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Kandia stressed that Bali and its people need protection from the government, through -amongst other thing empowering local people to open their homes as ac-commodations for travellers. That way local people can become the active subjects in tourism rather than passive objects of it.

“I think that by providing free training to the Balinese public about how to not only be objects of tourism but also active play-ers in it is very important. about tourism free of charge our society does not become the object only but also the players. If all of our

government policies regarding tourism and property give con-cessions to foreigners, we will become further marginalized,” he said.

Kandia argued that the key issue is the question of the gov-ernment’s loyalty to its people. “Our community has been loyal to the government, however the government is not good for our community,” he sneered.

He acknowledged that most of the businesses operating along Jalan Pantai Sanur or in Kuta and Nusa Dua belong to foreign inves-tors. Similarly, most of the play-

ers in the craft industry are also people from outside of Bali.

“This should be minimized as much as possible because Bali itself only suffers from traffic jams, trash and other problems, while the revenue from tourism flees the island,” he said.

The large amount of foreign investment in Bali is assessed by many to have caused huge amounts of capital flight or eco-nomic leakage. Bali very much depends on the production of products from outside of Bali with raw materials and work-ers currently coming outside

of Bali. Certainly this reality is tied into the fact that investors from outside of Bali rely on their networks that are also outside of Bali.

“We are not allergic to foreign investment, but Bali does not re-ally need labor from outside - in fact there is a lot of unemployment amongst the local population due to the competion of workers who are brought in from elsewhere,” he explained.

Kandia added that capital flight can be prevented through legal certainty, a favourable investment climate and the encouragement of domestic investment including facilitating licensing, taxation and support from banks. “The government must have clear rules to prevent capital flight,” he con-cluded hopefully.

Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association

(PHRI) of Badung Chapter, IGN Ray Suryawijaya, argues that Regent Regulation No.36/2014 regarding the minimal standards for buildings and room area for hotels and condotel should not only be a “paper tiger with no teeth”. The Regent Regulation mentions a minimal area of 0.50 hectares of land for hotel con-struction in Kuta, 0.75 hectares in Northern Kuta and one hectare in Southern Kuta as a way to stop the rampant construction of hotels in Badung.

Local people need protection

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Tourists spend their vacation at Kuta Beach on Sunday, July 19, during Idul Fitri holiday. Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Tourism Villages (ADWI), Jro Mangku Kandia, argued that the problem occurring in Bali is the result of government policy, therefor it is the responsibility of the government to return tourism conditions to what they were before.

DENPASAR - Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Tourism Villages (ADWI), Jro Mangku Kandia, argued that the problem occurring in Bali is the result of government policy, therefor it is the responsibility of the government to return tourism conditions to what they were before. “The government should protect its people. It is not only property that is owned by foreigners, professions like tourist guides and hotel employees are also taken up by foreigners. In Papua, for instance, foreigners own vessels that are rented out to visitors. This sort of thing happens because both the government and society at large are inattentive and careless,” he said.

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radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.NEW YORK — Bruce Willis’ daughter is beating

her famous dad to Broadway. Producers of the long-running musical “Chicago” said Thursday that Rumer Willis, recently named “Dancing with the Stars” win-

ner, will make her Broadway debut in August as Roxie Hart.

Her dad will be making his Broadway debut in “Misery” starting in October.

Set in the 1920s, “Chicago” is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals. It has Bob Fosse-inspired choreography, skimpy outfits and killer songs such as “All That Jazz,” ‘’Cell Block Tango” and “Mr. Cellophane.”

Rumer Willis, who has been onstage in “Love, Loss and What I Wore” and opposite her mother Demi Moore in the films “Striptease” and “Now and Then,” will start at the Ambassador Theatre on Aug. 18 and end her run Oct. 11.

Just some of the stars who have done stints in the show include Sofia Vergara, Melanie Griffith, Brooke Shields, Ashlee Simpson, Paige Davis, Marilu Henner, Rita Wilson and Christie Brinkley.

Bruce Willis will star in an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “Misery,” which begins performances Oct. 22 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Laurie Metcalf will appear opposite the “Die Hard” star. (ap)

The China office of US promoter Live Nation apologised to ticket holders and pledged refunds, but gave no reason for the cancellation for the concert which was to have taken place in the country’s com-mercial hub, Shanghai.

Jesse Carmichael, who plays both keyboard and rhythm guitar, tweeted about meeting the Dalai Lama at events for the leader’s 80th birthday earlier this month. The tweet has been removed.

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after an armed rebellion against Chinese rule was put down by its military.

China considers Tibet to be part of its sovereign territory which it claims is backed by a long-standing

historical right, and accuses the Nobel peace laureate of separat-ism.

Maroon 5 were due to play Shanghai on September 12, ac-cording to a previous statement on the band’s website, but the city no longer appeared on a schedule.

Known for songs such as “One More Night” and “Moves Like Jagger” the band are still expected to play in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, the website showed.

Fans showed disappointment over the cancellation.

“I believe Jesse (Carmichael) did not mean any malice. I also under-stand the government’s attitude. The fans are the ones who suffer,” wrote

Qi Chu in a microblog posting.Another asked: “Does attend-

ing a friend’s birthday party equal agreeing with his political views?”

Chinese officials have been espe-cially sensitive about live concerts since Bjork chanted “Tibet” during her song “Declare Independence” in 2008.

Authorities censor content they deem to be politically sensitive or obscene, while international music acts are required to submit set lists for major concerts in advance.

Last year, the suggestive lyrics of “Honky Tonk Women” were appar-ently too much for China’s cultural authorities as the Rolling Stones said the chart-topping song was “vetoed” for their show. (afp)

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt and Bill Maher say Costco con-tributes to animal cruelty by selling eggs from caged hens.

Pitt sent a letter to the chief executive of the big-box chain Thursday asking the company to stop selling eggs produced this way. Pitt’s letter to Craig Jelinek says caged birds suffer atrophy of their muscles and bones from years of immobility, adding that the cages have been banned in California and much of Europe.

“As you know, these birds pro-ducing eggs for your shelves are crammed five or more into cages that are not large enough for even one hen to spread her wings,” Pitt writes.

Maher took aim at the company in an editorial published last week by The New York Times.

“Multiple investigations into battery cages document animals with deteriorated spinal cords, some who have become paralyzed and then mummified in their cages,” Maher wrote. “Imagine cramming five cats or dogs into tiny cages, hundreds of thousands in each shed, for their entire lives. That would warrant cruelty charges, of course. But when the egg industry does it

to hens, it’s considered business as usual.”

Both commended Costco for its other animal-welfare efforts and called on the company to make good on its 2007 promise to move toward uncaging its egg-laying hens.

Pitt and Maher each spoke out on behalf of Farm Sanctuary, an organization that advocates against the mistreatment of animals and factory farming.

Costco said in June statement that there are “vigorous debates about animal welfare and laying hens.”

“Some, such as the Humane Society, advocate that hens be ‘cage free,’ and not confined in cages. Some advocate that cages are safer for hens,” the statement reads.

The statement acknowledges that Costco’s sales of organic/cage-free eggs have increased “more than twentyfold” over the past nine years.

The company did not elaborate, nor specifically address the celeb-rity complaints.

Costco said it is “committed to the ethical treatment of animals” and its code of ethics is part of the company mission statement. (ap)

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Maroon 5 cancels China gig, prompting speculation over Dalai Lama meeting

SHANGHAI - A planned concert by US pop group Maroon 5 in China has been cancelled, the promoter said, prompting speculation that authorities refused permission because a band member met the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama.

Rumer Willis to step into Broadway’s ‘Chicago’ this summer

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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.

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“Like the cockfight, sometimes we connote it to gambling. Actu-ally cockfight does not belong to gambling. It remains to pose a cultural attraction,” said the legal practitioner, I Made Arimbawa, when confirmed on Saturday (Jul. 18).

This former chairman of the PDI-P faction in the Bali House assessed the need for legislation to regulate cockfight. In other words, it must be arranged so that there are limits becoming the elements of games in the cockfight itself. For instance, what is allowed and what is not or which one is allowed and not allowed. Accord-ing to Arimbawa, everything that is willing to be set actually does not matter. Probably, it can even suppress the practice of gambling accompanying the cockfight.

“The most important is how to create a rule in order to accom-modate the elements that will be set forth. On the one hand, the cockfight does not break the rules; while on the other hand, it remains to exist as a cultural attraction. When the elements set forth in the game of cockfight have been determined, the elements beyond it contain gambling, it means that such an action belongs to other

NEGArA – Backflow on the day after the Eid through the en-trance of Gilimanuk starts to look crowded. Public inter-provincial buses and tourist buses seem to be filled with passengers. Similar condition also occurs to luggage in the buses. To anticipate the smug-gling of illicit goods, the Jembrana Police make investigation focused at the first and second checkpoint

station (the entrance to Bali) at Gilimanuk Harbor.

All vehicles, especially public transport such as buses, are ex-amined by joint personnel of the Jembrana Police. The personnel of intelligence and security, criminal investigation, narcotic unit and traffic affairs unit were deployed to check each bus crossing to Gilimanuk. In addition to checking

people, the officers also intensified the checking of luggage carried by passengers and their luggage in the bus rack.

Chief of the Jembrana Police Traffic Affairs, Gede Sumadra Ker-thiawan, when met on the sidelines of the checking last Saturday said that the investigation specifically targeted the buses coming to Bali both the inter-provincial public

buses and tourist buses.“The personnel coalesced into

some 30 members of Ketupat Operation are focused in the ex-amination at the entrance to Bali so as to anticipate any terror during the celebration of this feast,” said Kerthiawan.

Based on the data of the buses checked, there have been aver-agely 250 units of buses coming

to Bali since July 9. Peak of the bus traffic occurred during the period of July 10-11 where each day amounted to 525 buses. After that, the number of incoming bus was around 300-400 units each day. In the operation led by the chief of traffic affairs, the officers managed to secure a rooster taken by a passenger of Dahlia Bus with destination to Denpasar. (kmb26)

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Newcomers start coming to Bali

Cockfight is not a gambleDENPASAr - Cockfight

(tajen) can be analogized to sports such as football or bil-liard. Football and billiard are equally recognized as a sport, but they are also used as a vehicle of gambling. However, it does not necessarily mean if football or billiard must then be eliminated because it must be distinguished from sport and gambling.

elements,” he explained.In the meantime, a member

of the Commission 1 of the Bali House, I Wayan Gunawan, said that the House has not yet re-ceived any feedback or sugges-tions on the making of Regional Bylaw (Perda). The suggestion can be from the level of institu-tion, individual, group or pro-

posal referring to the results of a discussion.

“What is important today is the adequate legal basis when it is time to talk about cockfight matters, anything, other than the word gambling. Find out an ad-equate basis and look for a more factual legal basis so that there is no problem in the middle of the

community,” he said.Gunawan added that cockfight

in terms of legal context is inad-equate. However, in terms of social context, cockfight has already been rampant due to going naturally. When it is made a Regional Bylaw, the matter will be related to the rights, obligations and responsi-bilities that must be regulated.

“From the other side, if it is indeed realized there will be a psychological context where the community will feel secure and there is no collusion or something like conspiracy of ‘bribing’ the law enforcement agencies. In that con-text, it will go back to the basics of adequate law,” said the Golkar politician. (kmb32)

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“I literally would be in a meeting room in the hotel and then go to the airport,” she said.

But these days, Achille, CEO of The Devon Group, which does public relations and marketing for tech firms, is “quite

intentional” about flying in early for a business trip or staying over an extra day “to squeeze in a side trip, a spa visit, try out a top restaurant or similar activity.”

Her first “bleisure” (business-and-leisure) excur-sion was in London, where she tacked an extra day on a business trip so she could see the Victoria & Albert Museum. Earlier this summer, she flew in early for a trade show in Las Vegas to hit a spa and meet friends for dinner.

Building in the extra time has made her “a happier person,” she says. And it doesn’t necessarily cost more. In some destinations, airlines and hotels charge more on weekdays because of higher demand from business travelers, so Achille’s early arrival in Vegas entailed a cheaper flight and a relatively inexpensive hotel room.

“It came out in my favor,” she said. “When you really look at it, in terms of your sanity and the op-portunity, as well as the economic model, a lot of times it makes sense.”

Marian Thier expects clients to pay for an early arrival for business trips so she can be “rested and ready to work.” Thier decided to build in the extra time after being asked to “go from Sydney to Seoul” with no consideration “that I might be tired, and I had a life.”

Thier, founding partner of the leadership devel-opment firm Listening Impact, based in Boulder, Colorado, says clients don’t complain about paying for extra hotel nights and other expenses because “both clients and I benefited. I felt more in control of my time and life, and the clients got me at my best.” The approach has helped Thier view “business travel as a gift, a way to see the world, rather than as a burden.”

Sashee Chandran, who owns a small artisanal tea company, Tea Drops, says adding time for sightsee-ing to a business trip is “part of my philosophy of an integrated lifestyle” with “a great balance of work and

life every day, even on weekends.” Chandran attends a lot of trade shows and likes to extend her stay afterward “because prior to the show I’m usually wrapped up with show preparation.”

In mid-July, she rewarded herself after attending a show in Hawaii by tacking on an extra Friday-Sunday. Her stops included the Honolulu Art Museum, where her tea is sold in the gift shop, and a stop at Shangri La, a historic mansion known for its Islamic art collection. “The fun outing of going to Shangri La gave me an event to really look forward to as I worked all week at the trade show,” she said.

Just don’t overdo it — a lesson Achille learned after cram-ming in three museums in Madrid. “Trying to do too much means you’ve defeated the purpose,” she said. “You’re trying to create memories.” (ap)

This June 13, 2015 photo shows the Gallatin River near Big Sky, Montana, about 50 miles from Yellowstone National Park. Big Sky is an out-of-the-way setting for conferences and conventions, with easy access to outdoor diversions including fishing in the Gallatin River.

Sightseeing day adds sanity, fun to business trip

Jeanne Achille used to find business travel “really depressing” because she never got to sightsee in the places she was visiting.

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Tourist facilities such as villa and restaurant have been built along the beach of Gianyar as seen on Ketewel Beach (Sukawati) to Lebih Beach (Gianyar). Apart from the investors wishing to get tranquil atmosphere of the beach, establishment of the tourist facilities also considers the easy access from Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra.

But now the tourist facilities have been threatened by abrasion. A num-ber of villas have been surrounded by coastal waves, while some others are still fortified with high walls built by the investors. For information, most of the facilities have owned a license from the Integrated Licensing Of-fice (BPPT) of Gianyar because the permit was issued before they were exposed to abrasion.

Most of the villas afflicted by the abrasion are visible on Ketewel Beach, Lembeng Beach to Purnama Beach (Sukawati) and Keramas Beach, Cucukan Beach to Masceti Beach (Blahbatuh). Lately, the eroded tourist facilities are also seen around

the Lebih Beach, Gianyar.Nevertheless, the government

itself does not keep silent seeing the high abrasion rate in the coastal areas of Gianyar spreading along approximately 15.94 km. Various efforts have surely been done such as by installing breakwater. However, they mostly have broken as found on Cucukan Beach, Blahbatuh.

In the meantime, the Head of the Gianyar Public Works Agency, I.B. Sudewa, said that the abrasion is caused by the magnitude of waves along the beach in Gianyar. Besides, the basic character of the sandy beaches makes the damage suffered worse.

When asked about the building of breakwater along the coastal areas of Gianyar, he said that it is beyond the authority of the government of Gian-yar. “The abrasion rate is indeed high, while the making of breakwater is the authority of the Bali-Penida River Agency. Should there be any damage, we will make coordination with the agency,” he said. (kmb35)

SINGARAJA - Lovina beach in Bule-leng district, Bali, has been thronged with foreign tourists and local holidaymakers during the local Balinese public holiday of Galungan and Muslim holiday of Idul Fitri or Lebaran this week.

“Thousands of foreign and domestic tourists during this week have been flocking to Lovina beach to enjoy the funny attrac-tions of hundreds of dolphins,” said Nyo-man Budiasa, a tour guide, on Sunday.

He explained that the number of tourists visiting the beach, situated some 90 km from Denpasar, rose by 100 to 150 percent during the Galungan and Lebaran holidays this year from that of the regular days.

Situated on the northwestern side of Bali island, Lovina coastal strip stretches from 5 km west of the city of Singaraja, the seat of Buleleng district, to 15 km west.

The Lovina area contains the small vil-lages from east to west of Pemaron, Tukad Mungga, Anturan, Banyualit, Kalibukbuk, Kaliasem and Temukus.

It is becoming more popular with tour-ists but remains far quieter than the tourist hotspots of the island’s south side.

Popular activities for visitors include early-morning boat trips off the coast to see dolphins. (ant)

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High abrasion rate along the beach in Gianyar cannot indeed be denied. Dozens of tourist facilities such as restaurants, villas and hotels standing on the coastal border of Gianyar are threatened by scouring rush of the waves.

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Lovina beach in Buleleng district, Bali, has been thronged with foreign tourists and local holidaymakers during the local Balinese public holiday of Galungan and Muslim holiday of Idul Fitri or Lebaran this week.

Abrasion threatens tourist accommodation on Gianyar Beach

GIANYAR - High abrasion rate along the beach in Gianyar cannot indeed be denied. Dozens of tourist facilities such as restaurants, villas and hotels standing on the coastal border of Gianyar are threatened by scouring rush of the waves. In the meantime, the number of breakwaters built by the government is mostly in damaged condition and has collapsed due to the fierceness of waves.

Holidaymakers throng Lovina Beach

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In remarks made to NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Cameron said Britain must do more fight the group, also known as ISIL. The re-marks, which follow a commitment to meet NATO targets on military spending, make plain that Britain now sees the group as an explicit threat to national security.

“We know that we have to de-feat ISIL, we have to destroy this caliphate, whether it is in Iraq or in Syria,” he said. “That is a key part of defeating this terrorist scourge that we face.”

The remarks come only days after Britain’s Ministry of Defense acknowledged that British forces have already conducted airstrikes over Syria — albeit only when embedded with coalition forces. Britain has been carrying out sur-veillance and air-to-air refueling over Syria and launching attacks on neighboring Iraq and Defense Sec-

retary Michael Fallon has argued that lawmakers should expand the mission to Syria.

Cameron has been reaching out to the opposition Labour Party to win support — trying to build a unified national position and avoid another embarrassing defeat on Syria. Labour torpedoed previous efforts to join U.S. attacks on Syria in 2013.

The British leader paired his wish for expanded military action with a promise to persuade young Britons to reject Islamic State and its dictates.

“We’ve got to defeat the narrative of extremism, even when it’s not connected to the violence,” Cameron told NBC. “Because it’s the narrative that is the jumping-off point for these young people to then go and join this dreadful death cult in Iraq and Syria.” (ap)

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean government agent who was found dead in an apparent suicide left a note denying suspi-cion that the National Intelligence Service has been spying on South Koreans by intercepting cellphone and computer conversations, police said Sunday.

The 46-year-old NIS agent was found dead Saturday in his car parked on a hill in Yongin, just south of Seoul.

In his note revealed by police on Sunday, the agent said that the intelligence service “really didn’t” spy on civilians or on political activity related to elections. He apologized to colleagues and NIS senior officials, including director Lee Byoung Ho, saying that over-zealousness in doing his job might have created “today’s situation.”

The intelligence service told lawmakers on Tuesday it had pur-chased hacking programs capable of intercepting communication on mobile devices and computers in 2012 from an Italian company, Hacking Team, but that it used them only to monitor agents from rival North Korea and for research purposes.

The revelation is sensitive be-cause the NIS has a history of

illegally tapping South Koreans’ private conversations. The NIS is planning to reveal to lawmakers the details of how the programs were used to quell suspicions that it had been unlawfully monitoring civilians.

In the note he left behind, the agent also said that he destroyed surveillance material on the activity of North Korean agents because the data had created “misunderstand-ings.”

Police officials, who had initially refused to release the details of the note, didn’t reveal the name of the agent or what his duties were for the NIS. Phone calls to the NIS office rang unanswered Sunday.

The controversy surrounding NIS emerged earlier this month when a searchable library of a mas-sive email trove stolen from Hack-ing Team, released by WikiLeaks, showed that South Korean entities were among those dealing with the firm.

Two NIS directors who succes-sively headed the spy service from 1999 to 2003 were convicted and received suspended prison terms for overseeing the monitoring of cellphone conversations of about 1,800 of South Korea’s political, corporate and media elite. (ap)

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Passengers use their smartphones on a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. South Korea’s beleaguered spy agency has acknowledged exploring the purchase of technologies to intercept communications on the popular Kakao Talk smartphone chat-ting service, but maintains it only intended to strengthen its monitoring of rival North Korean agents, not South Koreans, lawmakers said Tuesday.

Dead S. Korean agent left note denying spying on civilians

UK leader signals support for airstrikes on IS in Syria

AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File

FILE - This is a Friday, May 22, 2015 file photo of British Prime Minister David Cameron as he speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, Latvia.

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron declared Sun-day that Britain needs to take a greater role in destroying the Islamic State group in Syria — his most direct signal to date that he will seek to expand his country’s role in supporting the United States and its allies.

SEMARAPURA - Crowded activities at Galiran Market have also an impact on the increase in the volume of rubbish. Neverthe-less, lest the rundown impression continues at the market having been revitalized. To address the market rundown, the county gov-ernment has requested to increase the number of janitors to maintain the building of the market spending billions of rupiahs.

Chairman of the Hanura Klung-kung, I Putu Tika, said that the rubbish at the Galiran Market is inseparable from the environmental awareness of traders. However, the government of Klungkung is asked not to stay silent related to such condition. “It needs dissemination and clear rules for traders selling at the Galiran Market,” he said when contacted on Friday (Jul. 17).

His party also requested the

commitment and synergy of the leg-islative and executive to overcome the problems of traditional markets considering the maintenance of sanitation requires janitors. As a former people’s representative, Putu Tika asked the legislative to help in terms of the addition of bud-geting for janitor. “The House may not simply continue to highlight it. It must be helped through budget for the workforce,” he said.

Similarly, he asked the Klung-kung Market authority to improve services and maintenance of Ga-liran Market. Dirty and muddy condition has always become an obstacle for traditional market to compete against modern mar-kets. Do not let the government’s efforts to revitalize the market have no impact on the buyer’s convenience. Moreover, during the Galungan the number of trans-

action increases dramatically and the volume of rubbish also shows an increase.

As the authority, it should have made better anticipation in terms of sanitation, safety and comfort. In terms of market condition, the continuous rundown and slipshod to cause damaged facilities, the market management is most likely to get difficulties in optimizing its workforce or even suffers losses. “In other words, technically it must deploy janitors to clean up the market after business hours. When still having a drawback, it must be discussed. It really poses a shared responsibility,” he concluded.

In the meantime, when asked for his confirmation, the Head of the Klungkung Market Authority, Ko-mang Widiasa Putra, never picked up the phone, although it has been repeatedly contacted. (dwa)

However, the lack of choice at the high school/vocational school in Karangasem makes hundreds of students choose to continue their education outside Karangasem. At least there are a total of 397 students preferring to move to outside the region, namely to Klungkung and Buleleng.

The Head of the Karangasem Education Agency, I Gede Ariyasa, not long ago said that of the 397 students going out of the region are predominantly originating from junior high school in the subdistrict of Rendang, Manggis, Sidemen and Kubu. Respectively 31 students are from Karangasem subdistrict, 63 students (Manggis), 22 students (Abang), 89 students (Sidemen), 28 students (Selat), nine students (Bebandem), 22 students (Kubu) and 133 students (Rendang).

“Of that number, 200 students choose to continue to Klungkung County, while the rest continues to Badung, Gianyar, Bangli, Singaraja and Tabanan,” he said.

Such a condition, he said, has occurred every year. It happens due to inadequate number of schools in Karangasem. Thus, the existing schools are even closer outside Karangasem. For instance, the students of Sidemen, Manggis and Rendang subdistrict are even closer to Klungkung. So, Ariyasa assumed it reasonable if more students con-

tinue their study to Klungkung.On the contrary, he said that no

students from other region con-tinue their education in Karangasem County. However, the good news is that each year the number of students that do not continue their study has been diminishing.

The Division Head of Basic

Education, I Gusti Bagus Budi-adnya, added that most students going out of the Rendang region are from SMPN 1 and SMPN 2 junior high school, of Sidemen subdistrict are from SMPN 2 and 3, and some junior high schools in Manggis and Kubu subdistrict. He recognized that the large number of students going out of the region is caused by the distance and lack of school choices in each subdistrict. To note, in Rendang subdistrict there are only two schools, namely

one high school and one vocational school, one high school in Sidemen subdistrict as well as three schools namely two high school and one vocation school in Kubu. Thus, the choice is very limited.

Seeing this condition, the Educa-tion Agency claimed to be trying to add high school in each subdistrict having many students going out of the region, such as the Rendang, Sidemen, Manggis and Kubu. However, the development process of high school takes a long enough

time. “Although many students are going out of the region, the most important now is that the students can continue their study. This is good news. We will improve the weakness this year in the coming years gradually,” he said.

Currently, approximately 2,575 junior high school graduates are received at state schools in Karan-gasem. A total of 1,515 students continue their education to high school and the remaining 1,060 students choose to continue to vo-cational school.

The junior high school graduates are spread across nine state high schools and four state vocational schools. This year the SMAN 1 Amlapura high school received 288 new students, SMAN 2 Amlapura as favorite school received 288 new students and SMAN 3 Am-lapura received 220 new students, while the remaining graduates are spread out in several subdistricts in Karangasem. Then for vocational school, the SMKN 1 Amlapura vocational school is most favorite receiving about 520 students, fol-lowed by SMKN 1 Abang (444 students), SMKN 1 Manggis (360 students) and SMKN 1 Kubu (360 students).

Most students continuing their education to vocational school take major in hotel field. Seeing the development of students choosing vocational school, the Education Agency plans to build two more vocational schools in the Beban-dem and Rendang subdistrict. (kmb31)

NUSA PENIDA - After the celebration of Galungan, the peak of backflow occurred on Friday morning (Jul. 17). Favor-able weather condition made the crossing authorities increase the number of trip services either by the Nusa Jaya Abadi roro vessel or speed boat to serve the com-munity.

According to Harbormaster of Sampalan Harbor, I Nyoman Murka Wicaksana, the weather is conducive so that the crossing by speed boat was increased as many as seven trips and fast sampan for two trips. “The weather is better than three days before right on the homecoming traffic so as to serve the backflow we must add the trip. However, we still consider the

weather condition. Speed boat is made up to seven times, while fast sampan for two times,” he explained.

The Head of the Nusa Penida Crossing Unit, I Dewa Gede Agus Swarma Hendra, when met at the harbor also confirmed that his party opened crossing for two times by roro vessel. The trips are departed at 06:30 and then eleven o’clock in the morn-ing. “From our observation, the weather returns to normal so that we are open twice crossing ser-vices. Today is predicted as the peak of backflow for our fellows working outside the island. In the meantime, the fuel transportation is transferred to roro vessel,” said Agus. (dwa)

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The students of elementary school are coming home after studying.

AMLAPURA - Welcoming the 2015/2016 new academic year, thousands of students graduating from junior high school have chosen a new school at the level of senior high and vocational school (SMA /SMK).

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ATHENS - Greek banks will re-open Monday after a three-week closure and withdrawal limits have been relaxed, but capital controls remain in place, a government decree said Saturday.

The decree sets a new cumulative weekly withdrawal limit of 420 euros ($458), with the daily limit remaining at 60 euros.

To facilitate Greeks studying abroad the decree permits the electronic transfer of up to 5,000 euros per trimester.

Meanwhile, people receiving health treatment abroad will be able to access up to 2,000 euros in cash.

A broad range of capital controls still remain in place, however, including a block on capital transfers and a ban on the open-ing of new accounts and addition of new depositors to existing accounts.

The decree also enables the Bank of Greece to restrict the amount of euros or other currency carried in cash out of Greece.

New sales tax rates that were agreed be-tween Greece and its international creditors in return for a three-year bailout last week will also come into effect on Monday.

The bank closure was enacted on June 29, after the radical government of Alexis Tsipras called a referendum on lenders’ austerity demands that Greeks rejected by over 61 percent.

The three-week shutdown has cost the country’s struggling economy some 3.0 billion euros ($3.3 billion) not counting lost tourism revenue, Kathimerini daily estimated Saturday. (afp)

LONDON - The return of oil from Iran following the landmark nuclear energy deal with world powers could create fresh tensions within OPEC but may reinforce the cartel’s output strategy, analysts say.

Tehran and major powers -- Brit-ain, China, France, Germany, Rus-sia and the United States -- clinched a historic agreement in Vienna on Tuesday aimed at ensuring Iran does not obtain a nuclear bomb, and which paves the way for the re-moval of sanctions and the gradual return of Iranian oil to the global market next year.

The accord puts strict limits on Iran’s nuclear activities for at least a decade. In return, sanctions

that have slashed the oil exports of OPEC’s fifth-largest producer will be lifted and billions of dollars in frozen assets unblocked.

The Islamic republic’s exports could reach a potential 2.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2016, from 1.6 million bpd in 2014, according to data from economist Charles Robertson at investment bank Re-naissance Capital.

The Organization of the Petro-leum Exporting Countries -- whose 12 members including Iran pump one third of global oil -- is mind-ful that Iranian oil could worsen a global supply glut and depress oil prices further.

OPEC decided at its last meeting in Vienna in June to maintain output

levels, extending its Saudi-backed strategy to preserve market share and fend off competition from booming US shale.

Oil prices sank last week, hit by the Iran nuclear deal and the strong dollar, raising jitters among some OPEC members who next meet on December 4.

London Brent oil slid to about $56 per barrel and New York’s West Texas Intermediate dropped to around $52 a barrel.

Poorer OPEC members Angola, Algeria and Venezuela -- whose budgets are heavily reliant on oil revenues -- may again argue for less output to support prices, ana-lysts say.

Richer Gulf producers, led by

OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, re-main eager for the cartel to preserve valuable market share and force out high-cost US shale producers with lower oil price levels.

“Clearly there is a divide between the countries on this new policy of seeking new market share,” Ann-Louise Hittle at consultancy Wood Mackenzie told AFP.

“So it could be a contentious (OPEC) meeting and there could be pressure for an emergency meeting before December.”

Faced with stubbornly low prices, Algeria’s energy minister Salah Khabri indicated to state news agency APS last week that an emergency OPEC meet could be needed.

“The real problem starts when OPEC members begin to fight for quotas amid oversupply and market share disputes,” said Jassem al-Saadun, head of Kuwait’s Al-Shall Economic Consultants.

“If Iran, Venezuela, Algeria and Libya -- all of which need to pump more -- enter into a dispute with the Gulf producers, then it could be the end for OPEC,” he warned.

Danske Bank analyst Jens Naervig Pedersen said such coun-tries had been “really hit” by low oil prices.

But he added: “Their collective power is probably not great enough to turn the mind of Saudi Arabia and the core members of OPEC in the Middle East.” (ap)

Return of Iranian oil may cause more OPEC tensions

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A man and a woman pass outside of the an office of National Bank of Greece in Athens, Monday, June 29, 2015. Greek banks will reopen Monday after a three-week closure and withdrawal limits have been relaxed, but capital controls remain in place, a government decree said Saturday.

Greek banks to reopen Monday but capital controls remain

MANGUPURA - Kuta residents were shocked by fire incident at the BCA of Kuta Branch Office located on Jalan Raya Kuta, Badung, Sat-urday (Jul. 18). As a result of the fire, the room on the second and third floor charred as engulfed in flames. The losses are estimated to reach IDR 2 billion.

Spokesman of the Denpasar Police, Sugriwo, when asked for his confirma-tion justified the incident. He said that the exact cause of the fire is still being in-vestigated by identification officer of the Denpasar Police and forensic laboratory of the National Police Headquarters.

In the meantime, according to the officer of the Denpasar Police, the fire occurred around 05:30 a.m. At the time of incident the office was empty due to holiday. “It is unclear on which floor the fire first appeared. From the statements of witnesses, suddenly the dense smoke billowed out of the office followed by flames,” added the officer requesting anonymity.

Over the incident, some office spaces of the BCA were on fire, namely the room on the second floor comprising the room of branch manager, BO, foreign ex-change, credit analyst, priority, market-ing representative, operator, marketing, safe deposit and toilet.

In the meantime, on the third floor the room on fire consisted of the audit, gen-eral and meeting room. “The first floor saved from the fire. Actually more rooms occurs on the first floor such as the teller room, customer service, cash, deputy branch manager and SDB,” he said.

Fortunately, the fire incident did not claim any casualties, while material losses are estimated to reach IDR 2 bil-lion. Up to now, the cause of the fire cannot be ascertained. Seven units of fire trucks of Badung County and a unit from the Angkasa Pura of the Ngurah Rai Airport were deployed to the scene. The officers were working hard to extinguish the flames having engulfed the second and third floor of the office. (kmb36)

DENPASAR — Surrounded by colorful plastic cups, Sumaria and other Indonesian Muslim women pour sweet tea as they prepare for iftar, the traditional breaking of the dawn-to-dusk fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. But the island of Bali, where Sumaria has lived since arriving with her family half a century ago, is predomi-nantly Hindu. Growing up in the religious minority, she has held on to her Muslim faith.

Now retired from her work in

microfinance that loaned money to poor farmers and entrepreneurs, she travels some distance from her home to the Grand Mosque in Bali’s provincial capital of Denpasar to pray.

“We are encouraged to pray in congregation,” Sumaria, 58, said.

She also volunteers her time at the mosque during Ramadan, which the devoted believe is the time to do good deeds.

“As a Muslim, every word and deed should reflect Islamic teach-ing,” said Sumaria. “Islam teaches us to be tolerant and kind to one another.” (ap)

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Fire incident at the BCA of Kuta Branch Office located on Jalan Raya Kuta, Badung, Saturday (Jul. 18).

Muslims in Bali observe Ramadan

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In this July 8, 2015, photo, Sumaria, center, fills plastic cups with tea as she prepares drinks for Muslim devotees to break their fast during Ramadan at Denpasar Grand Mosque in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

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The Ternate Mayor Burhan Ab-durahman said here, the govern-ment evacuated 227 families which are dominated by elder people and children.

“The Ternate City Administra-tion prioritizing elder people and children to be evacuate from Mount Gamalama. Thus they can avoid diseases due to volcanic ashes from the mount,” Burhan said.

The administration is monitoring the security condition of the people in four areas of Ternate City after the mount eruption.

According to the report, there were four villages in Pulau Ternate

Sub-district which are affected by the Gamalama eruption such as Takome, Loto, Togafo and Afetaduma.

Burhan said the local adminis-tration has distributed masks and operating fire fighter truck to clear roads from the volcanic ashes.

The Ternate Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency and North Malu-ku disaster mitigation agency also prepared several vehicles to avoid people from volcanic lava debris flow of Mount Gamalama.

The agencies prepared vehicles in three villages including Loto, Togafo and Takome.

The Chief of Ternate mitiga-

tion agency Hasyim Yusuf said the administration prepared four evacuation shelters for the people who affected by the eruption such as in Ternate Indonesian Navy Base Headquarter, Study Center Hall, the Vocational School II hall, and the hall of Ternate Fishery and Maritime Service.

Ternate administration has stated emergency effort relating to the eruption of Mount Gamalama start-ing from 18 July-1 August 2015.

The administration utilizes local unexpected funding from 2015 Re-gional Budget to mitigate eruption of Mount Gamalama. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesia record-ed a trade surplus for the seventh consecutive month in June, of-ficial data showed, due to a steep fall in imports in Southeast Asia’s top economy.

The country’s statistics agency said Indonesia posted a narrower surplus of $477 million compared to a revised $1.08 billion recorded in May.

Exports in June slid 12.70 percent on-year to $13.44 billion while imports plunged 17.42 per-cent, down $12.96 billion from a year before.

“The surplus occurred due to a sharper decline in imports compared to exports,” statistics agency chief Suryamin told re-porters.

Indonesia’s economy has been

slowing recently as the price of its key commodity exports slips and demand falls in China, the world’s number two economy.

First quarter growth in Indonesia slipped to 4.7 percent, the slowest in six years, and the central bank said in a statement Tuesday that second quarter expansion would remain “limited” as well due to weak consumer spending. (afp)

JAKARTA - From drones to smartphone apps, Indonesia is harnessing technology to tackle traffic chaos during the annual mass exodus before the Muslim Eid holiday, when the potholed roads of overpopulated Java become clogged with millions of slow-moving cars and crashes are frequent.

Cities in the world’s most pop-ulous Muslim-majority country empty every year at the end of the holy month of Ramadan as people head to villages to celebrate Eid with their families.

This trip is an annual ritual known locally as “mudik” that transforms journeys of a few hundred kilometres (miles) into 24-hour odysseys.

The crush is particularly acute on Java, a crowded island that is home to more than half of Indo-nesia’s 250 million people.

Hundreds of new vehicles are hitting the road every day as the economy booms, but scant investment means many routes remain as they have for years -- narrow, ageing roads snaking through mountainous terrain.

“Mentally, we are prepared,” said Astri Wahyuni, who was gearing up to travel to a village in central Java from the capital Jakarta with her husband and two young children for Eid, which is expected to fall on Friday. The journey normally takes as little as five hours -- but in the run-up to Eid, it can last 25.

This year, however, a series of new technological tools are being rolled out in an attempt to ease the traffic chaos.

In Jakarta -- an overcrowded, grim metropolis that suffers no-torious traffic jams which only get worse in the run-up to Eid -- police have deployed drones for the first time this year to monitor traffic as it floods out of the city.

The unmanned aerial vehicles whizz high above the outskirts of the city, which has a population of about 10 million, with images relayed in real-time back to a traffic-monitoring centre where police can make quick decisions as issues arise.

“If there’s bad traffic, if there’s an accident, we’ll be able to see it from above,” Jakarta police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal told AFP.

Police have also launched a smartphone app that allows driv-

ers to access the police CCTV network via their handsets and check traffic conditions on vital motorways.

It will face stiff competition from a series of specialised “mudik” apps launched in time for the annual holiday, with technology companies seeking to capitalise on the growing popu-larity of smartphones as cheaper models flood the market and incomes rise.

Services such as “Ayo Mudik” and “Media Mudik” help locate the nearest mosque and inform drivers when they should start fasting, a requirement for Mus-lims during daylight hours in Ramadan.

Countless map and GPS navi-gation apps have added extra “mudik” features that identify rest stops, petrol stations and meet-up spots for car pooling.

And those wanting to docu-ment their “mudik” in pictures can download “Instadeen”, which allows users to add religious text or Koranic verses to their photos before posting them online.

Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, the founder and CEO of Indonesian digital media agency Bubu, said tech entrepreneurs were being creative, developing apps tailored to the particular characteristics of the country’s mass exodus.

“These apps may not necessar-ily work in other countries, it’s very localised,” she said.

Despite the technical inno-vations, there was little sign “mudik” in 2015 was any dif-ferent from previous years, with hours-long queues on major routes and reports of scores of people killed in crashes since the weekend, when the exodus began.

To stand any chance of seri-ously reducing the chaos, ob-servers say major investment in public transport and infrastruc-ture is needed, something that new President Joko Widodo has pledged but which has yet to materialise.

Some don’t want to see an end to the chaos, however, and believe sitting in hours-long traf-fic jams is all part of the festive spirit.

“You can enjoy the trip, mak-ing memories with your family,” Wahyuni said. “That is something you cannot replace with social media, I think, the uniqueness of the ‘mudik’ tradition itself.” (afp)

Drones and phones to tackle Indonesian holiday road chaos

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Indonesia posts trade surplus in June

Government evacuates 886 people near Mt. Gamalama

TERNATE - The Ternate Administration on Sunday evacuated at least 886 people from three villages near Mount Gamalama which has been spewing volcanic materials since last Saturday.

However, the Regent Regulation cannot be effective as long as government supervision of conditions in the field are nowhere near optimal. “The Regent Regulation needs to not only exist on paper but must also be disseminated to relevant parties and supervised by legal officers, legislators and the surrounding communities,” he explained.

According to Suriawijaya who is local to Northern Kuta, the number of hotel in Badung has exceeded the carrying capacity of the region. Also, the hotel room to visitor ratio is way out of balance and with so many more rooms than visitors, hotels are forced to engage in aggressive price wars as a way to attract guests. Weak government control has caused this such conditions to worsen over the last couple of years, causing a general decline in the quality of tourism in the area.“Supervision is very important. It is high time for Badung to pursue work towards the quality rather than the quantity of tourism. It is useless to attract more tourists if they are of poor quality and have negative impacts,” he explained.

In addition to government supervision, Suryawijaya, added that no less important is the selection process for issuing li-censes. Every hotelier who requests a permit should be strictly scrutinized. By doing so, tourism in Badung will be returned to conditions of fair competition and the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Badung will also increase. (kmb27)

The ruling Nationalist Party on Sun-day picked as its candidate Hung Hsiu-chu, a former teacher and the current deputy legislative speaker. Hung, who supports friendly relations with China, will run against Tsai Ing-wen, the op-position Democratic Progressive Party chairwoman and an advocate of more cautious relations with Beijing. Tsai leads in opinion polls ahead of January’s election.

Ties with Beijing, long icy but cordial since 2008, have shaped up as an early campaign issue. Voters in Taiwan, which has been democratic since the late 1980s, have never elected a woman as president nor had a choice between two female can-didates backed by the major parties.

Joanna Lei, chief executive officer of the Chunghua 21st Century Think Tank in Taiwan, said that some younger women struggle to advance in Taiwan. However, she said society accepts the leadership of women over age 50 because they histori-cally ran clans in China, where Taiwan’s culture originates.

Women manage 10 government departments and some of Taiwan’s top companies. One third of Taiwanese legis-

lators are female, compared to 13 percent in Japan and 16 percent in South Korea, said Sean King, senior vice president with Park Strategies, a New York-based consultancy firm.

Elsewhere in Asia, Park Geun-hye took office two years ago as South Ko-rea’s first female president, and Sheikh Hasina is currently the prime minister of Bangladesh. Women have also been elected to the highest office over the years in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and India.

China claims sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan, where Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists based their government in the 1940s after losing the Chinese civil war to the Communists. China insists that the two sides should eventually reunite, though opinion polls on the island say most Taiwanese prefer autonomy.

Elected in 2008, President Ma Ying-jeou set aside the political dispute to start dialogue with Beijing and sign economic agreements. He agreed with Beijing to negotiate on the basis that both sides be-long to one China, though with different interpretations.

Hung supports a similar understand-

ing with China, but Tsai’s party rejects that basis for talks as a slight to Taiwan’s autonomy. Without a framework for dia-logue, tensions could rise again, making new agreements difficult.

Hung’s Nationalists lost nine mayoral and county magistrate seats in Novem-ber, with younger voters accusing Ma’s government of getting dangerously close to China while ignoring a wealth gap at home. Ma must step down in May due to term limits.

Tsai, a 58-year-old lawyer by train-ing and once Taiwan’s top policymaker on mainland China affairs, lost the 2012 presidential race to Ma by six percent-age points. Hung, 67, has been dubbed a “little chili pepper” for her biting, humor-ous style of grilling government officials in parliament.

“The usual way to win, of course, is to try to capture the pivotal political middle,” said Denny Roy, senior fellow at the East-West Center think tank in Honolulu. “In this respect, Hung is an unexpected, even odd, choice for nomi-nee. What seems to be most clear is that Taiwan’s voters are ready for a female president.” (ap)

CHATTANOOGA — The family of the man who authori-ties say killed four Marines and sailor in Chattanooga said in a statement that their son suffered from depression and was not the son they knew.

“There are no words to describe our shock, horror, and grief,” said the statement, provided Saturday to the Associ-ated Press by a lawyer representing the family of Muham-mad Youssef Abdulazeez. “The person who committed this horrible crime was not the son we knew and loved. For many years, our son suffered from depression. It grieves us beyond belief to know that his pain found its expression in this hei-nous act of violence.” The family added they are cooperating with the investigation.

“Now is the time to reflect on the victims and their fami-lies, and we feel it would be inappropriate to say anything more other than that we are truly sorry for their loss,” the statement said.

In Chattanooga, a city that prides itself on strong ties between people of different faiths, some Muslims feared the community’s perception of them had changed after the shooting rampage Thursday.

Mohsin Ali, a member of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, said he hoped the local community didn’t dis-solve into turmoil.

“We, our kids, feel 100 percent American and Chattanoo-gan,” said the Pakistani-born Ali, who is a child psychiatrist. “Now they are wondering if that is how people still look at them.”

As FBI agents served a warrant on the Abdulazeez home Thursday, two women wearing Islamic head coverings were seen being led away in handcuffs. But FBI agent Jason Pack said Saturday no arrests have been made. Authorities are looking into the shooting as a terrorism investigation and whether Abdulazeez was inspired or directed by any terrorist organization. They still don’t know what motived Abdulazeez. The president of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga said Abdulazeez’s father told him he felt blindsided.

“He told me that he had never seen it coming, and did not see any signs from his son that he would be that way and do something like that,” Bassam Issa said. (ap)

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FILE - In this April 15, 2015 file photo, Taiwan’s main opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chair-woman Tsai Ing-wen speaks in Taipei, Taiwan.

2 women to vie in Taiwan presidential election for 1st time

TAIPEI — Taiwan’s top two political parties have each nominated a woman for president in 2016, a historic first signaling acceptance of female leadership and kicking off a campaign highlighted so far by clashing views on ties with rival China.

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CANGGU - Echo Beach is one of famous surfing spot in Bali. It offers the big and powerfull wave that really good for surfing lover. The beatiful panomara of this beach showing the coastel beach with white sand from Seminyak Beach to the west untill Echo Beach. Uniquely, the situation is not crowded as other beaches, it makes the place favorited by mostly foreigners to enjoy surfing and explore the amazing wave. Moreover, it is a romantic beach to see the beauty of sunset.

Echo beach is located in Canggu Village, Kerobokan Subdistrict, Ba-dung Regency. To go to this beach, the touris can use motorcyle. It only spends 35 menutes from Airfort Ngurah Rai or 25 menutes from

capital city Denpasar. This beach is very strategic surfing points where the location only 5 km from Kuta Beach. Beside that, it is very close with other famous surfing sport like Berawa Beach, Batu Bolong Beach and Pererenan Beach.

This place is very easy to reach because the road is good. There are also some restaurants in front of the beach. To come here better use mo-torcycle because the parking area in not to big, it is only IDR 2,000 for farking. If the tourists want stay for some days, they can accommodate hotel around that area. The surfers can enjoy the stunning panorama of sunset and many opportunities for surf adventures. In addition, this area usually use as training ground for riding horse.

NEWPORT, R.I. — Amelie Mauresmo is slated to experience two very memorable moments in just a few short weeks. She was inducted into the International Ten-nis Hall of Fame on Saturday but unable to travel to the ceremony because she’s expecting her first child in early August.

Joining the 36-year-old French-woman were David Hall of Austra-lia, a six-time Paralympic medalist, and Nancy Jeffett, elected in the contributor category. “Amelie will be here next year, but we want to celebrate her this year,” 1987 Hall of Famer Stan Smith told to the crowd.

Mauresmo, who is now Andy

Murray’s coach, won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006 and spent 39 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She won 25 singles titles and was a silver medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Under mostly cloudy skies on Newport’s grass courts, Mauresmo was enshrined during a 75-minute ceremony that included a presenta-tion of a gold Hall of Fame ring to Billie Jean King. “This is wonderful to be here to share this moment with all of you,” said King, inducted in 1987.

Jeffett, 87, was honored for her 50 years in the sport. “Nancy Jeffett has been such a force, particularly in women’s tennis,” King said. Jef-

fett was presented by 2002 Hall of Famer Pam Shriver. “This has been a real love of the game that has brought me to this moment,” Jeffett said in a short speech.

When he was 16, Hall was struck by a car and had to have both of his legs amputated. He is the fourth wheelchair player to be inducted.

“Through the early days after my accident, tennis was like a long lost friend that would come back to me,” the 45-year-old said.

Marion Bartoli, the 2013 Wim-bledon champion, also attended the ceremony that was held be-fore the semifinal matches of the Hall of Fame Tennis Champion-ships. (ap)

“Words cannot describe the enormous sadness within our team this morning, as we come to terms with losing Jules,” said Booth. “He has left an indelible mark on all our lives, and will forever be part of ev-erything we have achieved, and everything we will strive for going forward.

“We are incredibly grateful that we were able to provide Jules with the op-portunity to show the world what he could do in a Formula 1 car. “We knew we had a very special driver on our hands from the first time he drove our car in pre-season testing in 2013.

“It has been an honour to be able to consider him our race driver, our team-mate, and of course our friend.” Booth said Bianchi’s character had made as big an impression on the team as his driving ability “Jules was a shining talent. He was destined for great things in our sport; suc-cess he so richly deserved,” he said.

“He was also a magnificent human being, making a lasting impression on countless people all over the world. “They recognised, as did we, that at the same

time as being a fiercely motivated racer, he was also an extremely warm, humble and intensely likeable person, who lit up our garage and our lives.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the wonderful Bianchi family, who have remained so strong for Jules throughout the past nine months. In turn, Jules was an absolute credit to them. “Finally, we would like to thank everyone who has sup-ported Jules since his accident in Japan last October. “Your kindness has been such a source of comfort to his family and to us, his team. “We will rely on your continued support over the coming days and months as we race on for Jules.”

Bianchi died in hospital in Nice on Fri-day night, nine months after being severely injured in a crash in the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.

He won French Formula Renault and European Formula 3 titles on his way towards F1, and tested for Force India and long-time supporter Ferrari as well as racing in 34 grands prix with Marus-sia. (rtr)

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Amelie Mauresmo, coach of Andy Murray of Britain hits a ball during a practice session at the Wimbledon Tennis Champion-ships in London, July 9, 2015.

Amelie Mauresmo inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame

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Marussia Formula One driver Jules Bianchi of France poses during a photo session before the Australia Formula One Grand Prix, at Melbourne’s Albert Park Track, in this March 13, 2014 file photo.

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Dempsey put the Americans ahead with a fourth-minute header, con-verted a penalty kick in the 64th and added the final goal in the 78th. In Wednesday’s semifinal at Atlanta, the Americans play Jamaica, which beat Haiti 1-0 in the second game of the doubleheader.

“Habits carry over: scoring goals, getting a clean sheet, people get-ting assists,” Dempsey said. “That confidence, definitely it grows in the team. And as the tournament goes on, people are getting stronger as a group.” Dempsey has scored a tournament-high six times, and his 47 international goals are 10 behind Landon Donovan’s American record. “I didn’t know that it was his first hat trick. It took him a long time,” quipped U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann, who never had a three-goal game in his celebrated international career for Germany.

Gyasi Zardes (15th minute), Aron Johannsson (32nd) and Omar Gonza-lez (45th) also scored as the Ameri-cans built a 4-0 halftime lead against a Cuban team depleted by five absent players who may have defected. Be-fore a pro-U.S. crowd of 37,994, the Americans outshot the Cubans 24-7. “After a couple shaky performances in the group, we came out here and

dominated the game,” Johannsson said.

Now 32, Dempsey said he does not take home that many mementoes. He has played up top in recent years under Klinsmann after being used as a withdrawn forward and a wide midfielder by Bruce Arena and Bob Bradley.

“He’s always been a striker men-tality,” midfielder Michael Bradley said. “He’s a guy who is hungry and determined to make big plays, hungry and determined to score goals. And that’s always been him. It doesn’t re-ally matter whether he’s lined up as an out-and-out striker, as a second striker, a little bit underneath somebody else, even at times under my dad when he and Landon played tilted wide.”It was more than 90 degrees on the field and sunny for the 5 p.m. kickoff, causing Costa Rican referee Henry Bejarano to call for a water break after the third goal. With its highest victory margin in the championship of soccer’s North and Central American and Caribbean region, the U.S. improved to 8-1 in Gold Cup quarterfinals, the only blem-ish a penalty-kicks loss to Colombia in 2000.

Cuba, which has a history of defec-tions at sporting events, listed five of its 23 players as absent: goalkeeper

Arael Arguellez, midfielders Dario Suarez, Aricheel Hernandez and Ariel Martinez; and forward Keiler Garcia. The Cubans, ranked 104th, have not reached the World Cup since 1938 and have been eliminated by Curacao in qualifying for the 2018 tournament.

“The players that aren’t here now, they don’t really many anything to us because they’ve chosen their path,” Cuba coach Raul Gonzalez said through a translator.

Left back Fabian Johnson sparked the opening goal, playing a cross that went through to the other side of the field. Zardes played the ball back to Timmy Chandler, who with his left foot lofted it 30 yards to Dempsey for an 8-yard header past goalkeeper Diosvelis Guerra.

Johnson’s 25-yard pass from the flank allowed Zardes, who had burst pass the defense, to volley in with his right foot from 6 yards. Given space, Bradley played a 50-yard pass to Jo-hannsson, who ran onto the ball, took a touch and chipped Guerra from the edge of the 18-yard box.

Gonzalez, who played for the Uni-versity of Maryland, made it 4-0 with his first international goal, poking the ball in from 3 yards after Jo-hannsson headed down Bradley’s corner kick. “It was pretty hot,

SAO PAULO — Pele has suc-cessfully undergone back surgery for nerve root decompression and his postoperative recovery is satis-factory, the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo said on Saturday.

The hospital said in a statement Pele was hospitalized on Monday, and the “previously scheduled” sur-gery was performed on Tuesday.

The statement did not say when 74-year-old Pele was expected to be discharged, but the UOL and G1 news portals said he would leave the hospital next week.

Paul Kemsley, Pele’s manager, said in an email to The Associated Press that Pele “underwent elective surgery to fix discomfort in his back and hip. This is the first of two cor-rective procedures which will be done in Brazil over the next few months to ensure Pele is strong and healthy for the Rio Olympics and all of its related travel. Perhaps he’ll even play!” Pele is widely regarded as the greatest soccer player. (ap)

ZURICH — UEFA President Michel Platini

wants to stop top teams stockpiling the best players to ensure football remains competitive. The European football chief wants to force clubs to use more homegrown players. Eight are cur-rently required in 25-man Champions League squads.

“What is important in the future is to limit the possibility to have the best players in one team. That is important for competition,” Platini said in the July edition of “World Soccer” maga-zine. “If everybody is in one team that is not so good.”

Platini pointed to the ongoing fall-out from the 1995 Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice, which established the free movement of players in the European Union whose contracts had expired.

“With the Bosman rule, you can have all the best players in the same team,” Platini was quoted as saying. “In the past in Spain, you have Real Madrid, Atletico (Madrid), Barcelona, Valencia — a lot of teams — and all

the players were in different teams. Now, more or less, the best players are in one or two clubs.”

Apart from Atletico’s title triumph in 2014, the Spanish league title has been won by either Barcelona or Real Madrid in the last decade. Juventus has won the Italian league for four years in a row, and both Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain completed a hat trick of titles last season. “It is not pos-sible that the best teams would have all the best players or competition itself is finished,” Platini said.

“At the moment you have big clubs with a lot of money who can have everybody. We have to think about football in all of Europe not only in two or three clubs.”

Platini said he will use a September meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to work on how to change the rules to increase the number of homegrown players in squads. A player trained by clubs in the same country for at least three years between the age of 15 and 21 is considered by UEFA to

be “homegrown,” regardless of his birthplace.

“I support totally the agenda that says we need more homegrown play-ers because it is not possible to fight on nationality,” Platini said.

In England, the rule has been blamed for pushing up the price of domestic talent. Manchester City agreed last week to pay 49 million pounds ($76 million) to sign Raheem Sterling from Liverpool despite the 20-year-old winger only making his first-team debut three years ago. The deal was completed after UEFA-im-posed spending restrictions were lifted on City, which cut its losses to comply with Financial Fair Play rules.

In the “World Soccer” interview, Platini did not address if he will run for FIFA president, only saying about the future: “I do know but I can’t tell you.”

Platini did say he is considering changes to the European Under-21 Championship where some 23-year-olds can play because the age cut-off relates to the qualifiers. (ap)

BARCELONA — Josep Bar-tomeu was re-elected president of Spanish football club Barcelona on Saturday, capitalizing on the team’s success last season to defeat three challengers despite being a suspect in a fraud case and a FIFA ban on signing new players.

Barcelona last season achieved a rare treble of the Champions League, Spanish league, and Copa del Rey trophies in coach Luis Enrique’s first spell in charge.

Barcelona said Bartomeu received 54.63 percent of the votes cast by club members. His closest rival was former president Joan Laporta. Backed by club greats Pep Guardiola and Johan Cruyff, he collected 33.03 percent of the vote.

The 52-year-old Bartomeu be-came club president in January 2014 when his predecessor Sandro Rosell resigned after being named in a mag-istrate’s investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds to sign Brazil striker Neymar. Bartomeu him-

self was later included in the ongoing investigation.

Bartomeu scheduled Saturday’s early election in January, following a chaotic week at the club that included the firing of its sports director.

Also, FIFA imposed a one-year ban on Barcelona signing new play-ers, through 2015, after concluding it violated rules regulating the transfer of underage players at its La Masia academy. Bartomeu, a businessman with companies involved in airport and seaport facilities, will serve a six-year term.

He first joined Barcelona’s board under Laporta from 2003-05 as execu-tive head of its basketball and handball teams. He returned to the club under Rosell, taking over the supervision of its football team and overseeing the signing of players like Neymar.

The other two candidates, Agusti Benedito and Toni Freixa, received 7.17 percent and 3.70 percent of the votes, respectively. Other ballot papers were blank or spoiled. (ap)

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil-ian Football Confederation (CBF) president Marco Polo del Nero will miss Monday’s key FIFA execu-tive committee meeting because he needs to tackle domestic issues, the CBF said on Saturday.

Del Nero also missed the FIFA Congress in May in Zurich, having left Switzerland shortly after his predecessor Jose Maria Marin was among seven people arrested at their hotel after being indicted on corrup-tion charges in the United States.

Marin and five others are still

detained while Swiss authorities consider a request from the United States for their extradition.

The seventh, former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, has already been extradited and on Saturday pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court and was released on a $10 million bond.

Del Nero has repeatedly denied any involvement in the bribery schemes laid out in the U.S. indict-ments.

Del Nero said he needed to stay in Brazil to deal with proposed

legislation affecting the country’s football clubs, which he said had “unconstitutional elements.”

“I’ve told FIFA that I cannot take part in the meeting, as I had wished, because I need to keep an eye on the outcome of the (bill) whose text con-tains unconstitutional elements and will need immediate intervention,” he said in the CBF statement.

He also said he needed to stay in Brazil because a Congressional inquiry had begun in the Senate to investigate the CBF.

Del Nero, who has been on

the FIFA executive committee since 2012 and took over as CBF president in April, said that his absence from the meeting “will not cause any harm to Brazil.” He is one of three South American representatives on the 25-member FIFA executive committee.

Monday ’s F IFA meeting will choose a date for a presiden-tial election after in-cumbent Sepp Blatter’s

shock announcement in June that he would lay down his mandate.

Blatter, who has said he will not be a candidate, made his announcement only four days after being re-elected for a fifth man-

date.Monday’s meeting will

also recommend possible re-forms to FIFA’s structure which

are seen to crucial to the future of soccer’s scandal-plagued govern-

ing body. (rtr)

LONDON - Liverpool have agreed a 32.5 million pounds ($50.73 million)

deal with Aston Villa for striker Christian Benteke, British media

reported on Sunday. The 24-year-old Belgian international will undergo a medical by Tuesday and is unlikely to join his new team on their current tour

of Australia, the BBC reported.Liverpool club doctor will leave the

tour of Australia and fly back to Britain to conduct his medical, the report said.

Since joining Aston Villa from Genk in 2012, Benteke has scored 49 goals in 101 appearances, helping the team avoid relegation last season.

Liverpool made the bid for Benteke after selling Raheem Sterling to Man-chester City for a record fee of 49 mil-lion pounds ($76.4 million). (rtr)

Platini wants to stop top teams signing all the best players

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth,File

FILE - In this March 20, 2015, file photo, Brazilian soccer leg-end Pele smiles during a media opportunity at a restaurant in London.

Pele has back surgery, leaving Sao Paulo hospital next week

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

FC Barcelona’s President Josep Maria Bartomeu celebrates after winning the Catalan club’s presidential elections at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, June 18, 2015.

Bartomeu elected for 2nd term as Barcelona president

Brazilian soccer boss to miss key FIFA meeting

U n i t e d S t a t e s ’

C l i n t Dempsey

celebrates after scor-ing a goal on a penalty k i c k d u r -ing the sec-

ond half of a CONCACAF

Gold Cup soc-cer quarterfinal against Cuba, Saturday, July

18, 2015, in Balti-more. The United

States won 6-0.

Dempsey’s 3 goals lift US over Cuba 6-0, into Gold Cup semis

BALTIMORE — Clint Dempsey walked away with the game ball for one of the few times in his career. With his first international hat trick, he boosted the United States to a 6-0 rout over Cuba on Saturday and into its eighth straight CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal.

and once I got my goal I was a little too tired to celebrate,” Gonzalez said.

Dempsey’s penalty kick was awarded when Angel Horta pulled on Johannsson’s jersey in the penalty area. Dempsey scored sliding with his right foot from 7 yards in the 78th off a pass from Bradley. “He’s hungry for goal,” Klins-mann said. “So he has two more m e a l s ahead of h i m . ” (ap)

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Dempsey put the Americans ahead with a fourth-minute header, con-verted a penalty kick in the 64th and added the final goal in the 78th. In Wednesday’s semifinal at Atlanta, the Americans play Jamaica, which beat Haiti 1-0 in the second game of the doubleheader.

“Habits carry over: scoring goals, getting a clean sheet, people get-ting assists,” Dempsey said. “That confidence, definitely it grows in the team. And as the tournament goes on, people are getting stronger as a group.” Dempsey has scored a tournament-high six times, and his 47 international goals are 10 behind Landon Donovan’s American record. “I didn’t know that it was his first hat trick. It took him a long time,” quipped U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann, who never had a three-goal game in his celebrated international career for Germany.

Gyasi Zardes (15th minute), Aron Johannsson (32nd) and Omar Gonza-lez (45th) also scored as the Ameri-cans built a 4-0 halftime lead against a Cuban team depleted by five absent players who may have defected. Be-fore a pro-U.S. crowd of 37,994, the Americans outshot the Cubans 24-7. “After a couple shaky performances in the group, we came out here and

dominated the game,” Johannsson said.

Now 32, Dempsey said he does not take home that many mementoes. He has played up top in recent years under Klinsmann after being used as a withdrawn forward and a wide midfielder by Bruce Arena and Bob Bradley.

“He’s always been a striker men-tality,” midfielder Michael Bradley said. “He’s a guy who is hungry and determined to make big plays, hungry and determined to score goals. And that’s always been him. It doesn’t re-ally matter whether he’s lined up as an out-and-out striker, as a second striker, a little bit underneath somebody else, even at times under my dad when he and Landon played tilted wide.”It was more than 90 degrees on the field and sunny for the 5 p.m. kickoff, causing Costa Rican referee Henry Bejarano to call for a water break after the third goal. With its highest victory margin in the championship of soccer’s North and Central American and Caribbean region, the U.S. improved to 8-1 in Gold Cup quarterfinals, the only blem-ish a penalty-kicks loss to Colombia in 2000.

Cuba, which has a history of defec-tions at sporting events, listed five of its 23 players as absent: goalkeeper

Arael Arguellez, midfielders Dario Suarez, Aricheel Hernandez and Ariel Martinez; and forward Keiler Garcia. The Cubans, ranked 104th, have not reached the World Cup since 1938 and have been eliminated by Curacao in qualifying for the 2018 tournament.

“The players that aren’t here now, they don’t really many anything to us because they’ve chosen their path,” Cuba coach Raul Gonzalez said through a translator.

Left back Fabian Johnson sparked the opening goal, playing a cross that went through to the other side of the field. Zardes played the ball back to Timmy Chandler, who with his left foot lofted it 30 yards to Dempsey for an 8-yard header past goalkeeper Diosvelis Guerra.

Johnson’s 25-yard pass from the flank allowed Zardes, who had burst pass the defense, to volley in with his right foot from 6 yards. Given space, Bradley played a 50-yard pass to Jo-hannsson, who ran onto the ball, took a touch and chipped Guerra from the edge of the 18-yard box.

Gonzalez, who played for the Uni-versity of Maryland, made it 4-0 with his first international goal, poking the ball in from 3 yards after Jo-hannsson headed down Bradley’s corner kick. “It was pretty hot,

SAO PAULO — Pele has suc-cessfully undergone back surgery for nerve root decompression and his postoperative recovery is satis-factory, the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo said on Saturday.

The hospital said in a statement Pele was hospitalized on Monday, and the “previously scheduled” sur-gery was performed on Tuesday.

The statement did not say when 74-year-old Pele was expected to be discharged, but the UOL and G1 news portals said he would leave the hospital next week.

Paul Kemsley, Pele’s manager, said in an email to The Associated Press that Pele “underwent elective surgery to fix discomfort in his back and hip. This is the first of two cor-rective procedures which will be done in Brazil over the next few months to ensure Pele is strong and healthy for the Rio Olympics and all of its related travel. Perhaps he’ll even play!” Pele is widely regarded as the greatest soccer player. (ap)

ZURICH — UEFA President Michel Platini

wants to stop top teams stockpiling the best players to ensure football remains competitive. The European football chief wants to force clubs to use more homegrown players. Eight are cur-rently required in 25-man Champions League squads.

“What is important in the future is to limit the possibility to have the best players in one team. That is important for competition,” Platini said in the July edition of “World Soccer” maga-zine. “If everybody is in one team that is not so good.”

Platini pointed to the ongoing fall-out from the 1995 Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice, which established the free movement of players in the European Union whose contracts had expired.

“With the Bosman rule, you can have all the best players in the same team,” Platini was quoted as saying. “In the past in Spain, you have Real Madrid, Atletico (Madrid), Barcelona, Valencia — a lot of teams — and all

the players were in different teams. Now, more or less, the best players are in one or two clubs.”

Apart from Atletico’s title triumph in 2014, the Spanish league title has been won by either Barcelona or Real Madrid in the last decade. Juventus has won the Italian league for four years in a row, and both Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain completed a hat trick of titles last season. “It is not pos-sible that the best teams would have all the best players or competition itself is finished,” Platini said.

“At the moment you have big clubs with a lot of money who can have everybody. We have to think about football in all of Europe not only in two or three clubs.”

Platini said he will use a September meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to work on how to change the rules to increase the number of homegrown players in squads. A player trained by clubs in the same country for at least three years between the age of 15 and 21 is considered by UEFA to

be “homegrown,” regardless of his birthplace.

“I support totally the agenda that says we need more homegrown play-ers because it is not possible to fight on nationality,” Platini said.

In England, the rule has been blamed for pushing up the price of domestic talent. Manchester City agreed last week to pay 49 million pounds ($76 million) to sign Raheem Sterling from Liverpool despite the 20-year-old winger only making his first-team debut three years ago. The deal was completed after UEFA-im-posed spending restrictions were lifted on City, which cut its losses to comply with Financial Fair Play rules.

In the “World Soccer” interview, Platini did not address if he will run for FIFA president, only saying about the future: “I do know but I can’t tell you.”

Platini did say he is considering changes to the European Under-21 Championship where some 23-year-olds can play because the age cut-off relates to the qualifiers. (ap)

BARCELONA — Josep Bar-tomeu was re-elected president of Spanish football club Barcelona on Saturday, capitalizing on the team’s success last season to defeat three challengers despite being a suspect in a fraud case and a FIFA ban on signing new players.

Barcelona last season achieved a rare treble of the Champions League, Spanish league, and Copa del Rey trophies in coach Luis Enrique’s first spell in charge.

Barcelona said Bartomeu received 54.63 percent of the votes cast by club members. His closest rival was former president Joan Laporta. Backed by club greats Pep Guardiola and Johan Cruyff, he collected 33.03 percent of the vote.

The 52-year-old Bartomeu be-came club president in January 2014 when his predecessor Sandro Rosell resigned after being named in a mag-istrate’s investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds to sign Brazil striker Neymar. Bartomeu him-

self was later included in the ongoing investigation.

Bartomeu scheduled Saturday’s early election in January, following a chaotic week at the club that included the firing of its sports director.

Also, FIFA imposed a one-year ban on Barcelona signing new play-ers, through 2015, after concluding it violated rules regulating the transfer of underage players at its La Masia academy. Bartomeu, a businessman with companies involved in airport and seaport facilities, will serve a six-year term.

He first joined Barcelona’s board under Laporta from 2003-05 as execu-tive head of its basketball and handball teams. He returned to the club under Rosell, taking over the supervision of its football team and overseeing the signing of players like Neymar.

The other two candidates, Agusti Benedito and Toni Freixa, received 7.17 percent and 3.70 percent of the votes, respectively. Other ballot papers were blank or spoiled. (ap)

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil-ian Football Confederation (CBF) president Marco Polo del Nero will miss Monday’s key FIFA execu-tive committee meeting because he needs to tackle domestic issues, the CBF said on Saturday.

Del Nero also missed the FIFA Congress in May in Zurich, having left Switzerland shortly after his predecessor Jose Maria Marin was among seven people arrested at their hotel after being indicted on corrup-tion charges in the United States.

Marin and five others are still

detained while Swiss authorities consider a request from the United States for their extradition.

The seventh, former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, has already been extradited and on Saturday pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court and was released on a $10 million bond.

Del Nero has repeatedly denied any involvement in the bribery schemes laid out in the U.S. indict-ments.

Del Nero said he needed to stay in Brazil to deal with proposed

legislation affecting the country’s football clubs, which he said had “unconstitutional elements.”

“I’ve told FIFA that I cannot take part in the meeting, as I had wished, because I need to keep an eye on the outcome of the (bill) whose text con-tains unconstitutional elements and will need immediate intervention,” he said in the CBF statement.

He also said he needed to stay in Brazil because a Congressional inquiry had begun in the Senate to investigate the CBF.

Del Nero, who has been on

the FIFA executive committee since 2012 and took over as CBF president in April, said that his absence from the meeting “will not cause any harm to Brazil.” He is one of three South American representatives on the 25-member FIFA executive committee.

Monday ’s F IFA meeting will choose a date for a presiden-tial election after in-cumbent Sepp Blatter’s

shock announcement in June that he would lay down his mandate.

Blatter, who has said he will not be a candidate, made his announcement only four days after being re-elected for a fifth man-

date.Monday’s meeting will

also recommend possible re-forms to FIFA’s structure which

are seen to crucial to the future of soccer’s scandal-plagued govern-

ing body. (rtr)

LONDON - Liverpool have agreed a 32.5 million pounds ($50.73 million)

deal with Aston Villa for striker Christian Benteke, British media

reported on Sunday. The 24-year-old Belgian international will undergo a medical by Tuesday and is unlikely to join his new team on their current tour

of Australia, the BBC reported.Liverpool club doctor will leave the

tour of Australia and fly back to Britain to conduct his medical, the report said.

Since joining Aston Villa from Genk in 2012, Benteke has scored 49 goals in 101 appearances, helping the team avoid relegation last season.

Liverpool made the bid for Benteke after selling Raheem Sterling to Man-chester City for a record fee of 49 mil-lion pounds ($76.4 million). (rtr)

Platini wants to stop top teams signing all the best players

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth,File

FILE - In this March 20, 2015, file photo, Brazilian soccer leg-end Pele smiles during a media opportunity at a restaurant in London.

Pele has back surgery, leaving Sao Paulo hospital next week

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

FC Barcelona’s President Josep Maria Bartomeu celebrates after winning the Catalan club’s presidential elections at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, June 18, 2015.

Bartomeu elected for 2nd term as Barcelona president

Brazilian soccer boss to miss key FIFA meeting

U n i t e d S t a t e s ’

C l i n t Dempsey

celebrates after scor-ing a goal on a penalty k i c k d u r -ing the sec-

ond half of a CONCACAF

Gold Cup soc-cer quarterfinal against Cuba, Saturday, July

18, 2015, in Balti-more. The United

States won 6-0.

Dempsey’s 3 goals lift US over Cuba 6-0, into Gold Cup semis

BALTIMORE — Clint Dempsey walked away with the game ball for one of the few times in his career. With his first international hat trick, he boosted the United States to a 6-0 rout over Cuba on Saturday and into its eighth straight CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal.

and once I got my goal I was a little too tired to celebrate,” Gonzalez said.

Dempsey’s penalty kick was awarded when Angel Horta pulled on Johannsson’s jersey in the penalty area. Dempsey scored sliding with his right foot from 7 yards in the 78th off a pass from Bradley. “He’s hungry for goal,” Klins-mann said. “So he has two more m e a l s ahead of h i m . ” (ap)

AP Photo/Patrick Sem

ansky

Liverpool reach deal with Villa for Benteke - reports

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NEWPORT, R.I. — Amelie Mauresmo is slated to experience two very memorable moments in just a few short weeks. She was inducted into the International Ten-nis Hall of Fame on Saturday but unable to travel to the ceremony because she’s expecting her first child in early August.

Joining the 36-year-old French-woman were David Hall of Austra-lia, a six-time Paralympic medalist, and Nancy Jeffett, elected in the contributor category. “Amelie will be here next year, but we want to celebrate her this year,” 1987 Hall of Famer Stan Smith told to the crowd.

Mauresmo, who is now Andy

Murray’s coach, won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006 and spent 39 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She won 25 singles titles and was a silver medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Under mostly cloudy skies on Newport’s grass courts, Mauresmo was enshrined during a 75-minute ceremony that included a presenta-tion of a gold Hall of Fame ring to Billie Jean King. “This is wonderful to be here to share this moment with all of you,” said King, inducted in 1987.

Jeffett, 87, was honored for her 50 years in the sport. “Nancy Jeffett has been such a force, particularly in women’s tennis,” King said. Jef-

fett was presented by 2002 Hall of Famer Pam Shriver. “This has been a real love of the game that has brought me to this moment,” Jeffett said in a short speech.

When he was 16, Hall was struck by a car and had to have both of his legs amputated. He is the fourth wheelchair player to be inducted.

“Through the early days after my accident, tennis was like a long lost friend that would come back to me,” the 45-year-old said.

Marion Bartoli, the 2013 Wim-bledon champion, also attended the ceremony that was held be-fore the semifinal matches of the Hall of Fame Tennis Champion-ships. (ap)

“Words cannot describe the enormous sadness within our team this morning, as we come to terms with losing Jules,” said Booth. “He has left an indelible mark on all our lives, and will forever be part of ev-erything we have achieved, and everything we will strive for going forward.

“We are incredibly grateful that we were able to provide Jules with the op-portunity to show the world what he could do in a Formula 1 car. “We knew we had a very special driver on our hands from the first time he drove our car in pre-season testing in 2013.

“It has been an honour to be able to consider him our race driver, our team-mate, and of course our friend.” Booth said Bianchi’s character had made as big an impression on the team as his driving ability “Jules was a shining talent. He was destined for great things in our sport; suc-cess he so richly deserved,” he said.

“He was also a magnificent human being, making a lasting impression on countless people all over the world. “They recognised, as did we, that at the same

time as being a fiercely motivated racer, he was also an extremely warm, humble and intensely likeable person, who lit up our garage and our lives.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the wonderful Bianchi family, who have remained so strong for Jules throughout the past nine months. In turn, Jules was an absolute credit to them. “Finally, we would like to thank everyone who has sup-ported Jules since his accident in Japan last October. “Your kindness has been such a source of comfort to his family and to us, his team. “We will rely on your continued support over the coming days and months as we race on for Jules.”

Bianchi died in hospital in Nice on Fri-day night, nine months after being severely injured in a crash in the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.

He won French Formula Renault and European Formula 3 titles on his way towards F1, and tested for Force India and long-time supporter Ferrari as well as racing in 34 grands prix with Marus-sia. (rtr)

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The Ternate Mayor Burhan Ab-durahman said here, the govern-ment evacuated 227 families which are dominated by elder people and children.

“The Ternate City Administra-tion prioritizing elder people and children to be evacuate from Mount Gamalama. Thus they can avoid diseases due to volcanic ashes from the mount,” Burhan said.

The administration is monitoring the security condition of the people in four areas of Ternate City after the mount eruption.

According to the report, there were four villages in Pulau Ternate

Sub-district which are affected by the Gamalama eruption such as Takome, Loto, Togafo and Afetaduma.

Burhan said the local adminis-tration has distributed masks and operating fire fighter truck to clear roads from the volcanic ashes.

The Ternate Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency and North Malu-ku disaster mitigation agency also prepared several vehicles to avoid people from volcanic lava debris flow of Mount Gamalama.

The agencies prepared vehicles in three villages including Loto, Togafo and Takome.

The Chief of Ternate mitiga-

tion agency Hasyim Yusuf said the administration prepared four evacuation shelters for the people who affected by the eruption such as in Ternate Indonesian Navy Base Headquarter, Study Center Hall, the Vocational School II hall, and the hall of Ternate Fishery and Maritime Service.

Ternate administration has stated emergency effort relating to the eruption of Mount Gamalama start-ing from 18 July-1 August 2015.

The administration utilizes local unexpected funding from 2015 Re-gional Budget to mitigate eruption of Mount Gamalama. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesia record-ed a trade surplus for the seventh consecutive month in June, of-ficial data showed, due to a steep fall in imports in Southeast Asia’s top economy.

The country’s statistics agency said Indonesia posted a narrower surplus of $477 million compared to a revised $1.08 billion recorded in May.

Exports in June slid 12.70 percent on-year to $13.44 billion while imports plunged 17.42 per-cent, down $12.96 billion from a year before.

“The surplus occurred due to a sharper decline in imports compared to exports,” statistics agency chief Suryamin told re-porters.

Indonesia’s economy has been

slowing recently as the price of its key commodity exports slips and demand falls in China, the world’s number two economy.

First quarter growth in Indonesia slipped to 4.7 percent, the slowest in six years, and the central bank said in a statement Tuesday that second quarter expansion would remain “limited” as well due to weak consumer spending. (afp)

JAKARTA - From drones to smartphone apps, Indonesia is harnessing technology to tackle traffic chaos during the annual mass exodus before the Muslim Eid holiday, when the potholed roads of overpopulated Java become clogged with millions of slow-moving cars and crashes are frequent.

Cities in the world’s most pop-ulous Muslim-majority country empty every year at the end of the holy month of Ramadan as people head to villages to celebrate Eid with their families.

This trip is an annual ritual known locally as “mudik” that transforms journeys of a few hundred kilometres (miles) into 24-hour odysseys.

The crush is particularly acute on Java, a crowded island that is home to more than half of Indo-nesia’s 250 million people.

Hundreds of new vehicles are hitting the road every day as the economy booms, but scant investment means many routes remain as they have for years -- narrow, ageing roads snaking through mountainous terrain.

“Mentally, we are prepared,” said Astri Wahyuni, who was gearing up to travel to a village in central Java from the capital Jakarta with her husband and two young children for Eid, which is expected to fall on Friday. The journey normally takes as little as five hours -- but in the run-up to Eid, it can last 25.

This year, however, a series of new technological tools are being rolled out in an attempt to ease the traffic chaos.

In Jakarta -- an overcrowded, grim metropolis that suffers no-torious traffic jams which only get worse in the run-up to Eid -- police have deployed drones for the first time this year to monitor traffic as it floods out of the city.

The unmanned aerial vehicles whizz high above the outskirts of the city, which has a population of about 10 million, with images relayed in real-time back to a traffic-monitoring centre where police can make quick decisions as issues arise.

“If there’s bad traffic, if there’s an accident, we’ll be able to see it from above,” Jakarta police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal told AFP.

Police have also launched a smartphone app that allows driv-

ers to access the police CCTV network via their handsets and check traffic conditions on vital motorways.

It will face stiff competition from a series of specialised “mudik” apps launched in time for the annual holiday, with technology companies seeking to capitalise on the growing popu-larity of smartphones as cheaper models flood the market and incomes rise.

Services such as “Ayo Mudik” and “Media Mudik” help locate the nearest mosque and inform drivers when they should start fasting, a requirement for Mus-lims during daylight hours in Ramadan.

Countless map and GPS navi-gation apps have added extra “mudik” features that identify rest stops, petrol stations and meet-up spots for car pooling.

And those wanting to docu-ment their “mudik” in pictures can download “Instadeen”, which allows users to add religious text or Koranic verses to their photos before posting them online.

Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, the founder and CEO of Indonesian digital media agency Bubu, said tech entrepreneurs were being creative, developing apps tailored to the particular characteristics of the country’s mass exodus.

“These apps may not necessar-ily work in other countries, it’s very localised,” she said.

Despite the technical inno-vations, there was little sign “mudik” in 2015 was any dif-ferent from previous years, with hours-long queues on major routes and reports of scores of people killed in crashes since the weekend, when the exodus began.

To stand any chance of seri-ously reducing the chaos, ob-servers say major investment in public transport and infrastruc-ture is needed, something that new President Joko Widodo has pledged but which has yet to materialise.

Some don’t want to see an end to the chaos, however, and believe sitting in hours-long traf-fic jams is all part of the festive spirit.

“You can enjoy the trip, mak-ing memories with your family,” Wahyuni said. “That is something you cannot replace with social media, I think, the uniqueness of the ‘mudik’ tradition itself.” (afp)

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Government evacuates 886 people near Mt. Gamalama

TERNATE - The Ternate Administration on Sunday evacuated at least 886 people from three villages near Mount Gamalama which has been spewing volcanic materials since last Saturday.

However, the Regent Regulation cannot be effective as long as government supervision of conditions in the field are nowhere near optimal. “The Regent Regulation needs to not only exist on paper but must also be disseminated to relevant parties and supervised by legal officers, legislators and the surrounding communities,” he explained.

According to Suriawijaya who is local to Northern Kuta, the number of hotel in Badung has exceeded the carrying capacity of the region. Also, the hotel room to visitor ratio is way out of balance and with so many more rooms than visitors, hotels are forced to engage in aggressive price wars as a way to attract guests. Weak government control has caused this such conditions to worsen over the last couple of years, causing a general decline in the quality of tourism in the area.“Supervision is very important. It is high time for Badung to pursue work towards the quality rather than the quantity of tourism. It is useless to attract more tourists if they are of poor quality and have negative impacts,” he explained.

In addition to government supervision, Suryawijaya, added that no less important is the selection process for issuing li-censes. Every hotelier who requests a permit should be strictly scrutinized. By doing so, tourism in Badung will be returned to conditions of fair competition and the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Badung will also increase. (kmb27)

The ruling Nationalist Party on Sun-day picked as its candidate Hung Hsiu-chu, a former teacher and the current deputy legislative speaker. Hung, who supports friendly relations with China, will run against Tsai Ing-wen, the op-position Democratic Progressive Party chairwoman and an advocate of more cautious relations with Beijing. Tsai leads in opinion polls ahead of January’s election.

Ties with Beijing, long icy but cordial since 2008, have shaped up as an early campaign issue. Voters in Taiwan, which has been democratic since the late 1980s, have never elected a woman as president nor had a choice between two female can-didates backed by the major parties.

Joanna Lei, chief executive officer of the Chunghua 21st Century Think Tank in Taiwan, said that some younger women struggle to advance in Taiwan. However, she said society accepts the leadership of women over age 50 because they histori-cally ran clans in China, where Taiwan’s culture originates.

Women manage 10 government departments and some of Taiwan’s top companies. One third of Taiwanese legis-

lators are female, compared to 13 percent in Japan and 16 percent in South Korea, said Sean King, senior vice president with Park Strategies, a New York-based consultancy firm.

Elsewhere in Asia, Park Geun-hye took office two years ago as South Ko-rea’s first female president, and Sheikh Hasina is currently the prime minister of Bangladesh. Women have also been elected to the highest office over the years in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and India.

China claims sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan, where Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists based their government in the 1940s after losing the Chinese civil war to the Communists. China insists that the two sides should eventually reunite, though opinion polls on the island say most Taiwanese prefer autonomy.

Elected in 2008, President Ma Ying-jeou set aside the political dispute to start dialogue with Beijing and sign economic agreements. He agreed with Beijing to negotiate on the basis that both sides be-long to one China, though with different interpretations.

Hung supports a similar understand-

ing with China, but Tsai’s party rejects that basis for talks as a slight to Taiwan’s autonomy. Without a framework for dia-logue, tensions could rise again, making new agreements difficult.

Hung’s Nationalists lost nine mayoral and county magistrate seats in Novem-ber, with younger voters accusing Ma’s government of getting dangerously close to China while ignoring a wealth gap at home. Ma must step down in May due to term limits.

Tsai, a 58-year-old lawyer by train-ing and once Taiwan’s top policymaker on mainland China affairs, lost the 2012 presidential race to Ma by six percent-age points. Hung, 67, has been dubbed a “little chili pepper” for her biting, humor-ous style of grilling government officials in parliament.

“The usual way to win, of course, is to try to capture the pivotal political middle,” said Denny Roy, senior fellow at the East-West Center think tank in Honolulu. “In this respect, Hung is an unexpected, even odd, choice for nomi-nee. What seems to be most clear is that Taiwan’s voters are ready for a female president.” (ap)

CHATTANOOGA — The family of the man who authori-ties say killed four Marines and sailor in Chattanooga said in a statement that their son suffered from depression and was not the son they knew.

“There are no words to describe our shock, horror, and grief,” said the statement, provided Saturday to the Associ-ated Press by a lawyer representing the family of Muham-mad Youssef Abdulazeez. “The person who committed this horrible crime was not the son we knew and loved. For many years, our son suffered from depression. It grieves us beyond belief to know that his pain found its expression in this hei-nous act of violence.” The family added they are cooperating with the investigation.

“Now is the time to reflect on the victims and their fami-lies, and we feel it would be inappropriate to say anything more other than that we are truly sorry for their loss,” the statement said.

In Chattanooga, a city that prides itself on strong ties between people of different faiths, some Muslims feared the community’s perception of them had changed after the shooting rampage Thursday.

Mohsin Ali, a member of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, said he hoped the local community didn’t dis-solve into turmoil.

“We, our kids, feel 100 percent American and Chattanoo-gan,” said the Pakistani-born Ali, who is a child psychiatrist. “Now they are wondering if that is how people still look at them.”

As FBI agents served a warrant on the Abdulazeez home Thursday, two women wearing Islamic head coverings were seen being led away in handcuffs. But FBI agent Jason Pack said Saturday no arrests have been made. Authorities are looking into the shooting as a terrorism investigation and whether Abdulazeez was inspired or directed by any terrorist organization. They still don’t know what motived Abdulazeez. The president of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga said Abdulazeez’s father told him he felt blindsided.

“He told me that he had never seen it coming, and did not see any signs from his son that he would be that way and do something like that,” Bassam Issa said. (ap)

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ATHENS - Greek banks will re-open Monday after a three-week closure and withdrawal limits have been relaxed, but capital controls remain in place, a government decree said Saturday.

The decree sets a new cumulative weekly withdrawal limit of 420 euros ($458), with the daily limit remaining at 60 euros.

To facilitate Greeks studying abroad the decree permits the electronic transfer of up to 5,000 euros per trimester.

Meanwhile, people receiving health treatment abroad will be able to access up to 2,000 euros in cash.

A broad range of capital controls still remain in place, however, including a block on capital transfers and a ban on the open-ing of new accounts and addition of new depositors to existing accounts.

The decree also enables the Bank of Greece to restrict the amount of euros or other currency carried in cash out of Greece.

New sales tax rates that were agreed be-tween Greece and its international creditors in return for a three-year bailout last week will also come into effect on Monday.

The bank closure was enacted on June 29, after the radical government of Alexis Tsipras called a referendum on lenders’ austerity demands that Greeks rejected by over 61 percent.

The three-week shutdown has cost the country’s struggling economy some 3.0 billion euros ($3.3 billion) not counting lost tourism revenue, Kathimerini daily estimated Saturday. (afp)

LONDON - The return of oil from Iran following the landmark nuclear energy deal with world powers could create fresh tensions within OPEC but may reinforce the cartel’s output strategy, analysts say.

Tehran and major powers -- Brit-ain, China, France, Germany, Rus-sia and the United States -- clinched a historic agreement in Vienna on Tuesday aimed at ensuring Iran does not obtain a nuclear bomb, and which paves the way for the re-moval of sanctions and the gradual return of Iranian oil to the global market next year.

The accord puts strict limits on Iran’s nuclear activities for at least a decade. In return, sanctions

that have slashed the oil exports of OPEC’s fifth-largest producer will be lifted and billions of dollars in frozen assets unblocked.

The Islamic republic’s exports could reach a potential 2.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2016, from 1.6 million bpd in 2014, according to data from economist Charles Robertson at investment bank Re-naissance Capital.

The Organization of the Petro-leum Exporting Countries -- whose 12 members including Iran pump one third of global oil -- is mind-ful that Iranian oil could worsen a global supply glut and depress oil prices further.

OPEC decided at its last meeting in Vienna in June to maintain output

levels, extending its Saudi-backed strategy to preserve market share and fend off competition from booming US shale.

Oil prices sank last week, hit by the Iran nuclear deal and the strong dollar, raising jitters among some OPEC members who next meet on December 4.

London Brent oil slid to about $56 per barrel and New York’s West Texas Intermediate dropped to around $52 a barrel.

Poorer OPEC members Angola, Algeria and Venezuela -- whose budgets are heavily reliant on oil revenues -- may again argue for less output to support prices, ana-lysts say.

Richer Gulf producers, led by

OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, re-main eager for the cartel to preserve valuable market share and force out high-cost US shale producers with lower oil price levels.

“Clearly there is a divide between the countries on this new policy of seeking new market share,” Ann-Louise Hittle at consultancy Wood Mackenzie told AFP.

“So it could be a contentious (OPEC) meeting and there could be pressure for an emergency meeting before December.”

Faced with stubbornly low prices, Algeria’s energy minister Salah Khabri indicated to state news agency APS last week that an emergency OPEC meet could be needed.

“The real problem starts when OPEC members begin to fight for quotas amid oversupply and market share disputes,” said Jassem al-Saadun, head of Kuwait’s Al-Shall Economic Consultants.

“If Iran, Venezuela, Algeria and Libya -- all of which need to pump more -- enter into a dispute with the Gulf producers, then it could be the end for OPEC,” he warned.

Danske Bank analyst Jens Naervig Pedersen said such coun-tries had been “really hit” by low oil prices.

But he added: “Their collective power is probably not great enough to turn the mind of Saudi Arabia and the core members of OPEC in the Middle East.” (ap)

Return of Iranian oil may cause more OPEC tensions

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A man and a woman pass outside of the an office of National Bank of Greece in Athens, Monday, June 29, 2015. Greek banks will reopen Monday after a three-week closure and withdrawal limits have been relaxed, but capital controls remain in place, a government decree said Saturday.

Greek banks to reopen Monday but capital controls remain

MANGUPURA - Kuta residents were shocked by fire incident at the BCA of Kuta Branch Office located on Jalan Raya Kuta, Badung, Sat-urday (Jul. 18). As a result of the fire, the room on the second and third floor charred as engulfed in flames. The losses are estimated to reach IDR 2 billion.

Spokesman of the Denpasar Police, Sugriwo, when asked for his confirma-tion justified the incident. He said that the exact cause of the fire is still being in-vestigated by identification officer of the Denpasar Police and forensic laboratory of the National Police Headquarters.

In the meantime, according to the officer of the Denpasar Police, the fire occurred around 05:30 a.m. At the time of incident the office was empty due to holiday. “It is unclear on which floor the fire first appeared. From the statements of witnesses, suddenly the dense smoke billowed out of the office followed by flames,” added the officer requesting anonymity.

Over the incident, some office spaces of the BCA were on fire, namely the room on the second floor comprising the room of branch manager, BO, foreign ex-change, credit analyst, priority, market-ing representative, operator, marketing, safe deposit and toilet.

In the meantime, on the third floor the room on fire consisted of the audit, gen-eral and meeting room. “The first floor saved from the fire. Actually more rooms occurs on the first floor such as the teller room, customer service, cash, deputy branch manager and SDB,” he said.

Fortunately, the fire incident did not claim any casualties, while material losses are estimated to reach IDR 2 bil-lion. Up to now, the cause of the fire cannot be ascertained. Seven units of fire trucks of Badung County and a unit from the Angkasa Pura of the Ngurah Rai Airport were deployed to the scene. The officers were working hard to extinguish the flames having engulfed the second and third floor of the office. (kmb36)

DENPASAR — Surrounded by colorful plastic cups, Sumaria and other Indonesian Muslim women pour sweet tea as they prepare for iftar, the traditional breaking of the dawn-to-dusk fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. But the island of Bali, where Sumaria has lived since arriving with her family half a century ago, is predomi-nantly Hindu. Growing up in the religious minority, she has held on to her Muslim faith.

Now retired from her work in

microfinance that loaned money to poor farmers and entrepreneurs, she travels some distance from her home to the Grand Mosque in Bali’s provincial capital of Denpasar to pray.

“We are encouraged to pray in congregation,” Sumaria, 58, said.

She also volunteers her time at the mosque during Ramadan, which the devoted believe is the time to do good deeds.

“As a Muslim, every word and deed should reflect Islamic teach-ing,” said Sumaria. “Islam teaches us to be tolerant and kind to one another.” (ap)

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Fire incident at the BCA of Kuta Branch Office located on Jalan Raya Kuta, Badung, Saturday (Jul. 18).

Muslims in Bali observe Ramadan

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In this July 8, 2015, photo, Sumaria, center, fills plastic cups with tea as she prepares drinks for Muslim devotees to break their fast during Ramadan at Denpasar Grand Mosque in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

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In remarks made to NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Cameron said Britain must do more fight the group, also known as ISIL. The re-marks, which follow a commitment to meet NATO targets on military spending, make plain that Britain now sees the group as an explicit threat to national security.

“We know that we have to de-feat ISIL, we have to destroy this caliphate, whether it is in Iraq or in Syria,” he said. “That is a key part of defeating this terrorist scourge that we face.”

The remarks come only days after Britain’s Ministry of Defense acknowledged that British forces have already conducted airstrikes over Syria — albeit only when embedded with coalition forces. Britain has been carrying out sur-veillance and air-to-air refueling over Syria and launching attacks on neighboring Iraq and Defense Sec-

retary Michael Fallon has argued that lawmakers should expand the mission to Syria.

Cameron has been reaching out to the opposition Labour Party to win support — trying to build a unified national position and avoid another embarrassing defeat on Syria. Labour torpedoed previous efforts to join U.S. attacks on Syria in 2013.

The British leader paired his wish for expanded military action with a promise to persuade young Britons to reject Islamic State and its dictates.

“We’ve got to defeat the narrative of extremism, even when it’s not connected to the violence,” Cameron told NBC. “Because it’s the narrative that is the jumping-off point for these young people to then go and join this dreadful death cult in Iraq and Syria.” (ap)

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean government agent who was found dead in an apparent suicide left a note denying suspi-cion that the National Intelligence Service has been spying on South Koreans by intercepting cellphone and computer conversations, police said Sunday.

The 46-year-old NIS agent was found dead Saturday in his car parked on a hill in Yongin, just south of Seoul.

In his note revealed by police on Sunday, the agent said that the intelligence service “really didn’t” spy on civilians or on political activity related to elections. He apologized to colleagues and NIS senior officials, including director Lee Byoung Ho, saying that over-zealousness in doing his job might have created “today’s situation.”

The intelligence service told lawmakers on Tuesday it had pur-chased hacking programs capable of intercepting communication on mobile devices and computers in 2012 from an Italian company, Hacking Team, but that it used them only to monitor agents from rival North Korea and for research purposes.

The revelation is sensitive be-cause the NIS has a history of

illegally tapping South Koreans’ private conversations. The NIS is planning to reveal to lawmakers the details of how the programs were used to quell suspicions that it had been unlawfully monitoring civilians.

In the note he left behind, the agent also said that he destroyed surveillance material on the activity of North Korean agents because the data had created “misunderstand-ings.”

Police officials, who had initially refused to release the details of the note, didn’t reveal the name of the agent or what his duties were for the NIS. Phone calls to the NIS office rang unanswered Sunday.

The controversy surrounding NIS emerged earlier this month when a searchable library of a mas-sive email trove stolen from Hack-ing Team, released by WikiLeaks, showed that South Korean entities were among those dealing with the firm.

Two NIS directors who succes-sively headed the spy service from 1999 to 2003 were convicted and received suspended prison terms for overseeing the monitoring of cellphone conversations of about 1,800 of South Korea’s political, corporate and media elite. (ap)

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Passengers use their smartphones on a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. South Korea’s beleaguered spy agency has acknowledged exploring the purchase of technologies to intercept communications on the popular Kakao Talk smartphone chat-ting service, but maintains it only intended to strengthen its monitoring of rival North Korean agents, not South Koreans, lawmakers said Tuesday.

Dead S. Korean agent left note denying spying on civilians

UK leader signals support for airstrikes on IS in Syria

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FILE - This is a Friday, May 22, 2015 file photo of British Prime Minister David Cameron as he speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, Latvia.

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron declared Sun-day that Britain needs to take a greater role in destroying the Islamic State group in Syria — his most direct signal to date that he will seek to expand his country’s role in supporting the United States and its allies.

SEMARAPURA - Crowded activities at Galiran Market have also an impact on the increase in the volume of rubbish. Neverthe-less, lest the rundown impression continues at the market having been revitalized. To address the market rundown, the county gov-ernment has requested to increase the number of janitors to maintain the building of the market spending billions of rupiahs.

Chairman of the Hanura Klung-kung, I Putu Tika, said that the rubbish at the Galiran Market is inseparable from the environmental awareness of traders. However, the government of Klungkung is asked not to stay silent related to such condition. “It needs dissemination and clear rules for traders selling at the Galiran Market,” he said when contacted on Friday (Jul. 17).

His party also requested the

commitment and synergy of the leg-islative and executive to overcome the problems of traditional markets considering the maintenance of sanitation requires janitors. As a former people’s representative, Putu Tika asked the legislative to help in terms of the addition of bud-geting for janitor. “The House may not simply continue to highlight it. It must be helped through budget for the workforce,” he said.

Similarly, he asked the Klung-kung Market authority to improve services and maintenance of Ga-liran Market. Dirty and muddy condition has always become an obstacle for traditional market to compete against modern mar-kets. Do not let the government’s efforts to revitalize the market have no impact on the buyer’s convenience. Moreover, during the Galungan the number of trans-

action increases dramatically and the volume of rubbish also shows an increase.

As the authority, it should have made better anticipation in terms of sanitation, safety and comfort. In terms of market condition, the continuous rundown and slipshod to cause damaged facilities, the market management is most likely to get difficulties in optimizing its workforce or even suffers losses. “In other words, technically it must deploy janitors to clean up the market after business hours. When still having a drawback, it must be discussed. It really poses a shared responsibility,” he concluded.

In the meantime, when asked for his confirmation, the Head of the Klungkung Market Authority, Ko-mang Widiasa Putra, never picked up the phone, although it has been repeatedly contacted. (dwa)

However, the lack of choice at the high school/vocational school in Karangasem makes hundreds of students choose to continue their education outside Karangasem. At least there are a total of 397 students preferring to move to outside the region, namely to Klungkung and Buleleng.

The Head of the Karangasem Education Agency, I Gede Ariyasa, not long ago said that of the 397 students going out of the region are predominantly originating from junior high school in the subdistrict of Rendang, Manggis, Sidemen and Kubu. Respectively 31 students are from Karangasem subdistrict, 63 students (Manggis), 22 students (Abang), 89 students (Sidemen), 28 students (Selat), nine students (Bebandem), 22 students (Kubu) and 133 students (Rendang).

“Of that number, 200 students choose to continue to Klungkung County, while the rest continues to Badung, Gianyar, Bangli, Singaraja and Tabanan,” he said.

Such a condition, he said, has occurred every year. It happens due to inadequate number of schools in Karangasem. Thus, the existing schools are even closer outside Karangasem. For instance, the students of Sidemen, Manggis and Rendang subdistrict are even closer to Klungkung. So, Ariyasa assumed it reasonable if more students con-

tinue their study to Klungkung.On the contrary, he said that no

students from other region con-tinue their education in Karangasem County. However, the good news is that each year the number of students that do not continue their study has been diminishing.

The Division Head of Basic

Education, I Gusti Bagus Budi-adnya, added that most students going out of the Rendang region are from SMPN 1 and SMPN 2 junior high school, of Sidemen subdistrict are from SMPN 2 and 3, and some junior high schools in Manggis and Kubu subdistrict. He recognized that the large number of students going out of the region is caused by the distance and lack of school choices in each subdistrict. To note, in Rendang subdistrict there are only two schools, namely

one high school and one vocational school, one high school in Sidemen subdistrict as well as three schools namely two high school and one vocation school in Kubu. Thus, the choice is very limited.

Seeing this condition, the Educa-tion Agency claimed to be trying to add high school in each subdistrict having many students going out of the region, such as the Rendang, Sidemen, Manggis and Kubu. However, the development process of high school takes a long enough

time. “Although many students are going out of the region, the most important now is that the students can continue their study. This is good news. We will improve the weakness this year in the coming years gradually,” he said.

Currently, approximately 2,575 junior high school graduates are received at state schools in Karan-gasem. A total of 1,515 students continue their education to high school and the remaining 1,060 students choose to continue to vo-cational school.

The junior high school graduates are spread across nine state high schools and four state vocational schools. This year the SMAN 1 Amlapura high school received 288 new students, SMAN 2 Amlapura as favorite school received 288 new students and SMAN 3 Am-lapura received 220 new students, while the remaining graduates are spread out in several subdistricts in Karangasem. Then for vocational school, the SMKN 1 Amlapura vocational school is most favorite receiving about 520 students, fol-lowed by SMKN 1 Abang (444 students), SMKN 1 Manggis (360 students) and SMKN 1 Kubu (360 students).

Most students continuing their education to vocational school take major in hotel field. Seeing the development of students choosing vocational school, the Education Agency plans to build two more vocational schools in the Beban-dem and Rendang subdistrict. (kmb31)

NUSA PENIDA - After the celebration of Galungan, the peak of backflow occurred on Friday morning (Jul. 17). Favor-able weather condition made the crossing authorities increase the number of trip services either by the Nusa Jaya Abadi roro vessel or speed boat to serve the com-munity.

According to Harbormaster of Sampalan Harbor, I Nyoman Murka Wicaksana, the weather is conducive so that the crossing by speed boat was increased as many as seven trips and fast sampan for two trips. “The weather is better than three days before right on the homecoming traffic so as to serve the backflow we must add the trip. However, we still consider the

weather condition. Speed boat is made up to seven times, while fast sampan for two times,” he explained.

The Head of the Nusa Penida Crossing Unit, I Dewa Gede Agus Swarma Hendra, when met at the harbor also confirmed that his party opened crossing for two times by roro vessel. The trips are departed at 06:30 and then eleven o’clock in the morn-ing. “From our observation, the weather returns to normal so that we are open twice crossing ser-vices. Today is predicted as the peak of backflow for our fellows working outside the island. In the meantime, the fuel transportation is transferred to roro vessel,” said Agus. (dwa)

Weather gets better, fleets increase trips

Galiran Market vile, janitors must be increased

Lack of school, hundreds students leave Karangasem

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The students of elementary school are coming home after studying.

AMLAPURA - Welcoming the 2015/2016 new academic year, thousands of students graduating from junior high school have chosen a new school at the level of senior high and vocational school (SMA /SMK).

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“I literally would be in a meeting room in the hotel and then go to the airport,” she said.

But these days, Achille, CEO of The Devon Group, which does public relations and marketing for tech firms, is “quite

intentional” about flying in early for a business trip or staying over an extra day “to squeeze in a side trip, a spa visit, try out a top restaurant or similar activity.”

Her first “bleisure” (business-and-leisure) excur-sion was in London, where she tacked an extra day on a business trip so she could see the Victoria & Albert Museum. Earlier this summer, she flew in early for a trade show in Las Vegas to hit a spa and meet friends for dinner.

Building in the extra time has made her “a happier person,” she says. And it doesn’t necessarily cost more. In some destinations, airlines and hotels charge more on weekdays because of higher demand from business travelers, so Achille’s early arrival in Vegas entailed a cheaper flight and a relatively inexpensive hotel room.

“It came out in my favor,” she said. “When you really look at it, in terms of your sanity and the op-portunity, as well as the economic model, a lot of times it makes sense.”

Marian Thier expects clients to pay for an early arrival for business trips so she can be “rested and ready to work.” Thier decided to build in the extra time after being asked to “go from Sydney to Seoul” with no consideration “that I might be tired, and I had a life.”

Thier, founding partner of the leadership devel-opment firm Listening Impact, based in Boulder, Colorado, says clients don’t complain about paying for extra hotel nights and other expenses because “both clients and I benefited. I felt more in control of my time and life, and the clients got me at my best.” The approach has helped Thier view “business travel as a gift, a way to see the world, rather than as a burden.”

Sashee Chandran, who owns a small artisanal tea company, Tea Drops, says adding time for sightsee-ing to a business trip is “part of my philosophy of an integrated lifestyle” with “a great balance of work and

life every day, even on weekends.” Chandran attends a lot of trade shows and likes to extend her stay afterward “because prior to the show I’m usually wrapped up with show preparation.”

In mid-July, she rewarded herself after attending a show in Hawaii by tacking on an extra Friday-Sunday. Her stops included the Honolulu Art Museum, where her tea is sold in the gift shop, and a stop at Shangri La, a historic mansion known for its Islamic art collection. “The fun outing of going to Shangri La gave me an event to really look forward to as I worked all week at the trade show,” she said.

Just don’t overdo it — a lesson Achille learned after cram-ming in three museums in Madrid. “Trying to do too much means you’ve defeated the purpose,” she said. “You’re trying to create memories.” (ap)

This June 13, 2015 photo shows the Gallatin River near Big Sky, Montana, about 50 miles from Yellowstone National Park. Big Sky is an out-of-the-way setting for conferences and conventions, with easy access to outdoor diversions including fishing in the Gallatin River.

Sightseeing day adds sanity, fun to business trip

Jeanne Achille used to find business travel “really depressing” because she never got to sightsee in the places she was visiting.

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Tourist facilities such as villa and restaurant have been built along the beach of Gianyar as seen on Ketewel Beach (Sukawati) to Lebih Beach (Gianyar). Apart from the investors wishing to get tranquil atmosphere of the beach, establishment of the tourist facilities also considers the easy access from Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra.

But now the tourist facilities have been threatened by abrasion. A num-ber of villas have been surrounded by coastal waves, while some others are still fortified with high walls built by the investors. For information, most of the facilities have owned a license from the Integrated Licensing Of-fice (BPPT) of Gianyar because the permit was issued before they were exposed to abrasion.

Most of the villas afflicted by the abrasion are visible on Ketewel Beach, Lembeng Beach to Purnama Beach (Sukawati) and Keramas Beach, Cucukan Beach to Masceti Beach (Blahbatuh). Lately, the eroded tourist facilities are also seen around

the Lebih Beach, Gianyar.Nevertheless, the government

itself does not keep silent seeing the high abrasion rate in the coastal areas of Gianyar spreading along approximately 15.94 km. Various efforts have surely been done such as by installing breakwater. However, they mostly have broken as found on Cucukan Beach, Blahbatuh.

In the meantime, the Head of the Gianyar Public Works Agency, I.B. Sudewa, said that the abrasion is caused by the magnitude of waves along the beach in Gianyar. Besides, the basic character of the sandy beaches makes the damage suffered worse.

When asked about the building of breakwater along the coastal areas of Gianyar, he said that it is beyond the authority of the government of Gian-yar. “The abrasion rate is indeed high, while the making of breakwater is the authority of the Bali-Penida River Agency. Should there be any damage, we will make coordination with the agency,” he said. (kmb35)

SINGARAJA - Lovina beach in Bule-leng district, Bali, has been thronged with foreign tourists and local holidaymakers during the local Balinese public holiday of Galungan and Muslim holiday of Idul Fitri or Lebaran this week.

“Thousands of foreign and domestic tourists during this week have been flocking to Lovina beach to enjoy the funny attrac-tions of hundreds of dolphins,” said Nyo-man Budiasa, a tour guide, on Sunday.

He explained that the number of tourists visiting the beach, situated some 90 km from Denpasar, rose by 100 to 150 percent during the Galungan and Lebaran holidays this year from that of the regular days.

Situated on the northwestern side of Bali island, Lovina coastal strip stretches from 5 km west of the city of Singaraja, the seat of Buleleng district, to 15 km west.

The Lovina area contains the small vil-lages from east to west of Pemaron, Tukad Mungga, Anturan, Banyualit, Kalibukbuk, Kaliasem and Temukus.

It is becoming more popular with tour-ists but remains far quieter than the tourist hotspots of the island’s south side.

Popular activities for visitors include early-morning boat trips off the coast to see dolphins. (ant)

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High abrasion rate along the beach in Gianyar cannot indeed be denied. Dozens of tourist facilities such as restaurants, villas and hotels standing on the coastal border of Gianyar are threatened by scouring rush of the waves.

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Lovina beach in Buleleng district, Bali, has been thronged with foreign tourists and local holidaymakers during the local Balinese public holiday of Galungan and Muslim holiday of Idul Fitri or Lebaran this week.

Abrasion threatens tourist accommodation on Gianyar Beach

GIANYAR - High abrasion rate along the beach in Gianyar cannot indeed be denied. Dozens of tourist facilities such as restaurants, villas and hotels standing on the coastal border of Gianyar are threatened by scouring rush of the waves. In the meantime, the number of breakwaters built by the government is mostly in damaged condition and has collapsed due to the fierceness of waves.

Holidaymakers throng Lovina Beach

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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.

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“Like the cockfight, sometimes we connote it to gambling. Actu-ally cockfight does not belong to gambling. It remains to pose a cultural attraction,” said the legal practitioner, I Made Arimbawa, when confirmed on Saturday (Jul. 18).

This former chairman of the PDI-P faction in the Bali House assessed the need for legislation to regulate cockfight. In other words, it must be arranged so that there are limits becoming the elements of games in the cockfight itself. For instance, what is allowed and what is not or which one is allowed and not allowed. Accord-ing to Arimbawa, everything that is willing to be set actually does not matter. Probably, it can even suppress the practice of gambling accompanying the cockfight.

“The most important is how to create a rule in order to accom-modate the elements that will be set forth. On the one hand, the cockfight does not break the rules; while on the other hand, it remains to exist as a cultural attraction. When the elements set forth in the game of cockfight have been determined, the elements beyond it contain gambling, it means that such an action belongs to other

NEGArA – Backflow on the day after the Eid through the en-trance of Gilimanuk starts to look crowded. Public inter-provincial buses and tourist buses seem to be filled with passengers. Similar condition also occurs to luggage in the buses. To anticipate the smug-gling of illicit goods, the Jembrana Police make investigation focused at the first and second checkpoint

station (the entrance to Bali) at Gilimanuk Harbor.

All vehicles, especially public transport such as buses, are ex-amined by joint personnel of the Jembrana Police. The personnel of intelligence and security, criminal investigation, narcotic unit and traffic affairs unit were deployed to check each bus crossing to Gilimanuk. In addition to checking

people, the officers also intensified the checking of luggage carried by passengers and their luggage in the bus rack.

Chief of the Jembrana Police Traffic Affairs, Gede Sumadra Ker-thiawan, when met on the sidelines of the checking last Saturday said that the investigation specifically targeted the buses coming to Bali both the inter-provincial public

buses and tourist buses.“The personnel coalesced into

some 30 members of Ketupat Operation are focused in the ex-amination at the entrance to Bali so as to anticipate any terror during the celebration of this feast,” said Kerthiawan.

Based on the data of the buses checked, there have been aver-agely 250 units of buses coming

to Bali since July 9. Peak of the bus traffic occurred during the period of July 10-11 where each day amounted to 525 buses. After that, the number of incoming bus was around 300-400 units each day. In the operation led by the chief of traffic affairs, the officers managed to secure a rooster taken by a passenger of Dahlia Bus with destination to Denpasar. (kmb26)

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Newcomers start coming to Bali

Cockfight is not a gambleDENPASAr - Cockfight

(tajen) can be analogized to sports such as football or bil-liard. Football and billiard are equally recognized as a sport, but they are also used as a vehicle of gambling. However, it does not necessarily mean if football or billiard must then be eliminated because it must be distinguished from sport and gambling.

elements,” he explained.In the meantime, a member

of the Commission 1 of the Bali House, I Wayan Gunawan, said that the House has not yet re-ceived any feedback or sugges-tions on the making of Regional Bylaw (Perda). The suggestion can be from the level of institu-tion, individual, group or pro-

posal referring to the results of a discussion.

“What is important today is the adequate legal basis when it is time to talk about cockfight matters, anything, other than the word gambling. Find out an ad-equate basis and look for a more factual legal basis so that there is no problem in the middle of the

community,” he said.Gunawan added that cockfight

in terms of legal context is inad-equate. However, in terms of social context, cockfight has already been rampant due to going naturally. When it is made a Regional Bylaw, the matter will be related to the rights, obligations and responsi-bilities that must be regulated.

“From the other side, if it is indeed realized there will be a psychological context where the community will feel secure and there is no collusion or something like conspiracy of ‘bribing’ the law enforcement agencies. In that con-text, it will go back to the basics of adequate law,” said the Golkar politician. (kmb32)

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Kandia stressed that Bali and its people need protection from the government, through -amongst other thing empowering local people to open their homes as ac-commodations for travellers. That way local people can become the active subjects in tourism rather than passive objects of it.

“I think that by providing free training to the Balinese public about how to not only be objects of tourism but also active play-ers in it is very important. about tourism free of charge our society does not become the object only but also the players. If all of our

government policies regarding tourism and property give con-cessions to foreigners, we will become further marginalized,” he said.

Kandia argued that the key issue is the question of the gov-ernment’s loyalty to its people. “Our community has been loyal to the government, however the government is not good for our community,” he sneered.

He acknowledged that most of the businesses operating along Jalan Pantai Sanur or in Kuta and Nusa Dua belong to foreign inves-tors. Similarly, most of the play-

ers in the craft industry are also people from outside of Bali.

“This should be minimized as much as possible because Bali itself only suffers from traffic jams, trash and other problems, while the revenue from tourism flees the island,” he said.

The large amount of foreign investment in Bali is assessed by many to have caused huge amounts of capital flight or eco-nomic leakage. Bali very much depends on the production of products from outside of Bali with raw materials and work-ers currently coming outside

of Bali. Certainly this reality is tied into the fact that investors from outside of Bali rely on their networks that are also outside of Bali.

“We are not allergic to foreign investment, but Bali does not re-ally need labor from outside - in fact there is a lot of unemployment amongst the local population due to the competion of workers who are brought in from elsewhere,” he explained.

Kandia added that capital flight can be prevented through legal certainty, a favourable investment climate and the encouragement of domestic investment including facilitating licensing, taxation and support from banks. “The government must have clear rules to prevent capital flight,” he con-cluded hopefully.

Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association

(PHRI) of Badung Chapter, IGN Ray Suryawijaya, argues that Regent Regulation No.36/2014 regarding the minimal standards for buildings and room area for hotels and condotel should not only be a “paper tiger with no teeth”. The Regent Regulation mentions a minimal area of 0.50 hectares of land for hotel con-struction in Kuta, 0.75 hectares in Northern Kuta and one hectare in Southern Kuta as a way to stop the rampant construction of hotels in Badung.

Local people need protection

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Tourists spend their vacation at Kuta Beach on Sunday, July 19, during Idul Fitri holiday. Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Tourism Villages (ADWI), Jro Mangku Kandia, argued that the problem occurring in Bali is the result of government policy, therefor it is the responsibility of the government to return tourism conditions to what they were before.

DENPASAR - Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Tourism Villages (ADWI), Jro Mangku Kandia, argued that the problem occurring in Bali is the result of government policy, therefor it is the responsibility of the government to return tourism conditions to what they were before. “The government should protect its people. It is not only property that is owned by foreigners, professions like tourist guides and hotel employees are also taken up by foreigners. In Papua, for instance, foreigners own vessels that are rented out to visitors. This sort of thing happens because both the government and society at large are inattentive and careless,” he said.

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radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.NEW YORK — Bruce Willis’ daughter is beating

her famous dad to Broadway. Producers of the long-running musical “Chicago” said Thursday that Rumer Willis, recently named “Dancing with the Stars” win-

ner, will make her Broadway debut in August as Roxie Hart.

Her dad will be making his Broadway debut in “Misery” starting in October.

Set in the 1920s, “Chicago” is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals. It has Bob Fosse-inspired choreography, skimpy outfits and killer songs such as “All That Jazz,” ‘’Cell Block Tango” and “Mr. Cellophane.”

Rumer Willis, who has been onstage in “Love, Loss and What I Wore” and opposite her mother Demi Moore in the films “Striptease” and “Now and Then,” will start at the Ambassador Theatre on Aug. 18 and end her run Oct. 11.

Just some of the stars who have done stints in the show include Sofia Vergara, Melanie Griffith, Brooke Shields, Ashlee Simpson, Paige Davis, Marilu Henner, Rita Wilson and Christie Brinkley.

Bruce Willis will star in an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “Misery,” which begins performances Oct. 22 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Laurie Metcalf will appear opposite the “Die Hard” star. (ap)

The China office of US promoter Live Nation apologised to ticket holders and pledged refunds, but gave no reason for the cancellation for the concert which was to have taken place in the country’s com-mercial hub, Shanghai.

Jesse Carmichael, who plays both keyboard and rhythm guitar, tweeted about meeting the Dalai Lama at events for the leader’s 80th birthday earlier this month. The tweet has been removed.

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after an armed rebellion against Chinese rule was put down by its military.

China considers Tibet to be part of its sovereign territory which it claims is backed by a long-standing

historical right, and accuses the Nobel peace laureate of separat-ism.

Maroon 5 were due to play Shanghai on September 12, ac-cording to a previous statement on the band’s website, but the city no longer appeared on a schedule.

Known for songs such as “One More Night” and “Moves Like Jagger” the band are still expected to play in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, the website showed.

Fans showed disappointment over the cancellation.

“I believe Jesse (Carmichael) did not mean any malice. I also under-stand the government’s attitude. The fans are the ones who suffer,” wrote

Qi Chu in a microblog posting.Another asked: “Does attend-

ing a friend’s birthday party equal agreeing with his political views?”

Chinese officials have been espe-cially sensitive about live concerts since Bjork chanted “Tibet” during her song “Declare Independence” in 2008.

Authorities censor content they deem to be politically sensitive or obscene, while international music acts are required to submit set lists for major concerts in advance.

Last year, the suggestive lyrics of “Honky Tonk Women” were appar-ently too much for China’s cultural authorities as the Rolling Stones said the chart-topping song was “vetoed” for their show. (afp)

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt and Bill Maher say Costco con-tributes to animal cruelty by selling eggs from caged hens.

Pitt sent a letter to the chief executive of the big-box chain Thursday asking the company to stop selling eggs produced this way. Pitt’s letter to Craig Jelinek says caged birds suffer atrophy of their muscles and bones from years of immobility, adding that the cages have been banned in California and much of Europe.

“As you know, these birds pro-ducing eggs for your shelves are crammed five or more into cages that are not large enough for even one hen to spread her wings,” Pitt writes.

Maher took aim at the company in an editorial published last week by The New York Times.

“Multiple investigations into battery cages document animals with deteriorated spinal cords, some who have become paralyzed and then mummified in their cages,” Maher wrote. “Imagine cramming five cats or dogs into tiny cages, hundreds of thousands in each shed, for their entire lives. That would warrant cruelty charges, of course. But when the egg industry does it

to hens, it’s considered business as usual.”

Both commended Costco for its other animal-welfare efforts and called on the company to make good on its 2007 promise to move toward uncaging its egg-laying hens.

Pitt and Maher each spoke out on behalf of Farm Sanctuary, an organization that advocates against the mistreatment of animals and factory farming.

Costco said in June statement that there are “vigorous debates about animal welfare and laying hens.”

“Some, such as the Humane Society, advocate that hens be ‘cage free,’ and not confined in cages. Some advocate that cages are safer for hens,” the statement reads.

The statement acknowledges that Costco’s sales of organic/cage-free eggs have increased “more than twentyfold” over the past nine years.

The company did not elaborate, nor specifically address the celeb-rity complaints.

Costco said it is “committed to the ethical treatment of animals” and its code of ethics is part of the company mission statement. (ap)

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Maroon 5 cancels China gig, prompting speculation over Dalai Lama meeting

SHANGHAI - A planned concert by US pop group Maroon 5 in China has been cancelled, the promoter said, prompting speculation that authorities refused permission because a band member met the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama.

Rumer Willis to step into Broadway’s ‘Chicago’ this summer

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