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Lady Gaga calls off European tour, citing severe physical pain

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LOS ANGELES - Lady Gaga on Monday called off the European leg of her world tour, saying she was suffering from severe physical pain and was seeking medical treatment.

The “Born This Way” singer, 31, who says she suffers from fibromyalgia, also canceled an appearance at a music festival in Rio de Janeiro last week and posted pictures of herself in a hospital with a drip on her arm.

She said on her social media accounts on Monday she was disappointed at comments from people online that “suggest that I’m being dramatic, making this up, or playing the victim to get out of touring. If you knew me, you would know this couldn’t be further from the truth.”

“I have always been honest about my physical and mental health struggles,” Gaga added.

“It is complicated and difficult to explain, and we are trying to figure it out.

“As I get stronger and when I feel ready, I will tell my story in more depth, and plan to take this on strongly so I can not only raise awareness, but expand research for others who suffer

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as I do, so I can help make a difference,” the singer added.

Fibromyalgia is a musculoskeletal pain disorder, often accompanied by fatigue and mood issues, that can be triggered by physical trauma or psychological stress.

Gaga’s European tour to promote her latest album “Joanne” was due to start on Sept. 21 in Barcelona, Spain, and continue for six weeks. The dates have been postponed until 2018.

“She plans to spend the next seven weeks proactively working with her doctors to heal from this and past traumas that still affect her daily life, and result in severe physical pain in her body,” promoters Live Nation said in a statement.

The singer was hospitalized in 2013 for a hip injury, and a new documentary, “Lady Gaga: Five Foot Two,” documents her struggles with chronic pain. (rtr)

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’Three Billboards Outside Ebbing’ wins at Toronto film festival TORONTO - Director Martin McDonagh’s comic drama, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” won the award for audience favorite at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, giving the film a boost ahead of the upcoming awards season. Frances McDormand plays a grieving mother frustrated with the police’s lack of progress in finding her daughter’s killer. The film, which screened in Venice earlier and is set for wide release later this year, won the Grolsch People’s Choice Award.

Craig Gillespie’s “I, Tonya,” about

U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding, and Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me

By Your Name,” a coming-of-age romance about forbidden love, were the runners-up.

Past audience winners and runners-up in Toronto have gone on to win or become best-picture Oscar nominees, solidifying the Toronto festival’s reputation as a launching pad for films that go on to receive critical acclaim.

Past winners and runners-up include “Spotlight,” “12 Years A Slave,” “The King’s Speech” and

“La La Land.”

Other winners at this year’s festival included “Faces Places” for the audience’s favorite documentary. Warwick Thornton’s “Sweet Country” won the festival’s Platform prize, selected by a panel of filmmakers. (rtr) Martin McDonagh holds the award for the best screenplay for the movie “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” during the awards ceremony at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy September 9, 2017.

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Amid the exodus, lone Rohingya children face dangers in camps

COX’S BAZAR - I t was August 28, and like any other Monday for brothers Hussain and Mufisa. The two boys, aged nine and ten, waved goodbye to their parents and left for school in their village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. When they returned, their childhood home was in flames and their parents were nowhere to be found. They followed their neighbours into the nearby forest, where they were told their parents, Rohingya Muslims, had died at the hands of the Myanmar army in an attack on the village of Chin Khali.

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A Rohingya refugee woman waits for aid with her grandson inside their temporary shelter at a camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh September 19, 2017.

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“We are very sad without our parents and feel very lonely,” Hussain said, with a vacant expression, in the Kutupalong camp across the border in Bangladesh. Beside him stood his brother, his bare arms folded defensively. With their home torched and parents dead, the two brothers were forced to flee with the other villagers, carrying nothing but their schoolbooks.

After five days walking over

jungled hills and across rivers the boys arrived in Bangladesh where they were abandoned by their neighbours and left to sleep on the side of the road. They are not the only children to have been orphaned or separated from their families in the explosion of violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State.

Over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a Myanmar military

offensive that began after a series of guerrilla attacks on Aug. 25 on security posts and an army camp in which about a dozen people were killed. Numerous Rohingya villages in the north of Rakhine have been torched but authorities in Buddhist-majority Myanmar have denied that security forces or Buddhist civilians set the fires.

They blame the insurgents, and say 30,000 non-Muslim villagers were

also displaced. The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, has so far identified 1,312 unaccompanied or separated Rohingya children among the latest arrivals in Bangladesh - a number they fear will increase over the coming days, Jean Lieby, head of child protection at UNICEF Bangladesh, said by phone on Monday.

UNICEF estimates that an “un-

precedented” 60 percent of new refugees in Bangladesh are children.

“We are particularly concerned about the separated children,” JeanJacques Simon at UNICEF South Asia told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Trafficking, child labour, exploitation - you name it, these children are vulnerable.”

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Anticipation of Mount Agung Eruption

Besakih Holds “Bakti Panglempana” rituals at Six Point

AMLAPURA - Gunung Agung’s continues to show signs of activity, requiring the public to be vigilant. In response to the anxiety demonstrated by people living at the foot of Mount Agung, Desa Adat Besakih has taken some steps to deal with the situation. In addition to informing the public about the situation, Besakih village will also hold a Bakti Panglempana ritual to plead to Ida Sang Hyang WIdhi (God Almighty) for Gunung Agung not to erupt again.

This ritual as a form of pangrastiti will be held on Wednesday (20/9) coinciding Tilem Sasih Third (new moon). “The Bakti Panglempana ceremony also coincides with the holding of the Bhumi’s Bhakti Aci ceremony at Pura Ulun Kukul, Besakih”, said said village head of Besakih customary village, Jero Mangku Widiartha, when contacted on Monday (18/9).

The location of the Panglempana ceremony will be centered at six points namely; Pura Dalem Puri, Pura Bangun Sakti, Pura Goa Raja, Basukian Temple, Pura Penataran Agung, and Pangubengan Temple. This ritual all members of the Kramat Desa Adat Besakih. “The plan of the regent and vice regent and related officials is present, we pray together so that the disaster we fear will never happen”, he said.

Alluding to the threat of disaster, he asserted that based on the traditional experience of the people of Besakih, if Mount Agung is about to erupt, there will be special signs. According to the elders who experienced the last eruption of Mount Agung in 1963, signs included trees on the slope of the mountain changing and animals descending the slopes of the mountain. As of Monday such signs were not seen, so the people of Besakih are resting easy and people seem to be going about their business as usual.

Jro WIdiartha also added that the community around Besakih is very disturbed by the circulation of incorrect information suc has the hoax video that was widely shared and rumours that the Great Mountain was going to erupt and so residents were being asked to evacuate immediately.

WIdiartha therefore agrees that people should look to official sources of information.

According to the observations of Gunung Agung’s activity made by KESDM Geological Agency PVMBG, Rendang Observation Post, the conclusion is that the activity level of Gunung Agung, still in the category level II or alert. Thus, the correct recommendations is that no activities be conducted within a 3 km radius of the crater of Gungung Agung. Besakih is still fairly safe. “ People need not worry about visiting Besakih” he said. (kmb31)

Jero Mangku Widiartha

AMLAPURA - Since the activities of Mount Agung have been declared to be in alert level, the people on the slopes of Mount Agung are increasingly often facing earthquakes.

Small earthquakes that can only be recorded through seismograph are not too felt. However, residents are often rocked by a powerful earthquake. As experienced by residents of Amerta Bhuana village, Selat subdistrict, they were worried after the area was rocked by strong enough earthquake on Monday night (Sep. 18).

Headman of Amerta Bhuana, Wayan Suara Arsana, said the quite strong earthquake occurred around 19:03. The earthquake shock made residents surprised and scattered out the house. Moreover, amid the currently increasing volcanic activities of Mount Agung, the earthquake is recorded to occur up to 300 times a day. “The earthquake occurred here is so strong, our residents are quite surprised,” he said.

Although the earthquake is strong enough, he confirmed the earthquake did not occur too long. So, after the earthquake people calmed down and came into their respective home.

He also persuaded their residents to remain calm, while monitoring further development of the volcanic activities of Mount Agung. “The earthquake is strong enough, so it triggers fear,” Wayan Eka, a local resident.

Until this news is published, there is no official information from the national weather agency (BMKG) Bali regarding the magnitude of the earthquake mostly felt at Amerta Bhuana village and neither is the official information from Mount Agung monitoring post updated every six hours. In the meantime, the points of earthquake felt by residents are not only at Amerta Bhuana village. Such strong earthquake shock was also felt by residents at several villages in the Kubu subdistrict. Some local residents claimed to also feel strong

earthquake. Earthquake shocks were also felt by residents in the Bebandem subdistrict as in Yeh Kori region. “The earthquake is also felt by our residents in Rendang. Hopefully, nothing will happen and the status of Mount Agung will soon be back to normal,” said a resident of Rendang, Wayan Merta.

This strong earthquake was also felt by residents at Sebudi village, Kubu subdistrict, on Thursday night (Sep. 14) making residents in the neighborhood stay awake until the morning. One of the local residents, Wayan Widiasa, said the strong earthquake was felt in the settlement around 22:40.

At that time, he felt the earthquake for about six times. The strongest was only felt once that made residents around the area anxious. “Usually the earthquakes are small, but there is a strong earthquake. We are forced to not sleep until morning for fear of the aftershocks,” said Widiasa. (kmb31)

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If Mount Agung erupts, Villages along Unda riverside potentially affected map of disaster-prone eruption of Mount Agung compiled

by Bappeda Bali in cooperation with the Center for Environmental Research of Udayana University. “The flow of Unda River belongs to prone areas of lava flood and flood. Possibly, it can also be hit by hot clouds, avalanches and cliff collapse if Mount Agung erupts,” he explained.

On that basis, it is resumed with the recapitulation of the number of population living at villages passed through by the river with quite heavy flow of water. In details, Selat village is inhabited by 4,889 people, Tegak village (4,517), Akah village (5,558), Semarapura (5,058), Semarapura Kangin (4,655), Semarapura Klod Kangin (7,450), Kamasan village (4,294), Gelgel village (5,292) and Gerombong hamlet, Su-

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lang village (474). In addition, Sampalan Kelod village has 3,287 inhabitants, Gunaksa village (6,107), Tangkas village (3,275), Jumpai village (1,998) and Kusamba village (124 families).

“In the map, the affected areas amount to 13 villages with a total population of approximately 52,000 people. This data collection is meant to ensure the distribution of aid and evacuation during the disaster,” said Widiada.

The latest condition of the volcano erupting in 1963 is constantly monitored. The results are immediately disseminated to the community. “We also ask to empower the village communications system to speed up the delivery of information,” he said. (kmb45)

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Strong earthquake shakes Amerta Bhuana

SEMARAPURA - Mount Agung in Karangasem is declared in alert level. Nevertheless, district government of Klungkung through the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has made preparations to deal with the worst possibility. It does not only prepare logistics, but also makes data collection and maps out the area potentially getting affected on Monday (Sep. 18).

Chief Executive of BPBD Klungkung, I Putu Widiada, explained that according to history, the eruption of Mount Agung did not only have an impact on the area of Karangasem district. However, the lava flows, ash and other volcanic ash also drained to a number of Klungkung region. One of the prone areas is the Unda River. It is also included in the

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The coming robot arms race

GEORGIA - Russia’s latest “Zapad” military exercise is underway on NATO’S eastern border.

Tens of thousands of soldiers are taking part in the massive four-yearly war games that are both a drill as well as a show of strength for the West. Next time around, in 2021, those troops might be sharing their battle space with a different type of force: self-driving drones, tanks, ships and submersibles.

Drone warfare is hardly new – the first lethal attack conducted by an American unmanned aerial vehicle took place in Afghanistan in October 2001. What is now changing fast, however, is the ability of such unmanned systems to operate without a guiding human hand.

That’s a truly revolutionary shift – and one every major nation wants to lead. Critics have long feared countries might be more willing to go to war with unmanned systems. Now, some see a very real risk that control might pass beyond human beings altogether.

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has long warned that humanity might be on the verge of some cataclysmic errors when it comes to artificial intelligence. Last month, he ramped that up with a warning that the development of autonomous weapons platforms might provoke a potentially devastating arms race.

As if to reinforce Musk’s point, Russian President Vladimir Putin told students shortly thereafter that he believed the technology would be a game changer, making it clear Russia would plow resources into it. “The one who becomes leader in this will become ruler of the world,” Putin was quoted as saying.

China too is pushing ahead, believed by some experts to now be the global leader when it comes to developing autonomous swarms of drones.

Already, drones are able to fly themselves independently so they can stay airborne if they lose touch with human pilots.

Soon they may be able to make their own tactical decisions.

At Georgia Tech in the United States this summer, researchers programmed swarms of light drones to fight their own aerial dogfights. The U.S. military is trying out similar products.

That means one operator could command many, many more drones – or that they might not need direct supervision at all.

Even more important than what is happening in robotics may be the wider developments in artificial intelligence.

That won’t make warfare necessarily more deadly – a bomb dropped from a drone is not in itself less lethal than one from a manned aircraft. While it’s possible that greater accuracy might reduce casualties, some analysts fear that the changes brought by new unmanned systems might themselves fuel new conflicts.

“Radical technological change begets radical government policy ideas,” concluded a July report on the topic produced for the U.S. intelligence community by Harvard University’s Belfer Center. It warned an “inevitable” AI arms race could prove as revolutionary as the invention of nuclear weapons.

Artificial intelligence could dramatically increase the efficiency of surveillance technology, allowing a single system to monitor perhaps millions of digital conversations, hacked personal devices and other sources of information. The implications could be terrifying, particularly in the hands of a state with little or no democratic oversight.

At a recent UK panel discussion, Britain’s former Special Forces director Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb predicted that by 2030, technological breakthroughs – not just AI, but quantum computing and beyond – would produce entirely unpredictable changes. Special force teams, he suggested, might well have a robotic and artificial intelligence component deployed alongside them – the U.S. Army calls this “manned-unmanned teaming.”

That sounds like something out of science fiction – and it might well look like it. Last year, Russia unveiled its FEDOR humanoid military robot, which it demonstrated firing a gun.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin uses a pair of binoculars while watching the Zapad-2017 war games, held by Russian and Belarussian servicemen, with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov (2nd R) seen nearby, at a military training ground in the Leningrad region, Russia September 18, 2017.

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Two foreigners suspected perpetrators of ATM breaker in a number of places in Buleleng.

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Most countries deliberately keep their defense AI secret, ultimately fueling the arms race Musk was warning about. Some scientists already worry about a real-world version of the premise for the Arnold Schwarzeneggerstarring “Terminator” film franchise in which the United States, fearing cyber attack, hands control of key military systems to the artificial intelligence Skynet. (Skynet, fearing its human creators might choose to turn it off, immediately launches a full-scale nuclear attack on humanity.)

For now, Western nations at least look keen to keep a human in the “kill chain.” Not all countries may make that choice, however. Russia has long had a reputation for trusting machines more than people, at one stage considering – and, some evidence suggests, building – an automated system to launch its nuclear arsenal should its command structure be destroyed by a first strike.

Outside of the military, there is evidence AI algorithms have already alarmed their creators. In August, Facebook shut down an AI experiment after programs involved began communicating with each other in a language the humans monitoring them could not understand.

Is this the end for ordinary human soldiering? Almost certainly not. It’s even been argued that a more complex, high-tech battlefield might require more soldiers, not fewer.

Robotic systems may be vulnerable to hacking, jamming and simply rendered inoperable through electronic warfare.

Such techniques allow U.S.-led forces in Iraq to largely negate the off-the-shelf drones being used by Islamic State.

Russia used similar techniques against Western-made drones in Ukraine.

That’s a worry for armed forces betting – like many industries – on automation. Britain’s new aircraft carrier has only a fraction of the sailors on its only slightly larger U.S. carrier counterparts, relying heavily on automatic systems to manage weaponry and damage control. The latest Russian tank, the T-14 Armata, has an automated turret that will usually be out of reach to most of its crew. Such techniques have clear advantages – but also mean that interfering with electronics could leave them useless.

Such technology is coming whether it is a good idea or not. Indeed, even relatively old military equipment increasingly can be retrofitted. Russian engineers have already demonstrated that they can adapt the 20-year-old T-90 tank to be controlled remotely.

Ironically, the North Korean crisis reminds us that the most dangerous technologies smay well remain those invented more than 70 years ago – atomic weapons and the missiles that carry them. Even if mankind can avoid a nuclear apocalypse, however, the coming AI and robotic revolution may prove an equal existential challenge. (rtr)

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A Iraqi Army drone flies in western Mosul, Iraq June 11, 2017.

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Suspected of breaking in ATM, two foreigners arrested by police

SINGARAJA - Two foreigners from Bulgaria were successfully arrested by the ranks of Directorate of Special Crime of Bali Police together with its counterpart from Singaraja town police on Saturday morning (Sep. 16). Both foreigners, namely BG and MBS, rented a villa on Jalan Damai Lovina. They were arrested when would take a skimmer installed in the ATM on Lovina Beach, Kalibukbuk village.

Both are suspected perpetrators of ATM breaker in a number of places in Buleleng.

Before being arrested around 23:30, an employee of PT Swadarma Sarana Informatika (SSI) Komang Sumarsana, 28, checked the ATM of BNI Lovina counter. At that time, the witness suspected an unknown person closing the surveillance camera (CCTV) at the local ATM using duct tape. Such peculiarities were then reported to the bank and police. Not long after, the BNI security guard and ranks of Singaraja town criminal investigation unit conducted an examination.

Around 01:00, police found two foreigners entering the ATM counter of BNI. Both foreigners were found attaching CCTV camera of the ATM and cameras at the ATM counter using duct tape. The action of both foreigners was successfully thwarted by police and instantly arrested. The officers found a suspicious device attached to the keypad of the ATM. Both foreigners were taken to Singaraja town police for further investigation.

In addition to arresting both foreigners, police also seized a number of evidences after searching the villa where both foreigners temporarily stayed on Jalan Damai, Lovina. From this location, the officers found black duct tape alleged to have been used to close the

CCTV camera on ATM machine and counter. There are also a set of ATM PIN skimmer installed in the ATM machines, 59 white ATM cards allegedly used to record ATM PIN, four Samsung smartphones, two units of iPhone, a Nokia smartphone and two IndiHome Wi-Fi devices. Besides, police also found cash amounting to IDR 26.4 million, MYR 1,100 and savings book.

Chief of Singaraja Town Police, A.A. Wiranata Kusuma, with permission from the Chief of Buleleng Police, Made Suka Wijaya, said that both foreigners are known to be operation target of police in the allegation of ATM burglary case.

From provisional information, the two foreigners broke in the ATM by installing ATM card skimmer to record PIN. Armed with this device, both foreigners got ATM PIN of the victims to be burglarized.

“Well, we have arrested two foreigners suspected of breaking in ATMs. The case is now being handled by Cyber Crime Unit of Bali Police. From initial testimony, they both installed a special tool to record ATM PIN. Armed with the tool, both foreigners burglarized the victim’s ATM,” he said.

Following the arrest of the ATM breakers in, police checked a number of ATM counters around Singaraja town. This effort is made to ensure that ATM counters in the area are free from the addition of such tools used to record customers’ ATM PIN. As a result, all the ATM counters around Singaraja town are free from the installation of such tools other than the bank’s original equipment. Besides, police also appealed to bank customers not to be careless. Before using ATM, customers must make sure the ATM machine is free from certain tools to avoid such a crime. (kmb38)

NEGARA - The outbreak of bird flu in Klungkung is also anticipated in Jembrana.

As inter-island border route and the region having been infected by bird flu, a number of regular efforts are intensified.

The Denpasar Agricultural Quarantine Office of Gilimanuk Branch increases the monitoring of in and out traffic of poultry through Gilimanuk Harbor. In the meantime, the animal health team from the animal health division, Jembrana Agriculture and Food Office did spraying to poultry cages, especially in traditional markets.

Coordinator of Gilimanuk Quarantine Office, Ida Bagus Eka Ludra, said on Monday (Sep. 18) that related to bird flu the quarantine office increases the monitoring of poultry traffic. In accordance with the Regulation of Governor (Pergub) Number 44/2005, the temporary prohibition of live poultry traffic (except for DOC) to Bali remains valid until today. In addition, supervision is also conducted related to processed meat without quarantine documents from the region of origin.

“Although the risk is actually small, we remain to supervise the entry of (poultry) meat especially when it is not equipped with quarantine documents,” he said. The document is in the form of Animal Health Certificate (SKKH) from the quarantine office from the

region of origin. The document ensures if the condition of meat is healthy and fresh.

On the other hand, the relevant agencies also anticipated the bird flu (H5NI) transmission in Jembrana region. One of them is by spraying cages of poultry sold in the market. Animal Health Division Head, the Jembrana Agriculture and Food Agency, Anak Agung Mahadikara, revealed the spraying is intended for anticipation of poultry disease carried out regularly every three months. “Actually it (spraying) is also meant as education to the community as well as maintenance for animal health including poultry,” he said.

The latest spraying was carried out on Friday (Sep. 15) in the cage of poultry in the Negara Public Market.

According to him, until Monday there has been no report related to the occurrence of many poultry deaths leading to bird flu. Nevertheless, the officers will remain alert to take action in case there is an indication of such condition. His agency also appealed to the public to actively report when there are mass dead poultry.

In 2016, Jembrana once experienced bird flu to claim fatalities, precisely at Dangin Tukadaya village, Jembrana subdistrict. At that time, it was followed up by carrying out mass elimination of poultry around the location. Over the past ten years, a number of incidents of chicken deaths are still found but they do not lead to H5NI. (kmb26)

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The spraying is intended for anticipation of poultry disease carried out regularly every three months.

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Woven fabrics entrepreneurs at Gelgel hard to find young weavers

SEMARAPURA — Entrepreneurs of songket and endek woven handicraft at Pegatepan, Gelgel Klungkung village all this time is quite difficult to find out skilled permanent weavers. To meet the market demand, the traditional fabric entrepreneurs only rely on some non-permanent weavers, and their age is even no longer young.

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It is difficult to find out permanent weavers, especially the young ones because the interest of young generation to pursue the weaving craft is already very minimal.

“It becomes our obstacle all this time. We have difficulty to find out permanent weavers, especially the young ones,” said Agus Aksara, the owner of Dian’s Songket and Endek House at Pegatepan, Gelgel Klungkung village, on Monday (Sep. 18).

To produce songket and endek woven fabrics, Agus admitted that he only relies on some non-permanent weavers at Gelgel village area. On average the weavers working for him are over the age of 30 years. They are mostly housewives that just make the work of weaving as their side job.

According to Agus, it is difficult to find out permanent weavers, especially the young ones because the interest of young generation to pursue the weaving craft is already very minimal. They are mostly interested in finding job opportunities outside

or even as shopkeeper rather than traditional weaver.

Actually, in terms of income, pursuing a job as a weaver is not inferior to others. If a weaver can finish a piece of songket cloth, it can get a wage of IDR 1 million. In the meantime, for a piece of endek cloth, a weaver is usually paid as much as IDR 50,000. “The endek cloth is usually accomplished in a day, while songket cloth is the fastest in twenty days,” he explained.

Due to limited manpower availability, Agus admitted to often reject the orders coming to him, especially the songket cloth order. This 25-yearold man said the high demand for endek and songket fabrics has been dominated by the local market. “So far, we can still receive the order of endek cloth,” he explained. (kmb40)

After Akasaka sealed, hundreds of employees scream DENPASAR — After the Akasaka nightclub got engaged in legal action and was continued with the sealing last June, a total of 224 permanent employees of PT Bali Surya Dewata (Akasaka Bali) from the division of karaoke, music club, A Club and restaurant are now living a moody life amidst the difficult economy. The employees largely consisting of aged ones and serving for decades cannot hold back the burden and scream as no longer having income for everyday life and family.

When visiting the Akasaka employees’ mess located on Jalan Pulau Misol, Denpasar, on Monday (Sep. 18), hundreds of employees of Akasaka were seen sitting and mingling with their colleagues.

Their face looked upset as seen when reporters made a visit to their residence.

The employees of Akasaka even expressed their anxiety when being visited at their mess, and they expressed their anxiety. “We are now living a difficult life in a difficult economy because we are no longer working, so we go to the BPJS Employment office to make a claim because Akasaka is not clear whether it will be closed forever or not. Moreover, if it will be closed, we are impressed to get early retirement,” said Eva, an employee of

Akasaka.

With her sluggish face bowing down, Eva also admitted that it is difficult to find out a new job because she has been aged with the service of more than five years. By submitting an pension fund claim (JHT) to BPJS Employment, the disbursement of pension fund seems insufficient to be functioned to meet everyday life.

“I have a family and am a single parent. I have two children remaining to attend elementary school and junior high school. As the backbone of family, with my current age, maybe only Akasaka can still accept because I have been working here for 10 years,” she said sluggishly.

Similar testimony was given

by Eli claiming to have worked in Akasaka for 16 years. As a migrant and aged worker, it is very difficult to find a new job. “As a migrant living in diaspora, I am now very difficult to support my family life with children. Currently, my life is much assisted by my friends working odd jobs to survive,” she said bitterly.

In the meantime, Ketut Kastawan, another employee of Akasaka, feels anxious because as family head he should attempt to give a decent living to family. Formerly, he once achieved decent livelihood when was still working at the Akasaka.

“After Akasaka experiences

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Korean peninsula draws range of military drills in show of force against N.Korea

BEIJING - The U.S. military staged bombing drills with South Korea over the Korean peninsula and Russia and China began naval exercises ahead of a U.N. General Assembly meeting on Tuesday where North Korea’s nuclear threat is likely to loom large.

The flurry of military drills came after Pyongyang fired another midrange ballistic missile over Japan on Friday and the reclusive North conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3 in defiance of United Nations sanctions and other international pressure.

A pair of U.S. B-1B bombers and four F-35 jets flew from Guam and Japan and joined four South Korean F-15K fighters in the latest drill, South Korea’s defence ministry said.

The joint drills were being conducted “two to three times a month these days”, Defence Minister Song Young-moo told a parliamentary hearing on Monday.

In Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said China and Russia began naval drills off the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok, not far from the Russia-North Korea border.

Those drills were being conducted between Peter the Great Bay, near Vladivostok, and the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, to the north of Japan, it said.

The drills are the second part of China-Russian naval exercises this year, the first part of which was staged in the Baltic in July. Xinhua did not directly link the drills to current tension over North Korea.

China and Russia have repeatedly

called for a peaceful solution and talks to resolve the issue.

On Sunday, however, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the U.N. Security Council had run out of options on containing North Korea’s nuclear programme and the United States might have to turn the matter over to the Pentagon.

In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the most pressing task was for all parties to enforce the latest U.N. resolutions on North Korea fully, rather than “deliberately complicating the issue”.

Military threats from various parties have not promoted a resolution to the issue, he said.

“This is not beneficial to a final resolution to the peninsula nuclear issue,” Lu told a daily news briefing.

U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed that North Korea will never be able to threaten the United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile.

Asked about Trump’s warning last month that the North Korean threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”, Haley said: “It was not an empty threat.”

Washington has also asked China to do more to rein in its neighbour and ally, while Beijing has urged the United States to refrain from making threats against the North.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16, 2017.

FUEL PRICES SURGE The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a U.S.-drafted resolution a week ago mandating tougher new sanctions against Pyongyang that included banning textile imports and capping crude and petrol supply.

North Korea on Monday called the resolution “the most vicious, unethical and inhumane act of hostility to physically exterminate” its people, system and government.

“The increased moves of the U.S. and its vassal forces to impose sanc-

tions and pressure... will only increase our pace towards the ultimate completion of the state nuclear force,” the North’s foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by its official KCNA news agency.

Gasoline and diesel prices in the North have surged since the latest nuclear test in anticipation of a possible oil ban, according to market data analysed by Reuters on Monday.

The international community must remain united and enforce sanctions against North Korea after its repeated

launch of ballistic missiles, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an editorial in the New York Times on Sunday.

Such tests were in violation of Security Council resolutions and showed that North Korea could now target the United States or Europe, he wrote.

Abe also said diplomacy and dialogue would not work with North Korea and concerted pressure by the entire international community was essential to tackle the threats posed by the north and its leader, Kim Jong Un. (rtr)

Western powers urge Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to push for end to violence IBP/kmb

Total of 224 permanent employees of PT Bali Surya Dewata (Akasaka Bali) from the division of karaoke, music club, A Club and restaurant are now living a moody life amidst the difficult economy. this case, I am confused what to do. I have tried to apply for jobs everywhere assisted by my friends.

Besides, I have got an interview but there is no call to work. My only decent living can only be obtained from Akasaka, and I have been working in Akasaka for 12 years.

Being aged like my colleagues, it is very difficult to look for another job, and we do not know how our live will be,” he said while taking a deep breath.

In the meantime, Marketing Division of Social Security Administrator for Health (BPJS) Employ-

ment of Denpasar Branch, Haryanjas Pasang Kamase, when asked for his confirmation related to pension fund (JHT) of Akasaka employees stated that claims of BPJS Employment should meet administrative requirements, provided that the labor has stopped working.

“After passing through onemonth waiting period, the pension fund can be withdrawn and the worker stops working. Moreover, according to the government regulation, if the worker stopped working and because of the economic condition, the government has issued

government regulation (PP) No. 60/2015 about pension funds. Most importantly, the worker meets the administrative requirements to claim,” he explained.

When asked about the status of PT Bali Surya Dewata (Akasaka), Haryanjas, revealed that PT Bali Surya Dewata remains active with 224 employees. “To claim the disbursement of BPJS Manpower’s pension fund, there must be an official letter of resignation from the company with the approval of relevant manpower service,” he said. (kmb)

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Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop arrives at a meeting to discuss the Rohingya situation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, U.S. September 18, 2017.

NEW YORK - Britain, France and Australia urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to push for an end to military violence against Rohingya Muslims, while her national security adviser said those who had fled could return but the process had to be discussed.

The military response to insurgent attacks last month in the western region of Myanmar sent more than 410,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh, escaping what the United Nations has branded as ethnic cleansing.

The government says about 400 people have been killed in the fighting.

“We will make sure that everybody who left their home can return to their home but this is a process we have to discuss,” Myanmar national security adviser Thaung Tun told Reuters on Monday after a ministerial meeting on the crisis hosted

by Britain on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

“We want to make sure that everybody who needs humanitarian assistance gets it, without discrimination. That is one of the

things we agreed on,” he said.

Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has faced a barrage of international criticism for not stopping the violence. She is due to speak to the nation on Tuesday about the crisis, which the United States has described as a “defining moment” for Myanmar.

“We expect from Mrs Aung Sang Suu Kyi tomorrow a strong statement in this direction,” French Foreign Minister JeanYves le Drian told reporters in New York.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson hosted a ministerial meeting to discuss ways to resolve the Rohingya crisis, which included ministers from Canada, Denmark, Turkey, Australia, Indonesia, Sweden, Bangladesh, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and a representative of the European Union.

“What we are trying to get everyone to agree is that, number one, the killings have got to stop, and the violence has got to stop. And we look not just to the military but also to Daw Suu to show a lead on that,” Johnson told Reuters before the meeting.

In a statement afterwards, Johnson said that while Myanmar had “made encouraging progress towards democracy in the last few years, the situation in Rakhine, the terrible human rights abuses and violence are a stain on the country’s reputation.”

“It is vital that Aung San Suu Kyi and the civilian government make clear these abuses must stop,” he said.

Johnson said he was “encouraged by our discussion and by the participation of the senior Burmese representatives, but we now need to see action to stop the violence and open up immediate humanitarian access.”

China, which, like the United States has worked to forge closer ties with Myanmar, a strategically important country in Southeast Asia, will not attend, a Chinese spokesman said, citing “a really packed calendar” for Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Reuters ahead of the British meeting that a lasting political solution needed to be found for the Rohingya in Myanmar. (rtr)

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DUESSELDORF/DUISBURG - The steelworks in Duisburg employed 3,000 people when it was closed in 1985. Today, the disused factory, now a park showcasing the city’s industrial heritage, gives work to dozens of curators, artists and athletes.

The SPD’s unexpected loss to the conservatives in a regional election there this year was an early sign that Schulz’s campaign was faltering.

The city of Duisburg remains an SDP stronghold, but in the bellwether state of North Rhine-Westphalia, home to a quarter of Germany’s population, the party’s vote share has been slipping for decades as industry cedes its place to a service economy.

DUESSELDORF WINS, DUISBURG DOESN’T Duesseldorf, the state capital just 30 kilometres (19 miles) away, has been a beneficiary from the transformation, growing richer as the economy shifts towards lighter industry and services. But Duisburg has been a loser in the transition.

On Duesseldorf’s Koenigsallee, lined with expensive boutiques and the offices of private banks and law firms, besuited lunchtime shoppers had doubts about Schulz’s message that neighbouring Duisburg needed their solidarity.

“It’s difficult to talk about social justice,” said Ruslana Jebackers, a young mother who was leaning towards voting for the pro-business

Free Democratic Party (FDP), a potential coalition ally for Merkel’s conservatives. “We pay a lot of taxes, but we don’t get much social justice of our own, like support for my family,” she added. For Mahmut Ozdemir, one of the SPD candidates in Duisburg, the city needs support to reinvent itself, developing its inland port - now Europe’s largest - on the Rhine.

Under the state’s new conservative-FDP government, the city will suffer, he says. “People will quickly realise what it means when the SPD is not in charge.” Nur, a 17-year-old interviewed in a marketplace in the deprived Duisburg district of Marxloh, liked Ozdemir’s message. “This guy said he cared,” she said, expressing the hope that the lawmaker could help to cut food prices. Schulz’s message gets a better reception with older voters.

“Merkel says we live well and happily in this country, but we don’t all live well,” said Christel Link, walking with a friend down the Koenigsallee. “All my three children are hard-working, they studied but they have difficulty making ends meet. It doesn’t have to be like that.” (rtr)

Mexico sees ‘elephants in the room’ in NAFTA talks -minister MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s economy minister said on Monday a successful retool of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would hinge on two or three complex areas that he called “elephants in the room,” just days before the next round of treaty talks in Canada.

Speaking at an event in Mexico City, Ildefonso Guajardo said four chapters in the agreement could be renegotiated in the third round of talks, due to take place Sept. 23-27 in Ottawa. The areas cover smaller companies, transparency and food safety.

The “elephants,” such as the U.S.

trade deficit with Mexico and rules of origin, will determine the success of the trade treaty’s renegotiation, he said. Rules of origin specify the percentage of components in a product that must be from the three NAFTA nations for it to qualify as duty free.

“This challenge of resolving two or three un-traditional topics at the trade negotiation tables is what is going to determine if, at the end of the day, we’re going to have an agreement or not,” Guajardo said in a Forbes Mexico talk.

In addition, Guajardo added that as many as 13 other chapters would

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Leviathan Lamalera: monsters, whales and multi media

In German rustbelt, Merkel challenger’s social justice pitch falls flat

Its fate is a symbol of the Ruhr, the mining and heavy industry region that drove West Germany’s post-World War Two economic recovery and whose working class communities provided the backbone of the centre-left’s Social Democrats (SPD).

Martin Schulz, the party’s leader, has been targeting the Ruhr with his campaign to fight inequality, arguing headline figures showing a healthy German economy masks pockets of deep poverty in parts of the country.

But with unemployment at its lowest in decades, that message has gained little traction, and the SPD, up to 17 points behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in the polls, looks set to be roundly beaten in Sunday’s elections.

Merkel’s message, that the economy needs to be rendered fit for the future by investing in digital technologies, appears to resonate more in Germany at a time of strong growth.

“Social Democracy was rooted and anchored in the Ruhr, but in past decades that has unwound,” said Stefan Marschall, a politics professor at Duesseldorf University.

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also be tough to negotiate.

Asked by journalists if Mexico would accept national content rules that would require a portion of products to be made in the United States, the minister said the topic had yet to reach the negotiating table.

“We would analyze it, but I believe as of today there is no trade agreement that contains this type of clause,” he said.

Guajardo reiterated that Mexico was ready to modernize the agreement, which U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap, and to find solutions with the United States and Canada. (rtr)

Eastern Flores comes to Bali

Leviathan is the name given to a giant underworld monster from the bible and Lamalera is a small village on the island of Lembata off the eastern tip of Flores known for being home to traditional sea mammal hunters. Leviathan Lamalera is the name of Prehistoric Soul’s multimedia art and social exchange project led by Javanese artist and anthropologist Jns Sestakresna exploring the giant threats facing these island people.

For many hundreds of years, the men of Lamalera have been setting off on small wooden boats to hunt numerous sea mammals including giant whales. The whale hunt for which they have become known, is conducted as part of their overreaching cosmo-vision and although the people of Lamalera are now christian, they still practice many of their cultural customs as a way to maintain harmony. The women of Lamalera are avid weavers who still use natural dyes to colour their hand spun yarn, They do not join the men at sea but they do play a role in the whale hunt and every single person in Lamalera is given a portion of the meat from the hunt.

The customs of the people of Lamalera are currently threatened both by environmentalists who protest their whale hunting and also from the tides of commercialization and tourism. For hundreds if not thousands of years, the people of Lembata island have engaged in trade with their fellow islanders. Those in the mountains trading fruit and vegetables for meat and salt from their coastal neighbours. With the increasing amount of commercial goods from other parts of Indonesia making their way into their market place come both benefits and challenges. In recent years,

increasing numbers of tourists have also started coming to visit Lamalera.

Prehistoric Soul became interested in exploring some of these challenges particularly in relation to who the younger generation can maintain their traditions while participating in the complexities of global economics and the cultural influences that follow.

Focusing both on the way of life that is intimately tied to the whale hunt and other skills that have value in the global market place, Prehistoric Soul spent a month preparing for a multi media performance on the coast of Lamalera.

The multi media project involved constructing a giant bamboo stage that evoked the shape of a boat and whale, preparing audio visual material to be proj-

Come on .., Let’s Sip Balinese Meatball Gravy When talking about foods, Bali is rich in a variety of tasty and delicious menus. One of them is be pulung-pulung kuah (meatball gravy) which has been inherited from the ancestors of Balinese.

This serving is similar with meatball in general because the round shape of it looks like a meatball.

However, it is not as smooth and soft as meatballs, but slightly rough because flesh and bones are

mixed together.

The main ingredient can be beef, pork, chicken, Muscovy duck, duck, eel, fish and other types of meat. However, the most common and easily obtained is meatball gravy made from chicken. No matter what ingredient used to prepare, this Balinese menu is always tasty. Its delicious aroma will always tempt people to taste it.

ect on and around this structure using video mapping as well as scenography for the performers.

Throughout the month, young villagers were taught who to work with bamboo, how to capture, edit and create audio visual material as well as staging. Through a series of informal workshops given by the Prehistoric Soul crew, the youngsters leaned both hard skills but perhaps more importantly, they learned to have a sense of pride for their traditions as a relevant part of contemporary times and how these traditions can be shared with others in a way that is satisfying to all involved.

The performance took place on the shore of Lamalera on August 17th, to honour Indonesia’s independence day and the motto of the nation “Unity in Diversity’.

The elders of the village were

honoured and excited about the event asking the crew to return again next year. Following the performance on Lembata Island, Prehistoric Soul brought the project to Bentara Budaya Bali.

On September 16-17, there was a video mapping worksop given by Jonas Sestakresna, Yudi Chandra and Bimo Dwipoalam to some 30 enthusiastic youngsters. Actors from Sanggar Purbacaraka and Senja Theater performed the adapted version of Leviathan Lamalera to a full house on September 17 in Bentara Budaya’s Bali’ gallery that was transformed into a virtual Lamalera.

The walls of the gallery hosted a photographic exhibition by Dwianto Wibowo who had joined the expedition to Lamalera. Unlike in other parts of the world where unwed women lack respect

and in some cases are fully ostracized, women in Lamalera who choose not to marry are known as “tata” and are considered as valuable members of society. In the case of the whale hunt for example, these women are given an equal portion of meat. The photos of the exhibition depicted some of these women and described some of their activities, including one woman who has opened a small library to encourage young people to read.

During the performance, the audience was transported to Lamalera, experiencing the slow but steady pace of daily village activities and the dramatic break in routine that the monumental whale hunt brings. Leviathan Lamalera plans to visit coastal villages throughout the archipelago in the coming months. (rtr)

This menu is always available in a party related to the ceremony of Hindu community in Bali. It can be served with rice, but will taste better when consumed with tipat or rice bag. Consuming this delicacy will taste better when enjoying the gravy by sipping. Rice is served in a different container or bowl, so that the gravy sipped will generate distinctive sound ‘gerosssss.’

The way to prepare it is quite unique. To crush meat, Balinese people do not grind or uses other modern tools, but uses knife to chop. If this activity is carried out together in a series of religious ceremonies, the process of chop-

ping meat will generate sound like the unique strains of music without a composer.

Meat is the main ingredient, while the spice in use belongs to base genep (Balinese complete spice) consisting of shallot, garlic, ginger, turmeric, ginger, aromatic ginger, pepper, coriander, nutmeg, cayenne pepper, red pepper and salt. Then, the seasoning of gravy includes fried onions, bay leaves and kaffir lime. All the ingredients are then finely pulverized, except the seasoning for the gravy.

Preparation is started by mixing the meat with grounded spice.

When using a little meat, it is usu-

ally added with grated coconut, so that it gets larger number of meatballs. Afterwards, they are mixed together and added with coconut oil. Then, it is resumed with the making of batter of meatballs.

At the same time, it is followed with the making of gravy by boiling water of about 700 cc. Then, add some spices, bay leaves and fried shallot. After the water with spices is boiling, put the meatballs into the gravy until they are floating. It means that it has cooked, and then add some salt to taste. When the flavor is okay, the meatball gravy is ready to be served. (kmb)

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Maria intensifies to rare Category 5 hurricane in Caribbean

PONCE - The fourth major Atlantic hurricane of the year, Maria, strengthened into a rare Category 5 storm, as it churned through the eastern Caribbean, bearing down on the tiny island nation of Dominica while on a likely collision course with the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Maria was upgraded to the pinnacle of the five-step SaffirSimpson scale as its maximum sustained winds reached 160 miles per hour (215 km per hour), with higher gusts, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.

The center of the storm, described by the NHC as “potentially catastrophic,” was located about 15 miles (72 km) east-southeast of Dominica as of 7:45 pm EDT (2345 GMT), on a track that would put it over Puerto Rico by Wednesday, according to the agency’s latest bulletins.

Dominica, a heavily forested former British colony home to 72,000 people, lies in the eastern Caribbean about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe, to the north, and Martinique, to the south.

Maria would be the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 85 years, since a Category 4 storm swept the U.S. island territory in 1932, Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said. The last major hurricane to strike Puerto Rico directly was Georges, which made landfall there as a Category 3 storm, he said.

The governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, urged island residents in a social media advisory to brace for the storm’s arrival, saying, “It is time to seek refuge with a family member, friend or head to a state shelter.”

Puerto Rico narrowly avoided a direct hit two weeks ago from Hurricane Irma, which reached a rare Category 5 status and ranked as the most powerful Atlantic storm on record

before devastating several smaller islands, including the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. John.

Residents of some islands fled in advance of the storm.

U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp said Maria was due to pass within 10 miles of the island of St. Croix, which escaped the brunt of Irma’s Category 5-force fury on Sept. 6 and is home to about 55,000 year-round residents, roughly half of the entire territory’s population.

The territory’s two other main islands, St. Thomas and St. John, which lie to the north of St. Croix, sustained widespread heavy damage from Irma.

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A woman covers herself with a raincoat while looking out at the ocean as Hurricane Maria approaches in Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe island, France, September 18, 2017.

Beth Tamplin Jones, 45, rode out Hurricane Irma earlier this month in the pantry of a friend’s house on St. John.

“It was so intense,” said Jones, who evacuated to Puerto Rico last week and then caught a flight to Atlanta, where she planned to remain until Maria passed.

“We’re in hurricane alley, so we’ve had other storms, but nothing like this,” Jones said, referring to Irma, which killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean and the U.S. mainland.

“I don’t think anybody’s ever been hit by a storm like that.

To see another one coming is just so discouraging.”

Mapp warned residents not to underestimate the threat from Maria, saying, “Just remember this is a live animal.”

He suggested that for residents who choose their homes over an emergency shelter during the storm, they might consider climbing into a bathtub and pulling a mattress over them to stay safe.

Maria was expected to whip up storm surges - seawater driven ashore by wind - of up to 9 feet (2.7 m) above normal tide levels, the NHC said. Parts of Puerto Rico could see up to 25 inches (64 cm) of rain, it said.

Puerto Rico, meanwhile, opened shelters and began to dismantle construction cranes that could be vulnerable to Maria’s high winds.

Forecasters also were tracking Category 1 Hurricane Jose, packing 75-mph (120-kph) winds and located about 250 miles (405 km) east of North Carolina, and stirring dangerous surf and rip currents to much of the U.S. Eastern seaboard.

Maria marks the 13th named Atlantic storm of the year, the seventh hurricane so far this season and the fourth major hurricane - defined as Category 3 or higher - following Harvey, Irma and Jose, the NHC said. Those numbers are all slightly above average for a typical season, which is only about half over for 2017. (rtr)

Venezuela opposition blames Maduro for detained activist’s death

CARACAS - Venezuela’s opposition blamed President Nicolas Maduro’s government on Monday for the death of a sick activist in detention, saying he was framed and then denied medical help.

Carlos Garcia, a local legislator in western Apure state, suffered a stroke in August after being arrested in late 2016 during protests and having money planted on him, his

party said.

Two days before his death on Sunday, Garcia was granted house arrest but was never transported home, the Justice First party added in a statement, saying the accusations were invented and he was never allowed adequate medical help.

“He should never have been in prison and should never have died

Amid the exodus...

concerns about government efforts to combat trafficking. The report expressed particular concern for country’s Rohingya population arguing their “stateless status and inability to receive aid and work legally increases their vulnerability to human trafficking.”

“We have already heard that there is the recruitment of children for exploitative domestic servitude jobs within the refugee camps” said UNICEF’s Lieby. Early marriage was also a risk for Rohingya refugee girls, whose families have too many mouths to feed. Earlier this year, a U.N. survey found that over half of Rohingya girls who fled to Malaysia, India and Indonesia became child brides.

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In the sprawling refugee camps that have sprung up along Bangladesh’s southern frontier, UNICEF has set up tented spaces for the children to play safely. But along the roadsides or among the muddy lanes of these squalid camps, thousands of Rohingya children beg for food or money.

TRAFFICKING RISK

Bangladesh was recently downgraded to a Tier 2 “Watch List” country in the U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report, reflecting increased

at the hands of a repressive government whose hands today more than ever are stained with blood,” said the party’s secretary general, Tomas Guanipa.

Venezuela’s opposition parties accuse Maduro, the 54-year-old successor of Hugo Chavez, of being a dictator and maintaining hundreds of political prisoners on trumped-up charges.

YOUNG AND VULNERABLE

In the Bangladeshi camp, 10-year-old Noor Kajol is one of those vulnerable. The young girl fled northern Rakhine State after the military shot her father in the head while the two of them were brushing their teeth, she said.

The eldest of five siblings in a fatherless household, she is now particularly at risk of exploitation. “We are hungry and have not had much food,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from her dingy shelter, deep inside what is called the new Kutupalong settlement.

The abduction and trafficking of minors is not a new threat faced

He denies that, saying all activists behind bars are there on legitimate charges, including for “terrorism” and coup-plotting against his socialist government.

Venezuela’s Supreme Court said Garcia had been detained on suspicion of theft, instigation of disorder, and arson.

He had received “appropriate medical attention” in hospital for

a condition of “immuno-deficient infectious disease,” which may have led to the fatal brain problem, it added in a statement.

“We request the nation’s political leaders to abstain from giving irresponsible opinions with false information intended to cause alarm in the population. On the contrary, we must give Christian respect to this Venezuelan citizen’s memory.” (rtr)

in Bangladesh, which has been hosting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees since the 1990s. In the first half of 2017, aid group Action contre la Faim (ACF) recorded the disappearance of 16 Rohingya children. But the sheer scale of the recent influx makes the new settlements fertile territory for traffickers, and it is not just the unaccompanied or separated children who are at risk, said Lieby.

“New families are vulnerable because they have lost everything and they need income so they are more inclined to hand their children over to harmful entities,” he said. “Our message is don’t give you child to anyone you don’t know.” Hussain and Mufisa are

safe for now, having been taken in by fellow refugee Zafor Ahmed, a stranger who found the boys crying by the side of the road.

They now live in the Kutupalong camp in Zafor’s family home - a precarious shelter made from two sheets of muddied tarpaulin and sticks of bamboo. At night they sleep body-to-body, a wicker mat the only barrier between them and the sodden earth. “I already have a family of six, so it is difficult to all live under the same tarpaulin hut,” said 45-year-old Zafor. “But it is not safe for them on their own so I am happy to look after them until the government of Bangladesh or another organisation can take responsibility.” (rtr)

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TNI commander instructs screening of film on communist insurgency TULUNGAGUNG - The Commander of the Indonesia Defense Forces (TNI), General Gatot Nurmantyo, confirmed here on Monday that he had instructed the screening of film on communist insurgency in 1965.

“Yes, It is my order, so what is the problem?,” he asked, when asked for confirmation regarding the instruction to TNI members to watch the film on the Indonesian Communist Party movement in 1965, locally known using its abbreviation as “G30S PKI.” When asked about the polemic on the screening of the film, Nurmantyo said “I do not care.”

He explained that the instruction was produced to mobilize all TNI members to watch the film made during the New Order government of former president Soeharto.

He noted that he wished to spread facts on historical values to the younger generation with the instruction.

“Only the government could prohibit me. I do not care about the polemic or parties who are against the screening of the film,” he explained. Nurmantyo noted that his instruction for TNI members to watch the G30S film was part of TNIs efforts to straighten out historical facts.

“If putting history right by talking about history is not allowed, what would the nation become,” he said, after paying respects at the tomb of independence proclaimer and first president Soekarno in Blitar, East Java, on Monday.

He remarked that “Bung Karno (president Soekarno) had once said “never to forget history” (known in its abbreviation as

“Jas Merah”). Never forget the services of heroes.”

“Let it be. Our purpose is to not to make a polemic. I only wish to remind the younger generation and my soldiers who have not known about it,” he reiterated.

He added that he only wished to remind that history may not be discredited with his instruction.

“This is a reminder to the nation to prevent such an incident from happening again. It is not for discrediting. It is to remind the people, especially the younger generation, to understand that we have had a black history, which involved a lot of victims,” he explained.

He expressed hope that people could learn from the film, which highlighted treason and cruelty of PKI, so that such incident would not happen again.

“It is not impossible for such an incident to happen again, but we hope it will never, and that is what it is intended for. If some perceive it as others, let them do it. It is not a problem. To us or to me, it is only for reminding people that such an incident will never happen again. By watching the film, it is hoped that people will remember the incident again and not be easily provoked or influenced. Let us boost our unity and cohesiveness,” he concluded.

The G30S PKI film was made in 1984. In Sept 1998, then information minister Yunus Yosfiah halted the distribution and screening of the film. The film is expected to be shown on Sept 30, while the army has already sent a circular to all rank and files to inform the public about it. (ant)

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Indonesian police detain 22 over violent anti-communist protest

JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities detained 22 people late on Monday after a violent mob clashed with police at an anti-communist protest in the capital Jakarta. President Joko Widodo’s government has tried to redress a bloody 1965 anti-communist purge, one of the darkest periods in the country’s history, but tensions remain over the purge in which an estimated 500,000 people were killed. “The public cannot take the law into their own hands, they must defer to law enforcement apparatus,” Widodo said in a statement issued after the clashes.

Communism is banned in Indonesia and any sympathisers are regarded with a deep suspicion and hostility, especially by nationalists and Islamists. Five police were injured in the clashes when a mob of around 200 gathered outside the Legal Aid Foundation in central Jakarta, which had held a seminar on the 1965 killings at the weekend.

Protesters threw rocks and water bottles and police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd,

according to media. Activists called for authorities to safeguard such events and for the public to “look critically at history”. “Repressive attitudes and allowing anarchists to threaten people’s rights will cripple our democracy,” the national commission for women’s rights said in a statement.

“There are victims of 1965 and the stigma associated with (communism) that deserve truth, justice, and healing.” The anti-communist purge started in late 1965 after then-general Suharto and the military took power following an abortive communist coup.

A million or more people were jailed, suspected of being communists.

Successive governments have refused to accept the estimated death toll figure and have refrained from apologising. The military, which is accused by activists of gross human rights violations during the 1965 purge, has bristled at any reconciliation efforts.

Military chief Gatot Nurmantyo this year ordered a Suharto-era propaganda film to be screened for soldiers across the country to mark the anniversary of the abortive coup on Sept 30, 1965, the night before the violence was unleashed. (rtr)

The police is guarding the Legal Aid Foundation Office in central Jakarta.

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Indonesia, Samoa agree to strengthen cooperation among PIF countries

JAKARTA - Indonesia and Samoa have agreed to strengthen cooperation among Pacific Island Forum (PIF) member states, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry said in a press statement released on Tuesday.

“Indonesia is committed to strengthening bilateral relations with South Pacific countries, including Samoa, based on mutual

benefit and mutual respect,” Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said.

Marsudi made the remarks after holding bilateral talks with her Samoan counterpart, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, on the sidelines of the 72nd UN General Assembly held in New York, the US, on Monday (Sept 18).

To increase the bilateral relations with Samoa, the two countries can focus on the agricultural, fisheries, and

tourism sectors as well as on disaster mitigation efforts, Marsudi stated.

The two ministers also discussed cooperation in capacity building in the fields of information, communication, and technology.

“Indonesia is ready to help Samoa by providing technical training and capacity building in the fields of information, communication, and technology,” she noted.

At the meeting, she also warmly welcomed the recent visit by several Samoan high-ranking officials, including Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Leuatea Polataivao Fossie Schmidt Laauli and Communication, Information and Technology Minister Afanasaga Lepuiai Rico Tupai, to Indonesia.

She further praised Tupai for his attendance at the commemoration

of the 72nd Indonesian Independence Day and participation in a fun walk to mark the Indonesian Foreign Ministrys anniversary.

The Indonesian minister underscored the importance of meetings between officials of the two countries, which are expected to encourage cooperation in many sectors, particularly trade and investment. (ant)

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TABANAN - A visit to Tabanan would not be complete without stopping by Puri Anyar in Kerambitan village, located about 28 km from Denpasar and 80 minutes form Ngurah Rai airport. Puri Anyar Kerambitan is the former palace of the Kingdom of Tabanan and was built in the seventeenth century in distinctive Balinese style and the buildings are still well maintained to this day. Puri Anyar Kerambitan houses many heritage objects including several famous paintings. Visitors to Puri Anyar Kerambitan are welcomed with a variety of Balinese art performances such as Tektekan, Joged

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Rossi not ruling out return in Spain this weekend

Bumbung, Andir and Legong Leko and a ‘royal’ banquet-style dinner.

Thus, visitors can feel like royalty in ancient times.

Puri Anyar Kerambitan lies adjacent to Puri Agung Kerambitan which is also a royal heritage of Bali. In typical Balinese royal architecture fashion, Puri Anyar Kerambitan is divided into several areas called palebahan or courtyards. They include; the Cangem Kodok, Bencingah Puri, Jaba Tengah, Tandakan Puri, Seren Agung and the Pemerajan Agung Puri Anyar Kerambitan located at Baturiti village, Kerambitan subdistrict, Tabanan. (IBP/net)

MISANO - Italian great Valentino Rossi has not ruled out a return to MotoGP in Spain this weekend, three weeks after breaking his right leg, after getting back on a bike for some test laps on Monday.

Yamaha said the 38-year-old, whose doctors had advised a 30-40 day recovery period, had ridden around the Misano circuit near his home in eastern Italy on a YZFR1M road bike to “put his fitness level to the test”.

The evaluation was inconclusive after rain forced him to cut the session short, however.

“He will decide by the end of Wednesday... whether he will attempt to take part in this weekend’s Gran Premio Movistar de Aragon,” Yamaha said.

Motorsport.com quoted his father Graziano as saying Rossi had completed seven or eight laps and hoped to test again on Tuesday.

“I was told he felt a lot of pain in his right leg, but he could not determine in so few laps whether a return at Aragon could be possible,” he said.

Rossi, a nine-times world cham-

pion, suffered a double fracture in an accident while riding an off-road enduro bike on Aug. 31.

He missed the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano and Yamaha said last week that Dutch Superbike rider Michael van der Mark would replace him at Aragon on Sept 24.

The Italian is fourth overall and 42 points adrift of Honda’s Marc Marquez and Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso, who are tied at the top of the championship.

The race at the Motorland Aragon circuit is the 14th round of the 18 race season.

Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis said last week he doubted Rossi would go there unless he felt he could be fighting for the top five or six positions.

In 2010, Rossi broke his right leg in practice for the Italian Grand Prix, and returned to MotoGP after an absence of six weeks. (rtr)

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LONDON - Sebastian Vettel’s temperament is under the spotlight again after the Ferrari driver’s hopes of seizing back the Formula One lead disappeared in a few seconds of mayhem at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday. The German, his fast-starting team mate Kimi Raikkonen and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen crashed out as they raced to the first corner.

Stewards summoned all three drivers after the race but decided none was wholly or predominantly to blame. The view was not shared by others who either pointed the finger at Verstappen, in his last race as a teenager, or accused Vettel of needless aggression at a key point in the

championship.

Long before Hamilton had stretched his lead to 28 points with six races remaining, Ferrari’s official Twitter feed stated that “VER (Verstappen) took #Kimi7 out and then he went to #Seb5.”

“What we tweeted was a factual description of events. No need to speculate on this,” it added later as reaction on social media flared.

Television footage and in-car cameras showed Raikkonen making a storming getaway from fourth on the grid and around Verstappen on the outside. Vettel, on pole, was slower off the line and steered left to squeeze Verstappen, who kept his car straight

and was pincered by the Ferraris.

The Dutch teenager and Raikkonen tangled wheels, with the Finn’s car slewing sideways and into Vettel’s before again careering into the Red Bull and also collecting Fernando Alonso’s McLaren.

“I think initially Sebastian saw I was a little bit better off the line than him so he wanted to close me. So he drove to the left,” said Verstappen.

“Maybe he didn’t see Kimi on the left but what do you expect, I cannot just move out of the way... I think it was just not very clever.”

Damon Hill, the 1996 world champion, was disappointed to see Vettel “pretty much blow his and

Ferrari’s championships into smithereens.”

“Nice one Seb. You’re better than that. Need to watch that short fuse,” said the Briton in a blog post.

Vettel made a public apology in July after he banged into Hamilton’s Mercedes in a moment of ‘road rage’ at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix while both were following the safety car.

Former Williams, McLaren and Red Bull racer David Coulthard told Britain’s Channel 4 viewers that the crash was “instigated by Seb.” Retired Australian driver turned pundit Mark Webber, who had a few clashes with Vettel as Red Bull team mates, defended Verstappen.

“If you were pushed for someone to blame then it looks like Seb because he’s the one doing the biggest movement,” he said in the Times newspaper.

“But in the end he wasn’t the one who crashed into Max. It was Kimi who crashed into Max. Max was innocent in this.”

Retired triple world champion Niki Lauda, now the Mercedes team’s non-executive chairman, said it was an incident Vettel could have avoided.

“If he (Vettel) would not have moved (across) he could have won the race, there’s no question about it. They were unlucky really, in a big way,” said the Austrian. (rtr)

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Sp rt United will miss Pogba, says Mkhitaryan

Manchester United may struggle to maintain their explosive start to the Premier League season if injured midfielder Paul Pogba is out for long, the club’s playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan has said.

Pogba hurt his hamstring during United’s Champions League win over Basel last week and will undergo further scans to determine his recovery period.

The France international, who captained United against the Swiss champions, limped off in the 3-0 win and some reports have suggested he could be out for 12 weeks with a muscle tear.

But manager Jose Mourinho has said the nature of the injury would not be known until after the results of the scans.

United thumped Everton 4-0 over the weekend with Marouane Fellaini stepping in for Pogba but Mkhitaryan said the club would miss Pogba’s creativity that has help them script big victories this season.

“It’s hard, because he’s a top player for us,” he told France’s SFR Sport. “It’s going to be very difficult, but the coach knows how to make up for that and we’re going to help him come back stronger.”

Mourinho’s side share top spot in the Premier League table with Manchester City and have 13 points from five games. Both Manchester clubs have scored 16 goals and conceded only two.

United host Championship side (second tier) Burton Albion in the third round of the League Cup on Wednesday before travelling to Southampton in the

Wolfsburg part company with coach who saved them from relegation BERLIN - VfL Wolfsburg parted company with coach Andries Jonker on Monday, less than four months after he helped save the Bundesliga club from relegation, and named Martin Schmidt as his replacement.

Jonker, appointed at the end of February, took charge of 19 competitive games including the two-legged relegation playoff against Eintracht Braunschweig in May which Wolfsburg won 2-0 on aggregate to secure their top-flight status. Jonker’s overall record was eight wins, four draws and seven

league on Saturday.

Important

Ander Herrera has made just one Premier League start this season but the Manchester United midfielder has no doubts he remains an important part of manager Jose Mourinho’s plans. The Spaniard earned praise last season for his influence on the side as they won the League Cup and Europa League but has lost his spot to Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic this campaign.

Overlooked on Sunday despite Paul Pogba’s absence through injury, Herrera came on as a 77th minute substitute against Everton and stabilised United’s midfield. United then scored three times in the final 10 minutes for a 4-0 win.

“I feel as important as I did last season,” the 28-year-old told British media. “I am a team player and I always say that and if the manager decides to keep me on the bench I will be ready. I said that last season and it is the same now.”

United’s player of the year last season, Herrera said he had no problem watching team mates Matic and Marouane Fellaini from the sidelines.

“I can learn from Nemanja and from ‘Felly’, he has some abilities that we don’t have in midfield. Paul Pogba is our most free midfielder and I can learn from him as well.

“I will try to enjoy every minute I have on the pitch.

I want to win titles and feel part of the team and feel important and I really do feel important because the manager makes me feel important.” (rtr)

Manchester United’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan scores their second goal

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defeats.

The Wolves, beaten 1-0 by promoted VfB Stuttgart on Saturday, have made an indifferent start to the new season, lying 14th in the table with four points from as many games.

The club said in a statement that the two parties had gone “separate ways” and that Jonker was “no longer head coach.”

“The decision to change coach so early in the season was not taken lightly,” said general manager Tim Schumacher. “We were finally convinced by our internal advisers that

we must undertake this task with a new coaching staff.”

Wolfgang Hotze, spokesman for the board of directors, said the decision was not just based on the Stuttgart match but “on the noticeable stagnation in the development of our... team in recent weeks.”

There was no immediate comment from the 54-year-old Jonker.

Schmidt was previously in charge of Mainz 05 for 2-1/2 seasons. The 50-year-old Swiss left his post in May after Mainz escaped the relegation playoff on goal difference. “Schmidt is the right man

for the task which lies ahead of us,” said Schumacher.

Schmidt added: “I didn’t have to think very much before taking this job. It was only a few hours from the first contact until the signature.”

Jonker, the first coaching casualty of the Bundesliga season, said after Saturday’s game that his team

played well in the first half but the forwards lost possession too often.

Jonker’s contract was due to run until the end of the season and he became the third coach to part company with Wolfsburg in less than one year following the sacking of Dieter Hecking last October and Valerien Israel in February. (rtr)

Ex-England captain Wayne Rooney pleads guilty to drink-driving REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Barcelona’s record signing Ousmane Dembele leaves the pitch after sustaining an injured during his Spanish La Liga match against Getafe at Colisseum Alfonso Perez stadium in Getafe, Spain, September 16, 2017. Picture taken September 16, 2017.

Barca coach Valverde blames Dembele inexperience for injury Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde believes Ousmane Dembele’s inexperience was partly to blame for the hamstring injury which will keep him out for around four months. The 20-year-old France winger backheeled the ball while running at speed in the 25th minute of Barca’s 2-1 win at Getafe in La Liga on Saturday and immediately pulled up injured.

Dembele, who joined the club from Borussia Dortmund for 105 million euros ($125.22 million) in the close season, was diagnosed on Sunday with a hamstring rupture which Barcelona said will sideline him until around Christmas.

“What’s clear is that this is a player who has never had a muscular problem, he doesn’t have the experience to recognise the little pains,” Valverde told a news conference on Monday.

“A player at that speed that makes this backheel move getting hurt, it’s not normal but it’s one of the possibilities. A veteran player

might not have done that.”

Dembele is in Finland to have his hamstring operated on and Valverde hopes the youngster can cope with being sidelined.

“It’s the hardest thing for a player, he’s injured and can’t help.

He has to be very patient, it’s what he has to do,” said the Barcelona coach.

“It’s just one more problem he will encounter in his career. You never want it to happen but we’ve all had muscle problems, knee injuries. You have to look at it from a long-term perspective.”

League leaders Barca face Eibar on Tuesday at the Camp Nou and Valverde said any one of Gerard Deulofeu, Aleix Vidal, Denis Suarez or Andre Gomes might be chosen to replace Dembele.

While the winger’s absence might not be felt for this game, Dembele is also set to miss the rest of Barcelona’s Champions League group fixtures and crucial domestic league clashes with Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. (rtr)

LONDON - Former England soccer captain Wayne Rooney received a two-year driving ban on Monday after pleading guilty in a British court to drink-driving, the Press Association news agency reported.

Rooney apologised for his “unforgivable lack of judgment” in a statement issued after he entered his guilty plea at Stockport Magistrates’ Court, near Manchester in northwest England.

The 31-year-old was arrested in the early hours of Sept. 1 while driving over the prescribed alcohol limit in the northwestern county of Cheshire.

Television footage showed him arriving at court on Monday wearing a dark suit.

In addition to the two-year driving ban, Rooney was ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work

as part of a 12-month community order, the PA reported.

“I want publicly to apologise for my unforgivable lack of judgment in driving while over the legal limit. It was completely wrong,” Rooney said in a statement.

Rooney announced in August he was retiring from national team duty, ending a 14-year stint in which he became England’s top scorer with 53 goals. In July, Rooney returned to Everton, his boyhood club, after 13 years with Manchester United.

“I have already said sorry to my family, my manager and chairman and everyone at Everton FC. Now I want to apologise to all the fans and everyone else who has followed and supported me throughout my career,” Rooney said. (rtr)

REUTERS/Andrew Yates

Wayne Rooney, Everton striker and former England captain leaves Stockport Magistrates court, Stockport, Britain September 18, 2017.

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Sp rt United will miss Pogba, says Mkhitaryan

Manchester United may struggle to maintain their explosive start to the Premier League season if injured midfielder Paul Pogba is out for long, the club’s playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan has said.

Pogba hurt his hamstring during United’s Champions League win over Basel last week and will undergo further scans to determine his recovery period.

The France international, who captained United against the Swiss champions, limped off in the 3-0 win and some reports have suggested he could be out for 12 weeks with a muscle tear.

But manager Jose Mourinho has said the nature of the injury would not be known until after the results of the scans.

United thumped Everton 4-0 over the weekend with Marouane Fellaini stepping in for Pogba but Mkhitaryan said the club would miss Pogba’s creativity that has help them script big victories this season.

“It’s hard, because he’s a top player for us,” he told France’s SFR Sport. “It’s going to be very difficult, but the coach knows how to make up for that and we’re going to help him come back stronger.”

Mourinho’s side share top spot in the Premier League table with Manchester City and have 13 points from five games. Both Manchester clubs have scored 16 goals and conceded only two.

United host Championship side (second tier) Burton Albion in the third round of the League Cup on Wednesday before travelling to Southampton in the

Wolfsburg part company with coach who saved them from relegation BERLIN - VfL Wolfsburg parted company with coach Andries Jonker on Monday, less than four months after he helped save the Bundesliga club from relegation, and named Martin Schmidt as his replacement.

Jonker, appointed at the end of February, took charge of 19 competitive games including the two-legged relegation playoff against Eintracht Braunschweig in May which Wolfsburg won 2-0 on aggregate to secure their top-flight status. Jonker’s overall record was eight wins, four draws and seven

league on Saturday.

Important

Ander Herrera has made just one Premier League start this season but the Manchester United midfielder has no doubts he remains an important part of manager Jose Mourinho’s plans. The Spaniard earned praise last season for his influence on the side as they won the League Cup and Europa League but has lost his spot to Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic this campaign.

Overlooked on Sunday despite Paul Pogba’s absence through injury, Herrera came on as a 77th minute substitute against Everton and stabilised United’s midfield. United then scored three times in the final 10 minutes for a 4-0 win.

“I feel as important as I did last season,” the 28-year-old told British media. “I am a team player and I always say that and if the manager decides to keep me on the bench I will be ready. I said that last season and it is the same now.”

United’s player of the year last season, Herrera said he had no problem watching team mates Matic and Marouane Fellaini from the sidelines.

“I can learn from Nemanja and from ‘Felly’, he has some abilities that we don’t have in midfield. Paul Pogba is our most free midfielder and I can learn from him as well.

“I will try to enjoy every minute I have on the pitch.

I want to win titles and feel part of the team and feel important and I really do feel important because the manager makes me feel important.” (rtr)

Manchester United’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan scores their second goal

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defeats.

The Wolves, beaten 1-0 by promoted VfB Stuttgart on Saturday, have made an indifferent start to the new season, lying 14th in the table with four points from as many games.

The club said in a statement that the two parties had gone “separate ways” and that Jonker was “no longer head coach.”

“The decision to change coach so early in the season was not taken lightly,” said general manager Tim Schumacher. “We were finally convinced by our internal advisers that

we must undertake this task with a new coaching staff.”

Wolfgang Hotze, spokesman for the board of directors, said the decision was not just based on the Stuttgart match but “on the noticeable stagnation in the development of our... team in recent weeks.”

There was no immediate comment from the 54-year-old Jonker.

Schmidt was previously in charge of Mainz 05 for 2-1/2 seasons. The 50-year-old Swiss left his post in May after Mainz escaped the relegation playoff on goal difference. “Schmidt is the right man

for the task which lies ahead of us,” said Schumacher.

Schmidt added: “I didn’t have to think very much before taking this job. It was only a few hours from the first contact until the signature.”

Jonker, the first coaching casualty of the Bundesliga season, said after Saturday’s game that his team

played well in the first half but the forwards lost possession too often.

Jonker’s contract was due to run until the end of the season and he became the third coach to part company with Wolfsburg in less than one year following the sacking of Dieter Hecking last October and Valerien Israel in February. (rtr)

Ex-England captain Wayne Rooney pleads guilty to drink-driving REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Barcelona’s record signing Ousmane Dembele leaves the pitch after sustaining an injured during his Spanish La Liga match against Getafe at Colisseum Alfonso Perez stadium in Getafe, Spain, September 16, 2017. Picture taken September 16, 2017.

Barca coach Valverde blames Dembele inexperience for injury Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde believes Ousmane Dembele’s inexperience was partly to blame for the hamstring injury which will keep him out for around four months. The 20-year-old France winger backheeled the ball while running at speed in the 25th minute of Barca’s 2-1 win at Getafe in La Liga on Saturday and immediately pulled up injured.

Dembele, who joined the club from Borussia Dortmund for 105 million euros ($125.22 million) in the close season, was diagnosed on Sunday with a hamstring rupture which Barcelona said will sideline him until around Christmas.

“What’s clear is that this is a player who has never had a muscular problem, he doesn’t have the experience to recognise the little pains,” Valverde told a news conference on Monday.

“A player at that speed that makes this backheel move getting hurt, it’s not normal but it’s one of the possibilities. A veteran player

might not have done that.”

Dembele is in Finland to have his hamstring operated on and Valverde hopes the youngster can cope with being sidelined.

“It’s the hardest thing for a player, he’s injured and can’t help.

He has to be very patient, it’s what he has to do,” said the Barcelona coach.

“It’s just one more problem he will encounter in his career. You never want it to happen but we’ve all had muscle problems, knee injuries. You have to look at it from a long-term perspective.”

League leaders Barca face Eibar on Tuesday at the Camp Nou and Valverde said any one of Gerard Deulofeu, Aleix Vidal, Denis Suarez or Andre Gomes might be chosen to replace Dembele.

While the winger’s absence might not be felt for this game, Dembele is also set to miss the rest of Barcelona’s Champions League group fixtures and crucial domestic league clashes with Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. (rtr)

LONDON - Former England soccer captain Wayne Rooney received a two-year driving ban on Monday after pleading guilty in a British court to drink-driving, the Press Association news agency reported.

Rooney apologised for his “unforgivable lack of judgment” in a statement issued after he entered his guilty plea at Stockport Magistrates’ Court, near Manchester in northwest England.

The 31-year-old was arrested in the early hours of Sept. 1 while driving over the prescribed alcohol limit in the northwestern county of Cheshire.

Television footage showed him arriving at court on Monday wearing a dark suit.

In addition to the two-year driving ban, Rooney was ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work

as part of a 12-month community order, the PA reported.

“I want publicly to apologise for my unforgivable lack of judgment in driving while over the legal limit. It was completely wrong,” Rooney said in a statement.

Rooney announced in August he was retiring from national team duty, ending a 14-year stint in which he became England’s top scorer with 53 goals. In July, Rooney returned to Everton, his boyhood club, after 13 years with Manchester United.

“I have already said sorry to my family, my manager and chairman and everyone at Everton FC. Now I want to apologise to all the fans and everyone else who has followed and supported me throughout my career,” Rooney said. (rtr)

REUTERS/Andrew Yates

Wayne Rooney, Everton striker and former England captain leaves Stockport Magistrates court, Stockport, Britain September 18, 2017.

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Puri Anyar Kerambitan

TABANAN - A visit to Tabanan would not be complete without stopping by Puri Anyar in Kerambitan village, located about 28 km from Denpasar and 80 minutes form Ngurah Rai airport. Puri Anyar Kerambitan is the former palace of the Kingdom of Tabanan and was built in the seventeenth century in distinctive Balinese style and the buildings are still well maintained to this day. Puri Anyar Kerambitan houses many heritage objects including several famous paintings. Visitors to Puri Anyar Kerambitan are welcomed with a variety of Balinese art performances such as Tektekan, Joged

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Rossi not ruling out return in Spain this weekend

Bumbung, Andir and Legong Leko and a ‘royal’ banquet-style dinner.

Thus, visitors can feel like royalty in ancient times.

Puri Anyar Kerambitan lies adjacent to Puri Agung Kerambitan which is also a royal heritage of Bali. In typical Balinese royal architecture fashion, Puri Anyar Kerambitan is divided into several areas called palebahan or courtyards. They include; the Cangem Kodok, Bencingah Puri, Jaba Tengah, Tandakan Puri, Seren Agung and the Pemerajan Agung Puri Anyar Kerambitan located at Baturiti village, Kerambitan subdistrict, Tabanan. (IBP/net)

MISANO - Italian great Valentino Rossi has not ruled out a return to MotoGP in Spain this weekend, three weeks after breaking his right leg, after getting back on a bike for some test laps on Monday.

Yamaha said the 38-year-old, whose doctors had advised a 30-40 day recovery period, had ridden around the Misano circuit near his home in eastern Italy on a YZFR1M road bike to “put his fitness level to the test”.

The evaluation was inconclusive after rain forced him to cut the session short, however.

“He will decide by the end of Wednesday... whether he will attempt to take part in this weekend’s Gran Premio Movistar de Aragon,” Yamaha said.

Motorsport.com quoted his father Graziano as saying Rossi had completed seven or eight laps and hoped to test again on Tuesday.

“I was told he felt a lot of pain in his right leg, but he could not determine in so few laps whether a return at Aragon could be possible,” he said.

Rossi, a nine-times world cham-

pion, suffered a double fracture in an accident while riding an off-road enduro bike on Aug. 31.

He missed the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano and Yamaha said last week that Dutch Superbike rider Michael van der Mark would replace him at Aragon on Sept 24.

The Italian is fourth overall and 42 points adrift of Honda’s Marc Marquez and Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso, who are tied at the top of the championship.

The race at the Motorland Aragon circuit is the 14th round of the 18 race season.

Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis said last week he doubted Rossi would go there unless he felt he could be fighting for the top five or six positions.

In 2010, Rossi broke his right leg in practice for the Italian Grand Prix, and returned to MotoGP after an absence of six weeks. (rtr)

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LONDON - Sebastian Vettel’s temperament is under the spotlight again after the Ferrari driver’s hopes of seizing back the Formula One lead disappeared in a few seconds of mayhem at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday. The German, his fast-starting team mate Kimi Raikkonen and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen crashed out as they raced to the first corner.

Stewards summoned all three drivers after the race but decided none was wholly or predominantly to blame. The view was not shared by others who either pointed the finger at Verstappen, in his last race as a teenager, or accused Vettel of needless aggression at a key point in the

championship.

Long before Hamilton had stretched his lead to 28 points with six races remaining, Ferrari’s official Twitter feed stated that “VER (Verstappen) took #Kimi7 out and then he went to #Seb5.”

“What we tweeted was a factual description of events. No need to speculate on this,” it added later as reaction on social media flared.

Television footage and in-car cameras showed Raikkonen making a storming getaway from fourth on the grid and around Verstappen on the outside. Vettel, on pole, was slower off the line and steered left to squeeze Verstappen, who kept his car straight

and was pincered by the Ferraris.

The Dutch teenager and Raikkonen tangled wheels, with the Finn’s car slewing sideways and into Vettel’s before again careering into the Red Bull and also collecting Fernando Alonso’s McLaren.

“I think initially Sebastian saw I was a little bit better off the line than him so he wanted to close me. So he drove to the left,” said Verstappen.

“Maybe he didn’t see Kimi on the left but what do you expect, I cannot just move out of the way... I think it was just not very clever.”

Damon Hill, the 1996 world champion, was disappointed to see Vettel “pretty much blow his and

Ferrari’s championships into smithereens.”

“Nice one Seb. You’re better than that. Need to watch that short fuse,” said the Briton in a blog post.

Vettel made a public apology in July after he banged into Hamilton’s Mercedes in a moment of ‘road rage’ at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix while both were following the safety car.

Former Williams, McLaren and Red Bull racer David Coulthard told Britain’s Channel 4 viewers that the crash was “instigated by Seb.” Retired Australian driver turned pundit Mark Webber, who had a few clashes with Vettel as Red Bull team mates, defended Verstappen.

“If you were pushed for someone to blame then it looks like Seb because he’s the one doing the biggest movement,” he said in the Times newspaper.

“But in the end he wasn’t the one who crashed into Max. It was Kimi who crashed into Max. Max was innocent in this.”

Retired triple world champion Niki Lauda, now the Mercedes team’s non-executive chairman, said it was an incident Vettel could have avoided.

“If he (Vettel) would not have moved (across) he could have won the race, there’s no question about it. They were unlucky really, in a big way,” said the Austrian. (rtr)

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Maria intensifies to rare Category 5 hurricane in Caribbean

PONCE - The fourth major Atlantic hurricane of the year, Maria, strengthened into a rare Category 5 storm, as it churned through the eastern Caribbean, bearing down on the tiny island nation of Dominica while on a likely collision course with the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Maria was upgraded to the pinnacle of the five-step SaffirSimpson scale as its maximum sustained winds reached 160 miles per hour (215 km per hour), with higher gusts, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.

The center of the storm, described by the NHC as “potentially catastrophic,” was located about 15 miles (72 km) east-southeast of Dominica as of 7:45 pm EDT (2345 GMT), on a track that would put it over Puerto Rico by Wednesday, according to the agency’s latest bulletins.

Dominica, a heavily forested former British colony home to 72,000 people, lies in the eastern Caribbean about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe, to the north, and Martinique, to the south.

Maria would be the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 85 years, since a Category 4 storm swept the U.S. island territory in 1932, Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said. The last major hurricane to strike Puerto Rico directly was Georges, which made landfall there as a Category 3 storm, he said.

The governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, urged island residents in a social media advisory to brace for the storm’s arrival, saying, “It is time to seek refuge with a family member, friend or head to a state shelter.”

Puerto Rico narrowly avoided a direct hit two weeks ago from Hurricane Irma, which reached a rare Category 5 status and ranked as the most powerful Atlantic storm on record

before devastating several smaller islands, including the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. John.

Residents of some islands fled in advance of the storm.

U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp said Maria was due to pass within 10 miles of the island of St. Croix, which escaped the brunt of Irma’s Category 5-force fury on Sept. 6 and is home to about 55,000 year-round residents, roughly half of the entire territory’s population.

The territory’s two other main islands, St. Thomas and St. John, which lie to the north of St. Croix, sustained widespread heavy damage from Irma.

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A woman covers herself with a raincoat while looking out at the ocean as Hurricane Maria approaches in Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe island, France, September 18, 2017.

Beth Tamplin Jones, 45, rode out Hurricane Irma earlier this month in the pantry of a friend’s house on St. John.

“It was so intense,” said Jones, who evacuated to Puerto Rico last week and then caught a flight to Atlanta, where she planned to remain until Maria passed.

“We’re in hurricane alley, so we’ve had other storms, but nothing like this,” Jones said, referring to Irma, which killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean and the U.S. mainland.

“I don’t think anybody’s ever been hit by a storm like that.

To see another one coming is just so discouraging.”

Mapp warned residents not to underestimate the threat from Maria, saying, “Just remember this is a live animal.”

He suggested that for residents who choose their homes over an emergency shelter during the storm, they might consider climbing into a bathtub and pulling a mattress over them to stay safe.

Maria was expected to whip up storm surges - seawater driven ashore by wind - of up to 9 feet (2.7 m) above normal tide levels, the NHC said. Parts of Puerto Rico could see up to 25 inches (64 cm) of rain, it said.

Puerto Rico, meanwhile, opened shelters and began to dismantle construction cranes that could be vulnerable to Maria’s high winds.

Forecasters also were tracking Category 1 Hurricane Jose, packing 75-mph (120-kph) winds and located about 250 miles (405 km) east of North Carolina, and stirring dangerous surf and rip currents to much of the U.S. Eastern seaboard.

Maria marks the 13th named Atlantic storm of the year, the seventh hurricane so far this season and the fourth major hurricane - defined as Category 3 or higher - following Harvey, Irma and Jose, the NHC said. Those numbers are all slightly above average for a typical season, which is only about half over for 2017. (rtr)

Venezuela opposition blames Maduro for detained activist’s death

CARACAS - Venezuela’s opposition blamed President Nicolas Maduro’s government on Monday for the death of a sick activist in detention, saying he was framed and then denied medical help.

Carlos Garcia, a local legislator in western Apure state, suffered a stroke in August after being arrested in late 2016 during protests and having money planted on him, his

party said.

Two days before his death on Sunday, Garcia was granted house arrest but was never transported home, the Justice First party added in a statement, saying the accusations were invented and he was never allowed adequate medical help.

“He should never have been in prison and should never have died

Amid the exodus...

concerns about government efforts to combat trafficking. The report expressed particular concern for country’s Rohingya population arguing their “stateless status and inability to receive aid and work legally increases their vulnerability to human trafficking.”

“We have already heard that there is the recruitment of children for exploitative domestic servitude jobs within the refugee camps” said UNICEF’s Lieby. Early marriage was also a risk for Rohingya refugee girls, whose families have too many mouths to feed. Earlier this year, a U.N. survey found that over half of Rohingya girls who fled to Malaysia, India and Indonesia became child brides.

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In the sprawling refugee camps that have sprung up along Bangladesh’s southern frontier, UNICEF has set up tented spaces for the children to play safely. But along the roadsides or among the muddy lanes of these squalid camps, thousands of Rohingya children beg for food or money.

TRAFFICKING RISK

Bangladesh was recently downgraded to a Tier 2 “Watch List” country in the U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report, reflecting increased

at the hands of a repressive government whose hands today more than ever are stained with blood,” said the party’s secretary general, Tomas Guanipa.

Venezuela’s opposition parties accuse Maduro, the 54-year-old successor of Hugo Chavez, of being a dictator and maintaining hundreds of political prisoners on trumped-up charges.

YOUNG AND VULNERABLE

In the Bangladeshi camp, 10-year-old Noor Kajol is one of those vulnerable. The young girl fled northern Rakhine State after the military shot her father in the head while the two of them were brushing their teeth, she said.

The eldest of five siblings in a fatherless household, she is now particularly at risk of exploitation. “We are hungry and have not had much food,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from her dingy shelter, deep inside what is called the new Kutupalong settlement.

The abduction and trafficking of minors is not a new threat faced

He denies that, saying all activists behind bars are there on legitimate charges, including for “terrorism” and coup-plotting against his socialist government.

Venezuela’s Supreme Court said Garcia had been detained on suspicion of theft, instigation of disorder, and arson.

He had received “appropriate medical attention” in hospital for

a condition of “immuno-deficient infectious disease,” which may have led to the fatal brain problem, it added in a statement.

“We request the nation’s political leaders to abstain from giving irresponsible opinions with false information intended to cause alarm in the population. On the contrary, we must give Christian respect to this Venezuelan citizen’s memory.” (rtr)

in Bangladesh, which has been hosting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees since the 1990s. In the first half of 2017, aid group Action contre la Faim (ACF) recorded the disappearance of 16 Rohingya children. But the sheer scale of the recent influx makes the new settlements fertile territory for traffickers, and it is not just the unaccompanied or separated children who are at risk, said Lieby.

“New families are vulnerable because they have lost everything and they need income so they are more inclined to hand their children over to harmful entities,” he said. “Our message is don’t give you child to anyone you don’t know.” Hussain and Mufisa are

safe for now, having been taken in by fellow refugee Zafor Ahmed, a stranger who found the boys crying by the side of the road.

They now live in the Kutupalong camp in Zafor’s family home - a precarious shelter made from two sheets of muddied tarpaulin and sticks of bamboo. At night they sleep body-to-body, a wicker mat the only barrier between them and the sodden earth. “I already have a family of six, so it is difficult to all live under the same tarpaulin hut,” said 45-year-old Zafor. “But it is not safe for them on their own so I am happy to look after them until the government of Bangladesh or another organisation can take responsibility.” (rtr)

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TNI commander instructs screening of film on communist insurgency TULUNGAGUNG - The Commander of the Indonesia Defense Forces (TNI), General Gatot Nurmantyo, confirmed here on Monday that he had instructed the screening of film on communist insurgency in 1965.

“Yes, It is my order, so what is the problem?,” he asked, when asked for confirmation regarding the instruction to TNI members to watch the film on the Indonesian Communist Party movement in 1965, locally known using its abbreviation as “G30S PKI.” When asked about the polemic on the screening of the film, Nurmantyo said “I do not care.”

He explained that the instruction was produced to mobilize all TNI members to watch the film made during the New Order government of former president Soeharto.

He noted that he wished to spread facts on historical values to the younger generation with the instruction.

“Only the government could prohibit me. I do not care about the polemic or parties who are against the screening of the film,” he explained. Nurmantyo noted that his instruction for TNI members to watch the G30S film was part of TNIs efforts to straighten out historical facts.

“If putting history right by talking about history is not allowed, what would the nation become,” he said, after paying respects at the tomb of independence proclaimer and first president Soekarno in Blitar, East Java, on Monday.

He remarked that “Bung Karno (president Soekarno) had once said “never to forget history” (known in its abbreviation as

“Jas Merah”). Never forget the services of heroes.”

“Let it be. Our purpose is to not to make a polemic. I only wish to remind the younger generation and my soldiers who have not known about it,” he reiterated.

He added that he only wished to remind that history may not be discredited with his instruction.

“This is a reminder to the nation to prevent such an incident from happening again. It is not for discrediting. It is to remind the people, especially the younger generation, to understand that we have had a black history, which involved a lot of victims,” he explained.

He expressed hope that people could learn from the film, which highlighted treason and cruelty of PKI, so that such incident would not happen again.

“It is not impossible for such an incident to happen again, but we hope it will never, and that is what it is intended for. If some perceive it as others, let them do it. It is not a problem. To us or to me, it is only for reminding people that such an incident will never happen again. By watching the film, it is hoped that people will remember the incident again and not be easily provoked or influenced. Let us boost our unity and cohesiveness,” he concluded.

The G30S PKI film was made in 1984. In Sept 1998, then information minister Yunus Yosfiah halted the distribution and screening of the film. The film is expected to be shown on Sept 30, while the army has already sent a circular to all rank and files to inform the public about it. (ant)

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Indonesian police detain 22 over violent anti-communist protest

JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities detained 22 people late on Monday after a violent mob clashed with police at an anti-communist protest in the capital Jakarta. President Joko Widodo’s government has tried to redress a bloody 1965 anti-communist purge, one of the darkest periods in the country’s history, but tensions remain over the purge in which an estimated 500,000 people were killed. “The public cannot take the law into their own hands, they must defer to law enforcement apparatus,” Widodo said in a statement issued after the clashes.

Communism is banned in Indonesia and any sympathisers are regarded with a deep suspicion and hostility, especially by nationalists and Islamists. Five police were injured in the clashes when a mob of around 200 gathered outside the Legal Aid Foundation in central Jakarta, which had held a seminar on the 1965 killings at the weekend.

Protesters threw rocks and water bottles and police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd,

according to media. Activists called for authorities to safeguard such events and for the public to “look critically at history”. “Repressive attitudes and allowing anarchists to threaten people’s rights will cripple our democracy,” the national commission for women’s rights said in a statement.

“There are victims of 1965 and the stigma associated with (communism) that deserve truth, justice, and healing.” The anti-communist purge started in late 1965 after then-general Suharto and the military took power following an abortive communist coup.

A million or more people were jailed, suspected of being communists.

Successive governments have refused to accept the estimated death toll figure and have refrained from apologising. The military, which is accused by activists of gross human rights violations during the 1965 purge, has bristled at any reconciliation efforts.

Military chief Gatot Nurmantyo this year ordered a Suharto-era propaganda film to be screened for soldiers across the country to mark the anniversary of the abortive coup on Sept 30, 1965, the night before the violence was unleashed. (rtr)

The police is guarding the Legal Aid Foundation Office in central Jakarta.

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Indonesia, Samoa agree to strengthen cooperation among PIF countries

JAKARTA - Indonesia and Samoa have agreed to strengthen cooperation among Pacific Island Forum (PIF) member states, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry said in a press statement released on Tuesday.

“Indonesia is committed to strengthening bilateral relations with South Pacific countries, including Samoa, based on mutual

benefit and mutual respect,” Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said.

Marsudi made the remarks after holding bilateral talks with her Samoan counterpart, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, on the sidelines of the 72nd UN General Assembly held in New York, the US, on Monday (Sept 18).

To increase the bilateral relations with Samoa, the two countries can focus on the agricultural, fisheries, and

tourism sectors as well as on disaster mitigation efforts, Marsudi stated.

The two ministers also discussed cooperation in capacity building in the fields of information, communication, and technology.

“Indonesia is ready to help Samoa by providing technical training and capacity building in the fields of information, communication, and technology,” she noted.

At the meeting, she also warmly welcomed the recent visit by several Samoan high-ranking officials, including Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Leuatea Polataivao Fossie Schmidt Laauli and Communication, Information and Technology Minister Afanasaga Lepuiai Rico Tupai, to Indonesia.

She further praised Tupai for his attendance at the commemoration

of the 72nd Indonesian Independence Day and participation in a fun walk to mark the Indonesian Foreign Ministrys anniversary.

The Indonesian minister underscored the importance of meetings between officials of the two countries, which are expected to encourage cooperation in many sectors, particularly trade and investment. (ant)

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DUESSELDORF/DUISBURG - The steelworks in Duisburg employed 3,000 people when it was closed in 1985. Today, the disused factory, now a park showcasing the city’s industrial heritage, gives work to dozens of curators, artists and athletes.

The SPD’s unexpected loss to the conservatives in a regional election there this year was an early sign that Schulz’s campaign was faltering.

The city of Duisburg remains an SDP stronghold, but in the bellwether state of North Rhine-Westphalia, home to a quarter of Germany’s population, the party’s vote share has been slipping for decades as industry cedes its place to a service economy.

DUESSELDORF WINS, DUISBURG DOESN’T Duesseldorf, the state capital just 30 kilometres (19 miles) away, has been a beneficiary from the transformation, growing richer as the economy shifts towards lighter industry and services. But Duisburg has been a loser in the transition.

On Duesseldorf’s Koenigsallee, lined with expensive boutiques and the offices of private banks and law firms, besuited lunchtime shoppers had doubts about Schulz’s message that neighbouring Duisburg needed their solidarity.

“It’s difficult to talk about social justice,” said Ruslana Jebackers, a young mother who was leaning towards voting for the pro-business

Free Democratic Party (FDP), a potential coalition ally for Merkel’s conservatives. “We pay a lot of taxes, but we don’t get much social justice of our own, like support for my family,” she added. For Mahmut Ozdemir, one of the SPD candidates in Duisburg, the city needs support to reinvent itself, developing its inland port - now Europe’s largest - on the Rhine.

Under the state’s new conservative-FDP government, the city will suffer, he says. “People will quickly realise what it means when the SPD is not in charge.” Nur, a 17-year-old interviewed in a marketplace in the deprived Duisburg district of Marxloh, liked Ozdemir’s message. “This guy said he cared,” she said, expressing the hope that the lawmaker could help to cut food prices. Schulz’s message gets a better reception with older voters.

“Merkel says we live well and happily in this country, but we don’t all live well,” said Christel Link, walking with a friend down the Koenigsallee. “All my three children are hard-working, they studied but they have difficulty making ends meet. It doesn’t have to be like that.” (rtr)

Mexico sees ‘elephants in the room’ in NAFTA talks -minister MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s economy minister said on Monday a successful retool of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would hinge on two or three complex areas that he called “elephants in the room,” just days before the next round of treaty talks in Canada.

Speaking at an event in Mexico City, Ildefonso Guajardo said four chapters in the agreement could be renegotiated in the third round of talks, due to take place Sept. 23-27 in Ottawa. The areas cover smaller companies, transparency and food safety.

The “elephants,” such as the U.S.

trade deficit with Mexico and rules of origin, will determine the success of the trade treaty’s renegotiation, he said. Rules of origin specify the percentage of components in a product that must be from the three NAFTA nations for it to qualify as duty free.

“This challenge of resolving two or three un-traditional topics at the trade negotiation tables is what is going to determine if, at the end of the day, we’re going to have an agreement or not,” Guajardo said in a Forbes Mexico talk.

In addition, Guajardo added that as many as 13 other chapters would

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Leviathan Lamalera: monsters, whales and multi media

In German rustbelt, Merkel challenger’s social justice pitch falls flat

Its fate is a symbol of the Ruhr, the mining and heavy industry region that drove West Germany’s post-World War Two economic recovery and whose working class communities provided the backbone of the centre-left’s Social Democrats (SPD).

Martin Schulz, the party’s leader, has been targeting the Ruhr with his campaign to fight inequality, arguing headline figures showing a healthy German economy masks pockets of deep poverty in parts of the country.

But with unemployment at its lowest in decades, that message has gained little traction, and the SPD, up to 17 points behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in the polls, looks set to be roundly beaten in Sunday’s elections.

Merkel’s message, that the economy needs to be rendered fit for the future by investing in digital technologies, appears to resonate more in Germany at a time of strong growth.

“Social Democracy was rooted and anchored in the Ruhr, but in past decades that has unwound,” said Stefan Marschall, a politics professor at Duesseldorf University.

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also be tough to negotiate.

Asked by journalists if Mexico would accept national content rules that would require a portion of products to be made in the United States, the minister said the topic had yet to reach the negotiating table.

“We would analyze it, but I believe as of today there is no trade agreement that contains this type of clause,” he said.

Guajardo reiterated that Mexico was ready to modernize the agreement, which U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap, and to find solutions with the United States and Canada. (rtr)

Eastern Flores comes to Bali

Leviathan is the name given to a giant underworld monster from the bible and Lamalera is a small village on the island of Lembata off the eastern tip of Flores known for being home to traditional sea mammal hunters. Leviathan Lamalera is the name of Prehistoric Soul’s multimedia art and social exchange project led by Javanese artist and anthropologist Jns Sestakresna exploring the giant threats facing these island people.

For many hundreds of years, the men of Lamalera have been setting off on small wooden boats to hunt numerous sea mammals including giant whales. The whale hunt for which they have become known, is conducted as part of their overreaching cosmo-vision and although the people of Lamalera are now christian, they still practice many of their cultural customs as a way to maintain harmony. The women of Lamalera are avid weavers who still use natural dyes to colour their hand spun yarn, They do not join the men at sea but they do play a role in the whale hunt and every single person in Lamalera is given a portion of the meat from the hunt.

The customs of the people of Lamalera are currently threatened both by environmentalists who protest their whale hunting and also from the tides of commercialization and tourism. For hundreds if not thousands of years, the people of Lembata island have engaged in trade with their fellow islanders. Those in the mountains trading fruit and vegetables for meat and salt from their coastal neighbours. With the increasing amount of commercial goods from other parts of Indonesia making their way into their market place come both benefits and challenges. In recent years,

increasing numbers of tourists have also started coming to visit Lamalera.

Prehistoric Soul became interested in exploring some of these challenges particularly in relation to who the younger generation can maintain their traditions while participating in the complexities of global economics and the cultural influences that follow.

Focusing both on the way of life that is intimately tied to the whale hunt and other skills that have value in the global market place, Prehistoric Soul spent a month preparing for a multi media performance on the coast of Lamalera.

The multi media project involved constructing a giant bamboo stage that evoked the shape of a boat and whale, preparing audio visual material to be proj-

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This serving is similar with meatball in general because the round shape of it looks like a meatball.

However, it is not as smooth and soft as meatballs, but slightly rough because flesh and bones are

mixed together.

The main ingredient can be beef, pork, chicken, Muscovy duck, duck, eel, fish and other types of meat. However, the most common and easily obtained is meatball gravy made from chicken. No matter what ingredient used to prepare, this Balinese menu is always tasty. Its delicious aroma will always tempt people to taste it.

ect on and around this structure using video mapping as well as scenography for the performers.

Throughout the month, young villagers were taught who to work with bamboo, how to capture, edit and create audio visual material as well as staging. Through a series of informal workshops given by the Prehistoric Soul crew, the youngsters leaned both hard skills but perhaps more importantly, they learned to have a sense of pride for their traditions as a relevant part of contemporary times and how these traditions can be shared with others in a way that is satisfying to all involved.

The performance took place on the shore of Lamalera on August 17th, to honour Indonesia’s independence day and the motto of the nation “Unity in Diversity’.

The elders of the village were

honoured and excited about the event asking the crew to return again next year. Following the performance on Lembata Island, Prehistoric Soul brought the project to Bentara Budaya Bali.

On September 16-17, there was a video mapping worksop given by Jonas Sestakresna, Yudi Chandra and Bimo Dwipoalam to some 30 enthusiastic youngsters. Actors from Sanggar Purbacaraka and Senja Theater performed the adapted version of Leviathan Lamalera to a full house on September 17 in Bentara Budaya’s Bali’ gallery that was transformed into a virtual Lamalera.

The walls of the gallery hosted a photographic exhibition by Dwianto Wibowo who had joined the expedition to Lamalera. Unlike in other parts of the world where unwed women lack respect

and in some cases are fully ostracized, women in Lamalera who choose not to marry are known as “tata” and are considered as valuable members of society. In the case of the whale hunt for example, these women are given an equal portion of meat. The photos of the exhibition depicted some of these women and described some of their activities, including one woman who has opened a small library to encourage young people to read.

During the performance, the audience was transported to Lamalera, experiencing the slow but steady pace of daily village activities and the dramatic break in routine that the monumental whale hunt brings. Leviathan Lamalera plans to visit coastal villages throughout the archipelago in the coming months. (rtr)

This menu is always available in a party related to the ceremony of Hindu community in Bali. It can be served with rice, but will taste better when consumed with tipat or rice bag. Consuming this delicacy will taste better when enjoying the gravy by sipping. Rice is served in a different container or bowl, so that the gravy sipped will generate distinctive sound ‘gerosssss.’

The way to prepare it is quite unique. To crush meat, Balinese people do not grind or uses other modern tools, but uses knife to chop. If this activity is carried out together in a series of religious ceremonies, the process of chop-

ping meat will generate sound like the unique strains of music without a composer.

Meat is the main ingredient, while the spice in use belongs to base genep (Balinese complete spice) consisting of shallot, garlic, ginger, turmeric, ginger, aromatic ginger, pepper, coriander, nutmeg, cayenne pepper, red pepper and salt. Then, the seasoning of gravy includes fried onions, bay leaves and kaffir lime. All the ingredients are then finely pulverized, except the seasoning for the gravy.

Preparation is started by mixing the meat with grounded spice.

When using a little meat, it is usu-

ally added with grated coconut, so that it gets larger number of meatballs. Afterwards, they are mixed together and added with coconut oil. Then, it is resumed with the making of batter of meatballs.

At the same time, it is followed with the making of gravy by boiling water of about 700 cc. Then, add some spices, bay leaves and fried shallot. After the water with spices is boiling, put the meatballs into the gravy until they are floating. It means that it has cooked, and then add some salt to taste. When the flavor is okay, the meatball gravy is ready to be served. (kmb)

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Woven fabrics entrepreneurs at Gelgel hard to find young weavers

SEMARAPURA — Entrepreneurs of songket and endek woven handicraft at Pegatepan, Gelgel Klungkung village all this time is quite difficult to find out skilled permanent weavers. To meet the market demand, the traditional fabric entrepreneurs only rely on some non-permanent weavers, and their age is even no longer young.

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It is difficult to find out permanent weavers, especially the young ones because the interest of young generation to pursue the weaving craft is already very minimal.

“It becomes our obstacle all this time. We have difficulty to find out permanent weavers, especially the young ones,” said Agus Aksara, the owner of Dian’s Songket and Endek House at Pegatepan, Gelgel Klungkung village, on Monday (Sep. 18).

To produce songket and endek woven fabrics, Agus admitted that he only relies on some non-permanent weavers at Gelgel village area. On average the weavers working for him are over the age of 30 years. They are mostly housewives that just make the work of weaving as their side job.

According to Agus, it is difficult to find out permanent weavers, especially the young ones because the interest of young generation to pursue the weaving craft is already very minimal. They are mostly interested in finding job opportunities outside

or even as shopkeeper rather than traditional weaver.

Actually, in terms of income, pursuing a job as a weaver is not inferior to others. If a weaver can finish a piece of songket cloth, it can get a wage of IDR 1 million. In the meantime, for a piece of endek cloth, a weaver is usually paid as much as IDR 50,000. “The endek cloth is usually accomplished in a day, while songket cloth is the fastest in twenty days,” he explained.

Due to limited manpower availability, Agus admitted to often reject the orders coming to him, especially the songket cloth order. This 25-yearold man said the high demand for endek and songket fabrics has been dominated by the local market. “So far, we can still receive the order of endek cloth,” he explained. (kmb40)

After Akasaka sealed, hundreds of employees scream DENPASAR — After the Akasaka nightclub got engaged in legal action and was continued with the sealing last June, a total of 224 permanent employees of PT Bali Surya Dewata (Akasaka Bali) from the division of karaoke, music club, A Club and restaurant are now living a moody life amidst the difficult economy. The employees largely consisting of aged ones and serving for decades cannot hold back the burden and scream as no longer having income for everyday life and family.

When visiting the Akasaka employees’ mess located on Jalan Pulau Misol, Denpasar, on Monday (Sep. 18), hundreds of employees of Akasaka were seen sitting and mingling with their colleagues.

Their face looked upset as seen when reporters made a visit to their residence.

The employees of Akasaka even expressed their anxiety when being visited at their mess, and they expressed their anxiety. “We are now living a difficult life in a difficult economy because we are no longer working, so we go to the BPJS Employment office to make a claim because Akasaka is not clear whether it will be closed forever or not. Moreover, if it will be closed, we are impressed to get early retirement,” said Eva, an employee of

Akasaka.

With her sluggish face bowing down, Eva also admitted that it is difficult to find out a new job because she has been aged with the service of more than five years. By submitting an pension fund claim (JHT) to BPJS Employment, the disbursement of pension fund seems insufficient to be functioned to meet everyday life.

“I have a family and am a single parent. I have two children remaining to attend elementary school and junior high school. As the backbone of family, with my current age, maybe only Akasaka can still accept because I have been working here for 10 years,” she said sluggishly.

Similar testimony was given

by Eli claiming to have worked in Akasaka for 16 years. As a migrant and aged worker, it is very difficult to find a new job. “As a migrant living in diaspora, I am now very difficult to support my family life with children. Currently, my life is much assisted by my friends working odd jobs to survive,” she said bitterly.

In the meantime, Ketut Kastawan, another employee of Akasaka, feels anxious because as family head he should attempt to give a decent living to family. Formerly, he once achieved decent livelihood when was still working at the Akasaka.

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Korean peninsula draws range of military drills in show of force against N.Korea

BEIJING - The U.S. military staged bombing drills with South Korea over the Korean peninsula and Russia and China began naval exercises ahead of a U.N. General Assembly meeting on Tuesday where North Korea’s nuclear threat is likely to loom large.

The flurry of military drills came after Pyongyang fired another midrange ballistic missile over Japan on Friday and the reclusive North conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3 in defiance of United Nations sanctions and other international pressure.

A pair of U.S. B-1B bombers and four F-35 jets flew from Guam and Japan and joined four South Korean F-15K fighters in the latest drill, South Korea’s defence ministry said.

The joint drills were being conducted “two to three times a month these days”, Defence Minister Song Young-moo told a parliamentary hearing on Monday.

In Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said China and Russia began naval drills off the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok, not far from the Russia-North Korea border.

Those drills were being conducted between Peter the Great Bay, near Vladivostok, and the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, to the north of Japan, it said.

The drills are the second part of China-Russian naval exercises this year, the first part of which was staged in the Baltic in July. Xinhua did not directly link the drills to current tension over North Korea.

China and Russia have repeatedly

called for a peaceful solution and talks to resolve the issue.

On Sunday, however, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the U.N. Security Council had run out of options on containing North Korea’s nuclear programme and the United States might have to turn the matter over to the Pentagon.

In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the most pressing task was for all parties to enforce the latest U.N. resolutions on North Korea fully, rather than “deliberately complicating the issue”.

Military threats from various parties have not promoted a resolution to the issue, he said.

“This is not beneficial to a final resolution to the peninsula nuclear issue,” Lu told a daily news briefing.

U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed that North Korea will never be able to threaten the United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile.

Asked about Trump’s warning last month that the North Korean threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”, Haley said: “It was not an empty threat.”

Washington has also asked China to do more to rein in its neighbour and ally, while Beijing has urged the United States to refrain from making threats against the North.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16, 2017.

FUEL PRICES SURGE The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a U.S.-drafted resolution a week ago mandating tougher new sanctions against Pyongyang that included banning textile imports and capping crude and petrol supply.

North Korea on Monday called the resolution “the most vicious, unethical and inhumane act of hostility to physically exterminate” its people, system and government.

“The increased moves of the U.S. and its vassal forces to impose sanc-

tions and pressure... will only increase our pace towards the ultimate completion of the state nuclear force,” the North’s foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by its official KCNA news agency.

Gasoline and diesel prices in the North have surged since the latest nuclear test in anticipation of a possible oil ban, according to market data analysed by Reuters on Monday.

The international community must remain united and enforce sanctions against North Korea after its repeated

launch of ballistic missiles, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an editorial in the New York Times on Sunday.

Such tests were in violation of Security Council resolutions and showed that North Korea could now target the United States or Europe, he wrote.

Abe also said diplomacy and dialogue would not work with North Korea and concerted pressure by the entire international community was essential to tackle the threats posed by the north and its leader, Kim Jong Un. (rtr)

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Total of 224 permanent employees of PT Bali Surya Dewata (Akasaka Bali) from the division of karaoke, music club, A Club and restaurant are now living a moody life amidst the difficult economy. this case, I am confused what to do. I have tried to apply for jobs everywhere assisted by my friends.

Besides, I have got an interview but there is no call to work. My only decent living can only be obtained from Akasaka, and I have been working in Akasaka for 12 years.

Being aged like my colleagues, it is very difficult to look for another job, and we do not know how our live will be,” he said while taking a deep breath.

In the meantime, Marketing Division of Social Security Administrator for Health (BPJS) Employ-

ment of Denpasar Branch, Haryanjas Pasang Kamase, when asked for his confirmation related to pension fund (JHT) of Akasaka employees stated that claims of BPJS Employment should meet administrative requirements, provided that the labor has stopped working.

“After passing through onemonth waiting period, the pension fund can be withdrawn and the worker stops working. Moreover, according to the government regulation, if the worker stopped working and because of the economic condition, the government has issued

government regulation (PP) No. 60/2015 about pension funds. Most importantly, the worker meets the administrative requirements to claim,” he explained.

When asked about the status of PT Bali Surya Dewata (Akasaka), Haryanjas, revealed that PT Bali Surya Dewata remains active with 224 employees. “To claim the disbursement of BPJS Manpower’s pension fund, there must be an official letter of resignation from the company with the approval of relevant manpower service,” he said. (kmb)

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Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop arrives at a meeting to discuss the Rohingya situation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, U.S. September 18, 2017.

NEW YORK - Britain, France and Australia urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to push for an end to military violence against Rohingya Muslims, while her national security adviser said those who had fled could return but the process had to be discussed.

The military response to insurgent attacks last month in the western region of Myanmar sent more than 410,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh, escaping what the United Nations has branded as ethnic cleansing.

The government says about 400 people have been killed in the fighting.

“We will make sure that everybody who left their home can return to their home but this is a process we have to discuss,” Myanmar national security adviser Thaung Tun told Reuters on Monday after a ministerial meeting on the crisis hosted

by Britain on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

“We want to make sure that everybody who needs humanitarian assistance gets it, without discrimination. That is one of the

things we agreed on,” he said.

Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has faced a barrage of international criticism for not stopping the violence. She is due to speak to the nation on Tuesday about the crisis, which the United States has described as a “defining moment” for Myanmar.

“We expect from Mrs Aung Sang Suu Kyi tomorrow a strong statement in this direction,” French Foreign Minister JeanYves le Drian told reporters in New York.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson hosted a ministerial meeting to discuss ways to resolve the Rohingya crisis, which included ministers from Canada, Denmark, Turkey, Australia, Indonesia, Sweden, Bangladesh, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and a representative of the European Union.

“What we are trying to get everyone to agree is that, number one, the killings have got to stop, and the violence has got to stop. And we look not just to the military but also to Daw Suu to show a lead on that,” Johnson told Reuters before the meeting.

In a statement afterwards, Johnson said that while Myanmar had “made encouraging progress towards democracy in the last few years, the situation in Rakhine, the terrible human rights abuses and violence are a stain on the country’s reputation.”

“It is vital that Aung San Suu Kyi and the civilian government make clear these abuses must stop,” he said.

Johnson said he was “encouraged by our discussion and by the participation of the senior Burmese representatives, but we now need to see action to stop the violence and open up immediate humanitarian access.”

China, which, like the United States has worked to forge closer ties with Myanmar, a strategically important country in Southeast Asia, will not attend, a Chinese spokesman said, citing “a really packed calendar” for Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Reuters ahead of the British meeting that a lasting political solution needed to be found for the Rohingya in Myanmar. (rtr)

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The coming robot arms race

GEORGIA - Russia’s latest “Zapad” military exercise is underway on NATO’S eastern border.

Tens of thousands of soldiers are taking part in the massive four-yearly war games that are both a drill as well as a show of strength for the West. Next time around, in 2021, those troops might be sharing their battle space with a different type of force: self-driving drones, tanks, ships and submersibles.

Drone warfare is hardly new – the first lethal attack conducted by an American unmanned aerial vehicle took place in Afghanistan in October 2001. What is now changing fast, however, is the ability of such unmanned systems to operate without a guiding human hand.

That’s a truly revolutionary shift – and one every major nation wants to lead. Critics have long feared countries might be more willing to go to war with unmanned systems. Now, some see a very real risk that control might pass beyond human beings altogether.

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has long warned that humanity might be on the verge of some cataclysmic errors when it comes to artificial intelligence. Last month, he ramped that up with a warning that the development of autonomous weapons platforms might provoke a potentially devastating arms race.

As if to reinforce Musk’s point, Russian President Vladimir Putin told students shortly thereafter that he believed the technology would be a game changer, making it clear Russia would plow resources into it. “The one who becomes leader in this will become ruler of the world,” Putin was quoted as saying.

China too is pushing ahead, believed by some experts to now be the global leader when it comes to developing autonomous swarms of drones.

Already, drones are able to fly themselves independently so they can stay airborne if they lose touch with human pilots.

Soon they may be able to make their own tactical decisions.

At Georgia Tech in the United States this summer, researchers programmed swarms of light drones to fight their own aerial dogfights. The U.S. military is trying out similar products.

That means one operator could command many, many more drones – or that they might not need direct supervision at all.

Even more important than what is happening in robotics may be the wider developments in artificial intelligence.

That won’t make warfare necessarily more deadly – a bomb dropped from a drone is not in itself less lethal than one from a manned aircraft. While it’s possible that greater accuracy might reduce casualties, some analysts fear that the changes brought by new unmanned systems might themselves fuel new conflicts.

“Radical technological change begets radical government policy ideas,” concluded a July report on the topic produced for the U.S. intelligence community by Harvard University’s Belfer Center. It warned an “inevitable” AI arms race could prove as revolutionary as the invention of nuclear weapons.

Artificial intelligence could dramatically increase the efficiency of surveillance technology, allowing a single system to monitor perhaps millions of digital conversations, hacked personal devices and other sources of information. The implications could be terrifying, particularly in the hands of a state with little or no democratic oversight.

At a recent UK panel discussion, Britain’s former Special Forces director Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb predicted that by 2030, technological breakthroughs – not just AI, but quantum computing and beyond – would produce entirely unpredictable changes. Special force teams, he suggested, might well have a robotic and artificial intelligence component deployed alongside them – the U.S. Army calls this “manned-unmanned teaming.”

That sounds like something out of science fiction – and it might well look like it. Last year, Russia unveiled its FEDOR humanoid military robot, which it demonstrated firing a gun.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin uses a pair of binoculars while watching the Zapad-2017 war games, held by Russian and Belarussian servicemen, with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov (2nd R) seen nearby, at a military training ground in the Leningrad region, Russia September 18, 2017.

Harbor tightened, livestock agency sprays cattle market

Two foreigners suspected perpetrators of ATM breaker in a number of places in Buleleng.

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Most countries deliberately keep their defense AI secret, ultimately fueling the arms race Musk was warning about. Some scientists already worry about a real-world version of the premise for the Arnold Schwarzeneggerstarring “Terminator” film franchise in which the United States, fearing cyber attack, hands control of key military systems to the artificial intelligence Skynet. (Skynet, fearing its human creators might choose to turn it off, immediately launches a full-scale nuclear attack on humanity.)

For now, Western nations at least look keen to keep a human in the “kill chain.” Not all countries may make that choice, however. Russia has long had a reputation for trusting machines more than people, at one stage considering – and, some evidence suggests, building – an automated system to launch its nuclear arsenal should its command structure be destroyed by a first strike.

Outside of the military, there is evidence AI algorithms have already alarmed their creators. In August, Facebook shut down an AI experiment after programs involved began communicating with each other in a language the humans monitoring them could not understand.

Is this the end for ordinary human soldiering? Almost certainly not. It’s even been argued that a more complex, high-tech battlefield might require more soldiers, not fewer.

Robotic systems may be vulnerable to hacking, jamming and simply rendered inoperable through electronic warfare.

Such techniques allow U.S.-led forces in Iraq to largely negate the off-the-shelf drones being used by Islamic State.

Russia used similar techniques against Western-made drones in Ukraine.

That’s a worry for armed forces betting – like many industries – on automation. Britain’s new aircraft carrier has only a fraction of the sailors on its only slightly larger U.S. carrier counterparts, relying heavily on automatic systems to manage weaponry and damage control. The latest Russian tank, the T-14 Armata, has an automated turret that will usually be out of reach to most of its crew. Such techniques have clear advantages – but also mean that interfering with electronics could leave them useless.

Such technology is coming whether it is a good idea or not. Indeed, even relatively old military equipment increasingly can be retrofitted. Russian engineers have already demonstrated that they can adapt the 20-year-old T-90 tank to be controlled remotely.

Ironically, the North Korean crisis reminds us that the most dangerous technologies smay well remain those invented more than 70 years ago – atomic weapons and the missiles that carry them. Even if mankind can avoid a nuclear apocalypse, however, the coming AI and robotic revolution may prove an equal existential challenge. (rtr)

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A Iraqi Army drone flies in western Mosul, Iraq June 11, 2017.

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Suspected of breaking in ATM, two foreigners arrested by police

SINGARAJA - Two foreigners from Bulgaria were successfully arrested by the ranks of Directorate of Special Crime of Bali Police together with its counterpart from Singaraja town police on Saturday morning (Sep. 16). Both foreigners, namely BG and MBS, rented a villa on Jalan Damai Lovina. They were arrested when would take a skimmer installed in the ATM on Lovina Beach, Kalibukbuk village.

Both are suspected perpetrators of ATM breaker in a number of places in Buleleng.

Before being arrested around 23:30, an employee of PT Swadarma Sarana Informatika (SSI) Komang Sumarsana, 28, checked the ATM of BNI Lovina counter. At that time, the witness suspected an unknown person closing the surveillance camera (CCTV) at the local ATM using duct tape. Such peculiarities were then reported to the bank and police. Not long after, the BNI security guard and ranks of Singaraja town criminal investigation unit conducted an examination.

Around 01:00, police found two foreigners entering the ATM counter of BNI. Both foreigners were found attaching CCTV camera of the ATM and cameras at the ATM counter using duct tape. The action of both foreigners was successfully thwarted by police and instantly arrested. The officers found a suspicious device attached to the keypad of the ATM. Both foreigners were taken to Singaraja town police for further investigation.

In addition to arresting both foreigners, police also seized a number of evidences after searching the villa where both foreigners temporarily stayed on Jalan Damai, Lovina. From this location, the officers found black duct tape alleged to have been used to close the

CCTV camera on ATM machine and counter. There are also a set of ATM PIN skimmer installed in the ATM machines, 59 white ATM cards allegedly used to record ATM PIN, four Samsung smartphones, two units of iPhone, a Nokia smartphone and two IndiHome Wi-Fi devices. Besides, police also found cash amounting to IDR 26.4 million, MYR 1,100 and savings book.

Chief of Singaraja Town Police, A.A. Wiranata Kusuma, with permission from the Chief of Buleleng Police, Made Suka Wijaya, said that both foreigners are known to be operation target of police in the allegation of ATM burglary case.

From provisional information, the two foreigners broke in the ATM by installing ATM card skimmer to record PIN. Armed with this device, both foreigners got ATM PIN of the victims to be burglarized.

“Well, we have arrested two foreigners suspected of breaking in ATMs. The case is now being handled by Cyber Crime Unit of Bali Police. From initial testimony, they both installed a special tool to record ATM PIN. Armed with the tool, both foreigners burglarized the victim’s ATM,” he said.

Following the arrest of the ATM breakers in, police checked a number of ATM counters around Singaraja town. This effort is made to ensure that ATM counters in the area are free from the addition of such tools used to record customers’ ATM PIN. As a result, all the ATM counters around Singaraja town are free from the installation of such tools other than the bank’s original equipment. Besides, police also appealed to bank customers not to be careless. Before using ATM, customers must make sure the ATM machine is free from certain tools to avoid such a crime. (kmb38)

NEGARA - The outbreak of bird flu in Klungkung is also anticipated in Jembrana.

As inter-island border route and the region having been infected by bird flu, a number of regular efforts are intensified.

The Denpasar Agricultural Quarantine Office of Gilimanuk Branch increases the monitoring of in and out traffic of poultry through Gilimanuk Harbor. In the meantime, the animal health team from the animal health division, Jembrana Agriculture and Food Office did spraying to poultry cages, especially in traditional markets.

Coordinator of Gilimanuk Quarantine Office, Ida Bagus Eka Ludra, said on Monday (Sep. 18) that related to bird flu the quarantine office increases the monitoring of poultry traffic. In accordance with the Regulation of Governor (Pergub) Number 44/2005, the temporary prohibition of live poultry traffic (except for DOC) to Bali remains valid until today. In addition, supervision is also conducted related to processed meat without quarantine documents from the region of origin.

“Although the risk is actually small, we remain to supervise the entry of (poultry) meat especially when it is not equipped with quarantine documents,” he said. The document is in the form of Animal Health Certificate (SKKH) from the quarantine office from the

region of origin. The document ensures if the condition of meat is healthy and fresh.

On the other hand, the relevant agencies also anticipated the bird flu (H5NI) transmission in Jembrana region. One of them is by spraying cages of poultry sold in the market. Animal Health Division Head, the Jembrana Agriculture and Food Agency, Anak Agung Mahadikara, revealed the spraying is intended for anticipation of poultry disease carried out regularly every three months. “Actually it (spraying) is also meant as education to the community as well as maintenance for animal health including poultry,” he said.

The latest spraying was carried out on Friday (Sep. 15) in the cage of poultry in the Negara Public Market.

According to him, until Monday there has been no report related to the occurrence of many poultry deaths leading to bird flu. Nevertheless, the officers will remain alert to take action in case there is an indication of such condition. His agency also appealed to the public to actively report when there are mass dead poultry.

In 2016, Jembrana once experienced bird flu to claim fatalities, precisely at Dangin Tukadaya village, Jembrana subdistrict. At that time, it was followed up by carrying out mass elimination of poultry around the location. Over the past ten years, a number of incidents of chicken deaths are still found but they do not lead to H5NI. (kmb26)

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The spraying is intended for anticipation of poultry disease carried out regularly every three months.

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Anticipation of Mount Agung Eruption

Besakih Holds “Bakti Panglempana” rituals at Six Point

AMLAPURA - Gunung Agung’s continues to show signs of activity, requiring the public to be vigilant. In response to the anxiety demonstrated by people living at the foot of Mount Agung, Desa Adat Besakih has taken some steps to deal with the situation. In addition to informing the public about the situation, Besakih village will also hold a Bakti Panglempana ritual to plead to Ida Sang Hyang WIdhi (God Almighty) for Gunung Agung not to erupt again.

This ritual as a form of pangrastiti will be held on Wednesday (20/9) coinciding Tilem Sasih Third (new moon). “The Bakti Panglempana ceremony also coincides with the holding of the Bhumi’s Bhakti Aci ceremony at Pura Ulun Kukul, Besakih”, said said village head of Besakih customary village, Jero Mangku Widiartha, when contacted on Monday (18/9).

The location of the Panglempana ceremony will be centered at six points namely; Pura Dalem Puri, Pura Bangun Sakti, Pura Goa Raja, Basukian Temple, Pura Penataran Agung, and Pangubengan Temple. This ritual all members of the Kramat Desa Adat Besakih. “The plan of the regent and vice regent and related officials is present, we pray together so that the disaster we fear will never happen”, he said.

Alluding to the threat of disaster, he asserted that based on the traditional experience of the people of Besakih, if Mount Agung is about to erupt, there will be special signs. According to the elders who experienced the last eruption of Mount Agung in 1963, signs included trees on the slope of the mountain changing and animals descending the slopes of the mountain. As of Monday such signs were not seen, so the people of Besakih are resting easy and people seem to be going about their business as usual.

Jro WIdiartha also added that the community around Besakih is very disturbed by the circulation of incorrect information suc has the hoax video that was widely shared and rumours that the Great Mountain was going to erupt and so residents were being asked to evacuate immediately.

WIdiartha therefore agrees that people should look to official sources of information.

According to the observations of Gunung Agung’s activity made by KESDM Geological Agency PVMBG, Rendang Observation Post, the conclusion is that the activity level of Gunung Agung, still in the category level II or alert. Thus, the correct recommendations is that no activities be conducted within a 3 km radius of the crater of Gungung Agung. Besakih is still fairly safe. “ People need not worry about visiting Besakih” he said. (kmb31)

Jero Mangku Widiartha

AMLAPURA - Since the activities of Mount Agung have been declared to be in alert level, the people on the slopes of Mount Agung are increasingly often facing earthquakes.

Small earthquakes that can only be recorded through seismograph are not too felt. However, residents are often rocked by a powerful earthquake. As experienced by residents of Amerta Bhuana village, Selat subdistrict, they were worried after the area was rocked by strong enough earthquake on Monday night (Sep. 18).

Headman of Amerta Bhuana, Wayan Suara Arsana, said the quite strong earthquake occurred around 19:03. The earthquake shock made residents surprised and scattered out the house. Moreover, amid the currently increasing volcanic activities of Mount Agung, the earthquake is recorded to occur up to 300 times a day. “The earthquake occurred here is so strong, our residents are quite surprised,” he said.

Although the earthquake is strong enough, he confirmed the earthquake did not occur too long. So, after the earthquake people calmed down and came into their respective home.

He also persuaded their residents to remain calm, while monitoring further development of the volcanic activities of Mount Agung. “The earthquake is strong enough, so it triggers fear,” Wayan Eka, a local resident.

Until this news is published, there is no official information from the national weather agency (BMKG) Bali regarding the magnitude of the earthquake mostly felt at Amerta Bhuana village and neither is the official information from Mount Agung monitoring post updated every six hours. In the meantime, the points of earthquake felt by residents are not only at Amerta Bhuana village. Such strong earthquake shock was also felt by residents at several villages in the Kubu subdistrict. Some local residents claimed to also feel strong

earthquake. Earthquake shocks were also felt by residents in the Bebandem subdistrict as in Yeh Kori region. “The earthquake is also felt by our residents in Rendang. Hopefully, nothing will happen and the status of Mount Agung will soon be back to normal,” said a resident of Rendang, Wayan Merta.

This strong earthquake was also felt by residents at Sebudi village, Kubu subdistrict, on Thursday night (Sep. 14) making residents in the neighborhood stay awake until the morning. One of the local residents, Wayan Widiasa, said the strong earthquake was felt in the settlement around 22:40.

At that time, he felt the earthquake for about six times. The strongest was only felt once that made residents around the area anxious. “Usually the earthquakes are small, but there is a strong earthquake. We are forced to not sleep until morning for fear of the aftershocks,” said Widiasa. (kmb31)

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If Mount Agung erupts, Villages along Unda riverside potentially affected map of disaster-prone eruption of Mount Agung compiled

by Bappeda Bali in cooperation with the Center for Environmental Research of Udayana University. “The flow of Unda River belongs to prone areas of lava flood and flood. Possibly, it can also be hit by hot clouds, avalanches and cliff collapse if Mount Agung erupts,” he explained.

On that basis, it is resumed with the recapitulation of the number of population living at villages passed through by the river with quite heavy flow of water. In details, Selat village is inhabited by 4,889 people, Tegak village (4,517), Akah village (5,558), Semarapura (5,058), Semarapura Kangin (4,655), Semarapura Klod Kangin (7,450), Kamasan village (4,294), Gelgel village (5,292) and Gerombong hamlet, Su-

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lang village (474). In addition, Sampalan Kelod village has 3,287 inhabitants, Gunaksa village (6,107), Tangkas village (3,275), Jumpai village (1,998) and Kusamba village (124 families).

“In the map, the affected areas amount to 13 villages with a total population of approximately 52,000 people. This data collection is meant to ensure the distribution of aid and evacuation during the disaster,” said Widiada.

The latest condition of the volcano erupting in 1963 is constantly monitored. The results are immediately disseminated to the community. “We also ask to empower the village communications system to speed up the delivery of information,” he said. (kmb45)

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Strong earthquake shakes Amerta Bhuana

SEMARAPURA - Mount Agung in Karangasem is declared in alert level. Nevertheless, district government of Klungkung through the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has made preparations to deal with the worst possibility. It does not only prepare logistics, but also makes data collection and maps out the area potentially getting affected on Monday (Sep. 18).

Chief Executive of BPBD Klungkung, I Putu Widiada, explained that according to history, the eruption of Mount Agung did not only have an impact on the area of Karangasem district. However, the lava flows, ash and other volcanic ash also drained to a number of Klungkung region. One of the prone areas is the Unda River. It is also included in the

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Launched in February 2016, the IHG Foundation is an independent charity that focuses its attention on helping communities to develop skills in hospitality, providing support for those impacted by disasters, encouraging grassroots community support, and protecting the environment.

T h i s y e a r ’s w e e k - l o n g awareness and fundraising initiative saw thousands of IHG colleagues in more than 80 countries globally pledge as many activities as they could do during the week, which is IHG’s way of giving back to the communities in which their hotels operate. For each activity a staff member officially pledges to take part in, IHG makes a donation to the IHG Foundation on their behalf.

InterContinental Bali Resort, and indeed all of the IHG resorts in Bali were encouraged to pledge and take part in as many different activities as possible outside of daily routines, and all of the staff participated.

Highlights included tree planting, turtle release and mangrove planting to promote the spirit of ecological responsibility, and blood donation to raise awareness among the community on how blood donation can be instrumental in saving lives.

Additional pledged undertakings included yoga, morning walks, and sunset jogging.

A number of guests at InterContinental Bali Resort also participated in turtle release and the ‘I Love Bali’ candle lighting event. The other IHG resorts in Bali likewise joined in some of the activities. The week of fundraising endeavours was closed at InterContinental Bali Resort on Sunday 17th September with activities such as ‘Walk by the Beach’, beach cleaning, aerobics, more yoga, meditation, a rack race, and much more.

The staff at InterContinental Bali Resort felt very proud to be contributing to IHG’s commitment to protect the environment and invest in local communities, thus setting the foundations for stronger, healthier, more prosperous communities around the world.

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Lady Gaga calls off European tour, citing severe physical pain

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LOS ANGELES - Lady Gaga on Monday called off the European leg of her world tour, saying she was suffering from severe physical pain and was seeking medical treatment.

The “Born This Way” singer, 31, who says she suffers from fibromyalgia, also canceled an appearance at a music festival in Rio de Janeiro last week and posted pictures of herself in a hospital with a drip on her arm.

She said on her social media accounts on Monday she was disappointed at comments from people online that “suggest that I’m being dramatic, making this up, or playing the victim to get out of touring. If you knew me, you would know this couldn’t be further from the truth.”

“I have always been honest about my physical and mental health struggles,” Gaga added.

“It is complicated and difficult to explain, and we are trying to figure it out.

“As I get stronger and when I feel ready, I will tell my story in more depth, and plan to take this on strongly so I can not only raise awareness, but expand research for others who suffer

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as I do, so I can help make a difference,” the singer added.

Fibromyalgia is a musculoskeletal pain disorder, often accompanied by fatigue and mood issues, that can be triggered by physical trauma or psychological stress.

Gaga’s European tour to promote her latest album “Joanne” was due to start on Sept. 21 in Barcelona, Spain, and continue for six weeks. The dates have been postponed until 2018.

“She plans to spend the next seven weeks proactively working with her doctors to heal from this and past traumas that still affect her daily life, and result in severe physical pain in her body,” promoters Live Nation said in a statement.

The singer was hospitalized in 2013 for a hip injury, and a new documentary, “Lady Gaga: Five Foot Two,” documents her struggles with chronic pain. (rtr)

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’Three Billboards Outside Ebbing’ wins at Toronto film festival TORONTO - Director Martin McDonagh’s comic drama, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” won the award for audience favorite at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, giving the film a boost ahead of the upcoming awards season. Frances McDormand plays a grieving mother frustrated with the police’s lack of progress in finding her daughter’s killer. The film, which screened in Venice earlier and is set for wide release later this year, won the Grolsch People’s Choice Award.

Craig Gillespie’s “I, Tonya,” about

U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding, and Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me

By Your Name,” a coming-of-age romance about forbidden love, were the runners-up.

Past audience winners and runners-up in Toronto have gone on to win or become best-picture Oscar nominees, solidifying the Toronto festival’s reputation as a launching pad for films that go on to receive critical acclaim.

Past winners and runners-up include “Spotlight,” “12 Years A Slave,” “The King’s Speech” and

“La La Land.”

Other winners at this year’s festival included “Faces Places” for the audience’s favorite documentary. Warwick Thornton’s “Sweet Country” won the festival’s Platform prize, selected by a panel of filmmakers. (rtr) Martin McDonagh holds the award for the best screenplay for the movie “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” during the awards ceremony at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy September 9, 2017.

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Amid the exodus, lone Rohingya children face dangers in camps

COX’S BAZAR - I t was August 28, and like any other Monday for brothers Hussain and Mufisa. The two boys, aged nine and ten, waved goodbye to their parents and left for school in their village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. When they returned, their childhood home was in flames and their parents were nowhere to be found. They followed their neighbours into the nearby forest, where they were told their parents, Rohingya Muslims, had died at the hands of the Myanmar army in an attack on the village of Chin Khali.

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A Rohingya refugee woman waits for aid with her grandson inside their temporary shelter at a camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh September 19, 2017.

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“We are very sad without our parents and feel very lonely,” Hussain said, with a vacant expression, in the Kutupalong camp across the border in Bangladesh. Beside him stood his brother, his bare arms folded defensively. With their home torched and parents dead, the two brothers were forced to flee with the other villagers, carrying nothing but their schoolbooks.

After five days walking over

jungled hills and across rivers the boys arrived in Bangladesh where they were abandoned by their neighbours and left to sleep on the side of the road. They are not the only children to have been orphaned or separated from their families in the explosion of violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State.

Over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a Myanmar military

offensive that began after a series of guerrilla attacks on Aug. 25 on security posts and an army camp in which about a dozen people were killed. Numerous Rohingya villages in the north of Rakhine have been torched but authorities in Buddhist-majority Myanmar have denied that security forces or Buddhist civilians set the fires.

They blame the insurgents, and say 30,000 non-Muslim villagers were

also displaced. The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, has so far identified 1,312 unaccompanied or separated Rohingya children among the latest arrivals in Bangladesh - a number they fear will increase over the coming days, Jean Lieby, head of child protection at UNICEF Bangladesh, said by phone on Monday.

UNICEF estimates that an “un-

precedented” 60 percent of new refugees in Bangladesh are children.

“We are particularly concerned about the separated children,” JeanJacques Simon at UNICEF South Asia told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Trafficking, child labour, exploitation - you name it, these children are vulnerable.”

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