Edisi 03 September 2013 | International Bali post

The Weinstein Company’s “The But-ler,” starring Forest Whitaker as a long-serving White House butler, generated $14.7 million in ticket sales at domestic theaters from Friday through Sunday, according to studio estimates which did not include projected sales for the U.S. Labor Day holiday on Monday.

Its sales have totaled more than $74 million and the film is generating awards season buzz, including for co-star Oprah Winfrey, who plays Whitaker’s wife. Warner Bros’ Jennifer Aniston hit, “We’re the Millers,” and starring Jason Sudeikis in the drug smuggling comedy, was third with $12.6 million at U.S. and

Canadian theaters.For “One Direction”, Sony worked

with sister company Sony Music, which distributes the group’s music, to make the film, and signed Oscar-nominated direc-tor Morgan Spurlock to direct.

The clean-cut five-singer group, which finished third in the British ver-sion of the musical competition show “The X Factor” in 2010, has sold more than 10 million albums and 19 million singles, according to its management company’s website.

“We are thrilled with our result,” said Rory Bruer, Sony Pictures’ president of worldwide distribution. “It exceeded our

expectations not only do-mestically, but everywhere, worldwide.”

The film’s opening looked to fall just shy of industry ex-pectations of $22 million in ticket sales over the holiday weekend, with Hollywood.com’s box office division projecting a $20.5 million total. The film added another $14.5 million in 53 interna-tional markets, led by the United Kingdom.

Disney’s 2008 film “Han-na Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Con-cert” holds the record open-ing for the genre with $31.1 million, according to Hol-lywood.com. “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,” released by Paramount Pictures in 2011, opened with $29.5 million.

Walt Disney’s animated film “Planes” was fourth for the weekend with ticket sales of $7.8 million.

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PHILADELPHIA — Nine Inch Nails closed the second night of the “Budweiser Made In America” festival with a set that captured the audience — although the crowd was not nearly as large as Beyonce’s the night before.

Trent Reznor and his band mates per-formed 19 songs at the Jay-Z-curated fes-tival on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Reznor didn’t hold back: drenched in sweat and holding the microphone close, he sang his band’s rock hits and tracks from the group’s new album, “Hesitation Marks,” out Tuesday.

He emerged onstage in all black while

lights flashed behind him during songs like “Closer” and “Head Like a Hole.” NIN went on at 9:30 p.m., minutes after DJ-producer Calvin Harris electrified at another stage with his familiar hits “We Found Love,” ‘’I Need Your Love” and others. Some concertgoers left after Harris’ top-notch performance, and the crowd was not packed when NIN performed, though it filled up throughout the show.

The band’s 90-minute set featured hard rock anthems, songs with techno influences as well as groovy and eerie jams. NIN closed the night with “Hurt,” which earned nonstop cheers from the crowd. Reznor was soft as he sang the song’s verses — making it the set’s highlight. “Yeah, Trent!” one burly

voice screamed, and that was one of many.“Thank you very much,” Reznor told

the crowd, one of the few times he spoke. “Glad you can be here and we thank Jay-Z for the invite.”

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis also per-formed Sunday, earning cheers from the crowd, as did Miguel and Kendrick Lamar. The festival Sunday was more packed than on Saturday, when 2 Chainz, Imagine Drag-ons and Emeli Sande performed.

Nine in Nails closes 2nd day of Philly music fest

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Fans attend day 2 of the 2013 Budweiser Made in America festival on Sunday, Sept. 1,

2013 in Philadelphia.

‘One Direction’ edges ‘Butler’, sings its way to box office winReuters

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - Concert film “One Direction: This is Us,” a Sony Pictures/TriStar release featuring the red-hot British boy band One Direction, won the weekend box office race with ticket sales of $17 million, edging the civil rights drama “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” which had been the top film for the past two weeks.

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(From L to R) Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Harry Styles of British boy band One Direction arrive for the premiere of their docu-mentary film “This is Us” in New York, August 26, 2013.

“This potential must be captured so that we can attract more tourists to Indonesia,” she said after opening the Indonesia Tourism & Creative Economy Fair (ITCEF) 2013.

The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UN-WTO) noted the num-ber of tourists traveling in 2012 reached a point in the history with 1,035 billion

with the growth of 4 percent. Esthy added that in terms of the growth, the Asia Pa-cific and South East Asia region reached the highest growth, respectively above 7 percent and 9 percent. “It’s actually a very good chance even though the world is hit by global crisis but since the past the tourism sector has been proved resistant to crisis,” she said.

Citing the data of the UN-WTO in terms of foreign tourist expenditure, the highest growth originated from China (41 percent) with the spending worth USD 102 billion and Russia (30 percent). In the first half of 2013, the growth of foreign tourists reached 5 percent and the highest spending growth was experienced by China.

Movement of international tourists reaches 1,035 billionBali Post

JAKARTA - Director General of Tour-ism Marketing, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Esthy Reko Astuty, said the international tourist movement in 2012 reached 1.03 billion and this year was expected to surge up. Continued on page 6

Tourists enjoying the sunset panorama at Legian Beach. Director General of Tourism Marketing, Ministry of Tour-

ism and Creative Economy, Esthy Reko Astuty, said the international tourist

movement in 2012 reached 1.03 billion and this year was expected to surge up.

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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 con-sidered 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 umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated 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


Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013

24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar SelatanPura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler TabananPura Agung Pasek Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuninng Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Sin-gapaduPura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan SingarajaPura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcang-kring TabananPura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Bule-lengPura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean MengwiPura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja TegalalangPura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada BulelengPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup GianyarPura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klung-kungPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPamerajan Alit UbudPura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara TabananPura Dalem Majapahit B a n j a r Denuma Kukuh Marga TabananPura Dalem batur BangliPura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem

25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Be-sakihPura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu BadungHyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari TegalPura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang BangliPura Dalem Peruncak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan BadungPura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi BadungPemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud

3 Sep Anggarkasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas SukawatiPura Dalem Lagan Bebalang BangliPura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Suka-watiPura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambi-tan TabananPura Gaduh SandingPura Dalem Gandamayu KlungkungPura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang

4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler TabananPura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar

8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel TabananPura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri TabananPura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin LembonganPura Batu Medeg BesakihPura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba

11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksir-ing

12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih

18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg TabananPura Puseh, Desa Guwang SukawatiPura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel

19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari LombokPura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu KarangasemPura Pedharman Arya Telabah Be-sakihPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamaniPura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar

25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Suka-watiPura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

“We understand just how important it is to stay in contact in this era of advanced technol-ogy. However, you may not want the bother of bringing your own phone or electronic device away on holiday in case of loss or damage. So to help ease this situation, Amadea recently launched Julie Smart Phone Rental,” stated the release.

This convenient service is available from the Reception Desk and offers all the very latest smart phone options. For just Rp 50.000 per day, you can enjoy full use of the latest smart phone. A local SIM card and credit is also available at local price. This will enable you to be connected at all times to make calls, chat, browse the internet, receive emails, play games and share your holiday experiences on social media. Julie Smart Phone Rental is there to make your stay in Bali a whole lot easier.

Julie Smart Phone Rental at Amadea ResortIBP

This is a unique value added service that launched by Amadea Resort. Only in this ho-tel, while you are staying and enjoying your holiday, you will be able to rent a cellular phone. Infact, according to release that receive by International Bali Post, Amadea Resort will provide you with the latest smartphone.

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“We are happy to welcome Presi-dent Palmer to our community,” said ANZI Forum Chairman Angga Kes-umah. “We look forward to sharing with him all that our local Lions have accomplished in the area.”

Lions in Indonesia conduct a vari-ety of projects and events, including Education and Environment Care.

Lions clubs are groups of men and women who identify needs within the community and work together to fulfill those needs. For more information or to get involved with your local Lions, please contact Angga Kesumah at [email protected]

Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organi-zation with more than 1.35 million members in 46,000 clubs in more than 208 countries and geographic areas. In addition to its efforts toward conquering blindness, the organiza-tion has made a strong commitment to community service and helping youth throughout the world. To learn more about Lions Clubs International, visit www.lionsclubs.org.

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Though having been sealed, the

Buangga Residence housing project at Buangga hamlet, Getasan village, Petang subdistrict, still continues. Even, the project activity has increased lately. Allegedly, there are certain parties back-ing the violated and unlicensed housing project.

Based on information from local community, after the sealing a number of uniformed officers of the public order officers (Satpol PP) had come to location. Strangely, the officers did not give a reprimand or take any action. They only oversaw the project workers.

The housing project spreading across 4,500 square meters of wetland contin-ued. Even, the developer brought in some

additional construction workers from outside to work on the project. So far, there was one building having been near completion, while several other lots had been made the foundation and prepared with wire mesh for poles and walls.

When confirming this matter on Sunday (Sep 1), the Division Head of Operations and Control of the Badung Public Order Officer, Dewa Nyoman Oka, asserted the project violated a number of provisions. His party had to do the sealing and sent reprimand for two times to the developer.

Regarding the ongoing project, Dewa Oka confirmed the officers had missed while doing the checking. When the officers came down, there was no activity on the project. Allegedly, the

inspection information was leaked. His party would also make another inspec-tion by deploying his team to check and summon the developer. “We will re-summon the developer. It means the third reprimand. Further, we will pro-cess it in accordance with the applicable rules,” he said.

When asked about the possibility of the parties backing the project, Dewa Oka said it could happen. Even, his party admitted to have heard the information if certain elements backed the project. Dewa Oka stated his party had reminded the officers on duty not to receive any lures when coming down to location. “In essence, the project has violated and should be followed up according to regulations,” he said. (kmb25)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—So far, most HIV cases

are suffered by productive age ranging from 15 to 49 years old. In such age range, they are mostly workers and widely working as employees of the government agencies or private companies. On that account, any company is potential and unable to avoid if one of the workers is a person living with HIV/AIDS (ODHA).

At first, people living with HIV/AIDS looked healthy and could work as usual. As long as the virus is in the incubation period and unde-tectable, they do not show off any symptom of illness. The employees can get the virus just before applying for the job or because their lifestyle is at risk, exposed to HIV during work.

Potential of the workplace to have employees living with HIV/AIDS, according to Chairman of the Working Group of Prevention, Promo-tion and Public Relations of the AIDS Prevention Com-mission (KPA) of Bali, Prof. Mangku Karmaya, should be accompanied with the HIV/AIDS policy at workplace. “However, so far there are many companies that do not have HIV/AIDS policy where confidentiality is not noticed, so the stigma, label and dis-crimination remain to happen every day,” he said. Many company managements, ac-cording to Karmaya, still did not know and did not support the HIV positive workers so they were afraid to speak up and did not have friends to talk and the employees often did not know about their rights.

As a result, an internal conflict might arise due to the stigma and discrimination. Concentration of the manage-ment would be more depleted on matters beyond the produc-tivity since most of the bosses felt uncomfortable to work with the HIV positive employ-

ees. The morbidity and mortal-ity increased as well as many of skilled and experienced workers disappeared. Loss of the role model and panic could cause deterioration of morale. Costs for recruitment and training of new personnel and health insurance soared, while the productivity decreased and eventually would increase the company’s losses. Further, the losses would spread to the em-ployees and their families.

To prevent the matter, add-ed Karmaya, was required a commitment at all levels of management in order to have an HIV/AIDS policy and pro-gram at workplace. At least, the company should provide information about HIV/AIDS that could be accessed by all employees and their families. “Perform the other activities related to HIV/AIDS at least once in two months to provide correct information about the HIV,” he said. Theme of the program should revolve around the prevention, safe sex practices, maintenance of a non-discriminatory atti-tudes and gender equality. The activity should also include a dialogue with employees to foster a healthy working environment, the right to get protection and support, as-surance of confidentiality and lack of layoffs.

According to Karmaya, the HIV/AIDS program at workplace was very impor-tant because it would provide security and comfort for the employees and staff of the company and eliminate the stigma and discrimination as well as the absence of any dismissal. “A serious pro-gram will prevent wastage and minimize any disruption to product ivi ty. Besides , the increasingly complete work health and safety (K3) service in return would pro-vide a positive image for the management because it has provided a strong com-mitment for the employee’s well-being,” he said. (san)

HIV/AIDS infects productive ages An HIV/AIDS program required at workplace

Local Lions Welcome International Officer

MD 307 Lions Clubs Indonesia Council Chairman Charles Saerang and Lions Club members will welcome International President Barry Palmer of Lions Clubs International, the world’s largest service club organization. President Palmer from Australia, will address the Lions during their ANZI-Pacific Forum, Bali on September 6, 2013.

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President – Lions Club International Barry Palmer.

Alleged to be backed by certain personBuangga Residence project continues

3Tuesday, September 3, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Tuesday, September 3, 2013

A WHO study, one of the first to analyse the causes of death of older women, found that in wealthier countries deaths from noncommu-nicable diseases has fallen dramati-cally in recent decades, especially from cancers of the stomach, co-lon, breast and cervix.

Women over 50 in low and middle-income countries are also living longer, but chronic ailments, including diabetes, kill them at an earlier age than their counterparts, it said. “The gap in life expectancy between such women in rich and poor countries is growing,” said the WHO study, part of an issue of the WHO’s monthly bulletin devoted to women’s health.

There is a similar growing gap between the life expectancy of men over 50 in rich and lower income countries and in some parts of the world, this gap is wider, WHO of-ficials said.

“More women can expect to live

longer and not just survive child birth and childhood. But what we found is that improvement is much stronger in the rich world than in the poor world. The disparity be-tween the two is increasing,” Dr. John Beard, director of WHO’s department of ageing and life course, said in an interview at WHO headquarters.

BETTER PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

Beard, one of the study’s three authors, said: “What it also points to is that we need particularly in low and middle-income countries to start to think about how these emerging needs of women get addressed. The success in the rich world would sug-gest that is through better prevention and treatment of NCDs.”

In women over 50 years old, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cancers, heart disease

and strokes, are the most common causes of death, regardless of the level of economic development of the country in which they live, the study said.

Health ministers from WHO’s 194 member states agreed on a global action plan to prevent and control noncommunicable dis-eases at their annual ministerial meeting last May.

Developed countries have tack-led cardiovascular diseases and cancers in women with tangible results, the WHO study said.

Fewer women aged 50 years and older in rich countries are dy-ing from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than 30 years ago and these improvements contributed most to increasing women’s life expectancy at the age of 50, it said. An older woman in Germany can now expect to live to 84 and in Ja-pan to 88 years, against 73 in South Africa and 80 in Mexico.

Reuters

NEW YORK - Physical edu-cation in the United States has come a long way since the one-size-fits-all regimen of jumping jacks and rope climbing that was the bane of the baby boomer generation.

Today, where children learn can determine the type of fit-ness lessons they receive. “We have schools with rock climbing walls, Zumba classes, inline skat-ing - amazing stuff that I would have loved to have when I was a kid,” said Carly Braxton, senior program manager for advocacy at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), a non-profit group that promotes physi-cal activity and education.

Even in schools constrained by local budgets or indifference, Braxton said, imaginative physi-cal education teachers are find-ing innovative ways to get kids moving, from snow shoeing in cold climates to treasure hunting in warm ones.

“Where there’s a big Native American population, they’ll bring in tr ibal games, hunt-ing and fishing,” said Braxton, whose organization is one of the managing partners of first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Active Schools program.

“Physical education people are among the most flexible people in the world when it comes to using the community and the environ-ment,” she added.

Federal guidelines recom-mend children and adolescents,

aged 6-17 years old, get at least one hour of physical activity daily, but in the schools where they spend much of their day, mandates for movement vary greatly.

Thirty-eight U.S. states man-date physical education in el-ementary, middle/high and high school, according to the 2012 Shape of the Nation Report: Status of Physical Education in the USA, which is released by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and the American Heart Association.

But most states do not require a specific amount of instructional time and more than half allow exemptions, waivers, and/or sub-stitutions, the report showed.

“Education is such a local issue,” said Braxton. “You see this variation. Even in states with stricter mandates, these mandates don’t have a whole lot of teeth.”

Physical inactivity is associ-ated with obesity, which affects 17 percent of children and adoles-cents in the United States - triple the rate from just one generation ago, according to the U.S. Cen-ters for Disease Control.

Braxton said physical activity translates to lower absenteeism and higher academic performance.

“Research shows if you’re sitting for more than 17 minutes, your brain activity starts to slow down,” said Braxton. “If you’re sitting in a math class, even just a one-minute brain break, where maybe the kids play rock/paper/scissors with their legs instead of their hands (can help).”

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A woman walks with children along a road in Aninoasa, 330 km (202 miles) west of Bucharest July 30, 2013.

Life expectancy gap growing between rich/poor world women - WHOReuters

GENEVA - Life expectancy for women at 50 has improved, but the gap between poor and rich countries is growing and could worsen without better detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease and cancers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

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Not your grand-mother’s gym class

Bali PostDENPASAR - National textile

industry including the textiles of Bali is threatened to lose in the competition against the ASEAN countries after the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) in 2015. Internal pressure and the textile industry of the ASEAN countries being more ready will become the obstacle to the development of the Indonesia’s textile industry in the AEC. Even, the Bali textile once becoming the leading commodity of Bali and the locomotive of the industry in Bali seems in a dead faint.

Based on the data released by the Bali government is reported that Bali generated foreign exchange worth USD 100.65 million from the export of textiles and textile products dur-ing 2012. However, until February 2013 the number dropped 19.83 per-cent over the previous year reaching USD 125.54 million.

Chairman of the Indonesian Tex-tile Association (API) of Bali, Dolly Nasution, when contacted said that the decline in the textile industry in Bali was caused by a number of factors such as high interest rates of bank loan, high production cost for most of the imported raw materials, lack of labor force because many garment workers changed profession to tourism sector and weakness in marketing.

“Impartiality of the government, in this case the Bali government, is very pronounced. Previously, our product marketing was often fa-cilitated through exhibition, but this time it no longer happens. Even, the government apparently only focuses and depends on the development of the tourism sector alone, while the other industries are ignored,” he said.

According to him, the condition

of the textile entrepreneurs in Bali was getting more difficult, when the textile product of Bangladesh, Vietnam, China and India began to participate in winning the market and the production of Bali textiles was increasingly unable to compete against the other countries so the export also continued to decline.

“In addition to taxes, the inter-est rate of credit is also one of the factors inhibiting the growth of the textile industry. Actually, the other countries such as China could provide lower credit. China’s government also provides subsi-dies for the exporters, including in the textile products. Unlike in Bali, the interest rate of bank lies in the range of 12-14 percent per year. Meanwhile, the interest rate in China is only about 3-4 percent per year,” he explained.

Similar opinion regarding the condition of the textile in Bali was revealed by AA Ngurah Mahendra. According to him, the downturn was also caused by the raw materi-als tending to be expensive. Even, when facing a fairly complex problem, the textile entrepreneurs belonging to the members of the API Bali also faced difficulty in the payment system from the competitors which in turn made the Bali textile entrepreneurs col-lapse. “Now, the competitors also bombard with the very long and vulnerable payment system. The competitors dare to provide long credit, while we do not. This is what makes us increasingly less competitive,” he explained.

Ngurah Mahendra also confirmed that human resources in Bali rarely deeply involved in the textile indus-try. They mostly preferred to choose the other job sectors such as sales promotion girl (SPG) to shop atten-dants in supermarket. (kmb28)

Unfortunately, foreign tourists began to complain about the expanse of power line and the supporting towers on hillside that hamper the natural view.

As observation at location on Sunday (Sep 1), the power line ran from west to the east. Meanwhile, the high-voltage supporting tower looked to stand rigidly in the area of rice fields and some others were built on the hillside.

The cable expanse slightly dis-rupted the view of the hill in the south. In addition, in rainy season the rice farmers working under the cable claimed to worry about the influence of the electrical currents flowing on the high-voltage cables.

A tour guide from Penebel, Ta-banan, who happened to escort a tour to Kekeran village, said the object offering the natural landscape along the highway of Pupuan (Tabanan) to Lovina started to be favored by foreign tourists. One of the landscapes at Kekeran village lured tourists to make a visit and enjoy the natural and pristine view. When escorting guests

from Denpasar and passed through the Pupuan-Lovina road section, his guests always asked to stop at Kek-eran village. Unluckily, the view of rice fields and hills at Kekeran village started to be slightly obstructed by the expanse of power line and supporting tower. Such condition was considered to sufficiently hamper the develop-ment of Kekeran region. “Before the existence of the power line and sup-porting tower, our guests were amazed by the beauty of the nature here. Now, they slightly complain because the photo scenery is hampered by the cables and tower,” he said.

Similar comment was given by another tourist guide from the Bali Driver Tour. He said that many tour-ists were interested in the Pupuan-Lovina route excursion. Even, a number of travel agencies offered package tour passing through the route. However, the natural scenery at Kekeran village was disturbed by the installation of high-voltage power lines. Foreign tourists com-plained because the natural view was disrupted by the cables. To that end,

his party hoped the authenticity of Kekeran natural landscape should be preserved, so that it could lure more tourists to visit the region.

“It’s the condition of Bali tourism where the newly-growing tourism region and frequently visited by tour-ists is disturbed by the government projects like this. Necessarily, there is a more intensive arrangement. If pos-sible, such disturbing condition must be found out a solution so that tourism is not harmed,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Kadek Sri, a parking attendant and trader in the region also claimed to often receive com-plaints from foreign tourists due to the expanse of the power lines and tower. Before the existence of those power lines and towers, many tourists immortalized the natural landscape, but later they began to rarely do it. “Guests only shake their head after looking at the hills with the expanse of power lines and tower. Probably, since the picture is hampered by the cables, guests rarely take photograph from here,” she said. (kmb)

IBP/Kmb

Countryside view at Kekeran village, Busungbiu subdistrict, recently began to be visited by the entourage of foreign tourists. Each day the group of tourists is never quiet to visit and take pictures at this object.

Foreign tourists complain View at Kekeran hampered by tower and power line Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Countryside view at Kekeran village, Busungbiu subdistrict, recently began to be visited by the entourage of foreign tourists. Each day the group of tourists is never quiet to visit and take pictures at this object.

A man dried up textile product in one of production areas at Denpasar. National textile industry including the textiles of Bali is threatened to lose in the competition against the ASEAN countries after the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.

A dead faint, Bali textiles no longer a leading commodity

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Challenger Peer Steinbrueck went into the 90-minute debate - the pair’s only direct TV encounter of the cam-paign - facing a daunting poll deficit and needing a strong performance after a summer in which the opposi-tion has struggled to land blows on the popular conservative incumbent.

Neither contender scored a knock-out blow or made a major mistake, and polls conducted by broadcasters showed no clear winner. In his open-ing statement, Steinbrueck portrayed Germany as having “gone round in circles, without direction” under Merkel’s center-right coalition over the past four years.

Merkel has benefited from a healthy economy, low unemployment and perceptions that she’s managed Europe’s debt crisis well. She touted that record as the debate opened, pointing to high employment and portraying Germany as “the motor of growth” and “the anchor of stability”

in Europe.Merkel’s finance minister last

month said that there will have to be a third aid program for Greece after the current one ends last year - something that the chancellor again insisted is nothing new.

Germany, with Europe’s biggest economy, is the biggest contributor to the 17-nation eurozone’s rescue programs. Merkel has pursued a hard-nosed approach - insisting that struggling countries get their finances in order, take responsibility for their own problems and enact economic reforms.

Steinbrueck asked “whether, with the announcement of a third Greek package, we shouldn’t admit to ourselves that the crisis strategy to date - largely put forward by this government - has failed.” He argued that “what is lacking is a rebuilding program, what is lacking is a growth impulse, what is lacking is the fight

against youth unemployment.”“I would have said, of course there

must be consolidation of public bud-gets - but please not in a deadly dose for these countries,” he said.

Merkel noted that Steinbrueck’s Social Democrats have voted for the various measures she has put forward in the crisis - including a European budget-discipline pact - and insisted that her approach is the way to fix the eurozone’s troubles.

“Do we help by expressing regret about the difficult situation in these countries, or do we help by encour-aging them to conduct the necessary reforms?” she asked.

“What is important now is not to show false solidarity, but to follow a principle - and this principle is ... solidarity and responsibility, and if we do not follow this through we will see that these countries don’t regain more jobs,” she said. Merkel pointed to efforts that have been made to encourage growth in Europe.

On the home front, Steinbrueck said he wants to ensure greater “social justice,” introducing a mandatory na-tional minimum wage - which Merkel rejects, preferring sector-by-sector agreements between employers and employees.

Associated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines - Phil-ippine President Benigno Aquino III canceled a trip to a Chinese trade fair after Beijing demanded that he first withdraw a legal complaint over disputed ter-ritories in the South China Sea, Filipino officials said Monday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and two other diplomats relayed conditions for Aquino to attend the annual China-ASEAN Expo, which opens Tuesday in the southern city of Nanning, Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez told a news conference.

Hernandez declined to detail the conditions, but said these were “absolutely inimical to our national interest.” The Chinese side asked that the conditions not be publicly disclosed, he said. They were discussed by Wang and Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario in Beijing on Wednesday.

Because of the conditions, Aquino decided to call off his publicly announced trip to the trade fair, Hernandez said, add-ing the Philippines will instead send a delegation headed by its trade secretary.

“The president stood firm in the defense of the country’s national interest,” Hernandez said.

Two Philippine officials told The Associated Press that China

wanted Manila to withdraw a U.N. arbitration case over dis-puted islands in the South China Sea. The officials spoke on con-dition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

Chinese officials have also cited a new standoff between China and the Philippines over the Second Thomas Shoal, which is called Ayungin Shoal by Filipinos and Ren’ai Reef by the Chinese, the Philippine officials said.

China has asked Manila to remove a navy ship that ran aground on the shoal years ago, but the Philippine officials said the area was well within their territorial waters.

China was concerned that al-lowing Aquino to visit after the Philippines brought its territorial disputes to U.N. arbitration in January - which Beijing calls an “unfriendly act” - may not be welcomed by the Chinese public and media, the officials said.

Asked to comment Monday, Chinese Embassy spokesman Zhang Hua did not react to their statements, but urged the Philippines to work with China “to overcome difficulties and disturbances and make real ef-forts to get the China-Philippine relationship” back on track.

He said China welcomes Southeast Asian delegations, including from the Philippines, to the trade expo.


JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela has spent a first night at his Johannesburg home since the former South African president left a hospital after nearly three months of treatment there.

There were no official up-dates Monday on the condition of the 95-year-old leader of the anti-apartheid movement, who was taken to his home in an ambulance on Sunday.

In announcing Mandela’s dis-charge, the office of South African

President Jacob Zuma said Mandela remains in critical and sometimes unstable condition.

A statement from Zuma’s office also says Mandela will receive the same level of intensive care that he did in the hospital, administered by the same doctors.

Manila: China set impossible conditions for visit

AP Photo/Aaron FavilaDepartment of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez deliv-ers a statement during a press conference in Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines on Monday, Sept. 2, 2013.

Mandela spends first night at home

AP Photo/WDRPhoto provided by German broadcaster WDR shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, of the Chris-tian Democrats and her Social Democratic challenger Peer Steinbrueck during the only live televised debate ahead of the national elections in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013.

Merkel, German election rival debate euro crisisAssociated Press Writer

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-left rival sparred over Europe’s debt crisis and how best to keep Germany’s economy strong as they faced off Sunday in a televised debate ahead of Sept. 22 elections, with Merkel’s challenger insisting that it makes no sense to apply a “deadly dose” of austerity to eurozone strugglers.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Depreciation of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar occurred within the past few days was recognized by Branch Marketing Manager of PT Pertamina for Bali and West Nusa Tenggara, Iin Febrian, to have an impact on the price of special fuel or non-subsidized fuel like Pertamax, Pertamax Plus and Pertamina Dex.

“The rupiah exchange rate is one of the significant variables causing the change in the price of special fuel. However, the price changes are

not solely due to the exchange rate but also the variable of the world oil price,” he said when met in the simulation of emergency response activities, Friday (Aug 30) at the Sanggaran fuel terminal, Denpasar.

He added the change due to the rupiah exchange rate fluctuation in relation to the fuel prices, chiefly the special fuels, occurred because it was indeed not subsidized by the govern-ment. He said the price of special fuel sold to community changed in keeping with the fluctuation of the oil price related to the production cost

and the exchange rate. He admitted the production cost of special fuel both the crude oil and production in the refinery mostly used the dollar ex-change rate. “Meanwhile, the special fuel itself is sold in rupiah so that it causes a correction or adjustment. At the moment, the special fuel is sold for IDR 11,150,” he said.

Nevertheless, Iin said the cur-rent use of special fuel remained at 950 KL per month or in a stable condition. “In the future, we will continue to monitor the price and the amount of consumption due to

changes in the exchange rate does not necessarily raise the price of the special fuel,” he said.

For Bali, the terminal of special fuel was only available at Sanggaran Depot and it supplied the 103 petrol stations selling the special fuel. “As the management of Pertamina, we constantly expect the public aware-ness to use the special fuel because the existing regulation only sets forth the use by the vehicle of regional government, military and police, while the public are still given the freedom. The increased sale of spe-

cial fuel means the state’s subsidy also reduces,” he explained.

Just to note, the rupiah against the U.S. dollar has weakened since last week. Previously, the rupiah exchange rate lay in the range of IDR 9,000 to IDR 10,000 for one U.S. dollar. However, the condition weakened and penetrated IDR 11, 000 per U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, PT Pertamina planned to reduce the crude oil import in an effort to minimize the impact of the depre-ciation of rupiah against the U.S. dollar. (kmb28)

Dozens of Tibusambi residents were forced to plant the village road because they were upset where their village road had been broken for years but was not repaired so far. At least 40 trees were planted in the midst of the two- kilometer road. As it was planted in middle of the road, it practically could not be passed through by four-wheeled vehicles and only motorcycles could go through. A similar action had been done previously by some residents.

Then, a legislator of the Jembrana House came down and promised to repair it. Unluckily, it had not been materialized so far. According to residents, actually there had been a budget of the Rural Infrastructure Development Program (PPID), but it was diverted to subak road. Coor-dinator of the residents, Ida Bagus Kade Santika, said that residents had been visited by the House. At that time, they were promised to be given a budget. Actually, the budget

had been allocated, but lately it was diverted to other interest namely the pathway of Subak Tegakgede.

The Group Head III of the Ti-busambi hamlet, I Gusti Komang Mataram, mentioned the people get-ting involved in the action came to about 90 people and they planted 40 banana trees and coconut trees. The road had actually been paved but since it was often passed through by trucks carrying materials from Tibusambi River every day, the asphalt layer quickly peeled off and currently had run out. The trucks took materials in the river illegally. Moreover, they did not give any contribution to the people and even harmed the road. On that account, the village officials were urged to discipline the perpetrators dredging the materials.

Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Three farmer groups at Ka-langsari hamlet, Datah village, Karangasem, expected the assis-tance from the government. All this time, they were completely untouched by the assistance. Actu-ally, the official of the Mertasari joint business group (Kube), I Nengah Berati, said on Sunday (Sep 1) at Kalangsari, the group members were generally poor. The activity of the group located in the eastern foothills of the Mount Agung with barren nature had not been touched by any assistance.

Meanwhile, the farmer groups at other villages had often received the assistance. He said that other than Mertasari group, the other two groups namely the Mertasari I and Mertasari II equally never received any government assistance. They hoped to get assistance in the form of cows. As planned, if the groups got the assistance, they would promote cattle breeding.

Of the three farmer groups at the village, said the Mertasari Group Head, I Wayan Warsa, the total number of the farmer group were 30 families, where each group consisted of 10 families.

Warsa and Berati said the three farmer groups had submitted a pro-posal for the assistance through the headman of Datah to Karangasem government. However until now, there had been no response.

Berati said that as a result of the regular crisis of clean water every dry season, the residents faced difficulties to live their life. Moreover, they were mostly sharecroppers or farming work-ers with low incomes. For clean water, they all this time relied on rainwater accommodated in a water basin. It was for people who could make it, while most of them could not afford to build the water basin and if anyone could, it was of a small size. When the

rainwater supplies ran out, hun-dreds of residents of Kalanganyar and Juwuk hamlet queued to get clean water at the shrinking spring. They had to walk up to 2-5 kilometers. Additionally, to get the water, they had to queue.

Meanwhile, the rain or wet season only took place for three months, while the rest was dry season like today. “People who can afford to buy water and their house at roadside, when facing clean water crisis, will buy clean water at IDR 80,000 to IDR 100,000 per tank containing 2,500 liter. Such amount of water is just enough for two weeks,” said Berati.

Chairman of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, confirmed in Karangasem last Sunday that many people still faced clean water crisis. Such residents com-monly lived on barren hills or mountains area. Gede Dana asked the Karangasem government through the Social Services to make anticipation against people facing clean water crisis on enter-ing the dry season at this time.

He expected that people in need of water should be given clean wa-ter help quickly, especially later on related to the third, fourth and fifth full moon respectively falling in September, November and Decem-ber as the peak of dry season. When the people were in clean water crisis at that time, they required consider-able water supplies because there would also hold pujawali or temple anniversaries.

On the other hand, the Head of the Karangasem Social Services, Made Sosiawan, said that his party had anticipated the dry season in the next few months. His party had prepared a budget for the supplies of clean water reaching hundreds of tanks. However, the residents were expected to submit a report or a request for the assistance of clean water in order to be known by the Social Services. (013)

Rupiah depreciation boosts price of special fuel

Poor and barrenFarmer groups at Kalangsari hope assistance

Not repaired for long time

Tibusambi residents planted road with banana Negara (Bali Post)—

Along two kilometers of the Yehembang Kangin village road con-necting the Tibusambi and Nusamara hamlet looked to be transformed in a garden, Sunday (Sep 1). It happened because along the road was planted with banana and coconut seedlings by residents. Even, it was not just planted with one or two trees, but dozens of trees so the road connecting the hamlets looked like a pathway in the garden.

The road is planted by banana tress by the residents of Tibusambi Hamlet, Jembrana

IBP/File

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Associated Press

NEW YORK — Vodafone says it is in advanced talks to sell its 45 percent stake of Verizon Wireless back to the U.S. cellphone service provider for $130 billion in cash and stock, a deal which would be the second-largest acquisition deal on record if it goes through.

If an agreement is reached, Verizon would own its wireless business outright after buying the stake back from British cellphone company Vodafone PLC.

Vodafone said in a statement on Sunday there is no certainty that a final deal will be reached. Verizon Communications Inc. declined to comment.

The buyout, if finalized, would be second only to Vodafone’s $172 billion acquisition of Mannesmann AG in 2000, according to research firm Dealogic.

It would give Vodafone PLC additional cash to pursue its expansion ambitions in Europe. It would also give Verizon Communications the opportunity to boost its quarterly earnings, as it would no longer have to share a portion of proceeds from the nation’s No. 1 wireless carrier with Vodafone.

The potential deal isn’t expected to have much of an effect on Verizon consumers or on the company’s operations. Vodafone had little influence on Verizon Wireless’ day-to-day operations, and the two companies have kept out of each other’s territory.

The Verizon-Vodafone partnership started in 2000, when what was then Bell Atlantic combined its East Coast wireless network with Vodafone’s operations on the West Coast. Vodafone had entered the U.S. market a year earlier by outbidding Bell Atlantic to buy AirTouch Communications Inc. of San Francisco.

Verizon has had a long-standing interest in buying out its partner, but the two companies haven’t agreed on a price. Analysts said Verizon wanted to pay around $100 billion for Vodafone’s stake, while Vodafone has been pressing for $130 billion.

Vodafone is already one of the world’s largest cell-phone companies and has its sights set on dominating media services in Europe, its biggest market. The com-pany is making a takeover bid for Germany’s biggest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland.

The talks come amid a changing telecommunica-tions landscape in the U.S. The wireless business has been lucrative for Verizon Communications as traditional landline services decline. But the company faces growing competition in a saturated market. No. 4 T-Mobile US Inc., for instance, is making a resurgence after shattering industry conventions, including two-year service contracts.

In the April-to-June quarter, Verizon Wireless added 941,000 devices to its contract-based plans, exceed-ing analyst estimates and continuing a strong run. It boosted service revenue by 8.3 percent from a year ago. Its closest rival, AT&T, is seeing revenue increases of around 4 percent.

But almost all of Verizon’s gains on the wireless side resulted from customers upgrading to higher-priced plans or adding more devices to their existing plans, rather than an influx of new customers.

Meanwhile, No. 3 wireless company Sprint Corp. received a $21.6 billion investment from SoftBank Corp. in July, giving the Japanese investment firm a 78 percent stake. T-Mobile grew larger through a merger with smaller rival MetroPCS on April 30.

The US decision to hold off from a military attack on Syria also helped risk appetite and led to selling of the safe-haven Japa-nese currency, traders said.

The dollar gained to 98.60 yen in afternoon Asian trade from 98.16 late Friday in New York.

The euro bought $1.3200, down from $1.3218, while the single currency was trading at 130.14 yen against 129.82 yen.

US President Barack Obama said over the weekend he would first seek authorisation from Congress before undertaking mil-itary action against Damascus. Congress is in recess this week and is not due to reconvene until September 9, making military action unlikely this week.

“With the Syrian risk put off for a week, there’s almost no need to worry about that for the time being,” Hiroshi Maeba, head of FX trading Japan for UBS in Tokyo, told Dow Jones Newswires.

Daisuke Karakama, market economist at Mizuho Bank’s forex division, said: “The market is paying more attention to US economic indicators than Syria.

“Especially, the market is fo-cusing on US jobless figures to be released on Friday, ahead of the upcoming FOMC meeting.”

US consumer spending sput-tered in July amid weak income growth, according to Commerce Department data released Friday.

The new data cast a cloud over speculation that the Federal Reserve will begin to reduce its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying programme this year.

Concerns about the strength of the major economic indicators in the third quarter could convince the Fed to delay the move, which could come as soon as its Sep-tember 17-18 monetary policy meeting.

Currencies in emerging Asia, which had plunged recently on expectations of a taper of the US programme and risk aversion over possible military strike on Syria, were mostly higher.

The Indian rupee, which last week hit a new low in the 69 to the dollar range, was at 65.78 Monday afternoon, an improve-ment on 66.72 on Friday.

The Indonesian rupiah edged down to 10,943 to the greenback from 10,920, signalling investor confidence in the rupiah was still sorely lacking in spite of an eco-nomic policy package released by the government last week.

The dollar sagged to 1,101.15 South Korean won from 1,109.25 won, to Sg$1.2737 from Sg$1.2757 and to 44.19 Philippine peso from 44.63 peso, and to Tw$29.77 from Tw$29.92. The dollar held steady at 32.11 Thai baht.

The Australian dollar rose to 89.68 US cents from 89.38 and the Chinese yuan rose to 16.10 yen from 16.06 yen.

Dollar rises amid speculation about US economyAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - The dollar rose against the yen on Monday as trading remained cautious amid speculation about the timing of an end to the massive US stimulus programme.

AP Photo/Sang Tan, FileA Tuesday, May 19, 2009 photo from files showing people walking by a branch of Vodafone in central London. Britain’s Vodafone PLC, one of the world’s largest mobile phone companies, confirmed Thursday that it was in discussions with Verizon Communications to sell its operations in the United States.

Vodafone confirms late-stage talks with Verizon

When traveling in Bali, you do not need to be confused to get a meal or just a snack. The community of Bali Island is rich in culinary tradition, including various fresh cakes. Even, the cakes produced are eco-friendly because the ingredients and coloring agent in use are obtained from organic plants.

One of them is the lukis cake. This traditional cake tastes sweet, sticky and chewy. It resembles to small triangle in greenish color. When being served, it presented with grated

coconut and brown sugar. It will be going more appropriate if enjoyed with coffee or tea.

This kind of cake is not easy to get. Aside from being difficult to find its ingredients, the making is also quite complicated.

However, the food stalls at villages, traditional markets, pastry shops and some supermarkets are selling it. Uniquely, in the cake shop and supermarket this lukis cake has been packaged neatly, unlike in the stalls as it is presented manually to make it look really fresh. The lukis cake makes use of ingredients like sticky rice.

By and large, it is then mixed with black sticky rice that has an interesting texture. The other ingredients comprise the grated coconut, salt and Balinese palm sugar (brown sugar). To make it, the black sticky rice is soaked for some 15 minutes. Furthermore, it is drained and filled with salt so that it will not be tasteless.

After that, take a spoon of the batter and wrap in green and clean banana leaf. Wrap it tightly, so the results will be sticky and not watery. Boil them for approximately 2 hours (do as boiling rice bag). Further, take them out and drain. To make sure whether the sticky rice has been cooked or not, test it by piercing with a pin (palm leaf rib). If it has been hard, simply take them out and drain. Wait for a while until turning cooler and then serve them.

To serve them, unwrap the leaf first and place on the even serving leaf. Then, sprinkle them with shredded coconut containing salt. As the finishing step, sprinkle all the cakes with brown sugar. (BTN)

This event has proved to be highly effective in promoting Bali and other Indonesian regions as highly desirable and interesting destinations to overseas visitors who spend their holidays in Bali (an inexpensive but highly effective promotion).

With this event, Bali and Legian become a window to other parts of Indonesia for visitors to Bali and supports the Indonesian govern-ment’s programme of promoting Indonesia as a wonderful county in

which to spend holidays.The programme for the 4 day

event includes many different ac-tivities for all ages and interests, such as exhibition of different Indonesian tourist destinations, sale of many kinds of handicrafts, and Food Festival. Meanwhile on the stage, performances will be attend by Legian children’s gender players, Balinese cultural events, other Indonesian regional cultural performances, live performances of modern bands from Bali and outside

Bali, and selection of Miss Legian Beach Festival 2013. There will be also fashion show competition for children and adults, children’s singing competition, and story-telling competition for kindergarten teachers.

Not only on the stage, events also held at beach area, including colouring competition for children with their parents or guardians, painting competition for profes-sional artists, free surfing lessons, and daily barong dance.

LBF will be held on 5th September

IBP/Yudi KarnaediA tourist taking picture with Barong during the Legian Beach Festival 2012. The ever popular event, the Legian Beach Festival (LBF), now in its 7th year, will be staged from 5 - 8 september 2013 along the beach front between Jl Padma and Jl Melasti, Legian with its theme of ‘Explore Indonesia’.

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LEGIAN - The ever popular event, the Legian Beach Festival (LBF), now in its 7th year, will be staged from 5 - 8 september 2013 along the beach front between Jl Padma and Jl Melasti, Legian with its theme of ‘Explore Indonesia’.

Lukis Fresh Cake:A Delicacy in Greenish Triangle

IBP/File PhotoLukis Cake

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JAKARTA - In front of a crowd of thousands, two sumo wrestlers charged at each other with full force, their bodies colliding with a tremendous smack that echoed through the arena in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

The first official sumo tournament to be held outside Japan in five years saw wrestler Kotoyuki take an early advantage against his opponent with a series of quick stinging slaps to the chest and a steady push forward.

“I love sumo -- I’ve studied it, but this is the first time they’ve come to Indonesia and it’s the first time I’ve seen it live,” Julyana Antika, a 22-year-old student of Japanese literature at a Jakarta university, told AFP at the weekend competition.

Antika -- accompanied by a dozen Japanese exchange students from Takushoku University in Tokyo -- is just one of many young Indonesians who are increasingly consuming Japanese culture through entertainment, comics, fashion and food.

With money from her part-time job as a Japanese-Indonesian translator, Antika buys Japanese magazines, watches Japanese cartoons, uses a Panasonic digital camera and a Sony mobile phone.

Indonesians have come late to the party -- Japanese culture was embraced in the West in the 1970s and 1980s -- but a boom in Southeast Asia’s top economy and Japanese firms’ hunt for new markets have combined to create a recent upsurge in interest.

“Two years ago, when I first came to Indonesia, we had around 1,000 Japanese businesspeople coming to us for Indonesian market advice,” said Kenichi Tomiyoshi, chief of the Japan External Trade Organsation’s Indone-sian operations.

“But in the past 12 months, we’ve already advised 4,000,” he said, adding it had been hard to keep up with requests.

Japanese firms are flooding in as the world’s most populous Muslim-ma-jority nation rides the wave of a prolonged economic boom that has produced an army of new consumers.

While growth has slowed this year, Indonesia remains a bright spot in the global economic gloom.

It also boasts a young population -- more than 40 percent are estimated to be 24 or under -- just the kind of demographic beloved of Japanese companies looking for new growth to offset saturated markets at home where the popula-tion is ageing and the economy is struggling to pull itself out of a long funk.

And as diplomatic tensions soar with neighbours and key trade partners South Korea and China, Japan has shifted its focus to the Southeast Asia region in general.

Japanese direct investment in Indonesia is a testament to the increased interest, having ballooned to $2.5 billion last year from $712.6 million in 2010, according to the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board.

“Five years ago, most Indonesian people couldn’t buy Japanese goods, but now they have enough income to buy high-quality Japanese products,” said Tomiyoshi.

An array of Japanese cultural events -- such as the Toyota-sponsored sumo tournament -- are also being staged to give soft power support to Tokyo’s push into the region.

This week, a large Japanese anime festival will take place in Jakarta.Tokyo is also involved in such efforts, with the government backing the

sumo showcase as an event to mark 55 years of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Japan.

As more companies arrive from Tokyo to set up shop in Indonesia and the number of cultural events multiply, enthusiasm for all things Japanese among Indonesians grows.

It was once hard to find Japanese cuisine in Indonesia but sushi bars and Japanese restaurants now abound in major cities. Even local firms with no links to Japan are also successfully capitalising on the frenzy.

Metrox Group -- a company owned by an Indonesian and Singaporean -- launched its own Japanese-inspired streetwear brand, Wakai Raifusutairu, which means “Young Lifestyle” in Japanese and uses Japanese script in part of its name. The company -- which also distributes brands such as Timberland and Crocs in Indonesia -- hired a Japanese designer to create its main product, a colourful array of slip-on canvas shoes, some of which have Japanese prints on them.

“In terms of sales, we initially thought we’d break even in 10 months, but we did it in three,” said Matrox Group brand manager Alice Dwiyani.

The news came as a closely watched survey showed manufacturing activity in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy had sunk to a 15-month low in August.

Indonesia -- like other global emerging markets -- has been hammered by huge outflows of foreign cash over the past month on expectations the US Federal Reserve will begin to wind down its stimulus programme.

Official figures showed Indonesia’s trade deficit rose sharply to $2.31 billion in July from $847 million in June, compared with economists’ forecasts that it would dip to $353 million.

The deficit in July was “the highest in Indonesia’s his-tory”, Suryamin, the head of the Central Statistics Agency who goes by one name, told reporters.

“Exports dropped because the price of commodities dropped,” Suryamin said. Demand for key commodities, such as coal and palm oil, have been hit by a slowdown in key market China.

It adds pressure to the country’s current account, which in the April-June quarter widened to a $9.8 billion deficit, the biggest shortfall since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

Adding to the government’s woes was news that an index compiled for HSBC showed manufacturing activity fell to a 15-month low in August and was now shrinking.

The purchasing managers index hit 48.5 last month from 50.7 in July, marking the fourth straight month of decline, Anything below 50 points to contraction and anything above indicates growth.

Equally as worrying, the survey showed new exports business contracted for the third month in a row, while a decline in total new orders was the first recorded since May 2012, HSBC said.

Shares on Jakarta’s stock market tumbled almost three percent as investors fled to safety after the data was released, while the rupiah remained under pressure, having already lost about 12 percent against the dollar this year.

Emerging economies from Indonesia to Brazil have seen a huge flight of capital as dealers repatriate to the US expecting the Fed stimulus -- which has fuelled an invest-ment spree in developing countries for the past year -- to dry up. And among those countries to suffer the most are those with big current account deficits.

July’s deficit was a “a nasty and badly timed surprise”, Credit-Suisse economist Robert Prior-Wandesforde said, adding that the central bank needed to do more.

Bank Indonesia has already hiked interest rates 1.25 percentage points since June to 7.00 percent in a bid to shore up the economy and support the ailing rupiah.

However, its job will be made all the harder after inflation in August came in at a four-year high of 8.79 percent owing to the effects of a reduction in subsidised fuel prices as well as seasonal spending for the Muslim holiday of Eid.

The government announced a series of measures aimed at boosting the economy last month, including measures to slow imports and narrow the current account and trade deficits.

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

A vegetable vendor waits for customers at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept 2, 2013. Indonesia’s trade deficit unexpectedly hit a record high in July, data showed Monday, adding further pressure on policymakers to shore up the economy as investors flee the country as it faces an increasingly grim future.

Trade deficit widens as economic woes worsen


JAKARTA - Indonesia’s trade deficit unexpectedly hit a record high in July, data showed Monday, adding further pressure on policymakers to shore up the economy as investors flee the country as it faces an increasingly grim future.

Japan influence grips Indonesia as companies flood in Jakarta

He said the two leaders would discuss “all the joint issues” dur-ing the visit, without giving further details. A South Sudanese embassy official also confirmed Kiir’s trip but neither he nor Ahmed could say how long the South’s leader was expected to stay.

Kiir last visited Khartoum in October 2011. In June, Khartoum said it was freezing nine security and economic pacts with the South, and it threatened to shut the oil pipelines linking landlocked South Sudan with Sudan’s Red Sea export terminal.

The decision came after Bashir warned the South over its alleged support for insurgents, who analysts said had humiliated the authorities with their attacks. Khartoum has twice extended its deadline to shut the pipelines, which are now threatened with closure from next Friday.

Despite the threat, oil has con-tinued flowing for export. The deadline extensions followed an appeal from the African Union. The regional group asked for more time to investigate allegations -- by both Sudan and South Sudan -- that

they are supporting rebels on each other’s territory.

Regional nations also began try-ing to determine the centreline of a demilitarised buffer zone along the two countries’ disputed and unde-marcated border. The buffer zone, designed to cut cross-border rebel support, was among the nine deals Sudan and South Sudan agreed to implement in March after months of delays.

The deals also included fees which South Sudan would pay for sending its oil through Sudan for export, and allowed for the free flow of people and goods across the frontier between the two nations. Following their March agreements, the two leaders held a summit in Juba during an interlude of easing tensions after months of intermit-tent border clashes.

Then came Khartoum’s abrupt threat to close the pipelines. The South became independent two years ago under a peace agree-ment after decades of on-and-off civil war.

It split with about 75 percent of united Sudan’s roughly 470,000 barrels per day of oil production,

leaving the north without its major source of export earnings and strug-gling for a replacement. Inflation soared and the Sudanese pound plummeted in value on the black market.

Oil refineries and export pipe-lines stayed under Sudan’s juris-diction but the two sides could not agree on how much the South should pay for using that infra-structure. Accusing Khartoum of theft, South Sudan’s government halted oil production early last year, even though it said crude provided 98 percent of revenue for the new nation.

Pumping resumed in April after the nine deals began to be imple-mented. A key unresolved issue is the status of the Abyei region.

Sudan and South Sudan did not meet deadlines which they agreed upon in March to set up Abyei’s administrative structure, including a police service.

The African Union proposed that a referendum be held in October to decide whether the territory belongs to the north or south, but Sudan disputes the suggested eligibility criteria for the ballot.


HAGEN, Germany - Germany put a 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS on trial Monday on charges that he executed a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944.

Dutch-born Siert Bruins, who is now German, volunteered for the SS after the Nazis conquered the Netherlands in 1941. Bruins served as a member of the Sicherheitspolizei, or Security Police, in a unit looking for resistance fighters and Jews.

No pleas are made in the German legal system, and Bruins made no state-ment Monday about the accusations against him. His attorney said Bruins would answer questions during the trial but not about the charges.

“Our tactic will definitely be to keep silent with regard to the charges,” attorney Klaus-Peter Kniffka said ahead of the trial. Despite his advanced age, Bruins was found medically fit to stand trial, though Kniffka said the stress of the proceedings against him has weakened him.

Bruins, who already served time in prison in the 1980s for his role in the slaying of two Dutch Jews, is accused of killing resistance fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 in the town of Appingedam, near the German border in the northern Netherlands. If convicted, he faces a pos-sible life sentence.

The security forces in Mexico have arrested the alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel, Alberto Carrillo Fuentes, also known as Ugly Betty. He was detained in the western state of Nayarit without offering resistance.

Mr Carrillo Fuentes, 47, is the third alleged top cartel leader to be caught this year in Mexico, where the authorities have been waging an intense campaign against drug gangs. He faces charges of drug trafficking and organised crime.

‘Family business’Investigators say Alberto Carrillo Fuentes took over the leadership of the

Juarez cartel from his brother Vicente, who is also wanted on charges of drug trafficking, murder and money laundering.

Another brother, Amado, led the cartel until his death in 1997. Known as Lord of the Skies for his large fleet of aircraft used to smuggle drugs to the US, died after undergoing plastic surgery.

Considered one of the most powerful drug gangs in Mexico in the 1990s, the Juarez cartel has lost many of the drug routes it controlled to its rivals from the Sinaloa cartel, analysts say.

Many of the murders in the border state of Chihuahua and the city of Juarez are blamed on the rivalry between the two groups. The arrest on Sunday came a day before Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is due to give his state of the union speech.

The detention of Alberto Carrillo Fuentes is the third high-profile arrest in three months, following that of the alleged leader of the Zetas, Miguel Angel Trevino in July, and the detention of the suspected leader of the Gulf cartel, Mario Ramirez Trevino, in August.

About 70,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of drug-related violence in Mexico over the past six years.

“Globally, the foreign tourists growth is estimated to reach nearly 4 percent and Southeast Asia will remain the region experiencing the highest growth,” she said.

Esthy added the current growth of foreign tourist in Indonesia was around 7 percent (first half) and at the moment the government was promoting the campaign to the fast-growing markets such as China and Russia.

At the same time, her party inaugurated the ITCEF 2013 event held in the Hall B of the JCC taking place on August 30 to September 1, 2013 presenting 113 exhibition booths. They comprised 78 booths of creative economy, 10 booths of airline and travel agency, 16 booths of hospitality and 9 booths of the Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD).

Chairperson of the Indonesia Tourism Promotion Board (BPPI), Yanti Su-kamdani, said the ITCEF 2013 event also involved the business representatives from Malaysia, China, Korea, India and Australia. “The event is also coupled with the INA Culinary participated by 100 booths,” she said. (010)

To match Analysis KENYA-PORT/ REUTERS/Joseph Okanga/Files

Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki (C), flanked by his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir (L) and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, carry their proposed national flags during the inau-guration ceremony of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) project in Lamu in this March 2, 2012 file photo.



South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir is to visit the Sudanese capital on Tuesday, 72 hours ahead of Khartoum’s deadline to shut down vital oil pipelines, the two nations said. “I can confirm he will arrive on Tuesday,” Emad Sayed Ahmed, press secretary to Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, told AFP on Sunday.

Germany tries 92-year-old for Nazi war crime

‘Juarez cartel boss’ Alberto Carrillo caught in Mexico

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Jorge Lorenzo admits he nearly ceded British Grand Prix victory to Marc Marquez, but had a sudden change of heart that prompted his final-corner pass. Lorenzo and Marquez spent the first 17 laps of the MotoGP race locked together, before Marquez finally made his move at Brooklands - the first exchange of a dramatic close to the race.

Lorenzo was able to reassert himself at Vale one lap later and therefore led heading into the final lap, but a mistake under braking at the Loop left him vulnerable to Marquez, who duly hit the front once more at Brooklands, the penultimate corner of the race.

While he attempted to stick it out on the out-side line, Lorenzo said he had almost resigned himself to following Marquez home before resolving upon the do-or-die move at Luffield that earned him a first victory in six races.

“When he passed me I thought ‘OK, second’, but then suddenly I thought ‘I have to try’ and when he opened the gap a bit, it was now or never,” Lorenzo explained. “Thankfully we didn’t crash, and I’m so pleased with the win. This is one of the best victories in my career.

“I pushed from the beginning as always, trying to open the gap, but it was impossible: even after his warm-up [crash] Marc was very brave and never gave up. “When he came past I studied him for one lap, saw he was struggling a little bit in braking and overtook him, then tried to push and open a little gap at the end.

Jorge Lorenzo passes Marc Marquez, Silver-

stone MotoGP 2013 “But on the last lap I made a mistake and almost crashed. It was a very emotional race, and a very important win.”

Asked if he had been expecting a last-gasp Marquez attack, particularly given their col-lision in a similar position at Brno, Lorenzo added: “When I started the last lap I said I have to be very fast and open a gap to avoid Marquez

trying anything.“I knew he was quicker [under braking] be-

cause every lap I heard his engine coming, and he could make a more inside line than me.

“[After my] mistake I tried to close the door in all the points I knew he was going to try, but I knew he was going to try anyway. “Finally he did it at Brooklands, but thankfully he left a little gap.”


ISTANBUL — Istanbul’s 2020 committee has confirmed that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Argentina to make a final pitch on behalf of the city’s bid to host the games.

The committee said Monday Erdo-gan will fly to Buenos Aires from the G20 conference in St. Petersburg to head the Turkish delegation as it makes final presentations that could swing votes when the IOC elects the host city on Sept. 7. Istanbul is competing against Madrid and Tokyo.

It’s Istanbul’s fifth attempt to host the games. The city’s bid has been hampered by anti-government pro-tests and doping scandals in Turkey and the escalating war in neighboring Syria.

The committee announced that the theme for the bid would be “History in the making,” saying the games would — for the first time — be simultane-ously hosted on two continents.

Old order take control at U.S. Open

The 31-year-old avenged her loss to Stephens at the Australian Open with an emphatic 6-4 6-1 victory to keep her title defence on course.

“It’s definitely difficult, espe-cially playing people that you like, that you always want to see do well,” Williams said. “But you have to go out there and kind of put that to the side and realize, I want to do well myself and take every point as it comes.”

Defending men’s champion Andy Murray and world number one Novak Djokovic also won in straight sets, while 2001 winner Lleyton Hewitt turned back the clock to reach the fourth round for the first time since 2006.

Murray, playing in the middle of a hot and steamy day, needed less than two hours to see off Germany’s Florian Mayer 7-6 (2) 6-2 6-2 and advance to the fourth round.

Djokovic was even more ruth-less in his center court night match against Portugal’s Joao Sousa, cruising to a 6-0 6-2 6-2 win, while 32-year-old Hewitt wore down Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy 6-3 7-6

(5) 3-6 6-1.“Obviously when you’ve been to

the top you want to keep playing,” said Hewitt, who stunned sixth seed Juan Martin del Potro in the previous round. “The reason you’re playing is for the majors, and for me, Davis Cup as well. That’s the reason I’m still playing.”

The biggest surprise on a day when most results went as expected was the defeat of women’s third seed Agnieszka Radwanska.

The Pole, who had made it to the quarter-finals or better at the three other grand slams this year, crumbled to a 6-4 6-4 defeat by Rus-sia’s Ekaterina Makarova after she had won the first four games of the match. Makarova wil play China’s Li Na after Asia’s top player accounted for Jelena Jankovic 6-3 6-0.

OLDEST CHAMPIONStephens beat Williams in Janu-

ary in the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park to enhance her standing as a fu-ture leader of U.S. women’s tennis, but was completely outgunned by a woman bidding to become the oldest

to win the U.S. Open since tennis turned professional in 1968.

“Obviously she’s number one in the world for a reason,” said Ste-phens, 11 years younger than Wil-liams. “I thought she played really well. “All in all I thought I competed well and played well. That’s all you can do really.”

Williams will play Carla Suarez Navarro in the quarter-finals, the Spaniard having upset Germany’s eighth-seed Angelique Kerber 4-6 6-3 7-6 (3). Murray struggled to impose himself on Mayer in the opening set but once he adapted to the humidity and gusting winds it was all smooth sailing. “It was tough conditions. It was very, very humid,” Murray said. “I was struggling breathing for most of the match.”

Murray’s opponent in the fourth round will be Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin, who beat Italy’s Andreas Seppi 6-3 6-4 2-6 3-6 6-1, with Tomas Berdych looming in the quarter-finals.

Berdych, seeded fifth, made the semi-finals at last year’s U.S. Open and has been in great form at Flush-ing Meadows this week, reaching the last 16 without dropping a set.

The Czech dispatched Julien Benneteau of France 6-0 6-3 6-2 to set up a fourth-round clash with Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka, who defeated Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-3 6-2 6-7 (1) 7-6 (7).

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NeW YorK - Serena Williams easily won her eagerly-awaited clash with Sloane Stephens at the U.S. open on Sunday as normal service resumed at the last grand slam of year. Williams was one of four U.S. open champions that won on Sunday, sending a clear message to the next generation of rising stars that they will have to wait their turn.

Serena Williams reacts after a point against Sloane Stephens during the fourth round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sun-

day, Sept. 1, 2013, in New York.

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Erdogan to push for Istanbul 2020

Lorenzo nearly accepted defeat to Marquez

AP Photo/Matt DunhamJorge Lorenzo of Spain, left, crosse the finish line ahead of countryman Marc Marquez to win the MotoGP race of the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone circuit in Silverstone, England, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Redding won the race, Nakagami was second and Luthi third.

IBP

TABANAN - This hot spring is located at Penatahan Village, Penebel Subdistrict, approximately 13 km from the town of Tabanan and 34 km north of Denpasar. It offers beautiful natural scenery on the right and left side with the backdrop of amazing terraced rice fields. The hot spring is perched right on the banks of Yeh Ho River. Local people call the hot spring by Yeh Panes. Based on the results of research in the laboratory of the Department of Health, the hot spring is very good for bathing because it contains sulfur and other minerals. It is excellent for curing light skin diseases.

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Penatahan Hot Spring

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To the relief of almost everyone involved, Spurs, Real Madrid, the player and Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy issued statements saying the deal for the Wales international was done, with just the formality of a medical in Madrid to come on Monday, transfer deadline day.

The fee eclipses the previous record of 94 million euros that Real paid for Cristiano Ron-aldo from Manchester United in 2009 and for that money the Spanish aristocrats are buying an outstanding young player who won games for Spurs almost single-handedly last season.

It also confirms yet again that when Real target a player they normally sign him, even if the other club are reluctant to sell, as Spurs steadfastly were.

Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas was the first to announce that Bale, 24, was leaving when he spoke to reporters after his team’s 1-0 Premier League defeat in the north London derby to arch-rivals Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.

Bale has not played in any of Spurs’ five opening Premier League or Europa League matches this season due to what was de-scribed as an ankle injury. He last played for the club in an early pre-season friendly, scoring in a 1-1 draw at Swindon Town in July.

“He is an absolutely wonderful player. He is going to join Real Madrid and he has left us with great memories from last season which every Tottenham fan cherishes. He has moved on and we have moved on as well,” Villas-Boas said.

“We have to move forwards. Tottenham has made some great investments in the money that will come from Gareth Bale, which is wonderful.”

Spurs have not been slow to re-invest the money, breaking their own transfer record

three times

in this window with the acquisitions of Paulinho from Corinthians in Brazil for 17 million pounds ($26.30 mil-lion), followed by Roberto Soldado from Valencia for 26 million pounds then Erik Lamela from AS Roma for 30 million on Friday.

They have also signed Nacer Chadli from Twente Enschede, Christian Eriksen from Ajax Amsterdam, Etienne Capoue from Toulouse and Vlad Chiriches from Steaua Bucharest, taking their total outlay to around 110 million pounds as they bid to challenge for the title and seal a top-four finish.

HARD TO REPLACE

The departing Bale will be hard to re-place and in a statement issued on the Spurs website (www.tottenhamhotspur.co.uk), the player said the English club had helped make him the player he was today and it would always remain in his heart.

“I have had six very happy years at Tot-tenham but it’s the right time to say good-bye. We’ve had some special times together over the years and I’ve loved every minute of it,” he said.

“I would like to thank everyone at the club, the chairman, board, staff, coaches and players - and most of all the fantastic fans who I hope will understand this amaz-ing career opportunity.”

He added that he was not sure there was ever a good time to leave a club where he felt settled was playing the best football of his career.

“I know many players talk of their desire to join the club of their boyhood dreams, but I can honestly say, this is my dream come true,” he said.

“I am well aware that I would not be at the level I am today were it not for firstly Southampton and then Spurs standing by me during some of the tougher times and af-fording me the environment and support they have.

“Tottenham will always be in my heart and I’m sure that this season will be a suc-cessful one for them. I am now looking forward to the next ex-citing chapter in my life, playing football for Real Madrid.” Real Madrid confirmed the powerful-running attacking-midfielder-cum-forward had signed a six-year deal and would have a medical on Monday before being presented to the media.

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy also is-sued a statement saying the club did not want to sell him but in the end they had no option.

Bale, who scored 21 Premier League goals for Spurs last season, was named Eng-land’s Footballer of the Year by soccer writers and the Player of the Year by his peers.

He will join former Tottenham colleague Luka Modric at Real Madrid after the Croa-tian joined Real a year ago.

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ROME - Mario Gomez scored his first Serie A goals and Giuseppe Rossi made it three for the season as Fiorentina continued their im-pressive start by beating Genoa 5-2 on Sunday. Inter Milan also kept

pace with league leaders Napoli after an easy 3-0 win at Catania.AC Milan bounced back from last week’s defeat at Hellas

Verona with a 3-1 win at home to Cagliari in an entertaining evening during which 32 goals were scored in eight games, making it a total of 43 in an action-packed weekend.

Alberto Aquilani put Fiorentina ahead at Genoa after 10 minutes before Giuseppe Rossi doubled their lead four minutes later after a howler from Genoa keeper Mattia Perin and Gomez tapped in his first four minutes before the break.

“I’m looking to score as many goals as I can for Fiorentina, I look to score goals because I’m an attacker,”

said Rossi, who has been left out of Cesare Prandelli’s Italy squad for their qualifiers against Bulgaria and Czech

Republic.“I think Prandelli knows better than me what Rossi is capable

of,” added Fiorentina manager Vicenzo Montella. Alberto Gilardino gave the home side some hope nine minutes after the break with a stunning volley, but Rossi tapped in his third in two games almost immediately afterwards.

Francesco Lodi reduced the deficit again on the hour with a pen-alty following a foul on Gilardino. However, an injury time penalty from Mario Gomez ruined Genoa’s celebrations for their 140th an-niversary, in which cricket was played on the Stadio Luigi Ferraris pitch before the match.

The club’s official name is Genoa Cricket and Football Club and it has a cricket team which was re-established in 2007 and who play

in Italy’s top division. It was one-way traffic in Sicily as Inter look to have put last season’s troubles behind them after thumping a fired-up Catania team who have no points after two defeats.

Manager Walter Mazzari refused to be drawn on talk that they could mount a title challenge. “The only aim we have is to do what we did tonight, prepare well for every match and give the best account of ourselves possible, exactly what I’ve with my teams throughout my career,” he said.

Three smartly worked goals from Rodrigo Palacio and Yuto Nagatomo and an exceptional individual effort from Ricky Alvarez were enough for Inter in a impressive performance, and they joined four other sides, including Fiorentina, on six points.

Goals from Robinho, Philippe Mexes and Mario Balotelli were enough for AC Milan against a plucky Cagliari team.

Brazilian Robinho and Mexes put Massimiliano Allegri’s side two goals up after half an hour, only for Marco Sau to pull one back for the away side three minutes later.

However, Balotelli’s first league goal of the season in the 62nd minute put the result beyond doubt. Earlier on Sunday Roma moved into second place on goal difference after splendid goals from Miralem Pjanic and Adem Ljajic gave them a comfortable 3-0 win over newly p r o m o t e d Hellas Verona.

The home side were playing with the Curva Sud section o f the Olympic Stadium s h u t after racist chant- i n g directed at Balo- telli from hardcore fans at the end of last season.

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LONDON - Arsenal and Liverpool emerged victori-ous from two of the Premier League’s fiercest rivalries with wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United respectively on Sunday.

Arsenal prevailed over big-spending Spurs 1-0 thanks to Olivier Giroud’s third goal in as many matches, while Daniel Sturridge matched him in the scoring stakes as The Reds also won 1-0 on the day the club celebrated the 100th birthday of their renowned former manager Bill Shankly.

Liverpool sit top of the Premier League with nine points from three matches, two ahead of Chelsea. Man-chester City, Arsenal, Stoke City and Spurs are on six points, with United two further back on four.

Spurs have spent heavily in the transfer window in anticipation of the world record sale of Welsh winger Gareth Bale to Real Madrid, while Arsenal have only brought in Yaya Sanogo and Mathieu Flamini on free

transfers.Bale’s transfer to the Spanish club for 100 million

euros ($131.86 million) was confirmed shortly after the match.

Spurs started brightly but Arsenal, however, looked the more cohesive side and were

rewarded after 23 minutes when Tomas Rosicky and Theo Walcott combined

to set up Giroud at the near post.The goal failed to subdue

a frantic start as both sides took advan-

tage of gaps in the midfield, with Andros Townsend, Walcott and the impressive Aaron Ramsey all having opportunities.

Both teams pressed in search of further goals as the match progressed, but neither were able to find the crucial touch, with Spurs in particular indebted to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who made several fine saves.

WENGER RELIEVED

“I was (relieved) because in the end we did hang on and protected our score because we could not get the second goal but overall it was an intense game,” manager Arsene Wenger told Sky Sport. “Their goalkeeper was their best player which shows you the chances we had. We had to dig deep to win in the end.”

It was a sweet victory for Arsenal who have recovered from their shock 3-1 defeat by Aston Villa on the opening day of the season with two successive wins, and could help silence some of the critics hitting out at Wenger’s lack of action in the transfer market.

“We had opportunities in the first half, they also started strong but I think we came back into the game very posi-tively,” manager Andre Villas-Boas said, also acknowl-edging the new signings needed time to settle in.

“The second half was very strong from us, it was a difficult encounter but I think we deserved something in the second half but Arsenal were clinical in front of goal. That they finished with four full-backs on the pitch at the end shows how much they wanted to hang on to the result.”STURRIDGE ON TARGET

At Anfield Liverpool honoured Shankly in the best

possible fashion when Daniel Agger got the better of Rio Ferdinand from a corner and Sturridge, celebrating his 24th birthday, reacted sharply to nod the ball home from close range in just the fourth minute.

Champions United, without striker Wayne Rooney after a training-ground incident left him with a bad cut on his forehead, rarely threatened to equalise despite dominating possession.

David Moyes’s first competitive defeat as United manager continued his poor record at Anfield where he failed to win in 12 attempts when he was in charge at Everton.

“It is a great win for our belief, last season we drew too many of the big games and we lost both times to Manchester United, but today was another marker for us and since January our form has been very, very good,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said.1982 Diego Maradona Argentina Boca Juniors Barcelona 3.0m

1984 Diego Maradona Argentina Barcelona Napoli 5.0m

1987 Ruud Gullit N’lands PSV Eindhoven AC Milan 6.0m

1990 Roberto Baggio Italy Fiorentina Juventus 8.0m

1992 Jean-Pierre Papin France Marseille AC Milan 10.0m

1992 Gianluca Vialli Italy Sampdoria Juventus 12.0m

1993 Gianluigi Lentini Italy Torino AC Milan 13.0m

1996 Alan Shearer England Blackburn Newcastle 15.0m

1997 Ronaldo Brazil Barcelona Inter Milan 19.5m

1998 Denilson Brazil Sao Paulo Real Betis 21.5m

1999 Christian Vieri Italy Lazio Inter Milan 32.0m

2000 Hernan Crespo Argentina Parma Lazio 35.5m

2000 Luis Figo Portugal Barcelona Real Madrid 37.0m

2001 Zinedine Zidane France Juventus Real Madrid 53.0m

2009 Kaka Brazil AC Milan Real Madrid 56.0m

2009 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Man Utd Real Madrid 80.0m

2013 Gareth Bale Wales Tottenham H Real Madrid 85.3m


AP Photo/Tom Hevezi, File

FILE - This is a Wednesday, Nov.

28, 2012 file photo of Tottenham Hotspur’s

Gareth Bale as he scores against Liverpool during their English Premier League soc-cer match at White Hart Lane

stadium, London.

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LONDON - The transfer window’s lon- gest-running saga finally ended on Sunday when Tottenham Hotspur forward Gareth Bale joined Real Madrid for a world transfer record fee of 100 million euros ($131.86 million).

Evolution of world record transfer deals

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

AC Milan Brazilian forward Robinho celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Cagliari, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept.1, 2013.

Fiorentina continue impressive start to season

AP Photo/Jon Super

Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge cel-ebrates his team’s 1-0 win against

Manchester United during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield

Stadium, Liverpool, England, Sunday Sept. 1, 2013.

Arsenal and Liverpool claim derby spoils

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To the relief of almost everyone involved, Spurs, Real Madrid, the player and Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy issued statements saying the deal for the Wales international was done, with just the formality of a medical in Madrid to come on Monday, transfer deadline day.

The fee eclipses the previous record of 94 million euros that Real paid for Cristiano Ron-aldo from Manchester United in 2009 and for that money the Spanish aristocrats are buying an outstanding young player who won games for Spurs almost single-handedly last season.

It also confirms yet again that when Real target a player they normally sign him, even if the other club are reluctant to sell, as Spurs steadfastly were.

Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas was the first to announce that Bale, 24, was leaving when he spoke to reporters after his team’s 1-0 Premier League defeat in the north London derby to arch-rivals Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.

Bale has not played in any of Spurs’ five opening Premier League or Europa League matches this season due to what was de-scribed as an ankle injury. He last played for the club in an early pre-season friendly, scoring in a 1-1 draw at Swindon Town in July.

“He is an absolutely wonderful player. He is going to join Real Madrid and he has left us with great memories from last season which every Tottenham fan cherishes. He has moved on and we have moved on as well,” Villas-Boas said.

“We have to move forwards. Tottenham has made some great investments in the money that will come from Gareth Bale, which is wonderful.”

Spurs have not been slow to re-invest the money, breaking their own transfer record

three times

in this window with the acquisitions of Paulinho from Corinthians in Brazil for 17 million pounds ($26.30 mil-lion), followed by Roberto Soldado from Valencia for 26 million pounds then Erik Lamela from AS Roma for 30 million on Friday.

They have also signed Nacer Chadli from Twente Enschede, Christian Eriksen from Ajax Amsterdam, Etienne Capoue from Toulouse and Vlad Chiriches from Steaua Bucharest, taking their total outlay to around 110 million pounds as they bid to challenge for the title and seal a top-four finish.

HARD TO REPLACE

The departing Bale will be hard to re-place and in a statement issued on the Spurs website (www.tottenhamhotspur.co.uk), the player said the English club had helped make him the player he was today and it would always remain in his heart.

“I have had six very happy years at Tot-tenham but it’s the right time to say good-bye. We’ve had some special times together over the years and I’ve loved every minute of it,” he said.

“I would like to thank everyone at the club, the chairman, board, staff, coaches and players - and most of all the fantastic fans who I hope will understand this amaz-ing career opportunity.”

He added that he was not sure there was ever a good time to leave a club where he felt settled was playing the best football of his career.

“I know many players talk of their desire to join the club of their boyhood dreams, but I can honestly say, this is my dream come true,” he said.

“I am well aware that I would not be at the level I am today were it not for firstly Southampton and then Spurs standing by me during some of the tougher times and af-fording me the environment and support they have.

“Tottenham will always be in my heart and I’m sure that this season will be a suc-cessful one for them. I am now looking forward to the next ex-citing chapter in my life, playing football for Real Madrid.” Real Madrid confirmed the powerful-running attacking-midfielder-cum-forward had signed a six-year deal and would have a medical on Monday before being presented to the media.

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy also is-sued a statement saying the club did not want to sell him but in the end they had no option.

Bale, who scored 21 Premier League goals for Spurs last season, was named Eng-land’s Footballer of the Year by soccer writers and the Player of the Year by his peers.

He will join former Tottenham colleague Luka Modric at Real Madrid after the Croa-tian joined Real a year ago.

Reuters

ROME - Mario Gomez scored his first Serie A goals and Giuseppe Rossi made it three for the season as Fiorentina continued their im-pressive start by beating Genoa 5-2 on Sunday. Inter Milan also kept

pace with league leaders Napoli after an easy 3-0 win at Catania.AC Milan bounced back from last week’s defeat at Hellas

Verona with a 3-1 win at home to Cagliari in an entertaining evening during which 32 goals were scored in eight games, making it a total of 43 in an action-packed weekend.

Alberto Aquilani put Fiorentina ahead at Genoa after 10 minutes before Giuseppe Rossi doubled their lead four minutes later after a howler from Genoa keeper Mattia Perin and Gomez tapped in his first four minutes before the break.

“I’m looking to score as many goals as I can for Fiorentina, I look to score goals because I’m an attacker,”

said Rossi, who has been left out of Cesare Prandelli’s Italy squad for their qualifiers against Bulgaria and Czech

Republic.“I think Prandelli knows better than me what Rossi is capable

of,” added Fiorentina manager Vicenzo Montella. Alberto Gilardino gave the home side some hope nine minutes after the break with a stunning volley, but Rossi tapped in his third in two games almost immediately afterwards.

Francesco Lodi reduced the deficit again on the hour with a pen-alty following a foul on Gilardino. However, an injury time penalty from Mario Gomez ruined Genoa’s celebrations for their 140th an-niversary, in which cricket was played on the Stadio Luigi Ferraris pitch before the match.

The club’s official name is Genoa Cricket and Football Club and it has a cricket team which was re-established in 2007 and who play

in Italy’s top division. It was one-way traffic in Sicily as Inter look to have put last season’s troubles behind them after thumping a fired-up Catania team who have no points after two defeats.

Manager Walter Mazzari refused to be drawn on talk that they could mount a title challenge. “The only aim we have is to do what we did tonight, prepare well for every match and give the best account of ourselves possible, exactly what I’ve with my teams throughout my career,” he said.

Three smartly worked goals from Rodrigo Palacio and Yuto Nagatomo and an exceptional individual effort from Ricky Alvarez were enough for Inter in a impressive performance, and they joined four other sides, including Fiorentina, on six points.

Goals from Robinho, Philippe Mexes and Mario Balotelli were enough for AC Milan against a plucky Cagliari team.

Brazilian Robinho and Mexes put Massimiliano Allegri’s side two goals up after half an hour, only for Marco Sau to pull one back for the away side three minutes later.

However, Balotelli’s first league goal of the season in the 62nd minute put the result beyond doubt. Earlier on Sunday Roma moved into second place on goal difference after splendid goals from Miralem Pjanic and Adem Ljajic gave them a comfortable 3-0 win over newly p r o m o t e d Hellas Verona.

The home side were playing with the Curva Sud section o f the Olympic Stadium s h u t after racist chant- i n g directed at Balo- telli from hardcore fans at the end of last season.

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LONDON - Arsenal and Liverpool emerged victori-ous from two of the Premier League’s fiercest rivalries with wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United respectively on Sunday.

Arsenal prevailed over big-spending Spurs 1-0 thanks to Olivier Giroud’s third goal in as many matches, while Daniel Sturridge matched him in the scoring stakes as The Reds also won 1-0 on the day the club celebrated the 100th birthday of their renowned former manager Bill Shankly.

Liverpool sit top of the Premier League with nine points from three matches, two ahead of Chelsea. Man-chester City, Arsenal, Stoke City and Spurs are on six points, with United two further back on four.

Spurs have spent heavily in the transfer window in anticipation of the world record sale of Welsh winger Gareth Bale to Real Madrid, while Arsenal have only brought in Yaya Sanogo and Mathieu Flamini on free

transfers.Bale’s transfer to the Spanish club for 100 million

euros ($131.86 million) was confirmed shortly after the match.

Spurs started brightly but Arsenal, however, looked the more cohesive side and were

rewarded after 23 minutes when Tomas Rosicky and Theo Walcott combined

to set up Giroud at the near post.The goal failed to subdue

a frantic start as both sides took advan-

tage of gaps in the midfield, with Andros Townsend, Walcott and the impressive Aaron Ramsey all having opportunities.

Both teams pressed in search of further goals as the match progressed, but neither were able to find the crucial touch, with Spurs in particular indebted to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who made several fine saves.

WENGER RELIEVED

“I was (relieved) because in the end we did hang on and protected our score because we could not get the second goal but overall it was an intense game,” manager Arsene Wenger told Sky Sport. “Their goalkeeper was their best player which shows you the chances we had. We had to dig deep to win in the end.”

It was a sweet victory for Arsenal who have recovered from their shock 3-1 defeat by Aston Villa on the opening day of the season with two successive wins, and could help silence some of the critics hitting out at Wenger’s lack of action in the transfer market.

“We had opportunities in the first half, they also started strong but I think we came back into the game very posi-tively,” manager Andre Villas-Boas said, also acknowl-edging the new signings needed time to settle in.

“The second half was very strong from us, it was a difficult encounter but I think we deserved something in the second half but Arsenal were clinical in front of goal. That they finished with four full-backs on the pitch at the end shows how much they wanted to hang on to the result.”STURRIDGE ON TARGET

At Anfield Liverpool honoured Shankly in the best

possible fashion when Daniel Agger got the better of Rio Ferdinand from a corner and Sturridge, celebrating his 24th birthday, reacted sharply to nod the ball home from close range in just the fourth minute.

Champions United, without striker Wayne Rooney after a training-ground incident left him with a bad cut on his forehead, rarely threatened to equalise despite dominating possession.

David Moyes’s first competitive defeat as United manager continued his poor record at Anfield where he failed to win in 12 attempts when he was in charge at Everton.

“It is a great win for our belief, last season we drew too many of the big games and we lost both times to Manchester United, but today was another marker for us and since January our form has been very, very good,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said.1982 Diego Maradona Argentina Boca Juniors Barcelona 3.0m

1984 Diego Maradona Argentina Barcelona Napoli 5.0m

1987 Ruud Gullit N’lands PSV Eindhoven AC Milan 6.0m

1990 Roberto Baggio Italy Fiorentina Juventus 8.0m

1992 Jean-Pierre Papin France Marseille AC Milan 10.0m

1992 Gianluca Vialli Italy Sampdoria Juventus 12.0m

1993 Gianluigi Lentini Italy Torino AC Milan 13.0m

1996 Alan Shearer England Blackburn Newcastle 15.0m

1997 Ronaldo Brazil Barcelona Inter Milan 19.5m

1998 Denilson Brazil Sao Paulo Real Betis 21.5m

1999 Christian Vieri Italy Lazio Inter Milan 32.0m

2000 Hernan Crespo Argentina Parma Lazio 35.5m

2000 Luis Figo Portugal Barcelona Real Madrid 37.0m

2001 Zinedine Zidane France Juventus Real Madrid 53.0m

2009 Kaka Brazil AC Milan Real Madrid 56.0m

2009 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Man Utd Real Madrid 80.0m

2013 Gareth Bale Wales Tottenham H Real Madrid 85.3m


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28, 2012 file photo of Tottenham Hotspur’s

Gareth Bale as he scores against Liverpool during their English Premier League soc-cer match at White Hart Lane

stadium, London.

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LONDON - The transfer window’s lon- gest-running saga finally ended on Sunday when Tottenham Hotspur forward Gareth Bale joined Real Madrid for a world transfer record fee of 100 million euros ($131.86 million).

Evolution of world record transfer deals

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AC Milan Brazilian forward Robinho celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Cagliari, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept.1, 2013.

Fiorentina continue impressive start to season

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Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge cel-ebrates his team’s 1-0 win against

Manchester United during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield

Stadium, Liverpool, England, Sunday Sept. 1, 2013.

Arsenal and Liverpool claim derby spoils

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Jorge Lorenzo admits he nearly ceded British Grand Prix victory to Marc Marquez, but had a sudden change of heart that prompted his final-corner pass. Lorenzo and Marquez spent the first 17 laps of the MotoGP race locked together, before Marquez finally made his move at Brooklands - the first exchange of a dramatic close to the race.

Lorenzo was able to reassert himself at Vale one lap later and therefore led heading into the final lap, but a mistake under braking at the Loop left him vulnerable to Marquez, who duly hit the front once more at Brooklands, the penultimate corner of the race.

While he attempted to stick it out on the out-side line, Lorenzo said he had almost resigned himself to following Marquez home before resolving upon the do-or-die move at Luffield that earned him a first victory in six races.

“When he passed me I thought ‘OK, second’, but then suddenly I thought ‘I have to try’ and when he opened the gap a bit, it was now or never,” Lorenzo explained. “Thankfully we didn’t crash, and I’m so pleased with the win. This is one of the best victories in my career.

“I pushed from the beginning as always, trying to open the gap, but it was impossible: even after his warm-up [crash] Marc was very brave and never gave up. “When he came past I studied him for one lap, saw he was struggling a little bit in braking and overtook him, then tried to push and open a little gap at the end.

Jorge Lorenzo passes Marc Marquez, Silver-

stone MotoGP 2013 “But on the last lap I made a mistake and almost crashed. It was a very emotional race, and a very important win.”

Asked if he had been expecting a last-gasp Marquez attack, particularly given their col-lision in a similar position at Brno, Lorenzo added: “When I started the last lap I said I have to be very fast and open a gap to avoid Marquez

trying anything.“I knew he was quicker [under braking] be-

cause every lap I heard his engine coming, and he could make a more inside line than me.

“[After my] mistake I tried to close the door in all the points I knew he was going to try, but I knew he was going to try anyway. “Finally he did it at Brooklands, but thankfully he left a little gap.”


ISTANBUL — Istanbul’s 2020 committee has confirmed that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Argentina to make a final pitch on behalf of the city’s bid to host the games.

The committee said Monday Erdo-gan will fly to Buenos Aires from the G20 conference in St. Petersburg to head the Turkish delegation as it makes final presentations that could swing votes when the IOC elects the host city on Sept. 7. Istanbul is competing against Madrid and Tokyo.

It’s Istanbul’s fifth attempt to host the games. The city’s bid has been hampered by anti-government pro-tests and doping scandals in Turkey and the escalating war in neighboring Syria.

The committee announced that the theme for the bid would be “History in the making,” saying the games would — for the first time — be simultane-ously hosted on two continents.

Old order take control at U.S. Open

The 31-year-old avenged her loss to Stephens at the Australian Open with an emphatic 6-4 6-1 victory to keep her title defence on course.

“It’s definitely difficult, espe-cially playing people that you like, that you always want to see do well,” Williams said. “But you have to go out there and kind of put that to the side and realize, I want to do well myself and take every point as it comes.”

Defending men’s champion Andy Murray and world number one Novak Djokovic also won in straight sets, while 2001 winner Lleyton Hewitt turned back the clock to reach the fourth round for the first time since 2006.

Murray, playing in the middle of a hot and steamy day, needed less than two hours to see off Germany’s Florian Mayer 7-6 (2) 6-2 6-2 and advance to the fourth round.

Djokovic was even more ruth-less in his center court night match against Portugal’s Joao Sousa, cruising to a 6-0 6-2 6-2 win, while 32-year-old Hewitt wore down Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy 6-3 7-6

(5) 3-6 6-1.“Obviously when you’ve been to

the top you want to keep playing,” said Hewitt, who stunned sixth seed Juan Martin del Potro in the previous round. “The reason you’re playing is for the majors, and for me, Davis Cup as well. That’s the reason I’m still playing.”

The biggest surprise on a day when most results went as expected was the defeat of women’s third seed Agnieszka Radwanska.

The Pole, who had made it to the quarter-finals or better at the three other grand slams this year, crumbled to a 6-4 6-4 defeat by Rus-sia’s Ekaterina Makarova after she had won the first four games of the match. Makarova wil play China’s Li Na after Asia’s top player accounted for Jelena Jankovic 6-3 6-0.

OLDEST CHAMPIONStephens beat Williams in Janu-

ary in the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park to enhance her standing as a fu-ture leader of U.S. women’s tennis, but was completely outgunned by a woman bidding to become the oldest

to win the U.S. Open since tennis turned professional in 1968.

“Obviously she’s number one in the world for a reason,” said Ste-phens, 11 years younger than Wil-liams. “I thought she played really well. “All in all I thought I competed well and played well. That’s all you can do really.”

Williams will play Carla Suarez Navarro in the quarter-finals, the Spaniard having upset Germany’s eighth-seed Angelique Kerber 4-6 6-3 7-6 (3). Murray struggled to impose himself on Mayer in the opening set but once he adapted to the humidity and gusting winds it was all smooth sailing. “It was tough conditions. It was very, very humid,” Murray said. “I was struggling breathing for most of the match.”

Murray’s opponent in the fourth round will be Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin, who beat Italy’s Andreas Seppi 6-3 6-4 2-6 3-6 6-1, with Tomas Berdych looming in the quarter-finals.

Berdych, seeded fifth, made the semi-finals at last year’s U.S. Open and has been in great form at Flush-ing Meadows this week, reaching the last 16 without dropping a set.

The Czech dispatched Julien Benneteau of France 6-0 6-3 6-2 to set up a fourth-round clash with Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka, who defeated Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-3 6-2 6-7 (1) 7-6 (7).

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NeW YorK - Serena Williams easily won her eagerly-awaited clash with Sloane Stephens at the U.S. open on Sunday as normal service resumed at the last grand slam of year. Williams was one of four U.S. open champions that won on Sunday, sending a clear message to the next generation of rising stars that they will have to wait their turn.

Serena Williams reacts after a point against Sloane Stephens during the fourth round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sun-

day, Sept. 1, 2013, in New York.

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Erdogan to push for Istanbul 2020

Lorenzo nearly accepted defeat to Marquez

AP Photo/Matt DunhamJorge Lorenzo of Spain, left, crosse the finish line ahead of countryman Marc Marquez to win the MotoGP race of the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone circuit in Silverstone, England, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Redding won the race, Nakagami was second and Luthi third.

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TABANAN - This hot spring is located at Penatahan Village, Penebel Subdistrict, approximately 13 km from the town of Tabanan and 34 km north of Denpasar. It offers beautiful natural scenery on the right and left side with the backdrop of amazing terraced rice fields. The hot spring is perched right on the banks of Yeh Ho River. Local people call the hot spring by Yeh Panes. Based on the results of research in the laboratory of the Department of Health, the hot spring is very good for bathing because it contains sulfur and other minerals. It is excellent for curing light skin diseases.

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Penatahan Hot Spring

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JAKARTA - In front of a crowd of thousands, two sumo wrestlers charged at each other with full force, their bodies colliding with a tremendous smack that echoed through the arena in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

The first official sumo tournament to be held outside Japan in five years saw wrestler Kotoyuki take an early advantage against his opponent with a series of quick stinging slaps to the chest and a steady push forward.

“I love sumo -- I’ve studied it, but this is the first time they’ve come to Indonesia and it’s the first time I’ve seen it live,” Julyana Antika, a 22-year-old student of Japanese literature at a Jakarta university, told AFP at the weekend competition.

Antika -- accompanied by a dozen Japanese exchange students from Takushoku University in Tokyo -- is just one of many young Indonesians who are increasingly consuming Japanese culture through entertainment, comics, fashion and food.

With money from her part-time job as a Japanese-Indonesian translator, Antika buys Japanese magazines, watches Japanese cartoons, uses a Panasonic digital camera and a Sony mobile phone.

Indonesians have come late to the party -- Japanese culture was embraced in the West in the 1970s and 1980s -- but a boom in Southeast Asia’s top economy and Japanese firms’ hunt for new markets have combined to create a recent upsurge in interest.

“Two years ago, when I first came to Indonesia, we had around 1,000 Japanese businesspeople coming to us for Indonesian market advice,” said Kenichi Tomiyoshi, chief of the Japan External Trade Organsation’s Indone-sian operations.

“But in the past 12 months, we’ve already advised 4,000,” he said, adding it had been hard to keep up with requests.

Japanese firms are flooding in as the world’s most populous Muslim-ma-jority nation rides the wave of a prolonged economic boom that has produced an army of new consumers.

While growth has slowed this year, Indonesia remains a bright spot in the global economic gloom.

It also boasts a young population -- more than 40 percent are estimated to be 24 or under -- just the kind of demographic beloved of Japanese companies looking for new growth to offset saturated markets at home where the popula-tion is ageing and the economy is struggling to pull itself out of a long funk.

And as diplomatic tensions soar with neighbours and key trade partners South Korea and China, Japan has shifted its focus to the Southeast Asia region in general.

Japanese direct investment in Indonesia is a testament to the increased interest, having ballooned to $2.5 billion last year from $712.6 million in 2010, according to the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board.

“Five years ago, most Indonesian people couldn’t buy Japanese goods, but now they have enough income to buy high-quality Japanese products,” said Tomiyoshi.

An array of Japanese cultural events -- such as the Toyota-sponsored sumo tournament -- are also being staged to give soft power support to Tokyo’s push into the region.

This week, a large Japanese anime festival will take place in Jakarta.Tokyo is also involved in such efforts, with the government backing the

sumo showcase as an event to mark 55 years of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Japan.

As more companies arrive from Tokyo to set up shop in Indonesia and the number of cultural events multiply, enthusiasm for all things Japanese among Indonesians grows.

It was once hard to find Japanese cuisine in Indonesia but sushi bars and Japanese restaurants now abound in major cities. Even local firms with no links to Japan are also successfully capitalising on the frenzy.

Metrox Group -- a company owned by an Indonesian and Singaporean -- launched its own Japanese-inspired streetwear brand, Wakai Raifusutairu, which means “Young Lifestyle” in Japanese and uses Japanese script in part of its name. The company -- which also distributes brands such as Timberland and Crocs in Indonesia -- hired a Japanese designer to create its main product, a colourful array of slip-on canvas shoes, some of which have Japanese prints on them.

“In terms of sales, we initially thought we’d break even in 10 months, but we did it in three,” said Matrox Group brand manager Alice Dwiyani.

The news came as a closely watched survey showed manufacturing activity in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy had sunk to a 15-month low in August.

Indonesia -- like other global emerging markets -- has been hammered by huge outflows of foreign cash over the past month on expectations the US Federal Reserve will begin to wind down its stimulus programme.

Official figures showed Indonesia’s trade deficit rose sharply to $2.31 billion in July from $847 million in June, compared with economists’ forecasts that it would dip to $353 million.

The deficit in July was “the highest in Indonesia’s his-tory”, Suryamin, the head of the Central Statistics Agency who goes by one name, told reporters.

“Exports dropped because the price of commodities dropped,” Suryamin said. Demand for key commodities, such as coal and palm oil, have been hit by a slowdown in key market China.

It adds pressure to the country’s current account, which in the April-June quarter widened to a $9.8 billion deficit, the biggest shortfall since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

Adding to the government’s woes was news that an index compiled for HSBC showed manufacturing activity fell to a 15-month low in August and was now shrinking.

The purchasing managers index hit 48.5 last month from 50.7 in July, marking the fourth straight month of decline, Anything below 50 points to contraction and anything above indicates growth.

Equally as worrying, the survey showed new exports business contracted for the third month in a row, while a decline in total new orders was the first recorded since May 2012, HSBC said.

Shares on Jakarta’s stock market tumbled almost three percent as investors fled to safety after the data was released, while the rupiah remained under pressure, having already lost about 12 percent against the dollar this year.

Emerging economies from Indonesia to Brazil have seen a huge flight of capital as dealers repatriate to the US expecting the Fed stimulus -- which has fuelled an invest-ment spree in developing countries for the past year -- to dry up. And among those countries to suffer the most are those with big current account deficits.

July’s deficit was a “a nasty and badly timed surprise”, Credit-Suisse economist Robert Prior-Wandesforde said, adding that the central bank needed to do more.

Bank Indonesia has already hiked interest rates 1.25 percentage points since June to 7.00 percent in a bid to shore up the economy and support the ailing rupiah.

However, its job will be made all the harder after inflation in August came in at a four-year high of 8.79 percent owing to the effects of a reduction in subsidised fuel prices as well as seasonal spending for the Muslim holiday of Eid.

The government announced a series of measures aimed at boosting the economy last month, including measures to slow imports and narrow the current account and trade deficits.

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A vegetable vendor waits for customers at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept 2, 2013. Indonesia’s trade deficit unexpectedly hit a record high in July, data showed Monday, adding further pressure on policymakers to shore up the economy as investors flee the country as it faces an increasingly grim future.

Trade deficit widens as economic woes worsen


JAKARTA - Indonesia’s trade deficit unexpectedly hit a record high in July, data showed Monday, adding further pressure on policymakers to shore up the economy as investors flee the country as it faces an increasingly grim future.

Japan influence grips Indonesia as companies flood in Jakarta

He said the two leaders would discuss “all the joint issues” dur-ing the visit, without giving further details. A South Sudanese embassy official also confirmed Kiir’s trip but neither he nor Ahmed could say how long the South’s leader was expected to stay.

Kiir last visited Khartoum in October 2011. In June, Khartoum said it was freezing nine security and economic pacts with the South, and it threatened to shut the oil pipelines linking landlocked South Sudan with Sudan’s Red Sea export terminal.

The decision came after Bashir warned the South over its alleged support for insurgents, who analysts said had humiliated the authorities with their attacks. Khartoum has twice extended its deadline to shut the pipelines, which are now threatened with closure from next Friday.

Despite the threat, oil has con-tinued flowing for export. The deadline extensions followed an appeal from the African Union. The regional group asked for more time to investigate allegations -- by both Sudan and South Sudan -- that

they are supporting rebels on each other’s territory.

Regional nations also began try-ing to determine the centreline of a demilitarised buffer zone along the two countries’ disputed and unde-marcated border. The buffer zone, designed to cut cross-border rebel support, was among the nine deals Sudan and South Sudan agreed to implement in March after months of delays.

The deals also included fees which South Sudan would pay for sending its oil through Sudan for export, and allowed for the free flow of people and goods across the frontier between the two nations. Following their March agreements, the two leaders held a summit in Juba during an interlude of easing tensions after months of intermit-tent border clashes.

Then came Khartoum’s abrupt threat to close the pipelines. The South became independent two years ago under a peace agree-ment after decades of on-and-off civil war.

It split with about 75 percent of united Sudan’s roughly 470,000 barrels per day of oil production,

leaving the north without its major source of export earnings and strug-gling for a replacement. Inflation soared and the Sudanese pound plummeted in value on the black market.

Oil refineries and export pipe-lines stayed under Sudan’s juris-diction but the two sides could not agree on how much the South should pay for using that infra-structure. Accusing Khartoum of theft, South Sudan’s government halted oil production early last year, even though it said crude provided 98 percent of revenue for the new nation.

Pumping resumed in April after the nine deals began to be imple-mented. A key unresolved issue is the status of the Abyei region.

Sudan and South Sudan did not meet deadlines which they agreed upon in March to set up Abyei’s administrative structure, including a police service.

The African Union proposed that a referendum be held in October to decide whether the territory belongs to the north or south, but Sudan disputes the suggested eligibility criteria for the ballot.


HAGEN, Germany - Germany put a 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS on trial Monday on charges that he executed a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944.

Dutch-born Siert Bruins, who is now German, volunteered for the SS after the Nazis conquered the Netherlands in 1941. Bruins served as a member of the Sicherheitspolizei, or Security Police, in a unit looking for resistance fighters and Jews.

No pleas are made in the German legal system, and Bruins made no state-ment Monday about the accusations against him. His attorney said Bruins would answer questions during the trial but not about the charges.

“Our tactic will definitely be to keep silent with regard to the charges,” attorney Klaus-Peter Kniffka said ahead of the trial. Despite his advanced age, Bruins was found medically fit to stand trial, though Kniffka said the stress of the proceedings against him has weakened him.

Bruins, who already served time in prison in the 1980s for his role in the slaying of two Dutch Jews, is accused of killing resistance fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 in the town of Appingedam, near the German border in the northern Netherlands. If convicted, he faces a pos-sible life sentence.

The security forces in Mexico have arrested the alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel, Alberto Carrillo Fuentes, also known as Ugly Betty. He was detained in the western state of Nayarit without offering resistance.

Mr Carrillo Fuentes, 47, is the third alleged top cartel leader to be caught this year in Mexico, where the authorities have been waging an intense campaign against drug gangs. He faces charges of drug trafficking and organised crime.

‘Family business’Investigators say Alberto Carrillo Fuentes took over the leadership of the

Juarez cartel from his brother Vicente, who is also wanted on charges of drug trafficking, murder and money laundering.

Another brother, Amado, led the cartel until his death in 1997. Known as Lord of the Skies for his large fleet of aircraft used to smuggle drugs to the US, died after undergoing plastic surgery.

Considered one of the most powerful drug gangs in Mexico in the 1990s, the Juarez cartel has lost many of the drug routes it controlled to its rivals from the Sinaloa cartel, analysts say.

Many of the murders in the border state of Chihuahua and the city of Juarez are blamed on the rivalry between the two groups. The arrest on Sunday came a day before Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is due to give his state of the union speech.

The detention of Alberto Carrillo Fuentes is the third high-profile arrest in three months, following that of the alleged leader of the Zetas, Miguel Angel Trevino in July, and the detention of the suspected leader of the Gulf cartel, Mario Ramirez Trevino, in August.

About 70,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of drug-related violence in Mexico over the past six years.

“Globally, the foreign tourists growth is estimated to reach nearly 4 percent and Southeast Asia will remain the region experiencing the highest growth,” she said.

Esthy added the current growth of foreign tourist in Indonesia was around 7 percent (first half) and at the moment the government was promoting the campaign to the fast-growing markets such as China and Russia.

At the same time, her party inaugurated the ITCEF 2013 event held in the Hall B of the JCC taking place on August 30 to September 1, 2013 presenting 113 exhibition booths. They comprised 78 booths of creative economy, 10 booths of airline and travel agency, 16 booths of hospitality and 9 booths of the Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD).

Chairperson of the Indonesia Tourism Promotion Board (BPPI), Yanti Su-kamdani, said the ITCEF 2013 event also involved the business representatives from Malaysia, China, Korea, India and Australia. “The event is also coupled with the INA Culinary participated by 100 booths,” she said. (010)

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Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki (C), flanked by his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir (L) and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, carry their proposed national flags during the inau-guration ceremony of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) project in Lamu in this March 2, 2012 file photo.



South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir is to visit the Sudanese capital on Tuesday, 72 hours ahead of Khartoum’s deadline to shut down vital oil pipelines, the two nations said. “I can confirm he will arrive on Tuesday,” Emad Sayed Ahmed, press secretary to Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, told AFP on Sunday.

Germany tries 92-year-old for Nazi war crime

‘Juarez cartel boss’ Alberto Carrillo caught in Mexico

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NEW YORK — Vodafone says it is in advanced talks to sell its 45 percent stake of Verizon Wireless back to the U.S. cellphone service provider for $130 billion in cash and stock, a deal which would be the second-largest acquisition deal on record if it goes through.

If an agreement is reached, Verizon would own its wireless business outright after buying the stake back from British cellphone company Vodafone PLC.

Vodafone said in a statement on Sunday there is no certainty that a final deal will be reached. Verizon Communications Inc. declined to comment.

The buyout, if finalized, would be second only to Vodafone’s $172 billion acquisition of Mannesmann AG in 2000, according to research firm Dealogic.

It would give Vodafone PLC additional cash to pursue its expansion ambitions in Europe. It would also give Verizon Communications the opportunity to boost its quarterly earnings, as it would no longer have to share a portion of proceeds from the nation’s No. 1 wireless carrier with Vodafone.

The potential deal isn’t expected to have much of an effect on Verizon consumers or on the company’s operations. Vodafone had little influence on Verizon Wireless’ day-to-day operations, and the two companies have kept out of each other’s territory.

The Verizon-Vodafone partnership started in 2000, when what was then Bell Atlantic combined its East Coast wireless network with Vodafone’s operations on the West Coast. Vodafone had entered the U.S. market a year earlier by outbidding Bell Atlantic to buy AirTouch Communications Inc. of San Francisco.

Verizon has had a long-standing interest in buying out its partner, but the two companies haven’t agreed on a price. Analysts said Verizon wanted to pay around $100 billion for Vodafone’s stake, while Vodafone has been pressing for $130 billion.

Vodafone is already one of the world’s largest cell-phone companies and has its sights set on dominating media services in Europe, its biggest market. The com-pany is making a takeover bid for Germany’s biggest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland.

The talks come amid a changing telecommunica-tions landscape in the U.S. The wireless business has been lucrative for Verizon Communications as traditional landline services decline. But the company faces growing competition in a saturated market. No. 4 T-Mobile US Inc., for instance, is making a resurgence after shattering industry conventions, including two-year service contracts.

In the April-to-June quarter, Verizon Wireless added 941,000 devices to its contract-based plans, exceed-ing analyst estimates and continuing a strong run. It boosted service revenue by 8.3 percent from a year ago. Its closest rival, AT&T, is seeing revenue increases of around 4 percent.

But almost all of Verizon’s gains on the wireless side resulted from customers upgrading to higher-priced plans or adding more devices to their existing plans, rather than an influx of new customers.

Meanwhile, No. 3 wireless company Sprint Corp. received a $21.6 billion investment from SoftBank Corp. in July, giving the Japanese investment firm a 78 percent stake. T-Mobile grew larger through a merger with smaller rival MetroPCS on April 30.

The US decision to hold off from a military attack on Syria also helped risk appetite and led to selling of the safe-haven Japa-nese currency, traders said.

The dollar gained to 98.60 yen in afternoon Asian trade from 98.16 late Friday in New York.

The euro bought $1.3200, down from $1.3218, while the single currency was trading at 130.14 yen against 129.82 yen.

US President Barack Obama said over the weekend he would first seek authorisation from Congress before undertaking mil-itary action against Damascus. Congress is in recess this week and is not due to reconvene until September 9, making military action unlikely this week.

“With the Syrian risk put off for a week, there’s almost no need to worry about that for the time being,” Hiroshi Maeba, head of FX trading Japan for UBS in Tokyo, told Dow Jones Newswires.

Daisuke Karakama, market economist at Mizuho Bank’s forex division, said: “The market is paying more attention to US economic indicators than Syria.

“Especially, the market is fo-cusing on US jobless figures to be released on Friday, ahead of the upcoming FOMC meeting.”

US consumer spending sput-tered in July amid weak income growth, according to Commerce Department data released Friday.

The new data cast a cloud over speculation that the Federal Reserve will begin to reduce its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying programme this year.

Concerns about the strength of the major economic indicators in the third quarter could convince the Fed to delay the move, which could come as soon as its Sep-tember 17-18 monetary policy meeting.

Currencies in emerging Asia, which had plunged recently on expectations of a taper of the US programme and risk aversion over possible military strike on Syria, were mostly higher.

The Indian rupee, which last week hit a new low in the 69 to the dollar range, was at 65.78 Monday afternoon, an improve-ment on 66.72 on Friday.

The Indonesian rupiah edged down to 10,943 to the greenback from 10,920, signalling investor confidence in the rupiah was still sorely lacking in spite of an eco-nomic policy package released by the government last week.

The dollar sagged to 1,101.15 South Korean won from 1,109.25 won, to Sg$1.2737 from Sg$1.2757 and to 44.19 Philippine peso from 44.63 peso, and to Tw$29.77 from Tw$29.92. The dollar held steady at 32.11 Thai baht.

The Australian dollar rose to 89.68 US cents from 89.38 and the Chinese yuan rose to 16.10 yen from 16.06 yen.

Dollar rises amid speculation about US economyAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - The dollar rose against the yen on Monday as trading remained cautious amid speculation about the timing of an end to the massive US stimulus programme.

AP Photo/Sang Tan, FileA Tuesday, May 19, 2009 photo from files showing people walking by a branch of Vodafone in central London. Britain’s Vodafone PLC, one of the world’s largest mobile phone companies, confirmed Thursday that it was in discussions with Verizon Communications to sell its operations in the United States.

Vodafone confirms late-stage talks with Verizon

When traveling in Bali, you do not need to be confused to get a meal or just a snack. The community of Bali Island is rich in culinary tradition, including various fresh cakes. Even, the cakes produced are eco-friendly because the ingredients and coloring agent in use are obtained from organic plants.

One of them is the lukis cake. This traditional cake tastes sweet, sticky and chewy. It resembles to small triangle in greenish color. When being served, it presented with grated

coconut and brown sugar. It will be going more appropriate if enjoyed with coffee or tea.

This kind of cake is not easy to get. Aside from being difficult to find its ingredients, the making is also quite complicated.

However, the food stalls at villages, traditional markets, pastry shops and some supermarkets are selling it. Uniquely, in the cake shop and supermarket this lukis cake has been packaged neatly, unlike in the stalls as it is presented manually to make it look really fresh. The lukis cake makes use of ingredients like sticky rice.

By and large, it is then mixed with black sticky rice that has an interesting texture. The other ingredients comprise the grated coconut, salt and Balinese palm sugar (brown sugar). To make it, the black sticky rice is soaked for some 15 minutes. Furthermore, it is drained and filled with salt so that it will not be tasteless.

After that, take a spoon of the batter and wrap in green and clean banana leaf. Wrap it tightly, so the results will be sticky and not watery. Boil them for approximately 2 hours (do as boiling rice bag). Further, take them out and drain. To make sure whether the sticky rice has been cooked or not, test it by piercing with a pin (palm leaf rib). If it has been hard, simply take them out and drain. Wait for a while until turning cooler and then serve them.

To serve them, unwrap the leaf first and place on the even serving leaf. Then, sprinkle them with shredded coconut containing salt. As the finishing step, sprinkle all the cakes with brown sugar. (BTN)

This event has proved to be highly effective in promoting Bali and other Indonesian regions as highly desirable and interesting destinations to overseas visitors who spend their holidays in Bali (an inexpensive but highly effective promotion).

With this event, Bali and Legian become a window to other parts of Indonesia for visitors to Bali and supports the Indonesian govern-ment’s programme of promoting Indonesia as a wonderful county in

which to spend holidays.The programme for the 4 day

event includes many different ac-tivities for all ages and interests, such as exhibition of different Indonesian tourist destinations, sale of many kinds of handicrafts, and Food Festival. Meanwhile on the stage, performances will be attend by Legian children’s gender players, Balinese cultural events, other Indonesian regional cultural performances, live performances of modern bands from Bali and outside

Bali, and selection of Miss Legian Beach Festival 2013. There will be also fashion show competition for children and adults, children’s singing competition, and story-telling competition for kindergarten teachers.

Not only on the stage, events also held at beach area, including colouring competition for children with their parents or guardians, painting competition for profes-sional artists, free surfing lessons, and daily barong dance.

LBF will be held on 5th September

IBP/Yudi KarnaediA tourist taking picture with Barong during the Legian Beach Festival 2012. The ever popular event, the Legian Beach Festival (LBF), now in its 7th year, will be staged from 5 - 8 september 2013 along the beach front between Jl Padma and Jl Melasti, Legian with its theme of ‘Explore Indonesia’.

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LEGIAN - The ever popular event, the Legian Beach Festival (LBF), now in its 7th year, will be staged from 5 - 8 september 2013 along the beach front between Jl Padma and Jl Melasti, Legian with its theme of ‘Explore Indonesia’.

Lukis Fresh Cake:A Delicacy in Greenish Triangle

IBP/File PhotoLukis Cake

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Bali News International4 Tuesday, September 3, 2013 Tuesday, September 3, 2013 13International RLDW

Challenger Peer Steinbrueck went into the 90-minute debate - the pair’s only direct TV encounter of the cam-paign - facing a daunting poll deficit and needing a strong performance after a summer in which the opposi-tion has struggled to land blows on the popular conservative incumbent.

Neither contender scored a knock-out blow or made a major mistake, and polls conducted by broadcasters showed no clear winner. In his open-ing statement, Steinbrueck portrayed Germany as having “gone round in circles, without direction” under Merkel’s center-right coalition over the past four years.

Merkel has benefited from a healthy economy, low unemployment and perceptions that she’s managed Europe’s debt crisis well. She touted that record as the debate opened, pointing to high employment and portraying Germany as “the motor of growth” and “the anchor of stability”

in Europe.Merkel’s finance minister last

month said that there will have to be a third aid program for Greece after the current one ends last year - something that the chancellor again insisted is nothing new.

Germany, with Europe’s biggest economy, is the biggest contributor to the 17-nation eurozone’s rescue programs. Merkel has pursued a hard-nosed approach - insisting that struggling countries get their finances in order, take responsibility for their own problems and enact economic reforms.

Steinbrueck asked “whether, with the announcement of a third Greek package, we shouldn’t admit to ourselves that the crisis strategy to date - largely put forward by this government - has failed.” He argued that “what is lacking is a rebuilding program, what is lacking is a growth impulse, what is lacking is the fight

against youth unemployment.”“I would have said, of course there

must be consolidation of public bud-gets - but please not in a deadly dose for these countries,” he said.

Merkel noted that Steinbrueck’s Social Democrats have voted for the various measures she has put forward in the crisis - including a European budget-discipline pact - and insisted that her approach is the way to fix the eurozone’s troubles.

“Do we help by expressing regret about the difficult situation in these countries, or do we help by encour-aging them to conduct the necessary reforms?” she asked.

“What is important now is not to show false solidarity, but to follow a principle - and this principle is ... solidarity and responsibility, and if we do not follow this through we will see that these countries don’t regain more jobs,” she said. Merkel pointed to efforts that have been made to encourage growth in Europe.

On the home front, Steinbrueck said he wants to ensure greater “social justice,” introducing a mandatory na-tional minimum wage - which Merkel rejects, preferring sector-by-sector agreements between employers and employees.


MANILA, Philippines - Phil-ippine President Benigno Aquino III canceled a trip to a Chinese trade fair after Beijing demanded that he first withdraw a legal complaint over disputed ter-ritories in the South China Sea, Filipino officials said Monday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and two other diplomats relayed conditions for Aquino to attend the annual China-ASEAN Expo, which opens Tuesday in the southern city of Nanning, Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez told a news conference.

Hernandez declined to detail the conditions, but said these were “absolutely inimical to our national interest.” The Chinese side asked that the conditions not be publicly disclosed, he said. They were discussed by Wang and Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario in Beijing on Wednesday.

Because of the conditions, Aquino decided to call off his publicly announced trip to the trade fair, Hernandez said, add-ing the Philippines will instead send a delegation headed by its trade secretary.

“The president stood firm in the defense of the country’s national interest,” Hernandez said.

Two Philippine officials told The Associated Press that China

wanted Manila to withdraw a U.N. arbitration case over dis-puted islands in the South China Sea. The officials spoke on con-dition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

Chinese officials have also cited a new standoff between China and the Philippines over the Second Thomas Shoal, which is called Ayungin Shoal by Filipinos and Ren’ai Reef by the Chinese, the Philippine officials said.

China has asked Manila to remove a navy ship that ran aground on the shoal years ago, but the Philippine officials said the area was well within their territorial waters.

China was concerned that al-lowing Aquino to visit after the Philippines brought its territorial disputes to U.N. arbitration in January - which Beijing calls an “unfriendly act” - may not be welcomed by the Chinese public and media, the officials said.

Asked to comment Monday, Chinese Embassy spokesman Zhang Hua did not react to their statements, but urged the Philippines to work with China “to overcome difficulties and disturbances and make real ef-forts to get the China-Philippine relationship” back on track.

He said China welcomes Southeast Asian delegations, including from the Philippines, to the trade expo.


JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela has spent a first night at his Johannesburg home since the former South African president left a hospital after nearly three months of treatment there.

There were no official up-dates Monday on the condition of the 95-year-old leader of the anti-apartheid movement, who was taken to his home in an ambulance on Sunday.

In announcing Mandela’s dis-charge, the office of South African

President Jacob Zuma said Mandela remains in critical and sometimes unstable condition.

A statement from Zuma’s office also says Mandela will receive the same level of intensive care that he did in the hospital, administered by the same doctors.

Manila: China set impossible conditions for visit

AP Photo/Aaron FavilaDepartment of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez deliv-ers a statement during a press conference in Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines on Monday, Sept. 2, 2013.

Mandela spends first night at home

AP Photo/WDRPhoto provided by German broadcaster WDR shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, of the Chris-tian Democrats and her Social Democratic challenger Peer Steinbrueck during the only live televised debate ahead of the national elections in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013.

Merkel, German election rival debate euro crisisAssociated Press Writer

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-left rival sparred over Europe’s debt crisis and how best to keep Germany’s economy strong as they faced off Sunday in a televised debate ahead of Sept. 22 elections, with Merkel’s challenger insisting that it makes no sense to apply a “deadly dose” of austerity to eurozone strugglers.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Depreciation of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar occurred within the past few days was recognized by Branch Marketing Manager of PT Pertamina for Bali and West Nusa Tenggara, Iin Febrian, to have an impact on the price of special fuel or non-subsidized fuel like Pertamax, Pertamax Plus and Pertamina Dex.

“The rupiah exchange rate is one of the significant variables causing the change in the price of special fuel. However, the price changes are

not solely due to the exchange rate but also the variable of the world oil price,” he said when met in the simulation of emergency response activities, Friday (Aug 30) at the Sanggaran fuel terminal, Denpasar.

He added the change due to the rupiah exchange rate fluctuation in relation to the fuel prices, chiefly the special fuels, occurred because it was indeed not subsidized by the govern-ment. He said the price of special fuel sold to community changed in keeping with the fluctuation of the oil price related to the production cost

and the exchange rate. He admitted the production cost of special fuel both the crude oil and production in the refinery mostly used the dollar ex-change rate. “Meanwhile, the special fuel itself is sold in rupiah so that it causes a correction or adjustment. At the moment, the special fuel is sold for IDR 11,150,” he said.

Nevertheless, Iin said the cur-rent use of special fuel remained at 950 KL per month or in a stable condition. “In the future, we will continue to monitor the price and the amount of consumption due to

changes in the exchange rate does not necessarily raise the price of the special fuel,” he said.

For Bali, the terminal of special fuel was only available at Sanggaran Depot and it supplied the 103 petrol stations selling the special fuel. “As the management of Pertamina, we constantly expect the public aware-ness to use the special fuel because the existing regulation only sets forth the use by the vehicle of regional government, military and police, while the public are still given the freedom. The increased sale of spe-

cial fuel means the state’s subsidy also reduces,” he explained.

Just to note, the rupiah against the U.S. dollar has weakened since last week. Previously, the rupiah exchange rate lay in the range of IDR 9,000 to IDR 10,000 for one U.S. dollar. However, the condition weakened and penetrated IDR 11, 000 per U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, PT Pertamina planned to reduce the crude oil import in an effort to minimize the impact of the depre-ciation of rupiah against the U.S. dollar. (kmb28)

Dozens of Tibusambi residents were forced to plant the village road because they were upset where their village road had been broken for years but was not repaired so far. At least 40 trees were planted in the midst of the two- kilometer road. As it was planted in middle of the road, it practically could not be passed through by four-wheeled vehicles and only motorcycles could go through. A similar action had been done previously by some residents.

Then, a legislator of the Jembrana House came down and promised to repair it. Unluckily, it had not been materialized so far. According to residents, actually there had been a budget of the Rural Infrastructure Development Program (PPID), but it was diverted to subak road. Coor-dinator of the residents, Ida Bagus Kade Santika, said that residents had been visited by the House. At that time, they were promised to be given a budget. Actually, the budget

had been allocated, but lately it was diverted to other interest namely the pathway of Subak Tegakgede.

The Group Head III of the Ti-busambi hamlet, I Gusti Komang Mataram, mentioned the people get-ting involved in the action came to about 90 people and they planted 40 banana trees and coconut trees. The road had actually been paved but since it was often passed through by trucks carrying materials from Tibusambi River every day, the asphalt layer quickly peeled off and currently had run out. The trucks took materials in the river illegally. Moreover, they did not give any contribution to the people and even harmed the road. On that account, the village officials were urged to discipline the perpetrators dredging the materials.

Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Three farmer groups at Ka-langsari hamlet, Datah village, Karangasem, expected the assis-tance from the government. All this time, they were completely untouched by the assistance. Actu-ally, the official of the Mertasari joint business group (Kube), I Nengah Berati, said on Sunday (Sep 1) at Kalangsari, the group members were generally poor. The activity of the group located in the eastern foothills of the Mount Agung with barren nature had not been touched by any assistance.

Meanwhile, the farmer groups at other villages had often received the assistance. He said that other than Mertasari group, the other two groups namely the Mertasari I and Mertasari II equally never received any government assistance. They hoped to get assistance in the form of cows. As planned, if the groups got the assistance, they would promote cattle breeding.

Of the three farmer groups at the village, said the Mertasari Group Head, I Wayan Warsa, the total number of the farmer group were 30 families, where each group consisted of 10 families.

Warsa and Berati said the three farmer groups had submitted a pro-posal for the assistance through the headman of Datah to Karangasem government. However until now, there had been no response.

Berati said that as a result of the regular crisis of clean water every dry season, the residents faced difficulties to live their life. Moreover, they were mostly sharecroppers or farming work-ers with low incomes. For clean water, they all this time relied on rainwater accommodated in a water basin. It was for people who could make it, while most of them could not afford to build the water basin and if anyone could, it was of a small size. When the

rainwater supplies ran out, hun-dreds of residents of Kalanganyar and Juwuk hamlet queued to get clean water at the shrinking spring. They had to walk up to 2-5 kilometers. Additionally, to get the water, they had to queue.

Meanwhile, the rain or wet season only took place for three months, while the rest was dry season like today. “People who can afford to buy water and their house at roadside, when facing clean water crisis, will buy clean water at IDR 80,000 to IDR 100,000 per tank containing 2,500 liter. Such amount of water is just enough for two weeks,” said Berati.

Chairman of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, confirmed in Karangasem last Sunday that many people still faced clean water crisis. Such residents com-monly lived on barren hills or mountains area. Gede Dana asked the Karangasem government through the Social Services to make anticipation against people facing clean water crisis on enter-ing the dry season at this time.

He expected that people in need of water should be given clean wa-ter help quickly, especially later on related to the third, fourth and fifth full moon respectively falling in September, November and Decem-ber as the peak of dry season. When the people were in clean water crisis at that time, they required consider-able water supplies because there would also hold pujawali or temple anniversaries.

On the other hand, the Head of the Karangasem Social Services, Made Sosiawan, said that his party had anticipated the dry season in the next few months. His party had prepared a budget for the supplies of clean water reaching hundreds of tanks. However, the residents were expected to submit a report or a request for the assistance of clean water in order to be known by the Social Services. (013)

Rupiah depreciation boosts price of special fuel

Poor and barrenFarmer groups at Kalangsari hope assistance

Not repaired for long time

Tibusambi residents planted road with banana Negara (Bali Post)—

Along two kilometers of the Yehembang Kangin village road con-necting the Tibusambi and Nusamara hamlet looked to be transformed in a garden, Sunday (Sep 1). It happened because along the road was planted with banana and coconut seedlings by residents. Even, it was not just planted with one or two trees, but dozens of trees so the road connecting the hamlets looked like a pathway in the garden.

The road is planted by banana tress by the residents of Tibusambi Hamlet, Jembrana

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3Tuesday, September 3, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Tuesday, September 3, 2013

A WHO study, one of the first to analyse the causes of death of older women, found that in wealthier countries deaths from noncommu-nicable diseases has fallen dramati-cally in recent decades, especially from cancers of the stomach, co-lon, breast and cervix.

Women over 50 in low and middle-income countries are also living longer, but chronic ailments, including diabetes, kill them at an earlier age than their counterparts, it said. “The gap in life expectancy between such women in rich and poor countries is growing,” said the WHO study, part of an issue of the WHO’s monthly bulletin devoted to women’s health.

There is a similar growing gap between the life expectancy of men over 50 in rich and lower income countries and in some parts of the world, this gap is wider, WHO of-ficials said.

“More women can expect to live

longer and not just survive child birth and childhood. But what we found is that improvement is much stronger in the rich world than in the poor world. The disparity be-tween the two is increasing,” Dr. John Beard, director of WHO’s department of ageing and life course, said in an interview at WHO headquarters.

BETTER PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

Beard, one of the study’s three authors, said: “What it also points to is that we need particularly in low and middle-income countries to start to think about how these emerging needs of women get addressed. The success in the rich world would sug-gest that is through better prevention and treatment of NCDs.”

In women over 50 years old, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cancers, heart disease

and strokes, are the most common causes of death, regardless of the level of economic development of the country in which they live, the study said.

Health ministers from WHO’s 194 member states agreed on a global action plan to prevent and control noncommunicable dis-eases at their annual ministerial meeting last May.

Developed countries have tack-led cardiovascular diseases and cancers in women with tangible results, the WHO study said.

Fewer women aged 50 years and older in rich countries are dy-ing from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than 30 years ago and these improvements contributed most to increasing women’s life expectancy at the age of 50, it said. An older woman in Germany can now expect to live to 84 and in Ja-pan to 88 years, against 73 in South Africa and 80 in Mexico.

Reuters

NEW YORK - Physical edu-cation in the United States has come a long way since the one-size-fits-all regimen of jumping jacks and rope climbing that was the bane of the baby boomer generation.

Today, where children learn can determine the type of fit-ness lessons they receive. “We have schools with rock climbing walls, Zumba classes, inline skat-ing - amazing stuff that I would have loved to have when I was a kid,” said Carly Braxton, senior program manager for advocacy at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), a non-profit group that promotes physi-cal activity and education.

Even in schools constrained by local budgets or indifference, Braxton said, imaginative physi-cal education teachers are find-ing innovative ways to get kids moving, from snow shoeing in cold climates to treasure hunting in warm ones.

“Where there’s a big Native American population, they’ll bring in tr ibal games, hunt-ing and fishing,” said Braxton, whose organization is one of the managing partners of first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Active Schools program.

“Physical education people are among the most flexible people in the world when it comes to using the community and the environ-ment,” she added.

Federal guidelines recom-mend children and adolescents,

aged 6-17 years old, get at least one hour of physical activity daily, but in the schools where they spend much of their day, mandates for movement vary greatly.

Thirty-eight U.S. states man-date physical education in el-ementary, middle/high and high school, according to the 2012 Shape of the Nation Report: Status of Physical Education in the USA, which is released by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and the American Heart Association.

But most states do not require a specific amount of instructional time and more than half allow exemptions, waivers, and/or sub-stitutions, the report showed.

“Education is such a local issue,” said Braxton. “You see this variation. Even in states with stricter mandates, these mandates don’t have a whole lot of teeth.”

Physical inactivity is associ-ated with obesity, which affects 17 percent of children and adoles-cents in the United States - triple the rate from just one generation ago, according to the U.S. Cen-ters for Disease Control.

Braxton said physical activity translates to lower absenteeism and higher academic performance.

“Research shows if you’re sitting for more than 17 minutes, your brain activity starts to slow down,” said Braxton. “If you’re sitting in a math class, even just a one-minute brain break, where maybe the kids play rock/paper/scissors with their legs instead of their hands (can help).”

REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel

A woman walks with children along a road in Aninoasa, 330 km (202 miles) west of Bucharest July 30, 2013.

Life expectancy gap growing between rich/poor world women - WHOReuters

GENEVA - Life expectancy for women at 50 has improved, but the gap between poor and rich countries is growing and could worsen without better detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease and cancers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

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Not your grand-mother’s gym class

Bali PostDENPASAR - National textile

industry including the textiles of Bali is threatened to lose in the competition against the ASEAN countries after the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) in 2015. Internal pressure and the textile industry of the ASEAN countries being more ready will become the obstacle to the development of the Indonesia’s textile industry in the AEC. Even, the Bali textile once becoming the leading commodity of Bali and the locomotive of the industry in Bali seems in a dead faint.

Based on the data released by the Bali government is reported that Bali generated foreign exchange worth USD 100.65 million from the export of textiles and textile products dur-ing 2012. However, until February 2013 the number dropped 19.83 per-cent over the previous year reaching USD 125.54 million.

Chairman of the Indonesian Tex-tile Association (API) of Bali, Dolly Nasution, when contacted said that the decline in the textile industry in Bali was caused by a number of factors such as high interest rates of bank loan, high production cost for most of the imported raw materials, lack of labor force because many garment workers changed profession to tourism sector and weakness in marketing.

“Impartiality of the government, in this case the Bali government, is very pronounced. Previously, our product marketing was often fa-cilitated through exhibition, but this time it no longer happens. Even, the government apparently only focuses and depends on the development of the tourism sector alone, while the other industries are ignored,” he said.

According to him, the condition

of the textile entrepreneurs in Bali was getting more difficult, when the textile product of Bangladesh, Vietnam, China and India began to participate in winning the market and the production of Bali textiles was increasingly unable to compete against the other countries so the export also continued to decline.

“In addition to taxes, the inter-est rate of credit is also one of the factors inhibiting the growth of the textile industry. Actually, the other countries such as China could provide lower credit. China’s government also provides subsi-dies for the exporters, including in the textile products. Unlike in Bali, the interest rate of bank lies in the range of 12-14 percent per year. Meanwhile, the interest rate in China is only about 3-4 percent per year,” he explained.

Similar opinion regarding the condition of the textile in Bali was revealed by AA Ngurah Mahendra. According to him, the downturn was also caused by the raw materi-als tending to be expensive. Even, when facing a fairly complex problem, the textile entrepreneurs belonging to the members of the API Bali also faced difficulty in the payment system from the competitors which in turn made the Bali textile entrepreneurs col-lapse. “Now, the competitors also bombard with the very long and vulnerable payment system. The competitors dare to provide long credit, while we do not. This is what makes us increasingly less competitive,” he explained.

Ngurah Mahendra also confirmed that human resources in Bali rarely deeply involved in the textile indus-try. They mostly preferred to choose the other job sectors such as sales promotion girl (SPG) to shop atten-dants in supermarket. (kmb28)

Unfortunately, foreign tourists began to complain about the expanse of power line and the supporting towers on hillside that hamper the natural view.

As observation at location on Sunday (Sep 1), the power line ran from west to the east. Meanwhile, the high-voltage supporting tower looked to stand rigidly in the area of rice fields and some others were built on the hillside.

The cable expanse slightly dis-rupted the view of the hill in the south. In addition, in rainy season the rice farmers working under the cable claimed to worry about the influence of the electrical currents flowing on the high-voltage cables.

A tour guide from Penebel, Ta-banan, who happened to escort a tour to Kekeran village, said the object offering the natural landscape along the highway of Pupuan (Tabanan) to Lovina started to be favored by foreign tourists. One of the landscapes at Kekeran village lured tourists to make a visit and enjoy the natural and pristine view. When escorting guests

from Denpasar and passed through the Pupuan-Lovina road section, his guests always asked to stop at Kek-eran village. Unluckily, the view of rice fields and hills at Kekeran village started to be slightly obstructed by the expanse of power line and supporting tower. Such condition was considered to sufficiently hamper the develop-ment of Kekeran region. “Before the existence of the power line and sup-porting tower, our guests were amazed by the beauty of the nature here. Now, they slightly complain because the photo scenery is hampered by the cables and tower,” he said.

Similar comment was given by another tourist guide from the Bali Driver Tour. He said that many tour-ists were interested in the Pupuan-Lovina route excursion. Even, a number of travel agencies offered package tour passing through the route. However, the natural scenery at Kekeran village was disturbed by the installation of high-voltage power lines. Foreign tourists com-plained because the natural view was disrupted by the cables. To that end,

his party hoped the authenticity of Kekeran natural landscape should be preserved, so that it could lure more tourists to visit the region.

“It’s the condition of Bali tourism where the newly-growing tourism region and frequently visited by tour-ists is disturbed by the government projects like this. Necessarily, there is a more intensive arrangement. If pos-sible, such disturbing condition must be found out a solution so that tourism is not harmed,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Kadek Sri, a parking attendant and trader in the region also claimed to often receive com-plaints from foreign tourists due to the expanse of the power lines and tower. Before the existence of those power lines and towers, many tourists immortalized the natural landscape, but later they began to rarely do it. “Guests only shake their head after looking at the hills with the expanse of power lines and tower. Probably, since the picture is hampered by the cables, guests rarely take photograph from here,” she said. (kmb)

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Countryside view at Kekeran village, Busungbiu subdistrict, recently began to be visited by the entourage of foreign tourists. Each day the group of tourists is never quiet to visit and take pictures at this object.

Foreign tourists complain View at Kekeran hampered by tower and power line Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Countryside view at Kekeran village, Busungbiu subdistrict, recently began to be visited by the entourage of foreign tourists. Each day the group of tourists is never quiet to visit and take pictures at this object.

A man dried up textile product in one of production areas at Denpasar. National textile industry including the textiles of Bali is threatened to lose in the competition against the ASEAN countries after the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.

A dead faint, Bali textiles no longer a leading commodity

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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 con-sidered 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 umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated 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


Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013

24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar SelatanPura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler TabananPura Agung Pasek Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuninng Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Sin-gapaduPura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan SingarajaPura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcang-kring TabananPura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Bule-lengPura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean MengwiPura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja TegalalangPura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada BulelengPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup GianyarPura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klung-kungPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPamerajan Alit UbudPura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara TabananPura Dalem Majapahit B a n j a r Denuma Kukuh Marga TabananPura Dalem batur BangliPura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem

25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Be-sakihPura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu BadungHyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari TegalPura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang BangliPura Dalem Peruncak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan BadungPura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi BadungPemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud

3 Sep Anggarkasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas SukawatiPura Dalem Lagan Bebalang BangliPura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Suka-watiPura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambi-tan TabananPura Gaduh SandingPura Dalem Gandamayu KlungkungPura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang

4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler TabananPura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar

8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel TabananPura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri TabananPura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin LembonganPura Batu Medeg BesakihPura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba

11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksir-ing

12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih

18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg TabananPura Puseh, Desa Guwang SukawatiPura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel

19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari LombokPura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu KarangasemPura Pedharman Arya Telabah Be-sakihPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamaniPura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar

25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Suka-watiPura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

“We understand just how important it is to stay in contact in this era of advanced technol-ogy. However, you may not want the bother of bringing your own phone or electronic device away on holiday in case of loss or damage. So to help ease this situation, Amadea recently launched Julie Smart Phone Rental,” stated the release.

This convenient service is available from the Reception Desk and offers all the very latest smart phone options. For just Rp 50.000 per day, you can enjoy full use of the latest smart phone. A local SIM card and credit is also available at local price. This will enable you to be connected at all times to make calls, chat, browse the internet, receive emails, play games and share your holiday experiences on social media. Julie Smart Phone Rental is there to make your stay in Bali a whole lot easier.

Julie Smart Phone Rental at Amadea ResortIBP

This is a unique value added service that launched by Amadea Resort. Only in this ho-tel, while you are staying and enjoying your holiday, you will be able to rent a cellular phone. Infact, according to release that receive by International Bali Post, Amadea Resort will provide you with the latest smartphone.

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“We are happy to welcome Presi-dent Palmer to our community,” said ANZI Forum Chairman Angga Kes-umah. “We look forward to sharing with him all that our local Lions have accomplished in the area.”

Lions in Indonesia conduct a vari-ety of projects and events, including Education and Environment Care.

Lions clubs are groups of men and women who identify needs within the community and work together to fulfill those needs. For more information or to get involved with your local Lions, please contact Angga Kesumah at [email protected]

Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organi-zation with more than 1.35 million members in 46,000 clubs in more than 208 countries and geographic areas. In addition to its efforts toward conquering blindness, the organiza-tion has made a strong commitment to community service and helping youth throughout the world. To learn more about Lions Clubs International, visit www.lionsclubs.org.

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Though having been sealed, the

Buangga Residence housing project at Buangga hamlet, Getasan village, Petang subdistrict, still continues. Even, the project activity has increased lately. Allegedly, there are certain parties back-ing the violated and unlicensed housing project.

Based on information from local community, after the sealing a number of uniformed officers of the public order officers (Satpol PP) had come to location. Strangely, the officers did not give a reprimand or take any action. They only oversaw the project workers.

The housing project spreading across 4,500 square meters of wetland contin-ued. Even, the developer brought in some

additional construction workers from outside to work on the project. So far, there was one building having been near completion, while several other lots had been made the foundation and prepared with wire mesh for poles and walls.

When confirming this matter on Sunday (Sep 1), the Division Head of Operations and Control of the Badung Public Order Officer, Dewa Nyoman Oka, asserted the project violated a number of provisions. His party had to do the sealing and sent reprimand for two times to the developer.

Regarding the ongoing project, Dewa Oka confirmed the officers had missed while doing the checking. When the officers came down, there was no activity on the project. Allegedly, the

inspection information was leaked. His party would also make another inspec-tion by deploying his team to check and summon the developer. “We will re-summon the developer. It means the third reprimand. Further, we will pro-cess it in accordance with the applicable rules,” he said.

When asked about the possibility of the parties backing the project, Dewa Oka said it could happen. Even, his party admitted to have heard the information if certain elements backed the project. Dewa Oka stated his party had reminded the officers on duty not to receive any lures when coming down to location. “In essence, the project has violated and should be followed up according to regulations,” he said. (kmb25)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—So far, most HIV cases

are suffered by productive age ranging from 15 to 49 years old. In such age range, they are mostly workers and widely working as employees of the government agencies or private companies. On that account, any company is potential and unable to avoid if one of the workers is a person living with HIV/AIDS (ODHA).

At first, people living with HIV/AIDS looked healthy and could work as usual. As long as the virus is in the incubation period and unde-tectable, they do not show off any symptom of illness. The employees can get the virus just before applying for the job or because their lifestyle is at risk, exposed to HIV during work.

Potential of the workplace to have employees living with HIV/AIDS, according to Chairman of the Working Group of Prevention, Promo-tion and Public Relations of the AIDS Prevention Com-mission (KPA) of Bali, Prof. Mangku Karmaya, should be accompanied with the HIV/AIDS policy at workplace. “However, so far there are many companies that do not have HIV/AIDS policy where confidentiality is not noticed, so the stigma, label and dis-crimination remain to happen every day,” he said. Many company managements, ac-cording to Karmaya, still did not know and did not support the HIV positive workers so they were afraid to speak up and did not have friends to talk and the employees often did not know about their rights.

As a result, an internal conflict might arise due to the stigma and discrimination. Concentration of the manage-ment would be more depleted on matters beyond the produc-tivity since most of the bosses felt uncomfortable to work with the HIV positive employ-

ees. The morbidity and mortal-ity increased as well as many of skilled and experienced workers disappeared. Loss of the role model and panic could cause deterioration of morale. Costs for recruitment and training of new personnel and health insurance soared, while the productivity decreased and eventually would increase the company’s losses. Further, the losses would spread to the em-ployees and their families.

To prevent the matter, add-ed Karmaya, was required a commitment at all levels of management in order to have an HIV/AIDS policy and pro-gram at workplace. At least, the company should provide information about HIV/AIDS that could be accessed by all employees and their families. “Perform the other activities related to HIV/AIDS at least once in two months to provide correct information about the HIV,” he said. Theme of the program should revolve around the prevention, safe sex practices, maintenance of a non-discriminatory atti-tudes and gender equality. The activity should also include a dialogue with employees to foster a healthy working environment, the right to get protection and support, as-surance of confidentiality and lack of layoffs.

According to Karmaya, the HIV/AIDS program at workplace was very impor-tant because it would provide security and comfort for the employees and staff of the company and eliminate the stigma and discrimination as well as the absence of any dismissal. “A serious pro-gram will prevent wastage and minimize any disruption to product ivi ty. Besides , the increasingly complete work health and safety (K3) service in return would pro-vide a positive image for the management because it has provided a strong com-mitment for the employee’s well-being,” he said. (san)

HIV/AIDS infects productive ages An HIV/AIDS program required at workplace

Local Lions Welcome International Officer

MD 307 Lions Clubs Indonesia Council Chairman Charles Saerang and Lions Club members will welcome International President Barry Palmer of Lions Clubs International, the world’s largest service club organization. President Palmer from Australia, will address the Lions during their ANZI-Pacific Forum, Bali on September 6, 2013.

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President – Lions Club International Barry Palmer.

Alleged to be backed by certain personBuangga Residence project continues

The Weinstein Company’s “The But-ler,” starring Forest Whitaker as a long-serving White House butler, generated $14.7 million in ticket sales at domestic theaters from Friday through Sunday, according to studio estimates which did not include projected sales for the U.S. Labor Day holiday on Monday.

Its sales have totaled more than $74 million and the film is generating awards season buzz, including for co-star Oprah Winfrey, who plays Whitaker’s wife. Warner Bros’ Jennifer Aniston hit, “We’re the Millers,” and starring Jason Sudeikis in the drug smuggling comedy, was third with $12.6 million at U.S. and

Canadian theaters.For “One Direction”, Sony worked

with sister company Sony Music, which distributes the group’s music, to make the film, and signed Oscar-nominated direc-tor Morgan Spurlock to direct.

The clean-cut five-singer group, which finished third in the British ver-sion of the musical competition show “The X Factor” in 2010, has sold more than 10 million albums and 19 million singles, according to its management company’s website.

“We are thrilled with our result,” said Rory Bruer, Sony Pictures’ president of worldwide distribution. “It exceeded our

expectations not only do-mestically, but everywhere, worldwide.”

The film’s opening looked to fall just shy of industry ex-pectations of $22 million in ticket sales over the holiday weekend, with Hollywood.com’s box office division projecting a $20.5 million total. The film added another $14.5 million in 53 interna-tional markets, led by the United Kingdom.

Disney’s 2008 film “Han-na Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Con-cert” holds the record open-ing for the genre with $31.1 million, according to Hol-lywood.com. “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,” released by Paramount Pictures in 2011, opened with $29.5 million.

Walt Disney’s animated film “Planes” was fourth for the weekend with ticket sales of $7.8 million.


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PHILADELPHIA — Nine Inch Nails closed the second night of the “Budweiser Made In America” festival with a set that captured the audience — although the crowd was not nearly as large as Beyonce’s the night before.

Trent Reznor and his band mates per-formed 19 songs at the Jay-Z-curated fes-tival on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Reznor didn’t hold back: drenched in sweat and holding the microphone close, he sang his band’s rock hits and tracks from the group’s new album, “Hesitation Marks,” out Tuesday.

He emerged onstage in all black while

lights flashed behind him during songs like “Closer” and “Head Like a Hole.” NIN went on at 9:30 p.m., minutes after DJ-producer Calvin Harris electrified at another stage with his familiar hits “We Found Love,” ‘’I Need Your Love” and others. Some concertgoers left after Harris’ top-notch performance, and the crowd was not packed when NIN performed, though it filled up throughout the show.

The band’s 90-minute set featured hard rock anthems, songs with techno influences as well as groovy and eerie jams. NIN closed the night with “Hurt,” which earned nonstop cheers from the crowd. Reznor was soft as he sang the song’s verses — making it the set’s highlight. “Yeah, Trent!” one burly

voice screamed, and that was one of many.“Thank you very much,” Reznor told

the crowd, one of the few times he spoke. “Glad you can be here and we thank Jay-Z for the invite.”

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis also per-formed Sunday, earning cheers from the crowd, as did Miguel and Kendrick Lamar. The festival Sunday was more packed than on Saturday, when 2 Chainz, Imagine Drag-ons and Emeli Sande performed.

Nine in Nails closes 2nd day of Philly music fest

Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

Fans attend day 2 of the 2013 Budweiser Made in America festival on Sunday, Sept. 1,

2013 in Philadelphia.

‘One Direction’ edges ‘Butler’, sings its way to box office winReuters

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - Concert film “One Direction: This is Us,” a Sony Pictures/TriStar release featuring the red-hot British boy band One Direction, won the weekend box office race with ticket sales of $17 million, edging the civil rights drama “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” which had been the top film for the past two weeks.

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

(From L to R) Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Harry Styles of British boy band One Direction arrive for the premiere of their docu-mentary film “This is Us” in New York, August 26, 2013.

“This potential must be captured so that we can attract more tourists to Indonesia,” she said after opening the Indonesia Tourism & Creative Economy Fair (ITCEF) 2013.

The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UN-WTO) noted the num-ber of tourists traveling in 2012 reached a point in the history with 1,035 billion

with the growth of 4 percent. Esthy added that in terms of the growth, the Asia Pa-cific and South East Asia region reached the highest growth, respectively above 7 percent and 9 percent. “It’s actually a very good chance even though the world is hit by global crisis but since the past the tourism sector has been proved resistant to crisis,” she said.

Citing the data of the UN-WTO in terms of foreign tourist expenditure, the highest growth originated from China (41 percent) with the spending worth USD 102 billion and Russia (30 percent). In the first half of 2013, the growth of foreign tourists reached 5 percent and the highest spending growth was experienced by China.

Movement of international tourists reaches 1,035 billionBali Post

JAKARTA - Director General of Tour-ism Marketing, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Esthy Reko Astuty, said the international tourist movement in 2012 reached 1.03 billion and this year was expected to surge up. Continued on page 6

Tourists enjoying the sunset panorama at Legian Beach. Director General of Tourism Marketing, Ministry of Tour-

ism and Creative Economy, Esthy Reko Astuty, said the international tourist

movement in 2012 reached 1.03 billion and this year was expected to surge up.

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