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l British male solo artist: Ed Sheeranl British female solo artist: Paloma Faithl British breakthrough act: Sam Smithl Brits global success award: Sam Smithl MasterCard British album: Ed Sheeran “x”l British group: Royal Bloodl International female solo artist: Taylor Swiftl International male solo artist: Pharrell Williamsl International group: Foo Fightersl British video: One Direction “You & I”l British single: Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk”

Madonna entered with a troupe of male dancers and appeared to fumble with a long, flowing cloak she was wearing. A member of the troupe yanked on the gar-ment, which was tied at the neck, but rather than come off it pulled Madonna backward down three steps while her dancers looked on, seemingly in shock.

In a post on Instagram after the perfor-mance, Madonna said she was doing OK.

“My beautiful cape was tied too tight! But noth-ing can stop me and love really lifted me up!” she wrote. “Thanks for your good wishes! I’m fine!”

The song includes a lyric about stumbling, then con-tinues “I’m gonna carry on” — and Madonna did, continuing the matador-themed routine.

The fall drew an in-

stant, and mostly sympathetic, reaction from ceremony attendees and television viewers.

“I feel for her,” singer Ashley Roberts told ITV news. “She’s a pro, though, and she kept going.”

Kanye West and Taylor Swift also performed at the Brit Awards, the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys. (ap)

LONDON — Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran each won a pair of prizes Wednesday at Britain’s leading music awards — but it took Kanye West to introduce some edge, with a song that proved too strong for television.

Elsewhere there were few surprises at the awards, which recognize international stars along with homegrown British talent.

Tousle-haired singer Sheeran won prizes for best British male solo artist and British album of the year, for “X.” Soulful crooner Smith won trophies for British breakthrough act and global success.

“Since I was a little kid I dreamed of people all over the world singing my songs,” Smith said. “This shows I’m stepping in the right direction.”

The 22-year-old Smith won four Grammys earlier this month, including record of the year for “Stay With Me.”

Smith was sultry and Sheeran was sensible, but West provided a dose of raw energy. He performed his raw, grime-influenced new song “All Day,” whose lyrics, peppered with

expletives and the n-word, were muted for the show’s live TV broadcast.

West has said his new clothing line was influenced by the 2011 London riots, and the performance also had an urban-unrest feel, involving dozens of dancers and a giant flamethrower.

It has been a big year for British music, with Smith storming the Grammys and artists like Sheeran, baby-faced singer-songwriter George Ezra and the still-ubiquitous One Direction making waves.

The Brits were once renowned for chaos, enlivened by incidents including a 1992 stunt in which British band the KLF left a dead sheep at the after-show dinner. But the cer-emony has been transformed in recent years into a slick talent showcase.

West aside, the tone of the evening was accomplished but not edgy, opening with a sleekly saucy performance of “Blank Space” by a black-clad Taylor Swift.

Swift was named best international female artist, while “Happy” hit-maker Pharrell Wil-

liams was named best international male act, and Foo Fighters won the trophy for interna-tional group. Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” took the prize for best British single.

A dash of rock ‘n’ roll was added by grungy duo Royal Blood, awarded the best British group trophy by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page — once a symbol of rock rebellion, now a distinguished elder statesman.

Royal Blood singer Mike Kerr said the award was a surprise to the band, and possibly to the audience, “as you may not even know who we are.”

The prize for best British female artist went to retro-loving singer Paloma Faith, who dedi-cated her award to “all the underdogs and all the grafters” who struggle to succeed.

Clutching a curvy white Brits statuette designed by artist Tracey Emin, Faith recalled how in her early days she had been arrested for putting up posters for her gigs. Now, she said, “my pictures are all over Greenwich Tube station legally, and that’s an amazing feeling.”(ap)

Madonna takes a tumble at the Brit Awards

REUTERS/Toby Melville

Singer Madonna falls during her performance at the BRIT music awards at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London, February 25, 2015.

LONDON — Madonna has given music fans a shock when she tumbled down several stairs at the Brit Awards. The 56-year-old queen of pop was closing Wednesday’s ceremony in London with a performance of her song “Living For Love.”

Smith and Sheeran win, Kanye stirs it up at UK’s Brit Awards

REUTERS/Toby Melville

Ed Sheeran receives the award for best solo male artist at the BRIT music awards at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London, February 25, 2015.

Gendo asked the public to think of reclamation in terms of envi-ronmental problems and potential of future disasters. The investor

was trying to suggest that if the reclamation-based revitalization would be made in the form of is-lands that paid attention to natural

channels, it would also maintain a certain distance from the island to the mangrove.

However, “If dredging the chan-nel, it must be asked whether the dredging of the channel is proportion-al to the bay area backfilled. There is still a reduction in the volume of water catchment. Since Benoa Bay belongs to a reservoir area, obviously there will be environmental impacts, including tidal floods,” he said.

He also said that it represented

a bad precedent in the field of law, chiefly the law of spatial planning, in Bali and Indonesia. It was also an infringement on the moratorium policy in place. It was also not eq-uitable in terms of development of various regions of Bali.

According to Gendo, the issue of reclamation did not have anything to do with environmental aspects. Socially and culturally, the lures of investors claiming to provide hundreds of thousands of job op-

portunities would only increase the burden in South Bali.

‘Reclamation-based revitalization’ feared to add new problems

DENPASAR - Reclamation-based revitalization is a new term appearing in public spaces around Bali. Coordinator of the ForBALI, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, cited the reclamation plan at Benoa Bay as an example of bad tourism sector gover-nance whereby spatial planning was adjusted for the benefit of investors. The discourse of revitalization was even feared to add new problems, such as social impacts and massive land conversion in South Bali.

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The file photo showed people rallied to asked government to revoke the presidential decree on Benoa Bay reclamation plan. The discourse of revitalization feared to add new problems, such as social impacts and massive land conversion in South Bali.

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Thailand’s Senate will not be elected, charter drafters say

Activists: Number of Christians abducted by IS rises to 220

Arsenal flaws exposed again in Wenger’s sour Monaco reunion

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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 celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las 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, deco-rated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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JIMBArAN - Let us spoil you with the ultimate romantic dining experience in a tented pavilion,

canopied in white cotton and dis-creetly located on a beachfront lawn overlooking Jimbaran Bay.

You will be seated at a beauti-fully decorated table for two, with flickering candles and a set menu

especially created for this intimate rendezvous. Each course will be prepared by your personal chef and

served throughout the evening by your personal butler, complete with private entertainment. (r)

BuddhIst community living in Bali has just celebrated Lunar New Year with joy and humility. Most of them are descendants of Chinese immigrants who work in several fields such as tourism. What about the harmony and the impres-sion on their life on the Island of the Gods? Let’s ask the friend of Bali Travel News who is engaged in the field of tourism, Fandy Lo. This man of Chinese descent is now oc-cupying the position of Marketing Manager at Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort.

Fandy, it is the familiar address of this young man from Jakarta. He saw that Bali had a good level of tolerance and excellent local wisdom when set foot on the island last 2.5 years ago. It was proved by the establishment of some places of worship of various faiths practiced by Chinese diaspora in Bali. Ad-ditionally, Fandy considered that many Chinese entrepreneurs and workers who migrated to Bali mak-ing friends with the locals. Even, they had a close friendship. “Bali

is like a second home where the weekend and holiday seem more relaxing. I am warmly received in the office environment and soci-ety,” he kindly said.

In maintaining social relations in the office and the community, Fandy said, personally he did not distinguish from each other. Many

of his friends had different faiths and came almost from all regions of the archipelago. “Other Chinese people and I maintain harmony by respecting the difference in holi-days, ceremonies, sacred places and ways of worship. Bali as famous and friendly community also allows us to socialize,” he explained.

Fandy could not deny that other than open socialization in Bali, the culture and the arts such as dance, food, gamelan, carvings and typical souvenirs of Bali were also able to attract the attention of Chinese people so that they fell in love with the local beauty. On the Chinese New Year celebration this month, he was very grateful because he could return home to Jakarta and celebrated it with family. “Last year, I celebrated the feast at hotel where I worked. At that time, it was jazzed up with a lion dance performance. Other people who witnessed were also enthusiastic so that I feel comforted because everything was going along well,” he added. (ocha)

Fandy LoLove harmony of Chinese and Balinese community

Romantic Dinner in a tented pavilion at InterContinental Bali Resort

“Last night, the waves were high and it rained torrentially. The waves hit my stall,” said one of the residents around the Klotok Beach, Wayan Puri, when met by Bali Post, Wednesday. He claimed to live in the stall every day. Piles of the marine debris, according to him, were taken by high waves accompa-nied by heavy rain and violent wind the night before. Prior to adverse weather on Tuesday night, the coastline along one kilometer was still clean. After passing through period of tense, on Wednesday morning some Tojan villagers began cleaning up the rubbish. All the twigs were sorted and taken home for firewood. Meanwhile, large tree

trunks were still left and so were plastic and aluminum cans.

As a result of the swept marine debris, along the coast became slum. Local residents had not been able to clean up it in whole. The marine debris complicated local people to continue their daily work, namely looking for mosaic stones usually rampant on local beach. Another resident, Wayan Tarti, said the high waves on local beach had happened since the past week. “But, the most terrible was last night and it immediately brought in abun-dant marine debris,” she said. She admitted to be still anxious to overnight again in his stall. Every night, she and her family had to go out of the house. If the

weather permitted, she would overnight in her stall.

She said the current coastal condition was the most severe caused by the marine debris. Residents hoped there would be clean-up activities on the Klotok Beach, so as it could be as clean as before. Moreover, since the Klotok Beach started to be arranged, quite a lot of local and foreign travelers came to simply enjoy the beach am-bience. Moreover, the Klotok Beach was also considered a sacred area in Bali that should be preserved and freed from marine debris that could made it slum like the coastline in the south of Watu Klotok Temple. (kmb31)

dENPAsAr - Bali government has officially lowered the imposition of Vehicle Fuel Tax (PBBKB) from 10 percent to five percent. It has been set forth in the Regional Bylaw No.1/2015 on the Amendment against the Regional Bylaw No.1/2011 on the regional tax that was enacted on Tuesday (Feb. 25) by Legal Divi-sion of Bali government. However, the decline in the price of Premium fuel from IDR 7,000 per liter to IDR 6,600 per liter as the implication of the decline in the Vehicle Fuel Tax is still waiting for the determination from Pertamina of Bali branch.

“Enactment of the Regional By-law No.1/2015 has been delivered to Pertamina of Bali branch. So, we just need to wait for the new pricing from Pertamina,” said the Legal Division Head of Bali government, Wayan Sugiada, Wednesday (Feb. 25).

Sugiada asserted that after the regional bylaw was enacted it should have been able to be applied so that the price of Premium fuel in Bali could be the same as that of other re-gions at IDR 6,600 per liter. However, the price reduction authority lay in the side of Pertamina. On that account, his party hoped Pertamina to imme-diately enforce the regulation. “Since the revision of regional bylaw was just received by Pertamina yesterday, maybe it cannot be immediately fol-

lowed up and it must calculate first the price of Premium fuel. We urge to immediately apply the new price,” said Sugiada.

He described the point set forth in the Regional Bylaw No.1/2015 on the Amendment against the Regional Bylaw No.1/2011 on Local Taxes lay in the article 37. In paragraph 1 of article 37 was mentioned the amount of vehicle fuel tax in Bali was set at 5 percent. In paragraph 2 was mentioned the vehicle fuel tax rate for public transport was set at 50 percent more than that of private vehicles. “We in the Bali government have made a legal instrument on the decline in the vehicle fuel tax. Now, it is the turn of Pertamina to follow it up,” said Sugiada.

Similar opinion was delivered by the Head of Bali Revenue Services (Dispenda), Made Santa, said the re-vised regulation had been submitted to the office of the Assistant Branch Manager of the Pertamina Bali Rep-resentative, Donatus Aldo, Wednes-day. As consequence, the realm of Premium price reduction was no longer in the Bali government but in Pertamina. “Regarding the authority when (Premium price decline) will be made and how much it will cost now lies in Pertamina. But, we urge it can be applied as soon as possible,” said Santa. (kmb29)

BANGLI - Traffic violation in the jurisdiction of Bangli Police remains high. It is proved by large number of road users cracked down on by police due to violating. From the raids held by police at a num-ber of locations, most violations happened due to non-possession of driving license.

Chief of Bangli Police Traffic Affairs, Nyoman Sukadana, with permission from Chief of Bangli Po-lice, Suswanto, on Wednesday (Feb. 25) recognized that traffic violation netted during the ongoing traffic order program for a month increased significantly. Last January, his party managed to capture 345 offenders. Among them, 290 offenders had no driving license, 134 offenders were using no safety helmet, 52 offenders did not bring vehicle registration,

12 vehicles were overcapacity, 11 vehicles were without completeness and a violation of traffic sign.

Meanwhile, up to 24 February, the number of netted offender reached 321 people. Of that amount, the most violations happened because they did not bring driving license (154 persons), without safety hel-met (40), without vehicle registra-tion (36), overcapacity (7), without completeness (8) and traffic sign violation (6).

Sukanada said that all this time his party had intensively disseminated to public about the traffic discipline. His party did only target the adult community, but also school students at Kindergarten. Prosecution against the netted offenders had also been made, but the violation rate remained high enough. (ina)

Traffic violations in Bangli still high

Price decline of Premium waits for Pertamina

Due to marine debris, Klotok

Beach turns slumsEMArAPurA - Piles of rubbish mounted up along the Klotok Beach, Klungkung,

Wednesday (Feb. 25). such condition occurred after heavy rain and violent wind hit the regions of Klungkung, tuesday night (Feb. 24) until the next morning. At that time, the situation was tense where residents living near coastline did not dare to leave their house. they feared and preferred to stay in the house to save themselves.

IBP/Bagiarta

The debris which make Klotok Beach in Klungkung very dirty.

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, February 27, 2015Friday, February 27, 2015

Gucci’s new designer Ales-sandro Michele, a brand insider little known until now in the wider fashion world, made his runway debut on the first day of womenswear previews Wednes-day, giving the historic brand a clean break from the past.

Michele’s launch is a fitting banner over a push to embed new talent in Milan, where the density of the firmly established Italian system, with brands from Armani to Prada to Versace cre-ating a de-facto Italian colony along New York’s Fifth Avenue, has made it difficult for young designers to make inroads.

In a bid to help foster new

talent, the Italian Fashion Cham-ber sponsored a live runway competition this round among five young designers. At the same time, recently discovered young designers, like Stella Jean and Fausto Puglisi, have quickly established themselves as an integral part of the fashion calendar, which comprises 68 shows and 76 presentations this season.

“I am hoping this is the be-ginning of a new phase, ac-celerating the growth of the new designers,” Italian Fashion Chamber CEO Jane Reeve said in a recent interview.

“We lost a whole genera-

tion,” she said, referring to the period after the ascent of the likes of Giorgio Armani, who celebrates 40 years in the fashion business this year, and Dolce&Gabbana, a design team who established themselves with Madonna as their muse in the 1990s and are now them-selves in their 50s.

Reeve says her mission is to bring the young established designers and the even younger promising designers into the Italian system, and secure their loyalty. The Next Generation fashion contest, won by 22-year-old Claudio Cutugno on Tuesday evening, was a first step. (ap)

LONDON - London Fashion Week draws to a close on Tuesday after five days that have showcased an eclectic range of talent, from luxury brands to rising stars. Here are five themes from the autumn/winter 2015 collections.

- Party on, girl -

Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson looked to Berlin before the fall of the wall for an eclectic, Eighties-inspired collection for his J.W. Anderson label.

There were tops and tunics with puffed-out shoulders and sleeves, and cords tucked into knee-high leather boots. “The bottom line is girls having fun,” he said.

German twins Daniela and Annette Felder, who together form Felder Felder, also took inspiration from Berlin, this time in the Sixties, a time of hedonism, politics and sex.

There were short, swinging skirts in laser cut faux leather in red or black, matched with tops tied at the bust, as well as shaggy faux fur coats.

And who wouldn’t want to be seen on the dance floor with a girl wear-ing the glitter ball crystal-studded frock from David Koma, the Georgian-born designer who has dressed Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Kylie?

- Fur, or almost -High-street store Topshop had furry stoles, cuffs and coat edging for

the Unique collection that for the first time took its signature urban look into the countryside, along with cords and floral patterned frocks.

Serbian-born designer Roksanda had acid-coloured fur coats, gilets and wraps belted into tiny-waisted full skirts, matched with blue or orange furry clutches.

There were also furry clutches at Hunter Original, home to the fa-mous boots, and furry panels on practical coats showed off by models walking on a runway beneath two cascading waterfalls.

Meanwhile luxury house Mulberry used dried thistles to brush up its wool to look and feel like fur.

The plants are attached to a rotating column on a machine and when the wool is fed into it, “they extract the fibres and lengthen them out to create a fur-like texture”, knitwear designer Jade Leong told AFP.

- Cover up those knees -While hedonism ruled elsewhere on the catwalk, the full, calf-length

skirt remains in vogue. This season also saw its more practical cousin take centre stage -- the

wide-legged calf-length trouser, seen both on and off the catwalk.Burberry had over-the-knee sheer flowering skirts and Roksanda

had a more structured A-line version in geometric patterns in orange, purple, pink, blue and gold.

Emilia Wickstead’s elegant formal wear -- beloved of the Duchess of Cambridge -- featured both pastel-coloured skirts and belted trousers that end below the knee, while veteran British designer Paul Smith matched his wide trousers with masculine suit jackets.

- Loving black -British designer Gareth Pugh took black into a place of its own, with

his highly conceptual, sculptural designs, this season built around the theme of a model army.

But black was also a favourite of many designers in London -- as vet-eran Julien Macdonald emphatically put it: “Black is a colour. Women like wearing black. I don’t like navy blue, I like black.”

British designer Giles used it in gothic, romantic frocks, while rising star Simone Rocha used it in rich fabrics shaped into oversized petals on velvet tops and skirts, tapestry-style capes or delicate embroidered tulle and ruffled silks.

David Koma had black frocks with fun flared cuffs and zips up the front and lots of leather, while Australian fashion label sass & bide -- also beloved of celebrities -- rocked the black, leather and metallic look.

- Fear of empty spaces -Greek-born designer Mary Katrantzou chose a concept called “horror

vacui”, or fear of empty spaces, to explain her richly textured outfits, which she contrasted with minimalist, seamless frocks.

Burberry Prorsum also employed a wide variety of techniques in dresses and coats made up of a patchwork of prints and bold autumnal colours.

There was also a patchwork effect on the shirts, skirts and shearling coats at Preen, as well as heavy floral prints. (afp)

Five themes from London Fashion Week

REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Models display a creation as part of the Gucci Autumn/Win-ter 2015 /16 collection during Milan Fashion Week.

New Gucci designer debuts as Milan celebrates youth

MILAN — Fashion is always about renewal, but in this round of Milan Fashion Week it’s not just the collections that are getting a fresher-upper but, it seems, much of the Italian fashion system.

The new types of salt include flat, coarse, fine grain, baby pyramid and black salt in flavors including sal-rosella flower, chili, garlic, garden onion, coffee, chocolate, butterfly pea and the latest flavor, strawberry

pyramid. The price of flavored salt is higher than of regular salt ranging from IDR 60,000 to IDR 200,000 per kilogram.

Regular salt sells for around IDR 1,000 to 3,000 per kilogram. The

innovative new salt is targeting at both domestic and domestic mar-kets. When interviewed, Nyoman Sutrisna, Head of Buleleng Fish-eries and Maritime Affairs, said, “We are trying to innovate in ac-

cordance with a market demand we feel is there”. Sutrisna mentioned the Ministry, working through the Directorate General of Islands, Coastal and Small Island (KP3K) has also sent a proposal hoping for discussion and promotion by the central government. While the salt producers are interested in attractive export markets in Italy,

Belgium, England, Germany and the Netherlands, they also see po-tential in the local market. The new salt is already available in Bali at Singaraja, Gerokgak, Ubud, Semin-yak and Kuta. Sustriana also noted, “At Pemuteran area, there are many hotel guests. In the future, we plan to develop a sauna using salt as a heat source”. (kmb34)

GIANYAR - Sculptures of figures are not only used as sa-cred art to embellish temples or shrines, but are increasingly used to increase the attractiveness of villas and hotels.

Made Suartika, a sculptor from Sukawati, said that not only did he receive orders from hotels and villas but also for overseas export to Japan and Australia. Aside from being souvenirs, the sculptures of large size were often ordered to decorate various places overseas. Surakita said, “We re-ceive enough orders. Apart from the use in the construction of temple, many sculptures are now also used to decorate hotels and villas”. According to him, the increase in business is because more and more hotels and villas want to accent Balinese architecture. “Foreign people like it best. Moreover, Balinese people like it as wishing to highlight their distinc-tive features,” he said.

When asked about the raw material used to make his sculptures, he said rock is best because it is a material which ages well. “The rock materials ignored for decades and exposed to rain and sunlight will harden like fossils,” he said. Producing a medium-sized sculpture could take him up to one week, but he added that today precast sculpture had also become an option because it could be produced quickly and efficiently. “In the past, we found it hard to meet the orders on time, but today it has been made easier, but the material is mixed, so that it is not just made from rock,” he added. (nik)

Sculptures of character figures increasingly popular

IBP/Wawan

Various types of sculpture with the puppet characters are not only used as sacred art to embellish temples or shrines. Nowadays, they are widely favored to increase the attractiveness of villas and hotels.

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Salt farmer groups in Buleleng start to develop the potential of salt with assorted flavors at Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, Buleleng.

Commodity for export

Buleleng salt farmers develop new flavored saltSINGARAJA – Groups of salt farmers in Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, Buleleng have started

to produce salt with assorted flavors. So far13 flavors of salt have been successfully developed. Within a month, flavored salt production has reached 1.2 tons.

Bali News International4 Friday, February 27, 2015 Friday, February 27, 2015 13International RLDW

Drafting of a new constitution is being carried out by the 36-person committee hand-picked by the junta after it overthrew a civilian government and abolished the last charter in last May’s coup. Under the last constitution, half of the 150-member Senate was directly elected and the rest appointed.

Once finished, the constitutional draft will be reviewed by the mil-itary-appointed National Reform

Council, the Cabinet and the junta leaders.

Analysts said Thursday the action was designed to limit the power of elected politicians in the parliament, following years of landslide electoral triumph by po-litical parties that were allied with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup.

The power struggle between

the military-backed upper and middle-class and Thaksin’s pro-democracy supporters has fueled the political conflict in Thailand that have often turned violent in the past decade. Thaksin’s sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, led her Pheu Thai Party to a landslide victory in 2011.

“There’s a likelihood that the Pheu Thai Party will win again once there’s an election, so they are designing the constitution to do whatever it takes to limit the power in parliament of the elected politicians,” said Kan Yeunyong, executive director of Bangkok-based think tank Siam Intelligence Unit. The constitutional drafters are scheduled to finish in April. (ap)

SEOUL — A South Korean court on Thursday abolished a 62-year-old law that bans extramarital affairs, and the stock price of a prominent condom maker immediately shot up 15 percent.

The ruling by the Constitutional Court that the law suppresses personal freedoms could potentially affect thousands of individuals who faced adultery charges since Oct. 31, 2008, a day after the court previously upheld the adultery ban. Current charges could be thrown out and anyone given a guilty verdict would be eligible for a retrial, according to a court official, who didn’t want to be named, citing of-fice rules.

Prosecutors have indicted more than 5,400 people on adultery charges between November 2008 and January this year, according to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. Under the law having sex with a married person who is not your spouse was punishable by up to two years in prison. Nearly 53,000 South Koreans have been indicted on adultery charges since 1985, but prison terms have been rare.

The stock price of South Korean condom maker, Unidus Corp., shot up after the court ruling, surging by the daily limit of 15 percent on South Korea’s Kosdaq market. The debate over the adultery ban, which has been part of South Korea’s criminal law since 1953, intensified in recent years as fast-changing social trends challenged conservative traditional values.

Supporters of the law had claimed it promotes monogamy and keeps families intact, while opponents argued that the government has no right to interfere with people’s private lives and determine their sexual affairs.

The court was acting on 17 complaints submitted from 2009 to last year by individuals who have been punished for adultery or whose trials have been suspended, pending Thursday’s ruling.

Seven judges of the court, which rules on the constitutionality of laws, supported the ruling, while two dissented, the court said. The support of six judges is needed to abolish a law. “(The law) excessively restricts citizens’ basic rights, such as the right to determine sexual af-fairs,” the court said in explaining that the law no longer contributed to overall public interest.

It was the fifth time the court had reviewed the adultery ban since 1990. The last time, in October 2008, five of the judges said the law was unconstitutional.

Legal experts have said that the adultery ban had lost much of its effect as people were increasingly settling their marriage disputes in civil courts. Adultery can be prosecuted only on a complaint made by a spouse who has filed for divorce. The case immediately ends if the plaintiff drops the charge, which is common when financial settle-ments are reached.

“Recently, it was extremely rare for a person to serve a prison term for adultery,” said Lim Ji-bong, a law professor at Sogang University in Seoul. “The number of indictments has decreased as charges are frequently dropped.” (ap)

Thailand’s Senate will not be elected, charter drafters say

BANGKOK — Thailand’s new 200-member Senate will be nomi-nated and not directly elected by voters, said a committee appointed by the country’s military rulers, while critics called it a setback for Thai democracy. The new senators will be chosen from pools of candidates, including former premiers, ex-military leaders and representatives from different professions, Lertrat Ratanavanich, the committee spokesman, told reporters Wednesday. They can only serve one six-year term.

AP Photo/Sakchai LalitA Thai policeman, right, escorts Hassadin Uraipraiwan, left, before a press conference at the police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015.

South Korean court abolishes law saying adultery is illegal

AP Photo/Lee Jin-manPark Han-chul, president of South Korea’s Constitutional Court, sits before the judgment at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. The court on Thursday abolished a 62-year-old law that bans extramarital affairs, ruling that the law suppresses personal freedoms.

DENPASAR - The discovery of an unidentified body on Uluwatu Beach, South Kuta, Sunday (Feb. 22) has now been identified. According to Ida Bagus Putu Alit, the Head of Sanglah Hospital Forensic Department, the body was named Marthinus Johannes Van Schoor, 39, from South Africa.

The identity was known after a friend of Marthinus brought his passport to Sanglah Hospital on Tuesday (Feb 24). Based on testimony of his friend, as retold by Alit, Marthinus worked on a cruise ship that was anchoring. “It is said that he was walking around the beach, and then sud-denly disappeared,” he said, Wednesday (Feb 25).

The incident had been reported to consulate and the water police, but until Thursday afternoon there was no response. Meanwhile, the body of Marthinus was still being entrusted in mortuary of Sanglah Hospital. (kmb42)

A number of academicians from a dozen universities in Bali are conduct-ing a research development to provide space and special environment for the interaction of mute and deaf people at Kelodan hamlet, Bengkala village, Kubutambahan subdistrict, Buleleng, Wednesday (Feb. 25).

KEM Chief Executive, Ida Bagus Putu Mardana, explained that at Beng-kala village was still being intensively developed an agro-techno park, namely the agriculture and technology tourism area on three hectares of land. The co-operation was made through the Forum of Science and Technology Services for People (Flibmas) by involving the members from several universities in Bali. As future investment, a total of 42 mute people of Bengkala village would be given a special environment to mingle, and empowered to work in

the environment of the agro-techno park. Development process of the park had been going on since early January 2015.

His party has just built two special rooms for residents measuring 4x4 me-ters, with one door and no ventilation. In the middle of the courtyard was built a special meeting hall for them. The building itself was worked on in person by dumb residents in appropriate with the form and need. “We are just able to develop one hectare of the agro-techno park. Some plants cultivated are tur-meric, cashew, mango, rambutan and bananas. The whole plants are fertilized by manure. The remaining productive dumb residents are also invited to work, and they will get a net portion of their efforts,” said Mardana doubling as lecturer of the Physics Department at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural

Sciences, Ganesha University of Edu-cation (Undiksha), Singaraja.

Mardana added that previously a number of foreign guests such as from Australia, France, the Philippines and Japan had made a visit to have a look at the interaction of life among dumb com-munity at Bengkala village from early morning until late night. Uniqueness owned by dumb community of Beng-kala was similar to that of Colombia. They had a communication technique and special sign language which could not be understood by dumb residents beyond their community.

“Communication among dumb residents of Bengkala village is in-deed unique. They can get along and communicate, although cannot say anything. Interestingly, many foreign guests have visited the village to make an investigation. Meanwhile, other visitors wrote a novel to immortalize the daily life of dumb community at Bengkala, namely their activity from waking up to late night,” he concluded. (kmb34)

IBP/dewa KusumaThe residents of Bengkala Village, Buleleng are working to make the base camp for Agro Techno Park

Mute residents of Bengkala have a unique sign language

Singaraja (Bali Post) - Uniqueness of mute residents in Buleleng gets the attention from a number of foreign citizens in some Asian and European countries. Their communication interaction among members has different technique from the other mute communities in Bali regions.

Existence of the freight stevedoring pier at Celukan Bawang Harbor, Gerokgak, becomes a featured icon for the Northern Bali community. As a natural and convenient har-bor for skippers, this largest harbor in Buleleng has become favorite sojourn for barges which often transport goods to various towns in Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Gede Suyasa, said that designation of Celukan Bawang Harbor was very appropriate for barges and cruise ships to anchor in Bali. It was enabled because the construc-tion of Celukan Bawang Harbor was natural without too big ocean waves. “According to provincial Spatial Plan, it should become the center of all stevedoring activities in Bali. Based on the experience of skippers, Celukan Bawang Harbor is the most convenient harbor for cruise ship to berth. As a natural harbor, the waves are not high and surrounding condition is very good as well,” he said, Monday (Jan 5).

When the freight was unloaded at Celukan Bawang Harbor, the condition of road construction would become a constraint for trucks transporting the freight. “Regent of Buleleng has often delivered the issue to provincial government if the Celukan Bawang Harbor is indeed used as stevedoring harbor it must be focused on stevedoring activity. However, there was complaint of employers where if the freight is unloaded in Buleleng, when it is transported to southern Bali, the road access is even not good as it can kindle congestion at Gitgit,” he said.

Cooperation between Bali and Buleleng government to maximize the role of Celukan Bawang Harbor remained to be done as well as in the matter of road access posing the main supporting infrastructure for smooth distribution of freight. “When freight is just unloaded at the harbor, there should be an access to distribute the freight. Unlike when stevedoring activities are done at Benoa Harbor Denpasar, the access of distribution can be smoother. Thus, the road access becomes a very important part,” said Suyasa.

Meanwhile, according to Dewa Gede Adi Kumarajaya, Gen-eral Manager of PT Pelindo III of Celukan Bawang Branch, if the Benoa Harbor was merely intended for tourism vessel, the entire container ships would be directed to Celukan Bawang as set forth in the master plan of Celukan Bawang Harbor. “The role of Celukan Bawang Harbor will be developed in the future into a cargo harbor. It will depend on the status of Benoa Harbor whether it has become a special tourism harbor. As a result, cargo ships will certainly be directed to the North,” he said. Stevedoring activities at Celukan Bawang covered the com-modities such as iron, timber and cement, including the locally made cement of Indonesia to Vietnam. Distribution of cement was mostly sent to Denpasar. Furthermore, the Bali provincial government plan related to the development of Soka – Seririt Toll Road as road infrastructure was expected to facilitate the distribution access from North Bali to South Bali. “Hopefully, the distribution of freight in the future can become more fluent,” he added. (BTN/kmb)

Body of foreigner comes from South Africa

Celukan Bawang favorite port for skippers

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PARIS - Global art sales set a fresh record in 2014 driven by acquisitions from new museums, while China maintained its place at the top of the market, data firm Artprice said Thursday.

Works worth $15.2 billion (13.5 billion euros) sold at auction during the year, an increase of 26 percent on 2013, Artprice said in its annual report, produced with China’s Artron.

A record number of 1,679 sales worth $1 million or more were recorded over the year, four times more than a decade ago, it added. Thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice, described the figures as “an amazing result, an increase of 300 percent in a decade”.

He added that the boom was not being driven by speculators, with 37 percent of lots going unsold in the West and 54 percent in China. 2014 also saw 125 artworks sell for $10 million or more, not including commis-sion, against 18 in 2005.

Greater China, grouping the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, maintained its market leader status, accounting for $5.6 billion in sales, closely followed by the United States.

However, in a sign that a slow-down in Beijing’s economy and an anti-corruption drive that has curtailed luxury spending may have taken their toll, sales in China were down five percent compared to 2013.

2014 was an exceptionally strong year in the United States, with $4.8 billion be-ing spent at US auctions, an increase of 41 percent from the previous year.

British auction houses also put in a solid performance to secure third place with $2.8 billion in sales, up 35 percent from 2013.

And even though top valued lots rep-resented only a small proportion of the total market, they were key to the United States and Britain maintaining their top positions.

Eighty-three of the 125 sales worth $10 million or more were conducted in the United States. These sales represent only one percent of lots but 75 percent of US sales volume.

One of the most spectacular auction results of the year saw Black Fire 1, a 1961 work by American abstract expressionist Barnett Newman, sell for $84 million in New York in May. It had a pre-sale estimate of $39 million.

“Twenty years ago, America and Europe accounted for more than 95 percent” of sales, said Ehrmann, whereas today, buy-ers are active “on all continents without exception”.

Art, he said, “has become an investment category in its own right, reliable, stable over time and much less prone to turbulence that the stock market.” (afp)

Now, crashing crude prices have the 45,000 residents of Puerto Gaitan bracing for a big fall, or already packing their bags. Many are questioning how the windfall was spent.

“Things are going badly but we haven’t touched bottom yet,” said Edgar Candelo, who lost his job driving a tanker at the Ru-biales oil field, which pumps out a quarter of Colombia’s crude. With no prospects in sight, the 46-year-old says he is leaving Puerto Gaitan for a job at half the pay hun-dreds of miles away.

Similar upheaval is taking place across much of Latin America, where oil prices have fallen by nearly half since September, threatening to pull the rug out from under a decade-long economic boom. And the region’s leftist governments, which used the bonanza to lavish spending on social programs that entrenched them in power, now find themselves in the position of having to slash budgets amid rising social tensions.

Across the region, from the shale deposits of Patagonia to Mexico, where the govern-ment is rolling out a historic oil reform,

nervousness is widespread. Drilling projects that proliferated over the past decade are being shelved and the Bank of America last month cut to 1.3 percent from 1.8 percent its forecast for the region’s economic growth this year.

In Colombia, oil production almost doubled over the past seven years. Energy companies rushed into previously-off-limits areas after they were cleared of guerrillas and paramilitary fighters by U.S.-trained security forces. A net oil importer not too long ago, Colombia is now the fifth biggest supplier to the U.S. Driven by near-record oil production, its GDP expanded 4.8 per-cent last year— the fastest pace among Latin America’s major economies.

Puerto Gaitan was at the epicenter of the boom.

As royalties poured in, the town’s budget ballooned by a factor of 100 and a frenzy of construction projects were carried out: state-of-the-art schools, one of Colombia’s largest libraries and an acoustically-pristine amphitheater. The population of the town tripled, and salsa singer Marc Anthony and rapper Daddy Yankee livened up blowout

parties in what for decades had been a sleepy ranching outpost a six-hour drive east of Bogota.

But the biggest symbol of the new wealth, and now waste, that defined the era is the four-story concrete arch at Puerto Gaitan’s entrance, known as the “Door to Paradise.” Costing over $1 million, it evokes the bibli-cal tale of Adam and Eve in garish colors.

Mayor Edgar Humberto Silva defends how the boom money was spent, but acknowledges the future is bleak. Union leaders say almost 7,000 workers have lost their jobs in recent weeks as Pacific Rubiales all but froze investments in the country’s biggest field. Shares of the Toronto-listed company have dropped by more than half since December.

Colombia isn’t the only country in the line of fire.

By far the most pain is felt in Venezuela, whose socialist government earns 95 percent of its export income from oil. In recent months, lines at supermarkets have grown and shortages have worsened as the gov-ernment, trying to avert a default, tightens its grip on scarce dollars needed to import everything from food to auto parts.

Also at risk, analysts say, is OPEC mem-ber Ecuador, which last month secured a $7.5 billion credit line from China to cope with the crisis. (ap)

World art sales hit new record in 2014

AP Photo/Fernando VergaraIn this Feb. 13, 2015 photo, a truck loaded with crude from the Campo Rubiales oil field crosses the bridge over the Manacacias River in Puerto Gaitan, Colombia. Soaring oil prices the past decade transformed this rural backwater into Colombia’s richest city as nearby fields pumped black gold. Now, crashing crude prices have the 45,000 residents of Puerto Gaitan bracing for a big fall, or already packing their bags.

Oil boom’s end threatens pain for much of Latin America

PUERTO GAITAN, Colombia — Soaring oil prices the past decade transformed this rural backwater into Colombia’s richest city as nearby fields pumped black gold, drawing new businesses, international pop stars and vanity art projects such as the biblical-themed arch that towers over these sweltering grasslands.

SINGARAJA - Overflowing water of Lake Tamblingan at Munduk Vil-lage, Banjar Subdistrict, Buleleng, reminds us of the many temples surrounding the sacred lake. One of the temples also submerged in the disaster is the Gubug or Pegubugan Temple located on the west side of Lake Tamblingan.

Indeed, the Gubug Temple is in-separable from the issues of water, either the tangible water or transcen-dental water. In the temple, thousands of farmers in Tabanan and Buleleng Regency rely on their invocation in order their rice fields can persistently be irrigated and be fertile all the times so that they can have a great harvest.

Supporting devotees of the temple are those belong to Catur Desa con-sisting of the Munduk, Gobleg, Umajero and Gesing Customary Village. They believe if the Gubug Temple is the central temple of dozens of temples located on the shores of Lake Tamblingan. Those temples are the Tajun, Ulun Danu, Endek, Bukit Temple and a number of bebaturan temples (menhir) such as the Pen-gukiran, Pengukusan, Mbang, Sang Hyang Kangin, Sang Hyang Kauh and the Naga Loka Temple. All of the temples are located around the Lake Tamblingan, precisely on the slopes of the hill or right at the edge of the lake. Meanwhile, if connected to Batur Temple in Bangli, the Gubug Temple is also considered to be the purusha (cosmic man) while Batur is the pradhana (cosmic woman).

Gubug Temple is the easiest to be found because of its location at the edge of the lake near the Munduk Customary Village. This temple is quite unique because it has two dif-ferent Meru shrines. One of the Meru

shrines was built and worshipped by subak members from Tabanan Re-gency, while another was built and venerated by devotees belonging to Catur Desa. “Its history is unknown why two Meru shrines were built within the same temple area,” said the Chief of Munduk Customary Village, Nengah Ika.

According to Nengah Ika, there were 63 subak organizations in Ta-banan worshipping the Gubug Temple that regularly organized pakelem (animal sacrifice) ritual in the temple and Lake Tamblingan. Based on the oral information from the ancestors, the farmers in Tabanan considered the Lake Tamblingan the water vessel of Tabanan or headspring of Tabanan farmers. On that account, on the pu-jawali or temple anniversary of the Gubug, residents of Tabanan Regency supported by Tabanan Government always teamed up with residents of Catur Desa to organize the ritual.

Since it is the central to temple located around the Lake Tamblingan, pujawali of the temple is carried out in marathon way. It falls on dark moon of the first month in Balinese calendar (around June-July). Meanwhile, on full moon of the second month the devotees organize melasti procession to Penaung River. Then, on full moon of the third month they organize a ritual at Raganta and culmination of the ceremony falls on full moon of the fourth month in the temples located on the shores of Lake Tamblingan centered in the Gubug Temple. After-ward, on the next dark moon devotees organize melasti procession to Labuan Aji Temple. Ultimately, the series of all rituals come to an end with maayu-ayu ritual on full moon in the fifth month. (kmb)

Actually, Jembrana has great potential in both fields, namely the agriculture and maritime. One of the vocational schools in Jembrana is the SMK Negeri 2 at Baluk, Negara. It offers the maritime and agricultural department. In the maritime field, this vocational school only has three classes, re-spectively the class X, XI and XII. All this time, the students are more

interested in automotive industry, business management and infor-matics. Meanwhile, the agriculture or maritime has small percent-age. In contrast, public vocational schools even continue to increase the number of class due to soar-ing interest in learning vocational education.

It was not denied by Principal of SMKN 2 Negara, I Ketut Suartika,

when asked for his confirmation recently. The interest of students to continue their study to agriculture and fisheries department in par-ticular remained low. As a result, the number of maritime class at this vocational school was stag-nant each year, namely only one. Although the number of applicant was a little, this vocational school also had a number of supporting fa-cilities for practice of the maritime department. They included vessel and other maritime systems that were useful for the Department of Nautical Fishing Vessels (NKPI). “Actually, this department is not

inferior to the other, but it indeed still gets less interest whereas the the potential of maritime is still extensive,” he said.

Even, some graduates of this de-partment had been quite successful becoming ready-to-work labor and were recruited by large corpora-tions. Similarly, the department of agriculture and livestock were also quite promising considering the potential of the sector owned by Jembrana County.

However, the constraint faced was the shortage of budget for vocational school students from central government. In 2014, each

student got financial assistance worth IDR 1 million per year and IDR 55,000 from local government per month. Spreading across the area of 14 hectares, this vocational school had a total of 785 students with the department on offer such as the agriculture, maritime and automotive.

In addition, local government has also added two vocational schools with different department in Melaya and Pekutatan. In Melaya, the vocational school is majoring in health studies, while in Pekuta-tan is focused on tourism studies. (kmb26)

Maritime vocational school in Jembrana lack of students

NEGARA - The interest of students to continue their study to vo-cational school in Jembrana, in fact, has not evenly spread. A number of departments at several vocational schools (SMK) that are actually likely to absorb labor as in maritime and agriculture remain in low demand.

Gubug Tamblingan Temple

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The province, which borders Turkey and Iraq, has become the latest battleground in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria. It is predominantly Kurdish but also has populations of Arabs and predominantly Christian As-syrians and Armenians.

IS began abducting the Assyr-ians on Monday, when militants attacked a cluster of villages along the Khabur River, sending thou-sands of people fleeing to safer areas.

Younan Talia, a senior official with the Assyrian Democratic Organization, said IS had raided 33 Assyrian villages, picking up as

many as 300 people along the way. It was not possible to reconcile the numbers, and the fate of the hos-tages remained unclear.

State-run news agency SANA and an Assyrian activist group, the Assyrian Network for Human Rights in Syria, said the group had been moved to the IS-controlled city of Shaddadeh, a predominantly Arab town south of the city of Has-sakeh. The Observatory, however, said they were still being held in nearby Mt. Abdulaziz.

The mass abduction added to fears among religious minorities in both Syria and Iraq, who have been repeatedly targeted by the Islamic

State group. The extremists have declared a self-styled caliphate in the regions of both countries that are under their control, killing members of religious minorities, driving others from their homes, enslaving women and destroying houses of worship.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday evening “strongly condemned” the abduction and demanded the immediate release of others abducted by the Islamic State and similar groups. The White House condemned the attacks, say-ing the international community is united in its resolve to “end ISIL’s depravity.” (ap)

SINGAPORE — Singapore’s government says Lee Kuan Yew, the city-state’s founding father, remains on life support in intensive care be-ing treated for severe pneumonia. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office says the 91-year-old is sedated and on mechanical ventilation.

It said Thursday his doctors have restarted him on antibiotics, and are continuing to monitor him closely. Lee was admitted to Singapore

General Hospital on Feb. 5.Singapore’s first prime minister,

Lee ruled for 31 years until 1990, and has been credited with trans-forming Singapore from a slow port city to a wealthy, bustling metropolis.

In a 2013 book, Lee said he signed a legal document informing doctors that if he’s fed by a tube and unable to recover, he wishes to make “a quick exit.” (ap)

He, however, is optimistic that Indonesia’s economy will grow 5.7 percent this year, despite the economic slowdown in 2014.

According to him, the invest-ment climate will continue to improve in 2015, and private investments will boost economic growth in Indonesia.

To unearth ways to boost eco-nomic growth, the foreign min-istry organized the Indonesian Representatives’ Work Meeting on February 2-5, 2015, which was attended by 132 Indonesian ambassadors, consul generals, consuls, and permanent represen-tatives stationed overseas.

P res iden t Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, in his opening remarks at the meeting, highlighted the importance of enhancing In-

donesia’s overseas economic diplomacy, which is one of his administration’s four focus areas in addition to safeguarding the Indonesian territory, protecting Indonesian nationals and legal entities overseas, and strengthen-ing Indonesia’s role in the global arena.

He urged Indonesian envoys to hone their instincts to identify economic potentials in their host countries.

The head of state encouraged all Indonesian diplomats posted overseas to push for economic di-plomacy, so that greater benefits of state diplomacy can be reaped by the people.

“Based on my experiences as a governor and mayor for almost nine years, I conclude

that almost 90 percent mission of the representatives of most developed countries is economic diplomacy,” President Jokowi remarked.

He hoped that Indonesia’s ambassadors or representatives abroad will lay greater emphasis on the country’s diplomatic pri-orities, especially in terms of sov-ereignty, economic diplomacy, and citizens’ protection.

Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi noted that Indone-sian economic diplomacy will be able to offer quick responses to economic- and business-related queries as it can give firsthand information on any matter of interest to the country.

Minister Marsudi also sug-gested that Indonesian repre-

sentatives abroad should help to improve the tourism sector as the target for the next 2-3 years is to reach 20 million tourists through direct field visits to maximize promotions and provide the right information about Indonesia.

Besides this, Indonesian dip-lomats must be able to push foreign direct investments (FDI), particularly in those sectors that will yield results such as provid-ing employment opportunities, encouraging small-medium en-trepreneurs, and empowering women.

The government is attempt-ing to tackle issues related to infrastructure and logistics by developing sea toll, railway ac-cess, power plants, and various other projects, he revealed.

In order to overcome non-transparent and complicated licensing procedures as well as overlapping regulations, the government, in January 2915, launched an integrated service system called the One-Roof In-tegrated Service (PTSP).

The BKPM has set itself a target to attract IDR 343.7 tril-lion in foreign investment of the total investment target worth IDR 519.5 trillion.

The mainstay sectors to meet the investment target is the pro-cessing sector and its downstream industries worth IDR 267.5 tril-lion, the service sector and in-frastructure valued at IDR 163.6 trillion, and the primary sector that is expected to attract IDR 88.4 trillion investment. (ant)

SYDNEY/JAKARTA - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott struck a conciliatory tone on Thursday after speaking with Indonesian President Joko Widodo about the looming execution of two convicted Austra-lian drug traffickers.

Abbott said he spoke with his “friend” Widodo on Wednesday evening, adding that the Indonesian leader “absolutely understands our position ... and I think he is carefully considering Indonesia’s position”.

Widodo has denied clemency to 11 convicts on death row, including Australian, French, and Brazil-ian nationals, ratcheting up diplomatic tensions amid repeated pleas for mercy.

Abbott had previously angered Jakarta by linking his pleas for clemency for the pair to Australia’s aid to Indonesia after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Jakarta responded by warning that threats were not part of diplomatic language.

“It was a positive sign that the conversation took place,” Abbott told reporters in Canberra. “It’s a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.”

He declined to comment on the conversation in detail.

“I don’t want to raise hope that might turn out to be dashed,” Abbott said.

“I want to ensure that as far as is humanly possible, I am speaking out for Australians and for Australian values, but I also have to respect and defend Australia’s friendships.”

Indonesian government officials have repeatedly said the planned executions, to be carried out by fir-ing squads, would not be delayed or cancelled despite diplomatic pressure. No date has been set for the executions.

“We understand the efforts made by Australia to represent their nationals. That’s the duty of all govern-ments,” said Armanatha Nasir, spokesman for Indone-sia’s foreign ministry.

Widodo, who also took calls from Brazil, France, and the Netherlands this week, has warned those nations against interfering in Indonesia’s sovereign affairs.

Brazil had a citizen executed last month and another is among the next group on death row, along with a French national, the Australians and seven others. A Dutch citizen was executed last month.

“We are keeping communications open with Brazil and we anticipate only good things in our relations with other countries,” Nasir said.

Indonesia has harsh penalties for drug trafficking and resumed executions in 2013 after a five-year gap.

On Tuesday, a court in Jakarta threw out an appeal by the two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, against Widodo’s rejection of their request for presidential clemency.

Lawyers for the members of the so-called Bali Nine group of Australians, convicted in 2005 as the ringlead-ers of a plot to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia, have said they plan to appeal against that decision. (rtr)

Indonesia intensifies economic diplomacy to boost growth

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s economy only grew 5.02 percent last year and failed to meet the target set in the 2014 revised budget. Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro stated on Feb. 5, 2015, that the economic slowdown in 2014 was a strong wake-up call for the government to adopt a more serious approach to boost the country’s economic growth.

Australian PM strikes conciliatory note over Indonesia executions

Singapore’s founder sedated, on life support

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FILE - In this photo taken Monday, June 23, 2014, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq.

Activists: Number of Christians abducted

by IS rises to 220BEIRUT — The number of Christians abducted by the Islamic State group in northeastern

Syria has risen to 220, as militants have rounded up more hostages from a chain of villages along a strategic river in the past three days, activists said Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants have picked up dozens more Christian As-syrians from 11 communities near the town of Tal Tamr in Hassakeh province.

“Incoming labor up to 250,000 people in the future will definitely need a residence and supporting facilities. Of course, it will kindle considerable land conversion. In terms of cultural aspects, fish-ermen will lose their maritime culture. Sacred zones will have a problem, not to mention a matter of wild life and fauna. When low tide occurs, the location is the sojourn of migratory birds from Australia,” he said.

Gendo statedd that his party could not accept the logic of the PT TWBI where the revitalization should in essence only dredge a silting, not even backfill.

A similar opinion was ex-pressed by a coastal researcher doubling as teaching staff at the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine, Warmadewa University, Ketut Sudiarta. According to him, the term reclamation-based revital-ization was an effort to disrupt knowledge, information and law. Moreover, there was no such a term in the Law No. 27/2007 and No. 1/2014. “So, in science there is no such a term. It is only a fool that will say that the term revital-ization of Benoa Bay is based on reclamation,” he affirmed.

New destinationsPT Tirta Wahana Bali Inter-

national (TWBI), the investor behind this term, defines revi-talization as the development of new tourist destinations with a focus on customs and culture. In comparing Bali to other ASEAN countries, Hendi Lukman from PT TWBI cites Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia as places introduc-ing at least two new destinations of this type to revitalize the mar-ket. In contrast he claims that Bali has introduced no iconic tourist destinations, and only relied on building accommodations since 1992.

Speaking to Committee II of the Bali Representative Council (DPD RI) recently, Hendi said, “We want to assure my hotelier and restaurateur colleagues that

it has never even crossed our minds to build hotels and resorts here. We are only interested in creating new tourist destinations.” Strangely, this statement is not in line with the paper presented by the PT TWBI.

In this paper, titled “Condi-tions of Benoa Bay and Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) Conservation and Revitalization of Benoa Bay as Solution for Increasing Sustainability of Bali Tourism and Economy”, it was mentioned that one of the regional development plans at Benoa Bay was creation of a center of inter-national tourist accommodation. Indeed, the revitalization concept map shows several areas for the development of condotels, wa-terfront villas, villatels and hotel resorts.

When asked for his comment, the Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali Chapter, I.B. Ngu-rah Wijaya stated, “We in the field of tourism do not agree with that. Reclamation carried out by the government seeks to reform the area and use it as green space”. While Wijaya did not disagree that the region would benefit from icons, he stressed that the size of Bali with limited capacity for water, roads and electricity made increasing the number of accom-modations impractical. Moreover, he said, Bali already has tourism icons which simply need to be highlighted.

Wijaya added that the gov-ernment served as a regulator and played an important role in managing and promoting tourist attractions. However, the alloca-tion of funds for promotion dis-bursed by the Bali government, was not very large. This had also been noted by the Head of the Bali Government Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra. He said the Bali tourism promotion fund was worth IDR 900 million though the central government had injected IDR 100 billion this year. (kmb32)

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The day’s other key games were in the West: Houston ended a run of outs against the Los Angeles Clippers; Portland won against slumping San Antonio, and Memphis suffered a surprisingly one-sided loss at Sacramento.

Dallas suspended Rondo before the game at Atlanta for conduct detrimental to the team. Rondo had a heated exchange on the court with coach Rick Carlisle in the third quarter of the previous night’s game against Toronto. Carlisle said the one-game suspension was an “organizational decision” and said Rondo will start against Brooklyn on Saturday.

In a tight defensive struggle, Dennis Schro-der top-scored for Atlanta with just 17 points, while Dallas’ Monta Ellis all scorers with 19. Houston ended a run of six straight losses to the Clippers by downing Los Angeles 110-105.

James Harden had 21 points while Corey Brewer scored 13 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter for the Rockets, who entered the final quarter with a 15-1 run to take a 99-86 lead. With the second unit in, Brewer starred in that stretch, scoring 10 points, with two 3-pointers.

Jamal Crawford led Los Angeles with 24 points. Portland’s Wesley Matthews scored 31

points to lead the Trail Blazers to a 111-95 vic-tory over San Antonio. LaMarcus Aldridge had 11 points and 13 rebounds for the Blazers, who took their first win since the All-Star break.

Tim Duncan shot 9 of 12 and scored 20 points to lead the Spurs, who have lost four in a row. Sacramento won 102-90 at home against Memphis, with Rudy Gay scoring 28 points for the Kings.

DeMarcus Cousins added 16 points and nine rebounds. He overcame foul trouble — and a confrontation with Grizzlies big man Zach Randolph — to lead Sacramento’s 10-0 spurt to start the fourth quarter. He added six assists in just 24 minutes before fouling out. Randolph had 20 points and five rebounds but that was not enough for a Grizzlies team that had won 16 of its previous 19.

Charlotte deepened the woe surrounding Chicago by taking a 98-86 road win as the Bulls dwelled on life without Derrick Rose, who required yet another knee operation.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist contributed 18 points and 12 rebounds while Mo Williams scored 17 points for the Hornets, who won comfortably despite having lost their previ-ous five.(ap)

Marc Marquez remained on top on day three of MotoGP test-ing at Sepang, as a resurgent Cal Crutchlow took third behind Jorge Lorenzo. As has been the case all week, searing temperatures meant the quickest times were set early on, with Marquez’s 1m59.115s for Honda coming on his 13th of 73 laps.

That put the world champion 0.322 seconds clear of Lorenzo’s Yamaha, with Marquez going on to set a strong pace on long runs later in the day despite the hot conditions. Crutchlow (pictured below) had been quickest prior to Marquez’s lap, and the LCR Honda man’s time kept him in third for the rest of the day.

Andrea Iannone continued to show the new Ducati’s immediate

potential in fourth, ahead of Val-entino Rossi, Bradley Smith, Dani Pedrosa and Avintia rider Hector Barbera on the old Desmosedici, with Andrea Dovizioso 10th on the other GP15. Aleix Espargaro kept Suzuki in the top 10 in ninth, just 0.3s quicker than rookie team-mate Maverick Vinales in 14th.

Pol Espargaro continued his run of test crashes with a fall at Turn 7. He was 11th. At the tail of the field, MotoGP returnee Marco Melandri endured a miserable week on the Gresini-run Aprilia and was slow-est on all three days.

Wednesday was the final day of normal running for the test, but most of the field will be engaged in Michelin tyre testing on Thursday ahead of the French firm replacing Bridgestone in 2016. (net)

Hawks beat Rondo-less Mavericks 104-87

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks seized control with a 13-0 run during the third quarter and went on to win 104-87 on Wednesday against a Dallas Mavericks team which struggled in the absence of suspended point guard Rajon Rondo. The Hawks stretched their lead in the NBA Eastern Conference to eight games while the Mavericks missed a chance to make up ground in the more hard-fought Western Conference playoff race.

AP Photo/John BazemoreAtlanta Hawks guard Dennis Schroder (17) collides with Dallas Mavericks guard J.J. Barea (5) as he drives in the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, in Atlanta.

Marquez leads Lorenzo and Crutchlow at Sepang

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GIANYAR - Enjoy a leisurely stroll along the Campuhan Ridge, which passes between two steep and lush river valley in the central highland town of Ubud. Cam-puhan Ridge Walk is a free and easy nature trek, popular among repeat visitors to town of Ubud. The area provides a great retreat from the more hectic southern parts of the island, but this trail presents an even more pristine outback to escape from the contem-porary boutique, guesthouse and restaurant-lined Jalan Raya Ubud. While the hike lets you enjoy cool fresh air and probably the most gorgeous hillside vista in the region, it also allows you to shed off some calories too with its nine-kilometre hill track.

A small bridge over the revered Cam-puhan River leads to the majestic Pura Gunung Lebah temple complex. Signs be-fore the temple clearly show the directions to follow along the route, which borders

the eastern walls of the temple. These intricately carved walls and the towering ‘meru’ tiers of the shrines visible from the path provide an exotic and cultural touch to the beginning of this nature walk. You might meet a few fellow trekkers on their way back from their earlier jog, but most of the time you’ll have the path to your own.

A few hundred meters and up the slopes from the temple, the view widens to re-veal the vast hills that make up the valley hinterland. The best time to enjoy the Campuhan Ridge Walk is early morning and late afternoon, when the temperature is cool and when the skies show their best hues during sunrise and sunset. Slopes as far as the eye can see are an undulating sea of green, covered in tall reed grass, which at times are harvested by the locals for thatched roofing that is typical in traditional Balinese architecture.

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Booing at the final whistle was a demonstration of the impatience toward Wenger, whose only titles in the past decade are two FA Cups. Even Monaco’s ruler, Prince Albert, felt Wenger’s pain. After celebrating with his entourage on the London pitch, the prince said: “I’m sort of sad for him.”

Wenger’s Arsenal does at least always qualify for the Champions League — this is the Gunners’ 17th consecutive season in Eu-rope’s top competition — but they have only come close to winning the competition once, as runners-up in 2006.

Unless the Gunners score at least three goals in the second leg in Monaco next month, it will be five successive seasons of failure in the round of 16. Wenger, with a contract until 2017, appears secure in his job for the time being. But how much longer can fans endure the defensive naivety of Wenger’s team being repeatedly exposed against the top teams.

Discussing Wenger with share-holders in October, Arsenal chairman Chips Keswick said: “If he has a plan we back it. If he doesn’t have a plan we keep quiet.” Wenger’s plan against Monaco left Arsenal far too open to be exploited on the counterattack.

Manchester City losing 2-1 to the richly talented and experienced Bar-celona on Tuesday was disappointing for English football but not entirely surprising. Arsenal’s capitulation against unfancied Monaco was much more humbling.

This was the team third in the world’s wealthiest league being outclassed by the fourth-placed team

from the more modestly resourced French Ligue 1. “We were a bit sui-

cidal defensively,” Wenger said.Arsenal’s spending in the transfer

market was restricted for much of the past decade as the club paid off its new stadium, but with the financial prudence behind it, the club spent almost $100 million on new talent before this season. Gunners’ fans were therefore expecting an upturn

in fortunes domestically and conti-nentally, yet have received more of the same.

At the same time, Monaco has been going through a period of austerity under Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, with the major-ity owner offloading talent: Radamel Falcao on loan to Manchester United and James Rodriguez sold to Real Madrid. Monaco did sign Dimitar Berbatov a year ago, and the former Tottenham and Manchester United striker defied his 34 years to upstage Arsenal’s younger forward line on Wednesday. The Bulgarian’s com-posed finish delivered Monaco’s second goal.

How Arsenal could have done with such a clinical striker. It was a wretched night for Olivier Giroud, who squandered three scoring op-portunities before being taken off with 30 minutes to go. “He missed easy chances and it looked like it was not one of his best days,” Wenger said.

As so often after losses, Wenger concluded Arsenal’s “weakness was more down to mentality.” The first goal conceded could be excused, with Geoffrey Kondogbia’s deflected strike wrong-footing goalkeeper David Ospina. But as Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim said: “We knew they are always a lot stronger in the first half and they struggle after the break.”

He was right. Defensive sloppi-ness allowed Monaco to launch fast breaks in the second half that saw Berbatov and then Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco score either side of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s curling strike for Arsenal.

Wenger, who coached Monaco between 1987 and 1994, has un-til March 17 to rectify Arsenal’s shortcomings or face a very miser-able homecoming on the French Riviera. (ap)

When Borussia Dortmund host Schalke 04 in their Ruhr valley clash on Saturday there is more at stake than just bragging rights in what is Germany’s biggest derby. Both teams are eager to get their seasons back into full swing with Schalke eyeing a Champions League spot for next season and Dortmund still battling to avoid relegation.

Last season’s runners-up Dort-mund, three points above the drop zone in 12th spot, experienced a nightmare in the first half of the sea-son, dropping to last place and have only recently got out of immediate relegation trouble.

Juergen Klopp’s team have now won three games in a row, the first time they have achieved this feat this season, and are eager to keep climbing with European spots still a possibility despite their implosion earlier in the campaign. “We have been playing our game well for the past few weeks,” said captain Mats Hummels. “I think we can even take it up a notch against Schalke in the derby on Saturday.”

Klopp is expected to have Kevin Kampl, Neven Subotic and Shinji Ka-gawa back after the trio missed their 2-1 Champions League Round of 16 first leg defeat at Juventus on Tuesday with a virus.

But he will not have defender Lu-kasz Piszczek at his disposal with the Poland international ruled out for six weeks with a partial ankle ligament tear against Juventus. Fellow defender

Sokratis Papastatho-poulos, nursing a muscle injury from the same game, is also doubtful.

S c h a l k e , with just one win from their last four league games, have been somewhat missing their solid defence and the absence of injured Joel Matip compounds their defensive problems as they lie in fifth place, 20 points behind leaders Bayern Munich.

“I am not questioning our system even if we have failed to win any of our last three games in all competi-tions,” said Schalke captain Benedikt Hoewedes. “Our system works and what we have been missing lately is greater efficiency at scoring chances. We have been working on that this week.”

Schalke, who lost their Champi-ons League round of 16 first leg 2-0 to Real Madrid last week, will have top striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar back in the team to improve on that point after the Dutchman sat out a suspension for a red card earlier this month.

Leaders Bayern can build on their eight-point advantage on Friday when they host lowly Cologne with second-placed VfL Wolfsburg, on 47 points, in action on Sunday at Werder Bre-men. (rtr)

MADRID - Bayer Leverkusen let Atletico Madrid off the hook by failing to secure a bigger advantage than their 1-0 win in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 match on Wednesday, said the Spanish side’s coach Diego Simeone. After falling behind to H a k a n Calhanoglu’s 57th-min- u t e strike, Atletico then had to play the final quarter of an hour at the BayArena with 10 men after mid-fielder Tiago picked up a second yellow card.

Simeone had also u s e d h i s three

substitutions following first-half injuries to fullback Guilherme Siqueira and midfielder Saul Niguez, and the introduction of forward Fernando Torres, but Leverkusen were unable to build a bigger lead to take into the return leg in Madrid on March 17.

“I don’t know if it will be the case but I have the feeling there is life left in us yet,” Simeone told a news conference. “Another opponent, at another time, with us having one player fewer and no sub-stitutions left, would have clinched the tie,” added the Argentine. “They did not clinch it and it could

give us a chance.”Simeone, who led the Spanish champions

to the final of Europe’s elite club competi-tion last season, will have to reshuffle his team for Leverkusen’s visit to the Calderon as centre back Diego Godin is suspended along with Tiago.

It is unclear whether Siqueira and Saul will be out of action for any length

of time, while Simeone is still waiting for the return of Spain midfielder Koke,

who has been sidelined with a hamstring problem.

Simeone, whose side play at fifth-placed Sevilla in La

Liga on Sunday, said he was confident that his squad had enough depth to cope with

the suspensions and mounting injuries.

“The absences will be covered by players who have been train-ing, preparing and

who are part of a competitive squad which knows

they depend on the group as a whole to cope with these situations,” Simeone said.

“A team can win one game but a squad can help you achieve impor-tant things. “Let’s see if we can do it with the lads coming in whose turn it is to play.” (rtr)

nYOn — UEFA supports play-ing the 2022 World Cup final on Dec. 23 to help protect international qualifying matches in its own com-petitions. Earlier Wednesday, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke revealed UEFA made the final date proposal which has angered British football officials, who feel it threatens their traditional Christ-mas holiday program.

UEFA confirmed its preference for Friday, Dec. 23, because a final several days earlier in Qatar “would have more impact on European qualifiers.”

FIFA’s move toward a Novem-ber-December 2022 tournament to avoid Qatar’s summer heat will force top-level European football to stop in early or mid-November.

That cuts UEFA’s options for the first half of the season. It needs

to schedule three doubleheader weeks for national team matches, plus six midweeks for Champions League group matches. Last year, UEFA launched the Nations League to replace most friendlies in even-numbered years.

Group matches are planned from September to November, including likely in 2022. The standings will decide which teams advance more

than a year later to qualifying play-offs for major tournaments. UEFA showed its commitment to the new competition by taking central con-trol of its commercial rights.

Still, UEFA’s suggestion has upset the English Premier League, whose chief executive Richard Scudamore was part of the FIFA working group which met on Tues-day in Doha to recommend playing

in Qatar’s winter.“Our particular concern is that

a World Cup that finishes late in December could result in damag-ing one of the English game’s great traditions and attractions, with the removal of the entire Premier League, Football League and FA Cup Christmas and New Year fixture program that season,” Scu-damore said in a statement. (ap)

nYOn — UEFA has sus-pended coach Andre Villas-Boas for Zenit St. Petersburg’s Europa League return match against PSV Eindhoven on Thursday.

UEFA says Villas-Boas was

sanctioned for “dissent against the referee,” Paolo Tagliavento of Italy, during Zenit’s 1-0 win in the Netherlands last week.

Villas-Boas cannot contact his players at the stadium or watch

the last-32, second-leg match from the touchline dugout.

UEFA says it also fined the Russian club 6,000 euros ($6,800) after fans lit fireworks at the match.

UEFA bans Zenit coach Villas-Boas for Europa League match

Leverkusen let us off the hook, says Atletico’s Simeone

Bayer Leverkusen’s coach Roger Schmidt and Hakan Calhanoglu (R) celebrate after defeating Atletico Madrid in their Cham-pions League round of 16, first leg soccer match in Leverkusen February 25, 2015.

Ruhr valley derby key for Dortmund, Schalke future

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Borussia Dortmund’s Marco Reus celebrates after scoring against Juventus during their Champions League round of 16 first leg soccer match at the Juventus stadium in Turin February 24, 2015.

UEFA wants latest possible World Cup final date in Qatar

Arsenal flaws exposed again in Wenger’s sour Monaco reunion

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger touches his head as he sits on the bench during the Champions League round of 16 soccer match between Arsenal and AS Monaco at the Emirates Stadium in London, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015.

LOnDOn — Inside Arsenal’s match-day program was a cardboard cut-out of Arsene Wenger; a memento for visiting Monaco fans of their former manager. But not many Arsenal fans will want that model perching on their desks after a timid 3-1 loss in the Champions League on Wednesday.

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Booing at the final whistle was a demonstration of the impatience toward Wenger, whose only titles in the past decade are two FA Cups. Even Monaco’s ruler, Prince Albert, felt Wenger’s pain. After celebrating with his entourage on the London pitch, the prince said: “I’m sort of sad for him.”

Wenger’s Arsenal does at least always qualify for the Champions League — this is the Gunners’ 17th consecutive season in Eu-rope’s top competition — but they have only come close to winning the competition once, as runners-up in 2006.

Unless the Gunners score at least three goals in the second leg in Monaco next month, it will be five successive seasons of failure in the round of 16. Wenger, with a contract until 2017, appears secure in his job for the time being. But how much longer can fans endure the defensive naivety of Wenger’s team being repeatedly exposed against the top teams.

Discussing Wenger with share-holders in October, Arsenal chairman Chips Keswick said: “If he has a plan we back it. If he doesn’t have a plan we keep quiet.” Wenger’s plan against Monaco left Arsenal far too open to be exploited on the counterattack.

Manchester City losing 2-1 to the richly talented and experienced Bar-celona on Tuesday was disappointing for English football but not entirely surprising. Arsenal’s capitulation against unfancied Monaco was much more humbling.

This was the team third in the world’s wealthiest league being outclassed by the fourth-placed team

from the more modestly resourced French Ligue 1. “We were a bit sui-

cidal defensively,” Wenger said.Arsenal’s spending in the transfer

market was restricted for much of the past decade as the club paid off its new stadium, but with the financial prudence behind it, the club spent almost $100 million on new talent before this season. Gunners’ fans were therefore expecting an upturn

in fortunes domestically and conti-nentally, yet have received more of the same.

At the same time, Monaco has been going through a period of austerity under Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, with the major-ity owner offloading talent: Radamel Falcao on loan to Manchester United and James Rodriguez sold to Real Madrid. Monaco did sign Dimitar Berbatov a year ago, and the former Tottenham and Manchester United striker defied his 34 years to upstage Arsenal’s younger forward line on Wednesday. The Bulgarian’s com-posed finish delivered Monaco’s second goal.

How Arsenal could have done with such a clinical striker. It was a wretched night for Olivier Giroud, who squandered three scoring op-portunities before being taken off with 30 minutes to go. “He missed easy chances and it looked like it was not one of his best days,” Wenger said.

As so often after losses, Wenger concluded Arsenal’s “weakness was more down to mentality.” The first goal conceded could be excused, with Geoffrey Kondogbia’s deflected strike wrong-footing goalkeeper David Ospina. But as Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim said: “We knew they are always a lot stronger in the first half and they struggle after the break.”

He was right. Defensive sloppi-ness allowed Monaco to launch fast breaks in the second half that saw Berbatov and then Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco score either side of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s curling strike for Arsenal.

Wenger, who coached Monaco between 1987 and 1994, has un-til March 17 to rectify Arsenal’s shortcomings or face a very miser-able homecoming on the French Riviera. (ap)

When Borussia Dortmund host Schalke 04 in their Ruhr valley clash on Saturday there is more at stake than just bragging rights in what is Germany’s biggest derby. Both teams are eager to get their seasons back into full swing with Schalke eyeing a Champions League spot for next season and Dortmund still battling to avoid relegation.

Last season’s runners-up Dort-mund, three points above the drop zone in 12th spot, experienced a nightmare in the first half of the sea-son, dropping to last place and have only recently got out of immediate relegation trouble.

Juergen Klopp’s team have now won three games in a row, the first time they have achieved this feat this season, and are eager to keep climbing with European spots still a possibility despite their implosion earlier in the campaign. “We have been playing our game well for the past few weeks,” said captain Mats Hummels. “I think we can even take it up a notch against Schalke in the derby on Saturday.”

Klopp is expected to have Kevin Kampl, Neven Subotic and Shinji Ka-gawa back after the trio missed their 2-1 Champions League Round of 16 first leg defeat at Juventus on Tuesday with a virus.

But he will not have defender Lu-kasz Piszczek at his disposal with the Poland international ruled out for six weeks with a partial ankle ligament tear against Juventus. Fellow defender

Sokratis Papastatho-poulos, nursing a muscle injury from the same game, is also doubtful.

S c h a l k e , with just one win from their last four league games, have been somewhat missing their solid defence and the absence of injured Joel Matip compounds their defensive problems as they lie in fifth place, 20 points behind leaders Bayern Munich.

“I am not questioning our system even if we have failed to win any of our last three games in all competi-tions,” said Schalke captain Benedikt Hoewedes. “Our system works and what we have been missing lately is greater efficiency at scoring chances. We have been working on that this week.”

Schalke, who lost their Champi-ons League round of 16 first leg 2-0 to Real Madrid last week, will have top striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar back in the team to improve on that point after the Dutchman sat out a suspension for a red card earlier this month.

Leaders Bayern can build on their eight-point advantage on Friday when they host lowly Cologne with second-placed VfL Wolfsburg, on 47 points, in action on Sunday at Werder Bre-men. (rtr)

MADRID - Bayer Leverkusen let Atletico Madrid off the hook by failing to secure a bigger advantage than their 1-0 win in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 match on Wednesday, said the Spanish side’s coach Diego Simeone. After falling behind to H a k a n Calhanoglu’s 57th-min- u t e strike, Atletico then had to play the final quarter of an hour at the BayArena with 10 men after mid-fielder Tiago picked up a second yellow card.

Simeone had also u s e d h i s three

substitutions following first-half injuries to fullback Guilherme Siqueira and midfielder Saul Niguez, and the introduction of forward Fernando Torres, but Leverkusen were unable to build a bigger lead to take into the return leg in Madrid on March 17.

“I don’t know if it will be the case but I have the feeling there is life left in us yet,” Simeone told a news conference. “Another opponent, at another time, with us having one player fewer and no sub-stitutions left, would have clinched the tie,” added the Argentine. “They did not clinch it and it could

give us a chance.”Simeone, who led the Spanish champions

to the final of Europe’s elite club competi-tion last season, will have to reshuffle his team for Leverkusen’s visit to the Calderon as centre back Diego Godin is suspended along with Tiago.

It is unclear whether Siqueira and Saul will be out of action for any length

of time, while Simeone is still waiting for the return of Spain midfielder Koke,

who has been sidelined with a hamstring problem.

Simeone, whose side play at fifth-placed Sevilla in La

Liga on Sunday, said he was confident that his squad had enough depth to cope with

the suspensions and mounting injuries.

“The absences will be covered by players who have been train-ing, preparing and

who are part of a competitive squad which knows

they depend on the group as a whole to cope with these situations,” Simeone said.

“A team can win one game but a squad can help you achieve impor-tant things. “Let’s see if we can do it with the lads coming in whose turn it is to play.” (rtr)

nYOn — UEFA supports play-ing the 2022 World Cup final on Dec. 23 to help protect international qualifying matches in its own com-petitions. Earlier Wednesday, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke revealed UEFA made the final date proposal which has angered British football officials, who feel it threatens their traditional Christ-mas holiday program.

UEFA confirmed its preference for Friday, Dec. 23, because a final several days earlier in Qatar “would have more impact on European qualifiers.”

FIFA’s move toward a Novem-ber-December 2022 tournament to avoid Qatar’s summer heat will force top-level European football to stop in early or mid-November.

That cuts UEFA’s options for the first half of the season. It needs

to schedule three doubleheader weeks for national team matches, plus six midweeks for Champions League group matches. Last year, UEFA launched the Nations League to replace most friendlies in even-numbered years.

Group matches are planned from September to November, including likely in 2022. The standings will decide which teams advance more

than a year later to qualifying play-offs for major tournaments. UEFA showed its commitment to the new competition by taking central con-trol of its commercial rights.

Still, UEFA’s suggestion has upset the English Premier League, whose chief executive Richard Scudamore was part of the FIFA working group which met on Tues-day in Doha to recommend playing

in Qatar’s winter.“Our particular concern is that

a World Cup that finishes late in December could result in damag-ing one of the English game’s great traditions and attractions, with the removal of the entire Premier League, Football League and FA Cup Christmas and New Year fixture program that season,” Scu-damore said in a statement. (ap)

nYOn — UEFA has sus-pended coach Andre Villas-Boas for Zenit St. Petersburg’s Europa League return match against PSV Eindhoven on Thursday.

UEFA says Villas-Boas was

sanctioned for “dissent against the referee,” Paolo Tagliavento of Italy, during Zenit’s 1-0 win in the Netherlands last week.

Villas-Boas cannot contact his players at the stadium or watch

the last-32, second-leg match from the touchline dugout.

UEFA says it also fined the Russian club 6,000 euros ($6,800) after fans lit fireworks at the match.

UEFA bans Zenit coach Villas-Boas for Europa League match

Leverkusen let us off the hook, says Atletico’s Simeone

Bayer Leverkusen’s coach Roger Schmidt and Hakan Calhanoglu (R) celebrate after defeating Atletico Madrid in their Cham-pions League round of 16, first leg soccer match in Leverkusen February 25, 2015.

Ruhr valley derby key for Dortmund, Schalke future

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Borussia Dortmund’s Marco Reus celebrates after scoring against Juventus during their Champions League round of 16 first leg soccer match at the Juventus stadium in Turin February 24, 2015.

UEFA wants latest possible World Cup final date in Qatar

Arsenal flaws exposed again in Wenger’s sour Monaco reunion

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger touches his head as he sits on the bench during the Champions League round of 16 soccer match between Arsenal and AS Monaco at the Emirates Stadium in London, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015.

LOnDOn — Inside Arsenal’s match-day program was a cardboard cut-out of Arsene Wenger; a memento for visiting Monaco fans of their former manager. But not many Arsenal fans will want that model perching on their desks after a timid 3-1 loss in the Champions League on Wednesday.

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The day’s other key games were in the West: Houston ended a run of outs against the Los Angeles Clippers; Portland won against slumping San Antonio, and Memphis suffered a surprisingly one-sided loss at Sacramento.

Dallas suspended Rondo before the game at Atlanta for conduct detrimental to the team. Rondo had a heated exchange on the court with coach Rick Carlisle in the third quarter of the previous night’s game against Toronto. Carlisle said the one-game suspension was an “organizational decision” and said Rondo will start against Brooklyn on Saturday.

In a tight defensive struggle, Dennis Schro-der top-scored for Atlanta with just 17 points, while Dallas’ Monta Ellis all scorers with 19. Houston ended a run of six straight losses to the Clippers by downing Los Angeles 110-105.

James Harden had 21 points while Corey Brewer scored 13 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter for the Rockets, who entered the final quarter with a 15-1 run to take a 99-86 lead. With the second unit in, Brewer starred in that stretch, scoring 10 points, with two 3-pointers.

Jamal Crawford led Los Angeles with 24 points. Portland’s Wesley Matthews scored 31

points to lead the Trail Blazers to a 111-95 vic-tory over San Antonio. LaMarcus Aldridge had 11 points and 13 rebounds for the Blazers, who took their first win since the All-Star break.

Tim Duncan shot 9 of 12 and scored 20 points to lead the Spurs, who have lost four in a row. Sacramento won 102-90 at home against Memphis, with Rudy Gay scoring 28 points for the Kings.

DeMarcus Cousins added 16 points and nine rebounds. He overcame foul trouble — and a confrontation with Grizzlies big man Zach Randolph — to lead Sacramento’s 10-0 spurt to start the fourth quarter. He added six assists in just 24 minutes before fouling out. Randolph had 20 points and five rebounds but that was not enough for a Grizzlies team that had won 16 of its previous 19.

Charlotte deepened the woe surrounding Chicago by taking a 98-86 road win as the Bulls dwelled on life without Derrick Rose, who required yet another knee operation.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist contributed 18 points and 12 rebounds while Mo Williams scored 17 points for the Hornets, who won comfortably despite having lost their previ-ous five.(ap)

Marc Marquez remained on top on day three of MotoGP test-ing at Sepang, as a resurgent Cal Crutchlow took third behind Jorge Lorenzo. As has been the case all week, searing temperatures meant the quickest times were set early on, with Marquez’s 1m59.115s for Honda coming on his 13th of 73 laps.

That put the world champion 0.322 seconds clear of Lorenzo’s Yamaha, with Marquez going on to set a strong pace on long runs later in the day despite the hot conditions. Crutchlow (pictured below) had been quickest prior to Marquez’s lap, and the LCR Honda man’s time kept him in third for the rest of the day.

Andrea Iannone continued to show the new Ducati’s immediate

potential in fourth, ahead of Val-entino Rossi, Bradley Smith, Dani Pedrosa and Avintia rider Hector Barbera on the old Desmosedici, with Andrea Dovizioso 10th on the other GP15. Aleix Espargaro kept Suzuki in the top 10 in ninth, just 0.3s quicker than rookie team-mate Maverick Vinales in 14th.

Pol Espargaro continued his run of test crashes with a fall at Turn 7. He was 11th. At the tail of the field, MotoGP returnee Marco Melandri endured a miserable week on the Gresini-run Aprilia and was slow-est on all three days.

Wednesday was the final day of normal running for the test, but most of the field will be engaged in Michelin tyre testing on Thursday ahead of the French firm replacing Bridgestone in 2016. (net)

Hawks beat Rondo-less Mavericks 104-87

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks seized control with a 13-0 run during the third quarter and went on to win 104-87 on Wednesday against a Dallas Mavericks team which struggled in the absence of suspended point guard Rajon Rondo. The Hawks stretched their lead in the NBA Eastern Conference to eight games while the Mavericks missed a chance to make up ground in the more hard-fought Western Conference playoff race.

AP Photo/John BazemoreAtlanta Hawks guard Dennis Schroder (17) collides with Dallas Mavericks guard J.J. Barea (5) as he drives in the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, in Atlanta.

Marquez leads Lorenzo and Crutchlow at Sepang

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GIANYAR - Enjoy a leisurely stroll along the Campuhan Ridge, which passes between two steep and lush river valley in the central highland town of Ubud. Cam-puhan Ridge Walk is a free and easy nature trek, popular among repeat visitors to town of Ubud. The area provides a great retreat from the more hectic southern parts of the island, but this trail presents an even more pristine outback to escape from the contem-porary boutique, guesthouse and restaurant-lined Jalan Raya Ubud. While the hike lets you enjoy cool fresh air and probably the most gorgeous hillside vista in the region, it also allows you to shed off some calories too with its nine-kilometre hill track.

A small bridge over the revered Cam-puhan River leads to the majestic Pura Gunung Lebah temple complex. Signs be-fore the temple clearly show the directions to follow along the route, which borders

the eastern walls of the temple. These intricately carved walls and the towering ‘meru’ tiers of the shrines visible from the path provide an exotic and cultural touch to the beginning of this nature walk. You might meet a few fellow trekkers on their way back from their earlier jog, but most of the time you’ll have the path to your own.

A few hundred meters and up the slopes from the temple, the view widens to re-veal the vast hills that make up the valley hinterland. The best time to enjoy the Campuhan Ridge Walk is early morning and late afternoon, when the temperature is cool and when the skies show their best hues during sunrise and sunset. Slopes as far as the eye can see are an undulating sea of green, covered in tall reed grass, which at times are harvested by the locals for thatched roofing that is typical in traditional Balinese architecture.

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The province, which borders Turkey and Iraq, has become the latest battleground in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria. It is predominantly Kurdish but also has populations of Arabs and predominantly Christian As-syrians and Armenians.

IS began abducting the Assyr-ians on Monday, when militants attacked a cluster of villages along the Khabur River, sending thou-sands of people fleeing to safer areas.

Younan Talia, a senior official with the Assyrian Democratic Organization, said IS had raided 33 Assyrian villages, picking up as

many as 300 people along the way. It was not possible to reconcile the numbers, and the fate of the hos-tages remained unclear.

State-run news agency SANA and an Assyrian activist group, the Assyrian Network for Human Rights in Syria, said the group had been moved to the IS-controlled city of Shaddadeh, a predominantly Arab town south of the city of Has-sakeh. The Observatory, however, said they were still being held in nearby Mt. Abdulaziz.

The mass abduction added to fears among religious minorities in both Syria and Iraq, who have been repeatedly targeted by the Islamic

State group. The extremists have declared a self-styled caliphate in the regions of both countries that are under their control, killing members of religious minorities, driving others from their homes, enslaving women and destroying houses of worship.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday evening “strongly condemned” the abduction and demanded the immediate release of others abducted by the Islamic State and similar groups. The White House condemned the attacks, say-ing the international community is united in its resolve to “end ISIL’s depravity.” (ap)

SINGAPORE — Singapore’s government says Lee Kuan Yew, the city-state’s founding father, remains on life support in intensive care be-ing treated for severe pneumonia. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office says the 91-year-old is sedated and on mechanical ventilation.

It said Thursday his doctors have restarted him on antibiotics, and are continuing to monitor him closely. Lee was admitted to Singapore

General Hospital on Feb. 5.Singapore’s first prime minister,

Lee ruled for 31 years until 1990, and has been credited with trans-forming Singapore from a slow port city to a wealthy, bustling metropolis.

In a 2013 book, Lee said he signed a legal document informing doctors that if he’s fed by a tube and unable to recover, he wishes to make “a quick exit.” (ap)

He, however, is optimistic that Indonesia’s economy will grow 5.7 percent this year, despite the economic slowdown in 2014.

According to him, the invest-ment climate will continue to improve in 2015, and private investments will boost economic growth in Indonesia.

To unearth ways to boost eco-nomic growth, the foreign min-istry organized the Indonesian Representatives’ Work Meeting on February 2-5, 2015, which was attended by 132 Indonesian ambassadors, consul generals, consuls, and permanent represen-tatives stationed overseas.

P res iden t Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, in his opening remarks at the meeting, highlighted the importance of enhancing In-

donesia’s overseas economic diplomacy, which is one of his administration’s four focus areas in addition to safeguarding the Indonesian territory, protecting Indonesian nationals and legal entities overseas, and strengthen-ing Indonesia’s role in the global arena.

He urged Indonesian envoys to hone their instincts to identify economic potentials in their host countries.

The head of state encouraged all Indonesian diplomats posted overseas to push for economic di-plomacy, so that greater benefits of state diplomacy can be reaped by the people.

“Based on my experiences as a governor and mayor for almost nine years, I conclude

that almost 90 percent mission of the representatives of most developed countries is economic diplomacy,” President Jokowi remarked.

He hoped that Indonesia’s ambassadors or representatives abroad will lay greater emphasis on the country’s diplomatic pri-orities, especially in terms of sov-ereignty, economic diplomacy, and citizens’ protection.

Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi noted that Indone-sian economic diplomacy will be able to offer quick responses to economic- and business-related queries as it can give firsthand information on any matter of interest to the country.

Minister Marsudi also sug-gested that Indonesian repre-

sentatives abroad should help to improve the tourism sector as the target for the next 2-3 years is to reach 20 million tourists through direct field visits to maximize promotions and provide the right information about Indonesia.

Besides this, Indonesian dip-lomats must be able to push foreign direct investments (FDI), particularly in those sectors that will yield results such as provid-ing employment opportunities, encouraging small-medium en-trepreneurs, and empowering women.

The government is attempt-ing to tackle issues related to infrastructure and logistics by developing sea toll, railway ac-cess, power plants, and various other projects, he revealed.

In order to overcome non-transparent and complicated licensing procedures as well as overlapping regulations, the government, in January 2915, launched an integrated service system called the One-Roof In-tegrated Service (PTSP).

The BKPM has set itself a target to attract IDR 343.7 tril-lion in foreign investment of the total investment target worth IDR 519.5 trillion.

The mainstay sectors to meet the investment target is the pro-cessing sector and its downstream industries worth IDR 267.5 tril-lion, the service sector and in-frastructure valued at IDR 163.6 trillion, and the primary sector that is expected to attract IDR 88.4 trillion investment. (ant)

SYDNEY/JAKARTA - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott struck a conciliatory tone on Thursday after speaking with Indonesian President Joko Widodo about the looming execution of two convicted Austra-lian drug traffickers.

Abbott said he spoke with his “friend” Widodo on Wednesday evening, adding that the Indonesian leader “absolutely understands our position ... and I think he is carefully considering Indonesia’s position”.

Widodo has denied clemency to 11 convicts on death row, including Australian, French, and Brazil-ian nationals, ratcheting up diplomatic tensions amid repeated pleas for mercy.

Abbott had previously angered Jakarta by linking his pleas for clemency for the pair to Australia’s aid to Indonesia after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Jakarta responded by warning that threats were not part of diplomatic language.

“It was a positive sign that the conversation took place,” Abbott told reporters in Canberra. “It’s a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.”

He declined to comment on the conversation in detail.

“I don’t want to raise hope that might turn out to be dashed,” Abbott said.

“I want to ensure that as far as is humanly possible, I am speaking out for Australians and for Australian values, but I also have to respect and defend Australia’s friendships.”

Indonesian government officials have repeatedly said the planned executions, to be carried out by fir-ing squads, would not be delayed or cancelled despite diplomatic pressure. No date has been set for the executions.

“We understand the efforts made by Australia to represent their nationals. That’s the duty of all govern-ments,” said Armanatha Nasir, spokesman for Indone-sia’s foreign ministry.

Widodo, who also took calls from Brazil, France, and the Netherlands this week, has warned those nations against interfering in Indonesia’s sovereign affairs.

Brazil had a citizen executed last month and another is among the next group on death row, along with a French national, the Australians and seven others. A Dutch citizen was executed last month.

“We are keeping communications open with Brazil and we anticipate only good things in our relations with other countries,” Nasir said.

Indonesia has harsh penalties for drug trafficking and resumed executions in 2013 after a five-year gap.

On Tuesday, a court in Jakarta threw out an appeal by the two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, against Widodo’s rejection of their request for presidential clemency.

Lawyers for the members of the so-called Bali Nine group of Australians, convicted in 2005 as the ringlead-ers of a plot to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia, have said they plan to appeal against that decision. (rtr)

Indonesia intensifies economic diplomacy to boost growth

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s economy only grew 5.02 percent last year and failed to meet the target set in the 2014 revised budget. Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro stated on Feb. 5, 2015, that the economic slowdown in 2014 was a strong wake-up call for the government to adopt a more serious approach to boost the country’s economic growth.

Australian PM strikes conciliatory note over Indonesia executions

Singapore’s founder sedated, on life support

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FILE - In this photo taken Monday, June 23, 2014, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq.

Activists: Number of Christians abducted

by IS rises to 220BEIRUT — The number of Christians abducted by the Islamic State group in northeastern

Syria has risen to 220, as militants have rounded up more hostages from a chain of villages along a strategic river in the past three days, activists said Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants have picked up dozens more Christian As-syrians from 11 communities near the town of Tal Tamr in Hassakeh province.

“Incoming labor up to 250,000 people in the future will definitely need a residence and supporting facilities. Of course, it will kindle considerable land conversion. In terms of cultural aspects, fish-ermen will lose their maritime culture. Sacred zones will have a problem, not to mention a matter of wild life and fauna. When low tide occurs, the location is the sojourn of migratory birds from Australia,” he said.

Gendo statedd that his party could not accept the logic of the PT TWBI where the revitalization should in essence only dredge a silting, not even backfill.

A similar opinion was ex-pressed by a coastal researcher doubling as teaching staff at the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine, Warmadewa University, Ketut Sudiarta. According to him, the term reclamation-based revital-ization was an effort to disrupt knowledge, information and law. Moreover, there was no such a term in the Law No. 27/2007 and No. 1/2014. “So, in science there is no such a term. It is only a fool that will say that the term revital-ization of Benoa Bay is based on reclamation,” he affirmed.

New destinationsPT Tirta Wahana Bali Inter-

national (TWBI), the investor behind this term, defines revi-talization as the development of new tourist destinations with a focus on customs and culture. In comparing Bali to other ASEAN countries, Hendi Lukman from PT TWBI cites Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia as places introduc-ing at least two new destinations of this type to revitalize the mar-ket. In contrast he claims that Bali has introduced no iconic tourist destinations, and only relied on building accommodations since 1992.

Speaking to Committee II of the Bali Representative Council (DPD RI) recently, Hendi said, “We want to assure my hotelier and restaurateur colleagues that

it has never even crossed our minds to build hotels and resorts here. We are only interested in creating new tourist destinations.” Strangely, this statement is not in line with the paper presented by the PT TWBI.

In this paper, titled “Condi-tions of Benoa Bay and Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) Conservation and Revitalization of Benoa Bay as Solution for Increasing Sustainability of Bali Tourism and Economy”, it was mentioned that one of the regional development plans at Benoa Bay was creation of a center of inter-national tourist accommodation. Indeed, the revitalization concept map shows several areas for the development of condotels, wa-terfront villas, villatels and hotel resorts.

When asked for his comment, the Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali Chapter, I.B. Ngu-rah Wijaya stated, “We in the field of tourism do not agree with that. Reclamation carried out by the government seeks to reform the area and use it as green space”. While Wijaya did not disagree that the region would benefit from icons, he stressed that the size of Bali with limited capacity for water, roads and electricity made increasing the number of accom-modations impractical. Moreover, he said, Bali already has tourism icons which simply need to be highlighted.

Wijaya added that the gov-ernment served as a regulator and played an important role in managing and promoting tourist attractions. However, the alloca-tion of funds for promotion dis-bursed by the Bali government, was not very large. This had also been noted by the Head of the Bali Government Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra. He said the Bali tourism promotion fund was worth IDR 900 million though the central government had injected IDR 100 billion this year. (kmb32)

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PARIS - Global art sales set a fresh record in 2014 driven by acquisitions from new museums, while China maintained its place at the top of the market, data firm Artprice said Thursday.

Works worth $15.2 billion (13.5 billion euros) sold at auction during the year, an increase of 26 percent on 2013, Artprice said in its annual report, produced with China’s Artron.

A record number of 1,679 sales worth $1 million or more were recorded over the year, four times more than a decade ago, it added. Thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice, described the figures as “an amazing result, an increase of 300 percent in a decade”.

He added that the boom was not being driven by speculators, with 37 percent of lots going unsold in the West and 54 percent in China. 2014 also saw 125 artworks sell for $10 million or more, not including commis-sion, against 18 in 2005.

Greater China, grouping the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, maintained its market leader status, accounting for $5.6 billion in sales, closely followed by the United States.

However, in a sign that a slow-down in Beijing’s economy and an anti-corruption drive that has curtailed luxury spending may have taken their toll, sales in China were down five percent compared to 2013.

2014 was an exceptionally strong year in the United States, with $4.8 billion be-ing spent at US auctions, an increase of 41 percent from the previous year.

British auction houses also put in a solid performance to secure third place with $2.8 billion in sales, up 35 percent from 2013.

And even though top valued lots rep-resented only a small proportion of the total market, they were key to the United States and Britain maintaining their top positions.

Eighty-three of the 125 sales worth $10 million or more were conducted in the United States. These sales represent only one percent of lots but 75 percent of US sales volume.

One of the most spectacular auction results of the year saw Black Fire 1, a 1961 work by American abstract expressionist Barnett Newman, sell for $84 million in New York in May. It had a pre-sale estimate of $39 million.

“Twenty years ago, America and Europe accounted for more than 95 percent” of sales, said Ehrmann, whereas today, buy-ers are active “on all continents without exception”.

Art, he said, “has become an investment category in its own right, reliable, stable over time and much less prone to turbulence that the stock market.” (afp)

Now, crashing crude prices have the 45,000 residents of Puerto Gaitan bracing for a big fall, or already packing their bags. Many are questioning how the windfall was spent.

“Things are going badly but we haven’t touched bottom yet,” said Edgar Candelo, who lost his job driving a tanker at the Ru-biales oil field, which pumps out a quarter of Colombia’s crude. With no prospects in sight, the 46-year-old says he is leaving Puerto Gaitan for a job at half the pay hun-dreds of miles away.

Similar upheaval is taking place across much of Latin America, where oil prices have fallen by nearly half since September, threatening to pull the rug out from under a decade-long economic boom. And the region’s leftist governments, which used the bonanza to lavish spending on social programs that entrenched them in power, now find themselves in the position of having to slash budgets amid rising social tensions.

Across the region, from the shale deposits of Patagonia to Mexico, where the govern-ment is rolling out a historic oil reform,

nervousness is widespread. Drilling projects that proliferated over the past decade are being shelved and the Bank of America last month cut to 1.3 percent from 1.8 percent its forecast for the region’s economic growth this year.

In Colombia, oil production almost doubled over the past seven years. Energy companies rushed into previously-off-limits areas after they were cleared of guerrillas and paramilitary fighters by U.S.-trained security forces. A net oil importer not too long ago, Colombia is now the fifth biggest supplier to the U.S. Driven by near-record oil production, its GDP expanded 4.8 per-cent last year— the fastest pace among Latin America’s major economies.

Puerto Gaitan was at the epicenter of the boom.

As royalties poured in, the town’s budget ballooned by a factor of 100 and a frenzy of construction projects were carried out: state-of-the-art schools, one of Colombia’s largest libraries and an acoustically-pristine amphitheater. The population of the town tripled, and salsa singer Marc Anthony and rapper Daddy Yankee livened up blowout

parties in what for decades had been a sleepy ranching outpost a six-hour drive east of Bogota.

But the biggest symbol of the new wealth, and now waste, that defined the era is the four-story concrete arch at Puerto Gaitan’s entrance, known as the “Door to Paradise.” Costing over $1 million, it evokes the bibli-cal tale of Adam and Eve in garish colors.

Mayor Edgar Humberto Silva defends how the boom money was spent, but acknowledges the future is bleak. Union leaders say almost 7,000 workers have lost their jobs in recent weeks as Pacific Rubiales all but froze investments in the country’s biggest field. Shares of the Toronto-listed company have dropped by more than half since December.

Colombia isn’t the only country in the line of fire.

By far the most pain is felt in Venezuela, whose socialist government earns 95 percent of its export income from oil. In recent months, lines at supermarkets have grown and shortages have worsened as the gov-ernment, trying to avert a default, tightens its grip on scarce dollars needed to import everything from food to auto parts.

Also at risk, analysts say, is OPEC mem-ber Ecuador, which last month secured a $7.5 billion credit line from China to cope with the crisis. (ap)

World art sales hit new record in 2014

AP Photo/Fernando VergaraIn this Feb. 13, 2015 photo, a truck loaded with crude from the Campo Rubiales oil field crosses the bridge over the Manacacias River in Puerto Gaitan, Colombia. Soaring oil prices the past decade transformed this rural backwater into Colombia’s richest city as nearby fields pumped black gold. Now, crashing crude prices have the 45,000 residents of Puerto Gaitan bracing for a big fall, or already packing their bags.

Oil boom’s end threatens pain for much of Latin America

PUERTO GAITAN, Colombia — Soaring oil prices the past decade transformed this rural backwater into Colombia’s richest city as nearby fields pumped black gold, drawing new businesses, international pop stars and vanity art projects such as the biblical-themed arch that towers over these sweltering grasslands.

SINGARAJA - Overflowing water of Lake Tamblingan at Munduk Vil-lage, Banjar Subdistrict, Buleleng, reminds us of the many temples surrounding the sacred lake. One of the temples also submerged in the disaster is the Gubug or Pegubugan Temple located on the west side of Lake Tamblingan.

Indeed, the Gubug Temple is in-separable from the issues of water, either the tangible water or transcen-dental water. In the temple, thousands of farmers in Tabanan and Buleleng Regency rely on their invocation in order their rice fields can persistently be irrigated and be fertile all the times so that they can have a great harvest.

Supporting devotees of the temple are those belong to Catur Desa con-sisting of the Munduk, Gobleg, Umajero and Gesing Customary Village. They believe if the Gubug Temple is the central temple of dozens of temples located on the shores of Lake Tamblingan. Those temples are the Tajun, Ulun Danu, Endek, Bukit Temple and a number of bebaturan temples (menhir) such as the Pen-gukiran, Pengukusan, Mbang, Sang Hyang Kangin, Sang Hyang Kauh and the Naga Loka Temple. All of the temples are located around the Lake Tamblingan, precisely on the slopes of the hill or right at the edge of the lake. Meanwhile, if connected to Batur Temple in Bangli, the Gubug Temple is also considered to be the purusha (cosmic man) while Batur is the pradhana (cosmic woman).

Gubug Temple is the easiest to be found because of its location at the edge of the lake near the Munduk Customary Village. This temple is quite unique because it has two dif-ferent Meru shrines. One of the Meru

shrines was built and worshipped by subak members from Tabanan Re-gency, while another was built and venerated by devotees belonging to Catur Desa. “Its history is unknown why two Meru shrines were built within the same temple area,” said the Chief of Munduk Customary Village, Nengah Ika.

According to Nengah Ika, there were 63 subak organizations in Ta-banan worshipping the Gubug Temple that regularly organized pakelem (animal sacrifice) ritual in the temple and Lake Tamblingan. Based on the oral information from the ancestors, the farmers in Tabanan considered the Lake Tamblingan the water vessel of Tabanan or headspring of Tabanan farmers. On that account, on the pu-jawali or temple anniversary of the Gubug, residents of Tabanan Regency supported by Tabanan Government always teamed up with residents of Catur Desa to organize the ritual.

Since it is the central to temple located around the Lake Tamblingan, pujawali of the temple is carried out in marathon way. It falls on dark moon of the first month in Balinese calendar (around June-July). Meanwhile, on full moon of the second month the devotees organize melasti procession to Penaung River. Then, on full moon of the third month they organize a ritual at Raganta and culmination of the ceremony falls on full moon of the fourth month in the temples located on the shores of Lake Tamblingan centered in the Gubug Temple. After-ward, on the next dark moon devotees organize melasti procession to Labuan Aji Temple. Ultimately, the series of all rituals come to an end with maayu-ayu ritual on full moon in the fifth month. (kmb)

Actually, Jembrana has great potential in both fields, namely the agriculture and maritime. One of the vocational schools in Jembrana is the SMK Negeri 2 at Baluk, Negara. It offers the maritime and agricultural department. In the maritime field, this vocational school only has three classes, re-spectively the class X, XI and XII. All this time, the students are more

interested in automotive industry, business management and infor-matics. Meanwhile, the agriculture or maritime has small percent-age. In contrast, public vocational schools even continue to increase the number of class due to soar-ing interest in learning vocational education.

It was not denied by Principal of SMKN 2 Negara, I Ketut Suartika,

when asked for his confirmation recently. The interest of students to continue their study to agriculture and fisheries department in par-ticular remained low. As a result, the number of maritime class at this vocational school was stag-nant each year, namely only one. Although the number of applicant was a little, this vocational school also had a number of supporting fa-cilities for practice of the maritime department. They included vessel and other maritime systems that were useful for the Department of Nautical Fishing Vessels (NKPI). “Actually, this department is not

inferior to the other, but it indeed still gets less interest whereas the the potential of maritime is still extensive,” he said.

Even, some graduates of this de-partment had been quite successful becoming ready-to-work labor and were recruited by large corpora-tions. Similarly, the department of agriculture and livestock were also quite promising considering the potential of the sector owned by Jembrana County.

However, the constraint faced was the shortage of budget for vocational school students from central government. In 2014, each

student got financial assistance worth IDR 1 million per year and IDR 55,000 from local government per month. Spreading across the area of 14 hectares, this vocational school had a total of 785 students with the department on offer such as the agriculture, maritime and automotive.

In addition, local government has also added two vocational schools with different department in Melaya and Pekutatan. In Melaya, the vocational school is majoring in health studies, while in Pekuta-tan is focused on tourism studies. (kmb26)

Maritime vocational school in Jembrana lack of students

NEGARA - The interest of students to continue their study to vo-cational school in Jembrana, in fact, has not evenly spread. A number of departments at several vocational schools (SMK) that are actually likely to absorb labor as in maritime and agriculture remain in low demand.

Gubug Tamblingan Temple

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Bali News International4 Friday, February 27, 2015 Friday, February 27, 2015 13International RLDW

Drafting of a new constitution is being carried out by the 36-person committee hand-picked by the junta after it overthrew a civilian government and abolished the last charter in last May’s coup. Under the last constitution, half of the 150-member Senate was directly elected and the rest appointed.

Once finished, the constitutional draft will be reviewed by the mil-itary-appointed National Reform

Council, the Cabinet and the junta leaders.

Analysts said Thursday the action was designed to limit the power of elected politicians in the parliament, following years of landslide electoral triumph by po-litical parties that were allied with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup.

The power struggle between

the military-backed upper and middle-class and Thaksin’s pro-democracy supporters has fueled the political conflict in Thailand that have often turned violent in the past decade. Thaksin’s sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, led her Pheu Thai Party to a landslide victory in 2011.

“There’s a likelihood that the Pheu Thai Party will win again once there’s an election, so they are designing the constitution to do whatever it takes to limit the power in parliament of the elected politicians,” said Kan Yeunyong, executive director of Bangkok-based think tank Siam Intelligence Unit. The constitutional drafters are scheduled to finish in April. (ap)

SEOUL — A South Korean court on Thursday abolished a 62-year-old law that bans extramarital affairs, and the stock price of a prominent condom maker immediately shot up 15 percent.

The ruling by the Constitutional Court that the law suppresses personal freedoms could potentially affect thousands of individuals who faced adultery charges since Oct. 31, 2008, a day after the court previously upheld the adultery ban. Current charges could be thrown out and anyone given a guilty verdict would be eligible for a retrial, according to a court official, who didn’t want to be named, citing of-fice rules.

Prosecutors have indicted more than 5,400 people on adultery charges between November 2008 and January this year, according to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. Under the law having sex with a married person who is not your spouse was punishable by up to two years in prison. Nearly 53,000 South Koreans have been indicted on adultery charges since 1985, but prison terms have been rare.

The stock price of South Korean condom maker, Unidus Corp., shot up after the court ruling, surging by the daily limit of 15 percent on South Korea’s Kosdaq market. The debate over the adultery ban, which has been part of South Korea’s criminal law since 1953, intensified in recent years as fast-changing social trends challenged conservative traditional values.

Supporters of the law had claimed it promotes monogamy and keeps families intact, while opponents argued that the government has no right to interfere with people’s private lives and determine their sexual affairs.

The court was acting on 17 complaints submitted from 2009 to last year by individuals who have been punished for adultery or whose trials have been suspended, pending Thursday’s ruling.

Seven judges of the court, which rules on the constitutionality of laws, supported the ruling, while two dissented, the court said. The support of six judges is needed to abolish a law. “(The law) excessively restricts citizens’ basic rights, such as the right to determine sexual af-fairs,” the court said in explaining that the law no longer contributed to overall public interest.

It was the fifth time the court had reviewed the adultery ban since 1990. The last time, in October 2008, five of the judges said the law was unconstitutional.

Legal experts have said that the adultery ban had lost much of its effect as people were increasingly settling their marriage disputes in civil courts. Adultery can be prosecuted only on a complaint made by a spouse who has filed for divorce. The case immediately ends if the plaintiff drops the charge, which is common when financial settle-ments are reached.

“Recently, it was extremely rare for a person to serve a prison term for adultery,” said Lim Ji-bong, a law professor at Sogang University in Seoul. “The number of indictments has decreased as charges are frequently dropped.” (ap)

Thailand’s Senate will not be elected, charter drafters say

BANGKOK — Thailand’s new 200-member Senate will be nomi-nated and not directly elected by voters, said a committee appointed by the country’s military rulers, while critics called it a setback for Thai democracy. The new senators will be chosen from pools of candidates, including former premiers, ex-military leaders and representatives from different professions, Lertrat Ratanavanich, the committee spokesman, told reporters Wednesday. They can only serve one six-year term.

AP Photo/Sakchai LalitA Thai policeman, right, escorts Hassadin Uraipraiwan, left, before a press conference at the police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015.

South Korean court abolishes law saying adultery is illegal

AP Photo/Lee Jin-manPark Han-chul, president of South Korea’s Constitutional Court, sits before the judgment at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. The court on Thursday abolished a 62-year-old law that bans extramarital affairs, ruling that the law suppresses personal freedoms.

DENPASAR - The discovery of an unidentified body on Uluwatu Beach, South Kuta, Sunday (Feb. 22) has now been identified. According to Ida Bagus Putu Alit, the Head of Sanglah Hospital Forensic Department, the body was named Marthinus Johannes Van Schoor, 39, from South Africa.

The identity was known after a friend of Marthinus brought his passport to Sanglah Hospital on Tuesday (Feb 24). Based on testimony of his friend, as retold by Alit, Marthinus worked on a cruise ship that was anchoring. “It is said that he was walking around the beach, and then sud-denly disappeared,” he said, Wednesday (Feb 25).

The incident had been reported to consulate and the water police, but until Thursday afternoon there was no response. Meanwhile, the body of Marthinus was still being entrusted in mortuary of Sanglah Hospital. (kmb42)

A number of academicians from a dozen universities in Bali are conduct-ing a research development to provide space and special environment for the interaction of mute and deaf people at Kelodan hamlet, Bengkala village, Kubutambahan subdistrict, Buleleng, Wednesday (Feb. 25).

KEM Chief Executive, Ida Bagus Putu Mardana, explained that at Beng-kala village was still being intensively developed an agro-techno park, namely the agriculture and technology tourism area on three hectares of land. The co-operation was made through the Forum of Science and Technology Services for People (Flibmas) by involving the members from several universities in Bali. As future investment, a total of 42 mute people of Bengkala village would be given a special environment to mingle, and empowered to work in

the environment of the agro-techno park. Development process of the park had been going on since early January 2015.

His party has just built two special rooms for residents measuring 4x4 me-ters, with one door and no ventilation. In the middle of the courtyard was built a special meeting hall for them. The building itself was worked on in person by dumb residents in appropriate with the form and need. “We are just able to develop one hectare of the agro-techno park. Some plants cultivated are tur-meric, cashew, mango, rambutan and bananas. The whole plants are fertilized by manure. The remaining productive dumb residents are also invited to work, and they will get a net portion of their efforts,” said Mardana doubling as lecturer of the Physics Department at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural

Sciences, Ganesha University of Edu-cation (Undiksha), Singaraja.

Mardana added that previously a number of foreign guests such as from Australia, France, the Philippines and Japan had made a visit to have a look at the interaction of life among dumb com-munity at Bengkala village from early morning until late night. Uniqueness owned by dumb community of Beng-kala was similar to that of Colombia. They had a communication technique and special sign language which could not be understood by dumb residents beyond their community.

“Communication among dumb residents of Bengkala village is in-deed unique. They can get along and communicate, although cannot say anything. Interestingly, many foreign guests have visited the village to make an investigation. Meanwhile, other visitors wrote a novel to immortalize the daily life of dumb community at Bengkala, namely their activity from waking up to late night,” he concluded. (kmb34)

IBP/dewa KusumaThe residents of Bengkala Village, Buleleng are working to make the base camp for Agro Techno Park

Mute residents of Bengkala have a unique sign language

Singaraja (Bali Post) - Uniqueness of mute residents in Buleleng gets the attention from a number of foreign citizens in some Asian and European countries. Their communication interaction among members has different technique from the other mute communities in Bali regions.

Existence of the freight stevedoring pier at Celukan Bawang Harbor, Gerokgak, becomes a featured icon for the Northern Bali community. As a natural and convenient har-bor for skippers, this largest harbor in Buleleng has become favorite sojourn for barges which often transport goods to various towns in Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Gede Suyasa, said that designation of Celukan Bawang Harbor was very appropriate for barges and cruise ships to anchor in Bali. It was enabled because the construc-tion of Celukan Bawang Harbor was natural without too big ocean waves. “According to provincial Spatial Plan, it should become the center of all stevedoring activities in Bali. Based on the experience of skippers, Celukan Bawang Harbor is the most convenient harbor for cruise ship to berth. As a natural harbor, the waves are not high and surrounding condition is very good as well,” he said, Monday (Jan 5).

When the freight was unloaded at Celukan Bawang Harbor, the condition of road construction would become a constraint for trucks transporting the freight. “Regent of Buleleng has often delivered the issue to provincial government if the Celukan Bawang Harbor is indeed used as stevedoring harbor it must be focused on stevedoring activity. However, there was complaint of employers where if the freight is unloaded in Buleleng, when it is transported to southern Bali, the road access is even not good as it can kindle congestion at Gitgit,” he said.

Cooperation between Bali and Buleleng government to maximize the role of Celukan Bawang Harbor remained to be done as well as in the matter of road access posing the main supporting infrastructure for smooth distribution of freight. “When freight is just unloaded at the harbor, there should be an access to distribute the freight. Unlike when stevedoring activities are done at Benoa Harbor Denpasar, the access of distribution can be smoother. Thus, the road access becomes a very important part,” said Suyasa.

Meanwhile, according to Dewa Gede Adi Kumarajaya, Gen-eral Manager of PT Pelindo III of Celukan Bawang Branch, if the Benoa Harbor was merely intended for tourism vessel, the entire container ships would be directed to Celukan Bawang as set forth in the master plan of Celukan Bawang Harbor. “The role of Celukan Bawang Harbor will be developed in the future into a cargo harbor. It will depend on the status of Benoa Harbor whether it has become a special tourism harbor. As a result, cargo ships will certainly be directed to the North,” he said. Stevedoring activities at Celukan Bawang covered the com-modities such as iron, timber and cement, including the locally made cement of Indonesia to Vietnam. Distribution of cement was mostly sent to Denpasar. Furthermore, the Bali provincial government plan related to the development of Soka – Seririt Toll Road as road infrastructure was expected to facilitate the distribution access from North Bali to South Bali. “Hopefully, the distribution of freight in the future can become more fluent,” he added. (BTN/kmb)

Body of foreigner comes from South Africa

Celukan Bawang favorite port for skippers

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, February 27, 2015Friday, February 27, 2015

Gucci’s new designer Ales-sandro Michele, a brand insider little known until now in the wider fashion world, made his runway debut on the first day of womenswear previews Wednes-day, giving the historic brand a clean break from the past.

Michele’s launch is a fitting banner over a push to embed new talent in Milan, where the density of the firmly established Italian system, with brands from Armani to Prada to Versace cre-ating a de-facto Italian colony along New York’s Fifth Avenue, has made it difficult for young designers to make inroads.

In a bid to help foster new

talent, the Italian Fashion Cham-ber sponsored a live runway competition this round among five young designers. At the same time, recently discovered young designers, like Stella Jean and Fausto Puglisi, have quickly established themselves as an integral part of the fashion calendar, which comprises 68 shows and 76 presentations this season.

“I am hoping this is the be-ginning of a new phase, ac-celerating the growth of the new designers,” Italian Fashion Chamber CEO Jane Reeve said in a recent interview.

“We lost a whole genera-

tion,” she said, referring to the period after the ascent of the likes of Giorgio Armani, who celebrates 40 years in the fashion business this year, and Dolce&Gabbana, a design team who established themselves with Madonna as their muse in the 1990s and are now them-selves in their 50s.

Reeve says her mission is to bring the young established designers and the even younger promising designers into the Italian system, and secure their loyalty. The Next Generation fashion contest, won by 22-year-old Claudio Cutugno on Tuesday evening, was a first step. (ap)

LONDON - London Fashion Week draws to a close on Tuesday after five days that have showcased an eclectic range of talent, from luxury brands to rising stars. Here are five themes from the autumn/winter 2015 collections.

- Party on, girl -

Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson looked to Berlin before the fall of the wall for an eclectic, Eighties-inspired collection for his J.W. Anderson label.

There were tops and tunics with puffed-out shoulders and sleeves, and cords tucked into knee-high leather boots. “The bottom line is girls having fun,” he said.

German twins Daniela and Annette Felder, who together form Felder Felder, also took inspiration from Berlin, this time in the Sixties, a time of hedonism, politics and sex.

There were short, swinging skirts in laser cut faux leather in red or black, matched with tops tied at the bust, as well as shaggy faux fur coats.

And who wouldn’t want to be seen on the dance floor with a girl wear-ing the glitter ball crystal-studded frock from David Koma, the Georgian-born designer who has dressed Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Kylie?

- Fur, or almost -High-street store Topshop had furry stoles, cuffs and coat edging for

the Unique collection that for the first time took its signature urban look into the countryside, along with cords and floral patterned frocks.

Serbian-born designer Roksanda had acid-coloured fur coats, gilets and wraps belted into tiny-waisted full skirts, matched with blue or orange furry clutches.

There were also furry clutches at Hunter Original, home to the fa-mous boots, and furry panels on practical coats showed off by models walking on a runway beneath two cascading waterfalls.

Meanwhile luxury house Mulberry used dried thistles to brush up its wool to look and feel like fur.

The plants are attached to a rotating column on a machine and when the wool is fed into it, “they extract the fibres and lengthen them out to create a fur-like texture”, knitwear designer Jade Leong told AFP.

- Cover up those knees -While hedonism ruled elsewhere on the catwalk, the full, calf-length

skirt remains in vogue. This season also saw its more practical cousin take centre stage -- the

wide-legged calf-length trouser, seen both on and off the catwalk.Burberry had over-the-knee sheer flowering skirts and Roksanda

had a more structured A-line version in geometric patterns in orange, purple, pink, blue and gold.

Emilia Wickstead’s elegant formal wear -- beloved of the Duchess of Cambridge -- featured both pastel-coloured skirts and belted trousers that end below the knee, while veteran British designer Paul Smith matched his wide trousers with masculine suit jackets.

- Loving black -British designer Gareth Pugh took black into a place of its own, with

his highly conceptual, sculptural designs, this season built around the theme of a model army.

But black was also a favourite of many designers in London -- as vet-eran Julien Macdonald emphatically put it: “Black is a colour. Women like wearing black. I don’t like navy blue, I like black.”

British designer Giles used it in gothic, romantic frocks, while rising star Simone Rocha used it in rich fabrics shaped into oversized petals on velvet tops and skirts, tapestry-style capes or delicate embroidered tulle and ruffled silks.

David Koma had black frocks with fun flared cuffs and zips up the front and lots of leather, while Australian fashion label sass & bide -- also beloved of celebrities -- rocked the black, leather and metallic look.

- Fear of empty spaces -Greek-born designer Mary Katrantzou chose a concept called “horror

vacui”, or fear of empty spaces, to explain her richly textured outfits, which she contrasted with minimalist, seamless frocks.

Burberry Prorsum also employed a wide variety of techniques in dresses and coats made up of a patchwork of prints and bold autumnal colours.

There was also a patchwork effect on the shirts, skirts and shearling coats at Preen, as well as heavy floral prints. (afp)

Five themes from London Fashion Week

REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Models display a creation as part of the Gucci Autumn/Win-ter 2015 /16 collection during Milan Fashion Week.

New Gucci designer debuts as Milan celebrates youth

MILAN — Fashion is always about renewal, but in this round of Milan Fashion Week it’s not just the collections that are getting a fresher-upper but, it seems, much of the Italian fashion system.

The new types of salt include flat, coarse, fine grain, baby pyramid and black salt in flavors including sal-rosella flower, chili, garlic, garden onion, coffee, chocolate, butterfly pea and the latest flavor, strawberry

pyramid. The price of flavored salt is higher than of regular salt ranging from IDR 60,000 to IDR 200,000 per kilogram.

Regular salt sells for around IDR 1,000 to 3,000 per kilogram. The

innovative new salt is targeting at both domestic and domestic mar-kets. When interviewed, Nyoman Sutrisna, Head of Buleleng Fish-eries and Maritime Affairs, said, “We are trying to innovate in ac-

cordance with a market demand we feel is there”. Sutrisna mentioned the Ministry, working through the Directorate General of Islands, Coastal and Small Island (KP3K) has also sent a proposal hoping for discussion and promotion by the central government. While the salt producers are interested in attractive export markets in Italy,

Belgium, England, Germany and the Netherlands, they also see po-tential in the local market. The new salt is already available in Bali at Singaraja, Gerokgak, Ubud, Semin-yak and Kuta. Sustriana also noted, “At Pemuteran area, there are many hotel guests. In the future, we plan to develop a sauna using salt as a heat source”. (kmb34)

GIANYAR - Sculptures of figures are not only used as sa-cred art to embellish temples or shrines, but are increasingly used to increase the attractiveness of villas and hotels.

Made Suartika, a sculptor from Sukawati, said that not only did he receive orders from hotels and villas but also for overseas export to Japan and Australia. Aside from being souvenirs, the sculptures of large size were often ordered to decorate various places overseas. Surakita said, “We re-ceive enough orders. Apart from the use in the construction of temple, many sculptures are now also used to decorate hotels and villas”. According to him, the increase in business is because more and more hotels and villas want to accent Balinese architecture. “Foreign people like it best. Moreover, Balinese people like it as wishing to highlight their distinc-tive features,” he said.

When asked about the raw material used to make his sculptures, he said rock is best because it is a material which ages well. “The rock materials ignored for decades and exposed to rain and sunlight will harden like fossils,” he said. Producing a medium-sized sculpture could take him up to one week, but he added that today precast sculpture had also become an option because it could be produced quickly and efficiently. “In the past, we found it hard to meet the orders on time, but today it has been made easier, but the material is mixed, so that it is not just made from rock,” he added. (nik)

Sculptures of character figures increasingly popular

IBP/Wawan

Various types of sculpture with the puppet characters are not only used as sacred art to embellish temples or shrines. Nowadays, they are widely favored to increase the attractiveness of villas and hotels.

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Salt farmer groups in Buleleng start to develop the potential of salt with assorted flavors at Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, Buleleng.

Commodity for export

Buleleng salt farmers develop new flavored saltSINGARAJA – Groups of salt farmers in Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, Buleleng have started

to produce salt with assorted flavors. So far13 flavors of salt have been successfully developed. Within a month, flavored salt production has reached 1.2 tons.

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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 celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las 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, deco-rated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Friday, February 27, 2015Friday, February 27, 2015

JIMBArAN - Let us spoil you with the ultimate romantic dining experience in a tented pavilion,

canopied in white cotton and dis-creetly located on a beachfront lawn overlooking Jimbaran Bay.

You will be seated at a beauti-fully decorated table for two, with flickering candles and a set menu

especially created for this intimate rendezvous. Each course will be prepared by your personal chef and

served throughout the evening by your personal butler, complete with private entertainment. (r)

BuddhIst community living in Bali has just celebrated Lunar New Year with joy and humility. Most of them are descendants of Chinese immigrants who work in several fields such as tourism. What about the harmony and the impres-sion on their life on the Island of the Gods? Let’s ask the friend of Bali Travel News who is engaged in the field of tourism, Fandy Lo. This man of Chinese descent is now oc-cupying the position of Marketing Manager at Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort.

Fandy, it is the familiar address of this young man from Jakarta. He saw that Bali had a good level of tolerance and excellent local wisdom when set foot on the island last 2.5 years ago. It was proved by the establishment of some places of worship of various faiths practiced by Chinese diaspora in Bali. Ad-ditionally, Fandy considered that many Chinese entrepreneurs and workers who migrated to Bali mak-ing friends with the locals. Even, they had a close friendship. “Bali

is like a second home where the weekend and holiday seem more relaxing. I am warmly received in the office environment and soci-ety,” he kindly said.

In maintaining social relations in the office and the community, Fandy said, personally he did not distinguish from each other. Many

of his friends had different faiths and came almost from all regions of the archipelago. “Other Chinese people and I maintain harmony by respecting the difference in holi-days, ceremonies, sacred places and ways of worship. Bali as famous and friendly community also allows us to socialize,” he explained.

Fandy could not deny that other than open socialization in Bali, the culture and the arts such as dance, food, gamelan, carvings and typical souvenirs of Bali were also able to attract the attention of Chinese people so that they fell in love with the local beauty. On the Chinese New Year celebration this month, he was very grateful because he could return home to Jakarta and celebrated it with family. “Last year, I celebrated the feast at hotel where I worked. At that time, it was jazzed up with a lion dance performance. Other people who witnessed were also enthusiastic so that I feel comforted because everything was going along well,” he added. (ocha)

Fandy LoLove harmony of Chinese and Balinese community

Romantic Dinner in a tented pavilion at InterContinental Bali Resort

“Last night, the waves were high and it rained torrentially. The waves hit my stall,” said one of the residents around the Klotok Beach, Wayan Puri, when met by Bali Post, Wednesday. He claimed to live in the stall every day. Piles of the marine debris, according to him, were taken by high waves accompa-nied by heavy rain and violent wind the night before. Prior to adverse weather on Tuesday night, the coastline along one kilometer was still clean. After passing through period of tense, on Wednesday morning some Tojan villagers began cleaning up the rubbish. All the twigs were sorted and taken home for firewood. Meanwhile, large tree

trunks were still left and so were plastic and aluminum cans.

As a result of the swept marine debris, along the coast became slum. Local residents had not been able to clean up it in whole. The marine debris complicated local people to continue their daily work, namely looking for mosaic stones usually rampant on local beach. Another resident, Wayan Tarti, said the high waves on local beach had happened since the past week. “But, the most terrible was last night and it immediately brought in abun-dant marine debris,” she said. She admitted to be still anxious to overnight again in his stall. Every night, she and her family had to go out of the house. If the

weather permitted, she would overnight in her stall.

She said the current coastal condition was the most severe caused by the marine debris. Residents hoped there would be clean-up activities on the Klotok Beach, so as it could be as clean as before. Moreover, since the Klotok Beach started to be arranged, quite a lot of local and foreign travelers came to simply enjoy the beach am-bience. Moreover, the Klotok Beach was also considered a sacred area in Bali that should be preserved and freed from marine debris that could made it slum like the coastline in the south of Watu Klotok Temple. (kmb31)

dENPAsAr - Bali government has officially lowered the imposition of Vehicle Fuel Tax (PBBKB) from 10 percent to five percent. It has been set forth in the Regional Bylaw No.1/2015 on the Amendment against the Regional Bylaw No.1/2011 on the regional tax that was enacted on Tuesday (Feb. 25) by Legal Divi-sion of Bali government. However, the decline in the price of Premium fuel from IDR 7,000 per liter to IDR 6,600 per liter as the implication of the decline in the Vehicle Fuel Tax is still waiting for the determination from Pertamina of Bali branch.

“Enactment of the Regional By-law No.1/2015 has been delivered to Pertamina of Bali branch. So, we just need to wait for the new pricing from Pertamina,” said the Legal Division Head of Bali government, Wayan Sugiada, Wednesday (Feb. 25).

Sugiada asserted that after the regional bylaw was enacted it should have been able to be applied so that the price of Premium fuel in Bali could be the same as that of other re-gions at IDR 6,600 per liter. However, the price reduction authority lay in the side of Pertamina. On that account, his party hoped Pertamina to imme-diately enforce the regulation. “Since the revision of regional bylaw was just received by Pertamina yesterday, maybe it cannot be immediately fol-

lowed up and it must calculate first the price of Premium fuel. We urge to immediately apply the new price,” said Sugiada.

He described the point set forth in the Regional Bylaw No.1/2015 on the Amendment against the Regional Bylaw No.1/2011 on Local Taxes lay in the article 37. In paragraph 1 of article 37 was mentioned the amount of vehicle fuel tax in Bali was set at 5 percent. In paragraph 2 was mentioned the vehicle fuel tax rate for public transport was set at 50 percent more than that of private vehicles. “We in the Bali government have made a legal instrument on the decline in the vehicle fuel tax. Now, it is the turn of Pertamina to follow it up,” said Sugiada.

Similar opinion was delivered by the Head of Bali Revenue Services (Dispenda), Made Santa, said the re-vised regulation had been submitted to the office of the Assistant Branch Manager of the Pertamina Bali Rep-resentative, Donatus Aldo, Wednes-day. As consequence, the realm of Premium price reduction was no longer in the Bali government but in Pertamina. “Regarding the authority when (Premium price decline) will be made and how much it will cost now lies in Pertamina. But, we urge it can be applied as soon as possible,” said Santa. (kmb29)

BANGLI - Traffic violation in the jurisdiction of Bangli Police remains high. It is proved by large number of road users cracked down on by police due to violating. From the raids held by police at a num-ber of locations, most violations happened due to non-possession of driving license.

Chief of Bangli Police Traffic Affairs, Nyoman Sukadana, with permission from Chief of Bangli Po-lice, Suswanto, on Wednesday (Feb. 25) recognized that traffic violation netted during the ongoing traffic order program for a month increased significantly. Last January, his party managed to capture 345 offenders. Among them, 290 offenders had no driving license, 134 offenders were using no safety helmet, 52 offenders did not bring vehicle registration,

12 vehicles were overcapacity, 11 vehicles were without completeness and a violation of traffic sign.

Meanwhile, up to 24 February, the number of netted offender reached 321 people. Of that amount, the most violations happened because they did not bring driving license (154 persons), without safety hel-met (40), without vehicle registra-tion (36), overcapacity (7), without completeness (8) and traffic sign violation (6).

Sukanada said that all this time his party had intensively disseminated to public about the traffic discipline. His party did only target the adult community, but also school students at Kindergarten. Prosecution against the netted offenders had also been made, but the violation rate remained high enough. (ina)

Traffic violations in Bangli still high

Price decline of Premium waits for Pertamina

Due to marine debris, Klotok

Beach turns slumsEMArAPurA - Piles of rubbish mounted up along the Klotok Beach, Klungkung,

Wednesday (Feb. 25). such condition occurred after heavy rain and violent wind hit the regions of Klungkung, tuesday night (Feb. 24) until the next morning. At that time, the situation was tense where residents living near coastline did not dare to leave their house. they feared and preferred to stay in the house to save themselves.

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The debris which make Klotok Beach in Klungkung very dirty.

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l British male solo artist: Ed Sheeranl British female solo artist: Paloma Faithl British breakthrough act: Sam Smithl Brits global success award: Sam Smithl MasterCard British album: Ed Sheeran “x”l British group: Royal Bloodl International female solo artist: Taylor Swiftl International male solo artist: Pharrell Williamsl International group: Foo Fightersl British video: One Direction “You & I”l British single: Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk”

Madonna entered with a troupe of male dancers and appeared to fumble with a long, flowing cloak she was wearing. A member of the troupe yanked on the gar-ment, which was tied at the neck, but rather than come off it pulled Madonna backward down three steps while her dancers looked on, seemingly in shock.

In a post on Instagram after the perfor-mance, Madonna said she was doing OK.

“My beautiful cape was tied too tight! But noth-ing can stop me and love really lifted me up!” she wrote. “Thanks for your good wishes! I’m fine!”

The song includes a lyric about stumbling, then con-tinues “I’m gonna carry on” — and Madonna did, continuing the matador-themed routine.

The fall drew an in-

stant, and mostly sympathetic, reaction from ceremony attendees and television viewers.

“I feel for her,” singer Ashley Roberts told ITV news. “She’s a pro, though, and she kept going.”

Kanye West and Taylor Swift also performed at the Brit Awards, the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys. (ap)

LONDON — Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran each won a pair of prizes Wednesday at Britain’s leading music awards — but it took Kanye West to introduce some edge, with a song that proved too strong for television.

Elsewhere there were few surprises at the awards, which recognize international stars along with homegrown British talent.

Tousle-haired singer Sheeran won prizes for best British male solo artist and British album of the year, for “X.” Soulful crooner Smith won trophies for British breakthrough act and global success.

“Since I was a little kid I dreamed of people all over the world singing my songs,” Smith said. “This shows I’m stepping in the right direction.”

The 22-year-old Smith won four Grammys earlier this month, including record of the year for “Stay With Me.”

Smith was sultry and Sheeran was sensible, but West provided a dose of raw energy. He performed his raw, grime-influenced new song “All Day,” whose lyrics, peppered with

expletives and the n-word, were muted for the show’s live TV broadcast.

West has said his new clothing line was influenced by the 2011 London riots, and the performance also had an urban-unrest feel, involving dozens of dancers and a giant flamethrower.

It has been a big year for British music, with Smith storming the Grammys and artists like Sheeran, baby-faced singer-songwriter George Ezra and the still-ubiquitous One Direction making waves.

The Brits were once renowned for chaos, enlivened by incidents including a 1992 stunt in which British band the KLF left a dead sheep at the after-show dinner. But the cer-emony has been transformed in recent years into a slick talent showcase.

West aside, the tone of the evening was accomplished but not edgy, opening with a sleekly saucy performance of “Blank Space” by a black-clad Taylor Swift.

Swift was named best international female artist, while “Happy” hit-maker Pharrell Wil-

liams was named best international male act, and Foo Fighters won the trophy for interna-tional group. Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” took the prize for best British single.

A dash of rock ‘n’ roll was added by grungy duo Royal Blood, awarded the best British group trophy by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page — once a symbol of rock rebellion, now a distinguished elder statesman.

Royal Blood singer Mike Kerr said the award was a surprise to the band, and possibly to the audience, “as you may not even know who we are.”

The prize for best British female artist went to retro-loving singer Paloma Faith, who dedi-cated her award to “all the underdogs and all the grafters” who struggle to succeed.

Clutching a curvy white Brits statuette designed by artist Tracey Emin, Faith recalled how in her early days she had been arrested for putting up posters for her gigs. Now, she said, “my pictures are all over Greenwich Tube station legally, and that’s an amazing feeling.”(ap)

Madonna takes a tumble at the Brit Awards

REUTERS/Toby Melville

Singer Madonna falls during her performance at the BRIT music awards at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London, February 25, 2015.

LONDON — Madonna has given music fans a shock when she tumbled down several stairs at the Brit Awards. The 56-year-old queen of pop was closing Wednesday’s ceremony in London with a performance of her song “Living For Love.”

Smith and Sheeran win, Kanye stirs it up at UK’s Brit Awards

REUTERS/Toby Melville

Ed Sheeran receives the award for best solo male artist at the BRIT music awards at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London, February 25, 2015.

Gendo asked the public to think of reclamation in terms of envi-ronmental problems and potential of future disasters. The investor

was trying to suggest that if the reclamation-based revitalization would be made in the form of is-lands that paid attention to natural

channels, it would also maintain a certain distance from the island to the mangrove.

However, “If dredging the chan-nel, it must be asked whether the dredging of the channel is proportion-al to the bay area backfilled. There is still a reduction in the volume of water catchment. Since Benoa Bay belongs to a reservoir area, obviously there will be environmental impacts, including tidal floods,” he said.

He also said that it represented

a bad precedent in the field of law, chiefly the law of spatial planning, in Bali and Indonesia. It was also an infringement on the moratorium policy in place. It was also not eq-uitable in terms of development of various regions of Bali.

According to Gendo, the issue of reclamation did not have anything to do with environmental aspects. Socially and culturally, the lures of investors claiming to provide hundreds of thousands of job op-

portunities would only increase the burden in South Bali.

‘Reclamation-based revitalization’ feared to add new problems

DENPASAR - Reclamation-based revitalization is a new term appearing in public spaces around Bali. Coordinator of the ForBALI, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, cited the reclamation plan at Benoa Bay as an example of bad tourism sector gover-nance whereby spatial planning was adjusted for the benefit of investors. The discourse of revitalization was even feared to add new problems, such as social impacts and massive land conversion in South Bali.

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The file photo showed people rallied to asked government to revoke the presidential decree on Benoa Bay reclamation plan. The discourse of revitalization feared to add new problems, such as social impacts and massive land conversion in South Bali.

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