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Madonna moves to Portugal, rated new star destination for expats

LISBON - New Lisbon resident Madonna has been extolling the delights of living in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, the most illustrious of a growing number of foreigners in the newly-fashionable city.

“I used to be a basket case but now I live in Lisbon,” she wrote on Instagram on Sunday under a photo of baskets hanging from the ceiling of an old Portuguese kitchen.

Local media say she has bought a 7.5 million-euro ($9 million) estate in the mountains of Sintra, outside Lisbon, and will continue to stay at the Pestana Palace hotel, where she is in the royal suite, while it is refurbished.

The 18th century Quinta do Relogio estate mentioned by various news outlets was still up for sale on the Engel&Volkers real estate agency’s website on Wednesday.

If the reports are true, Madonna - who wrote that

“the energy of Portugal is so inspiring” - joins film stars Michael Fassbender and Monica Bellucci who have bought properties in Lisbon in the past year.

Among the reasons the pop star has come to Lisbon is that her 11-year-old son David Banda has started soccer training at the youth academy of Benfica, according to the Lisbon club.

She also arrives as Portugal has been named Europe’s best destination for expatriates to live in 2017 and the world’s best for quality of life, in a survey published by social network InterNations on Wednesday.

In the overall global rating for best expatriate destination, it soared 23 positions from 2016 to No. 5, making it the leading gainer worldwide.

Portugal, which boasts sandy beaches, golf courses, historic castles and some of the lowest prices in Western Europe, was hard-hit by an economic and debt crisis in 2010-13, but has been on a steady recovery since and is going through a tourism boom. (rtr)

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A combination photo shows singer, songwriter Beyonce Knowles in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S. on May 2, 2016 and actor, producer George Clooney in Toronto, Canada, September 12, 2015.

More Clooney babies? Not likely, says Amal Clooney

LOS ANGELES - After welcoming twins earlier this year and mastering the art of changing diapers, George Clooney and wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney are not looking to expand their brood further.

Clooney, 56, spoke candidly in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, published on Wednesday, about becoming “a very good diaper guy” and the pressures of being a first-time father to twins Alexander and Ella, born in June in London.

When Amal Clooney was asked if she wanted to have more children, the reporter said, her response was a negative shake of the head.

“I’m 39,” Amal Clooney said. “I already had them quite late.”

The twins have been the subject of much speculation and the Clooneys, one of Hollywood’s most famous couples, kept a low profile

before their birth.

“The first thing you think is, ‘I hope I don’t screw this up,’” Clooney said of fatherhood.

“But you are really responsible for two kids. I want them to be happy. I want them to have a sense of humor. I want them to be interested in things. I want them to be compassionate about other people’s plights. Because that’s the thing, you know?

You have to have some sort of empathy.”

He also added, “But I’m a very good diaper guy, which I didn’t know I would be.”

The actor and director of the upcoming black comedy “Suburbicon” also discussed an array of topics, from his friendship with former U.S. President Barack Obama, with whom he said he sometimes shares some “racy” texts, to his own political ambitions, or lack of them. (rtr)

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People gather as they watch a telecast of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers between Iran and Syria, in Damascus, Syria September 5, 2017.

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Spirited Syrians battling to achieve World Cup dream

Syria’s team spirit has kept the war-torn nation in contention to qualify for their first soccer World Cup and Ayman Hakeem’s side will need to muster more of the same attitude to deliver a storybook ending to their remarkable journey. For the fourth time in five games Syria scored in the dying seconds when they met Iran on Tuesday as Omar Al Soma slid the ball through the goalkeeper’s legs to earn a 2-2 draw that sets up a two-legged playoff with Australia next month.

Since March, Qatar, China and Uzbekistan have all been on the receiving end of last-gasp goals from the Syrians as the country’s World Cup dream moved closer to reality. A 91st minute Omar Khrbin penalty secured a 1-0 win against Uzbekistan while Ahmad Al Saleh’s curling free kick three minutes into added time salvaged a point against Marcello Lippi’s China as the Syrian bandwagon gained momentum.

Mahmoud Al Mawas continued

the trend last month when he scored a decisive late third in a 3-1 victory over Qatar. This time it was Al Soma, who only returned to the squad last month after a selfimposed exile due to his stance on the civil war at home. The 28-yearold slipped the ball into the net in the 93rd minute to empty the Syrian bench in celebration and seal third place in the group and entry into the playoffs.

“Hopefully we can continue

along this road as we have two important matches and I hope we can continue with our good performances,” said the Saudi Arabiabased striker. “I want to thank my team mates, who were heroes as they put in a great performance.” If Syria do get past Australia they will then face an intercontinental playoff against a CONCACAF team with the winners securing a place at next year’s World Cup in Russia.

HARD ROAD

Syria have had to do things the hard way, with soccer’s world governing body FIFA not permitting the team to play at home due to the continuing security concerns in the country. Malaysia has hosted Syria’s matches in the final phase of qualifying, leaving the fans to follow the team from afar. The political

situation has also been reflected in the make-up of the squad as the qualifying campaign has evolved.

Veteran forward Firas Al Khatib, who had refused to join up with the team due to his opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, ended his boycott in March, leaving Al Soma as the last remaining highprofile stay away.

His stance softened, however, and the Al Ahli striker - who has been top scorer in the Saudi league for each of the last three seasons relented in August, returning for the 3-1 win over Qatar last week.

Al Soma’s influence was even more telling on Tuesday as it was from his free kick that Tamer Haj Mohamad eventually opened the scoring before Sardar Azmoun’s double put Iran in front, leaving Al Soma to become the hero in the

final seconds.

“We tried our best to qualify directly but, as you saw, we have played against the best team in Asia and we managed to score twice against them despite the fact that they hadn’t conceded in the third round,” said Hakeem.

“We proved that we are a good side and despite all the difficulties that we had we managed to get a good result. I hope that we can continue our dream in the play-offs and qualify to the World Cup.” (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Hundreds of Gianyar residents choose to be migrant workers

GIANYAR —Tourism development in Gianyar district does not necessarily make the people of Gianyar feel homey to work at home. As evidence, their interest to work overseas as Indonesian migrant worker is still high.

Based on the data summary on the placement report of migrant workers at the Gianyar Manpower Office in 2016, they amounted to 601 people. By sex, the migrant workers from Gianyar consist of 353 men and 248 women.

By the subdistrict of origin, they mostly come from Ubud (220 people), Payangan (108 people), Gianyar (91 people), Blahbatuh (58 people), Sukawati (56 people), Tegallalang (36 people) and Tampaksiring (32 people).

Chief of the Gianyar Manpower Integrated Service, AA Eka Dharma Kusumawati, acknowledged the high interest of Gianyar residents to work overseas. The workers of Gianyar overseas have been equipped with their respective competency. “The number of our migrant workers is quite high,” she said with permission of the Head of the Gianyar Manpower Gianyar, A.A. Dalem Jagatdhita.

In the meantime, there are totally 33 destination countries of the migrant workers from Gianyar. The most favored destination countries are Italy (265 people), Turkey (172 people), the United States (17 people), the Maldives (16 people), India (12 people), Denmark and Dubai (11 people), Russia (10 people), Cyprus (9 people) and Malaysia (7 people) and a number of other destination countries.

She added that to help job seekers, the Gianyar Manpower Agency helps with various breakthroughs such as by working with employers or job vacancies providers. “Gianyar Manpower Agency spreads vacancies to job seekers through Online and Facebook account of the agency,” she explained.

Gianyar Manpower Agency has also provided a number of places or stands for companies wishing to provide vacancies for job seekers. Applicants can directly come to the office of the Integrated Manpower Services and meet directly the providers of job opportunities. Moreover, providers of the job vacancies directly conduct tests and interviews to job applicants at this integrated service office. “We at the Manpower Integrated Service provide a stand for job provider. Besides, we provide a place for vacancy providers to conduct direct tests to job seekers,” explained Agung Eka. (kmb35)

Silkworm breeders overwhelmed to meet demands

MANGUPURA - Silkworm farmers are overwhelmed to serve the demand for silk threads. Moreover, the minimal silk raw materials makes the weavers choose Chinese-made silk threads. Cheap price and easily obtained become the reason.

In Indonesia, the need for high silk thread reaches 900 tons or 7,200 tons per year. Bali alone needs 3-4 tons. However, until now the needs of silk yarn in Bali can only be fulfilled half of which reaching 1.2 tons - 1.5 tons.

This was disclosed by Coordinator of Bali Nature Silk Farming, Tri Edy Mursabda, on Monday (Sep. 4). A cocoon spun will produce 1,200 meters of filament fiber used to make silk thread. “Indeed, the demand is high but we cannot meet demand entirely because of limited raw materials. We are shortage of raw materials,” he said.

The shortage of silk yarn raw materials also causes the weavers to purchase Chinese silk thread. “Actually, if we see the land condition in Bali, many of which are unused. If we want to work on, we can realize silkworm cultivation as the mulberry tree can grow anywhere. It means it is not bound by the altitude and temperature except for the silkworms,” he explained.

Silkworm cultivation can be carried out on the altitude of 400-800 above sea level, temperature of 24-28 degrees and humidity of 70-80. “The temperature is not too dry, not too wet, and must be cool,” he added. Such appropriate areas can be found in Bali such as Payangan (Gianyar), Petang (Badung), Marga and Baturiti (Tabanan) and Yangapi (Bangli). Limited raw materials happen due to silkworm breeding are still lacking. In Indonesia, the nurseries in Candiroto and Sopeng are still lacking because both centers for silkworm breeding (PPUS) belong to tidal area. “It means that sometimes the seeds of the eggs may be good and sometimes not good,” he said.

The government has also opened up the opportunities for the region either province or district to make a silkworm egg nursery. This has been regulated by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in the procurement and distribution of silkworm eggs. It is meant to prevent the impact on silkworm cultivators or groups of silkworm breeders. “Therefore, it is permitted to make a silkworm egg nursery,” he affirmed. (kmb42)

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Food price fluctuations in Indonesia influenced by middlemen

MANGUPURA - The issues on price and food supply in Indonesia are remarkably complicated and have repeatedly occurred. For instance, the rice prices continue to experience fluctuations. According to Chairman of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU), Muhammad Syarkawi Rauf, the problem faced by Indonesia happens due to long distribution chain. Certainly, there are parties in the middle or middleman that take advantage of the situation. “Indeed the middlemen have made the price relatively high,” he said when met amid ‘The 13th East Asia Top (EATOP) Level Official’s Meeting on Competition Policy’ in Nusa Dua, on Wednesday (Sep. 6).

To overcome these problems, Syarkawi Rauf said that in Indonesia there are 2 ways that should be applied. For short term, it is done by determination of the highest retail price (HET), and the other is by structuring the rice market for the medium and long term.

“We do not stop after setting the upper limit retail price, but have to develop rice market from upstream to downstream,” he concluded.

Through this EATOP meeting, he hoped to gain knowledge and experience from the countries such as Japan, Korea and Australia. As is known, Japan does not have a relatively large area and a lot of resources, but can make a stable price and supply of food commodities. “We want to gain knowledge and experience from them. How they can do that, so that it will become very good. We hope it can be implemented in Indonesia,” he said.

He explained that Japan has an excellent market mechanism of food commodities, while Malaysia has a very good price control, like the highest retail price owned by Indonesia. Currently, he admitted that Indonesia is learning how to combine the experiences of Japan and Malaysia in encouraging the stabilization of food prices and supplies. Like the experience owned

by Japan, he said the stability of prices and food commodities is influenced by their ability to control prices and supplies starting from the upstream. In the upstream, they have a very strong cooperative. He hoped that Indonesia must build a community-owned enterprise in the upstream area. After that, it needs to be integrated with large scale rice estate.

From the integrated rice estate, it will go into the rice market and there should be auction process because the auction will be much bet-

ter for producers, retailers and end users. Or it could be implemented with a direct sale by integrating the rice estate to the end user. “If this mechanism can be pushed in Indonesia, it will certainly help Indonesia stabilize the price and supply of strategic food,” he explained.

This EATOP meeting is followed by 10 ASEAN economies, other economies in East Asia such as Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, and Australia. One of the focuses of the EATOP is the enhancement of legal capacity and competition policy in the region as well as coordination of technical assistance between speech partners and beneficiaries for improvement on the effectiveness and efficiency of competition policy. In addition, the meeting is also focused on the exchange of information related to the development of law and business competition policy in the region. (kmb23)

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Another look at waste: Belgian startup to print 3D recycled sunglasses BRUSSELS - A Belgium-based start-up is on its way to making the world a bit sunnier, by printing the first 3D sunglasses out of recycled plastic.

The Antwerp-based company w.r.yuma - pronounced “We are Yuma” and named after one of the sunniest places on earth - began a month-long online crowd-sourcing campaign on Kickstarter on Wednesday.

After two years of prototyping and testing different materials, it promises to transform old car dashboards, soda bottles, fridges and other plastic waste into different coloured shades.

“It’s the icon of cool, really, and when you wear, literally you are looking to the world through a different set of lenses, and that’s exactly the message that I want to bring,” Founder Sebastiaan de Neubourg said of the company, named after Yuma, Arizona.

“I want to inspire people to have, quite literally, another look at waste.”

The plastic waste is sourced from the Netherlands and Belgium’s Flemish region. The waste is fed into the 3D printer, melted to form thin strands of plastic wire and layered together to construct the frames.

These are then assembled by hand and fitted with Italian made Mazzuchelli lenses.

Marketing schemes include setting up stands at music festivals to transform plastic drinking cups into sunglasses on the spot.

The company is also making a limited number of soda white sunglasses made from 90 percent recycled PET plastic from soda bottles.

It is also inviting would-be clients to return the glasses once they are done with them to be turned into a new pair of glasses.

“The idea ... (is) also to make sure that the materials eventually come back to us in a closed loop system,” de Neubourg said.

With five unique designs and three colours of lenses to choose from, de Neubourg is trying to make sustainable recycling fashionable and useful. The sunglasses will be shipped to customers in January 2018.

“I think that sustainability should become mainstream,” said de Neubourg, a former mechanical engineer for a sustainability consultancy.

“We’re not going to solve the plastic waste problem by just taking this plastic and putting it in sunglasses, but it’s a first step. ... I want to touch a lot of people with that message.” (rtr)

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Belgian start-up w.r.yuma founder Sebastiaan de Neubourg places a lens into a frame of 3D printed sunglasses made from plastic waste in Antwerp, Belgium, August 30, 2017. Picture taken August 30, 2017.

Quality of local beef has not been able to match imported meat because the majority of livestock farmers only raise cattle as sideline job.

Ribs remain tough

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A model presents a creation by French designer Lea Peckre as part of her Spring/Summer 2015 women’s ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week September 23, 2014.

Fashion giants LVMH and Kering ban size zero models

PARIS - French fashion companies Kering and LVMH will stop hiring excessively thin models worldwide under a new charter developed in response to continued criticism the industry encourages eating disorders.

France banned ultra-thin models under a 2015 law though it only stipulated models needed a doctor’s note attesting to their health based on age, weight and body shape. Proposals to include a minimum body mass index were dropped after industry pressure.

Kering and LVMH said their charter will now go further than the French legislation. All their fashion brands have committed to banning models below French size 34 for women and 44 for men.

Size 32 in France corresponds to size 0 in the United States.

“We hope to inspire the entire industry to follow suit, thus making a real difference in the working conditions of fashion models industry-wide,” Kering CEO Francois-Henri Pinault said in the statement.

Fashion insiders have long said that clothes hang and drape better on tall, androgynous wom-

en, while Western cultures often associate thinness with wealth, youth and desirability.

But criticism over how models are treated has prompted several countries to bring in protective measures. Besides France, Israel banned ultra-thin models in 2013 while countries such as Italy and Spain rely on voluntary codes of conduct.

The two French companies, whose labels include Christian Dior, Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci, said their charter would guarantee the “the wellbeing of models”. It also forbids the hiring of girls under 16 to pose as adult models.

The brands committed to working solely with models who can provide a doctor’s certificate obtained less than six months before a shoot or fashion show attesting to their good health and to put a psychologist at their disposal during their work.

The new rules, which follow a wave of criticism of fashion companies this year, will come into effect ahead of Paris Fashion Week this month.

In March, Kering’s Balenciaga fired two casting directors after they reportedly left over 150 models waiting for hours in a dark stairwell while they went for lunch.

Also in March, France’s advertising watchdog asked Kering’s Yves Saint Laurent to modify two ads after complaints that they were degrading to women.

One featured a reclining woman in a fur coat and fishnet tights with her legs spread wide and the other shows a model in a leotard and roller skate stilettos bending over a stool.

Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority also banned an Yves Saint Laurent ad in 2015 that featured a very thin model whose ribcage was showing. (rtr)

Hotel and restaurant absorb 15 percent of Bali beef

DENPASAR — All this time Bali beef has actually been entered into hotels and restaurants on the Island of the Gods. However, the percentage remains low, namely only 15 percent. They only take advantage of the tail, while some meats are processed into minced meat. In the meantime, hotel and restaurant do not dare to take advantage of ribs because of being still tough.

“Actually, the price of local beef in the market is almost the same as imported beef. But, they have different quality. So, we prefer to take the imported ones,” said Chairman of the Indonesian Chef Association (ICA) Bali, I Gede Putu Hendra Mahena, after attending the meeting with Special Committee of the Bali Cattle Management Bill in the Bali House of Representatives, on Wednesday (Sep. 6).

According to Hendra, the use of imported beef in hotels and restaurants reached 85 percent. Nevertheless, he claimed to still support the local cattle farmers. Moreover, the Bali House of

Representatives currently working on the bill about the Bali cattle management asked hotels and restaurants to increase local beef uptake from 15 percent to 30 percent.

“We maintain the image before the guests as well. Sometimes, guests are sensitive to quality. If we use local ribs, definitely guests will complain,” he explained.

Hendra claimed that he will be changing the menus without using state’s label. Previously, when using imported beef from America, the name used on the menu is US Tenderloin. Although the price reaches IDR 500,000, guests will still buy. In

order not to bring up a gap between imported and local meat, it will only be written ‘Tenderloin’ on the menu.

“But, before this regional regulation is enacted, we make an observation to slaughter house. We have to make a product demonstration. If local meat has approached the second grade of Australia, we dare to use. Otherwise, we do not dare,” he explained.

Hendra observed that quality of local beef has not been able to match imported meat because the majority of livestock farmers only raise cattle as sideline job. Consequently, the cattle’s diet is often irregular, so that it affects the quality. Overseas, the

cattle are really maintained and treated specifically. Therefore, the quality of Bali beef must be improved.

“Hopefully, the aging and storage will be good as well as not be contaminated by others. Surely, we will promote it (Bali beef—Ed),” he concluded.

Chairman of the Bali Cattle Management Bill Special Committee, I Nyoman Parta, confirmed that hotels and restaurants in Bali should accommodate Bali beef. The image of Bali cattle should also be changed by promoting its advantages. Regarding the meat claimed to be still tough, slowly it will be carried out an empowerment process to livestock farmers. Hopefully, they start using concentrate feed other than grasses.

“Then, it is resumed with the empowerment of slaughter house,

regarding the practice of slaughtering techniques from beginning to the end. Sorting of the meat and the aging should be done with the correct standards,” added this PDI-P politician.

Parta added that hotels and restaurants should open themselves and try to help people of Bali by using Bali beef. Based on his notes, the use of second class beef (Pronas) such as offal or lower legs is entirely still imported. In 2016, the amount reached 1,395 tons, and until the middle of 2017 it has reached 522 tons. In the meantime, the use of premium meat has reached 420 tons from early to mid 2017. “So, the volume of imported beef going to Bali used by hotels, restaurant and catering is very high. We still have 4-5 months to go.

The regional regulation will require the use of Bali beef,” he said. (kmb23)

Congestion at Tanjung Benoa

Tourist visit decreases by 40 percent MANGUPURA — Congestion condition occurred along the path to Tanjung Benoa is very much felt by the marine tourism entrepreneurs. Moreover, due to this condition, tourist visits to Tanjung Benoa decreases by 40 percent.

Chairman of the Indonesian Marine Tourism Association (Gahawisri) Badung, Nyoman Wana Putra, said on Wednesday (Sep. 6) that traffic congestion at Tanjung Benoa must be addressed immediately. This condition is very detrimental to society and businessmen. Moreover, it is very

difficult to find out parking space due to limited land availability.

To that end, he proposed the construction of road with direct connection to toll road. When asked about the plan to build west ring road of Tanjung Benoa, he confirmed that it will take too long time and expensive cost. It does not include the land acquisition of the residents and the land belonging to forestry agency. “Road construction with direct connection to toll road is short and does not take long time,” he concluded.

With the construction of a direct

access to toll road, he hoped that Jalan Pratama can be made into one-way road section for entry while the exit is through toll road.

On that account, the dropped tourist visit to Tanjung Benoa is expected to be back to normal.

He said that tourist visit to Tanjung Benoa averagely reaches 500 people per day. However, due to severe traffic congestion, they finally chose an alternative to visit Pandawa Beach. In the meantime, the Pandawa Beach does not offer any water sport activities. (kmb23)

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Tourist visit to Tanjung Benoa averagely reaches 500 people per day. However, due to severe traffic congestion, they finally chose an alternative to visit Pandawa Beach.

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Having potential, Tabanan tests paddy-fish intercropping TABANAN - Tabanan has a land area of approximately 21,000 hectares. Other than intended for rice crops and horticulture, the land can provide additional income if cultivated maximally. Tabanan district itself is currently encouraging farmers to use their land to build a fish nursery pond in addition to planting. As having the potential, the government of Tabanan district through the fisheries and maritime affairs conducted a deepwater fish pond trial and planned in 2018. In addition, Tabanan will also get assistance from central government to develop the program.

Head of the Tabanan Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Agency, Made Subagia, said on Wednesday (Sep. 6) that some subak groups in Tabanan such as in Marga and Penebel have developed freshwater fish nursery. With the program of paddy fish pond intercropping, farmers will develop both fish fingerlings and fish for consumption.

Subagia said that in developing the intercropping program in Tabanan he has made a visit to Sleman, Yogyakarta. There, farmers have already implemented this program and earn substantial profits.

He explained the paddy-fish intercropping is that paddy field area intended for rice cultivation activities in combination with fish pond, while the comparison is that maximally 20 percent of the land for the pond with the depth of at least 80 centimeters. So, even though the rice plants no longer need water and the soil dries out, the deepened plot lines will still be filled with water so that fish can be developed. “Since the plot channel is deepened, though it contains water, it does not affect the crops,” said Subagia.

After visiting Sleman, the maritime affairs and fisheries then conducted a pilot program in Kediri and East Selemadeg subdistrict. When director general of aquaculture, ministry of maritime affairs, made a visit some time ago, central government considered Tabanan to have the potential for the development of this program.

So, it is going to provide assistance in 2018 for the implementation of deep pond fish cultivation in Tabanan.

For experimental activities in Kediri and East Selemadeg subdistrict, Subagia added that other than carp he will also cultivate tilapia that all this time has been cultivated in the ponds and floating net bags. He hoped the test will give good results so that it can be developed by farmers and other fish farmers. (kmb24)

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Tabanan district is currently encouraging farmers to use their land to build a fish nursery pond in addition to planting.

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The inspection to expatriates is meant to discipline their documents as a requirement to stay in Denpasar, including the schools that employ the foreign staff.

DENPASAR - The joint team from the elements of National Unity and Political Agency (Kesbangpol) Denpasar, Immigration Office, Indonesian military and national police and the relevant agencies re-inspected the expatriates. This time, the joint team targeted schools that employ foreign workers as teachers.

Division Head of Conflict and Precaution Handling, I Gusti Ngurah Arisudana, when making site inspection to CHIS School, Pemogan village, South Denpasar, on Wednesday (Sep. 6), stated the inspection to expatriates is meant to discipline their documents as a requirement to stay in Denpasar, including the schools that employ the foreign staff. According to Arisudana, the inspection is to cross-check

their residence in accordance with KITAS and their visa. The supervision of Denpasar municipality is expected to increase the awareness of the expatriates to equip themselves with relevant documents for the convenience of their stay in Bali. “With the joint team, we come down to the field to check documents of the expatriates living in Denpasar and schools that employ foreign workers,” said Arisudana At CHIS School there are 80 teachers, where ten of them are foreign teachers. From the results of monitoring team, all the foreign teachers at the school have complied with the administrative rules according to teaching requirements in Denpasar City. Although teaching in the city of Denpasar, many of the foreign teachers are living

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outside the city of Denpasar.

After conducting supervision to CHIS school, the team went on to Universal School equally located in South Denpasar subdistrict.

Although it is a foreign language school, it does not employ any foreign workers. “Through this inspection, we hope that all schools employing foreign workers to complete all the administration for the requirements of living in Denpasar City,” he said.

Furthermore, Arisudana added the regular inspection carried out by the joint team is not to prohibit foreign workers in Denpasar City, but to provide comfort for them. To that end, he urged all foreigners in the city of Denpasar to immediately report themselves to the hamlet chief at local village even though they have a residence permit. (kmb12)

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“And then they exploded”: How Rohingya insurgents built support for assault YANGON - When the former U.N. chief Kofi Annan wrapped up his year-long probe into Myanmar’s troubled northwest on Aug. 24, he publicly warned that an excessive army response to violence would only make a simmering conflict between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces worse.

Just three hours later, shortly after 8 p.m., Rohingya insurgent leader Ata Ullah sent a message to his supporters urging them to head to the foot of the remote Mayu mountain range with metal objects to use as weapons.

A little after midnight, 600 km northwest of the country’s largest city Yangon, a rag-tag army of Rohingya militants, wielding knives, sticks, small weapons and crude bombs, attacked 30 police posts and an army base.

“If 200 or 300 people come out, 50 will die. God willing, the remaining 150 can kill them with knives,” said Ata Ullah in a separate voice message to his supporters. It was circulated around the time of the offensive on mobile messaging apps and a recording was subsequently reviewed by Reuters.

The assault by Ata Ullah’s group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), was its biggest yet. Last October, when the group first surfaced, it attacked just three police border posts using about 400 fighters, according to Myanmar government estimates. The Myanmar army is now estimating up to 6,500 people took part in the August offensive.

Its ability to mount a much more ambitious assault indicates that many young Rohingya men have been galvanized into supporting ARSA following the army crackdown after the October attacks, according to interviews with more than a dozen Rohingya and Rakhine villagers, members of the security forces and local administrators.

The brutal October response led to allegations that troops burned down villages and killed and raped civilians.

The crisis in ethnically-riven Rakhine state is the biggest to face Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and her handling of it has been a source of disillusionment among the democracy champion’s former supporters in the West. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Myanmar authorities on Tuesday to end violence against Rohingya Muslims, warning of the risk of ethnic cleansing, a possible humanitarian catastrophe, and regional destabilisation.

Rohingya leaders and some policy analysts say Suu Kyi’s failure to tackle the grievances of the Muslim minority, who have lived under apartheid-like conditions for generations, has bolstered support for the militants.

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The fledgling militia has been transformed into a network of cells in dozens of villages, capable of staging a widespread offensive.

Myanmar’s government has declared ARSA a terrorist organisation.

It has also accused it of killing Muslim civilians to prevent them from cooperating with the authorities, and of torching Rohingya villages, allegations the group denies. The latest assault has provoked a major counteroffensive in which the military says it killed almost 400 insurgents and in which 13 members of the security forces have died.

Rohingya villagers and human rights groups say the military has also attacked villages indiscriminately and torched homes.

Myanmar government says it is carrying out a lawful counterterrorism operation and that the troops have been instructed not to harm civilians.

Nearly 150,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, leading to fears of a humanitarian crisis. Some 26,750 non-Muslim villagers have also been displaced inside Myanmar.

Suu Kyi has said she would adopt recommendations of Kofi Annan’s panel that encouraged more integration. She has also previously appealed for understanding of her nation’s ethnic complexities.

In a statement on Wednesday, she blamed “terrorists” for “a huge iceberg of misinformation” on the strife in Rakhine. She made no mention of the Rohingya who have fled.

Suu Kyi’s spokesman, Zaw Htay, could not be immediately reached for comment.

On Monday, however, he told Reuters Myanmar was carrying out a counterterrorism operation and taking care of “the safety of civilians, including Muslims and non-Muslims.” (rtr)

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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors are seen as they arrive at Seongju, South Korea, September 7, 2017.

S.Korea deploys anti-missile system as US seeks tough N.Korea sanctions

SEOUL - South Korean protesters clashed with thousands of police over the deployment of a defence system aimed at countering North Korean missile attacks, while China and the United States discussed options to rein in Pyongyang.

The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an oil embargo on North Korea, ban its exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean labourers abroad, and subject leader Kim Jong Un to an asset freeze and travel ban, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Pressure from Washington has ratcheted up since North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sunday. That test, along with a series of missile launches, showed Pyongyang was close to achieving its goal of developing a powerful nuclear weapon that could reach the United States.

Amid the rising tensions, Seoul installed the four remaining launchers of the U.S. anti-missile Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system on a former golf course in the south early on Thursday. Two launchers had already been deployed.

More than 30 people were wounded when around 8,000 South Korean police broke up a blockade of about 300 villagers and civic groups opposed to the THAAD system deployment, fire officials said.

The decision to deploy the THAAD system has drawn strong objections from China, which believes its radar could be used to look deeply into its territory and will upset the regional security balance.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has urged China, North Korea’s biggest ally and trading partner, to do more to rein in its neighbour which has pursued its missile and nuclear weapons programmes in defiance of U.N. sanctions and international condemnation.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he had an executive order ready for Trump to sign that would impose sanctions on any country that trades with Pyongyang if the United Nations does not put additional sanctions on North Korea.

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping committed on a phone call on Wednesday to “take further action with the goal of achieving the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, the White House said.

“President Xi would like to do something. We’ll see whether or not he can do it. But we will not be putting up with what’s happening in North Korea,” Trump told reporters, although he offered no specifics.

“I believe that President Xi agrees with me 100 percent,” he said.

Asked whether he was considering a military response to North Korea, Trump said: “Certainly, that’s not our first choice, but we will see what happens.”

Xi told the U.S. president during their 45-minute call that the North Korean issue must be resolved through “dialogue and consultation”.

The United States had set aside for now plans to end a U.S. trade agreement with South Korea, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. The trade issue is unrelated to North Korea but has been a source of tension between the two allies. (rtr)

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Algeria approves measures to cover budget deficit

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Container ships are seen at a loading terminal at the Hamburg harbour in Hamburg, Germany February 15, 2017.

German current account surplus to remain world’s largest - Ifo

BERLIN - Germany’s current account surplus is expected to remain the world’s largest this year despite an overall drop which is mainly due to higher costs for oil and natural gas imports, the Munich-based Ifo economic institute said on Thursday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission have for years urged Berlin to lift domestic demand and imports as a way to reduce global economic imbalances and fuel global growth, including within the euro zone.

U.S. President Donald Trump has also criticised Germany for doing too little to reduce its trade surplus with the United States, accusing Berlin of “very bad” trade policies.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed back, saying Berlin’s economic and fiscal policies have already turned private consumption and state spending into the main growth drivers of Europe’s biggest economy.

Merkel also pointed out that the German surplus is mainly a result of the interplay of supply and demand

on global markets and that Berlin has only limited influence on other important factors such as the euro exchange rate and energy prices.

Ifo said it estimated the German current account surplus -- which measures the flow of goods, services and investments -- to remain the world’s largest in 2017 at $285 billion, followed by China with roughly $190 billion and Japan with $170 billion.

“Germany’s overall surplus is mainly caused by trade flows,” Ifo said in its analysis, adding that stronger demand from other euro zone countries, the rest of the EU and the United States had boosted exports in the first half of the year.

The German current account surplus is expected to shrink to 7.9 percent of total output in 2017 from 8.3 percent in the previous year. “This is mainly due to energy prices,” Ifo said. Higher costs for oil and natural gas are pushing up German imports which has a dampening effect on the trade surplus.

Still, Ifo’s estimates mean that Berlin would once again breach the European Commission’s recommended upper threshold of 6 percent this year. (rtr)

rating.

“Algeria will temporarily turn to this funding after resisting for three years the effects of a severe financial crisis caused by a serious collapse in hydrocarbons prices,” the statement added.

Bouteflika in June called for “internal uncoventional funding” to avoid turning to foreign debt, estimated now at less than $4 billion. Algeria expects its budget deficit at 8 percent for 2017 down from 15 percent in 2016.

The cabinet meeting also approved government action plan, which aimed at “improving business environment and boosting investment in all sectors”.

The amendments and government plans will still need final approval by parliament, where Bouteflika’s backers have an overwhelming majority.

Algeria has cut public spending by 14 percent for this year after a 9 percent reduction in 2016, and is struggling to reduce its imports bill despite increasing restrictions since early 2016.

That coincides with failures to implement reforms and diversify the economy away from oil and gas, which account for 94 percent of export revenue. (rtr)

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Usaba Muhu-Muhu at Timbrah Customary Village

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ALGIERS - Algeria’s government has approved draft amendments to a law aimed at securing new funding sources to cover budget deficts as it struggles to cope with a sharp fall in energy earnings.

Amendments to the Money and Credit Law were endorsed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, chaired by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, that discussed plans for the newly appointed government of Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia.

The North African OPEC member country has been facing financial pressure since crude oil prices started falling in mid-2014, halving its oil and gas revenue, which accounts for 60 percent of state budget.

The amendment will “authorise the central bank to lend directly to the public treasury so as to finance budget deficits and internal public debt and provide resources to the National Investment Fund”, the presidency said in a statement late on Wednesday.

This type of “exceptional funding” will be implemented for five years and “accompanied with financial and economic structural reforms”, it said, without elabo-

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Titi Banda Statue Denpasar City has a more magnificent and monumental icon.

After the quite amazing Sewaka Dharma Building as a public service center at Lumintang Denpasar has a magnificent and exotic building becoming the pride of the people in Denpasar, namely the Titi Banda Statue.

The grandiosely standing statue can be enjoyed by wider community at a very strategic location at the entrance to the city of Denpasar from the east. The statue was deliberately built in the median of the intersection of Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra and Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai because it was at stra-

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The Titi Banda Statue told stories about the Ramayana epic, namely the character Rama who built the Titi Banda Bridge in the middle of the sea with the help of monkey troops that would pick up Sita abducted in Lanka.

Titi Banda told about Rama, as the main character who would pick up her wife from the hands of Ravana in Lanka. Rama accompanied by his monkey troops consisting of 18 heads, where five of whom were chief of the monkey. Statue of Rama became the main one in the middle of the building. (kmb)

There is no day without a religious ceremony. It is the characteristic life on the Island of Bali or the Island of the Gods. One of them is the Usaba Muhu-Muhu at Timbrah customary village, Pertima, Karangasem. People at this village have a philosophy of high significance to maintain the integrity and harmony of their residents. It is reflected in the Usaba Muhu–Muhu ritual. This ceremony was held on Saturday (Jan. 9). It is implemented in the form of caru desa or animal sacrifice aiming to neutralize bhuta kala into bhuta hita. Thus, residents continue to live in harmony as well as the universe.

Implementation of this tradition is starting from nyaga ritual. Three days before the Usaba MuhuMuhu, residents carry out this ritual to neutralize bhuta kala in smaller scale, so as not to disturb other’s courtyard. This ritual is also called metuun buah. At the time of Usaba Muhu-Muhu, balancing ritual is performed in a higher level by the customary village with the caru sacrificing a cow.

Undagi procession when slaughtering cow for the caru oblation always draws the attention of surrounding residents. The cow tied to a concrete pole is slaughtered by the undagi and this lasts tensely. It is thrashing about when slaughtered so that makes people tense. However, this procession is more secure

than a similar ritual at Asak village, where the cow is released and then bombarded with swords, machetes and other sharp weapons, when the Usaba Kaulu held at the village.

Nengah Sukada, the local community leader, conveyed that the tradition is held once a year, precisely every new moon of the seventh month in Balinese calendar or around January. Residents of the supporting villages and two sesabu hamlets come down to carry out the task of devotional works at their respective hamlet to prepare ritual means.

After the procession is over, people carry out prayers at the Dalem Tengah Temple. Ritual at this temple is officiated over by great-grandfather and dahyang. Great-grandparent officiates over the offerings in the kemulan shrine on the pedestal, while the dahyang officiates over the kemulan offerings under the pedestal. Interestingly, after saying prayers together, local residents ranging from parents to children join a shared meal or megibung, enjoying the beef as the remainder of the ritual means. Residents sit together in place that have been provided by customary village, such as meeting pavilion, long pavilion and gamelan troupe pavilion.

Some other sources at the local village mention that the tradition of Usaba Muhu-Muhu is also considered as the implementation of the Shiva Purana, namely when Durgha goes up against the Mahisasura giant cow or buffalo. Today, it is celebrated as a form of human self-control in order to avoid animal nature. (kmb)

Pulung-pulung Sela Pulung-pulung sela or cassava ball is a traditional cake having been quite familiar among Balinese people. Around the 1980s, this cake became a favorite for the old, young people as well as children. Especially during rainy season, many people consume this cake. It is easy to get as on sale everywhere.

Indeed it is a simple cake, but when enjoyed together, it will be more palatable. Therefore, every activity like exercise to dance, play gamelan or chant psalmody at hamlet hall, this cake is ready to accompany. However, it will be nicer when enjoying this cake is accompanied with a cup of coffee. But children like it due it its sweetness.

In this modern era marked with the presence of new pastries, the cassava ball began to disappear. If remaining available, it must be made by farmers at villages living away from a pastry shop. Currently children no longer know this cake, denoting a heritage of their ancestors. They just enjoy the instant and relatively modern cookies.

Lately, this kind of cake begins to reappear. Traditional stalls in urban areas have sold it again. Its ingredient and shape may be the same, but the price is even more expensive. In the past, people could by it at IDR 5 per piece or even two pieces, but now it is sold for IDR 1,000 or IDR 2,000 per piece. Nevertheless, old people who are missing this traditional cake will definitely buy it.

It is primarily made from cassava. The ingredient is very versatile and can be made into a variety of foods. Aside from cassava, the other ingredients are young coconut, brown sugar, salt and cooking oil. At first, grate the entire coconut and cassava ingredient. Mix well the grated cassava, coconut and salt together. Slice thinly the brown sugar. Having finely and evenly prepared the batter, it is then shaped into a ping pong ball and filled in with brown sugar inside the ball. Fry until looking golden and brown. Finally, it can be served in warm condition. (kmb)

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Catalonia parliament votes for Oct. 1 referendum on split from Spain MADRID - Catalonia’s parliament voted on Wednesday to hold an independence referendum on Oct. 1, setting up a clash with the Spanish government that has vowed to stop what it says would be an illegal vote.

After 12 hours of often chaotic debate in the Barcelona parliament, a majority voted for the referendum and the legal framework to set up a new state, under which the assembly would declare independence within 48 hours of a “yes” vote.

Lawmakers who opposed independence abandoned the chamber before the vote, with some leaving Catalan flags in their empty seats.

The winners, led by regional head Carles Puigdemont, sang the Catalan national anthem once the votes were counted.

“Committed to freedom and democracy! We push on!” Catalonia’s deputy governor, Oriol Junqueras, tweeted after the vote.

Polls in the northeastern region show support for self-rule waning as Spain’s economy improves. But the majority of Catalans do want the opportunity to vote on whether to split from Spain.

The government has asked the Spanish constitutional court to declare the referendum law void as soon as it is approved by the regional parliament. The Spanish constitution states that the country is indivisible.

“What is happening in the Catalan parliament is embarrassing, it’s shameful,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria told reporters.

The details of the referendum, which would pose the question “Do you want Catalonia to be an independent republic?” to all Spanish citizens living in Catalonia, were revealed amid a tense atmosphere in the 135-seat regional parliament.

“You will not split up Spain, but you are breaking up Catalonia,” Alejandro Fernandez of the ruling People’s Party (PP) told proindependence lawmakers. “You’re putting social harmony at risk.”

The vote comes about three weeks after Barcelona and a nearby town were struck by Islamist attacks that killed 16 people and caused the Catalan and Spanish governments to present a brief united front.

Divisions reappeared as both sides squabbled over whether either could have prevented the attacks, and rallies against terrorism became politicised. Crowds in Barcelona booed Spain’s King Felipe when he visited for one march.

There will be no minimum turnout requirement to make the result of the referendum binding, Puigdemont said in a recent briefing. Ballot boxes, voting papers and an electoral census are at the ready, he said.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told a news conference on Monday the government would come down with all the force of the law to ensure no referendum would go ahead.

Courts have already suspended from office and levelled millions of euros in fines at Catalan politicians who organised a non-binding referendum in 2014, which returned a “yes” vote on a low turnout. (rtr)

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Catalonia’s regional President Carles Puigdemont and deputies sing the Catalan anthem Els Segadors after voting in a law to make formal its plans for an October 1 referendum in the Catalonian regional Parliament in Barcelona, Spain, September 6, 2017.

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Indonesian school a launchpad for child fighters in Syria’s Islamic State

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Hurricane Irma, a record Category 5 storm, is seen approaching Puerto Rico in this NASA’s GOES-16 satellite image taken at about 15:15 EDT on September 6, 2017.

Hurricane Irma kills eight on Saint Martin as it pounds Caribbean

SAN JUAN - Hurricane Irma killed eight people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and also caused devastation on other islands on Thursday as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida.

Television footage of the FrancoDutch island of Saint Martin showed a damaged marina with boats tossed into piles, submerged streets and flooded homes. Power was knocked out there and on Saint Barthelemy.

“It is an enormous disaster, 95 percent of the island is destroyed, I am in shock,” Daniel Gibbs, chairman of a local council on Saint Martin, told Radio Caribbean International.

French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said eight were killed and the toll was likely to rise in the coming hours.

“We did not have the time yet to explore all the shores,” Collomb told Franceinfo radio, adding that 23 people were also injured. In all, at least 10 people were reported killed

by Irma on four islands.

The hurricane was on track to reach Florida on Saturday or Sunday, becoming the second major hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in as many weeks.

The core was expected to scrape the northern coast of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thursday and track near Turks and Caicos and southeastern Bahamas later.

The island of Barbuda is a scene of “total carnage” and the tiny two-island nation will seek international assistance, said Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.

Browne told the BBC that about half of Barbuda’s population of some 1,800 were homeless while nine out of 10 buildings had suffered some damage and many were destroyed.

“We flew into Barbuda only to see total carnage. It was easily one of the

most emotionally painful experiences that I have had,” Browne said in an interview on BBC Radio Four.

“Approximately 50 percent of them (residents of Barbuda) are literally homeless at this time. They are bunking together, we are trying to get ... relief supplies to them first thing tomorrow morning,” he said, adding that it would take months or years to restore some level of normalcy to the island.

Browne said one person was killed on Barbuda. A second storm-related fatality, that of a surfer, was reported on Barbados.

At least half of Puerto Rico’s homes and businesses were without power, according to Twitter posts and a message posted by an island utility executive.

The NHC said it was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and one of the five most forceful storms to hit the Atlantic basin in 82 years.

While Irma’s intensity could fluctuate and its precise course remained uncertain, the storm was expected to remain at least a Category 4 before arriving in Florida.

‘THE BIG ONE’ Ed Rappaport, acting director of the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center, interviewed on local station WFOR-TV, called Irma a “once-in-a-generation storm,” adding that for South Florida, “It’s the zig one for us.”

Florida’s normally storm-jaded residents appeared to be taking the warnings seriously, too.

“A lot of times they end up having hurricane parties instead of evacuating,” Monroe county spokeswoman Cammy Clark told Reuters by phone.

“That’s been the opposite this time around.”

In Cuba, just 90 miles (145 km) south of the Keys, authorities posted a hurricane alert for the island’s central and eastern regions, as residents in Havana, the capital, were seen waiting line lines to stock up on foodstuffs, water and gasoline.

The eye of Irma was passing just north of Puerto Rico late Wednesday, buffeting the U.S. island territory’s capital, San Juan, with heavy downpours and strong winds that scattered tree limbs across roadways.

“The winds that we are experiencing right now are like nothing we have experienced before,” Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello told CNN. “We expect a lot of damage, perhaps not as much as was seen in Barbuda.”

At least half of Puerto Rico’s homes and businesses lost electricity by nightfall, according to a Twitter message posted by an island utility executive.

Aerial television footage of Barbuda, a tiny island just 250 miles (400 km) east of Puerto Rico, showed a desolate, flooded landscape shorn of trees and foliage, littered with debris and overturned vehicles.

Among the higher-end property losses on the island was the Paradise Found Nobu Resort, partially owned

by Hollywood screen star Robert De Niro, according to Stan Rosenfield, a spokesman for the actor. (rtr)

SUKAJAYA - Hatf Saiful Rasul was 11 years old when he told his father, a convicted Islamic militant, that he wanted to leave school and go to Syria to fight for Islamic State. The boy was visiting his father in a maximum security prison during a break from Ibnu Mas’ud, his Islamic boarding school, Syaiful Anam said in a 12,000 word essay on his son and religion that was published online.

“At first, I did not respond and considered it just a child’s joke,” he wrote. “But it became different when Hatf stated his willingness over and over.” Hatf told his father some of his friends and teachers from Ibnu Mas’ud had gone to fight for Islamic State and “become martyrs there”, Anam wrote.

Anam agreed to let him go, noting in his essay that the school was managed by “comrades who share our ideology”. Hatf travelled to Syria with a group of relatives in 2015, joining a group of French fighters. Reuters spoke to three Indonesian counter-terrorism officials who confirmed the boy went to Syria. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country and most of its people practice a moderate form of Islam. But there has been a recent resurgence in militancy and authorities believe Islamic State has more than 1,200 followers in Indonesia while about 500 Indonesians have left to join the group in Syria.

Drawing on court documents, registration filings and interviews with counter-terrorism police and former militants, Reuters has found that Hatf was one of at least 12 people from Ibnu Mas’ud who went to the Middle East to fight for IS or attempted to go there between 2013 and 2016. Eight were teachers, four were students.

At least another 18 people linked to the school have been convicted, or are now under arrest, for militant plots and attacks in Indonesia, include the three deadliest attacks in the country in the past 20 months, according to counter-terrorism police and trial documents of convicted militants.

Jumadi, a spokesman for Ibnu Mas’ud, denied the school supported IS or any other militant Islamist group, or taught any extreme or ultra-violent interpretation of Islam. Ibnu Mas’ud is one of about 30,000 Islamic boarding schools, or pesantren, across Indonesia. Most educate students in Islam and other

subjects, but a handful are linked to extremism and act as centres for recruitment, Indonesian police and government officials say.

“NOT OUR DOMAIN” Ibnu Mas’ud has been in existence for a decade, despite its links to militants. Irfan Idris, the head of deradicalisation at Indonesia’s national counter-terrorism agency, blamed weak laws and bureaucracy for the lack of action against such schools. “Basically, it’s not our domain, it’s the religious ministry,” he told Reuters. “We have informed the ministry that you have a problem with Ibnu Mas’ud.”

Asked about the school’s links to militants and why it had not been shut down, Kamaruddin Amin, the director general of Islamic education at Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs, said: “Ibnu Mas’ud never registered as a pesantren.”

Jumadi confirmed the school was not registered with the ministry.

The local government, Amin added, “had requested an explanation regarding the status of their study but did not get a response.”

Jumadi confirmed recent discussions with local government officials about the school’s teaching.

“We have no curriculum,” he said, a reference to the emphasis on teaching the Koran. “We’re focused on the tahfiz, on memorising the Koran, and the Hadith (the sayings of the Prophet Mohammad),” he said. “We teach students about the Arabic language, about faith and the history of Islam.”

Jumadi said Hatf studied at Ibnu Mas’ud but he did not know the circumstances of his leaving. He said he was unaware of any staff or students travelling to Syria to join IS, other than three teachers and one student detained in Singapore last year. Mustanah, a former student deported from Iraq in August, has told police several ex-students from Ibnu Mas’ud had travelled to Syria, two counter-terrorism officials told Reuters.

Nestled in the foothills of Mount Salak, a dormant volcano, in the village of Sukajaya, 90 km (55 miles) south of Indonesia’s

capital Jakarta, Ibnu Mas’ud is a ramshackle complex of classrooms, dormitories and prayer rooms that hosts up to 200 students from elementary school to junior high. A Reuters team entered the school in June but was not allowed to tour the premises and was eventually asked to leave.

Inside a mosque that forms part of the complex, young boys dressed in Arabic tunics and skull caps could be seen sitting in a circle holding their Korans, smiling and fidgeting as they waited for their lessons. In a courtyard, young girls were scampering about. They looked no older than five or six and were wearing headscarves.(rtr)

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Manusia Purba Museum

JEMBRANA - Manusia Purba Museum is a small prehistoric museum with significant collections of prehistoric artifacts and prehistoric human’s bones. This unique museum is located in the west tip of Bali, in Gilimanuk,

Jembrana regency. Manusia Purba Museum houses collection of prehistoric bones and artifacts which were found by R.P. Soejoeno of Bali Archaeological Service during great excavation in 1962, in the village of Cekik, where the

museum finally located.

Cekik site is one of the biggest necropolises found in Indonesia.

In this site, the archeologists found various artifacts such as jewelries, bronze equipments, glass beads, pottery and sarcophagus, 100 complete prehistoric human skeletons adult were also found in an ancient graveyard in this excavation area.

The artifacts and the bones which were found in Cekik excavation site are exhibited in this museum in a modest display.

The prima ballerina of Manusia Purba Museum is two sarcophaguses which form a set of double jar burial, it is a unique burial system in which the second jar contains a skeleton in a position of a man which his hand were tied in the back, which suggest that this unfortunate person was buried alive against his will to accompany the deceased person in the first sarcophagus.

Manusia Purba Museum of Gilimanuk houses a complete collection of early civilization in this island which provides useful information on the life and culture of ancient inhabitants of the last paradise; magnificent and important collections for a small and modest museum which is frequently unnoticed by the Balinese and the visitors. (IBP/net)

Friday, September 8, 2017

International

Federer’s U.S. Open quest ended by big-hearted Del Potro

NEW YORK - Roger Federer’s hopes of claiming a record-extending 20th grand slam title ended on Wednesday when he was beaten 7-5 3-6 7-6(8) 6-4

by Juan Martin del Potro in a thrilling U.S. Open quarter-final.

Del Potro, who swept aside Federer in the 2009 final at Flushing Meadows, now faces world number one Rafa Nadal, denying fans a potential first encounter between the Swiss maestro and Spaniard in New York.

Federer had predicted that he would need to overcome Del Potro’s serve, forehand and fighting spirit to advance to the semi-finals.

On Wednesday, he was dead right.

Del Potro hit huge forehands, big serves and stayed focused when Federer seemed to be back in control in a one-sided second set.

“I think I played my best match of the tournament, I did everything well,” said the 24th seeded Argentine. “I served so good, I hit my forehand as hard as I could and I think we played a great match and I think I deserved to win.”

Del Potro enjoyed strong support from the sold-out 23,771 crowd on Arthur Ashe under the lights, with a spine-chilling roar welcoming his victory.

“I think it’s my homecourt, too, you make me feel happy everytime I play here and I love your support guys. I love to see you cheer for me,” he told the crowd.

“After all my injuries and surgeries ... New York is my favourite tournament, my favourite city to play tennis.”

Federer had tried to stay away from Del Potro’s lethal forehand throughout the match, but with the Argentine’s first-serve percentage at 79 in the first set, he had no chance to break.

With the Swiss struggling with his own serve, the lanky Argentine had one opportunity at 5-5 when the Swiss hit a double fault and then punished him with a splendid forehand passing shot.

He sealed the opening set in the next game with another a big forehand winner.

The set went into a tiebreak and Federer moved 6-4 up to earn two set points but Del Potro saved them with a stunning service return on the baseline and a mighty serve.

A Del Potro double fault gave the Swiss another chance but he made a mess of a backhand half volley and on the fourth set point, the Argentine stayed in contention thanks to a forehand winner.

It was then the Argentine who had a set point on Federer’s

serve, did not flinch, returning brilliantly again to force the Swiss to hit a volley long. Del Potro then broke for 3-2 with a jaw-dropping crosscourt backhand winner.

Federer was on the brink of defeat when he trailed 0-30 on his serve at 5-3 and while he regained his composure to win the game the momentum had shifted and Del Potro clinched the match with yet another forehand winner in the next game. (rtr)

WASTED OPPORTUNITIES

Federer, who has been hampered by back problems, barely sat during the period between sets, and he broke for 3-1 with a forehand passing shot as Del Potro started to struggle with his first serve and the Swiss effortlessly claimed the set.

The momentum shifted again, however, and Federer dropped his serve in the second game of the third set when he served another double fault.

He saved another break point in the fourth game, setting up one for himself in the seventh, which Del Potro gave away with a double fault.

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Roger Federer of Switzerland waves to crowd after losing his match to Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina.

Mayweather-McGregor ticket sales fall short of record

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LAS VEGAS - Ticket sales from Floyd Mayweather’s superfight with Irishman Conor McGregor failed to top the record set by the American’s 2015 bout with Manny Pacquiao, according to figures released by the Nevada Athletic Commission on Wednesday.

The Aug. 26 bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, billed as having the potential to break both the gate and pay-per-view revenue records, sold 13,094 tickets with

another 137 complimentary tickets given out for a gate of $55.4 million.

The figures are well below the $72.2 million generated by the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas, which sold 16,219 tickets.

Mayweather beat McGregor, a mixed martial arts champion who was making his professional boxing debut, by way of technical knockout in the 10th round to

surpass heavyweight great Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record for most wins without a loss or draw.

PPV numbers for last month’s fight have yet to be released. (rtr) Floyd Mayweather Jr. lands a hit against Conor McGregor during their boxing match at the at T-Mobile Arena.

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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Friday, September 8, 2017

Sp rt Liverpool out to make title statement at Manchester City

LONDON - Liverpool could hardly be in higher spirits as they set out on the short trip to Manchester City on Saturday hoping to make a strong case for their Premier League title prospects. Pep Guardiola’s City and neighbours Manchester United, together with champions Chelsea, have already been installed as the trio most likely to contest the title, but optimism is surging on Merseyside after a free-scoring August.

A 4-0 thrashing of a compliant Arsenal side before the international break means Juergen Klopp’s side have seven points from nine during an opening period in which they also safely negotiated a Champions League playoff against Hof-

fenheim. What is more, Liverpool’s transfer window business has been hailed as some of the best amongst the leading clubs.

Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah was rated by number-crunchers at the CIES Football Observa-

Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge scores their fourth goal

tory as the bargain of the summer after arriving in a deal worth a reported 36 million pounds ($47.01 million) from Roma and a goal on his debut plus strikes against Hoffenheim and Arsenal have quickly endeared him to Anfield’s faithful.

REUTERS/Phil Noble

The deadline-day signing from Arsenal of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain -- a player Klopp believes can become a Liverpool great -adds more firepower to an attack already boasting Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino and which will soon be further boosted by the return from injury of Adam Lallana.

The rising stock of midfielder Jordan Henderson, who has captained England twice in the past week, and a superb goal for teenager Ben Woodburn on his Wales debut means the continued uncertainty surrounding Phillipe Coutinho and his desire to join Barcelona is a manageable distraction. No wonder pundits are taking Liverpool seriously.

“I didn’t fancy Liverpool before the season started but they’ve made some decent buys and kept Coutinho which is a boost for them,” former Manchester United great Ryan Giggs conceded this week. “After the business they’ve done I’ve probably changed my mind and they will be in the mix.”

ARSENAL DEMOLITION Liverpool have a strong recent record against City -- winning four of the last six league clashes between the sides -- and last lost to them in the league three years ago.

Last season, Klopp’s side took 20 points from their matches against Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, City, United and Arsenal -- more than

any other club -- and the recent demolition of Arsenal maintained their form against the big clubs.

City, who also have seven points, have match-winners everywhere though, even if they will be without former Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling who was sent off for over-celebrating a last-gasp winner against Bournemouth last time out. While Sterling’s absence will be a blow, Guardiola’s options are so numerous that Sergio Aguero was only a substitute against Bournemouth and he is likely to return.

Defensive worries remain despite a huge summer outlay and 50-million-pound right back Kyle Walker will return from suspension with the unenviable task of trying to stop the rampaging runs of Mane -- a battle that could determine which of the two title rivals will be celebrating. Leaders Manchester United, who have a 100 percent record and are yet to concede a goal while scoring 10, travel to Stoke City for Saturday’s late kickoff.

Promoted high-flyers Huddersfield Town, who have also kept three clean sheets and are level on points with Liverpool and Manchester City, play at bottom side West Ham United on Monday. Arsenal, who have lost their last two games, should avoid slumping to three defeats in a row when they host Bournemouth on Saturday.

Champions Chelsea are at Leicester City on the same day.(rtr)

French league slams “undignified” Spanish league boss

MANCHESTER/PARIS France’s soccer league on Wednesday labelled the head of the Spanish league “undignified” after he accused Paris St Germain of “financial doping” and “peeing in the pool” over their purchase of Brazilian striker Neymar.

Spanish football league (LFP) president Javier Tebas had already lambasted Qatar-owned PSG and UAE-owned Manchester City on Monday, accusing them of being funded by state aid and circumventing Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

Each club spent more than 200 million pounds ($260.94 million) in the last transfer window.

On Wednesday Tebas went one

step further. “We have caught PSG peeing in the bed or the pool. Neymar has climbed on to the diving board and peed into the pool. We cannot let them get away with this,” he said at the Soccerex conference in Manchester.

“FFP doesn’t work until the damage is done. I told PSG that I will take them to court and they said: ‘I thought you were my friend.’

“According to their figures, Paris Saint-Germain have made more money from sponsorship than Manchester United. That is impossible.

This is financial doping.”

He also said PSG, who signed Neymar from Barcelona for a world-record 222-million-euro ($264.74-million) fee in August, were “laughing at

the system”.

The French professional football league immediately defended PSG and said only UEFA could rule on whether clubs met fairplay rules.

“The league... strongly condemns the insulting comments regarding PSG made today by the president of La Liga, Mr Javier Tebas,” it said in a statement.

“These undignified comments do not live up to the standards of an institution as respectable and highperforming as the Spanish league.”

It added that the league continued to back PSG in the face of a “campaign of negativity publicity by certain big European football clubs over the last few weeks”.(rtr)

REUTERS/Charles Platiau

Paris Saint-Germain Neymar of Brazil and Kylian Mbappe of France at training.

Silva in limbo as Leicester seek solution to transfer problem MANCHESTER - Leicester City’s attempt to sign Portugal midfielder Adrien Silva remains in limbo after his deadline-day move from Sporting Lisbon failed to go through in time.

The 28-year-old was brought in by Leicester just before last week’s transfer deadline to replace midfielder Danny Drinkwater who had been sold to Chelsea. But media reports said the paperwork was filed to world governing body FIFA, who handle international transfers, moments after the deadline for registration closed.

Asked to confirm if FIFA had rejected the paperwork sent by Leicester and refused to sanction the deal, a FIFA spokesperson said: “We can confirm that FIFA has been contacted by The Football Association in connection with the registration of the player Adrien Silva and the club FC Leicester City.

“FIFA has replied accordingly providing reference to applicable regulations,” added the spokesperson. The FA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the situation.

A Leicester City spokesman told the BBC: “We are working with Adrien and Sporting to overcome some issues relating to the player’s registration and exploring all options to find a resolution.”(rtr)

Adrien Silva

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FIFA orders S.Africa-Senegal qualifier to be replayed after ref banned

FIFA has ordered the World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Senegal, played in November 2016, to be replayed after the referee was banned for life.

FIFA said in March that Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey had been banned for life after they found him guilty of unlawfully influencing a match result following South Africa’s 2-1 win over Senegal in African Group D. FIFA did not give further details but African soccer’s governing body (CAF) said at the time that Lamptey had wrongly awarded a penalty to the South Africans and suspended him for three months.

The life ban for Lamptey was recently upheld by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

“The Bureau for the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers ordered a replay of the qualification match between South Africa and Senegal held on 12 November 2016,” FIFA said in

a statement on Wednesday.

“The match will be replayed within the November 2017 international window, with the exact date to be confirmed in due course.

“As stated in the FIFA World Cup regulations, this decision shall come into effect immediately but shall be subject to confirmation by the Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions at its next meeting, scheduled for 14 September,” added the FIFA statement.

CAF had said that Lamptey was guilty of “poor performance” in the match and “awarded a wrong penalty for handball despite the fact that the ball never touched the hand of the player”.

Thulani Hlatshwayo converted the penalty in the 42nd minute and Thulani Serero added another goal three minutes later.

Lamptey previously served a six-month ban, imposed by CAF, for wrongly awarding a goal during a CAF Champions League semifinal in 2010.(rtr)

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Friday, September 8, 2017

Sp rt Liverpool out to make title statement at Manchester City

LONDON - Liverpool could hardly be in higher spirits as they set out on the short trip to Manchester City on Saturday hoping to make a strong case for their Premier League title prospects. Pep Guardiola’s City and neighbours Manchester United, together with champions Chelsea, have already been installed as the trio most likely to contest the title, but optimism is surging on Merseyside after a free-scoring August.

A 4-0 thrashing of a compliant Arsenal side before the international break means Juergen Klopp’s side have seven points from nine during an opening period in which they also safely negotiated a Champions League playoff against Hof-

fenheim. What is more, Liverpool’s transfer window business has been hailed as some of the best amongst the leading clubs.

Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah was rated by number-crunchers at the CIES Football Observa-

Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge scores their fourth goal

tory as the bargain of the summer after arriving in a deal worth a reported 36 million pounds ($47.01 million) from Roma and a goal on his debut plus strikes against Hoffenheim and Arsenal have quickly endeared him to Anfield’s faithful.

REUTERS/Phil Noble

The deadline-day signing from Arsenal of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain -- a player Klopp believes can become a Liverpool great -adds more firepower to an attack already boasting Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino and which will soon be further boosted by the return from injury of Adam Lallana.

The rising stock of midfielder Jordan Henderson, who has captained England twice in the past week, and a superb goal for teenager Ben Woodburn on his Wales debut means the continued uncertainty surrounding Phillipe Coutinho and his desire to join Barcelona is a manageable distraction. No wonder pundits are taking Liverpool seriously.

“I didn’t fancy Liverpool before the season started but they’ve made some decent buys and kept Coutinho which is a boost for them,” former Manchester United great Ryan Giggs conceded this week. “After the business they’ve done I’ve probably changed my mind and they will be in the mix.”

ARSENAL DEMOLITION Liverpool have a strong recent record against City -- winning four of the last six league clashes between the sides -- and last lost to them in the league three years ago.

Last season, Klopp’s side took 20 points from their matches against Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, City, United and Arsenal -- more than

any other club -- and the recent demolition of Arsenal maintained their form against the big clubs.

City, who also have seven points, have match-winners everywhere though, even if they will be without former Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling who was sent off for over-celebrating a last-gasp winner against Bournemouth last time out. While Sterling’s absence will be a blow, Guardiola’s options are so numerous that Sergio Aguero was only a substitute against Bournemouth and he is likely to return.

Defensive worries remain despite a huge summer outlay and 50-million-pound right back Kyle Walker will return from suspension with the unenviable task of trying to stop the rampaging runs of Mane -- a battle that could determine which of the two title rivals will be celebrating. Leaders Manchester United, who have a 100 percent record and are yet to concede a goal while scoring 10, travel to Stoke City for Saturday’s late kickoff.

Promoted high-flyers Huddersfield Town, who have also kept three clean sheets and are level on points with Liverpool and Manchester City, play at bottom side West Ham United on Monday. Arsenal, who have lost their last two games, should avoid slumping to three defeats in a row when they host Bournemouth on Saturday.

Champions Chelsea are at Leicester City on the same day.(rtr)

French league slams “undignified” Spanish league boss

MANCHESTER/PARIS France’s soccer league on Wednesday labelled the head of the Spanish league “undignified” after he accused Paris St Germain of “financial doping” and “peeing in the pool” over their purchase of Brazilian striker Neymar.

Spanish football league (LFP) president Javier Tebas had already lambasted Qatar-owned PSG and UAE-owned Manchester City on Monday, accusing them of being funded by state aid and circumventing Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

Each club spent more than 200 million pounds ($260.94 million) in the last transfer window.

On Wednesday Tebas went one

step further. “We have caught PSG peeing in the bed or the pool. Neymar has climbed on to the diving board and peed into the pool. We cannot let them get away with this,” he said at the Soccerex conference in Manchester.

“FFP doesn’t work until the damage is done. I told PSG that I will take them to court and they said: ‘I thought you were my friend.’

“According to their figures, Paris Saint-Germain have made more money from sponsorship than Manchester United. That is impossible.

This is financial doping.”

He also said PSG, who signed Neymar from Barcelona for a world-record 222-million-euro ($264.74-million) fee in August, were “laughing at

the system”.

The French professional football league immediately defended PSG and said only UEFA could rule on whether clubs met fairplay rules.

“The league... strongly condemns the insulting comments regarding PSG made today by the president of La Liga, Mr Javier Tebas,” it said in a statement.

“These undignified comments do not live up to the standards of an institution as respectable and highperforming as the Spanish league.”

It added that the league continued to back PSG in the face of a “campaign of negativity publicity by certain big European football clubs over the last few weeks”.(rtr)

REUTERS/Charles Platiau

Paris Saint-Germain Neymar of Brazil and Kylian Mbappe of France at training.

Silva in limbo as Leicester seek solution to transfer problem MANCHESTER - Leicester City’s attempt to sign Portugal midfielder Adrien Silva remains in limbo after his deadline-day move from Sporting Lisbon failed to go through in time.

The 28-year-old was brought in by Leicester just before last week’s transfer deadline to replace midfielder Danny Drinkwater who had been sold to Chelsea. But media reports said the paperwork was filed to world governing body FIFA, who handle international transfers, moments after the deadline for registration closed.

Asked to confirm if FIFA had rejected the paperwork sent by Leicester and refused to sanction the deal, a FIFA spokesperson said: “We can confirm that FIFA has been contacted by The Football Association in connection with the registration of the player Adrien Silva and the club FC Leicester City.

“FIFA has replied accordingly providing reference to applicable regulations,” added the spokesperson. The FA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the situation.

A Leicester City spokesman told the BBC: “We are working with Adrien and Sporting to overcome some issues relating to the player’s registration and exploring all options to find a resolution.”(rtr)

Adrien Silva

9

FIFA orders S.Africa-Senegal qualifier to be replayed after ref banned

FIFA has ordered the World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Senegal, played in November 2016, to be replayed after the referee was banned for life.

FIFA said in March that Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey had been banned for life after they found him guilty of unlawfully influencing a match result following South Africa’s 2-1 win over Senegal in African Group D. FIFA did not give further details but African soccer’s governing body (CAF) said at the time that Lamptey had wrongly awarded a penalty to the South Africans and suspended him for three months.

The life ban for Lamptey was recently upheld by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

“The Bureau for the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers ordered a replay of the qualification match between South Africa and Senegal held on 12 November 2016,” FIFA said in

a statement on Wednesday.

“The match will be replayed within the November 2017 international window, with the exact date to be confirmed in due course.

“As stated in the FIFA World Cup regulations, this decision shall come into effect immediately but shall be subject to confirmation by the Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions at its next meeting, scheduled for 14 September,” added the FIFA statement.

CAF had said that Lamptey was guilty of “poor performance” in the match and “awarded a wrong penalty for handball despite the fact that the ball never touched the hand of the player”.

Thulani Hlatshwayo converted the penalty in the 42nd minute and Thulani Serero added another goal three minutes later.

Lamptey previously served a six-month ban, imposed by CAF, for wrongly awarding a goal during a CAF Champions League semifinal in 2010.(rtr)

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Friday, September 8, 2017

International

Manusia Purba Museum

JEMBRANA - Manusia Purba Museum is a small prehistoric museum with significant collections of prehistoric artifacts and prehistoric human’s bones. This unique museum is located in the west tip of Bali, in Gilimanuk,

Jembrana regency. Manusia Purba Museum houses collection of prehistoric bones and artifacts which were found by R.P. Soejoeno of Bali Archaeological Service during great excavation in 1962, in the village of Cekik, where the

museum finally located.

Cekik site is one of the biggest necropolises found in Indonesia.

In this site, the archeologists found various artifacts such as jewelries, bronze equipments, glass beads, pottery and sarcophagus, 100 complete prehistoric human skeletons adult were also found in an ancient graveyard in this excavation area.

The artifacts and the bones which were found in Cekik excavation site are exhibited in this museum in a modest display.

The prima ballerina of Manusia Purba Museum is two sarcophaguses which form a set of double jar burial, it is a unique burial system in which the second jar contains a skeleton in a position of a man which his hand were tied in the back, which suggest that this unfortunate person was buried alive against his will to accompany the deceased person in the first sarcophagus.

Manusia Purba Museum of Gilimanuk houses a complete collection of early civilization in this island which provides useful information on the life and culture of ancient inhabitants of the last paradise; magnificent and important collections for a small and modest museum which is frequently unnoticed by the Balinese and the visitors. (IBP/net)

Friday, September 8, 2017

International

Federer’s U.S. Open quest ended by big-hearted Del Potro

NEW YORK - Roger Federer’s hopes of claiming a record-extending 20th grand slam title ended on Wednesday when he was beaten 7-5 3-6 7-6(8) 6-4

by Juan Martin del Potro in a thrilling U.S. Open quarter-final.

Del Potro, who swept aside Federer in the 2009 final at Flushing Meadows, now faces world number one Rafa Nadal, denying fans a potential first encounter between the Swiss maestro and Spaniard in New York.

Federer had predicted that he would need to overcome Del Potro’s serve, forehand and fighting spirit to advance to the semi-finals.

On Wednesday, he was dead right.

Del Potro hit huge forehands, big serves and stayed focused when Federer seemed to be back in control in a one-sided second set.

“I think I played my best match of the tournament, I did everything well,” said the 24th seeded Argentine. “I served so good, I hit my forehand as hard as I could and I think we played a great match and I think I deserved to win.”

Del Potro enjoyed strong support from the sold-out 23,771 crowd on Arthur Ashe under the lights, with a spine-chilling roar welcoming his victory.

“I think it’s my homecourt, too, you make me feel happy everytime I play here and I love your support guys. I love to see you cheer for me,” he told the crowd.

“After all my injuries and surgeries ... New York is my favourite tournament, my favourite city to play tennis.”

Federer had tried to stay away from Del Potro’s lethal forehand throughout the match, but with the Argentine’s first-serve percentage at 79 in the first set, he had no chance to break.

With the Swiss struggling with his own serve, the lanky Argentine had one opportunity at 5-5 when the Swiss hit a double fault and then punished him with a splendid forehand passing shot.

He sealed the opening set in the next game with another a big forehand winner.

The set went into a tiebreak and Federer moved 6-4 up to earn two set points but Del Potro saved them with a stunning service return on the baseline and a mighty serve.

A Del Potro double fault gave the Swiss another chance but he made a mess of a backhand half volley and on the fourth set point, the Argentine stayed in contention thanks to a forehand winner.

It was then the Argentine who had a set point on Federer’s

serve, did not flinch, returning brilliantly again to force the Swiss to hit a volley long. Del Potro then broke for 3-2 with a jaw-dropping crosscourt backhand winner.

Federer was on the brink of defeat when he trailed 0-30 on his serve at 5-3 and while he regained his composure to win the game the momentum had shifted and Del Potro clinched the match with yet another forehand winner in the next game. (rtr)

WASTED OPPORTUNITIES

Federer, who has been hampered by back problems, barely sat during the period between sets, and he broke for 3-1 with a forehand passing shot as Del Potro started to struggle with his first serve and the Swiss effortlessly claimed the set.

The momentum shifted again, however, and Federer dropped his serve in the second game of the third set when he served another double fault.

He saved another break point in the fourth game, setting up one for himself in the seventh, which Del Potro gave away with a double fault.

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Roger Federer of Switzerland waves to crowd after losing his match to Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina.

Mayweather-McGregor ticket sales fall short of record

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LAS VEGAS - Ticket sales from Floyd Mayweather’s superfight with Irishman Conor McGregor failed to top the record set by the American’s 2015 bout with Manny Pacquiao, according to figures released by the Nevada Athletic Commission on Wednesday.

The Aug. 26 bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, billed as having the potential to break both the gate and pay-per-view revenue records, sold 13,094 tickets with

another 137 complimentary tickets given out for a gate of $55.4 million.

The figures are well below the $72.2 million generated by the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas, which sold 16,219 tickets.

Mayweather beat McGregor, a mixed martial arts champion who was making his professional boxing debut, by way of technical knockout in the 10th round to

surpass heavyweight great Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record for most wins without a loss or draw.

PPV numbers for last month’s fight have yet to be released. (rtr) Floyd Mayweather Jr. lands a hit against Conor McGregor during their boxing match at the at T-Mobile Arena.

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Catalonia parliament votes for Oct. 1 referendum on split from Spain MADRID - Catalonia’s parliament voted on Wednesday to hold an independence referendum on Oct. 1, setting up a clash with the Spanish government that has vowed to stop what it says would be an illegal vote.

After 12 hours of often chaotic debate in the Barcelona parliament, a majority voted for the referendum and the legal framework to set up a new state, under which the assembly would declare independence within 48 hours of a “yes” vote.

Lawmakers who opposed independence abandoned the chamber before the vote, with some leaving Catalan flags in their empty seats.

The winners, led by regional head Carles Puigdemont, sang the Catalan national anthem once the votes were counted.

“Committed to freedom and democracy! We push on!” Catalonia’s deputy governor, Oriol Junqueras, tweeted after the vote.

Polls in the northeastern region show support for self-rule waning as Spain’s economy improves. But the majority of Catalans do want the opportunity to vote on whether to split from Spain.

The government has asked the Spanish constitutional court to declare the referendum law void as soon as it is approved by the regional parliament. The Spanish constitution states that the country is indivisible.

“What is happening in the Catalan parliament is embarrassing, it’s shameful,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria told reporters.

The details of the referendum, which would pose the question “Do you want Catalonia to be an independent republic?” to all Spanish citizens living in Catalonia, were revealed amid a tense atmosphere in the 135-seat regional parliament.

“You will not split up Spain, but you are breaking up Catalonia,” Alejandro Fernandez of the ruling People’s Party (PP) told proindependence lawmakers. “You’re putting social harmony at risk.”

The vote comes about three weeks after Barcelona and a nearby town were struck by Islamist attacks that killed 16 people and caused the Catalan and Spanish governments to present a brief united front.

Divisions reappeared as both sides squabbled over whether either could have prevented the attacks, and rallies against terrorism became politicised. Crowds in Barcelona booed Spain’s King Felipe when he visited for one march.

There will be no minimum turnout requirement to make the result of the referendum binding, Puigdemont said in a recent briefing. Ballot boxes, voting papers and an electoral census are at the ready, he said.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told a news conference on Monday the government would come down with all the force of the law to ensure no referendum would go ahead.

Courts have already suspended from office and levelled millions of euros in fines at Catalan politicians who organised a non-binding referendum in 2014, which returned a “yes” vote on a low turnout. (rtr)

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Catalonia’s regional President Carles Puigdemont and deputies sing the Catalan anthem Els Segadors after voting in a law to make formal its plans for an October 1 referendum in the Catalonian regional Parliament in Barcelona, Spain, September 6, 2017.

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Indonesian school a launchpad for child fighters in Syria’s Islamic State

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Hurricane Irma, a record Category 5 storm, is seen approaching Puerto Rico in this NASA’s GOES-16 satellite image taken at about 15:15 EDT on September 6, 2017.

Hurricane Irma kills eight on Saint Martin as it pounds Caribbean

SAN JUAN - Hurricane Irma killed eight people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and also caused devastation on other islands on Thursday as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida.

Television footage of the FrancoDutch island of Saint Martin showed a damaged marina with boats tossed into piles, submerged streets and flooded homes. Power was knocked out there and on Saint Barthelemy.

“It is an enormous disaster, 95 percent of the island is destroyed, I am in shock,” Daniel Gibbs, chairman of a local council on Saint Martin, told Radio Caribbean International.

French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said eight were killed and the toll was likely to rise in the coming hours.

“We did not have the time yet to explore all the shores,” Collomb told Franceinfo radio, adding that 23 people were also injured. In all, at least 10 people were reported killed

by Irma on four islands.

The hurricane was on track to reach Florida on Saturday or Sunday, becoming the second major hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in as many weeks.

The core was expected to scrape the northern coast of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thursday and track near Turks and Caicos and southeastern Bahamas later.

The island of Barbuda is a scene of “total carnage” and the tiny two-island nation will seek international assistance, said Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.

Browne told the BBC that about half of Barbuda’s population of some 1,800 were homeless while nine out of 10 buildings had suffered some damage and many were destroyed.

“We flew into Barbuda only to see total carnage. It was easily one of the

most emotionally painful experiences that I have had,” Browne said in an interview on BBC Radio Four.

“Approximately 50 percent of them (residents of Barbuda) are literally homeless at this time. They are bunking together, we are trying to get ... relief supplies to them first thing tomorrow morning,” he said, adding that it would take months or years to restore some level of normalcy to the island.

Browne said one person was killed on Barbuda. A second storm-related fatality, that of a surfer, was reported on Barbados.

At least half of Puerto Rico’s homes and businesses were without power, according to Twitter posts and a message posted by an island utility executive.

The NHC said it was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and one of the five most forceful storms to hit the Atlantic basin in 82 years.

While Irma’s intensity could fluctuate and its precise course remained uncertain, the storm was expected to remain at least a Category 4 before arriving in Florida.

‘THE BIG ONE’ Ed Rappaport, acting director of the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center, interviewed on local station WFOR-TV, called Irma a “once-in-a-generation storm,” adding that for South Florida, “It’s the zig one for us.”

Florida’s normally storm-jaded residents appeared to be taking the warnings seriously, too.

“A lot of times they end up having hurricane parties instead of evacuating,” Monroe county spokeswoman Cammy Clark told Reuters by phone.

“That’s been the opposite this time around.”

In Cuba, just 90 miles (145 km) south of the Keys, authorities posted a hurricane alert for the island’s central and eastern regions, as residents in Havana, the capital, were seen waiting line lines to stock up on foodstuffs, water and gasoline.

The eye of Irma was passing just north of Puerto Rico late Wednesday, buffeting the U.S. island territory’s capital, San Juan, with heavy downpours and strong winds that scattered tree limbs across roadways.

“The winds that we are experiencing right now are like nothing we have experienced before,” Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello told CNN. “We expect a lot of damage, perhaps not as much as was seen in Barbuda.”

At least half of Puerto Rico’s homes and businesses lost electricity by nightfall, according to a Twitter message posted by an island utility executive.

Aerial television footage of Barbuda, a tiny island just 250 miles (400 km) east of Puerto Rico, showed a desolate, flooded landscape shorn of trees and foliage, littered with debris and overturned vehicles.

Among the higher-end property losses on the island was the Paradise Found Nobu Resort, partially owned

by Hollywood screen star Robert De Niro, according to Stan Rosenfield, a spokesman for the actor. (rtr)

SUKAJAYA - Hatf Saiful Rasul was 11 years old when he told his father, a convicted Islamic militant, that he wanted to leave school and go to Syria to fight for Islamic State. The boy was visiting his father in a maximum security prison during a break from Ibnu Mas’ud, his Islamic boarding school, Syaiful Anam said in a 12,000 word essay on his son and religion that was published online.

“At first, I did not respond and considered it just a child’s joke,” he wrote. “But it became different when Hatf stated his willingness over and over.” Hatf told his father some of his friends and teachers from Ibnu Mas’ud had gone to fight for Islamic State and “become martyrs there”, Anam wrote.

Anam agreed to let him go, noting in his essay that the school was managed by “comrades who share our ideology”. Hatf travelled to Syria with a group of relatives in 2015, joining a group of French fighters. Reuters spoke to three Indonesian counter-terrorism officials who confirmed the boy went to Syria. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country and most of its people practice a moderate form of Islam. But there has been a recent resurgence in militancy and authorities believe Islamic State has more than 1,200 followers in Indonesia while about 500 Indonesians have left to join the group in Syria.

Drawing on court documents, registration filings and interviews with counter-terrorism police and former militants, Reuters has found that Hatf was one of at least 12 people from Ibnu Mas’ud who went to the Middle East to fight for IS or attempted to go there between 2013 and 2016. Eight were teachers, four were students.

At least another 18 people linked to the school have been convicted, or are now under arrest, for militant plots and attacks in Indonesia, include the three deadliest attacks in the country in the past 20 months, according to counter-terrorism police and trial documents of convicted militants.

Jumadi, a spokesman for Ibnu Mas’ud, denied the school supported IS or any other militant Islamist group, or taught any extreme or ultra-violent interpretation of Islam. Ibnu Mas’ud is one of about 30,000 Islamic boarding schools, or pesantren, across Indonesia. Most educate students in Islam and other

subjects, but a handful are linked to extremism and act as centres for recruitment, Indonesian police and government officials say.

“NOT OUR DOMAIN” Ibnu Mas’ud has been in existence for a decade, despite its links to militants. Irfan Idris, the head of deradicalisation at Indonesia’s national counter-terrorism agency, blamed weak laws and bureaucracy for the lack of action against such schools. “Basically, it’s not our domain, it’s the religious ministry,” he told Reuters. “We have informed the ministry that you have a problem with Ibnu Mas’ud.”

Asked about the school’s links to militants and why it had not been shut down, Kamaruddin Amin, the director general of Islamic education at Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs, said: “Ibnu Mas’ud never registered as a pesantren.”

Jumadi confirmed the school was not registered with the ministry.

The local government, Amin added, “had requested an explanation regarding the status of their study but did not get a response.”

Jumadi confirmed recent discussions with local government officials about the school’s teaching.

“We have no curriculum,” he said, a reference to the emphasis on teaching the Koran. “We’re focused on the tahfiz, on memorising the Koran, and the Hadith (the sayings of the Prophet Mohammad),” he said. “We teach students about the Arabic language, about faith and the history of Islam.”

Jumadi said Hatf studied at Ibnu Mas’ud but he did not know the circumstances of his leaving. He said he was unaware of any staff or students travelling to Syria to join IS, other than three teachers and one student detained in Singapore last year. Mustanah, a former student deported from Iraq in August, has told police several ex-students from Ibnu Mas’ud had travelled to Syria, two counter-terrorism officials told Reuters.

Nestled in the foothills of Mount Salak, a dormant volcano, in the village of Sukajaya, 90 km (55 miles) south of Indonesia’s

capital Jakarta, Ibnu Mas’ud is a ramshackle complex of classrooms, dormitories and prayer rooms that hosts up to 200 students from elementary school to junior high. A Reuters team entered the school in June but was not allowed to tour the premises and was eventually asked to leave.

Inside a mosque that forms part of the complex, young boys dressed in Arabic tunics and skull caps could be seen sitting in a circle holding their Korans, smiling and fidgeting as they waited for their lessons. In a courtyard, young girls were scampering about. They looked no older than five or six and were wearing headscarves.(rtr)

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Algeria approves measures to cover budget deficit

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Container ships are seen at a loading terminal at the Hamburg harbour in Hamburg, Germany February 15, 2017.

German current account surplus to remain world’s largest - Ifo

BERLIN - Germany’s current account surplus is expected to remain the world’s largest this year despite an overall drop which is mainly due to higher costs for oil and natural gas imports, the Munich-based Ifo economic institute said on Thursday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission have for years urged Berlin to lift domestic demand and imports as a way to reduce global economic imbalances and fuel global growth, including within the euro zone.

U.S. President Donald Trump has also criticised Germany for doing too little to reduce its trade surplus with the United States, accusing Berlin of “very bad” trade policies.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed back, saying Berlin’s economic and fiscal policies have already turned private consumption and state spending into the main growth drivers of Europe’s biggest economy.

Merkel also pointed out that the German surplus is mainly a result of the interplay of supply and demand

on global markets and that Berlin has only limited influence on other important factors such as the euro exchange rate and energy prices.

Ifo said it estimated the German current account surplus -- which measures the flow of goods, services and investments -- to remain the world’s largest in 2017 at $285 billion, followed by China with roughly $190 billion and Japan with $170 billion.

“Germany’s overall surplus is mainly caused by trade flows,” Ifo said in its analysis, adding that stronger demand from other euro zone countries, the rest of the EU and the United States had boosted exports in the first half of the year.

The German current account surplus is expected to shrink to 7.9 percent of total output in 2017 from 8.3 percent in the previous year. “This is mainly due to energy prices,” Ifo said. Higher costs for oil and natural gas are pushing up German imports which has a dampening effect on the trade surplus.

Still, Ifo’s estimates mean that Berlin would once again breach the European Commission’s recommended upper threshold of 6 percent this year. (rtr)

rating.

“Algeria will temporarily turn to this funding after resisting for three years the effects of a severe financial crisis caused by a serious collapse in hydrocarbons prices,” the statement added.

Bouteflika in June called for “internal uncoventional funding” to avoid turning to foreign debt, estimated now at less than $4 billion. Algeria expects its budget deficit at 8 percent for 2017 down from 15 percent in 2016.

The cabinet meeting also approved government action plan, which aimed at “improving business environment and boosting investment in all sectors”.

The amendments and government plans will still need final approval by parliament, where Bouteflika’s backers have an overwhelming majority.

Algeria has cut public spending by 14 percent for this year after a 9 percent reduction in 2016, and is struggling to reduce its imports bill despite increasing restrictions since early 2016.

That coincides with failures to implement reforms and diversify the economy away from oil and gas, which account for 94 percent of export revenue. (rtr)

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Usaba Muhu-Muhu at Timbrah Customary Village

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ALGIERS - Algeria’s government has approved draft amendments to a law aimed at securing new funding sources to cover budget deficts as it struggles to cope with a sharp fall in energy earnings.

Amendments to the Money and Credit Law were endorsed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, chaired by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, that discussed plans for the newly appointed government of Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia.

The North African OPEC member country has been facing financial pressure since crude oil prices started falling in mid-2014, halving its oil and gas revenue, which accounts for 60 percent of state budget.

The amendment will “authorise the central bank to lend directly to the public treasury so as to finance budget deficits and internal public debt and provide resources to the National Investment Fund”, the presidency said in a statement late on Wednesday.

This type of “exceptional funding” will be implemented for five years and “accompanied with financial and economic structural reforms”, it said, without elabo-

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Titi Banda Statue Denpasar City has a more magnificent and monumental icon.

After the quite amazing Sewaka Dharma Building as a public service center at Lumintang Denpasar has a magnificent and exotic building becoming the pride of the people in Denpasar, namely the Titi Banda Statue.

The grandiosely standing statue can be enjoyed by wider community at a very strategic location at the entrance to the city of Denpasar from the east. The statue was deliberately built in the median of the intersection of Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra and Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai because it was at stra-

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The Titi Banda Statue told stories about the Ramayana epic, namely the character Rama who built the Titi Banda Bridge in the middle of the sea with the help of monkey troops that would pick up Sita abducted in Lanka.

Titi Banda told about Rama, as the main character who would pick up her wife from the hands of Ravana in Lanka. Rama accompanied by his monkey troops consisting of 18 heads, where five of whom were chief of the monkey. Statue of Rama became the main one in the middle of the building. (kmb)

There is no day without a religious ceremony. It is the characteristic life on the Island of Bali or the Island of the Gods. One of them is the Usaba Muhu-Muhu at Timbrah customary village, Pertima, Karangasem. People at this village have a philosophy of high significance to maintain the integrity and harmony of their residents. It is reflected in the Usaba Muhu–Muhu ritual. This ceremony was held on Saturday (Jan. 9). It is implemented in the form of caru desa or animal sacrifice aiming to neutralize bhuta kala into bhuta hita. Thus, residents continue to live in harmony as well as the universe.

Implementation of this tradition is starting from nyaga ritual. Three days before the Usaba MuhuMuhu, residents carry out this ritual to neutralize bhuta kala in smaller scale, so as not to disturb other’s courtyard. This ritual is also called metuun buah. At the time of Usaba Muhu-Muhu, balancing ritual is performed in a higher level by the customary village with the caru sacrificing a cow.

Undagi procession when slaughtering cow for the caru oblation always draws the attention of surrounding residents. The cow tied to a concrete pole is slaughtered by the undagi and this lasts tensely. It is thrashing about when slaughtered so that makes people tense. However, this procession is more secure

than a similar ritual at Asak village, where the cow is released and then bombarded with swords, machetes and other sharp weapons, when the Usaba Kaulu held at the village.

Nengah Sukada, the local community leader, conveyed that the tradition is held once a year, precisely every new moon of the seventh month in Balinese calendar or around January. Residents of the supporting villages and two sesabu hamlets come down to carry out the task of devotional works at their respective hamlet to prepare ritual means.

After the procession is over, people carry out prayers at the Dalem Tengah Temple. Ritual at this temple is officiated over by great-grandfather and dahyang. Great-grandparent officiates over the offerings in the kemulan shrine on the pedestal, while the dahyang officiates over the kemulan offerings under the pedestal. Interestingly, after saying prayers together, local residents ranging from parents to children join a shared meal or megibung, enjoying the beef as the remainder of the ritual means. Residents sit together in place that have been provided by customary village, such as meeting pavilion, long pavilion and gamelan troupe pavilion.

Some other sources at the local village mention that the tradition of Usaba Muhu-Muhu is also considered as the implementation of the Shiva Purana, namely when Durgha goes up against the Mahisasura giant cow or buffalo. Today, it is celebrated as a form of human self-control in order to avoid animal nature. (kmb)

Pulung-pulung Sela Pulung-pulung sela or cassava ball is a traditional cake having been quite familiar among Balinese people. Around the 1980s, this cake became a favorite for the old, young people as well as children. Especially during rainy season, many people consume this cake. It is easy to get as on sale everywhere.

Indeed it is a simple cake, but when enjoyed together, it will be more palatable. Therefore, every activity like exercise to dance, play gamelan or chant psalmody at hamlet hall, this cake is ready to accompany. However, it will be nicer when enjoying this cake is accompanied with a cup of coffee. But children like it due it its sweetness.

In this modern era marked with the presence of new pastries, the cassava ball began to disappear. If remaining available, it must be made by farmers at villages living away from a pastry shop. Currently children no longer know this cake, denoting a heritage of their ancestors. They just enjoy the instant and relatively modern cookies.

Lately, this kind of cake begins to reappear. Traditional stalls in urban areas have sold it again. Its ingredient and shape may be the same, but the price is even more expensive. In the past, people could by it at IDR 5 per piece or even two pieces, but now it is sold for IDR 1,000 or IDR 2,000 per piece. Nevertheless, old people who are missing this traditional cake will definitely buy it.

It is primarily made from cassava. The ingredient is very versatile and can be made into a variety of foods. Aside from cassava, the other ingredients are young coconut, brown sugar, salt and cooking oil. At first, grate the entire coconut and cassava ingredient. Mix well the grated cassava, coconut and salt together. Slice thinly the brown sugar. Having finely and evenly prepared the batter, it is then shaped into a ping pong ball and filled in with brown sugar inside the ball. Fry until looking golden and brown. Finally, it can be served in warm condition. (kmb)

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Having potential, Tabanan tests paddy-fish intercropping TABANAN - Tabanan has a land area of approximately 21,000 hectares. Other than intended for rice crops and horticulture, the land can provide additional income if cultivated maximally. Tabanan district itself is currently encouraging farmers to use their land to build a fish nursery pond in addition to planting. As having the potential, the government of Tabanan district through the fisheries and maritime affairs conducted a deepwater fish pond trial and planned in 2018. In addition, Tabanan will also get assistance from central government to develop the program.

Head of the Tabanan Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Agency, Made Subagia, said on Wednesday (Sep. 6) that some subak groups in Tabanan such as in Marga and Penebel have developed freshwater fish nursery. With the program of paddy fish pond intercropping, farmers will develop both fish fingerlings and fish for consumption.

Subagia said that in developing the intercropping program in Tabanan he has made a visit to Sleman, Yogyakarta. There, farmers have already implemented this program and earn substantial profits.

He explained the paddy-fish intercropping is that paddy field area intended for rice cultivation activities in combination with fish pond, while the comparison is that maximally 20 percent of the land for the pond with the depth of at least 80 centimeters. So, even though the rice plants no longer need water and the soil dries out, the deepened plot lines will still be filled with water so that fish can be developed. “Since the plot channel is deepened, though it contains water, it does not affect the crops,” said Subagia.

After visiting Sleman, the maritime affairs and fisheries then conducted a pilot program in Kediri and East Selemadeg subdistrict. When director general of aquaculture, ministry of maritime affairs, made a visit some time ago, central government considered Tabanan to have the potential for the development of this program.

So, it is going to provide assistance in 2018 for the implementation of deep pond fish cultivation in Tabanan.

For experimental activities in Kediri and East Selemadeg subdistrict, Subagia added that other than carp he will also cultivate tilapia that all this time has been cultivated in the ponds and floating net bags. He hoped the test will give good results so that it can be developed by farmers and other fish farmers. (kmb24)

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Tabanan district is currently encouraging farmers to use their land to build a fish nursery pond in addition to planting.

Kesbangpol inspects expatriates at school

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The inspection to expatriates is meant to discipline their documents as a requirement to stay in Denpasar, including the schools that employ the foreign staff.

DENPASAR - The joint team from the elements of National Unity and Political Agency (Kesbangpol) Denpasar, Immigration Office, Indonesian military and national police and the relevant agencies re-inspected the expatriates. This time, the joint team targeted schools that employ foreign workers as teachers.

Division Head of Conflict and Precaution Handling, I Gusti Ngurah Arisudana, when making site inspection to CHIS School, Pemogan village, South Denpasar, on Wednesday (Sep. 6), stated the inspection to expatriates is meant to discipline their documents as a requirement to stay in Denpasar, including the schools that employ the foreign staff. According to Arisudana, the inspection is to cross-check

their residence in accordance with KITAS and their visa. The supervision of Denpasar municipality is expected to increase the awareness of the expatriates to equip themselves with relevant documents for the convenience of their stay in Bali. “With the joint team, we come down to the field to check documents of the expatriates living in Denpasar and schools that employ foreign workers,” said Arisudana At CHIS School there are 80 teachers, where ten of them are foreign teachers. From the results of monitoring team, all the foreign teachers at the school have complied with the administrative rules according to teaching requirements in Denpasar City. Although teaching in the city of Denpasar, many of the foreign teachers are living

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outside the city of Denpasar.

After conducting supervision to CHIS school, the team went on to Universal School equally located in South Denpasar subdistrict.

Although it is a foreign language school, it does not employ any foreign workers. “Through this inspection, we hope that all schools employing foreign workers to complete all the administration for the requirements of living in Denpasar City,” he said.

Furthermore, Arisudana added the regular inspection carried out by the joint team is not to prohibit foreign workers in Denpasar City, but to provide comfort for them. To that end, he urged all foreigners in the city of Denpasar to immediately report themselves to the hamlet chief at local village even though they have a residence permit. (kmb12)

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“And then they exploded”: How Rohingya insurgents built support for assault YANGON - When the former U.N. chief Kofi Annan wrapped up his year-long probe into Myanmar’s troubled northwest on Aug. 24, he publicly warned that an excessive army response to violence would only make a simmering conflict between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces worse.

Just three hours later, shortly after 8 p.m., Rohingya insurgent leader Ata Ullah sent a message to his supporters urging them to head to the foot of the remote Mayu mountain range with metal objects to use as weapons.

A little after midnight, 600 km northwest of the country’s largest city Yangon, a rag-tag army of Rohingya militants, wielding knives, sticks, small weapons and crude bombs, attacked 30 police posts and an army base.

“If 200 or 300 people come out, 50 will die. God willing, the remaining 150 can kill them with knives,” said Ata Ullah in a separate voice message to his supporters. It was circulated around the time of the offensive on mobile messaging apps and a recording was subsequently reviewed by Reuters.

The assault by Ata Ullah’s group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), was its biggest yet. Last October, when the group first surfaced, it attacked just three police border posts using about 400 fighters, according to Myanmar government estimates. The Myanmar army is now estimating up to 6,500 people took part in the August offensive.

Its ability to mount a much more ambitious assault indicates that many young Rohingya men have been galvanized into supporting ARSA following the army crackdown after the October attacks, according to interviews with more than a dozen Rohingya and Rakhine villagers, members of the security forces and local administrators.

The brutal October response led to allegations that troops burned down villages and killed and raped civilians.

The crisis in ethnically-riven Rakhine state is the biggest to face Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and her handling of it has been a source of disillusionment among the democracy champion’s former supporters in the West. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Myanmar authorities on Tuesday to end violence against Rohingya Muslims, warning of the risk of ethnic cleansing, a possible humanitarian catastrophe, and regional destabilisation.

Rohingya leaders and some policy analysts say Suu Kyi’s failure to tackle the grievances of the Muslim minority, who have lived under apartheid-like conditions for generations, has bolstered support for the militants.

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The fledgling militia has been transformed into a network of cells in dozens of villages, capable of staging a widespread offensive.

Myanmar’s government has declared ARSA a terrorist organisation.

It has also accused it of killing Muslim civilians to prevent them from cooperating with the authorities, and of torching Rohingya villages, allegations the group denies. The latest assault has provoked a major counteroffensive in which the military says it killed almost 400 insurgents and in which 13 members of the security forces have died.

Rohingya villagers and human rights groups say the military has also attacked villages indiscriminately and torched homes.

Myanmar government says it is carrying out a lawful counterterrorism operation and that the troops have been instructed not to harm civilians.

Nearly 150,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, leading to fears of a humanitarian crisis. Some 26,750 non-Muslim villagers have also been displaced inside Myanmar.

Suu Kyi has said she would adopt recommendations of Kofi Annan’s panel that encouraged more integration. She has also previously appealed for understanding of her nation’s ethnic complexities.

In a statement on Wednesday, she blamed “terrorists” for “a huge iceberg of misinformation” on the strife in Rakhine. She made no mention of the Rohingya who have fled.

Suu Kyi’s spokesman, Zaw Htay, could not be immediately reached for comment.

On Monday, however, he told Reuters Myanmar was carrying out a counterterrorism operation and taking care of “the safety of civilians, including Muslims and non-Muslims.” (rtr)

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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors are seen as they arrive at Seongju, South Korea, September 7, 2017.

S.Korea deploys anti-missile system as US seeks tough N.Korea sanctions

SEOUL - South Korean protesters clashed with thousands of police over the deployment of a defence system aimed at countering North Korean missile attacks, while China and the United States discussed options to rein in Pyongyang.

The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an oil embargo on North Korea, ban its exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean labourers abroad, and subject leader Kim Jong Un to an asset freeze and travel ban, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Pressure from Washington has ratcheted up since North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sunday. That test, along with a series of missile launches, showed Pyongyang was close to achieving its goal of developing a powerful nuclear weapon that could reach the United States.

Amid the rising tensions, Seoul installed the four remaining launchers of the U.S. anti-missile Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system on a former golf course in the south early on Thursday. Two launchers had already been deployed.

More than 30 people were wounded when around 8,000 South Korean police broke up a blockade of about 300 villagers and civic groups opposed to the THAAD system deployment, fire officials said.

The decision to deploy the THAAD system has drawn strong objections from China, which believes its radar could be used to look deeply into its territory and will upset the regional security balance.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has urged China, North Korea’s biggest ally and trading partner, to do more to rein in its neighbour which has pursued its missile and nuclear weapons programmes in defiance of U.N. sanctions and international condemnation.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he had an executive order ready for Trump to sign that would impose sanctions on any country that trades with Pyongyang if the United Nations does not put additional sanctions on North Korea.

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping committed on a phone call on Wednesday to “take further action with the goal of achieving the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, the White House said.

“President Xi would like to do something. We’ll see whether or not he can do it. But we will not be putting up with what’s happening in North Korea,” Trump told reporters, although he offered no specifics.

“I believe that President Xi agrees with me 100 percent,” he said.

Asked whether he was considering a military response to North Korea, Trump said: “Certainly, that’s not our first choice, but we will see what happens.”

Xi told the U.S. president during their 45-minute call that the North Korean issue must be resolved through “dialogue and consultation”.

The United States had set aside for now plans to end a U.S. trade agreement with South Korea, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. The trade issue is unrelated to North Korea but has been a source of tension between the two allies. (rtr)

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Another look at waste: Belgian startup to print 3D recycled sunglasses BRUSSELS - A Belgium-based start-up is on its way to making the world a bit sunnier, by printing the first 3D sunglasses out of recycled plastic.

The Antwerp-based company w.r.yuma - pronounced “We are Yuma” and named after one of the sunniest places on earth - began a month-long online crowd-sourcing campaign on Kickstarter on Wednesday.

After two years of prototyping and testing different materials, it promises to transform old car dashboards, soda bottles, fridges and other plastic waste into different coloured shades.

“It’s the icon of cool, really, and when you wear, literally you are looking to the world through a different set of lenses, and that’s exactly the message that I want to bring,” Founder Sebastiaan de Neubourg said of the company, named after Yuma, Arizona.

“I want to inspire people to have, quite literally, another look at waste.”

The plastic waste is sourced from the Netherlands and Belgium’s Flemish region. The waste is fed into the 3D printer, melted to form thin strands of plastic wire and layered together to construct the frames.

These are then assembled by hand and fitted with Italian made Mazzuchelli lenses.

Marketing schemes include setting up stands at music festivals to transform plastic drinking cups into sunglasses on the spot.

The company is also making a limited number of soda white sunglasses made from 90 percent recycled PET plastic from soda bottles.

It is also inviting would-be clients to return the glasses once they are done with them to be turned into a new pair of glasses.

“The idea ... (is) also to make sure that the materials eventually come back to us in a closed loop system,” de Neubourg said.

With five unique designs and three colours of lenses to choose from, de Neubourg is trying to make sustainable recycling fashionable and useful. The sunglasses will be shipped to customers in January 2018.

“I think that sustainability should become mainstream,” said de Neubourg, a former mechanical engineer for a sustainability consultancy.

“We’re not going to solve the plastic waste problem by just taking this plastic and putting it in sunglasses, but it’s a first step. ... I want to touch a lot of people with that message.” (rtr)

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Belgian start-up w.r.yuma founder Sebastiaan de Neubourg places a lens into a frame of 3D printed sunglasses made from plastic waste in Antwerp, Belgium, August 30, 2017. Picture taken August 30, 2017.

Quality of local beef has not been able to match imported meat because the majority of livestock farmers only raise cattle as sideline job.

Ribs remain tough

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A model presents a creation by French designer Lea Peckre as part of her Spring/Summer 2015 women’s ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week September 23, 2014.

Fashion giants LVMH and Kering ban size zero models

PARIS - French fashion companies Kering and LVMH will stop hiring excessively thin models worldwide under a new charter developed in response to continued criticism the industry encourages eating disorders.

France banned ultra-thin models under a 2015 law though it only stipulated models needed a doctor’s note attesting to their health based on age, weight and body shape. Proposals to include a minimum body mass index were dropped after industry pressure.

Kering and LVMH said their charter will now go further than the French legislation. All their fashion brands have committed to banning models below French size 34 for women and 44 for men.

Size 32 in France corresponds to size 0 in the United States.

“We hope to inspire the entire industry to follow suit, thus making a real difference in the working conditions of fashion models industry-wide,” Kering CEO Francois-Henri Pinault said in the statement.

Fashion insiders have long said that clothes hang and drape better on tall, androgynous wom-

en, while Western cultures often associate thinness with wealth, youth and desirability.

But criticism over how models are treated has prompted several countries to bring in protective measures. Besides France, Israel banned ultra-thin models in 2013 while countries such as Italy and Spain rely on voluntary codes of conduct.

The two French companies, whose labels include Christian Dior, Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci, said their charter would guarantee the “the wellbeing of models”. It also forbids the hiring of girls under 16 to pose as adult models.

The brands committed to working solely with models who can provide a doctor’s certificate obtained less than six months before a shoot or fashion show attesting to their good health and to put a psychologist at their disposal during their work.

The new rules, which follow a wave of criticism of fashion companies this year, will come into effect ahead of Paris Fashion Week this month.

In March, Kering’s Balenciaga fired two casting directors after they reportedly left over 150 models waiting for hours in a dark stairwell while they went for lunch.

Also in March, France’s advertising watchdog asked Kering’s Yves Saint Laurent to modify two ads after complaints that they were degrading to women.

One featured a reclining woman in a fur coat and fishnet tights with her legs spread wide and the other shows a model in a leotard and roller skate stilettos bending over a stool.

Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority also banned an Yves Saint Laurent ad in 2015 that featured a very thin model whose ribcage was showing. (rtr)

Hotel and restaurant absorb 15 percent of Bali beef

DENPASAR — All this time Bali beef has actually been entered into hotels and restaurants on the Island of the Gods. However, the percentage remains low, namely only 15 percent. They only take advantage of the tail, while some meats are processed into minced meat. In the meantime, hotel and restaurant do not dare to take advantage of ribs because of being still tough.

“Actually, the price of local beef in the market is almost the same as imported beef. But, they have different quality. So, we prefer to take the imported ones,” said Chairman of the Indonesian Chef Association (ICA) Bali, I Gede Putu Hendra Mahena, after attending the meeting with Special Committee of the Bali Cattle Management Bill in the Bali House of Representatives, on Wednesday (Sep. 6).

According to Hendra, the use of imported beef in hotels and restaurants reached 85 percent. Nevertheless, he claimed to still support the local cattle farmers. Moreover, the Bali House of

Representatives currently working on the bill about the Bali cattle management asked hotels and restaurants to increase local beef uptake from 15 percent to 30 percent.

“We maintain the image before the guests as well. Sometimes, guests are sensitive to quality. If we use local ribs, definitely guests will complain,” he explained.

Hendra claimed that he will be changing the menus without using state’s label. Previously, when using imported beef from America, the name used on the menu is US Tenderloin. Although the price reaches IDR 500,000, guests will still buy. In

order not to bring up a gap between imported and local meat, it will only be written ‘Tenderloin’ on the menu.

“But, before this regional regulation is enacted, we make an observation to slaughter house. We have to make a product demonstration. If local meat has approached the second grade of Australia, we dare to use. Otherwise, we do not dare,” he explained.

Hendra observed that quality of local beef has not been able to match imported meat because the majority of livestock farmers only raise cattle as sideline job. Consequently, the cattle’s diet is often irregular, so that it affects the quality. Overseas, the

cattle are really maintained and treated specifically. Therefore, the quality of Bali beef must be improved.

“Hopefully, the aging and storage will be good as well as not be contaminated by others. Surely, we will promote it (Bali beef—Ed),” he concluded.

Chairman of the Bali Cattle Management Bill Special Committee, I Nyoman Parta, confirmed that hotels and restaurants in Bali should accommodate Bali beef. The image of Bali cattle should also be changed by promoting its advantages. Regarding the meat claimed to be still tough, slowly it will be carried out an empowerment process to livestock farmers. Hopefully, they start using concentrate feed other than grasses.

“Then, it is resumed with the empowerment of slaughter house,

regarding the practice of slaughtering techniques from beginning to the end. Sorting of the meat and the aging should be done with the correct standards,” added this PDI-P politician.

Parta added that hotels and restaurants should open themselves and try to help people of Bali by using Bali beef. Based on his notes, the use of second class beef (Pronas) such as offal or lower legs is entirely still imported. In 2016, the amount reached 1,395 tons, and until the middle of 2017 it has reached 522 tons. In the meantime, the use of premium meat has reached 420 tons from early to mid 2017. “So, the volume of imported beef going to Bali used by hotels, restaurant and catering is very high. We still have 4-5 months to go.

The regional regulation will require the use of Bali beef,” he said. (kmb23)

Congestion at Tanjung Benoa

Tourist visit decreases by 40 percent MANGUPURA — Congestion condition occurred along the path to Tanjung Benoa is very much felt by the marine tourism entrepreneurs. Moreover, due to this condition, tourist visits to Tanjung Benoa decreases by 40 percent.

Chairman of the Indonesian Marine Tourism Association (Gahawisri) Badung, Nyoman Wana Putra, said on Wednesday (Sep. 6) that traffic congestion at Tanjung Benoa must be addressed immediately. This condition is very detrimental to society and businessmen. Moreover, it is very

difficult to find out parking space due to limited land availability.

To that end, he proposed the construction of road with direct connection to toll road. When asked about the plan to build west ring road of Tanjung Benoa, he confirmed that it will take too long time and expensive cost. It does not include the land acquisition of the residents and the land belonging to forestry agency. “Road construction with direct connection to toll road is short and does not take long time,” he concluded.

With the construction of a direct

access to toll road, he hoped that Jalan Pratama can be made into one-way road section for entry while the exit is through toll road.

On that account, the dropped tourist visit to Tanjung Benoa is expected to be back to normal.

He said that tourist visit to Tanjung Benoa averagely reaches 500 people per day. However, due to severe traffic congestion, they finally chose an alternative to visit Pandawa Beach. In the meantime, the Pandawa Beach does not offer any water sport activities. (kmb23)

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Tourist visit to Tanjung Benoa averagely reaches 500 people per day. However, due to severe traffic congestion, they finally chose an alternative to visit Pandawa Beach.

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Hundreds of Gianyar residents choose to be migrant workers

GIANYAR —Tourism development in Gianyar district does not necessarily make the people of Gianyar feel homey to work at home. As evidence, their interest to work overseas as Indonesian migrant worker is still high.

Based on the data summary on the placement report of migrant workers at the Gianyar Manpower Office in 2016, they amounted to 601 people. By sex, the migrant workers from Gianyar consist of 353 men and 248 women.

By the subdistrict of origin, they mostly come from Ubud (220 people), Payangan (108 people), Gianyar (91 people), Blahbatuh (58 people), Sukawati (56 people), Tegallalang (36 people) and Tampaksiring (32 people).

Chief of the Gianyar Manpower Integrated Service, AA Eka Dharma Kusumawati, acknowledged the high interest of Gianyar residents to work overseas. The workers of Gianyar overseas have been equipped with their respective competency. “The number of our migrant workers is quite high,” she said with permission of the Head of the Gianyar Manpower Gianyar, A.A. Dalem Jagatdhita.

In the meantime, there are totally 33 destination countries of the migrant workers from Gianyar. The most favored destination countries are Italy (265 people), Turkey (172 people), the United States (17 people), the Maldives (16 people), India (12 people), Denmark and Dubai (11 people), Russia (10 people), Cyprus (9 people) and Malaysia (7 people) and a number of other destination countries.

She added that to help job seekers, the Gianyar Manpower Agency helps with various breakthroughs such as by working with employers or job vacancies providers. “Gianyar Manpower Agency spreads vacancies to job seekers through Online and Facebook account of the agency,” she explained.

Gianyar Manpower Agency has also provided a number of places or stands for companies wishing to provide vacancies for job seekers. Applicants can directly come to the office of the Integrated Manpower Services and meet directly the providers of job opportunities. Moreover, providers of the job vacancies directly conduct tests and interviews to job applicants at this integrated service office. “We at the Manpower Integrated Service provide a stand for job provider. Besides, we provide a place for vacancy providers to conduct direct tests to job seekers,” explained Agung Eka. (kmb35)

Silkworm breeders overwhelmed to meet demands

MANGUPURA - Silkworm farmers are overwhelmed to serve the demand for silk threads. Moreover, the minimal silk raw materials makes the weavers choose Chinese-made silk threads. Cheap price and easily obtained become the reason.

In Indonesia, the need for high silk thread reaches 900 tons or 7,200 tons per year. Bali alone needs 3-4 tons. However, until now the needs of silk yarn in Bali can only be fulfilled half of which reaching 1.2 tons - 1.5 tons.

This was disclosed by Coordinator of Bali Nature Silk Farming, Tri Edy Mursabda, on Monday (Sep. 4). A cocoon spun will produce 1,200 meters of filament fiber used to make silk thread. “Indeed, the demand is high but we cannot meet demand entirely because of limited raw materials. We are shortage of raw materials,” he said.

The shortage of silk yarn raw materials also causes the weavers to purchase Chinese silk thread. “Actually, if we see the land condition in Bali, many of which are unused. If we want to work on, we can realize silkworm cultivation as the mulberry tree can grow anywhere. It means it is not bound by the altitude and temperature except for the silkworms,” he explained.

Silkworm cultivation can be carried out on the altitude of 400-800 above sea level, temperature of 24-28 degrees and humidity of 70-80. “The temperature is not too dry, not too wet, and must be cool,” he added. Such appropriate areas can be found in Bali such as Payangan (Gianyar), Petang (Badung), Marga and Baturiti (Tabanan) and Yangapi (Bangli). Limited raw materials happen due to silkworm breeding are still lacking. In Indonesia, the nurseries in Candiroto and Sopeng are still lacking because both centers for silkworm breeding (PPUS) belong to tidal area. “It means that sometimes the seeds of the eggs may be good and sometimes not good,” he said.

The government has also opened up the opportunities for the region either province or district to make a silkworm egg nursery. This has been regulated by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in the procurement and distribution of silkworm eggs. It is meant to prevent the impact on silkworm cultivators or groups of silkworm breeders. “Therefore, it is permitted to make a silkworm egg nursery,” he affirmed. (kmb42)

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MANGUPURA - The issues on price and food supply in Indonesia are remarkably complicated and have repeatedly occurred. For instance, the rice prices continue to experience fluctuations. According to Chairman of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU), Muhammad Syarkawi Rauf, the problem faced by Indonesia happens due to long distribution chain. Certainly, there are parties in the middle or middleman that take advantage of the situation. “Indeed the middlemen have made the price relatively high,” he said when met amid ‘The 13th East Asia Top (EATOP) Level Official’s Meeting on Competition Policy’ in Nusa Dua, on Wednesday (Sep. 6).

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“We do not stop after setting the upper limit retail price, but have to develop rice market from upstream to downstream,” he concluded.

Through this EATOP meeting, he hoped to gain knowledge and experience from the countries such as Japan, Korea and Australia. As is known, Japan does not have a relatively large area and a lot of resources, but can make a stable price and supply of food commodities. “We want to gain knowledge and experience from them. How they can do that, so that it will become very good. We hope it can be implemented in Indonesia,” he said.

He explained that Japan has an excellent market mechanism of food commodities, while Malaysia has a very good price control, like the highest retail price owned by Indonesia. Currently, he admitted that Indonesia is learning how to combine the experiences of Japan and Malaysia in encouraging the stabilization of food prices and supplies. Like the experience owned

by Japan, he said the stability of prices and food commodities is influenced by their ability to control prices and supplies starting from the upstream. In the upstream, they have a very strong cooperative. He hoped that Indonesia must build a community-owned enterprise in the upstream area. After that, it needs to be integrated with large scale rice estate.

From the integrated rice estate, it will go into the rice market and there should be auction process because the auction will be much bet-

ter for producers, retailers and end users. Or it could be implemented with a direct sale by integrating the rice estate to the end user. “If this mechanism can be pushed in Indonesia, it will certainly help Indonesia stabilize the price and supply of strategic food,” he explained.

This EATOP meeting is followed by 10 ASEAN economies, other economies in East Asia such as Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, and Australia. One of the focuses of the EATOP is the enhancement of legal capacity and competition policy in the region as well as coordination of technical assistance between speech partners and beneficiaries for improvement on the effectiveness and efficiency of competition policy. In addition, the meeting is also focused on the exchange of information related to the development of law and business competition policy in the region. (kmb23)

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Madonna moves to Portugal, rated new star destination for expats

LISBON - New Lisbon resident Madonna has been extolling the delights of living in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, the most illustrious of a growing number of foreigners in the newly-fashionable city.

“I used to be a basket case but now I live in Lisbon,” she wrote on Instagram on Sunday under a photo of baskets hanging from the ceiling of an old Portuguese kitchen.

Local media say she has bought a 7.5 million-euro ($9 million) estate in the mountains of Sintra, outside Lisbon, and will continue to stay at the Pestana Palace hotel, where she is in the royal suite, while it is refurbished.

The 18th century Quinta do Relogio estate mentioned by various news outlets was still up for sale on the Engel&Volkers real estate agency’s website on Wednesday.

If the reports are true, Madonna - who wrote that

“the energy of Portugal is so inspiring” - joins film stars Michael Fassbender and Monica Bellucci who have bought properties in Lisbon in the past year.

Among the reasons the pop star has come to Lisbon is that her 11-year-old son David Banda has started soccer training at the youth academy of Benfica, according to the Lisbon club.

She also arrives as Portugal has been named Europe’s best destination for expatriates to live in 2017 and the world’s best for quality of life, in a survey published by social network InterNations on Wednesday.

In the overall global rating for best expatriate destination, it soared 23 positions from 2016 to No. 5, making it the leading gainer worldwide.

Portugal, which boasts sandy beaches, golf courses, historic castles and some of the lowest prices in Western Europe, was hard-hit by an economic and debt crisis in 2010-13, but has been on a steady recovery since and is going through a tourism boom. (rtr)

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A combination photo shows singer, songwriter Beyonce Knowles in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S. on May 2, 2016 and actor, producer George Clooney in Toronto, Canada, September 12, 2015.

More Clooney babies? Not likely, says Amal Clooney

LOS ANGELES - After welcoming twins earlier this year and mastering the art of changing diapers, George Clooney and wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney are not looking to expand their brood further.

Clooney, 56, spoke candidly in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, published on Wednesday, about becoming “a very good diaper guy” and the pressures of being a first-time father to twins Alexander and Ella, born in June in London.

When Amal Clooney was asked if she wanted to have more children, the reporter said, her response was a negative shake of the head.

“I’m 39,” Amal Clooney said. “I already had them quite late.”

The twins have been the subject of much speculation and the Clooneys, one of Hollywood’s most famous couples, kept a low profile

before their birth.

“The first thing you think is, ‘I hope I don’t screw this up,’” Clooney said of fatherhood.

“But you are really responsible for two kids. I want them to be happy. I want them to have a sense of humor. I want them to be interested in things. I want them to be compassionate about other people’s plights. Because that’s the thing, you know?

You have to have some sort of empathy.”

He also added, “But I’m a very good diaper guy, which I didn’t know I would be.”

The actor and director of the upcoming black comedy “Suburbicon” also discussed an array of topics, from his friendship with former U.S. President Barack Obama, with whom he said he sometimes shares some “racy” texts, to his own political ambitions, or lack of them. (rtr)

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People gather as they watch a telecast of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers between Iran and Syria, in Damascus, Syria September 5, 2017.

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Spirited Syrians battling to achieve World Cup dream

Syria’s team spirit has kept the war-torn nation in contention to qualify for their first soccer World Cup and Ayman Hakeem’s side will need to muster more of the same attitude to deliver a storybook ending to their remarkable journey. For the fourth time in five games Syria scored in the dying seconds when they met Iran on Tuesday as Omar Al Soma slid the ball through the goalkeeper’s legs to earn a 2-2 draw that sets up a two-legged playoff with Australia next month.

Since March, Qatar, China and Uzbekistan have all been on the receiving end of last-gasp goals from the Syrians as the country’s World Cup dream moved closer to reality. A 91st minute Omar Khrbin penalty secured a 1-0 win against Uzbekistan while Ahmad Al Saleh’s curling free kick three minutes into added time salvaged a point against Marcello Lippi’s China as the Syrian bandwagon gained momentum.

Mahmoud Al Mawas continued

the trend last month when he scored a decisive late third in a 3-1 victory over Qatar. This time it was Al Soma, who only returned to the squad last month after a selfimposed exile due to his stance on the civil war at home. The 28-yearold slipped the ball into the net in the 93rd minute to empty the Syrian bench in celebration and seal third place in the group and entry into the playoffs.

“Hopefully we can continue

along this road as we have two important matches and I hope we can continue with our good performances,” said the Saudi Arabiabased striker. “I want to thank my team mates, who were heroes as they put in a great performance.” If Syria do get past Australia they will then face an intercontinental playoff against a CONCACAF team with the winners securing a place at next year’s World Cup in Russia.

HARD ROAD

Syria have had to do things the hard way, with soccer’s world governing body FIFA not permitting the team to play at home due to the continuing security concerns in the country. Malaysia has hosted Syria’s matches in the final phase of qualifying, leaving the fans to follow the team from afar. The political

situation has also been reflected in the make-up of the squad as the qualifying campaign has evolved.

Veteran forward Firas Al Khatib, who had refused to join up with the team due to his opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, ended his boycott in March, leaving Al Soma as the last remaining highprofile stay away.

His stance softened, however, and the Al Ahli striker - who has been top scorer in the Saudi league for each of the last three seasons relented in August, returning for the 3-1 win over Qatar last week.

Al Soma’s influence was even more telling on Tuesday as it was from his free kick that Tamer Haj Mohamad eventually opened the scoring before Sardar Azmoun’s double put Iran in front, leaving Al Soma to become the hero in the

final seconds.

“We tried our best to qualify directly but, as you saw, we have played against the best team in Asia and we managed to score twice against them despite the fact that they hadn’t conceded in the third round,” said Hakeem.

“We proved that we are a good side and despite all the difficulties that we had we managed to get a good result. I hope that we can continue our dream in the play-offs and qualify to the World Cup.” (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.