widiana, it is very difficult to find largescale parking space at Tanjung Benoa. So, this condition is not proportional to the level of tourist visits. To that end,

the relevant government agency should find any solutions.

In the future, the tourist resort of Tanjung Benoa is expected to have central parking lot. In addition, there is also a connecting shuttle bus. Thus, big buses do not need to go to Tanjung Benoa area. As is known, the road to Tanjung Benoa is narrow. This is for the sake of convenience of the community at the location. “What to think is not only about tourism, but also the society in general,” he concluded.

Widiana said this needed to be realized. In addition, when entering high season and there is an increase in the level of visits, village authority is expected to cooperate with the ITDC because in the ITDC has a large parking lot. (kmb23)

Three traditional boats capsize due to bad weather NEGARA - Bad weather occurred in the waters of Jembrana on Sunday (Jun. 24) causing three fishing boats to capsize after being hit by strong waves. 50 year old I Wayan Wanda from Mekra Sari , Perancak suffered IDR 500,000 in losses from damage to his fibreglass boat, 58 year old fishermen Negah Narsa from Lemodang, Perancak lost three cedik, fishing gear and his outboard motor for an estimated IDR 10 million in losses while 50 year old Nengah Warsa from Tibu Kleneng Perancak also suffered damage to his boat values at about IDR 500,000.

The large waves struck the fishermen as they were returning to the mainland after looking for fish at sea. Strong winds caused their boats to capzied and other fishemrne then at sea contacted local security forces.

The quick response team from the Natural Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Jembrana de-

ployed 4 personnel and ambulances to the scene to rescue the victims.

The fishermen were successfully evacuated and their were no casualties.

Head of the BPBD Jembrana, Ketut Eko Susila Permana, confirmed that there were no casualties and that the fishermen had only suffered material losses. “The weather was bad with very strong winds. We hope fishermen will be careful. Boat captains and harbour officials should also remain vigilant”, he said.

Data from the National Weather Service (BMKG) indicated that weather situation was generally cloudy in the north of the Bali Strait and light rain in the southern waters, the average wind blew from the East - Southeast direction with a speed of 2 - 20 knots. High waves in the northern waters ranged from 0.25 to 1.25 meters and in the Southern waters ranged from 0.25 to 3.5 meters. (kmb)

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Traditional fishing boats in Jembrana. Bad weather occurred in the waters of Jembrana causing three fishing boats to capsize after being hit by strong waves.

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Eight crafters given carving tool aids

MANGUPURA - Eight groups of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) engaged in the handicraft sector received an aid from the Badung district government on Tuesday (Jun. 26). This group of craftsmen comes from Abiansemal, Dalung and Mengwi.

Head of the Badung Cooperatives, MSME and Trade Agency, I Ketut Karpiana, said the aid for the MSMEs is for the fifth time. The aids disbursed by the district government are in the form of working tools such as chisels and cutting machines related to carving.

“Provision of this grant aid equipment for the MSMEs is not for the first time made by the government.

It has also been done previously to improve and encourage the growth of the MSMEs in Badung so as to support the growth of economic pillars a villages to make them the center of economic growth,” said Ketut Karpiana, on Tuesday (Jun. 26).

Other than the aid, the Badung district government, said Karpiana, also accompanies the MSMEs from the upstream to downstream.

The needs of the upstream include facilities and infrastructure and then in the downstream is human resource development through training regarding the proper business management.

“The grant in the form of equipment aid aims to improve the MSMEs and encourage its growth in Badung.

What we give now is intended to increase the productivity of MSMEs in Badung district,” he explained.

Assistant for Economic and Development Affairs, I Dewa Made Apramana, said the regional economy is generally supported by small and medium economic activities.

The business units included in the category of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the core of the regional and national economy.

“Role of the government poses one of the prerequisites of the success in the MSME development so as to yield highly competitive products.

It considers that most residents are players of the MSME business having a great opportunity to develop export-oriented products,” he said.

The government provides an aid in the form of working equipment for the MSMEs to increase production and develop their business so that later on they are able to create job opportunities for surrounding people. Procurement of the working equipment for small and medium enterprises aims to support the operations or MSME products to be implemented with the maximum. (kmb27)

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MAE SAI - Rescuers struggled to drain a flooded cave in Thailand Wednesday where 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for days, as monks chanted prayers for the boys.

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Tembang Girang (Song of Happiness) Contest at the Bali Art Festival (BAF) XL at the Ratna Kanda Stage, Denpasar Art Center.

Tembang Girang carries premarital sex messages

Fails to be a doctor and get married, finally dies

DENPASAR - Ni Putu Wulandari was at issue after reportedly died of suicide. This high school student took a shortcut because she could not bear the shame and hurt, particularly after knowing she was pregnant because of premarital sex when establishing love with I Made Yuda. Her parents could not accept her pregnancy and instead recited Ni Putu Wulandari. Now, she only leaves sorrows.

“She failed to be a doctor and get married, and finally died. Everything has failed,” it is the illustration of regret and failure hitting the family of Ni Putu Wulandari. The negative impact of premarital sex is narrated by Sekar Hati art studio from Kutuh hamlet, Sayan, Ubud, Gianyar, while participating in the Tembang Girang (Song of Happiness) Contest at the Bali Art Festival (BAF) XL at the Ratna Kanda Stage, Denpasar Art Center, on Tuesday (Jun. 26).

Chief of the art studio, Ni Wayan Suratni, said the Tembang Girang is entitled ‘Semara Geni’ or the fire of romance. If people cannot control it, undesirable things will happen like the premarital sex among school students.

Other than violating the teachings of Hindu-

ism, premarital sex can also bury the dream of the students and their parents.

“So, here we would like to straighten young people that are dating or looking for friends to be vigilant, whether it is behaving, making friends and doing something good,” he said.

Suratni added the performance in the BAF was prepared for two months. It was stated from casting of the singer to selection of gamelan elements. Incidentally there is a semarandana gamelan instrument that was then combined with geguntangan. The tembang girang itself is almost the same as the taman penasar. However, the participants’ criteria are now limited between the ages of 17 and 25 while the criteria of taman penasar is not limited so that it is easier to find

participants.

“So this (tembang gembang) is a kind of regeneration. In other words, it is hard to look for singers of such age because young people rarely want to learn or pursue traditional song,” he explained.

Suratni admitted to get challenged to train three traditional singers performed with three interpreters, 15 gamelan players and a moderator. They are really trained from zero.

Moreover, the tembang girang is the development of pesantian (psalmody) embellished with body language and expression as well as traditional notation. However, it cannot be equated to sitting arja operetta that is slightly theatrical. “Megegirangan means to be in a state of happiness, although there is a sad song,” he said. (rin)

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Rescue personnel are seen at the opening of the Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai on June 27, 2018 while operation continue for a missing children’s football team and their coach.

The young football team, aged between 11 and 16, have been stuck in the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand since Saturday night after monsoon rains blocked the main entrance.

Hundreds of rescue workers worked overnight to install highpressure water pumps to reduce flooding in the cave, but it was a losing battle as rains continued to fall in the area near the Laos and Myanmar borders in northern Chiang Rai province.

“Today’s work is much harder, we are trying hard to drain water by pumping out but the water level is still rising,” provincial governor Narongsak Osottanakorn told reporters.

Conditions in the cave also proved tough for the 200 rescuers dispatched into the tunnels to find the boys.

“The water inside the cave is very murky, and there’s not much oxygen,” Narongsak said.

The governor said three foreign cave-diving experts would arrive

Wednesday evening to aid the harrowing search that pressed into its fifth day Wednesday.

Around 1,000 people had been mobilised for the rescue efforts, including air and ground teams and divers. The Army also dispatched special operation troops to aid the rescue.

Thailand’s Navy SEAL unit said on their Facebook page that water levels rose 15 centimetres (six inches) overnight and that a third chamber of the complex cave network -- believed to be several kilometres long -- was now flooded.

Soldiers carried large hoses to attach to eight water pumps that were shipped in to drain rising flood waters.

Monks in bright orange robes led chants alongside distraught relatives who clung to hope the boys would be rescued soon.

“I hope that today with the help from all teams he will be saved. I’m certain in my heart,” Pean Kamlue, the mother of a 16-year-old boy in the cave, told AFP. (afp)

Kim Jong Nam probe slammed as ‘shoddy’ as trial resumes

SHAH ALAM - The investigation into the assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother was “shoddy” and “lopsided”, a Malaysian court heard Wednesday as the trial resumed of two women accused of the murder.

Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong allegedly killed Kim Jong Nam by smearing a toxic nerve agent on his face at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last year in a Cold War-style hit that shocked the world.

Defence lawyers have argued that the women were recruited to take part in what they thought were prank TV shows but were instead tricked into becoming inadvertent assassins, in an elaborate plot by a group of North Korean agents.

The women, in their 20s, have denied murdering Kim Jong Un’s estranged halfbrother as he waited for a flight to Macau.

They face death by hanging if found guilty.

The trial, which began last year, resumed Wednesday after a break since early April, with the women escorted into court handcuffed and wearing bullet-proof vests.

Aisyah’s lawyer Gooi Soon Seng made his final submission, telling the Shah Alam High Court, outside Kuala Lumpur, that “the investigation was not only shoddy but was lopsided”.

The charge was “vague” and the prosecution “has failed to make out a prima facie case against the accused (Aisyah)”, he said.

Gooi argued prosecutors had not proven his client applied the VX nerve agent on Kim’s face and questioned why -- if she really were the assassin -- she had told friends and family so readily about the supposed TV pranks that she was involved in.

He also said it was unusual that Aisyah did not suffer any symptoms due to contact with VX, which the United Nations classifies as a weapon of mass destruction.

Four North Koreans are accused of involvement in the murder but fled the country immediately after the killing. Aisyah and Huong’s lawyers allege they paid the women to carry out what they believed were pranks for a reality TV show.

South Korea accused the North of masterminding the killing of Kim Jong Nam, who had been living in exile after falling out of favour with the ruling family in Pyongyang.

The assassination also sparked a row between North Korea and Malaysia, which had historically been one of Pyongyang’s few allies. However ties appear to be improving, with the new Malaysian government announcing plans to reopen its embassy in Pyongyang. (afp)

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Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong (C) is escorted by Malaysian police after a court session for her trial at the Shah Alam High Court in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur on June 27, 2018 for her alleged role in the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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LONDON — While it’s still unclear what Brexit will look like when it happens next year, the decision to leave has already had a clear effect on the economy: households are poorer, companies are more cautious about investing, and the property market has cooled.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, June 20, 2018, anti-Brexit, pro-EU supporters hold placards during a protest near the Houses of Parliament in London. The divisions opened up by the 2016 referendum have not healed, but hardened, splitting Britain into two camps: leavers and remainers. Almost the only thing the two groups share is pessimism about the way Brexit is going. making imports and energy more expensive for consumers and companies — the rate of inflation hit a high of 3 percent late last year.

The weaker pound helped some companies: exporters and multinationals that do not sell mainly in the U.K. But it hurt consumer spending and businesses that depend on their shopping. The retail industry was hit hard, with high-profile companies like Toys R Us and Maplin going bust, and supermarket chain Marks and Spencer planning deep cuts.

While prices rose, wages lagged, even though unemployment is at its lowest since 1975, at 4.2 percent.

“After Brexit, prices definitely went up”, said Nagesh Balusu,

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Modern Traditional Balinese Painting in Ubud

2 years on, Brexit vote has taken a toll on UK economy In the two years since the vote to leave the European Union, Britain has gone from being a pace-setter among the world’s big economies to falling into the slow lane. And the uncertainty over what relations with the EU will be when Brexit becomes official on March 29, 2019 could make matters worse.

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government remains split on what those relations should be. There are those who favor a “hard Brexit,” a clean break that takes Britain out of the bloc’s free trade union but also gives it more freedom to strike new trade deals around the world. Others want to keep Britain as close as possible to the EU, Britain’s biggest trading partner, which could mean it has to obey more of the bloc’s rules.

Big companies are sounding the alarm bell, with plane making giant Airbus this week threatening to pull out of the country, where it employs 14,000, if it gets no clarity on future trade deals.

“Thousands of skilled, wellpaid jobs are now on the line because of the shambolic mess the government have created over the Brexit negotiations,” said Darren Jones, the lawmaker for the community where Airbus has its plant.

Before the referendum of June 2016, the British economy had been one of the fastest-growing industrial economies for years. Now, it’s barely growing. In the first quarter of this year it expanded by just 0.1 percent from the previous three-month period, its slowest rate in about five years.

For most people, the first and most noticeable impact was the drop in the pound. The currency slid 15 percent after the vote in June 2016 to a post-1985 low of $1.21. That boosted prices by

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manager of the Salt Whisky Bar and Dining Room in London. “We struggled a bit earlier this year, so now we’ve increased the prices.”

The bar is next to Hyde Park, a popular destination for foreign visitors. “The tourists have a good exchange rate. They know they can spend a little bit more than they usually do. But the locals are coming a little less. They are starting to think about how much they spend.”

The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, estimated recently that average household incomes are around 900 pounds lower than the bank was forecasting on the eve of the referendum.

The real estate market, meanwhile, has cooled considerably,

with the number of property sales in London near a historic low last year, according to estate agent Foxtons.

While some foreign prospective buyers were attracted by the drop in the pound, others seem to have been scared off by uncertainty over what Brexit might mean for their investment.

House prices are stagnating after years of gains, also due to expectations that the Bank of England will keep gradually increasing interest rates.

Nic Budden, Foxton’s CEO, predicts that the real estate market will remain challenging this year, while Samuel Tombs, analyst at Pantheon Economics, predicts that house prices will flatline for the

next 6 months.

Against the backdrop of uncertainty, businesses have become more reluctant to invest in big projects. Because Brexit could lead to tariffs on EU imports of British goods, companies are hesitant to spend big on British plants and office space before they know what the new rules will be.

Benoit Rochet, the deputy chief of the port of Calais, the French town across the Channel from Britain, complained to a parliamentary committee this month that “we know there is Brexit but we don’t know exactly what Brexit means.””You are not alone,” responded the Conservative chair of the committee, Nicky Morgan. (ap)

Time brings innovatinos but essence maintained

Until about a hundred years ago, art in Bali was only ever produced as a form of religious devotion and often in collaboration between several artists for a single art work. Although indivudial artists were recognised for their particular gifts withintn their comunity, art was produced anonymously and was intimately tied to the community and religious practices.

WIth the arrival of fereign artsists in the 1930’s and later with the availability of more and cheaper art materials, many changes in the way art was produced took place in Bali. Visually these changes were marked by the use of shadow to create 3 dimensionall images on canvas, a wider pallet of colors and the subject of paintings also changed.

Whereas previsouly paintings always served a particular spiritual function and thus relied on specific iconography, now painters were representing everyday life activities such as farming, ceremonies, market scenes and the like. This also gave birth to art works as a market commodity as increaing numbers of tourists were visiting the island.

Ubud in particular -under the patronage of the royal family and the creation of the Pita Maha Artist Guild and Museum Puri Lukisan, saw the flourishing of the art of painting. Arie Smit was a Dutch painter who had setteld in Ubud and taken to providing painting materials and lessons to young villagers in the area.

Many youngsters learned to paint from him in a style that became known as the Young Artist School of Painting, characterised by the bright colors and simple forms inspired by the very young painters, many of which took to paintingas as they could not afford to go to school past elementary school.

Young painters from Ubud and Penestanan who had acccess to the nacent tourist market developed a style of painting that was both colorful and with subjects that foreingers could relate to such as animlas, flowers and scenes form everyday life in Bali.

In time people from other nearby villages came to Penestanan to learn from the young painters who were successful at selling their paintings in the increasing number of art shops in Ubud. Young men from Sayan would walk to campuan to sit with these painters and slowly learn the tricks of the trade. Although the Young Artist Style diverged from the classical style of Balinese paiting, the technique for producing artworks remained the same. Starting with pencil lines, black ink was then patiently ground-down from handmade tinctures or store-bought chinese ink. After the main lines were filled in using a bamboo stylus, lighter shading was added with locally sourced m aterial paintbrushes. Only then was color applied in a lengthyly process of layering water color tones one atop of the other until the desired brightness was acheived.

In harmony with the Balinese tradition

of representing nature as an interconnected whole with great detail, the surface of these paintings would be entirely covered with lines leaving littel to no-space of empty blocks of color. This visual characerisitc is found in all Modern Traditional balinse painting to varyign degrees.

The painters of Sayan developped their own distinct style with emphsais on bright happy scenes filled with incredibly intricate detail. Wheras many painters in Ubud focused on a few figures in the foreground whether dancers, people sellng their wares in the market or deities enacting ancient legends and accompanyign detailed backgronds and decoration, the painters of Sayan’s Young Artist lineage tended towards representing agricultural scenes , - particulalry rice fields, reflecting the environemnt in which they lived. Also, unlike their counterparts closer to Ubud who would sell their paintings more quickly, the Sayan painters had the luxury of time to create ever smaller figures and ever more intricate compositions.

Learning directly from more experienced painters through an informal apprenticship system where an aspirign artist would spend years sitting and watching a elder painter at work, develloping the patience required to produce such works, continued through the decades. In the 1980’2 and 90’s there were hundreds of painters developping their own unique style within this genre as the market still made it possible for them to live from this passion.

Art collectors would come to their studios

and buy their wokrs from them either to put in art-shops in Ubud or to take home with them.

Around the turn of the millenia however, the art market started to sufer as a result of local and global economic challenges. Many of these artist were forced to find other means of earnign a living.

A few artists from the Banjars of Baung, Kutuh, Tangkayuda (Bongkasa), have nonethelss managed to find the time to nurture their unwavering passion for this meditaitve artistic practice and form the core of an artist association called Sangar Seni Lukis Pelagih Banjar Baung, headed by master painter I Wayan Kaler. Like most Modern Traditional Balinese painting artist groups, Sangar Seni Lukis Pelangih rarely exhibit as a group anymore as the support system for such exhibitions has faded with the times, so they moslty rely on word of mouth to find buyers.

The 20 or so artists who make up Sangar Seni Lukis Pelangih however are growing older and are concerned about the futur of their art heritage. With a desire to inspire their fellow painters to continue develooping their individual styles and maintain this approach to painting, and also to encourage the younger generation to paricipate in learning to paint in this soul revealing manner, Kaler approached young up and coming painter I Wayan Donal about putting together an exhibition. Reknown painter sculptor and curator of Monekey Forest Ubud Gallery, Ketut Budiana agreed that these breathtaking art works should be brought together in one

place for people to enjoy. Academic art and culture researcher and write I Made Susante Dwipayana also felt moved by the tremendous value that these painters have to offer the world and is in the process of researching and documenting the aesthetic, formal, historical and conceptual aspects of the works of each of the artists in this exhibition.

There has in fact been a renewed interest in Modern Traditional Balinese Paintng in the last few years especially as younger artists embrace this style expanding its visal vocabulary to include more contemporary issues - most notably painters in Batuan.

Although the number of painters using this style and technique has indeed diminished over the last 2 decades and many painters in Ubud now preffer to use more globaly understood appraoches to painting, what is known as traditional painting is increasingly recognised by these same contemporary painters as an art form that can be just as relevant as any other and can express tremendous value in the hands of dedicated artists. How this will take shape in the coming years remains to be seen.

Sangar Seni Lukis Pelangih Banjar Baung’s exhibition Modern Traditional Balinese Painting from Sayan will open on June 26th at Monkey Forest Gellery at 7PM with openign words by Arma Museum’s founder Agung Rai and insighful texts by art writer and academic reseracher I Made Susanta Dwipayana. The historically rich and visually stunning exhibition will remain on display until July 26th, 2018. (kmb)

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A vast trove of valuables seized in raids on properties linked to Malaysia’s scandal-mired former leader, including cash, jewellery and luxury handbags, are worth up to $273 million.

Treasure trove seized from exMalaysia PM worth up to $273 million

KUALA LUMPUR - A vast trove of valuables seized in raids on properties linked to Malaysia’s scandal-mired former leader, including cash, jewellery and luxury handbags, are worth up to $273 million, police said Wednesday.

The searches, part of investigations into scandal-hit sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, netted 12,000 pieces of jewellery, bags containing almost $30 million in cash across 26 different currencies, more than 400 watches worth $19.3 million, and other high-end designer goods.

“I think this is the biggest seizure in Malaysian history,” said Amar Singh, the police’s head of commercial crime investigations, after officials completed the mammoth task of valuing all the items they uncovered in raids around Kuala Lumpur last month.

He said the items were worth between 910 million ringgit ($225 million) and 1.1 billion ringgit ($273 million).

The official salary of Najib Razak, the former premier, while in office was 22,827 ringgit ($5,670)

a month.

Allegations of massive corruption were a major factor behind last month’s shock election loss of Najib’s long-ruling coalition to a reformist alliance headed by Mahathir Mohamad.

Najib and his cronies were accused of plundering billions of dollars from 1MDB to buy everything from US real estate to artworks. Najib and the fund deny any wrongdoing.

His luxury-loving wife Rosmah Mansor became a lightning rod for public anger due to her vast collection of handbags and jewels, and her reported love of overseas shopping trips.

The mind-boggling collection of luxury items listed by police will increase public anger at the former first couple, whose spendthrift ways came to symbolise the decadence and rot in the Barisan Nasional coalition which ruled the country since independence from Britain in 1957 until its ouster last month.

Anger at allegations of graft swirling around Najib and his inner circle had become particularly acute in recent years, as many middle-class Malaysians increasingly struggled with stagnating wages and living standards. (afp)

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Homes evacuated as wildfire rages in northern England

LONDON - Firefighters on Wednesday battled a rare large wildfire near Manchester in northern England which has led to the evacuation of dozens of homes.

Police have declared the fire, which is still spreading across moorland to the east of the city, a “major incident” and said the army is on standby to step in.

Around 10 fire engines and 50 firefighters are tackling the blaze at Saddleworth Moor, according to Leon Parkes, assistant chief fire officer with Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.

“Fire crews have been working in tremendously difficult conditions in the heat, smoke, working with our partner agencies,” he said.

“A number of actions were put in place including the evacuation of nearby houses because of the spread of the fire.”

Parkes added that reports indicate the fire was six kilometres (four miles) long -- an unusually large wildfire for Britain, where they are rare events.

“We’ve got lots of experience with dealing with moor fires,” he said.

“But this particular incident is vast -- it’s presented some real challenges.”

The blaze broke out on Sun-

day and reignited Monday amid a period of sustained hot weather across Britain.

Greater Manchester Police said 34 homes have been evacuated so far as strong winds drive the flames closer to residential areas.

No injuries have been reported, but people living nearby have been advised to keep windows and doors closed by health officials and two schools will be closed on Wednesday.

Smoke has spread for miles, darkening skies above swathes of Greater Manchester, one of the most populated areas in Britain.

Nearby resident Dee Blanchard, 28, told the Manchester Evening News she had placed damp towels around the windows and doors in her home.

“It’s getting a bit frightening,” she said, adding nobody was venturing out and firefighters had warned the neighbourhood may need to be evacuated.

Parkes, the assistant fire chief, said his service planned “a heavy attack on this fire” on Wednesday by deploying additional resources.

“If that needs military assistance, that’s what we’ll consider,” he added.

The cause of the fire has not been established, Parkes said. (afp)

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Indonesians cast their ballots at a footballthemed polling station decorated to attract voters with the ongoing Russia 2018 World Cup, during regional elections in Bandung, Central Java on June 27, 2018. Tens of millions of Indonesians voted on June 27 in regional elections seen as a gauge of President Joko Widodo’s chances for re-election next year to head the world’s third-biggest democracy.

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Indonesia votes in preview of 2019 presidential polls

Tens of millions of Indonesians will vote Wednesday in regional elections seen as a gauge of President Joko Widodo’s prospects for re-election next year in the world’s third biggest democracy. Widodo, known as Jokowi, is popular across the 17,000-island archipelago. But he has struggled to keep his economic growth plans on track, while the growing power of hardline Islamist groups who oppose him could throw up a formidable challenge.

Some 152 million registered voters -- more than half of Indonesia’s 260 million-strong population -- are eligible to cast a ballot for 171 mayors, regional leaders and provincial governors.

A key battleground is West Java, the county’s most populous province, where voters will decide whether to back Jokowi’s allies. A loss in the region could be a blow to the 57-year-old leader as he gears up for an expected repeat of the 2014 contest that saw him beat retired general Prabowo Subianto for the presidency.

Subianto is believed to be planning to run again in the April 2019 presidential election. Authorities tightened security across the archipelago as voting got underway in the morning, with polls set to close later in the day. Results are expected by July 9. Indonesia has been on edge since a series of suicide bombings in the second biggest city of Surabaya last month stirred fears about Islamist militancy in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country.

Last week a cleric seen as a top messenger for the Islamic State group in Indonesia was sentenced to death for masterminding a 2016 suicide-and-gun attack in central Jakarta -- raising concerns about retaliatory attacks by his supporters. The political power of hardline Islamist groups is at unprecedented levels in officially pluralist Indonesia.

That power was highlighted when Jakarta’s first ethnically Chinese and Christian governor -- a key Jokowi ally -- lost his re-election bid last year over blasphemy allegations that later sent him to prison.

Supporters of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama’s Muslim challenger galvanised the opposition and drew hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of the capital to denounce him for insulting Islam. (afp)

Foreign observers from 12 countries monitor local elections in Indonesia

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A large moorland wildfire burns on the hills above Dove Stone Reservoir near Stalybridge, northwest England on June 26, 2018.

JAKARTA - Several foreign observers from 12 countries have visited Indonesia to monitor the implementation of the ongoing regional head elections (pilkada) being held simultaneously in 171 regions across the country on Wednesday. The foreign observers came from Australia, Switzerland, and several Asian countries, among others.

Several foreign embassies and three international election monitoring organizations have also sent their representatives to observe the third simultaneous pilkada

ever organized by the Indonesian government so far. At least 20 civil organizations of Indonesia have also sent observers to monitor the implementation of pilkada at various polling stations.

Three members of the Election Supervision Body -- Mochammad Afifuddin, Fritz Edward Siregar, and Rahmat Bagja -- will also personally monitor the implementation of pilkada. Afifuddin will monitor polling in Tangerang, Banten Province; Siregar in Bogor City; and Bagja in Bogor District.

Meanwhile, some 150 foreigners

from 24 countries participated in an election visit program in Surabaya, East Java, to observe the pilkada 2018.

The foreigners were from Fiji, Egypt, South Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom, among others. Over 152 million Indonesians were expected to go to polls to elect 17 governors, 39 mayors, and 115 district heads during the pilkada 2018 for the 2018-2023 term. The government declared the local election day as a national holiday.

Based on data of the General

Elections Commission, the total number of eligible voters for the pilkada 2018 reached 152,067,680 comprising some 76 million female voters and 75 million male voters. The Commission estimated that the total turnout will reach more than 70 percent.

The 17 provinces holding pilkada were East Java, Central Java, West Java, East Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, South Sumatra, Riau, Maluku, Bali, Southeast Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, North Sumatra, Papua,

North Maluku, and Lampung.

Indonesia had organized simultaneous pilkada peacefully in 2015 and 2017 respectively.

A total of 171,507 police personnel; 36,968 TNI or military forces; and 756,470 community guards were deployed to ensure security during elections. Brigadier General Rikwanto, head of the multimedia bureau of the Indonesia Police`s Public Relations Division, said recently that security forces stood guard to ensure security in 392,226 precincts set up for the elections. (ant)

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Back on top, Nadal aims to end Wimbledon woe

Jemme Jewellery Acclaimed Designer Jewellery in Seminyak

MANGUPURA - Jemme Jewellery, the main boutique at the House of Jemme, is a jewel lover’s paradise and offers an eclectic collection of jewellery, from unique rings, bracelets and necklaces to men’s silver and accessories. Some among the classic and contemporary items are one-off creations with organic and nature-inspired designs. Inside this low-key but hard-to-miss ‘house’ on Jalan Petitenget you will find cabinets and glass displays filled with gold and silver items that gleam with precious and semi-precious stones sourced from Indonesia and around the world.

Those who consider their trip incomplete if they do not take home a special sparkling little trinket will be pleasantly surprised after entering Jemme’s showroom. Inside, elegant spaces have Victorian-style fixtures and cabinets filled with Jemme’s frequently updated seasonal collections. Rest assured you’ll always

find world-class quality in store.

Jemme was a modest Bali-based venture of Luke Stockley, one of Europe’s most acclaimed and respected jewellers, who combined his design flair with local craftsmanship to create a distinguished luxury brand.

Jemme’s three main collections comprise Diamond, Silver and Gold, with varieties of rings, earrings, necklaces, pendants and bracelets.

The designs mix varieties of quartz and garnets, as well as diamonds, sapphires, rubies and many others.

In one showcase, you may find a diamond and tourmaline-studded 18ct white gold ring alongside tearshaped topaz and pale yellow citrine earrings, while framed displays on the walls highlight African ruby bands and aquamarine-set silver bracelets. You will also come across natural designs, such as a golden peapod locket with shiny pearls as its peas.

Searching for a special item here easily becomes an adventure,

as each gem of different colour, character and size has a background of its own. The boutique staff members are familiar with the origin and creation of each piece and are ready to show you the different types and characters of gems in its collection. You can also find them patiently sorting stones or tweezing tiny silver links at the counter – an opportunity to observe a fine jewellery piece in the making. Luckily, you might also run into the ownerdesigner, who shuttles between Bali and the UK, overseeing his thriving business here. Luke and his team are passionate in providing a personalised approach to find the right piece of adornment to complement a dress or an occasion, or to narrow down on a gift for someone special.

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LONDON - Rafael Nadal remains the king of clay, but the world number one arrives at Wimbledon harbouring only slender hopes of winning the tournament for the first time since 2010.

Nadal extended his incredible record on the red dirt of Roland Garros earlier this month as he crushed Dominic Thiem to win his 11th French Open title.

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The 17-time Grand Slam champion won the most recent of his two Wimbledon titles eight years ago and hasn’t been past the last 16 since 2011.

Nadal has admitted in the past that he finds it hard to make the

“I had to spend time adapting physically and in my tennis to the surface.

“I will certainly arrive at Wimbledon with less preparation, but I’m going with confidence high because I played very well through the whole clay-court season.”

Nadal has been preparing for Wimbledon by training for the past week on the grass courts of the Mallorca Open near his home in Manacor. (afp)

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That dominant streak extended Nadal’s impressive renaissance after two years of injury woe.

He has won three of the last five Grand Slams, taking the French Open two years in a row and lifting the US Open trophy in 2017.

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“I had a very intense campaign on clay and my body needed rest because drastic changes are not good,” Nadal said.

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LONDON - Britain’s world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has been given a 24-hour deadline to agree a fight with Russia’s Alexander Povetkin or risk being stripped of one of his titles.

Joshua added the World Boxing Organisation heavyweight belt to the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation straps he already held when he beat New Zealand’s Joseph Parker in Cardiff in March.

Since then Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has been trying to set up a unification bout with World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, but has not yet managed to do a deal with the American’s camp.

But the WBA are tired of waiting and have now told Joshua he must fight Povetkin, their mandatory challenger.

WBA president Gilberto Men-

doza, in a statement issued Tuesday, said: “Today the WBA requested an answer from Anthony Joshua’s team regarding his fight with the mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin.

“The WBA have allowed over a month extension to negotiations with Povetkin and also ongoing discussions with Deontay Wilder.

“It appears the Wilder team have not returned the contract for the fight and therefore we are requesting a date for the Joshua versus Povetkin fight with immediate effect.”

Given talks with Wilder appear to be stalled while his management seek “clarification” over the terms of a fight contract, a contest with Povetkin may well represent the ‘next best bout’ for London 2012 Olympic champion Joshua, who is unbeaten as a professional.

“We can’t do a lot more than

we are doing,” Hearn told Sky Sports on Tuesday when asked about progress in agreeing a bout with Wilder.

“Anthony is frustrated. We sent the contract nine days ago. Nothing makes sense here at all. They know we’re under pressure from the WBA. It feels like a big game.”

Hearn added: “He (Joshua) wants to fight Wilder but at the same time we are not going to lose a belt to the WBA. “Right now it looks like Povetkin is next but anything can happen in this sport.”

Joshua, 28, won his first world title in 2016 and has made five defences, taking his record to 21-0 with 20 knockouts.

Wilder, 32, improved to 40-0 with 39 knockouts when he knocked out previously unbeaten Cuban Luis Ortiz in the tenth round in Brooklyn, New York, on March 3.

Povetkin demonstrated his considerable punching power with a fearsome knockout of Britain’s David Price on the undercard of Joshua’s win over Parker at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.

Best known for staging Wales rugby union internationals, the

Principality -- which has a capacity of over 73,000 -- could also play host to a Joshua-Povetkin clash.

Were that fight to take place later this year, it would likely mean any bout between Joshua and Wilder would be delayed until 2019 at the earliest. (afp)

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Messi finally scores, Argentina advances at World Cup

ST. PETERSBURG - From his thigh to his foot to the back of the net, Lionel Messi finally scored a goal at this year’s World Cup.

The exquisite strike from the Argentina great sparked the first of several celebrations from an animated Diego Maradona, who screamed, shouted and made obscene gestures — and raised concerns for his health.

Argentina staved off elimination with a 2-1 victory over Nigeria on Tuesday, getting a late goal from Marcos Rojo. Maradona showed both middle fingers to the crowd after the 86th-minute winner.

A short time later, videos posted on social media showed Maradona needing help out of the stands and into an adjoining luxury box at the stadium. He appeared to have his eyes closed and a later photo showed a pair of paramedics attending to him.

There was no immediate information on his health, but about two hours later he was photographed smiling at an airport. Another photo posted on Twitter appeared to show him sitting on a plane.

Messi’s goal — his 65th for Argentina — was surely enough to impress even Maradona.

From a long pass over the defense by Ever Banega, Messi caressed the ball with his left thigh, took another touch with his left foot, and then delivered a smooth right-footed finish into the corner.

Messi fell to his knees and pointed his fingers upward in celebration. At the same time, Maradona crossed his arms with his hands on his shoulders and looked to the sky.

“I knew that God is with us,” Messi said, “and he wouldn’t let us get eliminated.” Messi, who later hit the post off a free kick, and Banega controlled the game in the first half. Rojo finished it off in the second by

cushioning a volley with his right foot into the bottom corner and ensuring Messi’s quest for a first World Cup title continued.

Argentina will play France in the last 16 in Kazan on Saturday. If Argentines win and Portugal beats Uruguay on Saturday, Messi would face Cristiano Ronaldo in the quarterfinals.

Without that late goal from Rojo, the 31-year-old Messi might have retired from international soccer for a second time — and for good this time.

Instead, it was Messi who was at the center of the celebrations. His teammates formed a circle around him while striker Gonzalo Higuain cried nearby.

Messi then clenched his fist as he turned toward the Argentina fans.

“He’s above everybody else,” Argentina coach Jorge Sampaoli said. “The most important thing for Leo is his human side. He cries. He suffers. He’s happy when Argentina wins. I know him.

“Many people say Leo does not enjoy playing for Argentina, but I do not agree. He enjoys and suffers like all the other players and that makes him even bigger.”

Before Rojo’s goal, Nigeria had been only a few minutes from qualifying for the last 16 for the fourth time. Javier Mascherano gave away a penalty with a pull on Leon Balogun at a 49th-minute corner. Victor Moses converted — and marked the goal with a somersault — to put Nigeria back in control of the race for second place in the group.

Argentina was facing finishing a World Cup without a win for the first time since 1934, but instead the team is headed to the knockout stage.

“This is Messi,” Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr said with a shrug. (ap)

ROSTOV-ON-DON - Croatia ended Iceland’s chances at the World Cup and helped out Argentina at the same time.

Ivan Perisic capitalized on a defensive error to score a 90th-minute winner Tuesday, giving Croatia a 2-1 win over Iceland and first place in Group D on Tuesday.

Iceland could have finished second in the group with a victory because Argentina beat Nigeria 2-1 at the same time. Instead, the Croats will face Denmark on Sunday in Nizhny Novgorod and Argentina will take on France on Saturday in Kazan.

Fielding a side filled with reserves after already being assured of a spot in the round of 16, Croatia started to take control of the match in the second half.

Milan Badelj, moments after hitting the bar, scored the opening goal in the 53rd minute. He sprinted into the area and sent a bouncing shot past goalkeeper Hannes Halldorsson.

“The fact that we’ve brought on nine new players and won is another sign of our strength and depth, and we have to be proud of that,” said Badelj, who was man of the match.

Iceland equalized in the 76th when Gylfi Sigurdsson scored from the pen-

alty spot after substitute Dejan Lovren handled the ball.

Defender Sverrir Ingason twice threatened for Iceland, hitting the crossbar with a header in the second half. “There is too much quality in Croatia,” Iceland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said. “I am disappointed but I am really proud of the character and the performance of the boys.

“It was a bit of a shock to concede one, but we did not give up,” he said.

“The players should have a lot of credit for this game. I couldn’t have been more proud.”

Luka Modric led the Croats for 65 minutes before being substituted. The team, which had already advanced going into the match, played with little verve for much of the match as they contained their opponents. Iceland needed a win to have a shot at a place in the elimination round.

Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic said he was pleased to show how deep the quality extended in his side, but also paid tribute to his opponents’ “character and discipline.” “I’m upset with the conceded goal, but ... we won nine points, the goal difference is 7-1, and we have top spot in the group. That is fantastic.” (ap)

Main man Mane critical to Senegal hopes in Colombia showdown

Senegal must cut out the defensive errors and find a way to get Sadio Mane firing like he does for Liverpool if they are to tame Colombia on Thursday and reach the World Cup last 16.

Coach Aliou Cisse was critical of his pacy and powerful side after their 2-2 draw with Japan on Sunday, saying their opponents were the better team, and called on forward Mane to step it up.

“Frankly, we were not very good,” concluded Cisse, Senegal captain in their run to the quarter-finals in 2002, their only previous appearance at a World Cup. Cisse was particularly unhappy with the way that Senegal twice threw away the lead in Yekaterinburg. Substitute Keisuke Honda’s leveller, 12 minutes from time, was an especially poor goal to give away as goalkeeper Khadim N’Diaye flapped at a cross.

Victory would have all but propelled Senegal into the last 16, but they now face a Colombia side in Samara who have their tails up following a classy 3-0 win over abject Poland. Going into the final round of games in Group H, Japan and Senegal have four points, Colombia have three and pointless Poland are already eliminated.

It means that a draw for Cisse’s side will be enough to progress. Belgium and England await whichever two teams make it out of Group H. Senegal were far

Senegal’s Senegal’s Sadio Mane, left, celebrates his side’s opening goal during the group H match between Japan and Senegal at the 2018 soccer World Cup at the Yekaterinburg Arena in Yekaterinburg , Russia, Sunday, June 24, 2018.

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Croatia’s Milan Badelj, top, jumps celebrating with teammates after scoring his side first goal during the group D match between Iceland and Croatia, at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Rostov Arena in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Tuesday, June 26, 2018.

from convincing against Japan and even though Mane scored

the opener it had a large dose of good luck about it. The 26-year-

old, coming off the back of a successful season at Anfield that saw Liverpool reach the Champions League final, was peripheral after that.

Cisse, who needs to find a way to get Mane more involved, was unimpressed. “A player like Sadio Mane is a player with a lot of expectations and he is one of the players under the spotlight,” said Cisse. “He can do better, but today he was better than against Poland and he needs to do better against Colombia.”

- Classy Colombia -

If there was something of a negative vibe around Senegal, Colombia are going in the opposite direction. They became the first South American side to lose to an Asian one at a World Cup when they were beaten 2-1 by

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Japan in their opener. But there were mitigating circumstances -- they played most of the game with 10 men after Carlos Sanchez was dismissed for handball.

Colombia coach Jose Pekerman was also unable to call on the services of the injured James Rodriguez from the start. But the midfielder, one of the stars of the World Cup four years ago, when Colombia marched to the quarter-finals, returned against the poor Poles with an impressive performance. Radamel Falcao, Yerry Mina and Juan Cuadrado all scored in a stylish victory, but Pekerman hinted afterwards that he might tinker for Senegal.

“When I make the starting lineup, I do it taking account of the whole context in which we find ourselves,” the Argentine said. (afp)

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Messi finally scores, Argentina advances at World Cup

ST. PETERSBURG - From his thigh to his foot to the back of the net, Lionel Messi finally scored a goal at this year’s World Cup.

The exquisite strike from the Argentina great sparked the first of several celebrations from an animated Diego Maradona, who screamed, shouted and made obscene gestures — and raised concerns for his health.

Argentina staved off elimination with a 2-1 victory over Nigeria on Tuesday, getting a late goal from Marcos Rojo. Maradona showed both middle fingers to the crowd after the 86th-minute winner.

A short time later, videos posted on social media showed Maradona needing help out of the stands and into an adjoining luxury box at the stadium. He appeared to have his eyes closed and a later photo showed a pair of paramedics attending to him.

There was no immediate information on his health, but about two hours later he was photographed smiling at an airport. Another photo posted on Twitter appeared to show him sitting on a plane.

Messi’s goal — his 65th for Argentina — was surely enough to impress even Maradona.

From a long pass over the defense by Ever Banega, Messi caressed the ball with his left thigh, took another touch with his left foot, and then delivered a smooth right-footed finish into the corner.

Messi fell to his knees and pointed his fingers upward in celebration. At the same time, Maradona crossed his arms with his hands on his shoulders and looked to the sky.

“I knew that God is with us,” Messi said, “and he wouldn’t let us get eliminated.” Messi, who later hit the post off a free kick, and Banega controlled the game in the first half. Rojo finished it off in the second by

cushioning a volley with his right foot into the bottom corner and ensuring Messi’s quest for a first World Cup title continued.

Argentina will play France in the last 16 in Kazan on Saturday. If Argentines win and Portugal beats Uruguay on Saturday, Messi would face Cristiano Ronaldo in the quarterfinals.

Without that late goal from Rojo, the 31-year-old Messi might have retired from international soccer for a second time — and for good this time.

Instead, it was Messi who was at the center of the celebrations. His teammates formed a circle around him while striker Gonzalo Higuain cried nearby.

Messi then clenched his fist as he turned toward the Argentina fans.

“He’s above everybody else,” Argentina coach Jorge Sampaoli said. “The most important thing for Leo is his human side. He cries. He suffers. He’s happy when Argentina wins. I know him.

“Many people say Leo does not enjoy playing for Argentina, but I do not agree. He enjoys and suffers like all the other players and that makes him even bigger.”

Before Rojo’s goal, Nigeria had been only a few minutes from qualifying for the last 16 for the fourth time. Javier Mascherano gave away a penalty with a pull on Leon Balogun at a 49th-minute corner. Victor Moses converted — and marked the goal with a somersault — to put Nigeria back in control of the race for second place in the group.

Argentina was facing finishing a World Cup without a win for the first time since 1934, but instead the team is headed to the knockout stage.

“This is Messi,” Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr said with a shrug. (ap)

ROSTOV-ON-DON - Croatia ended Iceland’s chances at the World Cup and helped out Argentina at the same time.

Ivan Perisic capitalized on a defensive error to score a 90th-minute winner Tuesday, giving Croatia a 2-1 win over Iceland and first place in Group D on Tuesday.

Iceland could have finished second in the group with a victory because Argentina beat Nigeria 2-1 at the same time. Instead, the Croats will face Denmark on Sunday in Nizhny Novgorod and Argentina will take on France on Saturday in Kazan.

Fielding a side filled with reserves after already being assured of a spot in the round of 16, Croatia started to take control of the match in the second half.

Milan Badelj, moments after hitting the bar, scored the opening goal in the 53rd minute. He sprinted into the area and sent a bouncing shot past goalkeeper Hannes Halldorsson.

“The fact that we’ve brought on nine new players and won is another sign of our strength and depth, and we have to be proud of that,” said Badelj, who was man of the match.

Iceland equalized in the 76th when Gylfi Sigurdsson scored from the pen-

alty spot after substitute Dejan Lovren handled the ball.

Defender Sverrir Ingason twice threatened for Iceland, hitting the crossbar with a header in the second half. “There is too much quality in Croatia,” Iceland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said. “I am disappointed but I am really proud of the character and the performance of the boys.

“It was a bit of a shock to concede one, but we did not give up,” he said.

“The players should have a lot of credit for this game. I couldn’t have been more proud.”

Luka Modric led the Croats for 65 minutes before being substituted. The team, which had already advanced going into the match, played with little verve for much of the match as they contained their opponents. Iceland needed a win to have a shot at a place in the elimination round.

Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic said he was pleased to show how deep the quality extended in his side, but also paid tribute to his opponents’ “character and discipline.” “I’m upset with the conceded goal, but ... we won nine points, the goal difference is 7-1, and we have top spot in the group. That is fantastic.” (ap)

Main man Mane critical to Senegal hopes in Colombia showdown

Senegal must cut out the defensive errors and find a way to get Sadio Mane firing like he does for Liverpool if they are to tame Colombia on Thursday and reach the World Cup last 16.

Coach Aliou Cisse was critical of his pacy and powerful side after their 2-2 draw with Japan on Sunday, saying their opponents were the better team, and called on forward Mane to step it up.

“Frankly, we were not very good,” concluded Cisse, Senegal captain in their run to the quarter-finals in 2002, their only previous appearance at a World Cup. Cisse was particularly unhappy with the way that Senegal twice threw away the lead in Yekaterinburg. Substitute Keisuke Honda’s leveller, 12 minutes from time, was an especially poor goal to give away as goalkeeper Khadim N’Diaye flapped at a cross.

Victory would have all but propelled Senegal into the last 16, but they now face a Colombia side in Samara who have their tails up following a classy 3-0 win over abject Poland. Going into the final round of games in Group H, Japan and Senegal have four points, Colombia have three and pointless Poland are already eliminated.

It means that a draw for Cisse’s side will be enough to progress. Belgium and England await whichever two teams make it out of Group H. Senegal were far

Senegal’s Senegal’s Sadio Mane, left, celebrates his side’s opening goal during the group H match between Japan and Senegal at the 2018 soccer World Cup at the Yekaterinburg Arena in Yekaterinburg , Russia, Sunday, June 24, 2018.

AP Photo/Mark Baker

Croatia’s Milan Badelj, top, jumps celebrating with teammates after scoring his side first goal during the group D match between Iceland and Croatia, at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Rostov Arena in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Tuesday, June 26, 2018.

from convincing against Japan and even though Mane scored

the opener it had a large dose of good luck about it. The 26-year-

old, coming off the back of a successful season at Anfield that saw Liverpool reach the Champions League final, was peripheral after that.

Cisse, who needs to find a way to get Mane more involved, was unimpressed. “A player like Sadio Mane is a player with a lot of expectations and he is one of the players under the spotlight,” said Cisse. “He can do better, but today he was better than against Poland and he needs to do better against Colombia.”

- Classy Colombia -

If there was something of a negative vibe around Senegal, Colombia are going in the opposite direction. They became the first South American side to lose to an Asian one at a World Cup when they were beaten 2-1 by

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Japan in their opener. But there were mitigating circumstances -- they played most of the game with 10 men after Carlos Sanchez was dismissed for handball.

Colombia coach Jose Pekerman was also unable to call on the services of the injured James Rodriguez from the start. But the midfielder, one of the stars of the World Cup four years ago, when Colombia marched to the quarter-finals, returned against the poor Poles with an impressive performance. Radamel Falcao, Yerry Mina and Juan Cuadrado all scored in a stylish victory, but Pekerman hinted afterwards that he might tinker for Senegal.

“When I make the starting lineup, I do it taking account of the whole context in which we find ourselves,” the Argentine said. (afp)

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Jemme Jewellery Acclaimed Designer Jewellery in Seminyak

MANGUPURA - Jemme Jewellery, the main boutique at the House of Jemme, is a jewel lover’s paradise and offers an eclectic collection of jewellery, from unique rings, bracelets and necklaces to men’s silver and accessories. Some among the classic and contemporary items are one-off creations with organic and nature-inspired designs. Inside this low-key but hard-to-miss ‘house’ on Jalan Petitenget you will find cabinets and glass displays filled with gold and silver items that gleam with precious and semi-precious stones sourced from Indonesia and around the world.

Those who consider their trip incomplete if they do not take home a special sparkling little trinket will be pleasantly surprised after entering Jemme’s showroom. Inside, elegant spaces have Victorian-style fixtures and cabinets filled with Jemme’s frequently updated seasonal collections. Rest assured you’ll always

find world-class quality in store.

Jemme was a modest Bali-based venture of Luke Stockley, one of Europe’s most acclaimed and respected jewellers, who combined his design flair with local craftsmanship to create a distinguished luxury brand.

Jemme’s three main collections comprise Diamond, Silver and Gold, with varieties of rings, earrings, necklaces, pendants and bracelets.

The designs mix varieties of quartz and garnets, as well as diamonds, sapphires, rubies and many others.

In one showcase, you may find a diamond and tourmaline-studded 18ct white gold ring alongside tearshaped topaz and pale yellow citrine earrings, while framed displays on the walls highlight African ruby bands and aquamarine-set silver bracelets. You will also come across natural designs, such as a golden peapod locket with shiny pearls as its peas.

Searching for a special item here easily becomes an adventure,

as each gem of different colour, character and size has a background of its own. The boutique staff members are familiar with the origin and creation of each piece and are ready to show you the different types and characters of gems in its collection. You can also find them patiently sorting stones or tweezing tiny silver links at the counter – an opportunity to observe a fine jewellery piece in the making. Luckily, you might also run into the ownerdesigner, who shuttles between Bali and the UK, overseeing his thriving business here. Luke and his team are passionate in providing a personalised approach to find the right piece of adornment to complement a dress or an occasion, or to narrow down on a gift for someone special.

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LONDON - Rafael Nadal remains the king of clay, but the world number one arrives at Wimbledon harbouring only slender hopes of winning the tournament for the first time since 2010.

Nadal extended his incredible record on the red dirt of Roland Garros earlier this month as he crushed Dominic Thiem to win his 11th French Open title.

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The 17-time Grand Slam champion won the most recent of his two Wimbledon titles eight years ago and hasn’t been past the last 16 since 2011.

Nadal has admitted in the past that he finds it hard to make the

“I had to spend time adapting physically and in my tennis to the surface.

“I will certainly arrive at Wimbledon with less preparation, but I’m going with confidence high because I played very well through the whole clay-court season.”

Nadal has been preparing for Wimbledon by training for the past week on the grass courts of the Mallorca Open near his home in Manacor. (afp)

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LONDON - Britain’s world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has been given a 24-hour deadline to agree a fight with Russia’s Alexander Povetkin or risk being stripped of one of his titles.

Joshua added the World Boxing Organisation heavyweight belt to the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation straps he already held when he beat New Zealand’s Joseph Parker in Cardiff in March.

Since then Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has been trying to set up a unification bout with World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, but has not yet managed to do a deal with the American’s camp.

But the WBA are tired of waiting and have now told Joshua he must fight Povetkin, their mandatory challenger.

WBA president Gilberto Men-

doza, in a statement issued Tuesday, said: “Today the WBA requested an answer from Anthony Joshua’s team regarding his fight with the mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin.

“The WBA have allowed over a month extension to negotiations with Povetkin and also ongoing discussions with Deontay Wilder.

“It appears the Wilder team have not returned the contract for the fight and therefore we are requesting a date for the Joshua versus Povetkin fight with immediate effect.”

Given talks with Wilder appear to be stalled while his management seek “clarification” over the terms of a fight contract, a contest with Povetkin may well represent the ‘next best bout’ for London 2012 Olympic champion Joshua, who is unbeaten as a professional.

“We can’t do a lot more than

we are doing,” Hearn told Sky Sports on Tuesday when asked about progress in agreeing a bout with Wilder.

“Anthony is frustrated. We sent the contract nine days ago. Nothing makes sense here at all. They know we’re under pressure from the WBA. It feels like a big game.”

Hearn added: “He (Joshua) wants to fight Wilder but at the same time we are not going to lose a belt to the WBA. “Right now it looks like Povetkin is next but anything can happen in this sport.”

Joshua, 28, won his first world title in 2016 and has made five defences, taking his record to 21-0 with 20 knockouts.

Wilder, 32, improved to 40-0 with 39 knockouts when he knocked out previously unbeaten Cuban Luis Ortiz in the tenth round in Brooklyn, New York, on March 3.

Povetkin demonstrated his considerable punching power with a fearsome knockout of Britain’s David Price on the undercard of Joshua’s win over Parker at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.

Best known for staging Wales rugby union internationals, the

Principality -- which has a capacity of over 73,000 -- could also play host to a Joshua-Povetkin clash.

Were that fight to take place later this year, it would likely mean any bout between Joshua and Wilder would be delayed until 2019 at the earliest. (afp)

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A vast trove of valuables seized in raids on properties linked to Malaysia’s scandal-mired former leader, including cash, jewellery and luxury handbags, are worth up to $273 million.

Treasure trove seized from exMalaysia PM worth up to $273 million

KUALA LUMPUR - A vast trove of valuables seized in raids on properties linked to Malaysia’s scandal-mired former leader, including cash, jewellery and luxury handbags, are worth up to $273 million, police said Wednesday.

The searches, part of investigations into scandal-hit sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, netted 12,000 pieces of jewellery, bags containing almost $30 million in cash across 26 different currencies, more than 400 watches worth $19.3 million, and other high-end designer goods.

“I think this is the biggest seizure in Malaysian history,” said Amar Singh, the police’s head of commercial crime investigations, after officials completed the mammoth task of valuing all the items they uncovered in raids around Kuala Lumpur last month.

He said the items were worth between 910 million ringgit ($225 million) and 1.1 billion ringgit ($273 million).

The official salary of Najib Razak, the former premier, while in office was 22,827 ringgit ($5,670)

a month.

Allegations of massive corruption were a major factor behind last month’s shock election loss of Najib’s long-ruling coalition to a reformist alliance headed by Mahathir Mohamad.

Najib and his cronies were accused of plundering billions of dollars from 1MDB to buy everything from US real estate to artworks. Najib and the fund deny any wrongdoing.

His luxury-loving wife Rosmah Mansor became a lightning rod for public anger due to her vast collection of handbags and jewels, and her reported love of overseas shopping trips.

The mind-boggling collection of luxury items listed by police will increase public anger at the former first couple, whose spendthrift ways came to symbolise the decadence and rot in the Barisan Nasional coalition which ruled the country since independence from Britain in 1957 until its ouster last month.

Anger at allegations of graft swirling around Najib and his inner circle had become particularly acute in recent years, as many middle-class Malaysians increasingly struggled with stagnating wages and living standards. (afp)

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Homes evacuated as wildfire rages in northern England

LONDON - Firefighters on Wednesday battled a rare large wildfire near Manchester in northern England which has led to the evacuation of dozens of homes.

Police have declared the fire, which is still spreading across moorland to the east of the city, a “major incident” and said the army is on standby to step in.

Around 10 fire engines and 50 firefighters are tackling the blaze at Saddleworth Moor, according to Leon Parkes, assistant chief fire officer with Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.

“Fire crews have been working in tremendously difficult conditions in the heat, smoke, working with our partner agencies,” he said.

“A number of actions were put in place including the evacuation of nearby houses because of the spread of the fire.”

Parkes added that reports indicate the fire was six kilometres (four miles) long -- an unusually large wildfire for Britain, where they are rare events.

“We’ve got lots of experience with dealing with moor fires,” he said.

“But this particular incident is vast -- it’s presented some real challenges.”

The blaze broke out on Sun-

day and reignited Monday amid a period of sustained hot weather across Britain.

Greater Manchester Police said 34 homes have been evacuated so far as strong winds drive the flames closer to residential areas.

No injuries have been reported, but people living nearby have been advised to keep windows and doors closed by health officials and two schools will be closed on Wednesday.

Smoke has spread for miles, darkening skies above swathes of Greater Manchester, one of the most populated areas in Britain.

Nearby resident Dee Blanchard, 28, told the Manchester Evening News she had placed damp towels around the windows and doors in her home.

“It’s getting a bit frightening,” she said, adding nobody was venturing out and firefighters had warned the neighbourhood may need to be evacuated.

Parkes, the assistant fire chief, said his service planned “a heavy attack on this fire” on Wednesday by deploying additional resources.

“If that needs military assistance, that’s what we’ll consider,” he added.

The cause of the fire has not been established, Parkes said. (afp)

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Indonesians cast their ballots at a footballthemed polling station decorated to attract voters with the ongoing Russia 2018 World Cup, during regional elections in Bandung, Central Java on June 27, 2018. Tens of millions of Indonesians voted on June 27 in regional elections seen as a gauge of President Joko Widodo’s chances for re-election next year to head the world’s third-biggest democracy.

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Indonesia votes in preview of 2019 presidential polls

Tens of millions of Indonesians will vote Wednesday in regional elections seen as a gauge of President Joko Widodo’s prospects for re-election next year in the world’s third biggest democracy. Widodo, known as Jokowi, is popular across the 17,000-island archipelago. But he has struggled to keep his economic growth plans on track, while the growing power of hardline Islamist groups who oppose him could throw up a formidable challenge.

Some 152 million registered voters -- more than half of Indonesia’s 260 million-strong population -- are eligible to cast a ballot for 171 mayors, regional leaders and provincial governors.

A key battleground is West Java, the county’s most populous province, where voters will decide whether to back Jokowi’s allies. A loss in the region could be a blow to the 57-year-old leader as he gears up for an expected repeat of the 2014 contest that saw him beat retired general Prabowo Subianto for the presidency.

Subianto is believed to be planning to run again in the April 2019 presidential election. Authorities tightened security across the archipelago as voting got underway in the morning, with polls set to close later in the day. Results are expected by July 9. Indonesia has been on edge since a series of suicide bombings in the second biggest city of Surabaya last month stirred fears about Islamist militancy in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country.

Last week a cleric seen as a top messenger for the Islamic State group in Indonesia was sentenced to death for masterminding a 2016 suicide-and-gun attack in central Jakarta -- raising concerns about retaliatory attacks by his supporters. The political power of hardline Islamist groups is at unprecedented levels in officially pluralist Indonesia.

That power was highlighted when Jakarta’s first ethnically Chinese and Christian governor -- a key Jokowi ally -- lost his re-election bid last year over blasphemy allegations that later sent him to prison.

Supporters of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama’s Muslim challenger galvanised the opposition and drew hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of the capital to denounce him for insulting Islam. (afp)

Foreign observers from 12 countries monitor local elections in Indonesia

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A large moorland wildfire burns on the hills above Dove Stone Reservoir near Stalybridge, northwest England on June 26, 2018.

JAKARTA - Several foreign observers from 12 countries have visited Indonesia to monitor the implementation of the ongoing regional head elections (pilkada) being held simultaneously in 171 regions across the country on Wednesday. The foreign observers came from Australia, Switzerland, and several Asian countries, among others.

Several foreign embassies and three international election monitoring organizations have also sent their representatives to observe the third simultaneous pilkada

ever organized by the Indonesian government so far. At least 20 civil organizations of Indonesia have also sent observers to monitor the implementation of pilkada at various polling stations.

Three members of the Election Supervision Body -- Mochammad Afifuddin, Fritz Edward Siregar, and Rahmat Bagja -- will also personally monitor the implementation of pilkada. Afifuddin will monitor polling in Tangerang, Banten Province; Siregar in Bogor City; and Bagja in Bogor District.

Meanwhile, some 150 foreigners

from 24 countries participated in an election visit program in Surabaya, East Java, to observe the pilkada 2018.

The foreigners were from Fiji, Egypt, South Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom, among others. Over 152 million Indonesians were expected to go to polls to elect 17 governors, 39 mayors, and 115 district heads during the pilkada 2018 for the 2018-2023 term. The government declared the local election day as a national holiday.

Based on data of the General

Elections Commission, the total number of eligible voters for the pilkada 2018 reached 152,067,680 comprising some 76 million female voters and 75 million male voters. The Commission estimated that the total turnout will reach more than 70 percent.

The 17 provinces holding pilkada were East Java, Central Java, West Java, East Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, South Sumatra, Riau, Maluku, Bali, Southeast Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, North Sumatra, Papua,

North Maluku, and Lampung.

Indonesia had organized simultaneous pilkada peacefully in 2015 and 2017 respectively.

A total of 171,507 police personnel; 36,968 TNI or military forces; and 756,470 community guards were deployed to ensure security during elections. Brigadier General Rikwanto, head of the multimedia bureau of the Indonesia Police`s Public Relations Division, said recently that security forces stood guard to ensure security in 392,226 precincts set up for the elections. (ant)

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LONDON — While it’s still unclear what Brexit will look like when it happens next year, the decision to leave has already had a clear effect on the economy: households are poorer, companies are more cautious about investing, and the property market has cooled.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, June 20, 2018, anti-Brexit, pro-EU supporters hold placards during a protest near the Houses of Parliament in London. The divisions opened up by the 2016 referendum have not healed, but hardened, splitting Britain into two camps: leavers and remainers. Almost the only thing the two groups share is pessimism about the way Brexit is going. making imports and energy more expensive for consumers and companies — the rate of inflation hit a high of 3 percent late last year.

The weaker pound helped some companies: exporters and multinationals that do not sell mainly in the U.K. But it hurt consumer spending and businesses that depend on their shopping. The retail industry was hit hard, with high-profile companies like Toys R Us and Maplin going bust, and supermarket chain Marks and Spencer planning deep cuts.

While prices rose, wages lagged, even though unemployment is at its lowest since 1975, at 4.2 percent.

“After Brexit, prices definitely went up”, said Nagesh Balusu,

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Modern Traditional Balinese Painting in Ubud

2 years on, Brexit vote has taken a toll on UK economy In the two years since the vote to leave the European Union, Britain has gone from being a pace-setter among the world’s big economies to falling into the slow lane. And the uncertainty over what relations with the EU will be when Brexit becomes official on March 29, 2019 could make matters worse.

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government remains split on what those relations should be. There are those who favor a “hard Brexit,” a clean break that takes Britain out of the bloc’s free trade union but also gives it more freedom to strike new trade deals around the world. Others want to keep Britain as close as possible to the EU, Britain’s biggest trading partner, which could mean it has to obey more of the bloc’s rules.

Big companies are sounding the alarm bell, with plane making giant Airbus this week threatening to pull out of the country, where it employs 14,000, if it gets no clarity on future trade deals.

“Thousands of skilled, wellpaid jobs are now on the line because of the shambolic mess the government have created over the Brexit negotiations,” said Darren Jones, the lawmaker for the community where Airbus has its plant.

Before the referendum of June 2016, the British economy had been one of the fastest-growing industrial economies for years. Now, it’s barely growing. In the first quarter of this year it expanded by just 0.1 percent from the previous three-month period, its slowest rate in about five years.

For most people, the first and most noticeable impact was the drop in the pound. The currency slid 15 percent after the vote in June 2016 to a post-1985 low of $1.21. That boosted prices by

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manager of the Salt Whisky Bar and Dining Room in London. “We struggled a bit earlier this year, so now we’ve increased the prices.”

The bar is next to Hyde Park, a popular destination for foreign visitors. “The tourists have a good exchange rate. They know they can spend a little bit more than they usually do. But the locals are coming a little less. They are starting to think about how much they spend.”

The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, estimated recently that average household incomes are around 900 pounds lower than the bank was forecasting on the eve of the referendum.

The real estate market, meanwhile, has cooled considerably,

with the number of property sales in London near a historic low last year, according to estate agent Foxtons.

While some foreign prospective buyers were attracted by the drop in the pound, others seem to have been scared off by uncertainty over what Brexit might mean for their investment.

House prices are stagnating after years of gains, also due to expectations that the Bank of England will keep gradually increasing interest rates.

Nic Budden, Foxton’s CEO, predicts that the real estate market will remain challenging this year, while Samuel Tombs, analyst at Pantheon Economics, predicts that house prices will flatline for the

next 6 months.

Against the backdrop of uncertainty, businesses have become more reluctant to invest in big projects. Because Brexit could lead to tariffs on EU imports of British goods, companies are hesitant to spend big on British plants and office space before they know what the new rules will be.

Benoit Rochet, the deputy chief of the port of Calais, the French town across the Channel from Britain, complained to a parliamentary committee this month that “we know there is Brexit but we don’t know exactly what Brexit means.””You are not alone,” responded the Conservative chair of the committee, Nicky Morgan. (ap)

Time brings innovatinos but essence maintained

Until about a hundred years ago, art in Bali was only ever produced as a form of religious devotion and often in collaboration between several artists for a single art work. Although indivudial artists were recognised for their particular gifts withintn their comunity, art was produced anonymously and was intimately tied to the community and religious practices.

WIth the arrival of fereign artsists in the 1930’s and later with the availability of more and cheaper art materials, many changes in the way art was produced took place in Bali. Visually these changes were marked by the use of shadow to create 3 dimensionall images on canvas, a wider pallet of colors and the subject of paintings also changed.

Whereas previsouly paintings always served a particular spiritual function and thus relied on specific iconography, now painters were representing everyday life activities such as farming, ceremonies, market scenes and the like. This also gave birth to art works as a market commodity as increaing numbers of tourists were visiting the island.

Ubud in particular -under the patronage of the royal family and the creation of the Pita Maha Artist Guild and Museum Puri Lukisan, saw the flourishing of the art of painting. Arie Smit was a Dutch painter who had setteld in Ubud and taken to providing painting materials and lessons to young villagers in the area.

Many youngsters learned to paint from him in a style that became known as the Young Artist School of Painting, characterised by the bright colors and simple forms inspired by the very young painters, many of which took to paintingas as they could not afford to go to school past elementary school.

Young painters from Ubud and Penestanan who had acccess to the nacent tourist market developed a style of painting that was both colorful and with subjects that foreingers could relate to such as animlas, flowers and scenes form everyday life in Bali.

In time people from other nearby villages came to Penestanan to learn from the young painters who were successful at selling their paintings in the increasing number of art shops in Ubud. Young men from Sayan would walk to campuan to sit with these painters and slowly learn the tricks of the trade. Although the Young Artist Style diverged from the classical style of Balinese paiting, the technique for producing artworks remained the same. Starting with pencil lines, black ink was then patiently ground-down from handmade tinctures or store-bought chinese ink. After the main lines were filled in using a bamboo stylus, lighter shading was added with locally sourced m aterial paintbrushes. Only then was color applied in a lengthyly process of layering water color tones one atop of the other until the desired brightness was acheived.

In harmony with the Balinese tradition

of representing nature as an interconnected whole with great detail, the surface of these paintings would be entirely covered with lines leaving littel to no-space of empty blocks of color. This visual characerisitc is found in all Modern Traditional balinse painting to varyign degrees.

The painters of Sayan developped their own distinct style with emphsais on bright happy scenes filled with incredibly intricate detail. Wheras many painters in Ubud focused on a few figures in the foreground whether dancers, people sellng their wares in the market or deities enacting ancient legends and accompanyign detailed backgronds and decoration, the painters of Sayan’s Young Artist lineage tended towards representing agricultural scenes , - particulalry rice fields, reflecting the environemnt in which they lived. Also, unlike their counterparts closer to Ubud who would sell their paintings more quickly, the Sayan painters had the luxury of time to create ever smaller figures and ever more intricate compositions.

Learning directly from more experienced painters through an informal apprenticship system where an aspirign artist would spend years sitting and watching a elder painter at work, develloping the patience required to produce such works, continued through the decades. In the 1980’2 and 90’s there were hundreds of painters developping their own unique style within this genre as the market still made it possible for them to live from this passion.

Art collectors would come to their studios

and buy their wokrs from them either to put in art-shops in Ubud or to take home with them.

Around the turn of the millenia however, the art market started to sufer as a result of local and global economic challenges. Many of these artist were forced to find other means of earnign a living.

A few artists from the Banjars of Baung, Kutuh, Tangkayuda (Bongkasa), have nonethelss managed to find the time to nurture their unwavering passion for this meditaitve artistic practice and form the core of an artist association called Sangar Seni Lukis Pelagih Banjar Baung, headed by master painter I Wayan Kaler. Like most Modern Traditional Balinese painting artist groups, Sangar Seni Lukis Pelangih rarely exhibit as a group anymore as the support system for such exhibitions has faded with the times, so they moslty rely on word of mouth to find buyers.

The 20 or so artists who make up Sangar Seni Lukis Pelangih however are growing older and are concerned about the futur of their art heritage. With a desire to inspire their fellow painters to continue develooping their individual styles and maintain this approach to painting, and also to encourage the younger generation to paricipate in learning to paint in this soul revealing manner, Kaler approached young up and coming painter I Wayan Donal about putting together an exhibition. Reknown painter sculptor and curator of Monekey Forest Ubud Gallery, Ketut Budiana agreed that these breathtaking art works should be brought together in one

place for people to enjoy. Academic art and culture researcher and write I Made Susante Dwipayana also felt moved by the tremendous value that these painters have to offer the world and is in the process of researching and documenting the aesthetic, formal, historical and conceptual aspects of the works of each of the artists in this exhibition.

There has in fact been a renewed interest in Modern Traditional Balinese Paintng in the last few years especially as younger artists embrace this style expanding its visal vocabulary to include more contemporary issues - most notably painters in Batuan.

Although the number of painters using this style and technique has indeed diminished over the last 2 decades and many painters in Ubud now preffer to use more globaly understood appraoches to painting, what is known as traditional painting is increasingly recognised by these same contemporary painters as an art form that can be just as relevant as any other and can express tremendous value in the hands of dedicated artists. How this will take shape in the coming years remains to be seen.

Sangar Seni Lukis Pelangih Banjar Baung’s exhibition Modern Traditional Balinese Painting from Sayan will open on June 26th at Monkey Forest Gellery at 7PM with openign words by Arma Museum’s founder Agung Rai and insighful texts by art writer and academic reseracher I Made Susanta Dwipayana. The historically rich and visually stunning exhibition will remain on display until July 26th, 2018. (kmb)

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Rainfall hampers rescue for children stuck in Thai cave

Eight crafters given carving tool aids

MANGUPURA - Eight groups of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) engaged in the handicraft sector received an aid from the Badung district government on Tuesday (Jun. 26). This group of craftsmen comes from Abiansemal, Dalung and Mengwi.

Head of the Badung Cooperatives, MSME and Trade Agency, I Ketut Karpiana, said the aid for the MSMEs is for the fifth time. The aids disbursed by the district government are in the form of working tools such as chisels and cutting machines related to carving.

“Provision of this grant aid equipment for the MSMEs is not for the first time made by the government.

It has also been done previously to improve and encourage the growth of the MSMEs in Badung so as to support the growth of economic pillars a villages to make them the center of economic growth,” said Ketut Karpiana, on Tuesday (Jun. 26).

Other than the aid, the Badung district government, said Karpiana, also accompanies the MSMEs from the upstream to downstream.

The needs of the upstream include facilities and infrastructure and then in the downstream is human resource development through training regarding the proper business management.

“The grant in the form of equipment aid aims to improve the MSMEs and encourage its growth in Badung.

What we give now is intended to increase the productivity of MSMEs in Badung district,” he explained.

Assistant for Economic and Development Affairs, I Dewa Made Apramana, said the regional economy is generally supported by small and medium economic activities.

The business units included in the category of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the core of the regional and national economy.

“Role of the government poses one of the prerequisites of the success in the MSME development so as to yield highly competitive products.

It considers that most residents are players of the MSME business having a great opportunity to develop export-oriented products,” he said.

The government provides an aid in the form of working equipment for the MSMEs to increase production and develop their business so that later on they are able to create job opportunities for surrounding people. Procurement of the working equipment for small and medium enterprises aims to support the operations or MSME products to be implemented with the maximum. (kmb27)

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MAE SAI - Rescuers struggled to drain a flooded cave in Thailand Wednesday where 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for days, as monks chanted prayers for the boys.

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Tembang Girang (Song of Happiness) Contest at the Bali Art Festival (BAF) XL at the Ratna Kanda Stage, Denpasar Art Center.

Tembang Girang carries premarital sex messages

Fails to be a doctor and get married, finally dies

DENPASAR - Ni Putu Wulandari was at issue after reportedly died of suicide. This high school student took a shortcut because she could not bear the shame and hurt, particularly after knowing she was pregnant because of premarital sex when establishing love with I Made Yuda. Her parents could not accept her pregnancy and instead recited Ni Putu Wulandari. Now, she only leaves sorrows.

“She failed to be a doctor and get married, and finally died. Everything has failed,” it is the illustration of regret and failure hitting the family of Ni Putu Wulandari. The negative impact of premarital sex is narrated by Sekar Hati art studio from Kutuh hamlet, Sayan, Ubud, Gianyar, while participating in the Tembang Girang (Song of Happiness) Contest at the Bali Art Festival (BAF) XL at the Ratna Kanda Stage, Denpasar Art Center, on Tuesday (Jun. 26).

Chief of the art studio, Ni Wayan Suratni, said the Tembang Girang is entitled ‘Semara Geni’ or the fire of romance. If people cannot control it, undesirable things will happen like the premarital sex among school students.

Other than violating the teachings of Hindu-

ism, premarital sex can also bury the dream of the students and their parents.

“So, here we would like to straighten young people that are dating or looking for friends to be vigilant, whether it is behaving, making friends and doing something good,” he said.

Suratni added the performance in the BAF was prepared for two months. It was stated from casting of the singer to selection of gamelan elements. Incidentally there is a semarandana gamelan instrument that was then combined with geguntangan. The tembang girang itself is almost the same as the taman penasar. However, the participants’ criteria are now limited between the ages of 17 and 25 while the criteria of taman penasar is not limited so that it is easier to find

participants.

“So this (tembang gembang) is a kind of regeneration. In other words, it is hard to look for singers of such age because young people rarely want to learn or pursue traditional song,” he explained.

Suratni admitted to get challenged to train three traditional singers performed with three interpreters, 15 gamelan players and a moderator. They are really trained from zero.

Moreover, the tembang girang is the development of pesantian (psalmody) embellished with body language and expression as well as traditional notation. However, it cannot be equated to sitting arja operetta that is slightly theatrical. “Megegirangan means to be in a state of happiness, although there is a sad song,” he said. (rin)

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Rescue personnel are seen at the opening of the Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai on June 27, 2018 while operation continue for a missing children’s football team and their coach.

The young football team, aged between 11 and 16, have been stuck in the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand since Saturday night after monsoon rains blocked the main entrance.

Hundreds of rescue workers worked overnight to install highpressure water pumps to reduce flooding in the cave, but it was a losing battle as rains continued to fall in the area near the Laos and Myanmar borders in northern Chiang Rai province.

“Today’s work is much harder, we are trying hard to drain water by pumping out but the water level is still rising,” provincial governor Narongsak Osottanakorn told reporters.

Conditions in the cave also proved tough for the 200 rescuers dispatched into the tunnels to find the boys.

“The water inside the cave is very murky, and there’s not much oxygen,” Narongsak said.

The governor said three foreign cave-diving experts would arrive

Wednesday evening to aid the harrowing search that pressed into its fifth day Wednesday.

Around 1,000 people had been mobilised for the rescue efforts, including air and ground teams and divers. The Army also dispatched special operation troops to aid the rescue.

Thailand’s Navy SEAL unit said on their Facebook page that water levels rose 15 centimetres (six inches) overnight and that a third chamber of the complex cave network -- believed to be several kilometres long -- was now flooded.

Soldiers carried large hoses to attach to eight water pumps that were shipped in to drain rising flood waters.

Monks in bright orange robes led chants alongside distraught relatives who clung to hope the boys would be rescued soon.

“I hope that today with the help from all teams he will be saved. I’m certain in my heart,” Pean Kamlue, the mother of a 16-year-old boy in the cave, told AFP. (afp)

Kim Jong Nam probe slammed as ‘shoddy’ as trial resumes

SHAH ALAM - The investigation into the assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother was “shoddy” and “lopsided”, a Malaysian court heard Wednesday as the trial resumed of two women accused of the murder.

Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong allegedly killed Kim Jong Nam by smearing a toxic nerve agent on his face at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last year in a Cold War-style hit that shocked the world.

Defence lawyers have argued that the women were recruited to take part in what they thought were prank TV shows but were instead tricked into becoming inadvertent assassins, in an elaborate plot by a group of North Korean agents.

The women, in their 20s, have denied murdering Kim Jong Un’s estranged halfbrother as he waited for a flight to Macau.

They face death by hanging if found guilty.

The trial, which began last year, resumed Wednesday after a break since early April, with the women escorted into court handcuffed and wearing bullet-proof vests.

Aisyah’s lawyer Gooi Soon Seng made his final submission, telling the Shah Alam High Court, outside Kuala Lumpur, that “the investigation was not only shoddy but was lopsided”.

The charge was “vague” and the prosecution “has failed to make out a prima facie case against the accused (Aisyah)”, he said.

Gooi argued prosecutors had not proven his client applied the VX nerve agent on Kim’s face and questioned why -- if she really were the assassin -- she had told friends and family so readily about the supposed TV pranks that she was involved in.

He also said it was unusual that Aisyah did not suffer any symptoms due to contact with VX, which the United Nations classifies as a weapon of mass destruction.

Four North Koreans are accused of involvement in the murder but fled the country immediately after the killing. Aisyah and Huong’s lawyers allege they paid the women to carry out what they believed were pranks for a reality TV show.

South Korea accused the North of masterminding the killing of Kim Jong Nam, who had been living in exile after falling out of favour with the ruling family in Pyongyang.

The assassination also sparked a row between North Korea and Malaysia, which had historically been one of Pyongyang’s few allies. However ties appear to be improving, with the new Malaysian government announcing plans to reopen its embassy in Pyongyang. (afp)

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Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong (C) is escorted by Malaysian police after a court session for her trial at the Shah Alam High Court in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur on June 27, 2018 for her alleged role in the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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Modified polio vaccine helps fight deadly brain tumors

BCG vaccine

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Can a cheap and widely available TB vaccine help diabetics?

MASSACHUSETTS - There’s more evidence that a vaccine used to fight tuberculosis for 100 years might help people with diabetes.

Researchers said Monday that a few diabetics who got the vaccine had much better control of their blood sugar after eight years than people who did not get it.

It’s a small study and many experts are skeptical about it. But if the results hold up in more people over time, it could point to a cheap and easy way to help keep people with type-1 diabetes healthy.

The team at Massachusetts General Hospital has been testing the bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, used to prevent tuberculosis and to treat some forms of bladder cancer.

Tests in animals had indicated that it might help fight the immune system mistakes that cause type-1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes. It’s caused when the body mistakenly destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin, forcing patients to carefully monitor their blood sugar for life and to inject insulin as needed.

This team in the lab of Dr. Denise Faustman has been following 282 people, including 52 diabetics who got the vaccine.

Three years after they got two doses of BCG, six of the diabetes patients had near-normal levels of blood sugar and had lower average blood sugar levels than those who got placebo shots, the team reported in the journal npj Vaccines. These effects have lasted, so far, for five years.

“We still have to use insulin, but we’re finally able to get to the nearly normal range,” Faustman said.

“Nobody’s been able to do that before.”

It takes three years for the vaccine’s benefits to kick in, and people need two doses, a month apart, to benefit, the team found. But after that, the patients did not receive any more extra treatment.

They researchers will also present their findings to a meeting of the American Diabetes Association in Orlando.

The vaccine does not appear to work in the way the research team initially thought it would. It does not cause the damaged pancreatic cells to regenerate, they found.

Instead, it appears to change the way the body metabolizes sugar. And it appears to do so safely, they said.

“BCG treatment does not carry the risk of hypoglycemia as is the case for intense insulin therapy,” they wrote.

The research has been controversial from the beginning and diabetes experts are reluctant to say much about it.

“If a simple and safe BCG vaccination could improve glucose control in Type-1 diabetes it would be a major advance. Unfortunately this study does not give any strong evidence to say this is the case,” said Andrew Hattersley of the University of Exeter Medical School in Britain.

The patients also continued their normal self-care, watching their blood sugar levels and giving themselves insulin as needed.

“This could be something that happened by chance because people were a bit more diligent or leaner or more compliant with diet,” said Dr. Adrian Vella, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic. (net)

NEW ENGLAND - A modified version of the polio vaccine, infused straight into aggressive brain tumors, helped some patients live for years longer than they normally would have, doctors reported Tuesday.

It’s no miracle cure — only about 20 percent of patients with gliomas were helped — but some are alive six years later, the team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It’s a hopeful enough finding to move forward and test the vaccine in more people, the team at the Duke University School of Medicine said.

“It’s very unusual, almost unprecedented to get this kind of long-term survival,” neurologist Dr. Darell Bigner, who led the study team, told NBC News.

The Duke team tested 61 glioma patients over five years.

They all had grade IV gliomas, a group of brain tumors that includes glioblastoma.

These patients have a “dismal” diagnosis, the Duke team wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine. “There is currently no effective therapy.”

Standard treatment of brain tumors includes surgery if the tumor is somewhere reachable; chemotherapy; and radiation.

But if the tumor is aggressive, it’s usually fatal.

“These are people who failed everything,” Bigner said.

“Virtually all patients, no matter what you treat them with, are dead within in two years.”

About a third of all brain tumors are gliomas, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. About 80,000 people a year are diagnosed with a brain tumor, and about 24,000 of those are malignant. “The average survival rate for all malignant brain tumor patients is only 34.7 percent,” the group says.

But there’s evidence that some viruses can home in on tumors and kill them. It’s not clear why, but viruses can also make tumors more visible to the immune system.

The team at Duke worked with the National Cancer Institute to design and manufacture a modified version of polio vaccine virus.

Polio viruses are attracted to nerve cells — that’s why they cause paralysis.

The medical team used polio viruses already weakened and altered for use in polio vaccines, and genetically engineered them to carry parts of a common cold virus, called a rhinovirus, known to be attracted to glioma cells.

They infused various doses into the tumors of the 61 glioma patients.

“We inject the virus directly into brain tumors and it kills all the tumor cells it comes in contact with,” Bigner said. “The most important thing is, it sets up a secondary immune response and really destroys the distant tumor cells.” (net)

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A modified version of the polio vaccine, infused straight into aggressive brain tumors, helped some patients live for years longer than they normally would have.

The meeting at the office of South Kuta sub-district head on Tuesday (Jun. 26) discussed a problem arising due to limited parking space.

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Parking remains problematic at Tanjung Benoa

MANGUPURA - A number of large buses since the past few days chose parking in Laguna Square area and the road section in front of it. As a result, the road in the area became congested. This condition led to complaints from local figures and residents.

To that end, the South Kuta subdistrict head held a meeting with the headman of Tanjung Benoa as well as the Tanjung Benoa and Benoa village to find a solution. The meeting at the office of South Kuta sub-district head on Tuesday (Jun. 26) discussed a problem arising due to limited parking space.

South Kuta subdistrict head, Made Widiana, when met

after the meeting stated the meeting agreed to borrow the parking building at Tanjung Benoa. In principle, the land owner has allowed to utilize the land for the Tanjung Benoa community. Though administratively there has been no handover, it is considered urgent to resolve the congestion problem at Tanjung Benoa.

“The parking lot at Tanjung Benoa, especially during high season, definitely becomes a problem in harmony with the more visit to the marine tourism area. To that end, this parking problem requires a solution in the future,” he said.

Currently, said Widiana, it is very difficult to find largescale parking space at Tanjung Benoa. So, this condition is not proportional to the level of tourist visits. To that end,

the relevant government agency should find any solutions.

In the future, the tourist resort of Tanjung Benoa is expected to have central parking lot. In addition, there is also a connecting shuttle bus. Thus, big buses do not need to go to Tanjung Benoa area. As is known, the road to Tanjung Benoa is narrow. This is for the sake of convenience of the community at the location. “What to think is not only about tourism, but also the society in general,” he concluded.

Widiana said this needed to be realized. In addition, when entering high season and there is an increase in the level of visits, village authority is expected to cooperate with the ITDC because in the ITDC has a large parking lot. (kmb23)

Three traditional boats capsize due to bad weather NEGARA - Bad weather occurred in the waters of Jembrana on Sunday (Jun. 24) causing three fishing boats to capsize after being hit by strong waves. 50 year old I Wayan Wanda from Mekra Sari , Perancak suffered IDR 500,000 in losses from damage to his fibreglass boat, 58 year old fishermen Negah Narsa from Lemodang, Perancak lost three cedik, fishing gear and his outboard motor for an estimated IDR 10 million in losses while 50 year old Nengah Warsa from Tibu Kleneng Perancak also suffered damage to his boat values at about IDR 500,000.

The large waves struck the fishermen as they were returning to the mainland after looking for fish at sea. Strong winds caused their boats to capzied and other fishemrne then at sea contacted local security forces.

The quick response team from the Natural Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Jembrana de-

ployed 4 personnel and ambulances to the scene to rescue the victims.

The fishermen were successfully evacuated and their were no casualties.

Head of the BPBD Jembrana, Ketut Eko Susila Permana, confirmed that there were no casualties and that the fishermen had only suffered material losses. “The weather was bad with very strong winds. We hope fishermen will be careful. Boat captains and harbour officials should also remain vigilant”, he said.

Data from the National Weather Service (BMKG) indicated that weather situation was generally cloudy in the north of the Bali Strait and light rain in the southern waters, the average wind blew from the East - Southeast direction with a speed of 2 - 20 knots. High waves in the northern waters ranged from 0.25 to 1.25 meters and in the Southern waters ranged from 0.25 to 3.5 meters. (kmb)

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Traditional fishing boats in Jembrana. Bad weather occurred in the waters of Jembrana causing three fishing boats to capsize after being hit by strong waves.

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Trash Hero in BAF XL

Encourages awareness of visitors to manage waste

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The residents of Duda Timur is still using the damage bridge from the ruption of Mount Agung

Mount Agung still active, residents traumatized

AMLAPURA - Residents living at the foot of Mount Agung used to raise cattle, pigs, ducks and others. However, after all livestock were sold cheaply to evacuate, they are now reluctant to pursue it again. Until now, they are still traumatized. Moreover, the activity of Mount Agung has not been normal.

This was conveyed by headman of North Duda, Wayan Darmadi, when met at his village, not long ago. Local people are running out of capital to start the same business again. The option being tried right now is only share cropping cattle owned by people from other region. However, they do not dare to raise it in large number. “In the past, I raised tens of cows, but now only one,” said Darmadi.

Currently, the local people choose to find other alternatives, such as being laborer and merchant. In addition, today the local community remains to be

haunted by anxiety. Besides, it often rains lately. Affected communities around the Panti River groove amount to 48 families. They have no choice but to live in their house. They are still aware this is quite dangerous as the situation of Mount Agung has not returned to normal. Moreover, there are some elderly people. They are still appealed to move immediately, if there is a heavy rain.

The Panti River groove, North Duda village, has already been dredged. This makes the road access from West Geriana to East Geriana get disconnected.

Since last lava flood until last Sunday, local people still use the bamboo bridge. Darmadi claimed to have proposed to local government in order to immediately build a bridge. However, the local government through the subdistrict head, said Darmadi, has not been able to confirm it. He said the local government still waits for the situation of Mount Agung to be really back to normal. (kmb31)

DENPASAR - There is something different in the arena of this year’s Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XL. Particularly it is related to participation of Trash Hero Indonesia in a dominant yellow color stand.

The presence of Trash Hero brings a special mission, namely arousing public awareness or BAF visitors to manage their own garbage, mainly plastic waste remaining a scourge on the Island of the Gods.

“In my opinion, it requires a direct touch like the officers greeting and inviting them to recognize more closely with cultural approach,” said Chief of Trash Hero Indonesia, Wayan Aksara, when confirmed on Tuesday (Jun. 26).

According to Aksara, the appeals by just installing banners are not enough to arouse public awareness. Actually, it even generates new pollution in terms of visual if the number of banners is too many.

No wonder there always appears volunteers in yellow shirt picking up garbage in the area of ??the Art Center. Actually, they are not janitors. Visitors are also reminded to throw garbage in its place.

“Incidentally, this year’s garbage facility is more adequate with a periodic transportation system by the officers. We also walk around to places untouched by the officers. After going around, we can get a sack of plastic garbage,” he

explained.

This real action, continued Aksara, is expected to inspire visitors as well as educate them. So far, the public response has been positive.

When a visitor throws garbage away and is reminded by volunteers, they immediately apologize and put it where it should be. On that account, he is sure to make a change from this small participation even though being inadequate in just one BAF, but at least until the next three years. “To this date, the condition of Denpasar Art Center is relatively cleaner than last year,” he explained.

Aksara added that Trash Hero is an international non-profit community headquartered in Switzerland. This community entered into Indonesia around 2015. Today, there have been 25 chapters. Of that amount, half of them are in Bali. Trash Hero in Bali brings the concept of ngayah or devotional work to the motherland. The volunteers routinely come down directly to clean up garbage, especially handling untreated plastic waste or those discarded not in place.

“We move every day. As evidence, the Trash Hero volunteers continue to grow and participation continues to grow as well. When we do periodically, it will give an education indirectly,” he said. (kmb32)

Possessing 15 ecstasies, a Malaysia man sent to trial

DENPASAR - Alleged to have possessed 15 ecstasy pills (MDMA), a student from Malaysia, Mohammad Eryfan Bin Jamalludin, 23, was tried in the Denpasar District Court on Monday (Jun. 25).

The evidence presented by the public prosecutor has a weight of 4.10 grams net. As stated by prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara before the panel of judges chaired

by Esthar Oktavi, the capture of the defendant originated from his departure from Kuala Lumpur Airport to Denpasar using Batik Air on Sunday (Mar. 4).

At Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, the defendant headed to the international arrival terminal. When arriving the luggage check point, the

customs officers saw suspicious movement of the defendant. Furthermore, the officer conducted an X-ray examination against the defendant’s luggage. After that, the defendant was escorted to the room for further in-depth examination against his body and luggage.

At that time, the officers found a number of evidence in the form of a plastic clip containing 15 tablets of MDMA type narcotics weighing 4.10 grams. The ecstasies were found in gray pants. The defendant is now facing severe punishment, and the prosecutor charged the defendant with Article 113 paragraph 1 or Article 112 paragraph 1 or Article 127 paragraph 1 of Law No. 35/2009 on Narcotics. (kmb37)

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David Lynch walks back Trump praise: ‘You are causing suffering’

LOS ANGELES - David Lynch accused President Donald Trump on Tuesday of “causing suffering and division” as the filmmaker clarified what looked like a glowing endorsement days earlier.

Lynch shocked liberal Hollywood when he told The Guardian newspaper in an interview published Saturday that Trump could go down as one of the greatest presidents in US history. He now claims he was taken out of context when his comments were picked up by other outlets.

“Unfortunately, if you continue as you have been, you will not have a chance to go down in history as a great president,” the “Twin Peaks” auteur, regarded as one of the greatest American filmmakers of his generation, said in a Facebook post.

“This would be very sad it seems for you -- and for the country.

You are causing suffering and division.”

Lynch told The Guardian that Trump could “could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history” because he had delivered a badly-needed shakeup of Washington politics.

The 72-year-old director of “Mulholland Drive” and “Wild at Heart” said he was undecided on whether Trump was doing a good job, but thought the Republican tycoon had opened up a space for other outsiders.

Trump promptly retweeted a Breitbart article on Lynch’s comments headlined, “Director David Lynch: Trump ‘Could Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents in History.’”

“I wish you and I could sit down and have a talk,” Lynch posted on Facebook, addressing the president directly.

“This quote which has traveled around was taken a bit out of context and would need some explaining.”

Lynch urged Trump to “turn the ship around... toward a bright future for all.”

“You can unite the country. Your soul will sing. Under great loving leadership, no one loses -- everybody wins,” he added.

“It’s something I hope you think about and take to heart. All you need to do is treat all the people as you would like to be treated.” (afp)

Unofficial counts

Regional Indonesia polls favoring President Widodo

DEPOK - Unofficial counts in Indonesia’s regional elections on Wednesday put candidates favoring President Joko Widodo ahead in three provinces on Java island, home to more than half of the population of the world’s thirdlargest democracy. But candidates backed by the opposition fared better than expected in the elections, which is an important pointer for national parliamentary and presidential races in 2019.

Rebel Wilson

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Rebel Wilson ordered to pay back $3 mn plus interest

SYDNEY - Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson was ordered to return almost $3.1 million with interest to an Australian publisher Wednesday after a defamation payout was slashed on appeal.

The “Pitch Perfect” star was awarded Aus$4.5 million ($3.3 million) in damages against Bauer Media last September over articles claiming she lied about her age and background to further her career.

It was the largest defamation win in Australian legal history and Bauer appealed, arguing the size of the settlement set a dangerous precedent and there were errors of law in the judgement.

The Victorian Court of Appeal agreed and cut the payout to just Aus$600,000 earlier this month in a decision the actress called “absolutely flippant”.

Bauer had already handed over the money and the Court of Appeal on Wednesday ordered Wilson to repay nearly Aus$4.2 million, including costs and more than Aus$60,000 in interest.

The star did not dispute that the money needed to be returned, but argued the interest should be charged at the prevailing Reserve Bank cash rate of 1.5 percent, rather than the two percent sought by Bauer.

The appeal court disagreed and ordered interest be paid at the higher rate.

Wilson vowed after the initial judgement to give any payout to

charity and the Australian film industry. It is not clear whether she has already done so.

She had claimed a series of articles in Woman’s Day, Australian Women’s Weekly and OK Magazine in 2015 had portrayed her as a serial liar and damaged her reputation.

The Sydney-born actress told the trial she was sacked from DreamWorks animated feature films “Trolls” and “Kung Fu Panda 3” following the stories.

But the Court of Appeal said there was no basis for her to receive financial damages for the potential loss of roles. (afp)

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Some hardline Islamic leaders have publicly called for the ousting of Widodo, who has pledged to protect Indonesia’s tradition of pluralism and moderate Islam in the officially secular country. Widodo is expected to run again for the presidency in 2019, against retired general Prabowo Subianto, who was narrowly defeated in the last presidential vote in 2014.

Political analysts said the mixed results meant Widodo, who has mostly enjoyed high approval ratings, may face a tougher fight next year than expected. “This is likely to be a wake-up call for Jokowi that he can’t be too confident and has to be more aware of people’s sentiments,” said Keith Loveard of Concord Consulting Indonesia, referring to the president by his nickname.

On Wednesday, elections were held for 171 city mayors, regents, and provincial governors across the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country. The regional election results will help underpin support for presidential candidates since local-level leaders are often best placed to mobilize voters. Presidential candidates need to be declared by Aug. 10.

The extent of Islamist influence on voters will be closely watched after a bitterly fought contest for the Jakarta governorship last year exposed deep religious and ethnic rifts.

In West Java province, a conservative area with a population of 47 million, Ridwan Kamil, a 46-year-old, U.S.-educated architect, had won 33 percent of the vote, inching ahead of rivals, according to quick counts, based on unofficial tallies of a sample of votes. Kamil, the former mayor of Indonesia’s third-largest city of Bandung, has won praise for his progressive approach to governance, but was opposed by hardline Islamist groups questioning his Islamic credentials. Kamil has not explicitly voiced support for Widodo.

BALI In Bali, the quick count from several

survey agencies place the candidates number 1, I Wayan Koster and Cok Ace is leading from the second

candidates Rai Mantra and Sudikerta. Giri Prasta, the head of committee of Koster Ace said that he is very happy that his candidates is leading, even it is still not official yet. “We believe that the result will be like this. Koster and Ace maybe lose in Denpasar but we are very certain they will win in other regencies in Bali,” he stated.

HIGH ALERT Indonesia is on high alert after a series of suicide attacks in Surabaya city killed

30 people last month, in the deadliest militant Islamist attacks in more than a decade. Last week, one of Indonesia’s highest-profile Islamic State supporters was sentenced to death for his involvement in a series of earlier attacks, and experts have warned of a risk of retaliation by supporters.

There have been no reports of unrest and police declared as false rumors on social media of voter intimidation in some parts of the country with sizeable ethnic Chinese communities. At some voting stations in Java and on the resort island of Bali there was a festive feel, with polling booths decked out in a World Cup theme and election officials dressed in soccer jerseys.

More than 160 million people are registered to vote. Some voters complained that religious had figured too prominently in the election, and candidates should have focused more on bread-and-butter issues. “Politics cloaked with religion is very obvious here,” said Arma Putra, 26, an unemployed resident of Bekasi town in West Java.(kmb)

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