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Bullock, Clooney kick off Venice Film Festival Associated Press Writer

VENICE, Italy — Sandra Bullock and George Clooney kick off the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival with “Gravity,” a 3-D techno-drama set in outer space.

Bullock and Clooney play astronauts adrift in space after debris from a destroyed space station takes

out their shuttle in the Alfonso Cuaron film, which opens the festival out of competition on Thursday.

The stars arrived by motorboat convoy Wednesday a day ahead of their red-carpet global premier.

Twenty films are vying for the coveted Golden Lion at the world’s oldest film festival, which closes Sept. 7. The jury is headed by Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci.

Golden Lion contenders in-

NEW YORK — Rebecca Hall is confidently stepping toward center stage. This year, there was her snappy, unapologetic Sylvia in the Tom Stoppard HBO miniseries “Parade’s End,” a revelation of Hall’s dynamism and capacity for boldness. There was her supporting role as a scientist in “Iron Man 3,” an indoctrination to the Hollywood blockbuster. And, now, there’s the British thriller “Closed Circuit,” a confirmation of her ascendance to being a leading lady — one bristling with intelligence in any role.

“I want to play women who are rich and make mistakes and can be messy and ugly as well as pretty,” says Hall. “I think that’s really an important service.

That sounds very grand. I don’t mean it to sound grand.”

It’s been four years since Franz Ferdinand’s last album “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand,” and in that time the band nearly managed to split up, but thankfully they did not.

Instead they’ve recharged their batteries and made a fourth album, “Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action.”

It’s a 10-track experience of clever songwriting, catchy riffs and pure indie punk passion. “Love Illumination” is a standout track with its 1980s flare and unforgettable synth keyboard. “Bullet” shines with crashing guitars and an immense presence that jumps right out at you.

There’s no massive shift in Franz Ferdinand’s direction that most bands suffer in their “hiatus” period, however,

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Actor George Clooney, left, arrives on a boat at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival held from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7 in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013.

In a recent interview over tea at an East Village cafe, Hall is sharp, buoyant, funny and seemingly energized by the work she’s getting. She’s still glowing from the singing lines of Sylvia — a “once in a blue moon” part, she calls it — a shift for her to playing a more extroverted, forceful character: “It was massively liberating,” she says. Above all, she comes across, as she says of herself, as “restless and curious.”

“She’s the real McCoy,” says “Closed Circuit” director John Crowley. “She’s hugely impressive and has massive range. It felt like she would have the intellectual prowess but also the emotionality to handle the part.”

In “Closed Circuit,” Hall plays the Special Advocate appointed to jointly defend a man accused of bombing a crowded London marketplace. She and

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another lawyer (Eric Bana), with whom she has a romantic past, must work the case under confidentiality and in a hearing closed to the public — a cloak of secrecy that masks further injustice in the name of national security.

The film has obvious contemporary relevance, but it also relates personally to Hall. The 31-year-old actress has seen her life made the fodder of British tabloids for her relationship with director Sam Mendes.

“I find it slightly disturbing that privacy means that you’re guilty of something that you have to hide,” Halls says. “That probably stems from the fact that I saw my parents have their privacy invaded on by the press when they were going through their divorce when I was five or whatever. I was very aware of the press always — my dad’s reviews.”

Franz Ferdinand make loud comeback Associated Press Writer

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clude Terry Gilliam’s “The Zero Theorem,” Peter Landesman’s “Parkland” and Kelly Reichardt’s “Night Moves.”

Emboldened, Rebecca Hall moves toward center stage Associated Press Writer

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the influence of guest producers is evident. Todd Terje, Roxanne Clifford (Veronica Falls) and Bjorn Yttling (Peter Bjorn and John) all lend a hand, as well as Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, whose contribution to “Right Action” is remarkable, with its opening beat and mesmerizing flow.

The pace slows down on the electronic ballad “The Universe Expanded,” where Alex Kapranos’ soft vocals shine. “Brief Encounters” is another signature Franz offering with vintage keys and heavy percussion.

The closing track, “Goodbye Lovers and Friends,” could be mistaken for a final bow out with lyrics like: “When they lie and say this is not the end, you can laugh and say we’re still together, but this really is the end.” Thankfully it’s not — we hope.

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A barn that used to be full of cattle now having critical condition because most of cattle dead or sold by member of Simantri Group. Simantri is one of projects that initiated by Bali’s Governor Mangku Pastika during his first period as governor. According to several observers many projects that initiated by Governor Mangku Pastika still poor in the action plan.

Mangku Pastika Performance

The first five years still very weak AP Photo/Domino

This CD cover image released by Domino shows “Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action,” by Franz Ferdinand.

The performance of Bali Governor, Made Mangku Pastika is highly criticized. In the last five years during his leadership, many people consider him failed in many sectors. Not only the increasing number of poor citizen but also the low income people and the damage in Bali’s environment are the achievement of the governor.

“There are no great accomplishments done by the governor so practically the first period of the leadership of the government is failed,” said a social observer Putu Alit Suarsawan on Tuesday, August 27, 2013.

He also stated that the level of the welfare of Balinese people can be seen from the income which is not adequate yet, the high crime number, high number of divorce and garbage is not properly

maintained. This is including the policy that is popular among the society such as the reclamation of Benoa Bay The similar statement also said by the Head of National Democrat Party branch Bali, I.B. Oka Gunastawa and the former member of Bali House of Representative, A.A Widiada. In general, they see the leadership of the governor is very weak. This means that all of the policies given by the governor is only for

the benefit of certain groups.

“We are very sad as Balinese people that often after the end of a term, the former leader is in prison due to the crime he done before,” said Gunastawa. Based on this condition, he thinks that the governor should only give a chance to lead for one term or five years. This is very important because the governor can be replaced if he is doing a crime. (nik)

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Blimbingsari located in Jembrana is a famous village whose population is dominated by Balinese Christian residents, not migrants. More interestingly, they do not leave their Balinese customs and culture. volunteer work at orphanage, trekking, hiking, snorkeling, visiting the Bali Barat National Park and directly mingling with local community.

“On average, the foreign tourists making a visit to the Blimbingsari village are from Australia, Germany, the U.S., the Netherlands, Canada, Africa, Korea, China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia,” he explained.

Since 2005 the Blimbingsari had been managed with a community-based tourism by the Blimbingsari Tourism Committee established by the Blimbingsari Village Authority, GKPB Peniel Blimbingsari and Diaspora Community of Blimbingsari. (kmb27)

Again, 90 seasonal migrants ensnared in inspection Denpasar (Bali Post)—

After the Ubung village made the inspection of population administration, it was then followed by Ben Biyu hamlet, Peguyangan Kaja village. The inspection was led by the Head of the Denpasar Population and Civil Registry Office by involving the public order officer, non-commissioned police officer, non-commission military officer, officials of Peguyangan Kaja village, hamlet chief and chief of local customary village, Monday night (Aug 26).

The ad interim headman of Peguyangan Kaja, I Wayan Suwita, said the activity of population control against sea-

sonal migrants was routinely carried out by each hamlet at Peguyangan Kaja. Similarly, the Ben Biyu hamlet also made a regular control against the seasonal migrants. However, to make data collection of the migrants after the Eid backflow, his party with the joint team carried out the population inspection. Peguyangan Kaja village had a strategic position located not far from the downtown so that it became one of the residences for migrants. To that end, his party would continue to intensify the inspection of population administration so as to get the more accurate data.

Results of the policing at Ben Biyu could ensnare 90 people, where 53 people were from outside Bali and 37 others were from outside Denpasar. From the raid, six residents were found to have no identity card.

The Division Head of Population Mobility, the Denpasar Population and Civil Registry Office, I Nyoman Artayasa, said the enforcement activity was to maintain the security, order and comfort of the city of Denpasar. Besides, it was also intended to detect as early as possible any suspicious things that could disrupt the security and comfort. (kmb12)

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days, Blimbingsari was made one of the tourist attractions.

In 2012, the total tourist arrival reached 2,593 people consisting of 174 foreign tourists and 2,419 domestic tourists. Additionally, for the accommodation the Blimbingsari village had owned 85 homestays with hotel room standards.

“For foreign tourists, Blimbingsari provides 20 rooms comprising 3 suite rooms and 17 deluxe rooms. The domestic tourist arrival is comparable to the number of foreign tourist arrival,” he said.

He explained that tourists making a visit or staying could do various activities such as working at the camp,

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Cultural acculturation in Jembrana becomes a tourist attraction “Although the majority is Christian, Blimbingsari is not different from the other traditional villages. They remain to preserve the Balinese architectural style, traditional costumes, language and even the people’s name still applies the Balinese name,” said Wayan Murtiyasa, an organizer of rural tourism program in Denpasar, Tuesday (Aug 27).

Even though the Blimbingsari residents were Christians, he said, they remained to maintain the original identity of Bali. It included the cultural procession, the arts and Balinese architectural style applied to their church building.

According to him, these

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Water crisis alleviation far from expectation

Provincial govt asked to complete Guyangan project Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Policy of the Bali and Klungkung government in alleviating the water crisis in Klungkung seems still far from expectation.

As in Nusa Penida subdistrict, the policy of clean water procurement by building a clean water project at Guyangan hamlet, Batukandik, has not optimally operated. Since the administration of Governor Made Mangku Pastika until now, the project worth billions of rupiahs remains to have leakage here and there.

The Head of Klungkung Municipality Waterworks (PDAM), Gede Darsana, said on Tuesday (Aug 27) the project was entirely the responsibility of the Bali government. He acknowledged the project had not been functioning optimally even though declared to have completed. Handover from the Bali government to Klungkung government had been made. Darsana said there had been a plan to perform the handover late this year. However, the provincial government confirmed there were some damages on the pipelines. “Some of the pipes are obsolete and rusty as using iron pipes. Currently, they are being replaced with rubber pipes. Thus, it cannot be

ascertained when it can function optimally and will be handed over,” he explained.

Initially, the Guyangan spring was projected to drain clean water for eight villages in Nusa Penida, including the Kutampi, Batu Kandik, Sekartaji, Batu Madeg, Tanglad, Pejukutan, Klumpu and Bunga Mekar. However, seeing the considerable water discharge, Darsana said the water source was expected to cover all the needs of clean water in Nusa Penida. When will the clean water project function maximally?

Darsana confessed not to know for sure because the management of Guyangan clean water project was the authority of the Bali government. Headman of Sekartaji, Wayan Suarta, said on Tuesday the Guyangan project was still unable to function optimally to provide water service for the entire region.

So far, some villages remained not to receive clean water service from the spring. He asked the provincial government to seriously resolve the problem, so when the drought kindling the clean water crisis, the spring could function optimally.

Similar opinion was revealed by the Subdistrict Head of Nusa

Penida, Ketut Sukla. He said the project should be accomplished immediately, so the complaints of local residents would not happen again and again. He added that a number of pipes in the Guyangan water project were still under repair so that it could not function optimally.

Meanwhile, Gede Darsana added the water services in Nusa Penida subdistrict by the Klungkung Municipal Waterworks just reached 18 percent.

The Waterworks had just owned a raw water source in Nusa Penida that was only capable of producing 11 liters per second of the raw water potential amounting to 179 liters per second at the local source. From the raw water source, the Waterworks could serve some villages like the Sakti, Ped, Toya Pakeh, Kutampi Kaler, Batu Nunggul and Suana. As for the water needs of the Lembongan and Ceningan Island, he said his party attempted to process the brackish water into fresh water by making shallow well at Ceningan. “Prior to the execution, a survey will be made by central government.As planned, the Klungkung government will be assisted as much as IDR 7 billion for this project,” he said. (kmb31)

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

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

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Tramway planned for Machu Picchu’s ‘sister city’ Associated Press Writer

LIMA, Peru — The ruined city known as the “cradle of gold” was once a mountaintop refuge of Incan royalty, with elegant halls and plazas much like those of fabled Macchu Picchu just 30 miles (50 kilometers away). Yet only a handful of tourists visit each day, those willing to make a two-day hike to reach its majestic solitude.

That is about to change: The national government has approved what will be Peru’s first aerial tramway. Bridging the deep canyon of the Apurimac River, it will make Choquequirao reachable in just 15 minutes from the nearest highway.

The 3-mile (5-kilometer) long cable car is designed to whiz 400 people an hour in each direction a half mile (nearly a kilometer) above the river. The president of the Apurimac state government, Elias Segovia, anticipates the $45 million tramway will bring about 3,000 tourists a day after it opens in late 2015.

“This is going to generate tourist services. It will generate great investment” in hotels, restaurants and other amenities, he says.

The idea is to shift some of the tourist burden from Machu Picchu, where authorities have a limit of 2,500 daily visitors and where reservations are now

required for people who wish to hike the famed Inca Trail to the ruins.

Currently, most visitors to Choquequirao must fly to Cuzco, the former Inca imperial capital, and then drive four hours on mountain roads prone to landslides and flooding. Then it’s another 12 to 16 hours on foot.

It’s little wonder Choquequirao (CHO-kay-keer-ow) gets only about five visitors a day.

“When we went there it was the two of us and the two rangers,” said Jeff Widman, a 27-year-old Internet entrepreneur from Menlo Park, California, who trekked there with his wife, and continued on to Machu Picchu.

Choquequirao, which means “cradle of gold” in Quechua, is believed to be the last refuge of Incan rulers who fled Cuzco after its leader Manco Inca was defeated by Spanish conquistadors. It is draped over the fold of a lesser mountain in the shadow

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Drought

Hundreds of hectares of paddy field haunted by harvest failure Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Since it has not rained, farmers in Klungkung are restless. Of course, hundreds of hectares of paddy plant of a month old are at risk of facing harvest failure due to difficulties in obtaining irrigation water. As happened to Subak Cau, Gelgel village, the newly grown paddy plants are threatened of experiencing damage due to lack of water.

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FILE - This Oct. 1, 2003 file photo shows the Choquequirao ruins in Cusco, Peru. Choquequirao, which means “cradle of gold” in Quechua, is believed to be the last refuge of Incan rulers who fled Cuzco after its leader Manco Inca was defeated by Spanish conquistadors. of Salcantay peak, surrounded at 9,950 feet (3030 meters) by steep precipices. Its buildings and irrigation canals meticulously hewn

into rock are as well-preserved as those of Machu Picchu, its “top-of-the-world” views equally spectacular.

Only about 30 percent of Choquequirao has been cleared for tourism. The rest, for now, remains covered in vegetation.

US: Virus likely causing dolphin deaths Associated Press Writer

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Officials examine a dead bottlenose dolphin that washed ashore on the Long Island, New York shoreline in this August 9, 2013 file handout photo courtesy of The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.

NORFOLK, Virginia — Federal officials identified a virus Tuesday as the likely reason hundreds of bottlenose dolphins died along the East Coast, but they say there’s little they can do to stop the deaths.

More than 330 dolphins have been stranded between New York and North Carolina since July 1, with nearly all of them dead by the time they wash up on shore, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

That’s more than nine times the historical average for dolphin strandings in the region during July and August. “Along the Atlantic seaboard, this is extraordinary,” Teri Rowles, NOAA Fisheries Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program coordinator, said in a conference call with reporters.

Earlier this month, NOAA declared an unusual mortality event so it could provide additional resources to study what was behind the rapid increase in deaths — more than half of which have occurred in Virginia. At the time, they suspected the cetacean

morbillivirus was causing the deaths, just as it did during the last major dolphin die-off.

In 1987 and 1988, the virus was blamed for causing 740 dolphin deaths between New Jersey and Florida.

Although research will continue, NOAA said it has collected enough evidence to declare the virus as the “tentative cause” in the most recent string of deaths as well.

Morbillivirus is found in a broad range of mammals, and dolphins with it typically experience symptoms such as skin lesions, brain infections and pneumonia. The virus is usually spread through inhalation of respiratory particles or direct contact between animals, although officials said there’s no risk of humans catching it. Bottlenose dolphins are typically found in groups of two to 15.

Officials at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center said many of the dolphins washing up on the state’s beaches are badly decomposed. State and federal officials say there are untold numbers of other dolphins that have also died and haven’t washed ashore, likely making the total death count much higher.

A plot of paddy field indicated if the land has cracked due to lack of water. Actually the paddy plants of such age should not lack of water.

A local farmer, Ketut Lacur, said on Tuesday (Aug 27) the water discharge flowing to his paddy field had decreased since last month.

Ultimately, local farmers decided to use the irrigation water in turns.

Apparently, such method could not irrigate all the rice field areas optimally because the water discharge was getting smaller and difficult to get to the farmland.

“When it’s time to get water and the paddy plants do not get it, they will die. Moreover, they are still at the beginning stage of growth.

Now, the land has cracked. If they cannot get water within this week, all the paddy plants of farmers can die,” he said while adding that 85 percent of local residents worked as

farmer and faced the same problem.

If the paddy field had cracked he recognized that it would be difficult to cultivate the land. Similar opinion was also revealed by Wayan Darma, a community leader at the local subak. Such condition would result in huge losses to farmers.

To overcome the problem, local farmers had prepared new variety requiring not too much water.

Later, when the irrigation water had run normally to the paddy fields, farmers could replace the dead paddy plants. They did it because they believed it would be raining in the near future and they would not suffer a total loss due to harvest failure afflicting hundreds of hectares of paddy field.

Diminishing water discharge did not only have an impact on hundreds of hectares of paddy plants, but also harmed the other

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Hundreds of hectare paddy field facing drought problem that can cause harvest failure. crops such as corn, chili and garden balsam. Local farmers hoped that such condition could be resolved soon. In other words, it was required concrete measures

in the future to seek other sources of water for the irrigation. Thus, farmers would not just rely on the rainwater to do the farming. The future of agriculture would be at

risk if farmers should face the difficulty to get irrigation water each year. In addition, the farmland conversion was increasingly unstoppable. (kmb31)

Marine debris pollutes Gelgel Beach Bali Post

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Gelgel Beach was facing big problem of garbage. Almost every corner of this beach covering with plastic garbage.

SEMARAPURA - Bad habit of Klungkung residents to dispose waste into the river seems to have not changed.

It is indicated by the domestic waste polluting the Gelgel Beach along approximately one kilometer, precisely between the Tapang Kembar Temple and Batu Tumpeng Temple. More severely, the condition has been going on for months without clear handling.

A local resident, Wayan Sumiati, said on Tuesday (Aug 27) the waste polluting the local beach originated from residents in upstream area of the river that disposed waste into the river every day. The river channel emptying into the local sea caused the waste dumped into the river to flow into the sea. At the end, the waste flung back to the shore along the Gelgel Beach.

In the long run, the piles of waste on the local beach accumulated. Virtually every day the waste of people flowed into the sea. Moreover, local residents, said Sumiati, did not carry out regular beach cleanups. Such condition was exacerbated by heavy rains as occurred lately in Klungkung where tidal waves carried back the marine debris to the coast. “After

it rained heavily and the tide went up, the waves flung the marine debris originating from some streams,” she said.

This condition had also been complained by a number of tourists that usually frequented the beach. Normally, the beach drew the attention of tourists for surfing because the waves on Gelgel Beach were quite challenging and appropriate for learning to surf.

Another resident, Nyoman Sudiarti, also complained about similar condition.

The amount of waste polluting the local beach every day was getting more and more. She also admitted to often receive complaints from local tour guides escorting tourists to the beach every day. “In the upstream area, the residents remain to have a habit of disposing waste into the river.

As consequence, the waste polluting the beach increases through the days,” said this resident from Jumpai.

Sumiati and Sudiarti hoped the residents in Klungkung could gradually reduce their habit of littering into the river. Otherwise, the piles of waste on the beach would increasingly pollute the beaches and generate bad impression in the eyes of tourists. (kmb31)

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with license plate DK 762 DS. Arriving at the Sukawati Art Market, exactly in front of the dust bin of Sukawati Art Market, Dewi Lestari and Aunt Lis disposed two boxes of trash and a suitcase and then parked her car in the north of the police post to go shopping.

Around 10:00 a.m. the entourage left the Sukawati Art Market and heading for the rented house at Jeleke hamlet.

Previously, the residents around the area of Sukawati Art Market were made rowdy by the presence of no-man’s suitcase. The finding by one of the traders was then reported to the staff of the market management and then to police station. Afterward, the finding was forwarded to the Bomb Squad of Bali Police for examination. From the result of examination, it was decided to bring the suitcase to the headquarters of the Sukawati Police.

When opened, the suitcase was known to contain a cellular phone with inactive card. (kmb16)

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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera meet in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.

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The bomb squad carried the misterious suitcase from SUkawati Art Market in Gianyar, a few days ago.

Taman Nusa

A Tourist Attraction Presenting History of Indonesia in Bali

A Tourist Attraction Presenting History of Indonesia in BaliGianyar County has now had a newly established tourist attraction.

Known as Taman Nusa, it offers captivating scenery. It is surrounded by cliffs and lush tropical forest with the views of sea, mountains and the overlay of terraced rice fields. Meanwhile, its entrance gates are unique that will take visitors into the atmosphere of ancient time deeply exuding traditional culture and civilization.

It is located on Jalan Taman Bali, Blahpane Klod hamlet, Sidan village, about 25 km east of Denpasar. This tourist attraction offers a panorama of tropical nature of the Indonesia graced with cultural tourism, customs, traditional houses and museums to the art crafts of Indonesian society in the present and past time.

President Director of the Taman Nusa, Santoso Senangsyah, said the idea of the alternative tourist attraction in Bali originated from

his concerns about the condition of the Indonesian culture that was increasingly marginalized today.

It was less enthused by younger generation and impressed that no one cared. “Departing from the phenomenon, it then appears the idea to establish a center for cultural preservation of the nation,” he said.

The tourist attraction performing its soft opening earlier this year was built as a cultural tourism park of Indonesia doubling as the

presentation of Bali for Indonesia and the world. “We hope, the Taman Nusa can serve as a means of tourist attraction, education, conservation and research on the Indonesian culture,” he hoped. Through the Taman Nusa, explained Santosa, his party wanted to feature the existence of cultural heritage to the world community. Visitors were invited to explore the panorama of the time passage of Indonesia from the ancient time to the pre-history, the kingdom era of the archipelago,

cultural village, until Indonesia attained its independence.

Replica of the Borobudur temple was one of the objects on the panorama of the Indonesian kingdom featured in the park. The temple becoming one of 8 regional Indonesia’s panoramas was a monumental work of the nation and one of the world’s seven wonders. There was also a replica of the statue of Gajah Mada figure known for the Palapa Oath in uniting the whole kingdoms in this archipelago.

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The waterboom project which is compalined by the locals in the area.

The water boom development project at Sidembunut village, Bangli, was complained by a number of farmers. Even, four chiefs of local subak have questioned about the clarity of the project. They worry if the water boom development project in the region will threaten the availability of their irrigation water.

Chief of Subak Tegallalang, Sang Ketut Rencana, complained about the matter on Tuesday (Aug 27). So far, the water boom development project had not been notified to the chief of subak. “We are not notified yet about the project. As Chief of Subak Tegallalang, we are very disappointed to this condition. It performs the development silently without notification,” said

Rencana.

Aside from him, three other chiefs of subak also questioned about the construction of the project including the Chief of Subak Munggu Wayan Sumidra, Chief of Subak Anyar Nengah Sutaba, and Chief of Subak Palak Nengah Wirta. According to him, as chief of subak they were never invited to discuss about the water boom cited to belong to a political party leader in the Bangli legislative.

They worried the presence of the water attraction would interfere with the irrigation of local subak.

Today, they still lacked of water to irrigate their rice fields. “Honestly, our farmers are very short of water,” said Rencana. Other than the matter of water availability, his party also questioned about the waste disposal that would be produced each day by

the water attraction.

Related to that matter, Rencana confessed to have traced about the presence of the water boom project to local hamlet chief. As a result, the hamlet chief told him if his party only got a notification.

“I have confidence the project has not had a permit. Just imagine that farmers and some adjacent residents still question about the water boom project. Why can it be developed?” complained Ketut Rencana.

He said the water boom project had also disconnected the irrigation channel at one of the rice fields.

Overall, the region had 200 subak members and should pay membership fee to get the water subscription. The development project was estimated to have an impact on the irrigation channel for 800 farmers in the region. (ina)

US ready to launch Syria strike, says Chuck Hagel American forces are “ready” to launch strikes on Syria if President Barack Obama chooses to order an attack, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says. “We have moved assets in place to be able to fulfil and comply with whatever option the president wishes to take,” Mr Hagel told the BBC. The White House said the US would release intelligence on last week’s suspected attack in the next few days. The UK Parliament is to be recalled on Thursday to discuss possible responses.

Prime Minister David Cameron said the world could “not stand idly by” after seeing “appalling scenes of death and suffering” caused by suspected chemical weapons attacks.

A good number of Syrians, in particular those supporting the regime, believe the visit of the UN chemical weapons investigation team is nothing but a move to justify a military attack on Syria. The opposition, however, thinks that these visits will lead to some evidence being unearthed, proving that chemical

weapons have been used against civilians by the Syrian regime.

Above all, fear and discomfort are palpable among those living in the capital. People are haunted by the possibility of a Western military strike on Syria, discussion of which is dominating the headlines of satellite channels. “I don’t want Syria to become another Iraq...

Enough bloodshed,” cried one Syrian woman.

“We, and thousands like us across Syria, will face any country that tries to attack us,” threatened a young man, pointing at his weapon, which he uses to protect his neighbourhood. “These are Syria’s problems and it is up to us, Syrians, to solve them.”

The crisis follows last Wednesday’s suspected chemical attack near the Syrian capital, Damascus, which reportedly killed more than 300 people. US Vice President Joe Biden said there was “no doubt who was responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: The Syrian regime”.

In a speech to a veterans’ group in Houston, Mr Biden said that “those who use chemical weapons against defenceless men, women, and children... must be held accountable”. French President Francois Hollande said France was “ready to punish” whoever was behind the attack, and had decided to increase military support for Syria’s main opposition.

BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says the US, UK and France will now have the larger task of building as wide a coalition as possible to support limited military action.

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Attacks kill at least 65 in Iraq, many more hurt

Associated Press Writer

After investigating for two days, police authority finally found the owner of a mysterious suitcase having made residents restless in the Sukawati Art Market. The suitcase containing a mobile phone was alleged to contain a bomb. It belonged to Siti Maryam Rachman alias Putu, 38, from Karangasem but lived in Lombok.

Chief of Criminal Detective of Gianyar Police, Nengah Sadiarta, with permission from the Gianyar Police Chief, said that based on the result of investigation with the help of cyber police team was known if the suitcase belonged to Maryam living at Jalan Kesra Raya 15 Perumnas Mataram, West Lombok, NTB. In Bali, she temporary lived at Jeleke hamlet, Batuan village, Sukawati. According to the owner, the suitcase would be disposed.

The woman marrying to a foreigner just arrived in Bali after traveling from the U.S. - Hong Kong. On August 16, around 3:00 p.m., they arrived at the Ngurah Rai Airport.

Furthermore, they lived in a rented house owned by Wayan Lama at Jeleke hamlet, Batuan.

Then, on Sunday (Aug 25) around 09:30 a.m., the owner along with 5 (five) companions, consisting of Dewi Lestari, Riko, Lala, Aunt Lis and Ita went to Sukawati Art Market by driving a black Toyota Avanza

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BAGHDAD - A coordinated wave of bombings tore through Shiite Muslim areas in and around the Iraqi capital early Wednesday, part of a wave of bloodshed that killed at least 65 people and wounded many more, officials said. The blasts, which came in quick succession, mainly targeted residents out shopping and on their way to work.

In addition to the bombings, the death toll included seven Shiite family members killed when gunmen raided their home and shot them as they slept.

The attacks are the latest in a relentless wave of killing that has left thousands dead since April, marking the country’s worst spate of bloodshed since 2008. They raise fears that Iraq is hurtling back toward the brink of a civil war fueled by ethnic and sectarian differences.

Insurgents deployed explosives-laden cars, suicide bombers and other bombs Wednesday and targeted parking lots, outdoor markets and restaurants in predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, according to officials. A military convoy was also hit south of the capital.

The northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah, home to a prominent, gold-domed Shiite shrine, was the worst hit. Two bombs went off in a parking lot, followed by a suicide car bomber who struck onlookers who had gathered at the scene.

Police said 10 people were killed and 27 wounded in that attack.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the day’s attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida. The group frequently targets Shiites, which it considers heretics, and employs coordinated bombings in an attempt to incite sectarian strife.

The Shiite family shot dead at home were found in the largely Sunni town of Latifiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad. Three children, ages eight to 12, were killed along with their parents and two uncles in that attack, according to police.

Authorities said they had previously fled the town after being threatened, and returned only three weeks ago.

Many of the day’s blasts targeted morning shoppers. Among them was a parked car bomb that detonated in a commercial area in the northern Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, killing nine and wounding 15.

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A man walks near the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s Hurriya District, August 28, 2013.

Son of Chinese general faces rape trial; raises anger over top families

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BEIJING - The teenage son of a prominent Chinese general goes on trial on Wednesday suspected of involvement in a gang rape in a case that has inflamed public anger at the offspring of the political elite who are widely seen as spoilt and reckless.

Li Tianyi, 17, is among five men accused of sexually assaulting a

woman in a Beijing hotel in February, according to state media. His father is General Li Shuangjiang of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), who is a singer known for performing patriotic songs on television shows and at official events.

Li’s mother, Meng Ge, is a famous singer in the PLA. It is not the teenager’s first brush with the law. In 2011, he drove a BMW into another car in Beijing, beat up the

couple inside the vehicle and then scoffed at bystanders about calling the police.

He was sentenced to a year in a juvenile correctional facility and his father made a public apology.

The latest case has dominated headlines for weeks, focusing attention again on China’s political aristocrats who are widely viewed as corrupt and above the law. It follows the dramatic trial of ousted

former senior politician Bo Xilai, whose family’s lurid excesses were detailed by the court and lapped up on social media.

Li has become the most prominent target of complaints that the sons and daughters of China’s topranked Communist Party officials can dodge the law because of family influence.

“The general public is worried that his family, because of their

relationships and power, will be able to use their connections,” said Zhang Ming, a politics professor at Renmin University.

“In China, this kind of privilege is very powerful. It’s omnipresent,” Zhang said. “The people’s fears are not groundless.”

In July, hackers attacked the website of one of the law firms representing Li, saying: “We just want to return justice to the client.”

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China to hold economic reform meeting in November

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BEIJING - China’s leaders will gather in November for a key meeting on economic reforms, state media said Wednesday, the third time they will have met since a generational handover of power last year.

The Third Plenum of the ruling Communist Party’s 200-member Central Committee could focus on reforming finance and taxation among other areas, the state-run Global Times newspaper said. “As a result, analysts expect that economic reforms will speed up,” it added.

China’s new leadership under President Xi Jinping has repeatedly said the world’s second-biggest economy needs to refocus its growth model away from exports and infrastructure investment and towards consumer demand.

But few specific changes have been announced.

The November meeting will receive a report by the 25-member Politburo, the party’s second-highest body, focusing on “comprehensive and deepened reform”, the Global Times said, indirectly quoting a Politburo statement.

According to a separate report in the

China Daily newspaper, the statement said the meeting “will help resolve outstanding conflicts and challenges China faces in the course of its development, and will be conducive to achieving sustainable and healthy economic and social development.”

“Reform and opening-up should be continuous and never stop,” it added.

“Standing still or going backward will lead to a dead end.”

The meeting -- officially called the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee -- will be held after the country recorded its weakest annual economic growth for 13 years.

China’s growth slowed sharply to 7.8 percent last year from 9.3 percent in 2011 on weakness in the domestic and global economies.

The government is targeting 2013 growth of 7.5 percent.

Accor hotels cautious about outlook, shares fall

Agence France-Presse

PARIS - Hotel chain Accor switched back into profit in the first half of the year but was cautious about the outlook on Wednesday, and its shares fell 3.59 percent.

The group, the sixth-biggest hotel chain in the world and which has just shaken up its board with a new chief executive, reported a net profit of 34 million euros ($45.5 million) from a loss of 532 million euros at the same time last year.

That loss reflected in part the effects of an asset sale.

But in the first six months of the year, operating profit fell by 6.6 percent to 198 million euros from 212 million euros in the same period last year.

Sales by the group, the biggest operator of hotels in Europe, fell by 0.9 percent to 2.694 billion euros, but on the basis of a com-

parable asset base and constant exchange rates, they rose by 1.8 percent.

The price of shares in the company fell by 3.59 percent in initial trading to 27.76 euros. The overall French market as measured by the CAC 40 index was showing a gain of 0.18 percent.

The group said that the fall in operating profit reflected mainly the cost of investment in line with a four-year plan costing 120 million euros.

Finance director Sophie Stabile said that activity was firm and that the group was holding to its targets for 2016.

The group said that for this year it expected an operating profit of 510-530 million euros from 526 million for 2012.

At brokers Aurel BGC, analyst Tangi Le Liboux commented that the group had been somewhat brief in its explanations for the outlook for operating profit for the year.

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Bali Island has one of the beautiful and elegant birds, namely Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi). Unfortunately, twitter of the bird is now rarely audible in the wild life because it is continuously hunted to be traded.

About five years ago, the price of Bali starling was touted to reach IDR 50 million per pair. Later on, the price of such mediumsized warbler with a length of approximately 25 centimeters started to decline. Although declining, the price is still ranging from IDR 17 million to IDR 20 million per pair. With such high price, the Bali starling continues to be hunted by people.

Bali starling is a beautiful bird. Because of its beauty, the bird has become a sort of mascot for the Island of Bali and has been named the faunal symbol of Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Natural Resources Conservation of Buleleng, Gede Wenten, said that population of Bali starling was mostly located in the West Bali National Park (TNBB). But now, the existence of the very rare bird was extinct and virtually disappeared. Bali starling could only be found in breeding area such as at Tegal Bunder, TNBB. In addition, many people around the TNBB also bred it independently.

Wenten said that population of Bali starling at breeding location at Tegal Bunder amounted to some 35 pairs. Meanwhile, the Bali starling bred by people came to some 30 pairs. “Approximately 12 residents at Sumberklampok near the TNBB are breeding the birds,” said Wenten.

He added that his party continued to supervise the commercial breeding carried out by residents. The surveillance was made in order the bird would not be traded beyond the rules. It was also executed so that the bird would not be abandoned. “If they are found to abandon the bird, we will impose strict sanction,” he said. According to Wenten, the residents who did the breeding of Bali starling were allowed to sell the birds to others. However, the bird sold should be of the second filial of the parent or its grandchild. “Its mother cannot be sold. It is only allowed to sell the second filial or its grandchild,” he said.

Wenten confirmed the bird price was indeed expensive so that it was always sought after by bird collectors. Formerly, it was sold for IDR 50 million per pair. But now the price had started to fall to IDR 20 million. This happened because many people had bred the birds so that the amount of birds on sale turned a lot.

“This is a normal case, if the number is scarce, the price is more expensive. But if many people have owned it, the price is going cheaper,” he said. (kmb)

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A man making a soybean tofu. The state-owned Board of Logistics (Bulog) is expected to immediately take control of soybean trade and put an end to instability in the market of the food commodity.

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DENPASAR - The state-owned Board of Logistics (Bulog) is expected to immediately take control of soybean trade and put an end to instability in the market of the food commodity.

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Traders gather at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. US consumers grew slightly more confident in August as they viewed economic conditions and job prospects improving in the future, the Conference Board said Tuesday.

US consumer confidence ticks higher

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US consumers grew slightly more confident in August as they viewed economic conditions and job prospects improving in the future, the Conference Board said Tuesday.

The consumer confidence index rose to 81.5 last month, up from 81.0 in July but still below the five year high of 82.1 reached in June.

The improvement in confidence, a partial predictor of consumer spending that drives the economy, surprised analysts, who generally had forecast the index would drop to 77.0.

But the overall stronger sentiment number was entirely due to expectations for conditions six months ahead; the reading jumped to 88.7 from 86.0 in July.

Consumers’ views of current conditions deteriorated to 70.7 from 73.6 last month.

“Consumers were moderately more upbeat about business, job and earning prospects,” Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board.

Franco noted income expectations, which had fallen after the January payroll tax hike, rebounded to their highest level in two and a half years.

Higher incomes could boost consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of US economic activity.

“This report is consistent with our expectation that consumer confidence will continue to grind higher as labor and housing markets continue to improve,” said Cooper Howes of Barclays.

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The price of soybean has surged lately triggering a repeat of public uproar when producers of soybean tofu and fermented soybean cake known as tempe in the country agree to suspend production in protest of the price hike and scarcity of supply of soybean several months earlier.

“The government has not learned from experience or they are not serious enough to address the problem faced by small entrepreneurs,” a tempe producer said.

Soybean cake and tofu are popular food products in the country produced by small and cottage industries.

The government has repeatedly rolled over the deadline when the country is to be self sufficient in soybean, and programs have been announced to expand soybean plantations, but in the end they acknowledge failure, citing a number of reasons.

Fearing that the soybean issue could make a big headline again the government with a presidential instruction allowed Bulog to regain its control of soybean trade to guarantee supply and price stability.

“Action should be taken to follow up the presidential instruction to prevent the price of soybean from climbing higher now reaching Rp9,200 from normally Rp7,200 per kilogram,” Sutrisno, chairman of the Bali branch of the Indonesian Association of Soybean Cake and Tofu Producers (KOPTI) said here on Wednesday.

Sutrisno said he had reached an agreement with the Bali branch of Bulog to work together in the procurement of soybeans for local soybean cake and tofu producers.

“Bulog has not been able to work immediately on the presidential instruction as it is still

waiting for the necessary licenses from the industry and trade ministries,” he said.

He said with Bulog in charge, soybean procurement would be better guaranteed and stocks would be easier to be controlled and set to forestall the market.

Currently general importers are free to imports soybean after the government stripped Bulog of its monopoly right in trade of essential commodities including soybean.

Now the price is left to be dictated by the market, entirely depending on supply and demand.

Sutrisno said Bali relies on imports for 85 percent of its soybean requirement with local producers accounting for only 15 percent.

Head of the Bali office of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Gde Suarsa has said Bali’s soybean production fell 293 tons or 3.45 percent in 2012 from the previous year.

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India building collapses kill 8, trap dozen more Associated Press Writer

VADODARA, India - Two adjacent apartment buildings collapsed early Wednesday in western India, killing at least eight people, police said.

Rescuers were working to pull out at least a dozen people trapped in the debris after the three-story buildings fell in the city of Vadodara in Gujarat state, police officer Bhanu Pratap Parmar said. At least four people were injured and were in hospitals, rescue workers said.

Most of the occupants of the 14 apartments in the first building were sleeping when it collapsed. The adjacent building was evacuated minutes before it fell, police said.

The two buildings were part of 33 housing blocks constructed by the Gujarat government more than a decade ago to house the poor.

Building collapses are common in India as builders try to cut corners by using substandard materials, and as multistory structures are often built with inadequate super

Child gold miners ‘risking lives’ in Tanzania

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In this Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 photo, fisherman Fumio Suzuki stands on his boat Ebisu Maru before the start of fishing in the waters off Iwaki, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Japan.

Fukushima crisis new blow to fishermen’s hopes

Associated Press Writer

YOTSUKURA, Japan - Fumio Suzuki, a third-generation fisherman, sets out into the Pacific Ocean every seven weeks. Not to catch fish that he can sell but to catch fish that can be tested for radiation.

For the last 2 ½ years, fishermen from the port of Yotsukura near the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant have been mostly stuck on land with little to do. There is no commercial fishing along most of the Fukushima coast. In a nation highly sensitive to food safety, there is no market for the fish caught near the stricken plant because the meltdowns it suffered contaminated the ocean water and marine life with radiation.

A sliver of hope emerged after recent sampling results showed a decline in radioactivity in some fish species. But a new crisis spawned by fresh leaks of radioactive water from the Fukushima plant last week may have dashed those prospects.

Fishermen like 47-year-old Suzuki now wonder whether they ever will be able to resume fishing, a mainstay for many small rural communities like Yotsukura, 45 kilometers (30 miles) south of the Fukushima plant. His son has already moved on, looking for work in construction.

“The operators (of the plant) are

reacting too late every time in whatever they do,” said Suzuki, who works with his 79-year-old father Choji after inheriting the family business from him.

“We say, ‘Don’t spill contaminated water,’ and they spilled contaminated water. They are always a step behind so that is why we can’t trust them,” Suzuki said, as his trawler, the Ebisu Maru, traveled before dawn to a point about 45 kilometers (30 miles) offshore from the Fukushima plant to bring back a test catch.

With his father at the wheel, Suzuki dropped the heavy nets out the back of the boat, as the black of night faded to a sapphire sky, tinged orange at the horizon.

As the sun rose over a glassy sea, father and son hauled in the heavily laden nets and then set to the hard work of sorting the fish: sardines, starfish, sole, sea bream, sand sharks, tossing them into yellow and blue plastic baskets as sea gulls screamed and swooped overhead.

Five hours later, the Ebisu Maru

docked at Yotsukura where waiting fishermen dumped the samples into coolers and rushed them to a nearby laboratory to be gutted and tested.

Suzuki says his fisheries co-operative will decide sometime soon whether to persist in gathering samples.

For now they will have to survive on compensation from the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant’s operator. The cooperative also had plans to start larger-scale test catches next month that would potentially also be for consumption if radiation levels were deemed safe.

But those plans were put on hold after more bad news last week: authorities discovered that a massive amount of partially treated, radioactive water was leaking from tanks at Fukushima, the fifth and so far the worst, breach.

The water, stored in 1,000 tanks, is pumped into three damaged reactors to keep their melted fuel cool. Much of the water leaked into the ground but some may have escaped into the sea through a rain-water gutter.

Thousands of child labourers as young as eight are mining gold in grim conditions in Tanzania, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in a report criticising conditions in the key industry.

While boys “dig and drill in deep, unstable pits” in informal mines, working underground for shifts as long as 24 hours, girls around the smallscale mines face sexual harassment and pressure to become prostitutes, the US-based rights group warned.

Tanzania is Africa’s fourth largest gold producer, and the precious metal is the top foreign exchange earner for the country, with exports topping $1.8 billion in the first six months of 2013, according to the central bank.

Small-scale mines extracted 1.6 tonnes of gold in 2012 worth some $85 million (64 million euros), with the bulk exported to the United Arab Emirates, as well as to Britain, China, South Africa and Switzerland.

“Thousands of children work in licenced and unlicenced small-scale gold mines in Tanzania,” HRW’s report read, based on visits to 11 sites across the east African nation.

Many of the children are at risk of being poisoned by the dangerous mercury used to extract gold from raw

ore, HRW said. “The employment of children in dangerous mining work is one of the worst forms of child labour under international agreements, to which Tanzania is a party,” it added.

HRW called on the government, donor nations and producers to curb the practice, arguing that while Tanzania has strong anti-child labour laws the authorities have “done far too little to enforce them”.

As Tanzania’s mining industry grows, HRW stressed the importance ot ensuring that production respects basic human rights. It noted that a $5.0 million World Bank project supporting the mining sector does not directly address the problem of child labour.

The United Nations Environment Programme last year estimated that between 500,00 and 1.5 million Tanzanians are employed in the informal gold mining sector.

“Tanzanian boys and girls are lured to the gold mines in the hopes of a better life, but find themselves stuck in a dead-end cycle of danger and despair,” said HRW children’s expect Janine Morna.

“Labour inspectors need to visit both licenced and unlicenced mines regularly, and ensure employers face sanctions for using child labour.”

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Thousands of child labourers as young as eight are mining gold in grim conditions in Tanzania, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in a report criticising conditions in the key industry.

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INDONESIA Antigraft commission question CEO, Commissioner Kernel Oil Antara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned the CEO of Kernel Oil Indonesia Fincenlia Andika and the company’s commissioner Ari Kusbiantoro.

Both are questioned in relation to an alleged graft case involving former Chief of Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory (SKK Migas) Rudi Rubiandini.

On August 14, the KPK named Rudi Rubiandini as a suspect in a graft case after the latter was caught red handed for receiving money from a commissioner of PT Kernel Indonesia Simon Tanjaya via Rudi’s golf coach Deviardi the night before.

During the August 13’s raid, KPK confiscated bundles of money, includ-

ing US$200,000 from the office of the secretary general of the energy and mineral resources ministry, and US$400,000.

More money was confiscated later

by KPK, including US$350,000 in a saving box at Bank Mandiri owned

by Rudi and 180 grams of gold from a saving at Rudi`s office room and US$200,000 in the house of Ardi.

A big motorbike handed over by Ardi to Rudi the night they were caught red handed was also confiscated by KPK.

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refineries each with a capacity of producing 300,00 barrels of oil per day and it has cooperated with KPC and Saudi Aramco for it.

The KPC has so far asked for an incentive but the finance ministry has rejected the request because it is considered too much.

KPC plans to build a new refinery in Balongan while Saudi Aramco in Tuban, East Java.

The Balongan refinery is expected to produce 9.6 million kiloliters of fuel oil while the refinery in Tuban 8.29 million kiloliters.

Besides the two new refineries the government also plans to build refineries that would be financed using the national budget.

Right now, Pertamina has six refineries that process 1.031 million barrels of crude a day.

The six refineries are located in Dumai, Riau, Sumatra with a production capacity of 170,000 barrels a day, in Plaju, South Sumatra with a capacity of 118,000 barrels a day, in Cilacap, Central Java with a capacity of 348,000 barrels a day, in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, 260,000 barrels a day, in Balongan, West Java, with a capacity of 260,000 barrels a day and in Kasim, West Papua, with a capacity of 10,000 barrels a day.

The refineries altogether produce 40.6 million kiloliters of fuel oils per day.

Pertamina to offer two refinery projects for bidding

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s stateowned oil and gas company PT Pertamina plans to offer two refinery construction projects for international bidding, said president director Karen Agustiawan on Wednesday.

She said through the open tender, she hopes to get the lowest fiscal incentive request.

“Any party could participate in the tender, including investors from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,” she said.

She added that although the project would be offered for bidding cooperation for refinery construction with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Saudi Aramco Asia Company Ltd. would remain.

“It is not cancelled. But, later if the tender is opened, they may participate. It is not6 limited,” she said.

Karen said the last refinery Pertamina built and operated in 1994 is located in Balongan, Indramayu, West Java.

So far the old refineries have been processing sweet crude while most of crude now are sour crude which has high sulfur content and “therefore we have been beaten in competition against foreign refineries,” she said.

She hoped the development of new refineries would increase competitiveness.

Pertamina plans to build two new

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Motorists ride through haze from brush fires in Pekanbaru, Riau province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Smoke from fires set by slash-and-burn farmers has blanketed parts of Riau province in western Indonesia, affecting flights to and from the province.

Tiger, lions die at zoo after being poisoned

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JAKARTA - A critically endangered Sumatran tiger and two African lions have died at a zoo in western Indonesia after being poisoned, an official said Tuesday.

The eight-year-old male tiger, named Peter by zookeepers, was found paralysed earlier this month at the Taman Rimbo zoo in Jambi province, after eating poisoned meat.

He died a week later.

The African lions -- a species classified as vulnerable -also died around the same time, said Nurazman, an official from a government agency tasked with protecting wildlife and the environment.

A two-year-old female Sumatran tiger, the offspring of the tiger who died, also ate the tainted meat but survived, said Nurazman, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

“An autopsy result showed that the animals had been poisoned,” he said, adding the meat had been laced with

a chemical normally used to put down stray dogs with rabies.

That type of poison was stored at the zoo on Sumatra island but was not available on the open market, he said.

The agency had questioned five people, including a zookeeper, security guard and meat supplier, although it was not yet clear who was responsible, he said.

The Sumatran tiger is the world’s smallest tiger. There are only an estimated 400 to 500 still alive in the wild on the island from which the animal takes its name.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says recent studies estimate the African lion population at between 20,000 and 40,000.

Indonesia’s most notorious zoo is at Surabaya in East Java province.

Hundreds of animals have died at Surabaya Zoo in recent years due to neglect, and those still alive languish in cramped, dirty cages and suffer from illnesses including pneumonia and diarrhoea.

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TABANAN - Tanah Lot tourist attraction is located in sub-province of Tabanan, precisely in countryside of Beraban, district of Kediri, subprovince of Tabanan. Tanah Lot tourist attraction visited by one million of domestic and foreign tourist every year, so that Tanah Lot becoming one of the tourism icon in Bali. All of that thing because of Tanah Lot have different characteristic with the other, that is, looks like a floating one if the tide is high but when tide is low, people can walk to the temple. Because of erosion many caves, which are inhabited by sea snakes, are formed. People cannot disturb these snakes because according to the belief, they belong to the God in the temple.

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Goofy’ teenager Duval stuns former champion Stosur Reuters

NEW YORK - Fearless American teenager Victoria Duval described herself as a child who became a warrior while knocking former champion Sam Stosur out of the U.S. Open on Tuesday.

The 17-year-old qualifier from Atlanta, who was held hostage at the age of seven and whose father who was dug out of the rubble of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, announced herself on the world stage with a stunning 5-7 6-4 6-4 victory.

“I’m very goofy off the court,” Duval said after the first-round win. “I think I’m very much a child at heart. But on the court you have to be a warrior because that’s just the sport we are in.”

Duval’s father, Jean-Maurice, was courtside at the Louis Armstrong Stadium when his daughter pulled off the first major upset of the tournament. Three years ago, his legs were broken, his left arm shattered and seven fractured ribs had punctured his lung after the

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Victoria Duval, of the United States, leaps in celebration after defeating Samantha Stosur, of Australia, in the first round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, in New York. Duval won 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

catastrophic earthquake on the Caribbean island. A tennis connection played an instrumental part in his recovery with an Atlanta family connected with Duval’s club paying to airlift him to a Florida hospital.

That only happened after his passport was also dug out of the rubble and the role of the Kitchen family in her father’s rescue was not forgotten by Duval in the biggest moment of her fledgling career.

“Emotionally it was hard at first,” Duval said. “But he’s as happy as he’s ever been. He had a couple of surgeries that helped take the pain away.

“We’re just so happy that, you know, he’s in a good state of mind right now.

He’s here with us, so it’s incredible.

We’re forever grateful to the Kitchens.

“If it wasn’t for them, my dad definitely wouldn’t be here today. Not everyone just pays $30,000 to fly a helicopter to save someone.

“Great story. They’re amazing people. I mean, they’re angels. We could not have found better people.” It was also in Haiti that Duval, then seven, and her cousins were held hostage at her home

by gun-wielding thieves a decade ago.

“It’s not a good memory, so I try to forget as much as I can about it,” she said. “I don’t remember too much of it anymore, which is great.” Duval also struggled to recall the decisive moment of her victory over Stosur, who beat the might of Serena Williams to win the title at Flushing Meadows only two years ago.

“A lot of different emotions,” she said. “Mostly happiness. It was incredible. I don’t even remember match point.

“I guess I was really happy. You could tell by all the jumping I did.”

Duval, who will meet Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova in the second round, said part of her career ambition was to join the likes of Sloane Stephens in restoring the United States to its position as the dominant power in world tennis. “We’re obviously trying to make American tennis become what it used to be,” she said.

“We’re all working towards the same goal. We’re all a tight-knit group. Helping each other is important. I think we’re on an amazing path.”

World number 11 Stosur paid tribute to Duval’s powerful groundstrokes but also blamed herself for the defeat after hitting 56 unforced errors. “I think she played well, but I think I certainly helped her along the way,” the Australian said.

Rossi says Honda now ahead of Yamaha Turkish 100-meter hurdles champ banned for doping

Valentino Rossi believes that Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa’s one-two finish at Brno is evidence that Honda has moved ahead of Yamaha in the MotoGP pecking order.

Honda has now won the last four straight races - all courtesy of Marquez – and has taken pole position in six of the last eight events.

Yamaha meanwhile last triumphed in June, when Rossi prevailed in the Dutch TT. Its factory team has not claimed pole since Jorge Lorenzo secured the front spot of the grid for the Spanish Grand Prix in early May. Where Honda traditionally struggled on certain types of circuit, Rossi feels it has now eliminated such weaknesses and in doing so left Yamaha playing catch up.

“I think now Honda, and especially the [works] Repsols, are stronger than the [Yamaha] M1,” Rossi said.

“We have to work. It is difficult to speak about one track or another [favouring one factory], because now the two factory Hondas are very strong [and] the two riders are great, especially Marc.

“Jorge tried at the maximum with the Yamaha [at Brno], tried to start at 100 per cent in the beginning, but its not enough.

“We have to work step by step, and also for the future, to improve the M1 and come back very motivated.”

Rossi admits he is struggling to keep pace with the championship’s top three, and says

he and Yamaha are still searching for set-up breakthroughs to close the gap. Valentino Rossi MotoGP 2013 “We try to work on the braking but it doesn’t work, so I think we have to follow some other way,” he said after Brno. “The race was better than Indy, especially because my disadvantage from the top is half, but I wanted to do better.

We have to try to do better. “The first three guys are impressive, very strong, but I expect to stay closer to them.

“Unfortunately I take 10 seconds [and] another fourth place but I want to stay closer. We tried to improve last few races, but it looks like it is not fantastic. “But we don’t give up, and we try from next week to make a better job.”

Valentino Rossi of Italy rounds the curve during the MotoGP race at the Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Czech Republic at the Masaryk circuit in Brno, Czech Republic, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013.

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Associated Press Writer

ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish Athletics Federation has banned European 100-meter hurdles champion Nevin Yanit for two years for doping. The federation says Yanit tested positive for banned substances during a competition in Duesseldorf, Germany, in February.

Yanit won the European hurdles title at both the 2010 and 2012 competitions.

The case against Olympic 1,500-meter champion Asli Cakir Alptekin — who has also been accused of doping — is still being assessed.

Turkey has been hit by a series of doping scandals as Istanbul is bidding to host the 2020 Olympics, competing against Tokyo and Madrid. The International Olympic Committee will select the host city on Sept. 7.

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Arsenal in Champions League for 16th straight year Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Arsenal will play in the Champions League for a 16th consecutive season, and Schalke scraped into the group stage along with them after beating PAOK Salonika in a thrilling encounter on Tuesday.

With a 3-0 lead over Fenerbahce from the first leg, Aaron Ramsey netted twice to ensure Arsenal comfortably won the playoff 5-0 on aggregate.

“At the top level, the most difficult thing is to be consistent and of course it’s an achievement,” to qualify again, manager Arsene Wenger said, “but our ambition is much higher than that.” Arsenal has never won European football’s biggest prize or any trophy since the 2005 FA Cup. It was a nervier night for Schalke, which overcame U.S. midfielder Jermaine Jones being sent off to win 3-2 at Salonika and advance 4-3. Steaua Bucharest will be in the group stage for the first time in five years after drawing 2-2 at Legia Warsaw to go through on away goals after the first leg finished 1-1.

Basel, already leading Ludogorets Razgrad 4-2, won 2-0 on home soil to cruise into Thursday’s draw where it will be joined by Austria Vienna, which squeezed through 4-3 on aggregate despite losing 3-2 at home to Dinamo Zagreb.

In London, Fenerbahce gifted Arsenal the lead after 25 minutes, with Ramsey providing the finish from close range. The Wales midfielder, who scored in Istanbul last week, volleyed in another in the 72nd after being set up

by Kieran Gibbs.

There had been a blow for Arsenal early in the second half when Lukas Podolski was carried off on a stretcher with a left hamstring injury that is expected to sideline the Germany forward for three weeks. “We paid a heavy price on the injury front,” Wenger said.

The result ended concerns about the chaos awaiting UEFA if Fenerbahce advanced while appealing a twoyear Champions League expulsion over a 2011 Turkish match-fixing case. That appeal verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport is scheduled for Wednesday.

In Greece, Adam Szalai put Schalke in front before half time after Atsuto Uchida squared the ball to him.

Stefanos Athanasiadis blasted in an equalizer for the

resilient Salonika at the start of the second half, and their chances of advancing appeared to have been boosted by Schalke being reduced to 10 men when Jones received his second booking for fouling Dimitris Salpingidis in the 64th.

But after an exchange of goals, Szalai struck again in the 90th to ensure Schalke will play in the group stage for the sixth time. In Poland, Steaua appeared to be cruising after Nicolae Stanciu and Federico Piovaccari scored inside the first nine minutes to put the visitors 3-1 up on aggregate Legia Warsaw pulled one back in the 27th through Miroslav Radovic’s header and Jakub Rzezniczak netted in the fourth minute of stoppage time, but it came too late to prevent Steaua progressing on away goals.

Basel enjoyed the most relaxing outing, with Fabian Frei knocking in a corner after 11 minutes and substitute Philipp Degen scoring with his second touch 11 minutes from the end.

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Bayern held to 1-1 draw in Freiburg in Bundesliga Associated Press Writer

FRANKFURT, Germany — Defending champion Bayern Munich conceded a late goal and had to settle for a 1-1 draw at Freiburg in a Bundesliga match Tuesday, dropping its first points of the season.

Bayern paid the price for some complacency in the end despite controlling most of the match, which was played ahead of the weekend because Bayern plays Chelsea on Friday in Prague in the UEFA Super Cup. Bayern won the Champions League and Chelsea is the Europa League champion.

“We played well, we attacked, but we didn’t use our chances,” said Bayern coach Pep Guardiola, who made seven changes from the lineup that beat Nuremberg 2-0 on Saturday. “All players played well.

In the Bundesliga, you can concede a late goal.”

Xherdan Shaqiri put Bayern ahead in the 33rd but Nicolas Hoefler notched the equalizer in the 86th. “We didn’t use our chances and failed to score the second goal that would have secured the

victory,” Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said.

Freiburg finished fifth last season but had earned only one point from the previous three rounds. Bayern’s important midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger limped off the field in the second half with a leg injury.

Shaqiri collected a cross from Thomas Mueller and drove home at the far post with his left foot. The ball shaved the post and bounced into the net.

Although Bayern had most of the possession, Freiburg’s Charles-Elie Laprevotte hit the outside of the post early in the second half, his last touch of the match before being substituted.

And it was Freiburg’s substitutes who combined for the equalizer. Sebastian Freis crossed from the right and Hoefler tapped the ball from close range at the far post although Bayern had six players defending in its area.

“When you play Bayern you have to be incredibly mentally strong and that’s what we were,” Freiburg coach Christian Streif said.

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Associated Press Writer

PRAGUE — Midfielder Tomas Rosicky and goalkeeper Petr Cech have returned to the Czech Republic squad for next month’s World Cup qualifying matches against Armenia and Italy.

The two stars didn’t play in a 1-1 friendly at Hungary on Aug. 14 due to a busy schedule with their Premier League clubs. The Czechs need them

to do well in the Sept. 6 match in Prague and four days later in Turin to keep their hopes alive to qualify for the tournament in Brazil.

Italy leads Group B with 14 points and has a four-point advantage over Bulgaria. The Czechs are third, five points behind Italy with four games to play. The Czechs will miss defensive midfielder Tomas Hubschman, who has an eye problem.

FIFA receives complaint of racism against Keshi Associated Press Writer

ZURICH - FIFA has received a complaint of racism against Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi after he described a rival as “a white dude” who didn’t know about Africa and who should go back to his native Belgium.

FIFA declined to comment further Wednesday and only said it had received the complaint against Keshi, who led Nigeria to this year’s African Cup of Nations title in South Africa.

Malawi coach Tom Saintfiet said the Football Association of Malawi reported Keshi for comments apparently made

on an Afriwhere Keshi was “crazy” suggesting Calabar was between Keshi not an AfHe should Saintabout tackto “take it

can TV show, said Saintfiet and “mad” for the southern Nigerian city of unsafe for a World Cup qualifier the countries next month. went on to say the Belgian “is rican person, he is a white dude. go back to Belgium.” fiet said that if FIFA is serious ling racism in football, it has seriously in both directions.”

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Freiburg’s Nicolas Hoefler (27) celebrates after scoring his side’s goal during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between SC Freiburg and FC Bayern Munich, in Freiburg, southern Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013.

Cech, Rosicky back in Czech squad for qualifiers

Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey, left, celebrates his second goal against Fenerbahce with teammate Yaya Sanogo during their Champions League qualifying play-off second leg soccer match at Emirates Stadium, London, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013.

FIFA toughened its punishments for racism at its recent annual conference in Mauritius in May after incidents in England and Italy where black players were targeted, but a white coach accusing a black coach of racism is rare.

“If a European said something of this nature about an African, you would have a huge problem.

I am against racism in all directions,” Saintfiet told the BBC. The Nigeria Football Federation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Squad: r Goalkeepers: Petr Cech (Chelsea), Jaroslav Drobny (Hamburger SV), Tomas Vaclik (Sparta Prague) r Defenders: Theodor Gebre Selassie (Werder Bremen), Michal Kadlec (Fenerbahce), Ondrej Kusnir (Liberec), David Limbersky (Viktoria Plzen), Vaclav Prochazka (Viktoria Plzen), Tomas Sivok (Besiktas), Marek Suchy (Spartak Moscow) r Midfielders: Vladimir Darida (Viktoria Plzen), Tomas Horava (Viktoria Plzen), Josef Husbauer (Sparta Prague), Petr Jiracek (Hamburger SV), Jan Moravek (Augsburg), Jaroslav Plasil (Bordeaux), Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal), Ondrej Vanek (Jablonec)

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r Forwards: Vaclav Kadlec (Eintracht Frankfurt), Libor Kozak (Lazio), David Lafata (Sparta Prague), Michael Rabusic (Liberec), Matej Vydra (West Bromwich Albion)

Fenerbahce out of Europe after CAS upholds ban Reuters

ISTANBUL - Turkish side Fenerbahce will be unable to compete in the Europa League this season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld a UEFA-imposed two-year ban from European competition over a match-fixing scandal on Wednesday.

With the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote on whether Istanbul, Madrid or Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympics due on Sept.

7, the timing of the announcement delivers another body blow to the tarnished image of Turkish sport.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Turkish Athletics Federation handed a two-year suspension to double European 100m hurdles champion Nevin Yanit for drugs violations, just weeks after similar bans were given to 31 other local athletes.

Playing under appeal against the original ban, Fenerbahce were beaten 2-0 by Arsenal in the second leg of a Champions League playoff on Tuesday, losing the tie 5-0 on aggregate.

Normally a defeat at this stage would still guarantee a berth in the continent’s second tier competition but Fenerbahce will be barred from the Europa League following the CAS ruling.

Lausanne-based CAS said in a statement it had dismissed appeals filed

by Fenerbahce and Ukraine’s Metalist Kharkiv, barred by UEFA over involvement in a domestic match-fixing case dating back to 2008.

“Fenerbahce SK is excluded from two editions of the UEFA club competitions,” CAS said in its ruling following a two-day hearing held at its headquarters on Aug. 21-22.

Fenerbahce and fellow Istanbul club Besiktas were banned in June after a protracted UEFA inquiry into scandals that emerged in 2011.

Besiktas, banned for one season, also appealed to CAS and its ruling is expected on Aug. 30. In a separate statement, UEFA said it welcomed the rejection of Fenerbahce’s appeal

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Arsenal in Champions League for 16th straight year Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Arsenal will play in the Champions League for a 16th consecutive season, and Schalke scraped into the group stage along with them after beating PAOK Salonika in a thrilling encounter on Tuesday.

With a 3-0 lead over Fenerbahce from the first leg, Aaron Ramsey netted twice to ensure Arsenal comfortably won the playoff 5-0 on aggregate.

“At the top level, the most difficult thing is to be consistent and of course it’s an achievement,” to qualify again, manager Arsene Wenger said, “but our ambition is much higher than that.” Arsenal has never won European football’s biggest prize or any trophy since the 2005 FA Cup. It was a nervier night for Schalke, which overcame U.S. midfielder Jermaine Jones being sent off to win 3-2 at Salonika and advance 4-3. Steaua Bucharest will be in the group stage for the first time in five years after drawing 2-2 at Legia Warsaw to go through on away goals after the first leg finished 1-1.

Basel, already leading Ludogorets Razgrad 4-2, won 2-0 on home soil to cruise into Thursday’s draw where it will be joined by Austria Vienna, which squeezed through 4-3 on aggregate despite losing 3-2 at home to Dinamo Zagreb.

In London, Fenerbahce gifted Arsenal the lead after 25 minutes, with Ramsey providing the finish from close range. The Wales midfielder, who scored in Istanbul last week, volleyed in another in the 72nd after being set up

by Kieran Gibbs.

There had been a blow for Arsenal early in the second half when Lukas Podolski was carried off on a stretcher with a left hamstring injury that is expected to sideline the Germany forward for three weeks. “We paid a heavy price on the injury front,” Wenger said.

The result ended concerns about the chaos awaiting UEFA if Fenerbahce advanced while appealing a twoyear Champions League expulsion over a 2011 Turkish match-fixing case. That appeal verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport is scheduled for Wednesday.

In Greece, Adam Szalai put Schalke in front before half time after Atsuto Uchida squared the ball to him.

Stefanos Athanasiadis blasted in an equalizer for the

resilient Salonika at the start of the second half, and their chances of advancing appeared to have been boosted by Schalke being reduced to 10 men when Jones received his second booking for fouling Dimitris Salpingidis in the 64th.

But after an exchange of goals, Szalai struck again in the 90th to ensure Schalke will play in the group stage for the sixth time. In Poland, Steaua appeared to be cruising after Nicolae Stanciu and Federico Piovaccari scored inside the first nine minutes to put the visitors 3-1 up on aggregate Legia Warsaw pulled one back in the 27th through Miroslav Radovic’s header and Jakub Rzezniczak netted in the fourth minute of stoppage time, but it came too late to prevent Steaua progressing on away goals.

Basel enjoyed the most relaxing outing, with Fabian Frei knocking in a corner after 11 minutes and substitute Philipp Degen scoring with his second touch 11 minutes from the end.

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Bayern held to 1-1 draw in Freiburg in Bundesliga Associated Press Writer

FRANKFURT, Germany — Defending champion Bayern Munich conceded a late goal and had to settle for a 1-1 draw at Freiburg in a Bundesliga match Tuesday, dropping its first points of the season.

Bayern paid the price for some complacency in the end despite controlling most of the match, which was played ahead of the weekend because Bayern plays Chelsea on Friday in Prague in the UEFA Super Cup. Bayern won the Champions League and Chelsea is the Europa League champion.

“We played well, we attacked, but we didn’t use our chances,” said Bayern coach Pep Guardiola, who made seven changes from the lineup that beat Nuremberg 2-0 on Saturday. “All players played well.

In the Bundesliga, you can concede a late goal.”

Xherdan Shaqiri put Bayern ahead in the 33rd but Nicolas Hoefler notched the equalizer in the 86th. “We didn’t use our chances and failed to score the second goal that would have secured the

victory,” Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said.

Freiburg finished fifth last season but had earned only one point from the previous three rounds. Bayern’s important midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger limped off the field in the second half with a leg injury.

Shaqiri collected a cross from Thomas Mueller and drove home at the far post with his left foot. The ball shaved the post and bounced into the net.

Although Bayern had most of the possession, Freiburg’s Charles-Elie Laprevotte hit the outside of the post early in the second half, his last touch of the match before being substituted.

And it was Freiburg’s substitutes who combined for the equalizer. Sebastian Freis crossed from the right and Hoefler tapped the ball from close range at the far post although Bayern had six players defending in its area.

“When you play Bayern you have to be incredibly mentally strong and that’s what we were,” Freiburg coach Christian Streif said.

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Associated Press Writer

PRAGUE — Midfielder Tomas Rosicky and goalkeeper Petr Cech have returned to the Czech Republic squad for next month’s World Cup qualifying matches against Armenia and Italy.

The two stars didn’t play in a 1-1 friendly at Hungary on Aug. 14 due to a busy schedule with their Premier League clubs. The Czechs need them

to do well in the Sept. 6 match in Prague and four days later in Turin to keep their hopes alive to qualify for the tournament in Brazil.

Italy leads Group B with 14 points and has a four-point advantage over Bulgaria. The Czechs are third, five points behind Italy with four games to play. The Czechs will miss defensive midfielder Tomas Hubschman, who has an eye problem.

FIFA receives complaint of racism against Keshi Associated Press Writer

ZURICH - FIFA has received a complaint of racism against Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi after he described a rival as “a white dude” who didn’t know about Africa and who should go back to his native Belgium.

FIFA declined to comment further Wednesday and only said it had received the complaint against Keshi, who led Nigeria to this year’s African Cup of Nations title in South Africa.

Malawi coach Tom Saintfiet said the Football Association of Malawi reported Keshi for comments apparently made

on an Afriwhere Keshi was “crazy” suggesting Calabar was between Keshi not an AfHe should Saintabout tackto “take it

can TV show, said Saintfiet and “mad” for the southern Nigerian city of unsafe for a World Cup qualifier the countries next month. went on to say the Belgian “is rican person, he is a white dude. go back to Belgium.” fiet said that if FIFA is serious ling racism in football, it has seriously in both directions.”

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Freiburg’s Nicolas Hoefler (27) celebrates after scoring his side’s goal during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between SC Freiburg and FC Bayern Munich, in Freiburg, southern Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013.

Cech, Rosicky back in Czech squad for qualifiers

Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey, left, celebrates his second goal against Fenerbahce with teammate Yaya Sanogo during their Champions League qualifying play-off second leg soccer match at Emirates Stadium, London, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013.

FIFA toughened its punishments for racism at its recent annual conference in Mauritius in May after incidents in England and Italy where black players were targeted, but a white coach accusing a black coach of racism is rare.

“If a European said something of this nature about an African, you would have a huge problem.

I am against racism in all directions,” Saintfiet told the BBC. The Nigeria Football Federation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Squad: r Goalkeepers: Petr Cech (Chelsea), Jaroslav Drobny (Hamburger SV), Tomas Vaclik (Sparta Prague) r Defenders: Theodor Gebre Selassie (Werder Bremen), Michal Kadlec (Fenerbahce), Ondrej Kusnir (Liberec), David Limbersky (Viktoria Plzen), Vaclav Prochazka (Viktoria Plzen), Tomas Sivok (Besiktas), Marek Suchy (Spartak Moscow) r Midfielders: Vladimir Darida (Viktoria Plzen), Tomas Horava (Viktoria Plzen), Josef Husbauer (Sparta Prague), Petr Jiracek (Hamburger SV), Jan Moravek (Augsburg), Jaroslav Plasil (Bordeaux), Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal), Ondrej Vanek (Jablonec)

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r Forwards: Vaclav Kadlec (Eintracht Frankfurt), Libor Kozak (Lazio), David Lafata (Sparta Prague), Michael Rabusic (Liberec), Matej Vydra (West Bromwich Albion)

Fenerbahce out of Europe after CAS upholds ban Reuters

ISTANBUL - Turkish side Fenerbahce will be unable to compete in the Europa League this season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld a UEFA-imposed two-year ban from European competition over a match-fixing scandal on Wednesday.

With the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote on whether Istanbul, Madrid or Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympics due on Sept.

7, the timing of the announcement delivers another body blow to the tarnished image of Turkish sport.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Turkish Athletics Federation handed a two-year suspension to double European 100m hurdles champion Nevin Yanit for drugs violations, just weeks after similar bans were given to 31 other local athletes.

Playing under appeal against the original ban, Fenerbahce were beaten 2-0 by Arsenal in the second leg of a Champions League playoff on Tuesday, losing the tie 5-0 on aggregate.

Normally a defeat at this stage would still guarantee a berth in the continent’s second tier competition but Fenerbahce will be barred from the Europa League following the CAS ruling.

Lausanne-based CAS said in a statement it had dismissed appeals filed

by Fenerbahce and Ukraine’s Metalist Kharkiv, barred by UEFA over involvement in a domestic match-fixing case dating back to 2008.

“Fenerbahce SK is excluded from two editions of the UEFA club competitions,” CAS said in its ruling following a two-day hearing held at its headquarters on Aug. 21-22.

Fenerbahce and fellow Istanbul club Besiktas were banned in June after a protracted UEFA inquiry into scandals that emerged in 2011.

Besiktas, banned for one season, also appealed to CAS and its ruling is expected on Aug. 30. In a separate statement, UEFA said it welcomed the rejection of Fenerbahce’s appeal

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TABANAN - Tanah Lot tourist attraction is located in sub-province of Tabanan, precisely in countryside of Beraban, district of Kediri, subprovince of Tabanan. Tanah Lot tourist attraction visited by one million of domestic and foreign tourist every year, so that Tanah Lot becoming one of the tourism icon in Bali. All of that thing because of Tanah Lot have different characteristic with the other, that is, looks like a floating one if the tide is high but when tide is low, people can walk to the temple. Because of erosion many caves, which are inhabited by sea snakes, are formed. People cannot disturb these snakes because according to the belief, they belong to the God in the temple.

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Goofy’ teenager Duval stuns former champion Stosur Reuters

NEW YORK - Fearless American teenager Victoria Duval described herself as a child who became a warrior while knocking former champion Sam Stosur out of the U.S. Open on Tuesday.

The 17-year-old qualifier from Atlanta, who was held hostage at the age of seven and whose father who was dug out of the rubble of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, announced herself on the world stage with a stunning 5-7 6-4 6-4 victory.

“I’m very goofy off the court,” Duval said after the first-round win. “I think I’m very much a child at heart. But on the court you have to be a warrior because that’s just the sport we are in.”

Duval’s father, Jean-Maurice, was courtside at the Louis Armstrong Stadium when his daughter pulled off the first major upset of the tournament. Three years ago, his legs were broken, his left arm shattered and seven fractured ribs had punctured his lung after the

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Victoria Duval, of the United States, leaps in celebration after defeating Samantha Stosur, of Australia, in the first round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, in New York. Duval won 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

catastrophic earthquake on the Caribbean island. A tennis connection played an instrumental part in his recovery with an Atlanta family connected with Duval’s club paying to airlift him to a Florida hospital.

That only happened after his passport was also dug out of the rubble and the role of the Kitchen family in her father’s rescue was not forgotten by Duval in the biggest moment of her fledgling career.

“Emotionally it was hard at first,” Duval said. “But he’s as happy as he’s ever been. He had a couple of surgeries that helped take the pain away.

“We’re just so happy that, you know, he’s in a good state of mind right now.

He’s here with us, so it’s incredible.

We’re forever grateful to the Kitchens.

“If it wasn’t for them, my dad definitely wouldn’t be here today. Not everyone just pays $30,000 to fly a helicopter to save someone.

“Great story. They’re amazing people. I mean, they’re angels. We could not have found better people.” It was also in Haiti that Duval, then seven, and her cousins were held hostage at her home

by gun-wielding thieves a decade ago.

“It’s not a good memory, so I try to forget as much as I can about it,” she said. “I don’t remember too much of it anymore, which is great.” Duval also struggled to recall the decisive moment of her victory over Stosur, who beat the might of Serena Williams to win the title at Flushing Meadows only two years ago.

“A lot of different emotions,” she said. “Mostly happiness. It was incredible. I don’t even remember match point.

“I guess I was really happy. You could tell by all the jumping I did.”

Duval, who will meet Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova in the second round, said part of her career ambition was to join the likes of Sloane Stephens in restoring the United States to its position as the dominant power in world tennis. “We’re obviously trying to make American tennis become what it used to be,” she said.

“We’re all working towards the same goal. We’re all a tight-knit group. Helping each other is important. I think we’re on an amazing path.”

World number 11 Stosur paid tribute to Duval’s powerful groundstrokes but also blamed herself for the defeat after hitting 56 unforced errors. “I think she played well, but I think I certainly helped her along the way,” the Australian said.

Rossi says Honda now ahead of Yamaha Turkish 100-meter hurdles champ banned for doping

Valentino Rossi believes that Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa’s one-two finish at Brno is evidence that Honda has moved ahead of Yamaha in the MotoGP pecking order.

Honda has now won the last four straight races - all courtesy of Marquez – and has taken pole position in six of the last eight events.

Yamaha meanwhile last triumphed in June, when Rossi prevailed in the Dutch TT. Its factory team has not claimed pole since Jorge Lorenzo secured the front spot of the grid for the Spanish Grand Prix in early May. Where Honda traditionally struggled on certain types of circuit, Rossi feels it has now eliminated such weaknesses and in doing so left Yamaha playing catch up.

“I think now Honda, and especially the [works] Repsols, are stronger than the [Yamaha] M1,” Rossi said.

“We have to work. It is difficult to speak about one track or another [favouring one factory], because now the two factory Hondas are very strong [and] the two riders are great, especially Marc.

“Jorge tried at the maximum with the Yamaha [at Brno], tried to start at 100 per cent in the beginning, but its not enough.

“We have to work step by step, and also for the future, to improve the M1 and come back very motivated.”

Rossi admits he is struggling to keep pace with the championship’s top three, and says

he and Yamaha are still searching for set-up breakthroughs to close the gap. Valentino Rossi MotoGP 2013 “We try to work on the braking but it doesn’t work, so I think we have to follow some other way,” he said after Brno. “The race was better than Indy, especially because my disadvantage from the top is half, but I wanted to do better.

We have to try to do better. “The first three guys are impressive, very strong, but I expect to stay closer to them.

“Unfortunately I take 10 seconds [and] another fourth place but I want to stay closer. We tried to improve last few races, but it looks like it is not fantastic. “But we don’t give up, and we try from next week to make a better job.”

Valentino Rossi of Italy rounds the curve during the MotoGP race at the Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Czech Republic at the Masaryk circuit in Brno, Czech Republic, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013.

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ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish Athletics Federation has banned European 100-meter hurdles champion Nevin Yanit for two years for doping. The federation says Yanit tested positive for banned substances during a competition in Duesseldorf, Germany, in February.

Yanit won the European hurdles title at both the 2010 and 2012 competitions.

The case against Olympic 1,500-meter champion Asli Cakir Alptekin — who has also been accused of doping — is still being assessed.

Turkey has been hit by a series of doping scandals as Istanbul is bidding to host the 2020 Olympics, competing against Tokyo and Madrid. The International Olympic Committee will select the host city on Sept. 7.

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India building collapses kill 8, trap dozen more Associated Press Writer

VADODARA, India - Two adjacent apartment buildings collapsed early Wednesday in western India, killing at least eight people, police said.

Rescuers were working to pull out at least a dozen people trapped in the debris after the three-story buildings fell in the city of Vadodara in Gujarat state, police officer Bhanu Pratap Parmar said. At least four people were injured and were in hospitals, rescue workers said.

Most of the occupants of the 14 apartments in the first building were sleeping when it collapsed. The adjacent building was evacuated minutes before it fell, police said.

The two buildings were part of 33 housing blocks constructed by the Gujarat government more than a decade ago to house the poor.

Building collapses are common in India as builders try to cut corners by using substandard materials, and as multistory structures are often built with inadequate super

Child gold miners ‘risking lives’ in Tanzania

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In this Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 photo, fisherman Fumio Suzuki stands on his boat Ebisu Maru before the start of fishing in the waters off Iwaki, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Japan.

Fukushima crisis new blow to fishermen’s hopes

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YOTSUKURA, Japan - Fumio Suzuki, a third-generation fisherman, sets out into the Pacific Ocean every seven weeks. Not to catch fish that he can sell but to catch fish that can be tested for radiation.

For the last 2 ½ years, fishermen from the port of Yotsukura near the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant have been mostly stuck on land with little to do. There is no commercial fishing along most of the Fukushima coast. In a nation highly sensitive to food safety, there is no market for the fish caught near the stricken plant because the meltdowns it suffered contaminated the ocean water and marine life with radiation.

A sliver of hope emerged after recent sampling results showed a decline in radioactivity in some fish species. But a new crisis spawned by fresh leaks of radioactive water from the Fukushima plant last week may have dashed those prospects.

Fishermen like 47-year-old Suzuki now wonder whether they ever will be able to resume fishing, a mainstay for many small rural communities like Yotsukura, 45 kilometers (30 miles) south of the Fukushima plant. His son has already moved on, looking for work in construction.

“The operators (of the plant) are

reacting too late every time in whatever they do,” said Suzuki, who works with his 79-year-old father Choji after inheriting the family business from him.

“We say, ‘Don’t spill contaminated water,’ and they spilled contaminated water. They are always a step behind so that is why we can’t trust them,” Suzuki said, as his trawler, the Ebisu Maru, traveled before dawn to a point about 45 kilometers (30 miles) offshore from the Fukushima plant to bring back a test catch.

With his father at the wheel, Suzuki dropped the heavy nets out the back of the boat, as the black of night faded to a sapphire sky, tinged orange at the horizon.

As the sun rose over a glassy sea, father and son hauled in the heavily laden nets and then set to the hard work of sorting the fish: sardines, starfish, sole, sea bream, sand sharks, tossing them into yellow and blue plastic baskets as sea gulls screamed and swooped overhead.

Five hours later, the Ebisu Maru

docked at Yotsukura where waiting fishermen dumped the samples into coolers and rushed them to a nearby laboratory to be gutted and tested.

Suzuki says his fisheries co-operative will decide sometime soon whether to persist in gathering samples.

For now they will have to survive on compensation from the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant’s operator. The cooperative also had plans to start larger-scale test catches next month that would potentially also be for consumption if radiation levels were deemed safe.

But those plans were put on hold after more bad news last week: authorities discovered that a massive amount of partially treated, radioactive water was leaking from tanks at Fukushima, the fifth and so far the worst, breach.

The water, stored in 1,000 tanks, is pumped into three damaged reactors to keep their melted fuel cool. Much of the water leaked into the ground but some may have escaped into the sea through a rain-water gutter.

Thousands of child labourers as young as eight are mining gold in grim conditions in Tanzania, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in a report criticising conditions in the key industry.

While boys “dig and drill in deep, unstable pits” in informal mines, working underground for shifts as long as 24 hours, girls around the smallscale mines face sexual harassment and pressure to become prostitutes, the US-based rights group warned.

Tanzania is Africa’s fourth largest gold producer, and the precious metal is the top foreign exchange earner for the country, with exports topping $1.8 billion in the first six months of 2013, according to the central bank.

Small-scale mines extracted 1.6 tonnes of gold in 2012 worth some $85 million (64 million euros), with the bulk exported to the United Arab Emirates, as well as to Britain, China, South Africa and Switzerland.

“Thousands of children work in licenced and unlicenced small-scale gold mines in Tanzania,” HRW’s report read, based on visits to 11 sites across the east African nation.

Many of the children are at risk of being poisoned by the dangerous mercury used to extract gold from raw

ore, HRW said. “The employment of children in dangerous mining work is one of the worst forms of child labour under international agreements, to which Tanzania is a party,” it added.

HRW called on the government, donor nations and producers to curb the practice, arguing that while Tanzania has strong anti-child labour laws the authorities have “done far too little to enforce them”.

As Tanzania’s mining industry grows, HRW stressed the importance ot ensuring that production respects basic human rights. It noted that a $5.0 million World Bank project supporting the mining sector does not directly address the problem of child labour.

The United Nations Environment Programme last year estimated that between 500,00 and 1.5 million Tanzanians are employed in the informal gold mining sector.

“Tanzanian boys and girls are lured to the gold mines in the hopes of a better life, but find themselves stuck in a dead-end cycle of danger and despair,” said HRW children’s expect Janine Morna.

“Labour inspectors need to visit both licenced and unlicenced mines regularly, and ensure employers face sanctions for using child labour.”

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Thousands of child labourers as young as eight are mining gold in grim conditions in Tanzania, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in a report criticising conditions in the key industry.

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INDONESIA Antigraft commission question CEO, Commissioner Kernel Oil Antara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned the CEO of Kernel Oil Indonesia Fincenlia Andika and the company’s commissioner Ari Kusbiantoro.

Both are questioned in relation to an alleged graft case involving former Chief of Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory (SKK Migas) Rudi Rubiandini.

On August 14, the KPK named Rudi Rubiandini as a suspect in a graft case after the latter was caught red handed for receiving money from a commissioner of PT Kernel Indonesia Simon Tanjaya via Rudi’s golf coach Deviardi the night before.

During the August 13’s raid, KPK confiscated bundles of money, includ-

ing US$200,000 from the office of the secretary general of the energy and mineral resources ministry, and US$400,000.

More money was confiscated later

by KPK, including US$350,000 in a saving box at Bank Mandiri owned

by Rudi and 180 grams of gold from a saving at Rudi`s office room and US$200,000 in the house of Ardi.

A big motorbike handed over by Ardi to Rudi the night they were caught red handed was also confiscated by KPK.

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refineries each with a capacity of producing 300,00 barrels of oil per day and it has cooperated with KPC and Saudi Aramco for it.

The KPC has so far asked for an incentive but the finance ministry has rejected the request because it is considered too much.

KPC plans to build a new refinery in Balongan while Saudi Aramco in Tuban, East Java.

The Balongan refinery is expected to produce 9.6 million kiloliters of fuel oil while the refinery in Tuban 8.29 million kiloliters.

Besides the two new refineries the government also plans to build refineries that would be financed using the national budget.

Right now, Pertamina has six refineries that process 1.031 million barrels of crude a day.

The six refineries are located in Dumai, Riau, Sumatra with a production capacity of 170,000 barrels a day, in Plaju, South Sumatra with a capacity of 118,000 barrels a day, in Cilacap, Central Java with a capacity of 348,000 barrels a day, in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, 260,000 barrels a day, in Balongan, West Java, with a capacity of 260,000 barrels a day and in Kasim, West Papua, with a capacity of 10,000 barrels a day.

The refineries altogether produce 40.6 million kiloliters of fuel oils per day.

Pertamina to offer two refinery projects for bidding

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s stateowned oil and gas company PT Pertamina plans to offer two refinery construction projects for international bidding, said president director Karen Agustiawan on Wednesday.

She said through the open tender, she hopes to get the lowest fiscal incentive request.

“Any party could participate in the tender, including investors from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,” she said.

She added that although the project would be offered for bidding cooperation for refinery construction with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Saudi Aramco Asia Company Ltd. would remain.

“It is not cancelled. But, later if the tender is opened, they may participate. It is not6 limited,” she said.

Karen said the last refinery Pertamina built and operated in 1994 is located in Balongan, Indramayu, West Java.

So far the old refineries have been processing sweet crude while most of crude now are sour crude which has high sulfur content and “therefore we have been beaten in competition against foreign refineries,” she said.

She hoped the development of new refineries would increase competitiveness.

Pertamina plans to build two new

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Motorists ride through haze from brush fires in Pekanbaru, Riau province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Smoke from fires set by slash-and-burn farmers has blanketed parts of Riau province in western Indonesia, affecting flights to and from the province.

Tiger, lions die at zoo after being poisoned

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JAKARTA - A critically endangered Sumatran tiger and two African lions have died at a zoo in western Indonesia after being poisoned, an official said Tuesday.

The eight-year-old male tiger, named Peter by zookeepers, was found paralysed earlier this month at the Taman Rimbo zoo in Jambi province, after eating poisoned meat.

He died a week later.

The African lions -- a species classified as vulnerable -also died around the same time, said Nurazman, an official from a government agency tasked with protecting wildlife and the environment.

A two-year-old female Sumatran tiger, the offspring of the tiger who died, also ate the tainted meat but survived, said Nurazman, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

“An autopsy result showed that the animals had been poisoned,” he said, adding the meat had been laced with

a chemical normally used to put down stray dogs with rabies.

That type of poison was stored at the zoo on Sumatra island but was not available on the open market, he said.

The agency had questioned five people, including a zookeeper, security guard and meat supplier, although it was not yet clear who was responsible, he said.

The Sumatran tiger is the world’s smallest tiger. There are only an estimated 400 to 500 still alive in the wild on the island from which the animal takes its name.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says recent studies estimate the African lion population at between 20,000 and 40,000.

Indonesia’s most notorious zoo is at Surabaya in East Java province.

Hundreds of animals have died at Surabaya Zoo in recent years due to neglect, and those still alive languish in cramped, dirty cages and suffer from illnesses including pneumonia and diarrhoea.

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China to hold economic reform meeting in November

Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China’s leaders will gather in November for a key meeting on economic reforms, state media said Wednesday, the third time they will have met since a generational handover of power last year.

The Third Plenum of the ruling Communist Party’s 200-member Central Committee could focus on reforming finance and taxation among other areas, the state-run Global Times newspaper said. “As a result, analysts expect that economic reforms will speed up,” it added.

China’s new leadership under President Xi Jinping has repeatedly said the world’s second-biggest economy needs to refocus its growth model away from exports and infrastructure investment and towards consumer demand.

But few specific changes have been announced.

The November meeting will receive a report by the 25-member Politburo, the party’s second-highest body, focusing on “comprehensive and deepened reform”, the Global Times said, indirectly quoting a Politburo statement.

According to a separate report in the

China Daily newspaper, the statement said the meeting “will help resolve outstanding conflicts and challenges China faces in the course of its development, and will be conducive to achieving sustainable and healthy economic and social development.”

“Reform and opening-up should be continuous and never stop,” it added.

“Standing still or going backward will lead to a dead end.”

The meeting -- officially called the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee -- will be held after the country recorded its weakest annual economic growth for 13 years.

China’s growth slowed sharply to 7.8 percent last year from 9.3 percent in 2011 on weakness in the domestic and global economies.

The government is targeting 2013 growth of 7.5 percent.

Accor hotels cautious about outlook, shares fall

Agence France-Presse

PARIS - Hotel chain Accor switched back into profit in the first half of the year but was cautious about the outlook on Wednesday, and its shares fell 3.59 percent.

The group, the sixth-biggest hotel chain in the world and which has just shaken up its board with a new chief executive, reported a net profit of 34 million euros ($45.5 million) from a loss of 532 million euros at the same time last year.

That loss reflected in part the effects of an asset sale.

But in the first six months of the year, operating profit fell by 6.6 percent to 198 million euros from 212 million euros in the same period last year.

Sales by the group, the biggest operator of hotels in Europe, fell by 0.9 percent to 2.694 billion euros, but on the basis of a com-

parable asset base and constant exchange rates, they rose by 1.8 percent.

The price of shares in the company fell by 3.59 percent in initial trading to 27.76 euros. The overall French market as measured by the CAC 40 index was showing a gain of 0.18 percent.

The group said that the fall in operating profit reflected mainly the cost of investment in line with a four-year plan costing 120 million euros.

Finance director Sophie Stabile said that activity was firm and that the group was holding to its targets for 2016.

The group said that for this year it expected an operating profit of 510-530 million euros from 526 million for 2012.

At brokers Aurel BGC, analyst Tangi Le Liboux commented that the group had been somewhat brief in its explanations for the outlook for operating profit for the year.

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Bali Island has one of the beautiful and elegant birds, namely Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi). Unfortunately, twitter of the bird is now rarely audible in the wild life because it is continuously hunted to be traded.

About five years ago, the price of Bali starling was touted to reach IDR 50 million per pair. Later on, the price of such mediumsized warbler with a length of approximately 25 centimeters started to decline. Although declining, the price is still ranging from IDR 17 million to IDR 20 million per pair. With such high price, the Bali starling continues to be hunted by people.

Bali starling is a beautiful bird. Because of its beauty, the bird has become a sort of mascot for the Island of Bali and has been named the faunal symbol of Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Natural Resources Conservation of Buleleng, Gede Wenten, said that population of Bali starling was mostly located in the West Bali National Park (TNBB). But now, the existence of the very rare bird was extinct and virtually disappeared. Bali starling could only be found in breeding area such as at Tegal Bunder, TNBB. In addition, many people around the TNBB also bred it independently.

Wenten said that population of Bali starling at breeding location at Tegal Bunder amounted to some 35 pairs. Meanwhile, the Bali starling bred by people came to some 30 pairs. “Approximately 12 residents at Sumberklampok near the TNBB are breeding the birds,” said Wenten.

He added that his party continued to supervise the commercial breeding carried out by residents. The surveillance was made in order the bird would not be traded beyond the rules. It was also executed so that the bird would not be abandoned. “If they are found to abandon the bird, we will impose strict sanction,” he said. According to Wenten, the residents who did the breeding of Bali starling were allowed to sell the birds to others. However, the bird sold should be of the second filial of the parent or its grandchild. “Its mother cannot be sold. It is only allowed to sell the second filial or its grandchild,” he said.

Wenten confirmed the bird price was indeed expensive so that it was always sought after by bird collectors. Formerly, it was sold for IDR 50 million per pair. But now the price had started to fall to IDR 20 million. This happened because many people had bred the birds so that the amount of birds on sale turned a lot.

“This is a normal case, if the number is scarce, the price is more expensive. But if many people have owned it, the price is going cheaper,” he said. (kmb)

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A man making a soybean tofu. The state-owned Board of Logistics (Bulog) is expected to immediately take control of soybean trade and put an end to instability in the market of the food commodity.

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DENPASAR - The state-owned Board of Logistics (Bulog) is expected to immediately take control of soybean trade and put an end to instability in the market of the food commodity.

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Traders gather at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. US consumers grew slightly more confident in August as they viewed economic conditions and job prospects improving in the future, the Conference Board said Tuesday.

US consumer confidence ticks higher

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US consumers grew slightly more confident in August as they viewed economic conditions and job prospects improving in the future, the Conference Board said Tuesday.

The consumer confidence index rose to 81.5 last month, up from 81.0 in July but still below the five year high of 82.1 reached in June.

The improvement in confidence, a partial predictor of consumer spending that drives the economy, surprised analysts, who generally had forecast the index would drop to 77.0.

But the overall stronger sentiment number was entirely due to expectations for conditions six months ahead; the reading jumped to 88.7 from 86.0 in July.

Consumers’ views of current conditions deteriorated to 70.7 from 73.6 last month.

“Consumers were moderately more upbeat about business, job and earning prospects,” Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board.

Franco noted income expectations, which had fallen after the January payroll tax hike, rebounded to their highest level in two and a half years.

Higher incomes could boost consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of US economic activity.

“This report is consistent with our expectation that consumer confidence will continue to grind higher as labor and housing markets continue to improve,” said Cooper Howes of Barclays.

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The price of soybean has surged lately triggering a repeat of public uproar when producers of soybean tofu and fermented soybean cake known as tempe in the country agree to suspend production in protest of the price hike and scarcity of supply of soybean several months earlier.

“The government has not learned from experience or they are not serious enough to address the problem faced by small entrepreneurs,” a tempe producer said.

Soybean cake and tofu are popular food products in the country produced by small and cottage industries.

The government has repeatedly rolled over the deadline when the country is to be self sufficient in soybean, and programs have been announced to expand soybean plantations, but in the end they acknowledge failure, citing a number of reasons.

Fearing that the soybean issue could make a big headline again the government with a presidential instruction allowed Bulog to regain its control of soybean trade to guarantee supply and price stability.

“Action should be taken to follow up the presidential instruction to prevent the price of soybean from climbing higher now reaching Rp9,200 from normally Rp7,200 per kilogram,” Sutrisno, chairman of the Bali branch of the Indonesian Association of Soybean Cake and Tofu Producers (KOPTI) said here on Wednesday.

Sutrisno said he had reached an agreement with the Bali branch of Bulog to work together in the procurement of soybeans for local soybean cake and tofu producers.

“Bulog has not been able to work immediately on the presidential instruction as it is still

waiting for the necessary licenses from the industry and trade ministries,” he said.

He said with Bulog in charge, soybean procurement would be better guaranteed and stocks would be easier to be controlled and set to forestall the market.

Currently general importers are free to imports soybean after the government stripped Bulog of its monopoly right in trade of essential commodities including soybean.

Now the price is left to be dictated by the market, entirely depending on supply and demand.

Sutrisno said Bali relies on imports for 85 percent of its soybean requirement with local producers accounting for only 15 percent.

Head of the Bali office of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Gde Suarsa has said Bali’s soybean production fell 293 tons or 3.45 percent in 2012 from the previous year.

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with license plate DK 762 DS. Arriving at the Sukawati Art Market, exactly in front of the dust bin of Sukawati Art Market, Dewi Lestari and Aunt Lis disposed two boxes of trash and a suitcase and then parked her car in the north of the police post to go shopping.

Around 10:00 a.m. the entourage left the Sukawati Art Market and heading for the rented house at Jeleke hamlet.

Previously, the residents around the area of Sukawati Art Market were made rowdy by the presence of no-man’s suitcase. The finding by one of the traders was then reported to the staff of the market management and then to police station. Afterward, the finding was forwarded to the Bomb Squad of Bali Police for examination. From the result of examination, it was decided to bring the suitcase to the headquarters of the Sukawati Police.

When opened, the suitcase was known to contain a cellular phone with inactive card. (kmb16)

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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera meet in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.

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The bomb squad carried the misterious suitcase from SUkawati Art Market in Gianyar, a few days ago.

Taman Nusa

A Tourist Attraction Presenting History of Indonesia in Bali

A Tourist Attraction Presenting History of Indonesia in BaliGianyar County has now had a newly established tourist attraction.

Known as Taman Nusa, it offers captivating scenery. It is surrounded by cliffs and lush tropical forest with the views of sea, mountains and the overlay of terraced rice fields. Meanwhile, its entrance gates are unique that will take visitors into the atmosphere of ancient time deeply exuding traditional culture and civilization.

It is located on Jalan Taman Bali, Blahpane Klod hamlet, Sidan village, about 25 km east of Denpasar. This tourist attraction offers a panorama of tropical nature of the Indonesia graced with cultural tourism, customs, traditional houses and museums to the art crafts of Indonesian society in the present and past time.

President Director of the Taman Nusa, Santoso Senangsyah, said the idea of the alternative tourist attraction in Bali originated from

his concerns about the condition of the Indonesian culture that was increasingly marginalized today.

It was less enthused by younger generation and impressed that no one cared. “Departing from the phenomenon, it then appears the idea to establish a center for cultural preservation of the nation,” he said.

The tourist attraction performing its soft opening earlier this year was built as a cultural tourism park of Indonesia doubling as the

presentation of Bali for Indonesia and the world. “We hope, the Taman Nusa can serve as a means of tourist attraction, education, conservation and research on the Indonesian culture,” he hoped. Through the Taman Nusa, explained Santosa, his party wanted to feature the existence of cultural heritage to the world community. Visitors were invited to explore the panorama of the time passage of Indonesia from the ancient time to the pre-history, the kingdom era of the archipelago,

cultural village, until Indonesia attained its independence.

Replica of the Borobudur temple was one of the objects on the panorama of the Indonesian kingdom featured in the park. The temple becoming one of 8 regional Indonesia’s panoramas was a monumental work of the nation and one of the world’s seven wonders. There was also a replica of the statue of Gajah Mada figure known for the Palapa Oath in uniting the whole kingdoms in this archipelago.

Water boom project complained by farmers Bangli (Bali Post)—

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The waterboom project which is compalined by the locals in the area.

The water boom development project at Sidembunut village, Bangli, was complained by a number of farmers. Even, four chiefs of local subak have questioned about the clarity of the project. They worry if the water boom development project in the region will threaten the availability of their irrigation water.

Chief of Subak Tegallalang, Sang Ketut Rencana, complained about the matter on Tuesday (Aug 27). So far, the water boom development project had not been notified to the chief of subak. “We are not notified yet about the project. As Chief of Subak Tegallalang, we are very disappointed to this condition. It performs the development silently without notification,” said

Rencana.

Aside from him, three other chiefs of subak also questioned about the construction of the project including the Chief of Subak Munggu Wayan Sumidra, Chief of Subak Anyar Nengah Sutaba, and Chief of Subak Palak Nengah Wirta. According to him, as chief of subak they were never invited to discuss about the water boom cited to belong to a political party leader in the Bangli legislative.

They worried the presence of the water attraction would interfere with the irrigation of local subak.

Today, they still lacked of water to irrigate their rice fields. “Honestly, our farmers are very short of water,” said Rencana. Other than the matter of water availability, his party also questioned about the waste disposal that would be produced each day by

the water attraction.

Related to that matter, Rencana confessed to have traced about the presence of the water boom project to local hamlet chief. As a result, the hamlet chief told him if his party only got a notification.

“I have confidence the project has not had a permit. Just imagine that farmers and some adjacent residents still question about the water boom project. Why can it be developed?” complained Ketut Rencana.

He said the water boom project had also disconnected the irrigation channel at one of the rice fields.

Overall, the region had 200 subak members and should pay membership fee to get the water subscription. The development project was estimated to have an impact on the irrigation channel for 800 farmers in the region. (ina)

US ready to launch Syria strike, says Chuck Hagel American forces are “ready” to launch strikes on Syria if President Barack Obama chooses to order an attack, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says. “We have moved assets in place to be able to fulfil and comply with whatever option the president wishes to take,” Mr Hagel told the BBC. The White House said the US would release intelligence on last week’s suspected attack in the next few days. The UK Parliament is to be recalled on Thursday to discuss possible responses.

Prime Minister David Cameron said the world could “not stand idly by” after seeing “appalling scenes of death and suffering” caused by suspected chemical weapons attacks.

A good number of Syrians, in particular those supporting the regime, believe the visit of the UN chemical weapons investigation team is nothing but a move to justify a military attack on Syria. The opposition, however, thinks that these visits will lead to some evidence being unearthed, proving that chemical

weapons have been used against civilians by the Syrian regime.

Above all, fear and discomfort are palpable among those living in the capital. People are haunted by the possibility of a Western military strike on Syria, discussion of which is dominating the headlines of satellite channels. “I don’t want Syria to become another Iraq...

Enough bloodshed,” cried one Syrian woman.

“We, and thousands like us across Syria, will face any country that tries to attack us,” threatened a young man, pointing at his weapon, which he uses to protect his neighbourhood. “These are Syria’s problems and it is up to us, Syrians, to solve them.”

The crisis follows last Wednesday’s suspected chemical attack near the Syrian capital, Damascus, which reportedly killed more than 300 people. US Vice President Joe Biden said there was “no doubt who was responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: The Syrian regime”.

In a speech to a veterans’ group in Houston, Mr Biden said that “those who use chemical weapons against defenceless men, women, and children... must be held accountable”. French President Francois Hollande said France was “ready to punish” whoever was behind the attack, and had decided to increase military support for Syria’s main opposition.

BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says the US, UK and France will now have the larger task of building as wide a coalition as possible to support limited military action.

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Attacks kill at least 65 in Iraq, many more hurt

Associated Press Writer

After investigating for two days, police authority finally found the owner of a mysterious suitcase having made residents restless in the Sukawati Art Market. The suitcase containing a mobile phone was alleged to contain a bomb. It belonged to Siti Maryam Rachman alias Putu, 38, from Karangasem but lived in Lombok.

Chief of Criminal Detective of Gianyar Police, Nengah Sadiarta, with permission from the Gianyar Police Chief, said that based on the result of investigation with the help of cyber police team was known if the suitcase belonged to Maryam living at Jalan Kesra Raya 15 Perumnas Mataram, West Lombok, NTB. In Bali, she temporary lived at Jeleke hamlet, Batuan village, Sukawati. According to the owner, the suitcase would be disposed.

The woman marrying to a foreigner just arrived in Bali after traveling from the U.S. - Hong Kong. On August 16, around 3:00 p.m., they arrived at the Ngurah Rai Airport.

Furthermore, they lived in a rented house owned by Wayan Lama at Jeleke hamlet, Batuan.

Then, on Sunday (Aug 25) around 09:30 a.m., the owner along with 5 (five) companions, consisting of Dewi Lestari, Riko, Lala, Aunt Lis and Ita went to Sukawati Art Market by driving a black Toyota Avanza

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BAGHDAD - A coordinated wave of bombings tore through Shiite Muslim areas in and around the Iraqi capital early Wednesday, part of a wave of bloodshed that killed at least 65 people and wounded many more, officials said. The blasts, which came in quick succession, mainly targeted residents out shopping and on their way to work.

In addition to the bombings, the death toll included seven Shiite family members killed when gunmen raided their home and shot them as they slept.

The attacks are the latest in a relentless wave of killing that has left thousands dead since April, marking the country’s worst spate of bloodshed since 2008. They raise fears that Iraq is hurtling back toward the brink of a civil war fueled by ethnic and sectarian differences.

Insurgents deployed explosives-laden cars, suicide bombers and other bombs Wednesday and targeted parking lots, outdoor markets and restaurants in predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, according to officials. A military convoy was also hit south of the capital.

The northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah, home to a prominent, gold-domed Shiite shrine, was the worst hit. Two bombs went off in a parking lot, followed by a suicide car bomber who struck onlookers who had gathered at the scene.

Police said 10 people were killed and 27 wounded in that attack.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the day’s attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida. The group frequently targets Shiites, which it considers heretics, and employs coordinated bombings in an attempt to incite sectarian strife.

The Shiite family shot dead at home were found in the largely Sunni town of Latifiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad. Three children, ages eight to 12, were killed along with their parents and two uncles in that attack, according to police.

Authorities said they had previously fled the town after being threatened, and returned only three weeks ago.

Many of the day’s blasts targeted morning shoppers. Among them was a parked car bomb that detonated in a commercial area in the northern Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, killing nine and wounding 15.

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A man walks near the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s Hurriya District, August 28, 2013.

Son of Chinese general faces rape trial; raises anger over top families

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BEIJING - The teenage son of a prominent Chinese general goes on trial on Wednesday suspected of involvement in a gang rape in a case that has inflamed public anger at the offspring of the political elite who are widely seen as spoilt and reckless.

Li Tianyi, 17, is among five men accused of sexually assaulting a

woman in a Beijing hotel in February, according to state media. His father is General Li Shuangjiang of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), who is a singer known for performing patriotic songs on television shows and at official events.

Li’s mother, Meng Ge, is a famous singer in the PLA. It is not the teenager’s first brush with the law. In 2011, he drove a BMW into another car in Beijing, beat up the

couple inside the vehicle and then scoffed at bystanders about calling the police.

He was sentenced to a year in a juvenile correctional facility and his father made a public apology.

The latest case has dominated headlines for weeks, focusing attention again on China’s political aristocrats who are widely viewed as corrupt and above the law. It follows the dramatic trial of ousted

former senior politician Bo Xilai, whose family’s lurid excesses were detailed by the court and lapped up on social media.

Li has become the most prominent target of complaints that the sons and daughters of China’s topranked Communist Party officials can dodge the law because of family influence.

“The general public is worried that his family, because of their

relationships and power, will be able to use their connections,” said Zhang Ming, a politics professor at Renmin University.

“In China, this kind of privilege is very powerful. It’s omnipresent,” Zhang said. “The people’s fears are not groundless.”

In July, hackers attacked the website of one of the law firms representing Li, saying: “We just want to return justice to the client.”

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Tramway planned for Machu Picchu’s ‘sister city’ Associated Press Writer

LIMA, Peru — The ruined city known as the “cradle of gold” was once a mountaintop refuge of Incan royalty, with elegant halls and plazas much like those of fabled Macchu Picchu just 30 miles (50 kilometers away). Yet only a handful of tourists visit each day, those willing to make a two-day hike to reach its majestic solitude.

That is about to change: The national government has approved what will be Peru’s first aerial tramway. Bridging the deep canyon of the Apurimac River, it will make Choquequirao reachable in just 15 minutes from the nearest highway.

The 3-mile (5-kilometer) long cable car is designed to whiz 400 people an hour in each direction a half mile (nearly a kilometer) above the river. The president of the Apurimac state government, Elias Segovia, anticipates the $45 million tramway will bring about 3,000 tourists a day after it opens in late 2015.

“This is going to generate tourist services. It will generate great investment” in hotels, restaurants and other amenities, he says.

The idea is to shift some of the tourist burden from Machu Picchu, where authorities have a limit of 2,500 daily visitors and where reservations are now

required for people who wish to hike the famed Inca Trail to the ruins.

Currently, most visitors to Choquequirao must fly to Cuzco, the former Inca imperial capital, and then drive four hours on mountain roads prone to landslides and flooding. Then it’s another 12 to 16 hours on foot.

It’s little wonder Choquequirao (CHO-kay-keer-ow) gets only about five visitors a day.

“When we went there it was the two of us and the two rangers,” said Jeff Widman, a 27-year-old Internet entrepreneur from Menlo Park, California, who trekked there with his wife, and continued on to Machu Picchu.

Choquequirao, which means “cradle of gold” in Quechua, is believed to be the last refuge of Incan rulers who fled Cuzco after its leader Manco Inca was defeated by Spanish conquistadors. It is draped over the fold of a lesser mountain in the shadow

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Drought

Hundreds of hectares of paddy field haunted by harvest failure Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Since it has not rained, farmers in Klungkung are restless. Of course, hundreds of hectares of paddy plant of a month old are at risk of facing harvest failure due to difficulties in obtaining irrigation water. As happened to Subak Cau, Gelgel village, the newly grown paddy plants are threatened of experiencing damage due to lack of water.

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FILE - This Oct. 1, 2003 file photo shows the Choquequirao ruins in Cusco, Peru. Choquequirao, which means “cradle of gold” in Quechua, is believed to be the last refuge of Incan rulers who fled Cuzco after its leader Manco Inca was defeated by Spanish conquistadors. of Salcantay peak, surrounded at 9,950 feet (3030 meters) by steep precipices. Its buildings and irrigation canals meticulously hewn

into rock are as well-preserved as those of Machu Picchu, its “top-of-the-world” views equally spectacular.

Only about 30 percent of Choquequirao has been cleared for tourism. The rest, for now, remains covered in vegetation.

US: Virus likely causing dolphin deaths Associated Press Writer

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Officials examine a dead bottlenose dolphin that washed ashore on the Long Island, New York shoreline in this August 9, 2013 file handout photo courtesy of The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.

NORFOLK, Virginia — Federal officials identified a virus Tuesday as the likely reason hundreds of bottlenose dolphins died along the East Coast, but they say there’s little they can do to stop the deaths.

More than 330 dolphins have been stranded between New York and North Carolina since July 1, with nearly all of them dead by the time they wash up on shore, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

That’s more than nine times the historical average for dolphin strandings in the region during July and August. “Along the Atlantic seaboard, this is extraordinary,” Teri Rowles, NOAA Fisheries Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program coordinator, said in a conference call with reporters.

Earlier this month, NOAA declared an unusual mortality event so it could provide additional resources to study what was behind the rapid increase in deaths — more than half of which have occurred in Virginia. At the time, they suspected the cetacean

morbillivirus was causing the deaths, just as it did during the last major dolphin die-off.

In 1987 and 1988, the virus was blamed for causing 740 dolphin deaths between New Jersey and Florida.

Although research will continue, NOAA said it has collected enough evidence to declare the virus as the “tentative cause” in the most recent string of deaths as well.

Morbillivirus is found in a broad range of mammals, and dolphins with it typically experience symptoms such as skin lesions, brain infections and pneumonia. The virus is usually spread through inhalation of respiratory particles or direct contact between animals, although officials said there’s no risk of humans catching it. Bottlenose dolphins are typically found in groups of two to 15.

Officials at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center said many of the dolphins washing up on the state’s beaches are badly decomposed. State and federal officials say there are untold numbers of other dolphins that have also died and haven’t washed ashore, likely making the total death count much higher.

A plot of paddy field indicated if the land has cracked due to lack of water. Actually the paddy plants of such age should not lack of water.

A local farmer, Ketut Lacur, said on Tuesday (Aug 27) the water discharge flowing to his paddy field had decreased since last month.

Ultimately, local farmers decided to use the irrigation water in turns.

Apparently, such method could not irrigate all the rice field areas optimally because the water discharge was getting smaller and difficult to get to the farmland.

“When it’s time to get water and the paddy plants do not get it, they will die. Moreover, they are still at the beginning stage of growth.

Now, the land has cracked. If they cannot get water within this week, all the paddy plants of farmers can die,” he said while adding that 85 percent of local residents worked as

farmer and faced the same problem.

If the paddy field had cracked he recognized that it would be difficult to cultivate the land. Similar opinion was also revealed by Wayan Darma, a community leader at the local subak. Such condition would result in huge losses to farmers.

To overcome the problem, local farmers had prepared new variety requiring not too much water.

Later, when the irrigation water had run normally to the paddy fields, farmers could replace the dead paddy plants. They did it because they believed it would be raining in the near future and they would not suffer a total loss due to harvest failure afflicting hundreds of hectares of paddy field.

Diminishing water discharge did not only have an impact on hundreds of hectares of paddy plants, but also harmed the other

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Hundreds of hectare paddy field facing drought problem that can cause harvest failure. crops such as corn, chili and garden balsam. Local farmers hoped that such condition could be resolved soon. In other words, it was required concrete measures

in the future to seek other sources of water for the irrigation. Thus, farmers would not just rely on the rainwater to do the farming. The future of agriculture would be at

risk if farmers should face the difficulty to get irrigation water each year. In addition, the farmland conversion was increasingly unstoppable. (kmb31)

Marine debris pollutes Gelgel Beach Bali Post

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Gelgel Beach was facing big problem of garbage. Almost every corner of this beach covering with plastic garbage.

SEMARAPURA - Bad habit of Klungkung residents to dispose waste into the river seems to have not changed.

It is indicated by the domestic waste polluting the Gelgel Beach along approximately one kilometer, precisely between the Tapang Kembar Temple and Batu Tumpeng Temple. More severely, the condition has been going on for months without clear handling.

A local resident, Wayan Sumiati, said on Tuesday (Aug 27) the waste polluting the local beach originated from residents in upstream area of the river that disposed waste into the river every day. The river channel emptying into the local sea caused the waste dumped into the river to flow into the sea. At the end, the waste flung back to the shore along the Gelgel Beach.

In the long run, the piles of waste on the local beach accumulated. Virtually every day the waste of people flowed into the sea. Moreover, local residents, said Sumiati, did not carry out regular beach cleanups. Such condition was exacerbated by heavy rains as occurred lately in Klungkung where tidal waves carried back the marine debris to the coast. “After

it rained heavily and the tide went up, the waves flung the marine debris originating from some streams,” she said.

This condition had also been complained by a number of tourists that usually frequented the beach. Normally, the beach drew the attention of tourists for surfing because the waves on Gelgel Beach were quite challenging and appropriate for learning to surf.

Another resident, Nyoman Sudiarti, also complained about similar condition.

The amount of waste polluting the local beach every day was getting more and more. She also admitted to often receive complaints from local tour guides escorting tourists to the beach every day. “In the upstream area, the residents remain to have a habit of disposing waste into the river.

As consequence, the waste polluting the beach increases through the days,” said this resident from Jumpai.

Sumiati and Sudiarti hoped the residents in Klungkung could gradually reduce their habit of littering into the river. Otherwise, the piles of waste on the beach would increasingly pollute the beaches and generate bad impression in the eyes of tourists. (kmb31)

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KUTA - Grand Kuta Hotel and Residence is a modern and trendy condotel conceptualized for vacationing couples, friends and families looking for good value, ideal for either short holiday breaks or long stay assignments.

Blimbingsari located in Jembrana is a famous village whose population is dominated by Balinese Christian residents, not migrants. More interestingly, they do not leave their Balinese customs and culture. volunteer work at orphanage, trekking, hiking, snorkeling, visiting the Bali Barat National Park and directly mingling with local community.

“On average, the foreign tourists making a visit to the Blimbingsari village are from Australia, Germany, the U.S., the Netherlands, Canada, Africa, Korea, China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia,” he explained.

Since 2005 the Blimbingsari had been managed with a community-based tourism by the Blimbingsari Tourism Committee established by the Blimbingsari Village Authority, GKPB Peniel Blimbingsari and Diaspora Community of Blimbingsari. (kmb27)

Again, 90 seasonal migrants ensnared in inspection Denpasar (Bali Post)—

After the Ubung village made the inspection of population administration, it was then followed by Ben Biyu hamlet, Peguyangan Kaja village. The inspection was led by the Head of the Denpasar Population and Civil Registry Office by involving the public order officer, non-commissioned police officer, non-commission military officer, officials of Peguyangan Kaja village, hamlet chief and chief of local customary village, Monday night (Aug 26).

The ad interim headman of Peguyangan Kaja, I Wayan Suwita, said the activity of population control against sea-

sonal migrants was routinely carried out by each hamlet at Peguyangan Kaja. Similarly, the Ben Biyu hamlet also made a regular control against the seasonal migrants. However, to make data collection of the migrants after the Eid backflow, his party with the joint team carried out the population inspection. Peguyangan Kaja village had a strategic position located not far from the downtown so that it became one of the residences for migrants. To that end, his party would continue to intensify the inspection of population administration so as to get the more accurate data.

Results of the policing at Ben Biyu could ensnare 90 people, where 53 people were from outside Bali and 37 others were from outside Denpasar. From the raid, six residents were found to have no identity card.

The Division Head of Population Mobility, the Denpasar Population and Civil Registry Office, I Nyoman Artayasa, said the enforcement activity was to maintain the security, order and comfort of the city of Denpasar. Besides, it was also intended to detect as early as possible any suspicious things that could disrupt the security and comfort. (kmb12)

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days, Blimbingsari was made one of the tourist attractions.

In 2012, the total tourist arrival reached 2,593 people consisting of 174 foreign tourists and 2,419 domestic tourists. Additionally, for the accommodation the Blimbingsari village had owned 85 homestays with hotel room standards.

“For foreign tourists, Blimbingsari provides 20 rooms comprising 3 suite rooms and 17 deluxe rooms. The domestic tourist arrival is comparable to the number of foreign tourist arrival,” he said.

He explained that tourists making a visit or staying could do various activities such as working at the camp,

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Cultural acculturation in Jembrana becomes a tourist attraction “Although the majority is Christian, Blimbingsari is not different from the other traditional villages. They remain to preserve the Balinese architectural style, traditional costumes, language and even the people’s name still applies the Balinese name,” said Wayan Murtiyasa, an organizer of rural tourism program in Denpasar, Tuesday (Aug 27).

Even though the Blimbingsari residents were Christians, he said, they remained to maintain the original identity of Bali. It included the cultural procession, the arts and Balinese architectural style applied to their church building.

According to him, these

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The Guyangan water source is not being used properly

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Water crisis alleviation far from expectation

Provincial govt asked to complete Guyangan project Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Policy of the Bali and Klungkung government in alleviating the water crisis in Klungkung seems still far from expectation.

As in Nusa Penida subdistrict, the policy of clean water procurement by building a clean water project at Guyangan hamlet, Batukandik, has not optimally operated. Since the administration of Governor Made Mangku Pastika until now, the project worth billions of rupiahs remains to have leakage here and there.

The Head of Klungkung Municipality Waterworks (PDAM), Gede Darsana, said on Tuesday (Aug 27) the project was entirely the responsibility of the Bali government. He acknowledged the project had not been functioning optimally even though declared to have completed. Handover from the Bali government to Klungkung government had been made. Darsana said there had been a plan to perform the handover late this year. However, the provincial government confirmed there were some damages on the pipelines. “Some of the pipes are obsolete and rusty as using iron pipes. Currently, they are being replaced with rubber pipes. Thus, it cannot be

ascertained when it can function optimally and will be handed over,” he explained.

Initially, the Guyangan spring was projected to drain clean water for eight villages in Nusa Penida, including the Kutampi, Batu Kandik, Sekartaji, Batu Madeg, Tanglad, Pejukutan, Klumpu and Bunga Mekar. However, seeing the considerable water discharge, Darsana said the water source was expected to cover all the needs of clean water in Nusa Penida. When will the clean water project function maximally?

Darsana confessed not to know for sure because the management of Guyangan clean water project was the authority of the Bali government. Headman of Sekartaji, Wayan Suarta, said on Tuesday the Guyangan project was still unable to function optimally to provide water service for the entire region.

So far, some villages remained not to receive clean water service from the spring. He asked the provincial government to seriously resolve the problem, so when the drought kindling the clean water crisis, the spring could function optimally.

Similar opinion was revealed by the Subdistrict Head of Nusa

Penida, Ketut Sukla. He said the project should be accomplished immediately, so the complaints of local residents would not happen again and again. He added that a number of pipes in the Guyangan water project were still under repair so that it could not function optimally.

Meanwhile, Gede Darsana added the water services in Nusa Penida subdistrict by the Klungkung Municipal Waterworks just reached 18 percent.

The Waterworks had just owned a raw water source in Nusa Penida that was only capable of producing 11 liters per second of the raw water potential amounting to 179 liters per second at the local source. From the raw water source, the Waterworks could serve some villages like the Sakti, Ped, Toya Pakeh, Kutampi Kaler, Batu Nunggul and Suana. As for the water needs of the Lembongan and Ceningan Island, he said his party attempted to process the brackish water into fresh water by making shallow well at Ceningan. “Prior to the execution, a survey will be made by central government.As planned, the Klungkung government will be assisted as much as IDR 7 billion for this project,” he said. (kmb31)

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Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013 24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuninng Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcangkring Tabanan Pura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang Pura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klungkung Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pamerajan Alit Ubud Pura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Banjar Denuma Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Dalem batur Bangli Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud 3 Sep Anggarkasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang 4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan 9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri Tabanan Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin Lembongan Pura Batu Medeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba 11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksiring 12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Desa Guwang Sukawati Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu Karangasem Pura Pedharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamani Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar 25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli 28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

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

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

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Bullock, Clooney kick off Venice Film Festival Associated Press Writer

VENICE, Italy — Sandra Bullock and George Clooney kick off the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival with “Gravity,” a 3-D techno-drama set in outer space.

Bullock and Clooney play astronauts adrift in space after debris from a destroyed space station takes

out their shuttle in the Alfonso Cuaron film, which opens the festival out of competition on Thursday.

The stars arrived by motorboat convoy Wednesday a day ahead of their red-carpet global premier.

Twenty films are vying for the coveted Golden Lion at the world’s oldest film festival, which closes Sept. 7. The jury is headed by Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci.

Golden Lion contenders in-

NEW YORK — Rebecca Hall is confidently stepping toward center stage. This year, there was her snappy, unapologetic Sylvia in the Tom Stoppard HBO miniseries “Parade’s End,” a revelation of Hall’s dynamism and capacity for boldness. There was her supporting role as a scientist in “Iron Man 3,” an indoctrination to the Hollywood blockbuster. And, now, there’s the British thriller “Closed Circuit,” a confirmation of her ascendance to being a leading lady — one bristling with intelligence in any role.

“I want to play women who are rich and make mistakes and can be messy and ugly as well as pretty,” says Hall. “I think that’s really an important service.

That sounds very grand. I don’t mean it to sound grand.”

It’s been four years since Franz Ferdinand’s last album “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand,” and in that time the band nearly managed to split up, but thankfully they did not.

Instead they’ve recharged their batteries and made a fourth album, “Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action.”

It’s a 10-track experience of clever songwriting, catchy riffs and pure indie punk passion. “Love Illumination” is a standout track with its 1980s flare and unforgettable synth keyboard. “Bullet” shines with crashing guitars and an immense presence that jumps right out at you.

There’s no massive shift in Franz Ferdinand’s direction that most bands suffer in their “hiatus” period, however,

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Actor George Clooney, left, arrives on a boat at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival held from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7 in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013.

In a recent interview over tea at an East Village cafe, Hall is sharp, buoyant, funny and seemingly energized by the work she’s getting. She’s still glowing from the singing lines of Sylvia — a “once in a blue moon” part, she calls it — a shift for her to playing a more extroverted, forceful character: “It was massively liberating,” she says. Above all, she comes across, as she says of herself, as “restless and curious.”

“She’s the real McCoy,” says “Closed Circuit” director John Crowley. “She’s hugely impressive and has massive range. It felt like she would have the intellectual prowess but also the emotionality to handle the part.”

In “Closed Circuit,” Hall plays the Special Advocate appointed to jointly defend a man accused of bombing a crowded London marketplace. She and

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another lawyer (Eric Bana), with whom she has a romantic past, must work the case under confidentiality and in a hearing closed to the public — a cloak of secrecy that masks further injustice in the name of national security.

The film has obvious contemporary relevance, but it also relates personally to Hall. The 31-year-old actress has seen her life made the fodder of British tabloids for her relationship with director Sam Mendes.

“I find it slightly disturbing that privacy means that you’re guilty of something that you have to hide,” Halls says. “That probably stems from the fact that I saw my parents have their privacy invaded on by the press when they were going through their divorce when I was five or whatever. I was very aware of the press always — my dad’s reviews.”

Franz Ferdinand make loud comeback Associated Press Writer

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clude Terry Gilliam’s “The Zero Theorem,” Peter Landesman’s “Parkland” and Kelly Reichardt’s “Night Moves.”

Emboldened, Rebecca Hall moves toward center stage Associated Press Writer

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the influence of guest producers is evident. Todd Terje, Roxanne Clifford (Veronica Falls) and Bjorn Yttling (Peter Bjorn and John) all lend a hand, as well as Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, whose contribution to “Right Action” is remarkable, with its opening beat and mesmerizing flow.

The pace slows down on the electronic ballad “The Universe Expanded,” where Alex Kapranos’ soft vocals shine. “Brief Encounters” is another signature Franz offering with vintage keys and heavy percussion.

The closing track, “Goodbye Lovers and Friends,” could be mistaken for a final bow out with lyrics like: “When they lie and say this is not the end, you can laugh and say we’re still together, but this really is the end.” Thankfully it’s not — we hope.

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A barn that used to be full of cattle now having critical condition because most of cattle dead or sold by member of Simantri Group. Simantri is one of projects that initiated by Bali’s Governor Mangku Pastika during his first period as governor. According to several observers many projects that initiated by Governor Mangku Pastika still poor in the action plan.

Mangku Pastika Performance

The first five years still very weak AP Photo/Domino

This CD cover image released by Domino shows “Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action,” by Franz Ferdinand.

The performance of Bali Governor, Made Mangku Pastika is highly criticized. In the last five years during his leadership, many people consider him failed in many sectors. Not only the increasing number of poor citizen but also the low income people and the damage in Bali’s environment are the achievement of the governor.

“There are no great accomplishments done by the governor so practically the first period of the leadership of the government is failed,” said a social observer Putu Alit Suarsawan on Tuesday, August 27, 2013.

He also stated that the level of the welfare of Balinese people can be seen from the income which is not adequate yet, the high crime number, high number of divorce and garbage is not properly

maintained. This is including the policy that is popular among the society such as the reclamation of Benoa Bay The similar statement also said by the Head of National Democrat Party branch Bali, I.B. Oka Gunastawa and the former member of Bali House of Representative, A.A Widiada. In general, they see the leadership of the governor is very weak. This means that all of the policies given by the governor is only for

the benefit of certain groups.

“We are very sad as Balinese people that often after the end of a term, the former leader is in prison due to the crime he done before,” said Gunastawa. Based on this condition, he thinks that the governor should only give a chance to lead for one term or five years. This is very important because the governor can be replaced if he is doing a crime. (nik)