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NEW YORK - US pop legend Billy Joel married longtime girlfriend Alexis Roderick in a surprise wedding Satur-day, popping their nuptials on unsuspect-ing guests at a July 4 holiday party, the singer’s publicist said.

The wedding, which took place on Joel’s Long Island estate, was officiated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Joel and Roderick “surprised guests at their annual July 4th party by exchanging vows in front of their family and close friends,” said a statement sent to AFP by Joel’s publicist Claire Mercuri.

Among the guests were actor Kevin James and Joel’s daughter Alexa Ray Joel -- whom he had with his second wife, former supermodel Christie Brinkley.

Joel, 66, and Roderick, who is in her early 30s according to US media, are expecting their first child in the next few months, his publicist said.

“Congratulations to the glowing bride and groom. And to my daughter Alexa, who has a wonderful friend in Alexis,” Brinkley posted on Instagram.

Roderick is Joel’s fourth wife. The couple has been together since 2009, US media reported.

Joel has sold more than 150 million records and has been nominated for a Grammy 23 times, according to his website.

Some of his most popular hits include “Up-town Girl,” “Just The Way You Are” and “The Longest Time”. (afp)

On Thursday night, another Australian airline, Jetstar, already cancelled six scheduled flights to Bali for the same reason, but on Friday it resumed normal flight to Bali.

The 3.332 meters volcano in the district of Bondowoso, has shown activities lately with explosions sending black volcanic ashes soar-ing to the air over wide area includ-ing part of Bali.

Trikora Harjo, General Man-ager of state-owned airport opera-tor PT Angkasa Pura I Bandara I

Gusti Ngurah Rai, Bali, said, Virgin Airlines cancelled flights from a number of cities in Australia on Saturday.

“The airline cancelled seven flights to Bali from Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Cairns and from Singapore, today,” Trikora said.

He said there has been no do-mestic flight cancelled to Bali, but most aircraft made a detour more to the north or more to the south at a height of around 22,400 feet from the sea level to be away from the volcanic ashes.

“We are told by Garuda Indo-nesia, they could evade the ashes by making a detour to the north or south flying high at 22,400 feet,” he said.

ResumedOn Friday, Jetstar has resumed

its services to Bali after having cancelled six flights to the island after receiving information about a volcanic eruption in East Java, Indonesia.

“They canceled flights to Bali due to safety reasons since accord-ing to their satellite data, a volcano had erupted, and its ash was blow-ing towards Australia,” Yusfandri Gona, the head of the Region IV Airport Authorities for Bali and

Nusa Tenggara, stated at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport.

Two flights were turned back three hours into their journey.

However, on Friday morning until noon, the six flights from Syd-ney, Melbourne, Cairns, Perth, and Singapore are scheduled to arrive in Bali, he added.

Jetstar was the only Australian airline that had canceled its flights to Bali on Thursday evening. Other Australian airlines’ flights to and from Bali were not affected.

Yusfandri said the eruption of Mt Raung in East Java has not affected domestic and international flights to and from Bali.

Australian media ABC reported on Friday that after assessing the

flying conditions with the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC), Jetstar had decided to resume its services.

“We regret the impact that these cancellations have had on our pas-sengers, particularly during the busy school holiday period, but we will always prioritize safety before schedule,” Jetstar stated.

NEW YORK — Meghan Train-or is postponing two shows because of a hemorrhage on her vocal cords.

The 21-year-old pop singer made the announcement on Instagram late Thursday. She said “doctors want me on complete vocal rest until they are healed.”

The “All About That Bass” sing-er had been scheduled to perform in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on

Friday and Uncasville, Connecticut, on Saturday.

Trainor wrote that she’s never missed a live show and that she’s “truly sorry to everyone who has bought tickets and made travel plans.”

Her next show will be on Tues-day in Lansing, Michigan. The Grammy-nominated performer’s hits include “Lips Are Movin’” and “Dear Future Husband.” (ap)

LOS ANGELES — Even with the flashy competition of Terminators and male strip-pers, the little feelings inside a young girl’s head proved to be more of a draw for mov-iegoers going into the holiday weekend.

Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out” earned a chart-topping $7.7 million on Thursday, accord-ing to Rentrak estimates. The animated family film has grossed $216.1 million to date and could become the first film since “Argo” to climb to

No. 1 during its third weekend in release.“Inside Out” had been trailing the gar-

gantuan grosses of “Jurassic World” for two weeks, but might have the edge finally. Uni-versal’s record-busting dino film brought in $6.9 million Thursday, bringing its domestic total to $527.2 million.

New openers “Terminator Genisys” and “Magic Mike XXL” held the third and fourth spots, respectively with $6.5 million

and $5.7 million.But, this narrow advantage doesn’t mean

much for “Terminator’s” bottom line, which looks destined for disappointment. The Sky-dance-Paramount movie was produced for an es-timated $155 million. The “Magic Mike” sequel, meanwhile, only cost around $15 million.

With daily grosses this close, the long holiday weekend is still anyone’s game.

While no film will be reaching the $80

million-plus heights of 2013’s “Despicable Me 2,” 2004’s “Spider-Man 2” or 2011’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” this weekend is solid improvement over last year’s disastrous Fourth of July weekend.

The 2014 Independence Day box office was the weakest in decades thanks in part to lackluster options, like “Tammy,” and “Earth to Echo,” bad weather and the com-petition of the World Cup. (ap)

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Trainor postpones 2 shows due to hemorrhage

on vocal chords

’Inside Out’ celebrates edge over ’Magic Mike,’ ’Terminator’

Mt. Raung spewed ashes

Australian airlines cancel flights to Bali

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Ashes spewed from Mt. Raung that located in East Java on Saturday, July 5, 2015. Australian airline Virgin Airlines cancelled flights on Saturday to Bali from a number of cities in that country on fear of problems cause by volcanic ashes spewed by Mount Raung in East Java.

DENPASAR - Australian airline Virgin Airlines cancelled flights on Saturday to Bali from a number of cities in that country on fear of problems cause by volcanic ashes spewed by Mount Raung in East Java.

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In this Oct. 15, 2013 file photo, Alexis Roderick, left, and Billy Joel arrive at the Elton John AIDS Founda-tion’s 12th Annual “An Enduring Vision” benefit gala in New York.

Billy Joel marries in surprise US wedding

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

In the special moment, Har-ris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road – Bali held CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) on Friday 26th June visited Semara Putra Orphanage House in Klungkung. It has 40 disability orphans, 35 orphans. “We have shared the joyfulness to the orphans. We are delighted with their warm wel-comed by performed Puspanjali & Cendrawasih Dance.Their smiles

were touching our deep hearts and gave more affections to all of us. We are praying and hoping that many corporate will visit and help them,” said the release that received by IBP.

According to release, in the near future, Harris would like to have a partnership with Semara Putra Orphanage House invite them hav-ing performance in hotel’s events. “We know because we care to our

society and environment, as your little gift is meaningful for them and also to the environment”.

Harris Hotels has 17 hotels in operation and 27 under con-struction. Harris Hotel location, inclued Jakarta, Bandung, Batam Center, Summit, Sentul, Surabaya, Malang, Sulawesi Bali and Palu. A total of 44 Harris Hotels with 8,176 rooms will be operated by 1st quarter of 2019.

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Big heart for othersKUTA - Time flies and now we are in the second week of Ramadhan, which means the right

time to share the happiness to everyone. It would be great that if we can share to society and environment.

SEMArAPUrA - Klungkung Police begin to take measures related to security ahead of the Eid celebra-tion. The security conducted is in the form of creating condition operation (Cipkon). This operation does not only target the areas prone to crimes like grab and theft, but also alerts a number of personnel at public places such as the Galiran Market, Art Market, Kerta Gosa and Goa Lawah including a number of banks.

Chief of Klungkung Police, FX

Arendra Wahyudi, when asked for his confirmation on Saturday (Jul. 4) said that his party involved hundreds of personnel in the operation taking place on July 6-10. The personnel in-volved consist of traffic affairs, intel-ligence and security, public services and criminal investigation unit. “The creating condition operation has be-come one of the efforts in maintain-ing security condition, comfort and society as a form of public service and aegis of the Klungkung Police,”

said the police chief.According to him, the creating

condition operation is held in an at-tempt to forge a partnership and to create conducive atmosphere other than minimizing the chance for the action of crimes. Most importantly, he said that the operation is meant to get closer to the public in relation to the role and function of police as protector and servant of people. “If all the functions play their role, then the public will not be afraid of

police and will feel tranquil when being close to police. So, wherever people need the help of police, we are there in service. Of course, it is with effective and efficient pattern,” he said.

In the meantime, the Operations Head of the Klungkung Police, Nyo-man Suarsika, as the Chief of Creat-ing Condition Operation Planning and Control said that his personnel have been assigned to target some crime-prone areas such as grab. It

also includes monitoring of migrants and boarding houses as well as prone areas to traffic accident along Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra from Negari to Gunaksa village. Aside from performing the operation, the officers from each police station have also been deployed at several public places, such as the Satria Art Market, Galiran Market, Goa Lawah and Kertagosa tourist attraction, and other public places such as the bank. (kmb)

By territorial, the Air Sanih bathing pool is situated at Sanih hamlet, Bukti village. Originally local government contracted this object to private sector. However, starting from 2001 the Yeh Sanih customary village was given the right to manage the bathing pool located near the beach.

To reach the Air Sanih bathing pool, visitors can ride a car or motor-cycle. From the town of Singaraja, go eastwards by covering a distance of about 17 kilometers, while from the tourist center of Lovina, the distance reaches about 40 kilometers east-wards. Around this area, there have been several hotels and restaurants offering different rates.

Since it was opened, the Air Sanih bathing pool extends on the area of 0.64 hectares. This land has not been certified and still belongs to the temple’s property because the location is close to the Taman Manik Mas Temple supported by residents of Yeh Sanih customary villagers. In this area, there is a pool for adults with a depth of 1.80 meters.

In addition, there is also a pool for kid visitors with a depth of 50 centimeters. This tourist object has

been equipped with facilities like toilet, changing room, and luggage lockers of visitors.

Water of the pool originates from two springs located right in the south. At these springs also occur the shrine of Petirtan and Pasupati Temple. Both springs are located just beneath a banyan tree of hundreds of years old. Other than both springs, there are also some small springs. Not surprisingly, the water discharge in this pool never shrinks even though in dry season. Both the large springs and small springs are known to derive from water seepage of Lake Batur (Bangli).

Operations Manager of Air Sanih bathing pool, Ketut Sumanasa, when met on said that tourist visit to the region is never deserted. They are dominated by domestic travelers from several regions in Bali and from outside Bali such as Surabaya, Jakarta and other major cities. On usual days, the average visitor reaches hundreds of people, while when entering a long holiday or religious feasts the number of visitors will triple.

“Visitors practically will be never deserted when entering the Galungan

and Kuningan as well as the Eid celebration. Visitors will grow and as previous experiences the visitors will be tripled of usual days,” he said.

Since given the right to contract, added Sumanasa, the management just collects the admission ticket. Lat-est tariff for adult is IDR 8,000 and child at IDR 5,000 for single entry. The management intentionally does not distinguish between the tariff for domestic and foreign travelers because the characteristic of the ob-ject only relies solely on the bathing pool to swim and there are no other services on offer.

To prevent travelers from com-plaining about too expensive admis-sion ticket, the management only enforces the same tariff. Moreover, his party often does not collect admis-sion ticket when travelers only take a sit or take photograph of the views of the beach. “This object is only for swimming and lounging. Should there be foreign travelers make a brief visit and does not shower, we often give them free of charge. It means to maintain the image of this area and prevent them from complaining because the admission ticket is too

Ahead of Eid Police strictly guard public places

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Air Sanih bathing pool

Air Sanih bathing pool

A favorite tourism spot, accommodates local workers

SINGARAJA - Bathing pool at Sanih hamlet, Bukti village, Kubutambahan subdistrict, is one of the tourist areas that are never deserted of tourist visit. Domestic travelers in particular make this clear-watered pool a favorite place to spend leisure time. The presence of this object can accommodate young people of local village to become a worker. No wonder that unemployed teenagers at this village can work with the position as admission ticket seller, security guard to pool attendant. Not only that, many local residents also sell or lease used tires to swim.

expensive,” he said.Although the management of

Air Sanih bathing pool is sold at very cheap and affordable tariff to all circles, added Sumanasa, since being given the right to manage the income earned by the government is sufficient. Every month, the rev-enue is accounted to the customary meeting. The profit of managing the object is used to pay the lease to the government and finance ritual ac-tivities at local customary village or help temple rehabilitation at the Yeh Sanih customary village. Another advantage is that young generation is recruited for labor so that it con-

tributes to absorb unemployment at the village. Besides, local residents are also given the opportunity to sell or rent out the used tires to swim. With this concept, the management wants to manage the tourist area with local communities, so that the benefits can be received directly by local community.

“Since we manage a lot of youth work here and now some of them are still queuing. In addition, we also allow local residents to sell or rent in-ner tubes for swimming, so that this business opportunity can be taken advantage by local residents of our village,” he said. (mud)

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The 37th Bali Art FestivalMonday, July 6, 2015

Time Place Event

11.00 Angsoka Stage Karawitan art performances by Yowan Giri Troupe, Karangasem

17.00 Ayodya Stage Musical Drama performances by Netra Mahatmiya 20.00 Wantilan Pupet performance by Sida Rahayu Troupe 20.00 Ayodya Stage Dance Drama performances by Gita Bandana Praja 20.00 Ksirarnawa Balinese song parade from Gianyar, Denpasar, and Tabanan Regency

MIAMI - Coral reefs are fragile and in danger worldwide, but a grow-ing movement to restore them is based on the science of breaking off pieces in order to grow more, known as coral

gardening.It works like this: marine biolo-

gists cut off the tips of live branching corals, hang the pieces on man-made underwater trees where they grow, and

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later “outplant” them on real reefs on the ocean floor.

After years of trial and error, scien-tists in Florida are now bringing their methods to the public -- via diving

trips, ecotourism outings and sum-mer camps for teens -- to counter the harmful effects of climate change, pollution and industrial develop-ment.

“It is just like if you had a rose-bush in your garden. As you prune that rosebush back, it grows back healthier, bushier, a little more lively,” explains Stephanie Schop-meyer, senior research associate at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine Science, which runs a program called Rescue a Reef that allows citizen scientists to join the project.

“Corals that are fragmented ac-tually grow back faster and with

more branches,” she said.

On a recent out-ing, Schopmeyer and about a dozen other divers and snorkelers spent a sunny spring morning on the water, traveling first by boat to an underwater nurs-ery in Biscayne Bay where they scrubbed algae off the man-made trees on which Staghorn

corals hang, and later to another area where they planted nursery-grown bits of coral on an existing reef.

Certified scuba divers did the underwater work, while a handful of tourists and students helped make cookies -- small discs on which they use epoxy to affix finger-sized pieces of coral. Then, the volunteers snor-keled, watching the divers nail their handiwork on the ocean floor.

Nicole Besemer, a graduate student at the University of Miami, says she was surprised to learn that corals can survive and thrive after being cut and nailed in a new place.

“As a diver in south Florida, I want to make sure that my reefs are as healthy as they can be,” Besemer says.

“I know they are not what they used to be.”

Corals may look like rocks or plants but they are actually animals in the same family as jellyfish and anemo-nes. Each individual coral is called a polyp, and the reef grows as polyps grow copies of themselves. Most cor-als reproduce by releasing eggs and sperm into the water.

Coral reefs are important because they provide habitat and food for fish, turtles, seahorses, sea urchins and other creatures.

But the reefs are struggling, with their numbers down 50-95 percent in some parts of the world.

Pollution cuts off their light and food supply, overfishing removes the creatures that keep them clean and

healthy, development and dredging cause sediment to smother them, and ocean acidification makes it harder for them to grow.

Storms can also kill them. Diego Lirman, an associate professor of marine biology and ecology at the University of Miami, did his disserta-tion some 30 years ago on the impact of hurricanes on a place nearby called Elkhorn Reef.

Now, he says, there are no Elkhorn corals left there. “It got to the point where I was getting tired of just watch-ing things die and learning about them in the process. I wanted to be able to do something to recover them,” says Lirman.

He credits scientists in nations like Israel, Fiji, Indonesia and the Philippines for coming up with the coral gardening techniques that Florida researchers are now using, and says sharing knowledge across borders helped everyone perfect their techniques. “We are now reaching ecologically meaningful scales,” Lirman says.

For those who want special train-ing, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) offers courses and certifications in coral reef restoration. Scuba divers must be age 14 or older, and must be able to con-trol their buoyancy underwater so as not to harm the reefs, says Patti Gross, a master diving instructor with PADI who says she has certified around 250 people in coral restoration in the past four years. (afp)

“The Tejakula coastal area has exotic beaches and coral reefs, which are already well known worldwide,” Head of the Buleleng Fisheries and Marine Affairs Office I Nyoman Sutrisna said.

Tourists who visit Tejakula do not need to dive too far to enjoy the coral reefs and a variety of fish.

According to Sutrisna, the site is only five meters from the beach.

“The coral reefs in the region are the main attraction for foreign tourists,” Sutrisna stated.

Moreover, beaches in Tejakula have a different atmosphere from those in South Bali. In addition to their natural beauty and calm waters, the number of tourists visiting Tejakula is also compara-

tively low.“The north coast of Bali has the

perfect environment for those who want to enjoy peace and quiet in the midst of bustling urban life,” he remarked.

Currently, there are several villas and hotels built around the tourist site, which is located some 100 kilometers from Denpasar, he pointed out.

Most of the villas are located in coastal areas and were planned applying concepts of natural and traditional designs.

“Numerous villas also provide diving and snorkeling equipment so tourists can enjoy the under-water atmosphere of Tejakula,” Sutrisna affirmed. (ant)

KUTA - Garuda national airline pilots have tightened the standard operating procedures (SOP) in which they operate to assure providing the best possible services to passengers during the Idul Fitri or Lebaran holidays, said one of the pilots.

“We don`t want to make a mis-take. We have to have complete documentation, or else we are not allowed to fly an airplane,” senior

Garuda pilot Captain Chandra Yuss Ahmad said at Ngurah Rai International Airport on Satur-day.

In the company of co-pilot Adit, Chandra acknowledged that besides having complete docu-mentation, pilots are also required to undergo periodical health examinations at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.

“We have to undergo health

check ups every six months, and thus I am grateful that I remain in shape,” he said after he landed a Boeing 737 aircraft flight GA-402 at Nugurah Rai airport, arriving from Jakarta.

Chandra explained that Garuda airlines crew members have been trained to face every situation, including high flight frequencies, during the Lebaran holidays. (ant)

GIANYAR - As the region better known as the warehouse of the art, Gianyar retains a variety of arts and culture. Amid the rapid development of the arts, there are also some arts in the community having to face the ups and downs. In other words, some arts are growing well, while some others begin to fade. One of the fading arts is the arja operetta.

In the 1980s, arja was the Balinese dance drama jazzing up every cer-emony or major ritual activities, so that dozens of people were ascertained to throng the venue of the arja perfor-mance. One of the famous arja troupes at that time is the one from Keramas and Singapadu village, Gianyar. “In its heyday, arja was not only popular in Bali but also overseas, even it already penetrated some European countries,” said Ni Wayan Latri, one of the arja artists from Keramas village.

During the glorious period, Wayan Latri most frequently made perfor-mance in Europe such as France, the Netherlands and Germany. She said that to explain about the storyline for dozens of foreign spectators, the event organizer distributed leaflets explaining about the storyline in brief before the show started. “It was like the synopsis of storyline and distrib-uted before the performance. There was also special session to introduce the crews as well as explain about the story by breaking the show in each stage,” she explained.

Now, the time has changed. People rarely watch arja performance at home, let alone have opportunity for a

show overseas. Currently the audience can be calculated with fingers. Wayan Latri said that one of the causes of the decline in the arja performance is the development of technology such as television that can easily display the recorded arja show. As a result, people begin to saturate. “Ultimately, when the arja performance is made, the audience can be counted on fingers. Nevertheless, at some places people are still hungering for arja entertain-ment,” she said.

However, the arja artists never discourage to face such difficult con-dition. Today, her party is proactively offering the performance of arja in every organization of ritual activity in order to make an arja performance. “In religious activities, we can apply to ritual committee for the performance, but it is only made around here. For outside, people may think twice to call, considering the cost of transport and equipment is not cheap,” she said.

The Division Head of the Art De-velopment and Preservation, the Gian-yar Culture Agency, Wayan Kariawan, said that although the arja performance begins to fade, the artists becoming the spearhead remains to exist. “From the data we have, so far there are no arts in Gianyar having come to extinction. Indeed some have faded,” he said.

Currently, his party has attempted to reconstruct a number of arts begin-ning to fade to be presented in the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). He said that the five arts have been reconstructed and displayed in the BAF. The five arts belong to sacred arts to merely

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Arja performed during the Bali Art Festival (BAF). In the 1980s, arja was the Balinese dance drama jazzing up every ceremony or major ritual activities, so that dozens of people were ascer-tained to throng the venue of the arja performance.

Tejakula can be marine tourist attraction

SINGARAJA - The coastal area of Tejakula in Buleleng district, North Bali, has potential to become a marine tourist destination as it has beautiful beaches and coral reefs.

Garuda pilots tighten SOP

Gloominess of the arja operetta performancea storyline. “Since most of the arts remain to exist, only a few are be-coming obsolete. These have been reconstructed and are then presented in the BAF,” he said.

A number of arts having been reconstructed include the gambang xylophone from Seseh hamlet (Sin-gapadu) and Nandir Dance from Kedisan (Tegallalang). These arts have long been reconstructed with new dancers. “Then, there also two joged dances, respectively the Joged Pingit from Tegenungan, Buruan and Joged Pingit from Taman Limut Temple, Pengosekan,” he said.

In the meantime, the arja operetta

of Singapadu has also begun to be reconstructed. In terms of the dance, it is no different from the arja in general. However, he said that the reconstruction is only made to the storyline with the title of “Meet at Tampaksiring.” (kmb35)

Bali News International4 Monday, July 6, 2015 Monday, July 6, 2015 13International

The attorney general confirmed late Saturday that he has received documents from an official in-vestigation that made the link between Najib and the investment fund 1MDB. The existence of the documents was first reported by the Asian Wall Street Journal on Friday, showing some $700 million were wired from entities linked to the fund into Najib’s accounts. The documents sent to the attorney general pave the way for possible criminal charges.

It is one of the worst political crises for Najib, who has come under increasing criticism over his leadership. He has denied taking any money for personal gains.

“It’s damning and disastrous for Najib,” said Wan Saiful Wan Jan, who heads the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs think-tank.

“This is really uncharted ter-

ritory in Malaysian politics. For the first time ever, we are seeing a prime minister facing the possibility of a criminal charge,” he said.

1MDB, set up by Najib in 2009 to develop new industries, has ac-cumulated 42 billion ringgit ($11.1 billion) in debt after its energy ven-tures abroad faltered. Critics, led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, have voiced concerns about 1MDB’s massive debt and alleged lack of transparency.

The Wall Street Journal report said five deposits were made into Najib’s accounts and that the two largest transactions, worth $620 million and $61 million, were done in March 2013 ahead of general elections.

Najib slammed the report as part of a “political sabotage” by Mahathir to remove him. Mahathir, who stepped down in 2003 after 22 years in power but has remained an

influential political figure, has been leading calls for Najib to step down. 1MDB said it has never provided any funds to Najib.

Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail, however, said a task force investigating 1MDB for alleged impropriety has given him papers “including documents related to allegations of fund transfer into the account of the prime minister.”

Abdul Gani said the task force raided offices of three companies linked to 1MDB that were alleg-edly involved in the fund transfer. He didn’t give further details on the documents or say what actions would be taken.

The Star English-language news-paper said on its website that Najib would file a lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. An aide to the prime minister said Najib would make a statement later Sun-day, but didn’t give details. (ap)

QUITO, Ecuador — History’s first Latin American pope returns to Spanish-speaking South America for the first time on Sunday, bring-ing a message of solidarity with the region’s poor, who are expected to turn out in droves to welcome their native son home.

“The pope of the poor” chose to visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay specifically because they are among the poorest and most marginal na-tions of a region that claims 40 percent of the world’s Catholics. He’s skipping his homeland of Argentina, at least partly to avoid papal entanglement in this year’s presidential election.

The trip starts in Ecuador, where falling world prices for oil and minerals threaten to fray the social safety net woven by President Ra-fael Correa, who has been buffeted for nearly a month by the most serious anti-government street protests of his more than eight years in power.

Francis is likely to raise environ-mental concerns with Correa and the leader of Bolivia — who have promoted mining and oil drilling in wilderness areas — given his recent encyclical on the need to protect nature and the poor who suffer most when it is exploited.

In that document, Francis called for a new development model that rejects today’s profit-at-all cost mentality in favor of a Christian

view of economic progress that respects human rights, safeguards the planet and involves all sectors of society, the poor and marginal-ized included.

In a video message on the eve of his departure, Francis said he wanted to bring a message of hope and joy to all “especially the needi-est, the elderly, the sick, those in prison and the poor and all those who are victims of this ‘throwaway culture.’”

Francis’ stops include a violent Bolivian prison, a flood-prone Para-guayan shantytown and a meeting with Bolivian trash pickers, the sort of people he ministered to in the slums of Buenos Aires as archbishop.

Crowds are expected to be huge. While the countries themselves are tiny compared to regional power-houses like Brazil and Argentina, they are fervently Catholic: 79 per-cent of the population is Catholic in Ecuador, 77 percent in Bolivia and a whopping 89 percent in Paraguay, according to the Pew Research Center.

“You can imagine what this embrace of love will be, this de-votion of our people toward the pope, the universal pastor who comes from Latin America,” said Guzman Carriquiri, the No. 2 of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and a top papal adviser. (ap)

AP Photo/Juan Karita

Catholic Priest Ivan Bravo rides with a life-size cutout poster of Pope Francis in a cable car that links downtown La Paz with El Alto, as a way to promote the pope’s upcoming visit to Bolivia, Friday, July 3, 2015.

On his native turf, Pope Francis touches on cherished issues

Malaysian leader faces risk of criminal

charges over fundKUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is facing the risk of criminal

charges over allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled from an indebted state fund to his personal bank accounts, the first time a Malaysian leader has faced criminal allegations.

AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File

FILE- In this May 11, 2015 file photo, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak addresses delegates during his speech at the Malaysia’s ruling party United Malays National Organization’s (UMNO) anniversary celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

NEGARA - In addition to having owned a green open space (RTH) and the arrangement of public square, Jembrana Regency will also build a botanical gar-den by utilizing the outermost courtyard area of the Jagatnatha Jembrana Temple.

The botanical garden that will receive funding from central gov-ernment is not going to be filled with arbitrary plants but prefers locally endemic plants of Indo-nesia and Jembrana in particular. It was stated by Deputy Regent of Jembrana, I Made Kembang Hartawan when making a site inspection to Jagatnatha Temple. Construction of the botanical garden will begin in 2016 and gets financial assistance worth IDR 4 billion. County government is currently preparing the Detailed Engineering Design (DED). “It (the construction of botanical garden) has been confirmed next year. Actually we are given the assistance by central government as much as IDR 5 billion, where IDR 1 billion is used at Gilimanuk and IDR 4 billion for this project,” said Deputy Regent Kembang Hartawan.

His site inspection was accom-panied by the Head of the Jem-brana Environment, Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (LHKP) I Wayan Darwin and a drafter and botanical observer Deniek G. Su-karya, said the botanical garden area is far different from a park

because it prioritizes to preserve endemic plants.

This program can be encour-aged in the regions through the regional development agency for botanical garden under the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). Other than functioning as a green open space, botanical garden also serves as the center for research, recreation and edu-cation. Deniek explained that the concept established does not rule out the function of the Jagatnatha itself. “We make a natural concept of Bali and it will be filled with endemic plants to Bali, Indonesia and those for ritual purposes, less foreign plants,” said Deniek. It is unfortunate that the Jagatnatha is quite magnificent but its outer-most courtyard is not very well maintained. The development will take a natural concept without cut-ting down the existing plants.

Likewise, the lights adorning this time will also be adjusted so as not to eliminate the natural properties. Similarly the concrete pond area will be replaced with river stone. In addition, there will also be additional acreage behind the Jagatnatha Temple of Jembrana. “Currently, it spreads on the area of 5.8 hectares. As planned, we will later expand it and increase the funding through regional budget (Jembrana) with the approval of the House,” said Deputy Regent Kembang. (kmb26)

The Head of the Bangli Environ-ment Agency, I Made Alit Parwata, revealed on Friday (Jul. 3) that a number of efforts have been done by the government and community of Bangli to maintain the stability of water discharge. One of them is the making of surface water infiltration wells. It is intended to restore the surface water into the ground so that the flow of water does not shrink.

Unfortunately, the programs having been echoed since three years ago are only paid to the pro-curement of 300 units. Actually, for the Bangli County alone it is expected to reach 5,000 units.

He said further that infiltration wells serve to collect rainwater that is lately often wasted. In addition,

the large number of green land conversions into concrete makes the surface water absorption reduce, so that the existence of absorp-tion wells is extremely important. “When it rains, the water is wasted. With these wells, the water can be accommodated in the ground again. Thus, the water flow will remain stable,” he said.

Parwata added even though his party has made an effort, the par-ticipation of other counties are still very necessary.

Maintaining water stability is not only done by provision of wells, but must also be balanced with greening. “Our budget is not adequate and maintaining springs is not only done by making wells

but also by reforestation. This is why we hope for compensation from other regions. In addition, the water available is not only enjoyed by residents of Bangli alone, but also by residents outside Bangli,” he said accompanied by the Divi-sion Head of Nature Conservation of the Bangli Environment Agency, I Made Sujana.

Parwata also added that the matter of spring management has actually been often delivered in the meeting at provincial level. How-ever, until now the participation of other counties is considered not maximal. “We’ve often delivered this to the other regents. Hopefully, it will get a response,” he said. (kmb45)

NEGARA - A piece of land ex-tending to the beach in the area of Klatakan, Melaya village, is lately fenced. This privately owned land located adjacent to a football field is estimated to be built a villa. Though the two-meter high fence reaching the edge of the beach has been built, local village is said to have received no building permit yet.

From information obtained, the land adjacent to the West Bali National Park (TNBB) is a private property. Initially it is only the con-struction of compound wall founda-tion in front of the land border. But lately, the construction has reached the edge of the beach to reach the field that was formerly vacant. A number of workers remaining to install concrete blocks for the parapet said that the wall construc-tion is just for the outer border. As planned, the walled land will be used to build villa.

Headman of Melaya, Made

Mara, when asked for his confir-mation on Friday (Jul. 3) said that based on information of hamlet chief the walled land is known to be private property. It is directly adjacent to the land owned by the TNBB used for football field. Re-lated to construction of the villa, there has been no notification to local village authority. Similarly, the two-meter high wall construc-tion extending up to the beach has not been notified. “Supposedly, it must be notified. If later on it is true for building it must be equipped with building permit,” said Mara.

It needs to be done to ensure that it has been appropriate with the functions and does not break the rules such as infringing bor-derlines because the land is located on the edge of the beach. From the information, the land belongs to a resident from Banyuwangi. (kmb26)

Allegedly used for villa, land at Klatakan fenced

Next year, Jembrana will have a botanical garden

Spring management, Bangli expects

compensation of other counties

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Lake Batur, one of the water source in Bangli.

BANGLI - A number of counties in Bali so far still rely on their water needs from Bangli County. However, on the other hand, the spring management efforts are mostly done by the government and community of Bangli. On this condition, the Bangli Environment Agency (BLH) asks for compensation to the other regions to jointly address the water problem posing the public basic needs.

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe un-veiled the pledge at a summit with his counterparts from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam -- fast-growing economies through which the lower section of the Mekong river flows.

“Japan will implement support worth around 750 billion yen ($6.1 billion) in official development as-

sistance for the next three years,” Abe told a news conference fol-lowing the seventh annual Japan-Mekong summit.

“The Mekong region, which has vast demand for infrastructure, is one of our most important areas,” Abe said.

“Japan will contribute to infra-structure development of the region

in both quality and quantity,” he added. “The Mekong region and Japan are partners that will develop together.”

It was not immediately clear if the pledge included previously-earmarked Japanese financial as-sistance, or whether it was made up entirely of newly-allocated funds.

“The Mekong region is the most dynamic economic centre, but there still is room for huge growth,” Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha told the news conference.

The meeting came as the leading

Nikkei business daily said Friday that three Japanese companies had secured an order worth over 32 billion baht ($947 million) to equip a railway linking the Thai capital Bangkok with nearby suburbs.

The Japanese government plans to offer loans to cover part of the cost, the newspaper said, a com-mon sweetener that helps clients afford these kind of big-ticket projects.

In a separate deal, Japan, Thai-land and Myanmar signed an accord for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ)

in Dawei, southeastern Myanmar, local media said.

When completed, the zone on the Andaman Sea coast will have a total area of 200 square kilometres (80 square miles), making it one of the largest SEZs in Southeast Asia and a gateway for the Mekong region’s trade with India, the Middle East and Africa, Kyodo News said.

Abe has upped efforts to sell high-ways, train systems and power plants around the world, a key element in his bid to bolster the economy and Japan’s standing abroad.

Beijing’s growing financial mus-cle, as well as its increasing willing-ness to throw its diplomatic weight around, have added urgency to Ja-pan’s efforts to step up engagement in the battle for regional sway.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in November at a summit in Myanmar that Beijing’s strategic partnership with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions (ASEAN) grouping was enter-ing a “diamond decade leading to broader and deeper cooperation”.

Then in March, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China hoped to boost trade with ASEAN countries to $500 billion this year and $1 tril-lion in 2020.

Beijing’s new Asian Infrastruc-ture Investment Bank has also upped the stakes, rivalling the Tokyo-backed Asian Development Bank and offering the kind of finan-cial firepower rapidly-developing countries are keen to tap.

In a bid to counter the Chinese move, Abe in May announced a $110 billion investment plan for infrastructure projects in Asia, including in the “Mekong Five” states. (afp)

An art and cultural observer, Kadek Suartaya, when assessing the performance of bleganjur fes-tivalgoers explained that bleganjur is Balinese art remaining to exist and become the pride of younger generation. “Currently the blegan-jur is being favored and mostly engaged by younger generation,” he said.

The development of bleganjur remaining to exist indicates a posi-tive thing, especially in the current era of globalization, where the influ-ence of external cultures entering Bali runs so freely.

Added Suartaya, the bleganjur originally poses an art commonly used in religious ceremonies. How-ever, since the 1980s, this art has evolved into a public attraction in combination with dance movements and its musical creativity tends to be diverse.

“This art is no longer for reli-

gious rituals but becomes a secular art. One of which is used to enliven kites festival to pra-celebration of Nyepi, in this case the accompani-ment of ogoh-ogoh parade,” he explained.

The transition happening to bleganjur makes this art interesting and becomes the pride of young generation in Bali. Ultimately, it can compete against western arts starting to pound the flavor of music of the current younger generation. Bleganjur itself is gamelan music featuring the drum as the core music instrument and becomes the com-mand coupled with cymbals. More interestingly, the bleganjur musical element is also accompanied with dance. So, it is not standstill silently. “To that end, we do not only assess the elements of gamelan music but also the elements of creativity, composition, costumes and stories presented in the bleganjur,” said

Suartaya.One of the bleganjur festival par-

ticipants is the Sekul Kru gamelan troupe from Anyar hamlet, Kediri subdistrict. It admitted that joining the festival is not motivated by the prize. “We join this festival because we want to show off our bleganjur gamelan troupe,” said the leader of Sekul Kru, I Ketut Surya Tanaya. Passion to display the art is also supported by customary village where the funding for performance is assisted by the village and its people.

Bleganjur festival at Tanah Lot, added Tanaya, is the first event to be participated by the Sekul Kru. His preparation is also relative short namely just made within two months. This bleganjur art troupe makes performance with the theme Satyeng Wakya or the battle between Bima with Duryudana. (kmb24)

CHIANG RAI - Accused of urinating in public, spitting on the street, or kicking a sacred temple bell -- free-spending Chinese tour-ists are receiving a mixed welcome as their soaring numbers help the kingdom’s creaking economy.

Growing outrage over the per-ceived disrespect of visitors from the Asian giant saw authorities print thousands of Chinese-language eti-quette manuals earlier this year in a bid to keep their tourists in check.

Last month it was a photo of a young girl peeing in the grounds of Bangkok’s Grand Palace that trig-gered the latest round of enraged, and sometimes racist, comments as Thai social media users claimed she was Chinese.

In March a Thai model’s video of tourists from China jumping the queue at an airport was viewed more than two million times and saw a similarly angry rant against Thailand’s largest group of foreign

holidaymakers.At the gleaming Wat Rong

Khun, also known as the White Temple, in northern Chiang Rai province, owner Chalermchai Ko-sitpipat complained about the state of the toilets after a recent visit by a Chinese group.

“We had problems with some Chinese who defecated anywhere, so I asked the guides to explain to them that rules must be respected in Thailand,” Chalermchai told AFP,

having earlier threatened to refuse the nationals entry.

But he stopped short of issuing a ban, and like Thai authorities is loath to cut out the Chinese at a time when they are bucking the trend of dipping visitor figures in the kingdom, where tourism accounts for 8.5 percent of gross domestic product.

Last year around 4.6 million Chinese nationals visited Thai-land, with the average tourist

spending 5,500 baht ($160) per day -- more than the average Eu-ropean visitor.

Their collective contribution, expected to reach $5.6 billion this year, is not one the ruling junta can afford to lose as it struggles to revive a sclerotic economy -- one of its key promises after seizing power from an elected government in May 2014 that was paralysed by months of protests in Bangkok. (afp)

Chinese tourists boost Thai economy but stir outrage

Japan pledges $6.1 bn aid to ’Mekong Five’ in bid for influence

TOKYO - Japan on Saturday pledged $6.1 billion in financial aid to the “Mekong Five” countries as it pushes infrastructure exports and courts influence in a region where rival China has an increasing presence.

Kimimasa Mayama/Pool Photo via AP

Leaders from Mekong countries and Japan attend a joint press announcement of the Japan-Mekong summit at the Akasaka State Guesthouse in Tokyo Saturday, July 4, 2015.

THe name Kebo Iwa has long been known by Balinese people. When reading or hearing about the story of his life, as though we are proffered with a fiction mixed with history. As a histori-cal figure, Kebo Iwa is described as a mighty and powerful knight. There is a source mentions if he was a governor of the king Gajah-waktra ruling at Bedahulu (now Bedulu) around 1324 -1343 AD. Kebo Iwa is mentioned as one of the military commanders of Bali during the reign of King Sri Asta Sura Ratna Bumi Banten in the early fourteenth century.

As a fictional character, Kebo Iwa who also has another name l ike Kebo Taruna and Kebo Wandira is described as a remark-able man. The son of Commander Rakryan Buncing is described as a giant man having a big posture. Range of his feet is very wide, so that he can travel quickly. If he wants to drink, he just needs to stab his finger into the ground and a small well will emit water.

Kebo Iwa can also carve a stone with his nail. Whenever there is a big hole, people always call it as the footprint of Kebo Iwa. Oth-ers also say that a hollow rock on Soka Beach (Tabanan) is the pot of Kebo Iwa. He is described as a strong giant man that eats so much so that to cook rice he needs a large pot.

Though being pow-e r f u l , Kebo Iwa does not h a v e egoistic or arro-gant na-ture. Story on the end of his life is very tragic and even it draws a variety of inter-pretations and meanings. I t can be seen w h e n G a j a h

Mada intended to conquer Bali for the realization of the unity of the archipelago. This vice regent from Majapahit kingdom con-sidered it impossible to conquer Bali as long as Kebo Iwa was still alive. He then arranged a strategy where Kebo Iwa was picked up to be invited to Majapahit. Kebo Iwa requested the help dig a well for the kingdom in East Java experi-encing water crisis. As a prize, he would be awarded a beautiful and graceful girl from Lemah Tulis.

Kebo Iwa met the request. When digging a well, the men of Gajah Mada pelted Kebo Iwa with rock stones in order the strong man from Bali could be buried alive. Kebo Iwa got up and was aware if he was deceived. He then opened the secret of his weakness where to kill him was enough to use whiting and betel leaf.

Such a word-of-mouth story also raises a variety of interpre-tations. Balinese people call that whiting symbolizes Lord Shiva and betel leaf symbolizes Lord Vishnu. Thus, Kebo Iwa got puri-fication from Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu to attain moksha. In some regions, before people chew be-

tel leaf, the tip of betel leaf is cut first. Why? It is done to

commemorate the death of Kebo Iwa.

A variety of interpreta-tions apparently cannot be resisted. For example, why was Kebo Iwa will-

ing to die? There are commentar-

ies saying if the ideal of Gajah M a d a w a s very noble

namely to unite the a r c h i -pelago. T h e r e -

fore, for the sake of

unity, Kebo Iwa was will-ing to sacri-

fice his life. (kmb)

Kebo Iwa, a knight willing to die for unity

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Bleganjur festival at Tanah Lot, Tabanan, lasted from Friday (Jul. 3) through Sunday (Jul. 5). About 23 bleganjur gamelan troupes as representatives of customary village across Kediri subdistrict showcased this art before the public and travelers visiting the Tanah Lot.

Bleganjur, pridefulart of Balinese

young generationTABANAN - Bleganjur festival at Tanah Lot, Tabanan, lasted from Friday (Jul. 3) through

Sunday (Jul. 5). About 23 bleganjur gamelan troupes as representatives of customary vil-lage across Kediri subdistrict showcased this art before the public and travelers visiting the Tanah Lot.

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JAKARTA - The economic crisis in Greece, which is now in a state of default after failing to pay debts worth 1.6 billion Euros to the International Monetary Fund, will not have major impacts on Indonesia.

Observers believe that Indonesia will not feel significant impacts, but the countrys exports to Greece will be affected.

According to Bank Indonesia (BI), the impacts of the Greek economic crisis on Indonesias economy will be relatively low because the country has implemented precautionary measures and its domestic economic fundamen-tals have been improving.

“We can see that the effects of the Greek crisis on Indonesia are not significant, even with Greeces risk-on risk-off approach. European countries also believe that the Greek crisis can be fought,” Governor of BI Agus Martowardojo said at the House of Representatives building on Wednes-day, July 1.

He added that he was staying abreast of the latest developments in Greece. The governor of Indonesias central bank also stressed the impor-tance of monitoring global economic developments, such as the normaliza-tion of the Federal policy, the weaken-ing of the Chinese economy, and Eu-ropean economic conditions and their impacts on Indonesias economy.

“We have to acknowledge that Indonesias current economic funda-mentals are relatively better than their state two years ago. The inflation rate

is also under control,” Martowardojo remarked.

However, Indonesias exports to Greece will be affected, Spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry Ar-rmanatha Nasir pointed out.

“The value of trade between In-donesia and Greece is not too large, amounting to only US$200 million, but it is still relatively significant. Indonesia exports to Greece will be affected, more or less,” Nasir stated.

He added that Indonesia has good relations with Greece, particularly with regard to cooperation in the trade field. “Indonesia has good relations in the trade sector with Greece. It exports numerous goods such as crude palm oil and other commodities,” he noted.

As a result, Nasir observed, the Greek economic crisis will influence Indonesias exports to the country. But its effect will not be too severe, let alone comparable to the economic crisis it faced in 1998.

“Indonesia will not go bankrupt like Greece,” Special Staff of the Finance Minister Arif Budimanta af-firmed during a discussion organized by the Public Relations Division of the Peoples Consultative Assembly on Saturday.

He added that the Greek fiscal deficit was 60 percent, while Indo-nesias was less than 1.9 percent. “In terms of economic growth, we are witnessing a positive trend, whereas the economic growth of Greece is in the negatives.” (ant)

On Tuesday, an air force trans-port plane with 122 people on board plowed into the same neighbor-hood. And the same street.

In 2005, Padang Bulan was a charming middle-class residential area in this steamy tropical city of 3 million. Its main road, Jamin Ginting, was lined with colonial-style houses with well-manicured gardens.

The area’s only drawback was noise from nearby Polonia airport, then the main international gateway for Sumatra, one of Indonesia’s main islands.

“I cannot forget the plane crash of 10 years ago. It feels like it hap-pened just yesterday,” said Tarigan, 40, who ran an electronics business in his house across the street from where the Mandala Airlines plane went down in June 2005, killing at least 149.

He recalled seeing the plane strike several houses and hearing

the screams of people thrown from the fuselage. He ran to help but suddenly the plane exploded, en-gulfing trees, houses and passengers in flames.

The Boeing 737-200 crashed only seconds after takeoff. The victims included 47 people on the ground. Some 15 people on the plane survived.

Ten years later, Padang Bulan has been transformed into a thriv-ing shopping and leisure district with its main road sporting a mall and dotted by hotels, guest houses, cafes and spas.

A new international airport has opened outside Medan, and its pre-decessor Polonia is now used by the air force as Suwondo air base.

Tarigan said he saw the bulky C-130 Hercules transport plane flying very low after takeoff, almost touching a tree in his backyard, before crashing about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) away on Jamin Gint-

ing.It plowed into a new building

that local media said contained a spa, shops and homes, killing all 122 on board and at least 19 people in the neighborhood.

“Of course, this second event made me worried, whether my house, my family, could be hit by the next plane crash,” said Tarigan, a father of four.

“But, where should I stay? This house and this small shop are where we live and earn a living. I just ac-cept God’s will,” he said.

Tarigan’s neighbors and resi-dents who live near the Hercules crash site also say the two disasters 10 years apart won’t deter them from staying in the neighbor-hood.

“Disasters, accidents can hap-pen anywhere and to anyone,” said Vita Saragih, 36, who runs a food stall opposite from where the Hercules crashed. (ap)

JAKARTA - President Joko Wido-do said the people must uphold the principle solidarity as a fortress to stem radical movements launched in the name of religions.

“As a large nation, we should uphold the principles of solidarity as human beings, as a nation, as religious adherents and as Muslims,” President Joko Widodo said when addressing a function held to observe the Nuzulul Quran (the revelation of the Quran) at the State Palace on Friday evening.

He said that on the occasion of observing the Nuzulul Quran, the Muslims are passionate in perform-ing their religious services, expecting God’s guidance and blessing.

The President said that The Quran was descended when the people’s con-ditions were at the lowest point of ig-norance. The Holy Book was revealed

not merely for the Arabian society but also for the whole mankind.

“The Quran is a guidance for man-kind to differentiate between the right and the falsehood. Thus, The Quran brought a basic revolution to the life of mankind, a social and justice revolu-tion,” the President said.

He said that the Quran guides all aspects of life of human beings. Thus, the revolution of life should encourage people to uphold dignity, build respect and work hard.

As a predominantly Muslim coun-try, Indonesia should be sincere in life, and with sincerity the government will continue to carry out its development programs so that the people will have adequate food, housing and clothing.

Thus, the President said, the people will have dignity and remain healthy and respectable. (ant)

REUTERS/Nyimas Laula

A shopkeeper waits for a customer inside a traditional market in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 1, 2015. Indonesia’s annual inflation rate rose for a fourth straight month in June, which makes it harder than it already was for the central bank to cut lending rates to try to jack up the country’s slowing growth. For May and June, a main cause was higher food prices before and during the Muslim fasting month.

Suburb hit by plane disasters twice in 10 years

MEDAN — A decade ago, when an Indonesian passenger jet crashed into a quaint neigh-borhood in Indonesia’s third-biggest city, Medan, Waktu Tarigan thought he’d never witness anything like that again. He was wrong.

Solidarity has potential to fend radicalism

Indonesia will not feel major impacts of Greek economic crisis

It said the decision to cancel the flights came after the VAAC revised a volcanic ash advisory from code orange to code red, but it had been downgraded back to code orange on Friday.

According to Jackson Browne from the VAAC, the volcano in eastern Java erupted at 6:30 p.m. (Darwin time), and it was difficult to pinpoint where it was.

“It is a Strombolian-type of eruption, and there was not a lot of emission from the volcano itself,” Browne was quoted as saying by ABC.

“In fact, the ash emissions were so thin that they were not identified in satellite imagery.

“We were receiving pictures just showing a sort of thin cigarette-like plume from the volcano,” he stated.

Browne stated that Mount Raung is located about 150 kilometers from Denpasar, and the ash could blow over the airport if the winds were blowing in that direction.

He said the eruption paled in comparison with major eruptions, which in the past have produced cubic kilometers of ash. (ant)

Australian...

Since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States four years earlier, Britain had made its anti-terrorism powers among the toughest in the Western world. Now they became tougher still. “What 7/7 did was it made people realize that the threat was internal as well as external,” said David Anderson, Britain’s official reviewer of terrorism legislation.

After 2005, police were given power to hold terrorism suspects for four weeks without charge, or to place them under a 16-hour-a-day curfew. It became a crime not just to commit or plan for terrorism but to glorify terrorist acts. The government moved to deport extremist preachers who had made their home in Britain. The ability of intelligence agencies to scoop up Internet users’ electronic data expanded vastly, and British spies began collecting information on their own citizens on a hitherto unseen scale.

Civil libertarians sensed the spread of a Big Brother state, and waged legal and political battles that man-aged to water down or reverse some of the measures. But a decade later, Britons are more watched than ever. Last month’s gun attack on tourists in Tunisia, which killed 30 Britons, shows the terrorist threat has not gone

away, and could spur a new round of counter-terror measures.

“That’s always the fear, of knee-jerk reactions, the need to be seen to be doing something even if what you are doing is reputationally damag-ing,” said Rachel Robinson, a policy officer at human rights group Liberty. “That’s what we’ve seen time and time again.”

The July 2005 bombings on three subway trains and a bus — the deadli-est attack on British soil since World War II — were carried out by young Britons inspired by al-Qaida. In a bid to stop more plots, Blair’s govern-ment expanded the definition of a terrorist offense and introduced new powers to detain terror suspects.

The 2006 Terrorism Act allowed terror suspects to be held for 28 days without charge. Blair had argued that the complexity of terror plots meant the limit should be 90 days, but lawmakers defeated him. They also rejected a bid two years later for 42-day detention.

Suspects who could not be charged — often because the evidence against them was secret — could be held under control orders, a form of house arrest that meant they could be electronically tagged, kept under curfew for up to 16 hours per day

and barred from using telephones or the Internet.

Rights groups loudly opposed the measures, and when a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition took power in 2010, it said the previous Labour administrations had “abused and eroded fundamental human freedoms.”

Under the coalition, pre-charge detention was cut to 14 days. Control orders gave way to a less-restrictive replacement. Government curbed the power of police officers to stop and search people without suspicion. But one aspect of counterterrorism just kept expanding — surveillance, both in the streets and online.

In 2005, Britain already had as many as 4 million surveillance camer-as, whose use as a crime-fighting tool had been encouraged by authorities since the 1990s. Tony Porter, Britain’s surveillance camera commissioner, says the number today could be 6 million.

“The overwhelming view from our European colleagues is that the U.K. is the European — if not the world — capital of surveillance,” said Porter, a former counterterrorism police officer charged with ensuring responsible use of the country’s publicly operated cameras. (ap)

BANGKOK — Two trams used to shuttle visitors around a zoo in northeastern Thailand col-lided Sunday, killing five people and injuring more than 30, police said.

The accident at the Kao Suan Kwang Zoo in Khon Kaen prov-ince occurred when one tram driver lost control due to a prob-lem with the vehicle’s brakes and slammed into a tram in front, said

police Col. Pichit Deeya.The impact caused both trams

to overturn, crushing a passenger who died at the scene, Pichit said. Four other people died from in-juries at a local hospital, he said, adding that all the victims were Thai nationals.

Among the dead was a 2-year-old girl. About 10 other children were injured, ranging in age from 3-12, Pichit said. (ap)

MANILA, Philippines — A tropical storm blowing across the Philippines’ mountainous north has caused floods and knocked out power in several towns.

Officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties Sunday from Tropical Storm Linfa. They said government rescue teams were deployed to evacuate villagers in some of the 11 towns flooded in La Union province, where wide areas also lost power.

The storm had sustained winds of 85 kilometers (53 miles) per hour and gusts of 100 kph (62 mph). It’s expected to start blowing away from the country on Monday.

Meanwhile, police said a private helicopter plunged into a moun-tainous area in Batangas province south of Manila in bad weather from the storm, killing at least two people. An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the crash. (ap)

MADRID — Spanish police have arrested three suspects who allegedly committed 26 burglaries in the southern city of Malaga after posing as telephone engineers to study their targets.

Police said in a statement Sun-day that the detainees allegedly disguised themselves and paid unannounced visits to determine where alarm systems, security cam-eras and safes were located. Later, they would break in and use blow-

torches to remove cash, jewelry, haute-couture clothing, luxury cars or even legs of Spanish ham.

They were discovered after a security guard became suspicious when a suspect dressed in a phone company uniform insisted on in-specting rooms where there were no phones. When police investi-gated, they found the suspect’s ID belonged to a 76-year-old woman from another city. The arrests took place June 29. (ap)

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FILE- In this Nov. 28, 2006, file photo, a wall of video monitors shows live images from closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) installed in central London, is seen at an hidden underground bunker. After four home-grown suicide bombers killed 52 London commuters on July 7, 2005, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed that Britain would stop at nothing to defeat terrorism.

7/7 spurred tough anti-terror measures some say went too far

LONDON — After four home-grown suicide bombers killed 52 London commuters on July 7, 2005, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed that Britain would stop at nothing to defeat terrorism. “Let no one be in any doubt,” he said. “The rules of the game are changing.”

Zoo tram accident in northeastern Thailand kills 5 people

Storm causes floods, knocks out power in north Philippines

Burglars in Spain posed as phone workers to case premises

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Jankovic kept using that word — “unbelievable” — as if trying to convince herself it were true that, despite never having much success on grass courts, she had put together a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory Saturday over the No. 2-seeded Kvitova, who claimed the 2011 and 2014 titles at the All England Club.

“I was a little bit better at the end,” the 28th-seeded Jankovic said. “I was a little bit lucky, as well.” The 30-year-old Serbian didn’t come out of nowhere: She was the runner-up at the 2008 U.S. Open and finished that season ranked No. 1. But she has never been past the fourth round at Wimbledon, hadn’t even made it that far since 2010, and won only one of five matches at the grass-court major over the last four years.

Kvitova, who led 4-2 in the second set, had a difficult time processing the match, too. “I’m not really sure what happened out there,” she said. “Suddenly, I was just missing (shots). So it was really unusual, probably, or weird. I can’t really explain.”

After the traditional middle Sunday off, play resumes Monday. The top half of the women’s draw includes the most noteworthy matchup: Serena Williams vs. Ve-nus Williams, meeting at a major for the first time since 2009. Those two, Maria Sharapova and Victo-ria Azarenka give that side of the bracket 34 Grand Slam titles.

And the eight women on the other half? They own zero major championships. That includes Jank-ovic, who meets No. 13 Agnieszka Radwanska next. Also Monday: No. 5 Caroline Wozniacki vs. No. 20 Garbine Muguruza, No. 15

Timea Bacsinszky vs. Monica Ni-culescu, and No. 21 Madison Keys vs. Olga Govortsova.

The men’s bottom-half match-ups, which were determined Satur-day: seven-time champion Roger Federer against No. 20 Roberto Bautista Agut, 2013 champion Andy Murray against No. 23 Ivo Karlovic, No. 22 Viktor Troicki against Vasek Pospisil, and 2010 runner-up Tomas Berdych against No. 12 Gilles Simon, who beat fellow Frenchman No. 18 Gael Monfils in a match that was moved under the roof at Centre Court as darkness arrived.

Troicki ended the run of Dustin Brown, the qualifier from Germany who stunned Rafael Nadal in the sec-ond round. It marks the fourth year in a row that a man ranked No. 100 or worse beat Nadal at Wimbledon, then failed to advance further.

To the locals’ delight, Murray beat No. 25 Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-2, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1. Early in the third set, Seppi got a visit from a trainer for his lower right leg, and ended up taking six games in a row. Mur-ray received turnabout-is-fair-play treatment for a stiff right shoulder after falling behind 1-0 in the fourth set, and then took the last six games.

Kvitova lost three games through two matches, even apologizing to her parents for winning her opener in 35 minutes after they traveled from the Czech Republic to watch. But Kvitova ran out of steam against Jankovic, collecting only four winners in the final set after accumulating 20 before it.

“Not to be in the second week of (my) favorite tournament ... is really sad,” Kvitova said. “I don’t really

know what I can say.” Jankovic, a real character, is rarely at a loss for words. “I’m not old. I’m still young at heart,” she said at her news conference. “I look pretty good, so

why not?”Jankovic also delighted in dis-

cussing her suddenly, and surpris-ingly, effective serve.

“Maybe my serve is not as fast

as some of those big girls. But if I’m hitting my spots, it’s quite ef-fective,” Jankovic said. “It was ... hard for Petra to attack and get some returns on it.” (ap)

SILVERSTONE - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he is still hoping to keep Monza on the calendar after 2016 following further discussions with Italian Grand Prix officials but the situation remains open.

“Nothing at the moment,” the 84-year-old told Reuters at the Brit-ish Grand Prix when asked whether any progress had been made. He confirmed, however, that another meeting with circuit representatives had taken place.

Ecclestone last month raised the prospect of Imola returning to Formula One, with talk in Italy of a possible alternation agreement between that circuit and Monza.

Monza, the fastest track in F1, has been on the calendar since the championship started in 1950 and is loved by Italians as the ‘Pista Magica’. However, its future has been clouded by uncertainty over whether a new deal can be agreed.

“I don’t think we’ll do another contract, the old one was a disaster

for us from the commercial point of view. After 2016, bye bye...,” Ecclestone told the Gazzetta dello Sport a year ago.

Ecclestone’s meeting with Mon-za representatives was his first since Monaco in May, after which the Briton had been blunt in his assessment.

“It’s useless to keep on talking. In order to have a grand prix, you need money. If the money is there, the race takes place,” he said then. (rtr)

Ecclestone has more talks with Monza

REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone walks in the Mer-cedes team garage during the third practice session of the Canadian F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal June 6, 2015.

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

Jelena Jankovic of Serbia celebrates defeating Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic during their singles match against at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 4, 2015. Jankovic won the match 3-6, 7-5, 6-4.

‘Unbelievable’: Jankovic tops 2-time Wimbledon champ Kvitova

LONDON — About an hour after flopping on her back and kicking her feet overhead to celebrate a stunning comeback against defending Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, Jelena Jankovic still was giddy. “I cannot stop smiling. ... I was very brave at the end. You know, here I am,” she said through a giggle. “Unbelievable.”

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Lionel Messi stepped up to score Argentina’s first spot kick but, as the first three Chileans converted unerringly, Gonzalo Higuain and Ever Banega missed.

That left the stage set for for-ward Sanchez, who made up for a quiet game by dinking the ball into Sergio Romero’s net to send the capacity crowd at Santiago’s Na-tional Stadium into raptures. “Our whole idea was to win something, we knew that this was the moment,” goalkeeper Claudio Bravo told reporters.

“This is a privileged generation and now it is time to enjoy it. We are not used to winning anything so this is an exception.”

Chile had beaten Argentina just once in 38 competitive matches before the final and were outsid-ers to take the trophy for the first time in the 99-year history of the tournament.

Few sides were able to handle their fast-paced football, however, and they won four of their five games

SANTIAGO, Chile — Lionel Messi has come up short again in his attempt to succeed with Argentina’s national team. Messi looked nothing like the star that he is with Barcelona on Saturday, and Argentina lost the Copa America final to Chile 4-1 on penalties, extending its 22-year title drought.

The four-time world player of the year scored his team’s lone goal in the penalty shootout, but had a lackluster performance in regulation and extra time, failing to spark his teammates to victory.

Saturday’s disappointment comes less than a year since he also failed to lead Argentina to victory in the World Cup final, and will ignite even more criticism by those who say Messi doesn’t play as well with the national team as he does with his club.

Messi helped Argentina win the Under-20 World Cup in 2005, as well as the gold medal in the Beijing Games in 2008, but is yet to lead the senior team to a title.

Before the runner-up finish at last year’s World Cup in Brazil, Messi hadn’t been able to lead Argentina past the quarterfinals of football’s showcase event, with early eliminations in 2006 and 2010. He also was in the Copa America team that lost the 2007 final to Brazil, and was eliminated by eventual champion Uru-guay in the quarterfinals of the tournament at home in 2011.

“A result, or even a loss in a final, will not change what Messi represents to the rest of the world,” said Chile’s Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli, adding that it was key to stop Messi and his teammates in Saturday’s final.

“If Argentina had been able to take control of the match at some point, Messi was going to make sure that we noticed why he is the best player in the world,” Sampaoli said.

Messi didn’t play well in the start of the Copa America but was improving match after match. He was coming off a remark-able performance in the 6-1 rout of Paraguay in the semifinals, when he didn’t score but helped set up five goals.

On Saturday, he made passing mistakes and several times was easily disarmed by defenders, failing to create scoring op-portunities for his teammates. In the one time he made a decent run past the defense, Argentina nearly broke the deadlock just before the final whistle in regulation, but Gonzalo Higuain was not able capitalize on a dangerous cross into the area.

The next chance Messi will have to win a title with Argentina is in next year’s centennial Copa America in the United States. Before that, the 31-year-old playmaker will help his nation in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. (ap)

SANTIAGO - Argentina did not deserve to lose the Copa America final to Chile on Saturday after a match in which both teams “neutralised” each other, coach Gerardo Martino said. Chile won their first ever major trophy, beating Lionel Messi’s Argentina on penalties after the two teams drew 0-0 after extra time.

“In the 120 minutes, in a very high quality game where the two teams neutralised each other more than play, the one who I think should have won was Argentina,” said Martino at a press conference after the game.

Martino praised Chile, saying they were “world class” and had played well since the start of the tournament, but felt Argentina should have won the final.

The experience for Argentina had been “very positive”, said Martino, adding that he saw no need for major changes.

“In a short time we have acquired a way of playing and we’ve been pretty good, but there is room for improvement,” he said. (rtr)

BERLIN — FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in a Sunday newspaper inter-view that French and German presidents applied political pressure before the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were awarded to Russia and Qatar, respectively. Blatter told Welt am Sonntag that “there were two political interventions” from former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German counterpart Christian Wulff before the hosts were announced on Dec. 2, 2010.

“Messrs Sarkozy and Wulff tried to influence their voting representatives. That’s why we now have a World Cup in Qatar. Those who decided it should take responsibility for it,” said Blatter, who said he was tired of taking the blame for something he had no control over.

“I act on the leadership principal. If a majority of the executive committee wants a World Cup in Qatar then I have to accept that,” Blatter said.

He suggested that the German football federation (DFB) received a recommen-dation from Wulff “to vote for Qatar out of economic interests.” Former DFB president Theo Zwanziger wrote in his book that Wulff had asked about Qatar’s chances but he denied it had had any in-fluence. Franz Beckenbauer, an executive committee member at the time, has never indicated which country he voted for.

Blatter accepted no responsibly for the plight of migrant laborers building stadiums in Qatar amid reports of human rights abuses. “Look at the German com-panies!” he said before naming railway and construction firms. “Deutsche Bahn, Hochtief and many more had projects in Qatar even before the World Cup was awarded.”

Blatter was instead concentrating on saving FIFA, which has been rocked by

a widening American corruption probe that alleges bribery and racketeering worth more than $150 million involving high-ranking FIFA officials over a 24-year span. “I’m there now to fight. Not for myself but for FIFA,” said Blatter, who added he was on the right path and had no doubts. “Self-doubt is a leader’s greatest enemy.”

Blatter announced his intention to leave office on June 2, four days after he was re-elected for a fifth four-year term, as pressure built from the American case and a separate Swiss federal investigation focused on possible money laundering linked to the awarding of the World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

But he remains defiant despite the scandal engulfing world soccer’s gov-erning body. “Is FIFA responsible from

the top down for everything in football, what happens in some village somewhere around the world?” asked Blatter, also a target of the American investigation.

“Everyone has fears, for example of death, but with regard to my work at FIFA I have no fear. I’ve nothing to be afraid of,” said Blatter. “I’m afraid that they want to wreck FIFA, a work that I helped create,” the 79-year-old said. Blatter said he accepts criticism but “what hurts are hateful tirades. They come from envy.”

Blatter cannot be extradited from his native Switzerland to the U.S. without his consent but he risks arrest in many coun-tries. He was not travelling to Canada for the Women’s World Cup final in Vancouver on Sunday. “Until everything is clarified I won’t take any travel risks,” Blatter said. (ap)

EDMONTON - Fara Williams struck an extra-time winner from the penalty spot as England defeated Ger-many 1-0 to claim third place in the Women’s World Cup on Saturday.

The Lionesses gained some con-solation for their heartbreaking loss to Japan in the semi-final as they produced a gritty display to beat the twice world champions for the first time.

A fiercely competitive game, scoreless after 90 minutes, was de-cided three minutes into the second

period of extra time when England sub Lianne Sanderson was pulled down in the box by Tabea Kemme and Williams coolly slotted home.

The third place finish, behind United States and Japan who meet in the final on Sunday, is the best by an England team at a women’s World Cup.

It also marks the best finish by an England team of either gender since the men’s team won the World Cup in 1966. “These players are just incredible. Now it’s time for a mas-

sive celebration,” said England coach Mark Sampson.

Germany, who had won 18 of the previous 20 meetings between the teams, started strongly and forced England keeper Karen Bardsley into action early with a powerful first minute header from forward Lena Peterman.

An injury time own goal from Ja-pan had doomed England in the semi-final and there was almost more self-inflicted damage when a header from Jo Potter flew past Bardsley only for

skipper Steph Houghton to produce a brilliant clearance on the line.

Bardsley was outstanding again in the 53rd minute to keep out a superb volley from Sara Dabritz and then Kemme shot just wide after a power-ful run in from the left flank.

England finished strongly, though, camping deep in the German half and keeper Nadine Angerer did well to save bravely at the feet of substitute Eniola Aluko.

Germany dominated the first period of extra-time but the Lion-

esses found a second wind and the decisive penalty was reward for their pressure.

Germany coach Silvia Neid, who will stand down next year, said she had no complaints about the penalty or the result.

“We fought, we worked very well and had chances but if you don’t score you aren’t going to win. The penalty was justified, we were very naive. It is sad but it is reality but England won and deserved to win,” she said.

AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo

Argentina’s Lionel Messi walks by the Copa America trophy after receiving the silver medal after the final game with Chile at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, July 4, 2015.

Messi fails again with Argentina’s national team

AP Photo/Michael Probst, File

File- This June 1, 2011, Swiss FIFA President Joseph (Sepp) Blatter speaks during a press conference after the 61st FIFA Congress in Zurich, Switzerland.

Blatter: French, German presidents tried influence WCup vote

Argentina didn’t deserve to lose Copa - Martino

REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Argentina’s coach Gerardo Martino gestures during the Copa America 2015 final soccer match against Chile at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, July 4, 2015.

REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Chile’s Alexis Sanchez holds the Copa America trophy as he celebrates with his teammates following their victory over Ar-gentina in their Copa America 2015 final soccer match at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, July 4, 2015.

Cheeky Sanchez penalty clinches Chile’s first Copa

SANTIAGO - Chile won the Copa America for the first time on Saturday when a cheeky penalty from Alexis Sanchez clinched a shootout victory over Argentina and glory for the host nation’s golden generation in front of their own fans. The two sides were deadlocked 0-0 after 90 minutes and when another half an hour of extra time failed to produce a goal, the contest was destined to be decided by penalties.

Williams penalty gives England third place

on their way to the deciding match, scoring 13 goals and delighting their home fans. “This is something so nice for all the Chilean people,” midfielder Arturo Vidal told report-ers after the whistle.

“We Chileans needed a triumph,

something like this Cup, today we took an incredible step, we’re America’s best.” The final itself was a poor game with neither side able to create many chances.

With Messi uninspired and San-chez faltering, the teams attempted

just 19 shots between them -- less than all but one of the Copa America finals contested since 1993. Higuain came closest to breaking the stale-mate for Argentina in the last minute of regulation time.

Messi sent Ezequiel Lavezzi

through on the left and he crossed to Higuain at the far post but the striker could only put the ball in the side netting. Sanchez had one great chance to steal the game for Chile in extra time but blazed over with just the goalkeeper to beat. (rtr)

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Lionel Messi stepped up to score Argentina’s first spot kick but, as the first three Chileans converted unerringly, Gonzalo Higuain and Ever Banega missed.

That left the stage set for for-ward Sanchez, who made up for a quiet game by dinking the ball into Sergio Romero’s net to send the capacity crowd at Santiago’s Na-tional Stadium into raptures. “Our whole idea was to win something, we knew that this was the moment,” goalkeeper Claudio Bravo told reporters.

“This is a privileged generation and now it is time to enjoy it. We are not used to winning anything so this is an exception.”

Chile had beaten Argentina just once in 38 competitive matches before the final and were outsid-ers to take the trophy for the first time in the 99-year history of the tournament.

Few sides were able to handle their fast-paced football, however, and they won four of their five games

SANTIAGO, Chile — Lionel Messi has come up short again in his attempt to succeed with Argentina’s national team. Messi looked nothing like the star that he is with Barcelona on Saturday, and Argentina lost the Copa America final to Chile 4-1 on penalties, extending its 22-year title drought.

The four-time world player of the year scored his team’s lone goal in the penalty shootout, but had a lackluster performance in regulation and extra time, failing to spark his teammates to victory.

Saturday’s disappointment comes less than a year since he also failed to lead Argentina to victory in the World Cup final, and will ignite even more criticism by those who say Messi doesn’t play as well with the national team as he does with his club.

Messi helped Argentina win the Under-20 World Cup in 2005, as well as the gold medal in the Beijing Games in 2008, but is yet to lead the senior team to a title.

Before the runner-up finish at last year’s World Cup in Brazil, Messi hadn’t been able to lead Argentina past the quarterfinals of football’s showcase event, with early eliminations in 2006 and 2010. He also was in the Copa America team that lost the 2007 final to Brazil, and was eliminated by eventual champion Uru-guay in the quarterfinals of the tournament at home in 2011.

“A result, or even a loss in a final, will not change what Messi represents to the rest of the world,” said Chile’s Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli, adding that it was key to stop Messi and his teammates in Saturday’s final.

“If Argentina had been able to take control of the match at some point, Messi was going to make sure that we noticed why he is the best player in the world,” Sampaoli said.

Messi didn’t play well in the start of the Copa America but was improving match after match. He was coming off a remark-able performance in the 6-1 rout of Paraguay in the semifinals, when he didn’t score but helped set up five goals.

On Saturday, he made passing mistakes and several times was easily disarmed by defenders, failing to create scoring op-portunities for his teammates. In the one time he made a decent run past the defense, Argentina nearly broke the deadlock just before the final whistle in regulation, but Gonzalo Higuain was not able capitalize on a dangerous cross into the area.

The next chance Messi will have to win a title with Argentina is in next year’s centennial Copa America in the United States. Before that, the 31-year-old playmaker will help his nation in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. (ap)

SANTIAGO - Argentina did not deserve to lose the Copa America final to Chile on Saturday after a match in which both teams “neutralised” each other, coach Gerardo Martino said. Chile won their first ever major trophy, beating Lionel Messi’s Argentina on penalties after the two teams drew 0-0 after extra time.

“In the 120 minutes, in a very high quality game where the two teams neutralised each other more than play, the one who I think should have won was Argentina,” said Martino at a press conference after the game.

Martino praised Chile, saying they were “world class” and had played well since the start of the tournament, but felt Argentina should have won the final.

The experience for Argentina had been “very positive”, said Martino, adding that he saw no need for major changes.

“In a short time we have acquired a way of playing and we’ve been pretty good, but there is room for improvement,” he said. (rtr)

BERLIN — FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in a Sunday newspaper inter-view that French and German presidents applied political pressure before the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were awarded to Russia and Qatar, respectively. Blatter told Welt am Sonntag that “there were two political interventions” from former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German counterpart Christian Wulff before the hosts were announced on Dec. 2, 2010.

“Messrs Sarkozy and Wulff tried to influence their voting representatives. That’s why we now have a World Cup in Qatar. Those who decided it should take responsibility for it,” said Blatter, who said he was tired of taking the blame for something he had no control over.

“I act on the leadership principal. If a majority of the executive committee wants a World Cup in Qatar then I have to accept that,” Blatter said.

He suggested that the German football federation (DFB) received a recommen-dation from Wulff “to vote for Qatar out of economic interests.” Former DFB president Theo Zwanziger wrote in his book that Wulff had asked about Qatar’s chances but he denied it had had any in-fluence. Franz Beckenbauer, an executive committee member at the time, has never indicated which country he voted for.

Blatter accepted no responsibly for the plight of migrant laborers building stadiums in Qatar amid reports of human rights abuses. “Look at the German com-panies!” he said before naming railway and construction firms. “Deutsche Bahn, Hochtief and many more had projects in Qatar even before the World Cup was awarded.”

Blatter was instead concentrating on saving FIFA, which has been rocked by

a widening American corruption probe that alleges bribery and racketeering worth more than $150 million involving high-ranking FIFA officials over a 24-year span. “I’m there now to fight. Not for myself but for FIFA,” said Blatter, who added he was on the right path and had no doubts. “Self-doubt is a leader’s greatest enemy.”

Blatter announced his intention to leave office on June 2, four days after he was re-elected for a fifth four-year term, as pressure built from the American case and a separate Swiss federal investigation focused on possible money laundering linked to the awarding of the World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

But he remains defiant despite the scandal engulfing world soccer’s gov-erning body. “Is FIFA responsible from

the top down for everything in football, what happens in some village somewhere around the world?” asked Blatter, also a target of the American investigation.

“Everyone has fears, for example of death, but with regard to my work at FIFA I have no fear. I’ve nothing to be afraid of,” said Blatter. “I’m afraid that they want to wreck FIFA, a work that I helped create,” the 79-year-old said. Blatter said he accepts criticism but “what hurts are hateful tirades. They come from envy.”

Blatter cannot be extradited from his native Switzerland to the U.S. without his consent but he risks arrest in many coun-tries. He was not travelling to Canada for the Women’s World Cup final in Vancouver on Sunday. “Until everything is clarified I won’t take any travel risks,” Blatter said. (ap)

EDMONTON - Fara Williams struck an extra-time winner from the penalty spot as England defeated Ger-many 1-0 to claim third place in the Women’s World Cup on Saturday.

The Lionesses gained some con-solation for their heartbreaking loss to Japan in the semi-final as they produced a gritty display to beat the twice world champions for the first time.

A fiercely competitive game, scoreless after 90 minutes, was de-cided three minutes into the second

period of extra time when England sub Lianne Sanderson was pulled down in the box by Tabea Kemme and Williams coolly slotted home.

The third place finish, behind United States and Japan who meet in the final on Sunday, is the best by an England team at a women’s World Cup.

It also marks the best finish by an England team of either gender since the men’s team won the World Cup in 1966. “These players are just incredible. Now it’s time for a mas-

sive celebration,” said England coach Mark Sampson.

Germany, who had won 18 of the previous 20 meetings between the teams, started strongly and forced England keeper Karen Bardsley into action early with a powerful first minute header from forward Lena Peterman.

An injury time own goal from Ja-pan had doomed England in the semi-final and there was almost more self-inflicted damage when a header from Jo Potter flew past Bardsley only for

skipper Steph Houghton to produce a brilliant clearance on the line.

Bardsley was outstanding again in the 53rd minute to keep out a superb volley from Sara Dabritz and then Kemme shot just wide after a power-ful run in from the left flank.

England finished strongly, though, camping deep in the German half and keeper Nadine Angerer did well to save bravely at the feet of substitute Eniola Aluko.

Germany dominated the first period of extra-time but the Lion-

esses found a second wind and the decisive penalty was reward for their pressure.

Germany coach Silvia Neid, who will stand down next year, said she had no complaints about the penalty or the result.

“We fought, we worked very well and had chances but if you don’t score you aren’t going to win. The penalty was justified, we were very naive. It is sad but it is reality but England won and deserved to win,” she said.

AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo

Argentina’s Lionel Messi walks by the Copa America trophy after receiving the silver medal after the final game with Chile at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, July 4, 2015.

Messi fails again with Argentina’s national team

AP Photo/Michael Probst, File

File- This June 1, 2011, Swiss FIFA President Joseph (Sepp) Blatter speaks during a press conference after the 61st FIFA Congress in Zurich, Switzerland.

Blatter: French, German presidents tried influence WCup vote

Argentina didn’t deserve to lose Copa - Martino

REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Argentina’s coach Gerardo Martino gestures during the Copa America 2015 final soccer match against Chile at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, July 4, 2015.

REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Chile’s Alexis Sanchez holds the Copa America trophy as he celebrates with his teammates following their victory over Ar-gentina in their Copa America 2015 final soccer match at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, July 4, 2015.

Cheeky Sanchez penalty clinches Chile’s first Copa

SANTIAGO - Chile won the Copa America for the first time on Saturday when a cheeky penalty from Alexis Sanchez clinched a shootout victory over Argentina and glory for the host nation’s golden generation in front of their own fans. The two sides were deadlocked 0-0 after 90 minutes and when another half an hour of extra time failed to produce a goal, the contest was destined to be decided by penalties.

Williams penalty gives England third place

on their way to the deciding match, scoring 13 goals and delighting their home fans. “This is something so nice for all the Chilean people,” midfielder Arturo Vidal told report-ers after the whistle.

“We Chileans needed a triumph,

something like this Cup, today we took an incredible step, we’re America’s best.” The final itself was a poor game with neither side able to create many chances.

With Messi uninspired and San-chez faltering, the teams attempted

just 19 shots between them -- less than all but one of the Copa America finals contested since 1993. Higuain came closest to breaking the stale-mate for Argentina in the last minute of regulation time.

Messi sent Ezequiel Lavezzi

through on the left and he crossed to Higuain at the far post but the striker could only put the ball in the side netting. Sanchez had one great chance to steal the game for Chile in extra time but blazed over with just the goalkeeper to beat. (rtr)

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Jankovic kept using that word — “unbelievable” — as if trying to convince herself it were true that, despite never having much success on grass courts, she had put together a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory Saturday over the No. 2-seeded Kvitova, who claimed the 2011 and 2014 titles at the All England Club.

“I was a little bit better at the end,” the 28th-seeded Jankovic said. “I was a little bit lucky, as well.” The 30-year-old Serbian didn’t come out of nowhere: She was the runner-up at the 2008 U.S. Open and finished that season ranked No. 1. But she has never been past the fourth round at Wimbledon, hadn’t even made it that far since 2010, and won only one of five matches at the grass-court major over the last four years.

Kvitova, who led 4-2 in the second set, had a difficult time processing the match, too. “I’m not really sure what happened out there,” she said. “Suddenly, I was just missing (shots). So it was really unusual, probably, or weird. I can’t really explain.”

After the traditional middle Sunday off, play resumes Monday. The top half of the women’s draw includes the most noteworthy matchup: Serena Williams vs. Ve-nus Williams, meeting at a major for the first time since 2009. Those two, Maria Sharapova and Victo-ria Azarenka give that side of the bracket 34 Grand Slam titles.

And the eight women on the other half? They own zero major championships. That includes Jank-ovic, who meets No. 13 Agnieszka Radwanska next. Also Monday: No. 5 Caroline Wozniacki vs. No. 20 Garbine Muguruza, No. 15

Timea Bacsinszky vs. Monica Ni-culescu, and No. 21 Madison Keys vs. Olga Govortsova.

The men’s bottom-half match-ups, which were determined Satur-day: seven-time champion Roger Federer against No. 20 Roberto Bautista Agut, 2013 champion Andy Murray against No. 23 Ivo Karlovic, No. 22 Viktor Troicki against Vasek Pospisil, and 2010 runner-up Tomas Berdych against No. 12 Gilles Simon, who beat fellow Frenchman No. 18 Gael Monfils in a match that was moved under the roof at Centre Court as darkness arrived.

Troicki ended the run of Dustin Brown, the qualifier from Germany who stunned Rafael Nadal in the sec-ond round. It marks the fourth year in a row that a man ranked No. 100 or worse beat Nadal at Wimbledon, then failed to advance further.

To the locals’ delight, Murray beat No. 25 Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-2, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1. Early in the third set, Seppi got a visit from a trainer for his lower right leg, and ended up taking six games in a row. Mur-ray received turnabout-is-fair-play treatment for a stiff right shoulder after falling behind 1-0 in the fourth set, and then took the last six games.

Kvitova lost three games through two matches, even apologizing to her parents for winning her opener in 35 minutes after they traveled from the Czech Republic to watch. But Kvitova ran out of steam against Jankovic, collecting only four winners in the final set after accumulating 20 before it.

“Not to be in the second week of (my) favorite tournament ... is really sad,” Kvitova said. “I don’t really

know what I can say.” Jankovic, a real character, is rarely at a loss for words. “I’m not old. I’m still young at heart,” she said at her news conference. “I look pretty good, so

why not?”Jankovic also delighted in dis-

cussing her suddenly, and surpris-ingly, effective serve.

“Maybe my serve is not as fast

as some of those big girls. But if I’m hitting my spots, it’s quite ef-fective,” Jankovic said. “It was ... hard for Petra to attack and get some returns on it.” (ap)

SILVERSTONE - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he is still hoping to keep Monza on the calendar after 2016 following further discussions with Italian Grand Prix officials but the situation remains open.

“Nothing at the moment,” the 84-year-old told Reuters at the Brit-ish Grand Prix when asked whether any progress had been made. He confirmed, however, that another meeting with circuit representatives had taken place.

Ecclestone last month raised the prospect of Imola returning to Formula One, with talk in Italy of a possible alternation agreement between that circuit and Monza.

Monza, the fastest track in F1, has been on the calendar since the championship started in 1950 and is loved by Italians as the ‘Pista Magica’. However, its future has been clouded by uncertainty over whether a new deal can be agreed.

“I don’t think we’ll do another contract, the old one was a disaster

for us from the commercial point of view. After 2016, bye bye...,” Ecclestone told the Gazzetta dello Sport a year ago.

Ecclestone’s meeting with Mon-za representatives was his first since Monaco in May, after which the Briton had been blunt in his assessment.

“It’s useless to keep on talking. In order to have a grand prix, you need money. If the money is there, the race takes place,” he said then. (rtr)

Ecclestone has more talks with Monza

REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone walks in the Mer-cedes team garage during the third practice session of the Canadian F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal June 6, 2015.

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

Jelena Jankovic of Serbia celebrates defeating Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic during their singles match against at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 4, 2015. Jankovic won the match 3-6, 7-5, 6-4.

‘Unbelievable’: Jankovic tops 2-time Wimbledon champ Kvitova

LONDON — About an hour after flopping on her back and kicking her feet overhead to celebrate a stunning comeback against defending Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, Jelena Jankovic still was giddy. “I cannot stop smiling. ... I was very brave at the end. You know, here I am,” she said through a giggle. “Unbelievable.”

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JAKARTA - The economic crisis in Greece, which is now in a state of default after failing to pay debts worth 1.6 billion Euros to the International Monetary Fund, will not have major impacts on Indonesia.

Observers believe that Indonesia will not feel significant impacts, but the countrys exports to Greece will be affected.

According to Bank Indonesia (BI), the impacts of the Greek economic crisis on Indonesias economy will be relatively low because the country has implemented precautionary measures and its domestic economic fundamen-tals have been improving.

“We can see that the effects of the Greek crisis on Indonesia are not significant, even with Greeces risk-on risk-off approach. European countries also believe that the Greek crisis can be fought,” Governor of BI Agus Martowardojo said at the House of Representatives building on Wednes-day, July 1.

He added that he was staying abreast of the latest developments in Greece. The governor of Indonesias central bank also stressed the impor-tance of monitoring global economic developments, such as the normaliza-tion of the Federal policy, the weaken-ing of the Chinese economy, and Eu-ropean economic conditions and their impacts on Indonesias economy.

“We have to acknowledge that Indonesias current economic funda-mentals are relatively better than their state two years ago. The inflation rate

is also under control,” Martowardojo remarked.

However, Indonesias exports to Greece will be affected, Spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry Ar-rmanatha Nasir pointed out.

“The value of trade between In-donesia and Greece is not too large, amounting to only US$200 million, but it is still relatively significant. Indonesia exports to Greece will be affected, more or less,” Nasir stated.

He added that Indonesia has good relations with Greece, particularly with regard to cooperation in the trade field. “Indonesia has good relations in the trade sector with Greece. It exports numerous goods such as crude palm oil and other commodities,” he noted.

As a result, Nasir observed, the Greek economic crisis will influence Indonesias exports to the country. But its effect will not be too severe, let alone comparable to the economic crisis it faced in 1998.

“Indonesia will not go bankrupt like Greece,” Special Staff of the Finance Minister Arif Budimanta af-firmed during a discussion organized by the Public Relations Division of the Peoples Consultative Assembly on Saturday.

He added that the Greek fiscal deficit was 60 percent, while Indo-nesias was less than 1.9 percent. “In terms of economic growth, we are witnessing a positive trend, whereas the economic growth of Greece is in the negatives.” (ant)

On Tuesday, an air force trans-port plane with 122 people on board plowed into the same neighbor-hood. And the same street.

In 2005, Padang Bulan was a charming middle-class residential area in this steamy tropical city of 3 million. Its main road, Jamin Ginting, was lined with colonial-style houses with well-manicured gardens.

The area’s only drawback was noise from nearby Polonia airport, then the main international gateway for Sumatra, one of Indonesia’s main islands.

“I cannot forget the plane crash of 10 years ago. It feels like it hap-pened just yesterday,” said Tarigan, 40, who ran an electronics business in his house across the street from where the Mandala Airlines plane went down in June 2005, killing at least 149.

He recalled seeing the plane strike several houses and hearing

the screams of people thrown from the fuselage. He ran to help but suddenly the plane exploded, en-gulfing trees, houses and passengers in flames.

The Boeing 737-200 crashed only seconds after takeoff. The victims included 47 people on the ground. Some 15 people on the plane survived.

Ten years later, Padang Bulan has been transformed into a thriv-ing shopping and leisure district with its main road sporting a mall and dotted by hotels, guest houses, cafes and spas.

A new international airport has opened outside Medan, and its pre-decessor Polonia is now used by the air force as Suwondo air base.

Tarigan said he saw the bulky C-130 Hercules transport plane flying very low after takeoff, almost touching a tree in his backyard, before crashing about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) away on Jamin Gint-

ing.It plowed into a new building

that local media said contained a spa, shops and homes, killing all 122 on board and at least 19 people in the neighborhood.

“Of course, this second event made me worried, whether my house, my family, could be hit by the next plane crash,” said Tarigan, a father of four.

“But, where should I stay? This house and this small shop are where we live and earn a living. I just ac-cept God’s will,” he said.

Tarigan’s neighbors and resi-dents who live near the Hercules crash site also say the two disasters 10 years apart won’t deter them from staying in the neighbor-hood.

“Disasters, accidents can hap-pen anywhere and to anyone,” said Vita Saragih, 36, who runs a food stall opposite from where the Hercules crashed. (ap)

JAKARTA - President Joko Wido-do said the people must uphold the principle solidarity as a fortress to stem radical movements launched in the name of religions.

“As a large nation, we should uphold the principles of solidarity as human beings, as a nation, as religious adherents and as Muslims,” President Joko Widodo said when addressing a function held to observe the Nuzulul Quran (the revelation of the Quran) at the State Palace on Friday evening.

He said that on the occasion of observing the Nuzulul Quran, the Muslims are passionate in perform-ing their religious services, expecting God’s guidance and blessing.

The President said that The Quran was descended when the people’s con-ditions were at the lowest point of ig-norance. The Holy Book was revealed

not merely for the Arabian society but also for the whole mankind.

“The Quran is a guidance for man-kind to differentiate between the right and the falsehood. Thus, The Quran brought a basic revolution to the life of mankind, a social and justice revolu-tion,” the President said.

He said that the Quran guides all aspects of life of human beings. Thus, the revolution of life should encourage people to uphold dignity, build respect and work hard.

As a predominantly Muslim coun-try, Indonesia should be sincere in life, and with sincerity the government will continue to carry out its development programs so that the people will have adequate food, housing and clothing.

Thus, the President said, the people will have dignity and remain healthy and respectable. (ant)

REUTERS/Nyimas Laula

A shopkeeper waits for a customer inside a traditional market in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 1, 2015. Indonesia’s annual inflation rate rose for a fourth straight month in June, which makes it harder than it already was for the central bank to cut lending rates to try to jack up the country’s slowing growth. For May and June, a main cause was higher food prices before and during the Muslim fasting month.

Suburb hit by plane disasters twice in 10 years

MEDAN — A decade ago, when an Indonesian passenger jet crashed into a quaint neigh-borhood in Indonesia’s third-biggest city, Medan, Waktu Tarigan thought he’d never witness anything like that again. He was wrong.

Solidarity has potential to fend radicalism

Indonesia will not feel major impacts of Greek economic crisis

It said the decision to cancel the flights came after the VAAC revised a volcanic ash advisory from code orange to code red, but it had been downgraded back to code orange on Friday.

According to Jackson Browne from the VAAC, the volcano in eastern Java erupted at 6:30 p.m. (Darwin time), and it was difficult to pinpoint where it was.

“It is a Strombolian-type of eruption, and there was not a lot of emission from the volcano itself,” Browne was quoted as saying by ABC.

“In fact, the ash emissions were so thin that they were not identified in satellite imagery.

“We were receiving pictures just showing a sort of thin cigarette-like plume from the volcano,” he stated.

Browne stated that Mount Raung is located about 150 kilometers from Denpasar, and the ash could blow over the airport if the winds were blowing in that direction.

He said the eruption paled in comparison with major eruptions, which in the past have produced cubic kilometers of ash. (ant)

Australian...

Since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States four years earlier, Britain had made its anti-terrorism powers among the toughest in the Western world. Now they became tougher still. “What 7/7 did was it made people realize that the threat was internal as well as external,” said David Anderson, Britain’s official reviewer of terrorism legislation.

After 2005, police were given power to hold terrorism suspects for four weeks without charge, or to place them under a 16-hour-a-day curfew. It became a crime not just to commit or plan for terrorism but to glorify terrorist acts. The government moved to deport extremist preachers who had made their home in Britain. The ability of intelligence agencies to scoop up Internet users’ electronic data expanded vastly, and British spies began collecting information on their own citizens on a hitherto unseen scale.

Civil libertarians sensed the spread of a Big Brother state, and waged legal and political battles that man-aged to water down or reverse some of the measures. But a decade later, Britons are more watched than ever. Last month’s gun attack on tourists in Tunisia, which killed 30 Britons, shows the terrorist threat has not gone

away, and could spur a new round of counter-terror measures.

“That’s always the fear, of knee-jerk reactions, the need to be seen to be doing something even if what you are doing is reputationally damag-ing,” said Rachel Robinson, a policy officer at human rights group Liberty. “That’s what we’ve seen time and time again.”

The July 2005 bombings on three subway trains and a bus — the deadli-est attack on British soil since World War II — were carried out by young Britons inspired by al-Qaida. In a bid to stop more plots, Blair’s govern-ment expanded the definition of a terrorist offense and introduced new powers to detain terror suspects.

The 2006 Terrorism Act allowed terror suspects to be held for 28 days without charge. Blair had argued that the complexity of terror plots meant the limit should be 90 days, but lawmakers defeated him. They also rejected a bid two years later for 42-day detention.

Suspects who could not be charged — often because the evidence against them was secret — could be held under control orders, a form of house arrest that meant they could be electronically tagged, kept under curfew for up to 16 hours per day

and barred from using telephones or the Internet.

Rights groups loudly opposed the measures, and when a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition took power in 2010, it said the previous Labour administrations had “abused and eroded fundamental human freedoms.”

Under the coalition, pre-charge detention was cut to 14 days. Control orders gave way to a less-restrictive replacement. Government curbed the power of police officers to stop and search people without suspicion. But one aspect of counterterrorism just kept expanding — surveillance, both in the streets and online.

In 2005, Britain already had as many as 4 million surveillance camer-as, whose use as a crime-fighting tool had been encouraged by authorities since the 1990s. Tony Porter, Britain’s surveillance camera commissioner, says the number today could be 6 million.

“The overwhelming view from our European colleagues is that the U.K. is the European — if not the world — capital of surveillance,” said Porter, a former counterterrorism police officer charged with ensuring responsible use of the country’s publicly operated cameras. (ap)

BANGKOK — Two trams used to shuttle visitors around a zoo in northeastern Thailand col-lided Sunday, killing five people and injuring more than 30, police said.

The accident at the Kao Suan Kwang Zoo in Khon Kaen prov-ince occurred when one tram driver lost control due to a prob-lem with the vehicle’s brakes and slammed into a tram in front, said

police Col. Pichit Deeya.The impact caused both trams

to overturn, crushing a passenger who died at the scene, Pichit said. Four other people died from in-juries at a local hospital, he said, adding that all the victims were Thai nationals.

Among the dead was a 2-year-old girl. About 10 other children were injured, ranging in age from 3-12, Pichit said. (ap)

MANILA, Philippines — A tropical storm blowing across the Philippines’ mountainous north has caused floods and knocked out power in several towns.

Officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties Sunday from Tropical Storm Linfa. They said government rescue teams were deployed to evacuate villagers in some of the 11 towns flooded in La Union province, where wide areas also lost power.

The storm had sustained winds of 85 kilometers (53 miles) per hour and gusts of 100 kph (62 mph). It’s expected to start blowing away from the country on Monday.

Meanwhile, police said a private helicopter plunged into a moun-tainous area in Batangas province south of Manila in bad weather from the storm, killing at least two people. An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the crash. (ap)

MADRID — Spanish police have arrested three suspects who allegedly committed 26 burglaries in the southern city of Malaga after posing as telephone engineers to study their targets.

Police said in a statement Sun-day that the detainees allegedly disguised themselves and paid unannounced visits to determine where alarm systems, security cam-eras and safes were located. Later, they would break in and use blow-

torches to remove cash, jewelry, haute-couture clothing, luxury cars or even legs of Spanish ham.

They were discovered after a security guard became suspicious when a suspect dressed in a phone company uniform insisted on in-specting rooms where there were no phones. When police investi-gated, they found the suspect’s ID belonged to a 76-year-old woman from another city. The arrests took place June 29. (ap)

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File

FILE- In this Nov. 28, 2006, file photo, a wall of video monitors shows live images from closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) installed in central London, is seen at an hidden underground bunker. After four home-grown suicide bombers killed 52 London commuters on July 7, 2005, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed that Britain would stop at nothing to defeat terrorism.

7/7 spurred tough anti-terror measures some say went too far

LONDON — After four home-grown suicide bombers killed 52 London commuters on July 7, 2005, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed that Britain would stop at nothing to defeat terrorism. “Let no one be in any doubt,” he said. “The rules of the game are changing.”

Zoo tram accident in northeastern Thailand kills 5 people

Storm causes floods, knocks out power in north Philippines

Burglars in Spain posed as phone workers to case premises

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe un-veiled the pledge at a summit with his counterparts from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam -- fast-growing economies through which the lower section of the Mekong river flows.

“Japan will implement support worth around 750 billion yen ($6.1 billion) in official development as-

sistance for the next three years,” Abe told a news conference fol-lowing the seventh annual Japan-Mekong summit.

“The Mekong region, which has vast demand for infrastructure, is one of our most important areas,” Abe said.

“Japan will contribute to infra-structure development of the region

in both quality and quantity,” he added. “The Mekong region and Japan are partners that will develop together.”

It was not immediately clear if the pledge included previously-earmarked Japanese financial as-sistance, or whether it was made up entirely of newly-allocated funds.

“The Mekong region is the most dynamic economic centre, but there still is room for huge growth,” Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha told the news conference.

The meeting came as the leading

Nikkei business daily said Friday that three Japanese companies had secured an order worth over 32 billion baht ($947 million) to equip a railway linking the Thai capital Bangkok with nearby suburbs.

The Japanese government plans to offer loans to cover part of the cost, the newspaper said, a com-mon sweetener that helps clients afford these kind of big-ticket projects.

In a separate deal, Japan, Thai-land and Myanmar signed an accord for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ)

in Dawei, southeastern Myanmar, local media said.

When completed, the zone on the Andaman Sea coast will have a total area of 200 square kilometres (80 square miles), making it one of the largest SEZs in Southeast Asia and a gateway for the Mekong region’s trade with India, the Middle East and Africa, Kyodo News said.

Abe has upped efforts to sell high-ways, train systems and power plants around the world, a key element in his bid to bolster the economy and Japan’s standing abroad.

Beijing’s growing financial mus-cle, as well as its increasing willing-ness to throw its diplomatic weight around, have added urgency to Ja-pan’s efforts to step up engagement in the battle for regional sway.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in November at a summit in Myanmar that Beijing’s strategic partnership with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions (ASEAN) grouping was enter-ing a “diamond decade leading to broader and deeper cooperation”.

Then in March, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China hoped to boost trade with ASEAN countries to $500 billion this year and $1 tril-lion in 2020.

Beijing’s new Asian Infrastruc-ture Investment Bank has also upped the stakes, rivalling the Tokyo-backed Asian Development Bank and offering the kind of finan-cial firepower rapidly-developing countries are keen to tap.

In a bid to counter the Chinese move, Abe in May announced a $110 billion investment plan for infrastructure projects in Asia, including in the “Mekong Five” states. (afp)

An art and cultural observer, Kadek Suartaya, when assessing the performance of bleganjur fes-tivalgoers explained that bleganjur is Balinese art remaining to exist and become the pride of younger generation. “Currently the blegan-jur is being favored and mostly engaged by younger generation,” he said.

The development of bleganjur remaining to exist indicates a posi-tive thing, especially in the current era of globalization, where the influ-ence of external cultures entering Bali runs so freely.

Added Suartaya, the bleganjur originally poses an art commonly used in religious ceremonies. How-ever, since the 1980s, this art has evolved into a public attraction in combination with dance movements and its musical creativity tends to be diverse.

“This art is no longer for reli-

gious rituals but becomes a secular art. One of which is used to enliven kites festival to pra-celebration of Nyepi, in this case the accompani-ment of ogoh-ogoh parade,” he explained.

The transition happening to bleganjur makes this art interesting and becomes the pride of young generation in Bali. Ultimately, it can compete against western arts starting to pound the flavor of music of the current younger generation. Bleganjur itself is gamelan music featuring the drum as the core music instrument and becomes the com-mand coupled with cymbals. More interestingly, the bleganjur musical element is also accompanied with dance. So, it is not standstill silently. “To that end, we do not only assess the elements of gamelan music but also the elements of creativity, composition, costumes and stories presented in the bleganjur,” said

Suartaya.One of the bleganjur festival par-

ticipants is the Sekul Kru gamelan troupe from Anyar hamlet, Kediri subdistrict. It admitted that joining the festival is not motivated by the prize. “We join this festival because we want to show off our bleganjur gamelan troupe,” said the leader of Sekul Kru, I Ketut Surya Tanaya. Passion to display the art is also supported by customary village where the funding for performance is assisted by the village and its people.

Bleganjur festival at Tanah Lot, added Tanaya, is the first event to be participated by the Sekul Kru. His preparation is also relative short namely just made within two months. This bleganjur art troupe makes performance with the theme Satyeng Wakya or the battle between Bima with Duryudana. (kmb24)

CHIANG RAI - Accused of urinating in public, spitting on the street, or kicking a sacred temple bell -- free-spending Chinese tour-ists are receiving a mixed welcome as their soaring numbers help the kingdom’s creaking economy.

Growing outrage over the per-ceived disrespect of visitors from the Asian giant saw authorities print thousands of Chinese-language eti-quette manuals earlier this year in a bid to keep their tourists in check.

Last month it was a photo of a young girl peeing in the grounds of Bangkok’s Grand Palace that trig-gered the latest round of enraged, and sometimes racist, comments as Thai social media users claimed she was Chinese.

In March a Thai model’s video of tourists from China jumping the queue at an airport was viewed more than two million times and saw a similarly angry rant against Thailand’s largest group of foreign

holidaymakers.At the gleaming Wat Rong

Khun, also known as the White Temple, in northern Chiang Rai province, owner Chalermchai Ko-sitpipat complained about the state of the toilets after a recent visit by a Chinese group.

“We had problems with some Chinese who defecated anywhere, so I asked the guides to explain to them that rules must be respected in Thailand,” Chalermchai told AFP,

having earlier threatened to refuse the nationals entry.

But he stopped short of issuing a ban, and like Thai authorities is loath to cut out the Chinese at a time when they are bucking the trend of dipping visitor figures in the kingdom, where tourism accounts for 8.5 percent of gross domestic product.

Last year around 4.6 million Chinese nationals visited Thai-land, with the average tourist

spending 5,500 baht ($160) per day -- more than the average Eu-ropean visitor.

Their collective contribution, expected to reach $5.6 billion this year, is not one the ruling junta can afford to lose as it struggles to revive a sclerotic economy -- one of its key promises after seizing power from an elected government in May 2014 that was paralysed by months of protests in Bangkok. (afp)

Chinese tourists boost Thai economy but stir outrage

Japan pledges $6.1 bn aid to ’Mekong Five’ in bid for influence

TOKYO - Japan on Saturday pledged $6.1 billion in financial aid to the “Mekong Five” countries as it pushes infrastructure exports and courts influence in a region where rival China has an increasing presence.

Kimimasa Mayama/Pool Photo via AP

Leaders from Mekong countries and Japan attend a joint press announcement of the Japan-Mekong summit at the Akasaka State Guesthouse in Tokyo Saturday, July 4, 2015.

THe name Kebo Iwa has long been known by Balinese people. When reading or hearing about the story of his life, as though we are proffered with a fiction mixed with history. As a histori-cal figure, Kebo Iwa is described as a mighty and powerful knight. There is a source mentions if he was a governor of the king Gajah-waktra ruling at Bedahulu (now Bedulu) around 1324 -1343 AD. Kebo Iwa is mentioned as one of the military commanders of Bali during the reign of King Sri Asta Sura Ratna Bumi Banten in the early fourteenth century.

As a fictional character, Kebo Iwa who also has another name l ike Kebo Taruna and Kebo Wandira is described as a remark-able man. The son of Commander Rakryan Buncing is described as a giant man having a big posture. Range of his feet is very wide, so that he can travel quickly. If he wants to drink, he just needs to stab his finger into the ground and a small well will emit water.

Kebo Iwa can also carve a stone with his nail. Whenever there is a big hole, people always call it as the footprint of Kebo Iwa. Oth-ers also say that a hollow rock on Soka Beach (Tabanan) is the pot of Kebo Iwa. He is described as a strong giant man that eats so much so that to cook rice he needs a large pot.

Though being pow-e r f u l , Kebo Iwa does not h a v e egoistic or arro-gant na-ture. Story on the end of his life is very tragic and even it draws a variety of inter-pretations and meanings. I t can be seen w h e n G a j a h

Mada intended to conquer Bali for the realization of the unity of the archipelago. This vice regent from Majapahit kingdom con-sidered it impossible to conquer Bali as long as Kebo Iwa was still alive. He then arranged a strategy where Kebo Iwa was picked up to be invited to Majapahit. Kebo Iwa requested the help dig a well for the kingdom in East Java experi-encing water crisis. As a prize, he would be awarded a beautiful and graceful girl from Lemah Tulis.

Kebo Iwa met the request. When digging a well, the men of Gajah Mada pelted Kebo Iwa with rock stones in order the strong man from Bali could be buried alive. Kebo Iwa got up and was aware if he was deceived. He then opened the secret of his weakness where to kill him was enough to use whiting and betel leaf.

Such a word-of-mouth story also raises a variety of interpre-tations. Balinese people call that whiting symbolizes Lord Shiva and betel leaf symbolizes Lord Vishnu. Thus, Kebo Iwa got puri-fication from Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu to attain moksha. In some regions, before people chew be-

tel leaf, the tip of betel leaf is cut first. Why? It is done to

commemorate the death of Kebo Iwa.

A variety of interpreta-tions apparently cannot be resisted. For example, why was Kebo Iwa will-

ing to die? There are commentar-

ies saying if the ideal of Gajah M a d a w a s very noble

namely to unite the a r c h i -pelago. T h e r e -

fore, for the sake of

unity, Kebo Iwa was will-ing to sacri-

fice his life. (kmb)

Kebo Iwa, a knight willing to die for unity

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Bleganjur festival at Tanah Lot, Tabanan, lasted from Friday (Jul. 3) through Sunday (Jul. 5). About 23 bleganjur gamelan troupes as representatives of customary village across Kediri subdistrict showcased this art before the public and travelers visiting the Tanah Lot.

Bleganjur, pridefulart of Balinese

young generationTABANAN - Bleganjur festival at Tanah Lot, Tabanan, lasted from Friday (Jul. 3) through

Sunday (Jul. 5). About 23 bleganjur gamelan troupes as representatives of customary vil-lage across Kediri subdistrict showcased this art before the public and travelers visiting the Tanah Lot.

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The attorney general confirmed late Saturday that he has received documents from an official in-vestigation that made the link between Najib and the investment fund 1MDB. The existence of the documents was first reported by the Asian Wall Street Journal on Friday, showing some $700 million were wired from entities linked to the fund into Najib’s accounts. The documents sent to the attorney general pave the way for possible criminal charges.

It is one of the worst political crises for Najib, who has come under increasing criticism over his leadership. He has denied taking any money for personal gains.

“It’s damning and disastrous for Najib,” said Wan Saiful Wan Jan, who heads the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs think-tank.

“This is really uncharted ter-

ritory in Malaysian politics. For the first time ever, we are seeing a prime minister facing the possibility of a criminal charge,” he said.

1MDB, set up by Najib in 2009 to develop new industries, has ac-cumulated 42 billion ringgit ($11.1 billion) in debt after its energy ven-tures abroad faltered. Critics, led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, have voiced concerns about 1MDB’s massive debt and alleged lack of transparency.

The Wall Street Journal report said five deposits were made into Najib’s accounts and that the two largest transactions, worth $620 million and $61 million, were done in March 2013 ahead of general elections.

Najib slammed the report as part of a “political sabotage” by Mahathir to remove him. Mahathir, who stepped down in 2003 after 22 years in power but has remained an

influential political figure, has been leading calls for Najib to step down. 1MDB said it has never provided any funds to Najib.

Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail, however, said a task force investigating 1MDB for alleged impropriety has given him papers “including documents related to allegations of fund transfer into the account of the prime minister.”

Abdul Gani said the task force raided offices of three companies linked to 1MDB that were alleg-edly involved in the fund transfer. He didn’t give further details on the documents or say what actions would be taken.

The Star English-language news-paper said on its website that Najib would file a lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. An aide to the prime minister said Najib would make a statement later Sun-day, but didn’t give details. (ap)

QUITO, Ecuador — History’s first Latin American pope returns to Spanish-speaking South America for the first time on Sunday, bring-ing a message of solidarity with the region’s poor, who are expected to turn out in droves to welcome their native son home.

“The pope of the poor” chose to visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay specifically because they are among the poorest and most marginal na-tions of a region that claims 40 percent of the world’s Catholics. He’s skipping his homeland of Argentina, at least partly to avoid papal entanglement in this year’s presidential election.

The trip starts in Ecuador, where falling world prices for oil and minerals threaten to fray the social safety net woven by President Ra-fael Correa, who has been buffeted for nearly a month by the most serious anti-government street protests of his more than eight years in power.

Francis is likely to raise environ-mental concerns with Correa and the leader of Bolivia — who have promoted mining and oil drilling in wilderness areas — given his recent encyclical on the need to protect nature and the poor who suffer most when it is exploited.

In that document, Francis called for a new development model that rejects today’s profit-at-all cost mentality in favor of a Christian

view of economic progress that respects human rights, safeguards the planet and involves all sectors of society, the poor and marginal-ized included.

In a video message on the eve of his departure, Francis said he wanted to bring a message of hope and joy to all “especially the needi-est, the elderly, the sick, those in prison and the poor and all those who are victims of this ‘throwaway culture.’”

Francis’ stops include a violent Bolivian prison, a flood-prone Para-guayan shantytown and a meeting with Bolivian trash pickers, the sort of people he ministered to in the slums of Buenos Aires as archbishop.

Crowds are expected to be huge. While the countries themselves are tiny compared to regional power-houses like Brazil and Argentina, they are fervently Catholic: 79 per-cent of the population is Catholic in Ecuador, 77 percent in Bolivia and a whopping 89 percent in Paraguay, according to the Pew Research Center.

“You can imagine what this embrace of love will be, this de-votion of our people toward the pope, the universal pastor who comes from Latin America,” said Guzman Carriquiri, the No. 2 of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and a top papal adviser. (ap)

AP Photo/Juan Karita

Catholic Priest Ivan Bravo rides with a life-size cutout poster of Pope Francis in a cable car that links downtown La Paz with El Alto, as a way to promote the pope’s upcoming visit to Bolivia, Friday, July 3, 2015.

On his native turf, Pope Francis touches on cherished issues

Malaysian leader faces risk of criminal

charges over fundKUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is facing the risk of criminal

charges over allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled from an indebted state fund to his personal bank accounts, the first time a Malaysian leader has faced criminal allegations.

AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File

FILE- In this May 11, 2015 file photo, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak addresses delegates during his speech at the Malaysia’s ruling party United Malays National Organization’s (UMNO) anniversary celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

NEGARA - In addition to having owned a green open space (RTH) and the arrangement of public square, Jembrana Regency will also build a botanical gar-den by utilizing the outermost courtyard area of the Jagatnatha Jembrana Temple.

The botanical garden that will receive funding from central gov-ernment is not going to be filled with arbitrary plants but prefers locally endemic plants of Indo-nesia and Jembrana in particular. It was stated by Deputy Regent of Jembrana, I Made Kembang Hartawan when making a site inspection to Jagatnatha Temple. Construction of the botanical garden will begin in 2016 and gets financial assistance worth IDR 4 billion. County government is currently preparing the Detailed Engineering Design (DED). “It (the construction of botanical garden) has been confirmed next year. Actually we are given the assistance by central government as much as IDR 5 billion, where IDR 1 billion is used at Gilimanuk and IDR 4 billion for this project,” said Deputy Regent Kembang Hartawan.

His site inspection was accom-panied by the Head of the Jem-brana Environment, Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (LHKP) I Wayan Darwin and a drafter and botanical observer Deniek G. Su-karya, said the botanical garden area is far different from a park

because it prioritizes to preserve endemic plants.

This program can be encour-aged in the regions through the regional development agency for botanical garden under the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). Other than functioning as a green open space, botanical garden also serves as the center for research, recreation and edu-cation. Deniek explained that the concept established does not rule out the function of the Jagatnatha itself. “We make a natural concept of Bali and it will be filled with endemic plants to Bali, Indonesia and those for ritual purposes, less foreign plants,” said Deniek. It is unfortunate that the Jagatnatha is quite magnificent but its outer-most courtyard is not very well maintained. The development will take a natural concept without cut-ting down the existing plants.

Likewise, the lights adorning this time will also be adjusted so as not to eliminate the natural properties. Similarly the concrete pond area will be replaced with river stone. In addition, there will also be additional acreage behind the Jagatnatha Temple of Jembrana. “Currently, it spreads on the area of 5.8 hectares. As planned, we will later expand it and increase the funding through regional budget (Jembrana) with the approval of the House,” said Deputy Regent Kembang. (kmb26)

The Head of the Bangli Environ-ment Agency, I Made Alit Parwata, revealed on Friday (Jul. 3) that a number of efforts have been done by the government and community of Bangli to maintain the stability of water discharge. One of them is the making of surface water infiltration wells. It is intended to restore the surface water into the ground so that the flow of water does not shrink.

Unfortunately, the programs having been echoed since three years ago are only paid to the pro-curement of 300 units. Actually, for the Bangli County alone it is expected to reach 5,000 units.

He said further that infiltration wells serve to collect rainwater that is lately often wasted. In addition,

the large number of green land conversions into concrete makes the surface water absorption reduce, so that the existence of absorp-tion wells is extremely important. “When it rains, the water is wasted. With these wells, the water can be accommodated in the ground again. Thus, the water flow will remain stable,” he said.

Parwata added even though his party has made an effort, the par-ticipation of other counties are still very necessary.

Maintaining water stability is not only done by provision of wells, but must also be balanced with greening. “Our budget is not adequate and maintaining springs is not only done by making wells

but also by reforestation. This is why we hope for compensation from other regions. In addition, the water available is not only enjoyed by residents of Bangli alone, but also by residents outside Bangli,” he said accompanied by the Divi-sion Head of Nature Conservation of the Bangli Environment Agency, I Made Sujana.

Parwata also added that the matter of spring management has actually been often delivered in the meeting at provincial level. How-ever, until now the participation of other counties is considered not maximal. “We’ve often delivered this to the other regents. Hopefully, it will get a response,” he said. (kmb45)

NEGARA - A piece of land ex-tending to the beach in the area of Klatakan, Melaya village, is lately fenced. This privately owned land located adjacent to a football field is estimated to be built a villa. Though the two-meter high fence reaching the edge of the beach has been built, local village is said to have received no building permit yet.

From information obtained, the land adjacent to the West Bali National Park (TNBB) is a private property. Initially it is only the con-struction of compound wall founda-tion in front of the land border. But lately, the construction has reached the edge of the beach to reach the field that was formerly vacant. A number of workers remaining to install concrete blocks for the parapet said that the wall construc-tion is just for the outer border. As planned, the walled land will be used to build villa.

Headman of Melaya, Made

Mara, when asked for his confir-mation on Friday (Jul. 3) said that based on information of hamlet chief the walled land is known to be private property. It is directly adjacent to the land owned by the TNBB used for football field. Re-lated to construction of the villa, there has been no notification to local village authority. Similarly, the two-meter high wall construc-tion extending up to the beach has not been notified. “Supposedly, it must be notified. If later on it is true for building it must be equipped with building permit,” said Mara.

It needs to be done to ensure that it has been appropriate with the functions and does not break the rules such as infringing bor-derlines because the land is located on the edge of the beach. From the information, the land belongs to a resident from Banyuwangi. (kmb26)

Allegedly used for villa, land at Klatakan fenced

Next year, Jembrana will have a botanical garden

Spring management, Bangli expects

compensation of other counties

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Lake Batur, one of the water source in Bangli.

BANGLI - A number of counties in Bali so far still rely on their water needs from Bangli County. However, on the other hand, the spring management efforts are mostly done by the government and community of Bangli. On this condition, the Bangli Environment Agency (BLH) asks for compensation to the other regions to jointly address the water problem posing the public basic needs.

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The 37th Bali Art FestivalMonday, July 6, 2015

Time Place Event

11.00 Angsoka Stage Karawitan art performances by Yowan Giri Troupe, Karangasem

17.00 Ayodya Stage Musical Drama performances by Netra Mahatmiya 20.00 Wantilan Pupet performance by Sida Rahayu Troupe 20.00 Ayodya Stage Dance Drama performances by Gita Bandana Praja 20.00 Ksirarnawa Balinese song parade from Gianyar, Denpasar, and Tabanan Regency

MIAMI - Coral reefs are fragile and in danger worldwide, but a grow-ing movement to restore them is based on the science of breaking off pieces in order to grow more, known as coral

gardening.It works like this: marine biolo-

gists cut off the tips of live branching corals, hang the pieces on man-made underwater trees where they grow, and

AP Photo/Brain Cassey, File

Coral gardening beckons ecotourists to restore reefs

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later “outplant” them on real reefs on the ocean floor.

After years of trial and error, scien-tists in Florida are now bringing their methods to the public -- via diving

trips, ecotourism outings and sum-mer camps for teens -- to counter the harmful effects of climate change, pollution and industrial develop-ment.

“It is just like if you had a rose-bush in your garden. As you prune that rosebush back, it grows back healthier, bushier, a little more lively,” explains Stephanie Schop-meyer, senior research associate at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine Science, which runs a program called Rescue a Reef that allows citizen scientists to join the project.

“Corals that are fragmented ac-tually grow back faster and with

more branches,” she said.

On a recent out-ing, Schopmeyer and about a dozen other divers and snorkelers spent a sunny spring morning on the water, traveling first by boat to an underwater nurs-ery in Biscayne Bay where they scrubbed algae off the man-made trees on which Staghorn

corals hang, and later to another area where they planted nursery-grown bits of coral on an existing reef.

Certified scuba divers did the underwater work, while a handful of tourists and students helped make cookies -- small discs on which they use epoxy to affix finger-sized pieces of coral. Then, the volunteers snor-keled, watching the divers nail their handiwork on the ocean floor.

Nicole Besemer, a graduate student at the University of Miami, says she was surprised to learn that corals can survive and thrive after being cut and nailed in a new place.

“As a diver in south Florida, I want to make sure that my reefs are as healthy as they can be,” Besemer says.

“I know they are not what they used to be.”

Corals may look like rocks or plants but they are actually animals in the same family as jellyfish and anemo-nes. Each individual coral is called a polyp, and the reef grows as polyps grow copies of themselves. Most cor-als reproduce by releasing eggs and sperm into the water.

Coral reefs are important because they provide habitat and food for fish, turtles, seahorses, sea urchins and other creatures.

But the reefs are struggling, with their numbers down 50-95 percent in some parts of the world.

Pollution cuts off their light and food supply, overfishing removes the creatures that keep them clean and

healthy, development and dredging cause sediment to smother them, and ocean acidification makes it harder for them to grow.

Storms can also kill them. Diego Lirman, an associate professor of marine biology and ecology at the University of Miami, did his disserta-tion some 30 years ago on the impact of hurricanes on a place nearby called Elkhorn Reef.

Now, he says, there are no Elkhorn corals left there. “It got to the point where I was getting tired of just watch-ing things die and learning about them in the process. I wanted to be able to do something to recover them,” says Lirman.

He credits scientists in nations like Israel, Fiji, Indonesia and the Philippines for coming up with the coral gardening techniques that Florida researchers are now using, and says sharing knowledge across borders helped everyone perfect their techniques. “We are now reaching ecologically meaningful scales,” Lirman says.

For those who want special train-ing, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) offers courses and certifications in coral reef restoration. Scuba divers must be age 14 or older, and must be able to con-trol their buoyancy underwater so as not to harm the reefs, says Patti Gross, a master diving instructor with PADI who says she has certified around 250 people in coral restoration in the past four years. (afp)

“The Tejakula coastal area has exotic beaches and coral reefs, which are already well known worldwide,” Head of the Buleleng Fisheries and Marine Affairs Office I Nyoman Sutrisna said.

Tourists who visit Tejakula do not need to dive too far to enjoy the coral reefs and a variety of fish.

According to Sutrisna, the site is only five meters from the beach.

“The coral reefs in the region are the main attraction for foreign tourists,” Sutrisna stated.

Moreover, beaches in Tejakula have a different atmosphere from those in South Bali. In addition to their natural beauty and calm waters, the number of tourists visiting Tejakula is also compara-

tively low.“The north coast of Bali has the

perfect environment for those who want to enjoy peace and quiet in the midst of bustling urban life,” he remarked.

Currently, there are several villas and hotels built around the tourist site, which is located some 100 kilometers from Denpasar, he pointed out.

Most of the villas are located in coastal areas and were planned applying concepts of natural and traditional designs.

“Numerous villas also provide diving and snorkeling equipment so tourists can enjoy the under-water atmosphere of Tejakula,” Sutrisna affirmed. (ant)

KUTA - Garuda national airline pilots have tightened the standard operating procedures (SOP) in which they operate to assure providing the best possible services to passengers during the Idul Fitri or Lebaran holidays, said one of the pilots.

“We don`t want to make a mis-take. We have to have complete documentation, or else we are not allowed to fly an airplane,” senior

Garuda pilot Captain Chandra Yuss Ahmad said at Ngurah Rai International Airport on Satur-day.

In the company of co-pilot Adit, Chandra acknowledged that besides having complete docu-mentation, pilots are also required to undergo periodical health examinations at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.

“We have to undergo health

check ups every six months, and thus I am grateful that I remain in shape,” he said after he landed a Boeing 737 aircraft flight GA-402 at Nugurah Rai airport, arriving from Jakarta.

Chandra explained that Garuda airlines crew members have been trained to face every situation, including high flight frequencies, during the Lebaran holidays. (ant)

GIANYAR - As the region better known as the warehouse of the art, Gianyar retains a variety of arts and culture. Amid the rapid development of the arts, there are also some arts in the community having to face the ups and downs. In other words, some arts are growing well, while some others begin to fade. One of the fading arts is the arja operetta.

In the 1980s, arja was the Balinese dance drama jazzing up every cer-emony or major ritual activities, so that dozens of people were ascertained to throng the venue of the arja perfor-mance. One of the famous arja troupes at that time is the one from Keramas and Singapadu village, Gianyar. “In its heyday, arja was not only popular in Bali but also overseas, even it already penetrated some European countries,” said Ni Wayan Latri, one of the arja artists from Keramas village.

During the glorious period, Wayan Latri most frequently made perfor-mance in Europe such as France, the Netherlands and Germany. She said that to explain about the storyline for dozens of foreign spectators, the event organizer distributed leaflets explaining about the storyline in brief before the show started. “It was like the synopsis of storyline and distrib-uted before the performance. There was also special session to introduce the crews as well as explain about the story by breaking the show in each stage,” she explained.

Now, the time has changed. People rarely watch arja performance at home, let alone have opportunity for a

show overseas. Currently the audience can be calculated with fingers. Wayan Latri said that one of the causes of the decline in the arja performance is the development of technology such as television that can easily display the recorded arja show. As a result, people begin to saturate. “Ultimately, when the arja performance is made, the audience can be counted on fingers. Nevertheless, at some places people are still hungering for arja entertain-ment,” she said.

However, the arja artists never discourage to face such difficult con-dition. Today, her party is proactively offering the performance of arja in every organization of ritual activity in order to make an arja performance. “In religious activities, we can apply to ritual committee for the performance, but it is only made around here. For outside, people may think twice to call, considering the cost of transport and equipment is not cheap,” she said.

The Division Head of the Art De-velopment and Preservation, the Gian-yar Culture Agency, Wayan Kariawan, said that although the arja performance begins to fade, the artists becoming the spearhead remains to exist. “From the data we have, so far there are no arts in Gianyar having come to extinction. Indeed some have faded,” he said.

Currently, his party has attempted to reconstruct a number of arts begin-ning to fade to be presented in the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). He said that the five arts have been reconstructed and displayed in the BAF. The five arts belong to sacred arts to merely

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Arja performed during the Bali Art Festival (BAF). In the 1980s, arja was the Balinese dance drama jazzing up every ceremony or major ritual activities, so that dozens of people were ascer-tained to throng the venue of the arja performance.

Tejakula can be marine tourist attraction

SINGARAJA - The coastal area of Tejakula in Buleleng district, North Bali, has potential to become a marine tourist destination as it has beautiful beaches and coral reefs.

Garuda pilots tighten SOP

Gloominess of the arja operetta performancea storyline. “Since most of the arts remain to exist, only a few are be-coming obsolete. These have been reconstructed and are then presented in the BAF,” he said.

A number of arts having been reconstructed include the gambang xylophone from Seseh hamlet (Sin-gapadu) and Nandir Dance from Kedisan (Tegallalang). These arts have long been reconstructed with new dancers. “Then, there also two joged dances, respectively the Joged Pingit from Tegenungan, Buruan and Joged Pingit from Taman Limut Temple, Pengosekan,” he said.

In the meantime, the arja operetta

of Singapadu has also begun to be reconstructed. In terms of the dance, it is no different from the arja in general. However, he said that the reconstruction is only made to the storyline with the title of “Meet at Tampaksiring.” (kmb35)

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

In the special moment, Har-ris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road – Bali held CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) on Friday 26th June visited Semara Putra Orphanage House in Klungkung. It has 40 disability orphans, 35 orphans. “We have shared the joyfulness to the orphans. We are delighted with their warm wel-comed by performed Puspanjali & Cendrawasih Dance.Their smiles

were touching our deep hearts and gave more affections to all of us. We are praying and hoping that many corporate will visit and help them,” said the release that received by IBP.

According to release, in the near future, Harris would like to have a partnership with Semara Putra Orphanage House invite them hav-ing performance in hotel’s events. “We know because we care to our

society and environment, as your little gift is meaningful for them and also to the environment”.

Harris Hotels has 17 hotels in operation and 27 under con-struction. Harris Hotel location, inclued Jakarta, Bandung, Batam Center, Summit, Sentul, Surabaya, Malang, Sulawesi Bali and Palu. A total of 44 Harris Hotels with 8,176 rooms will be operated by 1st quarter of 2019.

IBP/Courtesy of Harris

Big heart for othersKUTA - Time flies and now we are in the second week of Ramadhan, which means the right

time to share the happiness to everyone. It would be great that if we can share to society and environment.

SEMArAPUrA - Klungkung Police begin to take measures related to security ahead of the Eid celebra-tion. The security conducted is in the form of creating condition operation (Cipkon). This operation does not only target the areas prone to crimes like grab and theft, but also alerts a number of personnel at public places such as the Galiran Market, Art Market, Kerta Gosa and Goa Lawah including a number of banks.

Chief of Klungkung Police, FX

Arendra Wahyudi, when asked for his confirmation on Saturday (Jul. 4) said that his party involved hundreds of personnel in the operation taking place on July 6-10. The personnel in-volved consist of traffic affairs, intel-ligence and security, public services and criminal investigation unit. “The creating condition operation has be-come one of the efforts in maintain-ing security condition, comfort and society as a form of public service and aegis of the Klungkung Police,”

said the police chief.According to him, the creating

condition operation is held in an at-tempt to forge a partnership and to create conducive atmosphere other than minimizing the chance for the action of crimes. Most importantly, he said that the operation is meant to get closer to the public in relation to the role and function of police as protector and servant of people. “If all the functions play their role, then the public will not be afraid of

police and will feel tranquil when being close to police. So, wherever people need the help of police, we are there in service. Of course, it is with effective and efficient pattern,” he said.

In the meantime, the Operations Head of the Klungkung Police, Nyo-man Suarsika, as the Chief of Creat-ing Condition Operation Planning and Control said that his personnel have been assigned to target some crime-prone areas such as grab. It

also includes monitoring of migrants and boarding houses as well as prone areas to traffic accident along Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra from Negari to Gunaksa village. Aside from performing the operation, the officers from each police station have also been deployed at several public places, such as the Satria Art Market, Galiran Market, Goa Lawah and Kertagosa tourist attraction, and other public places such as the bank. (kmb)

By territorial, the Air Sanih bathing pool is situated at Sanih hamlet, Bukti village. Originally local government contracted this object to private sector. However, starting from 2001 the Yeh Sanih customary village was given the right to manage the bathing pool located near the beach.

To reach the Air Sanih bathing pool, visitors can ride a car or motor-cycle. From the town of Singaraja, go eastwards by covering a distance of about 17 kilometers, while from the tourist center of Lovina, the distance reaches about 40 kilometers east-wards. Around this area, there have been several hotels and restaurants offering different rates.

Since it was opened, the Air Sanih bathing pool extends on the area of 0.64 hectares. This land has not been certified and still belongs to the temple’s property because the location is close to the Taman Manik Mas Temple supported by residents of Yeh Sanih customary villagers. In this area, there is a pool for adults with a depth of 1.80 meters.

In addition, there is also a pool for kid visitors with a depth of 50 centimeters. This tourist object has

been equipped with facilities like toilet, changing room, and luggage lockers of visitors.

Water of the pool originates from two springs located right in the south. At these springs also occur the shrine of Petirtan and Pasupati Temple. Both springs are located just beneath a banyan tree of hundreds of years old. Other than both springs, there are also some small springs. Not surprisingly, the water discharge in this pool never shrinks even though in dry season. Both the large springs and small springs are known to derive from water seepage of Lake Batur (Bangli).

Operations Manager of Air Sanih bathing pool, Ketut Sumanasa, when met on said that tourist visit to the region is never deserted. They are dominated by domestic travelers from several regions in Bali and from outside Bali such as Surabaya, Jakarta and other major cities. On usual days, the average visitor reaches hundreds of people, while when entering a long holiday or religious feasts the number of visitors will triple.

“Visitors practically will be never deserted when entering the Galungan

and Kuningan as well as the Eid celebration. Visitors will grow and as previous experiences the visitors will be tripled of usual days,” he said.

Since given the right to contract, added Sumanasa, the management just collects the admission ticket. Lat-est tariff for adult is IDR 8,000 and child at IDR 5,000 for single entry. The management intentionally does not distinguish between the tariff for domestic and foreign travelers because the characteristic of the ob-ject only relies solely on the bathing pool to swim and there are no other services on offer.

To prevent travelers from com-plaining about too expensive admis-sion ticket, the management only enforces the same tariff. Moreover, his party often does not collect admis-sion ticket when travelers only take a sit or take photograph of the views of the beach. “This object is only for swimming and lounging. Should there be foreign travelers make a brief visit and does not shower, we often give them free of charge. It means to maintain the image of this area and prevent them from complaining because the admission ticket is too

Ahead of Eid Police strictly guard public places

BPM/Mudiarta

Air Sanih bathing pool

Air Sanih bathing pool

A favorite tourism spot, accommodates local workers

SINGARAJA - Bathing pool at Sanih hamlet, Bukti village, Kubutambahan subdistrict, is one of the tourist areas that are never deserted of tourist visit. Domestic travelers in particular make this clear-watered pool a favorite place to spend leisure time. The presence of this object can accommodate young people of local village to become a worker. No wonder that unemployed teenagers at this village can work with the position as admission ticket seller, security guard to pool attendant. Not only that, many local residents also sell or lease used tires to swim.

expensive,” he said.Although the management of

Air Sanih bathing pool is sold at very cheap and affordable tariff to all circles, added Sumanasa, since being given the right to manage the income earned by the government is sufficient. Every month, the rev-enue is accounted to the customary meeting. The profit of managing the object is used to pay the lease to the government and finance ritual ac-tivities at local customary village or help temple rehabilitation at the Yeh Sanih customary village. Another advantage is that young generation is recruited for labor so that it con-

tributes to absorb unemployment at the village. Besides, local residents are also given the opportunity to sell or rent out the used tires to swim. With this concept, the management wants to manage the tourist area with local communities, so that the benefits can be received directly by local community.

“Since we manage a lot of youth work here and now some of them are still queuing. In addition, we also allow local residents to sell or rent in-ner tubes for swimming, so that this business opportunity can be taken advantage by local residents of our village,” he said. (mud)

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NEW YORK - US pop legend Billy Joel married longtime girlfriend Alexis Roderick in a surprise wedding Satur-day, popping their nuptials on unsuspect-ing guests at a July 4 holiday party, the singer’s publicist said.

The wedding, which took place on Joel’s Long Island estate, was officiated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Joel and Roderick “surprised guests at their annual July 4th party by exchanging vows in front of their family and close friends,” said a statement sent to AFP by Joel’s publicist Claire Mercuri.

Among the guests were actor Kevin James and Joel’s daughter Alexa Ray Joel -- whom he had with his second wife, former supermodel Christie Brinkley.

Joel, 66, and Roderick, who is in her early 30s according to US media, are expecting their first child in the next few months, his publicist said.

“Congratulations to the glowing bride and groom. And to my daughter Alexa, who has a wonderful friend in Alexis,” Brinkley posted on Instagram.

Roderick is Joel’s fourth wife. The couple has been together since 2009, US media reported.

Joel has sold more than 150 million records and has been nominated for a Grammy 23 times, according to his website.

Some of his most popular hits include “Up-town Girl,” “Just The Way You Are” and “The Longest Time”. (afp)

On Thursday night, another Australian airline, Jetstar, already cancelled six scheduled flights to Bali for the same reason, but on Friday it resumed normal flight to Bali.

The 3.332 meters volcano in the district of Bondowoso, has shown activities lately with explosions sending black volcanic ashes soar-ing to the air over wide area includ-ing part of Bali.

Trikora Harjo, General Man-ager of state-owned airport opera-tor PT Angkasa Pura I Bandara I

Gusti Ngurah Rai, Bali, said, Virgin Airlines cancelled flights from a number of cities in Australia on Saturday.

“The airline cancelled seven flights to Bali from Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Cairns and from Singapore, today,” Trikora said.

He said there has been no do-mestic flight cancelled to Bali, but most aircraft made a detour more to the north or more to the south at a height of around 22,400 feet from the sea level to be away from the volcanic ashes.

“We are told by Garuda Indo-nesia, they could evade the ashes by making a detour to the north or south flying high at 22,400 feet,” he said.

ResumedOn Friday, Jetstar has resumed

its services to Bali after having cancelled six flights to the island after receiving information about a volcanic eruption in East Java, Indonesia.

“They canceled flights to Bali due to safety reasons since accord-ing to their satellite data, a volcano had erupted, and its ash was blow-ing towards Australia,” Yusfandri Gona, the head of the Region IV Airport Authorities for Bali and

Nusa Tenggara, stated at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport.

Two flights were turned back three hours into their journey.

However, on Friday morning until noon, the six flights from Syd-ney, Melbourne, Cairns, Perth, and Singapore are scheduled to arrive in Bali, he added.

Jetstar was the only Australian airline that had canceled its flights to Bali on Thursday evening. Other Australian airlines’ flights to and from Bali were not affected.

Yusfandri said the eruption of Mt Raung in East Java has not affected domestic and international flights to and from Bali.

Australian media ABC reported on Friday that after assessing the

flying conditions with the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC), Jetstar had decided to resume its services.

“We regret the impact that these cancellations have had on our pas-sengers, particularly during the busy school holiday period, but we will always prioritize safety before schedule,” Jetstar stated.

NEW YORK — Meghan Train-or is postponing two shows because of a hemorrhage on her vocal cords.

The 21-year-old pop singer made the announcement on Instagram late Thursday. She said “doctors want me on complete vocal rest until they are healed.”

The “All About That Bass” sing-er had been scheduled to perform in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on

Friday and Uncasville, Connecticut, on Saturday.

Trainor wrote that she’s never missed a live show and that she’s “truly sorry to everyone who has bought tickets and made travel plans.”

Her next show will be on Tues-day in Lansing, Michigan. The Grammy-nominated performer’s hits include “Lips Are Movin’” and “Dear Future Husband.” (ap)

LOS ANGELES — Even with the flashy competition of Terminators and male strip-pers, the little feelings inside a young girl’s head proved to be more of a draw for mov-iegoers going into the holiday weekend.

Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out” earned a chart-topping $7.7 million on Thursday, accord-ing to Rentrak estimates. The animated family film has grossed $216.1 million to date and could become the first film since “Argo” to climb to

No. 1 during its third weekend in release.“Inside Out” had been trailing the gar-

gantuan grosses of “Jurassic World” for two weeks, but might have the edge finally. Uni-versal’s record-busting dino film brought in $6.9 million Thursday, bringing its domestic total to $527.2 million.

New openers “Terminator Genisys” and “Magic Mike XXL” held the third and fourth spots, respectively with $6.5 million

and $5.7 million.But, this narrow advantage doesn’t mean

much for “Terminator’s” bottom line, which looks destined for disappointment. The Sky-dance-Paramount movie was produced for an es-timated $155 million. The “Magic Mike” sequel, meanwhile, only cost around $15 million.

With daily grosses this close, the long holiday weekend is still anyone’s game.

While no film will be reaching the $80

million-plus heights of 2013’s “Despicable Me 2,” 2004’s “Spider-Man 2” or 2011’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” this weekend is solid improvement over last year’s disastrous Fourth of July weekend.

The 2014 Independence Day box office was the weakest in decades thanks in part to lackluster options, like “Tammy,” and “Earth to Echo,” bad weather and the com-petition of the World Cup. (ap)

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Trainor postpones 2 shows due to hemorrhage

on vocal chords

’Inside Out’ celebrates edge over ’Magic Mike,’ ’Terminator’

Mt. Raung spewed ashes

Australian airlines cancel flights to Bali

ANTARA FOTO/Budi Candra Setya

Ashes spewed from Mt. Raung that located in East Java on Saturday, July 5, 2015. Australian airline Virgin Airlines cancelled flights on Saturday to Bali from a number of cities in that country on fear of problems cause by volcanic ashes spewed by Mount Raung in East Java.

DENPASAR - Australian airline Virgin Airlines cancelled flights on Saturday to Bali from a number of cities in that country on fear of problems cause by volcanic ashes spewed by Mount Raung in East Java.

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.listen2my-

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In this Oct. 15, 2013 file photo, Alexis Roderick, left, and Billy Joel arrive at the Elton John AIDS Founda-tion’s 12th Annual “An Enduring Vision” benefit gala in New York.

Billy Joel marries in surprise US wedding

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