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With new album, Elza Soares celebrates status as an ‘incredible woman’

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RIO DE JANEIRO - Time seems to run at a different pace for Elza Soares. The Brazilian samba legend is 81 but on the eve of a Rio de Janeiro concert for her recent album “Deus e Mulher” (“God is a woman”), you wouldn’t think so.

“Let me tell you, my age has nothing in common with the way I feel,” she told AFP by telephone ahead of Tuesday’s show in her native city.

In her unmistakable tone, Soares described herself as excited as ever to be going on stage, even if she now sings seated.

“I consider this a good moment, an extraordinary one in my career. I don’t know if it’s the best. The best was when I started.

Things are always marvelous when you start,” she said.

Soares’s powerful voice is an integral part of Brazilian music. She embodied samba and went on to play a major role in cutting edge modern interpretations of the sensual, rhythmic Brazilian sound, mixing in everything from bossa nova to jazz, Afrobeat and funk.

Her sheer longevity and extraordinarily dramatic personal life -- including multiple tragedies and a turbulent marriage to the much-loved footballer Garrincha -- have made her nothing less than a national figure.

The self-confidence and dedication to music making that have carried her along that epic road clearly remain intact. Asked if there were any love interests in her life now, she joked: “I’m dating Elza Soares.”

KENA BETANCUR / AFP “I’m in love with her, this incredible woman. I’m going to In this file photo taken on May 19, 2017 Brazilian singer Elza Soares performs at the Town Hall theater ask to marry her,” she said. (afp) in New York.

More riches for ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ at N. America box office

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This photo taken on August 21, 2018 shows Chinese actress Jasmine Chen posing at the premier of the film “Crazy Rich Asians” at the Capitol Theatre in Singapore.

WASHINGTON - Rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians” continued to sparkle in North America, topping the box office for the second weekend running, according to industry estimates Sunday.

The Warner Bros. adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel of the same name took $25 million, almost matching its $26.5 million debut last week, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

Starring veteran actress Michelle Yeoh, British-Malaysian former BBC host Henry Golding and American sitcom star Constance Wu, the film tells the story

of a American economics professor who meets her super-wealthy boyfriend’s family in Singapore.

It is the first major studio release with a mostly Asian cast since “The Joy Luck Club” in 1993.

Shark attack thriller “The Meg” clung on to the runner-up spot for another week, taking $13 million -- a significant tumble from last week’s earnings of $21.2 million.

It stars action movie regular Jason Statham as a rescue diver who tries to save scientists trapped in a submarine from a huge, prehistoric shark.

In at third was newly-released mystery “The Happytime Mur-

ders,” which took $10 million.

Based in a world where humans and puppets co-exist, the film follows a joint police force as they probe a recent murder spree targeting puppet TV stars. On its heels with takings of $8 million was Tom Cruise’s action blockbuster “Mission: Impossible Fallout,” which took fourth place in its fifth weekend in theaters.

Fifth went to Disney’s live-animated hybrid Christopher Robin, which took $6.3 million. Ewan McGregor plays Winnie the Pooh’s now grown-up and stressed-out pal who reunites with his old stuffed friend. (afp)

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Gold medallists Indonesia’s Hendy (L) and Yola Primadona Jampil compete in the men’s double pencak silat event at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 27, 2018.

‘This victory is for Lombok’

Men’s doubles pair Yola Primadona Jampil and Hendy, who won the gold medal in the artistic pencak silat category, dedicated their victory to the people of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), who were suffering from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake a few weeks ago.

“We presented this victory to the people of Lombok who have been suffering from the disaster.

They deserve to take part in this joy of victory,” said Yola, after obtaining a gold medal at Padepokan Pencak Silat Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII), East Jakarta, on Monday.

Yola and Hendy obtained the highest points at 580 and defeated their opponents from Vietnam, Duc Danh Tran and Hong Quan Le, who got 562 points and had to settle for the silver medal. They also defeated Malaysians Mohd Taqiyuddin Hamid and Muhammad Afifi Nordin, who took home the bronze. “We are grateful to be able to do the best that was followed by seven men’s doubles groups. We thank the people of

Indonesia for their support,” Yola said.

The gold medal in the men’s doubles is the 14th gold medal for Indonesia in the 2018 Asian Games. There are still other athletes, namely Nunu Nugraha, Asep Yuldan Sani and Anggi Faisal Mubarok competing in the men’s team category. Besides the artistic silat match on Monday afternoon, there was also the final match of the sparring category, which was followed by five Indonesian competitors, including Abdul Malik, who will face Malaysian fighter Muhammad Faizul M Nasir in the men’s B: 50 to 55 kilogram category.

The second match will feature Aji Bangkit Pamungkas against Singaporean athlete Sheik Ferdous

Sheik Alauddin in men’s class I: 85 to 90 kg. In the third match, Iqbal Candra Pratama will fight Vietnamese fighter Ngoc Toan Nguyen in men’s class D: 60 to 65 kg.

In the fourth match, Sarah Tria Monita will fight Lao PDR’s Nong Oy Vongphakdy in women’s class C: 55 to 60 kg, and in the fifth match, Komang Harik Adi Putra will compete against Malaysian Mohd Al Jufferi Jamari in men’s class E: 65 to 70 kg.

For athletes from quake-hit Lombok competing at their own country’s Asian Games, the pressure is far greater than the usual quest for gold. Competitors from the picturesque island have anxiously followed news of deadly earthquakes that killed more than 500 people, hundreds of miles

from Indonesia’s host cities Jakarta and Palembang -- and hope their performances can bring a few smiles to faces back home.

“I was so worried about my family -- it was a little hard to sleep,” said 18-year-old sprinter Lalu Muhammad Zohri, who hails from the worst-affected northern part of the island. “They called me to tell me not to worry, to just focus on my race. I tried my best,” he added, after reaching the men’s 100m final, where he finished seventh. “Now I can’t wait to go to Lombok to see my family.”

Bronze-winning beach volleyball duo Dhita Juliana and Putu Dini Jasita Utami, who are also from Lombok, have captured the hearts of the home fans cheering for them across the country and from the sidelines of Asia’s regional Olympics. They can barely walk a few metres in Palembang without being asked for a selfie

yet always oblige, hoping their smiles and strength will resonate back home.

“We hope all Lombok people are okay, and we are trying our best here to at least share some happiness with them when we win,” said Dhita Juliana, adding that they have been touch throughout the competition.

Some 555 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless on the beautiful island of Lombok, around 700 miles (1,100km) from Games host cities Jakarta and Palembang. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Cultural Parade Closed Boost SVF 2018

The whole series of Boost Sanur Village Festival (SVF) 2018 activities have ended and officially closed by the Deputy Mayor of Denpasar, IGN Jaya Negara marked by the striking of the gong, Sunday evening.

Before the closing ceremony, a cultural parade was held which was attended by around 1,000 residents and artists who paraded from Sanur Tourism Junior Highschool to the location of the festival on Matahari Terbit Beach.

Besides residents, there are also foreign tourists who take part in the parade wearing Balinese traditional clothing.

Starting with the SMP Wisata marching band, representatives from the Sanur Development Foundation, Sanur Kaja Village, Sanur Kauh Village, Sanur Village, 27 banjars, and five joint tourism industry teams followed the parade to the honor stage on Matahari Terbit Beach.

Jaya Negara praises Sanur consistency in holding a festival that continues to progress from year to year. He hopes there will be an improvement in preserving cultural arts. “I hope the festival held by the Sanur Development Foundation is maintained, sustainable, and enhanced its content to preserve cultural arts, develop regional potential, and encourage a prosperous creative economy,” he said.

The Chairperson of the Boost SVF 2018, Ida Bagus Gede Sidharta Putra, who is familiarly called Gusde, said for five days the festival was held in various activities, including sports, environment, arts, entertainment, culinary, MSME product exhibition, disaster education, tourism discussion, and cultural dialogue. “We hope the spirit of the Mandala Giri theme provides a shared awareness that the eruption of Mount Agung has aroused a sense of mutual affinity and made various parties demanded to pay attention, protect and preserve the mountains and their environment,” said Gusde.

He added that 13 times the festival had been held since 2006, this activity was able to contribute to tourism promotion which led to an increase in the number of tourist visits. In addition, it encourages more ideas and innovations to emerge and creative efforts related to festival content.

Gusde said the involvement of the Sanur people and the surrounding areas to support this festival has resulted in a shared commitment to keep the beachside destination to remain beautiful, clean, comfortable, orderly and safe. Through this festival, various components in Sanur are working to preserve cultural heritage while maintaining the image of the region as one of the main tourism destinations. “In the near future, we will conduct a thorough evaluation of the festival and hear input from various parties to improve the festival in the future,” said Gusde.

Gusde, who is also Chairperson of the Sanur Development Foundation, added that the festival still leaves one activity program, Herballife Bali Triathlon which will be held on

21 October. He hopes that the entire festival program can provide added value to the development of tourism, creative economy, and welfare for citizens.

Along with the launch of GoWes bicycle rental and MetroCar-based application of electric car transportation, Sanur will continue to make efforts to develop digital services to

make it easier and more convenient for residents and tourists.

On the last night, the main stage in a row presented a dance from the Denpasar City Cultural Office, and three reggae bands, namely The Body, Small Ax and Joni Agung & Double T. This final concert seemed to confirm Sanur as a reggae area. (kmb18)

Cultural parade held in the closing day of Boost Sanur Village Festival 2018 on Sunday.

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Many shade trees die, it becomes provider’s responsibility

NEGARA - A number of tangi trees used as road side shade tree planted in a number of points in Jembrana have died. Actually, the trees were planted almost a year ago, but some of them were dead. Although they have long been dead, until now there has been no indication if the trees will be replaced.

Indeed the effort to plant trees aims to get a green urban environment and beautify the scenery especially along the national roadside. The planting is done in the form of trees with a height of between three and four meters. Most suc-

ceeded and looked to have many branches and leafy. Moreover, some of them have flowered but some others are dead, only leave the trees.

No leaves are visible even though it has been planted for months as seen on Jalan Gajah Mada, ahead of the border of Jembrana subdistrict and Mendoyo subdistrict. The rows of trees with a distance of about five meters away look dead.

Other than on Jalan Gajah Mada, similar condition also happens to other points like on Jalan Udayana, Kaliakah and Banyubiru. As the information compiled, other than being

financed by the district government, the procurement of roadside shade trees is also made or budgeted by a number of villages in Jembrana.

Deputy Regent of Jembrana, I Made Kembang Hartawan, when asked for his confirmation through a message service admitted that many tangi trees planted already died.

However, according to him, it is still the responsibility of the partner or plant provider. When there are dead plants, it becomes the responsibility of the provider to replace them. (kmb26)

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Tokyo Night at Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach

A Japanese Buffet Dinner

Enjoy an exquisite Wednesday night at Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach with the newly launched Tokyo Night - A Japanese Buffet Dinner?. Available weekly, the dinner is hosted at Grand Benoa Resto from 19:00 to 22:00. Featuring an exquisite spread of traditional Japanese earthy food, Tokyo Night indulges diners with selection of classic recipes from Japan.

The menu includes all-time favorites such as sushi,sashimi, tempura, robatayaki, udon, and teriyaki to name a few. Most of the items are prepared at live cooking stations to ensure the freshness of each dishes.

Tokyo Night is the creation of Chef Katsumi Goda, who recently joined the culinary

team at Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach, rejoining the Nikko brand from the famed Benkay Restaurant at Grand Nikko Bali. “Tokyo Night will let you experience the real taste of Japanese delicacies, because everything is handmade with fresh ingredients,” he said.

Katsumi Goda will be heading the hotel’s Japanese restaurant which will open in the last quarter of 2018.

The dinner is open for public and available at an affordable price of IDR 398,000 nett per person. Children between 6 to 12 years old will receive 50% off the price, and toddler aged 5 and below can dine for free for each paying adult.

Preceding the Japanese buffet dinner,

guests are invited to join an engaging session of Japanese tea ceremony and origami making, conducted personally by Chef Goda, who holds the certification as a Tea Master. The session will be conducted at Samudera Lounge every Tuesday at 19:00 and available at IDR 50,000 nett per person.

Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach continuously look for ways to bring forward the beauty of Japanese culture by creating captivating experiences to both the hotel and public guests. Through their range of services and facilities, the hotel perfectly blends the best of Japanese and Balinese cultures which share the same philosophy of heart-warming hospitality.

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How antibodies attack the brain and muddle memory

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The sun’s knotted magnetic fields, visualized here as white lines, scramble cosmic rays and may cause them to shoot energetic light called high-energy gamma rays toward Earth.

Strange gamma rays from the sun may help decipher its magnetic fields

THE sleepy sun turns out to be a factory of extremely energetic light.

Scientists have discovered that the sun puts out more of this light, called high-energy gamma rays, overall than predicted. But what’s really weird is that the rays with the highest energies appear when the star is supposed to be at its most sluggish, researchers report in an upcoming study in Physical Review Letters. The research is the first to examine these gamma rays over most of the solar cycle, a roughly 11-year period of waxing and waning solar activity.

That newfound oddity is probably connected to the activity of the sun’s magnetic fields, the researchers say, and could lead to new insights about the mysterious environment.

“The almost certain thing that’s going on here is the magnetic fields are much more powerful, much more variable, and much more weirdly shaped than we expect,” says astrophysicist John Beacom of the Ohio State University in Columbus.

The sun’s high-energy gamma rays aren’t produced directly by the star. Instead, the light is triggered by cosmic rays — protons that zip through space with some of the highest energies known in nature — that smack into solar protons and produce high-energy gamma rays in the process.

All of those gamma rays would get lost inside the sun, if not for magnetic fields. Magnetic fields are known to take charged particles like cosmic rays and spin them around like a house in a tornado. Theorists

have predicted that cosmic rays whose paths have been scrambled by the tangled mass of magnetic fields at the solar surface should send high-energy gamma rays shooting back out of the sun, where astronomers can see them.

Beacom and colleagues, led by astrophysicist Tim Linden of Ohio State, sifted through data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope from August 2008 to November 2017. The observations spanned a period of low solar activity in 2008 and 2009, a period of higher activity in 2013 and a decline in activity to the minimum of the next cycle, which started in 2018. The team tracked the number of solar gamma rays emitted per second, as well as their energies and where on the sun they came from.

There were more high-energy gamma rays, above 50 billion electron volts, or GeV, than anyone predicted, the team reports. Weirder still, rays with energies above 100 GeV appeared only during the solar minimum, when the sun’s activity level was low. One photon emitted during the solar minimum had an energy as high as 467.7 GeV. Strangest of all, the sun seems to emit gamma rays from different parts of its surface at different times in its cycle. Because cosmic rays that hit the sun come in from all directions, you would expect the entire sun to light up in gamma rays uniformly. But Beacom’s team found that during the solar minimum, gamma rays came mainly from near the equator, and during the solar maximum, when the sun’s activity level was high, they clustered near the poles. (afp)

ANTIBODIES in the brain can scramble nerve cells’ connections, leading to memory problems in mice. In the past decade, brainattacking antibodies have been identified as culprits in certain neurological diseases. The details of how antibodies pull off this neuronal hit job, described online August 23 in Neuron, may ultimately lead to better ways to stop the ensuing brain damage.

Research on antibodies that target the brain is a “biomedical frontier” that may have implications for a wide range of disorders, says Betty Diamond, an immunologist and rheumatologist at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y. “It’s beyond the idea stage,” she says. “It’s into the ‘It happens.

Let’s figure out the why and the when.’ ” Autoantibodies are a type of antibody that mistakenly target a person’s own proteins. One such internal attack comes from autoantibodies that take aim at part of the AMPA receptor, a protein that sits on the outside of nerve cells and detects incoming chemical messages.

These autoantibodies interfere with the receptor’s message-sensing job, neurologist Christian Geis of Jena University Hospital in Germany and colleagues found.

The team purified autoantibodies from patients suffering from autoimmune encephalitis, a brain inflammation disease that causes

confusion, seizures and memory trouble. When the researchers put these human autoantibodies into the brains of mice, the animals began showing memory problems, too. After the autoantibodies were infused into the mice’s cerebrospinal fluid or injected directly into the brain, the animals were worse at recognizing new objects placed in their cage than mice that didn’t receive the antibodies.

These mice also showed signs of anxiety, spending less time in wide open parts of a maze than mice that hadn’t received the human autoantibodies and preferring to hunker down in covered areas.

Experiments on mice and human cells in dishes revealed the nature of the brain attack. Autoantibodies attached to particular bits of AMPA receptors and then forced those bits to move inside nerve cells where they were no longer effective, Geis and colleagues found. This shift left the nerve cells worse at sensing chemical signals from other nerve cells, a deficit that might have caused the mice’s memory problems.

The details of this autoantibody brain attack might point out ways to help nerve cells under siege maintain communication, Geis says. Current treatments for autoimmune encephalitis are less specific, involving the removal of harmful antibodies from the blood or tamping down a person’s immune response. (net)

Story of a porter at Kusamba

While looking for a living, mutual assistance created

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Nyoman Subrata alias Petruk

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Drama gong artists don’t just make a joke

BANGLI — Until now, drama gong art remains to exist and sustainable. Its presence is no longer hailed and its fans are not as much as before. The presence of drama gong art is evident from the emergence of new young drama gong artists trying to make performing arts in accordance with the times.

This scanning electron micrograph shows a close-up of brain nerve cells. Antibodies that target nerve cell connections may interfere with vital brain functions such as memory.

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A senior drama gong artist, Nyoman Subrata alias Petruk, admitted the drama gong art remains to exist.

The drama gong still often features new artists either in the art events such as the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) or other events in the community. Nevertheless, he considered the prestige of drama gong at this time is far dimmer than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. “During both decades, drama gong had no rival. The glory was quite long until twenty years. It began to dim around the 2000s after the Bali bombing II,” said Petruk when met at his home at Kawan hamlet, Bangli, on Saturday (Aug. 25).

According to the artist who often appeared in pairs with the late Wayan Tarma alias Dollar, the various types of entertainment today become one of the causes of the drama gong art is no longer popular. Most people now prefer to enjoy the entertainment aired on television and gadgets. “Taksu or divine vibration of drama

gong is far different. In the past, when hearing the performance of drama gong, people were eagerly waiting for it. Today, it probably happens due the many options of entertainment. People coming to watch the drama gong are busier looking at their mobile phone,” he said This veteran artist also considered that the lack of inspiration of new artists in carrying out their respective roles also influenced by the taksu of drama gong at this time. According to Petruk, to be a drama gong artist, people must have the will to continue learning especially in terms of understanding the role. “If playing angry role, it should present the true emotions of anger. It must be animated. Likewise, if seducing, without getting animated, it seems rigid and forced. As a result, the audience gets less impressed,” he explained.

When entertaining the audience with jokes, this man who has been pursuing the drama gong art since 1967 said that an artist must be able to present it nicely. The jokes delivered should not just make the audience laugh. As much as possible the artist must also insert moral messages that are able to educate public according to the theme, social and contemporary development. “Until now, I am still studying how to present entertainment that doesn’t just make the audience laugh, but also gives a message in it,” he added. (kmb40)

PORTER becomes a profession to be pursued by a number of residents of Kusamba village, Dawan, Klungkung. From the work, they are not limited to earning money for survival but also create mutual cooperation.

Various items were piled up at Tribuana Harbor, Kusamba village, on Friday morning (Aug. 24). They consisted of building materials such as sand, gravel and wood.

Besides, there were various basic needs such as rice, vegetables and fruits. They were collected in one place. It looked to have been fully occupied. Dozens of people seemed busy. They transported the items to a large boat. There were men and women working in turn. Some were carrying, while some others were shouldering. They looked strong as if they were not tired of carrying such heavy burden.

Of those people, some were busy putting sand into sacks but of not too big size. Their hand swung the scoop as if running rhythmically. It was done for many times to make the sack almost full. The work has been done by them for years. “It’s been a long time,” said Wayan Surata, one of the workers.

The burly man said the workers are divided into several groups.

Some people are tasked to transport building materials and basic needs.

Each group consists of 25 people.

“Basic needs are transported by women so as not to be too heavy,” he said. The activity begins without a definite time but depends on demand and boat readiness. Oc-

casionally, it lasts from 5:00 in the morning and even before this time.

“Basic needs are usually transported in early morning,” he said.

At first glance, the job looks easy. It only lifts the goods, brings to the boat which is about 25 meters away. However, it is different when the weather is bad. Rolls of wave often haunt. They can even paralyze all the activities. “Like when high waves occur, we can’t work,” he explained.

Nevertheless, he is not discouraged but always vigilant. The wages from his work are divided evenly with others regardless of the age, whether older or younger age, whether transporting more or less goods. “There is no difference. It is divided evenly with the members working that day. Here, we can also work together and help each other,” said Surata.

Another worker, Ketut Widia, said the wages received every day are enough to make a living, amid his old age, around IDR 150,000 per day. “I specifically transport glassware,” he said. His work is also considered to be an entertainment and enable him to chat with other people. “Rather than staying at home, it is better to work here,” he added.

These items were taken to the Nusa Penida Islands. It takes place every day using three boats with the capacity up to dozens of tons. With such activities, automatically the income continues to survive. “Every day, we can work here from morning to evening,” he added. (sos)

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Porter becomes a profession to be pursued by a number of residents of Kusamba village, Dawan, Klungkung.

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To use bamboo straws

Griya Luhu Gianyar drives all components GIANYAR - Reducing the production of plastic waste must be a commitment of all components of society. This commitment began to be echoed by the environment caring community in Gianyar, namely Griya Luhu with the use of organic straws or pipettes. Bamboo straws are considered to be more eco-friendly than plastic ones which are difficult to decompose in the soil or at sea.

Chairman of the Griya Luhu Community Gianyar, I.B. Mandara Brasika, when met on Sunday (Aug. 26) explained the organic straw initiated is made of reed bamboo. As the first measure, he just produced about 200 pieces. He also began to educate young generation to care for the environment, especially scouts, so that they would use this organic straw.

“We are confident this bamboo straw is quite potential to be used or marketed in Bali. Meanwhile, the 200 pieces of organic straw of the Griya Luhu are often used as educational material and souvenirs at environment-related events,” he said The Arabian man with the nickname of Gus Nara hoped the organic straw can be used at hotels and restaurants that have enjoyed the benefits of tourism. They were asked to commit and consistently use straws and other organic materials. “When the environment is damaged, tourists will think twice about visiting Bali,” he said.

Brasika asserted the main goal of Griya Luhu under the Mandara Research Institute (MRI) is not for profit, but rather to reduce the circulation of plastic straw waste.

“Our goal is for a brighter future.

Since this bamboo straw can be used repeatedly, the waste can also be reunited with nature. So, it does not damage the environment,” he explained.

Waste bank application Giya Luhu is a group of creative young people of Gianyar in the matter of caring for the environment.

As the name suggests, Griya Luhu means a Garbage House in Balinese language. More interestingly, this community has created an application-based Waste Bank concept.

Gus Nara admitted to have long been concerned with the waste condition in Bali, especially in Gianyar.

His community wanted to change the people’s mindset that the waste must be sorted out before being disposed of. However, the fact all this time is the discarded waste is mixed. “As a result, the waste problem only moves from place A to place B. There is no solution,” he explained.

Together with seven other friends, Gus Nara aggressively conducted dissemination to schools and Family Welfare Development (PKK) meetings. He invited people to wisely sort out waste into three types. They consist of organic waste used for compost, inorganic waste and recycle waste (the recyclable ones). By Griya Luhu, only inorganic waste is discarded to landfill, while the recyclable waste is further re-processed.

“We sell plastic waste to collectors, while the patchwork waste will be taken advantage to make a doormat,” he explained.

In the making of doormat, Griya Luhu also empowers PKK house-

wives in the Kintamani area. It is made not by sewing, but plaiting and the being tied. “The results are quite good, so that quite a lot of people are getting interested,” he explained.

Griya Luhu has established a waste bank. The use of application named Simalu.id distinguishes it from the other waste banks. He described the application poses a result of collaboration with the community members in the Udayana University. “It is the abbreviation of sistem manajemen luu (simalu) or waste management system how we can manage the waste,” explained this civil servant of the Bangli Environment and Sanitation Agency (DLHK).

The application uploaded in the Playstore is said to have been launched about three months ago.

Until now, a total 800 people have downloaded this application. This application has an advantage as the customers’ data are stored neatly.

“By and large, the waste bank is still doing manual recording, but with this application it can be recorded on mobile phone,” he explained.

The request of waste pickup can be done online so that people only need to fill in how many kilos they have waste and then determine when the pick-up time can be done. “In short, everything is based on online system,” he explained.

In addition to serving household

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Bamboo straws are considered to be more eco-friendly than plastic ones which are difficult to decompose in the soil or at sea. waste, Griya Luhu also makes cooperation with eight elementary and junior high schools in Gianyar. His community prepared the concept and the trash can. Then, the pickup service is done every Saturday. The selection of elementary school, said Gus Nara, is meant to familiarize

children to sort out the waste early.

Admittedly so far, he still subsidizes the operation. However, Gus Nara has confidence that in the future this concept will attract more people. “In the future, we project to get income from recycle that we sell to collectors,” he said. (kmb35)

Mas village revives from bankruptcy

DENPASAR - Since the fifth century, Mas village has owned an icon as the world’s woodcarving center.

During the period of 1980-1992, Mas village was visited by a lot of tourist arrivals. Tourists came to see the sculptors and then purchased their products.

Mangku Kandia, a resident of Mas village, stated that out of 12,000 residents of Mas village, 6,000 residents are sculptors. Moreover, elementary school children at that time could have made statues. At first, residents made statues only for pratima (sanctified effigy). However, the art and tradition of

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Since the fifth century, Mas village has owned an icon as the world’s woodcarving center.

sculpting were favored by tourists.

The statue of Mas village was in great demand to bring Mas village into the center of the world’s sculptor.

As time goes by, little tourists come whereas guests during the period of 1980 - 1992 were still busy coming to villages. Nowadays, guests have begun to diminish. The number of sculptors at Mas village also began to decrease. Moreover, the number of sculptors currently remains 100.

The peak was in 2002 when the Bali bombing occurred. “At that time, my village became a tourist attraction for shopping wood craft and wood carving. As a citizen, I feel concerned about this condition and afraid if the sculptors will disappeared due to bankruptcy. I am worried about this,” said Chief of the Desa Wisata Nusantara Foundation, Mangku Kandia.

Mas village almost went out of business due to reduced tourists visiting the village, tight competition and the opening of the art markets and the modern souvenir shops. “I am

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Foreigners will be barred from buying properties in a planned $100-billion Malaysian city.

concerned about the condition of this global influence. Many of our sculptors are out of business,” he said.

Seeing this condition, Mangku Kandia and the team initiated Mas village into tourism village established in 2010. He explained that by becoming a tourism village it is not only an object but also a subject (player) because previously Mas was known as a tourist object. “So, the object is visited as becoming the center of the world’s sculptor, woodcarving. I want to change Mas tourism village into a subject,” he explained.

He invited the community to build a homestay so that guests can stay at the village. By staying in a residential area, tourists can see people sculpting.

This is the background of the birth of the Mas tourism village.

To make people aware of tourism and tourism village, he asked for help from the government as well as cooperated with academicians from Udayana University and Bali Tourism College (STP). Today, Mas village

is set to be one of the nine tourism villages in Gianyar district through Regent Regulation.

In addition to building homestays, Mas tourism village also has tourist attractions. They include learning to dance Legong, Panyembrama, sculpting, witnessing the stretch of paddy fields behind the village and trekking packages in the fields. “The expanse of paddy fields remains expansive there,” he said.

Mas tourism village also offers a half-day, one-day, one-night and two-day, two-night and three-day tour package. “We sell a maximum of 3 nights 2 days, if more than this, guests will get tired. Except, we are now targeting volunteer tourism,” he said.

Currently students from America visit Mas village and stay with local community for two weeks. They conduct volunteering activities such as teaching English to elementary school students. “That’s what we are targeting now for senior high school students,” he said. (kmb42)

Foreigners barred from buying in planned Malaysian city

KUALA LUMPUR - Foreigners will be barred from buying properties in a planned $100billion Malaysian city, the country’s leader said Monday, after the huge development aimed at mainland Chinese buyers sparked widespread criticism.

Forest City, an “eco-city” of high rises and waterfront villas, will sit on four man-made islands in Malaysia’s southern state of Johor, just an hour from Singapore.

The development, designed to house 700,000 people, is being built by Hong Kong-listed real estate giant Country Garden and a firm partly owned by Johor’s sultan, and is due to be completed by 2035.

It was developed with wealthy mainland Chinese buyers in mind.

But Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has already axed multi-billion dollar deals struck with Beijing by Malaysia’s former government, said foreigners would not be allowed to buy properties in the project.

“One thing is certain, that city that is going to be built cannot be sold to foreigners,” Mahathir told

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a press conference.

“We are not going to give visas for people to come and live here.

“Our objection is because it was built for foreigners, not built for Malaysians. Most Malaysians are unable to buy those flats.”

Many Malaysians had been unhappy with the project as it was clearly aimed at wealthy foreign buyers, and there were also concerns that it could damage the

environment.

Country Garden Pacificview Sdn Bhd, a joint venture firm building Forest City, said it had contacted Mahathir’s office seeking clarification of his comments.

The company said in a statement Country Garden’s chairman met Mahathir earlier this month, and the Malaysian leader had “reiterated that he welcomes foreign investments which could create employment opportunities, promote technology transfer and innovations that could benefit Malaysia’s economic growth and job creation”.

Relations between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing were warm under the former government of scandalplagued Najib Razak, and investment from Chinese companies surged into Malaysia.

But critics said the deals were unfavourable to Malaysia. On a visit to Beijing last week, Mahathir announced he was shelving a series of Chinese-backed infrastructure projects worth $22 billion in total.

While Forest City is a private development, some in Malaysia viewed it as a another unwelcome sign of growing Chinese influence. (afp)

SEOUL - The number of people of working age in Asia’s fourthlargest economy fell for the first time ever last year, South Korea’s official statistics agency said Monday.

In the decades after the Korean War the South propelled itself from a devastated ruin to the world’s 11th-largest economy and a member of the OECD club of advanced nations.

But it faces looming demographic challenges with a rapidly

ageing population.

The country has one of the world’s lowest birth rates as people marry and have children later, amid worries over costs and as women look to focus on their careers.

In an annual census, the working-age population, defined as those aged 15 to 64, fell by 116,000 in 2017 to 36.2 million, Statistics Korea said. It was the first time the figure had fallen, it added.

The total population rose to

51.4 million, up 0.3 percent, with 14.2 percent of people aged 65 and over.

Earlier this month figures showed births plummeting 12 percent in 2017 to 357,771, an alltime low.

The fertility rate -- the number of children a woman can be expected to have in a lifetime -- also dropped to a record low of 1.05. The rate needed to keep a population stable is 2.1. (afp)

S. Korea working-age population falls for first time

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Powell signals more hikes ahead if US economy stays strong

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled Friday that he expects the Fed to continue gradually raising interest rates if the U.S. economic expansion remains strong.

Powell added that while annual inflation has risen to near the Fed’s 2 percent target rate, it doesn’t seem likely to accelerate above that point.

That suggests that he doesn’t foresee a need for the Fed to step up its rate hikes. Next month, the Fed is widely expected to resume raising rates.

Speaking to an annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Powell said the Fed recognizes the need to strike a careful balance between its mandates of maximizing employment and keeping price increases stable. He said a gradual approach to rate hikes is the best way to navigate between the risks of raising rates too fast and “needlessly shortening the expansion” and moving too slowly and risking an overheated economy.

“My colleagues and I,” the Fed chairman said in his speech, “are carefully monitoring incoming data, and we are setting policy to do what monetary policy can do to support continued growth, a strong labor market, and inflation near 2 percent.”

Powell sketched a positive picture of the U.S. economy and said the Fed’s incremental approach to raising rates has so far succeeded.

“The economy is strong,” he said.

“Inflation is near our 2 percent objective and most people who want a job are finding one. We are setting policy to do what monetary policy can do to support continued growth, a strong labor market and inflation near 2 percent.”

At the same time, Powell said that in case of another financial crisis or intensified concern about high inflation, “We will do whatever it takes.”

That echoed a phrase that was used to describe the extraordinary steps the Fed and other central banks took after the 2008 financial crisis plunged the

U.S. and global economies into deep recessions.

The chairman’s measured tone about the economy and his message that the Fed plans to stick with a gradual pace of rate hikes appeared to meet approval with investors.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 133 points — about half a percentage point — and bond prices rose as well.

Powell made no mention of the recent public criticism from President Donald Trump, who has said he is unhappy with the Fed’s rate hikes.

The president has complained that the Fed’s tightening of credit could threaten the continued strong growth he aims to achieve through the tax cuts enacted late last year, a pullback of regulations and a rewriting of trade deals to better serve the United States.

Many have seen Trump’s complaints about the Fed’s rate hikes as an intrusion on the central bank’s longstanding independence from political influence. On Thursday, two top Fed officials made clear Thursday that Trump’s criticism won’t affect their decisions on whether to continue raising rates.

In his speech, Powell did not directly address what many analysts see as the most serious threat to the economy: The trade war that Trump has launched with America’s main trading partners — a conflict that risks depressing U.S. and global economic growth the longer it goes on.

Economists said Powell’s remarks Friday echoed the message he has sent since succeeding Janet Yellen as Fed leader in February. Powell has stressed that while unemployment is historically low and inflation has risen slightly, there’s no sign that the economy is overheating. In his view,

Four Denpasar Cultures Defined as Intangible Cultural Heritage AP Photo/Jonathan Crosby

Esther George, left, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, John Williams, center, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System walk together after Powell’s speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018 in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled Friday that he expects the Fed to continue gradually raising interest rates if the U.S. economic expansion remains strong. that’s why the Fed can continue with a gradual pace of rate hikes that began under Yellen.

“Powell deliberately avoided commenting on the latest developments on trade policy, politics and risks from abroad,” said Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

Pearce said he saw Powell’s comments as signaling that the central bank will continue raising rates gradually over the next year.

Though Powell chose not to mention Trump’s criticism, other Fed officials asserted that the president’s complaints about rate hikes would have no effect on their policymaking.

“We have a mandate by law,

and we do the best we can to hit the mandate” of maximizing employment and stabilizing prices, James Bullard, president of the Fed’s St. Louis regional bank, said Friday in an interview on CNBC. Powell focused his remarks in part on the difficulty the Fed faces in setting interest-rate policies at a time when the economy seems to be undergoing changes that challenge long-standing beliefs of how low unemployment can fall before it ignites inflation pressures.

He said there is also much uncertainty over the “neutral” rate of inflation — the point at which the Fed’s policy rate is neither stimulat-

ing economic growth nor holding it back. The Fed’s economic projections, compiled from estimates of all its officials, estimates the current neutral rate at 2.9 percent. But Powell noted that there’s a wide difference of opinion about it.

After having kept its key policy rate near zero for seven years to help lift the economy out of the Great Recession, the Fed has raised rates seven times, most recently in March and June this year. Most Fed watchers foresee two more hikes this year — next month and then in December.

After the June rate hike, the Fed’s policy rate now stands in a range of 1.75 percent to 2 percent. (ap)

Tokyo stocks close higher as Asian bourses rally

Tokyo markets closed higher on Monday helped by a relatively cheaper yen against the dollar and rallies in other Asian markets.

The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.88 percent or 197.87 points to close at 22,799.64 while the broader Topix index ended up 1.16 percent or 19.75 points at 1,728.95.

Japanese shares, which opened higher encouraged by gains on Wall Street Friday, “extended gains as China’s Shanghai market rose,” SBI Securities said in a commentary.

This week, however, investors are likely to remain cautious over developments

in the confrontation between the US and China, and ahead of a series of global economic data, analysts said.

The dollar fetched 111.05 yen in late Tokyo hours, down from 111.21 yen in New York late Friday but was still higher than most of last week. In individual stock

trade, Toyota climbed 1.99 percent to 6,966 yen after a weekend report by the Nikkei newspaper that the auto giant was planning to build a new factory in China.

Nintendo rose 2.58 percent to 38,850 yen and Sony gained 1.89 percent to 6,170 yen. (afp)

Four Denpasar native traditions as well as intangible cultural heritages were successfully established as the Indonesian Intangible Cultural Heritage (WBTB) 2018. This determination was made some time ago in Jakarta by the Managing Director of Cultural Heritage and Diplomacy of the RI, Nadjamudin Ramly.

Head of the Denpasar Culture Agency, IGN Bagus Mataram, accompanied by the Division Head of Cultural Reserve Section, I Ketut Gede Suaryadala, said the four native traditions of Denpasar are the Baris Wayang Dance (Lumintang hamlet) as performing art, Baris Cina Dance (Renon and Sanur village) as performing art, Basmerah (Taman Poh Manis village) as community custom, rite and celebration

at Taman Poh Manis village and the Ngerebong tradition (Kesiman village) as community custom, rite and celebration.

“The establishment of the four traditions and indigenous cultures of Denpasar as the Indonesian Intangible Cultural Heritage 2018 is a breath of fresh air for the inventories and preservation of the art and culture in Denpasar City,” said Bagus Mataram, Tuesday (Aug. 7).

With this determination, Bagus Mataram said that in the future there will be no more unilateral claims on indigenous Indonesian art and culture, especially those of Bali and Denpasar city. “This proposal is one of the efforts to protect the art, culture and tradition of Denpasar so that other countries will not claim and avoid undesirable things by registering the Denpasar art and culture in the national

inventory portal,” he explained.

Bagus Mataram added that after being determined to be the intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia 2018, the fourth cultural heritages of Denpasar will continue to be guarded so that it can become an intangible cultural heritage at the international level as determined by the UNESCO. “We should be grateful for the establishment of the original culture and tradition of Denpasar into the intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia. In the future, we will strive for other traditions and cultures to be included in the intan-

gible cultural heritage of Indonesia and the national inventory portal,” he stressed.

On that occasion, Bagus Mataram said there are 264 intangible cultural heritages proposed by 35 provinces in Indonesia. Of these numbers, 125 proposed cultural eyes were determined through a four-day trial conducted by 20 expert team members and attended by all provincial and district / city government delegates across Indonesia. Finally, a total of 13 cultures originating from Bali including four indigenous cultures of Denpasar were declared as intangible cultural heritages. (kmb)

Ngibing Joged Bungbung at Tanah Lot On releasing the year 2016 and welcoming the New Year 2017, the management of Tanah Lot tourist attractions organized an open house activity. The event lasting for three days (Dec. 30-31, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017) specifically involved the driver, guide and tour leader.

“This activity aims to provide appreciation and express gratitude for the cooperation of stakeholders in order to contribute positively to Tanah Lot tourist attraction,” said Operations Manager Toya Adnyana.

Open house provides various types of special traditional food served to the shareholders. Besides, it also graced with dance performance like Joged Bumbung at 17:00 in front of the office of the operation

management. “This performance is expected to entertain visitors while enjoying the New Year holidays at Tanah Lot. Tour guide, domestic and foreign travelers even joined the dance (ngibing),” said Toya Adnyana proudly.

Since day seven before the New Year, the incoming travelers to Tanah Lot have started soaring as coincide with school holidays. Thousands of the travelers came from various cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Makassar. From the afternoon until evening, from viewing post on a cliff top of ??Tanah Lot Beach could be seen that travelers used various types of cameras and video cameras to capture the sunset moments.

Tanah Lot tourist attraction remains to become prominent destination for travelers to spend the remaining times of 2016 and welcome the New Year 2017. During holiday season, visitors to Tanah Lot continue to abound. Festive atmosphere happened when the sun set and thousands of visitors, as if being commanded, immediately applauded in unison.

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

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An asylum-seeker boat has reached Australia for the first time in almost four years, the government said Monday, with many of those on board the Vietnamese vessel fleeing into a crocodile-infested mangrove rainforest after running aground near the coast.

Search after asylumseeker boat runs aground in crocinfested waters

SYDNEY - An asylum-seeker boat has reached Australia for the first time in almost four years, the government said Monday, with many of those on board the Vietnamese vessel fleeing into a crocodile-infested mangrove rainforest after running aground near the coast.

Locals said passengers from the rickety vessel disappeared into the dense forest near the Daintree River, north of popular tourist city Cairns, in the tropical far north of Queensland state on Sunday.

They will have to avoid crocodiles, venomous snakes, ferocious sandflies and giant cassowaries -one of the world’s deadliest and most aggressive birds -- that all call the ancient Daintree rainforest home.

Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 15 passengers had been found so far.

The ABC added that two others, including the boat’s captain, were still missing. The Brisbane Courier Mail

reported that up to 20 were unaccounted for. It said those detained were well dressed and in good health.

State Emergency Service area controller Peter Rinaudo said earlier his crews were searching through the mangroves and near the mouth of the river, reportedly with dogs.

“It’ll be a hard slog, it’s still quite warm in there and it’ll be tough conditions for the guys,” he told the ABC. “I hope the people, however many there are, get located -- it’s not a nice area for them to be in.”

A fisherman who spotted two asylum-seekers hiding in the mangroves said he took the pair on a tour of the Daintree River.

“We gave them a ride up the river and had a few laughs and we got them to help us pull in the crab pots”, fisherman Justin Ward told television broadcaster Channel Nine, adding that they were taking photos and selfies.

He later broke it to the men that he would hand them over to the police. (afp)

International

Iran urges UN court to halt ‘economic strangulation’ by US THE HAGUE - Iran on Monday demanded the UN’s top court suspend US nuclear-linked sanctions against Tehran, accusing Washington of plotting its “economic strangulation”.

The Islamic Republic launched a suit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague over US President Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose the sanctions that had been lifted in a 2015 accord.

Iran says Trump’s move breaches a 1955 treaty. It told the court the measures were already devastating its economy and threatening the welfare of its citizens.

“The United States is publicly propagating a policy intended to damage as severely as possible Iran’s economy and Iranian nationals and companies,” Iran’s lawyer Mohsen Mohebi told the court.

“This policy is nothing but naked economic aggression against my country,” he added.

“Iran will put up the strongest resistance to the US economic strangulation, by all peaceful means.”

US lawyers are due to give their response in arguments before the court on Tuesday.

Sanctions had been lifted under a 2015 multilateral agreement in return for Iran committing not to pursue nuclear weapons.

But Trump reimposed unilateral sanctions three weeks ago. He said they were needed to ensure Iran never builds a nuclear bomb.

A second wave of punitive measures are due to hit Iran in early

November, targeting its vital energy sector including oil exports.

- ‘Irreparable prejudice’ -

The US measures have added to Iran’s economic woes, helping to fuel strikes and protests from across the country and political spectrum.

In the latest blow, Iran’s parliament impeached Economy Minister Masoud Karbasian on Sunday.

Tehran filed its case before the ICJ in late July, calling on the Hague-based tribunal’s judges to order the immediate lifting of sanctions pending a definitive ruling.

It said the sanctions would cause it “irreparable prejudice”. It argues they breach the 1955 Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations between Iran and the United States.

- ‘One-sided deal’ -

The ICJ is expected to take a couple of months to decide whether to grant Tehran’s request for a provisional ruling. A final decision in the case may take years.

The 2015 deal was signed by Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany.

Trump, who took office in 2016, called it a “horrible one-sided deal.”

He said it “failed to achieve the fundamental objective of blocking all paths to a Iranian nuclear bomb.”

To the horror of the other signatories, Trump pulled out and announced in May that he would reinstate sanctions. (afp)

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Mohsen Mohebi, representative of Iran, is pictured during the opening of case between Iran and the United States at the The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, August 27, 2018. Iran opened a lawsuit demanding the UN’s top court order the suspension of renewed US sanctions which it says are devastating its economy.

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Asian Games increases relations of countries in Asia

JAKARTA - The ongoing international sporting event of Asian Games in a safe and peaceful atmosphere since August 18 to September 2, 2018 can strengthen the international relations of countries in the continent of Asia. Good relations created through the Asian Games will also have a very positive influence in welcoming the era of globalization and free markets in this millennial era.

The Rector of the University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta, Prof Syaiful Bakhri, argued that the main objective of the Asian Games was to strengthen harmony, peace and justice without interference with political or religious issues.

According to him, the Asian Games are not just sports parties, but also a means of promotion for Indonesia`s potential to become the center of the world`s attention. Hosting the 2018 Asian Games is proof that Indonesia is a safe, peaceful, and conducive country for this international sporting event which is free from the interference of radicalism and terrorism.

It turns out that a multitude of athletes from 45 countries in Asia who are chasing champions in 40 sports have been able to compete safely without any security disturbances because thousands of officers from the Police and Military (TNI) are united to maintain security.

During the Asian Games, the Police and TNI officers are united to maintain security for the participants and officials of the international sporting event in Jakarta and Palembang. In the run up to the Asian Games, Pangdam Jaya Military Commander Major General Joni Supriyanto confirmed that the Military and Police officers weree ready to maintain the security.

The Pangdam Jaya Military commander and Metro Jaya Police Chief Inspector General Idham Azis, ahead of the Asian Games, led a show of force of Among Raga Operation for ensuring security during the international sporting event.

Supriyanto stated that the TNI Commander, Chief of Police, and Chairman of the Indonesian National Asian Games Organizing Committee (INASGOC) have made a coordination and provided directions for successfully hosting the Asian Games.

He revealed that the TNI, Police, and INASGOC, as the organizers of the Asian Games, were committed to making the Asian Games a great success.

Even the security officials safeguard the contingent of athletes

and officials from other countries in Jakarta for offering maximum security and comfort while competing. Meanwhile, INASGOC Deputy Chairman Syafrie Syamsuddin noted that the show of force by the Military and Police is the starting point of the security simulation activities in the Asian Games match venues.

Syamsuddin insists security is an important part of support during the international sporting event of the Asian Games. According to him, the principle used in security to support the Asian Games is comfort and vigilance. In the South Sumatra provincial city of Palembang, around 7,400 personnel were deployed to safeguard this multi-sport event, according to National Police Deputy Chief Comr. Gen. Syafruddin.

The Police have prepared maximum security to maintain conducive situation during the Asian Games.

Around 10,000 joint personnel were deployed during the Asian Games so that all participants can get maximum security, he remarked. In terms of security, all Asian Games contingents were treated equally starting from their arrivals to their returns to their respective countries.

The joint-security personnel in advance had made various preparations, including a security simulation of athletes. In addition, the Indonesian police also focused on dealing with the question of terrorism during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang from Aug 18 to Sept 2. Prior to the international sporting event of Asian Games, Chief of the National Police General Tito Karnavian said the security measures would give priority to the issues of terrorism, conventional crimes, congestion and land and forest fires. The police have taken security measures long before August 18, he said. Some contingents, officials and advance teams arrived in Indonesia early August. Even some of them have checked the venues of games and have done exercise.

Earlier, Deputy Police Chief Com. Gen. Syafruddin remarked that the state police have carried out highlevel security preparations to ensure

the successful implementation of the Asian Games. A joint force of 60 thousand police and military personnel have been tasked with maintaining security ahead of and during the events, according to Syafruddin, who is also chairman of the Indonesian Asian Games contingent.

To deal with terrorist threat, Polri and TNI have caught 242 people in the wake of bomb attacks in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya some time ago. Twenty one of the 242 people were shot dead as they resisted arrest.

The conventional crimes including thefts and robberies have been committed in the jurisdiction of the four provincial police, including the Jakarta Metropolitan Police, the West Java provincial police, Banten provincial police and South Sumatra provincial police. Thousands of peo-

ple have been arrested and detained for their involvement in conventional

crimes, and hundreds of them have been detained. (ant)

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Supporters of China’s Sun Yang display a banner before the final of the men’s 200m freestyle swimming event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 19, 2018.

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Alvarez slams ‘hypocrite’ Golovkin ahead of rematch

LOS ANGELES - Saul “Canelo” Alvarez branded middleweight rival Gennady Golovkin a “hypocrite” on Sunday as their war of words escalated ahead of next month’s eagerly anticipated rematch in Las Vegas.

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World middleweight king Golovkin and Alvarez will climb into the ropes at the T-Mobile Arena on September 15, a year after their long-awaited first encounter ended in a controversial draw.

A planned rematch in May was cancelled when Alvarez failed a drug test, a development which infuriated Kazakh star Golovkin, who later accused his Mexican rival of doping.

Acrimony between the two camps has simmered ever since, and on Sunday both men traded verbal body blows in comments to reporters at an open workout in front of fans at Los Angeles’s Banc of California Stadium.

Alvarez, 28, said the bad blood between the duo made it unlikely that he would ever form a friendship with Golovkin once the fight was over.

“For me that would be very difficult,” Alvarez said.

“All of the things that have been said. For me, personally, it’s very difficult to leave that door open.”

Alvarez also bridled when asked to comment on Golovkin’s frequent assertion that his trademark aggressive style had made him popular amongst Mexican boxing fans.

“It’s hypocritical,” Alvarez said.

“He’s a hypocrite. Maybe he uses it to get fans. If something tragic were to occur in Mexico, he wouldn’t be there.”

Alvarez, who fought cagily in the first fight 12 months ago which most neutrals believe Golovkin

should have won, also rejected suggestions that his opponent had a more “Mexican” style of boxing.

“There’s no defined Mexican style,” Alvarez said. “There have been many fighters from Mexico who have different styles. My style is mine, I’m Mexican.”

Alvarez meanwhile said he is confident that Golovkin has not yet seen the best of him. “He doesn’t know what I have left to show,” he said.

Trainer Eddy Reynoso also waded in to the verbal dust-up, saying the 36-year-old Golovkin had little room for improvement.

“At (36) years of age, there’s nothing else you can teach this guy,” he said.

“But they have taught him how to run his mouth off.”

Golovkin meanwhile earlier accused Alvarez of disrespecting boxing through his failed drug test, which the Mexican’s camp blamed on contaminated meat.

The controversy has ensured Golovkin will be carrying a grudge into the ring next month, he said.

“Right now I feel a little bit different,” Golovkin said.

‘No Ronaldo no problem’ insists Real coach Lopetegui

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“It’s not only sport, not only business. It’s special.

Because his team doesn’t respect boxing people. This whole situation was terrible.

“I don’t feel angry. I don’t feel respect for this team, not only for Canelo. He has scandal. You know, he’s still working with these people who bring this situation, for this scandal. This is very terrible for him.

This is my point. (afp)

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Real Madrid’s Spanish coach Julen Lopetegui gives instructions during the Spanish league football match between Girona FC and Real Madrid CF at the Montilivi stadium in Girona on August 26, 2018.

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui insisted after a come from behind 4-1 win at Girona that a ‘keep calm under pressure’ attitude would deliver the goals previously scored by the prolific but now departed Cristiano Ronaldo.

Seeking their second win of the new La Liga season the European champions fell behind before a brace from Karim Benzema and further goals from Sergio Ramos and Welsh star Gareth Bale saw Madrid eventually cruise to three precious points.

“Both halves were tricky,” Lapotegui told Spanish tv station Movistar.

“Girona have a good collective game, they started well got an early goal and could have had another,”

said Lapotegui.

“Then we got two penalties. We deserved them because we were playing to win and had a hatful of chances,” said the former Spain manager, sacked on the eve of Russia 2018 after his deal with Madrid was revealed.

“We kept calm under pressure and played well enough in the second half to deserve the victory. We were flying forwards too quickly in the first half, we were too keen to attack,” he said.

“We were calm and clear and had plenty of space When we have that this team gets going, it works and the goals start to flow,” he explained.

“This time it was Gareth, Karim and Sergio, but we don’t mind who gets them als long as we get them,”

he said.

Real Madrid have yet to sign a direct replacement for the Portuguese superstar Ronaldo, who switched to Juventus in July after scoring 450 goals in 438 games over nine seasons at the club.

Spanish daily Marca said Lapotegui “Proved he was in charge” and was not “afraid to make unpopular decisions for the best of the team.

He had left World Cup final stars Luka Modric and Rafael Varane on the bench, and also stunned observers by pulling off veteran left-back Marcelo on the hour.

There was no start either for Thibaut Courtois who joined the club from Chelsea, Real’s major summer signing had to watch the popular Costa Rican Keylor Navas turn in a solid game in goal. (afp)

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ASIAN GAMES 2018 Jakarta Palembang

Su amazing! China star sets Games record to win Asian 100m crown China’s Su Bingtian stormed to the Asian Games 100 metres title in a meet record of 9.92 seconds on Sunday, missing out on a new continental best by a whisker. The 28-year-old streaked away to win the Jakarta final ahead of Nigerianborn Qatari Tosin Ogunode -- the younger brother of Femi Ogunode, with whom Su shares the Asian mark of 9.91.

Su pumped his fists and roared in delight as he won by eight-hundredths to improve on his 2014 silver medal. Japan’s Ryota Yamagata took the bronze. “All I was thinking about was winning the gold medal,” Su told reporters.

“The time doesn’t matter. I was finding it a little hard to get up for the races and was doing just enough in the heats. But I found a little something extra when it mattered.” Bahrain’s Edidiong Odiong snatched the women’s 100m title in 11.30 seconds after a photo finish with India’s Dutee Chand, who clocked 11.32 with China’s Wei Yongli taking bronze.

Odiong, who originally hails from Nigeria, was one of six Africanborn athletes to snaffle track and field gold medals in Jakarta on Sunday. Chand’s silver came after she missed the 2014 Games in a row over her elevated testosterone levels caused by hyperandrogenism, the condition that also affects South African middle distance star Caster Semenya.

“I’ve gone through a lot of pain and anguish since the last Asian Games,” said Chand. “To come here and win a silver I feel is redemption for all that I’ve suffered in that time.”

- Silver dreadlocks -

Bahrain’s Salwa Naser blazed to gold in the women’s 400m, silver dreadlocks billowing behind her as the Nigeria-born sprinter clocked

a Games-record 50.09. Naser, who took silver at last year’s world championships in London, led from wire-to-wire with India’s world junior champion Hima Das runner-up seven-tenths back.

Bahrain’s Hassan Chani raced away to win the men’s 10,000m in 28:35.54 with Abraham Cheroben, another naturalised athlete now competing for the Gulf state, runner-up in 29:00.29. China’s Wang Jianan leapt to victory in the men’s long jump with a new Games record of 8.24 metres, with countryman Zhang Yaoguang claiming silver with a

JAKARTA — Jordan Clarkson will report back for duty to the Cleveland Cavaliers without a medal from the Asian Games in basketball.

Clarkson got special permission from the NBA to join the Philippines

Clarkson, Philippines lose in Asian Games quarterfinals

for the Asian Games, which attracts more than 11,000 athletes in 40 sports. But the Philippines didn’t net the result it was hoping for.

The Cavs guard led the Philippines with 25 points in the 91-82 loss

Monday to the defending champion South Koreans.

U.S.-born forward Ricardo Ratliffe had 30 points and 14 rebounds for South Korea, which had wins over Indonesia, Mongolia and

China’s Su Bingtian celebrates winning the final of the men’s 100m athletics event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 26, 2018.

Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

Malaysia’s Nicol Ann David (front), returns a shot against Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam (back) during the final of the women’s singles squash event at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 26, 2018.

Malaysian squash legend Nicol David celebrated her 35th birthday in style on Sunday as she won a record-extending fifth gold medal at the Asian Games. The former long-time world number one grittily came from behind in the fifth set to beat 19-year-old compatriot Sivasangari Subramaniam 11-13, 11-9, 5-11, 11-6, 11-8 in Jakarta.

It added to David’s near-flawless record at the regional Olympics, where she has lost only once in six visits since her debut in 1998 -- the

2002 final against Hong Kong’s Rebecca Chiu.

David stunned the world of squash when she won her first Asian Games gold as a 14-yearold in 1998, and went on to spend a record 108 months as world number one from August 2006 to September 2015.

But Jakarta looks likely to be the final Asian Games for the Penang native, who said this year’s Commonwealth Games were probably her last after she lost in the semifinals. (afp)

the stands.

There are 38 gold medals on offer Monday across 13 sports, with China and Japan meeting in the women’s beach volleyball final.

There are seven finals in track and field, and the women’s doubles and mixed doubles titles are on the line in badminton, plus key medals in weightlifting. (ap)

Asian Games 2018 Medal Tally

jump of 8.15.

Japan’s Keisuke Ushiro retained his decathlon title with 7,878 points to pip Thailand’s Suttisak Singkhon, while South Korean pin-up Jung Hye-lim won the women’s 100m hurdles.

Qatar’s Abdalelah Hassan bagged the men’s 400m title in 44.89 by some distance from India’s Asian title-holder Muhammed Anas, with Bahrain’s Ali Khamis third. Earlier world champion Rose Chelimo overcame brutal conditions to kick off Bahrain’s four-title gold rush with a runaway win in the women’s marathon.

The Kenyan-born athlete ploughed a lonely furrow as she crossed the line to win in two hours, 34 minutes and 51 seconds, before complaining about the heat and poor air quality. “It was too hot,” the 29-year-old told AFP. “The air here, it’s hard to breathe. “I felt like I wasn’t going to finish -- but I found the heart to keep going.” (afp)

Many happy returns! Legend David wins squash gold on birthday

Thailand in the group stage and will meet either Iran or Japan in the semifinals.

Clarkson missed the Philippines’ opening win over Kazakhstan and had a game-high 28 points in the 82-80 group-stage loss to China. The Chinese team contains NBA players Zhou Qi and Ding Yanyuhang and has had Yao Ming watching from

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

Philippines’ Jordan Clarkson shoots as South Korea’s Lee Seoung-hyun tries to block during the men’s basketball competition at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018.

No. Countries

Gold

Silver Bronze

Total

1 China 2 Japan 3 Republic of Korea 4 Indonesia 5 IR Iran 6 Chinese Taipei 7 DPR Korea 8 Thailand 9 India 10 Uzbekistan

83 43 28 20 16 12 12 9 7 6

60 35 35 14 15 12 6 10 10 12

183 132 104 61 46 41 25 52 37 30

40 54 41 27 15 17 7 33 20 12

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ASIAN GAMES 2018 Jakarta Palembang

Su amazing! China star sets Games record to win Asian 100m crown China’s Su Bingtian stormed to the Asian Games 100 metres title in a meet record of 9.92 seconds on Sunday, missing out on a new continental best by a whisker. The 28-year-old streaked away to win the Jakarta final ahead of Nigerianborn Qatari Tosin Ogunode -- the younger brother of Femi Ogunode, with whom Su shares the Asian mark of 9.91.

Su pumped his fists and roared in delight as he won by eight-hundredths to improve on his 2014 silver medal. Japan’s Ryota Yamagata took the bronze. “All I was thinking about was winning the gold medal,” Su told reporters.

“The time doesn’t matter. I was finding it a little hard to get up for the races and was doing just enough in the heats. But I found a little something extra when it mattered.” Bahrain’s Edidiong Odiong snatched the women’s 100m title in 11.30 seconds after a photo finish with India’s Dutee Chand, who clocked 11.32 with China’s Wei Yongli taking bronze.

Odiong, who originally hails from Nigeria, was one of six Africanborn athletes to snaffle track and field gold medals in Jakarta on Sunday. Chand’s silver came after she missed the 2014 Games in a row over her elevated testosterone levels caused by hyperandrogenism, the condition that also affects South African middle distance star Caster Semenya.

“I’ve gone through a lot of pain and anguish since the last Asian Games,” said Chand. “To come here and win a silver I feel is redemption for all that I’ve suffered in that time.”

- Silver dreadlocks -

Bahrain’s Salwa Naser blazed to gold in the women’s 400m, silver dreadlocks billowing behind her as the Nigeria-born sprinter clocked

a Games-record 50.09. Naser, who took silver at last year’s world championships in London, led from wire-to-wire with India’s world junior champion Hima Das runner-up seven-tenths back.

Bahrain’s Hassan Chani raced away to win the men’s 10,000m in 28:35.54 with Abraham Cheroben, another naturalised athlete now competing for the Gulf state, runner-up in 29:00.29. China’s Wang Jianan leapt to victory in the men’s long jump with a new Games record of 8.24 metres, with countryman Zhang Yaoguang claiming silver with a

JAKARTA — Jordan Clarkson will report back for duty to the Cleveland Cavaliers without a medal from the Asian Games in basketball.

Clarkson got special permission from the NBA to join the Philippines

Clarkson, Philippines lose in Asian Games quarterfinals

for the Asian Games, which attracts more than 11,000 athletes in 40 sports. But the Philippines didn’t net the result it was hoping for.

The Cavs guard led the Philippines with 25 points in the 91-82 loss

Monday to the defending champion South Koreans.

U.S.-born forward Ricardo Ratliffe had 30 points and 14 rebounds for South Korea, which had wins over Indonesia, Mongolia and

China’s Su Bingtian celebrates winning the final of the men’s 100m athletics event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 26, 2018.

Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

Malaysia’s Nicol Ann David (front), returns a shot against Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam (back) during the final of the women’s singles squash event at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 26, 2018.

Malaysian squash legend Nicol David celebrated her 35th birthday in style on Sunday as she won a record-extending fifth gold medal at the Asian Games. The former long-time world number one grittily came from behind in the fifth set to beat 19-year-old compatriot Sivasangari Subramaniam 11-13, 11-9, 5-11, 11-6, 11-8 in Jakarta.

It added to David’s near-flawless record at the regional Olympics, where she has lost only once in six visits since her debut in 1998 -- the

2002 final against Hong Kong’s Rebecca Chiu.

David stunned the world of squash when she won her first Asian Games gold as a 14-yearold in 1998, and went on to spend a record 108 months as world number one from August 2006 to September 2015.

But Jakarta looks likely to be the final Asian Games for the Penang native, who said this year’s Commonwealth Games were probably her last after she lost in the semifinals. (afp)

the stands.

There are 38 gold medals on offer Monday across 13 sports, with China and Japan meeting in the women’s beach volleyball final.

There are seven finals in track and field, and the women’s doubles and mixed doubles titles are on the line in badminton, plus key medals in weightlifting. (ap)

Asian Games 2018 Medal Tally

jump of 8.15.

Japan’s Keisuke Ushiro retained his decathlon title with 7,878 points to pip Thailand’s Suttisak Singkhon, while South Korean pin-up Jung Hye-lim won the women’s 100m hurdles.

Qatar’s Abdalelah Hassan bagged the men’s 400m title in 44.89 by some distance from India’s Asian title-holder Muhammed Anas, with Bahrain’s Ali Khamis third. Earlier world champion Rose Chelimo overcame brutal conditions to kick off Bahrain’s four-title gold rush with a runaway win in the women’s marathon.

The Kenyan-born athlete ploughed a lonely furrow as she crossed the line to win in two hours, 34 minutes and 51 seconds, before complaining about the heat and poor air quality. “It was too hot,” the 29-year-old told AFP. “The air here, it’s hard to breathe. “I felt like I wasn’t going to finish -- but I found the heart to keep going.” (afp)

Many happy returns! Legend David wins squash gold on birthday

Thailand in the group stage and will meet either Iran or Japan in the semifinals.

Clarkson missed the Philippines’ opening win over Kazakhstan and had a game-high 28 points in the 82-80 group-stage loss to China. The Chinese team contains NBA players Zhou Qi and Ding Yanyuhang and has had Yao Ming watching from

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

Philippines’ Jordan Clarkson shoots as South Korea’s Lee Seoung-hyun tries to block during the men’s basketball competition at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018.

No. Countries

Gold

Silver Bronze

Total

1 China 2 Japan 3 Republic of Korea 4 Indonesia 5 IR Iran 6 Chinese Taipei 7 DPR Korea 8 Thailand 9 India 10 Uzbekistan

83 43 28 20 16 12 12 9 7 6

60 35 35 14 15 12 6 10 10 12

183 132 104 61 46 41 25 52 37 30

40 54 41 27 15 17 7 33 20 12

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International

Alvarez slams ‘hypocrite’ Golovkin ahead of rematch

LOS ANGELES - Saul “Canelo” Alvarez branded middleweight rival Gennady Golovkin a “hypocrite” on Sunday as their war of words escalated ahead of next month’s eagerly anticipated rematch in Las Vegas.

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World middleweight king Golovkin and Alvarez will climb into the ropes at the T-Mobile Arena on September 15, a year after their long-awaited first encounter ended in a controversial draw.

A planned rematch in May was cancelled when Alvarez failed a drug test, a development which infuriated Kazakh star Golovkin, who later accused his Mexican rival of doping.

Acrimony between the two camps has simmered ever since, and on Sunday both men traded verbal body blows in comments to reporters at an open workout in front of fans at Los Angeles’s Banc of California Stadium.

Alvarez, 28, said the bad blood between the duo made it unlikely that he would ever form a friendship with Golovkin once the fight was over.

“For me that would be very difficult,” Alvarez said.

“All of the things that have been said. For me, personally, it’s very difficult to leave that door open.”

Alvarez also bridled when asked to comment on Golovkin’s frequent assertion that his trademark aggressive style had made him popular amongst Mexican boxing fans.

“It’s hypocritical,” Alvarez said.

“He’s a hypocrite. Maybe he uses it to get fans. If something tragic were to occur in Mexico, he wouldn’t be there.”

Alvarez, who fought cagily in the first fight 12 months ago which most neutrals believe Golovkin

should have won, also rejected suggestions that his opponent had a more “Mexican” style of boxing.

“There’s no defined Mexican style,” Alvarez said. “There have been many fighters from Mexico who have different styles. My style is mine, I’m Mexican.”

Alvarez meanwhile said he is confident that Golovkin has not yet seen the best of him. “He doesn’t know what I have left to show,” he said.

Trainer Eddy Reynoso also waded in to the verbal dust-up, saying the 36-year-old Golovkin had little room for improvement.

“At (36) years of age, there’s nothing else you can teach this guy,” he said.

“But they have taught him how to run his mouth off.”

Golovkin meanwhile earlier accused Alvarez of disrespecting boxing through his failed drug test, which the Mexican’s camp blamed on contaminated meat.

The controversy has ensured Golovkin will be carrying a grudge into the ring next month, he said.

“Right now I feel a little bit different,” Golovkin said.

‘No Ronaldo no problem’ insists Real coach Lopetegui

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“It’s not only sport, not only business. It’s special.

Because his team doesn’t respect boxing people. This whole situation was terrible.

“I don’t feel angry. I don’t feel respect for this team, not only for Canelo. He has scandal. You know, he’s still working with these people who bring this situation, for this scandal. This is very terrible for him.

This is my point. (afp)

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Real Madrid’s Spanish coach Julen Lopetegui gives instructions during the Spanish league football match between Girona FC and Real Madrid CF at the Montilivi stadium in Girona on August 26, 2018.

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui insisted after a come from behind 4-1 win at Girona that a ‘keep calm under pressure’ attitude would deliver the goals previously scored by the prolific but now departed Cristiano Ronaldo.

Seeking their second win of the new La Liga season the European champions fell behind before a brace from Karim Benzema and further goals from Sergio Ramos and Welsh star Gareth Bale saw Madrid eventually cruise to three precious points.

“Both halves were tricky,” Lapotegui told Spanish tv station Movistar.

“Girona have a good collective game, they started well got an early goal and could have had another,”

said Lapotegui.

“Then we got two penalties. We deserved them because we were playing to win and had a hatful of chances,” said the former Spain manager, sacked on the eve of Russia 2018 after his deal with Madrid was revealed.

“We kept calm under pressure and played well enough in the second half to deserve the victory. We were flying forwards too quickly in the first half, we were too keen to attack,” he said.

“We were calm and clear and had plenty of space When we have that this team gets going, it works and the goals start to flow,” he explained.

“This time it was Gareth, Karim and Sergio, but we don’t mind who gets them als long as we get them,”

he said.

Real Madrid have yet to sign a direct replacement for the Portuguese superstar Ronaldo, who switched to Juventus in July after scoring 450 goals in 438 games over nine seasons at the club.

Spanish daily Marca said Lapotegui “Proved he was in charge” and was not “afraid to make unpopular decisions for the best of the team.

He had left World Cup final stars Luka Modric and Rafael Varane on the bench, and also stunned observers by pulling off veteran left-back Marcelo on the hour.

There was no start either for Thibaut Courtois who joined the club from Chelsea, Real’s major summer signing had to watch the popular Costa Rican Keylor Navas turn in a solid game in goal. (afp)

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An asylum-seeker boat has reached Australia for the first time in almost four years, the government said Monday, with many of those on board the Vietnamese vessel fleeing into a crocodile-infested mangrove rainforest after running aground near the coast.

Search after asylumseeker boat runs aground in crocinfested waters

SYDNEY - An asylum-seeker boat has reached Australia for the first time in almost four years, the government said Monday, with many of those on board the Vietnamese vessel fleeing into a crocodile-infested mangrove rainforest after running aground near the coast.

Locals said passengers from the rickety vessel disappeared into the dense forest near the Daintree River, north of popular tourist city Cairns, in the tropical far north of Queensland state on Sunday.

They will have to avoid crocodiles, venomous snakes, ferocious sandflies and giant cassowaries -one of the world’s deadliest and most aggressive birds -- that all call the ancient Daintree rainforest home.

Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 15 passengers had been found so far.

The ABC added that two others, including the boat’s captain, were still missing. The Brisbane Courier Mail

reported that up to 20 were unaccounted for. It said those detained were well dressed and in good health.

State Emergency Service area controller Peter Rinaudo said earlier his crews were searching through the mangroves and near the mouth of the river, reportedly with dogs.

“It’ll be a hard slog, it’s still quite warm in there and it’ll be tough conditions for the guys,” he told the ABC. “I hope the people, however many there are, get located -- it’s not a nice area for them to be in.”

A fisherman who spotted two asylum-seekers hiding in the mangroves said he took the pair on a tour of the Daintree River.

“We gave them a ride up the river and had a few laughs and we got them to help us pull in the crab pots”, fisherman Justin Ward told television broadcaster Channel Nine, adding that they were taking photos and selfies.

He later broke it to the men that he would hand them over to the police. (afp)

International

Iran urges UN court to halt ‘economic strangulation’ by US THE HAGUE - Iran on Monday demanded the UN’s top court suspend US nuclear-linked sanctions against Tehran, accusing Washington of plotting its “economic strangulation”.

The Islamic Republic launched a suit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague over US President Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose the sanctions that had been lifted in a 2015 accord.

Iran says Trump’s move breaches a 1955 treaty. It told the court the measures were already devastating its economy and threatening the welfare of its citizens.

“The United States is publicly propagating a policy intended to damage as severely as possible Iran’s economy and Iranian nationals and companies,” Iran’s lawyer Mohsen Mohebi told the court.

“This policy is nothing but naked economic aggression against my country,” he added.

“Iran will put up the strongest resistance to the US economic strangulation, by all peaceful means.”

US lawyers are due to give their response in arguments before the court on Tuesday.

Sanctions had been lifted under a 2015 multilateral agreement in return for Iran committing not to pursue nuclear weapons.

But Trump reimposed unilateral sanctions three weeks ago. He said they were needed to ensure Iran never builds a nuclear bomb.

A second wave of punitive measures are due to hit Iran in early

November, targeting its vital energy sector including oil exports.

- ‘Irreparable prejudice’ -

The US measures have added to Iran’s economic woes, helping to fuel strikes and protests from across the country and political spectrum.

In the latest blow, Iran’s parliament impeached Economy Minister Masoud Karbasian on Sunday.

Tehran filed its case before the ICJ in late July, calling on the Hague-based tribunal’s judges to order the immediate lifting of sanctions pending a definitive ruling.

It said the sanctions would cause it “irreparable prejudice”. It argues they breach the 1955 Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations between Iran and the United States.

- ‘One-sided deal’ -

The ICJ is expected to take a couple of months to decide whether to grant Tehran’s request for a provisional ruling. A final decision in the case may take years.

The 2015 deal was signed by Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany.

Trump, who took office in 2016, called it a “horrible one-sided deal.”

He said it “failed to achieve the fundamental objective of blocking all paths to a Iranian nuclear bomb.”

To the horror of the other signatories, Trump pulled out and announced in May that he would reinstate sanctions. (afp)

Jerry Lampen / ANP / AFP

Mohsen Mohebi, representative of Iran, is pictured during the opening of case between Iran and the United States at the The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, August 27, 2018. Iran opened a lawsuit demanding the UN’s top court order the suspension of renewed US sanctions which it says are devastating its economy.

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Asian Games increases relations of countries in Asia

JAKARTA - The ongoing international sporting event of Asian Games in a safe and peaceful atmosphere since August 18 to September 2, 2018 can strengthen the international relations of countries in the continent of Asia. Good relations created through the Asian Games will also have a very positive influence in welcoming the era of globalization and free markets in this millennial era.

The Rector of the University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta, Prof Syaiful Bakhri, argued that the main objective of the Asian Games was to strengthen harmony, peace and justice without interference with political or religious issues.

According to him, the Asian Games are not just sports parties, but also a means of promotion for Indonesia`s potential to become the center of the world`s attention. Hosting the 2018 Asian Games is proof that Indonesia is a safe, peaceful, and conducive country for this international sporting event which is free from the interference of radicalism and terrorism.

It turns out that a multitude of athletes from 45 countries in Asia who are chasing champions in 40 sports have been able to compete safely without any security disturbances because thousands of officers from the Police and Military (TNI) are united to maintain security.

During the Asian Games, the Police and TNI officers are united to maintain security for the participants and officials of the international sporting event in Jakarta and Palembang. In the run up to the Asian Games, Pangdam Jaya Military Commander Major General Joni Supriyanto confirmed that the Military and Police officers weree ready to maintain the security.

The Pangdam Jaya Military commander and Metro Jaya Police Chief Inspector General Idham Azis, ahead of the Asian Games, led a show of force of Among Raga Operation for ensuring security during the international sporting event.

Supriyanto stated that the TNI Commander, Chief of Police, and Chairman of the Indonesian National Asian Games Organizing Committee (INASGOC) have made a coordination and provided directions for successfully hosting the Asian Games.

He revealed that the TNI, Police, and INASGOC, as the organizers of the Asian Games, were committed to making the Asian Games a great success.

Even the security officials safeguard the contingent of athletes

and officials from other countries in Jakarta for offering maximum security and comfort while competing. Meanwhile, INASGOC Deputy Chairman Syafrie Syamsuddin noted that the show of force by the Military and Police is the starting point of the security simulation activities in the Asian Games match venues.

Syamsuddin insists security is an important part of support during the international sporting event of the Asian Games. According to him, the principle used in security to support the Asian Games is comfort and vigilance. In the South Sumatra provincial city of Palembang, around 7,400 personnel were deployed to safeguard this multi-sport event, according to National Police Deputy Chief Comr. Gen. Syafruddin.

The Police have prepared maximum security to maintain conducive situation during the Asian Games.

Around 10,000 joint personnel were deployed during the Asian Games so that all participants can get maximum security, he remarked. In terms of security, all Asian Games contingents were treated equally starting from their arrivals to their returns to their respective countries.

The joint-security personnel in advance had made various preparations, including a security simulation of athletes. In addition, the Indonesian police also focused on dealing with the question of terrorism during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang from Aug 18 to Sept 2. Prior to the international sporting event of Asian Games, Chief of the National Police General Tito Karnavian said the security measures would give priority to the issues of terrorism, conventional crimes, congestion and land and forest fires. The police have taken security measures long before August 18, he said. Some contingents, officials and advance teams arrived in Indonesia early August. Even some of them have checked the venues of games and have done exercise.

Earlier, Deputy Police Chief Com. Gen. Syafruddin remarked that the state police have carried out highlevel security preparations to ensure

the successful implementation of the Asian Games. A joint force of 60 thousand police and military personnel have been tasked with maintaining security ahead of and during the events, according to Syafruddin, who is also chairman of the Indonesian Asian Games contingent.

To deal with terrorist threat, Polri and TNI have caught 242 people in the wake of bomb attacks in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya some time ago. Twenty one of the 242 people were shot dead as they resisted arrest.

The conventional crimes including thefts and robberies have been committed in the jurisdiction of the four provincial police, including the Jakarta Metropolitan Police, the West Java provincial police, Banten provincial police and South Sumatra provincial police. Thousands of peo-

ple have been arrested and detained for their involvement in conventional

crimes, and hundreds of them have been detained. (ant)

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Supporters of China’s Sun Yang display a banner before the final of the men’s 200m freestyle swimming event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 19, 2018.

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Powell signals more hikes ahead if US economy stays strong

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled Friday that he expects the Fed to continue gradually raising interest rates if the U.S. economic expansion remains strong.

Powell added that while annual inflation has risen to near the Fed’s 2 percent target rate, it doesn’t seem likely to accelerate above that point.

That suggests that he doesn’t foresee a need for the Fed to step up its rate hikes. Next month, the Fed is widely expected to resume raising rates.

Speaking to an annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Powell said the Fed recognizes the need to strike a careful balance between its mandates of maximizing employment and keeping price increases stable. He said a gradual approach to rate hikes is the best way to navigate between the risks of raising rates too fast and “needlessly shortening the expansion” and moving too slowly and risking an overheated economy.

“My colleagues and I,” the Fed chairman said in his speech, “are carefully monitoring incoming data, and we are setting policy to do what monetary policy can do to support continued growth, a strong labor market, and inflation near 2 percent.”

Powell sketched a positive picture of the U.S. economy and said the Fed’s incremental approach to raising rates has so far succeeded.

“The economy is strong,” he said.

“Inflation is near our 2 percent objective and most people who want a job are finding one. We are setting policy to do what monetary policy can do to support continued growth, a strong labor market and inflation near 2 percent.”

At the same time, Powell said that in case of another financial crisis or intensified concern about high inflation, “We will do whatever it takes.”

That echoed a phrase that was used to describe the extraordinary steps the Fed and other central banks took after the 2008 financial crisis plunged the

U.S. and global economies into deep recessions.

The chairman’s measured tone about the economy and his message that the Fed plans to stick with a gradual pace of rate hikes appeared to meet approval with investors.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 133 points — about half a percentage point — and bond prices rose as well.

Powell made no mention of the recent public criticism from President Donald Trump, who has said he is unhappy with the Fed’s rate hikes.

The president has complained that the Fed’s tightening of credit could threaten the continued strong growth he aims to achieve through the tax cuts enacted late last year, a pullback of regulations and a rewriting of trade deals to better serve the United States.

Many have seen Trump’s complaints about the Fed’s rate hikes as an intrusion on the central bank’s longstanding independence from political influence. On Thursday, two top Fed officials made clear Thursday that Trump’s criticism won’t affect their decisions on whether to continue raising rates.

In his speech, Powell did not directly address what many analysts see as the most serious threat to the economy: The trade war that Trump has launched with America’s main trading partners — a conflict that risks depressing U.S. and global economic growth the longer it goes on.

Economists said Powell’s remarks Friday echoed the message he has sent since succeeding Janet Yellen as Fed leader in February. Powell has stressed that while unemployment is historically low and inflation has risen slightly, there’s no sign that the economy is overheating. In his view,

Four Denpasar Cultures Defined as Intangible Cultural Heritage AP Photo/Jonathan Crosby

Esther George, left, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, John Williams, center, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System walk together after Powell’s speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018 in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled Friday that he expects the Fed to continue gradually raising interest rates if the U.S. economic expansion remains strong. that’s why the Fed can continue with a gradual pace of rate hikes that began under Yellen.

“Powell deliberately avoided commenting on the latest developments on trade policy, politics and risks from abroad,” said Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

Pearce said he saw Powell’s comments as signaling that the central bank will continue raising rates gradually over the next year.

Though Powell chose not to mention Trump’s criticism, other Fed officials asserted that the president’s complaints about rate hikes would have no effect on their policymaking.

“We have a mandate by law,

and we do the best we can to hit the mandate” of maximizing employment and stabilizing prices, James Bullard, president of the Fed’s St. Louis regional bank, said Friday in an interview on CNBC. Powell focused his remarks in part on the difficulty the Fed faces in setting interest-rate policies at a time when the economy seems to be undergoing changes that challenge long-standing beliefs of how low unemployment can fall before it ignites inflation pressures.

He said there is also much uncertainty over the “neutral” rate of inflation — the point at which the Fed’s policy rate is neither stimulat-

ing economic growth nor holding it back. The Fed’s economic projections, compiled from estimates of all its officials, estimates the current neutral rate at 2.9 percent. But Powell noted that there’s a wide difference of opinion about it.

After having kept its key policy rate near zero for seven years to help lift the economy out of the Great Recession, the Fed has raised rates seven times, most recently in March and June this year. Most Fed watchers foresee two more hikes this year — next month and then in December.

After the June rate hike, the Fed’s policy rate now stands in a range of 1.75 percent to 2 percent. (ap)

Tokyo stocks close higher as Asian bourses rally

Tokyo markets closed higher on Monday helped by a relatively cheaper yen against the dollar and rallies in other Asian markets.

The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.88 percent or 197.87 points to close at 22,799.64 while the broader Topix index ended up 1.16 percent or 19.75 points at 1,728.95.

Japanese shares, which opened higher encouraged by gains on Wall Street Friday, “extended gains as China’s Shanghai market rose,” SBI Securities said in a commentary.

This week, however, investors are likely to remain cautious over developments

in the confrontation between the US and China, and ahead of a series of global economic data, analysts said.

The dollar fetched 111.05 yen in late Tokyo hours, down from 111.21 yen in New York late Friday but was still higher than most of last week. In individual stock

trade, Toyota climbed 1.99 percent to 6,966 yen after a weekend report by the Nikkei newspaper that the auto giant was planning to build a new factory in China.

Nintendo rose 2.58 percent to 38,850 yen and Sony gained 1.89 percent to 6,170 yen. (afp)

Four Denpasar native traditions as well as intangible cultural heritages were successfully established as the Indonesian Intangible Cultural Heritage (WBTB) 2018. This determination was made some time ago in Jakarta by the Managing Director of Cultural Heritage and Diplomacy of the RI, Nadjamudin Ramly.

Head of the Denpasar Culture Agency, IGN Bagus Mataram, accompanied by the Division Head of Cultural Reserve Section, I Ketut Gede Suaryadala, said the four native traditions of Denpasar are the Baris Wayang Dance (Lumintang hamlet) as performing art, Baris Cina Dance (Renon and Sanur village) as performing art, Basmerah (Taman Poh Manis village) as community custom, rite and celebration

at Taman Poh Manis village and the Ngerebong tradition (Kesiman village) as community custom, rite and celebration.

“The establishment of the four traditions and indigenous cultures of Denpasar as the Indonesian Intangible Cultural Heritage 2018 is a breath of fresh air for the inventories and preservation of the art and culture in Denpasar City,” said Bagus Mataram, Tuesday (Aug. 7).

With this determination, Bagus Mataram said that in the future there will be no more unilateral claims on indigenous Indonesian art and culture, especially those of Bali and Denpasar city. “This proposal is one of the efforts to protect the art, culture and tradition of Denpasar so that other countries will not claim and avoid undesirable things by registering the Denpasar art and culture in the national

inventory portal,” he explained.

Bagus Mataram added that after being determined to be the intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia 2018, the fourth cultural heritages of Denpasar will continue to be guarded so that it can become an intangible cultural heritage at the international level as determined by the UNESCO. “We should be grateful for the establishment of the original culture and tradition of Denpasar into the intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia. In the future, we will strive for other traditions and cultures to be included in the intan-

gible cultural heritage of Indonesia and the national inventory portal,” he stressed.

On that occasion, Bagus Mataram said there are 264 intangible cultural heritages proposed by 35 provinces in Indonesia. Of these numbers, 125 proposed cultural eyes were determined through a four-day trial conducted by 20 expert team members and attended by all provincial and district / city government delegates across Indonesia. Finally, a total of 13 cultures originating from Bali including four indigenous cultures of Denpasar were declared as intangible cultural heritages. (kmb)

Ngibing Joged Bungbung at Tanah Lot On releasing the year 2016 and welcoming the New Year 2017, the management of Tanah Lot tourist attractions organized an open house activity. The event lasting for three days (Dec. 30-31, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017) specifically involved the driver, guide and tour leader.

“This activity aims to provide appreciation and express gratitude for the cooperation of stakeholders in order to contribute positively to Tanah Lot tourist attraction,” said Operations Manager Toya Adnyana.

Open house provides various types of special traditional food served to the shareholders. Besides, it also graced with dance performance like Joged Bumbung at 17:00 in front of the office of the operation

management. “This performance is expected to entertain visitors while enjoying the New Year holidays at Tanah Lot. Tour guide, domestic and foreign travelers even joined the dance (ngibing),” said Toya Adnyana proudly.

Since day seven before the New Year, the incoming travelers to Tanah Lot have started soaring as coincide with school holidays. Thousands of the travelers came from various cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Makassar. From the afternoon until evening, from viewing post on a cliff top of ??Tanah Lot Beach could be seen that travelers used various types of cameras and video cameras to capture the sunset moments.

Tanah Lot tourist attraction remains to become prominent destination for travelers to spend the remaining times of 2016 and welcome the New Year 2017. During holiday season, visitors to Tanah Lot continue to abound. Festive atmosphere happened when the sun set and thousands of visitors, as if being commanded, immediately applauded in unison.

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

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To use bamboo straws

Griya Luhu Gianyar drives all components GIANYAR - Reducing the production of plastic waste must be a commitment of all components of society. This commitment began to be echoed by the environment caring community in Gianyar, namely Griya Luhu with the use of organic straws or pipettes. Bamboo straws are considered to be more eco-friendly than plastic ones which are difficult to decompose in the soil or at sea.

Chairman of the Griya Luhu Community Gianyar, I.B. Mandara Brasika, when met on Sunday (Aug. 26) explained the organic straw initiated is made of reed bamboo. As the first measure, he just produced about 200 pieces. He also began to educate young generation to care for the environment, especially scouts, so that they would use this organic straw.

“We are confident this bamboo straw is quite potential to be used or marketed in Bali. Meanwhile, the 200 pieces of organic straw of the Griya Luhu are often used as educational material and souvenirs at environment-related events,” he said The Arabian man with the nickname of Gus Nara hoped the organic straw can be used at hotels and restaurants that have enjoyed the benefits of tourism. They were asked to commit and consistently use straws and other organic materials. “When the environment is damaged, tourists will think twice about visiting Bali,” he said.

Brasika asserted the main goal of Griya Luhu under the Mandara Research Institute (MRI) is not for profit, but rather to reduce the circulation of plastic straw waste.

“Our goal is for a brighter future.

Since this bamboo straw can be used repeatedly, the waste can also be reunited with nature. So, it does not damage the environment,” he explained.

Waste bank application Giya Luhu is a group of creative young people of Gianyar in the matter of caring for the environment.

As the name suggests, Griya Luhu means a Garbage House in Balinese language. More interestingly, this community has created an application-based Waste Bank concept.

Gus Nara admitted to have long been concerned with the waste condition in Bali, especially in Gianyar.

His community wanted to change the people’s mindset that the waste must be sorted out before being disposed of. However, the fact all this time is the discarded waste is mixed. “As a result, the waste problem only moves from place A to place B. There is no solution,” he explained.

Together with seven other friends, Gus Nara aggressively conducted dissemination to schools and Family Welfare Development (PKK) meetings. He invited people to wisely sort out waste into three types. They consist of organic waste used for compost, inorganic waste and recycle waste (the recyclable ones). By Griya Luhu, only inorganic waste is discarded to landfill, while the recyclable waste is further re-processed.

“We sell plastic waste to collectors, while the patchwork waste will be taken advantage to make a doormat,” he explained.

In the making of doormat, Griya Luhu also empowers PKK house-

wives in the Kintamani area. It is made not by sewing, but plaiting and the being tied. “The results are quite good, so that quite a lot of people are getting interested,” he explained.

Griya Luhu has established a waste bank. The use of application named Simalu.id distinguishes it from the other waste banks. He described the application poses a result of collaboration with the community members in the Udayana University. “It is the abbreviation of sistem manajemen luu (simalu) or waste management system how we can manage the waste,” explained this civil servant of the Bangli Environment and Sanitation Agency (DLHK).

The application uploaded in the Playstore is said to have been launched about three months ago.

Until now, a total 800 people have downloaded this application. This application has an advantage as the customers’ data are stored neatly.

“By and large, the waste bank is still doing manual recording, but with this application it can be recorded on mobile phone,” he explained.

The request of waste pickup can be done online so that people only need to fill in how many kilos they have waste and then determine when the pick-up time can be done. “In short, everything is based on online system,” he explained.

In addition to serving household

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Bamboo straws are considered to be more eco-friendly than plastic ones which are difficult to decompose in the soil or at sea. waste, Griya Luhu also makes cooperation with eight elementary and junior high schools in Gianyar. His community prepared the concept and the trash can. Then, the pickup service is done every Saturday. The selection of elementary school, said Gus Nara, is meant to familiarize

children to sort out the waste early.

Admittedly so far, he still subsidizes the operation. However, Gus Nara has confidence that in the future this concept will attract more people. “In the future, we project to get income from recycle that we sell to collectors,” he said. (kmb35)

Mas village revives from bankruptcy

DENPASAR - Since the fifth century, Mas village has owned an icon as the world’s woodcarving center.

During the period of 1980-1992, Mas village was visited by a lot of tourist arrivals. Tourists came to see the sculptors and then purchased their products.

Mangku Kandia, a resident of Mas village, stated that out of 12,000 residents of Mas village, 6,000 residents are sculptors. Moreover, elementary school children at that time could have made statues. At first, residents made statues only for pratima (sanctified effigy). However, the art and tradition of

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sculpting were favored by tourists.

The statue of Mas village was in great demand to bring Mas village into the center of the world’s sculptor.

As time goes by, little tourists come whereas guests during the period of 1980 - 1992 were still busy coming to villages. Nowadays, guests have begun to diminish. The number of sculptors at Mas village also began to decrease. Moreover, the number of sculptors currently remains 100.

The peak was in 2002 when the Bali bombing occurred. “At that time, my village became a tourist attraction for shopping wood craft and wood carving. As a citizen, I feel concerned about this condition and afraid if the sculptors will disappeared due to bankruptcy. I am worried about this,” said Chief of the Desa Wisata Nusantara Foundation, Mangku Kandia.

Mas village almost went out of business due to reduced tourists visiting the village, tight competition and the opening of the art markets and the modern souvenir shops. “I am

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concerned about the condition of this global influence. Many of our sculptors are out of business,” he said.

Seeing this condition, Mangku Kandia and the team initiated Mas village into tourism village established in 2010. He explained that by becoming a tourism village it is not only an object but also a subject (player) because previously Mas was known as a tourist object. “So, the object is visited as becoming the center of the world’s sculptor, woodcarving. I want to change Mas tourism village into a subject,” he explained.

He invited the community to build a homestay so that guests can stay at the village. By staying in a residential area, tourists can see people sculpting.

This is the background of the birth of the Mas tourism village.

To make people aware of tourism and tourism village, he asked for help from the government as well as cooperated with academicians from Udayana University and Bali Tourism College (STP). Today, Mas village

is set to be one of the nine tourism villages in Gianyar district through Regent Regulation.

In addition to building homestays, Mas tourism village also has tourist attractions. They include learning to dance Legong, Panyembrama, sculpting, witnessing the stretch of paddy fields behind the village and trekking packages in the fields. “The expanse of paddy fields remains expansive there,” he said.

Mas tourism village also offers a half-day, one-day, one-night and two-day, two-night and three-day tour package. “We sell a maximum of 3 nights 2 days, if more than this, guests will get tired. Except, we are now targeting volunteer tourism,” he said.

Currently students from America visit Mas village and stay with local community for two weeks. They conduct volunteering activities such as teaching English to elementary school students. “That’s what we are targeting now for senior high school students,” he said. (kmb42)

Foreigners barred from buying in planned Malaysian city

KUALA LUMPUR - Foreigners will be barred from buying properties in a planned $100billion Malaysian city, the country’s leader said Monday, after the huge development aimed at mainland Chinese buyers sparked widespread criticism.

Forest City, an “eco-city” of high rises and waterfront villas, will sit on four man-made islands in Malaysia’s southern state of Johor, just an hour from Singapore.

The development, designed to house 700,000 people, is being built by Hong Kong-listed real estate giant Country Garden and a firm partly owned by Johor’s sultan, and is due to be completed by 2035.

It was developed with wealthy mainland Chinese buyers in mind.

But Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has already axed multi-billion dollar deals struck with Beijing by Malaysia’s former government, said foreigners would not be allowed to buy properties in the project.

“One thing is certain, that city that is going to be built cannot be sold to foreigners,” Mahathir told

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a press conference.

“We are not going to give visas for people to come and live here.

“Our objection is because it was built for foreigners, not built for Malaysians. Most Malaysians are unable to buy those flats.”

Many Malaysians had been unhappy with the project as it was clearly aimed at wealthy foreign buyers, and there were also concerns that it could damage the

environment.

Country Garden Pacificview Sdn Bhd, a joint venture firm building Forest City, said it had contacted Mahathir’s office seeking clarification of his comments.

The company said in a statement Country Garden’s chairman met Mahathir earlier this month, and the Malaysian leader had “reiterated that he welcomes foreign investments which could create employment opportunities, promote technology transfer and innovations that could benefit Malaysia’s economic growth and job creation”.

Relations between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing were warm under the former government of scandalplagued Najib Razak, and investment from Chinese companies surged into Malaysia.

But critics said the deals were unfavourable to Malaysia. On a visit to Beijing last week, Mahathir announced he was shelving a series of Chinese-backed infrastructure projects worth $22 billion in total.

While Forest City is a private development, some in Malaysia viewed it as a another unwelcome sign of growing Chinese influence. (afp)

SEOUL - The number of people of working age in Asia’s fourthlargest economy fell for the first time ever last year, South Korea’s official statistics agency said Monday.

In the decades after the Korean War the South propelled itself from a devastated ruin to the world’s 11th-largest economy and a member of the OECD club of advanced nations.

But it faces looming demographic challenges with a rapidly

ageing population.

The country has one of the world’s lowest birth rates as people marry and have children later, amid worries over costs and as women look to focus on their careers.

In an annual census, the working-age population, defined as those aged 15 to 64, fell by 116,000 in 2017 to 36.2 million, Statistics Korea said. It was the first time the figure had fallen, it added.

The total population rose to

51.4 million, up 0.3 percent, with 14.2 percent of people aged 65 and over.

Earlier this month figures showed births plummeting 12 percent in 2017 to 357,771, an alltime low.

The fertility rate -- the number of children a woman can be expected to have in a lifetime -- also dropped to a record low of 1.05. The rate needed to keep a population stable is 2.1. (afp)

S. Korea working-age population falls for first time

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How antibodies attack the brain and muddle memory

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The sun’s knotted magnetic fields, visualized here as white lines, scramble cosmic rays and may cause them to shoot energetic light called high-energy gamma rays toward Earth.

Strange gamma rays from the sun may help decipher its magnetic fields

THE sleepy sun turns out to be a factory of extremely energetic light.

Scientists have discovered that the sun puts out more of this light, called high-energy gamma rays, overall than predicted. But what’s really weird is that the rays with the highest energies appear when the star is supposed to be at its most sluggish, researchers report in an upcoming study in Physical Review Letters. The research is the first to examine these gamma rays over most of the solar cycle, a roughly 11-year period of waxing and waning solar activity.

That newfound oddity is probably connected to the activity of the sun’s magnetic fields, the researchers say, and could lead to new insights about the mysterious environment.

“The almost certain thing that’s going on here is the magnetic fields are much more powerful, much more variable, and much more weirdly shaped than we expect,” says astrophysicist John Beacom of the Ohio State University in Columbus.

The sun’s high-energy gamma rays aren’t produced directly by the star. Instead, the light is triggered by cosmic rays — protons that zip through space with some of the highest energies known in nature — that smack into solar protons and produce high-energy gamma rays in the process.

All of those gamma rays would get lost inside the sun, if not for magnetic fields. Magnetic fields are known to take charged particles like cosmic rays and spin them around like a house in a tornado. Theorists

have predicted that cosmic rays whose paths have been scrambled by the tangled mass of magnetic fields at the solar surface should send high-energy gamma rays shooting back out of the sun, where astronomers can see them.

Beacom and colleagues, led by astrophysicist Tim Linden of Ohio State, sifted through data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope from August 2008 to November 2017. The observations spanned a period of low solar activity in 2008 and 2009, a period of higher activity in 2013 and a decline in activity to the minimum of the next cycle, which started in 2018. The team tracked the number of solar gamma rays emitted per second, as well as their energies and where on the sun they came from.

There were more high-energy gamma rays, above 50 billion electron volts, or GeV, than anyone predicted, the team reports. Weirder still, rays with energies above 100 GeV appeared only during the solar minimum, when the sun’s activity level was low. One photon emitted during the solar minimum had an energy as high as 467.7 GeV. Strangest of all, the sun seems to emit gamma rays from different parts of its surface at different times in its cycle. Because cosmic rays that hit the sun come in from all directions, you would expect the entire sun to light up in gamma rays uniformly. But Beacom’s team found that during the solar minimum, gamma rays came mainly from near the equator, and during the solar maximum, when the sun’s activity level was high, they clustered near the poles. (afp)

ANTIBODIES in the brain can scramble nerve cells’ connections, leading to memory problems in mice. In the past decade, brainattacking antibodies have been identified as culprits in certain neurological diseases. The details of how antibodies pull off this neuronal hit job, described online August 23 in Neuron, may ultimately lead to better ways to stop the ensuing brain damage.

Research on antibodies that target the brain is a “biomedical frontier” that may have implications for a wide range of disorders, says Betty Diamond, an immunologist and rheumatologist at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y. “It’s beyond the idea stage,” she says. “It’s into the ‘It happens.

Let’s figure out the why and the when.’ ” Autoantibodies are a type of antibody that mistakenly target a person’s own proteins. One such internal attack comes from autoantibodies that take aim at part of the AMPA receptor, a protein that sits on the outside of nerve cells and detects incoming chemical messages.

These autoantibodies interfere with the receptor’s message-sensing job, neurologist Christian Geis of Jena University Hospital in Germany and colleagues found.

The team purified autoantibodies from patients suffering from autoimmune encephalitis, a brain inflammation disease that causes

confusion, seizures and memory trouble. When the researchers put these human autoantibodies into the brains of mice, the animals began showing memory problems, too. After the autoantibodies were infused into the mice’s cerebrospinal fluid or injected directly into the brain, the animals were worse at recognizing new objects placed in their cage than mice that didn’t receive the antibodies.

These mice also showed signs of anxiety, spending less time in wide open parts of a maze than mice that hadn’t received the human autoantibodies and preferring to hunker down in covered areas.

Experiments on mice and human cells in dishes revealed the nature of the brain attack. Autoantibodies attached to particular bits of AMPA receptors and then forced those bits to move inside nerve cells where they were no longer effective, Geis and colleagues found. This shift left the nerve cells worse at sensing chemical signals from other nerve cells, a deficit that might have caused the mice’s memory problems.

The details of this autoantibody brain attack might point out ways to help nerve cells under siege maintain communication, Geis says. Current treatments for autoimmune encephalitis are less specific, involving the removal of harmful antibodies from the blood or tamping down a person’s immune response. (net)

Story of a porter at Kusamba

While looking for a living, mutual assistance created

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Drama gong artists don’t just make a joke

BANGLI — Until now, drama gong art remains to exist and sustainable. Its presence is no longer hailed and its fans are not as much as before. The presence of drama gong art is evident from the emergence of new young drama gong artists trying to make performing arts in accordance with the times.

This scanning electron micrograph shows a close-up of brain nerve cells. Antibodies that target nerve cell connections may interfere with vital brain functions such as memory.

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A senior drama gong artist, Nyoman Subrata alias Petruk, admitted the drama gong art remains to exist.

The drama gong still often features new artists either in the art events such as the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) or other events in the community. Nevertheless, he considered the prestige of drama gong at this time is far dimmer than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. “During both decades, drama gong had no rival. The glory was quite long until twenty years. It began to dim around the 2000s after the Bali bombing II,” said Petruk when met at his home at Kawan hamlet, Bangli, on Saturday (Aug. 25).

According to the artist who often appeared in pairs with the late Wayan Tarma alias Dollar, the various types of entertainment today become one of the causes of the drama gong art is no longer popular. Most people now prefer to enjoy the entertainment aired on television and gadgets. “Taksu or divine vibration of drama

gong is far different. In the past, when hearing the performance of drama gong, people were eagerly waiting for it. Today, it probably happens due the many options of entertainment. People coming to watch the drama gong are busier looking at their mobile phone,” he said This veteran artist also considered that the lack of inspiration of new artists in carrying out their respective roles also influenced by the taksu of drama gong at this time. According to Petruk, to be a drama gong artist, people must have the will to continue learning especially in terms of understanding the role. “If playing angry role, it should present the true emotions of anger. It must be animated. Likewise, if seducing, without getting animated, it seems rigid and forced. As a result, the audience gets less impressed,” he explained.

When entertaining the audience with jokes, this man who has been pursuing the drama gong art since 1967 said that an artist must be able to present it nicely. The jokes delivered should not just make the audience laugh. As much as possible the artist must also insert moral messages that are able to educate public according to the theme, social and contemporary development. “Until now, I am still studying how to present entertainment that doesn’t just make the audience laugh, but also gives a message in it,” he added. (kmb40)

PORTER becomes a profession to be pursued by a number of residents of Kusamba village, Dawan, Klungkung. From the work, they are not limited to earning money for survival but also create mutual cooperation.

Various items were piled up at Tribuana Harbor, Kusamba village, on Friday morning (Aug. 24). They consisted of building materials such as sand, gravel and wood.

Besides, there were various basic needs such as rice, vegetables and fruits. They were collected in one place. It looked to have been fully occupied. Dozens of people seemed busy. They transported the items to a large boat. There were men and women working in turn. Some were carrying, while some others were shouldering. They looked strong as if they were not tired of carrying such heavy burden.

Of those people, some were busy putting sand into sacks but of not too big size. Their hand swung the scoop as if running rhythmically. It was done for many times to make the sack almost full. The work has been done by them for years. “It’s been a long time,” said Wayan Surata, one of the workers.

The burly man said the workers are divided into several groups.

Some people are tasked to transport building materials and basic needs.

Each group consists of 25 people.

“Basic needs are transported by women so as not to be too heavy,” he said. The activity begins without a definite time but depends on demand and boat readiness. Oc-

casionally, it lasts from 5:00 in the morning and even before this time.

“Basic needs are usually transported in early morning,” he said.

At first glance, the job looks easy. It only lifts the goods, brings to the boat which is about 25 meters away. However, it is different when the weather is bad. Rolls of wave often haunt. They can even paralyze all the activities. “Like when high waves occur, we can’t work,” he explained.

Nevertheless, he is not discouraged but always vigilant. The wages from his work are divided evenly with others regardless of the age, whether older or younger age, whether transporting more or less goods. “There is no difference. It is divided evenly with the members working that day. Here, we can also work together and help each other,” said Surata.

Another worker, Ketut Widia, said the wages received every day are enough to make a living, amid his old age, around IDR 150,000 per day. “I specifically transport glassware,” he said. His work is also considered to be an entertainment and enable him to chat with other people. “Rather than staying at home, it is better to work here,” he added.

These items were taken to the Nusa Penida Islands. It takes place every day using three boats with the capacity up to dozens of tons. With such activities, automatically the income continues to survive. “Every day, we can work here from morning to evening,” he added. (sos)

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Porter becomes a profession to be pursued by a number of residents of Kusamba village, Dawan, Klungkung.

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Cultural Parade Closed Boost SVF 2018

The whole series of Boost Sanur Village Festival (SVF) 2018 activities have ended and officially closed by the Deputy Mayor of Denpasar, IGN Jaya Negara marked by the striking of the gong, Sunday evening.

Before the closing ceremony, a cultural parade was held which was attended by around 1,000 residents and artists who paraded from Sanur Tourism Junior Highschool to the location of the festival on Matahari Terbit Beach.

Besides residents, there are also foreign tourists who take part in the parade wearing Balinese traditional clothing.

Starting with the SMP Wisata marching band, representatives from the Sanur Development Foundation, Sanur Kaja Village, Sanur Kauh Village, Sanur Village, 27 banjars, and five joint tourism industry teams followed the parade to the honor stage on Matahari Terbit Beach.

Jaya Negara praises Sanur consistency in holding a festival that continues to progress from year to year. He hopes there will be an improvement in preserving cultural arts. “I hope the festival held by the Sanur Development Foundation is maintained, sustainable, and enhanced its content to preserve cultural arts, develop regional potential, and encourage a prosperous creative economy,” he said.

The Chairperson of the Boost SVF 2018, Ida Bagus Gede Sidharta Putra, who is familiarly called Gusde, said for five days the festival was held in various activities, including sports, environment, arts, entertainment, culinary, MSME product exhibition, disaster education, tourism discussion, and cultural dialogue. “We hope the spirit of the Mandala Giri theme provides a shared awareness that the eruption of Mount Agung has aroused a sense of mutual affinity and made various parties demanded to pay attention, protect and preserve the mountains and their environment,” said Gusde.

He added that 13 times the festival had been held since 2006, this activity was able to contribute to tourism promotion which led to an increase in the number of tourist visits. In addition, it encourages more ideas and innovations to emerge and creative efforts related to festival content.

Gusde said the involvement of the Sanur people and the surrounding areas to support this festival has resulted in a shared commitment to keep the beachside destination to remain beautiful, clean, comfortable, orderly and safe. Through this festival, various components in Sanur are working to preserve cultural heritage while maintaining the image of the region as one of the main tourism destinations. “In the near future, we will conduct a thorough evaluation of the festival and hear input from various parties to improve the festival in the future,” said Gusde.

Gusde, who is also Chairperson of the Sanur Development Foundation, added that the festival still leaves one activity program, Herballife Bali Triathlon which will be held on

21 October. He hopes that the entire festival program can provide added value to the development of tourism, creative economy, and welfare for citizens.

Along with the launch of GoWes bicycle rental and MetroCar-based application of electric car transportation, Sanur will continue to make efforts to develop digital services to

make it easier and more convenient for residents and tourists.

On the last night, the main stage in a row presented a dance from the Denpasar City Cultural Office, and three reggae bands, namely The Body, Small Ax and Joni Agung & Double T. This final concert seemed to confirm Sanur as a reggae area. (kmb18)

Cultural parade held in the closing day of Boost Sanur Village Festival 2018 on Sunday.

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Many shade trees die, it becomes provider’s responsibility

NEGARA - A number of tangi trees used as road side shade tree planted in a number of points in Jembrana have died. Actually, the trees were planted almost a year ago, but some of them were dead. Although they have long been dead, until now there has been no indication if the trees will be replaced.

Indeed the effort to plant trees aims to get a green urban environment and beautify the scenery especially along the national roadside. The planting is done in the form of trees with a height of between three and four meters. Most suc-

ceeded and looked to have many branches and leafy. Moreover, some of them have flowered but some others are dead, only leave the trees.

No leaves are visible even though it has been planted for months as seen on Jalan Gajah Mada, ahead of the border of Jembrana subdistrict and Mendoyo subdistrict. The rows of trees with a distance of about five meters away look dead.

Other than on Jalan Gajah Mada, similar condition also happens to other points like on Jalan Udayana, Kaliakah and Banyubiru. As the information compiled, other than being

financed by the district government, the procurement of roadside shade trees is also made or budgeted by a number of villages in Jembrana.

Deputy Regent of Jembrana, I Made Kembang Hartawan, when asked for his confirmation through a message service admitted that many tangi trees planted already died.

However, according to him, it is still the responsibility of the partner or plant provider. When there are dead plants, it becomes the responsibility of the provider to replace them. (kmb26)

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Tokyo Night at Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach

A Japanese Buffet Dinner

Enjoy an exquisite Wednesday night at Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach with the newly launched Tokyo Night - A Japanese Buffet Dinner?. Available weekly, the dinner is hosted at Grand Benoa Resto from 19:00 to 22:00. Featuring an exquisite spread of traditional Japanese earthy food, Tokyo Night indulges diners with selection of classic recipes from Japan.

The menu includes all-time favorites such as sushi,sashimi, tempura, robatayaki, udon, and teriyaki to name a few. Most of the items are prepared at live cooking stations to ensure the freshness of each dishes.

Tokyo Night is the creation of Chef Katsumi Goda, who recently joined the culinary

team at Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach, rejoining the Nikko brand from the famed Benkay Restaurant at Grand Nikko Bali. “Tokyo Night will let you experience the real taste of Japanese delicacies, because everything is handmade with fresh ingredients,” he said.

Katsumi Goda will be heading the hotel’s Japanese restaurant which will open in the last quarter of 2018.

The dinner is open for public and available at an affordable price of IDR 398,000 nett per person. Children between 6 to 12 years old will receive 50% off the price, and toddler aged 5 and below can dine for free for each paying adult.

Preceding the Japanese buffet dinner,

guests are invited to join an engaging session of Japanese tea ceremony and origami making, conducted personally by Chef Goda, who holds the certification as a Tea Master. The session will be conducted at Samudera Lounge every Tuesday at 19:00 and available at IDR 50,000 nett per person.

Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach continuously look for ways to bring forward the beauty of Japanese culture by creating captivating experiences to both the hotel and public guests. Through their range of services and facilities, the hotel perfectly blends the best of Japanese and Balinese cultures which share the same philosophy of heart-warming hospitality.

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RIO DE JANEIRO - Time seems to run at a different pace for Elza Soares. The Brazilian samba legend is 81 but on the eve of a Rio de Janeiro concert for her recent album “Deus e Mulher” (“God is a woman”), you wouldn’t think so.

“Let me tell you, my age has nothing in common with the way I feel,” she told AFP by telephone ahead of Tuesday’s show in her native city.

In her unmistakable tone, Soares described herself as excited as ever to be going on stage, even if she now sings seated.

“I consider this a good moment, an extraordinary one in my career. I don’t know if it’s the best. The best was when I started.

Things are always marvelous when you start,” she said.

Soares’s powerful voice is an integral part of Brazilian music. She embodied samba and went on to play a major role in cutting edge modern interpretations of the sensual, rhythmic Brazilian sound, mixing in everything from bossa nova to jazz, Afrobeat and funk.

Her sheer longevity and extraordinarily dramatic personal life -- including multiple tragedies and a turbulent marriage to the much-loved footballer Garrincha -- have made her nothing less than a national figure.

The self-confidence and dedication to music making that have carried her along that epic road clearly remain intact. Asked if there were any love interests in her life now, she joked: “I’m dating Elza Soares.”

KENA BETANCUR / AFP “I’m in love with her, this incredible woman. I’m going to In this file photo taken on May 19, 2017 Brazilian singer Elza Soares performs at the Town Hall theater ask to marry her,” she said. (afp) in New York.

More riches for ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ at N. America box office

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This photo taken on August 21, 2018 shows Chinese actress Jasmine Chen posing at the premier of the film “Crazy Rich Asians” at the Capitol Theatre in Singapore.

WASHINGTON - Rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians” continued to sparkle in North America, topping the box office for the second weekend running, according to industry estimates Sunday.

The Warner Bros. adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel of the same name took $25 million, almost matching its $26.5 million debut last week, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

Starring veteran actress Michelle Yeoh, British-Malaysian former BBC host Henry Golding and American sitcom star Constance Wu, the film tells the story

of a American economics professor who meets her super-wealthy boyfriend’s family in Singapore.

It is the first major studio release with a mostly Asian cast since “The Joy Luck Club” in 1993.

Shark attack thriller “The Meg” clung on to the runner-up spot for another week, taking $13 million -- a significant tumble from last week’s earnings of $21.2 million.

It stars action movie regular Jason Statham as a rescue diver who tries to save scientists trapped in a submarine from a huge, prehistoric shark.

In at third was newly-released mystery “The Happytime Mur-

ders,” which took $10 million.

Based in a world where humans and puppets co-exist, the film follows a joint police force as they probe a recent murder spree targeting puppet TV stars. On its heels with takings of $8 million was Tom Cruise’s action blockbuster “Mission: Impossible Fallout,” which took fourth place in its fifth weekend in theaters.

Fifth went to Disney’s live-animated hybrid Christopher Robin, which took $6.3 million. Ewan McGregor plays Winnie the Pooh’s now grown-up and stressed-out pal who reunites with his old stuffed friend. (afp)

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Gold medallists Indonesia’s Hendy (L) and Yola Primadona Jampil compete in the men’s double pencak silat event at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 27, 2018.

‘This victory is for Lombok’

Men’s doubles pair Yola Primadona Jampil and Hendy, who won the gold medal in the artistic pencak silat category, dedicated their victory to the people of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), who were suffering from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake a few weeks ago.

“We presented this victory to the people of Lombok who have been suffering from the disaster.

They deserve to take part in this joy of victory,” said Yola, after obtaining a gold medal at Padepokan Pencak Silat Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII), East Jakarta, on Monday.

Yola and Hendy obtained the highest points at 580 and defeated their opponents from Vietnam, Duc Danh Tran and Hong Quan Le, who got 562 points and had to settle for the silver medal. They also defeated Malaysians Mohd Taqiyuddin Hamid and Muhammad Afifi Nordin, who took home the bronze. “We are grateful to be able to do the best that was followed by seven men’s doubles groups. We thank the people of

Indonesia for their support,” Yola said.

The gold medal in the men’s doubles is the 14th gold medal for Indonesia in the 2018 Asian Games. There are still other athletes, namely Nunu Nugraha, Asep Yuldan Sani and Anggi Faisal Mubarok competing in the men’s team category. Besides the artistic silat match on Monday afternoon, there was also the final match of the sparring category, which was followed by five Indonesian competitors, including Abdul Malik, who will face Malaysian fighter Muhammad Faizul M Nasir in the men’s B: 50 to 55 kilogram category.

The second match will feature Aji Bangkit Pamungkas against Singaporean athlete Sheik Ferdous

Sheik Alauddin in men’s class I: 85 to 90 kg. In the third match, Iqbal Candra Pratama will fight Vietnamese fighter Ngoc Toan Nguyen in men’s class D: 60 to 65 kg.

In the fourth match, Sarah Tria Monita will fight Lao PDR’s Nong Oy Vongphakdy in women’s class C: 55 to 60 kg, and in the fifth match, Komang Harik Adi Putra will compete against Malaysian Mohd Al Jufferi Jamari in men’s class E: 65 to 70 kg.

For athletes from quake-hit Lombok competing at their own country’s Asian Games, the pressure is far greater than the usual quest for gold. Competitors from the picturesque island have anxiously followed news of deadly earthquakes that killed more than 500 people, hundreds of miles

from Indonesia’s host cities Jakarta and Palembang -- and hope their performances can bring a few smiles to faces back home.

“I was so worried about my family -- it was a little hard to sleep,” said 18-year-old sprinter Lalu Muhammad Zohri, who hails from the worst-affected northern part of the island. “They called me to tell me not to worry, to just focus on my race. I tried my best,” he added, after reaching the men’s 100m final, where he finished seventh. “Now I can’t wait to go to Lombok to see my family.”

Bronze-winning beach volleyball duo Dhita Juliana and Putu Dini Jasita Utami, who are also from Lombok, have captured the hearts of the home fans cheering for them across the country and from the sidelines of Asia’s regional Olympics. They can barely walk a few metres in Palembang without being asked for a selfie

yet always oblige, hoping their smiles and strength will resonate back home.

“We hope all Lombok people are okay, and we are trying our best here to at least share some happiness with them when we win,” said Dhita Juliana, adding that they have been touch throughout the competition.

Some 555 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless on the beautiful island of Lombok, around 700 miles (1,100km) from Games host cities Jakarta and Palembang. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.