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‘Big Bang Theory’ star Kaley Cuoco is divorcing

LOS ANGELES — “The Big Bang Theory” star Kaley Cuoco (KAY-lee KWOH-koh) is divorcing husband Ryan Sweeting after less than two years of marriage.

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Cuoco’s representative, Melissa Kates, said Saturday that the actress and the tennis pro have “mutually decided to end their marriage.”

The couple tied the knot in a New Year’s Eve ceremony in 2013.

The 29-year-old Cuoco has starred on CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory” since 2007.

Earlier this year she appeared with Kevin Hart and Josh Gad in the film comedy “The Wedding Ringer.” (ap)

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she joked.

“Since Popey-wopey is on his way over here, I want to dedicate this song to him,” she said before launching into a heartfelt version of “La Vie en Rose.”

Also: “The pope is stalking me,” she said, noting she recently performed in New York, where Francis is until Saturday morning. “Either he’s a copycat or he’s secretly in love with me.”

If Madonna needed further evidence the pope is following in her footsteps, it was announced Friday that Francis is releasing a pop-rock album called “Wake Up!” Available for pre-order on iTunes, it will feature excerpts from papal speeches in multiple languages.

Francis premiered the first single — “Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!” — Friday on Rolling Stone’s website.

Madonna, raised Roman Catholic in Michigan, has a long history of run-

ning afoul of the Vatican. Her 1989 video for “Like A Prayer” contained imagery that outraged religious leaders, including stigmata and burning crosses.

Her seminal 1990 “Blond Ambition” tour included simulated masturbation and brought condemnation from the Vatican. And in her 2006 “Confessions” tour, she staged a mock crucifixion only a few miles from the Vatican.

That doesn’t necessarily mean the Vatican has entirely banished the singer.

In December, Italy’s singing nun, Sister Cristina Scuccia, met Francis and presented him with a copy of her first CD, which features a remake of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.”

Scuccia had won the Italian edition of “The Voice” earlier that year. The Italian Bishops’ Conference criticized the song’s appearance on the CD, saying it was a commercial ploy. (ap)

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US still the largest market for Bali’s exports

DENPASAR - Bali’s exports to the United States remained brisk although the world’s largest economy has not recovered as expected. “Competition notably in furniture market is tight, but high creativity of the furniture makers in Bali help attract the buyers in that country,” Mudita, an exporter of furniture said.

In Philadelphia, Madonna gives ‘Popey-wopey’ her blessing PHILADELPHIA — A woman with plenty of experience tangling with the Vatican has given Pope Francis her endorsement during his first U.S. visit.

At her concert Thursday night in Philadelphia, where Francis is scheduled this weekend to make the last stop of his tour, a tongue-in-cheek Madonna dedicated a section of her show to him.

She later announced: “Rules are for fools. That’s why I like the new pope.

He seems very open-minded.”

It was just one of many comments about Francis at a concert that featured lots of religious imagery, including female performers wearing nuns’ habits — and little else — pole dancing on crosses.

“I’ve been excommunicated from the Catholic Church three times. It shows that the Vatican cares deeply,”

Migration crisis proves boon for some businesses

Juventus’ miserable season continues with 2-1 loss at Napoli

Bali’s handicraft products including furniture products are high in demand in the United State, Mudita said. He add US consumers are regular buyers of handicraft products from Bali.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said exports of handicraft products and other commodities outside oil and gas contributed 23.7 percent or US$68.1 million to the total export earning of Bali in the first seven months of the year.

The Bali office of BPS said other main export commodities from Bali to the United States are fish and shrimp, wooden products, cotton products, etc. Ornaments and jewelry and knitted fabrics are exported mainly to Singapore, and non knitted fabrics are mainly exported to Australia and leather products to Japan. (ant)

Bali’s handicraft products including furniture products are high in demand in the United State.

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Karmic cleansing case of gay couple AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File

Government disseminates circular and prepares regent regulation ANTICIPATING the incident of karmic cleansing from happening again at hotel, the government of Gianyar is now disseminating a circular of the Regent No. 300/2534/ Bid.I/BKPL/2015. Tourism businessmen are required to report the implementation of activities in each tourist accommodation. Similarly,

the ranks of Gianyar Police will make sure the dissolution when the activity is found without any reports.

The Regent Circular No.300/2534/Bid.I/ BKPL/2015 is submitted to the 200 tourism businesses being present in the Main Courtroom of Gianyar, Tuesday (Sep. 22).

The circular with two points affirmed the anticipation of harassment against religion, tradition and culture by the accommodation such as hotels, villas and bungalows located

in Gianyar. Coordination must be made to headman or local police no later than seven days prior the event.

“We do not want there are tourism businesses offering a package by commercializing religion, like the incident at one of the hotels in Ubud area not long ago. To that end, we invite the hoteliers to sit together and synchronize the perception through this circular,” said the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata.

Agung Bharata said that the hotel in Ubud holding the karmic cleansing package (panglukatan ritual) for gay couple has very much tarnished the image of tourism in Gianyar. “Offering tourist package to non-Hindus and without adjustment to time and location is categorized in harassment.

So, religion may not be commercialized because it is a great sin,” he said.

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He also pointed out the tourist package offered to the gay couple on Saturday (Sep. 12) poses an invisible act of terrorism because psychologically it terrorizes. If it is allowed and becomes a habit, it will even insult the culture itself. The regent also invited the entire community to put the Hindu religion and culture in the proper position. “This is one of the invisible terrorism acts that psychologically terrorizes.

The exotic Hinduism in Bali is not comparable to others around the globe, so that this should be preserved well,” he said.

Agung Bharata also affirmed that to anticipate religious harassment in the longterm his ranks will draft a regent regulation that will be made into regional bylaw by combining the elements of positive law and customary law. As initial measure, the regent of Gianyar instructed the Head of the Tourism Office to immediately monitor all types of services provided by tourism stakeholders for travelers. If such a service is found again, the government is ready to crack down on it. “To strengthen the legal instrument, I will draft the concept of regent regulation that can be made into regional bylaw combining the elements of positive law and customary law. Hopefully, the regional bylaw can be issued as soon as possible to strengthen the ban,” he said.

Chief of the Gianyar Police, Farman, said that his ranks will put more emphases on the preventive measures than law enforcement because after the delivery of the regent circular he hoped there will be cooperation with all related components, especially hoteliers in Gianyar. “Delivery of this information is meant to realize the security, so that I hope there will be cooperation. Well, if later on we find any event at certain accommodation that is not reported to village authorities or subdistrict police station, we will firmly dismiss it,” he affirmed.

When asked about the existence of the gay couple with the initials TM and JT, he said that police authorities are still waiting for their flight information from immigration office. “We are awaiting the results of the immigration, while the investigation is still going on,” he said.

Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Gianyar, Tjokorda Ichiro Sukawati, hoped the government, customary village middle assembly (MMDP) and Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indonesia (PHDI) to make cooperation in order to strengthen synergies in preserving the custom and culture together with tourism entrepreneurs in Gianyar. The PHRI Gianyar will also make coordination with all the stakeholders in making a policy related to services allowed to be made into tourism commodities in Gianyar. “Obviously we will talk about it later, so that the case will not be repeated in other tourist places,” he said. (kmb35)

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Ida Pedanda Made Gunung, when visited by the regent and police chief of Gianyar at the Griya Suniawati, Blahbatuh.

‘Karmic cleansing package’ debases Hinduism

Panglukatan ritual or termed as ‘karmic cleansing package’ for gay couple TM and JT at one of the hotels in Ubud some time ago made Ida Pedanda Made Gunung furious. He questioned the permission and intention of the package offered by the hotel management in Ubud.

“Where does the permit of the karmic cleansing package come from? Who approves it?

What does it mean by karmic cleansing? In Hinduism, there is karmic law, any action will have its own effect,” said Ida Pedanda Made Gunung, when visited by the regent and police chief of Gianyar at the Griya Suniawati, Blahbatuh.

This religious leader from Gianyar also assessed that the activity is considered an insult to Hinduism. The religion as a belief and spiritual guidance has been made into economic commodity

by the hotel in Ubud. “Our religion and ritual in Bali are spiritual guidance, not economic commodity, so that the package of karmic cleansing is not true,” he said.

He also advised that in this case the relevant agencies such as the Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indonesia (PHDI), Customary Village Middle Assembly (MMDP) and the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) play an important role to explain to all parties, so as not to carelessly offer tour packages to travelers.

“Let’s all tourism players and hoteliers participate in keeping

the culture inspired by Hinduism.

In the future, do not let dharma be controlled by artha (wealth) and kama (passion) because dharma with various kinds of ritual is our spirituality with God,” he said.

Chief of the Gianyar Police, Farman, explained that in this case his ranks are still making investigation. One of them is by requesting information from customary experts and religious leaders. “Currently we are still collecting evidences and witnesses, including an explanation from religious leaders for reference in further investigation,” he said.

He added that in this case the Chief of Gianyar Police Criminal Investigation Unit has examined nine witnesses, including hotel management and priest.

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gay couple JT and TM is still in search of police authorities, including the existence of their families and people attending the event. “Based on witness testimony we’ve collected, the karmic cleansing package is sold for USD 260. This rate includes dinner package and karmic cleansing ritual for 29 people,” he said.

Regent of Gianyar, Agung Bharata, stated that though police investigation has not found any element of gay marriage yet, since it has used religious symbols such as offerings and priest, it is necessary to take real action to prevent it from happening again in the future. “This incident certainly becomes a lesson for us together, and primarily this should not be repeated in Gianyar and Bali,” he affirmed. (kmb35)

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SINGARAJA - As we know Lovina Beach (or often simply Lovina) is a coastal area on the northwestern side of the island of Bali, the coastal strip stretches from 5 km west of the city of Singaraja to 15 km west, Buleleng Regency. “Lovina is one of the famous tourist places in north part of Bali which own beautiful of calm sea water, blackish chromatic sand and the sea with its dolphin.

Dolphin is one of the favorite fascinations watching tour in Lovina,” said Sudirga Director Pramana Experience.

Pramana is a fast growing Hospitality Management company based in Bali. Pramana on Veda means develop. In business, Pramana believe to be successed in business, it should keep alert for the changes and trend. Learning from experi-

ence and inpired by seniors and books literate.

Padma Sari Beach Front Resort is one of the resort managed by Pramana Experience located at Lovina beach, on 2,650 square meters beach front resort is a perfect getaway from the hustle and bustle.

“Enjoy the nature’s beauty both sunrise and sunset, the serenity with a comfort and luxury accommodation of a modern resort,” said Wayan Wardika CEO Pramana experience Padma Sari Beach Front Resort features 19 unit of rooms, come with Superior, Deluxe, Super Deluxe and Villa type.

All room equipped with Airconditioning, Flat screen TV, mini bar, coffee tea making facility, hot and cold running shower, standard toiletries and in room amenities for guest

comfort.

Huge pool is facing beautiful north Bali Ocean with coconut tree. Restaurant open daily start from Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner comes with Indonesian and western cuisine. Meeting room with 50 capacities is available for small group who want beach view with free unlimited wifi access around the hotel. Shuttle bus is available to drop and pick up costumer while they are exploring the area.

“The differences of the resort are where tourist possible to escape an amazing, peaceful place with a beautiful beach and infinity pools! A beach vacation at an incredible, Padma Sari Beach Front Resort is sure to be an unforgettable part of your experience in Bali,” Dirga ensure. (kmb)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses.

Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Twenty six countries participate in BIFF

KUTA - Twenty-six countries are participating in the Bali Austria, France, Denmark, ThaiInternational Film Festival (BIFF), being held from September land and Norway.

BIFF aims at providing a 24-30, 2015 in Kuta, organized by the Balinale Forum.

“A total of 105 films from 26 countries have been selected for the Bali International Film Festival,” founder of Balinale, Deborah Gabinetti said.

She explained that the 26

countries which qualified to participate in the event included Indonesia, the United States, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Iran, Germany, Australia, Cambodia, Poland, Cuba,

platform to the film industry of various countries to promote their works.

“Of the 300 films enrolled, 105 films have been chosen for participation in this film festival,” Gabinetti said.

According to her, Indonesia’s short films are very interesting because they have unique characteristics that highlight local cultural aesthetics.

To introduce Indonesian films to the whole world, we need a national film community, she remarked.

She hoped that as a result of

DENPASAR - The Japanese government has assisted in the development of an autism school in Mengwi in the Badung Sub-district of Bali.

“The study room is being constructed under a grant from the Humanitarian Security Grassroots

from the Japanese government to the Meidina Nusantara Foundation,” a staff member from the Japanese Consulate General, Sokhibi said on Saturday.

The building, which is worth US$27,565, was inaugurated by

Japanese Consular General Noboru Nomura.

Japan extended assistance in the form of helping with the construction of two classrooms, an office room, as well as school equipment, such as a chair, desk and white board.

Nomura said the assistance is aimed at helping the autistic children achieve a better education and improve their creativity, and thereby contribute to the local community.

Additionally, the Chairman of the Meidina Nusantara Foundation,

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this film festival, Indonesian filmmakers will come up with more films that will be recognized by the international community.

The selection process for the BIFF involved Indonesian film industry and Universal Studios USA, which assessed qualities such as editing, sound, movie titles and story. (ant)

Teguh Jaya Putra also appreciated the assistance given by the Japanese government.

The study center will help the Bali government in providing proper facilities for the autistic children, Teguh said. (ant)

Japan helps develop autism school in Bali

Cathay Pacific flight makes emergency landing in Ngurah Rai Airport

Skiing, climbing, global warming: French Alps show dilemma

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DENPASAR - A Cathay Pacific flight from Perth to Hong Kong was forced to make an emergency landing at the International Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, on Friday morning.

“An engine malfunction caused the Cathay Pacific flight CX170, an Airbus A330 aircraft, to make an emergency landing at Ngurah Rai airport at 3:35 a.m. Central Indo-

nesia Standard Time (WITA),” PT Angkasa Pura-I public relations official Sherly Yunita noted on Friday.

According to Yunita, the ill-fated Cathay Pacific aircraft was carrying 254 passengers and 13 crew members when it was forced to make an emergency landing, but all aboard were safe and unharmed.

Yunita further explained that

some of the passengers had taken another flight for Hong Kong, while the rest would be accommodated in a hotel in Denpasar.

According to a report released

by The Australian, passenger Joel Sirna informed Perth radio station 6PR that they panicked and cried after one of the engines burst into flames before the aircraft made a

successful emergency landing.

He noted that flight CX170 departed for Hong Kong just before midnight on Thursday, but a defect in the Airbus A330’s engine caused it to divert to Denpasar, where firefighters came to the rescue.

“Mid-flight, we heard a loud bang, and the plane started to shake.

All the lights went out, and as I

looked through the window, I just saw some flames and sparks coming out of the wing, and the engine was on fire,” Sirna stated.

He remarked that the passengers were awoken by the midair drama, which unfolded not far from the Bali coast. Some passengers were highly distressed, and others tried to calm them down. (ant)

PARIS — The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbing — but now the French government is trying to help their winter tourist towns adapt to a warming world.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls visited the Mer de Glace (the Sea of Ice) Friday on Mont Blanc, where the retreating glacier has been documented for more than a century, through water colors painted before the invention of the still camera, black-and-white photos depicting a thenmodern steam locomotive chuffing alongside the ice and today’s high-definition satellite photos.

“The Mer de Glace reveals the extent of climate change, and, to the naked eye,” said Valls. “The time has come to mobilize.”

Researchers say the Sea of Ice is only the most accessible example of a problem the entire Alpine region is facing as warming mountainsides become more unstable and snowfall more inconsistent, threatening jobs and lives in a region heavily dependent on adventure tourism.

Scientists have drilled the Mont Blanc region with sensor-equipped boreholes in recent years, hoping that measuring temperatures in the permafrost will give a sense of how quickly the problem is accelerating and which areas are most in peril.

The town of Lanslevillard already knows firsthand, said Xavier Bodin, a researcher

for France’s elite CNRS research center who specializes in Alpine permafrost. A debris flow touched off by an unstable rock glacier swept down the slope, crushing snow equipment.

In another part of the southeast French region, pylons for a ski lift had to be replanted because the foundation grounds were melting. Elsewhere, retreating glaciers have exposed climbers to new, untested and potentially risky routes, he said.

“The rising temperatures in the mountains strongly modify the way people approach the high altitudes,” Bodin said.

In a study released this year in the Journal of Alpine Research, researchers documented 350 rock falls from 2007 to 2014 compared with almost none from 1855 to 1936. They found that of 1,769 pieces of infrastructure — including huts, ski lifts and pipelines — about 10 percent were at high risk of rock fall damage, including Mont Blanc’s popular Aiguille du Midi cable car.

Valls is visiting the region to highlight France’s role as host in the global summit on climate change at the end of this year. (ap)

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In this file photo taken on Oct. 12, 2011, an alpinist heads down a ridge on the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 meters; 12 605 feet), towards the Vallee Blanche on the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps, near Chamonix, France. The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbers everywhere _ and now the French government is trying to help towns at the heart of the lucrative tourism industry adapt to a warming world.

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A Cathay Pacific flight from Perth to Hong Kong was forced to make an emergency landing at the International Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, on Friday morning.

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More people affected by clean water crisis

AMLAPURA - The water in a number of retention basins in Karangasem is running low, and the water is some has even dried up. Some geo-membrane retention basins, like the ones at Puragae, Datah II at Kedampal hamlet, Datah and Dukuh in Kubu have also dried up.

Local residents, Made Getas and Wayan Remben, said that the water in the retention basin located on the eastern foot of Mount Agung at Muntig is also almost dry. Last rainy season, the retention basin was built at a cost of IDR 4 billion but was not fully filled with rainwater because the tapping pipe on the eastern slope of Mount Agung became clogged with sedimented soil and refuse from the fire that scorched parts of the protected forest last dry season. “The retention basin was only filled leads than halfway with rainwater and quickly ran out because the pipeline also had a leak. The leaks in the thin pipe were caused by the scorching heat” said Getas.

During the last rainy season, the retention Basin of Datah II at Kedampal only contained some 45 cm of water despite its total depth of some three meters.

The basin guard said that the retention basin was clogged by soil sediment and ashes from the forest fire in the protected forest last dry season. He also said that the water being tapped through the pipe could not run into the retention basin during rainy season, because the connection between the tapping pipe and the revetment did not work properly.

Similar conditions have also affected the geomembrane retention basin at Pandan, Dukuh, Kubu, where only a small amount of water was collected last rainy season. The retention basin at Bantas, Baturinggit Kubu could therefor only serve a few families living nearby. As a result, most residents of the barren village are facing a water crisis, and need the assistance of the water supply from the Karangasem Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD).

The retention basin projects in Karangasem are considered to be ineffective in addressing the water crisis given that despite there being 16 water retention basins in the area, Karangasem residents are still crying out for water this dry season.

Acting Regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda, along with his staff, made a site inspection to a dam in the Seraya River, Karangasem on Tuesday. They found that the water of the dam that was built in 1987 under Minister Mrs. Nani Soedarsono, is declining and looed brownish and cloudy. Local dam duty officer, Ketut Alit, said that the dam that was built at a cost of some DR 15 billion, was originally intended to meet Seraya residents’ need for clean water. Once PDAM starting servicing this area, Seraya residents who live near major roads, stopped depending on the dam for clean water. Those residents who cannot not afford to pay for PDAM services, still rely on the dam for bathing and washing their clothes.

Some residents can still found bathing their cattle or washing clothes in the dam water. Ketut Alit said that water pump in the dam has been broken for a long time. His institution has requested repair assistance from Bali’s provincial government but has yet to see any action.

Arda asked his staff, Head of the Karangasem Public Works, Nyoman Sutirtyasa, to make a plan to improve the dam. Arda hopes that the water clearer so that it can be used by residents of the barren village. (013)

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Migration crisis proves boon for some businesses BERLIN — People crammed into boats and trekking across borders have become the dominant images of Europe’s migrant crisis. In the shadows, however, there are those who are profiting, for whom every migrant is a business opportunity.

The ceremony held in Tenganan Village in Karangasem

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Development of tourism village

Expected not to sacrifice agricultural sector GIANYAR - The development of tourism village in Gianyar is considered a strategic measure in the efforts to increase regionally generated revenues as well as raise the economy of local community. Moreover, Gianyar retains great potential of natural and cultural uniqueness posing a special attraction for travelers. However, in the development of tourism village, there are several things to note. One of them is that the development of tourism village may not sacrifice nature and preservation of the agricultural land. This was stated by Chairman of Commission II of the Gianyar House of Representative, Wayan Gede Sudarta, Friday (Sep. 25).

Sudarta stated that the development of the tourism village is one of the desires of the regent of Gianyar aiming at realizing equitable development. On that account, the tourism development program in Gianyar is currently more directed to villages. The program is considered very positive. Moreover, all this time many travelers prefer to make a visit to village or even stay overnight at villages.

“Indeed, the tourism village in Gianyar experiences good development because many travelers love to stay at villages while enjoying countryside atmosphere that remains beautiful and experience people’s life. Lod Tunduh village, for instance, though has not been established as a tourism village, many travelers have visited it. Some of them stay at homestay provided by local people. By and large, they stay for long time, such as for three

months up to a year,” he said.

According to Sudarta, many villages in Gianyar still have the potential to be developed into a tourism village. Aside from Lod Tunduh, Singapadu Kaler will also be announced as a tourism village as considered very suitable to be developed.

Farming land in the local area is still very wide, but so far has not been worked on maximally to attract travelers.

Further, Sudarta hoped that tourism village development still pays attention to preservation of local nature and culture.

For the sake of improving the economy and local revenue, the nature and culture may not be sacrificed. Community-managed tourist accommodation should be built by utilizing unproductive areas. The agricultural land should be maintained because it poses the main attraction to travelers for visiting villages.

Similarly, the government must pay attention to the infrastructure of village having tourism potential other than to villages having been designated as tourism village. “The village must be clearly supported with adequate facilities and infrastructure. I am confident that with the stipulation as tourism village, the government will be certainly backing up the infrastructure and facilities. Hopefully, the government can pay attention to villages having potential but have not been established as a tourism village. For example, the road at one of the hamlets at Lod Tunduh is badly damaged. It should be repaired as tourism supporting infrastructure,” he said.

When making a site inspection to Singapadu Kaler prepared into tourism village on Thursday (Sep. 24), the regent of Gianyar stated that tourism village has an important value because it serves as preserver of the art and culture as well as community-based tourism w\here people become the players. Development of tourism village is based on the potential owned by villages and supporting factor. Sanitation, he said, poses one of the main supporting factors so that later on the tourism village is really beautiful and comfortable place to visit. (kmb25)

The business of migration extends far beyond the human traffickers, who often grab migrants’ money and send them on life-threatening journeys on rubber boats or in cramped trucks. It include bus companies and shelter operators that provide essential logistical help to authorities overwhelmed by the sheer number of people in need of housing and transportation. Telecoms companies that sell SIM cards with special contracts for crossborder calls. And petty food-anddrink vendors at train stations are even known to be price-gouging, charging migrants double or triple the amount they’d be charged in stores around the corner.

There are no overall estimates for how much the business of migration rakes in — but there’s no doubting it’s a multi-million dollar industry. Authorities in Germany estimate the cost of housing and feeding migrants alone at about 12,000 euros ($13,400) per person, per year.

Entrepreneur Bert Karlsson is among those profiting from the wave of migrants coming to Europe. The record company boss and founder of a now-defunct antiimmigrant party in Sweden raised eyebrows recently when Swedish media reported that his company, Jokarjo, had billed the government 132 million Swedish kronor ($16 million) to house asylum seekers.

Sara Sundelius, a spokeswoman

for the Swedish migration service, said the government would normally house asylum seekers in regular apartments. But due to the sharp rise in numbers, some 21,000 asylum seekers are being put up in cabins, small hotels and hostels at a cost of between 250-300 Swedish Kronor per day, per person.

Sweden is one of the main destinations for many of the Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others hoping to start a new life in Europe. Another is Germany, where the government has forecast between 800,000 and 1 million arrivals this year.

German local authorities have long outsourced the management of refugee shelters to non-governmental organizations, particularly charitable groups such as Diakonie, AWO and the German Red Cross.

But faced with an unprecedented influx of migrants, private companies have been able to offer cashstrapped mayors better deals.

“We’re doing something some people consider dirty: we make money,” said Klaus Kocks, a spokesman for European Homecare, a housing company.

The firm first began providing accommodation for migrants 25 years ago, when tens of thousands of ethnic Germans left the Soviet Union and Poland for Germany, following the collapse of communism.

It expanded as a result of the Balkan wars, which again brought a wave of refugees to Germany.

AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014 file photo migrants on a dinghy arrive at the southeastern island of Kos, Greece, after crossing from Turkey. People crammed into boats and trekking across borders have become the dominant images of Europe’s migrant crisis.

The latest surge has seen the number of shelters run by European Homecare double to 100 in the past year. The company’s 1,000 staff now care for 15,000 refugees in cities across the country.

Refugee rights campaigners have criticized the company, claiming it cuts corners in order to be able to keep costs down and win contracts.

Kocks denies this, saying European Homecare is simply better placed to keep costs low. The company buys in bulk to be able to provide full-board lodgings, with social

and medical care, for as little as 11 euros per person, per night. “Where there’s price competition those who have lean overheads win,” Kocks told The Associated Press.

European Homecare is currently in negotiations to buy modular containers left over from the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, to house new arrivals. The company also provides counseling to those asylum seekers facing deportation after their applications were rejected.

Smaller companies, too, have been doing handsome business off

migration. Far-flung hotels teetering on the brink of insolvency have received government contracts to provide all their rooms for refugees; one German firm has specialized in selling starter kits for refugees containing a bed, chair, table and kitchen utensils; security companies, meanwhile, are doing brisk business providing guards to keep the peace inside packed asylum centers and ensure they aren’t attacked by far-right extremists. The sums involved have attracted criminal enterprises too.(ap)

American tourist killed in botched robbery in Colombia

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Residents bike to their destinations on Day Without Cars and Motorcycles, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015.

BOGOTA, Colombia — An American tourist was shot to death during an apparent robbery attempt after leaving his hotel in a wealthy enclave of Medellin, Colombian authorities said Saturday.

Police identified the victim as John Mariani, 65, of New York, and said he was attacked Friday night when his taxi was intercepted by gunmen in a car and on a motorcycle. They said the assailants tried to take his wallet and personal belongings and shot him when he resisted. The attackers then fled.

Police offered a $16,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators.

The U.S. Embassy had no imme-

diate comment. Police said Mariani had arrived in Medellin from Costa Rica, but gave no other information on him.

El Poblado neighborhood where the shooting happened is one of the Medellin’s wealthiest and safest enclaves. It is a leafy neighborhood that is home to the city’s vibrant dining scene and dozens of high-rise apartment buildings and hotels.

Medellin, the country’s second biggest city, is a far cry from the 1980s when it was the headquarters for Pablo Escobar’s feared Medellin cocaine cartel, and it has been experiencing a boom in tourism.

The New York Times featured it at No. 11 on its list of 52 places to

go in 2015.

Although the city remains a major center of crime, violence has dropped since Escobar’s heyday, when more than a dozen people were slain daily on average. The city had a homicide rate last year of 26.1 per 100,000 residents, about five times the U.S. average but well below major American cities like Detroit and Baltimore.

Seven Colombians were extradited to the U.S. last year to face charges in the stabbing death of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, James “Terry” Watson, who was killed during a botched “express kidnapping” by a ring that targeted unsuspecting passengers hailing taxi cabs in Bogota.(ap)

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Mandung landfill

Porsche buys 1.5 percent of VW ordinary shares from Suzuki

BERLIN — German automaker Porsche SE says it is buying 1.5 percent stake of ordinary shares in Volkswagen AG from Suzuki.

The purchase raises Porsche’s share of Volkswagen AG’s ordinary shares to 52.2 percent, and its stake in VW’s subscribed capital to 32.4 percent.

The move comes days after Volkswagen was hit by a scandal over allegedly rigged U.S. emissions tests in diesel vehicles. Porsche said in a statement Saturday that it considers the purchase “as a strong commitment to its core investment and emphasizes its role as an anchor shareholder” in Volkswagen. (ap)

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Mandung Landfill

Organic wastes produce 1.6 tons of fertilizers China vows billions of development A Volkswagen XL1 enters the premises of the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, Friday, Sept. 25 2015. German automaker Porsche SE says it is buying 1.5 percent stake of ordinary shares in Volkswagen AG from Suzuki.

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dollars, debt forgiveness

UNITED NATIONS — China’s president on Saturday pledged billions in aid and said Beijing will forgive debts due this year in an effort to help the world’s poorest nations, as world leaders begin to seek the trillions of dollars needed to help achieve sweeping new development goals.

President Xi Jinping spoke at a global summit that on Friday launched the non-binding goals for

the next 15 years.

China’s president vowed to help other countries make the

same transformation. Xi said China will commit an initial $2 billion to establish an assistance fund to meet the post-2015 goals in areas such as education, health care and economic development.

He said China would seek to increase the fund to $12 billion by 2030.

TABANAN - The waste sent to Mandung landfill does not only consist of inorganic one. But it mostly comprises plastic waste and some organic waste ranging from leaves, branches, vegetables, flowers and canang oblation. In order not to be wasted, the landfill officers process it into organic fertilizer.

Armed with six employees, the landfill can process the sorted waste. Each month it can produce 1.68 tons of organic fertilizer.

And Xi said China would write off intergovernmental interest-free loans owed to China by the least-developed, small island nations and most heavily debt-burdened countries due this year.

He said China “will continue to increase investment in the least

developed countries,” and support global institutions, including the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank that is due to launch by the end of the year and is seen as a Chinese alternative to the more Western-oriented financial institutions of the World Bank. (ap)

Moody’s keeps junk rating for Greece debt LONDON - Moody’s has maintained its deep junk “Caa3” credit rating for Greek government debt, but has upgraded its outlook following recent political breakthroughs.

“Moody’s Investors Service has today confirmed Greece’s government bond rating at Caa3 and changed the outlook to stable,” the agency said in a statement

issued Friday.

“The key drivers behind the confirmation are the approval of the third bailout programme, and the emergence of a political configuration that is slightly more supportive than its predecessors for the implementation of reforms which the programme will require,” it added.

Moody’s cut its credit rating for

Greece to deep-junk -- jut two steps above “default” -- in July, shortly before a referendum on the terms of the third bailout.

“Notwithstanding the positive developments the Caa3 rating continues to incorporate a high level of implementation risk given Greece’s weak institutions and past poor track-record of implementing

conditions of financial support,” added the statement.

Newly re-elected left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday that Greece must “quickly implement” the terms of the tough EU bailout agreed in July.

Tsipras won Sunday’s general election, picking up between 33 and 35 percent of the vote. (afp)

The Head of the Tabanan Sanitation and Agency, I Wayan Sugatra, explained that seven chambers are prepared for processing organic fertilizer. In these chambers, the organic waste such as leaves, vegetables, flowers and branches of trees are chopped in advance by using machine to be further fermented in order to produce organic fertilizer. Each chamber can produce 12 sacks of fertilizer where each sack weighs 20 kg.

Having been chopped, the organic waste is left for approximately one month in the chamber. Although producing quite a lot of organic fertilizers, Sugatra stated that such organic fertilizer is not commercialized.

“Whoever wishes to get one, simply come here,” said Sugatra. The organic fertilizer really helps his institution fertilize the plants in the urban park of Tabanan both in the office of the county government and shade trees in the urban park. “So, we can save the budget for the purchase of fertilizers because we can have produced fertilizer independently,”

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said Sugatra.

Most raw materials of organic fertilizer are obtained from vegetable market and the remnants of shade tree pruning in the urban area. According to Sugatra, with a mixture of vegetable waste, decomposition of organic waste into fertilizer is easier. “If only relying on leaves and twigs, the decomposition process is very difficult,” said Sugatra.

He recognized that all this time the raw material is mostly sorted back after arriving at the landfill. In Tabanan, public awareness of sorting organic and inorganic waste remains very small.

When calculated in percentage, only 5 percent of people want to sort their waste. Moreover, it has been done by waste bank.

Other than making organic fertilizer in dealing with overloaded waste at Mandung landfill, the Tabanan Sanitation and Landscaping Agency also makes regular arrangement by flattening waste and cover it with soil before being stacked with new waste. Arrangement

with the addition of soil is expected to accelerate the decomposition process so that the height of waste having reached 20 meters can be decreased gradually.

The Head of the DKP Tabanan, Wayan Sugatra, explained that currently the Mandung landfill can still accommodate waste. “The condition has not been overloaded. Piles of the waste have not exceeded the surface. To that end, it is necessary to arrange it regularly so that the waste will not pile up on the surface,” he explained.

Aside from regular arrangement using a bulldozer, the DKP is also sorting organic and inorganic waste at waste sources to landfill. “Waste sorting from the source is done by waste bank, while at landfill we empower our officers,” he said.

He stated that the DKP has 12 officers assigned to process the waste at Mandung landfill. They are divided in two work shifts and work for half a day.

Then, the DKP asked for the willingness of the officers to work devotionally for half a day to sort the waste at the Mandung landfill. “As compensation, the income obtained from the sale of the inorganic waste they have sorted is given to them because there is no incentive given by the DKP,” said Sugatra. (kmb24)

SINGARAJA - Sampi gerumbungan or bull race is an agrarian cultural heritage of Buleleng. In the past, this tradition served as a medium of entertainment for cow breeders in North Bali after completing their rice harvest. The passage of time and the narrowing of agricultural land in recent years have an impact on this tradition. Local government is now trying to fortify this tradition so that it will not go extinct due to the influence of globalization.

One of the efforts taken is by opening the opportunity for cattle breeder groups to demonstrate their agrarian culture. On the upcoming October 1, a number of breeder groups in Buleleng will make a bull race performance. It becomes a series of event in the Lovina Festival held on September 27 to October 1, 2015.

The data gathered in the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency indicated that the bull race group or better known as baga remains to survive in the region of Eastern, Central and Western Buleleng. Member of the groups are breeders that raise cattle every day and the tradition has been inherited through generations.

Each group raises some cattle in special manner.

Uniquely all the breeders exercise their cows at all times, not only ahead of race or performance.

Regular exercise is carried out because the typical bull race of Buleleng does not emphasize on the speed of cow in a race. However, the pair of cows is trained to synchronize the movement of the four legs and the arch of tail as well as the head can look up when being ridden in the race arena.

Simultaneous stamping and ankle bell tied on the four legs of cattle will create typical sound. No wonder, every farmer inheriting the tradition of bull race will be always trying to find the best and quality calves. Moreover, the price of calf intended for bull race is much more expensive than other cows in general. Breeders that love the tradition are also willing to spend millions of rupiah just to get their best calves.

Automatically this condition results in cattle breeding business with profitable sale of calves for bull race.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, said on Saturday (Sep. 26) that bull race is a cultural heritage becoming the pride of Buleleng. To that end, local government has set up a program to preserve this agrarian cultural heritage amid the globalization. The preservation program is given through the opportunity of bull race in the annual Lovina Festival. He pointed out that for the festival this year, a total of 21 pairs of racing bulls will participate in the competition to be held in the public square of Kaliasem village, Banjar.

In addition through Lovina Festival every year, the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency will specifically hold a bull race. “With the more opportunities we open, I’m sure the breeder groups will increasingly vivacious to show off their cultural heritage. For us, it is very potential to support the development of tourism industry in our region,” he said.

When crossing the Jalan Ahmad Yani, Singaraja, right in south of the Banyuasri terminal, you will see a statue of bull race facing north. It is deliberately constructed by the government at that time to demonstrate to the public that Buleleng has an agrarian culture in the form of bull race. Once people see the statue, their mind will be focused on the culture that can only be found in North Bali. This statue is often used as the object of photography when an entourage of foreign travelers will go to Lovina and surrounding area. (mud)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, students from a Roman Catholic-run St. Scholastica’s College pour out of their campus for a “noise barrage” to protest the Sept. 1 killings of three indigenous people leaders, one of whom was a teacher, and the forced closure of their schools in southern Philippines allegedly due to the presence of the military and paramilitary forces in Manila, Philippines.

Philippines to investigate militia forces linked to attacks

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government will investigate the reported involvement of paramilitary forces in deadly attacks against tribal communities in a conflict that has displaced hundreds of villagers in the south, the justice secretary said Sunday.

Secretary Leila de Lima said government prosecutors and the National Bureau of Investigation have been ordered to prosecute and order the disarming of the alleged militia groups and identify supporters who foster their criminal and violent acts.

Such militia forces, which are trained and armed by an overstretched military to guard far-flung rural villages, have been linked to rights abuses and criminal acts. The military says paramilitary forces with a current strength of about 20,000 men have played a crucial role in helping fight a decades-long communist insurgency, adding that abusive militiamen have been prosecuted and punished.

“Our goal must not be limited to prosecuting the offenders and disarming these groups, but must extend to a conclusive probe on their supporters who fuel their criminal operations and acts of violence,” de Lima said in a statement.

“Even as we condemn these paramilitary groups and their benefactors, all parties must go beyond

and show resolve in putting an end to their reign of terror” in tribal communities, she said.

Human Rights Watch accused the Philippine military last week of standing aside while paramilitary forces attacked tribal villages and schools accused of supporting Marxist guerrillas in at least three southern provinces.

A paramilitary group allegedly killed an educator and two tribal leaders in a school in remote Surigao del Sur province in a Sept.

1 attack that caused a few thousand residents to flee their homes.

Another militia force has reportedly staged violent assaults against tribesmen since last year in the provinces of Bukidnon and Davao del Norte, particularly students at tribal schools accused of promoting the communist ideology, according to the U.S.-based rights group.

Military spokesman Col. Restituto Padilla said the military would not condone any rights abuses. The military, he says, welcomes any investigation of its commanders, who oversee the militiamen linked

to the attacks.

De Lima said her department has been following the reported attacks against tribal communities “with great concern,” adding that initial reports she got suggested “that the transgressions which resulted in the death and injury of members of indigenous peoples’ communities and the destruction of their property involved paramilitary groups.”

Tribal communities, de Lima said, have been caught in the middle of the insurgency war and most likely forced to take sides and pitted against each other in the conflict by communist New People’s Army rebels and “some elements of the state’s security forces.”

“The state’s mandate to preserve peace and enforce law and order in the affected communities must continue while ensuring that noncombatants are not caught in the crossfire,” she said. “Violators will be held to account.”

The 46-year Marxist insurgency is one of the longest-running in Asia and talks to end the fighting have stalled. The military says years of battle setbacks, infighting and factionalism have weakened the insurgents, who have survived by extorting from mining and agricultural companies, mostly in the country’s south. (ap)

International

Nepal restricts vehicle movement as Indian fuel supplies hit

KATHMANDU — Nepal started imposing restrictions on vehicular movement Sunday as a blockade of cargo trucks along the border with India has badly hit the supplies of essential commodities, especially fuel.

Nepalese officials said that cars will run on alternate days based on the last digit of their license plate. Trucks carrying supplies from neighboring India stopped entering Nepal this past week after angry protests following the adoption of a new constitution.

Siva Tripathi, an official at the Ministry of Supplies, said that Indian security personnel and customs officials barred the trucks from entering Nepal, citing orders from Delhi.

“Transportation has come to a complete halt since Thursday. So we are facing the shortage of some essential items, including petroleum

products,” Tripathi said.

India’s foreign ministry has denied that there have been restrictions imposed on Indian suppliers and blamed protests inside Nepal for the disrupted movement of oil tankers and trucks loaded with medicine, sugar, salt, food and cooking gas cylinders. Nepal, a small Himalayan nation, depends heavily on supplies from India, its giant neighbor.

While many in Nepal have welcomed the new constitution that came into force last week, some ethnic groups object to the boundaries of the seven federal states that were set up. Other protesters want Nepal to be a Hindu state and not secular as the constitution calls for.

The protests have been waning, but violence related to them has killed at least 45 people in recent weeks. (ap)

Burkina Faso government asks public not to attack elite unit

OUAGADOUGOU — Burkina Faso’s government has asked citizens to avoid acts of aggression against members of the presidential guard that staged a coup earlier this month.

The government said late Saturday that people should remain calm and exert restraint as the unit is disbanded.

The warning came in response to reports that presidential guard members and their families are being attacked.

Transitional President Michel Ka-

fando announced the disbandment of the elite group of soldiers late Friday.

The army has begun collecting arms and says it will take days to completely disarm the group.

Members of the presidential guard arrested Kafando and the interim prime minister on Sept. 16 and later announced the coup. Gen. Gilbert Diendere took power for about a week.

The transitional government was reinstalled Wednesday. (ap)

BAGHDAD — Iraqi will begin sharing “security and intelligence” information with Russia, Syria and Iran to help combat the advances of the Islamic State group, the Iraqi military announced Sunday.

A statement issued by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said the countries will “help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group,” using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

Iraq has long had close ties with neighboring Iran and has coordinated with Tehran in fighting the advance of IS — which controls about a third of Iraq and Syria in a self-declared caliphate. Iranian commanders have helped lead Iraqi

Shiite militiamen in combat.

A U.S.-led coalition has been conducting aerial bombing campaigns against IS positions in Iraq and Syria, but U.S. officials insist they have no coordination with Tehran on the matter.

The agreement with Russia comes at a time when Moscow is ramping up its involvement in Syria in defense of its ally Bashar Assad, with Russian soldiers on the ground in Syria, according to activists. The Iraqi military statement said that Moscow is increasingly concerned about “the presence of thousands of terrorists from Russia who are carrying out criminal acts with Daesh.” (ap)

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Singapore moves against Indonesian firms over haze

SINGAPORE - Singapore has launched legal action that could lead to massive fines against Indonesian companies blamed for farm and plantation fires spewing unhealthy levels of air pollution over the city-state.

Five Indonesian companies including multinational Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) have been served with legal notices, according to a Singapore government statement issued late Friday.

The move followed a bitter diplomatic spat over Indonesia’s failure to stop a severe outbreak of smoky haze which has also affected Malaysia and persisted for years.

APP, part of Indonesia’s Sinar Mas conglomerate, is one of the world’s largest pulp and paper groups and publicly upholds “sustainability” and forest conservation as core principles.

Its products include stationery and toilet paper.

APP was asked by Singapore’s National Environment Agency to supply information on its subsidiaries operating in Singapore and Indonesia,

as well as measures taken by its suppliers in Indonesia to put out fires in their concessions.

The group, which has paper mills in Indonesia and China, did not immediately reply when asked by AFP for comment.

Under a 2014 law called the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act, Singapore can impose a fine of Sg$100,000 ($70,000) for each day that a local or foreign company contributes to unhealthy levels of haze pollution in Singapore, subject to a maximum total of Sg$2.0 million.

Singapore is located near Indonesia’s vast Sumatra island, where fires have traditionally been set off by farmers and plantations to clear land for cultivation.

Four other Indonesian companies

-- Rimba Hutani Mas, Sebangun Bumi Andalas Wood Industries, Bumi Sriwijaya Sentosa and Wachyuni Mandira -- have been told to take measures to extinguish fires on their land, refrain from starting new ones, and submit action plans to prevent future fires.

Sinar Mas is also involved in palm oil production, an industry widely blamed for forest fires in Indonesia.

In its statement issued Friday, the Singapore government said it was “examining how to apply more economic pressure against errant companies,” including a review of its own procurement policies. Singapore’s Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan said the haze problem has lasted “for far too long”.

“This is not a natural disaster. Haze is a man-made problem that should not be tolerated. It has caused major impact on the health, society and economy of our region,” he said in the statement.

Singapore declared emergency

shutdowns of elementary and high schools on Friday after the air pollutant index hit “hazardous” levels.

It eased to “moderate” levels on Saturday but a shift in wind direction

can quickly change the situation.

The current haze outbreak is the worst since mid-2013. The recurring crisis grips Southeast Asia nearly every year during the dry season. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesian teacher Nina Ramadhaniah hopes for “blessings from Allah” by opening a sharia bank account -- the sort of pious customer the world’s mostpopulous Muslim-majority country is praying for as it launches an Islamic finance drive.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, has a Muslim population of around 225 million but this huge number of faithful has not translated into success for sharia banks, institutions required to do business in line with Islamic principles.

Now regulators have launched a plan aimed at growing the sector, which currently accounts for less than five percent of banking assets,

compared to a quarter in neighbouring, more developed Muslimmajority Malaysia and around half in Saudi Arabia.

Authorities believe it is a good moment, with many Indonesians getting wealthier after years of strong economic growth and an increasing trend towards piety across broad sections of society.

Many of those without bank accounts, estimated at about 40 percent of the population, are soon expected to open one.

“The situation is an opportunity for the Islamic banking business to get bigger,” said Nasirwan Ilyas, a senior official from the Islamic banking division of the Financial

Services Authority (OJK).

The OJK is spearheading the drive, and unveiled a five-year roadmap earlier this year that included plans to educate the public about sharia lenders and the establishment of an Islamic finance committee to better manage the sector.

Key features of sharia banking include the prohibition of interest on loans or customer deposits, and a ban on investing in “non-Islamic” businesses, such as those involving pork or alcohol.

For teacher Ramadhaniah, who has an account with Indonesia’s biggest Islamic lender, Bank Syariah Mandiri, the ban on interest is a key attraction.

“Charging interest is haram (against Islam), ill-gotten gains that will not bring me any blessings from Allah,” the 44-year-old told AFP. “I don’t want to live in sin.”

Sharia accounts often work on a “profit-and-loss sharing” model, meaning customers get a windfall when the bank does well but can lose out when it does badly.

There are obvious disadvantages. Sharia lenders generally offer lower returns on investments and their modest size often means they provide fewer services than larger, conventional peers -- many shops are not equipped to accept their debit cards.

Nevertheless, Islamic banks

have proven popular in recent years, with the sector expanding on average more than 40 percent a year between 2008 and 2012, according to the OJK. The growth came after laws were changed to make it easier to establish an Islamic bank, and there are now a plethora of standalone sharia lenders, Islamic banking units attached to conventional banks, and smaller Islamic financial institutions in the countryside.

Growth in the sector has lost steam due to a broader slowdown in the economy, which is expanding at six-year lows -- giving authorities another reason to launch their drive. (afp)

SORONG - A powerful earthquake in remote eastern Indonesia on Friday injured more than 60 people, left hundreds of houses damaged and rattled an idyllic island chain popular with foreign tourists and divers.

People were woken up and ran screaming out of their homes when the 6.6-magnitude undersea quake struck in the Papua region at about 1:00 am (1600 GMT), not far from the coastal city of Sorong.

Seventeen people were so far known to have sustained serious injuries and 45 to have suffered minor injuries, while 200 houses were damaged, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

No deaths have so far been reported. The quake also caused blackouts in Sorong and patients were evacuated from a hospital.

“We are still collecting data, and we expect the number of victims and damage to increase,” Nugroho said in

a statement.

The quake was also felt strongly in Raja Ampat, northwest of the epicentre, an archipelago popular with tourists and divers due to its palmfringed islands that are surrounded by an underwater kaleidoscope of coral and fish.

Yona Niki, a receptionist at Waisai Beach Hotel on Waigeo island, said staff and four guests staying at the hotel ran outside when the quake hit and waited until the intense shaking

had stopped.

The manager of another hotel said the quake left cracks in the walls.

However there were no reports of injuries in the area, with hotel operators saying it was the low season so there were few tourists.

The US Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at 6.6 and said its epicentre was at a depth of 24 kilometres (14 miles).

Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide,

causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.

In July, a teenage boy fell into a river and died, and several buildings were damaged when a 7.0-magnitude quake rocked Papua.

A huge undersea quake in 2004 triggered a tsunami that engulfed Aceh province on western Sumatra island, killing more than 170,000 people in Indonesia and tens of thousands more in other countries with coasts on the Indian Ocean. (afp)

REUTERS/Edgar Su

People wearing masks walk at the shopping district of Orchard Road in Singapore September 25, 2015. Singapore has launched legal action that could lead to massive fines against Indonesian companies blamed for farm and plantation fires spewing unhealthy levels of air pollution over the city-state.

Indonesia prays for Islamic banking boom

Quake injures scores, shakes popular tourist spot

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Radwanska wins Pan Pacific Open title

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TOKYO - Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska beat rising star Belinda Bencic 6-2 6-2 in the final of the Pan Pacific Open on Sunday to capture her first WTA title in more than a year and return to the world’s top 10 rankings.

The 26-year-old Radwanska turned in a near flawless display against Bencic, smashing 28 winners past the Swiss teenager to win her second Pan Pacific Open and her first WTA title since last year’s Rogers Cup in Montreal.

“I’m just so, so happy I could really play my best tennis today, and this is the first tournament I’ve won twice, so it’s definitely very special for me,” Radwanska said in her on-court interview.

“I knew I was playing one of the best players in the world, but this is the final and you just want to win, so you do whatever it takes to win every point.”

Bencic beat Radwanska in their only previous meeting, in the final at Eastbourne in June, and was chasing her fourth title this year.

The 18-year-old had been in great form all week, defeating Garbine Muguruza and Caroline Wozniacki on the way to the final, and would have cracked the top 10 herself had she won.

Radwanska is projected to climb from 13th to eighth when the new rankings are released on Monday and move to 10th place in the race for places at the WTA Finals in Singapore. “I’m just so happy to be back in that Top 10. It’s very, very tight now,” she said.

“There are a lot of young players coming up, so many players who deserve to be Top 10, so I’m just happy I can be number eight now.

“The Asia tour is key for me to go to Singapore, so I think this week I did a great job to give myself a better chance to go back there again.” (rtr)

MANGUPURA - Tanah Wuk is the beautiful river valley of Tukad Penet, just 2 kilometers north of the Sangeh holy monkey forest of Badung Regency. Its location is off the main road, hidden behind rice field, and is a very quiet and private place to enjoy the pristine nature.

In Tanah Wuuk, you can witness beauty of the green gorge valley of nature. You can do hiking activity in this location. You can also taste the Balinese traditional food, such as Nasi Sela, which is the combination between rice and sweet potato. The street hawkers near the tourism object also sold pork satay with peanut sauce that will taste better if you eat it with the Nasi Sela. During dining in the street hawkers you can enjoy the scenery of Sangeh forest.

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Eliud Kipchoge from Kenia celebrates winning the 42nd Berlin Marathon in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. More than 41,000 runners from 131 countries were registered to run.

Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya wins Berlin Marathon

BERLIN — Wayward insoles cost Eliud Kipchoge a chance to break a world record. Despite problems with his shoes from the first kilometer, Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon on Sunday in a personal best time of 2 hours and 4 minutes. The Kenyan’s insoles were noticeably slipping out of his runners around the 20K mark, flapping behind him as he maintained a leading pace with training partner Emmanuel Mutai and 2012 race winner Geoffrey Mutai.

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Geoffrey Mutai, no relation to Emmanuel, fell behind around the 30K mark and Kipchoge made his move two kilometers further on.

“I didn’t have time to pull the soles out,” said Kipchoge, who had been targeting compatriot Dennis Kimetto’s record of 2:02:57 from Berlin last year. “The world record was my target. I didn’t manage it but I’ll be back next year.” Running his sixth Berlin marathon, Kipchoge finished comfortably ahead of compatriot Eliud Kiptanui in second on 2:05:22 and Feyisa Lilesa of Ethiopia third in 2:06:57.

All times were official.

“From the first kilometer I had problems with my shoes,” Kipchoge said. “Nevertheless, I am very happy about my victory.

I love the Berlin course and the people. I’m glad I won and in a personal best. I would very much love to come back and run an even faster time.”

Emmanuel Mutai was fourth and Geoffrey Mutai fifth, ahead of Canada’s Reid Coolseat, who ran 2:10:28. Kipchoge shaved five seconds off his previous personal best time and 42 seconds off the previous fastest mark of the year that he set at the London Marathon

on April 26.

Kiptanui was happy with his second-place finish. “I think I had no chance to beat Eliud,” said Kiptanui, who knocked 17 seconds off his personal best set in Prague in 2010. Kipchoge clocked 2:04:05 in 2013 only to be beaten by compatriot Wilson Kipsang, who set a then-record of 2:03:23.

Gladys Cherono of Kenya beat the 2:20 mark to win the women’s race in 2:19.25 ahead of Ethiopian trio Aberu Kebede, Meseret Hailu and Tadelech Bekele.

It was Cherono’s first win in only her second marathon. The 32-yearold half marathon world champion ran 2:20:03 for second place in her debut in Dubai last January.

Conditions were ideal on a cool, crisp autumn morning in Berlin.

More than 41,000 runners from 131 countries were registered to run. (ap)

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Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland celebrates after defeating Belinda Bencic of Switzerland during their Pan Pacific Open women’s singles final tennis match in Tokyo, Japan, September 27, 2015.

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Juventus’ miserable season continues with 2-1 loss at Napoli MILAN — Juventus’ miserable start to the Serie A season continued as it lost 2-1 at Napoli, while Roma reignited its league campaign with a 5-1 drubbing of newly-promoted Carpi on Saturday. Lorenzo Insigne and Gonzalo Higuain scored for Napoli before Mario Lemina pulled one back in a fast-paced, entertaining match at Stadio San Paolo.

“It was a special match,” Higuain said.

“We know what this match means for this city. We deserved it, we can do better but this is okay. We hope this match is the turning point, we hope to find continuity now and go on like this.” It was the fourtime defending champion’s third defeat in its first six league matches this season.

Juventus lost just three all season last year, while it had only two defeats the previous campaign.

“It’s a difficult period, no one is hiding that, but the season is long,” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “Now we’re thinking of the Champions League and next Sunday, then there’s the international break.

Juventus is already 10 points behind early leader Inter Milan, which hosts Fiorentina on Sunday. Napoli moved provisionally seventh with its second win of the season.

“We have to work and get some points.

Sometimes football is brutal, a corner can change a result after 34 shots on goal,” Allegri added referring to Wednesday’s match against Frosinone in which the opponents scored in stoppage time. “And today we conceded two goals after we lost the ball.

“Tonight, I can’t reproach the lads for what they did on the pitch. In my mind Juve will come back to fight at the top of the table, I don’t know if we will manage but we have to try and see if we can do it and when everyone is back I will have the opportunity to put out players with more experience.”

Roma coach Rudi Garcia was also under pressure after picking up just one point in two matches against Sassuolo and Samp-

doria. But his side responded with goals from Kostas Manolas, Miralem Pjanic, Gervinho, Mohamed Salah and Lucas Digne. It was a first goal for Roma for Digne as well as Manolas, who had scored an own goal in Wednesday’s 2-1 defeat at Sampdoria.

Gervinho, who hadn’t scored in nearly a year, also hit the post. Marco Borriello scored against his old club for Carpi to make it 3-1 in the 34th minute. Ryder Matos had a penalty saved in the 76th by Roma goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis, who also stopped the follow-up.

The only sour note for Roma was Edin Dzeko spraining his knee while Francesco Totti and Seydou Keita also went off injured. Totti had been on for only six minutes, after replacing Dzeko at halftime, but had set up a goal.

All three are highly unlikely to feature in Tuesday’s Champions League trip to BATE Borisov.

Roma moved provisionally third ahead of Sunday’s fixtures.

Juventus was without Stephan Lichtsteiner, Claudio Marchisio, Mario Mandzukic and Sami Khedira, while Alvaro Morata and Juan Cuadrado were rested ahead of Wednesday’s home Champions League match against Sevilla.

Inisgne was making his 100th appearance for Napoli

and he marked the occasion with a goal, playing a neat one-two with Higuain before firing into the bottom left corner to hand his side a 26th-minute lead. He pulled up with a knee problem later in the half and had to be replaced shortly before the interval.

Higuain got on the scoresheet himself shortly after the hour mark. Hernanes gave the ball away just inside his own half, passing straight to Higuain and the Argentina forward went on a mazy run downfield before firing across Gianluigi Buffon, who got a hand to it but the finish was too powerful. It was Higuain’s seventh goal

in as many matches, including the last match of last season.

Juventus got one back almost immediately as less than a minute later Lemina was left relatively unmarked at the far post to slot Paulo Dybala’s cross into the bottom right corner.(ap)

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus, at the San Paolo stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday, Sept.

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Man United goes top as Man City PSG wins 4-1 at slips up in Premier League Nantes to remain top of the French league

LONDON — Manchester clubs traded places at the top of the Premier League on Saturday, after a buoyant United beat Sunderland 3-0 and early pacesetter City slipped to second after being thrashed 4-1 at Tottenham. Dutch signing Memphis Depay scored his first ever Premier League goal and Wayne Rooney notched his first league goal of the season as United eased to a comfortable victory at Old Trafford.

Juan Mata added a late third as United went top for the first time since August 2013. With 16 points from seven games, Louis van Gaal’s United is one point ahead of a City side whose flying start with five straight wins has now come to an abrupt stop. A second consecutive league defeat for the club made it three losses in four matches in all competitions.

However, City is not the only big-spending club going through a rough patch. Chelsea’s title defense continued to misfire on Saturday, with Jose Mourinho’s champions needing two late goals to scramble a 2-2 draw away to a Newcastle side that is already a candidate for relegation.

West Ham remains third after drawing 2-2 with Norwich, while Alexis Sanchez scored a hat trick as Arsenal rose to fourth after coming from behind to hammer Leicester 5-2.

Elsewhere, the pressure on Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers eased after England striker Daniel Sturridge scored his first goal since March in a 3-2 win over Aston Villa, Southampton beat Swansea 3-1 and

Stoke edged Bournemouth 2-1.

A gleeful Stretford End was chanting “We are top of the league” after United took full advantage of City’s miserable start to the day.

Depay, who joined United from PSV Eindhoven for 31 million pounds (then $48 million) in June, slotted home in the fourth minute of first-half stoppage time after a deft cutback by Mata.

Just after the restart, Rooney moved level with Denis Law as United’s joint-third leading league scorer with 171 goals, after a pass from Anthony Martial struck the captain’s knee and went in. Mata rounded off the scoring by driving home Ashley Young’s cross in the final minute.

“It’s not easy, under pressure, to be top of the league, so I have to praise my players that they could win,” Van Gaal told Sky Sports. “I’m a happy coach.” City’s Manuel Pellegrini was a less happy coach after watching his side slump at White Hart Lane, a defeat helped by some poor offside decisions and Harry Kane’s first goal of the season for Spurs.

City dominated the first half and took a deserved lead through Kevin De Bruyne in the 25th minute. But Eric Dier rifled in a long-distance equalizer on the stroke of halftime and Erik Lamela curled over a free kick for Toby Alderweireld to head home five minutes after the re-start.

Kane, who had scored 31 times for Spurs last season, ended his drought in the 61st and Lamela was rewarded for a fine performance with a goal on the break in the 79th.

“Really, Tottenham only had one

shot on our goal in the first 40 minutes and after that they scored that clear offside goal,” Pellegrini said.

“And the second half, two set pieces — one of them was also offside — that decided the game. After that they played very well — we looked very bad.” Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino, whose side moved up to fifth with the win, was wary of any early season euphoria.

“The potential is massive but ... after a big win you need to keep your feet on the grass,” he said.

There was no danger of Chelsea getting carried away after its trip to St. James’ Park.

Spanish striker Ayoze Perez put Newcastle ahead in the 42nd minute and Georginio Wijnaldum headed a second goal in the 60th as the home side defied the odds. However, Ramires came off the bench to unleash an unstoppable shot in the 78th minute and Willian floated over a free kick in the 86th that eluded everyone in the box before landing in the net.

Ramires nearly headed a winner three minutes later, but was denied by goalkeeper Tim Krul, who had produced a series of impressive saves to keep his side in the game.

Critical of his team’s performance in the opening 45 minutes, Mourinho said: “I have to understand why one team can play so bad in one half and so well in another one.

“The first half was really bad and was bad in everything, in every aspect of the game... too many poor individual performances. As a consequence of that, impossible for a team to be a good competitive team.” (ap)

Barca’s Messi blow a likely relief for Leverkusen

With Barcelona’s squad already stretched, the loss of talisman Lionel Messi is a major blow but for the Bayer Leverkusen players there will no doubt be sighs of relief ahead of their Champions League tie on Tuesday.

Among the Argentine’s vast list of exploits he became the first player to score five goals in a Champions League match when Barca hammered Leverkusen 7-1 at the Camp Nou in 2012, but the treble winners will have to cope without

him for the next two months.

Messi suffered knee ligament damage in Barca’s La Liga victory over Las Palmas on Saturday and they take on Leverkusen in their Champions League Group E clash with limited options to replace him in attack.

The FIFA transfer ban for signing underage players that prevented Barca bringing in reinforcements over the last two transfer windows along with the sale of Pedro to Chelsea and the

long term injury for Rafinha has left them with mainly youth players as back-up.

“It is always sad when a player is injured. In the case of Messi it is not necessary for me to say what we all know that he is very important to the team,” Barca coach Luis Enrique told reporters.

“Without Messi we lose a lot of things from our style of play that we will now have to rearrange collectively but I have no doubt that we will overcome this.” Leverkusen

still have to deal with Neymar and Luis Suarez, the other components of an attacking trident that bagged 122 goals last season and Luis Enrique feels the absence can even be an opportunity for the team as a whole to show its value.

“This team will cope fine and will deal with this,” he said. “It is capable of doing so well because it has personality and courage. It can be seen as a test and a stimulus.”

Leverkusen lead Group E having won their first game against

BATE Borisov and face Barca on the back of two straight wins in the Bundesliga having overcome Werder Bremen 3-0 on Saturday.

Even without Messi, the Leverkusen players are not underestimating the size of their challenge.

“Barcelona have a lot of top players in their team,” said midfielder Lars Bender. “Every player dreams of a match like this and although we know the opponents are strong we will still come with our own game plan.” (rtr)

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s Juan Mata, center, scores during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Sunderland at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015.

League leader Paris SaintGermain came from behind to win 4-1 at Nantes and maintain its unbeaten start to the season on Saturday. Yacine Bammou, who worked selling Zlatan Ibrahimovic shirts in the PSG shop little more than two years ago, opened the scoring for Nantes in the 11th minute and hit the post moments later.

PSG was a different side after the break and Ibrahimovic leveled three minutes into the second half with his 108th goal for the club. The Sweden international is one goal away from equaling Pauleta’s record as PSG’s top scorer. Substitute Edinson Cavani headed PSG in front in the 73rd and Angel Di Maria, who had set up the previous two, got on the scoresheet himself with 10 minutes remaining. Serge Aurier scored in stoppage time.

PSG moved provisionally four points ahead of Saint-Etienne, which hosts Nice on Sunday.

Rennes was level on points with Reims in third after it drew 1-1 at home to Troyes. Caen also moved onto 15 points with a 2-0 win at home to Ajaccio.

Elsewhere, Lyon rested a number of players ahead of its Champions League match at Valencia and lost 3-1 at Bordeaux, which scored all three of its goals in the first period. Bastia snapped a four-match losing streak with a 3-0 win over Toulouse.

PSG coach Laurent Blanc also rested several players ahead of Wednesday’s trip to Shakhtar Donetsk and Cavani started on the bench along with Thiago Motta, Maxwell and Blaise Matuidi. Nantes had lost its past three matches and hadn’t beaten PSG since 2004 but took a surprise lead when Bammou headed in Valentin Rongier’s cross from the right.

Bammou almost doubled his tally four minutes later but headed Alejandro Bedoya’s cross off the base of the right upright. It was the first time this season that PSG had been behind at halftime.

Ibrahimovic leveled almost immediately after the restart.

Javier Pastore crossed for Angel Di Maria and his effort was blocked but Ibrahimovic followed up from close range.

Cavani came off the bench in the 65th and gave PSG the lead five minutes later as he was left

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic reacts during the Champions League Group A soccer match between PSG and Malmo at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. unmarked to head home Di Maria’s free kick.

Di Maria all but sealed the match seven minutes later as he ran onto Pastore’s long ball, got goal side of the defenders and lifted the ball over onrushing goalkeeper Remy Riou. Aurier volleyed in Pastore’s corner for his first goal for PSG. Rennes was looking to move provisionally second but was held to a third successive draw.

Jessy Pi scored his first Ligue 1 goal in the 11th minute. Rennes midfielder Mehdi Zeffane cleared Stephane Darbion’s cross but only as far as Pi who volleyed home Troyes’ first away from home this season. Brayan Perea missed two clear chances for Troyes either side of the goal.

Fallou Diagne levelled in the 71st, heading in Paul-Georges Ntep’s free kick. Rennes midfielder Yacouba Sylla — who had been booked on the stroke of halftime — was sent off following a second yellow card in stoppages. (rtr)

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Juventus’ miserable season continues with 2-1 loss at Napoli MILAN — Juventus’ miserable start to the Serie A season continued as it lost 2-1 at Napoli, while Roma reignited its league campaign with a 5-1 drubbing of newly-promoted Carpi on Saturday. Lorenzo Insigne and Gonzalo Higuain scored for Napoli before Mario Lemina pulled one back in a fast-paced, entertaining match at Stadio San Paolo.

“It was a special match,” Higuain said.

“We know what this match means for this city. We deserved it, we can do better but this is okay. We hope this match is the turning point, we hope to find continuity now and go on like this.” It was the fourtime defending champion’s third defeat in its first six league matches this season.

Juventus lost just three all season last year, while it had only two defeats the previous campaign.

“It’s a difficult period, no one is hiding that, but the season is long,” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “Now we’re thinking of the Champions League and next Sunday, then there’s the international break.

Juventus is already 10 points behind early leader Inter Milan, which hosts Fiorentina on Sunday. Napoli moved provisionally seventh with its second win of the season.

“We have to work and get some points.

Sometimes football is brutal, a corner can change a result after 34 shots on goal,” Allegri added referring to Wednesday’s match against Frosinone in which the opponents scored in stoppage time. “And today we conceded two goals after we lost the ball.

“Tonight, I can’t reproach the lads for what they did on the pitch. In my mind Juve will come back to fight at the top of the table, I don’t know if we will manage but we have to try and see if we can do it and when everyone is back I will have the opportunity to put out players with more experience.”

Roma coach Rudi Garcia was also under pressure after picking up just one point in two matches against Sassuolo and Samp-

doria. But his side responded with goals from Kostas Manolas, Miralem Pjanic, Gervinho, Mohamed Salah and Lucas Digne. It was a first goal for Roma for Digne as well as Manolas, who had scored an own goal in Wednesday’s 2-1 defeat at Sampdoria.

Gervinho, who hadn’t scored in nearly a year, also hit the post. Marco Borriello scored against his old club for Carpi to make it 3-1 in the 34th minute. Ryder Matos had a penalty saved in the 76th by Roma goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis, who also stopped the follow-up.

The only sour note for Roma was Edin Dzeko spraining his knee while Francesco Totti and Seydou Keita also went off injured. Totti had been on for only six minutes, after replacing Dzeko at halftime, but had set up a goal.

All three are highly unlikely to feature in Tuesday’s Champions League trip to BATE Borisov.

Roma moved provisionally third ahead of Sunday’s fixtures.

Juventus was without Stephan Lichtsteiner, Claudio Marchisio, Mario Mandzukic and Sami Khedira, while Alvaro Morata and Juan Cuadrado were rested ahead of Wednesday’s home Champions League match against Sevilla.

Inisgne was making his 100th appearance for Napoli

and he marked the occasion with a goal, playing a neat one-two with Higuain before firing into the bottom left corner to hand his side a 26th-minute lead. He pulled up with a knee problem later in the half and had to be replaced shortly before the interval.

Higuain got on the scoresheet himself shortly after the hour mark. Hernanes gave the ball away just inside his own half, passing straight to Higuain and the Argentina forward went on a mazy run downfield before firing across Gianluigi Buffon, who got a hand to it but the finish was too powerful. It was Higuain’s seventh goal

in as many matches, including the last match of last season.

Juventus got one back almost immediately as less than a minute later Lemina was left relatively unmarked at the far post to slot Paulo Dybala’s cross into the bottom right corner.(ap)

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus, at the San Paolo stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday, Sept.

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Man United goes top as Man City PSG wins 4-1 at slips up in Premier League Nantes to remain top of the French league

LONDON — Manchester clubs traded places at the top of the Premier League on Saturday, after a buoyant United beat Sunderland 3-0 and early pacesetter City slipped to second after being thrashed 4-1 at Tottenham. Dutch signing Memphis Depay scored his first ever Premier League goal and Wayne Rooney notched his first league goal of the season as United eased to a comfortable victory at Old Trafford.

Juan Mata added a late third as United went top for the first time since August 2013. With 16 points from seven games, Louis van Gaal’s United is one point ahead of a City side whose flying start with five straight wins has now come to an abrupt stop. A second consecutive league defeat for the club made it three losses in four matches in all competitions.

However, City is not the only big-spending club going through a rough patch. Chelsea’s title defense continued to misfire on Saturday, with Jose Mourinho’s champions needing two late goals to scramble a 2-2 draw away to a Newcastle side that is already a candidate for relegation.

West Ham remains third after drawing 2-2 with Norwich, while Alexis Sanchez scored a hat trick as Arsenal rose to fourth after coming from behind to hammer Leicester 5-2.

Elsewhere, the pressure on Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers eased after England striker Daniel Sturridge scored his first goal since March in a 3-2 win over Aston Villa, Southampton beat Swansea 3-1 and

Stoke edged Bournemouth 2-1.

A gleeful Stretford End was chanting “We are top of the league” after United took full advantage of City’s miserable start to the day.

Depay, who joined United from PSV Eindhoven for 31 million pounds (then $48 million) in June, slotted home in the fourth minute of first-half stoppage time after a deft cutback by Mata.

Just after the restart, Rooney moved level with Denis Law as United’s joint-third leading league scorer with 171 goals, after a pass from Anthony Martial struck the captain’s knee and went in. Mata rounded off the scoring by driving home Ashley Young’s cross in the final minute.

“It’s not easy, under pressure, to be top of the league, so I have to praise my players that they could win,” Van Gaal told Sky Sports. “I’m a happy coach.” City’s Manuel Pellegrini was a less happy coach after watching his side slump at White Hart Lane, a defeat helped by some poor offside decisions and Harry Kane’s first goal of the season for Spurs.

City dominated the first half and took a deserved lead through Kevin De Bruyne in the 25th minute. But Eric Dier rifled in a long-distance equalizer on the stroke of halftime and Erik Lamela curled over a free kick for Toby Alderweireld to head home five minutes after the re-start.

Kane, who had scored 31 times for Spurs last season, ended his drought in the 61st and Lamela was rewarded for a fine performance with a goal on the break in the 79th.

“Really, Tottenham only had one

shot on our goal in the first 40 minutes and after that they scored that clear offside goal,” Pellegrini said.

“And the second half, two set pieces — one of them was also offside — that decided the game. After that they played very well — we looked very bad.” Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino, whose side moved up to fifth with the win, was wary of any early season euphoria.

“The potential is massive but ... after a big win you need to keep your feet on the grass,” he said.

There was no danger of Chelsea getting carried away after its trip to St. James’ Park.

Spanish striker Ayoze Perez put Newcastle ahead in the 42nd minute and Georginio Wijnaldum headed a second goal in the 60th as the home side defied the odds. However, Ramires came off the bench to unleash an unstoppable shot in the 78th minute and Willian floated over a free kick in the 86th that eluded everyone in the box before landing in the net.

Ramires nearly headed a winner three minutes later, but was denied by goalkeeper Tim Krul, who had produced a series of impressive saves to keep his side in the game.

Critical of his team’s performance in the opening 45 minutes, Mourinho said: “I have to understand why one team can play so bad in one half and so well in another one.

“The first half was really bad and was bad in everything, in every aspect of the game... too many poor individual performances. As a consequence of that, impossible for a team to be a good competitive team.” (ap)

Barca’s Messi blow a likely relief for Leverkusen

With Barcelona’s squad already stretched, the loss of talisman Lionel Messi is a major blow but for the Bayer Leverkusen players there will no doubt be sighs of relief ahead of their Champions League tie on Tuesday.

Among the Argentine’s vast list of exploits he became the first player to score five goals in a Champions League match when Barca hammered Leverkusen 7-1 at the Camp Nou in 2012, but the treble winners will have to cope without

him for the next two months.

Messi suffered knee ligament damage in Barca’s La Liga victory over Las Palmas on Saturday and they take on Leverkusen in their Champions League Group E clash with limited options to replace him in attack.

The FIFA transfer ban for signing underage players that prevented Barca bringing in reinforcements over the last two transfer windows along with the sale of Pedro to Chelsea and the

long term injury for Rafinha has left them with mainly youth players as back-up.

“It is always sad when a player is injured. In the case of Messi it is not necessary for me to say what we all know that he is very important to the team,” Barca coach Luis Enrique told reporters.

“Without Messi we lose a lot of things from our style of play that we will now have to rearrange collectively but I have no doubt that we will overcome this.” Leverkusen

still have to deal with Neymar and Luis Suarez, the other components of an attacking trident that bagged 122 goals last season and Luis Enrique feels the absence can even be an opportunity for the team as a whole to show its value.

“This team will cope fine and will deal with this,” he said. “It is capable of doing so well because it has personality and courage. It can be seen as a test and a stimulus.”

Leverkusen lead Group E having won their first game against

BATE Borisov and face Barca on the back of two straight wins in the Bundesliga having overcome Werder Bremen 3-0 on Saturday.

Even without Messi, the Leverkusen players are not underestimating the size of their challenge.

“Barcelona have a lot of top players in their team,” said midfielder Lars Bender. “Every player dreams of a match like this and although we know the opponents are strong we will still come with our own game plan.” (rtr)

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s Juan Mata, center, scores during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Sunderland at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015.

League leader Paris SaintGermain came from behind to win 4-1 at Nantes and maintain its unbeaten start to the season on Saturday. Yacine Bammou, who worked selling Zlatan Ibrahimovic shirts in the PSG shop little more than two years ago, opened the scoring for Nantes in the 11th minute and hit the post moments later.

PSG was a different side after the break and Ibrahimovic leveled three minutes into the second half with his 108th goal for the club. The Sweden international is one goal away from equaling Pauleta’s record as PSG’s top scorer. Substitute Edinson Cavani headed PSG in front in the 73rd and Angel Di Maria, who had set up the previous two, got on the scoresheet himself with 10 minutes remaining. Serge Aurier scored in stoppage time.

PSG moved provisionally four points ahead of Saint-Etienne, which hosts Nice on Sunday.

Rennes was level on points with Reims in third after it drew 1-1 at home to Troyes. Caen also moved onto 15 points with a 2-0 win at home to Ajaccio.

Elsewhere, Lyon rested a number of players ahead of its Champions League match at Valencia and lost 3-1 at Bordeaux, which scored all three of its goals in the first period. Bastia snapped a four-match losing streak with a 3-0 win over Toulouse.

PSG coach Laurent Blanc also rested several players ahead of Wednesday’s trip to Shakhtar Donetsk and Cavani started on the bench along with Thiago Motta, Maxwell and Blaise Matuidi. Nantes had lost its past three matches and hadn’t beaten PSG since 2004 but took a surprise lead when Bammou headed in Valentin Rongier’s cross from the right.

Bammou almost doubled his tally four minutes later but headed Alejandro Bedoya’s cross off the base of the right upright. It was the first time this season that PSG had been behind at halftime.

Ibrahimovic leveled almost immediately after the restart.

Javier Pastore crossed for Angel Di Maria and his effort was blocked but Ibrahimovic followed up from close range.

Cavani came off the bench in the 65th and gave PSG the lead five minutes later as he was left

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PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic reacts during the Champions League Group A soccer match between PSG and Malmo at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. unmarked to head home Di Maria’s free kick.

Di Maria all but sealed the match seven minutes later as he ran onto Pastore’s long ball, got goal side of the defenders and lifted the ball over onrushing goalkeeper Remy Riou. Aurier volleyed in Pastore’s corner for his first goal for PSG. Rennes was looking to move provisionally second but was held to a third successive draw.

Jessy Pi scored his first Ligue 1 goal in the 11th minute. Rennes midfielder Mehdi Zeffane cleared Stephane Darbion’s cross but only as far as Pi who volleyed home Troyes’ first away from home this season. Brayan Perea missed two clear chances for Troyes either side of the goal.

Fallou Diagne levelled in the 71st, heading in Paul-Georges Ntep’s free kick. Rennes midfielder Yacouba Sylla — who had been booked on the stroke of halftime — was sent off following a second yellow card in stoppages. (rtr)

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Radwanska wins Pan Pacific Open title

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TOKYO - Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska beat rising star Belinda Bencic 6-2 6-2 in the final of the Pan Pacific Open on Sunday to capture her first WTA title in more than a year and return to the world’s top 10 rankings.

The 26-year-old Radwanska turned in a near flawless display against Bencic, smashing 28 winners past the Swiss teenager to win her second Pan Pacific Open and her first WTA title since last year’s Rogers Cup in Montreal.

“I’m just so, so happy I could really play my best tennis today, and this is the first tournament I’ve won twice, so it’s definitely very special for me,” Radwanska said in her on-court interview.

“I knew I was playing one of the best players in the world, but this is the final and you just want to win, so you do whatever it takes to win every point.”

Bencic beat Radwanska in their only previous meeting, in the final at Eastbourne in June, and was chasing her fourth title this year.

The 18-year-old had been in great form all week, defeating Garbine Muguruza and Caroline Wozniacki on the way to the final, and would have cracked the top 10 herself had she won.

Radwanska is projected to climb from 13th to eighth when the new rankings are released on Monday and move to 10th place in the race for places at the WTA Finals in Singapore. “I’m just so happy to be back in that Top 10. It’s very, very tight now,” she said.

“There are a lot of young players coming up, so many players who deserve to be Top 10, so I’m just happy I can be number eight now.

“The Asia tour is key for me to go to Singapore, so I think this week I did a great job to give myself a better chance to go back there again.” (rtr)

MANGUPURA - Tanah Wuk is the beautiful river valley of Tukad Penet, just 2 kilometers north of the Sangeh holy monkey forest of Badung Regency. Its location is off the main road, hidden behind rice field, and is a very quiet and private place to enjoy the pristine nature.

In Tanah Wuuk, you can witness beauty of the green gorge valley of nature. You can do hiking activity in this location. You can also taste the Balinese traditional food, such as Nasi Sela, which is the combination between rice and sweet potato. The street hawkers near the tourism object also sold pork satay with peanut sauce that will taste better if you eat it with the Nasi Sela. During dining in the street hawkers you can enjoy the scenery of Sangeh forest.

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Eliud Kipchoge from Kenia celebrates winning the 42nd Berlin Marathon in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. More than 41,000 runners from 131 countries were registered to run.

Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya wins Berlin Marathon

BERLIN — Wayward insoles cost Eliud Kipchoge a chance to break a world record. Despite problems with his shoes from the first kilometer, Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon on Sunday in a personal best time of 2 hours and 4 minutes. The Kenyan’s insoles were noticeably slipping out of his runners around the 20K mark, flapping behind him as he maintained a leading pace with training partner Emmanuel Mutai and 2012 race winner Geoffrey Mutai.

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Geoffrey Mutai, no relation to Emmanuel, fell behind around the 30K mark and Kipchoge made his move two kilometers further on.

“I didn’t have time to pull the soles out,” said Kipchoge, who had been targeting compatriot Dennis Kimetto’s record of 2:02:57 from Berlin last year. “The world record was my target. I didn’t manage it but I’ll be back next year.” Running his sixth Berlin marathon, Kipchoge finished comfortably ahead of compatriot Eliud Kiptanui in second on 2:05:22 and Feyisa Lilesa of Ethiopia third in 2:06:57.

All times were official.

“From the first kilometer I had problems with my shoes,” Kipchoge said. “Nevertheless, I am very happy about my victory.

I love the Berlin course and the people. I’m glad I won and in a personal best. I would very much love to come back and run an even faster time.”

Emmanuel Mutai was fourth and Geoffrey Mutai fifth, ahead of Canada’s Reid Coolseat, who ran 2:10:28. Kipchoge shaved five seconds off his previous personal best time and 42 seconds off the previous fastest mark of the year that he set at the London Marathon

on April 26.

Kiptanui was happy with his second-place finish. “I think I had no chance to beat Eliud,” said Kiptanui, who knocked 17 seconds off his personal best set in Prague in 2010. Kipchoge clocked 2:04:05 in 2013 only to be beaten by compatriot Wilson Kipsang, who set a then-record of 2:03:23.

Gladys Cherono of Kenya beat the 2:20 mark to win the women’s race in 2:19.25 ahead of Ethiopian trio Aberu Kebede, Meseret Hailu and Tadelech Bekele.

It was Cherono’s first win in only her second marathon. The 32-yearold half marathon world champion ran 2:20:03 for second place in her debut in Dubai last January.

Conditions were ideal on a cool, crisp autumn morning in Berlin.

More than 41,000 runners from 131 countries were registered to run. (ap)

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Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland celebrates after defeating Belinda Bencic of Switzerland during their Pan Pacific Open women’s singles final tennis match in Tokyo, Japan, September 27, 2015.

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, students from a Roman Catholic-run St. Scholastica’s College pour out of their campus for a “noise barrage” to protest the Sept. 1 killings of three indigenous people leaders, one of whom was a teacher, and the forced closure of their schools in southern Philippines allegedly due to the presence of the military and paramilitary forces in Manila, Philippines.

Philippines to investigate militia forces linked to attacks

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government will investigate the reported involvement of paramilitary forces in deadly attacks against tribal communities in a conflict that has displaced hundreds of villagers in the south, the justice secretary said Sunday.

Secretary Leila de Lima said government prosecutors and the National Bureau of Investigation have been ordered to prosecute and order the disarming of the alleged militia groups and identify supporters who foster their criminal and violent acts.

Such militia forces, which are trained and armed by an overstretched military to guard far-flung rural villages, have been linked to rights abuses and criminal acts. The military says paramilitary forces with a current strength of about 20,000 men have played a crucial role in helping fight a decades-long communist insurgency, adding that abusive militiamen have been prosecuted and punished.

“Our goal must not be limited to prosecuting the offenders and disarming these groups, but must extend to a conclusive probe on their supporters who fuel their criminal operations and acts of violence,” de Lima said in a statement.

“Even as we condemn these paramilitary groups and their benefactors, all parties must go beyond

and show resolve in putting an end to their reign of terror” in tribal communities, she said.

Human Rights Watch accused the Philippine military last week of standing aside while paramilitary forces attacked tribal villages and schools accused of supporting Marxist guerrillas in at least three southern provinces.

A paramilitary group allegedly killed an educator and two tribal leaders in a school in remote Surigao del Sur province in a Sept.

1 attack that caused a few thousand residents to flee their homes.

Another militia force has reportedly staged violent assaults against tribesmen since last year in the provinces of Bukidnon and Davao del Norte, particularly students at tribal schools accused of promoting the communist ideology, according to the U.S.-based rights group.

Military spokesman Col. Restituto Padilla said the military would not condone any rights abuses. The military, he says, welcomes any investigation of its commanders, who oversee the militiamen linked

to the attacks.

De Lima said her department has been following the reported attacks against tribal communities “with great concern,” adding that initial reports she got suggested “that the transgressions which resulted in the death and injury of members of indigenous peoples’ communities and the destruction of their property involved paramilitary groups.”

Tribal communities, de Lima said, have been caught in the middle of the insurgency war and most likely forced to take sides and pitted against each other in the conflict by communist New People’s Army rebels and “some elements of the state’s security forces.”

“The state’s mandate to preserve peace and enforce law and order in the affected communities must continue while ensuring that noncombatants are not caught in the crossfire,” she said. “Violators will be held to account.”

The 46-year Marxist insurgency is one of the longest-running in Asia and talks to end the fighting have stalled. The military says years of battle setbacks, infighting and factionalism have weakened the insurgents, who have survived by extorting from mining and agricultural companies, mostly in the country’s south. (ap)

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Nepal restricts vehicle movement as Indian fuel supplies hit

KATHMANDU — Nepal started imposing restrictions on vehicular movement Sunday as a blockade of cargo trucks along the border with India has badly hit the supplies of essential commodities, especially fuel.

Nepalese officials said that cars will run on alternate days based on the last digit of their license plate. Trucks carrying supplies from neighboring India stopped entering Nepal this past week after angry protests following the adoption of a new constitution.

Siva Tripathi, an official at the Ministry of Supplies, said that Indian security personnel and customs officials barred the trucks from entering Nepal, citing orders from Delhi.

“Transportation has come to a complete halt since Thursday. So we are facing the shortage of some essential items, including petroleum

products,” Tripathi said.

India’s foreign ministry has denied that there have been restrictions imposed on Indian suppliers and blamed protests inside Nepal for the disrupted movement of oil tankers and trucks loaded with medicine, sugar, salt, food and cooking gas cylinders. Nepal, a small Himalayan nation, depends heavily on supplies from India, its giant neighbor.

While many in Nepal have welcomed the new constitution that came into force last week, some ethnic groups object to the boundaries of the seven federal states that were set up. Other protesters want Nepal to be a Hindu state and not secular as the constitution calls for.

The protests have been waning, but violence related to them has killed at least 45 people in recent weeks. (ap)

Burkina Faso government asks public not to attack elite unit

OUAGADOUGOU — Burkina Faso’s government has asked citizens to avoid acts of aggression against members of the presidential guard that staged a coup earlier this month.

The government said late Saturday that people should remain calm and exert restraint as the unit is disbanded.

The warning came in response to reports that presidential guard members and their families are being attacked.

Transitional President Michel Ka-

fando announced the disbandment of the elite group of soldiers late Friday.

The army has begun collecting arms and says it will take days to completely disarm the group.

Members of the presidential guard arrested Kafando and the interim prime minister on Sept. 16 and later announced the coup. Gen. Gilbert Diendere took power for about a week.

The transitional government was reinstalled Wednesday. (ap)

BAGHDAD — Iraqi will begin sharing “security and intelligence” information with Russia, Syria and Iran to help combat the advances of the Islamic State group, the Iraqi military announced Sunday.

A statement issued by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said the countries will “help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group,” using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

Iraq has long had close ties with neighboring Iran and has coordinated with Tehran in fighting the advance of IS — which controls about a third of Iraq and Syria in a self-declared caliphate. Iranian commanders have helped lead Iraqi

Shiite militiamen in combat.

A U.S.-led coalition has been conducting aerial bombing campaigns against IS positions in Iraq and Syria, but U.S. officials insist they have no coordination with Tehran on the matter.

The agreement with Russia comes at a time when Moscow is ramping up its involvement in Syria in defense of its ally Bashar Assad, with Russian soldiers on the ground in Syria, according to activists. The Iraqi military statement said that Moscow is increasingly concerned about “the presence of thousands of terrorists from Russia who are carrying out criminal acts with Daesh.” (ap)

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Singapore moves against Indonesian firms over haze

SINGAPORE - Singapore has launched legal action that could lead to massive fines against Indonesian companies blamed for farm and plantation fires spewing unhealthy levels of air pollution over the city-state.

Five Indonesian companies including multinational Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) have been served with legal notices, according to a Singapore government statement issued late Friday.

The move followed a bitter diplomatic spat over Indonesia’s failure to stop a severe outbreak of smoky haze which has also affected Malaysia and persisted for years.

APP, part of Indonesia’s Sinar Mas conglomerate, is one of the world’s largest pulp and paper groups and publicly upholds “sustainability” and forest conservation as core principles.

Its products include stationery and toilet paper.

APP was asked by Singapore’s National Environment Agency to supply information on its subsidiaries operating in Singapore and Indonesia,

as well as measures taken by its suppliers in Indonesia to put out fires in their concessions.

The group, which has paper mills in Indonesia and China, did not immediately reply when asked by AFP for comment.

Under a 2014 law called the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act, Singapore can impose a fine of Sg$100,000 ($70,000) for each day that a local or foreign company contributes to unhealthy levels of haze pollution in Singapore, subject to a maximum total of Sg$2.0 million.

Singapore is located near Indonesia’s vast Sumatra island, where fires have traditionally been set off by farmers and plantations to clear land for cultivation.

Four other Indonesian companies

-- Rimba Hutani Mas, Sebangun Bumi Andalas Wood Industries, Bumi Sriwijaya Sentosa and Wachyuni Mandira -- have been told to take measures to extinguish fires on their land, refrain from starting new ones, and submit action plans to prevent future fires.

Sinar Mas is also involved in palm oil production, an industry widely blamed for forest fires in Indonesia.

In its statement issued Friday, the Singapore government said it was “examining how to apply more economic pressure against errant companies,” including a review of its own procurement policies. Singapore’s Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan said the haze problem has lasted “for far too long”.

“This is not a natural disaster. Haze is a man-made problem that should not be tolerated. It has caused major impact on the health, society and economy of our region,” he said in the statement.

Singapore declared emergency

shutdowns of elementary and high schools on Friday after the air pollutant index hit “hazardous” levels.

It eased to “moderate” levels on Saturday but a shift in wind direction

can quickly change the situation.

The current haze outbreak is the worst since mid-2013. The recurring crisis grips Southeast Asia nearly every year during the dry season. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesian teacher Nina Ramadhaniah hopes for “blessings from Allah” by opening a sharia bank account -- the sort of pious customer the world’s mostpopulous Muslim-majority country is praying for as it launches an Islamic finance drive.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, has a Muslim population of around 225 million but this huge number of faithful has not translated into success for sharia banks, institutions required to do business in line with Islamic principles.

Now regulators have launched a plan aimed at growing the sector, which currently accounts for less than five percent of banking assets,

compared to a quarter in neighbouring, more developed Muslimmajority Malaysia and around half in Saudi Arabia.

Authorities believe it is a good moment, with many Indonesians getting wealthier after years of strong economic growth and an increasing trend towards piety across broad sections of society.

Many of those without bank accounts, estimated at about 40 percent of the population, are soon expected to open one.

“The situation is an opportunity for the Islamic banking business to get bigger,” said Nasirwan Ilyas, a senior official from the Islamic banking division of the Financial

Services Authority (OJK).

The OJK is spearheading the drive, and unveiled a five-year roadmap earlier this year that included plans to educate the public about sharia lenders and the establishment of an Islamic finance committee to better manage the sector.

Key features of sharia banking include the prohibition of interest on loans or customer deposits, and a ban on investing in “non-Islamic” businesses, such as those involving pork or alcohol.

For teacher Ramadhaniah, who has an account with Indonesia’s biggest Islamic lender, Bank Syariah Mandiri, the ban on interest is a key attraction.

“Charging interest is haram (against Islam), ill-gotten gains that will not bring me any blessings from Allah,” the 44-year-old told AFP. “I don’t want to live in sin.”

Sharia accounts often work on a “profit-and-loss sharing” model, meaning customers get a windfall when the bank does well but can lose out when it does badly.

There are obvious disadvantages. Sharia lenders generally offer lower returns on investments and their modest size often means they provide fewer services than larger, conventional peers -- many shops are not equipped to accept their debit cards.

Nevertheless, Islamic banks

have proven popular in recent years, with the sector expanding on average more than 40 percent a year between 2008 and 2012, according to the OJK. The growth came after laws were changed to make it easier to establish an Islamic bank, and there are now a plethora of standalone sharia lenders, Islamic banking units attached to conventional banks, and smaller Islamic financial institutions in the countryside.

Growth in the sector has lost steam due to a broader slowdown in the economy, which is expanding at six-year lows -- giving authorities another reason to launch their drive. (afp)

SORONG - A powerful earthquake in remote eastern Indonesia on Friday injured more than 60 people, left hundreds of houses damaged and rattled an idyllic island chain popular with foreign tourists and divers.

People were woken up and ran screaming out of their homes when the 6.6-magnitude undersea quake struck in the Papua region at about 1:00 am (1600 GMT), not far from the coastal city of Sorong.

Seventeen people were so far known to have sustained serious injuries and 45 to have suffered minor injuries, while 200 houses were damaged, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

No deaths have so far been reported. The quake also caused blackouts in Sorong and patients were evacuated from a hospital.

“We are still collecting data, and we expect the number of victims and damage to increase,” Nugroho said in

a statement.

The quake was also felt strongly in Raja Ampat, northwest of the epicentre, an archipelago popular with tourists and divers due to its palmfringed islands that are surrounded by an underwater kaleidoscope of coral and fish.

Yona Niki, a receptionist at Waisai Beach Hotel on Waigeo island, said staff and four guests staying at the hotel ran outside when the quake hit and waited until the intense shaking

had stopped.

The manager of another hotel said the quake left cracks in the walls.

However there were no reports of injuries in the area, with hotel operators saying it was the low season so there were few tourists.

The US Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at 6.6 and said its epicentre was at a depth of 24 kilometres (14 miles).

Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide,

causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.

In July, a teenage boy fell into a river and died, and several buildings were damaged when a 7.0-magnitude quake rocked Papua.

A huge undersea quake in 2004 triggered a tsunami that engulfed Aceh province on western Sumatra island, killing more than 170,000 people in Indonesia and tens of thousands more in other countries with coasts on the Indian Ocean. (afp)

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People wearing masks walk at the shopping district of Orchard Road in Singapore September 25, 2015. Singapore has launched legal action that could lead to massive fines against Indonesian companies blamed for farm and plantation fires spewing unhealthy levels of air pollution over the city-state.

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“Sampi Gerumbungan” typical agrarian culture of Buleleng

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Porsche buys 1.5 percent of VW ordinary shares from Suzuki

BERLIN — German automaker Porsche SE says it is buying 1.5 percent stake of ordinary shares in Volkswagen AG from Suzuki.

The purchase raises Porsche’s share of Volkswagen AG’s ordinary shares to 52.2 percent, and its stake in VW’s subscribed capital to 32.4 percent.

The move comes days after Volkswagen was hit by a scandal over allegedly rigged U.S. emissions tests in diesel vehicles. Porsche said in a statement Saturday that it considers the purchase “as a strong commitment to its core investment and emphasizes its role as an anchor shareholder” in Volkswagen. (ap)

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Organic wastes produce 1.6 tons of fertilizers China vows billions of development A Volkswagen XL1 enters the premises of the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, Friday, Sept. 25 2015. German automaker Porsche SE says it is buying 1.5 percent stake of ordinary shares in Volkswagen AG from Suzuki.

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dollars, debt forgiveness

UNITED NATIONS — China’s president on Saturday pledged billions in aid and said Beijing will forgive debts due this year in an effort to help the world’s poorest nations, as world leaders begin to seek the trillions of dollars needed to help achieve sweeping new development goals.

President Xi Jinping spoke at a global summit that on Friday launched the non-binding goals for

the next 15 years.

China’s president vowed to help other countries make the

same transformation. Xi said China will commit an initial $2 billion to establish an assistance fund to meet the post-2015 goals in areas such as education, health care and economic development.

He said China would seek to increase the fund to $12 billion by 2030.

TABANAN - The waste sent to Mandung landfill does not only consist of inorganic one. But it mostly comprises plastic waste and some organic waste ranging from leaves, branches, vegetables, flowers and canang oblation. In order not to be wasted, the landfill officers process it into organic fertilizer.

Armed with six employees, the landfill can process the sorted waste. Each month it can produce 1.68 tons of organic fertilizer.

And Xi said China would write off intergovernmental interest-free loans owed to China by the least-developed, small island nations and most heavily debt-burdened countries due this year.

He said China “will continue to increase investment in the least

developed countries,” and support global institutions, including the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank that is due to launch by the end of the year and is seen as a Chinese alternative to the more Western-oriented financial institutions of the World Bank. (ap)

Moody’s keeps junk rating for Greece debt LONDON - Moody’s has maintained its deep junk “Caa3” credit rating for Greek government debt, but has upgraded its outlook following recent political breakthroughs.

“Moody’s Investors Service has today confirmed Greece’s government bond rating at Caa3 and changed the outlook to stable,” the agency said in a statement

issued Friday.

“The key drivers behind the confirmation are the approval of the third bailout programme, and the emergence of a political configuration that is slightly more supportive than its predecessors for the implementation of reforms which the programme will require,” it added.

Moody’s cut its credit rating for

Greece to deep-junk -- jut two steps above “default” -- in July, shortly before a referendum on the terms of the third bailout.

“Notwithstanding the positive developments the Caa3 rating continues to incorporate a high level of implementation risk given Greece’s weak institutions and past poor track-record of implementing

conditions of financial support,” added the statement.

Newly re-elected left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday that Greece must “quickly implement” the terms of the tough EU bailout agreed in July.

Tsipras won Sunday’s general election, picking up between 33 and 35 percent of the vote. (afp)

The Head of the Tabanan Sanitation and Agency, I Wayan Sugatra, explained that seven chambers are prepared for processing organic fertilizer. In these chambers, the organic waste such as leaves, vegetables, flowers and branches of trees are chopped in advance by using machine to be further fermented in order to produce organic fertilizer. Each chamber can produce 12 sacks of fertilizer where each sack weighs 20 kg.

Having been chopped, the organic waste is left for approximately one month in the chamber. Although producing quite a lot of organic fertilizers, Sugatra stated that such organic fertilizer is not commercialized.

“Whoever wishes to get one, simply come here,” said Sugatra. The organic fertilizer really helps his institution fertilize the plants in the urban park of Tabanan both in the office of the county government and shade trees in the urban park. “So, we can save the budget for the purchase of fertilizers because we can have produced fertilizer independently,”

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Most raw materials of organic fertilizer are obtained from vegetable market and the remnants of shade tree pruning in the urban area. According to Sugatra, with a mixture of vegetable waste, decomposition of organic waste into fertilizer is easier. “If only relying on leaves and twigs, the decomposition process is very difficult,” said Sugatra.

He recognized that all this time the raw material is mostly sorted back after arriving at the landfill. In Tabanan, public awareness of sorting organic and inorganic waste remains very small.

When calculated in percentage, only 5 percent of people want to sort their waste. Moreover, it has been done by waste bank.

Other than making organic fertilizer in dealing with overloaded waste at Mandung landfill, the Tabanan Sanitation and Landscaping Agency also makes regular arrangement by flattening waste and cover it with soil before being stacked with new waste. Arrangement

with the addition of soil is expected to accelerate the decomposition process so that the height of waste having reached 20 meters can be decreased gradually.

The Head of the DKP Tabanan, Wayan Sugatra, explained that currently the Mandung landfill can still accommodate waste. “The condition has not been overloaded. Piles of the waste have not exceeded the surface. To that end, it is necessary to arrange it regularly so that the waste will not pile up on the surface,” he explained.

Aside from regular arrangement using a bulldozer, the DKP is also sorting organic and inorganic waste at waste sources to landfill. “Waste sorting from the source is done by waste bank, while at landfill we empower our officers,” he said.

He stated that the DKP has 12 officers assigned to process the waste at Mandung landfill. They are divided in two work shifts and work for half a day.

Then, the DKP asked for the willingness of the officers to work devotionally for half a day to sort the waste at the Mandung landfill. “As compensation, the income obtained from the sale of the inorganic waste they have sorted is given to them because there is no incentive given by the DKP,” said Sugatra. (kmb24)

SINGARAJA - Sampi gerumbungan or bull race is an agrarian cultural heritage of Buleleng. In the past, this tradition served as a medium of entertainment for cow breeders in North Bali after completing their rice harvest. The passage of time and the narrowing of agricultural land in recent years have an impact on this tradition. Local government is now trying to fortify this tradition so that it will not go extinct due to the influence of globalization.

One of the efforts taken is by opening the opportunity for cattle breeder groups to demonstrate their agrarian culture. On the upcoming October 1, a number of breeder groups in Buleleng will make a bull race performance. It becomes a series of event in the Lovina Festival held on September 27 to October 1, 2015.

The data gathered in the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency indicated that the bull race group or better known as baga remains to survive in the region of Eastern, Central and Western Buleleng. Member of the groups are breeders that raise cattle every day and the tradition has been inherited through generations.

Each group raises some cattle in special manner.

Uniquely all the breeders exercise their cows at all times, not only ahead of race or performance.

Regular exercise is carried out because the typical bull race of Buleleng does not emphasize on the speed of cow in a race. However, the pair of cows is trained to synchronize the movement of the four legs and the arch of tail as well as the head can look up when being ridden in the race arena.

Simultaneous stamping and ankle bell tied on the four legs of cattle will create typical sound. No wonder, every farmer inheriting the tradition of bull race will be always trying to find the best and quality calves. Moreover, the price of calf intended for bull race is much more expensive than other cows in general. Breeders that love the tradition are also willing to spend millions of rupiah just to get their best calves.

Automatically this condition results in cattle breeding business with profitable sale of calves for bull race.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, said on Saturday (Sep. 26) that bull race is a cultural heritage becoming the pride of Buleleng. To that end, local government has set up a program to preserve this agrarian cultural heritage amid the globalization. The preservation program is given through the opportunity of bull race in the annual Lovina Festival. He pointed out that for the festival this year, a total of 21 pairs of racing bulls will participate in the competition to be held in the public square of Kaliasem village, Banjar.

In addition through Lovina Festival every year, the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency will specifically hold a bull race. “With the more opportunities we open, I’m sure the breeder groups will increasingly vivacious to show off their cultural heritage. For us, it is very potential to support the development of tourism industry in our region,” he said.

When crossing the Jalan Ahmad Yani, Singaraja, right in south of the Banyuasri terminal, you will see a statue of bull race facing north. It is deliberately constructed by the government at that time to demonstrate to the public that Buleleng has an agrarian culture in the form of bull race. Once people see the statue, their mind will be focused on the culture that can only be found in North Bali. This statue is often used as the object of photography when an entourage of foreign travelers will go to Lovina and surrounding area. (mud)

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AMLAPURA - The water in a number of retention basins in Karangasem is running low, and the water is some has even dried up. Some geo-membrane retention basins, like the ones at Puragae, Datah II at Kedampal hamlet, Datah and Dukuh in Kubu have also dried up.

Local residents, Made Getas and Wayan Remben, said that the water in the retention basin located on the eastern foot of Mount Agung at Muntig is also almost dry. Last rainy season, the retention basin was built at a cost of IDR 4 billion but was not fully filled with rainwater because the tapping pipe on the eastern slope of Mount Agung became clogged with sedimented soil and refuse from the fire that scorched parts of the protected forest last dry season. “The retention basin was only filled leads than halfway with rainwater and quickly ran out because the pipeline also had a leak. The leaks in the thin pipe were caused by the scorching heat” said Getas.

During the last rainy season, the retention Basin of Datah II at Kedampal only contained some 45 cm of water despite its total depth of some three meters.

The basin guard said that the retention basin was clogged by soil sediment and ashes from the forest fire in the protected forest last dry season. He also said that the water being tapped through the pipe could not run into the retention basin during rainy season, because the connection between the tapping pipe and the revetment did not work properly.

Similar conditions have also affected the geomembrane retention basin at Pandan, Dukuh, Kubu, where only a small amount of water was collected last rainy season. The retention basin at Bantas, Baturinggit Kubu could therefor only serve a few families living nearby. As a result, most residents of the barren village are facing a water crisis, and need the assistance of the water supply from the Karangasem Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD).

The retention basin projects in Karangasem are considered to be ineffective in addressing the water crisis given that despite there being 16 water retention basins in the area, Karangasem residents are still crying out for water this dry season.

Acting Regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda, along with his staff, made a site inspection to a dam in the Seraya River, Karangasem on Tuesday. They found that the water of the dam that was built in 1987 under Minister Mrs. Nani Soedarsono, is declining and looed brownish and cloudy. Local dam duty officer, Ketut Alit, said that the dam that was built at a cost of some DR 15 billion, was originally intended to meet Seraya residents’ need for clean water. Once PDAM starting servicing this area, Seraya residents who live near major roads, stopped depending on the dam for clean water. Those residents who cannot not afford to pay for PDAM services, still rely on the dam for bathing and washing their clothes.

Some residents can still found bathing their cattle or washing clothes in the dam water. Ketut Alit said that water pump in the dam has been broken for a long time. His institution has requested repair assistance from Bali’s provincial government but has yet to see any action.

Arda asked his staff, Head of the Karangasem Public Works, Nyoman Sutirtyasa, to make a plan to improve the dam. Arda hopes that the water clearer so that it can be used by residents of the barren village. (013)

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Migration crisis proves boon for some businesses BERLIN — People crammed into boats and trekking across borders have become the dominant images of Europe’s migrant crisis. In the shadows, however, there are those who are profiting, for whom every migrant is a business opportunity.

The ceremony held in Tenganan Village in Karangasem

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Development of tourism village

Expected not to sacrifice agricultural sector GIANYAR - The development of tourism village in Gianyar is considered a strategic measure in the efforts to increase regionally generated revenues as well as raise the economy of local community. Moreover, Gianyar retains great potential of natural and cultural uniqueness posing a special attraction for travelers. However, in the development of tourism village, there are several things to note. One of them is that the development of tourism village may not sacrifice nature and preservation of the agricultural land. This was stated by Chairman of Commission II of the Gianyar House of Representative, Wayan Gede Sudarta, Friday (Sep. 25).

Sudarta stated that the development of the tourism village is one of the desires of the regent of Gianyar aiming at realizing equitable development. On that account, the tourism development program in Gianyar is currently more directed to villages. The program is considered very positive. Moreover, all this time many travelers prefer to make a visit to village or even stay overnight at villages.

“Indeed, the tourism village in Gianyar experiences good development because many travelers love to stay at villages while enjoying countryside atmosphere that remains beautiful and experience people’s life. Lod Tunduh village, for instance, though has not been established as a tourism village, many travelers have visited it. Some of them stay at homestay provided by local people. By and large, they stay for long time, such as for three

months up to a year,” he said.

According to Sudarta, many villages in Gianyar still have the potential to be developed into a tourism village. Aside from Lod Tunduh, Singapadu Kaler will also be announced as a tourism village as considered very suitable to be developed.

Farming land in the local area is still very wide, but so far has not been worked on maximally to attract travelers.

Further, Sudarta hoped that tourism village development still pays attention to preservation of local nature and culture.

For the sake of improving the economy and local revenue, the nature and culture may not be sacrificed. Community-managed tourist accommodation should be built by utilizing unproductive areas. The agricultural land should be maintained because it poses the main attraction to travelers for visiting villages.

Similarly, the government must pay attention to the infrastructure of village having tourism potential other than to villages having been designated as tourism village. “The village must be clearly supported with adequate facilities and infrastructure. I am confident that with the stipulation as tourism village, the government will be certainly backing up the infrastructure and facilities. Hopefully, the government can pay attention to villages having potential but have not been established as a tourism village. For example, the road at one of the hamlets at Lod Tunduh is badly damaged. It should be repaired as tourism supporting infrastructure,” he said.

When making a site inspection to Singapadu Kaler prepared into tourism village on Thursday (Sep. 24), the regent of Gianyar stated that tourism village has an important value because it serves as preserver of the art and culture as well as community-based tourism w\here people become the players. Development of tourism village is based on the potential owned by villages and supporting factor. Sanitation, he said, poses one of the main supporting factors so that later on the tourism village is really beautiful and comfortable place to visit. (kmb25)

The business of migration extends far beyond the human traffickers, who often grab migrants’ money and send them on life-threatening journeys on rubber boats or in cramped trucks. It include bus companies and shelter operators that provide essential logistical help to authorities overwhelmed by the sheer number of people in need of housing and transportation. Telecoms companies that sell SIM cards with special contracts for crossborder calls. And petty food-anddrink vendors at train stations are even known to be price-gouging, charging migrants double or triple the amount they’d be charged in stores around the corner.

There are no overall estimates for how much the business of migration rakes in — but there’s no doubting it’s a multi-million dollar industry. Authorities in Germany estimate the cost of housing and feeding migrants alone at about 12,000 euros ($13,400) per person, per year.

Entrepreneur Bert Karlsson is among those profiting from the wave of migrants coming to Europe. The record company boss and founder of a now-defunct antiimmigrant party in Sweden raised eyebrows recently when Swedish media reported that his company, Jokarjo, had billed the government 132 million Swedish kronor ($16 million) to house asylum seekers.

Sara Sundelius, a spokeswoman

for the Swedish migration service, said the government would normally house asylum seekers in regular apartments. But due to the sharp rise in numbers, some 21,000 asylum seekers are being put up in cabins, small hotels and hostels at a cost of between 250-300 Swedish Kronor per day, per person.

Sweden is one of the main destinations for many of the Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others hoping to start a new life in Europe. Another is Germany, where the government has forecast between 800,000 and 1 million arrivals this year.

German local authorities have long outsourced the management of refugee shelters to non-governmental organizations, particularly charitable groups such as Diakonie, AWO and the German Red Cross.

But faced with an unprecedented influx of migrants, private companies have been able to offer cashstrapped mayors better deals.

“We’re doing something some people consider dirty: we make money,” said Klaus Kocks, a spokesman for European Homecare, a housing company.

The firm first began providing accommodation for migrants 25 years ago, when tens of thousands of ethnic Germans left the Soviet Union and Poland for Germany, following the collapse of communism.

It expanded as a result of the Balkan wars, which again brought a wave of refugees to Germany.

AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014 file photo migrants on a dinghy arrive at the southeastern island of Kos, Greece, after crossing from Turkey. People crammed into boats and trekking across borders have become the dominant images of Europe’s migrant crisis.

The latest surge has seen the number of shelters run by European Homecare double to 100 in the past year. The company’s 1,000 staff now care for 15,000 refugees in cities across the country.

Refugee rights campaigners have criticized the company, claiming it cuts corners in order to be able to keep costs down and win contracts.

Kocks denies this, saying European Homecare is simply better placed to keep costs low. The company buys in bulk to be able to provide full-board lodgings, with social

and medical care, for as little as 11 euros per person, per night. “Where there’s price competition those who have lean overheads win,” Kocks told The Associated Press.

European Homecare is currently in negotiations to buy modular containers left over from the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, to house new arrivals. The company also provides counseling to those asylum seekers facing deportation after their applications were rejected.

Smaller companies, too, have been doing handsome business off

migration. Far-flung hotels teetering on the brink of insolvency have received government contracts to provide all their rooms for refugees; one German firm has specialized in selling starter kits for refugees containing a bed, chair, table and kitchen utensils; security companies, meanwhile, are doing brisk business providing guards to keep the peace inside packed asylum centers and ensure they aren’t attacked by far-right extremists. The sums involved have attracted criminal enterprises too.(ap)

American tourist killed in botched robbery in Colombia

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Residents bike to their destinations on Day Without Cars and Motorcycles, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015.

BOGOTA, Colombia — An American tourist was shot to death during an apparent robbery attempt after leaving his hotel in a wealthy enclave of Medellin, Colombian authorities said Saturday.

Police identified the victim as John Mariani, 65, of New York, and said he was attacked Friday night when his taxi was intercepted by gunmen in a car and on a motorcycle. They said the assailants tried to take his wallet and personal belongings and shot him when he resisted. The attackers then fled.

Police offered a $16,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators.

The U.S. Embassy had no imme-

diate comment. Police said Mariani had arrived in Medellin from Costa Rica, but gave no other information on him.

El Poblado neighborhood where the shooting happened is one of the Medellin’s wealthiest and safest enclaves. It is a leafy neighborhood that is home to the city’s vibrant dining scene and dozens of high-rise apartment buildings and hotels.

Medellin, the country’s second biggest city, is a far cry from the 1980s when it was the headquarters for Pablo Escobar’s feared Medellin cocaine cartel, and it has been experiencing a boom in tourism.

The New York Times featured it at No. 11 on its list of 52 places to

go in 2015.

Although the city remains a major center of crime, violence has dropped since Escobar’s heyday, when more than a dozen people were slain daily on average. The city had a homicide rate last year of 26.1 per 100,000 residents, about five times the U.S. average but well below major American cities like Detroit and Baltimore.

Seven Colombians were extradited to the U.S. last year to face charges in the stabbing death of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, James “Terry” Watson, who was killed during a botched “express kidnapping” by a ring that targeted unsuspecting passengers hailing taxi cabs in Bogota.(ap)

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Twenty six countries participate in BIFF

KUTA - Twenty-six countries are participating in the Bali Austria, France, Denmark, ThaiInternational Film Festival (BIFF), being held from September land and Norway.

BIFF aims at providing a 24-30, 2015 in Kuta, organized by the Balinale Forum.

“A total of 105 films from 26 countries have been selected for the Bali International Film Festival,” founder of Balinale, Deborah Gabinetti said.

She explained that the 26

countries which qualified to participate in the event included Indonesia, the United States, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Iran, Germany, Australia, Cambodia, Poland, Cuba,

platform to the film industry of various countries to promote their works.

“Of the 300 films enrolled, 105 films have been chosen for participation in this film festival,” Gabinetti said.

According to her, Indonesia’s short films are very interesting because they have unique characteristics that highlight local cultural aesthetics.

To introduce Indonesian films to the whole world, we need a national film community, she remarked.

She hoped that as a result of

DENPASAR - The Japanese government has assisted in the development of an autism school in Mengwi in the Badung Sub-district of Bali.

“The study room is being constructed under a grant from the Humanitarian Security Grassroots

from the Japanese government to the Meidina Nusantara Foundation,” a staff member from the Japanese Consulate General, Sokhibi said on Saturday.

The building, which is worth US$27,565, was inaugurated by

Japanese Consular General Noboru Nomura.

Japan extended assistance in the form of helping with the construction of two classrooms, an office room, as well as school equipment, such as a chair, desk and white board.

Nomura said the assistance is aimed at helping the autistic children achieve a better education and improve their creativity, and thereby contribute to the local community.

Additionally, the Chairman of the Meidina Nusantara Foundation,

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this film festival, Indonesian filmmakers will come up with more films that will be recognized by the international community.

The selection process for the BIFF involved Indonesian film industry and Universal Studios USA, which assessed qualities such as editing, sound, movie titles and story. (ant)

Teguh Jaya Putra also appreciated the assistance given by the Japanese government.

The study center will help the Bali government in providing proper facilities for the autistic children, Teguh said. (ant)

Japan helps develop autism school in Bali

Cathay Pacific flight makes emergency landing in Ngurah Rai Airport

Skiing, climbing, global warming: French Alps show dilemma

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DENPASAR - A Cathay Pacific flight from Perth to Hong Kong was forced to make an emergency landing at the International Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, on Friday morning.

“An engine malfunction caused the Cathay Pacific flight CX170, an Airbus A330 aircraft, to make an emergency landing at Ngurah Rai airport at 3:35 a.m. Central Indo-

nesia Standard Time (WITA),” PT Angkasa Pura-I public relations official Sherly Yunita noted on Friday.

According to Yunita, the ill-fated Cathay Pacific aircraft was carrying 254 passengers and 13 crew members when it was forced to make an emergency landing, but all aboard were safe and unharmed.

Yunita further explained that

some of the passengers had taken another flight for Hong Kong, while the rest would be accommodated in a hotel in Denpasar.

According to a report released

by The Australian, passenger Joel Sirna informed Perth radio station 6PR that they panicked and cried after one of the engines burst into flames before the aircraft made a

successful emergency landing.

He noted that flight CX170 departed for Hong Kong just before midnight on Thursday, but a defect in the Airbus A330’s engine caused it to divert to Denpasar, where firefighters came to the rescue.

“Mid-flight, we heard a loud bang, and the plane started to shake.

All the lights went out, and as I

looked through the window, I just saw some flames and sparks coming out of the wing, and the engine was on fire,” Sirna stated.

He remarked that the passengers were awoken by the midair drama, which unfolded not far from the Bali coast. Some passengers were highly distressed, and others tried to calm them down. (ant)

PARIS — The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbing — but now the French government is trying to help their winter tourist towns adapt to a warming world.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls visited the Mer de Glace (the Sea of Ice) Friday on Mont Blanc, where the retreating glacier has been documented for more than a century, through water colors painted before the invention of the still camera, black-and-white photos depicting a thenmodern steam locomotive chuffing alongside the ice and today’s high-definition satellite photos.

“The Mer de Glace reveals the extent of climate change, and, to the naked eye,” said Valls. “The time has come to mobilize.”

Researchers say the Sea of Ice is only the most accessible example of a problem the entire Alpine region is facing as warming mountainsides become more unstable and snowfall more inconsistent, threatening jobs and lives in a region heavily dependent on adventure tourism.

Scientists have drilled the Mont Blanc region with sensor-equipped boreholes in recent years, hoping that measuring temperatures in the permafrost will give a sense of how quickly the problem is accelerating and which areas are most in peril.

The town of Lanslevillard already knows firsthand, said Xavier Bodin, a researcher

for France’s elite CNRS research center who specializes in Alpine permafrost. A debris flow touched off by an unstable rock glacier swept down the slope, crushing snow equipment.

In another part of the southeast French region, pylons for a ski lift had to be replanted because the foundation grounds were melting. Elsewhere, retreating glaciers have exposed climbers to new, untested and potentially risky routes, he said.

“The rising temperatures in the mountains strongly modify the way people approach the high altitudes,” Bodin said.

In a study released this year in the Journal of Alpine Research, researchers documented 350 rock falls from 2007 to 2014 compared with almost none from 1855 to 1936. They found that of 1,769 pieces of infrastructure — including huts, ski lifts and pipelines — about 10 percent were at high risk of rock fall damage, including Mont Blanc’s popular Aiguille du Midi cable car.

Valls is visiting the region to highlight France’s role as host in the global summit on climate change at the end of this year. (ap)

AP Photo/David Azia,File

In this file photo taken on Oct. 12, 2011, an alpinist heads down a ridge on the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 meters; 12 605 feet), towards the Vallee Blanche on the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps, near Chamonix, France. The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbers everywhere _ and now the French government is trying to help towns at the heart of the lucrative tourism industry adapt to a warming world.

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A Cathay Pacific flight from Perth to Hong Kong was forced to make an emergency landing at the International Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, on Friday morning.

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He also pointed out the tourist package offered to the gay couple on Saturday (Sep. 12) poses an invisible act of terrorism because psychologically it terrorizes. If it is allowed and becomes a habit, it will even insult the culture itself. The regent also invited the entire community to put the Hindu religion and culture in the proper position. “This is one of the invisible terrorism acts that psychologically terrorizes.

The exotic Hinduism in Bali is not comparable to others around the globe, so that this should be preserved well,” he said.

Agung Bharata also affirmed that to anticipate religious harassment in the longterm his ranks will draft a regent regulation that will be made into regional bylaw by combining the elements of positive law and customary law. As initial measure, the regent of Gianyar instructed the Head of the Tourism Office to immediately monitor all types of services provided by tourism stakeholders for travelers. If such a service is found again, the government is ready to crack down on it. “To strengthen the legal instrument, I will draft the concept of regent regulation that can be made into regional bylaw combining the elements of positive law and customary law. Hopefully, the regional bylaw can be issued as soon as possible to strengthen the ban,” he said.

Chief of the Gianyar Police, Farman, said that his ranks will put more emphases on the preventive measures than law enforcement because after the delivery of the regent circular he hoped there will be cooperation with all related components, especially hoteliers in Gianyar. “Delivery of this information is meant to realize the security, so that I hope there will be cooperation. Well, if later on we find any event at certain accommodation that is not reported to village authorities or subdistrict police station, we will firmly dismiss it,” he affirmed.

When asked about the existence of the gay couple with the initials TM and JT, he said that police authorities are still waiting for their flight information from immigration office. “We are awaiting the results of the immigration, while the investigation is still going on,” he said.

Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Gianyar, Tjokorda Ichiro Sukawati, hoped the government, customary village middle assembly (MMDP) and Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indonesia (PHDI) to make cooperation in order to strengthen synergies in preserving the custom and culture together with tourism entrepreneurs in Gianyar. The PHRI Gianyar will also make coordination with all the stakeholders in making a policy related to services allowed to be made into tourism commodities in Gianyar. “Obviously we will talk about it later, so that the case will not be repeated in other tourist places,” he said. (kmb35)

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Ida Pedanda Made Gunung, when visited by the regent and police chief of Gianyar at the Griya Suniawati, Blahbatuh.

‘Karmic cleansing package’ debases Hinduism

Panglukatan ritual or termed as ‘karmic cleansing package’ for gay couple TM and JT at one of the hotels in Ubud some time ago made Ida Pedanda Made Gunung furious. He questioned the permission and intention of the package offered by the hotel management in Ubud.

“Where does the permit of the karmic cleansing package come from? Who approves it?

What does it mean by karmic cleansing? In Hinduism, there is karmic law, any action will have its own effect,” said Ida Pedanda Made Gunung, when visited by the regent and police chief of Gianyar at the Griya Suniawati, Blahbatuh.

This religious leader from Gianyar also assessed that the activity is considered an insult to Hinduism. The religion as a belief and spiritual guidance has been made into economic commodity

by the hotel in Ubud. “Our religion and ritual in Bali are spiritual guidance, not economic commodity, so that the package of karmic cleansing is not true,” he said.

He also advised that in this case the relevant agencies such as the Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indonesia (PHDI), Customary Village Middle Assembly (MMDP) and the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) play an important role to explain to all parties, so as not to carelessly offer tour packages to travelers.

“Let’s all tourism players and hoteliers participate in keeping

the culture inspired by Hinduism.

In the future, do not let dharma be controlled by artha (wealth) and kama (passion) because dharma with various kinds of ritual is our spirituality with God,” he said.

Chief of the Gianyar Police, Farman, explained that in this case his ranks are still making investigation. One of them is by requesting information from customary experts and religious leaders. “Currently we are still collecting evidences and witnesses, including an explanation from religious leaders for reference in further investigation,” he said.

He added that in this case the Chief of Gianyar Police Criminal Investigation Unit has examined nine witnesses, including hotel management and priest.

Related to the existence of the

gay couple JT and TM is still in search of police authorities, including the existence of their families and people attending the event. “Based on witness testimony we’ve collected, the karmic cleansing package is sold for USD 260. This rate includes dinner package and karmic cleansing ritual for 29 people,” he said.

Regent of Gianyar, Agung Bharata, stated that though police investigation has not found any element of gay marriage yet, since it has used religious symbols such as offerings and priest, it is necessary to take real action to prevent it from happening again in the future. “This incident certainly becomes a lesson for us together, and primarily this should not be repeated in Gianyar and Bali,” he affirmed. (kmb35)

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SINGARAJA - As we know Lovina Beach (or often simply Lovina) is a coastal area on the northwestern side of the island of Bali, the coastal strip stretches from 5 km west of the city of Singaraja to 15 km west, Buleleng Regency. “Lovina is one of the famous tourist places in north part of Bali which own beautiful of calm sea water, blackish chromatic sand and the sea with its dolphin.

Dolphin is one of the favorite fascinations watching tour in Lovina,” said Sudirga Director Pramana Experience.

Pramana is a fast growing Hospitality Management company based in Bali. Pramana on Veda means develop. In business, Pramana believe to be successed in business, it should keep alert for the changes and trend. Learning from experi-

ence and inpired by seniors and books literate.

Padma Sari Beach Front Resort is one of the resort managed by Pramana Experience located at Lovina beach, on 2,650 square meters beach front resort is a perfect getaway from the hustle and bustle.

“Enjoy the nature’s beauty both sunrise and sunset, the serenity with a comfort and luxury accommodation of a modern resort,” said Wayan Wardika CEO Pramana experience Padma Sari Beach Front Resort features 19 unit of rooms, come with Superior, Deluxe, Super Deluxe and Villa type.

All room equipped with Airconditioning, Flat screen TV, mini bar, coffee tea making facility, hot and cold running shower, standard toiletries and in room amenities for guest

comfort.

Huge pool is facing beautiful north Bali Ocean with coconut tree. Restaurant open daily start from Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner comes with Indonesian and western cuisine. Meeting room with 50 capacities is available for small group who want beach view with free unlimited wifi access around the hotel. Shuttle bus is available to drop and pick up costumer while they are exploring the area.

“The differences of the resort are where tourist possible to escape an amazing, peaceful place with a beautiful beach and infinity pools! A beach vacation at an incredible, Padma Sari Beach Front Resort is sure to be an unforgettable part of your experience in Bali,” Dirga ensure. (kmb)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses.

Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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‘Big Bang Theory’ star Kaley Cuoco is divorcing

LOS ANGELES — “The Big Bang Theory” star Kaley Cuoco (KAY-lee KWOH-koh) is divorcing husband Ryan Sweeting after less than two years of marriage.

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Cuoco’s representative, Melissa Kates, said Saturday that the actress and the tennis pro have “mutually decided to end their marriage.”

The couple tied the knot in a New Year’s Eve ceremony in 2013.

The 29-year-old Cuoco has starred on CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory” since 2007.

Earlier this year she appeared with Kevin Hart and Josh Gad in the film comedy “The Wedding Ringer.” (ap)

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she joked.

“Since Popey-wopey is on his way over here, I want to dedicate this song to him,” she said before launching into a heartfelt version of “La Vie en Rose.”

Also: “The pope is stalking me,” she said, noting she recently performed in New York, where Francis is until Saturday morning. “Either he’s a copycat or he’s secretly in love with me.”

If Madonna needed further evidence the pope is following in her footsteps, it was announced Friday that Francis is releasing a pop-rock album called “Wake Up!” Available for pre-order on iTunes, it will feature excerpts from papal speeches in multiple languages.

Francis premiered the first single — “Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!” — Friday on Rolling Stone’s website.

Madonna, raised Roman Catholic in Michigan, has a long history of run-

ning afoul of the Vatican. Her 1989 video for “Like A Prayer” contained imagery that outraged religious leaders, including stigmata and burning crosses.

Her seminal 1990 “Blond Ambition” tour included simulated masturbation and brought condemnation from the Vatican. And in her 2006 “Confessions” tour, she staged a mock crucifixion only a few miles from the Vatican.

That doesn’t necessarily mean the Vatican has entirely banished the singer.

In December, Italy’s singing nun, Sister Cristina Scuccia, met Francis and presented him with a copy of her first CD, which features a remake of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.”

Scuccia had won the Italian edition of “The Voice” earlier that year. The Italian Bishops’ Conference criticized the song’s appearance on the CD, saying it was a commercial ploy. (ap)

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US still the largest market for Bali’s exports

DENPASAR - Bali’s exports to the United States remained brisk although the world’s largest economy has not recovered as expected. “Competition notably in furniture market is tight, but high creativity of the furniture makers in Bali help attract the buyers in that country,” Mudita, an exporter of furniture said.

In Philadelphia, Madonna gives ‘Popey-wopey’ her blessing PHILADELPHIA — A woman with plenty of experience tangling with the Vatican has given Pope Francis her endorsement during his first U.S. visit.

At her concert Thursday night in Philadelphia, where Francis is scheduled this weekend to make the last stop of his tour, a tongue-in-cheek Madonna dedicated a section of her show to him.

She later announced: “Rules are for fools. That’s why I like the new pope.

He seems very open-minded.”

It was just one of many comments about Francis at a concert that featured lots of religious imagery, including female performers wearing nuns’ habits — and little else — pole dancing on crosses.

“I’ve been excommunicated from the Catholic Church three times. It shows that the Vatican cares deeply,”

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Bali’s handicraft products including furniture products are high in demand in the United State, Mudita said. He add US consumers are regular buyers of handicraft products from Bali.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said exports of handicraft products and other commodities outside oil and gas contributed 23.7 percent or US$68.1 million to the total export earning of Bali in the first seven months of the year.

The Bali office of BPS said other main export commodities from Bali to the United States are fish and shrimp, wooden products, cotton products, etc. Ornaments and jewelry and knitted fabrics are exported mainly to Singapore, and non knitted fabrics are mainly exported to Australia and leather products to Japan. (ant)

Bali’s handicraft products including furniture products are high in demand in the United State.

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Government disseminates circular and prepares regent regulation ANTICIPATING the incident of karmic cleansing from happening again at hotel, the government of Gianyar is now disseminating a circular of the Regent No. 300/2534/ Bid.I/BKPL/2015. Tourism businessmen are required to report the implementation of activities in each tourist accommodation. Similarly,

the ranks of Gianyar Police will make sure the dissolution when the activity is found without any reports.

The Regent Circular No.300/2534/Bid.I/ BKPL/2015 is submitted to the 200 tourism businesses being present in the Main Courtroom of Gianyar, Tuesday (Sep. 22).

The circular with two points affirmed the anticipation of harassment against religion, tradition and culture by the accommodation such as hotels, villas and bungalows located

in Gianyar. Coordination must be made to headman or local police no later than seven days prior the event.

“We do not want there are tourism businesses offering a package by commercializing religion, like the incident at one of the hotels in Ubud area not long ago. To that end, we invite the hoteliers to sit together and synchronize the perception through this circular,” said the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata.

Agung Bharata said that the hotel in Ubud holding the karmic cleansing package (panglukatan ritual) for gay couple has very much tarnished the image of tourism in Gianyar. “Offering tourist package to non-Hindus and without adjustment to time and location is categorized in harassment.

So, religion may not be commercialized because it is a great sin,” he said.

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