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DAYTON — The University of Dayton will give actor Martin Sheen an honorary degree in recognition of his activism for peace, social justice and human rights.

Born Ramon (RAH’-mohn) Estevez (EHS’-tay-vehz), Sheen grew up near the Catholic univer-sity and had attended the Catholic

Chaminade (SHAH’-mih-nahd) high school but wanted to pursue his acting career. He has said the Marianist teachings he was exposed to helped shape his social beliefs.

Sheen’s many acclaimed roles have included performances as president in the TV series “The West Wing,” a killer on a violent

spree in the movie “Badlands” and a soldier on a grim mission in “Apocalypse Now.”

The school says the 74-year-old Sheen will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at graduation ceremonies on May 3 at the University of Dayton Arena. (ap)

Hamm had the support of his longtime partner, actress-filmmaker Jennifer Westfeldt, in his struggle, publicist Annett Wolf said in a state-ment Tuesday.

The couple asks for privacy and

sensitivity, the statement said. No further details were provided.

The disclosure, first reported by the TMZ website, came as the final season of the 1960s-set advertising agency drama begins April 5 on

AMC.The 43-year-old Hamm plays

Don Draper, a troubled advertising executive with a dark past. The role brought him stardom and repeated Emmy Award nominations. (ap)

NEW YORK — Agents Mulder and Scully are making their televi-sion return. Fox announced Tuesday that it will air a six-episode run of new episodes of “The X-Files” that will begin this summer. Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will reprise their roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

The show’s creator, Chris Carter,

said that he considers the show’s absence like a “13-year commercial break.” Carter said that “the good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger.”

“The X-Files” premiered on Fox in September 1993 and ran for nine seasons. Fox wasn’t releasing further details about the revived show. (ap)

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In this Dec. 18, 2014 file photo, Jon Hamm, left, and Jennifer Westfeldt arrive at The People Magazine Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. A spokeswoman for the “Mad Men” star Hamm says the actor recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction. Hamm had the support of his longtime partner, actress-filmmaker Westfeldt, in his struggle, publicist Annett Wolf said in a statement Tuesday, March 24, 2015.

Martin Sheen to receive honorary degree from Ohio college

‘Mad Men’ star Hamm has treatment for alcohol addiction

LOS ANGELES — A spokeswoman for “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm says the actor recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction.

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In this Oct. 12, 2013 file photo, actors Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny attend “The Truth Is Here: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on The X-Files” at The Paley Center for Media, in New York.

Fox announces brief return of ‘The X-Files’

The Head of the Bali Forestry Agency, I Gede Nyoman Wiranatha, said that total amount of forest has not changed since the issuance of the Forest Land Use Agreement (TGHK) in 1982.

“The area of forest was agreed upon by the government and the public in 1982, and there should be no cause to reduce this amount,” he said.

Wiranatha added that there is small possibility of even increasing the amount of forested land in order to reach the targeted 30 percent.

Considering the needs of the com-munity that require large amount of land to be utilized, leasing out land will not have a significant impact on the current amount of forest.

“Indeed leasing out land could prove to be dynamic way to provide for peoples needs, but the addition of land that this would bring is minimal. There are many constraints to enact-ing such a system including pressure from the population, people’s habitual behavior as well as the lack of officers to oversee such transactions because of the high retirement rate and lack of new recruits,” he continued.

Although the amount of forested land does not meet the ideal set forth by 1982 law, Wiranatha claims that if counted in terms of function, the 30% target has been met if we include community forests in the count.

“The forest area is less than 30 percent but if we include community forests in terms of their serving some

of the functions of wild forests then we meet the targeted amount. Non-farmed land in Bali covers more that 35 percent, so if we include this land, we have met the 30 percent goal,” he explained.

Wiranatha went on to say that Bali”s forests are still in good condi-tion in terms of quality as the only hydrological system on the Island of the Gods. On that account, the province of Bali is now focused the development of the socio-economic ecology.

“We maintain the existing forests, rehabilitate the critical forests and give priority to security and protec-tion. We must not loose any of the 22 percent of forest that remains,” he added.

On the other hand, apparently the Forestry Agency is open to coopera-tion with third parties. One investors was given permission to exploit in the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park for tourism a few years ago. Wiranatha dismissed the fact that the investor wants to open the forest up for de-velopment even though the investor plans to build a number of tourism facilities.

“It is cooperation and not opening the forest up to exploitation - which is different than cooperation. The forest will not be disrupted. Do you know the Eka Karya Botanical Garden? It is like that -it’s good, right? We cooperate with investors because the government has budgetary re-strictions, so for things like picking up rubbish, for instance, the Forest Service does not have any budget, so we must cooperate with third parties. but people do not understand about

this,” he said.Wiranatha then explained that de-

velopments in the forest have special restrictions, including the stipulation that any buildings erected there can only be semi permanent.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Commission III of the Bali House, I Nengah Tamba, said that forests in Bali tend to be converted into planta-tion villages. “These can be used for the benefit of society, and planted with tress that are highly productive,” he said. (kmb32)

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The photo shows forest at Kintamani, Bangli. Currently Bali has a forest area of 130,686.01 hectares or 22.59 percent of the total land area. It remains under ideal condition in appropriate with the legislation amounting to 30 percent.

Forest in Bali only 22.59 percentDENPASAR - Currently Bali’s forests cover a total of 130,686.01 hectares or 22.59 percent

of all the land in Bali. This amount is short of the ideal targeted by legislation which targets a minimum of 30 percent.

Maldives ex-president will not appeal 13-year jail sentence

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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


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“With ultimate choices of accom-modations in Ubud, the Sungu Resort & Spa has upgraded many of its services and facilities to cater for its guests—the satisfied repeaters and the new ones seeking an alternative of resort in Ubud—that come and stay with us as well as become a part of supreme, serene and sacred experiences,” invited Gria, the General Manager of The Sun-gu Resort & Spa. It is decorated with a wonderful touching of limited artwork that makes fabulous image of the rooms surrounded by scenic landscapes of natural & tropical Balinese garden.

Especially for the dishes, The Sungu offers a restaurant designed in a unique and eye-catching setting with a good ambiance and surrounded by romantic atmosphere of the arts. All tables are beautifully set with flowers or single frangipani flower in a simple stone vase, while fragrant burning incense will bring you onto spiritual situation. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner with seating capacity for 30 people. No dress code is required. Hotel guests have the first priority on seating. Nevertheless, walk-in guests are always welcomed. Dining menu offers classical local and Indonesian specialties served in friendly, warm and relaxed hospitality.

In welcoming the year 2015, the Sungu Resort & Spa offers three spe-cial Chefs’ Signature dishes, namely the Green Sanka Fried Rice, Grilled Fish Orange Sauce and Sungu Chicken Curry. In fact, the Green Sanka Fried Rice with the simplicity in its top-notch taste is considered the most favorite among the Sungu’s clients. To make it special, without adding complication to it, this dish consists nothing but the very basic ingredients in nasi goreng: namely vegetable and coriander mixed with fine organic garlic and other herbs, accentuated with three fresh-yummy prawns and a stint of special fish gravy and oyster sauce.

Grilled Fish Orange Sauce, in culi-nary term, is especially known as grilled fish. Many eatery spots are discovered by the locals and travelers alike. Jim-baran, Nusa Dua, and lately Lebih Beach, to name but a few, offer local fresh seafood, especially the grilled fish. At Sungu resort, you can now savor this unique Balinese specialty. Fresh tuna fillet with Balinese chopped herbs and organic garlic are grilled until tender. Orange sauce, salt and pepper are poured over the fish. Meanwhile, vegetable and special condiments come with this good aroma of the grilled fish. To be consumed with steamed rice, this

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The Sungu Resort & Spa offers three special chefs’ signature dishes

UBUD - The Sungu is a luxury villa designed in Balinese-style archi-tecture with the tagline ‘Supreme, Serene, Sacred.’ When wondering where you can find an accommodation with serenity in the ever-busy Ubud, you will be surprised to experience the senses of serenity, sacred-ness and the land of Ubud. Absolutely, it provides supreme services with perfect choice of accommodation, spa treatment and food.

special dish is really something not to miss out.

Either for lunch or dinner, the Sungu Chicken Curry is a great companion served with your choice of main dish, steamed rice or boiled potatoes. The Sungu chef only prepares the top quality chicken breast fillet to prepare this dish. Especially the ground Balinese spices over the chicken breast is cooked in coconut milk and chicken stock until the chicken is tender. Fresh vegetables and freshly chopped red chilly is added up to the dish to give the taste and the aroma to this great chicken curry. (kmb)

SEMARAPURA - Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, continues to make efforts to pro-mote the county of Klungkung as a great destination in the eyes of the world community. After success-fully holding the Nusa Penida Fes-tival, this regent from Lembongan will host the Semarapura festival. The festival will be held in April, as part of a series of activities in commemoration of the Puputan Klungkung and Semarapura. Other activities to be at the festival this year include the Kings Hospitality which involves about 500 kings from throughout the archipelago.

Suwirta said that the Semara-pura Festival will be jazzed up with spectacular activities including a

mass Pendet Dance involving 2000 dancers to be held at the central in-tersection of the town. The dancers costumes will not be uniform but will be worn according to which quadrant of the compass direction they are dancing in. “In the north, for instance, the dancers will be wearing black costumes” said the regent.

The Semarapura Festival will not only feature Hindu culture but will also include Muslim, Christian and Chinese cultural elements; with for example a chinese rudat and lion dance performance. The idea is that all different members of the Klunkung community have a chance to perform. The develop-ment of Klingkung after all requires

the collaboration of all elements. The mass Pendet Dance, the regent said was the idea of the Advisory Council of Development and Cul-ture (Listibya) Klungkung and will be spectacular and religious activities. “Clearly the performance will involve dancers and gamelan players,” he said.

Regent Suwirta hopes that the festival can be documented to be used as promotional material for Klungkung in the future. “All the activities will be documented like at the Nusa Penida Festival I and used for the promotion and branding of Klungkung,” he said. The regent also spoke about classical Kamasan puppet painting. The festival will be filled with the scratching activi-

ties of classical puppet painting of Kamasan that will be submitted by Wayan Mandra to 15 people as the next generation. This regeneration ceremony will be held at the Bale Kambang, Kertagosa.

More interestingly, the regent claims he is not trying to break a MURI record. The regent also disagreed that Klungkung received a MURI by buying it. “We want to earn the original or pure MURI. I do not agree with getting a MURI by way of purchase,” said the regent. The budget allocated for the Semarapura, Festival admitted Regent Suwirta, is close to IDR 1 billion. The festival is divided into three categories, namely ceremo-nial activities (IDR 240 million),

festival activities (IDR 700 mil-lion) and hospitality of the kings (around IDR 300 million).

The regents argued that the budget for the Semarapura Festi-val also involved the participation of sponsors. Other than the local government, the committee also involved the royal palace and public figures in Klungkung. The ceremony in a commemoration of the Puputan Klungkung and An-niversary of the Semarapura town is scheduled to be chaired by the Indonesian Military Commander, Gen. Moeldoko. “As scheduled, the ceremony will be directly chaired by the Indonesian Mili-tary Commander,” said Suwirta. (kmb)

As time goes on, according to Ida Pandita Mpu Siwa Budha Daksha Darmita, there are more and more in-dividual priests who are violating the ethical codes of priesthood and they are mostly profit-oriented. The high number of profit-oriented high priests is due to their lack of understanding or self-awareness as a high priest. In addition, internal and external factors can also make a high priest forget his code of ethics and slump back into worldly pleasures. To prevent this from happening, related parties mainly the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) must provide more intensive training for priests. In addition, the permission for mediksa or initiation rites for prospective high priest must be granted more selectively.

“The right to impose sanction is its nabe or spiritual preceptor. The tough-est sanction is requiring a priest to cut his tightly wound hair, which marks him as no longer being a priest. Once this sanction is issued, priesthood is lost and may not be regained,” said Ida Pandita Mpu Siwa Budha Daksha Darmita on the sidelines of a doctoral

dissertation test at the Institute of Hindu Dharma (IHDN) Denpasar, on Tuesday (Mar. 24).

This high priest who lives at Griya Agung Sukawati, Babakan hamlet, Sukawati, Gianyar, revealed that in their lives, priests need to have cultural, social and intellectual capital. But the most important is social capital. Having social capital means that they have a good un-derstanding of social relations and so they can interact well with the public.

No matter how hard the task is, when deciding to become a high priest one should be infused with respect and responsibility. However, sometimes violations and disobedi-ence occurs because a priest con-siders himself to be everything and forgets the code of conduct of the priesthood. “Sometimes the precep-tor is only regarded as a symbol,” he said.

He also confirmed that violations can happen due to the influence of power. The symbolic capital that a priest for the Hindu community in Bali holds is just great, he is like

Batara Sekala or a tangible deity so that all of his orders must be obeyed, whereas this is not necessarily true. This abuse of power occurs because the followers are reluctant to ques-tion his authority and do not want to complain for fear of sin. “There are many high priests who discriminate against their people, especially in the implementation of yadnya ceremony. Actually the concept of Vedanta has taught that all men are brothers,” he said.

Prof. Dr. I Nengah Bawa Atmadja affirmed that a high priest should have a cultural capital and spiritual-ity, while social capital is required in building relationship between priests and the people in order to nurture solidarity. “It is very important that a pandita have spiritual capital,” he said.

Prof. Dr. I Nengah Duija revealed that there are many cases of high priests violating their code of conduct in the aspects of mind, actions and so on. When the priests ignore the code of conduct, it means that they still put more emphases on worldly aspect than on spiritual aspects. (rah)

Semarapura Festival costs over IDR 1 billion IBP/File

A priest is praying during a ceremony

Profit oriented, priests break ethical codes

GIANYAR - Hindu devotees, especially in Bali feel deeply disappointed when high priests (pandita), who are positioned as sanctified role models, commit disgraceful acts, such as having love affair, becoming land brokers and telling lies. Supposedly, priests have discarded earthly things and have become a servant to the people as such their behavior must be based on the code of conduct of high priests.

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ABU DHABI - Health experts at an anti-tobacco conference in Abu Dhabi defended e-cigarettes on Friday, dismissing widespread con-cerns that the devices could lure adolescents into nicotine addiction.

Most experts agreed, however, that use of the devices, about which research warns that not enough is yet known, should be regulated.

Konstantinos Farsalinos, researcher from Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre in Athens, told AFP that in a study of nearly 19,500 people, mainly in the United States and Europe, 81 percent said they had stopped smoking by using e-cigarettes.

“In fact, they quit smoking very easily within the first month of the e-cigarette use on average,” he said.

“That’s something you don’t see with any other method of smok-ing cessation.”

But on Wednesday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Margaret Chan backed governments that are “banning... regulating” e-cigarette use.

She was speaking to reporters at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, hosted by the capital of the United Arab Emirates which has so far banned the devices.

“Non-smoking is the norm and e-cigarettes will derail that normal-ity thinking, because it will attract especially young people to take up smoking,” said Chan.

“So I do not support that.”But for Jean-Francois Etter, associate professor at Geneva Univer-

sity, “e-cigarettes and nicotine and tobacco vapourisers should not be excessively regulated”.

This could “decrease the numbers of smokers who switch to these new products”, benefiting “only the big tobacco industry” whose lead-ers “will be able to survive in a tightly regulated environment”.

Etter called the WHO stance on e-cigarettes “political”.“I think that the WHO people should know better than kill alterna-

tives to smoking cigarettes,” he said.E-cigarettes were first produced in China in 2003, and have since

spread globally.They have sparked what several participants at the gathering called

a “very divisive debate”.Alan Blum, a family doctor and director of The University of

Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, says he would usually recommend e-cigarettes to patients trying to quit, rather than “give a pharmaceutical product which has side effects and which have not worked very well”.

But he also warned that e-cigarettes are being used by school-children and that some people use cannabis and marijuana in the devices.

Citing a yet unpublished study, Farsalinos insisted that “if three percent of smokers switch to e-cigarettes we are going to save about two million lives in the next 20 years”.

The WHO says that tobacco kills nearly six million people a year and that unless urgent action is taken, the annual death toll could rise to eight million by 2030.

E-cigarette advocates argue that the device offers the smoker nicotine in a liquid, thus preventing the combustion of tobacco that releases most toxins.

“Alternatives to smoking do not need to be 100 percent safe, they just need to be much safer than tobacco cigarettes,” Etter said.

“You choose the lesser of two evils.”A German delegate who requested anonymity argued that e-

cigarettes will only lead to “dual use”.Smokers will use e-cigarettes in places where they are not al-

lowed to smoke while using traditional cigarettes when they can, she argued.

“This increases nicotine addiction because they smoke and take nicotine all the time. This makes it much worse,” according to her.

In Germany, e-cigarettes can be bought everywhere by anyone. “Children buy these and they initiate a smoking habit,” she argued.

But Farsalinos insisted that “there is not a single case of a never-smoker who used e-cigarettes and then became a smoker of tobacco cigarettes”.

The German delegate still disagreed with a ban on e-cigarettes. If they are proved to help smokers quit, then “e-cigarettes could

easily be sold in pharmacies where you have a controlled product” and ensure they are only sold to adults.

But she added: “We need regulation for this product.” (afp)

The research, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, provided an encouraging sign in the battle to fight childhood obesity.

But it also found that the presentation of fruits and vegetables did not have a long-term impact on their consumption.

“The results highlight the importance of focusing on the palatability of school meals,” said lead author Juliana Cohen of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard

University. “Additionally, this study shows that

schools should not abandon healthier foods if they are initially met with resis-tance by students.”

About 32 million children eat meals at American schools each day and many low-income students get up to half their daily calories from school meals.

Researchers conducted their trial dur-ing the 2011-2012 school year among 14

elementary and middle schools in two urban, low-income Massachusetts school districts.

A total of 2,638 children participated in the study.

The findings “really illustrated that through persistence, school-aged children can learn to like healthy whole grains, fruits and vegetables, especially if they taste good,” said senior author Eric Rimm, a professor at Harvard. (afp)

Health experts defend e-cigarettes despite concerns

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Children just hate all vegetables, no matter how tasty you make them, right? Wrong, says an influen-tial study out Monday that found US children in Massachusetts ate up to 30 percent more vegetables when school dinners were made more palatable with the help of a professional chef.

Kids eat more veggies when tasty

WASHINGTON - Children just hate all vegetables, no matter how tasty you make them, right? Wrong, says an influential study out Monday that found US children in Massachusetts ate up to 30 percent more vegetables when school dinners were made more palatable with the help of a professional chef.

SINGARAJA - Maybe everyone has been familiar with the typical goak-goakan game of Panji village, Sukasada subdistrict. The traditional game denoting the relics of King of Buleleng Ki Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti remains sustainable and is always played every celebration of Nyepi. Residents hope the heritage can be developed to support the tourism in North Bali.

The Chief of Satya Warga custom-ary village youth club of Kelod Kauh hamlet, Panji village, I Gede Ganesha, said the goak-goakan game is rooted at his village. Not only children and adolescents, but parents can also play the goak-goakan. Many people from outside the Panji village see the game. Additionally, the taksu or divine vibra-tion of this traditional game cannot be separated.

It is evidenced by the players, es-pecially those from outside the village that come and join the game will auto-matically be able to follow the rhythm of the native residents to Panji. Muddy ground made into the arena of the game

occasionally causes the players to fell in thick mud. But apparently it does not dampen their interest to play the goak-goakan game. “At least the uniqueness and taksu of the game inherited from our ancestors is an advantage and must be developed,” he said.

Ganesha admitted that all this time it is difficult to find a representative lo-cation to play the goak-goakan game. Every year he has to and fro to look for location to play. Luckily, on the Nyepi of this year there is a resident giving permission to utilize his wetland for the game. Then, it is made into the arena of goak-goakan and capable of drawing the audience both from Panji village and neighboring villages.

“So far, we have no location and last year we played at hamlet hall. It was less representative but now there is a location in this area. It is very nice and can accommodate a lot of people,” he added.

On the other hand, Ganesha said that the development of goak-goakan game can be facilitated by the govern-ment and tourism players in Buleleng.

This game can be designed into a package tour for foreign travelers on their vacation.

Travelers can come together to mingle with other players. The pattern involving travelers in a show is widely applied in other regions and can be attractive to travelers. In addition to the traditional goak-goakan game, according to Ganesha, his village still has other historical tourism potentials that can be packaged and managed into a tourist destination. The potential include the Pajenengan Temple of the King of Buleleng, Ki Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti and a monument at Bhuana Kerta.

Besides, the Panji village also has the potential of nature tourism especially in the upper region. This region does not only offer the beauty of amazing natural landscape, but also the location of spiritual activity. It is located at the top where there is a cave with a magical feel suitable for practicing yoga and other spiritual activities. “The tourism potential at our village can be quite diverse and we

are confident if it is managed properly and gets the attention, the historical heritage and tourism potential can bring in blessings for people’s wel-fare,” he said.

A community leader of Panji village doubling as a legislator of Buleleng House, Jro Mangku Ari-awan, said the native village has a historical legacy that needs preserving. He pointed out the historical legacy like the Pajenengan Temple of Panji Sakti and the monument at Bhuana Kertha.

According to him, such historical heritage deserves to get the attention from local government. The poten-tial in form of historical evidence is properly maintained, then the local government can make Panji village into a tourism village. “This village cannot be separated from the history of Singaraja town and this historical evi-dence needs to be given the attention. We always encourage the government to do the maintenance and manage-ment so that it can become a tourist destination,” he said. (kmb38)

Unfortunately, the property busi-ness is predicted to be sluggish until 2016 as stated by a developers from Tabanan, Wayan Suastha. He said that nationally the property market is predicted to be sluggish until the late of 2015. “But Bali is different because the previous price of prop-erty was very high,” he said.

According to Suastha, the high price of land has been influenced by money laundering and and increas-ingly strict banking rules. “The banking rules used to be looser, the new regulations are likey of one the factors contributing to the present sluggishness of real estate” he said.

Although predicted to be slug-gish, he admitted that property is still in high demand. “However, people’s purchasing power has greatly dimin-ished. People who could previously afford to buy an IDR 800 million home can now only afford IDR 400 million,” he said.

Tabanan itself known as the rice barn of Bali has the potential to become a preferred area for the business of real estate because land there is realtively cheap compared

to Badung or Denpasar for example. Developers there are not only locals but also people from outside Bali.

Acoording to information ob-tained from a number of speculators, some areas in Tabanan still have land in the price range of IDR 200 million to IDR 400 million per 100 square meters such as in the area around Kediri subdistrict outside bypass road. This area is much sought after by developers, but since they are hindered by regulatory issues they must wait and see what opportuni-ties arise.

Suastha added that most of the land in Tabanan, especially in areas with potential for development, are increasingly rare because large investors have bough them up for both housing, and business pur-poses. Therefore, the determination of zoning laws for these areas must be made firm so as to avoid trouble. He said that housing investments in Tabanan are predominantly made by people from the city who see Ta-banan as a buffer zone and connect-ing point to the entrance ways into Bali and thus certainly be affected

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Bali is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Indonesia. The Island of a Thousand Temples has always become the main destination for local and foreign travelers. This condition also attracts some people outside Bali to participate in ‘tasting’ the tourism pie in Bali.

Property business predicted to be sluggish until 2016

TABANAN - Bali is one of the most popular tourist desti-nations in Indonesia. The Island of a Thousand Temples has always been a favourite destination for local and foreign trav-ellers. This condition also attracts people from outside of Bali to want a slice of the tourism pie. As a result, the construction of villas and housing is developing with the participation of a number of migrants who want to try their luck in a number of areas in Bali.

by the rapid developments taking place -making Tabanan a promising place to invest in real estate.

“There are villages that have internal regulations meant to con-trol the rate of land conversion, which is a good thing, but what happens when members of the lo-cal community require the land for something positive? What are the advantages and disadvantages of

land conversion regulations? Ide-ally such restrictions should only apply to real estate investors,” he suggested.

As for the idea of Tabanan cre-ating a satellite city, according to Nyoman Suta, it is a good idea. He said that Tabanan should indeed make a satellite city. One of the benefits is that the region could improve its economy. However,

the problem, according to him, is the presence of unclear regulation (regulation at lower level) that should be generalized. “The gov-ernment must facilitate this process so that there will not be small kings acting without restraints. If pos-sible, a clear a fixed spatial plan must be made, specifically zoning for industrial, residential and other needs,” he said. (kmb28)

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No distress call was received be-fore the plane crashed on Tuesday, but French authorities said one of the two “black box” flight recorders, the cock-pit voice recorder, has been recovered from the site 2,000 metres (6,000 feet) above sea level. “The black box has been damaged. We will have to put it back together in the next few hours to be able to get to the bottom of this tragedy,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told RTL radio, adding the box was still viable.

Cazeneuve said the fact debris was scattered over a small area of about one and a half hectares showed the plane likely did not explode in the air, meaning a terrorist attack was not the most likely scenario. French Civil aviation investigators are expected to hold a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.

In Washington, the White House said the crash did not appear to have been caused by a terrorist attack. Lufthansa said it was working on the assumption that the tragedy had been an accident, and any other theory would be speculation.

Flights CancelledGermanwings was cancelling some

flights on Wednesday as some crew members had refused to fly. “There are crew members who do not want to fly in the current situation, which we understand,” a spokeswoman for Germanwings said. “Seeing the site of the accident was harrowing,” Luf-thansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said on Twitter. “We will enable the relatives to grieve on site as soon as possible.”

French President Francois Hol-lande will visit the area, about 100 km (65 miles) north of Nice, on Wednes-day with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Germanwings believed 67 Ger-mans were on the flight and Spain said 45 passengers had Spanish names. One Belgian was aboard, Australia said two of it nationals had died and Britain said it was likely some Britons were on the plane.

Also among the victims were 16 teenagers and two teachers from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in the town of Haltern am See in northwest Germany. They were on their way home after a week-long Spanish exchange programme near Barcelona.

The school held a day of mourning on Wednesday. Students arrived by bicycle and on foot like any normal

day, but stopped by candles and flow-ers placed outside the school, where a hand-painted sign said: “Yesterday we were many, today we are alone.”

Barcelona’s Liceu opera house said two singers, Kazakhstan-born Oleg Bryjak and German Maria Radner, had died while returning to Dues-seldorf after performing in Wagner’s Siegfried at the theatre.

Aerial photographs showed smoul-dering wreckage and a piece of the fu-selage with six windows strewn across the mountainside. “We saw an aircraft that had literally been ripped apart, the bodies are in a state of destruction, there is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage,” Brice Robin, prosecutor for the city of Marseille, told Reuters after flying over the site.

Germanwings said on Tuesday the plane started descending one minute after reaching cruising height and continued losing altitude for eight minutes. Experts said that while the Airbus had descended rapidly, it did not seem to have simply fallen out of the sky.

A Lufthansa flight from Bilbao to Munich on Nov. 5 lost altitude after sensors iced over and the onboard computer, fearing the plane was about to stall, put the nose down. As a result, the European Aviation Safety Agency ordered a change in procedure for all A320 jets.

Asked whether something similar could have occurred on Tuesday, Germanwings Managing Director Thomas Winkelmann said, “At this time this evening, we are ruling out a possible cause in this area.”

The aircraft came down in a region known for skiing, hiking and rafting, but which is difficult for rescue ser-vices to reach. The base of operations for the recovery effort was set up in a gymnasium in the village of Seyne-les-Alpes. It was the first disaster in-volving a large passenger jet in France since a Concorde crashed outside Paris nearly 15 years ago.

The A320 is one of the world’s most used passenger jets and has a good safety record. According to data from the Aviation Safety Network, Tuesday’s crash was the third most deadly involving the model. In 2007 a TAM Linhas Aereas A320 went off a runway in Brazil, killing 187 people, and 162 people died when an Indone-sia AirAsia jet went down in the Java Sea in December. The Germanwings plane was 24 years old, with engines made by CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and France’s Safran. (rtr)

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Germanwings employees place lit candles outside the company headquarters in Cologne Bonn airport March 25, 2015. An Airbus operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline crashed in a remote snowy area of the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 on board includ-ing 16 schoolchildren.

Search teams probe wreckage of jet in French AlpsSEYNE-LES-ALPES - French investigators on Wednesday

searched for the reason why a German Airbus ploughed into an Alpine mountainside, killing all 150 on board including 16 teenag-ers returning from a school trip to Spain. Helicopters flew over the site where the A320 operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline disintegrated after it went down in a remote area of ravines en route to Duesseldorf from Barcelona. Police investigators made their way across the mountains on foot.

BANGLI - Traders of herbs at Kidul Market are increasingly confused due to the rise in the price of shallot is soaring. A week ago, the price of shallot increased to IDR 22,000 per kilogram. But on Tuesday, the price of shallot soared back to IDR 30,000 per kilogram. This price increase makes the sales of trader slump.

One of the traders, Ketut Adnyani, revealed that the price increase of shallot happened after Nyepi. She explained that during a week the price increase of shal-lot has occurred twice. At first, it was sold for IDR 16,000 per

kilogram and then jumped to IDR 22,000 per kilogram. This price remained stable until Nyepi. The skyrocketing price re-occurred after Nyepi to IDR 30,000 per kilogram. “The price of shal-lot continues to rise. Since last week, it has increased twice,” he explained, Tuesday (Mar 24).

A similar opinion is also ex-pressed by another trader, Pande. The increase in the price of shal-lot makes him frustrated because buyers are deserted. He said the price of shallot with good quality is IDR 30,000. “The price goes up again, while the buyer slightly

decreases,” he said.What Adnyani and Pande

disclosed is justified by Nengah Suartini who is also a trader of herbs at the Kidul Market. She explained the price increase makes her kiosk deserted of buy-ers and her sales plummet by 25 percent. “The price hike causes the decrease in the number of buyers,” he said.

According to Adnyani, under normal conditions she can sell 20-25 kilograms of shallot per day. However, this time she can only sell maximally eight kilo-grams per day. More seriously,

other than declining in sales, some of her shallot is also rot-ting and sprouting because it is not sold.

When asked about the cause of skyrocketing price of shallot, some traders said that it hap-pens due to small supply to the market. Typically, the traders at Kidul Market get supplies from Klungkung and Java, but in the past few days the supply has not come. In addition, the minimal supply is also alleged to happen as farmers have not harvested yet. For a while, the traders just got supply from Songan village,

Kintamani, but remains in small number.

When asked confirmation separately, the Trade Subdivision Head of the Bangli Trade and Industry Agency, IGP Wahyuda, justified the price increase of shallot. He explained the price hike of shallot does not only hap-pen in Bangli, but also in other regions. Wahyuda suspected it happens due to small supply from other regions. “Other than in Bangli, the price hike also occurs in other regions. Possibly this happens due to small supply,” he explained. (kmb45)

BANGLI - The Indonesian government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources’ plan to re-raise the price of fuel starting April 1, 2015 is receiving apathetic responses from public transport drivers. Such an increase in fuel price is seen has having a big influence on severely diminishing their income.

One of the drivers of public transport on the Bangli-Kubu-Kintamani route, Nyoman Mesin, objected to the planned fuel price increase, because it will affect his daily income. He also admitted to be tired of the roller coaster fluctuations in the price of fuel over the last few months. “When the price of fuel goes up, it immediately affects our income,” he said.

Likewise, when the price of fuel declines, he can breathe easier because his income is not exhausted in purchasing fuel. However, the new planned increase in fuel prices has made him confused. The situation is aggravated by the lack of passengers. Such condition makes public transport increasingly hard to maintain “Passengers are few and the fuel price increase will be shot to public transportation,” he complained.

He explained than recently his gross income amounted to about IDR100,000 a day. This is before buying his fuel and other costs. in fact his average income is about IDR 30,000 a day. What’s more, he must wait at terminal from seven o’clock in the morn-ing until midday during which time he gets about three passengers. As a result, the income is far from the desired target. “My maximum daily income is IDR 30,000,” he said.

Similar condition is experienced by another driver, Ketut Sabung. He objected to the plan to raise the price of fuel. Since news of the fuel price hike broke, many public transport drivers are reluctant to operate out of fear of losing money. “Many drivers are just not operating as they are afraid function at a loss,” he explained.

The fuel price change plan for April 2015 is part of the government’s plan to implement the blending of biofuel (BBN) set to amount to 15 percent of each liter of fuel. In addition, the fuel price hike is also used to cover the cost of biofuel purchases from businesses. (kmb45)

Price of shallot rises againIBP/File

The customers are waiting in line to buy petrol

Price of fuel planned to rise in April

Public transport drivers responded apathetically

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Talks on “Plan B” have emerged because patience has run out with the US Congress’ failure to ratify the 2010 reforms originally strongly supported by the White House.

The reforms would both realign the power of members on the IMF executive board, boosting emerging countries like China and India, and double the capital resources the bank uses to support countries in financial crisis.

Brazil’s executive director at the IMF, Paulo Nogueira Batista, has outlined a plan to “delink” the two components of the reforms in a way that could allow them to go ahead without requiring the US Congress to approve them.

“The link between these two elements is unnecessary as each pursues independent objectives that can be delivered separately. Delink-ing them would require the support of the US administration but not ratification by US Congress,” Ba-

tista said in the proposal.“The delinking proposal is con-

structive and simple and could clear the way for the continuation of the IMF reform process.”

The Brazilian plan would first advance the modest realignment of power as planned since 2010 by giving emerging countries more seats on the executive board at the cost of Europe.

That proposal was long-accepted by the White House, but blocked by Congress.

After that happens, the resources increase could also be enacted separately, relieving the IMF’s de-pendence since the financial crisis on borrowed funds.

That could challenge Washing-ton’s dominant role in the Fund since it was established in 1945.

Because contributions to IMF resources determine a country’s voting quota, if Congress still does not give its support, its quota

could fall from 17.7 percent to 9.8 percent, according to Batista’s plan.

That drop is significant because major IMF board decisions require 85 percent of quotas in support, giving the United States unique veto power.

Batista allows that a deal could be done to allow Congress time to reconsider and endorse the resource increase, restoring Washington’s veto.

“With carefully chosen lan-guage such decisions can pro-vide adequate assurances to the US Administration that the delinking option would preserve, de facto, its veto power over decisions requiring 85 percent,” he said.

“In the meantime, Fund mem-bers able to consent to their quota increases would be allowed to replenish the Fund’s permanent resources.” (afp)

Ketongkol is wrapped coni-cally in banana leaf. In addition to being soft, ketongkol is also consumed by people whose teeth are weak or having no teeth. In the presentation or during meals, it is unnecessary to fill in with vegetables or side dishes. Simply by opening the wrapper and eat it is definitely good. In addition to having a distinctive flavor, the food belonging to farming com-munity is also very sticky.

Ketongkol is an eco-friendly food because it is prepared with ingredients and leaf wrapper. Oth-er than complicated in the making, the ingredients in use have also been increasingly scarce. When enjoying the meal, it is regularly served with grated coconut, nuts,

crackers and fried onion sauce. The vegetables are usually boiled with simple seasonings namely salt, chilli and coconut oil.

Later, ketongkol is also sold in traditional markets and at roadside. In Marga town there is a simple stall selling this kind of traditional food. Ketongkol is presented with complete seasoning mixed with anchovy. It is also equipped with jukut urab (assorted vegetables with grated coconut sauce) and boiled egg and fried shallots. A portion is sold for IDR 5,000.

This traditional food stall is al-ways in demand. Normally it opens from one o’clock p.m. until three o’clock p.m. Nevertheless, some-times the ketongkol has been sold out earlier because many people

purchase. Local communities who are having appetite disorder nor-mally prefer to choose the menu.

Preparation:The making of ketongkol is sim-

ilar to the make of rice bag. First of all, wash and drained rice. Then, sprinkle with salt and coconut oil and stir finely. Put into the banana leaf wrapper in the conical shape. After that, cover it up and attach with bamboo pin (semat). The next process is boiling. The water used to boil is filled with screw-pine and fragrant erytrena so that it can gen-erate distinctive flavor. After that, it is cooked by bamboo steamer for approximately 1.5 hours. If you want to taste better, cook it by using firewood. (kmb)

“What is in a name”, said William Shakespeare. However, for the Balinese, a name is very important. We believe it can influ-ence the character of the bearer. Therefore, we avoid using names having a bad connotation or denot-ing a cruel figure in a story. If you learn a Balinese name etymologi-cally, you may encounter that it has a good meaning.

Giving a name is no by means careless. When a baby is already 42 days, the parent will choose a cer-tain name, but only one is chosen. Those three names are put near the burning wicks. The name given to the baby is the one near the wick, which burns the longest. Usually the name chosen has a meaning of hope, for example: the baby should be healthy or having long life.

Wayan, Made, Nyoman, Ketut, Gede or Putu are all Balinese initial names. They denote the numbers of the children. Wayan is derived from Waya (Wayahan or Wayah) meaning old (older). Made (Madya) means middle and sometimes is replaced with Nengah (tengah =

middle) so it denotes the second child. Nyoman Anom (new or young) stands for the third baby.

Since long time ago, the Bali-nese have hoped that they would have three children. However, the dream did not come true. What happens now? Family planning is well accepted. So they do not dream anymore.

The fourth child is called Ketut. Ketut --- Tut means to follow or additional baby. The fifth baby is Wayan Balik (back to Wayan) and so forth. Sometimes Wayan is re-placed with Gede or Putu. They are connected to the caste system and family relationship. For example, Gede and Putu are much used by family belonging to Pasek and Sengguhu clan. Both refer to the oldest child.

In Singaraja, for instance, Made is variedly pronounced Kade or Kadek, Nyoman – Komang. In the names of royal family, the initial names above are often not men-tioned. For example, Anak Agung, Ngurah, Gusti Ngurah, Dewa Ngu-rah and so on. (kmb) IBP/kmb

Ketongkol dish of Nyepi Day

DenPasaR - Ketongkol is a food commonly consumed by rural communities. it is synonymous with nyepi Day because this favorite food becomes family food during the abstinence or imple-mentation of catur brata penyepian. Ketongkol is almost similar to rice bag (non-perishable), since during the implementation of four abstinences devotees must perform amati geni (turning no lamp and lighting no fire), amati karya (no working), amati lelungan (no traveling) and amati lelanguan (no entertainment or enjoyment).

Wayan, Made, Nyoman and Ketut are Balinese names

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Balinese conducted melasti ritual days before Nyepi Day, re-cently. For the Balinese, a name is very important. Usually the name chosen has a meaning of hope, for example: the baby should be healthy or having long life. Wayan, Made, Nyoman, Ketut, Gede or Putu are all Balinese initial names.

san FRanCisCO — Google has lured away Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer, Ruth Porat, to be its CFO at a time when the In-ternet search leader and its Silicon Valley peers are under fire for hiring and promoting too few women.

The appointment announced Tuesday fills a void that opened earlier this month after Google’s CFO of the past seven years, Pat-rick Pichette, announced his plans to retire.

Porat, 58, will become Google’s highest-ranking female executive when she starts her new job on May 26. Her last day at Morgan Stanley will be April 30, ending a 28-year career at the New York investment bank.

Google Inc. and other Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc., are trying to add more women to their payrolls. The push began during the past 10 months after the com-panies released data revealing that women only filled 15 to 20 percent of the tech jobs, which tend to pay the most.

Kleiner Perkins, a venture capi-tal firm that has financed Google and other prominent technology companies, is currently embroiled in a San Francisco trial that is airing embarrassing allegations of sexual discrimination. In the past week, sexual discrimination lawsuits have been filed by women who formerly worked at Facebook and Twitter.

Porat’s defection from a top job on Wall Street serves as the latest reminder of the technology indus-try’s allure as its products reshape culture and enrich the companies creating them.

Google has been at the forefront

of upheaval during the past 15 years. Besides building the Inter-net’s dominant search engine and digital ad network, the Mountain View, California, company also boasts the top mobile operating system in Android and the most popular video site in YouTube, as well as the popular Chrome browser and Gmail service.

The success has spawned three multibillionaires — Google CEO Larry Page, co-founder Sergey Brin and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Thousands of other Google employees, including its former chef and masseuse, have become millionaires.

Google, which started in 1998 in a Silicon Valley garage after raising $100,000, now has a market value of nearly $400 billion. Morgan Stanley, founded in 1935, has a market value of about $72 billion.

The terms of Porat’s contract at Google weren’t immediately disclosed. She received compensa-tion valued at $10.1 million from Morgan Stanley in 2013. Pichette received compensation valued at $5.2 million in the same year.

Porat, Morgan Stanley’s CFO since 2010, won Wall Street’s re-spect for helping the bank regain its financial stability after sinking into deep trouble along with much of the rest of the financial-services industry during the Great Reces-sion. Her investor-friendly attitude fed speculation that Google may be more apt to return some of its $64 billion in cash to shareholders, either through dividends or by buy-ing back stock. Porat has California roots and connections on Google’s board of directors. (ap)

shanGhai - China has given the go-ahead for three more free-trade zones, state media reported, despite the country’s first project in Shanghai proving disappoint-ing 18 months after its establish-ment.

A meeting of the Commu-nist Party’s politburo hosted by President Xi Jinping on Tuesday approved zones in the southern province of Guangdong, eastern province of Fujian and northern city of Tianjin, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

China’s commerce ministry had already announced in December that three FTZs would be set up in those locations.

State media have said the Guang-dong FTZ aims to speed economic integration with neighbouring Hong

Kong, a special administrative re-gion of China.

The Fujian zone is focussed on Taiwan, which China considers part of its sovereign territory. The Tianjin FTZ is part of a push to better integrate the city with nearby Beijing and Hebei province.

Media reports originally gave March 1 as the official opening date for all three, but that deadline passed. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper later reported that the Guangdong FTZ would launch on March 18, but no opening was announced.

A statement from the politburo said the establishment of FTZs aimed to “deepen reform” and “expand opening up to explore new approaches”, adding the Shanghai zone had shown “positive progress”

since its founding, according to Xinhua.

The Chinese commercial hub set up its FTZ in September 2013, promising a range of financial reforms, including full convert-ibility of the yuan currency and free interest rates, but they remain unfulfilled.

The American Chamber of Com-merce in Shanghai said this month that 73 percent of the 377 com-panies responding to its annual business climate survey said the FTZ offers “no tangible benefits” for them.

A former top official of the Shanghai FTZ, executive deputy director Dai Haibo, is now under investigation for violating the law, authorities said earlier this month, but gave no details. (afp)

IMF ‘Plan B’ on reforms could slash US power

China approves three more free-trade zones

WashinGtOn - Washington’s block on crucial imF reforms has pushed the crisis lender into discussions of other options, with one proposal potentially slashing Us voting power nearly in half, aFP learned tuesday.

Google imports new CFO Ruth Porat from Wall Street

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JAKARTA - Indonesian tycoon Aburizal Bakrie also familiarly called Ical is suing the government in a bid to keep control of the country’s biggest opposition party and prevent it defecting to President Joko Widodo’s minor-ity coalition.

The opposition Golkar party controls 14 percent of parliamentary seats and would give Joko’s coalition control of over half the parliament, easing fears of political gridlock in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Bakrie, the patriarch of the sprawling family-owned Bakrie Group conglomerate, has filed a legal challenge against last week’s ministerial decree that gave the Golkar chair-manship to a rival faction sympathetic to the president.

“We have lodged a complaint against the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, whose de-cision in favour of the other faction is contrary to the principles of good governance,” Bakrie’s lawyer Yusril Mahendra told Reuters.

He added that Bakrie should remain the chairman of Golkar, which backed losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in last year’s election, until a verdict was announced.A law ministry spokesman said the government,

which intervened after being asked by Golkar to resolve months of political infighting, would see the legal process through.

He declined to say when the ministerial decree would come into effect.

Agung Laksono, who is set to replace Bakrie if he loses his lawsuit, told local media last week the party planned to join Widodo’s coalition without expecting cabinet seats in return.

Vice President Jusuf Kalla told Reuters last week the government was planning a cabinet reshuffle in the next month, but declined to comment on whether Golkar would be in-cluded in the new line-up.

Analysts say Widodo will face pressure to include Golkar, the political vehicle of for-mer authoritarian ruler Suharto, in any new cabinet.

“Jokowi already has patrons to deal with in his coalition and the addition of Golkar would mean another patron and he has to balance power between them,” said political analyst Tobias Basuki, using the president’s nickname.

“It could potentially create new problems for (Widodo).” (rtr)

“It must be found out. What the funds are for and where are they from,” he stated at his office on Wednesday.

He emphasized that investigation must be carried out thoroughly in order to gain clarity on the issue.

He highlighted the need for thor-ough investigation, so that no suspi-cions would develop regarding foreign transactions connected to economic activities.

It was important to be vigilant about the flow of ISIS funds, taking into consideration the terror group’s international network.

Minister of Communication and Informatics Rudiantara earlier stated that his office was coordinating with YouTube to prevent the spread of ISIS videos that promote terrorism.

“We will continue to coordinate with YouTube. YouTube is part of Google. As Google has an office here, so we can just go there in case there is a problem,” he remarked here on

Tuesday.The minister revealed that his office

had been successful in immediately stopping the streaming of a video de-picting Indonesian children being trained by ISIS.

Former chief of the State Intel-ligence Agency A.M. Hendropriyono affirmed that ISIS is posing a direct threat to Indonesia through the cyber world.

“We are now fighting against ter-rorists through the cyber world. This remains dangerous,” he stated after attending an international conference on terrorists’ threats and ISIS here on Monday.

He remarked that Indonesia must unite to deal with terrorists’ threats launched through various forms of media.

National Deputy Police Chief Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti has urged the government to immediately issue a regulation in lieu

JAKARTA - Lawyers for two Australian drug smugglers facing execution in Indonesia submitted evidence to a court on Wednesday as part of the men’s latest attempt to avoid the firing squad.

A French death row convict had his appeal ad-journed to next week.

Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, the ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug trafficking gang, were sentenced to death in 2006 for trying to smuggle heroin out of Indone-sia.

Their appeals for presidential clemency, typically a death row convict’s final chance of avoiding the firing squad, were recently rejected by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The men, in their early 30s, are expected to be executed at the same time as eight other drug offenders. In addition to the Frenchman, these include convicts from Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana and the Philippines and one Indonesian.

Jakarta initially said the executions would take place in February and nothing could stop them going ahead. However, authorities backed off following an international outcry and are now letting all pending legal appeals run their course.

The Australians’ legal team, in its latest bid to avoid execution, are arguing against Widodo’s de-cision to reject their pleas for clemency, saying he

failed to assess their rehabilitation or give reasons for his decision.

The Jakarta State Administrative Court dismissed the bid last month, saying clemency was the presi-dent’s prerogative. The Australians’ lawyers are now appealing that decision.

At at brief hearing Wednesday, they submitted several documents to the court related to laws on the president’s prerogative, said lawyer Leonard Arito-nang without giving further details. The lawyers will return to court on Monday with an expert witness.

Sukumaran and Chan were transferred earlier this month from jail on Bali to Nusakambangan prison island off Java, where they will be put to death.

Serge Atlaoui, a Frenchman on death row since 2007 after being convicted of drugs charges, is also trying to avoid the firing squad by applying for a judicial review of his sentence.

But his case at the Tangerang District Court, out-side Jakarta, was adjourned Wednesday until April 1 after he failed to show up for the hearing to sign paperwork that will allow the case to be transferred to the Supreme Court.

Lawyer Nancy Yuliana said there had been a “problem with regard to the funding of transporta-tion” to bring Atlaoui from jail on Nusakambangan to the court. (afp)

VP calls to investigate possible ISIS-linked fund flows

JAKARTA - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has called for a thor-ough investigation if there were indeed indications that funds linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were flowing into the country.

of law (Perppu) to deal with follow-ers of radical groups such as ISIS in the country.

“Indeed, it would be better if a Perppu could be immediately issued

or current anti-terror laws revised to overcome the ISIS issue to provide a clear legal basis. ISIS is banned, but no legal basis is available for it,” he said on Monday.

He noted that in dealing with terrorist actions in the country, the police have, so far, used anti-terror laws and the Criminal Code as the legal basis. (ant)

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Vice President Jusuf Kalla speaks at the opening of a conference on terrorism and Islamic State in Jakarta, March 23, 2015.

Ical sues governmentt to stop key opposition party defecting to president

Australians on Indonesia death row submit appeal evidence

The Maldives government says however the court was unable to release the case report because Nasheed had refused to sign it. Nasheed’s next step is not imme-diately known. His supporters are holding nightly protests in the capi-tal and other islands in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation calling for his release.

Nasheed was sentenced to prison earlier this month for ordering the arrest of a senior judge when he was in office three years ago. The court said that the arrest was akin

to abduction under the country’s terrorism law. The trial drew wide local and international criticism that it was rushed and had many flaws. The trial was completed in three weeks from the day he was charged.

Nasheed’s lawyers said the court did not give them enough time to prepare a defense and rejected witnesses even before they testi-fied. Also the court overruled an objection that two of the judges had a conflict of interest because they had testified against Nasheed

at the initial police inquiry.In response to the criticism the

Maldives government had invited the United Nations and Common-wealth to send observers for the appeal process.

Nasheed’s victory in the coun-try’s first multiparty election in 2008 ended a 30-year autocracy, but he resigned in 2012 amid public anger over the arrest of the judge. In 2013 Nasheed lost the presidential election to Yameen Abdul Gayoom, a half-brother of the longtime auto-crat. (ap)

ROME — Italy’s high court took up the appeal of Amanda Knox’s murder conviction Wednesday, considering the fate of the “very worried” American and her Ital-ian former boyfriend in the brutal 2007 murder of Knox’s British roommate. So many journalists and trial-watchers were on hand for the final arguments in the murder of Meredith Kercher that the judges moved the hearing into the largest available courtroom in the Court of Cassation.

The judges could decide to con-firm the convictions and 28½-year sentence for Knox and 25-year sentence for her ex-boyfriend Raf-faele Sollecito, which would then raise extradition questions for Knox since she is free in the U.S. The court could decide to throw out the convictions and order a third appeal trial. Less likely, it could overturn the convictions without ordering a retrial, tantamount to an acquittal.

To date, the high-profile legal saga of Knox and Sollecito have produced flip-flop guilty-then inno-cent-then guilty verdicts, polarizing observers in three nations. Knox has been portrayed alternately as a victim of a botched investigation and shoddy Italian justice, or a promiscuous predator who falsely accused a Congolese bar owner of the murder.

Knox, who has maintained her innocence throughout, was await-ing the ruling in her hometown of Seattle. She is “worried, very wor-ried,” said her attorney, Carlo Dalla Vedova, who said a decision is ex-pected late Wednesday or Thursday. Asked if he would call Knox with the court’s decision even if it came in the middle of the night in the U.S., Dalla Vedova said: “I don’t think she’s sleeping much.”

Television crews mobbed Sol-lecito as he made his way into the courthouse, where he huddled with his attorney before the hearing began. “I’m here all day, also to-

night,” he said. His attorney, Giulia Bongiorno, said she hoped the court would annul the guilty verdicts, saying the ruling was “littered with errors and absolutely littered with contradictions and by an illogical motivation.”

Also on hand for the hearing was Diya “Patrick” Lumumba, the owner of pub where Knox occa-sionally worked whom she falsely accused of the murder.

Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Britain, was found dead Nov. 2, 2007, in the apartment that she shared with Knox in the idyllic hillside town of Perugia where both women were studying. Her throat was slashed and she had been sexu-ally assaulted.

Suspicion quickly fell on Knox and Sollecito, who were arrested in the days after the murder. The couple denied involvement and said they had spent the evening at Sollecito’s place watching a movie, smoking pot and making love.

They were found guilty by a trial court in Perugia in 2009 but freed in 2011 after an appellate court over-turned the convictions. They found themselves back in an appellate court after the Court of Cassation vacated the acquittals in 2013 in a harsh rebuke of the Perugia chief appellate judge’s reasoning.

The Florence appeals court that convicted them most recently last year said in its ruling that the pair acted in concert with Rudy Hermann Guede, a drifter born in the Ivory Coast who is serving a 16-year sentence for his role in the slaying and sexual assault. The pre-siding judge contended that Knox herself delivered the fatal knife blow, writing that the American wanted to “humiliate the victim.”

Knox has called the reversal unjust and blamed an “overzeal-ous and intransigent prosecution,” ‘’narrow-minded investigation” and coercive interrogation tech-niques. (ap)

NEW YORK — Charlie Hebdo, the Parisian satirical magazine that was a target of a deadly shooting in January, will be honored at this spring’s PEN American Center gala.

The literary and human rights organization announced Wednes-day that Charlie Hebdo will re-ceive the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award. Jean-Baptiste Thoret, a film critic who arrived at the Hebdo offices after eight of

his colleagues had been killed, will accept the award on behalf of the magazine.

Also at the May 5 gala in Man-hattan, playwright Tom Stoppard will be given the PEN/Allen Foun-dation Literary Service Award, and Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle will be cited for “his leadership role in the global literary community.”

Previous PEN honorees include authors Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Salman Rushdie. (ap)

ATHENS — Thousands of Greeks have lined a main central Athens avenue despite rain to watch the country’s annual Inde-pendence Day military parade, with spectators allowed along the route for the first time in about three years.

The crowds at Wednesday’s pa-

rade, where tanks rolled down the street and fighter jets and military helicopters flew overhead, were in stark contrast to last year’s event, which took place under heavy security. Spectators had only been allowed near the end of the route.

Authorities limited public access to national parades after protesters

had heckled officials attending such events over the handling of Greece’s financial crisis and auster-ity measures imposed in return for billions of euros in international rescue loans.

March 25 marks the start of Greece’s 1821 uprising against the Ottoman Empire. (ap)

AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena

Maldivian Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon, left, speaks to reporters as Attorney General Mohamed Anil adjusts microphones during a media briefing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 16, 2015.


COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Maldives’ jailed ex-president will not appeal his 13-year sentence because the court has not released all documents from the first hearing to prepare a case, his lawyer said Wednesday. Hassan Latheef said the deadline to appeal the sentence against former President Mohamed Nasheed expires Sunday.

Thousands turn out for Greek Independence Day parade

Italy high court deciding fate of ‘very worried’ Amanda Knox

Charlie Hebdo magazine to receive PEN award

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Golden State hasn’t claimed the Pacific Division crown since the 1975-76 season, the year after the team won the NBA championship. With a comfortable lead on second-place Memphis in the Western Con-ference, Golden State has dropped just one of its last 12 games. Damian Lillard had 29 points for the Blazers, who have lost five straight following a 1-4 road trip.

Oklahoma’s NBA scoring leader Russell Westbrook poured in 27 points and added 11 assists, and Enes Kanter contributed 25 points and 16 rebounds for the Thunder’s fourth straight victory, 127-117 over the Los Angeles Lakers. Kanter had a double-double in the first quarter with 15 points and 10 rebounds as

Oklahoma City raced out to a 37-27 lead.

After trailing by 15 at the half, the Lakers closed to 70-61 before West-brook scored twice in 15 seconds on his way to 14 third-quarter points.

In Dallas, Monta Ellis matched his season high with 38 points as the Mavericks rallied in the second half to defeat the San Antonio Spurs 101-94. Ellis hit 16 of 27 field-goal attempts, bouncing back from his 4-for-22 performance Sunday in a loss at Phoenix. In three games this season against the Spurs, Ellis is averaging 34 points. Kawhi Leonard led the Spurs with 19 points and Danny Green added 17.

The Milwaukee Bucks edged the Miami Heat 89-88 to break a six-

game losing streak after Khris Mid-dleton hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer. Bayless missed on a drive down the lane, but Zaza Pachulia tapped the ball back out to Middleton, who bur-ied the winner. He finished with 13. It was a crucial victory for the Bucks, who improved to 35-36 to remain in sixth place in the conference, while the Heat fell to 32-38.

In other games, Reggie Jackson had 28 points and nine assists, and Andre Drummond added 21 points and 18 rebounds as the Detroit Pistons beat the Toronto Raptors 108-104, while DeMarcus Cousins had 33 points and 17 rebounds for Sacramento in the Kings’ 107-106 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. (ap)

MIAMI - World number three Simona Halep says it is hard to imagine reaching the top of the world rankings as long as Serena Williams is playing the game but believes she has what it takes to win a grand slam. The Romanian arrives in Florida for this week’s Miami Open off the biggest success in her career with a victory over Jelena Jankovic in the final of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells on Sunday.

The win was the third of the year for the 23-year-old following victories at Shenzhen and Dubai and while she is firmly entrenched as number three, behind Williams and Maria Sharapova, she says getting to top spot may be a step too far. “When Serena is number one, its hard to think of being number one,” Halep told reporters on Tuesday. “But still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.”

The Miami Open has almost become the personal property of the Williams sisters, who live in nearby Palm Beach Garden and have won the event 10 times, Serena lifting the title on seven occasions and Venus three. Still, Halep, who has never ventured past the third round in Miami, doesn’t believe that Williams is unbeatable.

“She (Serena) is very strong, she is a great champion, she has been up there for many years. She knows how to manage every situation,” praised Halep. “I admire her a lot and learnt many things from her. “After the first match at Indian Wells I told my coach that I really wanted to play her in the semifinals but it didn’t happen because of her injury. “I really want to meet her many times, because I become stronger after I play her,” she added.

Halep has her eyes on becoming the first Romanian woman since her manager, Virginia Ruzici, French Open winner in 1978, to secure a grand slam title.

“I can say I feel ready because I just won a premier tournament which is almost like a grand slam,” said Halep. “But still I am very far and I just want to be very focused.

“My dream is to win a grand slam, I don’t know if it will hap-pen in this life. But I just want to work hard every day to reach a (major) title,” she said. Halep’s climb up the rankings has attracted little fanfare but she laughs at the idea that she is a ‘rising star’ in the game.

“I’m not young,” smiled the 24-year-old Romanian. “I am already older, I am used to being in the top, I have a year there, I have experience and feel ready to play with everyone at every tournament.” (rtr)

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Colombia forward Falcao missed last year’s World Cup through injury then moved on loan from Monaco to United where he has seen l imi t ed first-team action and scored few goals under manager Louis van Gaal.

“I think any footballer needs to play and is happy playing. I’m totally committed to the club, there are eight matches to go (in the Premier League)

and anyth ing can happen ,” Falcao told Colombia’s Radio Caracol.

“So when the championship ends surely I’ll sit down, do an analysis and decide what’s best for me,” added the 29-year-old, who was a prolific scorer for Porto, Atletico Madrid and Mo-naco before his knee ligament injury 14 months ago.

“Obviously I need to find a place where I have continu-

ity and can play,” Falcao said in Bahrain, where Colombia play a Copa America warm-up friendly on Thursday.

Colombia also face Kuwait in a second friendly on their Middle East tour on Monday.

Falcao said he fully respect-ed Van Gaal’s decisions and had “faith and hope” that things would change for him at United before the season ends.

He added, however, that other

SEOUL — Newly crowned Asian champion Australia can restore some of the continent’s pride in a match against 2014 World Cup winner Germany in one of several friendlies for Asian teams this week. The Soc-ceroos won the 2015 Asian Cup by

defeating South Korea 2-1 in a Sydney final January and the trip to Kaiserslautern is their first game since. A good result would serve the cause of Asian

soccer, set back by the fact that all four of the region’s

teams finished bottom of their World Cup groups last June.

It also marks Australia’s return to the scene of one of its finest ever victories, a come from behind 3-1 win over Japan in

the opening match of the 2006 World Cup. Tim Cahill was the hero

that day in Germany with two goals, but the new star of Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua has been ruled out of the game through injury.

Former Nuremburg defender

Matthew Spiranovic is also unavail-able and partner Trent Sainsbury could also miss out. Asian Cup Most Valuable Player Massimo Luongo is facing a late fitness test. The absences make a tough task for Australia that much tougher.

“Not many teams will come here expecting to win and we are no dif-ferent in terms of the scenario before us,” Australia coach Ange Posteco-glou told Australian broadcaster SBS. “It’s an opportunity you don’t want to waste and you do that by worry-ing too much about the outcome in terms of results... We’ll have a go, we played well at the Asian Cup with a certain style of football and we will be sticking with that.”

Germany is preparing for Sunday’s Euro 2016 qualifier with Georgia and is looking to improve its recent form. The world champion has dropped five points in the first four games of Group D as it adapts to a new forma-tion. “The game against Australia will allow us to regain our momen-tum,” German team manager Oliver

JAKARTA - Officials have in-sisted the delayed Indonesian Super League season will kick-off next week, but how many clubs will be eligible remains unclear in another sorry soccer mess in the country. The league was to start on Feb. 20 with 18 teams but the Indone-sian Professional Sports Agency (BOPI), an arm of the government, postponed that date until April 4 over concerns about the finances and administration at 15 clubs.

The issues had been highlighted by the government’s new verifica-tion process, brought in for this season after the death in 2012 of Paraguayan player Diego Mendi-eta, who had gone unpaid at his club for months and had no money to pay for his care.

The following year, players from PSMS Medan claimed they had gone unpaid for 10 months and protested in Jakarta outside the offices of Indonesian Football Association (PSSI), a body once run from a jail cell by previous president Nurin Halid. FIFPro, the

world player’s union, lambasted the crisis-hit PSSI, which had gone through a power struggle that had left the country with two domestic leagues, two national teams and one massive headache.

“Clubs cannot treat their play-ers haphazardly,” Sriwijaya FC goalkeeper Dian Agus Prasetyo told the Antara news agency previously. “There are many clubs who turn a blind eye and do not pay players for months, especially at the end of the season.” The new entry require-ments showed how bad things had become.

Persik Kediri and Persiwa Wa-mena were relegated earlier this year because of financial trouble, leaving the league with 18 teams. Of those, BOPI only gave a green light to three -- champions Persib Bandung, runners-up Persipura and Sriwijaya FC. Nine teams were deemed to have met upto 70 percent of the requirements, while BOPI were still waiting on six teams to present more than half the required documentation leading to the PSSI

to agree in February to delay the new season.

An irritated Sriwijaya contem-plated joining the Singaporean league but there was no room and a further delay would irk them more. “To date, the verification process is still ongoing,” Gatot S Dewa Broto, an official with the Youth and Sports Ministry, was quoted as saying by Wednesday’s Jakarta Post.

“This week will be crucial for the teams as BOPI will make a decision and issue a recommenda-tion on whether the ISL will still kick-off on April 4 with whichever teams that qualify or announce another delay until all the teams meet the requirements.” The paper said three teams -- Pelita Bandung Raya (PBR), Arema Cronus and Persebaya Surabaya -- had still to file the required information. BOPI chairman Noor Aman warned the league would not wait for any team. “No matter how many teams qualify, the ISL will still kick- off on April 4,” he said. (rtr)

VIENNA- Croatia’s all-time top scorer Davor Suker was elected to UEFA’s executive committee on Tuesday and is now one of four former professional players on the European confederation’s govern-ing body. Suker played a key role in Croatia’s third-place finish at their first World Cup as an independent nation in 1998, ending up as the tournament’s leading marksman with six goals.

He also played in Real Madrid’s triumphant Champions League team that year, making a brief substitute appearance at the end of their final victory over Juventus. The 47-year-old, president of the Croatian FA since 2012, also had spells at Sevilla, Arsenal and West Ham United and joins fellow former professionals Michel Platini of France, Angel Maria Villar of Spain and Borislav Mihaylov of Bulgaria on the com-mittee.

Platini was re-elected UEFA president earlier on Tuesday. David Gill of England, already a member

of the executive committee, was also elected as UEFA’s British vice-president on FIFA’s executive com-mittee after beating Trefor Lloyd Hughes of Wales by 43 votes to 10. He will replace Jim Boyce of North-ern Ireland who retires after the FIFA Congress in May.

The election was a first because previously only the four British asso-ciations voted for their vice-president but from now on it will be decided every fourth year by all 54 member nations. Former Manchester United chief executive Gill was the third European vice-president elected to FIFA on Tuesday.

He followed Platini, who contin-ues as a FIFA vice-president in his role as UEFA president, and Villar who was re-elected to the position he already held.

The final European position on the FIFA executive committee was filled by German FA president Wolfgang Niersbach, a former sports journalist. He replaces compatriot Theo Zwan-ziger who is retiring in May. (ap)

MADRID - Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo could be sanc-tioned for his goal celebration when he netted the equaliser in Sunday’s La Liga ‘Clasico’ at Barcelona, the president of Spain’s professional soccer league (LFP) said.

Ronaldo, not for the first time when he has scored at the Nou Camp, appeared to be urging the Barca fans to calm down when he struck to make it 1-1 in the 31st minute.

The Portugal captain, regularly the subject of abuse himself, has gained a reputation for winding up opposing fans and was widely criticised when he tore off his shirt to celebrate his successful penalty

in last season’s Champions League final victory over Atletico Madrid.

“We have to be careful with provocative gestures by a player when he scores a goal or with any other provocation or conduct that could incite violence among spec-tators,” LFP president Javier Tebas told reporters on Tuesday. “It must be sanctioned, from a fine up to a suspension,” he added. “We will look into it.”

Following the death of a De-portivo La Coruna fan in fighting before a La Liga game in Novem-ber, Spain’s soccer authorities are seeking to crack down on any action by players or supporters that may be construed as provocative. (rtr)

REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo reacts as referee Mateu Lahoz shows him a yellow card during their Spanish first division “Clasico” soccer match against Barcelona at Camp Nou sta-dium in Barcelona, March 22, 2015.

Ronaldo faces possible sanction for ‘Clasico’ celebration

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

Australia’s Western Sydney Wanderers goalkeeper Ante Covic, right, tries to block the ball against Go Yo-han of South Ko-rea’s FC Seoul during their Group H soccer match in the Asian Champions League at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

Asian sides playing to restore regional pride in friendlies

Bierhoff said. “System changes need time, even in training, to get the whole thing right.”

Japan’s opponent, Tunisia, is a little less glamorous but the game is equally important. The Samurai Blue crashed out of the Asian Cup in the quarterfinals just months after a hugely disappointing World Cup. Javier Aguirre was appointed coach in August but then fired in February as the Mexican was under investigation by Spanish courts following allega-tions of match-fixing during his time as Real Zaragoza coach in 2011.

Aguirre has been replaced by Va-hid Halilhodzic. The Bosnian, who took Algeria to the second round of the 2014 World Cup, was appointed in March and is charged with lift-ing Japan from its current malaise. Halilhodzic has included the usual European-based stars such as Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa in a large squad of 31.

“I was able to get Algeria to No. 17 in the rankings and I want to do the same for Japan,” Halilhodzic said upon his appointment by the team ranked 53. “It won’t come overnight but given time Japan can improve, too. I’m excited and honored to be part of this new challenge. I look forward to working with the players, and the first goal will be to qualify for the World Cup.”

There is controversy in Iran amid reports that coach Carlos Queiroz has resigned after almost four years in charge, taking the team to the 2014 World Cup. The former Real Madrid coach has fallen out with the Iranian Football Federation, with Tehran media claiming this week’s games in Europe against Chile and Sweden will be his last. There were also re-ports that authorities in Iran stopped Queiroz from leaving the country due to unpaid tax bills, though he has now joined the team in Austria.

South Korea is in action for the first time since defeat in the Asian Cup final and hopes to continue its improvement since the 2014 World Cup. The Taeguk Warriors host Uzbekistan on Friday in a replay of the tournament’s quarter-final. Coach Uli Stielike has selected Bundesliga star Son Heung-min and Ki Sung-yeung of Swansea City in the English Premier League. Kim Jin-su of Hoffenheim is injured.

Elsewhere, Qatar needs to bounce back from finishing bottom of its Asian Cup group with home games against Algeria and Slovenia. Saudi Arabia takes on Jordan in a clash of two teams that fell at the first hurdle of the 2015 Asian Cup while China can continue its encouraging form at home against Haiti and Tunisia. (ap)

Former Croatia striker Suker elected to UEFA Exco

More mess in Indonesia as league risks further delay

Reuters / Phil Noble Livepic

Manchester United’s Radamel Falcao warms up before the game


BOGOTA - Manchester United’s on-loan striker Radamel Falcao hinted on Tuesday he could leave the club at the end of the season in search of more regular football, but said he was still committed to the English side.

clubs have shown an interest in him. “Calls come every day so in that sense I’ve got to stay calm, but I keep on the fringe of them, there are people who deal with all that situ-ation,” he said of media repor ts l i n k i n g h i m w i t h o t h e r P r e m i e r L e a g u e teams.

“I owe

m y s e l f t o M a n c h e s t e r United at the mo-

ment, I have faith and hope because lots of things

can happen in the number of matches remaining.”

Falcao said he had fully re-covered from last January’s knee surgery that prevented him from leading the Colombia attack at the World Cup in Brazil, where his country reached the quarter-finals.

“I will continue to fight to the end at Manchester United,” he said.

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Colombia forward Falcao missed last year’s World Cup through injury then moved on loan from Monaco to United where he has seen l imi t ed first-team action and scored few goals under manager Louis van Gaal.

“I think any footballer needs to play and is happy playing. I’m totally committed to the club, there are eight matches to go (in the Premier League)

and anyth ing can happen ,” Falcao told Colombia’s Radio Caracol.

“So when the championship ends surely I’ll sit down, do an analysis and decide what’s best for me,” added the 29-year-old, who was a prolific scorer for Porto, Atletico Madrid and Mo-naco before his knee ligament injury 14 months ago.

“Obviously I need to find a place where I have continu-

ity and can play,” Falcao said in Bahrain, where Colombia play a Copa America warm-up friendly on Thursday.

Colombia also face Kuwait in a second friendly on their Middle East tour on Monday.

Falcao said he fully respect-ed Van Gaal’s decisions and had “faith and hope” that things would change for him at United before the season ends.

He added, however, that other

SEOUL — Newly crowned Asian champion Australia can restore some of the continent’s pride in a match against 2014 World Cup winner Germany in one of several friendlies for Asian teams this week. The Soc-ceroos won the 2015 Asian Cup by

defeating South Korea 2-1 in a Sydney final January and the trip to Kaiserslautern is their first game since. A good result would serve the cause of Asian

soccer, set back by the fact that all four of the region’s

teams finished bottom of their World Cup groups last June.

It also marks Australia’s return to the scene of one of its finest ever victories, a come from behind 3-1 win over Japan in

the opening match of the 2006 World Cup. Tim Cahill was the hero

that day in Germany with two goals, but the new star of Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua has been ruled out of the game through injury.

Former Nuremburg defender

Matthew Spiranovic is also unavail-able and partner Trent Sainsbury could also miss out. Asian Cup Most Valuable Player Massimo Luongo is facing a late fitness test. The absences make a tough task for Australia that much tougher.

“Not many teams will come here expecting to win and we are no dif-ferent in terms of the scenario before us,” Australia coach Ange Posteco-glou told Australian broadcaster SBS. “It’s an opportunity you don’t want to waste and you do that by worry-ing too much about the outcome in terms of results... We’ll have a go, we played well at the Asian Cup with a certain style of football and we will be sticking with that.”

Germany is preparing for Sunday’s Euro 2016 qualifier with Georgia and is looking to improve its recent form. The world champion has dropped five points in the first four games of Group D as it adapts to a new forma-tion. “The game against Australia will allow us to regain our momen-tum,” German team manager Oliver

JAKARTA - Officials have in-sisted the delayed Indonesian Super League season will kick-off next week, but how many clubs will be eligible remains unclear in another sorry soccer mess in the country. The league was to start on Feb. 20 with 18 teams but the Indone-sian Professional Sports Agency (BOPI), an arm of the government, postponed that date until April 4 over concerns about the finances and administration at 15 clubs.

The issues had been highlighted by the government’s new verifica-tion process, brought in for this season after the death in 2012 of Paraguayan player Diego Mendi-eta, who had gone unpaid at his club for months and had no money to pay for his care.

The following year, players from PSMS Medan claimed they had gone unpaid for 10 months and protested in Jakarta outside the offices of Indonesian Football Association (PSSI), a body once run from a jail cell by previous president Nurin Halid. FIFPro, the

world player’s union, lambasted the crisis-hit PSSI, which had gone through a power struggle that had left the country with two domestic leagues, two national teams and one massive headache.

“Clubs cannot treat their play-ers haphazardly,” Sriwijaya FC goalkeeper Dian Agus Prasetyo told the Antara news agency previously. “There are many clubs who turn a blind eye and do not pay players for months, especially at the end of the season.” The new entry require-ments showed how bad things had become.

Persik Kediri and Persiwa Wa-mena were relegated earlier this year because of financial trouble, leaving the league with 18 teams. Of those, BOPI only gave a green light to three -- champions Persib Bandung, runners-up Persipura and Sriwijaya FC. Nine teams were deemed to have met upto 70 percent of the requirements, while BOPI were still waiting on six teams to present more than half the required documentation leading to the PSSI

to agree in February to delay the new season.

An irritated Sriwijaya contem-plated joining the Singaporean league but there was no room and a further delay would irk them more. “To date, the verification process is still ongoing,” Gatot S Dewa Broto, an official with the Youth and Sports Ministry, was quoted as saying by Wednesday’s Jakarta Post.

“This week will be crucial for the teams as BOPI will make a decision and issue a recommenda-tion on whether the ISL will still kick-off on April 4 with whichever teams that qualify or announce another delay until all the teams meet the requirements.” The paper said three teams -- Pelita Bandung Raya (PBR), Arema Cronus and Persebaya Surabaya -- had still to file the required information. BOPI chairman Noor Aman warned the league would not wait for any team. “No matter how many teams qualify, the ISL will still kick- off on April 4,” he said. (rtr)

VIENNA- Croatia’s all-time top scorer Davor Suker was elected to UEFA’s executive committee on Tuesday and is now one of four former professional players on the European confederation’s govern-ing body. Suker played a key role in Croatia’s third-place finish at their first World Cup as an independent nation in 1998, ending up as the tournament’s leading marksman with six goals.

He also played in Real Madrid’s triumphant Champions League team that year, making a brief substitute appearance at the end of their final victory over Juventus. The 47-year-old, president of the Croatian FA since 2012, also had spells at Sevilla, Arsenal and West Ham United and joins fellow former professionals Michel Platini of France, Angel Maria Villar of Spain and Borislav Mihaylov of Bulgaria on the com-mittee.

Platini was re-elected UEFA president earlier on Tuesday. David Gill of England, already a member

of the executive committee, was also elected as UEFA’s British vice-president on FIFA’s executive com-mittee after beating Trefor Lloyd Hughes of Wales by 43 votes to 10. He will replace Jim Boyce of North-ern Ireland who retires after the FIFA Congress in May.

The election was a first because previously only the four British asso-ciations voted for their vice-president but from now on it will be decided every fourth year by all 54 member nations. Former Manchester United chief executive Gill was the third European vice-president elected to FIFA on Tuesday.

He followed Platini, who contin-ues as a FIFA vice-president in his role as UEFA president, and Villar who was re-elected to the position he already held.

The final European position on the FIFA executive committee was filled by German FA president Wolfgang Niersbach, a former sports journalist. He replaces compatriot Theo Zwan-ziger who is retiring in May. (ap)

MADRID - Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo could be sanc-tioned for his goal celebration when he netted the equaliser in Sunday’s La Liga ‘Clasico’ at Barcelona, the president of Spain’s professional soccer league (LFP) said.

Ronaldo, not for the first time when he has scored at the Nou Camp, appeared to be urging the Barca fans to calm down when he struck to make it 1-1 in the 31st minute.

The Portugal captain, regularly the subject of abuse himself, has gained a reputation for winding up opposing fans and was widely criticised when he tore off his shirt to celebrate his successful penalty

in last season’s Champions League final victory over Atletico Madrid.

“We have to be careful with provocative gestures by a player when he scores a goal or with any other provocation or conduct that could incite violence among spec-tators,” LFP president Javier Tebas told reporters on Tuesday. “It must be sanctioned, from a fine up to a suspension,” he added. “We will look into it.”

Following the death of a De-portivo La Coruna fan in fighting before a La Liga game in Novem-ber, Spain’s soccer authorities are seeking to crack down on any action by players or supporters that may be construed as provocative. (rtr)

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo reacts as referee Mateu Lahoz shows him a yellow card during their Spanish first division “Clasico” soccer match against Barcelona at Camp Nou sta-dium in Barcelona, March 22, 2015.

Ronaldo faces possible sanction for ‘Clasico’ celebration

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Australia’s Western Sydney Wanderers goalkeeper Ante Covic, right, tries to block the ball against Go Yo-han of South Ko-rea’s FC Seoul during their Group H soccer match in the Asian Champions League at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

Asian sides playing to restore regional pride in friendlies

Bierhoff said. “System changes need time, even in training, to get the whole thing right.”

Japan’s opponent, Tunisia, is a little less glamorous but the game is equally important. The Samurai Blue crashed out of the Asian Cup in the quarterfinals just months after a hugely disappointing World Cup. Javier Aguirre was appointed coach in August but then fired in February as the Mexican was under investigation by Spanish courts following allega-tions of match-fixing during his time as Real Zaragoza coach in 2011.

Aguirre has been replaced by Va-hid Halilhodzic. The Bosnian, who took Algeria to the second round of the 2014 World Cup, was appointed in March and is charged with lift-ing Japan from its current malaise. Halilhodzic has included the usual European-based stars such as Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa in a large squad of 31.

“I was able to get Algeria to No. 17 in the rankings and I want to do the same for Japan,” Halilhodzic said upon his appointment by the team ranked 53. “It won’t come overnight but given time Japan can improve, too. I’m excited and honored to be part of this new challenge. I look forward to working with the players, and the first goal will be to qualify for the World Cup.”

There is controversy in Iran amid reports that coach Carlos Queiroz has resigned after almost four years in charge, taking the team to the 2014 World Cup. The former Real Madrid coach has fallen out with the Iranian Football Federation, with Tehran media claiming this week’s games in Europe against Chile and Sweden will be his last. There were also re-ports that authorities in Iran stopped Queiroz from leaving the country due to unpaid tax bills, though he has now joined the team in Austria.

South Korea is in action for the first time since defeat in the Asian Cup final and hopes to continue its improvement since the 2014 World Cup. The Taeguk Warriors host Uzbekistan on Friday in a replay of the tournament’s quarter-final. Coach Uli Stielike has selected Bundesliga star Son Heung-min and Ki Sung-yeung of Swansea City in the English Premier League. Kim Jin-su of Hoffenheim is injured.

Elsewhere, Qatar needs to bounce back from finishing bottom of its Asian Cup group with home games against Algeria and Slovenia. Saudi Arabia takes on Jordan in a clash of two teams that fell at the first hurdle of the 2015 Asian Cup while China can continue its encouraging form at home against Haiti and Tunisia. (ap)

Former Croatia striker Suker elected to UEFA Exco

More mess in Indonesia as league risks further delay

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Manchester United’s Radamel Falcao warms up before the game


BOGOTA - Manchester United’s on-loan striker Radamel Falcao hinted on Tuesday he could leave the club at the end of the season in search of more regular football, but said he was still committed to the English side.

clubs have shown an interest in him. “Calls come every day so in that sense I’ve got to stay calm, but I keep on the fringe of them, there are people who deal with all that situ-ation,” he said of media repor ts l i n k i n g h i m w i t h o t h e r P r e m i e r L e a g u e teams.

“I owe

m y s e l f t o M a n c h e s t e r United at the mo-

ment, I have faith and hope because lots of things

can happen in the number of matches remaining.”

Falcao said he had fully re-covered from last January’s knee surgery that prevented him from leading the Colombia attack at the World Cup in Brazil, where his country reached the quarter-finals.

“I will continue to fight to the end at Manchester United,” he said.

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SINGARAJA - The waters in the west-ern part of Buleleng have many interesting

potentials to be enjoyed by travelers. Aside from the potential of underwater natural

beauty such as the Menjangan Island, it also has the center for pearl development / cultivation such as those found at Sumber Kelampok, approximately located 68 km west of Singaraja town and Penyambangan village.

For centuries, pearls have been used to represent the symbol of naturalness and

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Golden State hasn’t claimed the Pacific Division crown since the 1975-76 season, the year after the team won the NBA championship. With a comfortable lead on second-place Memphis in the Western Con-ference, Golden State has dropped just one of its last 12 games. Damian Lillard had 29 points for the Blazers, who have lost five straight following a 1-4 road trip.

Oklahoma’s NBA scoring leader Russell Westbrook poured in 27 points and added 11 assists, and Enes Kanter contributed 25 points and 16 rebounds for the Thunder’s fourth straight victory, 127-117 over the Los Angeles Lakers. Kanter had a double-double in the first quarter with 15 points and 10 rebounds as

Oklahoma City raced out to a 37-27 lead.

After trailing by 15 at the half, the Lakers closed to 70-61 before West-brook scored twice in 15 seconds on his way to 14 third-quarter points.

In Dallas, Monta Ellis matched his season high with 38 points as the Mavericks rallied in the second half to defeat the San Antonio Spurs 101-94. Ellis hit 16 of 27 field-goal attempts, bouncing back from his 4-for-22 performance Sunday in a loss at Phoenix. In three games this season against the Spurs, Ellis is averaging 34 points. Kawhi Leonard led the Spurs with 19 points and Danny Green added 17.

The Milwaukee Bucks edged the Miami Heat 89-88 to break a six-

game losing streak after Khris Mid-dleton hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer. Bayless missed on a drive down the lane, but Zaza Pachulia tapped the ball back out to Middleton, who bur-ied the winner. He finished with 13. It was a crucial victory for the Bucks, who improved to 35-36 to remain in sixth place in the conference, while the Heat fell to 32-38.

In other games, Reggie Jackson had 28 points and nine assists, and Andre Drummond added 21 points and 18 rebounds as the Detroit Pistons beat the Toronto Raptors 108-104, while DeMarcus Cousins had 33 points and 17 rebounds for Sacramento in the Kings’ 107-106 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. (ap)

MIAMI - World number three Simona Halep says it is hard to imagine reaching the top of the world rankings as long as Serena Williams is playing the game but believes she has what it takes to win a grand slam. The Romanian arrives in Florida for this week’s Miami Open off the biggest success in her career with a victory over Jelena Jankovic in the final of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells on Sunday.

The win was the third of the year for the 23-year-old following victories at Shenzhen and Dubai and while she is firmly entrenched as number three, behind Williams and Maria Sharapova, she says getting to top spot may be a step too far. “When Serena is number one, its hard to think of being number one,” Halep told reporters on Tuesday. “But still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.”

The Miami Open has almost become the personal property of the Williams sisters, who live in nearby Palm Beach Garden and have won the event 10 times, Serena lifting the title on seven occasions and Venus three. Still, Halep, who has never ventured past the third round in Miami, doesn’t believe that Williams is unbeatable.

“She (Serena) is very strong, she is a great champion, she has been up there for many years. She knows how to manage every situation,” praised Halep. “I admire her a lot and learnt many things from her. “After the first match at Indian Wells I told my coach that I really wanted to play her in the semifinals but it didn’t happen because of her injury. “I really want to meet her many times, because I become stronger after I play her,” she added.

Halep has her eyes on becoming the first Romanian woman since her manager, Virginia Ruzici, French Open winner in 1978, to secure a grand slam title.

“I can say I feel ready because I just won a premier tournament which is almost like a grand slam,” said Halep. “But still I am very far and I just want to be very focused.

“My dream is to win a grand slam, I don’t know if it will hap-pen in this life. But I just want to work hard every day to reach a (major) title,” she said. Halep’s climb up the rankings has attracted little fanfare but she laughs at the idea that she is a ‘rising star’ in the game.

“I’m not young,” smiled the 24-year-old Romanian. “I am already older, I am used to being in the top, I have a year there, I have experience and feel ready to play with everyone at every tournament.” (rtr)

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Simona Halep (ROM) reacts during her match against Jelena Jankovic (SRB) in the finals of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Halep won 2-6, 7-5, 6-4.

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Warriors clinch division with 122-108

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) defends a shot by Portland Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard, right, during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, March 24, 2015. The Warriors won 122-108.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian tycoon Aburizal Bakrie also familiarly called Ical is suing the government in a bid to keep control of the country’s biggest opposition party and prevent it defecting to President Joko Widodo’s minor-ity coalition.

The opposition Golkar party controls 14 percent of parliamentary seats and would give Joko’s coalition control of over half the parliament, easing fears of political gridlock in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Bakrie, the patriarch of the sprawling family-owned Bakrie Group conglomerate, has filed a legal challenge against last week’s ministerial decree that gave the Golkar chair-manship to a rival faction sympathetic to the president.

“We have lodged a complaint against the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, whose de-cision in favour of the other faction is contrary to the principles of good governance,” Bakrie’s lawyer Yusril Mahendra told Reuters.

He added that Bakrie should remain the chairman of Golkar, which backed losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in last year’s election, until a verdict was announced.A law ministry spokesman said the government,

which intervened after being asked by Golkar to resolve months of political infighting, would see the legal process through.

He declined to say when the ministerial decree would come into effect.

Agung Laksono, who is set to replace Bakrie if he loses his lawsuit, told local media last week the party planned to join Widodo’s coalition without expecting cabinet seats in return.

Vice President Jusuf Kalla told Reuters last week the government was planning a cabinet reshuffle in the next month, but declined to comment on whether Golkar would be in-cluded in the new line-up.

Analysts say Widodo will face pressure to include Golkar, the political vehicle of for-mer authoritarian ruler Suharto, in any new cabinet.

“Jokowi already has patrons to deal with in his coalition and the addition of Golkar would mean another patron and he has to balance power between them,” said political analyst Tobias Basuki, using the president’s nickname.

“It could potentially create new problems for (Widodo).” (rtr)

“It must be found out. What the funds are for and where are they from,” he stated at his office on Wednesday.

He emphasized that investigation must be carried out thoroughly in order to gain clarity on the issue.

He highlighted the need for thor-ough investigation, so that no suspi-cions would develop regarding foreign transactions connected to economic activities.

It was important to be vigilant about the flow of ISIS funds, taking into consideration the terror group’s international network.

Minister of Communication and Informatics Rudiantara earlier stated that his office was coordinating with YouTube to prevent the spread of ISIS videos that promote terrorism.

“We will continue to coordinate with YouTube. YouTube is part of Google. As Google has an office here, so we can just go there in case there is a problem,” he remarked here on

Tuesday.The minister revealed that his office

had been successful in immediately stopping the streaming of a video de-picting Indonesian children being trained by ISIS.

Former chief of the State Intel-ligence Agency A.M. Hendropriyono affirmed that ISIS is posing a direct threat to Indonesia through the cyber world.

“We are now fighting against ter-rorists through the cyber world. This remains dangerous,” he stated after attending an international conference on terrorists’ threats and ISIS here on Monday.

He remarked that Indonesia must unite to deal with terrorists’ threats launched through various forms of media.

National Deputy Police Chief Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti has urged the government to immediately issue a regulation in lieu

JAKARTA - Lawyers for two Australian drug smugglers facing execution in Indonesia submitted evidence to a court on Wednesday as part of the men’s latest attempt to avoid the firing squad.

A French death row convict had his appeal ad-journed to next week.

Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, the ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug trafficking gang, were sentenced to death in 2006 for trying to smuggle heroin out of Indone-sia.

Their appeals for presidential clemency, typically a death row convict’s final chance of avoiding the firing squad, were recently rejected by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The men, in their early 30s, are expected to be executed at the same time as eight other drug offenders. In addition to the Frenchman, these include convicts from Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana and the Philippines and one Indonesian.

Jakarta initially said the executions would take place in February and nothing could stop them going ahead. However, authorities backed off following an international outcry and are now letting all pending legal appeals run their course.

The Australians’ legal team, in its latest bid to avoid execution, are arguing against Widodo’s de-cision to reject their pleas for clemency, saying he

failed to assess their rehabilitation or give reasons for his decision.

The Jakarta State Administrative Court dismissed the bid last month, saying clemency was the presi-dent’s prerogative. The Australians’ lawyers are now appealing that decision.

At at brief hearing Wednesday, they submitted several documents to the court related to laws on the president’s prerogative, said lawyer Leonard Arito-nang without giving further details. The lawyers will return to court on Monday with an expert witness.

Sukumaran and Chan were transferred earlier this month from jail on Bali to Nusakambangan prison island off Java, where they will be put to death.

Serge Atlaoui, a Frenchman on death row since 2007 after being convicted of drugs charges, is also trying to avoid the firing squad by applying for a judicial review of his sentence.

But his case at the Tangerang District Court, out-side Jakarta, was adjourned Wednesday until April 1 after he failed to show up for the hearing to sign paperwork that will allow the case to be transferred to the Supreme Court.

Lawyer Nancy Yuliana said there had been a “problem with regard to the funding of transporta-tion” to bring Atlaoui from jail on Nusakambangan to the court. (afp)

VP calls to investigate possible ISIS-linked fund flows

JAKARTA - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has called for a thor-ough investigation if there were indeed indications that funds linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were flowing into the country.

of law (Perppu) to deal with follow-ers of radical groups such as ISIS in the country.

“Indeed, it would be better if a Perppu could be immediately issued

or current anti-terror laws revised to overcome the ISIS issue to provide a clear legal basis. ISIS is banned, but no legal basis is available for it,” he said on Monday.

He noted that in dealing with terrorist actions in the country, the police have, so far, used anti-terror laws and the Criminal Code as the legal basis. (ant)

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

Vice President Jusuf Kalla speaks at the opening of a conference on terrorism and Islamic State in Jakarta, March 23, 2015.

Ical sues governmentt to stop key opposition party defecting to president

Australians on Indonesia death row submit appeal evidence

The Maldives government says however the court was unable to release the case report because Nasheed had refused to sign it. Nasheed’s next step is not imme-diately known. His supporters are holding nightly protests in the capi-tal and other islands in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation calling for his release.

Nasheed was sentenced to prison earlier this month for ordering the arrest of a senior judge when he was in office three years ago. The court said that the arrest was akin

to abduction under the country’s terrorism law. The trial drew wide local and international criticism that it was rushed and had many flaws. The trial was completed in three weeks from the day he was charged.

Nasheed’s lawyers said the court did not give them enough time to prepare a defense and rejected witnesses even before they testi-fied. Also the court overruled an objection that two of the judges had a conflict of interest because they had testified against Nasheed

at the initial police inquiry.In response to the criticism the

Maldives government had invited the United Nations and Common-wealth to send observers for the appeal process.

Nasheed’s victory in the coun-try’s first multiparty election in 2008 ended a 30-year autocracy, but he resigned in 2012 amid public anger over the arrest of the judge. In 2013 Nasheed lost the presidential election to Yameen Abdul Gayoom, a half-brother of the longtime auto-crat. (ap)

ROME — Italy’s high court took up the appeal of Amanda Knox’s murder conviction Wednesday, considering the fate of the “very worried” American and her Ital-ian former boyfriend in the brutal 2007 murder of Knox’s British roommate. So many journalists and trial-watchers were on hand for the final arguments in the murder of Meredith Kercher that the judges moved the hearing into the largest available courtroom in the Court of Cassation.

The judges could decide to con-firm the convictions and 28½-year sentence for Knox and 25-year sentence for her ex-boyfriend Raf-faele Sollecito, which would then raise extradition questions for Knox since she is free in the U.S. The court could decide to throw out the convictions and order a third appeal trial. Less likely, it could overturn the convictions without ordering a retrial, tantamount to an acquittal.

To date, the high-profile legal saga of Knox and Sollecito have produced flip-flop guilty-then inno-cent-then guilty verdicts, polarizing observers in three nations. Knox has been portrayed alternately as a victim of a botched investigation and shoddy Italian justice, or a promiscuous predator who falsely accused a Congolese bar owner of the murder.

Knox, who has maintained her innocence throughout, was await-ing the ruling in her hometown of Seattle. She is “worried, very wor-ried,” said her attorney, Carlo Dalla Vedova, who said a decision is ex-pected late Wednesday or Thursday. Asked if he would call Knox with the court’s decision even if it came in the middle of the night in the U.S., Dalla Vedova said: “I don’t think she’s sleeping much.”

Television crews mobbed Sol-lecito as he made his way into the courthouse, where he huddled with his attorney before the hearing began. “I’m here all day, also to-

night,” he said. His attorney, Giulia Bongiorno, said she hoped the court would annul the guilty verdicts, saying the ruling was “littered with errors and absolutely littered with contradictions and by an illogical motivation.”

Also on hand for the hearing was Diya “Patrick” Lumumba, the owner of pub where Knox occa-sionally worked whom she falsely accused of the murder.

Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Britain, was found dead Nov. 2, 2007, in the apartment that she shared with Knox in the idyllic hillside town of Perugia where both women were studying. Her throat was slashed and she had been sexu-ally assaulted.

Suspicion quickly fell on Knox and Sollecito, who were arrested in the days after the murder. The couple denied involvement and said they had spent the evening at Sollecito’s place watching a movie, smoking pot and making love.

They were found guilty by a trial court in Perugia in 2009 but freed in 2011 after an appellate court over-turned the convictions. They found themselves back in an appellate court after the Court of Cassation vacated the acquittals in 2013 in a harsh rebuke of the Perugia chief appellate judge’s reasoning.

The Florence appeals court that convicted them most recently last year said in its ruling that the pair acted in concert with Rudy Hermann Guede, a drifter born in the Ivory Coast who is serving a 16-year sentence for his role in the slaying and sexual assault. The pre-siding judge contended that Knox herself delivered the fatal knife blow, writing that the American wanted to “humiliate the victim.”

Knox has called the reversal unjust and blamed an “overzeal-ous and intransigent prosecution,” ‘’narrow-minded investigation” and coercive interrogation tech-niques. (ap)

NEW YORK — Charlie Hebdo, the Parisian satirical magazine that was a target of a deadly shooting in January, will be honored at this spring’s PEN American Center gala.

The literary and human rights organization announced Wednes-day that Charlie Hebdo will re-ceive the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award. Jean-Baptiste Thoret, a film critic who arrived at the Hebdo offices after eight of

his colleagues had been killed, will accept the award on behalf of the magazine.

Also at the May 5 gala in Man-hattan, playwright Tom Stoppard will be given the PEN/Allen Foun-dation Literary Service Award, and Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle will be cited for “his leadership role in the global literary community.”

Previous PEN honorees include authors Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Salman Rushdie. (ap)

ATHENS — Thousands of Greeks have lined a main central Athens avenue despite rain to watch the country’s annual Inde-pendence Day military parade, with spectators allowed along the route for the first time in about three years.

The crowds at Wednesday’s pa-

rade, where tanks rolled down the street and fighter jets and military helicopters flew overhead, were in stark contrast to last year’s event, which took place under heavy security. Spectators had only been allowed near the end of the route.

Authorities limited public access to national parades after protesters

had heckled officials attending such events over the handling of Greece’s financial crisis and auster-ity measures imposed in return for billions of euros in international rescue loans.

March 25 marks the start of Greece’s 1821 uprising against the Ottoman Empire. (ap)

AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena

Maldivian Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon, left, speaks to reporters as Attorney General Mohamed Anil adjusts microphones during a media briefing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 16, 2015.


COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Maldives’ jailed ex-president will not appeal his 13-year sentence because the court has not released all documents from the first hearing to prepare a case, his lawyer said Wednesday. Hassan Latheef said the deadline to appeal the sentence against former President Mohamed Nasheed expires Sunday.

Thousands turn out for Greek Independence Day parade

Italy high court deciding fate of ‘very worried’ Amanda Knox

Charlie Hebdo magazine to receive PEN award

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Talks on “Plan B” have emerged because patience has run out with the US Congress’ failure to ratify the 2010 reforms originally strongly supported by the White House.

The reforms would both realign the power of members on the IMF executive board, boosting emerging countries like China and India, and double the capital resources the bank uses to support countries in financial crisis.

Brazil’s executive director at the IMF, Paulo Nogueira Batista, has outlined a plan to “delink” the two components of the reforms in a way that could allow them to go ahead without requiring the US Congress to approve them.

“The link between these two elements is unnecessary as each pursues independent objectives that can be delivered separately. Delink-ing them would require the support of the US administration but not ratification by US Congress,” Ba-

tista said in the proposal.“The delinking proposal is con-

structive and simple and could clear the way for the continuation of the IMF reform process.”

The Brazilian plan would first advance the modest realignment of power as planned since 2010 by giving emerging countries more seats on the executive board at the cost of Europe.

That proposal was long-accepted by the White House, but blocked by Congress.

After that happens, the resources increase could also be enacted separately, relieving the IMF’s de-pendence since the financial crisis on borrowed funds.

That could challenge Washing-ton’s dominant role in the Fund since it was established in 1945.

Because contributions to IMF resources determine a country’s voting quota, if Congress still does not give its support, its quota

could fall from 17.7 percent to 9.8 percent, according to Batista’s plan.

That drop is significant because major IMF board decisions require 85 percent of quotas in support, giving the United States unique veto power.

Batista allows that a deal could be done to allow Congress time to reconsider and endorse the resource increase, restoring Washington’s veto.

“With carefully chosen lan-guage such decisions can pro-vide adequate assurances to the US Administration that the delinking option would preserve, de facto, its veto power over decisions requiring 85 percent,” he said.

“In the meantime, Fund mem-bers able to consent to their quota increases would be allowed to replenish the Fund’s permanent resources.” (afp)

Ketongkol is wrapped coni-cally in banana leaf. In addition to being soft, ketongkol is also consumed by people whose teeth are weak or having no teeth. In the presentation or during meals, it is unnecessary to fill in with vegetables or side dishes. Simply by opening the wrapper and eat it is definitely good. In addition to having a distinctive flavor, the food belonging to farming com-munity is also very sticky.

Ketongkol is an eco-friendly food because it is prepared with ingredients and leaf wrapper. Oth-er than complicated in the making, the ingredients in use have also been increasingly scarce. When enjoying the meal, it is regularly served with grated coconut, nuts,

crackers and fried onion sauce. The vegetables are usually boiled with simple seasonings namely salt, chilli and coconut oil.

Later, ketongkol is also sold in traditional markets and at roadside. In Marga town there is a simple stall selling this kind of traditional food. Ketongkol is presented with complete seasoning mixed with anchovy. It is also equipped with jukut urab (assorted vegetables with grated coconut sauce) and boiled egg and fried shallots. A portion is sold for IDR 5,000.

This traditional food stall is al-ways in demand. Normally it opens from one o’clock p.m. until three o’clock p.m. Nevertheless, some-times the ketongkol has been sold out earlier because many people

purchase. Local communities who are having appetite disorder nor-mally prefer to choose the menu.

Preparation:The making of ketongkol is sim-

ilar to the make of rice bag. First of all, wash and drained rice. Then, sprinkle with salt and coconut oil and stir finely. Put into the banana leaf wrapper in the conical shape. After that, cover it up and attach with bamboo pin (semat). The next process is boiling. The water used to boil is filled with screw-pine and fragrant erytrena so that it can gen-erate distinctive flavor. After that, it is cooked by bamboo steamer for approximately 1.5 hours. If you want to taste better, cook it by using firewood. (kmb)

“What is in a name”, said William Shakespeare. However, for the Balinese, a name is very important. We believe it can influ-ence the character of the bearer. Therefore, we avoid using names having a bad connotation or denot-ing a cruel figure in a story. If you learn a Balinese name etymologi-cally, you may encounter that it has a good meaning.

Giving a name is no by means careless. When a baby is already 42 days, the parent will choose a cer-tain name, but only one is chosen. Those three names are put near the burning wicks. The name given to the baby is the one near the wick, which burns the longest. Usually the name chosen has a meaning of hope, for example: the baby should be healthy or having long life.

Wayan, Made, Nyoman, Ketut, Gede or Putu are all Balinese initial names. They denote the numbers of the children. Wayan is derived from Waya (Wayahan or Wayah) meaning old (older). Made (Madya) means middle and sometimes is replaced with Nengah (tengah =

middle) so it denotes the second child. Nyoman Anom (new or young) stands for the third baby.

Since long time ago, the Bali-nese have hoped that they would have three children. However, the dream did not come true. What happens now? Family planning is well accepted. So they do not dream anymore.

The fourth child is called Ketut. Ketut --- Tut means to follow or additional baby. The fifth baby is Wayan Balik (back to Wayan) and so forth. Sometimes Wayan is re-placed with Gede or Putu. They are connected to the caste system and family relationship. For example, Gede and Putu are much used by family belonging to Pasek and Sengguhu clan. Both refer to the oldest child.

In Singaraja, for instance, Made is variedly pronounced Kade or Kadek, Nyoman – Komang. In the names of royal family, the initial names above are often not men-tioned. For example, Anak Agung, Ngurah, Gusti Ngurah, Dewa Ngu-rah and so on. (kmb) IBP/kmb

Ketongkol dish of Nyepi Day

DenPasaR - Ketongkol is a food commonly consumed by rural communities. it is synonymous with nyepi Day because this favorite food becomes family food during the abstinence or imple-mentation of catur brata penyepian. Ketongkol is almost similar to rice bag (non-perishable), since during the implementation of four abstinences devotees must perform amati geni (turning no lamp and lighting no fire), amati karya (no working), amati lelungan (no traveling) and amati lelanguan (no entertainment or enjoyment).

Wayan, Made, Nyoman and Ketut are Balinese names

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Balinese conducted melasti ritual days before Nyepi Day, re-cently. For the Balinese, a name is very important. Usually the name chosen has a meaning of hope, for example: the baby should be healthy or having long life. Wayan, Made, Nyoman, Ketut, Gede or Putu are all Balinese initial names.

san FRanCisCO — Google has lured away Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer, Ruth Porat, to be its CFO at a time when the In-ternet search leader and its Silicon Valley peers are under fire for hiring and promoting too few women.

The appointment announced Tuesday fills a void that opened earlier this month after Google’s CFO of the past seven years, Pat-rick Pichette, announced his plans to retire.

Porat, 58, will become Google’s highest-ranking female executive when she starts her new job on May 26. Her last day at Morgan Stanley will be April 30, ending a 28-year career at the New York investment bank.

Google Inc. and other Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc., are trying to add more women to their payrolls. The push began during the past 10 months after the com-panies released data revealing that women only filled 15 to 20 percent of the tech jobs, which tend to pay the most.

Kleiner Perkins, a venture capi-tal firm that has financed Google and other prominent technology companies, is currently embroiled in a San Francisco trial that is airing embarrassing allegations of sexual discrimination. In the past week, sexual discrimination lawsuits have been filed by women who formerly worked at Facebook and Twitter.

Porat’s defection from a top job on Wall Street serves as the latest reminder of the technology indus-try’s allure as its products reshape culture and enrich the companies creating them.

Google has been at the forefront

of upheaval during the past 15 years. Besides building the Inter-net’s dominant search engine and digital ad network, the Mountain View, California, company also boasts the top mobile operating system in Android and the most popular video site in YouTube, as well as the popular Chrome browser and Gmail service.

The success has spawned three multibillionaires — Google CEO Larry Page, co-founder Sergey Brin and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Thousands of other Google employees, including its former chef and masseuse, have become millionaires.

Google, which started in 1998 in a Silicon Valley garage after raising $100,000, now has a market value of nearly $400 billion. Morgan Stanley, founded in 1935, has a market value of about $72 billion.

The terms of Porat’s contract at Google weren’t immediately disclosed. She received compensa-tion valued at $10.1 million from Morgan Stanley in 2013. Pichette received compensation valued at $5.2 million in the same year.

Porat, Morgan Stanley’s CFO since 2010, won Wall Street’s re-spect for helping the bank regain its financial stability after sinking into deep trouble along with much of the rest of the financial-services industry during the Great Reces-sion. Her investor-friendly attitude fed speculation that Google may be more apt to return some of its $64 billion in cash to shareholders, either through dividends or by buy-ing back stock. Porat has California roots and connections on Google’s board of directors. (ap)

shanGhai - China has given the go-ahead for three more free-trade zones, state media reported, despite the country’s first project in Shanghai proving disappoint-ing 18 months after its establish-ment.

A meeting of the Commu-nist Party’s politburo hosted by President Xi Jinping on Tuesday approved zones in the southern province of Guangdong, eastern province of Fujian and northern city of Tianjin, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

China’s commerce ministry had already announced in December that three FTZs would be set up in those locations.

State media have said the Guang-dong FTZ aims to speed economic integration with neighbouring Hong

Kong, a special administrative re-gion of China.

The Fujian zone is focussed on Taiwan, which China considers part of its sovereign territory. The Tianjin FTZ is part of a push to better integrate the city with nearby Beijing and Hebei province.

Media reports originally gave March 1 as the official opening date for all three, but that deadline passed. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper later reported that the Guangdong FTZ would launch on March 18, but no opening was announced.

A statement from the politburo said the establishment of FTZs aimed to “deepen reform” and “expand opening up to explore new approaches”, adding the Shanghai zone had shown “positive progress”

since its founding, according to Xinhua.

The Chinese commercial hub set up its FTZ in September 2013, promising a range of financial reforms, including full convert-ibility of the yuan currency and free interest rates, but they remain unfulfilled.

The American Chamber of Com-merce in Shanghai said this month that 73 percent of the 377 com-panies responding to its annual business climate survey said the FTZ offers “no tangible benefits” for them.

A former top official of the Shanghai FTZ, executive deputy director Dai Haibo, is now under investigation for violating the law, authorities said earlier this month, but gave no details. (afp)

IMF ‘Plan B’ on reforms could slash US power

China approves three more free-trade zones

WashinGtOn - Washington’s block on crucial imF reforms has pushed the crisis lender into discussions of other options, with one proposal potentially slashing Us voting power nearly in half, aFP learned tuesday.

Google imports new CFO Ruth Porat from Wall Street

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No distress call was received be-fore the plane crashed on Tuesday, but French authorities said one of the two “black box” flight recorders, the cock-pit voice recorder, has been recovered from the site 2,000 metres (6,000 feet) above sea level. “The black box has been damaged. We will have to put it back together in the next few hours to be able to get to the bottom of this tragedy,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told RTL radio, adding the box was still viable.

Cazeneuve said the fact debris was scattered over a small area of about one and a half hectares showed the plane likely did not explode in the air, meaning a terrorist attack was not the most likely scenario. French Civil aviation investigators are expected to hold a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.

In Washington, the White House said the crash did not appear to have been caused by a terrorist attack. Lufthansa said it was working on the assumption that the tragedy had been an accident, and any other theory would be speculation.

Flights CancelledGermanwings was cancelling some

flights on Wednesday as some crew members had refused to fly. “There are crew members who do not want to fly in the current situation, which we understand,” a spokeswoman for Germanwings said. “Seeing the site of the accident was harrowing,” Luf-thansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said on Twitter. “We will enable the relatives to grieve on site as soon as possible.”

French President Francois Hol-lande will visit the area, about 100 km (65 miles) north of Nice, on Wednes-day with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Germanwings believed 67 Ger-mans were on the flight and Spain said 45 passengers had Spanish names. One Belgian was aboard, Australia said two of it nationals had died and Britain said it was likely some Britons were on the plane.

Also among the victims were 16 teenagers and two teachers from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in the town of Haltern am See in northwest Germany. They were on their way home after a week-long Spanish exchange programme near Barcelona.

The school held a day of mourning on Wednesday. Students arrived by bicycle and on foot like any normal

day, but stopped by candles and flow-ers placed outside the school, where a hand-painted sign said: “Yesterday we were many, today we are alone.”

Barcelona’s Liceu opera house said two singers, Kazakhstan-born Oleg Bryjak and German Maria Radner, had died while returning to Dues-seldorf after performing in Wagner’s Siegfried at the theatre.

Aerial photographs showed smoul-dering wreckage and a piece of the fu-selage with six windows strewn across the mountainside. “We saw an aircraft that had literally been ripped apart, the bodies are in a state of destruction, there is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage,” Brice Robin, prosecutor for the city of Marseille, told Reuters after flying over the site.

Germanwings said on Tuesday the plane started descending one minute after reaching cruising height and continued losing altitude for eight minutes. Experts said that while the Airbus had descended rapidly, it did not seem to have simply fallen out of the sky.

A Lufthansa flight from Bilbao to Munich on Nov. 5 lost altitude after sensors iced over and the onboard computer, fearing the plane was about to stall, put the nose down. As a result, the European Aviation Safety Agency ordered a change in procedure for all A320 jets.

Asked whether something similar could have occurred on Tuesday, Germanwings Managing Director Thomas Winkelmann said, “At this time this evening, we are ruling out a possible cause in this area.”

The aircraft came down in a region known for skiing, hiking and rafting, but which is difficult for rescue ser-vices to reach. The base of operations for the recovery effort was set up in a gymnasium in the village of Seyne-les-Alpes. It was the first disaster in-volving a large passenger jet in France since a Concorde crashed outside Paris nearly 15 years ago.

The A320 is one of the world’s most used passenger jets and has a good safety record. According to data from the Aviation Safety Network, Tuesday’s crash was the third most deadly involving the model. In 2007 a TAM Linhas Aereas A320 went off a runway in Brazil, killing 187 people, and 162 people died when an Indone-sia AirAsia jet went down in the Java Sea in December. The Germanwings plane was 24 years old, with engines made by CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and France’s Safran. (rtr)

REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Germanwings employees place lit candles outside the company headquarters in Cologne Bonn airport March 25, 2015. An Airbus operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline crashed in a remote snowy area of the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 on board includ-ing 16 schoolchildren.

Search teams probe wreckage of jet in French AlpsSEYNE-LES-ALPES - French investigators on Wednesday

searched for the reason why a German Airbus ploughed into an Alpine mountainside, killing all 150 on board including 16 teenag-ers returning from a school trip to Spain. Helicopters flew over the site where the A320 operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline disintegrated after it went down in a remote area of ravines en route to Duesseldorf from Barcelona. Police investigators made their way across the mountains on foot.

BANGLI - Traders of herbs at Kidul Market are increasingly confused due to the rise in the price of shallot is soaring. A week ago, the price of shallot increased to IDR 22,000 per kilogram. But on Tuesday, the price of shallot soared back to IDR 30,000 per kilogram. This price increase makes the sales of trader slump.

One of the traders, Ketut Adnyani, revealed that the price increase of shallot happened after Nyepi. She explained that during a week the price increase of shal-lot has occurred twice. At first, it was sold for IDR 16,000 per

kilogram and then jumped to IDR 22,000 per kilogram. This price remained stable until Nyepi. The skyrocketing price re-occurred after Nyepi to IDR 30,000 per kilogram. “The price of shal-lot continues to rise. Since last week, it has increased twice,” he explained, Tuesday (Mar 24).

A similar opinion is also ex-pressed by another trader, Pande. The increase in the price of shal-lot makes him frustrated because buyers are deserted. He said the price of shallot with good quality is IDR 30,000. “The price goes up again, while the buyer slightly

decreases,” he said.What Adnyani and Pande

disclosed is justified by Nengah Suartini who is also a trader of herbs at the Kidul Market. She explained the price increase makes her kiosk deserted of buy-ers and her sales plummet by 25 percent. “The price hike causes the decrease in the number of buyers,” he said.

According to Adnyani, under normal conditions she can sell 20-25 kilograms of shallot per day. However, this time she can only sell maximally eight kilo-grams per day. More seriously,

other than declining in sales, some of her shallot is also rot-ting and sprouting because it is not sold.

When asked about the cause of skyrocketing price of shallot, some traders said that it hap-pens due to small supply to the market. Typically, the traders at Kidul Market get supplies from Klungkung and Java, but in the past few days the supply has not come. In addition, the minimal supply is also alleged to happen as farmers have not harvested yet. For a while, the traders just got supply from Songan village,

Kintamani, but remains in small number.

When asked confirmation separately, the Trade Subdivision Head of the Bangli Trade and Industry Agency, IGP Wahyuda, justified the price increase of shallot. He explained the price hike of shallot does not only hap-pen in Bangli, but also in other regions. Wahyuda suspected it happens due to small supply from other regions. “Other than in Bangli, the price hike also occurs in other regions. Possibly this happens due to small supply,” he explained. (kmb45)

BANGLI - The Indonesian government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources’ plan to re-raise the price of fuel starting April 1, 2015 is receiving apathetic responses from public transport drivers. Such an increase in fuel price is seen has having a big influence on severely diminishing their income.

One of the drivers of public transport on the Bangli-Kubu-Kintamani route, Nyoman Mesin, objected to the planned fuel price increase, because it will affect his daily income. He also admitted to be tired of the roller coaster fluctuations in the price of fuel over the last few months. “When the price of fuel goes up, it immediately affects our income,” he said.

Likewise, when the price of fuel declines, he can breathe easier because his income is not exhausted in purchasing fuel. However, the new planned increase in fuel prices has made him confused. The situation is aggravated by the lack of passengers. Such condition makes public transport increasingly hard to maintain “Passengers are few and the fuel price increase will be shot to public transportation,” he complained.

He explained than recently his gross income amounted to about IDR100,000 a day. This is before buying his fuel and other costs. in fact his average income is about IDR 30,000 a day. What’s more, he must wait at terminal from seven o’clock in the morn-ing until midday during which time he gets about three passengers. As a result, the income is far from the desired target. “My maximum daily income is IDR 30,000,” he said.

Similar condition is experienced by another driver, Ketut Sabung. He objected to the plan to raise the price of fuel. Since news of the fuel price hike broke, many public transport drivers are reluctant to operate out of fear of losing money. “Many drivers are just not operating as they are afraid function at a loss,” he explained.

The fuel price change plan for April 2015 is part of the government’s plan to implement the blending of biofuel (BBN) set to amount to 15 percent of each liter of fuel. In addition, the fuel price hike is also used to cover the cost of biofuel purchases from businesses. (kmb45)

Price of shallot rises againIBP/File

The customers are waiting in line to buy petrol

Price of fuel planned to rise in April

Public transport drivers responded apathetically

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ABU DHABI - Health experts at an anti-tobacco conference in Abu Dhabi defended e-cigarettes on Friday, dismissing widespread con-cerns that the devices could lure adolescents into nicotine addiction.

Most experts agreed, however, that use of the devices, about which research warns that not enough is yet known, should be regulated.

Konstantinos Farsalinos, researcher from Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre in Athens, told AFP that in a study of nearly 19,500 people, mainly in the United States and Europe, 81 percent said they had stopped smoking by using e-cigarettes.

“In fact, they quit smoking very easily within the first month of the e-cigarette use on average,” he said.

“That’s something you don’t see with any other method of smok-ing cessation.”

But on Wednesday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Margaret Chan backed governments that are “banning... regulating” e-cigarette use.

She was speaking to reporters at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, hosted by the capital of the United Arab Emirates which has so far banned the devices.

“Non-smoking is the norm and e-cigarettes will derail that normal-ity thinking, because it will attract especially young people to take up smoking,” said Chan.

“So I do not support that.”But for Jean-Francois Etter, associate professor at Geneva Univer-

sity, “e-cigarettes and nicotine and tobacco vapourisers should not be excessively regulated”.

This could “decrease the numbers of smokers who switch to these new products”, benefiting “only the big tobacco industry” whose lead-ers “will be able to survive in a tightly regulated environment”.

Etter called the WHO stance on e-cigarettes “political”.“I think that the WHO people should know better than kill alterna-

tives to smoking cigarettes,” he said.E-cigarettes were first produced in China in 2003, and have since

spread globally.They have sparked what several participants at the gathering called

a “very divisive debate”.Alan Blum, a family doctor and director of The University of

Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, says he would usually recommend e-cigarettes to patients trying to quit, rather than “give a pharmaceutical product which has side effects and which have not worked very well”.

But he also warned that e-cigarettes are being used by school-children and that some people use cannabis and marijuana in the devices.

Citing a yet unpublished study, Farsalinos insisted that “if three percent of smokers switch to e-cigarettes we are going to save about two million lives in the next 20 years”.

The WHO says that tobacco kills nearly six million people a year and that unless urgent action is taken, the annual death toll could rise to eight million by 2030.

E-cigarette advocates argue that the device offers the smoker nicotine in a liquid, thus preventing the combustion of tobacco that releases most toxins.

“Alternatives to smoking do not need to be 100 percent safe, they just need to be much safer than tobacco cigarettes,” Etter said.

“You choose the lesser of two evils.”A German delegate who requested anonymity argued that e-

cigarettes will only lead to “dual use”.Smokers will use e-cigarettes in places where they are not al-

lowed to smoke while using traditional cigarettes when they can, she argued.

“This increases nicotine addiction because they smoke and take nicotine all the time. This makes it much worse,” according to her.

In Germany, e-cigarettes can be bought everywhere by anyone. “Children buy these and they initiate a smoking habit,” she argued.

But Farsalinos insisted that “there is not a single case of a never-smoker who used e-cigarettes and then became a smoker of tobacco cigarettes”.

The German delegate still disagreed with a ban on e-cigarettes. If they are proved to help smokers quit, then “e-cigarettes could

easily be sold in pharmacies where you have a controlled product” and ensure they are only sold to adults.

But she added: “We need regulation for this product.” (afp)

The research, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, provided an encouraging sign in the battle to fight childhood obesity.

But it also found that the presentation of fruits and vegetables did not have a long-term impact on their consumption.

“The results highlight the importance of focusing on the palatability of school meals,” said lead author Juliana Cohen of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard

University. “Additionally, this study shows that

schools should not abandon healthier foods if they are initially met with resis-tance by students.”

About 32 million children eat meals at American schools each day and many low-income students get up to half their daily calories from school meals.

Researchers conducted their trial dur-ing the 2011-2012 school year among 14

elementary and middle schools in two urban, low-income Massachusetts school districts.

A total of 2,638 children participated in the study.

The findings “really illustrated that through persistence, school-aged children can learn to like healthy whole grains, fruits and vegetables, especially if they taste good,” said senior author Eric Rimm, a professor at Harvard. (afp)

Health experts defend e-cigarettes despite concerns

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Children just hate all vegetables, no matter how tasty you make them, right? Wrong, says an influen-tial study out Monday that found US children in Massachusetts ate up to 30 percent more vegetables when school dinners were made more palatable with the help of a professional chef.

Kids eat more veggies when tasty

WASHINGTON - Children just hate all vegetables, no matter how tasty you make them, right? Wrong, says an influential study out Monday that found US children in Massachusetts ate up to 30 percent more vegetables when school dinners were made more palatable with the help of a professional chef.

SINGARAJA - Maybe everyone has been familiar with the typical goak-goakan game of Panji village, Sukasada subdistrict. The traditional game denoting the relics of King of Buleleng Ki Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti remains sustainable and is always played every celebration of Nyepi. Residents hope the heritage can be developed to support the tourism in North Bali.

The Chief of Satya Warga custom-ary village youth club of Kelod Kauh hamlet, Panji village, I Gede Ganesha, said the goak-goakan game is rooted at his village. Not only children and adolescents, but parents can also play the goak-goakan. Many people from outside the Panji village see the game. Additionally, the taksu or divine vibra-tion of this traditional game cannot be separated.

It is evidenced by the players, es-pecially those from outside the village that come and join the game will auto-matically be able to follow the rhythm of the native residents to Panji. Muddy ground made into the arena of the game

occasionally causes the players to fell in thick mud. But apparently it does not dampen their interest to play the goak-goakan game. “At least the uniqueness and taksu of the game inherited from our ancestors is an advantage and must be developed,” he said.

Ganesha admitted that all this time it is difficult to find a representative lo-cation to play the goak-goakan game. Every year he has to and fro to look for location to play. Luckily, on the Nyepi of this year there is a resident giving permission to utilize his wetland for the game. Then, it is made into the arena of goak-goakan and capable of drawing the audience both from Panji village and neighboring villages.

“So far, we have no location and last year we played at hamlet hall. It was less representative but now there is a location in this area. It is very nice and can accommodate a lot of people,” he added.

On the other hand, Ganesha said that the development of goak-goakan game can be facilitated by the govern-ment and tourism players in Buleleng.

This game can be designed into a package tour for foreign travelers on their vacation.

Travelers can come together to mingle with other players. The pattern involving travelers in a show is widely applied in other regions and can be attractive to travelers. In addition to the traditional goak-goakan game, according to Ganesha, his village still has other historical tourism potentials that can be packaged and managed into a tourist destination. The potential include the Pajenengan Temple of the King of Buleleng, Ki Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti and a monument at Bhuana Kerta.

Besides, the Panji village also has the potential of nature tourism especially in the upper region. This region does not only offer the beauty of amazing natural landscape, but also the location of spiritual activity. It is located at the top where there is a cave with a magical feel suitable for practicing yoga and other spiritual activities. “The tourism potential at our village can be quite diverse and we

are confident if it is managed properly and gets the attention, the historical heritage and tourism potential can bring in blessings for people’s wel-fare,” he said.

A community leader of Panji village doubling as a legislator of Buleleng House, Jro Mangku Ari-awan, said the native village has a historical legacy that needs preserving. He pointed out the historical legacy like the Pajenengan Temple of Panji Sakti and the monument at Bhuana Kertha.

According to him, such historical heritage deserves to get the attention from local government. The poten-tial in form of historical evidence is properly maintained, then the local government can make Panji village into a tourism village. “This village cannot be separated from the history of Singaraja town and this historical evi-dence needs to be given the attention. We always encourage the government to do the maintenance and manage-ment so that it can become a tourist destination,” he said. (kmb38)

Unfortunately, the property busi-ness is predicted to be sluggish until 2016 as stated by a developers from Tabanan, Wayan Suastha. He said that nationally the property market is predicted to be sluggish until the late of 2015. “But Bali is different because the previous price of prop-erty was very high,” he said.

According to Suastha, the high price of land has been influenced by money laundering and and increas-ingly strict banking rules. “The banking rules used to be looser, the new regulations are likey of one the factors contributing to the present sluggishness of real estate” he said.

Although predicted to be slug-gish, he admitted that property is still in high demand. “However, people’s purchasing power has greatly dimin-ished. People who could previously afford to buy an IDR 800 million home can now only afford IDR 400 million,” he said.

Tabanan itself known as the rice barn of Bali has the potential to become a preferred area for the business of real estate because land there is realtively cheap compared

to Badung or Denpasar for example. Developers there are not only locals but also people from outside Bali.

Acoording to information ob-tained from a number of speculators, some areas in Tabanan still have land in the price range of IDR 200 million to IDR 400 million per 100 square meters such as in the area around Kediri subdistrict outside bypass road. This area is much sought after by developers, but since they are hindered by regulatory issues they must wait and see what opportuni-ties arise.

Suastha added that most of the land in Tabanan, especially in areas with potential for development, are increasingly rare because large investors have bough them up for both housing, and business pur-poses. Therefore, the determination of zoning laws for these areas must be made firm so as to avoid trouble. He said that housing investments in Tabanan are predominantly made by people from the city who see Ta-banan as a buffer zone and connect-ing point to the entrance ways into Bali and thus certainly be affected

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Bali is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Indonesia. The Island of a Thousand Temples has always become the main destination for local and foreign travelers. This condition also attracts some people outside Bali to participate in ‘tasting’ the tourism pie in Bali.

Property business predicted to be sluggish until 2016

TABANAN - Bali is one of the most popular tourist desti-nations in Indonesia. The Island of a Thousand Temples has always been a favourite destination for local and foreign trav-ellers. This condition also attracts people from outside of Bali to want a slice of the tourism pie. As a result, the construction of villas and housing is developing with the participation of a number of migrants who want to try their luck in a number of areas in Bali.

by the rapid developments taking place -making Tabanan a promising place to invest in real estate.

“There are villages that have internal regulations meant to con-trol the rate of land conversion, which is a good thing, but what happens when members of the lo-cal community require the land for something positive? What are the advantages and disadvantages of

land conversion regulations? Ide-ally such restrictions should only apply to real estate investors,” he suggested.

As for the idea of Tabanan cre-ating a satellite city, according to Nyoman Suta, it is a good idea. He said that Tabanan should indeed make a satellite city. One of the benefits is that the region could improve its economy. However,

the problem, according to him, is the presence of unclear regulation (regulation at lower level) that should be generalized. “The gov-ernment must facilitate this process so that there will not be small kings acting without restraints. If pos-sible, a clear a fixed spatial plan must be made, specifically zoning for industrial, residential and other needs,” he said. (kmb28)

Goak-goakan game as tourism supporting attraction of Buleleng

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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


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“With ultimate choices of accom-modations in Ubud, the Sungu Resort & Spa has upgraded many of its services and facilities to cater for its guests—the satisfied repeaters and the new ones seeking an alternative of resort in Ubud—that come and stay with us as well as become a part of supreme, serene and sacred experiences,” invited Gria, the General Manager of The Sun-gu Resort & Spa. It is decorated with a wonderful touching of limited artwork that makes fabulous image of the rooms surrounded by scenic landscapes of natural & tropical Balinese garden.

Especially for the dishes, The Sungu offers a restaurant designed in a unique and eye-catching setting with a good ambiance and surrounded by romantic atmosphere of the arts. All tables are beautifully set with flowers or single frangipani flower in a simple stone vase, while fragrant burning incense will bring you onto spiritual situation. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner with seating capacity for 30 people. No dress code is required. Hotel guests have the first priority on seating. Nevertheless, walk-in guests are always welcomed. Dining menu offers classical local and Indonesian specialties served in friendly, warm and relaxed hospitality.

In welcoming the year 2015, the Sungu Resort & Spa offers three spe-cial Chefs’ Signature dishes, namely the Green Sanka Fried Rice, Grilled Fish Orange Sauce and Sungu Chicken Curry. In fact, the Green Sanka Fried Rice with the simplicity in its top-notch taste is considered the most favorite among the Sungu’s clients. To make it special, without adding complication to it, this dish consists nothing but the very basic ingredients in nasi goreng: namely vegetable and coriander mixed with fine organic garlic and other herbs, accentuated with three fresh-yummy prawns and a stint of special fish gravy and oyster sauce.

Grilled Fish Orange Sauce, in culi-nary term, is especially known as grilled fish. Many eatery spots are discovered by the locals and travelers alike. Jim-baran, Nusa Dua, and lately Lebih Beach, to name but a few, offer local fresh seafood, especially the grilled fish. At Sungu resort, you can now savor this unique Balinese specialty. Fresh tuna fillet with Balinese chopped herbs and organic garlic are grilled until tender. Orange sauce, salt and pepper are poured over the fish. Meanwhile, vegetable and special condiments come with this good aroma of the grilled fish. To be consumed with steamed rice, this

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The Sungu Resort & Spa offers three special chefs’ signature dishes

UBUD - The Sungu is a luxury villa designed in Balinese-style archi-tecture with the tagline ‘Supreme, Serene, Sacred.’ When wondering where you can find an accommodation with serenity in the ever-busy Ubud, you will be surprised to experience the senses of serenity, sacred-ness and the land of Ubud. Absolutely, it provides supreme services with perfect choice of accommodation, spa treatment and food.

special dish is really something not to miss out.

Either for lunch or dinner, the Sungu Chicken Curry is a great companion served with your choice of main dish, steamed rice or boiled potatoes. The Sungu chef only prepares the top quality chicken breast fillet to prepare this dish. Especially the ground Balinese spices over the chicken breast is cooked in coconut milk and chicken stock until the chicken is tender. Fresh vegetables and freshly chopped red chilly is added up to the dish to give the taste and the aroma to this great chicken curry. (kmb)

SEMARAPURA - Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, continues to make efforts to pro-mote the county of Klungkung as a great destination in the eyes of the world community. After success-fully holding the Nusa Penida Fes-tival, this regent from Lembongan will host the Semarapura festival. The festival will be held in April, as part of a series of activities in commemoration of the Puputan Klungkung and Semarapura. Other activities to be at the festival this year include the Kings Hospitality which involves about 500 kings from throughout the archipelago.

Suwirta said that the Semara-pura Festival will be jazzed up with spectacular activities including a

mass Pendet Dance involving 2000 dancers to be held at the central in-tersection of the town. The dancers costumes will not be uniform but will be worn according to which quadrant of the compass direction they are dancing in. “In the north, for instance, the dancers will be wearing black costumes” said the regent.

The Semarapura Festival will not only feature Hindu culture but will also include Muslim, Christian and Chinese cultural elements; with for example a chinese rudat and lion dance performance. The idea is that all different members of the Klunkung community have a chance to perform. The develop-ment of Klingkung after all requires

the collaboration of all elements. The mass Pendet Dance, the regent said was the idea of the Advisory Council of Development and Cul-ture (Listibya) Klungkung and will be spectacular and religious activities. “Clearly the performance will involve dancers and gamelan players,” he said.

Regent Suwirta hopes that the festival can be documented to be used as promotional material for Klungkung in the future. “All the activities will be documented like at the Nusa Penida Festival I and used for the promotion and branding of Klungkung,” he said. The regent also spoke about classical Kamasan puppet painting. The festival will be filled with the scratching activi-

ties of classical puppet painting of Kamasan that will be submitted by Wayan Mandra to 15 people as the next generation. This regeneration ceremony will be held at the Bale Kambang, Kertagosa.

More interestingly, the regent claims he is not trying to break a MURI record. The regent also disagreed that Klungkung received a MURI by buying it. “We want to earn the original or pure MURI. I do not agree with getting a MURI by way of purchase,” said the regent. The budget allocated for the Semarapura, Festival admitted Regent Suwirta, is close to IDR 1 billion. The festival is divided into three categories, namely ceremo-nial activities (IDR 240 million),

festival activities (IDR 700 mil-lion) and hospitality of the kings (around IDR 300 million).

The regents argued that the budget for the Semarapura Festi-val also involved the participation of sponsors. Other than the local government, the committee also involved the royal palace and public figures in Klungkung. The ceremony in a commemoration of the Puputan Klungkung and An-niversary of the Semarapura town is scheduled to be chaired by the Indonesian Military Commander, Gen. Moeldoko. “As scheduled, the ceremony will be directly chaired by the Indonesian Mili-tary Commander,” said Suwirta. (kmb)

As time goes on, according to Ida Pandita Mpu Siwa Budha Daksha Darmita, there are more and more in-dividual priests who are violating the ethical codes of priesthood and they are mostly profit-oriented. The high number of profit-oriented high priests is due to their lack of understanding or self-awareness as a high priest. In addition, internal and external factors can also make a high priest forget his code of ethics and slump back into worldly pleasures. To prevent this from happening, related parties mainly the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) must provide more intensive training for priests. In addition, the permission for mediksa or initiation rites for prospective high priest must be granted more selectively.

“The right to impose sanction is its nabe or spiritual preceptor. The tough-est sanction is requiring a priest to cut his tightly wound hair, which marks him as no longer being a priest. Once this sanction is issued, priesthood is lost and may not be regained,” said Ida Pandita Mpu Siwa Budha Daksha Darmita on the sidelines of a doctoral

dissertation test at the Institute of Hindu Dharma (IHDN) Denpasar, on Tuesday (Mar. 24).

This high priest who lives at Griya Agung Sukawati, Babakan hamlet, Sukawati, Gianyar, revealed that in their lives, priests need to have cultural, social and intellectual capital. But the most important is social capital. Having social capital means that they have a good un-derstanding of social relations and so they can interact well with the public.

No matter how hard the task is, when deciding to become a high priest one should be infused with respect and responsibility. However, sometimes violations and disobedi-ence occurs because a priest con-siders himself to be everything and forgets the code of conduct of the priesthood. “Sometimes the precep-tor is only regarded as a symbol,” he said.

He also confirmed that violations can happen due to the influence of power. The symbolic capital that a priest for the Hindu community in Bali holds is just great, he is like

Batara Sekala or a tangible deity so that all of his orders must be obeyed, whereas this is not necessarily true. This abuse of power occurs because the followers are reluctant to ques-tion his authority and do not want to complain for fear of sin. “There are many high priests who discriminate against their people, especially in the implementation of yadnya ceremony. Actually the concept of Vedanta has taught that all men are brothers,” he said.

Prof. Dr. I Nengah Bawa Atmadja affirmed that a high priest should have a cultural capital and spiritual-ity, while social capital is required in building relationship between priests and the people in order to nurture solidarity. “It is very important that a pandita have spiritual capital,” he said.

Prof. Dr. I Nengah Duija revealed that there are many cases of high priests violating their code of conduct in the aspects of mind, actions and so on. When the priests ignore the code of conduct, it means that they still put more emphases on worldly aspect than on spiritual aspects. (rah)

Semarapura Festival costs over IDR 1 billion IBP/File

A priest is praying during a ceremony

Profit oriented, priests break ethical codes

GIANYAR - Hindu devotees, especially in Bali feel deeply disappointed when high priests (pandita), who are positioned as sanctified role models, commit disgraceful acts, such as having love affair, becoming land brokers and telling lies. Supposedly, priests have discarded earthly things and have become a servant to the people as such their behavior must be based on the code of conduct of high priests.

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DAYTON — The University of Dayton will give actor Martin Sheen an honorary degree in recognition of his activism for peace, social justice and human rights.

Born Ramon (RAH’-mohn) Estevez (EHS’-tay-vehz), Sheen grew up near the Catholic univer-sity and had attended the Catholic

Chaminade (SHAH’-mih-nahd) high school but wanted to pursue his acting career. He has said the Marianist teachings he was exposed to helped shape his social beliefs.

Sheen’s many acclaimed roles have included performances as president in the TV series “The West Wing,” a killer on a violent

spree in the movie “Badlands” and a soldier on a grim mission in “Apocalypse Now.”

The school says the 74-year-old Sheen will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at graduation ceremonies on May 3 at the University of Dayton Arena. (ap)

Hamm had the support of his longtime partner, actress-filmmaker Jennifer Westfeldt, in his struggle, publicist Annett Wolf said in a state-ment Tuesday.

The couple asks for privacy and

sensitivity, the statement said. No further details were provided.

The disclosure, first reported by the TMZ website, came as the final season of the 1960s-set advertising agency drama begins April 5 on

AMC.The 43-year-old Hamm plays

Don Draper, a troubled advertising executive with a dark past. The role brought him stardom and repeated Emmy Award nominations. (ap)

NEW YORK — Agents Mulder and Scully are making their televi-sion return. Fox announced Tuesday that it will air a six-episode run of new episodes of “The X-Files” that will begin this summer. Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will reprise their roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

The show’s creator, Chris Carter,

said that he considers the show’s absence like a “13-year commercial break.” Carter said that “the good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger.”

“The X-Files” premiered on Fox in September 1993 and ran for nine seasons. Fox wasn’t releasing further details about the revived show. (ap)

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In this Dec. 18, 2014 file photo, Jon Hamm, left, and Jennifer Westfeldt arrive at The People Magazine Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. A spokeswoman for the “Mad Men” star Hamm says the actor recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction. Hamm had the support of his longtime partner, actress-filmmaker Westfeldt, in his struggle, publicist Annett Wolf said in a statement Tuesday, March 24, 2015.

Martin Sheen to receive honorary degree from Ohio college

‘Mad Men’ star Hamm has treatment for alcohol addiction

LOS ANGELES — A spokeswoman for “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm says the actor recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction.

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In this Oct. 12, 2013 file photo, actors Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny attend “The Truth Is Here: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on The X-Files” at The Paley Center for Media, in New York.

Fox announces brief return of ‘The X-Files’

The Head of the Bali Forestry Agency, I Gede Nyoman Wiranatha, said that total amount of forest has not changed since the issuance of the Forest Land Use Agreement (TGHK) in 1982.

“The area of forest was agreed upon by the government and the public in 1982, and there should be no cause to reduce this amount,” he said.

Wiranatha added that there is small possibility of even increasing the amount of forested land in order to reach the targeted 30 percent.

Considering the needs of the com-munity that require large amount of land to be utilized, leasing out land will not have a significant impact on the current amount of forest.

“Indeed leasing out land could prove to be dynamic way to provide for peoples needs, but the addition of land that this would bring is minimal. There are many constraints to enact-ing such a system including pressure from the population, people’s habitual behavior as well as the lack of officers to oversee such transactions because of the high retirement rate and lack of new recruits,” he continued.

Although the amount of forested land does not meet the ideal set forth by 1982 law, Wiranatha claims that if counted in terms of function, the 30% target has been met if we include community forests in the count.

“The forest area is less than 30 percent but if we include community forests in terms of their serving some

of the functions of wild forests then we meet the targeted amount. Non-farmed land in Bali covers more that 35 percent, so if we include this land, we have met the 30 percent goal,” he explained.

Wiranatha went on to say that Bali”s forests are still in good condi-tion in terms of quality as the only hydrological system on the Island of the Gods. On that account, the province of Bali is now focused the development of the socio-economic ecology.

“We maintain the existing forests, rehabilitate the critical forests and give priority to security and protec-tion. We must not loose any of the 22 percent of forest that remains,” he added.

On the other hand, apparently the Forestry Agency is open to coopera-tion with third parties. One investors was given permission to exploit in the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park for tourism a few years ago. Wiranatha dismissed the fact that the investor wants to open the forest up for de-velopment even though the investor plans to build a number of tourism facilities.

“It is cooperation and not opening the forest up to exploitation - which is different than cooperation. The forest will not be disrupted. Do you know the Eka Karya Botanical Garden? It is like that -it’s good, right? We cooperate with investors because the government has budgetary re-strictions, so for things like picking up rubbish, for instance, the Forest Service does not have any budget, so we must cooperate with third parties. but people do not understand about

this,” he said.Wiranatha then explained that de-

velopments in the forest have special restrictions, including the stipulation that any buildings erected there can only be semi permanent.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Commission III of the Bali House, I Nengah Tamba, said that forests in Bali tend to be converted into planta-tion villages. “These can be used for the benefit of society, and planted with tress that are highly productive,” he said. (kmb32)

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The photo shows forest at Kintamani, Bangli. Currently Bali has a forest area of 130,686.01 hectares or 22.59 percent of the total land area. It remains under ideal condition in appropriate with the legislation amounting to 30 percent.

Forest in Bali only 22.59 percentDENPASAR - Currently Bali’s forests cover a total of 130,686.01 hectares or 22.59 percent

of all the land in Bali. This amount is short of the ideal targeted by legislation which targets a minimum of 30 percent.


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